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I love Photoshop. I use it almost every day to create images, edit images, create book covers and website headers, etc., etc., etc. However, it is a software that can cost over $600, which a lot of people newly online simply can’t afford. Never fear, there is a great alternative. It’s called Pixlr – http://pixlr.com

They have several modes (and even a new app for smart devices). The express part allows you to either upload a picture or load one you’ve found on the net. You can easily

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I’ve seen so many people say they wanted to start an online business, then do nothing. I’ve seen people start one, but it just sits there. I’ve known people who said they were online marketers who hadn’t yet put up their first web site or posted their first blog post after several years studying and talking about it. This happens often enough that I started looking at why.

Part of the issue is that we often don’t think of an online business as an actual business. We’ve believed the

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The last several days I have been running an experiment. When you hear what I’ve been doing, you may think it is sort of “woo-woo”, Law of Attraction stuff, trying to “visualize” my ideal future. Yes, there is an element of that in it, but it isn’t the main reason I’ve been doing it.

First, let me tell you what I’ve been doing, then I’ll tell you that main reason.

Each morning, I get up, turn on the computer, go through emails to make sure no emergency has cropped up

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Why am I talking about time management when what I usually blog about is creativity and business? For an entrepreneur, managing their time is almost the same thing as managing their business. For the creative person, we often think of the process they go through as chaotic and unmanageable, but the most successful artists were and are quite disciplined. Novelist William Faulkner once said, "I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at nine o’clock every morning."

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