. Is the job of "writer" truly a viable profession? . As a writer myself, and someone who, thankfully, is making steady and measurable strides and inroads on the road to success, I have decided to look at this question a little bit more deeply. I mention the word "viability," so I ask: can a writer who chooses …
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Considering Working From Home? Make Sure It’s “Legit”
It was not so long ago that I found some information on a writing job which was being offered online. The pay sounded great and I definitely had the credentials, qualifications and experience deemed necessary to perform the work. As the old saying goes, "I bit hook, line and sinker." Now, I consider myself to be fairly …
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Some Insight for Succeeding on Job Shuk by…Albert Einstein? Yes, Albert Einstein.
Very recently, apparently through some Twilight Zone-like twist of fate, through some incredible, other-worldly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the laws of science as we know them to be true were altered, changed, bent, and re-written. A vortex was created, a passage through time and space occurred, and in my own office, as surely as summers in Israel …
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The Free Sample: A Principle and Business Strategy For Success
When I was a child growing up in Pennsylvania, we had a Baskin Robbins ice-cream parlor close to our home. The chain’s policy was that you could sample the flavors to your heart’s content. Unlimited, no questions asked. Okay I’ll admit that kids, myself included of course, went a little bit overboard; oftentimes I would have so many samples of their …
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“The Coke vs. Pepsi ‘cola-war’ of the 1980s: How it affects us as workers”
In 1981, during the height of the Coke vs. Pepsi cola war, taste-tests were being conducted all over America: on college campuses, in malls, at Fourth of July events, etc. Everybody had their preference and everybody thought himself or herself an expert. Surely they would be able to distinguish between the two tastes and pick …
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“A New Approach to Marketing: Beginning a Job Without Having Been Asked to”
Being between projects, and having some, let us say "unwanted" time on my hands (as evidenced by my recent blogging spree), I felt the time had come to be just a little bit more proactive in landing my next job. The time had come for a new approach; the thought had been on my mind, …
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