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The Benefits of Learning to Play the Guitar

You have been eying the guitar in the store window for weeks now. Your friend asks why you have yet to purchase it. Is it because you have never learned to play? There are as many reasons to learn to play the guitar as there are excuses for not learning. Here are eight reasons to join the ranks of the guitar-playing population. Therapeutic Organizations like schools, charities, and health facilities use music and learning an instrument in their formal therapy …

Rating The Top Boise Marketing Companies

Rapid Increase in Boise, ID Marketing CompaniesDoing a quick Google search for “Marketing Company” we can see that Boise has become the hot bed for marketing companies and digital agencies. This makes sense when we see that the once sleepy town of Boise, Idaho is now one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. With all of these new marketing agencies springing up like a leaky garden hose and flooding the city, how does a business owner know …

Seven Rules to Follow When You’re Dating Online in Boise

Remember when online dating was met with whispers and sideways glances? There used to be a taboo feeling when it came to meeting someone from Boise on a dating website. It almost felt desperate and wrong. However, the rules for online dating have changed dramatically, especially with the invention of popular dating apps you can download to your smartphone. Boise Tinder, anyone? Today, online dating can be easy and worthwhile if you follow a few simple rules! Boise Dating Tip …

Top Idaho Ski Resorts Near Boise

Visiting Boise? Add These Ski Resorts To Your Idaho Activity List If you live in or are visiting Boise, Idaho, you have access to several different and sensational ski resorts. Some are larger, others smaller but all of them offer you unique skiing options. You may be interested in a larger ski lodge offering lodging, a wider variety of restaurants, more activities, shopping, family-friendly options or the opening date of the resort. Although all of these resorts are a fairly …

Rank High on Google Searches By Enriching the User Experience

Every business employee who has anything to do with a company’s marketing outreach needs to know the basics of search engine optimization. This marketing strategy, called SEO for short, is responsible for the vast majority of online retail transactions that take place. SEO is the bridge the consumer uses to get from their boring desktop screen to the exciting website offered by companies that promise to fulfill their needs. Consumers simply type a few words into a search bar to …

Which Industry Sectors Dominate Digital Ad Spending in The United States?

Ad spend increasing for top US Business Sectors Today, most people appreciate the importance of digital advertising as a promotional medium. As the public’s reliance upon a host of mobile tech devices has increased during recent years, businesses have gravitated in large numbers towards multimedia and social advertising campaigns. Indeed, the role of digital ads appears to have expanded dramatically within a comparatively brief span of time. Recently, Marketing Charts reported findings collected during a ground-breaking e Marketer survey. The …

The Threat of Internet Censorship to the People of India

Those living in the developed western world can easily lose track of what a remarkable privilege free and unfettered internet access is. Residents of Europe and North America typically have whatever information they could ever want right at their fingertips, and many of us have become so ingrained in this new connected world that it can be hard to imagine what life was like before the internet. But it’s an advantage we’re lucky to enjoy. Censorship and surveillance of the …

The Perfect Facebook Family

My wife and I attended a marriage retreat a few years ago. We like to do this from time to time as a commitment to each other and as a sign that the health of our marriage is important to us both. It is often easy to get carried away with work, personal hobbies or the basic survival necessities; $300 trips to Costco, daycare drop-offs, the 8 loads of laundry that need to be completed each weekend and an endless …

The Foundation Of Success Starts With A Solid Morning

There’s an unfortunate myth out there that you either are or aren’t a “morning person.” You may feel like it’s your destiny to hit the snooze button four times, begrudgingly roll out of bed and rush through everything before barely making it to work or school on time. The good news is that anyone can be a morning person. It’s all a matter of knowing how to build the right morning routine, putting in the effort and staying disciplined. A …

Meditate to Motivate: Getting More Done With The Power of Meditation

Relaxing To Do More In the current cutthroat business world, increasing productivity can help workers keep and thrive in their jobs. However, striving to improve output sometimes leads to heightened stress, ultimately bringing on a decrease in productiveness and even a hatred of the work itself! Many productive employees keep their minds clear and calm by meditating or using yoga. Meditating, which Merriam-Webster defines as engaging “in mental exercise… for the purpose of reaching a heightened state of spiritual awareness”, …

Is Cold Calling Dead? Fingers Crossed.

From the 1950s onward, media pundits have predicted the death of radio. Broadcast television soon followed as a medium about to enter obsolescence. The hard copy book was supposed to be extinct by now. What the future may hold is open for debate but these forms of communication are still hanging on. The business world is likewise confronted with new modes of sales and marketing. Will they supplant current methods or simply complement them? In no area of exchange is …