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10 Health Mistakes You’re Making Right Now Because You Think You’re Too Busy

Staying healthy doesn’t have to be time-consuming or very complicated. It’s just easy to make mistakes. Here are some basic habits you should change.

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How Brands Can Use Facebook Interest Lists

How Brands Can Use Facebook Interest Lists

Along with Facebook’s new Timeline feature, they recently rolled-out a new featured called “Interest Lists.” While brand pages cannot yet create their own lists of interests, individuals can now add pages and people to organized lists and share them with friends.

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A Simple New Way for Busy Career Women to Step Up their Wardrobe

I don’t know who has hours to spend shopping all afternoon, but it’s not me. It’s a big reason why I don’t bargain shop. It goes against a lot of my other thrifty habits like obsessive budgeting on Mint.com, and setting up multiple savings accounts for each of my long-term goals like buying a house and big travel adventures.

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4 Tips for Landing a Job in Social Media

It’s no secret that jobs in social media are becoming more prevalent in nearly every industry nationwide and even globally. A quick search on Indeed returns nearly 30,000 openings in the United States alone.

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Social Media Nerds Are Your Next Boss

Last week I had the pleasure of serving on a panel for the Association of Magazine Media and learned that if you want a career in the magazine industry, you better learn social media — editors consider it a must-have skill for junior hires.

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7 Secrets of Social Media Conversion

7 Secrets of Social Media Conversion

I am a big fan of Unbounce, and use it to test various messages for clients looking for sales leads. Here you’ll find an excellent graphic outlining best practices in making sure your digital ad translates into an actual sale via a well-optimized landing page.

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The Secret to a Successful Career Transition: Blogging

The Secret to a Successful Career Transition: Blogging

Like many of you, I left my liberal arts education with the daunting challenge of finding a job relevant to my degree in international affairs. Among my college friends, I counted French majors, history buffs, women’s studies experts, urban designers, foreign policy gurus and even philosophers. Growing up in a rural area, I was in the wrong region to pursue my interest in international affairs, and in a field that had few entry-level openings for new college graduates.

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Hey, Recruiters: 5 Tips for Using Social Media to Find Job Candidates

Hey, Recruiters: 5 Tips for Using Social Media to Find Job Candidates

Whether you’re new to the block or a social media pro, these reminders will help you make the most of social media for recruiting (with co-author Ashley Hoffman).

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How to Ace the Impromptu Interview

How to Ace the Impromptu Interview

I waited tables throughout my college years and had many memorable customers. But one busy Saturday lunch hour was particularly unique: a woman dining with her family was oddly curious about my career aspirations and essentially interviewed me between her refills of Coca-Cola.

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How to Manage Stress and Task-Overload

How to Manage Stress and Task-Overload

Stress is nothing new to me: I was diagnosed with stress-induced asthma in grade school. How much of a nerd do you have to be to get stressed out over getting an A on your second-grade math homework? It didn’t end there. I regularly got sick during final exams in high school, and don’t get [...]

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