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Contributed Post Pexels As music sales are in steep decline, what does this mean for modern bands? Are they able to make a living performing music these days? It seems that even the most successful musicians have to diversify their efforts now, by composing various soundtracks in addition to the full-time project. And with the fact that being in a band is more expensive now, and that the only way a band can make living is through touring (and even this is questionable), is the idea of the old fashioned band dead?   The Dwindling Numbers Now, this isn’t just in terms of the bands out there that are trying to make a living, but band members are, naturally, reducing in numbers. It’s expensive to…
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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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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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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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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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