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What’s Holding Your Business Back?
A recent article from Inc.com, “Biggest Obstacle to Business Growth,” discusses the possibility that your own assumptions and self-limiting parameters may be the primary factor holding you back from business growth.
By shattering these assumptions and challenging the existing perspective …
Adults Get Vitamin D Message: Study
Nearly one-third of adults in a recent study know that sun exposure without sunscreen increases vitamin D levels, with 42 percent of those adults turning to the sun to get “the sunshine vitamin” according to a new study.
Published in …
Cost-Effective Marketing Ideas
Try out these local promotional tactics from the Entrepreneur.com article “Five Low-Cost Local Marketing Ideas.” Contributor Jeff Slutsky encourages businesses that rely on local customers to focus on networking and marketing to nearby organizations as a cost-effective way to boost …
Tanning Business Cools in 2Q 2012
Following a stronger-than-expected first quarter, indoor tanning business performance cooled for many salons as temperatures across North America soared in the second quarter of the year, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in July.
According to the poll, 36 percent …
D Deficiency – Even in Vegas!
A prominent Las Vegas health columnist this week pointed out that “Sun Scare” is so overdone that vitamin D deficiency is a problem in Las Vegas — where sun shines 320 days a year.
“As so often happens in America, …
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Health Official: Get ‘D’ from Sun!
“While vitamin D supplements are an alternative means of producing vitamin D when regular, non-burning sun exposure is not possible, oral supplementation of vitamin D is not the first choice. While overexposure to sunlight carries risks, the cosmetic skin care …
Study Bolsters Vitamin D Bone Benefits
A new study published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine has bolstered the case that so-called higher levels of vitamin D are actually “natural” levels of the Sunshine Vitamin, countering some highly-publicized criticisms of vitamin D’s role …
Be a Good Boss…to Yourself!
The Forbes.com article “6 Rules for Being a Good Boss (to Yourself)” provides a good excuse to be just a little bit selfish for once! Being your own boss has its advantages but also means that you often have to …
