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How to Make Lemonade from the Lemons of Credit Card Fraud with Asana (Video Demo)

Credit Card fraud. One of the big scary things we hope and pray we never have to endure, for a variety of reasons. I was recently a victim of credit card fraud on my U.S. Dollar Visa card and when I went to pick up the new card I thought, “This so frustrating. I have […]

How to Use Chrome Bookmarks to Keep Track of Facebook Groups (Video Demo)

Let me just come right out and say it. I love Facebook groups. We all do! We love the support. We love the friendship. We love the resources and connections. But what happens when we look up, and we’ve joined 20 or more groups… Oh! I know… we start feeling overwhelmed not knowing how we’re […]

43% of Buyers are Taking the $19 Order Bump

I’m not going to hard-pitch you on the fact that using the right website software will increase your online sales, but I don’t want you to miss the opportunity to try it out for yourself. In the meantime, let me tell you that my business’ sales increased by 294% from 2016 to 2018… and the […]

Happy Birthday To Me (reflecting on my “Simplify” goal)

Yup, I’m FORTY. I’m not sure how that happened. I mean, I feel like I’m 25. The gray hairs say otherwise. The crinkles when I smile say otherwise. My improved wisdom says otherwise. [My smart-assed nature, on the other hand… has always been around.] And amazingly, I have arrived at forty having recently achieved a […]

Four Gifts of Hindsight After Recovering from (way too many) Injuries

Inspiration + Important Takeaways (Deep Thoughts, by Dara) Let me start this post with my conclusion because the preamble is a little long and I don’t want you to miss out. As you may know, I started a new business in the last two years. But you may not know that it was because my life […]

How to Effortlessly Back Up Your Phone’s Digital Photos and Videos to Dropbox

With the volume of photos that we take every day/week/month/year, two problems arise for most of the smartphone-carrying population. Your digital photos aren’t safely backed up (and you’d be pretty devastated to lose them in a tech mishap). OR Your digital photos are mostly lumped into a giant pile of “I’ll sort these, one day”. […]

How to Catch Your Own Typos using Grammarly

I’m coming out of the closet… as a typo fairy. I have an eagle-eye for misaligned text, misused apostrophes, and misspelled words. Unfortunately, I only catch those glaring errors on words that others write! Combine that observant “gift” with my compulsion to help people, and you’ve got me – Dara! – the typo fairy who has actually been […]

Gmail Email Signature Problem Solved in 30 Seconds

Get Your Gmail Email Signature to show at the end of YOUR Email… … Not at the bottom of ALL the emails! Make sure your “sign-off” is SEEN! If you are using the Gmail email signature inside of Gmail Webmail, then you must make this tiny adjustment to your email signature settings to ensure your […]

Hi, I'm Dara!

Have I mentioned I loved maximizing efficiencies? My (healthy) obsession helped me simplify and scale my business, and I know they’ll do the same for you too. Remember; I’m also a Google Tools ninja and certified Funnel Gorgeous Master Marketer. So if you’ve been looking for a queen of ALL things tech and marketing, you’ve found your gal.