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LinkedIn - Make Your Profile Work For You!

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Make your LinkedIn profile work for you when visitors want to know more about you and what services you have to offer them. Your LinkedIn profile is a crucial element to your success online and is an important landing page portraying who you are and what you excel in - serving as another vital link leading your audience further into your sales funnel. Therefore, your LinkedIn profile is just another landing page. People want to see that you have the skills and expertise to help them with their problems. Today. That means that you need to look at your profile as a prospect might and make sure that it is doing a great job talking directly to them. You need to ensure that your profile will stand out and rank well for those searching within LinkedIn for someone with your skills and experience. In my previous article I promised to write about something useful that would help my readers and this is it. You can follow this link and discover a huge amount of information on this ...

Best Blogging Advice Ever!

The best blogging advice from the well-known expert on the subject of promoting your blog, Mike Allton. In his own words, 'The book on how to promote your blog is available now!' Jam-packed with the best expert advice can now be obtained at the following link The Social Media Hat . Mike owns The Social Media Hat where he writes frequently about social media and content marketing, and regularly works with people and businesses who want to learn how to leverage content and social profiles to strengthen online relationships, establish their authority within their industry, and grow their business. Update: This turned out to be a very popular article that has attracted a lot of traffic in a short space of time. I want to thank everyone for visiting and I hope you have found something of value here. I will  endeavour  to post something useful and informative in the future.

5 Handy Swimming Pool Tips

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Here are 5 handy tips to make your pool a better place and a pleasure to enjoy. Swimming Pool Tips 1. Protect your pool with a custom-made safety net using tried and tested methods which comply with SABS and ISO standards. Installation is supervised by the owner. Read more Pool Net 2.    Save on water, electricity, chemicals and maintenance by installing a PVC   multi-purpose pool cover. This also keeps dust and leaves out of your pool. Read more Pool Cover 3. By fitting a solar blanket to your pool you can save money and also reduce your pool’s carbon footprint. It increases the water temperature so that you can enjoy your swimming and also keeps dirt and dust out of the pool. Read more Solar Blanket 4. Another option is to fit Solguard, the best solar heating cover available. It increases the swimming pool temperature by up to 8° C through solar energy gain. This can extend your pool season by up to 2 months. Comes...

Swimming Pool Nets

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Swimming pool nets give you peace of mind when you have children or pets – sometimes even adults – that can’t swim. Accidents happen at the most inopportune time. Maybe you are having a party and your attention is somewhere else or you placed a child in the care of someone and they were busy and didn't notice that your beloved child had slipped away to explore the yard. Sounds familiar but incidences like these occur when you don’t want them to. The best option is to safeguard your pool by adding a swimming pool net and do it as soon as possible because how would you ever measure the cost of a life? A pool net is definitely the answer and there is a company that manufactures top quality nets that would be custom-made for any pool shape or size. Global Nets & Covers will gladly provide you with a quotation according to your needs. To speed up the quotation process you can measure your pool according to a handy diagram on this page and have the measurements r...

A Christmas Wish

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Merry Christmas  To all my family, friends, clients and readers. It's a time to reflect on what's really important in life and what friendship means. May you have big dreams for your future and share your love as far and as wide as possible. You are all precious to me. My world would be much smaller and lonelier without you. Be safe, filled with peace and love this Christmas time. Thanks to all of you for regularly reading my blog posts.

Let The Power Carry You Through.

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Fun in the sun, lazing on the beach after a refreshing swim in the Indian Ocean in December 2013. This is what living is all about. When I look at this photograph it inspires me to ensure that I make time to unwind like this again. At the time I visited my son and his lovely family in Kwa Zulu Natal. Quality time was spent with them and I also swam with my granddaughter in the surf. She really enjoyed that. If I focus on this picture and close my eyes I can still imagine the setting, the sound of the waves, the smell of the salt water and the warm sea sand under my towel.  What I love about swimming in the ocean is the immense power of the currents and the waves. Most of the time you can only go with the flow because the forces are so great. When you body-surf and the wave crashes on you you realise how powerless you really are. That's when you learn to work with these forces to get the most out of the experience. Isn't life like that sometimes? When you have d...

Tomorrow Starts Today.

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This is what happens early in the morning when most people are snuggled up in their cosy beds. I go out for a refreshing ride on my mountain bike. It rained through the night and there were delightful puddles of water to splash through, a blessed relief from the awful drought. I followed a different route this morning involving fast downhills and tortuous uphills - no boredom there! In May of this year I had a scary episode with my heart. The doctor recommended that I go for an angiogram and then have stents implanted in my arteries. Well I survived without that and was determined to recover naturally. After my return from Parys I was all pumped up to get fit and ready for another race, but the episode with my heart was a huge disappointment causing me to change those ideas for a more sedate life. But deep inside of me that isn't who I am. I am the never-give-up-never-give-in kind of guy - nothings going to get me down. So eventually I am getting back on track to where I wan...