• Hello October! $50 Your WAY Giveaway

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    Time for my October giveaway.  September sure left like a LION! Snow! High winds. What kind of high winds? The kind of wind that tore the door off the BRAND NEW John Deere Tractor!!!!!! BLEW the door RIGHT OFF!! Other than that September was a pretty calm month. Made a new friend at the Goodwill store of all places. We are like two peas in a pod. Similar life paths including a move to Sandpoint! The house is still a work in progress. Deck… still not done. Now that we have snow, I’m doubtful that my front porch or deck will be done before spring. Staying hopeful. pfffffttttttt who are we kidding? I’m not hopeful at all. Ohhh can you see the devil on one shoulder and the angel on my other?! They are havin’ a heck of an argument. With all the rain we were having in the middle of September we decided to tackle the kitchen and add the barn wood back splash. OHMMMMMMMGGEEEEEEE!! It warmed up the kitchen like crazy!! It’s beautiful!!!! It took a lot of work. The ceiling is 12 foot so there was a lot of ladder work. (Me…. not a fan!) It’s really…

  • Calm To The Core: Areas That Can Provide Peace Of Mind To Employees

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    Every office up and down the country can be a mishmash of anxieties, pressures, and precariousness. As we strive to improve our business, we may only look at the most obvious things: the analytics, the online presence, the finances. But what we need to do is delve deeper and how do we do this? We look at our employees. Our employees are the real litmus test to have our business is really doing. You can see it in terms of morale or the culture. And the one way to bypass numerous issues is to work hard at providing peace of mind to employees. How can you do this? Provide the infrastructure Employees will have numerous sources of anxiety, and it’s not always down to personal issues, it’s about the infrastructure and how it really is. In a literal sense, when you look at something like technology it can be incredibly frustrating to sit down and to wait 10 minutes for your computer to power up. This means that productivity decreases, anxieties are raised, and people will shout a few curse words at the screen. But an easy way to bypass this is to provide the IT infrastructure. It’s very easily…

  • 4 Ways To Make Your Office More Eco-Friendly

    Going green is so important for businesses right now. Consumers take a lot of notice of these things and if your business isn’t very environmentally friendly, you will lose a lot of potential customers. Things like eco-friendly packaging and more responsible manufacturing processes are a big part of that, but you also need to consider your office space. There are some simple changes that you can make to decrease your energy usage and make your office more environmentally friendly, which improves your image and saves you a lot of money at the same time. These are some of the easiest ways to make your office greener.  Heating  Heating the office uses a lot of energy, but you can’t really avoid it because you don’t want your employees working in a freezing cold office all day long. However, there are some simple things that you can do to save on heating costs and reduce your energy consumption. If you keep your heating system well maintained, it will be more efficient, and you won’t need to use as much energy. You can also save a lot of energy by knocking the temperature down a few degrees. The difference won’t be noticeable in…

  • Winning Online Is All About Visibility – Here’s How To Boost Yours

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    The web has the power to make or break your business. As time-poor individuals, it’s increasingly where we turn first for every single need, and as a small business, it’s your shop window to the world, connecting you to millions of potential customers all over the world – if only they can find you. Winning online is all about visibility. With the average time people spend scanning search results being 15 seconds or under, being visible can literally make or break your business. That’s why a considerable allocation of your resources should be spent on creating and maintaining that, and trying to tap into some of the 3.5 billion plus searches processed by Google every single day. Having a solid strategy for your search engine optimization is more important than ever, and yet it’s a complex space to navigate, meaning many under-resourced start-up businesses are falling at the first hurdle. And yet rising up the ranks to achieve a high position for your particular best-fit key words and phrases doesn’t have to be impossibly complicated or hugely expensive. There are a number of small, incremental improvements which you can make, starting today… Do Your Keyword Research Number one on the…