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 Back in 2018 I used to work at FitRewards. This was a rewards and loyalty program that marketed itself towards fitness centers, but could be used at other businesses as a corporate reward program, to incentivize their clients or staff to do specific behaviors for points. The closest competitor that is still around would be Perkville. At the time FitRewards stood out from their direct competitor by creating a measured point system against a dollar amount; and working with vendors to offer high-value reward items. Because of the mixed B2B focus on our internal marketing, but also the B2C traffic our channels would get due to the members that were in the program, our channels had to be playing both fields.  I thought it would be a nice share to drop the general "Daily Topics" that I had put together back in 2018 as they were broad enough then to be valuable now, and would be great in a B2C fitness center space to piggy back off of when they just need a little extra filler conte...

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases with links in this article .  Get Your Own Copy of  The Sky is Yours  by Chandler Klang Smith . If you've ever picked up The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith you will get a grunge feeling from the neon-light-inspired graffiti cover. It's a different take on a traditional cover, but after reading the book, you realize that the design works well for the dark life the book ends up taking as you dive in further.  This is a story that follows the lives of several individuals in a fantasy sci-fi dystopian future where two dragons appeared from the depths of the water 50 years prior and took over the sky. They fly over Empire Island, where the story takes place, where the inhabitants learn to accept their fate at the dragons' mercy whether their homes burn or not that day.  The dragons' terror has been going on since they came to the world and the firefighters who were around to put out the fires d...

If you leave with nothing else: the print version which I received was hard to read from a visual standpoint. The columns are too wide, but the information is golden and reflects what I've learned about Keto elsewhere. When I ordered "The Keto Reset Diet  by Mark Sisson with Brad Kearns" I was expecting an easy read that excited me to dive into more information about a lifestyle I was already familiar with. It looks friendly at first and has awesome recipes I have yet to get around to trying at the back. The cover is amazing and everything about the book as an object is amazing.  And then I started reading it. The first page of each chapter is set up nicely, the columns are spaced well and its easy to buzz through, and then you turn the page and it's a ginormous block of text with no end in sight. Giving myself until the chapter break occurs to finish a section is a nightmare as I read before bed, and the chapters are too long.  It's also hard to get very sc...

How to Set a Table is a quaint little book that was published by POTTER STYLE, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, but oddly enough doesn't credit any author on any of the standard pages. Much digging into the fine print on the very last informative page tells us that Chloe Lieske wrote it - but trying to find this book using her name doesn't show up readily in search results, as though she was discredited and only there to write up a joint collective voice. The book itself is textured in such a way from the burlap style of the cover, that it turns itself into a nice piece to display around your house. How to Set a table is extremely visual and easy to read over - but putting everything mentioned into practice is significantly harder if you're not a specific kind of person. If you don't have nice dinnerware of either porcelain, earthenware or stoneware of varied sizes and shapes along with diff...

"The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: a magical story" by Marie Kondo and illustrated by Yuko Uramoto Visually this book brings a sense of calm and a simplistic joy to look at. It's simple without much distraction and it leads you into showing how you'll experience a non-distracted, simpler life when you put the methods KonMari goes over in her tale. The back cover entertains you with the mess the main character Chiaki is currently living with before she hires KonMari to help her tidy up. Flipping through pages you find a refreshing art style that doesn't drown your visuals in ink. I've heard of Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" before and immediately realized it was a manga-tized version when I realized it was going over the same method I heard once before. "It's not the things I'm discarding, but the things I'm keeping that are in this room. I had been so focused on finding junk that I had completel...

I picked up Leading Lady: Sherry  Lansing  and the Making of a Hollywood  Groundbreaker  by  Stephen Galloway  without  any knowledge of Sheryl Lansing or what she had worked on.  But here was a confident woman on the front of a  book with raving reviews on  Sheryl at the back (rather than the  common reviews on the book itself).    My  experience with reading this  book was one of  inspiration, when her story began to pick  up. I started and put the book  down at least three times, telling myself to just get through it, because  even a poor story  deserves   the second chance opportunity, and for me it really did need that struggle through reading a few of the chapters.  It really doesn't pick up until chapter 4/5 and with such long chapters it's hard to say someone will sit with the story long enough to get caught in it.    When you understand that Sherry ...