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How a Founder's Personal Brand Establishes a Credible Startup

2/9/2021

All entrepreneurs know that their startup needs to be 'doing branding' and 'marketing' in order to thrive. But, what about the founder's personal brand?

Should the founders care about their brand in addition to their startup's brand?

The answer is... Yes, absolutely!

How Snapchat almost changed the Startup Space

2/3/2021

Published in 2017, updated 2/2021

What started as a fairly simple picture-sharing social media experience is now changing the game for businesses world-wide. Those that don't already have their own Snapchat channels will fall behind in the coming years.

Seriously, if you look at Taylor Swift's twitter, who knows if she's writing her tweets, but if you add her on Snapchat and see her taking a selfie or video. You know it's real, and it's her. Video builds more trust that text today in 2021.

Personal Branding Tips for New Freelancers

1/7/2021

As a freelancer, you are responsible for creating and maintaining your image and reputation and for promoting the products and services you offer. This can be quite a difficult task, especially if you are relatively new to freelancing. Consider these few personal branding tips, which are useful to all freelancers, but especially to newbies.

2 Strong Ways Email marketing Helps you Close More Leads

1/6/2021

Updated Jan 5, 2021

With so much emphasis on social media marketing, it’s easy to overlook a time-tested, true tactic that still remains relevant in 2016: email marketing.

It's an essential component to your overall inbound marketing plan. As you build your lead list, it’s your email strategy that will move your subscribers to becoming customers and loyal advocates of your brand.

Why Your Family Will Love Vancouver

12/21/2020

The largest and most ethnically diverse city in British Columbia, Vancouver is the jewel of the Canadian west coast, surrounded by water and mountains. Resonance Consultancancy ranked it among the best in the world in its World Best Cities 2021 report.

It's just a short drive north of the U.S. border, drawing many Americans along with visitors from across the globe who come to experience outdoor adventure, some of the world's most stunning scenery, and much more.

Tip of the Week for Single Founders

12/9/2020

I'm talking about the entrepreneurs that don't have co-founders, not ones without a significant other. Nor am I promising a tip every single week.

Maintaining a killer personal brand separate from your business brand is essential for those looking to networking both on and offline.

Review of 8 Popular Registrars for new Domain Investors

11/26/2020

I've been a domain name investor for over a decade now, and it's time to share my findings of having hundreds of domains with various registrars over the years. In this quick opinion piece, I'll share my experiences with the following Registrars: Epik, Godaddy, Dynadot, Uniregistry, Namecheap, Namebright, Name.com, and Network Solutions.

If you don't have time to read on, here's the conclusion.

Best Registrar for 2021: Epik

Epik Support: 5/5
Epik Product: 4/5
Epik Usable Features: 5/5
Epik Pricing: 4/5

Worst Registrar for 2021: Godaddy

Godaddy Support: 1/5
Godaddy Product: 1/5
Godaddy Usable Features: 2/5
Godaddy Pricing: 2/5

Four effective ways to boost your business using socialmedia

11/19/2020

From blogs to Instagram posts, tweets to YouTube videos, there’s no doubt about it: social
media is here to stay. With research showing that people are spending an increasing amount
of time each day browsing their various social media accounts, businesses have been quick
to notice this trend and use it to their advantage when marketing their brand and products.
However, it’s never too late to up your business’s social media game. Here are four efficient
ways to boost your business through using social media.

Inexpensive Moving Tips When You're on a Tight Budget

11/12/2020

It’s moving time and you are moving with a budget plan, as well as it is necessary to conserve money and time to reduce tension along the way. Below are cheap relocating tips for a safe as well as simple proceed a spending plan.

How to Bring Your Warehouse Up-to-Speed With the 21st Century

10/20/2020

The warehouse is the beating heart of an organization, and when the warehouse operates efficiently, the business will succeed, and customers will be happy. This can also be one of the most complex areas of any business, and often somewhere where there are lots of mistakes and bottlenecks. This is why it is important to be aware of the best ways to streamline and modernize the warehouse. There have been many significant developments made in the 21st century, which will help any warehouse operate efficiently - read on to find out how you can bring your warehouse up to speed with the 21st century.

Death of the Handshake?

8/12/2020

It may be on hiatus for the pandemic, but experts say rumors of the handshake’s demise are greatly exaggerated
- By Ken Sturtz

The loss of the handshake in social interactions can be jarring. Meetings with doctors, lawyers and other professionals end without it. Job interviews begin and end without it.

How to Generate More Leads via Social Media

7/4/2020

Lead generation is an essential part of doing business and social media provides business owners and marketers with the chance to maximize it. The question is, how exactly do you go about this? What should you be doing differently in terms of strategy and execution? Here is what you need to know.

Why You Should Turn Online for These 2 Services

6/19/2020

A whole host of amazing financial services can be found on the Internet. Here are just two of them:

Virtual bookkeeping services

For business owners and self-employed workers, virtual bookkeeping has been a real blessing. As their title suggests, virtual bookkeepers make use of digital software solutions in their bid to enable their customers to stay on top of their financial matters. They perform all the regular tasks that you would expect from a professional in this accountancy position, such as posting financial transactions and reconciling accounts, only they do perform them via the Internet.

Bike storage space tips for devotee in cycling

5/4/2020

Severe cyclists have more than one bike. From mtb to exploring bicycles takes much storage space around your house. Whether it's the season of riding or not, you need to store your bike to protect its value and significance. To help you with your bike storage problem, we're offering simple bike storage space suggestions that biking fanatics can use to maintain their bikes in the best state as possible.

Why Building a Community is Crucial for an Entrepreneur's Success

4/19/2020

Starting out as an entrepreneur can be a stressful time. Trying to figure out all the logistics, laws, and business plans by yourself is not only lonely, but can cause a lot of anxiety and sleepless nights. That's why one of the best things you can do when starting a business, is to find a community to join that can help guide you along on this intimidating but fulfilling path. Here are three benefits that entrepreneurs can experience by joining a strong business community.

10% Overall Increase Monthly death rate in usa now

4/14/2020

Well, it looks like the US has had about a 10% increase in monthly deaths overall with a lot of it in the tail end in the rolling last ~30 days (according to my conversation with Siri (highlight of my day))

The Handshake is Dead

4/8/2020

Will we Survive without handshakes?

It’s been three months going on three years since the global pandemic was declared. Everything, everywhere has been disrupted or put on hold, for everyone.

Not even Elon Musk could tweet himself and his Tesla factory out of eventual closure.

Rev, the best and cheapest transcription

4/7/2020

Say hello to Rev, who we use for transcriptions! With the coronavirus storming everyone's business operations and hours, we wanted to share their update in case you need help transcribing your voice notes.

handshake Etiquette After Covid-19

4/6/2020

Handshaking- how ironic that this is what our brand is named.
Coronavirus has made physical handshaking seem like you'll be literally maimed

Thankfully, in the virtual world, we can all give each other those handshakes.
We can also do more than sit at home with the muffins that everyone bakes.

Trying to shake hands During Coronavirus Season

4/1/2020

Today, our of boredom and social dehydration, I had to leave the house in order to seek handshakes.

Peep the video to see my highly decreased handshake success rate.

Handshaking.com stocks drop 93%, thanks Covid19...

3/29/2020

Thanks to the coronavirus we now have to hide our hands.

Whoever would've thought that a simple handshake could be dangerous and instantly taboo.

Guess the old saying, "your handshake is your word" is no longer valid.

Now its an elbow bump, which is not nearly as elegant.

Just imagine businessmen elbow bumping as they close multi-million dollar deals.

Transferwise Running everything as normal

3/28/2020

Sending money abroad can be a pain to do because of all the fees and rates companies want to slam you with.

Transferwise sent the following email saying that there's a possibility of delay in transferring and difficult than normal but rest assured nothing to worry when sending and receiving money regarding Transferwise.

Thank goodness because we pay our staff with Transferwise!

We're Launching a Pilot Partnership Program (to Build Lead generation Sites)

3/6/2020

Recently, I've been partnering with some friends from the domain name investing conference NamesCon. The first friend I got a site live with was Mike Law.

We did some research and decided to launch a site in the city where he lives, Denver, Colorado USA.

We lightly researched the following, we decided the site would be called Denver Mobile Dent Repairs.

Can you catch the coronavirus from shaking hands?

3/2/2020

The coronavirus is taking the world by storm and many people are worried about the spread of this virus. While this virus is highly contagious there is still a lot of misinformation and some false information when it comes to this virus.

There has been information circulating stating that a person can catch the coronavirus from shaking hands.

Guest post: Things to consider when relocating to a new residence

2/29/2020

Having a brand-new residence is the beginning of each and also everybody stage in our life. There's still a lot of important work that needs to complete on your new house-- instant jobs that needs no hold-up. Yes, there will be a time of celebration later, yet right now it's time to move and get to work. Below are some of the things you can do in moving right into your new house: