Elana Duffy
A picture is worth 1000 words... but is content still king?
We’ve all heard the saying: “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” The earliest recorded use of the sentiment was in 1911, where newspaper...
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Elana Duffy
Mar 15, 20174 min read
Building Your Personal Brand
Millennials and the younger end of Generation X are rapidly taking over the bulk of the work force, and with that comes change. They stay...
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Elana Duffy
Mar 1, 20173 min read
Change Happens: Embracing New Dreams
Each of us began our professional lives with certain goals in sight. We enter the working world, fresh from college or straight from high...
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Elana Duffy
Feb 9, 20174 min read
Road to Gold: Your Content Olympics
I know it's the off-season, but did you ever watch the Olympics? From the trials and tribulations of the planning and set up to a virus...
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Elana Duffy
Jan 10, 20171 min read
New year, new website, same quality content
Happy New Year! Welcome back to our blog series and to our updated website. You didn’t see a post from us in the fourth quarter of last...
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Elana Duffy
Sep 14, 20164 min read
Writing vs. being a writer
Everybody should write. Everybody. Whether through fiction, non-fiction, a blog about your thrilling hobbies, or a run-of-the-mill...
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Elana Duffy
Jul 13, 20164 min read
Spotlighting: Adding value through epublishing
I am the child of a successful writer and a librarian. To me, nothing beats the smell of a good book. Whether it is old and musty or...
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Elana Duffy
Jul 5, 20164 min read
The road trip of a blog, and seeking expert advice
We know that we've been gone for a bit, working on some exciting projects we look forward to sharing with you in the coming weeks and...
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Elana Duffy
Apr 20, 20163 min read
Quick tips to building a start-up business team in any field
Those of you who regularly read the posts here on the Present Tense Blog (or at least those of you out there who know enough to trust...
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Elana Duffy
Apr 13, 20163 min read
Rethinking the ebook
ebook is an odd term. Sure, the idea of an electronic book is intuitive in its purest form. You share an author’s words online in a...
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Elana Duffy
Mar 29, 20163 min read
Flexible Strength, Finding Balance: the connection between yoga and blogging
I found blogging before I found yoga, on a long-term travel journey where writing took hold. One year later, yoga entered my life and...
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Elana Duffy
Mar 14, 20165 min read
The $1.15 trillion opportunity we’re blowing
If you search online for information about a “skills gap” in the US workforce, you will find ample evidence, such as an article last year...
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Elana Duffy
Mar 7, 20164 min read
Variety: Not just the spice of your life, but the saver of your sanity
How many times a week do you find yourself saying, jokingly or otherwise, “I need to get out more”? For me, there are weeks where it’s...
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Elana Duffy
Mar 1, 20164 min read
Creativity in your work is selling up, not selling out
If you read this blog, chances are that you're a business-minded go-getter like my fellow contributors. You probably also have a...
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Elana Duffy
Feb 24, 20163 min read
4 Excellent Books for Entrepreneurs, or Anyone
Switching careers – especially if you start your own business mid-career – will leave you short on so many resources: time, money, backup...
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Elana Duffy
Feb 16, 20165 min read
Being Remembered: your story in the future
Obituaries are fascinating. When you really get down to it, your last impression is very much like your first impression: you only get...
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Elana Duffy
Feb 3, 20164 min read
Why vision trumps likeability: Lessons from the Iowa caucuses
Politics provides lots of possibilities to witness the power of words and stories. What happened this week at the Iowa caucuses in the US...
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Elana Duffy
Jan 28, 20164 min read
Getting your book out of you
There's an old axiom that everyone has a book in them and I, for one, agree with it. There's also a slightly more cynical version that...
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Elana Duffy
Jan 20, 20163 min read
Why Outsourcing Blog Posts is the Best Decision Your Company Can Make
When I was a high school teacher, there were never enough hours or minutes in a day, much less week, month, or year to get everything...
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Elana Duffy
Jan 14, 20165 min read
The best “Make or Buy?” answer in the service sector: Neither
The classic “make-or-buy” decision often neglects one important aspect: what the end-user wants. That became clear to me as my team and I...
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