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By Amanda DiSilvestroRecently published1 topic

How to Find an Affordable Healthcare Plan for the New Year

Many businesses take time at the end of the year to make changes to current policies and procedures as well as the financial situation and budget for the upcoming year. Whether you’re starting a small business or a veteran business owner, it is important to evaluate your business as often as possible. If you’ve been slacking in the evaluation department, now is a great time to get started.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Amanda DiSilvestroRecently published1 topic

Ergonomic: Understanding the Office Furniture of the Future

Although it may sound like a boring topic at first, office furniture is actually a huge part of creating a successful office. Choosing the right furniture is more than just going shopping and picking out something that looks nice—it is about finding the best prices, finding something functional for your type of office, measuring your office to get the right sizes, and worrying about employee comfort. After all, office furniture is going to be a major purchase for any startup company. In other words, you can’t buy office furniture and then realize it doesn’t work.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Amanda DiSilvestroRecently published1 topic

Networking in the Restaurant Industry

The restaurant industry seems to be a lot about “who you know.” You want to meet with up new managers and you want to get your ads out there to the food-loving consumers, but it isn’t always so easy. Most stores need a little push from someone well established before they can really nab those great food items and the customers that follow.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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Tips and Tricks for Dining Out While Dieting

It’s so hard to be disciplined while dieting, so I often find myself playing games in my head in order to reach my dieting goals. One of my favorite games is called “oops, I made a mistake.” After all, I was starving to the point of feeling sick, so I had to have a candy bar from a vending machine—I was late that morning and did not have time to pack my healthy snack from home.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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Buffer vs. Timely.is: What’s the Real Difference?

Keeping up with Twitter can be difficult; it’s as simple as that. You’re supposed to promote your work more than once per day, you have to worry about the most optimal times to tweet, and many people have to worry about a personal accounts as well as one or two business accounts. It’s no secret that Twitter is a great platform to share and promote your content, but let’s face it—sometimes it’s a little bit annoying.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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Diagnose your Strengths: How to Find the Right Health Care Education Program for You

If you know you want to work in the health care industry, you are already on the right track. You have narrowed down your options quite a bit, but there are many more specialized choices within this industry. Spending your life working in health care is a well-respected job not only because it centers around helping others, but because it can be so difficult. Fortunately there are great education programs out there to help you reach this end goal stress free.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Amanda DiSilvestroRecently published1 topic

Is Technology Really Helpful When It Comes to Relationships?

As someone who works in a social media department and spends countless hours per day working with new technology and new websites, it’s nice to get a break. I quickly begin to feel as if my entire life is absorbed by the Internet because I spend so many hours each day looking at the computer screen. It’s nice to finally get home, sit back, and well…that’s it. Getting away from technology is nice, and it feels healthy.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Amanda DiSilvestroRecently published1 topic

5 Healthy Ways to Make Your Unemployment Time Positive

Hearing about the high (and slow to change) unemployment rate is certainly depressing; especially when you’ve just lost your job. Many feel that the recession has changed the psychology of hiring for a good majority companies. Employers are afraid to hire a full-time staff in fear that things will take a turn for the worst once again; therefore many hopeful employees are left moving from job to job. This led me to wonder: What should people be doing in between all these jobs? Is it possible to turn unemployment into something positive and enjoyable?

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Amanda DiSilvestroRecently published1 topic

How to Use QR Codes to Enhance Your Advertisements

Marketing is never free. Trying to improve organic search efforts forces you to hire writers, PPC advertising can cost a fortune, and traditional marketing is put in the hands of another company who wants your money. For this reason, companies want to make sure that every advertisement or marketing campaign they produce gives consumers a way to buy. Whether it be a phone number, an email address, a website URL, or a store location, that marketing campaign will give consumers no reason to walk to away confused.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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Does Anyone Really Work at 4:00 on a Friday? 4 Ways to Make the Most of Your Time

We have all faced the last couple of hours before the weekend—a nice, warm, sunny Friday afte oon. Does anyone really put forth maximum effort during that slight lull before the workweek is done? If you were to check your social media accounts, I would bet that you would have a large number of tweets and Facebook comments coming in at around 4:00 every Friday. After working 39 hours per week, I have to say that I can sympathize with this feeling of “I’m almost there.” This thought can be very distracting.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Amanda DiSilvestroMay 4, 20211 topic

Do You Get Nervous Even When Something Good Happens In Your Life? How to Learn to Enjoy the Moment

Even when something good happens, it’s easy to feel depressed. For many, this is an absolutely ridiculous way to feel after something good happens, and therefore we are left alone to feel even worse than we already do. You think to yourself: But I should be happy. This is great news! Isn’t it a huge problem when you don’t feel confident when everything in your life is going right? I was once working on an article that I thought was great. It was then shot back by the editor

Primary topic: Wisdom

Wisdom

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By Amanda DiSilvestroApr 21, 20211 topic

Top 3 Strangest Ways to Increase a Writer’s Productivity

Although most people think that the hardest part of our job is the creativity, the formation of words, or maybe the grammar, I think that many writers know this to not be the case. Unfortunately for most, the hardest part of being a writer is simply being productive. Writers’ block is a real thing! It happens so easily and so frequently. You have moments where you get lost in your articles, but just about every other moment is spent looking around, biting your nails, writing

Primary topic: Business Etiquette

Business Etiquette

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By Amanda DiSilvestroApr 8, 20211 topic

Got Doubt? How to Stay Positive and Overcome Those Doubtful Thoughts

Got Doubt? How to Stay Positive and Overcome Those Doubtful Thoughts Doubt and business seem to be two words that are never far away. Doubting yourself is so easy to do when working because there is so much pressure. You want to make sure that you do everything correct because having a job is what allows you to pay for the important things in life—a place to live, a future for your child, a car to drive. You want to make sure that your boss likes you and that you are appreci

Primary topic: Overcoming Fear

Overcoming Fear

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