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- To Ace the Job Interview - Banish These Ghosts Forever
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] A job interview can be scary and stressful, especially when you looking for a new career or dealing with job loss. You might be one of six interviewees chosen from over three hundred applicants. But getting past the other five can be a mine field. Read on to learn why many obstacles turn out to be ghosts that fade away when you acknowledge them.
- Lawyer Marketing - How to Market Your Legal Practice Online
[Legal] Lawyer marketing increasingly takes place online. Attorneys have little time to attend networking lunches. Clients will check out your website, even when you meet in person or from a referral. Too many attorneys spend thousands of dollars yet end up with a website that yields few benefits. Read on for tips that can help you create a website that's a rainmaker, not a problem child.
- Online Marketing For Professional Services to Serve Multiple Markets Effectively
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Service professionals often find they appeal to multiple markets and/or create multiple products. Their challenge comes when creating an online presence. Do you appeal to all markets on your home page? Or do you need many different websites? The answer is, "It depends."
- Why Your Career Coach Won't Help You Change Careers
[Business:Career-Advice] Career change often begins with a phone call to a career coach or career counselor. Many clients find the investment more than pays for itself. But others get frustrated. Recently a reader complained, "My coach would not help me. She told me I do not need a career change.
- Five Job Search Temptations to Avoid (Even When You're Feeling Desperate)
[Business:Career-Advice] Your job search starts now. Maybe you've just been laid off or you woke up to a "last straw" moment. You need a job and you want to move fast. It's easy to get caught up in a sense of urgency but here are five temptations to resist.
- Mid-Life Career Change - Should Relocation Be Part of Your Game Plan?
[Business:Career-Advice] Mid-life career changers frequently consider relocation as part of their career planning. Moving can contribute to your career as well as personal growth when you take just a few steps before you call the moving van. Read on to learn some tips to avoid a costly mistake.
- Mid-Life Career Change - Make Your First Move Before You Hire a Coach
[Business:Career-Advice] Career change can be scary, especially at mid-life. Therefore many people decide they'll hire a coach or consultant and just let someone else take charge of their job search. This article suggests that you take charge of your own transition and make the first move, even if you're not sure what to do. Taking even a small action will have surprising effects and help you implement change much more quickly.
- How to Write and Sell Your Self-Published Book to Promote Your Service Business
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Authors of self-published books often seek help from reviewers and copywriters. They realize that reviews on Amazon and other online bookstores can make a huge difference in book sales. They also realize they need sales pages to promote their books.
- Career Planning For a Challenging Economy - 3 Strategies
[Business:Career-Advice] Career planning can challenge mid-life, mid-career professionals any time, but especially during a tough economy. You'll survive and thrive when you make decisions based on logic and avoid emotional traps in your environment. Read on to get three tips.
- Career Changers - Are You Sabotaging Your Own Success?
[Business:Career-Advice] Are you telling everyone you really want to change careers but you keep getting stuck? Maybe you are sabotaging your own progress and you don't realize it. Read on to learn five strategies to stay motivated and move forward to a more satisfying career.
- Career Change Means Planning For Serendipity
[Business:Career-Advice] Career change rarely proceeds at an orderly and very linear pace. Career consultants recognize that serendipity is the foundation for career change. Read on to learn how career change really happens and what you can do to accelerate the process.
- Working at Home and Alone All Day? Stay Motivated With These 7 Tips
[Home-Based-Business] Are you an entrepreneur working alone in a home-based business? Stay focused and motivated with these 7 tips.
- Career Change, Relocation and Business - Start-Up - Coach Yourself to a Successful Transition
[Self-Improvement:Success] When planning a major life move-- career change, relocation, retirement or business start-up --most people wonder if they will be happy after working so hard to make a change. Here are 5 questions to help you coach yourself through your next transition.
- Choosing a Second Job For Your Second Career
[Business:Careers-Employment] A second job? You're already working 50 hours a week. So why would you even consider a second job? Maybe you shouldn't But an increasing number of mid-life career professionals are finding surprising benefits (beyond the financial) from that extra weekend or evening job.
- 3 Strategies Guaranteed to Kill Your Career
[Business:Careers-Employment] "Tell me about yourself." You'll hear these words over and over as you advance your career. The correct answer can jump-start your career. But wrong answers can derail your career - and make it almost impossible to recover.
- 7 Outdated Myths That Will Kill Your Career Change Before You Start
[Business:Careers-Employment] Stalled on your career change? Maybe you're operating under the old, out-dated career system. Most baby boomers walk around with these 7 myths - questionable during your first career, definitely outdated in the 21st century.
- How To Choose A Degree For Midlife Career Change (And Avoid Creating A Midlife Career Crisis)
[Business:Careers-Employment] Considering a new degree for a midlife career change? Education programs offer express lanes to find your dream career. But choosing the wrong program can land you on the wrong side of a Sixty Minutes Story. Discover how to tell the difference.
- Job Search Stalled? 5 Ways to Keep Your References From Killing Your Career
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] You do everything right in your job search but get stalled after a reference check. Somebody hates you. They are determined to be sure you'll never work again. Don't give up. This article shows you how to overcome bad references and find your dream job.
- Moving Your Career "For the Family"
[Business:Careers-Employment] Sometimes a move to be "closer to the family" can become a move to disaster. Before packing up for a relocation, ask these 5 questions.
- 5 New Year Resolutions for Business Growth
[Business:Small-Business] Grow your confidence, attract clients and increase sales -- with these 5 irreverent (but very practical) New Year resolutions. Resolve to step outside your comfort zone, listen to intuition and get ready to grow your business as never before.
- 5 Productivity Secrets the Time Tyrants Don't Want You to Know
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Time management wisdom says, "Reward yourself for accomplishment. Measure your work every day. Don't get lazy." But behavior specialists know: Some days are better than others. And sometimes it's better to reward yourself before you get to the finish lijne.
- From Midlife Crisis to New Career: A Wake-Up Call
[Business:Careers-Employment] Midlife crisis often leaves my clients confused. Like most achievers, they seek expert
help for career advice -- and often give up power too easily. A wake-up call often
feels like getting angry with the experts - or with yourself.
- For My Second Career, I Want to Do Nothing!
[Business:Careers-Employment] You've done a lot and nothing really interests you anymore. The things that do
interest me are not financially feasible right now, because one of the things I'd like
to give up is working!
- Back to School for a Midlife Crisis Career Change
[Business:Careers-Employment] You're considering a return to school to deal with your midlife crisis- but you want to make sure you get a solid return on your investment of time and money. The author, a former college professor, shares some insider tips.
- Ten Things To Do If You Really, Really Hate Your Job
[Business:Careers-Employment] 1. Begin focusing on what you want instead of how much you want to escape. When you find yourself sharing the latest horror story, stop in mid-sentence and say, "What I want to have is..." 2. Cre...
- How to Take Your Stalled Projects to the Finish Line
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Q. I have several projects going at once -- but I never seem to finish them! I'm pulled in so many different directions -- and I end up with nothing to show for my efforts! A. While you're in a creat...
- From Job Interview to Job Owner: 7 Tips
[Business:Careers-Employment] Job interview invitations don't arrive as often as they used to. When you get The Call, make the most of your time -- and go for it!
- Small Town Entrepreneurship: 7 Tips to Get Started
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Small Town Entrepreneurship can be profitable -- but you have to follow the written and unwritten rules.
- Ten Tips to Create More Life for Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] When people begin to investigate career change, often they don't want a new career at all. They love their career -- but they also want time for creating a life outside work. As a lifetime leisure-seeker, I've created ten tips to help you get started on the quest for "more time in your life -- and more fun."
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