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  • Blogging mistakes: how to avoid common pitfalls that prevent your blogging success
    Blogging, Business, blogging & Money

    Content creation mistakes: how to avoid common pitfalls that prevent your content business’ success

    Blogging has become one of those dreams jobs that many people aspire to attain, but very few reach the end goal. They either overestimate their ability to generate revenue from the blog or they quit their day jobs too early and can’t sustain the inevitably slow start that blogging has.

    To help you avoid those pitfalls, here are some of the most common mistakes that a new blogger makes which ultimately leads to the failure of their new venture. 

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  • Key SEO dos and don'ts for the new year
    Business, blogging & Money, Career

    Key SEO dos and don’ts for the new year

    If you’re marketing your business online in 2017, you need to think about SEO. If you’re not sure what SEO is, it’s a way of optimizing your site for search engines. By doing this, you can make sure that customers find your site when they are looking for a product that you’re selling or a service that you offer. So, it’s easy to see how it’s in your best interest to invest in SEO this coming year. But you do have to make sure that you are making the right decisions with your SEO campaign. Here are a few dos and don’ts that you need to think about. (more…)

  • How to protect yourself from ransomware
    Best Of, Finance, Internet Freedom

    How to protect yourself from ransomware

    Let’s get personal today – I want to warn you for something that’s been going around the web. I wrote this article a few weeks back, but I guess now is the time to share. I have one (sometimes two) standard days in the week that I backup my whole life. This is probably the #1 most important task I have because without my digital files I would be nowhere.  (more…)

  • How to get your business up and running fast
    Business, Business, blogging & Money

    How to get your business up and running fast

    If you’re a startup, you probably haven’t got a lot of time before you have to start making repayments on your outstanding loans to creditors. As a result, it’s essential that you get your business up and running as quickly as possible. The last thing you want is to have to go into arrears and risk not being able to get lines of credit in the future. (more…)

  • When it comes to business growth here are just a few things to bear in mind
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Internet Freedom

    The dangerous cybercrimes of the new business age

    A lot of people out there talk about data security in business. But we often talk about this subject in pretty vague terms. The need for security is often highlighted alongside the emphasis on the importance of data in modern business. But the terms we employ to describe the threats are usually lacking detail. We throw around words like “hackers” and “firewalls”, without talking about threats in specifics.

    Perhaps it’s because we all already think we know what’s out there. But let’s face it: the world of modern business has been changing a lot in the last couple of years. We knew digitization was upon us, but things seemed to have moved a lot faster than we thought they would!

    So let’s take some time to take a closer look at the new cyber crimes that are now developing in response to modern business practices. Going into the new year, you’re going to want to put some focus on tackling these dangerous cyber threats!  (more…)

  • This is how you secure all leads easily speedily
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Marketing, Sales

    This is how you secure all leads easily speedily

    The secret to success is making as many sales as you possibly can. This is the essence of how a business can thrive and survive. The problem is that it is much more difficult to secure regular sales than you might think. So, you need to come up with ideas that will help make it easier for you to generate sales from a business perspective.

    If you are able to secure as many sales as possible, it will make the business more successful. There are so many things you will need to do that can help you secure more sales. And you need to remember the moniker – ‘Secure All Leads Easily Speedily!’ Let’s look at some of the great ways you can do this.  (more…)

  • Some powerful ways to SEO in 2017
    Business, blogging & Money, Career

    Some powerful ways to use SEO to get noticed online

    If you’re a small business owner or a budding entrepreneur, you’ll know about the importance of SEO. It’s an acronym that both fills you with hope and dread. There’s hope that you’ll actually be able to make some money from it, thanks to the ability of search engine optimization to deliver tangible benefits to your business. But you also dread it, because it’s a long and challenging process and takes a significant degree of expertise to get right. What’s worse, getting it wrong and accidentally doing “black hat SEO” can get you into trouble with the search engines and undo all of your hard work.

    Moz, an SEO website, recently released some of its predictions for the year ahead. Thanks to the rise in mobile usage, it is predicting an 88 percent increase in the importance of mobile-friendliness. It’s also suggesting that the importance of things like dwell time and readability signals will increase by around two-thirds. Clearly, the objectives of companies like Google is to make sure that they are delivering their user to sites that generate real value for them, not just spammy sites designed to trick their SEO bots.

    So with that in mind, what should companies be doing in the year ahead to make sure that they are adapting to these changes in SEO. Here are some powerful ways to SEO in 2017. (more…)

  • Don't fail when your business fails: moving on gracefully
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Self improvement

    Don’t fail when your business fails: moving on gracefully

    I noticed that 2016 has been a very hard year for a lot of (online) entrepreneurs. You lived like this for months, but slowly but surely reality sets back in: you haven’t made any profit in months. You have problems acquiring new clients, you have no success with your press strategy or you have problems with negative clients. It might be too late to change your game, it might be time to quit your business and move on. But how to get over the feeling of feeling so d*mn disappointed and like a failure? I’ve collected a few tips to help you through this tough process.  (more…)

  • This is your chance to seek out a new career
    Business, blogging & Money, Career, Self improvement

    This is your chance to seek out a new career

    We’re rapidly approaching a new year, a new time in life. A new year should always be seen as an opportunity or a chance to begin again. Specifically, I think you should be considering laying out a new path for your career. Forget about where you were last year and look towards new challenges or choices. If you’re not happy with the job you’re currently working in, change it. If you want to try your luck in a completely new industry, explore it. There is nothing holding you back except the failure to attempt a change. Once you take the first step, though, you might find it easier than you thought. Of course, it’s all very well suggesting that you get out there and find a new career, but how do you actually go about it? What are the steps that you will need to take? (more…)

  • Ways to improve your company's security
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Internet Freedom

    Ways to improve your company’s security

    Your business, whether it’s functioning on a casual, small-time level, or a highly-sensitive, global scale, most likely holds information that is important to its continued success and operative capabilities. Whatever the services you offer, the information you hold is most likely highly valuable, and you want to keep it as secure as possible.

    Are there steps you could be taking to improve the security of your business? Are there ways you could be ensuring that people don’t take advantage of company information, or even steal such information? (more…)

  • These things could be letting your business down
    Business, Business, blogging & Money

    These things could be letting your business down

    Every business comes up against problems. Anyone who imagines that this won’t happen to them is in for a seriously nasty shock. Whether it’s organizational, personal or financial, there are plenty of things that can go wrong with a business. And you know how the old saying goes. If something can go wrong, then it probably will. The important thing is being able to identify what the problem in your business actually is and how to deal with it. If you don’t know what the problem is the, there’s no way that you’ll be able to solve it. And if you can solve the problem, it won’t be without a serious amount of effort. Fortunately, the sorts of things that businesses come up against are more common than you might expect. Here are a few of the most common things that might be letting your business down. (more…)