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If You Knew This About Google Feedburner Would You Still Use RSS Feeds?

by Bart Gragg

List building. It’s what it’s all about, right? Soooo many ways to do that. And many of us use (or try to use) RSS Feeds to get people interested in what we write. The problem with RSS Feeds is that you do not know who is subscribing and who is leaving, so you cannot really [...]

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RSS Feeds explained

by Bart Gragg

Many of us struggle with Social Media and all of it’s quirks, both socially and techno-illogically. Everything we do now is seen as some sort of ‘tool.’ The really interesting thing is that many mainstream tools may be powerful, but their implementation can be overwhelming.  One of these technologies is the use of RSS feeds [...]

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Avoiding Burnout in Volunteer Work – Pt. 1 – Why Should You Worry?

by Bart Gragg

Are you wasting $20,000 a year in volunteer work effort? How about $78,000 a year? Is it possible your organization is wasting volunteer work efforts without realizing it?

In order to understand why we need to manage volunteer work more effectively we need to put the value of that work into perspective. Once that value is determined it should give you insight into the need to reduce volunteer worker burnout.

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Projects I (or You) Might Need Help With

by Bart Gragg

Since I receive inquiries regarding areas of business that are not my expertise, and since I do not know everyone of quality (yet!) in business, I decided to post projects I might need help with on a page on this blog. There is a Tab at the top call “Projects” that you can click on [...]

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Values Are the Thread

by Bart Gragg

Most companies get an employee handbook from one place, job descriptions from another. They reluctantly build a minimalist orientation system and fly by the seat of their pants regarding corrective action. Some or all of these elements in their people system may be excellent. But, they have no relation to one another and no connection to the environment the company is trying to create. The result: a chaotic, disjointed employee experience.

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Wage Theft in the Spotlight!

by Bart Gragg

This may be true – “Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned!” But this is truer “There is no faster way to piss a man off than messing with his paycheck!”

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