The Future is...Virtual

Running a business? Things going well? Love the idea of a PA but don't want the commitment or think you can't afford one? WRONG!

This article is about a , membership of a professional organisation such as the International Association of Virtual Assistants or Society for Virtual Assistants giving them access to a network of other professional VAs across the country."

About the author

Keith McGregor is a partner of Strawberrysoup, a web design agency with offices in Chichester and Bournemouth. St
awberrysoup specialise in creative web design, content managed websites, search engine optimisation, search engine marketing and graphic design.

Are You

To be truly successful in network marketing, you must clearly define whether you are pushing or pulling your network marketing prospects. By being able to distinguish this, you will have the ability to work smart rather than work hard. You will also save yourself a lot of confusion and wasted efforts and begin to grow your business enormously by attracting prospects to you.

Firstly, lets identify the two basic words: sales and marketing. The majority of people assume tha
these two terms means the same thing. However successful network marketers, who earn five figure income, know that they are not the same and they are able to mark off the true distinctions behind these two words.

'Sales' is about PUSHING. Sales is all about convincing, selling and pushing a product or service to a customer in return for money or other compensation. When you do that, you work very hard to persuade your customer to take on your offer. Even if you know your product very well from every angle, very often no matter how hard you work, you just can't convince someone to go against their own will.

On the other hand, 'Marketing' is about PULLING. Rather than forcing your product down your customer's throat, you exchange offerings that have value for them. Pulling is concerned with anticipating your prospects' future needs and wants, which are often discovered through market research. You meet your customers wants and needs by providing solutions to them. When your prospects see value through your marketing efforts, they will in turn come to you instead and ask you how about your business opportunity.

The motivating forces between these two are completely different. Pulling brings people to you, rather than you going to them. Pushing or pulling your network marketing prospects are so different that the success of failure of your MLM business relies upon it.

Once you are able to clearly define these two and strengthen your ability to effectively 'pull' rather than 'push' your prospects , you will be be able to build a huge network for your business and become truly successful!

About the author

Elle Wong is a Network Marketing Success Mentor and Leads Generation Expert who is passionate about helping others succeed through the Internet.

If you want to succeed in network marketing, download your FREE report on how to generate unlimited high quality leads that will explode your business within the next 30 days. For a limited time only, click here for instant access :- http://www.LeadsAttractionSystem.com

Get Google On Your Side - NextGenLinks

You should be spending a great deal of time creating inbound links to your blog. The number of links to your site is an important factor in your determining your position on the search pages. Natural inbound links to particular INNER pages of your blog mean many times more to your success than links to your index or front page. This NextGenLinks software will get you links to pages within your website or blog.

Google has new software, NextGenLinks, that will easily provide your website or blog with links to the inner pages. W
ich company would know how to do this better? If you are serious about website marketing, you need to investigate NextGenLinks.

Goggle has a program that provides One-Way Deep Links to pages within your blog or site. These are not links just to your index page, these are links that point to your page based on what the page is all about. Their software will read all the pages on your site and provide links to those articles or pages based on the content! They provide links to the INNER pages of your blog. Wow!

Is NextGenLinks better than competing software and programs on the market?

That's a great question! In the link building software arena, NextGenlinks is a completely new concept. It is an automated link building software that is based on how links should be thought of and acquired. When a reader is interested in an article, they provide a link to the article. They link to an inner page not your homepage.

The most distinguishing feature of NextGenLinks is that it builds incoming links to your INNER pages...not just to your homepage.

Other competing products bring links to your homepage only, which is not as effective. This type of automation just is not natural. The average reader finds a great, informative article on your site and will provide a link directly to your article...not necessarily to your homepage. The search engines take particular notice of this and you will rank higher because of INNER links rather than just the links to your index or front page.

As an early adopter, I didn't hesitate to sign up for the NextGenLinks program. If you use Google Adwords, you know that it is expensive, but very effective. If this campaign is successful, I may be able to cut back on my Adwords budget.

They have a two week trial for free. They have several levels of membership:

* Silver Package: Manage Links for up to 10 of your domains, with up to 500 URLs per domain for a total of 5,000 URLs. Try it FREE for 2 weeks, then only $37/month.

* Gold Package: Manage Links for up to 50 of your domains, with up to 750 URLs per domain for a total of 37,500 pages! Try it FREE for 2 weeks, then only $77/month.

* Platinum Package: Manage Links for up to 100 of your domains, with up to 1000 URLs per domain for a total of 100,000 pages! Try it FREE for 2 weeks, then only $137/month.

* Enterprise Developer Package: Manage Links for up to 1000 personal or client domains, with up to 5000 urls per domain. FREE for 2 weeks , then $297/month. That's less than .30 cents per 5000 page domain per client

P.S. What do you think of this new offering by Google. Are you impressed? What do you think about their pricing structure? Let me know what you think.

About the author

http://www.trafficbumper.com is dedicated to helping internet marketers increase their website traffic. Several principles are discussed in articles and videos. Join our mailing list and start learning.

10 Ways to Guarantee Your E-Newsletter Will Be Read

There is a huge sea of e-newsletters and e-zines being sent daily. How do you ensure that your e-newsletter gets opened and read?

Seems like every company these days is getting in on the e-newsletter bandwagon. They are simple and inexpensive to send, can be created quickly and provide a means of getting at the top of your customer's minds on a regular basis. Regardless of how many newsletters people receive, they will still read those that are offering them something of value and are entertaining. People will always want to l
arn and be entertained.

So, how do you ensure that your e-newsletter gets opened and read? Here are 10 things I think about each month when sending out my own newsletter:

1. Decide on a theme for each e-newsletter you send.

Everytime I send out an issue, I choose a special theme to discuss. Let's say my theme is "Newsletter Basics". I will supply personal information about my own newsletter. I will include articles that will educate my readers on ways to improve their own newsletter. I will recommend other products my customers can purchase to further educate them on, you got it, their newsletter!

2. Your title may be the most important sentence.

The title or subject line of your email newsletter is going to be the biggest draw, especially to newly subscribed readers who don't know how great your newsletter is yet! The subject determines whether your reader will actually open the email or just delete, so it needs to be enticing.

3. Keep your theme and your content inline with your niche.

Remember the reason why your readers subscribed to your list in the first place. What was the initial draw. They are interested in your particular niche. You need to keep that focus, or you may start to lose some of your subscribers.

4. Remember the 80/20 rule.

80% of your content should be educating your reader about your topic. They should be learning something new. 20% of your content should be selling. Make sure you have a section that explains what you and your business is all about. Too much selling and you will lose readership. Too little selling and your business will suffer.

5. Keep your content educational and entertaining.

The best way to ensure subscribers open your newsletter and possibly even forward it to a friend is to make sure your readers are entertained. The newsletters I read faithfully are those that make me laugh while at the same time they are teaching me something useful that I can use in my own business or life.

6. Include a personal story.

People can learn all about your business by shopping at your store or visiting your website. Your newsletter is a way for your customers to get to know YOU. Always include something personal in your newsletter. It could be something you learned recently. It could be about your kids, or something you saw on the road driving to a meeting. Make your newsletter sound like you are talking to a friend. Friends buy from friends.

7. Keep content to around 400-700 words.

The computer can be a great means of information, but it is also hard to read long articles online. Keep your content short and focused. Keep your readers engaged, but keep it short. Your customers are just as busy as you are.

8. Include contact information and a privacy statement.

Including this information shows new readers that you are legitimate and that you have no intention of spamming them or selling their email address.

9. You MUST include a simple way to unsubscribe.

This is an absolute must! Any bulk emails sent without an unsubscribe link is considered spam and could get you banned. If you are using an email service such as Aweber or Constant Contact, then this feature is automatically added for you.

10. Include copyright information and allow readers to re-use your article.

When your article gets re-used by your readers, it helps to give your website and your name more exposure. This will only help you to grow your list of customers. Their readers will see your article. If they are interested, they may click to your website and either join your list or make a purchase. Make sure you are clear that anyone using your article needs to keep the article as-is and include your copyright info and a link to your website with the article.

These are methods that I learned from other successful professionals. The ideas work for them, and they are certainly working for me. If you keep to the basics and provide compelling writing mixed with personal stories , your newsletter will be a success.

About the author

Kimberly Reddington, founder of CereusWomen.com, teaches moms how to turn their skills and talents into a successful home-based service business and to find a balance between their business and their family. Discover Kim's popular special report by visiting http://www.CereusWomen.com

Your Sales Page Introduction / Greeting

A lot of times we get wrapped up in our products. And why not?

A lot of times we get wrapped up in creating our products and then finally finishing them. And why not? We've worked for months putting our business together and our products are what people want to buy. Why is it that when it comes to putting together a sales letter we want to explain every little detail so our prospect can see exactly what they're getting when they make their purchase?

Isn't this the way it should be? NO! The customer doesn't care abou
the late nights you spent meticulously researching your product. Don't overload with so much information. The customer wants to know just ONE thing: What's In It For Me? (WIIFM) If you can't answer that one simple question, you'll never be able to consistently sell your product or service.

In a sales letter or ad, you have less than two seconds to grab the attention of your prospect. The first major mistake most people make is to start out with a weak or boring headline.

If your headline doesn't pop out to people and grab their attention, then whatever you say in the body copy is meaningless and you wasted your time creating it in the first place.

The next biggest mistake is starting any piece of copy is when you use the word "ME". A "me" message is all about you and your company. It's going to bore your prospect! What people love to talk about is THEMSELVES, not you. You must talk to their pleasure, their wealth, their challenges, their fears, their problems, and their joys. Every prospect is tuned into the same radio station - WIIFM (as in "What's In It For Me").

I know it happens. You get in a zone when you are creating your sales copy or ad that you use the word ME. Well, one way of avoiding this after you have finished your rough draft is to reread it and circle all the "me" words. Words such as "I, me, we, and our" are "me" words. After you are done circling those words, replace them with the word "YOU" and "YOUR". Doing this will make it more interesting and exciting to your prospect.

Can you imagine how much fun it would be to see your profits go through the roof? Well how can you do this? I'll tell you, you must clearly make your business stand out and apart from all your competition. You must convey your uniqueness without spending a fortune, and the secret is all in the sales copy or ad.

You must create a Unique Selling Proposition (U.S.P.). What do you offer your prospects that your competitor doesn't or can't? Maybe it's a better guarantee, better service, availability (reachable after 9 to 5), better location, or better customer treatment. Whatever you can do to set your business/services apart from your competition gives you the "edge".

Something many business owners don't realize or are mistaken about is the "length" of guarantee they offer. Giving your prospect a "2-Year, No Questions Asked Guarantee" is much better than a "90-day, Money Back Guarantee."

The longer the guarantee, the more credible you and your business are "perceived" by your prospect. They see it as a win-win situation. Typically the majority of your customers will never make use of the "2-Year Guarantee." Let's face it, by that time they like using your product, and/or they've long ago lost the sales slip. BUT, when a prospect reads about the longer guarantee you're offering , it raises their comfort level and makes them choose you over your competition.

Always remember that when you're a small fish in a big pond - you must be different to stand out. Making use of good advertising copy filled with words that make prospects eager to satisfy their WIIFM is the answer.

About the author

Omar Martin is a sales expert dedicated to training and developing high performance sales leaders in every industry. He is an internet marketer and sales page designer whose sales experience, skill level and coaching ability has benefited thousands of sales professionals across the USA. He posts free sales advice and products on: http://www.omar-martin.com His latest product is: http://kickasssalespages.com/

The Value of Backlinks

Search engines love sites with lots of other sites linking to them - backlinks increase your search engin ranking.

Building up a lot of backlinks is a great way to help raise your page ranking on search engine results. A backlink, also called an inward or incoming link, is a link from one website to another.

The quality of a site is often indicated by the number of incoming links it has.

For example, if you have a website that is all about teaching kids math, then if the quality is good you'll have people link
ng to your site in their articles and blogs.

You can adapt that system to fit with your internet marketing plan.

How do you get more backlinks? That's where the current generation of Web 2.0 sites comes into play. Sites like WordPress, Propeller and Associated Content allow website owners to upload their own content.

So, if you write some articles about how great your product or service is, then upload it to one of those sites with a link to your website, you have created a combination sales pitch/backlink.

Here's an exercise: open up a new window in your web browser and go to Google. In the search bar type "link:yourwebsite.com" Don't enter the quotes and replace yourwebsite.com with the address of your website.

The results will show how many sites are currently linking to yours.

Now try out the website name of a big player in your market. Odds are, you'll find that they have a lot more links to their website than you do to yours, and their website probably shows up a lot higher in search results rankings than yours does as well.

Coincidence? Definitely not.

Here are a few quick tips for how to generate more backlinks to your site, and therefore a higher search engine ranking:

* Do you have more than one website? If so, then have them link to one another. This is a great way to get a new site off the ground if you already have an established site up and running.

* Upload content to Web 2.0 sites

* Create videos for your product or service and upload them to YouTube, Google Video , etc. It is really important to include a link to your site in the description or signature file!

* Check out an RSS aggregator. These are websites that compile articles and blogs into one place. Just about all of them allow you to include links in your Web 2 posts.0 sites.

About the author

Learn how to get the SEO balance just right with SENuke.

New Era Of 59Fifty

The new era 59Fifty caps are one of the most popular models of new era that made sports more exciting than ever. It was designed mainly for sports, but because of its popularity, the caps are now recognized outside of sports an into Fashion.

In many sports, particularly in baseball, there is only one brand name of cap that always completes the game, the new era 59Fifties. 59Fifty is a brand of hats made by the New Era Cap Company based in Buffalo, New York. In new era's collection
of caps, the 59Fifty caps are considered as the first brand of caps that revolutionized the way caps are worn.

They are often referred to as "Fitted Hats" or "Brooklyn Style Caps". They have also become increasingly fashionable in urban centers and within the Hip-Hop culture.

The caps are available in not only every Major and Minor league baseball team in an assortment of colors, but in the NHL, NBA and NFL (Though Reebok normally manufactures the NFL's fitted hats) as well.

The 59fifty is the official on-field cap for every major and minor league baseball team. In recent years, the 59Fifty caps were made of 100% wool and included a gray underbill and white sweatband.

In 2007, New Era changed the design of their 59Fifty hats significantly. The hats are now made of 100% performance polyester, which still has a wool feel and look to it, but has been described as softer, more durable, lighter, and fit more comfortably than the old versions.

The crowns are also said to not be as "box-shaped" as the older style. Replacing the gray underbill is a new black colored underbill, which was made to help reduce glare.

The sweatbands have been changed from white to black, in order to make sweat stains less evident. The brims are also said to have become sturdier and do not bend as easily as the older style.

Since New Era's change in design in 2007, the overall reviews of the hat have been positive. They are said to fit better, feel more comfortable, and overall are more asthetically pleasing than the previous hats.

Along with 59Fifty caps, new era also manufactured other brands of caps, including the 49Forthy (fitted, has a lower profile than the 59Fifty, and has a more casual, collegiate look), 39Thirty (a strength fit cap, and is used by MLB as the batting practice cap), 29Twenty (an adjustable, unstructured cap) , and EK (consists of designed premium hats and caps).

About the author

wholesale artful dodgerwholesale womens clothingJefferson John Babasa is the Senior Copy Writer working with Optimind Web Design and SEO, a web design and seo company in the Philippines. Optimind specializes in building and promoting websites that are designed for conversion.

Marketing for Conscious Entrepreneurs

There's a mistake I see happening everywhere. In fact, it's one of the biggest mistakes I've made in the past. The mistake is this: Many business owners never get clear about WHO their market is, IF there's a demand for their product or service, or HOW they will market and sell their products or services. They only know that the business idea they were given was a gift from God and therefore it MUST be destined to work in the marketplace!

Copyright (c) 2009 Christine Kloser

There's a mistake I see happening everywhere.
In fact, it's one of the biggest mistakes I've made in the past. The mistake is this: Many business owners never get clear about WHO their market is, IF there's a demand for their product or service, or HOW they will market and sell their products or services. They only know that the business idea they were given was a gift from God and therefore it MUST be destined to work in the marketplace!

If you are a business owner with incredible gifts and talents, but you're unwilling to get serious about sales, marketing and money because you say, "God will provide for me," listen up. Yes, God does provide. But, remember that money doesn't drop from the heavens; it is given to you through human hands (your target market's hands), in exchange for the products and services you provide and sell.

If your idea or dream feels like a spark of the Divine, that is a good start! But even the greatest ideas, the greatest dreams have to be relevant and delivered to your market to secure income and success. So, before you put your big idea into big action, take the following steps. (You'll thank me later.)

Step One:

Research - Research your idea to see if there is already an established market demand for your service or product. This step can be as simple as a Google search to see if other people have successful businesses in a similar area. I also recommend you go to the bookstore and look to see if there are books on the topic your business idea is based on. The more research you do, and the more similar enterprises you find, the better. (Competition means there's a market for your product/service.)

Step Two:

Identify - Identify your specific target market. You need to become crystal clear on who your target market is, because this will help you execute a marketing plan that simultaneously attracts those people you feel called to work with, and repels those people you don't. Repel may be a strong word, but it's true. Your Divine gift is not going to be expressed at its highest potential when you have clients who drain your energy, don't pay you enough money, make mountains out of mole hills and don't respect your time. And, that's exactly what happens when you attract the wrong type of client.

Step Three:

"Sell" Finally, you've got to get comfortable with selling. I'm not talking about the "cheesy car salesman" type of selling. I'm talking about selling something you believe in because you know your product or service matches the needs of your prospect or client. Take comfort in the fact that conscious business marketing is totally ethical. It has nothing to do with "closing the deal" but everything to do with "opening a conversation" about the ways in which you solve problems for your clients. Sadly, I see many entrepreneurs completely miss the point when it comes to connecting with their market. Without the connection to your market, you have no business. Remember, all successful businesses are the solutions to someone's problem.

The bottom line is, as a conscious entrepreneur, you have to go beyond the big idea. You must be clear about who your market is and how you can reach them with your message. And , you need to embrace the value of your product or service and ask for what you're worth!

About the author

Christine Kloser, author of The Freedom Formula, helps small businesses put soul in their business and money in the bank. If you want to enjoy a purpose-driven business and a soulful life, send for my free Conscious Business Success Kit, which includes my report, How to Avoid the 3 Massive Mistakes Made by Conscious Entrepreneurs and audio, 7 Strategies Entrepreneurial Authors Need to Know Before Writing a Word, at LoveYourLife.com.

Why Do You Need A Blogging Guide?

Building a successful blog is easy when you have the proper blogging guide. Still, do you really need a guide? Can't you just figure the blogging business out on your own?

If you want to make money online and you don't have enough money to own a website, then you should start with a blog. Many have been earning a living with blog when it was introduced.

But with the high frequency of blogs setting up everyday, how can you be sure that you can make money with blog?

The first thing you need is to invest in
blogging guide.

Why do you need a guide you ask?

For starter, having a guide helps you to stay ahead of the competition. You gain an upper hand against the bloggers who refuse to invest in a guide. A lot of blogging newbie thought they can figure the business out on their own. But by the time they knew what is the right way to make money with blog, bloggers who invested in a guide might already be earning their money in sleep.

Some of you might argue that you can use a free guide instead of paying for it.

In my personal opinion, free guide often act as a teaser for back-end products. It is not to say that authors are cheating you with free guide. But the information about successful blogging found in free blogging guide is usually limited.

A proper blogging guide is going to show you how to build a successful blog. Building a blog is as sophisticated as building a website. Everything you choose is going to impact your readers.

To start off with that, a guide is going to tell you which platform you should choose for your blog. Then, it will analyze with you the advantages and disadvantages of hosting your blog or just get one for free.

Never think that you can just simply choose a template and start posting with it. You need to take into account of your readers to build a successful blog. Do you know that readers are more likely to click on advertisements on their right hand side than their left? A blogging guide will tell you more about the things that you need to pay attention to when you want to make money with blog.

After that, a proper blogging guide is going to let you know how to promote your blog. It will show you the ways to submit your blog to RSS feeds, directories , blogging communities and more. All of this is going to generate lots of traffic to your blog and help you to build a successful blog.

About the author

As making a living is becoming more and more challenging, do you want to know how to make some extra cash online? Take a look at

=> www.BuddingPro.blogspot.com

Wong Michael is interested to help you to get more money into your bank account. He hopes to empower you with the techniques necessary and in return to learn something special from you.

Learn Affiliate Marketing - 4 Quick Affiliate Marketing Tips

Are you having problem making money with affiliate marketing? Have you equip yourself with the foundation to a successful affiliate marketing business? Have a look at these 4 tips before you start rushing into the online business industry...

Being successful in affiliate marketing doesn't need to be rocket science. Just learn these 4 tips as your foundation and you will be well on your on way to make money online.

1. Select product

If you look into the internet, you will find at least thousands of product
for you to be affiliate of. Pick a category of your choice and look for products that pay out more than $20.

2. Landing page

Successful affiliate marketers never send the prospects to the merchants directly. This is because prospects are not likely to buy your affiliate product at the first or second visit. You need to convince your prospects that the product will indeed benefit them and that need time.

What you can do is to extract the benefits bullet points from the merchant website, make some adjustment and publish them on your landing page. Only select the benefits that you think is outstanding because landing page is suppose to be short. Its main purpose is to capture your prospects' details.

3. Add freebies

Imagine that you are the prospect and will you give your email address to someone you can't see if there is nothing for you? Your prospects will most likely reserve their details when they get nothing.

Successful affiliate marketers know that they need to give something to exchange with prospects contact details. Be it a report or software as long as it benefits your prospects and attract your prospects to offer you their details.

4. Traffic

If you are serious to make money with affiliate marketing, you need to send targeted traffic to your landing page.

New affiliate marketers often start their online business with pay per click advertising. There is nothing wrong with that if you know how to leverage it.

You need to research for long tail keywords instead of using general keywords for your advertisement. Let's think about this, how many potential buyers are there if you use "compact digital camera"? You are grouping your prospects with information searcher together. You will waste money if the information searcher clicks on your ad.

Targeted traffic like "buy compact digital camera" is going to increase your conversion rate and save your money. So , make sure you target the traffic to your landing page.

About the author

Wong Michael personal goal is to help as much people as possible to be a successful internet marketer. He is happy that people are making progress with his internet marketing report and rebrandable keyword research tool. You too can be a successful internet marketer, just look at

=>http://www.beyondaffiliatecash.com

Business: New Age Business Woman

When the first generation of women entered the workforce in earnest in the 1970s, they succeeded in the only way they could – by imitating men.  Authoritarian leadership and tight control was the hallmark of that day's businessman, and women were not exactly welcomed into the ranks of management.  Well ladies, that was yesterday, and today is today!

When the first generation of women entered the workforce in earnest in the 1970s, they succeeded in the only way they could – by imitati
g men.  Authoritarian leadership and tight control was the hallmark of that day's businessman, and women were not exactly welcomed into the ranks of management.  Well ladies, that was yesterday, and today is today!

Forget what your mama or your boss told you, because following the rules can be bad for your career.  Today's CEO/entrepreneur can no longer tap his/her company's full potential using a "command-and-control" style.  The 21st century business woman needs to be able to build a vision based on the awareness of economic transformation, then help her partners and staff fulfill that vision.  She must draw on a wide range of skills to get to the top and stay there.  Following are 7 Key Characteristics that are essential:

1.    Sell the Vision: A leader with a fresh, independent plan for her company's growth and future has a distinct advantage in luring and keeping great talent and investors.  Vision is not some lofty ideal, but an obtainable concept that is easy to understand and will make the company grow to another level.
2.    Reinvent the Rules:  While women have traditionally been socialized to please others, the 21st century leader knows that good girls rarely post great returns.  The strong managers/owners today not only anticipate change, they create entirely new organizations that respond to shifts and search for innovation.
3.    Achieve With A Laser Focus:  Go where others fear to tread! Being aggressive and ambitious has long been considered male traits, but they are key qualities for new leaders.  Today's business woman has the ability to home in on opportunities that others may simply not see, and then excel in that uncharted territory. 
4.    Use High-Touch in a High-Tech Era:  When a number of leaders are conducting business by e-mail, voice mail, passwords, and PINs, the female entrepreneur succeeds because she guides with a strong, personal, bed-side manner. Today's business woman is just as technologically savvy as her peers, but her skill with staff and customers is "high-touch" which gives her a critical edge and separation from the "pack".
5.    Challenge or Opportunity? – Women are great at turning a challenge into an opportunity instead of using the "slash-and-burn" approach.  They are able to make bold strokes, but they also win the cooperation of others in the organization in making any transformation a success.
6.    A Customer Preference Obsession:  In this information age which makes it easier to shop around for the best "whatever", businesses must work harder to give people what they want before their competitors do.  There is no substitute for spending time with clients to become expert at their businesses and learn their demands.  Female leaders are almost intuitively adept in doing just that, and without the client even suspecting.
7.    Courage Under Fire:  Show me any career woman or female entrepreneur today that isn't able to "stand-the-heat" in any tough-call situation.  Their decision-making skills are rooted in a high level of confidence, because they've had to weather and surpass any and all "corporate" storms they've encountered over time.

It takes a certain mind-set and bravado for anyone to start their own business and succeed, but it's even more difficult for a female entrepreneur.  Let's face it, ladies!  We've always had to be twice-as-smart and twice-as-confident as any male counterpart in the corporate world.  After all, if we can bear and raise the future generation , how can running a successful business scare us?

About the author

Nicholas Tan has been involved in Article Writing, providing Free Articles, Internet Marketing, SEO, Adwords, & Adsense for more than 5 years and designs and develops websites. Submit your free articles and get your articles noticed! Get your Free Articles here! Submit Articles! We provide free articles and information. Check us out at Free Articles!

Are You Using Your Real Estate Blog to its Full Potential?

What are the best tips for writing a real estate blog? There are many good tips you can use. Make sure that you know what your readers want. Show your human side with your feelings about topics, with humor, and with your knowledge of your topics. Remember you are marketing yourself and your expertise as a real estate agent.

A real estate blog is one of the best marketing tools for agents. Real estate blogs are also good for trading or sharing information and tips with other agents. You can also use the blogs to give home selle
s and buyer's tips for hiring real estate companies and agents.

Realtors want all of the publicity that they can get. The main reason most realtors have a web site is so that prospective clients can find them. Of course it is also there for marketing purposes as well. This is where they can keep in touch with clients and blog about real estate matters.

Do not bring in too many ideas in one article. You want to cover maybe one or two points in your articles so they will be easy to understand for the average reader. That is your prospective client, write for them. Use topics of interest in today's real estate market.

It takes dedication and a lot of information that you can share with others whether it is fellow agents or prospective clients. Being able to write well does not always matter as most blogs are pretty informal. However if you want to look professional, your blog should look professional.

While you are blogging, choose links to relevant websites that have information that supports your blog. If you are linking to a blog, leave a comment or trackback on relevant or recent articles so that you can be linked back to and more prospective clients can find you.

Blogging to gain new clients is an art. It takes practice to know what will keep your readers coming back. Keep your articles short, interesting , and to the point. Make sure the issues discussed are current and offer answers and solutions.

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Share Your Expertise - Write Articles

Learn why writing articles is such a powerful and useful marketing tactic to add to your marketing strategy.

Writing articles was one of the first marketing strategies I used and I still use today. This has worked really well for me - I've written over 100 articles and had them published in a couple print publications and numerous online ezines and websites.

I enjoy writing and can do it fairly quickly and easily (at least some days!). But even if you feel you're not that great of a writer you can always do up a dra
t and get help with the copywriting and editing.

I believe that writing articles is such a powerful and useful way to market for several reasons:

- with your name in print, you can call yourself an author - which does wonders for how you are perceived

- build your credibility

- build your status as an expert

- you can repurpose articles: blog posts, compile a book, create a product, offer as a bonus, post on your website, use it in your ezine

- hone your writing skills

- sharpen your grasp of your subject matter

- build connection with your prospects and clients

- showcase your knowledge

- get people onto your list

When you write your articles, the expectation is not that you'll get paid. How you achieve value is by writing a great author resource "box" - basically a paragraph that tells who you are, how to contact you and gives them a call to action, such as going to your website to get a free-giveaway.

When people reprint your articles they have to include the author resource box and in that way, your name gets put in front of the readers and those that are interested know how to connect with you.

There are so many places that you can submit your article:

- free and low-cost article submission sites such as Ezine Articles and SubmitYourArticle

- online ezines

- association and industry newsletters

- local daily and community newspaper

- alumni newsletter

- other people's websites

- internet publications

- article directory sites

There are thousands and thousands of online and offline places where you can submit your articles for publication. People need content - whether it's a feature article or a filler.

Just remember, the content of your articles need to be valuable and relevant to the readers. And the places that you submit your articles to needs to have readers that are a fit with your target audience. You don't want to waste your time and the readers' time if the content of your articles isn't something they want to learn about!

I encourage you to start writing articles as part of your ongoing marketing strategies and if you're already writing , I challenge you to increase the number of articles that you consistently put out. This is one marketing tactic that will pay off for you!

About the author

Jody Gabourie, The Small Business Marketing Coach, teaches small business owners and entrepreneurs how to take action with their marketing in order to get more results and more profits. To learn all about her unique "done-for-you" ebooks called Ready Made Marketing Plans™ and to sign up for her FREE special report, ezine and articles, visit her site at http://www.JodyGabourieMarketingCoach.com

Debt Advice on Unmanageable Credit Card Repayments

Credit card debt advice is becoming increasingly sought after due to a number of factors. The availability of credit cards, a buy now pay later attitude and rising living costs have all played their part in unmanageable levels of debt.

It's estimated that credit card holders in the UK have a combined debt of around £55 billion and an overall credit limit of almost £180 billion.  From these figures, it's clear to see why more and more people have the need for debt advice and a soluti
n to their growing financial difficulties.

Here are some general tips regarding credit card debt:

    * Destroy your cards – If your level of credit card debt is already causing you problems and you're struggling to just pay off the interest then the best thing you can do is to destroy your credit cards and make sure you dispose of them securely. This may be a hard thing to do if you're relying on them to help pay bills every month but then you need to prioritise.
    * Prioritise your debts – When you're living with debt and have creditors calling and writing to you to chase for money then it's easy to lose focus. If you have a mortgage to pay then that should always be your number one priority as it's a loan secured against your home. Credit card debts are unsecured and while they still need to be paid off, they don't come with the same harsh consequences of defaulting on your mortgage payments.
    * Consolidation – If you have a number of credit cards with varying interest rates that are hard to keep up with then you may be eligible for a debt consolidation loan. This allows you to consolidate all of your existing unsecured debt into one loan that's usually secured against your property. The main advantages of this are that you stop the hassle from creditors overnight and also benefit from a lower interest rate on the debt you have, making the monthly repayments more manageable.
    * Balance transfers – There was a time when you could 'rate hop' from one credit card to another for free every 6 months or so to take advantage of great introductory offers for balance transfers. While many lenders still offer these deals, they usually come with a balance transfer fee now which is a set percentage of the amount you're switching. Depending on the APR of your existing card or cards , transferring the balance(s) could still save you money on monthly interest repayments.

Debt advice is a broad term but making sure it's relevant and specific to your needs is the key to taking control of your finances and your life.

About the author

Steve Lawton is Marketing Manager for Accuma Group Plc. Steve manages a number of debt management and debt advice related websites including www.debtsolver.co.uk and www.debt1.co.uk

How Professional Debt Advice Could Help You

Professional debt advice can play a critical role in finding you the right debt solution for your circumstances. There is plenty of debt advice available but often the hardest part is admitting you need help and being able to talk over your financial situation with someone

So what are the top 5 benefits of picking up the phone for professional debt advice?
    * You'll get tailored debt advice which is suited to your own circumstances rather than just a general approach
  
* You can talk to someone in confidence  and you may find it easier divulging details of your debt to someone who doesn't know you rather than a friend or family member
    * Just by talking about your financial problems and getting the right debt advice, you'll feel a huge weight lifted off your shoulders and can start to look forward
    * Talk to an expert who has direct and relevant experience of helping people in all manner of debt problems and different financial situations
    * One simple phone call can help you discover a debt solution you may not have even known about before and provide you with a practical way to become debt free
The process of freeing yourself from the worry, anxiety and stress of debt begins with debt advice which will help you weigh up all your options, evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the debt solutions available and also find out what the implications of your decision will be.
It's important to remember that there's no 'quick fix' or completely painless solution to your debt problems. Based on the debt advice you receive you should make a considered decision and be prepared for the changes to your life which can happen as a result.
If you ignore the professional debt advice you're given then you could end up making your situation worse. For example if you opt for a debt solution that's not right for you it could end up with one of your creditors petitioning for your bankruptcy which would mean the possibility of losing your home and job.


To benefit from free professional debt advice you can trust , call DebtSolver now!

About the author

Steve Lawton is Marketing Manager for Accuma Group Plc. Steve manages a number of debt management and debt advice related websites including www.debtsolver.co.uk and www.debt1.co.uk

Making Money Online Is Hard - 4 Reasons

Creating an income on the Internet is getting easier, but there are a large number of people who still have a problem with it. Here are four reasons making money online is hard for the majority of people who try to do it.

There are a large number of people who still have a problem with creating an income on the Internet, even though it is getting easier.Here are four reasons making money online is hard for the majority of people who try to do it.

1. They target the wrong market! It is much easier to sell a product in a
market where people are currently spending money. Therefore you need to know what those markets are.

One of the keys to being successful is by doing market research before you try to make money. There are multiple ways to find the right markets including going to a bookstore and seeing what the most popular selling books are.

One way to learn what types of products are being advertised is to pick up a newspaper and check the ads. Affiliate marketing makes it possible for you to sell products in these types of markets once you know what they are.

2. They sell the wrong products! One of the easiest ways to make money right now is to sell information products that solve problems in the market that you are targeting.

One thing that gives you the opportunity to provide information to people is the Internet. If you find the right products to sell making money online becomes much easier.

3. They use the wrong types of Internet marketing! One thing that is misunderstood is that you can build a successful Internet business strictly on free advertising methods.

The reason this can be a problem is most people will give up and quit before they ever reach the point that all of the free advertising begins to work for them. You need to spend money on advertising and use the right types of Internet marketing to make money quicker.

4. They quit too soon! It is a proven fact that literally millions of people make money online every day. It is also proven fact that millions more never make a penny on their Internet business.

The ones who quit too soon never learn the skills it takes to become one of the successful ones. Therefore if you want to be successful making online you must have the attitude that you will do whatever it takes.

This is four reasons making money online is so hard for people. If you will choose the right market, pick the right products, promote them correctly, and do not give up , you can make money on the Internet.

About the author

Walt Gemmell is the owner and webmaster of http://www.wcgem.com,the site for home business opportunities Article Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Walt_Gemmell

5 More Ways to Make your LinkedIn Profile Work for You

Your LinkedIn Profile is your presence on LinkedIn. You can't do anything in LinkedIn until your Profile is up. It's like your resume and more. When someone looks at your Profile, they'll decide whether to connect with you or hire you. These are 5 Insider Secrets that show you how to make your Profile compelling and be sure you're found when people search for clients, top talent for jobs, and people to connect and network with in LinkedIn.

When someone looks at your Profile, they'll decide whether to connect with you, hire you
as an employee or for your services based on what they see there. Make it a good first impression, and make it compelling so that they contact you.

People want to connect with people they know, like and trust. And they buy from and hire people they know, like and trust. Be sure your LinkedIn Profile shows who you are and that people can know, like and trust you.

Here are some more tips for creating your Profile so that you're found on LinkedIn, and your Profile shows them that you're the best person to connect with.

1. When your LinkedIn Profile is complete, it's searchable by the search engines - almost like your own Web page. Look at other peoples' Profiles before you create yours. There are good examples to look at to get ideas for what to include in your Profile. Check out several in your industry or area and some that are outside your area. And complete your LinkedIn Profile as soon as possible, even if it's not perfect. Your LinkedIn Profile is dynamic, and you'll be making changes as you find a job, work with more clients, and see how other people write their Profiles.

2. Get Recommendations as soon as your Profile is finished. Offer to write a Recommendation for people you know and have worked with. Ask people who know you to write a Recommendation for you. Perhaps people from the company where you work, or clients, if you have your own business. Recommendations are like testimonials about you, and can include how you've worked together, results you've achieved, and why someone likes working with you. A good way to get Recommendations is to offer to write one for people you know on LinkedIn. Often they'll write one for you in return.

3. Make a list of your goals and what you want to get from being a part of LinkedIn. There's a summary section of your Profile where you list why you're a part of LinkedIn, and what you want to get from it. For example, new clients, a new job, let people know about your business or special events, etc. These may change as your goals change.

4. Make it a habit to use LinkedIn before you travel. Search for people in the city you're traveling to, connect with them via LinkedIn or a phone call or e-mail. Send them the link to your Profile, and tell them you're in LinkedIn and want to meet with them when you're in their city. Solid networks are being built in person through LinkedIn.

5. HOT TIP: Include the link to your LinkedIn Profile in your e-mail signature, so people can click right through to see it. This has paid off for me in many ways. For example, I sent out an e-mail with the link to my LinkedIn Profile in the signature line, and someone contacted me and said that my e-mail prompted him to look at my LinkedIn Profile and my Web site, and he wanted to connect with me. He was from Hungary, and we've already connected on LinkedIn and when he was in the U.S. recently.

Also include your link in the resource box of articles you write. Be sure you personalize it before you start sending it out. For example, rather than the link that LinkedIn gives you automatically, which is something like, www.linkedin.com/in/146t25ab, personalize it so people can read it and know it's you. (It's easy). Mine is www.linkedin.com/in/janwallen.

And here's extra tip for you - because I believe in Lagniappe, a New Orleans custom that means "a little bit extra". It started in New Orleans when the baker gave you an extra bun when you ordered a dozen. And I've adopted it and made it a part of my business practice.

Your Lagniappe (a little bit extra):

6. Connect with people you know and want to know on LinkedIn on a consistent basis. Invite people to be a part of your LinkedIn network regularly. It's very easy to extend an invitation - there's an e-mail that LinkedIn has already created that invites someone to be a part of your network. They can view your Profile on LinkedIn. My recommendation is to personalize your Invitation rather than use the rather bland one that was written by LinkedIn. For example, make it personal and friendly , and say more about why you want to connect and about who you are and what you're looking for in LinkedIn.

© 2008-2009 Jan B. Wallen. All rights reserved.

About the author

Are people finding you on LinkedIn? Does your Profile have the right keywords? Do they see why you're the best person for the job? If they don't, they can't hire you or work with you. Jan Wallen's Profile Makeover tells you exactly what to do. You've just read 5 Insider Secrets for your LinkedIn Profile. If you found them helpful, you'll find lots more at http://www.LinkedInWorks.com in Jan's book, eColumn, teleseminars and workshops.

Home Business Expert: Retiring At 38 - We Did It

Planning to retire early and start your own home business? Yes it can be done - your home business can indeed be successful.

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Retiring at 38 is a dream for many people, but for how many does is it really become a reality? Not many, yes, but the good news is, it is very much possible. In this age of the Internet, the world has opened up like never before and the market today is vast. There are countless opportunities that almost anyone can leverage to amass enough wealth and become prosperous. And it doesn't take that long too. We did it ourselves and so we know what we are talking about. And we have also realized that with some effort, focus, perseverance and the right guidance, almost anyone can become so successful that he or she can think of retiring early.

 

There is a great irony in life and this center around our work, our dreams and the need to generate wealth so that we can lead a comfortable life. Most of us love to dream big – perhaps of that long laid back holiday in that exotic island or of owning that mansion they showed on cable. But the problem is, most of us do not have that kind of funds and so those who are really inspired, work hard to amass enough wealth so that they are able to fulfill their dreams. And in doing this, most people end up working so hard that they miss out on the good things of life. Suddenly close to retirement they find that most of their dreams remain unfulfilled.

 

So the key here is to work smart, and not necessarily work hard. Get the right training if need be to learn as much as possible about your trade and then put this learning to work. Look out for the right opportunities and then jump ahead. Take a look around you and you will find that there are so many successful people out there, there's no reason why you cannot be a success too. Learning from the leaders and following what they did is a good idea – but you may have to customize it according to your needs and condition. Following it blindly may not work always.

 

So with the right opportunity, plan and by putting in some work, you can for sure amass enough wealth soon. And this will let you finally begin to think of retirement. Once you are there , you can spend the rest of your life as you please and do the things you have always wanted to. This is the life you have dreamt of – the life you deserve to lead.

About the author

Currently residing in Atlanta, GA, Nancy and Bill Jamison have been married 9 incredible years. They have 2 brilliant children – Rex and Luke – that keep them grounded in the present moment and continuously teach them about the wonderment of life. Nancy is a successful Home Business Expert & Entrepreneur, the Co-Author of Hyper-Growth: How to Catapult the Growth of Any Small Business Using Proven M5 System, due out in Spring 2009 & the CO-Leader of a weekly International Mastermind Meeting. Nancy is an avid reader, gardener, world traveler and lifelong student of Personal Development. Together, Nancy & Bill share their love for God by volunteering at their Church and teaching Sunday school. To find out more about Nancy Jamison & to receive a FREE Business Strategy Call (value $400) & a FREE Audio of Marketing & Advertising Strategies with Nancy Jamison (value $250), visit http://LiveInProsperity.net

3 Work From Home Online

How many work from home ideas do you have floating around in your head? Many people get overwhelmed when it comes to figuring out how to make money working from home. You really only need one good idea to actually make money and in this article we will talk about three excellent ones!

Copyright (c) 2009 Kha Ton

How many working at home ideas do you have flying around in your head? Many people get overwhelmed when it comes to finding out how to make money working at home. Actually you need only one best idea to make mon
y and we will talk about three excellent ones in this article!

1. Start an Internet business setting up blogs and providing blog content. There is a tremendous market right now for blog content as well as for helping people start a blog.

You can quickly create a successful blog business of your own by becoming a one stop shop. Now this is one of the best exciting parts of the idea!

You can outsource everything and all you need to do is manage and market your business. Find a couple of people who will set up blogs for you and pay them to do the blog set up.

Get a couple of quality writers and pay them to write blog content for the blog you are selling. What you are creating is a blog business in a box that many people will find attractive if you are competitively priced.

2. Start a blog flipping business of your own. You can outsource again most of the work.

The key is you develop blogs in profitable markets, add content to them, get them optimized with the search engines, and then put them up for sale. You could get a full time living, flipping blogs and that's not out of the question.

3. Become a blog writer and write for other blog owners. There is no end to the number of blogs that need content added to them right now as we write this.

This presents a wonderful opportunity for you to create a business from the bottom up as a blog writer. You will develop many customers over a period of time that you can earn a full time living working at home writing blog content for people who really need it.

Here is three work at home ideas that all center around blogging. We mention this because search engines love blogs which make them valuable real estate and it is an extremely hot market right now.

You can begin building blog business in a box, flip them , or just do blog writing content if you choose. All of these three ideas can be tremendously lucrative and let you to work at home.

About the author

Kha Ton specializes in helping people who are not making money at home. He invites you to visit his website right now so he can help you how to success working from home. Work From Home Online

A Short History of the Chair

Chairs as you can imagine have a long history, for as long as there has been man (and woman) there has been the need to sit down on something comfortable. See this short history of the chair, it has suprising depths.

Chairs as you can imagine have a long history, for as long as there has been man (and woman) there has been the need to sit down on something comfortable, or as comfortable as was available, affordable and most importantly perhaps "allowable".

Why "allowable", well throughout history chairs have reflected
he status of the person sitting on them. The size, decoration and sheer ornateness of the chair saying a lot about the person sitting in it. Indeed in classical times to the time of the pharaohs, the chair was reserved for the high and mighty, only kings, lords and bishops were allowed chairs at all, the rest of the populace had to do with sitting on chests, benches or stools.

The church and the chair have an even deeper connection, as the word "chair" derives from the Latin "cathedra", the connection being the designation of a church that was the "seat" of a bishop as a cathedral.

The chair however goes far further back than Latin however, the Egyptians having created some highly ornamental chairs for their pharaohs, while the Ancient Greeks way back in 1400BC were building chairs with four sturdy wooden legs, their design, the klismos being adopted by the Romans who introduced it in all the territories they conquered.

Chairs were developed rich carvings and polychromatic surface treatments for the important members of society, but by the mid 1650's chairs became common and were often upholstered. By the mid 1750's most carpenters and chair designers had got the message that the chair should not only look good, but should be actually be nice to sit on too, hence chairs that hugged the contours of the human body were produced. These chairs had bow shaped backs and curved legs, the arm rests were padded (and in many cases richly embroidered too). It was incidentally, during this period that the 'chaise lounge', the precursor of the sofa was developed, this being a chair on which a lady could recline.

The French too are said to have a great effect on the evolution of the chair, the first truly lightweight and comfortable chairs being developed by French chair designers. Their efforts sparked off a whole class of upholstered chairs, including sleeping chairs, armchairs, wing chairs, and a chairs characterized by having seat heights more convenient for uses other than at a dining table or desk, e.g. slipper chairs and lounge chairs.

In Victorian England the legs of chairs were covered in many cases, as it was feared that they too closely resembled those of a women and as such might inflame the senses...

Chair construction methods have changed dramatically over the years too.

During the 18th century, before furniture production passed largely into the realms of mass production and of factories, chairs were made with even more curves than before, a process that required considerable more material, the curved sections, the legs and backs, being usually sawn out of solid wood in one piece.

In fact, the progress from straight (and sometimes turned legs) to shapes such as the cabriole and the klismos, and the development of designs not requiring stretchers, (these relying on other techniques like knee blocks and corner blocks) can be followed as a logical timeline up to the point where commercial pressures for continual change and innovation resulted in the riot of revival styles that characterized the 19th century.

Of all the types of furniture, the chair in fact presents the greatest structural challenges, as they have to address the inherently weak part of a chair's construction, the joint between the seat and the back leg, an area especially strained when the occupant leans or tilts backwards.

So the humble chair has not only an interesting history , it also is a structural work of art too.

Long live the comfy chair.

About the author

Chairs are needed by everyone and for about just about any event, but if they can be comfortable and stackable too, then that is even better. Burgess Furniture have been producing quality stackable tables and chairs for many years. See their extensive range at http://www.burgessfurniture.com and also at their German site at http://www.hs-bankett.de

Making Money Online.

If you are starting a website, and pursuing a business where a great deal of your income could come from lead generation and general traffic, then there are several decisions you could make to develop your website - creating a truly profitable business. What are the tools you'll need to be able to convert that all important traffic into potential income?

If you are creating a website, and pursuing a business where quite a bit of your income could be generated by lead generation and general traffic, then there are specific deci
ions that you could take to develop your website further - creating an extremely profitable business.

What are the tools you'll need to be able to change that all important traffic into actual income?

Whether you are starting out online, or even if you already have a website in place, it's never too soon or too late to put your strategy in place and start turning your website into a beehive of activity. The various key areas you will need to focus on are simple, and with a little time - and the right tools, you'll start to generate the desired outcome.

Here are my 5 most vital steps for creating the perfect foundation for your online business.

1. A Website.

This is the foundation of the business. It is absolutely vital that you get this right. Your website will suggest to your traffic the quality and excellence of your product or service. You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Think of your website in terms of surroundings. You wouldn't necessarily want to sit for a while in car park, however if you were walking through a park with trees and pleasant surroundings, you're more likely to stay a while. Your website is the same, and with the competitive nature of the internet, certainly seeking advice on style, colour and branding is vital for creating the perfect environment for your potential customers or clients. No matter what you are building, from a website advertising your services, to an affiliate portal, an eCommerce shopping cart site or a place to administer memberships or subscriptions, the same rules apply.

2. Clear, Concise well thought out Content.

Once your audience is sitting comfortably, they will need content, something of interest. Your website content is not just about words, as the text can contain several SEO factors which you may not have considered, for example, Flesch readability scores. You may understand your website, but have you thought about whether or not other people do? Does your content contain key words and search phrases? Have you considered your 'behind the scenes' Meta Data carefully? Have you compared your website and your business with your primary competitors? Seeking assistance in acquiring this data can be extremely valuable in terms of knowing what you need to do - content wise, to succeed.

3. SEO and a Fresh Flow of Information.

What happens to a place of business on an empty road? It just stands there empty, although on occasion, by some chance, a few drivers find themselves lost and wander in as temporary visitors. You need to make sure that your website is not that location. You need to have a consistent flow of traffic and several good reasons for the search engines to put your website further up in the rankings. A vital part of your website is a fresh flow of content. Whether this is in the form of a Blog, a Forum, News Announcements and Updates, Regular Special Offers or Articles - there should be new information coming in as often as possible.

4. Lead Capture, Email Marketing and CRM.

It's not what your customers can do for you, but what you can do for your customers. Adding a subscription box to your website will begin a relationship between you and your visitors. Once they have given you their email address - and their name, they are inviting you to tell them more about your business and your services. They would like to hear from you. Use this to your advantage. By managing your contacts with an exceptional CRM and Email Marketing System, you will have the privilege of additional time to concentrate on building the relationship between yourself and your valued visitors.

5. Marketing.

Once you have built your website into a solid foundation for your online business, get creative with your online marketing. Article marketing, networking, blogging, digital media, press releases, and reciprocal links, along with contributing to targeted websites, groups and communities are all ways of promoting your website.

So what is this extraordinary method?

Pulling all these pieces together with little or no knowledge can be very difficult, and even if you're sure you're taking the right course of action, using various DIY options usually results in a great deal of time and money wasted, as the end product is rarely satisfactory.

To make sure you are using the right tools for the job, consider hiring an expert Virtual Assistant to help you with bringing these elements together. Work out an in depth plan with your VA so that you can have a step by step - tailor made plan. Take time to talk with your VA and explain your situation in detail, so that you and your new team can stay focused, moving as efficiently as possible towards the acquisition of your goals.

The most important step is to remember - never give up, as building a business takes time , just stay focused on the primary goal and your efforts will eventually pay off.

About the author

Michelle Dale is The Managing Director of Virtual Miss Friday, an experienced Virtual Assistant who helps businesses and individuals actualize their professional requirements. Do you want to discover more about these astounding online business development success strategies? Get your own absolutely essential FREE Digital Newsletter today!

How To Send A Fax Online

Online or Internet faxing is becoming extremely popular but they are still many people who wonder just how exactly do you send a fax online? Read to find out and also discover why Internet faxing is the wave of the future...

Copyright (c) 2009 Titus Hoskins

Online faxing is becoming extremely popular with individuals and companies. Some say it will make using the old traditional fax machine obsolete in the very near future. That still remains to be seen for there's a lag time before new technologies fully replace the o
d ones.

While we are pondering that question, there are still many people wondering how this new way of faxing actually works. Just how do you send a fax online?

First, you must know, online or Internet fax is simply using your computer and the web to send your faxes. You sign-up with an online fax provider where you're given a local or Toll-Free fax number which you can use to send and receive your faxes. Your fax provider acts as an intermediary on your behalf to handle your faxes.

Faxes are sent via email attachments, usually in TIFF or PDF format, thru your computer and the internet. Remember, faxes can be sent from one online fax account to another and also from your fax account/number to a traditional fax machine and vice versa. Again, your online fax service will act as an intermediary and handle all your fax transitions, whether they're coming from another online fax account or from a traditional fax machine.

Most online fax service providers will have an online site (interface) where you can logon and check your faxes. You can also send your faxes from this online account and you can also store your faxes there. Plus, you can send your faxes directly through your email system, so check with your particular fax service to see how this is done.

In addition, some fax services have a desktop application where you can send and receive your faxes. Again, check with your particular fax service to get the details. Other plans are directly integrated with Microsoft Office applications and works with Excel, Word and PowerPoint documents.

With online faxing, you can still have a cover letter and a multi-page fax, the same as with a fax machine, but you're using an email attachment to hold and transmit your fax.

Why Are So Many People Switching To Online Fax?

Many individuals and companies are switching over to Internet faxing mainly because it has many advantages: it's paperless, inkless, phoneless, totally legal, cheaper, more secure and much more convenient than traditional faxing. It is completely mobile - you can use it with your laptops, cell phones, PDAs... to receive and send your faxes. Basically, your faxes are accessible wherever you have the Internet and these days that's just about everywhere.

Online faxing is also seen as a "green" way to fax since it is paperless and inkless. Plus, you save energy by not having a fax machine running 24/7 just to receive your faxes.

Moreover, using online fax is the wave of the future. It connects all your faxing with your computer and the Internet. It is always on and no more missed faxes because of busy signals since with Internet fax you can receive faxes simultaneously.

Online fax is one way to keep your company or business more competitive especially if faxing is very important for acquiring sales, clients and communicating with your employees. In these harsh economic times , you must stay competitive or lose out; that's why many companies are using online fax services in addition to their old fax machines. Others are switching completely over to this new way of faxing.

You must use every advantage you can find. So getting an online fax service is just another way to make your business more competitive. Keep this in mind when you go to send your next fax.

About the author

For more information on Internet Fax Services use this handy online Comparison Guide to get your own: Fax Online Or if you want more detailed information on Internet Faxing try here: Internet Fax Guide Titus Hoskins 2009. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

Selling Your eBook Resale Rights On eBay

If you have been thinking about starting a home business on eBay, but haven't come up with anything to sell, here's your answer: ebooks! An ebook is a digital equivalent of a traditional print book, but is only available in electronic form. Buyers love ebooks because they are incredibly affordable, and can be downloaded and read instantly after purchase. Sellers love ebooks because they can be easily reproduced at a low cost.

If you have been thinking about starting a home business on eBay, but haven't come up with anything to
sell, here's your answer: ebooks! An ebook is a digital equivalent of a traditional print book, but is only available in electronic form. Buyers love ebooks because they are incredibly affordable, and can be downloaded and read instantly after purchase. Sellers love ebooks because they can be easily reproduced at a low cost, and sold in mass quantities for a huge profit.

Perhaps you haven't considered selling ebooks as a method of making money online, or maybe you think you aren't capable of writing an ebook worth selling. Well, not to worry: you don't have to know anything about writing ebooks to sell them. And ebooks are so easy to duplicate, you can sell as many as you want without paying another dime for a product again. As your business grows, you can acquire more ebooks, or even venture into writing your own ebooks, and recreate the success as many times as you want.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of ebooks all over the internet, just waiting to be purchased by you. Ebooks packaged with certain resale rights can give you an even greater opportunity to make money. With resale rights, you can sell ebooks to other sellers to sell online. Marketing your ebooks to buyers who are looking to make their own money selling ebooks is an untapped market that you can take advantage of. Put yourself at the top of the ebook chain, and ebook sellers will come to you looking for a product that they can sell to others.

When searching for ebooks to sell on eBay, make sure that the ebooks you purchase come with resale rights attached, and that you have the right to pass on those resale rights to your buyers. Don't be fooled - some ebooks only offer resale rights to the original buyer, which means you can resell the ebook to others, but your buyer can't resell the ebook to anyone else. Without these rights, you can get yourself - and your buyers - into a lot of trouble.

Market your ebooks with resale rights on eBay to buyers who are looking for an easy way to make money. Thousands of people are on the hunt for new opportunities every day, and you can help them find one, while cashing in at the same time. An because ebooks can be recreated over and over, you can sell as many as you want to as many buyers as you want, without spending any more money.

The more your business grows, the bigger your ebook inventory will get. You can keep selling ebooks to your current customers when you add additional ebooks to your store, and you can sell old ebooks to new customers. The possibilities are literally endless. And with the market for ebooks constantly in demand, you can be at the top of the chain as one of the biggest supplier of ebooks , and let someone else worry about finding customers to market to.

About the author

If you want to make money on eBay while raising the kids, visit http://AuctionPaydayKidsPlay.com to find out how. Vickie Sayce has written a very informative book on starting an eBay business to make money from home while raising the kids. She teaches others how to get started on eBay (VickieSayce.com), and has been buying and selling on eBay since 2001. Her ebay store is Vickie's Ventures.

How to Fill a Network Marketing Matrix

In the movie Pay it Forward, Haley Joel Osment's character begins a 3 x infinity matrix plan to spread a message of good will to help people. Today, countless network marketing companies use this clip in their marketing material, but are these compensation plans really helping people by promising an easy wealth solution?

Copyright (c) 2009 Nathan Gurley

In the movie Pay it Forward, Haley Joel Osment's character begins a 3 x infinity matrix plan to spread a message of good will to help people. Today, countless network
arketing companies use this clip in their marketing material, but are these compensation plans really helping people by promising an easy wealth solution?

A vast majority of these plans claim "No Sponsoring Required" to make money online. Get in quick to get rich quick is the implication. As of this writing Push Button Xtreme comes to mind, last month it was Web Prosperity, and before that it was Lawn Chair Millionaire. These so called business opportunities are rampant on the Internet yet they never seem to stay around for extended lengths of time.

Granted there are reputable network marketing companies with legitimate products that do stand the test of time, but you still have to fill your matrix one way or another.

Many matrix compensation plans promise spillover, which is where other members spill into your matrix from the efforts of your upline as their levels fill. The problem occurs when MLM companies promise spillover and members rely on it. This is a recipe for failure. In order for any network marketing to succeed, people have to actually treat it like a business and help build the network.

It is not netfree marketing or netplay marketing; it is netWORK marketing and it requires well, work.

Forced matrices are workable business models provided there is proper team support and motivation for all involved fostering an environment of synergistic team building. An ideal situation is to develop business relationships and team building outside of a specific business opportunity and move as a group when opportunity presents itself.

This is achieved by providing workable, teachable and proven solutions to help team members duplicate efforts and reach higher levels by encouraging leadership. In this environment spillover will occur but it is vital to emphasize that work is involved and help is available for those ready to put on their game face and get after it.

In the end, building a network marketing matrix is like any other business in that it requires hard work , dedication and determination. Those ready to work together to achieve long-term residual income must stay on task and stick to the game plan. Those who think they can get something for nothing will not work and will net what they started with - nothing!

About the author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nathan BF Gurley is a real estate appraiser, musician, blogger and social networker. Please visit NathanGurley.com For more matrix information please visit MatrixTruth.info

Social Currency: More Than Just a Fad

Included with the current social networking and Web 2.0 craze is a resurgence of the concept of "social currency".

Included with the current social networking and Web 2.0 (think Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, MySpace, Plaxo, etc.) craze is a resurgence of the concept of "social currency".

I first heard the concept of social currency described as the "whuffie" factor from Cory Doctorow several years ago.

When cut down to its barest essence, I think of "social currency" as essentially the trust and personal connec
ion you create with people (clients, prospects and the community in general) when you do things for the better good, or in service of others, without thinking of yourself first.

Building social currency equates to taking people on the journey of first being a disinterested prospect (MAYBE they've heard of you), to wanting to know all about you (a sense of infatuation if you will), to then becoming a client (they're happy to give you money) and, if you've done your job well, a passionate advocate (referrals come pouring in).

You see, it's not money which makes the world go round. . .it's relationships.

Building them with your prospects and valuing them with your clients -- above all else -- is the mark of a successful business leader.

For some, increasing your social currency is as simple as getting up every morning -- it's who you are naturally as people and business owners. For others, it's a great lesson in self-awareness and how you treat others (Scrooge is a classic example).

Make It Real: My Request to You

Here are a few ways you can earn social currency with your prospects and clients:

1. Let your guard down and be open and honest with everyone, especially if you've made a mistake -- after all, we're all human and mistakes are gonna happen.

2. Listen to what your clients and prospects are telling you -- if not by their words, then by their actions.

3. Remember that less is not always more. Treat your clients and prospects as you want to be treated, or better.

4. Be client-centric and develop all of your programs, products, calls, etc. from a place of being of service to your client first and foremost.

5. Look for ways you can contribute, just to help someone out or provide info without expecting anything in return, and act on them.

Earning social currency goes far beyond providing good customer service. It's a way of being which shows your clients and prospects that you care about them and connect with them as people , not just as a revenue source.

How full is your "wallet"?

About the author

For the past 5 years, Sandra Martini has been showing self-employed business owners how to get more clients consistently by implementing processes and systems to put their marketing on autopilot. Visit Sandra at http://www.SandraMartini.com for details, compelling client testimonials and her free audio series "5 Simple and Easy Steps to Put Your Marketing on Autopilot".

Effective Home Staging Designs Specific Lifestyles Appealing to Target Market

Home Staging is the art of decorating a home to sell quickly and for top dollar. It is the most proven way to get the HIGHEST SELLING PRICE for a property. However to be most effective at home staging you will need to know your target market and cater to them in staging design. Find out how to recognize your target market and tips on designing your marketing plan to capitalize upon their real estate needs.

Copyright (c) 2009 Alice Chan

We all know that Home Staging is the art of decorating a home to sell quickly and fo
top dollar. It is the most proven way to get the highest selling price for a property as you prepare it for sale.

An important thing for both Real Estate Agents and Home Stagers to remember is that before you start the staging process, you need to do research about whom is most likely going to buy the house, otherwise known as the TARGET MARKET.

Staging is not just about hanging up some art, sticking a tree in the corner and adding pretty pillows to the sofa. This seems to be the misconception sometimes.

Haven't we all received phone calls from potential customers who tell us, "Oh, there's not much to be done. Just a few accessories will do the trick". That's someone who doesn't truly understand the psychology behind Staging. It's part of your marketing plan and should be very strategic.

By knowing who the target market is, you will be able to design a lifestyle around that to appeal to that specific group of potential buyers and the real estate agent can design a marketing plan specifically to attract those same people.

So next time you're commissioned to transform a property into a marketable showcase, ask yourself (or the real estate agent):

- Who are the prospective buyers?

- What do they like?

- Do they have kids?

- Do they have pets?

- Do their parents live with them?

Here are 5 reasons why you should know who the buyers will be:

1. You can cater the property to them.

2. You can draw immediate attention and instant appeal.

3. You can fix up the property faster and more economically.

4. The house will sell faster.

5. The sellers will save time and ultimately, money.

To elaborate on who the prospective buyers is, you want to know the following:

- Where are they from?

- What is their background?

- What is their ethnic heritage?

Scope out the neighborhood and get to know the neighbors so you learn what type of person is likely to move into the neighborhood. Generally speaking, there is a commonality amongst neighbors.

Visit competing homes for sale to see what those homes have to offer to give you a better sense of the types of upgrades that may or may not be needed. Notice the likes and dislikes of the neighborhood.

Are all the yards well maintained? Are they privacy seekers? Is there a sense of community? It's important to take their lifestyles into consideration so you can design the right way to market the property to that type of person.

Is this community mostly filled with starter families? If so, staging bedrooms for young kids would be a good idea. Otherwise, if the neighborhood consists mostly of older kids, you'll need to design more sophisticated spaces.

Are they huge sports fans? Capitalizing on a homey family room with a BIG plasma TV would be ideal for that type of neighborhood.

Is it in a golf community? Perhaps creating a study with a golf theme is just the thing you need or maybe a coastal or beach themed space in a water community or designing a floor plan that takes advantage of fantastic views.

If you're ever in doubt about how to create buyer appeal that caters to a specific target market, visit new home developments in your area and see how they have designed their model units. Developers spend a lot of time and money doing market research about who their potential buyers will be and relay that information to their model home designers.

The style and décor needs to match the neighborhood, the home, and most importantly, the target market. For example, if it's a 2-bedroom, 1-bath condo in the city or a more metropolitan part of town, the likely target market is a single person - a bachelor or bachelorette or even a young couple.

The ideal buyer is most likely someone in their 20s. Their lifestyle is going to be very carefree because there are no "family" considerations. Their style is probably going to be more contemporary and edgy. The second bedroom could be staged as a home office because that's probably what it would be used for. Staging it as a guest bedroom or a nursery is going to be less appealing.

On the flip side, if it's a 4-bedroom, 2-bath, single family home in the suburbs, this is a classic family home. The potential buyer or "target market" is going to be a couple with a growing family. Their lifestyle is going to be very family-oriented so the family room and kitchen areas are very important as this is where they will be spending most of their time. The décor should be more relaxed and family friendly.

You'll need to work with the real estate agent to know who the potential buyers are and deliver the perfect house to them. Figure out what they want versus what they need. Remember, it's not about you or the seller; it's what the buyers want that will sell the house.

You need a focused design plan to create the results the seller wants. When they learn that your services are more strategic and designed to help them achieve their goals, they'll be more inclined to refer you and want to work with you. Your goals should always be to position yourself as a value added service , not a frivolous expense.

About the author

Alice T. Chan is the Staging Designers' Success Coach and founder of SuccessfulStagingBiz.com. Our tools/programs help Staging Designers catapult their success by turning an expensive hobby into a profitable expression of their talent. Alice publishes the bi-weekly ezine "Set the Stage for Your Success". To skyrocket your Staging Design business and gain credibility in record time, get FREE tips now at http://www.SuccessfulStagingBiz.com .

Surviving the Flood

How to survive the flood of advertisements

It is not raining, but there is a flood out there on the streets.  It is not rain.  No, it is a flood of advertising.  Everywhere you look, companies are fighting tooth and nail for that extra bit of ad space in a battle for consumer attention.  

It can seem daunting for aspiring marketers.  After all, a mediocre ad is certain to get lost amid the throng of competing advertisements.  Do not give up hope before you have even
gotten started, though.  There are a few tips that can turn your average ad into a knockout punch to consumer's glass jaws.

Answer the question - The customer has one question they will ask themselves when they see your advertisement.  "What's in it for me?"  They may phrase it differently, but the basic idea is the same.  You have to appeal to a need or a desire to get your customer to pay any attention to your ad.  Your product will not appeal to everyone, but if you are actively addressing a need (real or perceived), you will not reach anyone.

K.I.S.S. - If you do not know it already, the acronym stands for "Keep it simple, stupid."  It is great advice for making ads.  There is a limited amount of space in your design layout and there is a limited amount of viewing time before your ad loses the customer's interest.  

With that in mind, it should be clear how important streamlining your message is.  Give your headline, make your offer and give just enough product detail to not leave the viewer confused about what you are trying to sell them.  Any extraneous product information can be given to them in person when they visit your store to inquire about the product.

Keep It Real - If you've ever done a job hunt before (if not, lucky you) you've likely seen classifieds that promise you can work from home, set your own hours and make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.  If your even halfway intelligent and have any job experience, you know at a quick glance that promise is too good to be true.

Your potential customers will turn away from your ad just as quickly if they sense you are making impossible claims you cannot follow through on.  Instead of telling customers your product will forever change their lives, tell them how you are product can help them in their day-to-day life.

By utilizing these tips when deciding on the color printing services for your next marketing campaign, you will make the difference between an ad that flounders and an ad that rises to the top.  In a flood of advertising , it is always nice to have a life preserver handy.

Learn more about color printing .

About the author

Kaye Z. Marks is an avid writer and follower of developments in color printing industry and how these improvements can benefit small to medium-scale business.

Learn How To Make Money Online From The Pros

you cannot expect to jump on the internet and get rich immediately. It takes a great deal of time and patience. In addition to this, you have to be willing to go out and learn from the pros.

No matter what job you get into, you are going to need some training and advice when first starting out. You cannot expect to go into a job and know everything right off of the bat. The same can be said about the internet; you have to learn how to make money online in order to succeed. So who can you turn to?

There are a number
f people that can help you learn how to make money online. If you are joining an internet program, you obviously want to look at the person that signed you up or whoever is in charge of the program. They will be able to provide you with the tools needed to succeed.

Within this program, you can also look to others who are involved with the program. Sometimes you can learn everything you need to know from someone who has been a member of the program for a few years.

If you are starting your own web site and want to learn how to make money online, there are a few things you can do. First, take the time to post in forums and talk to others within your niche. While the internet is extremely competitive, you will be amazed at how many people are willing to offer you support and advice. Posting in forums allows you to see what other people are talking about while giving you the chance to have your questions answered as well.

In addition to posting in forums, go to article directories and read the different articles that have been submitted. Articles can provide you with some tremendous tips and information to help you get started on the right track. In addition, you will find that most article directories have thousands of articles for you to view without spending a penny. And because they are organized by specific categories and sub-categories, you can quickly find what you are looking for and learn the information you need.

The last place to learn how to make money online if you are starting your own business is e-books. You will have to purchase most e-books, but there are a number of different books that can act as a training guide for you. No matter what type of business you are getting into, you will find a book that is there to help train you and feed you the information you need to succeed.

You cannot expect to jump on the internet and get rich immediately. It takes a great deal of time and patience. In addition to this, you have to be willing to go out and learn from the pros. Talk to as many people as you can who have been in your niche before so you can learn what it takes to succeed online. Not only will you pick up useful information , but you will be hanging around with people who have a positive mindset. Surrounding yourself with positive successful people can help you learn how to make money online.

About the author

Chelsie Lloyd is a Private Member of aSociety that will teach you how to build a six-figure a month business on the internet. if you want to end your money worries if you think you can spare 2hours a day if you think you can set a goal and achieve then you have what it takes.click below http://www.MaverckMoneyMakers.com