With blogs and social media, it seems that we are doing more writing than ever before. Being a better writer means that you will expand your influence with clients and potential clients. And, as you become a more confident writer, it will take you less time to write.

Here are ten quick tips to improve your writing:
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When you’re dealing with people in your industry or profession, there are certain buzzwords and jargon that everyone knows and understands, and there’s no problem in using them. This puts you on the same page as everyone else, and it even helps reinforce relationships between industry insiders. After a while, however, everyone gets tired of jargon and buzzwords. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an industry insider or not, there comes a point where you just get tired of it all and want to speak and be spoken to in plain, straightforward language.
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Is your computer screen too small for all you have to do? If you are working with multiple programs and browser windows open, with social media running in the background, you may be using every bit of real estate on the screen. That is where the idea of having two monitors comes in to play. Having dual monitors gives you more room for each program and web browser.
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Your blog or website About page is one of the most important pages on your site. It is what tells your visitors who you are and what your site is about. This is where you brand yourself and your business. You also build your credibility and establish yourself as an authority with the information you present.

Here are some tips for writing an effective About page.
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Here is this week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message?

Any fool can step on the gas, but it takes a real driver to steer his car and apply the brakes without accidents.

You have determined on your destination. You are steering your life to a definite goal. To cover the distance from where you are to where you are going is your job. There’s more to success than just “stepping on the gas.”
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Here is this week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message?

When we were in Spain we heard much of the persistence of Christopher Columbus in winning good Queen Isabella’s promise to finance his voyage of discovery. But could there be a greater example of persistency than those subsequent days described in his diary written in 1492?
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Here is this week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message?

The great mass of humanity is satisfied with an ordinary level. Such people are not the worst, neither are they the best. Some of them even question any advance beyond the ordinary level. Their fight is simply to hold their own.

Our job as Leaders is to embody, yes even incarnate, that Higher Level before the very eyes of those around us. If we are to have dynamic influence, we must proclaim the message of these higher ideals, and then match our words by performance—actually living out these higher ideals.
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Ike

Update – July 27, 2011: Ike and JJ Have a Good Home! Last Friday, Ike and JJ went to their new home. A lovely lady who had recently lost her elderly cat adopted both Ike and JJ. So they are in a wonderful new home with their loving caregiver and they are still together. This is amazing news. Huge thanks go to the people at Friends for Life who have cared for Ike and JJ over the last couple of months and who found them their new forever home.

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This is not a typical post for me, but we have a situation here.

My neighbor is a wonderful lady who recently received a devastating diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. She has moved to a facility where she can receive the care she needs, but could not take her two cats with her. I stepped in to help find a place for them. Unfortunately, we can not take them in permanently because we already have two pets (Nigel, a poodle, and Tasha, a Russian Blue cat) both of whom were also rescues.

Both Ike and JJ are sweet and affectionate, but right now they are a bit confused and stressed. They were used to being in a quiet home with the only human caregiver either had ever known. Suddenly, not only was their human missing, new people were coming and going all the time and things started to disappear from their home as it was prepared for sale.

JJ

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Try AWeber’s Email Marketing Tool Risk-Free

In previous tutorials, we went through the steps of setting up an email list in Aweber and adding new messages to an autoresponder series.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a web form or signup box where your subscribers can join your email list. You will want to have a signup box on nearly every page of your website to get more of your site visitors to sign up. Here is what you need to know to start adding subscribers to your list today.

You will need:
• An AWeber account
• A website
• A mailing list set up
• Messages added to your autoresponder
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This week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message?

“When the prospect says ‘NO!’ is when the true salesman demonstrates his calibre.”

Think this through. A kite is a thing of beauty high up in the air, and so is a sail boat skimming through the waves—just because there is a strong wind blowing. A kite is tangled up with its tail and takes a nose-dive to earth when wind dies down. What’s the fun in trying to sail in a dead calm? Trout swim up stream. Resistance and “NO” develop MEN at their best.
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