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Navigating Through Change And Landing On Your Feet

If you’re facing (or anticipating) one change of several changes, these tips will help you navigate through transition and help you land on your feet:

1. Acknowledge what’s happening. Get real about your situation and eliminate denial. Identify what you can control and/or influence to gain perspective in devising a strategy for action.

2. Invite collaboration. Brainstorming is an excellent resource for pooling knowledge by gathering other points of view for creative problem solving.

3. Ramp up self-care. Taking good care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually is a critical factor in staying strong and focused. Establishing some daily routines/habits provides consistency and a sense of control.

4. Need to vent and/or have someone just listen? Build a support team of family, friends, colleagues and or professionals who will hear you with objectivity and encouragement. Surround yourself people who will help you regain your emotional and mental perspective to stand strong in clarity, confidence, faith and trust.

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Etre Touchy Gloves

Etre Touchy gloves are a fun way to keep your hands warm and dry while using mobile phones, portable games systems, music players and other electronic devices. Their missing thumb and index fingertips allow you to touch, tap, stroke, slide and pinch these devices' displays in any way you desire.

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Supermodel Trashbins For Charity

Design company Vipp and supermodel Helena Christensen (both Danish) have expressed their social-environmental concerns by taking design to an incredibly praiseworthy place. Trashcans created by lead designers were auctioned off to raise money for children affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

Read More | Comments | Non-Profit & Charity | By TrendsSpotting.com

Frustration Free Packaging

We are thrilled to see that Amazon is debuting a new eco-friendly idea called ‘Frustration Free Packaging’. If you’ve ever tried to open a plastic package twice the size of the product inside and ended up with box cutters in one hand and carpal tunnel syndrome in the other you may know ‘wrap rage.’

Read More | Comments |  Design

Calendar Marketing

Calgoo In-Calendar Marketing is a new, permission-based marketing platform to promote time-sensitive products and services to your customers. This new marketing concept enables you to deliver relevant, useful content into the calendars of your most loyal customers and current email subscribers.

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Pop 2009!

Who doesn't love some good old bubble wrap? Nothing is as fun as bursting bubbles and that is human nature. A poster sized 2009 calendar that comes with a bubble to pop everyday is nothing short of super, super fun. This makes counting days so interesting and something to look forward to.

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Qoof Video Commerce Widget

Qoof, the Video Commerce company, is launching its “all-in-one” video commerce platform for retailers and merchants at Ad:Tech NY this week. Current clients included in the initial launch are Buy.com, Ice.com, Geeks.com and Gaiam. Its new video commerce widget includes all product information in one location.

Read More | Comments |  Retail

Soundboard Speaker Concept

This speaker concept called Brooch has no built-in soundboard. You have to bring that to the party. With its specially design suction cup, attach it to any smooth, flat surface. Different surfaces have different tones to them. All music controls are projected onto that same surface for touchscreen goodness.

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Where Have All The Leaders Gone?

Your most knowledgeable employees may be retiring soon. How do you replace those years of know-how? What can organizations do to anticipate these transitions and start grooming tomorrow’s leaders? Where will these leaders come from? How does a organization start succession planning?

Read More | Comments | Human Resources | Article by Karen S. Sieczka

Search Engine Marketing: Can It Drive More Business?

Economic recession has forced most of the small to mid-sized businesses to cut their costs and re-work in a lean and mean way to survive. This involves slashing down those balloon sized marketing budgets and switch over to cost-effective and accountable marketing - SEO is definitely one of them.

Read More | Comments |  Sales & Marketing | Article by Mark S.

Blog VS Ezine? How To Choose For Your Solo Service Business 
 
Creating a blog post is much easier to do than going down the whole ezine publication route; however, as you do not know who is reading your blog you cannot begin to build a relationship with the reader in the same way you can when publishing an ezine. 

Read More | Comments | Online Business | Article by Tracey Lawton

10 Tips To A Wellfunded Business

This may absolutely, positively be the best time to start a well-funded business if you can take advantage of these 10 factors. Many businesses are going out of business and their customer will need a new supplier. These customers are up for grabs if you can find them quickly. 

Read More | Comments | Starting Up | Article by Stan Spector

It's All About Building Relationships

People buy from those they know and trust. Nowhere is this more true than on the Internet, where you may never even meet anyone in person. Establishing a trust relationship with your potential online clients takes time, but it is well worth the effort! It's all about building relationships.

Read More | Comments | People & Relationships | By Terri Zwierzynski

Easy Accounting for Sole Traders

While a sole trader does not have to keep formal basic accounts financial records are required to enable the net taxable profit to be calculated with paperwork to support that calculation. Documentary evidence includes paperwork obtained from third parties such as sales records and receipts.

Read More | Comments |  Starting Up | By Terry Cartwright

Success Happens By Design

The following study was conducted at Yale University in 1953. In that year, a batch of fresh graduates was surveyed, and in this batch, only 3% had their goals written down. Some of their goals included: 'being a best-selling novelist, starting a computer company and taking it public, running for President etc...'

Read More | Comments |  Success Attitude  | Article by Adam Khoo

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