This post is about the benefits of thinking positively and looking for the positive aspects of any and all situations. What you concentrate on you get more of. If you can stop your negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones then it will soon make an enormous difference to how you view life and how life treats you.

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This post is about survivors of domestic violence and how their optimistic view of the world both helps to keep them in abusive situations and helps to sustain them when they leave. Many women remain with an abusive partner because they hope that things will get better. Eventually something catapaults them out of the relationsh

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If you want to improve yourself and your life then one of the first things you need to be able to do is to manage yourself and your use of time.

This post is about getting organized, not by managing time so much as managing yourself. Using a Moleskin notebook to keep track of your writing projects is a good way of keeping yo

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This post is all about micro-blogging. Details on what it is, where to get it and why get it.


[...]So what is this new way of blogging denominated micro-blogging? Allow me to explain. Micro-blogging is a way of blogging where you can post a small update so every contact you have can see. Usually these are limited to aroun

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Depending at which stage of your blog, the right strategies has to be adopted. For beginners, you should worry less about traffic and monetization and pay more attention to optimizing your blog for Search Engine. Traffic and backlinks will come naturally thereafter when you understand the principle behind quality vs quantity an

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If you want to write a winning research paper or a great research proposal then you should read this post. It gives information on wriitng a proposal for a research project. This post will be useful for students and for anyone whose job might involve an element of research. The post begins with the research question and then ta

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First I have to say that I am by no means a SEO expert, but I do know blogging. Improving your blog for search engines has never been easier for bloggers. It just takes a little bit of work. In the last month we’ve received 1,400 visitors from Google alone.

Here is a few easy ways to improve your blog for SEO.

How do you

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If you have to undertake a project that involves focus groups and you're not quite sure how to go about it then this white paper is for you. Learn about the ethical handling of focus group members and the requirement to compensate them for taking part.

Find out what a focus group is, what it is used for and how it is

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This is a guest post at http://piggybankpie.com which charts the progress from blogging to freelance writing. The big question for many beginning writers is how on earth they are going to get the necessary writing done in time on their first freelancing gig.

If you write for a living or even if you just blog for pleasu

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There are so many wordpress plugins out there, it is very easy to get lost and crazy. Actually, there is a plugin for everything (even battlestar galactica!).
But having many plugins slows down the performance of your blog and it just clutters it with visuals, which distract the reader from the content.
This is a list of the

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Setting up a site on wordpress should be easy - or so they tell me. Getting a website up and running is not really for dummies like me. Although my site is now live it still needs a fair bit of work on it - and as for plugins well what the heck are plugins? They have me foxed every time, makes life fun though.

For those of y

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Elliot and me had a chat today trying to figure out a way how we can get the whole local niche group to have better communication. To that end Elliot had some really great ideas and stepped in to help me out with the load since Blogging Zoom and all my sites add my health and time is just not enough. SO please Zoom this all the way to the top

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People all over the world are searching for ways to earn extra money, whether on or offline. The techniques, schemes and ploys to earn extra money, and earn extra money fast are as old as the hills, the Internet has brought a whole new dimension to some old trades. In the UK, many business opportunities appeared in classified papers, but now

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When you write an article you have to think like a salesperson because you need something that is going to draw your reader in and get them to continue reading. Try to answer a question for them or give them something you think they want. Then you can give them the meat of your article. Just as important is how you finish and article. Don't

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Disraeli was right you know, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Unless you can be sure where people get their numbers from then don't believe what you are told. Researchers sample populations i.e. 70 people from Texas over the age of 50 is a hypothetical population. Read research reports to find out where the figures come from befo

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