Preparing Your Practice By Streamlining Your Processes
Streamlining your processes is a fine art, and can take some time. But are there any certain shortcuts that we can look to incorporate to make the practice run better?
Matt Sweetwood
Matt Sweetwood serial entrepreneur and a tech start-up founder with over 30 years of experience. He is an internationally known professional speaker, author, coach, and social media influencer. However, his greatest achievement is having raised five successful children to adulthood as a single dad. He is a frequent national TV and publication contributor and has a #1 best-selling book: “Leader of the Pack: How a single dad of five led his kids, his business and himself from disaster to success.”
The Costs Of Scaling Your Business
Once you’ve identified a scaling opportunity, whether it’s a new location, offering a new product or service, or something else entirely, you have to next figure out what it takes to get there. Here, we’re going to look at examples…
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Learning Great Computer Skills Online
It is exciting to be able to have access to technology to help ourselves learn. Here are a few cool computer skills that you should check out. Some are free, and some aren’t.
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8 Ways to Keep Employee Productivity High
It’s up to you to keep employee productivity levels high, but how do you do it? Here are some tips on getting the most from your employees.
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Bringing Your Office Into The 21st Century
There are some ways that you can make your office appropriate for the times, and a hub of productivity. Here are some of them.
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Is Safety Part Of Your Office Design Discussion?
When it comes to designing a workspace, what should be your number one consideration? …with a safety conscious mind, you can design a space that keeps you and your team in safe hands.
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Overcoming a Fear of Flying to Help Expand Your Business’s Reach
Flying can easily strike fear into our hearts and prevent us from seeing the world.
Unfortunately, if you’re operating a successful business then you’ll eventually need to travel the world.
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6 Top Tips For Starting A Business In Your 50’s
It’s a well-known fact that life doesn’t stop at 50, however, so many people feel as though once they hit the big 5-0 they’re no longer allowed to follow their dreams.
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Is there a Hidden Hate Message in Jaume Plensa’s Aventura Mall Sculpture?
I had my big camera and lens with me, so I zoomed in and took some close-up photos. What I saw disappointed me. Some of the letters grouped together seemed to spell out a common hateful antisemitic phrase, “Greedy Jew.”
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How to Build Trust in Your Brand and Retain Customers
The importance of maintaining positive relationships with existing customers is a crucial element of long term success for businesses.
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Put A Sense Of Adventure Into Your Career Choice
We have to admit, some career choices just don’t have the wow factor. They don’t have the fun and adventure to draw people in.
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The Key To A Happy Marriage
Well, now you’re there. You’re a married human, and you’re spending every day with the love of your life…
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What’s The Point Of Automating Your Marketing Activities?
Marketing automation refers to the technologies and software platforms that are specifically designed to market effectively multiple channels online while automating repetitive tasks.
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Do You Know Your Next Move?
When it comes to your career and business, it’s not always easy to work what you’re going to do next.
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Why Your Business Probably Doesn’t Need Office Space
Why Your Business Probably Doesn’t Need Office Space Thinking of renting office space for your business? You probably don’t need to. As many companies are starting to realize, it makes more practical sense to do without an office and work from home. There may well be a certain […]
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They Deserve It: Ensuring Your Other Half Feels Special
For many couples, it can be a challenge to keep the spark alive, and sometimes, one or both parties can feel a little taken for granted.
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Steps to Create a Family Emergency Plan
Whether you have children or not, having an emergency plan in place is so important for each and every household.
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Does Your Business’ Social Media Have A Point?
Many businesses understand that they need to have a social media presence, but without a digital expert in the ranks, you could find yourself lacking direction and posting messages for the sake of posting, instead of having a clear thought process behind them.
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How I Avoided Getting Taken by Scammers
This message is a warning to all business owners, especially solopreneurs: there are bad people out there and they are always coming up with new ways to take you.
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How Can Technology Help To Improve Your Relationship?
By using tech the right way, you can even improve your relationships. Here are six ways how.
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The 3 Underlying Principles of All Product Design
Product design is one of the most complex parts of any business and whether you are designing a tangible product or a service, you need to consider 3 basic principles of design first.
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Ask Yourself These Questions Before Starting The Divorce Process
Ask Yourself These Questions Before Starting The Divorce Process It’s important not to rush into the divorce process. Ending a marriage should not be taken lightly, as there are consequences for you, your partner, and your children. Divorce is a stressful and life-changing event, and while it may […]
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Modernizing Your IT Infrastructure
Modernizing Your IT Infrastructure You need to bring pretty much everything into the modern world at the minute, whether we’re talking about business or not. It has become a sort of race to try and modernize the world, and it just seems like everyone is struggling to keep […]
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SKIDEE Scooter – Coolest Gift I’ve Ever Given a Kid!
When it was time to get my 5- year old nephew a birthday gift, I came across this very cool looking Skidee Scooter. I thought back to my childhood and how I would have loved this and wanted to buy it for my little guy. I checked out […]
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Sennheiser MOMENTUM True Wireless Earbud Headphones Product Review
When I consider factors such as ergonomics, performance, size and fit, I can say with confidence that these Sennheiser MOMENTUM True Wireless Earbud Headphones are the best Bluetooth listening devices I have ever used.
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Why These 3 Design Changes Can Improve Your Sales by 50% or More
Intuitive, attractive and functional design is the most powerful way for a business to stand out against the competition, grow, and build customer and client satisfaction.
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The LG – Watch W7 Smartwatch – My New Everyday Timepiece
Being the fitness and walking enthusiast I am, this smartwatch changes everything. I get to showcase style and function with this LG Watch W7 smartwatch.
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My BIG Home Improvement: Polk Signature S15 Compact Bookshelf Speakers
My BIG Home Improvement: Polk Signature S15 Compact Bookshelf Speakers I now live in a 700 square foot, one-bedroom, high-rise apartment in New York City. That’s after spending most of my five decades on this earth living in a large suburban house with my five kids. As most […]
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Your Social Media Profile Can Make the Difference Between Being Accepted or Rejected to Harvard
According to Kaplan Test Prep’s most recent survey of college admissions officers, more than two-thirds of colleges (68 percent) say that it’s “fair game” for them to visit applicants’ social media profiles…
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Google Chromecast Streaming Media Player. See it. Stream it.
Are you interested in saving money by cutting the cord to cable and streaming their entertainment? I have an amazing solution for you!
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The Best Ever? Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Creative Pen Tablet
Recently, I needed to create some design work for the cover of my now bestselling book, Leader of the Pack. So, I decided to get myself a Wacom Intuos Creative Pen Tablet at Best Buy.
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It’s Time to Change the Way Marriage and Divorce Work
It all started with a humorous Facebook post I made recently about my fear of marriage. I was taking my usual Saturday walk-about in Manhattan when I turned the corner on 42nd street…
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Ultimate Ears MEGABLAST and BLAST Portable Speakers
Ultimate Ears MEGABLAST and BLAST Portable Speakers When I go out biking around New York City for the day I usually stop in Central Park and picnic with my friends. We love to listen to music and the speaker in my phone is never enough. That’s why I […]
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HP Envy x360 Laptops Are The Only Ones I Use Now!
HP Envy x360 laptops are 2-in-1 devices that can transfer from a laptop to a tablet in seconds. These touch-screen laptops come with Windows Ink capabilities and a Windows operating system so you can write on the screen with your stylus. AMD processors make them fast and thin so you can take them with you anywhere you go!
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4 Female Entrepreneurs Share the Visions That Helped Make Them Successful
Here are four highly successful female entrepreneurs, and their business philosophies, who can be role models for anyone who wants to make it as an entrepreneur.
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What You Need to Know to Create a Bestselling Book
I have completed the long and arduous journey and recently had my book, “Leader of the Pack” reach number one in self-help, new releases on Amazon. Now I get to brag about having a bestselling book and share how I made it happen. So, here are some the techniques I learned along the way that you’ll need to create your best-selling book:
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Pictures from the “Leader of the Pack” Book Party
Pictures from the “Leader of the Pack” Book Party March 29, 2018 at Till & Sprocket NYC It was a wonderful night filled with good food & drink, meaningful conversation and a lively discussion about Matt’s new bestselling book,”Leader of the Pack” – The Self-Help Book that will change […]
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Pixelbook, the New High Performance Chromebook You Have to Have
I am very excited about the new high performance Chromebook. I have been waiting for a Chromebook with this set of feature to come along. I am headed out to BestBuy to get one this week!
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4 Instagram Power Users From 4 Continents Tell How They Grow Their Business
Here in the U.S we like to think were the king of everything, but the numbers show there are 8 times as many active Instagram users outside the U.S. I previously wrote about 13 power tips from six successful U.S. based Instagrammers. So, I decided to reach out to four business power users on four different continents and ask their thoughts on the value of Instagram in their region and some of their best tips. Here’s what they told me:
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The Do’s and Don’ts for Opening and Operating a Successful Startup
Originally published on Entrepreneur So, you have a great new idea or invention, and you are ready to open your startup business. You’ve been scared by the well-publicized statistic that 90% of startups fail. However, that is not true. A more believable number is that slightly more than 50% […]
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10 Customer Service Power Tips To Make Your Business a Winner
Fast, reliable, efficient, and effective customer service can be the difference between your company being a winner or loser in today’s highly competitive marketplace.
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10 Tips on How to Become a Thought Leader
Does the totality of your published content (articles, videos, podcasts, books, etc.) establish you as a Thought Leader?
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14 Tips to Help You Succeed in the New Underground World of Instagram
Here are 14 tips from 7 successful Instagrammers that will help you build a powerful and engaged Instagram:
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Stay in the NOW – My Birthday Message
As yesterday I celebrated my birthday, I shared some advice I would have given to my younger self.
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A Common-Sense Solution to Win at Protesting and Avoid Violence
Charlottesville was a tragedy. But it taught us a valuable lesson in counter-protesting.
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How to stop hate speech after Charlottesville?
How to stop hate speech after Charlottesville? My common sense solution to stop hate speech and prevent what happened in Charlottesville from happening again.
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Let’s unpack Iblazr2 WIRELESS LED Flash
Unpacking and talking about Iblazr2 WIRELESS LED Flash.
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It’s Time to Change the Way Marriage Works
Making marriage a 2-year renewable deal will ensure that no one gets stuck in a bad place and will make both parties know that they must perform – be good spouses or the arrangement will end.
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How to Make $200,000 in a Single Step
There’s a very simple way to put $200,000 in your bank account: Don’t get married.
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E9: Why Marriage Should be a 2-Year Renewable Contract?
Why Marriage Should be a 2-Year Renewable Contract?
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E8: How Physical Strenght & Health are a Key to Finding Happiness & Success
How Physical Strength & Health are a Key to Finding Happiness & Success
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E7: The Scientific Ways to Live a Happier and Healthier Life
The Scientific Ways to Live a Happier and Healthier Life
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A Father’s Day Epilogue It’s Time To Stop Thinking of Dads as the #2 Parent
Fatherhood is a blessing, a responsibility and something every man is 100% capable of doing – at least as well as any mom.
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10 Little Tricks To Learn To Love Being Alone
I thought I would hate traveling alone, but it’s fantastic. I go where I want, how I want, and stay where I want.
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E6: Why a Parent’s Self-Esteem is So Important – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood
Why a Parent’s Self-Esteem is So Important
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When I Realized It Was Okay to Be a Dad and Stopped Trying to Be a Mom
When I Realized It Was Okay to Be a Dad and Stopped Trying to Be a Mom It was 1997 and it was time for me to figure out how to take charge of this unimaginable situation I was in. I was the primary – correction, sole and […]
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10 Tips To Help You Learn To Love Being Alone
Here are the 10 things that I did that helped me love being alone and became a key to my happiness and relationship success
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Is Gary Rosenblatt Unethical and The New York Jewish Week Fake News?
Let’s say you were in an acrimonious legal fight with someone, and an article putting a negative light on you appeared in a news outlet… Then you discover your opponent was a writer for this same news outlet…
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E5: Why learning to love being alone is a key to happiness and having successful relationships
Why learning to love being alone is a key to happiness and having successful relationships
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I May Have Left The Photo Retail Business, But I Still Love Photography
I May Have Left The Photo Retail Business, But I Still Love Photography It was exactly on my birthday in August, two years ago, that I signed the papers that allowed me to exit the photo retail business. I found a sense of irony that it happened by […]
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It’s Time to Change the Way Marriage Works
Is marriage a failed institution? My answer is that the way we engage (pun intended) in marriage now, it is a failure.
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10 Social Media Tips for Students to Improve Their College Admission Chances
Here are my 10 social media tips for students to improve their college admission chances.
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E4: Marriage – A failed institution or something every adult should hope for? – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood
Marriage – A failed institution or something every adult should hope for?
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E3: FOMO: The Fear Of Missing Out – Smart Phone and Other Tips to Overcome It – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood
FOMO: The Fear Of Missing Out – Smart Phone and Other Tips to Overcome It – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood
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My Daughter Just Graduated and Why I think She Needs a Powerful Personal Brand
Job seeking has changed a lot over the past few years. Gone are the days of waiting for the Sunday newspaper to scour the job section for new opportunities.
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E2: Parents: Dealing with the Mixed Emotions of Your Son or Daughter’s Graduation – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood
Parents: Dealing with the Mixed Emotions of Your Son or Daughter’s Graduation – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood
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PHOTO WALK • LOWER MANHATTAN
NYC Photo Walk in Lower Manhattan
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You’re Invited to My New Show: “Sunday Night Live”
I hope to share with you what I have learned about how to have a happier, more successful and more rewarding life – what I call a BIG life – a life worth living.
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E1: What should you do when there’s no Mom and it’s Mother’s Day? – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood
What should you do when there’s no Mom and it’s Mother’s Day? – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood
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The King David Award: The Highlight of Jewish Heritage Month in Washington D.C.
The King David Award ceremony was held at the U.S. Capitol on May 3rd. Past honorees have included such luminaries as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Dr, Henry Kissinger, Rudy Guliani, Kirk Douglas, Steven Speilberg, Alan Dershowitz, and many other industry leaders and philanthropists.
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3 Rules for Men to Follow to Avoid Getting Trapped by Women Who Date for Dinner
Here are three recent dates I had that illustrate how easy it is to get caught in the pay-for-dinner play:
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It’s Official: beBee Producer Crushes Linkedin Pulse for Engagement
In today’s highly competitive world of article writing, everyone is looking for the best platform to have their work viewed, discussed and shared. So, I decided to perform a simple test on two of the largest professional network blogging platforms.
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LIVE Unboxing: LUMIX DMC LX10
Matt Sweetwood, a LUMIX sponsored photographer, introduces you to the new LUMIX DMC LX10.
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10 Rules to Determine Whether Any Relationship Will Steal Your Happiness
Happiness in life is most affected by the quality of our relationships. So how do you know if any relationship you have – work, friend or romantic, is good for you?
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8 Reasons How a Powerful Personal Brand Will Make You Successful
If you do not have a powerful and visible personal brand you are putting yourself at a disadvantage in almost every aspect of your professional, business and personal life.
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Why Women Are Wrong To Rule Out Dating Trump Supporters
If you live in New York City and voted for Trump, you are going to have trouble finding a date.
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Sorry, No Trump Supporters on My Dates
If you live in New York City and voted for Donald Trump, you are going to have trouble finding a date. And I have the experiences to prove that.
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It’s Never Too Late to Get Your Graduate Degree
I admit it: I was Ph.D. program dropout. And apparently, a lot of other people are dropouts, too.
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Fatherhood stories live from the Dad 2.0 Summit, San Diego
A fun live discussion with GetConnectDAD at the 2017 Dad2Summit from San Diego.
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Matt Sweetwood talks with HGTV’s Josh Temple at Dad 2.0 Summit, San Diego
Actor, Josh Temple talks with Matt about fatherhood, how dads can get support during hard times, the spiritual journey Matt went through to raise his 5 kids as a single dad, and the heating system.
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Sometimes you just need to get out there
It’s easy to just stay in one place but you sometimes have to get out, travel and meet people to be successful.
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13 Power Tips To Create The Best Live Video On beBee
Building on my own personal success, I share with you the 13 tips that will help make your live buzzes on beBee a big success for you and help you build your personal brand and business.
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How The Influencers Changed Advertising
Please enjoy this video where I discuss the re-invention of the camera store and photography business I operated for 28 years and my new role as US CEO of the new social media platform, beBee.com – and why personal branding is a crucial part of being successful in today’s connected world.
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12 Things Photo Retailers Should Do in 2017
If you are running a photo retail store, I don’t have to tell you 2016 was a difficult year for photo retailers. If natural disasters killing camera production and supply wasn’t bad enough, we had Amazon adding same-day delivery to major markets—trying to compete directly with the instant gratification one gets from buying locally.
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Carpe Diem – Take every opportunity to have a BIG Life
Carpe Diem – Take every opportunity to have a BIG Life
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Moving to NYC in my 50s was the best decision of my life
Original article is published by the New York Post, read the full article here! “Dating is a lot more complicated” “I was like Mr. New Jersey,” says Matt Sweetwood, a recent Battery Park transplant from Millburn, NJ. “I had grown up there, went to Rutgers, and raised five […]
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The Man-Up Project Episode 13: How to enjoy the Holidays as as single parent?
The Man-Up Project Episode 13: How to enjoy the Holidays as as single parent? In this podcast I share with you how I turned around my mood around the holiday season as a single Dad. Because we all can enjoy a meaningful and merry a holiday time.
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Retail Intelligence: Profit from Education III
Communicating in an entertaining and informative way is key to making it all work. So in “Profit from Education III,” we’ll look at the 15 steps necessary to effectively market your education program and turn that classroom into a profit maker.
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20 Experts Answer: What’s Your #1 Sales Follow-Up Tip?
Still, there are unreached numbers and distant quotas. What could be done now–just a few weeks before the year ends–to seal the deal, or maybe even to put these deals in a better position for 2017?
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10 Reasons Why Late to Bed and Late to Rise Can Make You Successful
10 Reasons Why Late to Bed and Late to Rise Can Make You Successful Published on Entrepreneur 11/16/16 There have been many articles about how getting up early is the key to success. The most well-known is one by Richard Branson, Why I Wake Up Early. Recently I […]
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The Man-Up Project Episode 12: Can online networking be as successful as in person ones?
In this podcast I ponder on whether there is a chance that we create online an environment where networking occurs the way humans naturally want it to.
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50 Marketing Thought Leaders Over 50
Matt Sweetwood among Brand Quarterly’s ’50 Marketing Thought Leaders Over 50 in 2016′!
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Are you hanging out with people that are good for you?
In this video, we got together with Dr. Geo again, and talked about why men are not taking care of themselves and what it entails in the long run.
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3 Tips for Single Parents to Find Happiness During the Holiday Season
A dad who has “been there” gives single parents some important tips on surviving the holidays.
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The Man-Up Project Episode 11: Getting Up Early Doesn’t Make You Successful
In this podcast I talk about why waking up early would never make me successful.
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Can Online Networking BEE as Successful as In-Person Networking?
Can Online Networking BEE as Successful as In-Person Networking? As the U.S. CEO beBee.com, a new professional social networking site with over 11 million worldwide users (Bees), I give a lot of thought to social media and networking. Since my goal is to get beBee to 100 million […]
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How to Make Your Resumé Stand Out?
This is a short and focused part of my interview with WNPV Radio about beBee.com and how to make a resumé that stands out
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How the beBee social network aims to get you hired
BeBee is an advertising-supported social network that wants to make online job search and personal branding easier for students and others.
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Retail Intelligence: Profit from Education II
In Profit from Education II, I address the steps, tricks and techniques a photo retailer should take to build an effective and winning education curriculum.
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How to Run an Effective Social Media Employee Advocacy Program
If you can’t get engagement on your social media posts, get your employees to help. Every smart entrepreneur knows that you need to use social media to effectively market your business and your brand.
