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Marketing

SEO Your Blog Categories

Remember to SEO Your Blog Categories As a person who spends quite a bit of time with SEO, I can tell you that I have run across an overlooked element with my own blog lately.  That has resulted in me spending some more time with SEO on my blog categories. Looking through my analytic data, […]

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CEO Dad Writing

And I Knew if I Had My Chance: Criteria for a Blog Post

That I Could Make Those People Dance And maybe they’d be happy for a while. Why do I write? I write to give myself an outlet.  I also have ideas I think will help others.  My boys are following along behind me and I am trying to leave them food for thought.  Other people have […]

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CEO Entrepreneur Life Optimization Marketing Tips

The Power of Questions: Getting to Good Answers

Find Power in Questions Have you ever noticed the power of questions? Do you think you would know it if you see it? Do questions require thought? Are good questions better to ask when we want good answers? Can an answer be implied in a question? Knowing When to Ask a Question When is the […]

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Dad Entrepreneur Ideas

6 Easy Business Ideas for Kids: The Death of the Lemonade Stand

Announcing the Death of the Lemonade Stand We knew it had to happen sooner or later.  It was just too good to be true.  Or is it that we grew up and ran the math?  Either way, the lemonade stand is cute, but only for a day.  My apologies to all you romantics.  This blog […]

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CEO Entrepreneur Life Optimization

The Power of an Hour: How Will You Use It?

The Power of an Hour You have one hour. How will you use it? That’s all there is left, or that’s all there is in front of you. Now, how will you use your hour? Take your time and let that question linger. You Have Choices You can spend an hour getting things done.  For […]

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Life Optimization

Ambitiously Lazy: An Optimized View of the World

Try Being Ambitiously Lazy Ambitiously lazy is a way of going through the world.  It is going where you want to go.  It is focusing where you want to focus.  Being ambitiously lazy lets you do the things you want to do. Ambitiously lazy is a goal, but not a reality.  It is a state […]

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Tips Writing

Key to Blogging: Dear Blog, I Love You

Do You Want to Know the Key to Blogging? Why do I love my blog? That’s a great question, and it’s also the answer to the one before it.  Let’s unpack it to figure out what I believe is the key to blogging. As some of you may have noticed, I have been working harder […]

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CEO Marketing

Marketing Goals: The Power of Why in Marketing

Start with Marketing Goals We work with over a hundred clients and talk with hundreds of prospects each year.  The first item of discussion in any of those conversations should be focused around the goal, or goals, of the marketing for the company.  The only way to have success is to know success.  We have […]

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Rambling Thoughts

Hiding from People We Recognize: Why Do We Do It?

Do You Hide From People You Recognize? That’s a tough question, now isn’t it?  I’ll repeat it so it can settle in a bit. Do you find yourself hiding from people? I was on a walk yesterday afternoon and I was strolling through my office park trying to clear my mind.  I rounded a bend […]

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Dad

Surround Yourself with Good Friends

Have Good Friends and Be a Good Friend Boys, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of having good friends in your life.  You need them and they will need you.  Friends will surround you from the time of your youth until the time you go to heaven and beyond.  Be sure to pick good ones. […]