Author Archive: Eric San Juan
Eric San Juan
May 13, 2019
Avengers: Endgame is getting all the money, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) as a whole has turned into a pop culture juggernaut so huge that if you told my 12-year-old self how big it would eventually be, I’d probably have thought you were drunk and delusional. I have no idea how Norse gods and red, white & blue heroes slinging shields ended up being bigger than Star Wars, but I sure as hell ain’t complaining. We can zero in on one way the MCU has come to dominate the box office, though: with excellent casting. It all began back in 2008, when the then fledgling studio took a chance on Robert Downey Jr., a guy who is now a global superstar but who at…
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Eric San Juan
May 9, 2019
Contributed Post One of the main things that can really be a reason to go self-employed is the ease of which you can start up and then be able to run your business. You can work as a sole-trader, which is just another term for being self-employed, and you can even do that alongside having another job with an employer. So you can take the time to work out your self-employment, rather than having to take the leap to see if the business will work or not and be able to pay your bills. If going self-employed sounds like something that you want to be doing, then you need to know and understand some of the important issues that you do with being self-employed. So…
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Eric San Juan
May 7, 2019
Contributed Post The most significant challenge faced by most new internet business owners is a lack of traffic. With billions of websites on the internet, many doing precisely the same thing you need to stand out somehow and bring them to your site. If you don’t have any traffic coming to your website, you are not going to be making any sales. Without any transactions, you will not be making any money. If you are making any money, you will not have a successful business. It is a chain, which relies on the previous element being successful. Photo by Carlos Muza on Unsplash Here, we are going to take a look at a few known ways of bringing that essential traffic to your website with…
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Eric San Juan
May 7, 2019
Contributed Post Most of us have to commute quite some distance to get into the office. Gone are the days of working somewhere local. Now we live outside the city to be able to afford to work in the city. But it takes time to get there and back each day, with some of us commuting up to an hour a day, and that is without taking into consideration any adverse traffic conditions. That’s a lot of time to be sat doing nothing. So how can you ease your boredom on such a long journey each day? Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash If you drive to work, chances are you get stuck in traffic at some point. It’s these moments that we are most…
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Eric San Juan
April 30, 2019
Contributed Post Image by StockSnap from Pixabay From any profession, there are always skills that you should apply to your everyday life as well as your working one. For example, setting goals, writing lists, managing your time and your workload, making a schedule,etc., are all things that you should apply to everyday life, housekeeping, etc. Then there are the skills you learn for building relationships or for dealing with clients, again many of these can be adapted to everyday life friendships and family relationships. But what other essential life lessons can we learn from professions? Writers Writing lessons can teach us a lot, for example, Stephen King said: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time—or the tools—to write. Simple as…
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