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Sing Inc’s Time Travel Spectacular

by Christian Hollingsworth Random

It’s 3am. In five hours it will be time for me to wake up and get ready for double rehearsals, and two performances. For the past couple weeks I’ve been rehearsing with my vocal studio for a Spring performance dubbed, Sing Inc’s Time Travel Spectacular. A Sing Inc. time machine tour guide (myself) sends a [...]

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Why I converted to Mac instantly after 23 years of PC

by Guest Blogger Technology

Bojan is a young tech enthusiast, graduated Banker, who said NO to 9 to 5, took a risk and fired his boss in order to develop his business online. His blog Alpha Efficiency offers tons of free tech tips and mind hacks on how to get more done, save yourself some time and check it out. Get [...]

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In Awe of Technology

by Christian Hollingsworth Technology

Sun on Wall photo by Lozula of Finding the Universe. I think it’s amazing that my garage door opens by itself. I mean, all I have to do is push a button and it magically lifts itself. No hoists, no pulleys, no rope. It’s sitting on a track and a motor filled to the brim [...]

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Three Unconventional Ways to Make Money Online!

by Guest Blogger Money

Everyone has their own success mantra. But there are certainly better ones that will help you hit the jackpot sooner, rather than later. You must have heard that there are plenty of people online today that make money online without leaving the comfort of their home. If you ever wanted to make money online but could [...]

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How To Use Custom Reports and Advanced Segments To Guide Website Strategy

by Guest Blogger Marketing

Once you have created a website, no matter how successful it is, there are always ways to improve upon it. Using Google Analytics, webmasters can pinpoint areas that can increase traffic and conversion rates to a site. The three largest areas that websites can benefit from these analytic tools are in pay per click (PPC) [...]

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5 Tips to Edit Your Blog Posts Like a Boss

by Guest Blogger Blogging

This is a guest post by Mandy Kilinskis, who works as a content developer for Quality Logo Products. You found your inspiration, you tackled the demons of procrastination, and you just cranked out a fantastic blog post. Congratulations! But don’t you dare hit “publish” just yet. The best blog posts (and white papers, about us [...]

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Product Excitement As Taught by The Hunger Games

by Christian Hollingsworth Marketing

I wrote this post about product excitement a few days ago while waiting for the midnight premiere of The Hunger Games. It was a great movie, too. It’s 6:42pm. I’m waiting for The Hunger Games movie premiere at midnight. It’s freezing cold. Sprinkling. At the moment I’m thinking about the intense excitement good brands drum [...]

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Social Media Marketing with Rachel Taylor

by Guest Blogger Blogging

An interview with Rachel Taylor, who shares information about current social media marketing practices. Why do some social media campaigns fail? Not every social media campaign will be successful, so use failure as a learning experience. Dig deep and figure out why it failed; you could have targeted the wrong audience, had disconnect between execution [...]

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How to Write Better Blog Posts

by Christian Hollingsworth Writing

Blogging should attract attention and deliver value. It would be nice if every blog post was created by an author-expert, but this isn’t a perfect world. Amateurs are able to write blog posts about any topic, however, it’s hard to take them seriously when they have the English skills of a 4th grader. If you’ve [...]

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12 Hard Work Quotes

by Christian Hollingsworth Personal Development

I’m digging deep to find ways to work harder, so I thought I’d gather a list of my favorite hard work quotes. Working hard is essential to life. I firmly believe that almost anything is possible in this life, if you’re willing to back your dreams with hard work. I’ve seen miracles accomplished again and [...]

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How to use Pinterest to drive traffic to your website or blog [INFOGRAPHIC]

by Guest Blogger Blogging

About the Contributor: The Social Marketer is a social media marketing training site that is filled with quality marketing tutorials and a forum/community of digital marketing professionals.

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SmartBoyDesigns.com Review by Cathryne

by Christian Hollingsworth Blogging

Cathryne H. was kind enough to recently send in some thoughts in regards to the Smart Boy Designs blog. Her list of pros and cons were worthy of sharing. It’s my hope you might learn from this simple case study. Hello Christian, I truly like the navigation on the site. It’s straight-forward, you don’t have [...]

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Igniting Passion In Organizations

by Christian Hollingsworth Business

My consulting career brings me in contact with many large, multi-faceted businesses. Some businesses suffer when it comes to igniting a passionate fire within its belly, while others, remarkably succeed. I’m beginning to understand the differences. The contrast tends to come in the level of stewardship individual employees feel for the organization (business) on a [...]

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I Love Life

by Christian Hollingsworth Personal Development

What’s happening in my life at the moment is nothing short of miraculous. And I have you to thank. Daily, little miracles are occurring, and I’m so very grateful. Before this month I considered myself a busy person. Now, I’m breaking all borders and boundaries I thought existed. My schedule is absolutely insane. Not only is [...]

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How many blogs do you comment on each day?

by Christian Hollingsworth Blogging

After running a poll on the blog (I like to let them to gather more than 100 votes), we found the majority (36%) of bloggers don’t comment on other blogs. This was surprising to me. As you might notice from the graphic above, 44 out of the 122 people who were surveyed related their non-existing [...]

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