Why You Should Treat Your Blog As A Business And Invest

Investing in my future is the first thing I had to learn when I started my journey as an entrepreneur. It was an obvious but difficult habit to cultivate as I did not have a business background. I did not understand the value of investing in the beginning.

Investing In Your Blog As Business Is Important To Growth

However, with the help and support of my coach, I got over it and learnt to invest appropriately.

Long before I had this blog I learned that business owners need to think very differently than employees do. I needed to learn to think like a business owner if I intended to become one. Among many important things, relevant to this discussion, I needed to learn three important things:

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Excerpts From – Ending The Male Leadership Myth (And Win A Free Copy)

[note background=”#F6F6F6″] This is a guest post by Professor Fernando Pargas, the author of the book Ending the Male Leadership Myth. He teaches management at James Madison University in Virginia. His specialties are international management, interpersonal skills and organizational behavior. You may connect with Professor Pargas on Google+. [/note]

Leadership, it’s such a powerful, yet overly used word in our society.  We teach it in universities, not only as content in a business class, but entire semesters and workshops are dedicated to it. 

Ending The Male Leadership Myth  by  Fernando Pargas

Politicians have adopted it for their own needs: they criticize their opponent for his/her lack of “leadership” and bill themselves as great leaders.  We men are particularly fond of the word; it was men who came to believe that simply by being male, we had a birth given right to it.

It was easy to research for my latest book examples of the use and misuse, understanding and misunderstanding of leadership, but it was harder to realize how much I too had bought into the misnomer of leadership.  I wrote there that as an international executive in charge of establishing, opening, joint venturing or managing businesses around the world, I experienced this blind faith in leadership first-hand.

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How To Protect Your WordPress Website From Brute Force Attacks

Brute Force Attacks on WordPress Websites have caused a lot of pain to webmasters and web hosting companies in recent weeks. If you’re using WordPress to power your website, you may be vulnerable to a new web-based attack that aims to hack your admin password.

Protect Your WordPress Websites From Brute Force Attacks

The good news is you can do something about it. You can tighten your WordPress security to counter these attacks. But first, let’s understand these attacks a little better.

What Are Brute Force Attacks?

Brute Force Attacks are targeted to hack your WordPress Admin Dashboard.  These attacks specifically target your WordPress website’s wp-login.php from a large number of IP addresses spread geographically around the world.

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Why Small Businesses Should Consider TV Advertising

The use of social media marketing is on the rise. Everybody is talking about it. Companies are allocating larger budgets for social media marketing each year. Does that mean that TV advertisements are dead?

People Watch 34 Hours TV Each Week In USA As Research Shows

At a dinner recently, I happened to be part of this conversation with some of my friends in the marketing and advertising space. It was an interesting and insightful discourse. I want to share with you a few things about TV advertising that I learned that evening.

The Intent of Advertising

First of all, advertising isn’t intended to sell something or to have a call to action right away. People, who think that the intent of advertisements is to try to make them do something immediately, are wrong.

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Why You Should Stop Planning And Start Doing

Why is it that some people seem to be succeeding at everything they do? Why do they move ahead by leaps and bounds while others, much more talented, it seems are not even getting anywhere?

Stop Planning And Start Doing To Achieve Your Goals

The answer lies in the way we all approach things. Successful people have a plan and they back their plans with action while others either do not plan or don’t work their plan.

Success is a planned event. Success doesn't happen by accident. It does not happen because you found your mojo.

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Lessons In Leadership From Sam Walton

There is only one boss – the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.      ~Sam Walton

Reading success stories and learning from successful people has been one of my obsessions over the years. I’ve been particularly fascinated by the success story of one of most influential men of late 20th century, Sam Walton.

Leadership Lessons From Sam Walton Of Walmart

From a humble beginning, facing business challenges, learning from everyone and from failures, Sam Walton created a company that became the world’s largest retailer – Wal-Mart. With just a simple idea to help others save money so they could live better, he created Wal-Mart, the #1 retailer in the world.

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How To Get Rid Of The Habit Of Negative Thinking

Do you realize everyone has a continuous stream of internal monologue running in their heads all the time? While walking, reading, listening to a song, talking to a friend, eating food or doing almost anything – we are always talking to ourselves in our own mind.

Negative Thoughts Lower Your Self-Esteem

Our internal monologue has a powerful impact on how we feel, how we behave, and how we live our lives. Unfortunately, most of us are largely unaware of it even happening, while much of what goes on within our mind is automatically negative. Too often, this internal monologue consists of extremely unhelpful thoughts that often hinder our effectiveness, productivity and attitude.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ―Albert Einstein  [tweet this]

Some of the dominant thoughts which occupy your mind and affect your mindset in a negative way must be controlled and be diluted intentionally.

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Why I Attend So Many Conferences And Why You Should Too

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.  ~Mahatma Gandhi  [tweet this]

If you have known me for any length of time, you know that I attend many business conferences every year. I usually attend a least two or three every quarter. In fact,  as I write this, I am getting ready for the next 3 day major business conference coming up on the East Coast next month.

Personal Development Conference In Progress

To me, it is a great way to meet other successful entrepreneurs coming from different walks of life and network with them. Many times I take a few of my close friends and business associates with me to these conferences and amaze them with the value these conferences add to their life with the compelling messages that come from the stage.

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Why You Should Choose InMotion Hosting For Your Business Website

Efficient website setup requires an efficient website hosting server. I realized it only after I struggled for a while. I remember struggling to identify a better website hosting company when my pages used to take about 20 seconds and more to load.

InMotion Hosting Special Discount Offer For Kumar Gauraw Website Visitors

During those days, I had hosted all my websites with GoDaddy, not knowing any better option.

Among many good choices, I had not considered InMotion Hosting as a viable option yet because there were not too many people talking about it.

I still didn’t switch to BlueHost, even though they have great reputation, because I wanted to find out if there could be anything better. I wasn’t going to make the move until I was absolutely sure that it was the best option for me.

[note background=”#FFCC00″] Check out how to install and setup your own self-hosted WordPress blog by yourself in minutes. In that post, you will also find other web hosting companies popular for providing excellent WordPress hosting service. [/note]

There are so many web hosting review websites around. So many bloggers have written reviews and compared one shared WordPress hosting with another. Just the review information available on the internet is almost overwhelming.

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