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6 Benefits of Hiring a PR Agency For Your New Business

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Lauren Kinghorn

Many people understand the importance of public relations agencies thanks to TV shows and movies from the 1990s. These experts are always showcased as professional, glamorous, fearless, and bringing in heaps of money. Public relations play a significant role in business and it is crucial for new business owners to be successful.

Many businesses are under the impression that hiring a startup PR agency is costly and probably not necessary. On the contrary, a good PR agency can prove to be invaluable for businesses of all sizes, no matter if they are a startup business or have been trading for a few years.

Working alongside a public relations agency that specializes in startup PR can substantially boost the growth of your company and assist with being one of the best in the industry you trade-in.

6 Benefits of Hiring a PR Agency For Your New Business

1. An Excellent Way of Finding Investors

Having investors and reliable funding is detrimental for your company, particularly in the beginning phase. PR Agencies can assist with attracting investors by displaying the credibility of your business and producing strategies that specifically target prospective investors at the opportune time.

2. Lowering Business Costs

Public relations companies are now unified with other services to assist clients’ companies by offering valuable marketing strategies and SEO initiatives that work.

Hiring a startup PR agency helps to cut down the expense associated with finding the best tactics that are needed for expansion and gaining new clients. You can gain SEO and social media benefits by working alongside a PR agency instead of working on your own.

3. Establishing a Good Reputation for Your Business

Reputation is everything when it comes to attracting new clients, talented employees and investors in your company.

PR approaches can go a long way to boosting your business profile among competitors in the industry which could subsequently attract more talented individuals wishing to work for you and generating more business.

4. Targeting Media Outlets

PR Firms can benefit your business by bringing in fresh leads from specialised marketing approaches and implementing digital media into these tactics.

Hiring a PR company is incredibly advantageous because of its utilization of targeted media outlets as well as data analytics. A targeted media operation will create new investors and clients without wasting valuable time while trying to find them on your own.

5. Boosting Business Productivity

A PR Agency can provide more time for both you and your employees since you don’t have to spend time on brainstorm meetings trying to think of media strategies to boost your business. You can focus on other company tasks that need your full attention. Your employees can also focus on essential tasks to achieve favourable results.

6. Access to Unbiased Advice

Working alongside a PR company that is not part of the in-house team is beneficial since they can provide you with non-biased opinions about events and new products that are in the pipeline.

A professional PR agency that cares about their clients’ business will speak the truth and give valuable advice about whether it is worth spending cash on something that you think might expand your business.

They can also assist with sculpting your brand image since new business owners often get overly excited about fresh concepts and ideas that may not be the best thing for the business.

Conclusion

I hope that you have found this post helpful and that it has helped with giving you some insight into why it is worth investing in a startup PR agency to help your business with gaining success and getting an edge over competitors.

Feel free to leave us a comment highlighting your own experience and benefits of hiring a PR Agency.

This post was sponsored by Brandstyle. All opinions are my own.

E-Commerce Email Marketing Strategies and Benefits

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Lauren Kinghorn

When eCommerce email marketing comes to mind, the first thing that pops into most of our heads is those email blasts that advertise new products or promotions. But this is just one email marketing strategy. There are various other strategies that can be implemented that are even more effective.

Automated scheduled emails for your small business are also convenient and takes a lot of the ongoing marketing efforts off your hands.

3 Major E-commerce Email Marketing Strategies to Boost Your E-commerce Business

1. Lifecycle Emails

These are automated emails based on consumer behaviour that are sent out automatically to engage with your customers and help with building a relationship with them.

They include:

welcome emails
thank you emails
cart abandonment emails
win-back emails
birthday messages, and more.

2. Broadcast Emails

These emails are once-off marketing emails that include:

announcements
newsletters
sales
testimonials, etc.

3. Transactional Emails

Transactional emails are personalized, automated messages that are sent out to subscribers to prompt them to make a purchase on your website. They include things like:

email confirmations
receipts
password resets
shipping information, etc.

These emails are not marketing-related and do not require customers to opt-in since they are strictly business orientated.

5 Benefits of E-commerce Email Marketing

1. It is Incredibly Effective

The idea of marketing emails is to reach your existing customers as well as targeting potential customers. The average opening rate for emails is around thirty percent.

About 24% of visitors that click on a link in an email are bound to make an online purchase. That is twice as much as the visitors that make a purchase from search results on search engines or clicking on links on social media.

2. E-commerce Email Marketing is Affordable

Email marketing is not only effective but relatively cost-effective compared to other marketing strategies. Sending out an email to your marketing list is cost-effective and has the highest return on investment than any other type of marketing.

3. Customers Prefer Email Marketing

Generally, when customers sign up for your website newsletter it is because they would love to hear from you. More than sixty percent of consumers prefer receiving emails to any other forms of marketing communication.

More than ninety percent of customers prefer promotional emails from businesses with whom they wish to do business.

4. Email Marketing Poses Less Risk

There is always an inherent risk linked to building a following on social media platforms because there are rules that must be followed.

It happens sometimes that Facebook or other social media pages block your profile. And what if the algorithms change and your posts are not reaching your target audience anymore?

Email marketing poses a lesser risk since you have your individual list of subscribers and your email messages go to them directly. This means you retain your ability to engage with customers, no matter what happens with social media, algorithms, etc.

5. It is Incredibly Measurable

This form of marketing is incredibly measurable with statistics that display open rate, conversion rate, click-through rate to evaluate the efficacy of your email marketing campaign.

Statistics such as bounce rates, unsubscribe rates, spam complaint rates, etc, give you a good idea of the condition of your list.

Even statistics like list expansion rate and email sharing rate could give you insight into the popularity of your business. The most significant benefit of being able to keep track of everything is that it gives you valuable insight into where there is room for enhancement.

How are YOU marketing your e-commerce business?

We hope that this post about eCommerce email marketing strategies and benefits has been useful to you and that you will soon reap the benefits from your email marketing campaign.

Which e-commerce email marketing strategies are you currently using to promote your e-commerce business?

This post was sponsored by Common Thread Collective. All opinions are my own.

What’s Healthy Eating About… Really?

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Lauren Kinghorn

What’s Healthy Eating About?

The first time I started questioning whether I really knew what healthy eating was about, was almost 30 years ago. I moved to a small town in the Klein Karoo called Montagu and met the renowned fruitarian, Essie Honiball.

At the time, Essie was 67-years-old and the picture of health, a joyful, sociable lady with boundless energy. She would come down to the hot springs, where I worked, to swim with her friends.

Essie told me she felt and looked younger than she did in her 30’s when she was dying of TB (Tuberculosis). She firmly believed that switching to a diet almost exclusively of fruit, nuts, and seeds was what saved her.

Essie Honiball lived to the age of 89. Here’s an interview with Essie at age 86.

What Do We Need to Eat?

In Biology and Home Economics class at school, I had been taught we all needed to consume a varied diet of meat, fish, starch (grains), dairy, vegetables, and fruit.

The lesson was clear. If you’re not eating a balanced diet consisting of all the recommended food groups, you won’t get all the nutrients you require for good health.

Proteins
Carbohydrates
Fats
Fibre
Vitamins
Minerals
Antioxidants
Water

Yet I discovered that for some people, it was possible to live on fruit alone. This idea blew my 20-year-old mind. I didn’t become a fruitarian myself, though I’m sure it must have encouraged me to eat more fruit.

I went through my own health challenges in my late 20’s and started tuning into what my body needed. I started juicing and doing fruit and veg cleanses. I discovered that my body functioned best on fresh fruit and veggies.

It was while I was cleansing and juicing that I felt my healthiest, my energy levels were always through the roof, I was slim, happy, sleeping well, and free from pain.

Yet, for years, I kept following the healthy eating guidelines we were taught at school. Eat all 5 food groups, have everything in moderation, drink 8 glasses of water, sleep 8 hours a night. I knew the drill.

That’s what I was taught at school and so I believed it was the truth. But is it?

What are We Designed to Eat?

On 9th September 2020, I made the switch to a wholefood plant-based diet. My friend Mariana called me from Joburg for a catchup chat and encouraged me to look into it.

Mariana had been suffering from debilitating bouts of rheumatoid arthritis and found that she was able to virtually reverse her condition if she ate a plant-based diet. When she slipped back to eating normally, her symptoms would flare up again.

Mariana sent me some YouTube links to videos by Doctors who advocate a plant-based diet and I found the information so compelling, I decided to join Mariana in following a plant-based lifestyle.

One of the segments I found really interesting, was this. Humans are not designed to eat meat. We think we are because again, we were always taught at school that humans are omnivores, but it turns out we are not. When you look into our physiology, it appears that we are actually natural herbivores, plant-eaters.

If you look at our jaw structure, we are not built to be carnivorous. We can’t kill an animal and tear it apart with our teeth.

And instinctually, we don’t want to.

If you saw a little rabbit or piglet with a broken leg on your path, what would you do? For most people, our natural instinct would be to comfort and do what we can to save the wounded animal.

What would a dog or cat do in the same situation? Pounce! And gobble it up. Because they are natural carnivores, meat-eaters and happy to prey on defenceless creatures.

The thing is, that by the time we see fresh meat in freezers at the grocery store, it’s been neatly chopped up, cleaned and packaged and we don’t think of it as a creature at all. We didn’t have to kill it ourselves so we don’t spare a thought for the life of the animal we are about to eat.

What is a Wholefood Plant-Based Diet?

It’s kind of like a vegan diet because it’s mostly vegetables, fruit, and grains but the emphasis seems to be more on eating plants and whole grains for optimum health.

You can call yourself a vegan and eat fried chips and loads of processed vegan delicacies. That’s not the idea with a wholefood plant-based diet.

On the other hand, you can call yourself wholefood plant-based and sometimes eat eggs, dairy, fish, poultry or meat, from the best possible sources, such as organic, grass-fed, pasture-raised or wild-caught.

Why Eat a Plant-Based Diet?

I’ve found that people choose to live a vegan or plant-based lifestyle for three compelling reasons:

To protect animals from harm
To protect the environment
To protect themselves from preventable diseases

What to Eat on a Plant-Based Diet?

So, what do people consume on a plant-based diet?

Vegetables – in season, fresh and organic where possible
Starchy vegetables – such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, butternut
Fruits – including berries and melons
Nuts – ideally raw, unsalted macadamia, walnuts, brazil nuts and cashew nuts, almonds and nut butters
Seeds – such as pumpkin, flax, chia, sesame, sunflower and hemp seeds
Whole grains – such as rolled oats, brown rice, quinoa etc.
Legumes – chickpeas, lentils, peas, peanuts, black beans, etc.
Unsweetened plant-based milk – soya milk, almond milk, coconut milk etc.
Healthy Fats – avocado, coconut oil, olive oil
Plant-based protein mushrooms, tofu etc.
Herbs and Spices – including seasonings like nutritional yeast
Coffee, Tea, Herbal Tea

How to Eat More Fresh Fruit and Veggies?

We’ve got so used to reaching for yummy goodies loaded with unhealthy sugars that we forget to eat our fresh fruit and veg.

Here a few quick tips to help you get in more fruit and veggies on a daily basis.

Buy a variety of fresh, fruit and veggies, including berries, melons, nuts and seeds
Begin each meal with raw, fresh fruit or veg or salad
Aim to eat at least 5 different colours at each meal
Begin or end your meals with veg and lentil or bean soup
Make fresh smoothies or juices as snacks

What Not to Eat on a Plant-Based Diet?

Fast food and fried foods – pizza, hamburgers, hotdogs, fries
Refined Foods – white bread, pasta, doughnuts, cakes, cookies, biscuits
Packaged and convenience foods – crisps, biscuits, health bars, frozen dinners
Processed animal products: bacon, ham, macon, etc.
Processed vegan products – such as vegan meat, butter or cheese
Artificial sweeteners – and food or sauces containing artificial sweeteners

What to Avoid on a Plant-Based Diet?

Many plant-based advocates follow a vegan diet but if some feel they need to supplement their diets with animal sources, for whatever reason. If you’re going to introduce some form of animal product into your diet, follow the guidelines below.

Meat – eat very rarely, and if you do, make sure the animals are grass-fed, pastured and treated humanely, where possible
Dairy – as above
Poultry – free-range, grain-fed and organic, where possible
Eggs – as above
Seafood – wild-caught from sustainable fisheries, where possible

What’s Healthy Eating About?

So, what’s healthy eating about… really?

For me, it’s a wholefood plant-based diet, because of what I’ve read and researched about the many health benefits. And also because of how I feel when I’m eating loads of fresh fruit and veggies.

Essentially, you get to decide what healthy eating is about for you. We are all different and our bodies respond differently to what we eat.

What I can tell you, is that your taste changes very quickly when you make the switch to a plant-based diet. Foods you thought you could never live without (like cheese, cream or meat) no longer hold their appeal.

I invite you to try it out for a week or two and see how you feel.

This post was sponsored by Anti-OxidantFruits.com. All opinions are my own.

Aligning all 8 Dimensions of Health and Wellness

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Lauren Kinghorn

8 Dimensions Health Wellness

Health and Wellness have been a big focus in my life. I started teaching Aerobics when I still in High School and took over my Mom’s gym shortly after I finished school.

A couple of years later I also started studying and practising a number of different modalities, including Aromatherapy, Reflexology and Shiatsu. I became particularly interested in holistic health and healing. I was fascinated by how the mind, body and spirit are all connected.

I delved deep into every aspect of health and wellness over the years because I wanted to know how every secret on how to live long and prosper.

And yet, it took Harold at Bodybuilder Solutions to introduce me to the idea of the 8 Dimensions of Health and Wellness. Have a look at this post: https://bodybuildersolutions.com/the-best-resources-for-mental-health-and-physical-wellness/

And, here they are.

All 8 Dimensions of Health and Wellness

I’ve placed them in the order that makes it easiest for me to remember, starting with the 4 that align with some of the chakras (or energy centres in the body). I used their corresponding chakra colours on the infographic below.

1. Physical (the base or root chakra)

2. Emotional (the sacral chakra)

3. Intellectual (the solar plexus)

4. Spiritual (the crown)

The last 4 are not energy centres in our body but relate to aspects of our daily lives that can impact our health and wellness.

5. Social (Relationships)

6. Occupational (Work)

7. Financial (Money)

8. Environmental (Surroundings)

While it’s virtually impossible to be focusing on all 8 of these all the time and have them all in perfect balance, it’s certainly something worth striving for.

You might put so much of your time and energy into mastering one aspect of your life that the others go out of kilter.

On the other hand, when you achieve success in one area it may give you the confidence and motivation to tackle other areas of your wellbeing.

And there is a tremendous benefit in aligning each dimension of health and wellness and feeling they are all working together in harmony. Because that’s when you feel a sense of peace, satisfaction and well being. A feeling that all is right with your world and you’re doing just fine.

In this post, I’ll aim to give you some of the keys I’ve learned over the years that have helped me achieve this alignment in my own life, in the hopes they help you too.

Let’s take it from the top.

1. Physical Health and Wellness

Deep down I think we all know the answers to this. They are simple to learn, but not easy to implement.

Exercise regularly (at least 30 minutes, at least 3 or 4 times a week)
Eat nutritious foods (especially plenty of fresh fruit and veg)
Get enough sleep (6 to 8 hours a night)
Drink enough water (around 8 glasses a day)

Those are the basics. We all know them but we get caught up in what this expert claims and what that diet promotes and what that organisation recommends.

Here are my personal keys to making these work for you.

Exercise

You’ll only do it regularly if you love it and can incorporate it into your life. So find something you really enjoy doing. For me, right now, it’s walking my dog and jumping on the trampoline with my son, because that’s all I have time for. But at other stages of my life, it’s been swimming, gym, dancing, yoga, pilates. What moves you?

Nutritious Foods

I recently went wholefood plant-based which means I mostly eat a healthy vegan diet. Though I know that’s a big ask, so if this just sounds too extreme to you, please start adding more fresh fruit and veg into your diet and avoid eating overly processed foods and especially processed meats.

I have discovered it’s a brilliant lifestyle choice, especially if you are overweight or have heart disease, Type 2 diabetes or any other preventable health condition. But don’t take my word for it. I’m just following the experts.

Here’s a great overview of plant-based nutrition by Dr Anthony Lim

Disclaimer: Please note that none of the recommendations in this post is intended to replace the advice of your Medical Doctor. Please consult a doctor or registered health practitioner if you have any health concerns.

Sleep

Stop all digital activity, including watching TV at least half an hour before you go to sleep to have a good night’s rest.

Hydration

Water or tea is best. One or two coffees a day is fine. A glass of wine a night (or your favourite drink) is fine but don’t overindulge too often. In my book, sodas are a no-no. I could go into the long explanation of why but then we’d never get to the rest of the post.

2. Emotional Health and Wellness

We all want to be happy and free from anxiety, yet, sadly, most people aren’t. We live in a world where millions of people are suffering from depression, anxiety disorders, insomnia and nervous tension and have resorted to medication for relief.

There are many natural ways to be happy and free from worry and I believe it starts with choosing happiness.

Once I made a conscious decision to live a happy life, the natural ways found me.

Here are some of the things that make me feel happy and at peace.

Guided Meditation or Visualisation
Being out in nature
Being in contribution
Caring for loved ones
Playing with or reading to my children
Caring for pets
Dancing, singing or listening to music

But what about those stubborn or particularly heavy emotions you just can’t seem to shake?

I’ve found Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or Tapping) to be most useful in helping me release unwanted emotions.

For example, here’s a tapping session I did on Disappointment.

Once you know the basics of how to EFT, you can tap on any emotion that’s upsetting or depressing you.

The deeper you go, the more relief you feel, which could mean working on childhood wounds or past hurts that have stuck with you for years.

3. Intellectual Health and Wellness

To be healthy intellectually, it’s important to use your mind by doing things like:

reading
study
research
travelling
and other intellectual pursuits that broaden your mind

It’s equally important to clear your mind of stress, worry and limiting beliefs.

I read a funny meme at a coffee shop the other day.

It said: “Give me coffee to change the things I can change and wine to accept the things I can’t.”

I’ve discovered that what causes most of our pain, suffering and stress is believing things should be different than they are.

So my best piece of advice for a happy life is to accept those things you can’t change and change the things you can. i.e. Do your own inner work. Let go of all those thoughts about what others did or should have done, what they said or should have said.

Instead, turn your thoughts to who you are, who would like to be around and what you would like to do with your time. Be in your own business.

Again, easy to say, not so easy to do. Until you meet Byron Katie and use her simple technique to unbundle those stresses and beliefs and turn them around.

Byron Katie designed a process of questioning your stressful thoughts, called The Work.

Here’s Katie doing The Work with someone on How to Have a Clear Mind and Healthy Body.

The Work is a great way to get clear on the thoughts that have been holding you back or dragging you down, sometimes for years.

I’ve found the best breakthroughs in my own life have come when I start out by doing The Work and then shift into EFT if big emotions come up.

These processes sound simple but they are life-altering. Try them out for yourself, especially on your most painful experiences and you are likely to see what I mean.

4. Spiritual Health and Wellness

Our spiritual journey is deeply personal and a path only we can walk. This journey is usually ignited by the religion, faith or path we have followed since childhood. For me, that faith was Christianity and it led me to A Course in Miracles.

Learning and teaching A Course in Miracles has given me tremendous peace.

Here’s one of my favourite lessons in A Course in Miracles.

Lesson 47, God is the strength in which I trust.

The spiritual perspective is that pain and suffering are caused by believing we are separate from God.

In a sense, this is the same concept Byron Katie teaches, just in different words. Where Katie might call it questioning what is or questioning the truth, on a spiritual level, when we question what is, we are questioning God.

When you draw nearer to God in…

prayer
praise
meditation
stillness
communing with nature, or
when you give love, and
forgive yourself and others..

you access your God-mind where you can safely embrace the peace that passes all understanding.

5. Social Health and Wellness

Social health and wellness relates to our relationships.

We all know that if we are in an abusive relationship, whether it’s a parent, partner, child, work colleague or friend, it can take its toll on our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

We also know that when our children “get in the wrong crowd”, their health can suffer. Peer pressure and social pressure can drive people to do things they would never do on their own.

Just as unhealthy relationships can be devastating for our personal wellbeing, healthy relationships can turn our health around.

In my life, I’ve been extremely fortunate to have wonderful parents as role models. My Dad was a Minister so I grew up in the Church. That really helped me build a strong healthy social structure within a loving community.

That foundation helped me seek out healthy role models at school and in the workplace.

It is far more difficult for children who grow up with unhealthy role models at home, to make healthy choices in their adult relationships. This is where public service becomes important.

Our relationships with those in authority are extremely important, especially when we are younger and still building our strength and courage to stand up to authority when needed.

One amazing Grandmother, one child-centred Teacher or one caring Sunday School Teacher can change the trajectory of a child’s life and make the world of difference in a community.

If we want to see a healthy society, the responsibility falls on each one of us to give back to the community in whichever way we can.

6. Occupational Health and Wellness

For me, occupational health and wellness have always started with being passionate about your work.

Job satisfaction is a huge part of your overall happiness as well as your health and wellbeing. After all, most of us are working for the greater part of our day.

What’s interesting to note is that job satisfaction seems to have increased in 2020, according to this article: https://legaljobs.io/blog/job-satisfaction-stats/.

Perhaps the pandemic is creating a happier workforce because more people have been able to work at home or perhaps it’s because people value their jobs more now that so many jobs have been cut during the pandemic.

My best advice on the work front is similar to my advice on exercise. Find something you love to do, something that makes your heart sing, something that makes you jump out of bed in the morning.

Get to know your personality, your strengths, your weaknesses and be your biggest advocate.

7. Financial Health and Wellness

Our relationship with money is usually complex.

Financial wellness is not only about how you make money, spend money or save money but also how you think and feel about money.

We grow up with a number of beliefs around money and they are not always healthy.

If you faced lack in childhood and you don’t address your money beliefs and money blocks, you may be facing lack in adulthood too.

So I would start by doing the internal work.

Examine your money beliefs and create new healthy beliefs.
Figure out why you want to make money
Where you want to spend your money
How much you want to keep and
Where you want to invest your money
And then you can turn your attention to the how.

If you’ve been hitting a few money blocks, you may find these money afformations helpful. Afformations are much like affirmations, except they are questions rather than statements.

Isn’t it interesting how all these dimensions tie-up? When you look at one dimension, you can see how each plays into the other.

Your work affects your finances.
Your thoughts and feelings affect your finances.
Your relationships affect your finances.
Your physical health can affect your work which in turn can affect your finances, etc.

And of course, vice versa. Each dimension of health and wellness impacts the other.

8. Environmental Health and Wellness

Your environment can affect your health in many ways.

For example, living in the city is considered more dangerous to your health than living in a small town out in the countryside. Not just because of the faster pace, traffic congestion and added stress but also because of the smog and noise pollution.

Cities bombard and sometimes overload our senses.

Your home or work environment can also affect your health. Most people find living or working gin a chaotic or cluttered environment to be more stressful than a clean, well-organized home or office.

And then there’s our impact on the environment, how we contribute to the health of our environment.

We all know by now that we can make simple lifestyle changes to improve our environment:

Recycle
De-clutter
Conserve Water
Plant trees and flowers
Use natural products
Consume less (minimalism)

But did you know that the single most impactful thing you can do for the environment is to stop eating meat?

Animal agriculture is having a devastating effect on the environment.

This video explains how the meat and dairy industry works.

Here are just a few ways eating a vegan or plant-based diet, positively impacts the environment:

Saves water (because our livestock consumes a lot more water than we do)
Reduces greenhouse gases, the leading cause of climate change
Reduces air pollution
Protects the rainforests
Protects endangered animals

Of course, the choice is always yours. It’s not easy to stop doing something you’ve done all your life, especially if it’s something you enjoy, like eating meat or cheese.

I have found that when I find enough compelling reasons to make a change, I make it. And it sticks.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoy implementing some of my key pointers on the 8 Dimensions of Health and Wellness into your life. I invite you to play with these ideas.

Try one or two of them on and see if they fit. I’d love to hear which ideas resonated with you. Feel free to leave a comment below.

This post was sponsored by Bodybuilder Solutions. All opinions are my own.

Disclaimer: Please note that this article is not intended to replace the advice of your Medical Doctor. Please consult a doctor or registered health practitioner if you have any health concerns.

What’s a Cosmetic Dentist?

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Lauren Kinghorn

What’s a Cosmetic Dentist?

If you are not happy with your smile, there are various ways a cosmetic dentist can help. This type of professional oral care involves improving the appearance of your gums, teeth, and overall smile. In this post, we will be telling you a bit more about the procedures performed by a professional cosmetic dentist like this dentist South Tampa.

What Does a Cosmetic Dentist do?

A cosmetic dentist performs various dental procedures, from minor repairs to major surgeries. Cosmetic dentistry has gained a lot of popularity over the years. Even these procedures may not be considered as vital, cosmetic treatments can contribute immensely to restoring your smile.

6 Commonplace Cosmetic Procedures

1. Teeth Whitening

This is one of the most basic cosmetic treatments and also the least pricey.

Teeth become stained over time from eating, drinking, certain medications, and smoking.

After removing tartar, plaque, and other debris from the teeth, the teeth surface is bleached to leave them with a whiter and brighter appearance.

2. Dental Veneers

Veneers are fine, white shells that are made with resin, medical-grade porcelain, or ceramic and they are custom-made for every patient to match their natural teeth.

Before the veneers are applied, the cosmetic dentist must remove some enamel from the tooth surface for the shells to bond authentically to the front of your teeth. Dental veneers are a suitable solution for those with damaged enamel, crooked teeth, or that have gaps between their teeth.

3. Dental Onlays and Inlays

Also referred to as indirect fillings, onlays and inlays are used when the patient’s natural teeth are too decayed to support a standard filling. These fillings are made in a dental laboratory and are bonded in position by the cosmetic dentist.

Inlays are when the material gets bonded in the middle of the tooth whereas onlays are when the filling covers several or one sections of the tooth or the entire tooth surface.

This procedure is a good substitute to a crown since it strengthens and restores the tooth after deterioration and preserves more of your tooth’s natural surface.

4. Dental Crowns

Dental crowns or dental caps are fitted over the damaged or decayed tooth. They help prevent the debilitated tooth from breaking. They are also used cosmetically for covering severely discoloured or disproportionate teeth.

Dental crowns are often used in other dental procedures like dental bridges, root canals, dental implants, or enamel fillings.

5. Dental Bonding

With this procedure, a moldable resin is applied to the tooth and hardened under ultraviolet light.

Afterwards, the material is trimmed, shaped, and polished to naturally blend into the tooth surface.

Bonding is used for repairing cracks, misshapen, or chipped teeth as well as tooth decay.

This treatment is more affordable than crowns or fillings.

6. Dental Implants

After tooth loss or severe tooth decay, dental implants are utilized for replacing teeth.

The cosmetic dentist affixes a screw to your jaw for support.
The implant is then inserted into the missing tooth’s bone socket.
With time, your tissue and bone fuse to the implant, supporting the replacement tooth inside your mouth.
Once it is properly affixed, the dental implant will blend into the adjacent teeth.

Motivations for Consulting with a Cosmetic Dentist

There are various reasons why you might want to consult with a cosmetic dentist, including:

Misshapen teeth
Missing teeth
Tooth decay
Discoloured teeth
Crooked teeth
Damaged teeth (chips, cracks, etc.)

Should I see a Cosmetic Dentist?

If you have decaying, discoloured, missing or damaged teeth and have difficulty speaking or eating, you may want to book a consult with a cosmetic dentist. Especially if you’re finding dental problems have impacted your self-esteem.

If you are not happy with your smile, the condition of your teeth can be drastically improved by a cosmetic dentist.

This post was sponsored by Muscaro and Martini Dentistry Tampa. If you’re looking for a cosmetic dentist South Tampa, they are committed to helping you look and feel and smile your best.

Golden Advice from Dan Lok for Entrepreneurs

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Lauren Kinghorn

This post is sponsored by DiamondLinks.

Who is Dan Lok?

Dan Lok is a successful internet entrepreneur and property investor. He is a bestselling author of 15 books and “Unlock It“, published by Forbes Books. He has delivered not just one, but two TEDx talks. At present, he has 3.3 million subscribers on his YouTube channel as well as a wildly successful podcast where he interviews other leading entrepreneurs.

Dan Lok was born in Hong Kong and emigrated with his Mom to Canada when he was 14-years old. Dan’s primary motivation when he started in business was to provide for his Mother. His wake-up call came when his Dad, a successful entrepreneur, went bankrupt due to a bad business partnership and could no longer support them financially.

Dan Lok’s net worth is now estimated to be between 50 – 86 million dollars. Let us take an in-depth look at how he achieved this massive success and how you can follow in his footsteps.

Why Learn from Dan Lok?

Like most entrepreneurs, Dan has lost money and made money in his career. By age 21, he had 13 failed businesses and he was deeply in debt.

He met his mentor, Alan Jacques, and learned the art of copywriting, or “print persuasion” as Dan calls it.

He worked 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 5 years. Within that time, he built his copywriting earnings to $10,000 a month, scaled his business, and invested in real property.

By age 27, Dan Lok was a self-made millionaire and retired… at least for a month or two.

As Dan joked afterward, “I spent a month on the beach and all I got was sunburn. I did all that for this. This is nothing! It’s boring.” He spent another month watching movies only to find that it was just as boring. He then went back to work and begun to build his digital empire.

Dan now teaches others how to become high-ticket closers, high-income copywriters, and high-ticket influencers. He gets paid handsomely for his courses and mentorship.

He’s taken some criticism online by those who feel his courses are too expensive, but his business advice has made many of his followers and past students their own fortune.

Dan gives loads of free advice and training to his millions of followers via his shows and blog posts on his website.

As you can tell from this introduction, Dan Lok is more than qualified to dish out expert entrepreneurship advice.

Dan Lok’s Best Entrepreneurship Advice

Since I consume most of my content on YouTube lately, I visited Dan’s YouTube channel and started watching videos as my research for this post. I could not stop watching them for 3 days!

Here are just a few of Dan Lok’s golden pieces of advice that resonated with me.

Don’t Kid Yourself!

Dan does not sugar coat it. Your chances are slim to none that you will become a millionaire, especially if your parents and closest friends are not millionaires. The odds are against you and less than 1% will make it.

However, if you are willing to do what it takes, master high-income skills, and deliver value to the marketplace, you might stand a chance.

He is just as clear that it is not going to happen overnight. People work for years to get to that millionaire status. It takes tenacity and persistence.

If entrepreneurship is your chosen path and you want to reach the top, it is not going to magically fall into your lap. You are going to have to work harder than you’ve ever worked before, for as long as it takes.

“If you don’t sacrifice for your dream, then your dream becomes your sacrifice.” – Dan Lok

Busting Myths

Dan Lok believes that financial freedom is a myth and should not be our focus.

The idea popularized by Robert Kiyosaki that, “financial freedom occurs when passive income exceeds your expenses”, does not sit well with Dan Lok. This is mainly because he believes passive income is a myth too.

It takes hard work and years of dedication to build a successful business that generates passive income.

Even if you have put in the hard work and the hours, passive income is not permanent. You will still have to pay attention to what is happening in the marketplace and put in some work to support your passive income streams.

Dan learned this lesson the hard way. He worked on his passive income plan. He built 20 to 30 sites selling books on Clickbank. Each book was making him anywhere from $500 to $5,000 a month in income. However, when Google changed its algorithm, sales from Google AdWords fell and passive income dropped.

“Just because it’s passive, doesn’t mean it’s permanent.” – Dan Lok

So… what does Dan believe in?

Leveraged income over passive income.

You can achieve leveraged income by using other people’s time (OPT) or other people’s money (OPM).

First, master certain skills yourself, then train up a team to help you build your empire. Once you and your team have built an empire, you can build up an investment portfolio to grow your net worth. Now you have money working for you.

Financial confidence over financial freedom.

Rather than making financial freedom your goal, figure out which skills you can develop to offer value to the marketplace. You are paid according to how much value you offer.

True security comes from knowing how to make money anytime. If you happen to lose it all, you still have the knowledge and skills to make it all back. That is financial confidence.

If you study the world’s richest people, you will find none of them made it their goal to achieve financial freedom or generate passive income. Those terms mean nothing to them. They found something they wanted to offer to the world and did it well.

Entrepreneurs are Empaths

“The amount of money you make is in direct proportion to how deeply you understand your market’s pain.” – Dan Lok

How can you help them relieve their pain?

People don’t buy their way into something; they buy their way out of something. People are looking for a way out of a problem.

What problem can you help someone solve?

Dan Lok’s Wealth Triangle

Dan pioneered the wealth triangle model using his own path to wealth as inspiration.

Step 1: Develop high-income skills in your field that can get you to an income of $10,000 a month. Dan Lok did this as a copywriter.

Step 2: Turn that into a scalable business by employing others or teaching and training others to do what you did.

Step 3: Build your net worth by investing in property or businesses that offer a high return.

Dan owns a property portfolio, and he is a venture capitalist as well.

Which High-Income Skills should You Develop?

So, let’s talk about the high-income skills recommended by Dan Lok. I really enjoyed Dan Lok’s video: 7 Skills that will Make You Rich.

You may recall I created my own video on high-income skills. Copywriting and Public Speaking skills were on my list too.

Here’s Dan’s list…

1. Closing

The ability to persuade customers and ask powerful questions that compel people to buy.

2. Public Speaking

The ability to speak to groups. Can you present your ideas to a group? Can you interact with your audience?

Fortunately, speaking in public is a skill you can learn. Dan Lok learned how to master this skill at Toastmasters International. You can too!

3. Copywriting

Dan calls this persuasion in print and this was the first high-income skill he mastered. Interestingly enough, it was also mine.

4. Leadership

The ability to effectively communicate your vision and your business plan to your team.

5. Priority Management

The ability to manage your time effectively.

6. Financial Literacy

The ability to read financial statements, understand how money works, and manage your money.

7. Mindset

The ability to manage your mind and emotions (emotional intelligence). This includes getting past procrastination, self-limiting beliefs, and going from a poverty mindset to a wealth mindset.

Definition of a Millionaire

In his video on how to become a Millionaire, Dan has a completely different definition of a millionaire than anyone else.

“A millionaire is someone who makes a million dollars a year joyfully – notice I didn’t say passively – they enjoy what they do.” – Dan Lok

He went on to say that there’s no point in making money if you’re unhappy, if your family’s falling apart, or if you have no time for your kids.

If you want to succeed as an entrepreneur, do not lose touch with your original motivation for starting a business.

How to Become a Millionaire

To become a millionaire you’ll need to cultivate and develop these 3 things:

A Millionaire Mindset

Millionaires have an ‘abundance’ mindset. They do not believe in scarcity.

People who struggle financially have negative beliefs about money. They believe money is bad and wealthy people are greedy.

If we do not move past these beliefs, we’ll block ourselves from becoming wealthy. This is because to reach the financial goal, we are forced to become one of them – one of those people we despise. It goes against the grain.

Millionaires look at money as neutral, something that can be used for good or bad. They believe wealthy people are kind, generous, and benevolent.

A Millionaire Skillset

Millionaires have a growth mindset. They never stop working on developing their leadership skills, communication skills, marketing skills, or management skills. They recognize that these are the skills needed to turn their ideas into their reality.

A Millionaire Vehicle

Lastly, every self-made millionaire has a powerful vehicle or platform – their business. It is not just a business, but a scalable
business where you can put your unique set of skills to work.

To become a millionaire, work on your mindset and the skills needed to build a scalable business. Put in the hours, and do not give up.

Conclusion

For me, Dan Lok has not only mastered the art of print persuasion and public speaking, but he has also mastered every one of the high-income skills he recommends we develop. He is also living proof that his wealth triangle can work.

Which piece of Dan Lok’s golden advice for entrepreneurs resonated the most with you?

When Do You Need Hospice Care?

Posted on January 23, 2021 by Lauren Kinghorn

Hospice offers a range of services to those who have a debilitating disease that affects their quality of life to the point that they are unable to do things for themselves.

When Do You Need Hospice Care?

How do you know if you or someone close to you needs hospice care?

Any individual who is suffering from a life-restricting condition is eligible for palliative care. This may include various types of diseases, with the most common ones being AIDS or cancer. This specific type of care offers support and guidance for patients who need palliative care and their families.

Keep in mind that various hospices might have different admission criteria contingent on their restrictions (available staff, geographical location, etc.) and resources.

However, one thing they all have in common is their commitment to providing palliative care to those who need it. The patient must however consent to join the hospice programme and is central in all decisions that are made.

What is the Role of Hospice?

Regulating symptoms and managing pain
Offering psycho-social guidance and support
Bereavement support
Equipment (such as wheelchairs, etc.)
Spiritual guidance
Emotional support

Some Health Conditions which may require Hospice Care

ALS

There are two elements in end-stage ALS that may determine hospice care, the ability to swallow and the patient’s ability to breathe.

Dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease

Once patients who suffer from Alzheimer’s or dementia have an impaired quality of life and are unable to move around, speak, get dressed, or bathe themselves, they could be good candidates for hospice care.

Cancer

The most obvious reason for a cancer patient to be eligible for hospice care is the person’s functional status or his palliative performance.

Liver Disease

Patients who have liver disease that are eligible for hospice care, are those who have returning signs of hepatic failure, which includes frequent varicella bleeding, ascites, and hepatic encephalopathy, who also meets other guidelines.

Renal Disease

Many patients and their families choose not to begin or stop dialysis for various reasons, especially when a patient is older than sixty years.

Sepsis and Concomitant End-stage Disease

Thousands of individuals die each year from sepsis and the annual expenditure for readmissions exceeds $3.5 billion.

Services that Hospice Offer

Home-based Care

Teams of professionally trained and supervised caregivers travel to the person’s house and offer support and training on how families can take care of their homebound loved one at home.

Hospice in-patient Facilities

Some hospices have in-patient facilities that offer twenty-four-hour palliative care. There are typically limited beds available and only patients who fit a particular criterion are eligible for admission.

Hospice Community Centres

Hospice workers work from community centres and offer palliative care to patients that are still relatively well and mobile. At these centres, various skills are taught, and projects are initiated that generate income.

Hospice Billing

To have an understanding of doctor billing for hospice patients, you must first understand that hospice is not like other Medicare processes, and is viewed as a patient-based benefit. Once the patient chooses hospice, all decisions are based on patient-centred preferences and care.

Once the patient is referred to hospice, the patient chooses to stop curative care for the terminal diagnosis. The attending doctor and hospice team physician or medical director must certify that the patient has a life expectancy of six months or less if the illness continues its normal course.

Some hospices make use of a hospice billing company to help them comply with the most up-to-date regulations and manage their financing and accounting, so the hospice staff can focus on what’s most important, caring for their patients.

Conclusion

We hope this article was useful and that you have access to all the information you need if you or someone close to you are suffering from a life-debilitating disease and require homebound or in-patient facility care.

Natural Ways to Support the Immune System

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Lauren Kinghorn

This post was sponsored by Vitamium

Finding natural ways to support the immune system has become a hot topic lately, with the Coronavirus pandemic in full force. While building the immune system can’t stop you from contracting the virus (or any infection for that matter), having a healthy immune system may help you get over it faster and have milder symptoms.

But before we get into what builds your immunity, let’s start with the basics.

What’s the Immune System?

Simply put, the immune system is our body’s natural defence system against infectious diseases.

As we develop, our immune system develops with us. We’re born with natural or innate immunity and also receive passive immunity from the antibodies in our mother’s breast milk. As we get exposed to diseases or vaccines throughout our lives, we develop adaptive or active immunity. So getting ill actually builds our future immunity.

However, our immune system can also break down as we age and it’s usually because of poor lifestyle choices.

How to Support the Immune System?

Following a healthy diet and lifestyle is your best chance at a healthy immune system.

If you’re not doing all this already, here are the dietary and lifestyle changes we recommend you make.

Let’s start with a healthy diet.

Dietary Changes that Support the Immune System

What foods support the immune system? We all know the answer to this, deep down, don’t we?

It’s fresh fruit and veggies of course. And nuts and berries. Organic if possible. And you’ll want to eat a variety of these every day. All the colours of the rainbow if you can.

I took these benefits to heart and switched to a wholefood plant-based diet 90 days ago. Which means I started incorporating way more of the good stuff than I was eating before and eliminated virtually all processed foods, meat, chicken, fish and all dairy products.

Yeah, I know, it’s not for everybody, right? And even following this incredible diet, touted to be the healthiest diet on the planet by many highly respected Doctors, I’ve still had to supplement because I’m missing out on some important nutrients.

So let’s talk supplements. If you’re following the Standard American Diet (SAD), you’re almost certain to be deficient in nutrients that boost your immunity. Here’s how you can rectify that.

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Lifestyle Changes that Support the Immune System

While diet is probably the most important change you can make, there are other healthy lifestyle choices that also support your immune system. Here are 6 changes you make today, that won’t cost you a dime.

1. Get Active

Find some form of exercise you love to do and do it regularly. You don’t have to run a marathon. It could be something as simple as walking the dog every day. Or as fun as going out dancing.

2. Destress

Find a way to let it all hang out. Whether it’s just kicking back and stroking your favourite pet or lounging about in a hammock. Stress is known to weaken the immune system so slow down a little and smell the roses.

3. Hydrate

Drink plenty of water every day. If you really can’t stand water, you could try herbal teas. Avoid carbonated drinks as they are usually loaded with sugar and phosphates. And avoid having too much coffee or alcohol as they tend to dehydrate (and there’s the sugar problem again).

4. Laugh

Recent studies such as this one have proven that laughter truly has medicinal benefits. Watching funny videos increased T-Cells (the fighter cells of the immune system). Worth giving a try, right?

And it’s worth mentioning that simply being a positive person has a positive effect on the immune system.

5. Sleep Well

Get a good night’s rest as often as you can. To help you relax into your 8 or so hours a night, switch off the TV and your digital devices at least 30 minutes before bedtime, avoid caffeine after midday and

And while we’re in the bedroom… did you know that sexually active people take less sick days?

6. Love Well

Being in a loving relationship is good for the immune system. But this isn’t bad news for singles. Fostering loving relationships with your friends, family and pets has the same effect on immunity.

And here’s one final lifestyle change we highly recommend that can save you money – if you’re a smoker.

7. Stop Smoking

If you’re a smoker your risk of getting respiratory tract infections is greater and those infections are more likely to escalate into life-threatening illnesses like pneumonia.

How would you say your immune system is doing based on the dietary and lifestyle tips above?

Please note that none of the advice in this article is intended to replace the advice of a medical professional.

Also, we advise you to follow all government regulations designed to protect you from succumbing to the coronavirus. Continue social distancing, wearing a mask in public and sanitising frequently.

This post was sponsored by Vitamium. All opinions are my own.

6 Tips on How to Look Younger Naturally

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Lauren Kinghorn

This post was sponsored by Vitamium.

We all wish that we could take a sip from the fountain of youth to stay youthful forever but unfortunately, this is not possible. However, there are certain things that you can do to look younger naturally and to stop the ageing process in its tracks.

1. Try to Avoid Unnecessary Stress

Stress can lead to physical changes in your body that fast-track the ageing process. Surges of cortisol and adrenaline results in your blood pressure rising and your heart beating faster. With the daily stresses and a global pandemic, we all feel the pressure. Try to do relaxing activities or meditation to give yourself and your body a break.

2. Invest in Quality Natural Skincare Products

There are plenty of well-known products available on the market that promise incredible results but the sad truth is that most of them are filled with chemicals that can do just the opposite.

Invest in superior quality natural skincare products like this Vitamin C Professional Facial Serum by Vitamium. This serum promotes healthy, glowing skin and even skin tone the natural way.

It’s a natural plant-based product containing not only vitamin C and E but also powerful active botanicals, including witch hazel, aloe vera, organic jojoba oil, botanical hyaluronic acid and MSM.

It is free from any artificial fragrance, additives and stabilizers. This product is one of the best anti-ageing serums on the market because it contains beneficial antioxidants that repair damaged skin as a result of UV rays and the hyaluronic acid increases hydration.

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3. Include more Healthy Fats in Your Diet

Omega-3 fatty acids which are found in walnuts, seeds, and salmon are excellent for stabilizing your mood, preventing visible signs of ageing, lowering inflammation in the body, and maintaining healthy bone strength.

4. Practice Yoga

Yoga is the perfect body and mind workout and promotes better posture, enhanced mood, more energy, and less stress. By practising conscious yoga breathing techniques, you become more aware of the link between your mind and body. This can translate into significant anti-ageing benefits.

5. Eat Superfruits

Pomegranates provide more health benefits than any other fruits. The juice is useful for lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels, which could in turn delay the onset of atherosclerosis which help lower the risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease or certain forms of cancer. Pomegranates also provide skin protection against damage caused by harmful UV rays.

Goji berries contain five hundred times more vitamin C in weight than oranges and are also rich in carotenoids (a type of antioxidant), iron, magnesium, vitamins B1, B2, B6, and E, zinc, calcium, and 18 amino acids.

All these components assist with stimulating the release of human growth hormone that naturally improves sleep, that helps you with looking younger and boosting your immune system.

6. Drink Green Tea

Green tea has many health benefits and is known for reducing the risk of breast cancer. It also helps with the prevention of colorectal, bladder, and cancer recurrence and improves your metabolism.

Drinking just one cup a day can assist with keeping your brain sharp as well as reducing the onslaught of ageing.

Conclusion

We trust this post was informative and helpful and that you will use it as a guide to look younger the natural way.

Do you have any beauty secrets to share on how to look younger naturally?

This post was sponsored by Vitamium. All opinions are my own.

How to Stay Positive During the Pandemic

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Lauren Kinghorn

How to Stay Positive During the Pandemic

Let’s face it, since the onset of the global pandemic, it’s not always been easy to stay positive. What with lockdown, social isolation, and having to use hand sanitizer and wear face masks all the time.

Yet we all have to do our bit to stay safe and prevent the spread of the virus. Because people are hurting, hospitals are packed to capacity and many of us have either battled Covid-19 ourselves or lost loved ones to the disease.

In this post, we will be sharing our tips on how to stay positive during the pandemic and remain as comfortable as possible.

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Some of us who work in industries that deal with lots of walk-in customers are forced to wear masks all the time. As well as teachers and pupils, lecturers and students and everyone in the medical field.

It is often not very comfortable with your glasses fogging up, having trouble with breathing, and your lipstick clinging to your mask, not to mention your face overheating.

But, these are just some of the discomforts we have to face until the pandemic blows over.

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Mask Ally is a mask holder that you wear inside your mask to create some breathing space between the mask and your face.

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  - Prolonged mask life
  - Increased airflow prevents your face from overheating
  - Keeping your mask cleaner for longer with less contact

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Combat your Stress Levels through Relaxation

Stress can be very bad for your emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing. Stress can lead to all sorts of health effects like headaches, anxiety, fatigue, social withdrawal, chest pain, and more.

Making time for yourself to relax can assist with reducing these side effects and allow you to reboot and refocus your energy on positive thoughts.

Connect with Loved Ones

We all try to avoid social contact and opt for staying confined in our homes, but you can still connect with friends and family online. You can video chat with them on your phone or laptop and share your experiences. Sometimes all you need is to talk to your best friend or a loved one to feel better and to cope with your current situation.

Exercise Frequently

Looking after yourself and your body is essential, now more than ever. Exercise is not just beneficial for physical wellbeing but also emotional and mental wellbeing. When you exercise, your body releases endorphins that help you with feeling more positive. You can go for a family walk or do stretches and exercises in the garden. Don’t forget yoga is an excellent exercise for body and mind.

Take Breaks from the News

I know it is easier said than done but reading, watching or listening to the news can be upsetting when you are reminded repeatedly of what we are facing currently.

Keep yourself informed but remember to only look for updates on the pandemic on reliable sources. Fake news can do a lot of damage and with situations like these, you are bound to come across plenty of it.

Accept what You Can and Cannot Control

There is only so much that you can do to control the situation and to remain safe. Remember to focus and acknowledge the feelings you are having and make the most of situations and safety measures that are within your control.

Conclusion

We hope that you have found this article helpful and that we have done our bit to assist you with staying more positive during the pandemic.

What’s kept you the most positive during this last rather unusual year? Feel free to share in the comments below.

This post was sponsored by Mask Ally. All opinions are my own.

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