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Building a Brand that matters
Brand Story
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Building a Brand that Matters: Does your Company Matter?

So how do you judge if an organization or business matters and what does mattering actually mean? How do you apply such a relative concept as “mattering” to something as mechanical as a business or an organization? To answer such an amorphous question, let’s break it down to its most elemental level by looking at the

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Marketing Plan Beach Ready
Marketing Strategy
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How to Get Your Marketing Plan Beach Body Ready

At the start of a new year, everyone’s focus is New Year’s resolutions and goal setting. As long as I can remember my New Year’s resolution has always been to exercise more, however this has failed every year because of my lack of planning and implementation of the basic steps

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Work is the skill that will change your life
Business
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The Skill That Will Change Your World

On the one side, there are the big ideas: the “why”, the mission, the vision, the values. The dream. And on the other side is the day-in-day-out practical activities: the mechanical side that is focused on a logical sequence, efficiency, and discipline. The clock.Here’s the skill that changes everything: Bringing

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3 costly mistakes to avoid in marking
Marketing Strategy
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3 Costly Mistakes to Avoid with Special Offers

Groupon, LivingSocial, Angie’s List, and even Amazon offer businesses the opportunity to promote a special offer to a huge audience. Imagine instantly increasing the visibility of your business 1000-fold or more while offering a very attractive discount. Sounds great, right? It can be if you are careful. Here are 3

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Reviews
Reputation
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How to Respond to Negative Online Reviews

A good reputation is vital to the success of any business, especially a local service-based company. It’s a fact that most customers research businesses online before they choose where to buy. Just one negative review on an online review site can do some major damage to your reputation. In some

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Make sense of google analytics
SEO
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Making Sense of Google Analytics Reports

Below are some explanations to understand the typical Google Analytics Report metrics. We’ll use the example below to help aid explain each term. Sessions A session occurs when someone arrives at one of your website pages, through any means. The session includes all the pages that one person explores on

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