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15 Best Free and Paid Tools to accelerate your solo or mid size business

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Started a new business venture and want to work towards accelerating its growth?  Or maybe you are a part of a mid size, growing business and your team is brainstorming ideas about how to achieve better success?  It is normal that there might come a time where you feel that your company isn't gaining success as quickly as it deserves to be and the growth is slowing down to a significant extent.   Maybe you are working hard and putting in a lot of effort, but the results are not as expected.  So what to do in that case? If you want to begin your journey towards creating a successful business, it is essential to understand the simple secrets behind it.  Whether you are an individual, a small business or a startup or maybe a mid size company, there is one aspect that you need to take full advantage of, especially in this age and time.  And that factor is technology. In order for your business to be successful, you have to be in touch with the digital wo...

Battling the Storm

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One of the scariest moment of my life for me has to be , not when I thought about ghosts and spirits or saw a horror movie, but when we battled a fierce storm in, what is considered to be, one of the roughest sea in the world, The Bay of Bengal; on a wooden boat no longer than fifty five feet in April of 2014.  It is an experience that is hard to put down in words.  I understand that , although it was a fierce storm , it wasn't the worst recorded. There were storms that were far more intense with winds over 180 kmph. This one must be around 60ks. But to us, that storm in the sea, in the middle of no moon night was a a battle between life and death. With waves towering almost 10 feet and winds gusting over 70 ks we felt that at any moment we would be swallowed by the sea.  To make matters worst, the storm was sudden and didn't give us time to prepare. In the midst of this black swan commotion, our anchor was stuck on the sea bed (the storm had hit us while we were anchored...