Author: Quentin Pain
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How To Make Affirmations Work
So much has been said about affirmations. And so many promises have been made about them. But affirmations can only ever work if you believe in whatever it is you are trying to affirm. So most people give up. It’s hard to believe in something we haven’t got, experienced or seen. However, everything ever made…
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How To Select Great Clients
During my many decades of being in business I have had partners, associates, fellow directors and investors and a very large number of clients and customers. And not all of them have been pleasant to work with. Life’s too short, so it makes sense to work with people you like (don’t worry, if you’re desperate…
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How To Be Successful In Business
Well that’s a bit of a large promise! But of course, plenty of people are successful in business, so what’s the big deal? You are. That’s what it’s all about. You. Do you see yourself as a success or a failure? This is a ‘decision’ question. Asking decision questions (of others) is a distinction of…
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Are Zero Hours Contracts Good For Society?
Zero hours contracts are increasing massively in the UK, and I guess that is no surprise considering the responsibility it removes from employers and the costs it removes from their businesses. According to The Independent, 90% of McDonalds workers are on zero hour contracts. John Hall writes “The admission indicates the fast-food chain is potentially the…
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Jay Abraham and Preeminence
The great marketer, Jay Abraham, talks about preeminence as being the path all businesses should take. He’s put a sort of toolkit together on the topic here: http://abraham.com/strategy-of-preeminence/ The premise is that if you become preeminent you will not just become successful, but unstoppably successful. Here’s the dictionary definition: “Superior to or notable above all…
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How To Get A Page Indexed On Google In Less Than A Minute
To get a new page on your site indexed by Google, all you need to do is let it know the page exists! But of course, it’s not really that easy is it? Google cannot trawl every single site every second (or even every minute, hour or day for that matter). There are far too…
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So, What Do You Do?
So, what do you do? And how do you answer that? One way will earn you a fortune and the other way nothing at all. So, what do you do? Watch this first (don’t worry, it’s not rude!): Everything in business is about selling. I think most of us get that. And everyone judges first…
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A Simple Tactic For Getting Your Book Found On Amazon
I stumbled on this simple tactic that influences searches on Amazon entirely by accident. That is, it wasn’t by design, but having discovered it (by way of my good friend and PR Master – Alex Singleton) I realised that anyone can use this to help them get more exposure for their books. A word of…
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Being a Good Marketer (and Citizen)
A while ago I read about a technique that could change your life forever. It was such a simple idea that I fell in love with it immediately. It all kicks off with one simple question: if you could choose to live your life any way you wanted, how would you live it? To really…
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Why Are The Knowledge Graph And Social Signals Important For Rankings?
If you want to get under the hood of a search engine like Google to discover what you need to do to rank your pages faster and higher, look no further than their Knowledge Graph. The knowledge graph is like a giant encyclopaedia of everything, with everything linked together no matter how tenuous the connection.…