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LinkedIn: How to Maximize Results ~ Most Important Social Network

LinkedIn is more important than any other social network bar none. This is true no matter what your goals online are because who you know – and who knows about you – are the...

How to File for Credit Card Insurance Claims

Credit cards often feature free perks. One common example is free insurance. This can include travel insurance, purchase protection insurance (covering damaged or stolen items purchased with your card), and car rental insurance. Many...

10 Ways to Earn Money With an Ad-Free Blog

For years people have debated whether or not bloggers should have advertisements on their blogs. As someone who earns a large portion of her income through blogging, I understand the attraction, and I feel...

Applying for Credit: 10 Dos and Don’ts

Are you in the market for a new credit card or loan? If so, you’re probably considering applying for credit. But before you do, you should consider these ten dos and don’ts. They just...

100 Famous Quotes About Love

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love. –Leo Buscaglia Love does not begin and end the way we...

Freelancers: Why It’s Time to Bury Your Resume

I’m a freelance writer. I’m a business owner. I set my rates, I decide what services to offer, and I decide which clients to work with and what projects to take on. I’m not...

100 Best Quotes About Life

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.  –Charles Darwin All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. –Ralph Waldo Emerson...

How to Survive Without Living on Credit

With me “credit” is (almost) a dirty word. I don’t take out loans. I don’t use credit cards. And (shocker here), I’m perfectly happy! I’m not the only person I know who stays away...

Study Tips for Kinesthetic Learners

Some people are kinesthetic learners: people who need motion to learn. These people can’t exactly learn the best from just hearing something said or from seeing it—they need to do it. These are often...

How to Conduct a Training Needs Analysis

Training needs analysis process is a series of activities conducted to identify problems or other issues in the workplace, and to determine whether training is an appropriate response. The needs analysis is usually the...

Here are five easy ways to find the best tutors for your child. The simple principles listed below are designed to guide you in finding the right tutors for your child’s needs.

1) Have a list of questions prepared in advance

The more you know about what you are looking for in a tutor, the more you can provide your child with the best possible chance of succeeding. The right questions provide the right answers for your child.

A few good questions include, but are not limited to:

“How long have you been tutoring?” “What is your area of expertise?” [...]

Many businesses and bloggers have more than one blog, each with a separate subscribe page. Your readers may be interested in some of the others. Wouldn’t it be great if you could offer new subscribers their choice of ALL your blogs at once?

DIRJournal actually has 8 blogs, but most of our readers don’t know that – yet – and we wanted to make it easier for you to be able to choose which of them you subscribe to – all in one place.

Many major sites including the NY Times, MarketWatch, SmartBrief obtain multiple subscriptions each time [...]

I truly enjoy every single minute of my life ~ Richard Branson.

Few people are more successful than Richard Branson, owner of a vast network of companies covering virtually every industry imaginable, from travel and health to banking, entertainment and even space exploration. One thing seems to make Branson stand out from the (small) crowd of the super rich and super successful – his enthusiasm and ‘joie de vivre.’ Could this be the secret of his success?

If you are enjoying yourself, doing what you love and feeling great about it, you are more likely to do well. [...]

Five Things You Should Know About Car Insurance

Statistics show that a majority of the people end up paying more for auto insurance than is required. More often than not, the culprit is a lack of knowledge as people tend to be intimidated by the complicated jargon surrounding auto insurance. As opposed to popular belief, auto insurance is a relatively easy concept to understand, especially when broken into simple elements. Here are a few things you must know before you start looking for car insurance.

1. How are insurance rates calculated?

While calculating the insurance rate, an insurance providing company [...]

Problem Action Result statements or accomplishment statements reflect the three elements named. The statement should give specifics, be easy to understand, and give insights into the future.

Problem

The problem part of the PAR statement could be a situation and objective.

Action

What did you do? What obstacles did you overcome? What personality traits did you display? What skills did you call upon?

Result

The statement as a whole should demonstrate your qualifications, validate your experience, and highlight accomplishments. Results are best understood when termed in positive words, past tense, and include numbers. Percentages or dollar amounts add weight [...]

WordPress has a built-in blacklist function bloggers can use to prevent comments from going live. By adding someone’s email address, URL, or IP address to this blacklist their comments will be sent to spam instead. You can moderate or delete them from there.

To add someone to the blacklist, do this:

In the left sidebar, point at Settings and when more options appear, click on Discussion. Scroll down to Comment Blacklist (shown in the screen capture below). Add the spammer’s URL, IP address or email address – one to a line.

We recommend you add URLs to your [...]

LinkedIn is more important than any other social network bar none. This is true no matter what your goals online are because who you know – and who knows about you – are the keys to your success.

It does not matter whether you are looking for more customers, a new career, consulting work, or to increase visibility in your chosen field – LinkedIn is the very best place to accomplish all these goals and more.

This post contains links to valuable tips for optimizing your use of LinkedIn. Save it somewhere safe so [...]

Many are unemployed or underemployed – even college graduates with advanced degrees. U.S. Manufacturers are complaining that they have job openings they can not fill because the applicants they get are not qualified:

US Manufacturers Have Three Million Available Jobs To Fill

There are ways you can find a job worth having in your area, and for companies to find qualified applicants. Before you decide to pile up huge debt getting college degrees, use the tips below to find out what you REALLY need to make a career move.

If you want a new [...]

Making money online seems to be the brass ring that so many are striving to grab. Sadly, most never earn enough online to make a living because they don’t know who to believe. The main reason, though, is there are plenty of con artists willing to tell them how easy it is to get rich and famous. Plain and simple: they are lying and all those who believe them are going to be taken down the garden path to the poor house.

THE AMERICAN DREAM

We’ve all seen the photos of the smiling couple leaning on a luxury automobile in [...]

Whether you like it or not, people ARE talking about you online. The best defense is a good offense and the first step is to learn how to find out where so you can respond intelligently.

There are now many tools that allow you to graph whether comments about you are positive, negative or neutral.

You can find these by searching for social media monitoring solutions. For the purposes of this post I will use graphs generated by Alerti, one of many companies that make this type of tool. Because many have never seen a social media monitoring [...]