Month: May 2015

Good leadership is a difficult quality to define, but we all know it when we see it. Some people seem to be born leaders while others must work hard to develop their leadership. The following five attributes are the most important characteristics of a great leader, whether in business, home, or any other context.

A Sense of Direction

Good leaders know where they are going and what they intend to find when they get there. This sense of direction and confidence inspires others to follow and support them. If you are always the person in a group who is making the decisive decisions, you likely are the leader even if not officially.

The reason this quality is important is because no one wants to follow someone who is taking them in circles. You need to develop your vision and have a good grasp of your ultimate goal as well as the steps you will take to achieve it.

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This article defines content marketing, gives the benefits of content marketing, and explains how Business Credit and Capital can help your business achieve superior content marketing results.

Definition Of Content Marketing

Content marketing is the type of marketing in which business creates and shares content in order to acquire new customers. Sometimes content marketing is also used to retain existing customers. It can take on many different forms, such as how-to guides, e-books, photos, white papers, and news articles, not to mention video and audio works.

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Businesses need two primary things to succeed. They need the sales to grow the business and the capital to support that growth. With these two elements,the management can drive the business forward. Optimizing a website helps to gain additional sales while financing helps to facilitate those sales.

Best Website Optimization Strategies
Website optimization comes in two forms. Firstly, it means optimizing the external adds and funnels that bring users to your website. That means optimizing your page for search engines, setting up affiliate networks and buying adds. Your page should include original content that is constantly updated. Affiliates must link to your page and also send you traffic.

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Busy people need helpers to make them more productive and save them from the myriad things online that are seemingly conspiring to slow them down. A few simple and free add-ons or extensions can get rid of distractions and roadblocks and increase your productivity by volumes.

LeechBlock (Firefox)
LeechBlock blocks time-wasting websites such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Up to six sets of sites can be blocked by time of day. It can also limit viewing on specified sites. It logs the amount of time spent on each sites so you can monitor usage patterns. Chrome has two similar extensions: Stay Focused and Nanny

AdBlock Plus
AdBlock Plus is the most popular browser extension. It saves time by blocking ads that slow your browser and disrupt your work. By adding the wide array of filters available, it performs functions like cleaning up Facebook’s interface, hiding twitter image previews, blocking site tracking cookies, blocking sites containing malware, blocking all flash and getting around paywalls.

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