Google Can Ban you: January 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Five O Clock Tea

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Flying Dragon Sushi

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Flying Dragon Sushi

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My New Younger Sister

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French Toast

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Bratz Gals Online Coloring

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Party Fashion Facial

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Cover Girl Prep Makeover

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French Toast

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Five O Clock Tea

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Party Fashion Facial

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Mayan Fashion

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Wild Life Tasty Burger

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Wild Life Tasty Burger

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My New Younger Sister

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Minas Winter Accessories

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Cover Girl Prep Makeover

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Bratz Gals Online Coloring

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Mayan Fashion

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Minas Winter Accessories

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Overcoming Fear of Failure to Achieve Difficult Goals

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Advancing your career, starting a business, doubling sales revenue, losing weight, running a marathon, quitting smoking, going back to school, and saving more money are all challenging goals that can be pretty intimidating. It’s so intimidating that just thinking about it is enough to make most people hesitate or even back off entirely from even starting the goal. But it is possible to overcome the fear and become part of the select group of people who actually do achieve their difficult goals.

A big issue here is the common misbelief that the more difficult your goal becomes, the higher the possibility that you could fail. When the truth is, the more difficult your goal, the better your performance is likely to be. That’s because difficult goals give you a jolt; they stimulate your brain, push you out of your comfort zone and excite you emotionally all culminating in you delivering your best performance. But all that notwithstanding, a sizeable group of folks are still fundamentally afraid that if they attempt a difficult goal they might fail.

“What happens to me if I fail at this goal?”

Getting past the trepidation requires rewiring the way we think, and it starts with the simple question: “What happens to me if I fail at this goal?” A simple question, but not an easy one, and truthfully answering it requires a deep look into some of your inner mental processes. When I ask this question to the individuals and organizations Leadership IQ works with, I generally hear responses like:

“People will think I’m weak and couldn’t hack it.”

“I’ll be exposed as someone who talks a good game but can’t deliver.”

“People will be disappointed in me.”

“No one will ever believe in me again, and I sure won’t believe in myself again.”

“I’ll die from embarrassment.”

“If I can’t do this, it means I’ll never be able to do anything.”

“It’ll mean that I’m not as smart/talented/skilled as I like to think I am.”

The obvious problem here is that all these responses use serious and highly-charged words like “never”, “always”, “only” and “die”. And, when we assess the actual facts, we find these words tend to be overstatements that fall into the categories of interpretations, assumptions, emotionally-charged extrapolations, castastrophizing, irrational beliefs, or whatever else you want to call them. The thing they typically are not, are proven facts.

Fear can be healthy, you just have to disprove the negative statements that got you there

Now, all of this is not to say all fear is unhealthy. Certainly, from an evolutionary perspective, a fear of sabre-tooth tigers kept us alive. But there are times in this modern world where our fear reactions get pointed to something quite abstract, and perhaps even imagined. If you fail in your goal to escape a sabre-tooth tiger, you will almost certainly be dead minutes later. But if you fail in your goal to increase your savings this month, you’ve got at least a decent chance of still being alive 30 minutes later. The fact is, most of the repercussions we face if we fail in achieving our goals are not going to kill us. And, not only will we not actually die of embarrassment, we might not even have cause for any embarrassment.

However, we are human beings, not computers, so we can’t just flip a switch and say, “Feeling like I’ll die of embarrassment is irrational, so I’ll just stop feeling that way.” Instead, we’ve got to debunk these thoughts in our head, just like if we were an attorney cross-examining a witness. So we’re going to take each of these fear statements, or whatever your personal fears are, and, one by one, ask ourselves if we can find any examples that might provide evidence to the contrary of what we said.

Let’s take the example: “If I fail to achieve my goal, I’ll die from embarrassment.” Can you find any examples in your life (or even someone else’s life) where you failed to achieve a goal but didn’t die? And to take it a step further, can you find any examples where any embarrassment you felt was far less than what you were expecting? Now, by virtue of your being alive and reading this right now, I’m guessing you found at least one example that refutes the belief that “I’ll die of embarrassment”. And the same can be done with each of the responses listed above.

Once you’ve finished that exercise, it’s time to rewrite those fear statements. You’ve debunked them so now turn them around into something a lot more encouraging. For example:

“If I fail at this goal, people won’t think I’m weak. In fact, they may even rally to my defense.”

“If I fail at this goal, people will still believe in me.”

“If I can’t do this specific goal, it has no bearing on my ability to tackle other difficult goals.”

You’ve disproven the negative statements you started with, so it’s just a question of closing the loop and cementing this logically-sound bit of encouragement in your consciousness. It’s simple, but it really does work.

Overwhelmingly, we have little or nothing to fear from attempting (and even failing) at a difficult goal. Because it’s only by attempting difficult goals that we hone our ability to successfully achieve them. And remember, we’ll have absolutely no control over our lives and destinies if we allow ourselves to remain paralyzed by the fear of the mostly imagined consequences of failing at a difficult goal.

Get more tips on overcoming the fear of achieving difficult goals by attending our webinar Beyond SMART Goals.

An expert in aligning goals and people to create thriving organizations, Mark leads one of the world’s largest studies on leadership and employee engagement.

Mark’s award-winning work has been featured numerous times in publications including The Wall St. Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the Washington Post. His media appearances include CBS News Sunday Morning, ABC’s 20/20, Fox Business News and NPR. Mark has lectured at Harvard Business School, Yale University, University of Rochester and University of Florida. Mark is the author of five books including the McGraw-Hill international bestsellers, Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your People to Give It Their All and They’ll Give You Even More and Hard Goals. Mark’s most recent book, Hiring for Attitude, reflects the team’s latest research and insight into how hiring decisions can align with engagement goals and culture characteristics.

Leadership IQ’s turnaround, culture change, and performance enhancement through employee engagement work has been recognized in a diverse set of industries including healthcare, financial services, energy, manufacturing, logistics, and hospitality. From his roots as a turnaround specialist, Mark created Leadership IQ to address problems in performance before they hit the bottom line.

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How to Sell Valuable Typo/Misspelled Domain Names!?

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Question: I have a couple misspelled domains of extremely valuable one-word keyword domains. They’re each just one letter off and common misspellings. Haven’t had any luck contacting and educating owners of the main sites in that niche so that they see the light and buy them. What is your advice on selling valuable misspelled domains?
-Matthew

I received this question in my Anticareer mailbag and though it would make a good, albeit short, post and leave open some room for others who have gone through this to respond in the comments. First Matthew, I have not sold any premium typo domains and I don’t own any so my thoughts are based on my opinions and not my experiences. That being said, this is what I think…

You can talk to the end users until your face reaches a blueish purple tint and you may not make any headway about why they should buy your typo domain. My advice is you need to give them facts and not give them reasoning or information. It will be much easier to reach someone when there are factual numbers behind what you are saying. If you have a valuable one word typo domain I would first track the traffic it is getting. Is it 5 visits a day or 500 visits a day. Hopefully the second one or it will be a harder sell. Once you are able to establish unique visitors a day (and you track this for 2-3 months) you have begun to put together some concrete facts. Next, I’d take a stroll to the Google Adwords Keywords tool (found here) and see how much advertisers are paying for this keyword (I believe you need to sign into your Google account, it can be a Gmail account) in order to see the CPC figures. If people are paying $2 per click for the keyword and your typo is getting 500 visitors a day you are offering them a $1,000 per day VALUE. See, you give them facts, but you sell the value. I would then scan the first few pages of Google, Yahoo, and Bing and get the URLs of all the sites who are paying for ads for this keyword and the organic search results. Grab the whois information and you have a contact list. It’s all about reaching the right person. If it is a big company and you are emailing their whois email it is probably hitting the inbox of the IT team and they are not the decision makers. You’ll need to call the company and find out who is the head of business development and try to contact them. Phone is best, email is second best.

You may currently be parking the domain, but another thing that could potentially drive a sale is to do this… depending on the niche, I would consider putting an email capture box on the landing page. Come up with some sort of free giveaway (ebook or otherwise) related to the niche in return for them filling out the contact form. If you get a list of 1,000 or 10,000 people related to this niche that is a very nice VALUE add that you can offer the end user. You can frame it as they are getting a free list of potential buyers, and frame it as the people who are landing on this typo domain are interactive and great potential buyers.

Taking it a step further, again dependent upon the niche, you could build a minisite and sell the product. If you are able to drive a decent volume of sales this would be another huge selling point you can make to the end user.

These are three factual data driven ideas I’d recommend. If you don’t have the data, or the data is not very favorable and you need to try selling the typo based on a sales pitch I would use some of the talking points mentioned without putting numbers to them, rather put the idea in the end users head of the potential.

Buying a typo domain is not intuitive to most end users. If you talk to a domainer they immediately understand the value proposition, but they have honed their skills in the domain name trade. The end users will need to be shown how purchasing the domain will be accretive to their bottom line and the quickest way to get there is with numbers. Good luck on selling the domains, feel free to list them in the comments section as you may get some bids from people on them, and if anyone has some tips drop a comment below and help Matthew out.

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Sometimes You Have to Know When to Give Up… and Start Over

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There’s a fine line that most (if not every) internet marketer will walk at least once if not multiple times. That line divides working on a project that has not yielded any results and giving up on that project and starting over with something else. This is a very very fine line and if you choose the wrong side you could either be wasting your time and money or you could be throwing away something that could turn out to be very profitable.

It is hard to walk away from something that we’ve invested our time, effort, money, and damn hard work into. A lot of people will see walking away as a failure. Why? Look at it as a lesson learned. Let me give you an example from my own history.

The second website I ever built was a blog & forum for deals. I saw sites like Slickeals and Fatwallet and I wanted to create something just as good if not better. I worked on this site for over a year full time while I was also working a full time job. I hired a few people. I spent every waking minute trying to grow my site. And in the end I walked away from the site. At the time I felt like I had failed. I wasted a year of very hard work. I wasted all my spare money… I didn’t eat out, I didn’t go to the movies, I didn’t go to the bar. I put everything into this site. It just didn’t work out. I understand today why the site didn’t work out back then. I didn’t have enough capital. I didn’t have enough experience. I didn’t have enough knowledge. I also understand today that I did not fail and I did not waste a year of my life. What I did was spend a year learning. Think of it like going to school. You pay a ton of money. You work hard. And in the end you are just left with knowledge and experience.

Walking away was very hard to do. But you need to understand the opportunity cost. What else could I be doing if I walked away from a project that wasn’t working out and instead I started on a new project today. In one year, which path would lead me to a better place. Walking away was hard, but it was smart. It was smart because the third ‘real’ site that I built was a big winner for me. It catapulted me into making real money online. I was able to take that money and grow what my online business. I was able to take that money and invest in domain names. I was able to be in a much better place today because I walked away from a project back in the day. You can get emotionally attached to a project and not being able to cut free from it can really hurt you.

On the flipside, a lot of internet marketing requires hard work and patience. You put so much into a project and when you don’t see the results you want you feel dejected and a lot of people stop making an effort. They give up on the project and walk away… too soon. Some things take a while before success is had. Giving up too soon can cost you big time. And there’s the fine line.

You need to be able to objectively step back and analyze what is going on. There will come a point where you need to cut your losses and move on, but you need to learn to identify that point. Making a decision in haste, or while you are emotional is never a good idea.

There are two quotes that have stuck with me through the years concerning failure and success.

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

Failure is a big part of success. Admitting defeat on a project and regrouping and coming back stronger on your next project is not a symbol of weakness but of strength. Most successful people did not strike it big on their first attempt. Remember, you can’t succeed if you never try.

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There’s Only One Thing You Should Follow When Investing in Domain Names

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If you are a domain name investor, a domain name flipper, a domain name broker, a domain name speculator; basically anyone who buys a domain name for the purpose of achieving a profit there’s a good chance that you are investing incorrectly and/or running your game plan incorrectly and hurting your potential profits. I had a conversation via email with someone and I think the problem that he was having is a problem that I’d guess many people have and don’t even realize. I know when I first started buying domain names I had this problem too but soon realized the problem and corrected it for myself so it didn’t impact me for too long. The problem is that you are a follower. You are listening to other people. Instead of following the only thing you really should be following… the list of recent sales. Let me explain.

There’s a good number of people who talk about domain name investing, domain name strategy, domain name profiting online. Some of them are very successful. Others not so much. But when you are investing in domain names you should listen to NONE OF THEM!

“But why shouldn’t we listen to successful domain investors?”

You have different classes of domain investors and they use different strategies. What works for one person may not work for another person.

The Original Gangsta’s

These guys got ahead of the curve and bought domain names in the beginning. They are patient with domain names because they can afford to be because they already cashed out on some, made seven figures (or more), and won’t take $10 today if they think they can sit and get $100 tomorrow. Their advice is to be patient. Ask for a high figure when someone inquires about your domain. Wait for that right end user to come along (which can take years). This works for them but it probably won’t work for you because you’re not a millionaire already.

The Self Proclaimed Gurus

These guys act like they know everything and are out there selling domains every day, in fact odds are they are sitting in the basement of their parents house at 40 years old wondering why their wonderful thoughts of domaining never work for them. They love to go onto forums and give their “appraisals” when you ask for them, and you take those appraisals to heart and make decisions with your money based on clueless opinions. You are just as guilty as they are, they provide their “expert” opinions and you believe them. Shame on you both. And shame on me because I learned this lesson the hard way when I first got into domain name investing. There was a “highly respected” (I use that term sarcastically now) domain investor on a forum who gave his opinion on a domain name’s value. Based on his opinion I bought that domain name for a couple grand because he said it was worth at least five times that. When I wasn’t able to sell the domain I asked him if he wanted to buy it (after all he said it was worth five times that). Guess what, he didn’t want to buy it. Guess what, his appraisal was full of shit just like he was. Lesson learned.

The Churn and Burners

This group will hand register a domain for $10 and try to sell it to someone for $50. They don’t know anything about value, quality, or true investing. They are out there making a living by churning through domains daily (if possible). I’m not knocking them, you can make a living doing this, a $100 a day in profit is $36k/year which you can live off of. But these guys are just looking for high turnover. I wouldn’t consider them flippers, they are churn and burn to me. Many an optimistic new domainer has registered 100 domains and quickly attempt to sell them for a few bucks profit each. Many an optimistic new domainer got stuck with 100 domains and quit domaining without ever selling a thing.

The Flippers

These guys are looking to buy domains and sell them for a few times what they paid. Spend $1,000 on a domain and sell it for $3,000. This takes more patience and knowledge than being a churn and burner because your investment is more than a nominal $10 per domain. These guys have a good feel for what they can flip for a profit in a reasonable amount of time. I fall into this category for the most part. But being successful in flipping domains isn’t something you pick up in a day. It is something you learn in time.

Just because Usain Bolt wears Brand X Model Y Size Z sneakers and eats Wheaties every day for breakfast does not mean you will start winning races if you follow what he does. He is in a different place than you are. Get it?

There is something (not someone) that you should be following though. This will help any type of domain investor become more successful. What you should be following is the list of recent domain name sales. Here’s a great resource that lists out recent domain names sales. Anyone with a half functioning brain knows that an asset is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. Forget appraisals, if they say your domain is worth $1 Million but you can only find buyers who will spend $100 on your domain than guess what… your domain is worth $100. See what types of domains are selling, what prices they are selling for, and use that FACTUAL information as the basis for your domain name investing. If you become a pro you can diverge from this path once you gain that ever alluding “feel” of domain investing that transcends common sense and lets you profit where others fail, but until then stick to the facts. Stop listening to people on their soapbox. Believe it or not, quite a few of them have their own agendas. If they invest in a new extension (like .xxx) and all of a sudden they are telling everyone that buying into this extension is a smart move should you follow them? Are they trying to honestly help you, or are they trying to help their own holdings? I’d vote the latter. Stop trying to run a race using someone else’s methods because you are not them. Remember, facts trump opinions so stick to’em when your investing in domain names and you will exponentially increase your potential rate for success.

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How to Sell Valuable Typo/Misspelled Domain Names!?

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Question: I have a couple misspelled domains of extremely valuable one-word keyword domains. They’re each just one letter off and common misspellings. Haven’t had any luck contacting and educating owners of the main sites in that niche so that they see the light and buy them. What is your advice on selling valuable misspelled domains?
-Matthew

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Top 10 Selling Internet Marketing Products on Clickbank as of Today

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How Can Leaders Successfully Communicate and Implement Change?

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4 Current Web Design Ideas You Simply Can’t Ignore!

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Web design is a dynamic process that can either make or break your site. If you are thinking of making sure that your site is useful to your customers, you would need to make sure that it is of very high quality, and that the design is intuitive. The era of having plain-looking websites is far over, and if you have one of these then you may find most of your customers not very pleased with the user experience on your site. To liven up the look and feel of your website, there are a number of things that you can do as far as web design is concerned. These include:

Designing your site for ease of use from different devices

The fact that technology has been improving over the past few years may make life easier for most people, but it has also changed the way web design has to be done. In the past, you could easily design a site for use on Internet Explorer and find relative success with this, since most people browsed the internet using this platform. Today, however, there are many different ways in which they can do this. If they have a computer, they can access web pages using any of a large number of browsers, each of which renders pages differently. They may also do this using different kinds of mobile devices with different sizes and capabilities. To ensure that most of your customers are happy, you would need to design your site in such a manner that it is usable on most of such platforms.

Inline form validation

There are many times when you will need customers to fill forms, such as when entering addresses when they need to buy goods from your store. To ensure that such processes are completed, it is often a good idea to lend them a helping hand. For instance, you can design the form in such a manner that it self-checks all the details that the user enters as they do it. This way, they can avoid having to go through the process of filling a whole form, only to be told to do it again because of a single mistake. This can be very frustrating especially when dealing with long forms, and in most cases it will result in the customer simply avoiding the site altogether, opting to use a more user-friendly site.

Quick signup procedures

When you offer an online service that needs your guests to sign up, there are a number of ways in which you can make the process quicker. For instance, you can have them sign up using their other existing accounts on Facebook or Twitter. One of the advantages of this is that it makes it very easy for them to sign up, and this means that you will end up with many more members. In addition to that, this kind of sign up is preferred by most people since it means that they do not have to memorize too many different logins and passwords for different sites.

Use of hovercards

There are times when you do not want to provide too much information on a page, as this makes it more of an eyesore. In such cases, you can simplify the page by simply providing minimal information about the different elements on it, and then using the hovercards to provide more information about a specific element that the user is interested in. To do this, the user only needs to hover their mouse cursor over what they are interested. In addition to making sure that your site is not cluttered, one other advantage of doing this is that it reduces the need for customers to click on links to find out more about them. They will only need to click on it when the extra information they see about it proves to be what they are after.

In summary, the process of doing web design is one that has to be thought through intelligently. The above are just a few ideas that are relatively new, but which can make your site much more pleasant for your customers. Remember, the main goal of doing web design in the first place is to please your customers so that they can keep visiting your site.

Author Bio:

Tom Scofield is deeply interested in SEO and web designing. He has written some articles on the same topic as well. He provides some great guidelines for CT SEO.

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4 Current Web Design Ideas You Simply Can’t Ignore!

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Designing your site for ease of use from different devices

Inline form validation

Quick signup procedures

Use of hovercards

Author Bio:

Tom Scofield is deeply interested in SEO and web designing. He has written some articles on the same topic as well. He provides some great guidelines for CT SEO.

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

How to Increase Your Monthly Earnings… Do It Yourself!

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There will come a time (or multiple times) when your earnings online hit a wall. You can’t seem to get over the hump and earn more. People will tell you to “scale it up” but for some reason it’s just not working for you. Well, I’m not going to solve the scaling up problem for you today but I will give you a tip that could help bump up those earnings significantly. Do It Yourself.

Now this won’t work in every instance, but in a lot of situations you could be doing it yourself and increasing your earnings. Don’t give me that puzzled look, I haven’t explained what I mean yet.

Let’s say you are doing what tons of people are doing and promoting a Clickbank product. Most of the products pay a 75% of sale commission. Most of the products offered there when you break them down and move beyond the fancy sales page are actually very simple products, something like an ebook or basic software. Something that you could put together in a day or two if you wanted to. Something that could increase your earnings by 33% if you did. Let’s look at the numbers.

I do all this work to drive traffic to Jimbo’s “Get Rick Quick” ebook product. I do SEO, blog commenting, PPC ads, PPV ads, etc… His product sells for $100 so for each sale I drive I get a nice $75. You should be happy, right? Well not so fast my friend. Jimbo created an ebook and a sales page and that’s it. And now for every sale you are driving you are handing him $25. Why? You can write a similar ebook. You can get a similar sales page made for a hundred bucks. You could be promoting your own offer. And now instead of $75 per sale you get $100 per sale which is a sweet 33.3% increase in your income. If you were driving 3 sales per day that’s an extra $75 per day in income for you, which annualized is over $27,000 additional dollars for you.

You can apply this Do It Yourself attitude to a multitude of different things. Let’s say you sell some of your domain names through a domain broker. Did you first try contacting all the possible end users out there? If you have a domain that will sell for $10k and a broker normally charges 15%, isn’t it worth an hour or two of your time to try to sell the domain on your own first? I mean that commission you’re going to be handing away is $1,500.

You want to promote an ‘email submit’ offer running on a CPA network. Sure, it’s easy to do that. But if you have the bandwidth why not dig into how that company that is collecting the email is profiting from it and then instead of getting email submits for them, get those email submits for yourself. There’s much more money on the backend to be made for you if you do it yourself.

There may be times when you really can’t do it yourself because to get up and running may cost too much for you, or may be beyond your scope, or may be too damn time consuming. But I challenge you to take a look at what you are doing and really examine if you can eliminate someone from the money path and increase your share of the profits by spending a little time and a little money up front.

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What to Look For When Hiring a Content Writer

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Anyone can call themselves a content writer. There’s no degree in content writing, and the skills involved in content writing don’t necessarily require an English degree or advanced education. To be a content writer, you need to:

Write Quickly.Write Well.Research Well.Have Common Sense.

Those are essentially the four skills of content writing, and while a degree in English or some type of advanced marketing studies can be helpful, they do not indicate the ability to write quickly, craft articles on a variety of topics to which the writer is likely to have little experience, or display the inappropriately named and rare skill of “common” sense.

This is a problem, because it means that Billy Joe Schmo may be a better content writer than Dr. Dave Skilled, Ph.D, but their qualifications may indicate the opposite. It also means that a company of 500 may be worse at developing content than an unkempt high school dropout living in a basement. The lack of qualifications also means that someone that found flipping burgers was too intellectually demanding can claim themselves to be a content writer, and those searching for a quality writer have no way of differentiating them from a writer with talent.

Tips to Find a Content Writer

All of these issues make finding the right content writer a fairly complex task, and one that involves a little bit of trial and error. Consider the following tips and strategies to ensure that you’re hiring someone legitimately skilled at writing interesting and valuable content.

The best place to start is by checking out their sample articles or portfolio. It’s where you’ll get at least an idea of what the company or writer considers “Quality Writing” because no good business is going to showcase their worst work. If the quality of the sample articles is acceptable, you can move forward, but still consider a fair degree of skepticism since there’s no guarantee the company or the writer you’ll have wrote the sample articles.

Check Formatting – Including Website Formatting

One interesting way to judge content writers is how they format their articles. Quality content writers understand how to format their articles for the web. They’ll use bullet points, subheadings, shorter paragraphs, decent spacing – their writing will be pleasing to the eye, regardless of the type of content they’re writing about. Formatting is something web writers learn with experience, so quality formatting will imply some degree of knowledge of web content.

It may cost a small investment, but most companies offer single article purchases. Purchase one. The investment is small, there is no commitment, and you’ll be able to get an idea if the writer is someone you want to continue working with. Remember that writing is also subjective – two great writers may develop the same type of content, and you may find one is much “better” than the other according to how it matches your vision. It doesn’t mean the other writer is bad, but it may indicate that you prefer the style of another writer.

Great writers should be able to write content with a minimal degree of research and while relying very little on the work of others. Copyscape (www.copyscape.com) is the best way to ensure that the content hasn’t been stolen, but you’ll want to test for more than that. You want to make sure that the writer didn’t just steal all of the ideas from one single piece of content either. Do a Google search for a keyword or two, and see if the first one or two pieces of content are nearly identical in style to the one developed for your website.

Note that research is common. A great writer may not know how to write an article without a Google search of related topics, and this practice is both common and accepted. But their content still shouldn’t read like they rewrote someone else’s content directly. It needs to read as though they were an expert – as though they wrote it from scratch – even if you know with certainty that they didn’t. Searching Google for similar content and reading it yourself can be of tremendous benefit.

Finally, when in doubt, talk to someone within the company on the phone. How someone speaks is indicative of the quality of writing they’ll provide. Those that can’t argue in favor of their work, or whose English skills appear to be lacking are far less likely to provide high quality content.

Start Small – Go Big

Ideally, the best thing to do is start with a small project and move up from there. A small, 1 to 5 article project shouldn’t put too big a dent in your wallet, and you’ll get an opportunity to judge the speed and quality of the writer(s). If you like the content, you can move forward with a larger quantity. If you don’t, you end the working relationship, and try to find something else to do with the work the poor quality writers completed.

It’s unfortunate that “content writer” can be thrown around with so little regard, but it’s the nature of a subjective business – most poor quality content writers genuinely believe their work is of the highest quality, and in some cases a high quality writer may be judged as writing poorly by someone that has a different view of what “good writing means.”

But don’t forget that you’re under no obligation to use any content writer beyond an initial article, and you can ask content writers as much as you want about what they provide before making a purchase. Ask questions, view samples, do some online research, and start with a small trial project, and while you may have to go through a bad writer or two, you’ll ultimately find the quality content writer you’re looking for.

Bio – Micah Abraham is co-owner and lead content writer at Great Leap Studios, a New York based content writing company. Learn more about content writing at www.greatleapstudios.com.

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Exercise, watch movies next to ask

Development of two types of lead awareness by listening is required. Handle is a self that can get. Other "more conscious we observe, and we might make it otherwise, just focus on the fact learn to interpret the feelings of others no matter how bad assumptions can be wiped, so" of is we like to call.

To develop awareness of the other two parts. Start paying attention and focus, it is all about we have developed powers of observation and interpretation of those signals is second part. Amazingly all of this right now, that sounds simple: and we only pay attention to the, give consideration. Piece of cake, right? We do not pay much attention to normal we have seen observation is all day long we problem is. , For example, consider a coin 10 cents. Had opportunity enough for observation, and treated with lots of Dimes in your life time. However, you can really write a dime?? "Raised edges with silver," and most of us would say. Sweeps the few Franklin d. Roosevelt's face we know. What is written profile can correctly say even less what direction he's or dime back. This is another consideration comes into play. It pays for keying, all processing is going really care more precisely.

This fun and other awareness building exercise

And other awareness building is exercise you can see the movie next time. Movie should be, any form can just pause the DVD or on-demand at the scene several times.

Here, is how the movement works. First time ( you can do it and have seen one ago, never seen that movie is more fun ) pick movies that includes dialogue scenes with two or three people. We should avoid big action movies are looking for a strong interaction between humans. He would see two people that interact with this scene: once is off, sound and sound following the second time.

Sound, off the first viewing, and just observe. What is the people on the screen? Help no sound, try key letters in is up to. Check out their facial expressions: they are smiling, quietly raised eyebrow, frowning, blinking rapidly? Holding eye contact are breaking eye contact? What is happening to the color of their face? Suddenly inflamed what is one person's face? Do you soothing lip or lips who is tight it? Someone wetting their lips?

Then look at the gestures: maybe someone nods, shakes, or covers the wound's mouth and eyes, and his face. Where is the hand of everyone maybe character cracking his knuckles are. Something about my body. What is the angle of the head of everyone? The characters farther apart or closer together? They're a downturn are? whether they are leaning forward? They have shrugged? It silently removes all other distractions, only can be observed. Some interpretations started with sound off, then. Only evaluates the emotions, body language, facial expressions, see I think.

Watch the scenes now sound the same. And again, while heard gestures, facial expressions, etc, of now exists to evaluate the kind of feeling you think you want to key is. To compare observations did you make when had the audio cues for how your silent observation to support? How sharp are you?

Now back to work this movement

And you will observe next meeting Conference of all facial expressions, gestures and body display do this, a spiritual presence is a great place to start the attention to what emotions you think. You can test the hypothesis you some neat about doing work in this is.

So I think after that you begin to grasp that, in addition to your observations and feelings exist; you think the behavior observed in these three possible explanations. Three hypotheses. Perhaps the # 1 hypothesis: is # 2, and she has been feeling sick, maybe looking at Jane: maybe Jane upset and and talk about her new assignment she is confused by the direction or is a hypothesis # 3: maybe tired of Jane's. When what we want to develop a multiple and alternative hypotheses, we prevent from becoming glued to only one type of solution to see our various hypothetical action come up with is. We get stuck with an open mind about what you have is very difficult. However, if we have multiple hypotheses of things it is, having the definition, much more open minded India amps automatically backs up our listening skills.

Consider the likelihood of the hypothesis of the three by observing some more then. If additional evidence can be found, for example, see observation might be your hypothesis, "she is tired of": "is not Jane has two cups of coffee on her desk, she drink normal coffee. Maybe she's tired, she's working late at the night of the last few ". If the people who say, "listen, simply reach is staring off empty noticed, your arms were closed off, etc I am curious, is. It is going through because we have friends here what was and what your heart I can ask you whether I must have some sense of right click? "Your assumption is right that way can be found.

The goal of this exercise is associated with your assessment of what kind of emotions an effective observer of human behaviour and others feel that these observations, is to teach how to become more effective. You can develop an effective sense of causal relationship between these actions and those feelings. Had been more careful, be yourself and others you nuggets of information you you right distillation will all listen to you so you can get more effective, need some help.

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Use the “Frustration Technique” to Help Employees Understand Change

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One factor that regularly gets in the way of successful change initiatives is when organizations fail to provide employees with any real reason as to “why” a change is happening in the first place. This is especially prevalent in companies operating from a top-down organizational structure, and it can result in employees that catastrophize the message of change they hear, jumping to conclusions and making irrational interpretations about the impact the change will have on them.

When it comes to communicating the “why” of change, we need to create a deep sense of understanding so everyone involved is clear on: “why the status quo is no longer acceptable and we have no choice but to leave it behind.” This means not only do we need to give our people a legitimate reason why the change is happening, we also need to clearly communicate that we didn’t just come up with this change initiative because we didn’t have anything better to do. And especially if the organization has a history of stalled or abandoned change efforts, we have to let employees know that this time it’s not some “new flavor of the month” syndrome; that there is a good reason for this change and that it absolutely is going to happen.

To further add to the challenge, grasping the “why” is the hardest part of change. The good news is that it’s a message you can get employees to help self-deliver, which is a big plus because people tend to react better to ideas they come up with on their own versus ideas that are forced on them. That’s why we teach the “Frustration Technique” that gets people to set their own platform on fire and create their own sense of why there is no other choice but to make the leap to change.

Here’s how the “Frustration Technique” works

Before you pitch a change, start asking people, “Hey, is there anything frustrating you about where we’re at right now? They might answer, “Well, the process takes too long. It’s sort of irritating. And these things are getting in my way.” And the minute that light bulb comes on, you are in a much better position to turn around and say, “You know what, that’s wonderful insight. Based on that let me throw something out to you. This is a change, a solution to the ideas you just came up with.”

The Frustration Technique works because it highly eliminates the nostalgia that can set in when employees hear the announcement “We’re leaving this safe place you already know, and going someplace new.” Once you’ve pitched where you’re going, and you’ve said, “Folks, here it is. We’re going over here and we’re leaving that. Forget about it. It’s never coming back” people start to eulogize the past. They’ll say, “Do you remember back when? Remember before we had computers how great it used to be? How easy life was? We didn’t have these systems that were always crashing and it wasn’t so complicated?” Even if they didn’t like the paper systems, even if it took too long and was painful and arduous, the minute you insist that folks leave it, they turn back around and eulogize the “good old days” or “the way it used to be.” Once that happens it is very difficult to undo. So, if you can, catch it before it even starts.

Change is always going to be hard, but with techniques like this that invite employees to take an active role in finding their own acceptance and willingness to embrace the change, it gets much easier.

For more tips on managing change, join us for our webinar “Change Management that Lasts“.

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"Why? "Please ask. Often means judgment.

Impose a judgment against a 4 most harmful can compromise good listening as your leader is. And ask someone or something in mind, the one thing "why", "why", words often ruling means. Even if not going to do this, word "as is often used for and why" is "why? ", It is sour implications" it was stupid boy "may. And your intention is not guilty, you just why someone is really the way recipients in your question is "why" of if you want to know if word is used as a question, you may to reaction is determined.

Rather than trying to shoot a little detour to say instead, "well, why (it did )? "Dam means" is what? It was a bad thing "and say" so tell us the chance that action on selected details, "it is" why? "The is much less decide how open and then encourage recipients to share the reasoning. Then, I hear they say. Gather the facts.

Is the key to know how to identify facts and isolating them from interpretation and reaction to an effective listening. Debunking a psychological lead by listening and listening a great secret in our Webinars.

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Multivariate Testing Methods for Better Online Business Conversions

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Can do one thing leaders better listeners.

When we feel those things one can do better than our leaders to reach a wider, we hear and shut down, stop is finds a certain emotion.

And set trigger is raised us, if some bad reactions probably we we have a predictable going to avoid this from happening to make these patterns should consider our own actions. This, of course all cores, we if you have those bad feelings, we way we need to know feel that again in the future to avoid that can cause.

This is the essence of listening.

If you shut down your ability to listen, know, heard the story as a result of the negative emotions, particular way feel anything negative about something someone or cause to react badly to the established emotional just want to break the chain. And you are ready to recognize when they hear certain things, and they set off, knowing that cause a bad reaction, it comes, "Oh wow that would stimulate emotions in this" and allude stay differently. said, wandering off to negative emotional reaction as connected and instead ask, can cope with the feelings.

It's charming and surprisingly, become aware of the emotional improvements when initiating, we get a better recognition of your own. More self-aware and know more, you are more control over others. So, try to anticipate conditions so you can put your divided into the right frame of mind and their emotions, to bracket them, and other people key to set your. Listen to need information this way to listen to absolutely critical nugget do not.

Tips such as how to stop yourself from learning to make to listen listen to determine the snap-in and truly delivered a great message to dissect every conversation to lead by listening to our Webinar attendance.

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What to Look For When Hiring a Content Writer

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What great, listening to very difficult??

Q & A with CEO Mark Murphy

Q: listening so simple should be yet, the average person seems to holding only 10% of what they hear. What is hard to hear the great?

Mm: than and nod your head often go a great listening and have "Uh huh. Wow!, it's interesting. Is the entire thinking actually we should accept information has come to us that way. And dissecting parts how to allow you to parse we all are is, involves a detailed probe. You must also determine that. We can't hear the actual kernel message has come to us get a push our emotional buttons that will not be.

We have equal importance in the world of work and management need to know we are listening because hear us all. Because we hear some things, certain words, for example, we can be and set off we some of us to miss the need to hear is what really matters caused by this issue.

There are lot of great listening exercises. But if we get deep understanding of relevant to hear what absolutely critical skills and how it all can be identified we work at key us great listening is absolutely impossible. Anyone can, but have to do it.

Q: when you say we need what meaning the key to an important part of the conversation?

Mm: how is an example of one that works. We tap where employees pull out a little more to us is Let's assume you are in situations. I think maybe they wanted to talk about projects not going well we assigned them, maybe they are a little (or more) is upset. They are using emotional language, it is subjective and even is a bit negative. Can unload them, other than we have been told what to think is and not a ton of value in listening. However difficult things you could listen to have we really hear is nuggets of information really important there may. Something is going to happen again this person should you go to avoid it or they fix the error to us for clues. Because we are preoccupied with all the others, yet we're hearing no; distraction. So we must want to hear all the rest from our listening model to separate the raw materials. Need a way to get we help this person find the solution removes the emotional element, just an appropriate facts.

Teach fire model separate fact from our interpretation, reaction and justified leadership IQ. We are going to find nuggets of one really good information we need because in fact. Fire model section of all of these say, "just got some tough feedback there are here some good facts. What some this what I really is, is a notable fact, so I like is should be organized listening to other things that you should listen to. "Until listening model to properly isolate all that we have is, is a great listening difficult.

Q: you can know whether or how you got all our facts are?

MM: at first we know how deep probe must so focused on the fact we just we need, gets all the superficial thing of the past. There's a wide range of probes directly with the facts, such as exploration and an emotional and an indirect probe. Tell the type of probe used the basic present situation and comfort level.

For example, indirect probes to guard someone and to avoid when you think defense is the best. Real to probe down to the facts, you no longer do interpretations, reactions and ends when very simple checklist you mentally can verify if you have collect enough facts through runs. Is the same basic checklist to use gather all information: when, where, what, who, why and how.

Is to get the conversation focused on the facts only in the first step by doing can do this, "who, what, when, where and why, how" where you say your heart rate: "well, well, people: people involved in the first, wanted to know. Well, yeah. Got it. They were talking about what I know? Do you what it actually happened? Okay, got it. I know why in fact it happened it happened where took place and then making these assumptions based on the things I do? What is precipitate know this? And you know how it happened? "So takes a little practice, but you thinks about constantly, while naturally it just happen what, when, where, why, how your conversation with will make it just a very good listener.

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Why do so many goals end up in failure?

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A Q&A with CEO Mark Murphy

Q: Why do so many goals end up in failure?

MM: Many corporations have formal goal-setting systems, like SMART Goals, to help employees develop and track their goals. But a big part of the problem as to why those goals are not being realized is that people and organizations get so hung up on making sure their goal-setting forms are filled out correctly, checking and double checking that their goals are realistic and achievable, that they neglect to answer the single most important question: Is this goal even worth it? And then, if it is ‘worth it,’ if it is a goal worthy of the challenges and opportunities we face, we next need to ask: How do we sear this goal into our minds, make it so critical to our very existence that no matter what obstacles we encounter, we will not falter in our pursuit of this goal? That’s why Leadership IQ teaches HARD Goals.

Q: Why do HARD Goals work?

MM: Leadership IQ research found a distinguishing characteristic in the people who set and achieve extraordinary goals. And it isn’t daily habits, or raw intellect, or how many numbers you can write on a worksheet that defines that success. It’s actually the engagement of your brain. When your brain is humming with a goal, as happens with HARD Goals, everything you need to take your goal and run with it falls into place. But when your brain is ho-hum about your goals, all the daily rituals and discipline in the world won’t help you succeed.

The way to achieve any goal (health, financial, career, business, etc.) is to seek HARD goals—so whether you set a goal to save money, lose weight, hit a sales target or invent better products, every goal you set has to meet the following criteria:

Heartfelt—you’ve got to have an emotional attachment to your goal; it has to scratch an existential itch.Animated—goals need to be motivated by a vision, picture or movie that plays over and over in your mind.Required—it needs to feel so urgently necessary that you have no other choice but to start acting on them right here, right now.Difficult—goals need to drag you out of your comfort zone, activating your senses and attention.

Q: That’s quite different from SMART Goals, generally defined as: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-Limited. What do you say to someone who says, “But everyone else is using SMART Goals, why shouldn’t I?”

MM: Look, from Einstein to Bill Gates to the late, great Steve Jobs, the greatest thinkers and leaders in history saw opportunities that others didn’t see. The people who achieve the extraordinary don’t just use the same warmed-over ideas as everyone else and they don’t just do what everyone else is doing. They are bold and they do what is right for them, and part of that is in how they set and go after their goals.

Steve Jobs made a career out of doing extraordinary things that quite frequently others said couldn’t be done, and trust me, no goal he ever set would pass the Achievable and Realistic test for a SMART Goal. He had the courage to change his mind, to say “this isn’t working for me” and to try something new.

Lots of leaders and organizations say they want to take the world by storm, to create the next iPod or whatever great thing it is, but then they go right back to running things like they’ve always done. And if you do things the same way they’ve always been done, you’re going to keep getting the same results.

Too often SMART Goals act as impediments to, not enablers of, bold action, and actually encourage mediocre and poor performance. “Hold on a minute,” SMART goals seem to say. “Don’t push beyond your resources, don’t bite off more than you can chew, play it safe and stay within your limitations.” Even a factor like Specific, which sounds okay, can suck the life out of goals. For most people Specific means turn your goal into a number and jot it down (e.g. I want to lose a specific weight, like 27 pounds, or meet a specific sales target, or whatever).

But that definition of “specific” pales in comparison to the intensely-pictured Animated goals of achievers like Jobs and others. Sure they’ve got a number, but they also know what their body looks like 27 pounds from now, what clothes they’ll be wearing, even how they’ll feel when they no longer carry the weight. For them, 27 pounds isn’t an abstract concept or a number on a form; it’s a vision into the future that feels so real, it’s as if it’s already happened. And SMART Goals just don’t do that. However, there are steps you can take to make SMART Goals more powerful.

Q: As leaders and organizations head into 2013 what goal-setting advice can you offer them?

MM: It’s a truly unsettling world right now. But we all know that denial, blame, excuses and anxiety are not going to make it any better. We need to harness the energy of this moment, scary though it may be, and turn it into greatness. Whether we’re going to grow our company, lose weight, run a marathon or change the whole darn world, we’re going to have to saddle up a HARD Goal and ride that sucker at a full gallop.

Too many leaders say “I have had this training,” whether it’s SMART Goals or something else, and that’s where they stay, indefinitely, even if it falls short of inspiring themselves and their employees to be more effective and to constantly reach for better and better results. Don’t be afraid to ask, “Is what I’m doing getting the best results?” And if it’s not, if you’re not getting the results you want, or you just keep getting the same results over and over again, then dare to debunk the standard practices that aren’t working for you and try something different.

Get started on your HARD Goals by attending our webinar Beyond SMART Goals. Learn how to push yourself and your people to achieve the extraordinary, even in the toughest of times.

A professional corporate writer with over 20-years’ experience crafting just the right words for executives to use in challenging situations, Lyn is a passionate and adept qualitative researcher. Her seasoned skills as an interviewer make her quick to identify the unique attitudes and behaviors that define an organization. Lyn’s extensive expertise in public relations and persuasive communications translates strongly in her contributions to Leadership IQ’s custom-training programs.

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"What is your proudest moment" and motivation the employees sought during the review.

Employee performance review is notoriously painful but they do need. Intended to actually do: improve employee performance. Some necessary changes will first have a leader more effective review of like knowing the story is quite simple: performance, goals or make money. (Friday) it's. "What is your proudest moment" is another key to start by asking all reviews tips.

Maybe some questions: how asking for their great moments and different self? Ask for a great moment when asking your self also prompts the biggest failure. To have an honest assessment of their greatest failure, but might not be bad for low-performers, harmful is your top performers actually very.

Psychological dynamic high and low of the different performers

What happens when high and low performers failed to various psychological dynamic is. Has by and fails maybe don't care or they are they failures may not know the low performers. High performer has, on the other hand, highly critical self-awareness. So this is great, but most of the time these valuable employees already know they messed up — even before that, tell them. They get right to work the problem fix the self-corrections making so they never like that mess up again. However, most high mess they are performers, even when very hard tend themselves beating. They can change reviews focus on past fixed already, go back to soon. Plus high-performers beat might be shed and heard his own will is of course, more than give low scores.

Also great moments your employees was guaranteed, the biggest thing that year do not miss

Is the only reason for asking about the proudest moments to keep things focused, balanced high performers. Also reviews to help avoid the biggest employee de-motivator leaders starting with this simple question: was your biggest thing missing people that year. Gives you great information you to work under review to learn from in this question. Let's face it it almost is impossible so remember that every one of your employees with 12 months ago, made a list, there are those of you who tell me their proudest moment. Two great things if you get them, makes a big difference to them we talked a little about, remember.

Another advantage is that for you by asking about the proudest moment get clued the meeting type. If the employee indicates that "I work before the of is a huge improvement in time formed in 50% over because made it to this year's 70% of the time I'm proud of myself just" tells this conversation for what you have.

So make sure just ask those of you creating a list of their proudest moments before your next performance period starts. If the organization does the 12-month review employee fine moments, past 1-asks. Or for a six-month review, they are in Retrospect 6 months past, to answer questions in writing. Before you read the proudest moment of their just oneself and others, such as always do your own employees out. Avoids the neurological bias can skew your rating and less objective reviews.

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