Changing Lanes: Managing Hearth & Career

Work, bonded Labour

At the outset of my career, there was one definitive feeling that I experienced the most, that of spending a large part of my life within the four walls of my office! I mean I had hardly got out of the organization that the day ended and I was to report once again after a tired, disturbed cycle of sleep! It almost felt that I was married to my desk, clattering away endless hours of work. Work, that seemed less as a form of worship and that more related to pure, unadulterated torture! I think now that at the beginning of each one’s career, all of us feel the same.

Marriage changed this completely

While getting married is a wonderful thing and every earthly soul who seeks to lead a normal life should get married, I also think that you need to give a really good thought in case you need to pursue it after marriage as well! For a lazy nut like me, marriage and the life after marriage within the office constraints made hell break lose! For a moment I thought I was over playing my game of tennis! (Or was that Badminton!)

Every moment, I was either dabbling with whoever served me first at the office canteen, or at home amidst the routine, (read as mundane and monotonous) household chores! I think every woman needs to first examine her life, go deep into introspection within herself and then take the plunge! Though many of us learn on the job and many of us are made to learn the hard way, although it may seem as an initial task to accomplish, it sure isn’t an easy way to manage both hearth and home!

My advise to all women out there is that if you’ve got courage (and I tell you, you need loads of it!) and the conviction to carry it through, you can manage both fronts and with great amount of efficacy. It’s more like learning MS Word, if you’ve mastered the basics, you can find your own short cuts in following through the course. Although there are certain natural calamities that also form a part of your way to success, the important task to remember is that you will succeed! Besides, another important and useful tip is to meditate.

How would that help, you ask? Well meditation does two things. One since you are into meditating you need to bear in mind the time when you do and stick to it for best results. And two, meditation relaxes you, makes your mind more fertile to feed in new data for additional planning of living life to the maximum.

Moreover, if you can manage the work front, you already know the method to control your emotions. And if a woman is known, as the one who is not ruled by her emotions, then you are the ‘girl in control’! Way to go ladies!!

By Prerna Salla

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5 Smart Steps to Changing Careers

A new year is when many people ask themselves, is it time to change careers? People in this generation will change jobs more often than in any previous generation, and fewer jobs are offering the kind of security enjoyed by our parents. Sometimes changing careers means going to work for yourself. Indeed, one study by economists at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin found that people who change careers to work for themselves feel more secure in their self-employment than those who work for others.

More than 30 million workers in the United States today are self-employed or own their own businesses. So changing careers is not just limited to changing employers; it also can be about making your new boss yourself. Whether you want to work for someone else, work in a different field or become self-employed, following an action plan and organizing your step-by-step progress will help you make a smoother, more productive transition.

Here are five smart tips that will help you reach your goal:

1. Create an Action Plan.
Pro-active steps can put you in charge of your career, instead of the high stress than comes with not being in control of your own destiny. If you are unhappy with your job, and find that you cannot make changes that will allow you to be happier at your job, then decide right now to change jobs, and get started on your action plan. Create a chart on paper. Give yourself a week to research career change options. Ask yourself, what am I truly interested in doing in my work and in my life? During week two, whittle down your findings to one or two potential careers that fit your goals. Then, "go deep" during the third week exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each. Next, start looking, and chart your progress each week to keep yourself on track.

2. Network.
Networking still is the most powerful way to find a rewarding job. If you are changing careers, then change your professional networks to zero in on the career you really want. Invest in a membership at your local chamber of commerce, and join committees or subgroups related to your next career, not your current one.

3. Integrate your Lifestyle Goals.
Don’t just think about changing careers; think about how you can reach your lifestyle goals, incorporating your career change. For example, if you want to spend more time with your family, consider changing to a career that might pay less, but provides the priceless dividend of time. If you want to be healthier, consider changing to a career that does not force you to sit at a desk for ten hours a day. It’s ultimately more rewarding to downsize your budget to accommodate a lower-paying, but less stressful job, than to shorten your life with an unhealthy career.

4. Enlist a Coach.
Enlist an outside coach to help you integrate your lifestyle goals you’re your career search. I’ve helped hundreds of people change careers and lifestyles through Ruth Klein’s Dream Maker’s Circle with 180 days of personal consulting, monthly and weekly tele-coaching sessions, seminars, and hands-on help with changing careers or starting your own business. Visit www.ruthklein.com, and click on Dream Maker’s Circle under "Upcoming Events" to learn more.

5. Organize. To change careers, you must organize your time to allow you one hour each day to focus on your career change. Make a schedule and stick to it, creating one hour each day to devote to career research, networking, to your coach or to other tasks you have outlined in your action plan. Simplify chores, meals and other responsibilities to create this extra hour in your day.

By Ruth Klein

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The Benefits of Job Seeking With Your Child

Are both you and your offspring out of work? In the economy following the financial crisis, it’s not uncommon for more than one member of the family to be looking for work at the same time.

However, there are inherent benefits to a parent out of work and a child fresh out of college being able to work together the job hunt. Let’s take a closer look at the parent-child job search.

How the Parent Helps the Child

There are a number of ways that the parent can assist the child in the job search. First, the parent probably has years of experience either on one job, or on multiple jobs. With this type of knowledge, the parent can advise the child on what to expect in a work environment and even give advice about interacting in a professional setting.

But even more important is, during the job search, the parent would be able to help the child prepare the resume, understand what information should be listed, and also prepare for the interview. Again, this process is probably old news for the veteran parent and is something that can be passed on to the child who is just now taking on this new venture as the job seeker.

How the Child Can Help the Parent

What’s great about the knowledge that a recent college grad brings to the table is that it’s all fresh. A college grad has just finished learning about the latest technology, knows what’s going on in the industry he or she is pursuing and has probably even received some help from a career advisor on how to create a resume, cover letter and even mock interview.

Because your college grad comes with so much fresh knowledge, she may be able to get you up to speed on social networking sites like LinkedIn that will be perfect for networking professionally. Also, your child may be able to help you with other technical projects like placing your resume into text or Adobe format if you don’t already know. In other words, where you come with a boatload of experience and wisdom, your child comes with a fresh mind, making it easy for your child to assist you in areas you may be lacking.

How You Can Help Each Other

One of the most important aspects of job seeking is having a partner in your corner to help you throughout the process. Whether you have your best friend read over your resume, enlist your spouse to help you with a mock interview, or even have a cousin reaffirm that you will find a job, having support is a great thing. With the parent and child working together, it’s easy to have instant support, so be sure you both take advantage of it as you proceed through the process.

The great news is that you can work together with your child to find jobs that maybe you can start at the same time. But what’s even better is that you may be able to form a stronger bond with your child that could last a lifetime.
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By Heather Eagar

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Selling your Business – Step by Step Process

So finally the time has come to sell the business. After investing years of your time and uncounted thousands of dollars, it has become successful, providing for your needs and wants, and it's time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Where do you start?

A good time to start thinking about selling a business is right after startup, when it shows signs of beginning to succeed and become self-sustaining. Even if you are planning on bequeathing it to your progeny or a partner, it's never too early to think about what will happen afterwards.

The first step is to take your time--selling a business is a complex process and you will only do it once. Confidentiality is a necessity at this point, as word of an impending sale can cause repercussions among employees and business partners (suppliers, customers, etc.) alike.

Your position in the business is also a point to consider. If you are the sole proprietor, the decision is yours alone. However, if you are a partner or board member, selling your part of the business will involve more considerations.

Finding a good broker is worth any amount of time needed to locate one you are comfortable with. Check the Better Business Bureau for any investigation history, and get referrals from fellow business owners or from industry associations like the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA). This is a non-profit "trade association of business brokers providing education, conferences, professional designations and networking opportunities" (IBBA), as well as professional certifications and boasts over 1300 members.

Next, a professional appraiser should be consulted, as just like selling a home, a professional appraisal will give a fair value to begin negotiations with. Keep in mind though, an appraisal is an estimate of the fair value of a business' hard assets, and the market value of the business may be higher or lower, as a business is only worth what someone else is willing to pay.

Determining major terms and price are issues that you are going to have to work out with your broker, but a few basic factors come into play: what do you want to get out of the sale? Continuing salary? Lump sum? Stock options? This is a step often overlooked until late in the negotiations, often to the detriment of the seller.

Financing the sale is usually about 90% left to the seller. If you can't or won't be willing to cover the costs of the sale, it may not be a good time to sell.

Once you and your broker have located a buyer and agreed on a price, a Letter of Intent is drafted. This letter outlines the terms and tentative price in a non-binding document and allows the buyer time to thoroughly investigate the business. This process is subject to Due Diligence, as the onus of discovery is placed upon the buyer and buyer's agent.

After the discovery process is completed to both parties' satisfaction, the Purchase Agreement is drafted. This set of paperwork creates a formal agreement between buyer and seller regarding purchase price, terms, and other legal details. Once the respective lawyers have finalized the details and complied with state law requirements regarding the sale, the Purchase Agreement is signed, closing documents finalized, and the sale is complete. If everything has gone well, it's time to breathe a sigh of relief and start planning what to do with all that free time!

About the Author:
William King is the director of All Wholesale UK, Wholesale Pages, Wholesale-Canada and Dropshipping Directory. He has 18 years of experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping retailers and startups with their product sourcing, promotion, marketing and supply chain requirements.

By William King

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Home Business Marketing

Nothing can be more comfortable and luxurious than a home based business where you can do your work from the home and get paid for it. Home based business opportunities are spread across a variety of fields like sales, entrepreneurship, programming and counseling. But they can be lucrative only with effective Home Business Marketing.

The most popular reason for a work at home job option is freelancing. If you are a freelancer then you are your own boss. Your work routine is not like that of a regular employer. You have the freedom of choosing your work hours and work assignments as well. You can be flexible, creative and dedicated to your work and make profits.

On the downside you don’t have a fixed income being a freelancer. Your income will depend on the number of projects you get. You have to take sincere steps to advertise yourself or your business. The marketing of your home business is essential for the growth and establishment of the business. Home business marketing will also make you known as an entrepreneur.

With the fast paced growth of technology internet has become indispensable in the present day. No work is complete without the help of the internet which eliminates boundaries and limitations caused due to geographic conditions. The role of internet is extremely important in home business marketing.

You can advertise your business plans and your potentials online by creating your own website. Internet helps you to create a professional image and a business identity which is essential for the existence of your free work at home job business.

You may set up your independent home based business and get prospective clients through home business marketing. You can also work for any organization from your home. In that case you have to find a suitable organization through the internet which promotes and helps in work at home careers.

Setting up a home business is a serious affair and involves a lot of investment from the entrepreneurs end. You can get sponsorship for setting up your business but for that you have to be proficient in home business marketing. You have to get hold of the right people who will be convinced the moment they hear your business plans. A thorough research on the internet can be very fruitful in such cases.

Home business marketing also enables you to analyze the market conditions to help you understand the chances of your survival in the market. This analysis is required to see if at all your services are welcomed in the market. You can also choose your work category after finding out the market conditions.

The internet also helps you to stay informed about all the current events that might facilitate your home business marketing. You can also become a part of a discussion forum to let different companies know about your existence. You simply have to fill up a form and this will enable interested organizations to get in touch with you with work at home business offers as per your choice.

Discussion forums also play a key role in home business marketing. It enables a home based business entrepreneur to communicate with people who are in the same business and been successful for many years. This way you can gather tips for improving your business to enjoy more profits. You also learn better ways to market your business for far reaching effects in the future.

A thorough analysis of the market allows you to set your primary targets before starting your business venture. Home business marketing increases your networking and builds strong business relationship with your potential clients and other business entrepreneurs. This way you can stay alive and kicking in your free work at home business for a long period.

Article by Jayden Harris owner of Home Job Alert a FREE work at home job service. Over 2,500 companies listed. Visit us at http://www.home-job-alert.com
By Jayden Harris

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Stop, Paul (gurita peramal) Bakal Tolak Job Meramal

BERLIN – Paul gurita peramal yang mendadak menjadi selebritis dunia akan mundur sejenak dari dunia paranormal. Dia akan melakukan rutinitas seperti biasa di Sea Life Aquarium Oberhausen.

“Invertebrata yang intuitif itu akan ditarik dari urusan ramal-meramal,” kata Tanza Munzig, juru bicara Sea Life Aquarium Oberhausen seperti dikutip Recordnet, Selasa (13/7/2010).

“Dia tidak akan memberikan prediksi apapun, apakah itu sepakbola, atau politik, lifestyle atau ekonomi,” tambahnya.

“Paul akan kembali ke tugas rutinnya, membuat anak-anak tertawa,” kata Tanza.

Paul yang sepanjang Piala Dunia ini selalu dilibatkan memprediksi pertandingan Jerman, memprediksi dengan sangat akurat kemenangan Spanyol atas Belanda di final.

Kini seiring berakhirnya gegap gempita Piala Dunia, Paul yang sempat dimaki-maki publik Jerman karena meramal kekalahan Der Panzer di semifinal oleh Spanyol tidak akan lagi menjadi objek eksploitasi untuk memenuhi nafsu manusia mengintip masa depan.

Tapi, sebelum ditarik dari bisnis meramal, Paul kembali dipanggil untuk tampil di depan kamera untuk menerima piala- yang dibentuk sama dengan trofi Piala Dunia.

Meskipun cangkir itu dihiasi dengan tiga remis, Paul sempat mengabaikannya selama beberapa menit saat piala itu diturunkan ke dalam tangki-nya.Lalu akhirnya mengambil satu kerang dan memakannya sampai habis di depan kamera televisi.
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Two SEO Tips to Help Your Online Business Prevail Over Your Competition

One of the best ways to make money is through the use of the internet. It is not as easy as it sounds but it can be if you know what you are doing. The internet has grown so much in the past couple of years that it has become such a huge information source that very rarely will you not find what you are looking for. The internet also makes it easier for people to do their shopping for the holidays. And it also can help us find things we need to know in everyday life. The internet is also a great place to start a business and become very wealthy. You just have to hit the right markets and know how to run a business online using Google as a search engine.

Google has been the leader in all of the search engines and has been the role model for any other search engine to compare to. The reason is because some how they found a way to weed out all the garbage information and place the quality information to show first when someone does a search for certain keywords. Although you can never keep track of Google and their algorhythms there are ways to help your site look great for Google and your customers. You can improve your rankings on Google by making your website both an information site about your items you are selling and also a place that only sells the product you are offering. The main thing here is to make your website rise above all the other competition. You will have to do this in the eyes of Google and in your customers’ eyes as well. It may take some time to find out which Florida SEO companies are right for you and which are in your price range.

One of the best SEO services that you can have is the art of onsite optimization. Some people have some knowledge of how this works but most people do not. This is a very touchy task because it involves the back end of the website. You first will want to do some keyword research and find the keywords that are going to bring you the most traffic and at the same time not impossible to rank for. Once you have the keywords you will then need to place some title tags on each page of the website. Use heavy keywords that are real popular in the title tags. This is one of the most important tool you can use to get you website SEO ready. Next you will need to add the keywords in the Meta tag details for each page. Once that is done you will then need to add a meta tag "description" of each page. Use a brief 2 sentence description using some keywords as well. These three steps will help your site get found by Google.

Once you make your site looking great and easy for Google to find then you can start the second phase of the SEO services and that will be the offsite optimization. Although it may take some time for your website to start seeing results don’t get discouraged. The results will happen as long as you follow the rules and be ethical and don’t try to cheat the system.

Learn the advantages of hiring a Seach Engine Optimization Company to make your online marketing company more successful. Learn the ropes of website submission and how to implement it on your website to generate more revenue.

By Markus Skupeika

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Top 15 Tips To Promote Your Online Business

To make money on the internet you need an effective marketing plan.

So here is the best marketing tips that you must follow to make your website a powerful magnet for traffic and sales.

1) Banner Advertising

Although many marketers already know about the pay-per-click search engines, very few are purchasing guaranteed banner click-thru's that are available on hundred's of sites.

Look for sites that cater to your target market and look for, or ask for, their advertising rates. Slowly but surely most of the sites that sold banner impressions are starting to offer performance advertising in the form of pay-per-click.

2) Write articles

Writing Articles is an excellent way to promote your website and best of all you can get recognize as an internet business expert.

This is very easy to do, for people that don't know how to write real good yet look at other articles to get good ideals (Don't steal them). After you write a article insert a link to your site and there you go.

If you don't know what to write. Just write what you know best. You must have some knowledge or experience in one domain. Don't you ?

You can submit your article to ezine or article directory like : http://www.articlecity.com

3) Exchange links

Exchanging links is one of the best method for getting web site traffic and ranking higher with search engine When you start a site you should exchange many as possable links with sites that are RELATED to YOUR site. Search Engine's robots are eager to find new links and fresh information.

4) Mailing List

Having a mailing list can bring wonders to a web site, not only will it help bring old visitors back , but they will send the newsletter to their friends (If they like it).This is like gold for you. The only real purpose for a consumer website is to capture leads and to sell products. By leads I mean e-mail addresses.

You want to build up a customer list and then you want to work it repeatedly. Send out a monthly e-zine that offers FREE valuable information and mentions similar products they may be interested in. They may see something that a friend of theirs will want to buy from you.

5. Search Engine Optimization

It is no secret that search engines are the number one traffic generating method for driving visitors to web sites. Search engines are very useful in helping people find the relevant information they seek on the Internet. The major search engines develop and maintain their own gigantic database of web sites that can be searched by a user typing in a keyword or keyword phrase in the search box.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of studying the search engines in an effort to determine how to get your web site to rank high on user searches. Depending on the statistical information reviewed, search engines account for over 80% of the visitor traffic to web sites.

6. Pay-Per-Click

It is good to get traffic but it is even better to get sales. Pay-per-click advertising is a great way to pull targeted traffic. Could anything be better? In many cases, pay-per-SALE advertising is a better choice. With pay-per-clicks, you may or may not make sales.

With a pay-per-click program, there's very little or even NO risk. You only pay when you make sales. Affiliate programs and joint ventures are examples. Set up deals where you pay only for each sale.

7. Free online forum.

The forum can be on any topic that they are most interested in. One forum can be about "Online Business". Another forum can be about " Joint Ventures". When people join those forums, make sure that they need to come to your site first and log in from there, if they want to log on and post on the forum.

8. Give Something For FREE

FREE Ebooks or Software is a good way to bring on visitor and to keep them at your site Visitors like to receive free offers. Entice your visitors with freebies and have them coming back for more.

9. Postcard

Simple low-cost postcards have become a valuable internet business tool for modern marketers. They can produce a wave of traffic to your web site or a flood of high-quality sales leads.

10. Market Statistic

You can use features on your website such as visitor polls, online surveys and your website statistics to find out what your customers like more and how they feel about certain aspects of your business to determine how you can improve your product and the way you do business.

11. FREE Advertising

There is alot of FREE Advertising on the Internet. There is Classified Ads. FREE For All Pages (FFA), Ezine, Article Submission and Newsgroup of course and many more.

12 . Blogging

Blogs are a relatively new and popular way to publish content on the Internet. They allow the blogger to publish content veryquickly AND get feedback from the people that read it. Because they are new and content is created regularly, search engines love indexing them - and if search engines love them, you should too.

13. Real Syndicated Content

RSS marketing is a tool used by many on the Internet to deliver articles, advertisements, emails, customer support responses, ezines to clients and potential clients. It is also a good way to rank higher on search engines and traffic from different websites with RSS.

14. Press Releases

A press release is a public relations announcement issued to the news media and other targeted publications for the purpose of letting the public know of company developments.

You should write on news about your business. Don't make your release a sales letter. It will get banned.

Search engine adores press releases. They are food for them. A good press releases can bring thousand of free visitors to your website.

15. Offline Marketing

Put your website URL everywhere. On your car, t-shirt, mugs. Dont forget to leave your business cards whenever you go too.

Thats it folks. Have a good marketing day...
By Michael Rish

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Online Business Is Easy To Start

Many people have dreamed of getting online and using their home computer to earn a little extra cash. Surprisingly, this can easily be accomplished for many of us right in our own home, by starting up an online business. Now is the time for you to earn extra money using your home PC, and you don't even have to be at the computer to make money.

Want to jump into the online world? Start your own online business! Millions of people all around the globe are online at any given time, purchasing products from online stores--perhaps you're even doing that right now! The internet is a quick, easy, and convenient way to buy things; join in on the profits!

A successful website must revolve around a good business idea. There are perhaps millions of websites that are online trying to make money today. Different businesses have different purposes, some based in things such as crafts and art, while others cater to services. The sky is the limit, as long as you have a solid idea upon which to base your business you will find the internet a rich source for profit. However, it will take time and effort on your part!

When you've come up with a great idea for an online business, coming up with the actual website and domain name is easier than you'd think! Many different websites will build webpages for you, or you can use auction sites or other established websites to help start your business. Even if you are selling something obscure or rare, on the internet you will be able to make a profit. Businesses just have to make sure that their customers know who they are!

If you have a website or any other business what you need is to get people enticed to it, attract customers and viewers, that's what business marketing it's about, to get the attention of the people. That can be done in a very different ways, paying for advertising in other places or submitting your website to online search engines.

With enough initiative, effort, and ingenuity, you can start an online business and start making money on and off the computer! Many people have started successful businesses, selling a variety of things and services to the millions who surf online. You can have that success too! Start making money today, why wait? It could be your source of success, money, and fortune!

By Richard Lee

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The Difference In Business Marketing and Sales

Marketing and sales are one of the most important components of a business’s survival in the market. Marketing involves designing a product according to the needs of the market and customers, promoting the product through advertising etc. and setting up a competitive price for the product. Marketing is a platform which drives sales. While on the other hand, the sales process is how to successfully sell a product and fetch a contract. Sales and marketing together is a part of selling and one cannot do without the other. They can also be called activities. The success of a business is critical to the success of these two important activities.

Marketing is the backbone of a company’s future and launching pad for the sales. While the marketing process encompasses the design of the product, advertising etc. the sales process is the execution of all the efforts which involves direct interaction with client, either by in-person meeting or cold calls or by networking. But there is always an ongoing rivalry between the two, one claiming dominancy over other. The marketing people say they have an upper hand because they think it is they who designs the products, lays down the strategy and also develops tools essential for sales. They say sales are the outcome of marketing and thus should follow its directions. The sales people might not agree to this view and may be completely opposite in their opinion. They think that it is the sales people who actually sells a product and bring money to the business.

But many experts believe that marketing should play a pivotal role among the two. A successful marketing campaign makes sales easy and makes people believe that it is actually the sales people who are the dominant leaders. The most important role of marketing department is to create opportunities for the sales department. Marketing drives sales and sales drives companies’ success. Marketing is like a life support for sales, one who is constantly backing up the sales department and enabling them to successfully deliver the end product. There shouldn’t be a race to gain supremacy over another department but a race to win the market and customers working together.

Many businesses combine sales and marketing together but in reality they have different targets. While the sales department is interested in fulfilling the requirements of what the customer asked for, the marketing department is actually busy studying what the market demands. The goal of the marketing department is to foresee how the market will shape up in future. They should envision their product catering to the needs of the market for next few years and be ready to make design changes in their product accordingly.

It is very important that a company integrates their sales and marketing department in a well fashioned manner. It is the correct integration of these two important entities that fuels the growth of a company. The sale people should not be merely treated as the cash collectors. Each department has its own role and should go hand in hand in selling the product of the company and should be the foremost important criteria.

Terry Detty finds Fix Credit Debt and SEO Marketing - SEO Marketing Software his passion. In addition to marketing, he enjoys reading and occasionally goes out for a short walk. His latest interest is a newBusiness and Entrepreneurs program he's been using.

By Terry Detty

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When Promoting Your Small Business Which Comes First, The Chicken or the Egg?

Finally, my business has reached that famous five-year landmark and we are busy preparing for our 5-year anniversary celebration. The party starts at the crack of dawn as our team arrives early to the ballroom to set up for a quarterly big event featuring world class motivational speaker Omar Periu. I will take the stage next and following the keynotes will be an elaborate reception with complimentary hors d’eouvres. The festivities will be held at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia September 14, 2006. To learn more, visit http://www.FBLiveEvents.com. But it hasn’t always been so easy.

At a time when so many small businesses fail, what is it that has made Freedom Builders soar? I have learned so much in the past five years. And I believe there are definitely very specific skills that are essential to ensure the success of any small business. The first key is to believe in what you are doing. I know my business helps people and I believe in Freedom Builders as much as if it were my child. This leads me to the second key, persistence. You must do whatever it takes to see each crisis through. As an entrepreneur or small business owner you are the captain of the ship and everyone is counting on you. There is no such thing as failure. And the third key is fun. You have to truly enjoy what you are doing. This is the winning formula; belief, persistence and fun.

Our upcoming five-year anniversary party is really going to be fantastic. Our keynote speaker, Omar Periu came to this country from Cuba with his family when he was a little boy. They did not speak English and they had only the clothes on their back. Now Omar is a famous world-class speaker. I can’t think of a better person to share this day with. So many of us are so much more fortunate, but we lack vision and don’t appreciate what we have. Omar believed he was destined for greatness. Did he ever hit pitfalls? Absolutely and that’s where persistence comes in. You must choose to take the pitfalls, learn from them and allow them to make you stronger.

I believe in the little guy. I believe in the person who really wants it. This is who Freedom Builders is here to help. Our 2007 plan is absolutely incredible. We are rolling out a new training division designed to share all of the critical areas the entrepreneur and small business owner need to master to ensure success. This tour will cover 7 cities in the U.S., 2 Canadian cities and 5 countries overseas. I want the world to learn the strategies for success. This is why I have recorded a free 60-minute CD to share how any business can grow from local to global in six months or less. Just visit http://www.PowerfulProspectingTips.com and register for my free newsletter. Once you do so, a secret page will come up where you can request your free copy of my 60-minute Massive Referral System CD. This is my gift to you.
Here’s the bottom line. Your software or your mindset must be set firmly in belief, persistence and fun. This is what it takes to survive when the going gets tough. And your hardware or systems must recognize this -- the amount of money in your bank account is directly related to the amount of exposure you have. You must know how to market your business in ways that create massive amounts of exposure. Why settle for one or two leads per day when you can be generating hundreds or even thousands?

Every successful entrepreneur I know thinks business versus product or service. And the only way to create a business is to have enough money to do so. This comes with more customers, which only come from more quality leads. This is not a question of which comes first, the chicken or the egg. The leads come first, then the customers and ultimately the money.

By Ann Preston

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Cold call or not to cold call for your small business

I hate cold-calling. In fact, there are a lot of horrible pains I would suffer before cold-calling someone. And I think that many small business owners feel the way I do.

It’s true that there are a number of means of small business marketing – direct mail, personal letters, advertising, networking, public relations, internet marketing – and alas, cold calling is one of them. When it comes to small business marketing – any business activity, really – at some point you just have to buckle down and do what you gotta’ do if you want to succeed. But is cold-calling one of those small business marketing activities that small business owners simply have to suffer through in order to succeed in business?

Some experts say, loudly and with vigor: "Yes!" Others say, "Absolutely not."

The truth about the value of cold-calling as part of your small business marketing strategy is that it’s somewhere in between, and it depends on your particular business. If, for example, you retail small-dollar items through a catalog and on the Internet, cold-calling your potential customers probably isn’t cost-effective: if each customer might spend $10 with you, spending 20 minutes or more on the phone with that prospect doesn’t make sense. If, on the other hand, you’re a manufacturer of small-dollar items that you sell to retailers who may spend $1,000 or more buying your products in bulk, then picking up the phone and making a call may well be worth your while.

If you decide to make cold-calling a part of your small business marketing strategy, there are a few things you can do to maximize the chances that your cold call will turn into a new client:

Cold-calling small business marketing tip #1: Take initiative. When you ask the potential client at the other end of the line "When would be a good time to meet?" you open the door for them to say "Never!" Instead, ask "How would next Tuesday at 11:00 work for you to meet?"

Cold-calling small business marketing tip #2: Approach the call with the idea that your goal is to help your prospective customer. Resist the urge to make the call about you – what you do, what you want. Instead, make the call about the prospect at the other end of the line. Ask the prospect about his needs and wants. Then suggest that you can help – and if he meets you next Tuesday at 11:00 you’ll tell him how.

Cold-calling small business marketing tip #3: Get to the point. The prospect at the other end of the line is going to feel, right off the bat, that you’re wasting her time. So, by all means, be brief. Be clear and concise. Avoid saying "um."

Cold-calling small business marketing tip #4: Ask questions. This tip reflects back to small business marketing tip #2, making the call about the prospect, not about you. Asking questions also helps steer you to the right information and will help you tailor your sales pitch – for you to deliver at the appointment.

Cold-calling small business marketing tip #5: Save the sales pitch. Effective cold-calling isn’t about selling your product or service. It’s about getting an appointment so that you can sell your product or service in person.

As with any small business marketing strategy, the best way to figure out if it works is to try it. Make enough cold calls so that you can accurately measure their effectiveness. Then compare that measurement to your other small business marketing tools.

Brandt Stohr, The Small Business Marketing Genius has brought startup one man operations to billion dollar corporations by using creative marketing techniques rather then investors and capital. Brandt Stohr has been helped hundreds of entrepreneurs to get their small businesses exploding with sales without the use of expensive traditional marketing techniques. For more information and a free report on the ten deadly mistakes most small businesses are still making visit Brandt Stohr's site at http://www.smallbusinessmktng.com.

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Teen Business Do's and Don'ts

by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.


This article is all about providing great tips and suggestions to help younger teens earn some money and get work experience by starting their own neighborhood businesses.

• Do get the advice of an adult family member before starting your business.
• Don't try to compete directly with any big businesses; the key to finding success with your business is to find a niche -- find something that is lacking and fill it.
• Do consider coming up with a cool name for your business -- it will make you seem more professional.
• Don't get too discouraged if your business starts slowly; it takes time to get your business known.
• Do make detailed plans about how you will run your business, including the types of services you will perform (babysitting, lawn care, errands, tutoring, etc.), prices, cancellation notices, payment options, and the like. And do consider writing a mission statement or philosophy to help guide your actions.
• Don't let any of your customers cheat you out of your money. And do consider enlisting an adult family member to help you handle any customer disagreements.
• Do consider developing agreements for each customer to sign. In fact, do get everything you do or plan to do in writing.
• Don't let a competing teen stop you from opening a similar business. If you don't want to compete, do consider forming a partnership. With multiple partners, you'll have a bigger network of potential customers and perhaps more time flexibility because you'll be sharing the load. But do be aware that having partners can also add lots more hassles and aggravations.
• Do use every available resource to spread the word about your new business, including posting flyers around the neighborhood, in community centers and religious organizations, and local stores. But remember that the best source will be the network of your family, friends, and neighbors -- and current customers, once you get your business established. You can consider going door-to-door to announce your service, but don't do it by yourself -- have an adult go with you.
• Don't let a dissatisfied customer stay dissatisfied. One of the key rules to business success is satisfying the customer. Ask what you can do to make the customer satisfied -- and then do it, if you can.
• Do get organized, including developing a daily/weekly/monthly planner. Try not to ever accidently forget a customer appointment, but if it does happen, try to find a way to make amends (such as a discount on the next appointment).
• Don't fall in the trap thinking that starting your own business will be extremely lucrative and fun; running your own business is a lot of hard work, but it will be great experience for future jobs and college applications.
• Do be prepared to leave your friends behind when you go to work; and don't ever skip a customer appointment to hang out with your friends -- your business has to come first.
• Don't spend all the money you make from your business; do put some money aside to save for the future. 

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Network Your Way to a New Job or Career

When Cookie Burkhalter relocated from Colorado to Wilmington, Delaware three years ago, she thought finding a new job would be easy. With first-rate qualifications and more than twenty years of professional experience at Fortune 500 companies, she figured she would land a new position quickly by surfing a few Internet job boards and sending out her résumé.

But Burkhalter, an IT project manager, quickly discovered that it wasn’t going to be so easy. After months of applying for open positions, “I never got a single interview from a posting on the Net,” she declared. “Applying for all those jobs was a complete waste of my time.”

Her job search began to turn around for Burkhalter when she realized that the missing element in her job search was the human factor. “Even though I grew up in Delaware, I had been living out of state for a long time,” she recalled. “I had almost no local contacts, so I was relying on postings and ads to find out about available jobs. But by the time I saw the ad, so had thousands of other people, and one of them was always just a little more qualified than me.”

Network Your Way to A New Job

So Burkhalter set about rebuilding her business and social network. She joined two women’s groups made up of others who shared some of her personal interests and hobbies, and began to meet new people. When she let her new friends know about her job search, all of a sudden, she began to hear about jobs before they were advertised, and interviews started to materialize. When she finally did land a new job, it was the direct result of a referral from a friend.

You may not recognize what Burkhalter did as business networking, but that’s exactly what it was. Many people think of business networking as circulating around a room and exchanging business cards. But a broader view of business and social networking is that it creates a pool of contacts from which you can draw leads, referrals, ideas, and information for your job search. You can network without ever attending an official business or social networking event, although attending events is useful in networking.

Texas resident Maria Elena Duron found an executive job as a result of working as a community volunteer. “I was volunteering at the Midlands MexTex Fiesta, and I found myself flipping burgers side-by-side with a board member of the Austin Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation," Duron remembers. "He asked me if I had ever been involved in fundraising, and when I said I had, he asked for my résumé. He forwarded it to the Foundation with his personal recommendation, and three weeks later I was hired as Executive Director for the West Texas Region."

Find Your Job and Career by Business Networking

Your career network can and should contain current and former co-workers, alumni from your school, a wide range of people in your industry, and personal friends. Making time for lunch or coffee with these people can be much more productive for your job search than reading the want ads or surfing the web. In fact, surveys consistently show that 80-85% of job-seekers find work as the result of a referral from a friend or colleague, and only 2-4% land jobs from Internet job boards.

If you have been out of touch for a while with people you already know, don’t let that stop you from re-establishing contact when you start your job search. Everyone you speak to will have had to look for work at some point in their career, and most of them will be sympathetic and helpful.

To spread your business and social networking net even wider, you may need to start making the acquaintance of new people also. Every time you talk to a friend or colleague about your job search, ask for suggestions of other you might speak to, and follow up on their referrals.

From **C.J. Hayden

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Top Ten Reasons to Quit Your Job

You've done everything you can to make your current job work. But, your current job is not working. These are the top ten reasons why you might want to quit your current job. These are difficult, if not impossible, to solve. You need to look out for your best interests. Your job consumes too many hours of too many days of your life for you to stay where you are miserable. No excuses, now. If these issues exist with your job, make a plan, and change jobs.

* Your company is experiencing a downward spiral, losing customers, losing money, and rumors of possible closure, bankruptcy and failure prevail.

* Your relationship with your manager is damaged beyond repair. You have sought help to mend the boss relationship but you know it is too damaged for recovery. (Perhaps you were untrustworthy, missed work on too many days, or the manager acts like an untrustworthy jerk.) Whatever the reason, the relationship is irrecoverably damaged.

* Your life situation has changed. Perhaps you have married or had a baby, and the salary and benefits no longer support your life needs. You need to move on to better opportunities to support your family.

* Your values are at odds with the corporate culture. Perhaps your company is egalitarian and you believe in assigned parking spots for salaried employees. Your company does annual employee satisfaction surveys and you think these are a waste of time. Your company is hierarchical and you want to influence every aspect of your job. No matter where the clash is occurring, a lack of congruence with the corporate culture will destroy your attitude at work.

* You've stopped having fun and enjoying your job. No matter what changed, when you dread going to work in the morning, it's time to leave your job.

* Your company is ethically challenged. Perhaps, the managers lie to customers about the quality of the products or the day on which product will ship. You become aware that the company is stealing information from competitors. Whatever the issue, don't stay in an organization where your ethics are out of sync.

* For whatever reason, you have behaved in ways that are considered improper at work. You've missed too many days of work, slacked off on the job, failed to maintain needed skills and just generally developed the reputation of a loser. That reputation, once earned, is unlikely to change, so you might as well move on, while you have the opportunity.

* You've burned your bridges with your co-workers. Your group is not getting along in an environment that requires people to work together well. Again, at some point, the reasons don't matter; start fresh in a new job and resolve to not let this situation happen again.

* Your stress level is so high at work that it is affecting your physical or mental health and your relationships with your friends and family. Watch for the signs of burnout and if they can't be cured, move on. Read this article, Tips for Managing Stress and Change at Work for some ideas about managing work stress.

* And the top ten reason for leaving your current miserable job - you are unchallenged, need more responsibility, and seek opportunities that just don't exist for you in your current organization. You've explored the current and potential options, and they are limited. It's time to move on.

Ready to leave your job, or looking for ways to improve your current situation? Have golden handcuffs and feel that you are stuck in your current employment? Whatever you are thinking or feeling, please post in the forum.

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CAREER PROS: Polish Soft Skills to Protect Your Job and Career

By Peggy Klaus

If the tepid economy is making you anxious about your career or even afraid of losing your job, there are actions you can take right now to improve your soft skills in ways that will help you survive the slowdown. While soft skills can certainly make or break your career under any conditions, they become indispensable during hard times. Soft skills cover a wide range of abilities and traits – from self-awareness to attitude, initiative to problem solving, handling criticism to communicating your agenda, leadership to time management, political astuteness to integrity, and then some.
Increasing your soft skills savvy will help you demonstrate your value during a soft economy, whether you simply want to recession-proof your career or if you find yourself back on the job market.

1. Be Seen as Indispensable

• Be seen as the go-to-person for getting things done – the one who will make it happen when others can’t or don’t.
• Demonstrate your versatility. Even if you are not best at any single position on the team, you are more likely to be kept on when you are seen as a multipurpose player. Versatility becomes even more important during times of cutbacks when fewer employees remain.
• Have strong relationships with the people your company serves. For example, when the higher-ups are deciding whom to ax, you want them to think, "If we let Bob go, we will be putting some business at risk – try explaining to everyone why we’ve laid him off!"

2. Manage Your Boss

• Be the one who really understands what management needs, and deliver it when and how they want it delivered.
• Make sure that the results you focus on and produce are the ones your boss and company value most.
• Don’t think of supporting your supervisor as ‘sucking up.’ Rather, think of it as creating and maintaining good relationships with superiors – just as you do with colleagues or those who report to you – which, by the way, is simply part of doing your job.

3. Understand Your Company’s Shadow Organization

• If you think office politics are beneath you, catch up fast on the ‘shadow organization’ that really runs things and impacts key decisions – including those about reorganizations and layoffs.
• Don’t be an ostrich. Catch the signs of shifting tides and be a detective about what’s ahead so that you can proactively position yourself.
• Maintain strong relationships and create high visibility with the higher-ups. Get to know their interests outside of the office, volunteer for key committees that are close to the division head’s or CEO’s heart, and learn where they play golf or go fishing. In other words, make the effort to bond with them.

4. Brand and Brag

• Connect the dots for people and show them how your strengths can be utilized in other departments, capacities or fields. Avoid pigeonholing yourself. Instead of, "I’m a mortgage broker," present yourself like this: "I’m a strong problem-solver, great at putting deals together, good with numbers, and adept with my people skills."
• Make sure your managers know what a great job you are doing all the time – not just during performance reviews.

5. Demonstrate Leadership Ability or the Qualities for Becoming a Leader

• Get along with and motivate others. How peers or subordinates view you becomes increasingly important during downturns. At layoff time, the tolerance level rapidly decreases toward people who are good at doing their job but perceived as being jerks or bullies.
• Take the initiative and problem solve. It’s not enough to be good at getting things done – you need to be seen as someone who is looking for ways to get them done better. Generate solutions, especially to problems that no one else wants to handle or acknowledge.
• Think big. Being seen as a big-picture thinker is more desirable during times of transition, when solving challenges becomes more critical than ever.
• Stay positive. Your ability to remain constructive and positive during layoffs, cutbacks, or talk of downsizing, speaks volumes.

6. Continuously Learn and Reach Out

• Keep learning new skills. Don’t assume that you are bulletproof.
• People think that keeping their job is what it’s all about, but sometimes a layoff is unavoidable. So stay connected to colleagues and leaders in your industry, professional associations, and colleagues at other firms. Keep yourself positioned to ask for referrals and information regarding other opportunities or positions.

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