What Do Colours Say About Your Business? [Infographic]

Have you ever wondered why you seem to be getting hungrier while waiting to place your order at a fast food place or why you eat faster than any human should ingest that poison? Have you ever heard of a “power tie” in business?

What Do Colours Say About Your Business? [Infographic]

There are things that excite the human senses. Aromatherapy and the sense of smell bring about mood and emotional change. Taste, touch and audible sensations bring about the same changes, so it’s no surprise that visuals also bring about emotional changes in humans.

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Social Networking Vs. Social Media – Understand The Difference

People feel a natural need to hook up and increase their relationships. There is an in-depth based need among human beings to share.

Social Networking Vs. Social Media – Understand The Difference

Just as the online world has changed, the scene of people to buy music, arrange holidays, and research at school projects, has also changed the way of how they interact and gather socially. With the use of public networking, individuals can exchange pictures and videos, share their thoughts at the weblogs, and participate in conversations organized by online boards. Social media and social networking allow companies, organizations, individuals, authorities, and the parliamentarians to reach thousands of individuals.

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Myth Busters – The Web Design Version

One of my favorite TV shows is undoubtedly, Myth Busters on Discovery Channel. People are very interested in enjoying the latest crazy ideas applied into practice, exactly what the creators of the show, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, and Tory Belleci know best. I am grateful to them, they offered me many hours of relaxing time and many other people noticed this fact because their audience is remarkable.

Myth Busters – The Web Design Version

For the ones that aren’t enjoying Myth Busters (if there is someone), the idea of the show is to create experiments to demonstrate the value of truth for some dilemmas. The fun part is the large palette of ideas used and the way experiments are realized. The same episode may treat some serious problems, somehow specific to engineering field as calculating the trajectory of projectiles to more “human” ideas as how to combat the smell from a car where the corpses of two pigs were deposited for some weeks. Anyway, I really recommend watching an episode to get a full picture.

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Use Blog Comments to Increase Return Visitors and Build Relationships

Blogging is an amazing way to help increase traffic to your website. I remember writing about Blogging for Business in my Honors Program Final Project about 7 years ago now. Since then many website owners have realized the power of blogging for growing website traffic, and thus, their business. By using tools like Google Analytics website owners can track how many visitors to their site are returning visitors and how many are new visitors.

Use Blog Comments to Increase Return Visitors and Build Relationships

Most website owners should strive for a decent balance in this area. You always want to be generating new visitors. That said, it’s important to you retain website visitors as well. In this article we are going to talk about how website owners can use blog comments to increase the number of returning visitors to your website.

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20 SEO Tips for Your WordPress Blog

WordPress is known as the best blogging platform for a reason, which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular blog software available. Best of all, WordPress is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

20 SEO Tips for Your WordPress Blog

There are so many ways that you can use WordPress to gain an advantage in terms of traffic, keyword rankings, and links, but you have to know how to optimize your website. The options to customize your WordPress site are limitless and there are multiple ways to do to everything, so it can be very confusing at times. Here are some simple SEO hacks for WordPress that really work without you having to be an SEO mastermind.

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How to Sell the Most Important Brand You Own – Yourself

Branding is the most important part of every business. The success of most businesses relies largely on the popularity of the brands. People remember a brand and follow it, which gives impetus and growth to the business. The goal of every startup is to build a brand name and to maintain it. Therefore, branding is the core objective of every business.

How to Sell the Most Important Brand You Own – Yourself

However, in the professional world one should realize that besides the company, business, and industry, every individual is an asset, and popular assets are brands everyone knows. An individual has his/her own identity, which is separate from the business, and the more popular an individual is, the more he or she is recognized and rewarded. Therefore, branding yourself helps you to become popular among your business circle and helps your work become recognized. For a freelancer, branding is much more important. This is because freelancers work in their own comfort zone and their communication with people is restricted. In such cases you need to take more care branding yourself so you are popular with your clients.

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