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The One Notebook Idea
The one notebook idea by Shaunta Grimes is a great idea. I have heard of so many writers say: “you need to keep a writing notebook.”
By Wendy6 years ago in Journal
Ways Bloggers Can Make Money
Blogging is a fulfilling hobby because it allows you to express your passion for various subjects. What you probably didn’t know is that you can use your blog to make money. But, there is a category of bloggers who ventured into blogging to make money because they heard that blogging is an easy way to make money. But they probably don’t know how to do it. The bottom line is that you can make money from blogging. But, before you get there, you have to prepare your blog by creating useful content and finding readers. You need to get off your blog and promote it by getting readers. Once you get readers, make sure you engage with them to start earning. Here are a few ways of earning money from a blog.
By Kevin6 years ago in Journal
Different Ways to View Microservices
This is often called developing a monolithic application. Such an application is personalized to the needs of your client and can hardly be used by any other client. By redesigning your application so that you can reuse sections of your code for your other clients, you will be able to provide a toolkit of shareable code. However, your software library is still constrained by the programming language you use. Microservice extends this view further by turning your shareable library into an independent standalone service. Here are different ways to view microservices.
By Kevin6 years ago in Journal
How to Write a Book
Writing a book is not difficult. All you need is to be passionate or knowledgable about something. You also need the willpower to take on a project that will take hundreds of hours over the course of weeks or months or more.
By Lance Von Prum6 years ago in Journal
7 Tips for Creating a Corporate Video That Amazes Customers
Humans are visual creatures, period. Ever since childhood, we’re taught to make mental maps to remember new information better, or to make a connection between certain subjects and colours to jump-start our memory easier later. Considering this, and the fact that our attention span has decreased drastically with all the new content just popping up left and right, a fast-paced, entertaining video is the way to go when advertising your product or services. Here are some tips for creating a video that will hold your potential customers’ attention and make them want to learn more about your company.
By Lucas H. Parker6 years ago in Journal
Finding the Time to Be a Writer!
You want to be a writer. Maybe you have always wanted to start a blog, or maybe you have novel swimming around in your head. But you say:
By Wendy6 years ago in Journal
5 Successful Team Building Typesets
Let’s start by saying that this is just one strategy and only a suggestion. This by no means is the only strategy that results in successful team building. There are many or any variation that could be just as successful. A successfully built team is not definitive of good writing or a good story. This is just a tool to help provide some insight on how to build a well balanced and successful team. Successful being effective or efficient. The five types mentioned here are not the only types there are. These five are just the ones I have chosen to talk about. That being said Let’s begin.
By Chace Alex V. Curtis6 years ago in Journal
How To Increase Amazon Sales With Listing Optimization
Customers decide whether to buy a product or not by checking different criteria. In fact, they first look at your listing and if it's not engaging, they won't buy your product. If it's engaging, they will probably buy it.
By Moritz Bauer6 years ago in Journal
Manufacturing in China: The Ultimate Guide for Non-Pros
1. Getting Your Design Ready Before you go through all the steps of getting a product made in China, you need a killer design. Your product doesn’t become a hit when it goes on sale. That actually starts in the design phase.
By Amanda Hughes6 years ago in Journal
My eCommerce Journey | Part 3 | Our First Lesson
It's been several weeks since I last updated this blog. A lot has been going on for me. If you read Part 1 of my eCommerce Journey, you'll know that mental health has played a large part of my year. I've been tackling it, slowly but surely.
By Jake Dawson6 years ago in Journal
Millennial: My Secret to Sell
My secret to selling. I don’t feel like I have enough experience or knowledge to title this “secret to selling,” I don’t know what exactly works about this formula, but I have a vague idea and information that may get someone closer to pinning a new strategy, their strategy.
By Miranda Harquin6 years ago in Journal
Making the Most of Facebook Groups
Facebook groups are a great way to network and grow your business online. They are often run by members of the group community who give up their time to help other group members converse, share interests and connect.
By Linda Reed-Enever6 years ago in Journal