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Signs You're Ready For A Career Change

When you have worked for a company, or in a certain position for a while, you can soon find yourself not enjoying it like you once did.

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Financial Planning Tips that will Rocket your Business Potential

A financial plan is one of the best ways for you to gain a better understanding of your finances. It also allows you to secure more funding and to ensure better cash flow management as a whole.

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Kinsta's Evolution: Addressing Past Challenges with Modern Solutions

Kinsta's Evolution: Addressing Past Challenges with Modern Solutions

Over the past year, Kinsta has implemented a series of enhancements aimed at bolstering security, improving performance, and streamlining user experience.

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Kinsta in 2025: From Consultant Chaos to Calm

Kinsta in 2025: From Consultant Chaos to Calm

Let me start here: I’m not a Kinsta customer. Never have been. I don’t have a billing dashboard, and I’m not here to evangelize. But for a good stretch of time—over a year ago now—I found myself the unofficial Kinsta whisperer for clients who had their WordPress setups go sideways. DNS snarls, SSL loops, Cloudflare conflicts, SEO landmines. That was my inbox.

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Beyond the Black Berets

Beyond the Black Berets

The Hidden History of the Saint Louis JROTC Rangers

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Session Ten: The Witch’s Mockery, the Drowned Girl, and the Screaming Vines

Session Ten: The Witch’s Mockery, the Drowned Girl, and the Screaming Vines

Barovia, in her usual cruelty, does not reward valor with comfort—only pain, humiliation, and the occasional mystical breadcrumb. Players: Sean D. (Sören Ironwood - Aasimar/Paladin), Chris (Radley - Human/Fighter), Carey (Traxidor - Half-Elf/Cleric)

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How to Open a Boutique Hotel and Make It Unforgettable

Opening a boutique hotel requires more than simply making beds. It involves crafting an unforgettable experience for visitors that they won't soon forget.

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Justin Prince Offers a Practical Approach to Wellness Leadership

Justin Prince Offers a Practical Approach to Wellness Leadership

Justin Prince is a well-known figure in business and wellness circles, with a track record in direct sales and entrepreneurial ventures. His latest project, MAKE Wellness, reflects a turn toward practical, science-informed health tools, shaped by personal experience rather than abstract vision statements.

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When SEO Gets Serious: What I Look for in the First 20 Minutes of Any Real Discovery Call

When SEO Gets Serious: What I Look for in the First 20 Minutes of Any Real Discovery Call

In a world of keyword fluff and templated SEO pitches, I’ve carved a different path. This post walks through my exact discovery call mindset — what I probe, what I diagnose fast, and how I determine if I can actually move the needle for a business. Whether you're hiring or just curious about what a real SEO operator looks for, here’s your inside peek.

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What to Expect from a Real SEO Expert: A Candid Guide for Founders, CMOs, and Agencies

What to Expect from a Real SEO Expert: A Candid Guide for Founders, CMOs, and Agencies

No fluff, no buzzwords—just a straight-talking breakdown of what actually moves the needle in SEO, based on 25+ years of doing the work.

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From Search to Summon: SEO for the AI-Powered Web

For years, SEO was a game of keywords, links, and rankings. You’d optimize a page, chase some backlinks, pray to the algorithm gods, and hope for a good spot in the Google SERPs.

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MAKE Wellness and Justin Prince: A Practical Approach to Modern Wellness

MAKE Wellness and Justin Prince: A Practical Approach to Modern Wellness

MAKE Wellness enters a crowded health space with a noticeably different tone. Instead of grand promises or trend-driven solutions, the company takes a measured, data-informed approach rooted in scientific literacy and user experience. At the center of that strategy is Justin Prince, an entrepreneur who came to wellness not to create a movement, but to solve a problem he observed in real time: the disconnect between what people are offered and what they actually need.

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When Google Pulls the Rug Out: Recovering Local SEO Visibility After Core Updates and Map Pack Chaos

When Google Pulls the Rug Out: Recovering Local SEO Visibility After Core Updates and Map Pack Chaos

If you’re a service business with multiple locations—say, in education, healthcare, or legal—and you’ve noticed your Google rankings tank, your map pack listings disappear, or your phone stops ringing, this post is for you.

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From Map Pack Obscurity to Local Lead Engine: A Strategic Guide to Local SEO for High-Stakes Service Businesses

From Map Pack Obscurity to Local Lead Engine: A Strategic Guide to Local SEO for High-Stakes Service Businesses

If you're in a competitive, trust-sensitive service industry — like financial services, legal, or home contracting — local SEO isn't optional. Here's how to turn your Google Business Profile into your most valuable lead generator, and why most businesses do it backward.

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MAKE Wellness Precision Health for a New Generation

MAKE Wellness Precision Health for a New Generation

The health and wellness world is full of big claims and broad solutions. In contrast, MAKE Wellness offers something more thoughtful: a focused, research-informed approach to supporting health that respects the complexity of the human body.

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4 Ways to Increase Productivity in Your Workplace

Improving productivity in the workplace isn't just about setting more targets and deadlines; it is also about creating an environment where employees can focus, stay motivated, and perform at their best.

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10 Tips To Boost Your Earnings As A Content Creator

The world of content creation is a very appealing career path for millions of talented creatives. It is a chance to earn money from your passion while you can also build a work schedule that suits you. Better still, the ceiling for potential earnings is far higher than most traditional jobs.

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How to Create a Positive Work Environment Where Your Employees Can Work Together

A positive work environment is one of those buzzwords that doesn’t really mean anything when you say it too much without thinking. But it’s actually a really important way to make sure that your workplace is productive. After all, happy employees are busy employees.

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Mistakes Businesses Make When Expanding Internationally

It’s not hard to see why a business would want to expand internationally. Once you move beyond the borders of your home country, you’ll have access to potentially millions of more customers — and that, of course, can make a difference to the number of sales and ultimately the bottom line.

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Brand Consistency Matters: The Key To Earning Trust & Loyalty

Every single successful business must have a brand that people can recognize and fall in love with.

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The Smoke Detector Chirp You Heard Wasn’t Real

The Smoke Detector Chirp You Heard Wasn’t Real

Have you ever watched a clip online—maybe a livestream, a news segment, or a Zoom interview—and noticed a subtle chirp in the background? That high-pitched beep, which sounds like a low-battery smoke detector, shows up in all kinds of videos. But here’s something most people don’t realize: in nearly every case, that sound wasn’t part of the original footage.

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Session Nine: The Disappearance of Arabelle and the Fiendish Mill

Session Nine: The Disappearance of Arabelle and the Fiendish Mill

The cursed lands of Barovia hold no sanctuary for the weary, and each fleeting moment of respite is merely the calm before the next storm. Radley and Traxidor, exiled from Vallaki, found themselves in the tense and volatile company of the Vistani, where secrets and suffering are as commonplace as the ever-present mist. A child was missing, and accusations ran cold and sharp as steel. Yet, darker forces stirred beyond the campfire’s glow. As the adventurers sought answers, they were drawn once more to the twisted windmill, where the sickly-sweet scent of dream pastries masked something far more sinister. But the truth they uncovered was more than they bargained for, and the fiends of Barovia would not suffer trespassers lightly.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Cryptocurrency Investment and Financial Planning

Investing can feel overwhelming, especially when it comes to cryptocurrency. Unlike traditional assets like stocks or real estate, crypto is still new to many investors, and its volatility can make it seem unpredictable. But for those willing to learn, it offers an exciting opportunity to diversify their portfolios and explore alternative ways to build wealth.

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10 Ways Your Customers Can Promote Your Business For You

What if it was possible to get your customers to do your marketing for you? This is the idea behind customer advocacy - a strategy that leverages the voices of satisfied customers to promote your business.

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