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2 Themes That Are Professional Website Templates: Enterprise and Metric WordPress Themes

If you’re looking for a website design for your business website, style and design of the website template you use counts big time. I can tell you from personal experience. My day job is in a profession and I run my own professional service firm. I do my own marketing, including building my own websites. I’ve been doing so for a little over a year. I blog and publish articles for fun and to hone my marketing skills. Let me tell you how big of an impact switching to the Enterprise theme made on the conversion rates of my business’ websites. For the first 8 months I used a template that looked good, but had a very dark background. It was a premium WordPress theme. I liked it. My website traffic was and is good (I do a lot of seo ) and my sites have a ton of content. While using this one particular theme (former theme) I was getting maybe 1 to 2 new customers per week through the Internet. When StudioPress rolled out the Enterprise theme, I liked it a lot. I decided to sw...

Positive Impact Professional Development Has on the Classroom

Professional development is something that every teacher must do within their career. Many times the programs are held as an in-service day workshop so they are not taken seriously; however, it is important for teachers to embrace these programs. Numerous research studies find a direct connection between teachers who are consistently involved in professional development and their student’s performance in the classroom. Teachers who participate in professional development courses upgrade their skills, master new skills and responsibilities, and change teaching habits and practices. Professional development results in many positive aspects within the classroom, which leads to the overall goal; that our children thrive in our education system. Professional development programs provide teachers the ability to use a variety of instructional practices that are deemed helpful for the current times. A majority of the programs concentrate on students’ reasoning and what process they ...

Professional Tips For Effective Business Writing - Write to Express, Not to Impress

Business has no time for long or fuzzy words. Effective business correspondence is built on tight writing which depends on few, but hard-hitting words. Every word must convey a precise meaning that is understood in the same way by writer and reader. Use your thesaurus to replace long words with shorter, crisper ones. Whether you are writing a prospecting letter or a report, a follow-up letter or a proposal, use the shortest, simplest word you can find to convey the meaning you want. Whether you are writing up, out or down, choose appropriate replacements for the cold and pretentious business expressions of the past. Eliminate the junk like: attached herewith please find. Instead, say exactly what you mean: I am attaching this for you. Use ordinary, everyday English–I call it shirtsleeve English–for real results. Simplicity makes reading easy–and professional writers know that business readers want a quick, easy read. In fact, most busy readers get lost in sentences of ...