Don’t Let Your Passion Subside for a Lack of Writing Skills

July 18, 2010

To get all the latest news from Waliq Factory, make sure you subscribe to our free RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! For many of us, writing is often a struggle. We have wonderful ideas and so much to say, but when the time comes to put them on paper, our creativity seems to fade away. [...]

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Plan, Chill Out and Eliminate Your Plan B

July 12, 2010

  When the time will come to create and craft your next BIG idea, give planning the importance it deserves. Whether you are launching a new product, developing a marketing strategy, designing a new blog, or building your online reputation, planning will make sure that, when your project is completed, you’ll feel just like Steve [...]

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Why You Should Celebrate the Noise

July 6, 2010

I took a few Internet-free days last week. It was great to get away from all that “noise.” As some have pointed out, I was getting a bit tired of some of the nonsense available on the web. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. Tweets about cats being sick and dishes waiting to [...]

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Two Simple Tips to Help You Become a Better Writer

June 25, 2010

  So here is the story. You’re having an argument with your partner. Exasperated, you say something like: “I’m feed up! You always do this!” Then he or she replies: “Really? Give me an example!” And then your stuck. Oh man, you’re stuck. You know there are plenty of examples out there. You know it. [...]

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Be All that You Can Be

June 19, 2010

We all wake up one day realizing that we are not where we wanted to be. Not who we said we would become when we were younger. Sometimes, we achieved our objectives (or some of them), but realize that it was not really worth it. Or that it’s just not enough. There’s still that void [...]

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Don't Waste Money on Marketing if You're Not Who You Pretend to Be

June 12, 2010

I’ve seen many companies, large and small, spending considerable amount of money on marketing campaigns. They invest significantly to improve their image and establish themselves as THE model of innovation, productivity or customer satisfaction. For many of them, unfortunately, all that money is a total waste. Just look at BP’s “Beyond Petroleum” which some have [...]

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Something Exists Between Kissing and Kicking Asses

June 7, 2010

I’ve come across an interesting post on Copyblogger last week. It was a guest post by Nathan Hangen who discouraged bloggers from being apologetic in their writing. I agree that starting with an excuse is definitely not the way to begin an article or a speech. Yet, something bothered me about that post (good job Nathan, [...]

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Three Things You Need to Know to Build Your Brand

May 29, 2010

It’s time for more action! Although you haven’t heard much from me yet, I’ve been working on this blog for almost two months. Behind the scene. Like an undercover agent. I’m now ready to really jump in and start building my own brand! I know that many bloggers share that exact same goal. The problem [...]

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Why You Should Treat your Readers like Kids

May 25, 2010

She was 13-months old and playing in the living room. She really wanted to go downstairs. It was such a reachable objective. Four steps, nothing more. Her mom had left the fence open just for two minutes. Just the time to get something in the freezer. The baby girl, full of ambition and optimism, stood [...]

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How to Get Your Message Heard in a Sea of Noise

May 22, 2010

Give Castro What belongs to Castro Did you know that Fidel Castro holds the Guinness Book of Records title for the longest speech ever delivered at the United Nations? The man spoke for 4 hours and 29 minutes. That was on September 29, 1960. He did even better in 1986 in Cuba delivering an 7-hour speech. [...]

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