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Christmas Ready with Awesome Android Apps for FREE

As the holiday season quickly approaches, thoughts turn to hot chocolate, stories of Santa Claus, and hurried gift purchasing. Christmas songs start dominating radio stations, and children everywhere finish off the final preparations for their holiday programs. While the most tech-savvy of individuals might catch himself wondering about the latest high-tech gadgets others will simply be thinking about how to make their smart phones holiday-inspired with maybe a new screen saver. The world of Android apps is certainly not exempt from spreading Christmas cheer. In fact, a number of fun apps are available for your Android phone at this time...

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How To Pack Up for an Office Move

Find out how to effectively do your bit when it comes to the office move, with tips on packing your work items and keeping them safe. When the boss has decided to move the whole office to another location, you’ll likely be carrying on with your job until the crossover occurs. However, the boss may well require you do your bit by packing up your very own corner of the office. Perhaps you have your very own office, a desk or a cubicle. Your space could contain technology like a computer, printer, a laptop. You could have a chair and...

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Tech For Seniors: The benefits of teaching your elderly relative how to use tech

Teaching and old dog new tricks is possible, but it can be hard work so why should you bother to teach an elderly relative how to use modern technology? The world changes and with it new technological innovations promise to make life easier. There can be a significant learning curve when adopting a new technology for the first time, so it can be tempting to avoid introducing new ideas to your older family members. Whilst they can probably get along just fine getting Freeview TV rather than streaming it on demand there are plenty of new products that will make...

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5 Simple Ways To Monetize Your Blogs

Building an audience and driving traffic to your blog doesn’t have to be simply a labor of love. If you can deliver great content & hot trend topics to a tribe of loyal visitors, today’s virtual landscape offers you more options for successfully monetizing your online real estate than ever before. Whether you’ve chosen to buy website domains that are thriving or have built one from the ground up, the following strategies can help you cash-in on your efforts.

You will be able to set up a virtual business without all the hassles and expense associated with running a physical business. No need to rent expensive premises or pay for expensive advertising – with a monetized blog you won’t need to find a loan and them make regular payments on that loan like so many start up businesses. You can start up with practically no cash and be debt-free.

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18 Excellent Free Online Photo Editor Alternatives to Photoshop

Are you an amateur photographer? Do you have problems in your images used for SEO after you have done your keyword research? Or more simple, you need to make some changes on your pictures without any built-in free photo editor at your current location? If the answer is yes, then you are at the right place. Here is a list of top 18 online picture editors. Now, many online tools are available to help people to get better quality photos, but why this list contains 18 tools only? Because I came across the Internet to think they’re most excellent and...

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Web Design, Development and Brand Awareness

Since as far back as I can remember, front-end design trends have changed year by year. It seems that once a particular design style gains prominence, every man and his dog jumps on the proverbial bandwagon. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Sometimes it goes horribly wrong and let’s face it, most amateur web designers have the design eye of a newt and should learn from the developers at Ditto Digital SEO consultancy. One thing is for sure though, design trends year on year will change and in this article we’ll look at what the preferred design style is currently...

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How to Get Started Blogging: 5 Steps You Don’t Want to Miss

A blog is an essential part of any new business idea. Starting out in the blogging world is exciting, challenging, fun and exhausting at times.  The key points to remember is that everybody struggles as they “learn the ropes” and it is important that you make sure to setup up your site and your actions as if the blog has already reached the goals that you’ve set for it.  By creating a business including those that deal with keyword research for SEO, and laying out all the pieces that you need to run your blogging business successfully now, you won’t...

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Top Small Business Ideas

Small businesses are already exploding and set to become an even greater part of the job scene in the coming years as more and more people look for ways to get out of the rat race and start taking back control of their lives. The idea that you have to work regular hours for one employer at their location has long been cast aside.

Whatever service you choose to offer the options are endless for anyone with knowledge and experience – just some examples are:

Removals service

Help busy people pack and move to a new home – find out how to do it in the most efficient way with this Ultimate Guide to Moving House.

Accountancy Service

With accountants fees typically high it was natural that small businesses would seek an alternative and freelance accountants have provided just that by offering online accounting services for a lower price.

Become A Live-In Carer

There are opportunities in the elderly care sector as a self-employed Live-in Carer. This type of care is becoming increasingly popular among senior people who do not want to go into a residential care home when they become frail and in need of care. There is a growing demand for carers to either visit elderly people every day in their homes to help them with their care needs. This can be for a few hours a day delivering home care services or even on a full-time basis when live-in care is an alternative to a residential care home.

Private Tutor

There are millions of people – children and adults – who need help with one subject or another. It might be help with maths for a child soon to sit important exams – it might be an older adult wanting help using the internet and social media. Or someone wishing to learn a new language from a native speaker.

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5 Major Traits of a Good Employee in any Business Setup

For any business to succeed, it is crucial that its employees are hardworking and self-motivated individuals. According to the statistics of the U.S. department of labor, the average tenure of an employee in the United States is just 1.5 years. This figure indicates two things, Business owners are not paying their current employees well enough and they are looking for new jobs. Business owners are not satisfied with their current employees and are firing them quickly in the hope of finding better ones. In this age of recession, you are very lucky if you get a job related to your...

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Top tips you can learn from a project manager

No matter what job you do it always helps to know a bit about project management. Even if you never plan to be a proper project manager we all need some PM skills from time to time to help us with our daily jobs. Whether you are a sales person who has attended all the latest sales training courses to improve your selling skills, an entrepreneur starting up a business, or just a blogger, work will go more smoothly if you have some basic project management knowledge. You don’t need any fancy tools – just a spreadsheet will do.

The most imprtant bit of advice is to manage the expectations of your customers and clients. You don’t need to attend project management training courses if you are only using project management to streamline your work in another role. But something you can learn from basic project management principles is to manage the expectations of those around you. Don’t promise something you can’t deliver and if something goes wrong make sure you tell people before it becomes an unmanageable problem.