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Possibly this part of the formula, more than any other, seems obvious. And to some extent, it is. If you’re reluctant to face up to a belief, situation, problem, condition, behaviour, or emotion—if you won’t take ownership or you’re part in a situation—then you cannot and will not change it. If you refuse to face up to and own your own self-destructive behaviours, they will in fact grow momentum, become more deep rooted in the habitual patterns of your business, and grow more and more resistant to change.

The best way to prevent agency angst is to select the right agency to begin with. Here are 25 selection criteria to help you do this. I’ve listed the most important ones first, followed by several others that are also important for agencies that get passing grades on the first set of criteria.

Work-life balance is one of those problems that is so hard to solve in terms of concrete actions that we often try to get rid of the tension by creatively re-conceptualizing it. Telling your client that their project will be late because you didn’t want to tick off your spouse is probably off the table, as is rescheduling your daughter’s hockey game or dentist’s appointment, so all that’s left, we often sense, is mental acrobatics.

Affiliate marketing is a sales strategy. Businesses or individuals link to a merchant\'s products and receive a commission if the affiliate partner gets a sale. The strategy is sometimes known as performance marketing.

That being said, Pinterest has been gaining a ton of attention lately and widely regarded as one of the hottest new and shiny bright digital objects to come along in some time. Pinterest is a digital mood board mixed with online scrapbooking. Users create a board (it can be anything from cool pictures of cats to the most fascinating business Blogs) and as you come across pieces of content online (and it can be text, images, audio or video), you \"pin\" the content (which is done by installing a \"pin it\" button on your web browser\'s toolbar). Pinterest creates a mood board or visualization of this content. All of the boards that users create are both public and can be followed by others. Users can also connect to one another, share, comment, collaborate and more.

Dr. Oz’s beauty blog has some very good advice on which anti-aging products don’t give you much bang for your buck. Last week’s post, Three Anti-Aging Products You Don’t Need points out it can be difficult to sort out the hype from the facts, especially when it comes to anti-aging products. Many of the ingredients being touted as the providing the fountain of youth are actually still in the experimental stage.

If you seek to make an impact in 2012 and beyond, the time has come to think seriously about your digital presence. How will you use a handful of social networks well? How will you create a unified presence that builds your story, empowers your interactions, and helps you rise up from being just another voice in the stream?

The ability to delight and surprise is at the core of every beloved brand (product, politician, teenager...). Overhype and shady promises will undercut that before it even has a chance to get started. Yes, of course you have to make promises to earn attention and trial. The mistake is when you put more effort into the promises and less into what you deliver. Promise a lot but deliver even more.