July 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES on PRODUCTIVITY

Below you will find summaries from the unique 3ML Briefcase. Over the first 2 weeks of every month, summaries for all 32 articles appearing in the current month’s online magazine are presented. Articles rotate every day with 4 new articles appearing in the respective subject areas (leadership, business and management, marketing and productivity). Key links for the 3 Minute Learning website include:
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Coming in for a Landing: How to Make Sure You Don't Crash and Burn

Merle

If you're doing any kind of pay-per-click advertising, one of the most important factors of your advertising campaign is your landing page. So, what is a landing page and why do you need to pay special attention to what it contains? Great question - let me explain.

Everything You Need to Know to Get Your Idea on the Web

Jason O'Connor

 If you want to get online and wondering, "How can I get my idea live on the Web in the form of a website?" you have three choices:

(1) hire a Web vendor such as a web designer to make it for you;
(2) use an online template-based turnkey service; or
(3) make it yourself from scratch
This article is specifically for the Web novice that simply needs a place to begin.

How to Reverse Engineer My #1 Google Rankings

Willie Crawford

Google the terms "joint venture expert" or "land for $100" and you'll see that I rank #1 for both terms and have for a VERY long time. Yes, people do search on those terms, regardless of what you might think and they both generate substantial incomes for me. But they are not my most profitable keywords. They are just keywords that I will use to prove to you that I have a clue about how to get top Google listings. You really shouldn't listen to "experts" who can't back up what they teach with proof.

Google Analytics for Beginners

Go Search

Google analytics is a vital tool for anyone involved with SEO. Google Analytics allows users to keep an eye on how much traffic they are getting, where it's coming from and helps to identify the trends and patterns that the traffic follows once on the site. Often this can be confusing for people, so this article aims to reduce that confusion.

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July 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES for MARKETING

Below you will find summaries from the unique 3ML Briefcase. Over the first 2 weeks of every month, summaries for all 32 articles appearing in the current month’s online magazine are presented. Articles rotate every day with 4 new articles appearing in the respective subject areas (leadership, business and management, marketing and productivity). Key links for the 3 Minute Learning website include:
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Special Interest Articles
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Marketing Effectively With Email

Daily Report

Like any type of marketing, email marketing involves a great deal of time and effort to ensure the marketing campaign is effective. Spending a great deal of time, energy and money into an email marketing campaign that is not reaching the members of the target audience and is not convincing recipients to make a purchase or visit your website is not worthwhile. This article will discuss how to implement an effective email marketing strategy to ensure your business, financial and personal goals are being met.

Marketing Coaching: Understanding the Basics of Page Rank

Paul Marshall

PageRank (PR) is a numerical value Google assigns to a site as a measure of "authority." A marketing coach will emphasize that building PR is one of the most affordable SEO methods. Understanding PR and using it to craft a link-building campaign is a first step toward higher search engine results.

Using the Moment of Truth to Get Prospects Attention

Judy Murdoch

The best message in the world will fail if prospects read it out of context. If prospects see your message at a time when they aren't concerned with the problem your product solves, they will ignore it. Your message might as well be invisible. Context is about making sure prospects see your message at the "moment of truth": the time when they are most aware of their problem and looking for solutions.

Stop Wasting Time and Money With Your Article Marketing

Bill Platt

Online marketers are always arguing for or against the value of article marketing. Many will argue that article marketing could provide real traffic and sales to ones' website, and furthermore, article submission has the potential to offer some serious SEO value to the marketers' websites. Many more will tell you that article marketing is an utter waste of time and money. The difference between those who do well with article marketing and those who do not is usually a matter of education, or lack thereof.

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July 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES for BUSINESS and MANAGEMENT

Below you will find summaries from the unique 3ML Briefcase. Over the first 2 weeks of every month, summaries for all 32 articles appearing in the current month’s online magazine are presented. Articles rotate every day with 4 new articles appearing in the respective subject areas (leadership, business and management, marketing and productivity). Key links for the 3 Minute Learning website include:
Free Articles 
Video News Feeds
Special Interest Articles
3ML Amazon Store
Books and Audio

Hiring When Starting a Business is Critical to Success

K. MacKillop

Finding the right employees for your startup is critical. They will not only be representing your business but they will also be representing YOU. Do your homework before you start hiring and then hire the best people you can find.

Crowdsourcing: 3 Ways to Find a Great Company or Product Name

Marcia Yudkin

Increasingly popular, "crowdsourcing" involves inviting a large number of people to perform a task, with a prize promised to the person or team whose work is selected as the winner. Discover three methods of crowdsourcing, five advantages of generating a new company or product name this way and five disadvantages.

Cash Management Tips for Small Businesses

Naz Daud

In today’s unhealthy economy, one can’t help but wonder how small businesses can effectively achieve cash management. Small businesses need to survive and compete with the lower prices that are offered by their competitors, and good cash management is a must. Here are some tips to help you to save money and manage your business and cash flow. These tips will also help individuals to better manage their home expenses.

The 7 Most Asked Questions About Business Mentoring and Coaching

ActionCOACH

The main value of having a mentor or coach is having someone beside you who knows the "ins and outs" of business. More importantly, how to grow profits consistently versus simply cutting expenses as a way to get more money into your pocket. Generally, there are 7 main questions most people ask about mentoring and coaching, and the answers can hopefully clarify the benefits for you and your business.

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July 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES for LEADERSHIP

Below you will find summaries from the unique 3ML Briefcase. Over the first 2 weeks of every month, summaries for all 32 articles appearing in the current month’s online magazine are presented. Articles rotate every day with 4 new articles appearing in the respective subject areas (leadership, business and management, marketing and productivity). Key links for the 3 Minute Learning website include:
Free Articles 
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Special Interest Articles
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Books and Audio 

ARTICLES for INSPIRATION

Steve Goodier

TABLE of CONTENTS
1. WHAT I'VE LEARNED
2. GIFTED FOR SOMETHING?
3. FACE VALUE
4. PRECIOUS MOMENTS
5. LOVING LIFE AGAIN
6. THE EASIEST WAY TO LEARN

Powerful Communication: Apology Dos and Don’ts

Julie Fuimano, MBA, RN

An apology can be a very cathartic act. It can mend fences and build bridges. It is an act of a true leader when you are able to admit a wrong or mistake. An apology done well is powerful. For this reason, making an apology should be taken very seriously. When they are thrown around without much thought, they lose their potency. An empty apology does not serve you but rather can diminish the respect others have for you.

Developing Leadership Skills

Harald Anderson

Some people appear as such natural leaders one wonders if they were born with the quality of leadership. It's possible that this may be true. However, even for these "so-called" born leaders, the right environment is crucial to help them develop to their fullest potential.

5 Brilliant Rumi Quotes

Wendy Betterini

I have a lot of favorite authors but one that tends to spark a welcome wave of inspiration and renewal every time I read his work is Rumi. Rumi was a 13th century Persian poet (1207-1273). Though his original works were written in Persian, they have also been translated into other languages and are still enjoyed by people in many countries today, even seven centuries after his death!

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June 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES on PRODUCTIVITY

Below you will find summaries from the unique 3ML Briefcase. Over the first 2 weeks of every month, summaries for all 32 articles appearing in the current month’s online magazine are presented. Articles rotate every day with 4 new articles appearing in the respective subject areas (leadership, business and management, marketing and productivity). Key links for the 3 Minute Learning website include:
Free Articles 
Video News Feeds
Special Interest Articles
3ML Amazon Store 
Books and Audio 

How to Plan and Make a Website's Navigation Bar

Jason O'Connor

The Web is interactive. As a visitor, you get to determine where you go and what you see. One of the most important features of every website is its navigation bar. Navigation gives the controls to the visitor.

Top 10 Reasons Why Online Marketers Fail With Article Marketing

Bill Platt

If you've been marketing products online for any length of time you've likely heard people talk about the power and promise of article marketing for the promotion of your online business. Unfortunately, many online marketers have tried to utilize article marketing to benefit their online business and failed. In this article, I document the top ten reasons why people fail to find success with article marketing and how to fix your article marketing campaigns.

Using SEO to Promote Your Website

Key Scouts

Although business owners often know that there is an untapped source of interest through the Internet, they truly do not know how to go about promoting their website to attract that interest. There are key ingredients to drawing the general public to your site and it often takes a professional to be able to put these items into play. Although some people can manage to promote their websites by themselves, hiring a professional will always give much better, long term results.

7 RSS Traffic Tips for Small Business Owners

Tinu

If you have a blog, you most likely have an RSS or Atom feed. This is the file that's linked to the weird-looking orange button you see on many frequently updated websites, such as blogs. Your feed's job is to talk to other machines about your site on your behalf. These bot-to-bot conversations increase your traffic either directly through feed reader subscriptions and listings or indirectly by helping your search rankings.

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