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A different approach to job hunting: building your network and free work

A different approach to job hunting: building your network and free work

You’ve been rewarded throughout your entire life for showing up and playing or working hard. You got yourself involved during your school years and managed to get through it all with decent grades and only $50,000 in debt. You’re a new grad – eager and passionate and deserving of a well-paying, intellectually-stimulating job, right?

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Be more productive while working from home

Be more productive while working from home

It can be hard to separate work from life at times – especially when you work from home. It can be a blessing or a curse depending on how disciplined and motivated you are.
That said, I have spent the last four months trying to master working from home and getting the most out of my [...]

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Stick To The Fundamentals: Another Reason to Build Assets in Marketing

Stick To The Fundamentals: Another Reason to Build Assets in Marketing

I just read this post about Twitter potentially censoring their trending topics. It made me think of how little control we really do have over our social media initiatives in the business world.
There is a lot of hype surrounding social media as a great way to brand a business, person, idea, or whatever. I completely [...]

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Movember Update! John Travolta, Eat Your Heart Out

Movember Update! John Travolta, Eat Your Heart Out

I have been growing a Mo for the past 20 days to raise awareness of Movember and to help raise funds for Prostate Cancer Canada.
If you haven’t already donated to the cause Please Donate Now!
I must say that my Mo is coming in better than I thought it would. After watching the movie Pelham 123, [...]

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Movember: Help me raise money for Prostate Cancer Canada

Like Father, Like Son.
What is Movember, you might ask?
Movember is a combination of Moustache and November and is a month long event during which participants grow moustaches and raise money for a variety of men’s health issues.
In Canada, we are raising money for Prostate Cancer Canada to help them work tirelessly with professionals and organizations [...]

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My 40 Seconds of Fame

I just realized this is the first ever post on my site with a video of myself included. Exciting times. This post doesn’t hold much value except some entertainment.
I recently wrote on some reasons you should juggle and thought I would upload a quick video of 3-ball juggling.
Enjoy.

My 40 Seconds of Fame from Adam Bate [...]

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6 Reasons why you should learn to juggle

I learned the basics of 3-ball juggling when I was about 13. I’m pretty sure my grandmother signed out an old VHS on learning how to juggle from the local library in hopes to keep my brothers and I occupied. Well it worked. I’m fairly certain any one of us could pick up and juggle [...]

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How to be number one on Google

From time to time I will get asked how to get a website to be number on Google. I usually chuckle and think if only there was a secret equation or method that we could use to get a number one spot all the time. So here is the truth: there is no secret.
There are [...]

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Why you and your business should not have a website

By no means am I preaching that people and businesses should not develop a website and a great online presence. What I am saying is that sometimes a personal or business website does more harm than good.
We have all seen them kicking around the internet and I bet you may even be able to think [...]

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How to choose the right web host and web hosting package (Part 1): A look at Shared Web Hosting

I have been asked many times what hosting package is the best fit for different types of websites and businesses. This is usually due to the fact that I co-own a Web hosting and Managed virtual private server company. Regardless, I thought I would write an unbiased, four-part blog post that covers choosing the right [...]

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