tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17816847888530592922024-03-13T12:44:08.249-07:00MARSHALLS BLOGAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516522523515336855noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781684788853059292.post-27020846703341172602016-01-19T02:32:00.002-08:002016-01-19T02:32:37.121-08:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>VERBAL DIARRHOEA</b></div>
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As the infamous adage has it....... 'Speech is silver, Silence is golden'. Indirect speech is, or i think, the genesis of a good number of brawls and for that matter, frequent violence in our dear country in this dispensation.</div>
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Gone are the days when citizens were very circumspect- to say the least, about their choice of words especially on air. There was sanity in the language of people when they called in to contribute to discussions on TV shows, Radio programs etal. And i say it with no iota of ambiguity that practice then, brought decency in myriads- pertaining to speech, as compared to present time.</div>
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Few words will suffice to answer why an ordinary Ghanaian and a youth for that matter, would phone in and rain degrees of unprintable words to the leadership of the country. it is almost a norm that the President is verbally abused everyday in media. Not to talk of other prominent people who hold respectable positions in the country.</div>
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Can we as youth criticize our leaders constructively without necessarily being entirely offensive? OF COURSE WE CAN!</div>
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The onus however lies on us to be decent citizens first; and then, most importantly, be mindful of our choice of words in our ecological niche. ( There's no gainsaying to that ).</div>
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Furthermore radio and television personalities should be well educated so they toe the line of decency while exercising their duties.</div>
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Our leaders on the other hand should be responsible enough to leave indelible foot prints that are worthy of emulation.</div>
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What remains to be said, but to entreat all and sundry to appreciate the fact that we could, as a country play a pivotal role in preventing chaos and violence by guarding our tongue at all times.</div>
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Lets not forget that 'VERBAL DIARRHOEA' is highly contagious.</div>
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BY JOYCE TETTEH</div>
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M.A.S.A SECRETARY</div>
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B.S.c HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14439830894291698942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781684788853059292.post-3301836641952528582016-01-04T00:46:00.006-08:002016-01-04T03:20:59.024-08:008 Motivational Quotes for 2016<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;">
The new year brings new ideas, new ventures and a fresh start. But it also brings new challenges and struggles to overcome to achieve these new goals.</div>
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Kickstart your own new year with a little motivation to get you started breaking through barriers and reaching your objectives in 2016:</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1. '</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it.”</em></h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">-- Charles R. Swindoll</em></div>
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Everyone is dealt a very different hand of cards. There are things that no one can control, but how the cards are played is up to each individual. Success in life is not about measuring the things that cannot be controlled, but rather about how people handle these situations and what they do in response. Plans change, unexpected disasters arise, but successful entrepreneurs control their reactions, take charge and take action.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">2. 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' </em></h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">-- Walt Disney</em></div>
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Humans possess the divine gift of creativity. We are not just actors, we are playwrights. There is nothing that can stop someone from achieving the seemingly impossible, so long as they dream it and truly believe that they can turn that dream into reality. The most successful business leaders act on those dreams, bringing their visions to life.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">3. 'Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.' </em></h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">-- Proverb</em></div>
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The darkest part of the night comes right before the dawn. Before the light, we experience darkness; before success, we experience struggle and pain. To succeed, entrepreneurs must be broken to build themselves back up. In the same way that muscles are damaged and repaired to become stronger, hearts and souls are hurt before they can mend and improve.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">4. 'Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.' </em></h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">-- Mark Twain</em></div>
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Fears cannot be buried -- they will always exist. But the most successful people take action in spite of those fears. Entrepreneurs charge forward, face their fears and come out on the other side stronger and better for it.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">5. 'Where there is love there is life.' </em></h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">-- Mahatma Gandhi</em></div>
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At the end of the day, success and achievements will not bring happiness without love. There is more to life than work, and there should be a balance between personal achievements and those that benefit others. Love your neighbors, love your friends, love your soulmate -- with all your heart. That is life.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6.</span> '<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.' </em></h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">-- Jim Ryun</em></div>
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At the beginning of a project or venture, there’s a flash of inspiration and then the motivation to take action. But the initial excitement will run out. Bringing an idea to reality requires intensive work, and it’s not always motivating or inspired. But with an established process and patience, the work gets done. Small habits make up the larger goal.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">7. 'The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.' </em></h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">-- Maimonides</em></div>
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Life is constant motion -- we must never stagnate or freeze. But decisions can seem so big and important that we never make a decision at all, and we come to a standstill.</div>
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Making the wrong decision is better than making no decision at all. Learn from your wrong decisions to make better ones in the future, and keep moving forward.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">8. 'The wound is the place where the light enters you.' </em></h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">-- Rumi</em></div>
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Pain leads to healing, and challenges lead to strength and improvement. Parts of us must be shattered to build ourselves stronger and better than before. Although it may not always be apparent, struggles bring growth and, eventually, success.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What quotes will propel you through the new year?</em></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516522523515336855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781684788853059292.post-33702507587497121232016-01-04T00:44:00.001-08:002016-01-04T03:20:59.027-08:005 Essentials to Becoming a Millionaire Before You're 30<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;">
There are so many people today who think that their twenties are a time where they must struggle financially. However, this doesn’t have to be true. There are in fact ways to become a millionaire before you hit 30. If you dream of becoming a millionaire in your twenties, here are five of the most important things to keep in mind to achieve financial success beyond what you may have never dreamed possible.</div>
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1. Ignore traditional industries.</h2>
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Lawyer or doctor is not on a path to becoming a millionaire in your twenties. Those professions require many extra years of schooling, which costs a lot of money. You will likely be repaying your student loan debt well into your thirties, or even later. Plus, individuals with these jobs often have a very real earning ceiling that is difficult to break through. You may never reach millionaire status.</div>
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Focus on new industries, such as Internet marketing. In today’s social media-centric world, jobs such as Internet marketing do not have an earning ceiling and don’t require a lot of training or education. Consider the balance between cost of education and earning potential.</div>
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2. Don’t focus on making millions.</h2>
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If your focus is making millions, or <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">how much </em>money you can make from a venture, you will never achieve as much success as you could by focusing on making the best company that you can. Plus, if you put that quality product or service out into the public and eventually earn millions, you will start to feel very proud of yourself for the product you made, the work you did and the reward you received for this type of hard work.</div>
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Focus on making the best product and service possible.</div>
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3. Keep educating yourself.</h2>
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Study and read as much as possible. If you are tackling a new industry where everyone already wants to be king, it’s crucial for you to have an advantage. The best way to do this is simply to read as much as possible.</div>
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I have a <a href="http://www.timothysykes.com/2014/09/20-lessons-top-student-passing-2-million-profits/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2093d2; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">number of millionaire students</a> invested in my program. None of us (myself included) are particularly gifted at math. We are not the smartest people on the planet. However, we do work our butts off. We read, we educate ourselves and we work around the clock to be the best versions of ourselves that we can be.</div>
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Forget, 9-5 jobs, we are all about the 15-18 hour days. Every day.</div>
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4. Be willing to make sacrifices.</h2>
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You need to be make sacrifices to make this much money this early in life. You need to spend less time hanging out with your friends and family. You also need to put a lot of things second and your career first.</div>
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Relationships, starting a family and hanging out with friends, need to come second. Work needs to come first if you want to thrive in today’s demanding economy by making superior products and services that will earn millions.</div>
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Everyone wants that perfect work/life balance, but you have to accept that it won’t ever be the perfect balance if you want to be in the top tax bracket at the end of the year.</div>
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5. Focus on what you love and fix a problem.</h2>
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To fully invest yourself in an industry and make millions, be sure you are focusing on what you love so it doesn’t seem like work and sacrifice to get your business off the ground. Focus not only on the right industry for you but on fixing a problem within that industry, so you know it has value to your consumer base.</div>
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Don’t allow a lack of technical skills to hold you back. You can always find technical skill. What you can’t just “find” is true passion or heart. Regardless of what niche you choose, make sure you are in love with it first. You would be surprised by how far true passion can take you. It just may be able to take you to that million dollar status you have been dreaming of.</div>
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Source:entrepreneur</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516522523515336855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781684788853059292.post-18821537688661489032015-06-22T08:52:00.000-07:002016-01-04T03:20:59.022-08:00How The Netherlands Empowers Its Tech Startups<img src="http://blogs-images.forbes.com/karstenstrauss/files/2015/06/kroes-3-Copy-e1434984026245.jpg" height="358" width="640" /><br />
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Every nation with a modicum of ambition wants its own Silicon Valley. England touts its Silicon Roundabout and Silicon Fen, Ireland has its Silicon Docks, Germany’s built Silicon Allee in Berlin, Israel talks up its Silicon Wadi in Tel Aviv, France boasts a Silicon Sentier in Paris, and so on, and so on.</div>
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The Netherlands, whose tech hub centers around the city of Eindhoven, is taking a circuitous route to prospering from its tech chops. According to Neelie Kroes, special envoy for Dutch startups, her country sees a strong argument for giving its innovators the opportunity to take flight for greater opportunities in other nations, rather than trying to keep them at home. “They will start to develop their business in the U.S., then enlarge their market to Europe again,” says Kroes. “It’s a global thing.”</div>
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This is the latest mission for Kroes, 73, a former member of The Netherlands’ House of Representatives and the European Commission, who has made FORBES’ “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” list a total of five times. As chief cheerleader for Dutch startups, she’s sought to alert investors in the United States and elsewhere to entrepreneurial talent in the Netherlands. Kroes’ tour of international tech scenes took her to Boston and New York earlier this month, and she plans to hit Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley in the fall. Meanwhile she’s beseeching established Dutch innovators to act as mentors to startup entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. “It’s helpful,” says Kroes. “How to find your banker, how to find your potential venture capital, how you pitch.”</div>
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The Dutch philosophy of encouraging homegrown startups to flee, may be one of necessity. Though strong in education and tech infrastructure, the Netherlands has fewer than 17 million residents and a language that nobody else speaks. Since it’s tough for entrepreneurs to dream big in such an isolated market, they naturally look beyond their borders. “For quite some time we’ve had an open and very transparent attitude, being Dutch,” says Kroes, “because we are a tiny country.”</div>
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One of the hardships Dutch startups face, says Kroes, is overcoming the natural Dutch tendency to be humble. “It is a general attitude of Dutch people that you don’t profile yourself as being successful.” In the U.S. tech scene – where entrepreneurs tend to dream big, overreach, move fast and break stuff – declining to shout your accomplishments and potential from the mountain can get you ignored. Entrepreneurs emerging from the Netherland’s need to learn to talk themselves up and to accept when they things don’t go according to plan. “The culture of failing is far more accepted in the United States,” Kroes points out. “You need failure to be successful in your next step. That is not really accepted in general terms (in the Netherlands) yet.”</div>
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Another roadblock could come from U.S. investors poaching Dutch startups, bringing them stateside to focus only on American markets, where money, talent and opportunity abound. Kroes is dismissive of such thinking, pointing out that tech products tend to be globally appealing. “You’re underestimating the average venture capital guy or girl,” she says. “They are interested in new challenges and they want to be the first on the block and that is why we should explain what’s in it for them.”</div>
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Being first on the block means getting in before valuations rise, says Sigrid Johannisse, director of StartupDelta, a Netherlands-based network and support system of entrepreneurs, investors and startups. “If you look at startups in Silicon Valley, valuation is much higher than in Europe,” she says. “So it’s a huge opportunity for VCs to look at European startups because you get more value for money.”</div>
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But what about Dutch investors? Getting investors at home to see Netherlands tech as a viable investment is also part of Kroes’ job, but it’s not easy. “There is money,” she insists. “There are quite a number of rich families and they have to be made aware that you can invest, in the Netherlands, in excellent startups.” She’d also like to see the Dutch national pension fund – which usually invests outside the country – invest in young private firms. “They have to be aware that it’s worthwhile to put a bit of their money in funds in the Netherlands.”<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516522523515336855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781684788853059292.post-11153865225969295952015-06-16T04:41:00.001-07:002016-01-04T03:20:59.017-08:00Take The First Step To Start A Business But Don't Quit Your Day JobThe hardest part about becoming an entrepreneur is deciding you’re going to do it—cutting ties with your current comfortable lifestyle and taking the first step. I have friends from business school who, in my eyes, are as smart or smarter, more disciplined and with more potential than some people I know actually running successful companies, but they lack the guidance or confidence in making that first move. They say they want to venture out on their own, but then five years will pass and they’re still working for the same giant companies.<br />
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I always knew I wanted to started something on my own, but just like those peers of mine with so much potential, I had no idea how. I held lots of conversations with business owners, but not much seemed to help. I was scared of taking that first big step—quitting my job with my comfortable salary and lifestyle. Luckily, I found a way to start the company I dreamed of without having to take that risk.<br />
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About three years after I’d completed my MBA, I was working for a really good mid-size company. I kept quite busy and was happy; my hard work was really paying off for them. I was making more than any MBA three years out would expect to make, and I was spending upward of three hours a day strategizing with the CEO. I was making the company a lot of money it clearly wouldn’t have had without me. I could tell I was appreciated.<br />
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Still, I wasn’t reaping as many rewards as I felt I should have been. In return for my increase in sales, I was granted a $15,000 raise (plus a nice bonus of $5500). That sounds like a substantial amount, but compared to what I was earning for the company, it was pennies. Not even pennies—I had produced $20 million in additional sales within my first year. My compensation increase wasn’t even a full percentage point of that figure. After that first year, I became increasingly unsatisfied. I began looking to the outside, and not just for small projects; I decided I was looking to grow a business, not just take on a few gigs. I began speaking with friends about sales and what I had been doing for my company at the time.<br />
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One guy in particular was a roofer in desperate need of leads. He was a savvy business person and therefore understood the need for marketing and the importance of having his name appear in local markets where he could ostensibly get business. I had insights others didn’t; I saw potential in mid-size, local markets that was basically being ignored. I knew by using quality digital marketing tactics, I could help this guy. My approach to getting him leads was simple: I was going to provide him with the effective marketing services afforded large national companies but on a local scale to spread the word about the business, and I would get the company visibility on various search engines and websites so anyone looking for his services in his area could find the business easily.<br />
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I created not just one but multiple websites, focusing on different counties, cities, and service areas so that the company would show up in searches for roofing services in multiple markets. I also added rich content—for example, blog posts and landing pages with tons of keywords related to the business—to all these websites and a small budget toward paid search. Because the business was so localized and so highly visible, it quickly started getting many leads from people looking to hire its services. Using the skillset I had developed working for a large national eCommerce retail company, I knew I could help a small roofer in a localized area. I made around $500, just from the leads I brought him the first day. We were sending him a hundred additional qualified leads per month, which resulted in 40 new jobs for him with a total revenue increase of $200,000 a month.<br />
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I couldn’t believe how lucrative this was. With a marketing spend of less than $200 a day, I began earning a profit of $20,000 a month. I was earning more than my actual salary while spending an average of 30 minutes a day on this project. At this point, I knew I had something substantial. I decided I could take on more of these clients on the side. Because it was such a small investment time-wise, taking on additional clients was not a problem with my full-time job. Over time, as I realized that this was a bigger opportunity, quitting my job became an easy transition.<br />
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My biggest challenge was, predictably, acquiring clients. I reached out to everyone I knew for any contact information I could get my hands on. Within a few months, I’d generated a healthy list of contacts, with everyone from doctors to lawyers to bail bondsmen. Once I got my contacts, the rest just fell into place. I found there was hardly any competition for what I was doing—offering high end marketing services to local, mid-size companies. This was a hole in the market. Businesses like this roofing company had only inexpensive tools and low quality leads available to them, as there were no seasoned professionals with national experience focusing on this market. Eventually, it made more economic sense to quit my job than to keep it. So I quit, and started what would come to be known as Local Marketing, Inc.<br />
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Source: ForbesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516522523515336855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781684788853059292.post-4412389186928866102015-06-16T04:39:00.001-07:002016-01-04T03:20:59.031-08:00How Do You Know When It's Time To Change Your Company's Name?<img alt="Image result for change company name" height="353" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQICIbyDCgBt6ONKEbrJqf9yI1V1eOjQSonV8diucatilUlj5QysA" width="640" /><br />
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Before starting Local Marketing, Inc., I had a lot of notions about what’s important in creating and running a business. I was perhaps idealistic in thinking that as long as you had a track record proving you did what you did well, nothing else would matter. But there are plenty of factors that will affect your business; one of them is your company’s name.</div>
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Having the perfect name might not seem like the highest priority, but I’ve found that it can make a huge difference. Even the most innovative ideas in the world need strong branding and marketing to go along with them. For B2B services, a solid name that effectively communicates what you do is vital. Like most entrepreneurial lessons, this is one I learned the hard way.</div>
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We founded Meta Media, Inc. in 2006. We saw a gap in the market, so to speak; Fortune 500 companies had plenty of marketing firms competing for their business, and there were a lot of automated tools dedicated to helping small business owners. But there was hardly anyone servicing the mid-size companies—companies with between $2 million and $200 million in revenue.</div>
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With digital technologies, platforms and practices changing rapidly, mid-level companies—legal groups, medical practices, local restaurant groups—needed help keeping up. For example, a podiatry group from Atlanta didn’t need the kind of widespread marketing services that would have its name show up in a Google search for planter fasciitis treatment in Phoenix, yet it still wanted to be known as the leading practice in its own region. These mid-level companies had no idea where to start when it comes to online marketing, branding, and client acquisition. We saw an opportunity.</div>
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We decided to form an agency providing the kinds of services usually saved for big corporations. We went after local businesses that needed specialized attention, focusing our marketing campaigns on specific local areas. On a micro level, the name Meta Media conveyed some of what we had to offer, but SEO, SEM, social media, etc.—services associated with the terms “meta” and “media”—were all just parts of what we could do for local businesses. Convincing a few clients that we were the best at local marketing turned out to be a tricky process.</div>
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A few years into Meta Media, I was meeting with a potential client, a franchise group in grave need of more customers for each of its locations. While I knew we could improve search rankings and client acquisition rates within a 20 mile radius through our full service marketing, this company was convinced that it needed to use us for only a portion of their marketing plan. The company insisted on going with a different company for search engine optimization. The CEO was convinced that he had found the perfect company for SEO and that no one else could do a better job in that area. His reasoning? The company had the term SEO in its name.</div>
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At this point, I realized we needed some rebranding. Whether or not that company offered the best in SEO services, its named conveyed the perception that it did. I believed we offered the best local marketing services around, including SEO, but what businesses would know that from our name? We needed a name that would brand us as the leader in local marketing. As soon as I got home that night, I did some research and found that the name Local Marketing, Inc. remained unclaimed. I bought our current domain—www.localmarketinginc.com—the very next day.</div>
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The name change definitely had a positive impact. Starting out, we didn’t realize how many business owners would be searching specifically for local marketing services—whether or not they knew that’s what they were looking for—so we didn’t place that much importance on what we called ourselves.</div>
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Little did we know that the name change alone would generate a remarkable number of potential client leads. We noticed an immediate upsurge in respect received in sales meetings and calls with potential clients. We keep the name Meta Media, Inc. in existence, as it still generates a fair amount of our business, but I don’t believe the company would be where it is today if I hadn’t asked that customer why he didn’t want to use our SEO services.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516522523515336855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781684788853059292.post-63403340400793009222015-06-16T03:59:00.000-07:002016-01-04T03:20:59.033-08:00These 11 Startups Raised Over $1 Billion Before They Had A Product<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Want a clue that the current tech market is a bubble? Look at the funding rounds–and not just for the likes of Uber and Airbnb.</div>
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Instead, focus on the companies that have yet to reveal, let alone sell, a single product. In the last year we’ve seen seen the three largest funding events ever for such pre-launch tech startups, which led us to do some research for as complete a list as possible of the young startups that have raised the most money before launching. The 11 tech companies we found had raised at least $30 million each, and over $1.2 billion total in pre-launch funding.</div>
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Top of the list is Magic Leap, the buzzy virtual reality startup that hardly anyone has seen in person. The company’s website says little other than their slogan: “it’s time to bring magic back into the world.” But behind closed-doors, Magic Leap’s so-called “Digital Lightfield” must have impressed Larry Page and company at Google. The search giant led a $542 million Series B round in Magic Leap last November, with participation from Qualcomm as well as KKR, Vulcan Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, and Obvious Ventures. The round brings Magic Leap’s total funding to date up to $592 million.</div>
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There has been plenty of hype for second place on our list: Jet.com, a would-be Amazon challenger. Founded by Marc Lore, who sold his previous ecommerce company to Jeff Bezos, Jet wants to be Costco for the web. Although it only launched in beta for a few thousand insiders last month, Jet had already raised $225 million from investors. That includes an unknown amount from China’s ecommerce king, Alibaba.</div>
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The third spot goes to 21 Inc, a stealth Bitcoin startup that took its first $5 million in funding in 2013. Eighteen months later, in May, it announced a further $116 million round–a record in the Bitcoin space. 21 Inc says it plans to sell a line of chips, embedded in smartphones and other Internet-connected devices, that mine for the digital currency. The idea is still more theory than reality.</div>
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At numbers four and five, we find our first failures: AdKeeper, which raised $43 million before its launch in January 2011, and Color, which took $41 million (including $25 million from Sequoia Capital) before launching in March of the same year. The former was an attempt to replicate the coupon-clipping mentality of customers flipping through newspapers. AdKeeper let people save the ads they saw online, a feature no one wanted.</div>
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Color, a photo-sharing app, was another cautionary tale. Despite turning down a reported $200 million acquisition offer from Google, the app never gained traction while Instagram took off. The startup shut down in 2012 and what remained was acqui-hired by Apple for less than $10 million.</div>
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Since taking in $40 million pre-launch, Oscar‘s future looks much brighter than the previous two flame outs. The health insurance startup, founded by VC Josh Kushner in 2013, successfully broke into the new insurance marketplace in New York following Obamacare’s roll out. The company raised an addition $145 million in April at a valuation of $1.5 billion.</div>
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The jury’s still out on Airware, which is building a software platform for commercial drones. Airware raised an additional $25 million in a Series B round led by KPCB in July 2014, bringing its total funding to $40 million. At the time, the money was said to be “part of Airwave’s preparation for the commercial launch of its platform” later that year.</div>
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After Airwave, we have another two startups that failed miserably. Cuil, a search engine that set its sights on Google, raised $33 million before launching in July 2008. It shuttered two years later. Meanwhile, Airtime debuted with great fanfare in June 2012, due to its cofounders–former Napster partners Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning–and $33 million in funding. The videochat service, which drew unfortunate comparisons to ChatRoulette, fizzled before relaunching under a different name in 2014.</div>
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By contrast, the $32 million in funding Zillow took prior to launching its beta was a brilliant investment. The real estate database website went live in February 2006. It subsequently went public in 2011, and has since grown to a market capitalization of over $5 billion.</div>
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Finally, at number 11 on our list, we have the infamous Clinkle, which has been hemorrhaging employees in recent months. Lucas Duplan, Clinkle’s 24-year-old CEO, raised $30 million with ideas of disrupting the financial services industry with mobile payments. Those plans failed as the startup couldn’t get a working prototype and was eventually passed by Venmo, Square, and Apple Pay.</div>
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For the purposes of this exercise, we limited the list to pure software and hardware tech companies–not biotech. With pharmaceutical giants abandoning drug research, that task has fallen to biotech startups, who by definition need millions of dollars before a drug can come to market. For example, cancer-fighting company Juno Therapeutics has raised $300 million and neurodegenerative disease-focused Denali Therapeutics has raised $217 million. The worlds of tech and biotech are converging, however. Google and drug-maker AbbVie have partnered to commit up to $1.5 billion to Calico, a startup that wants to literally defy aging.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516522523515336855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781684788853059292.post-11274773346350509042015-06-12T02:32:00.000-07:002016-01-04T03:20:59.020-08:00To Make The Most Money As A Programmer, Learn This Language<div style="text-align: justify;">
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I’ve hired many software engineers, and the single most valuable skill is the ability to pick up anything and master it quickly.</div>
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Some years ago, an offshore company was producing Java for me with
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The developers’ resumes looked good, with years of experience. Still,
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experiment, I started asking just for their C++ developers. Some of them
didn’t know Java, but I was willing to pay them for a few weeks to
learn it. With the help of their coworkers, they picked up the language
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So here’s the short answer: Learn C/C++</div>
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You might never use it professionally, but it contains a lifetime of
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C will make you a better Java programmer. You’ll know when the JVM
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You’ll have a better sense of the relative performance cost of objects
versus primitives.</div>
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C++ will make you a better Python programmer. Its class mechanism is
largely based on C++. You’ll have to learn to write clean,
well-organized code if you ever expect to maintain it. You’ll learn to
be careful with your global variables.</div>
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C will make you a better Objective-C programmer. You’ll know how to
manage your refcounts and which piece of code should “own” an object.
You’ll be able to avoid memory leaks.</div>
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So which is better C or C++? I lean slightly to C++ because they are
very similar, but with C++ you get the added benefit of object-oriented
programming. Even if you decide you’re only ever going to program in
functional languages, learning how to think in OO teaches organizational
patterns that are critical to engineering and maintaining really large
projects.</div>
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So maybe you won’t make as much per hour as you would during some
brief, weird supply/demand anomaly like COBOL in ’99, but once you know
C, you can learn that language, and the next, and the next. Because if
there’s one long-term constant in this industry, today’s hot skill is a
quaint novelty in a few years. Learn the skills behind the skills and
you’ll do great.</div>
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I should clarify:</div>
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Nowhere do I say you should program in C for a living. Or learn C as
your only language. Or that you can make more per hour on C than
programming in Foobar. Generally speaking, you shouldn’t even program
your applications in C unless you have a really good reason.</div>
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But you should learn C. Because it’s the abstraction other languages
use to understand the physical machine. You can strut like a champ when
the other programmers are still scratching their heads. And that will
make you more “senior” and earn you more money in the long run.</div>
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If you want to be the best and best-paid Formula 1 driver, learn how
to take that engine apart. Not because it is your job, but because it
will make you better at your job. And as the cars change and evolve
over time, you’ll get what makes them different too.</div>
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Source: Forbes</div>
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I started with nothing and have been blessed with enough focus,
commitment, follow through and the ability to not make excuses that I
have done extremely well in my life.<br />
I recently did a show on GrantCardoneTV.com on <em>How to Make Your First Million</em>, which was streamed on Periscope and Meerkat and viewed live by over 10,000 people.<br />
Here are the takeaways from the show:<br />
<h2>
1. It's never been easier.</h2>
It
has never been easier, so don’t make it so difficult. There is so much
money in the world today and so many ways to get yourself known. The
first thing you have to know is that it’s out there and it’s not that
hard. In fact, everyone will be a millionaire in their lifetime: $50,000
per year times 20 years equals $1 million.<br />
<h2>
2. Saving won’t do.</h2>
The
old ideas of saving every penny is not the way today. You can’t simply
save your way to the first million without becoming old, at which point
the money probably won’t matter to you.<br />
<h2>
3. Live below your means.</h2>
Live
below the money you are making. Not because you are depriving yourself,
but because you are seeking to bank millions. No one has ever done
business with me because of the suit I wear, the watch I have on my
wrist or the car I drove. Live below your means until you don’t have to
anymore.<br />
<h2>
4. Push every tax angle you can.</h2>
Learn the tax
code and use it to your advantage. Quit bitching about taxes and learn
how it can benefit you. The code was put together to give preference to
earners. I have joined multiple multi-level marketing companies while
still being an employee so I could take advantage of write-offs like the
home and car. These were, and are, legitimate ways for me to reduce my
tax bill and possibly make some more money -- plus I have a chance to
surround myself with great people.<br />
<h2>
5. Mature from income to investor.</h2>
The
way to get rich is to make investments, but you can’t do that if your
income doesn’t allow for you to set aside money to invest. The only
reason to make and save money is so that you can invest it. Only invest
money in projects you know will score and never give up your income.<br />
<h2>
6. Start acting like a boss.</h2>
Quit
acting poor and quit acting like you are a spectator. Boss up in
everything. When the bill comes for dinner, boss up. When you have to
invest money to get information, buy a list, grow your brand or learn to
sell you need to write the check like a boss, not like a little whiner.<br />
<h2>
7. Automate a pay-yourself-first program.</h2>
Set
up with your employer to pay yourself to a savings account so that you
have money deposited each month before you get a check to pay your bills
and live your life. This is one thing I started doing when I was 26
years old that kept me "broke" without money to lose or waste and forced
me to continue to hustle. This is the step that will make number
five possible.<br />
<h2>
8. Be in a hurry.</h2>
Be the hare, the
turtle and the millionaire! The only thing that comes to those that are
patient are the crumbs left behind by those in a hurry.<br />
<h2>
9. Do the millionaire math.</h2>
Do
the math on what it takes to hit a million. If you make $50,000 a year
and can figure out how to put away 40 percent of it (that is my saving
target) it will take you 50 years times $20,000 per year to get there.
If you don’t do your math you won’t get there because you won’t have the
right mindset. Math is a universal language.<br />
<h2>
10. Do not diversify.</h2>
I
know the diversification concept is popular, but it’s wrong. If you are
going to bank a million before you are old and tired you need to pick
something you believe in and know it's going to work and go all in.<br />
<h2>
11. Seek multiple flows.</h2>
If
you don’t get multiple flows happening you will never create financial
freedom. Don’t confuse number 10 with multiple flows. These are not
conflicts -- have parallel flows going. Don’t make your first flow
disconnected, make it similar so that it takes less energy and less
resources.<br />
<h2>
12. Avoid spending money or tying up your money in homes, IRAs or colleges.</h2>
I
know it’s not popular, but these are traps. Show me someone that became
a millionaire from buying homes, other than me. Flipping homes, by the
way, is not buying homes -- that is a real estate play. Wall Street has
convinced you to do these things to trap and immobilize you.<br />
You
deserve financial freedom. You should have your financial targets to be a
millionaire up until the point that you become one. Then your target
should be to hit 100 million!<br />
<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Growing up as kids, anytime we were
asked what we will like to be in future, we mentioned varied professions like:
Doctor, Lawyer, Pilot, Managing Director of a company and a host of other top
professions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the reality is that most of us are
unable to pursue careers or professions we aspired to be when we were young.
And this can be attributed to a lot of reasons. Some of which include: financial
challenges, change of priorities, not studying the right course at the tertiary
level among others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pursuing a career or job with passion
is something a lot of people take for granted because most people think that
all they need is to just work and make money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even though money is one of the major
reasons for working, nothing beats someone who loves his job and has passion
for what he/she does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are many factors to consider when
choosing a career. While this can be a difficult decision, it is certainly not
an impossible choice to make when you have the right tools and resources.
Factors such as interests, skills, passion, research education and availability
of work are all important things to consider when searching for a career. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Interests<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before selecting a career, it's
advisable to start taking an inventory of the things that interest you in terms
of work. If you have trouble deciding what you like to do, consider your
hobbies. It is very easy to turn your hobbies or something you love doing into
a future career. Many hobbies correspond to real world needs and positions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For example, if you like playing video
games, consider becoming a video game designer or, programmer, If you like
drawing or art, consider becoming a graphic designer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you like sports, consider going into
teaching and getting certified as a coach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Evaluate
Your Skills<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first step to choosing a career is
figuring out what your skills are. If you do not like children, for instance,
teaching and child care are not good careers for you. If you faint at the sight
of blood, you won't become a surgeon. Everyone has unique talents that can be
used in a career of some type. For many, these talents have been present since
childhood; for others they are learned over time. In order to determine what
career you should choose, begin by looking at skills that can be used on the
job or look at career paths that compliment your current skills and talents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your
Passion<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once you have figured out what your
skills are, take some stock of what you love doing. Your goal should be to find
a career in an area that you love that also puts your skills to good use. For
example, if you enjoy cooking, your dream career could be in the hospitality
industry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Doing research also provides a sense of
what degrees, certifications or experience you need to enter a particular
industry with. It also should help you begin to map out your career path,
according to the various options and specialties within a field.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Training
and Education<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In order to land certain careers, it is
expected that you attain a certain level of training and education. That means
for each job type, you will need to attain a certain degree or level of
experience before you can begin work in that area. Be sure to choose a training
program that is within your means to achieve to avoid setting yourself up for
failure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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