Small Business Funding In The Uk

Writen by Peter Arkwright

Acquiring funding for your business can be time consuming. A lot of small business owners need financial assistance, especially in the first 12 months of starting. The obvious solution is for the owner to take out a loan. There are a number of companies or financial institutions that offer this service. Choosing the right loan can be a difficult process simply due to the amount of products on the market. If you are looking for business funding by way of a loan make sure you pay particular interest to the loan agreement. In some cases your home may be at risk if you do not keep up with the repayments. The Royal British Legion provide interest-free loans of up to £5,000 for service leavers & ex-service personnel, who are looking to set themselves up in their own business. This is just one example of the type of products that are out there. . Small business funding is also available in the form of a grant. A grant can be issued by a government or an organisation. On securing a grant you will be given financial assistance sometimes with no expectations or repayment plans. To have a realistic chance of obtaining a grant you will be asked to demonstrate a good work ethic and a strong commitment to your business. It often helps if you are committing some of your own finances to the business; Securing business funding through means of a grant can be difficult as there is often limited funding available and a lot of competition, make sure you have a contingency plan if your application is rejected.

There are many types of grants which are available to a wide spread of people, for more information check out http://www.businesslink.gov.uk

If you would like any more information on this subject then please visit our website at http://www.bizseller4u.com/ Peter Arkwright recently retired from the military; he is now the Managing Director of Bizseller4u Ltd - Providing business solutions in sales, advertising, funding, debt collection and recovery plans This article is free to republish with the signature block

Finance Accounting Outsourcing Helps To Shed The Workload

Writen by Michelle Barkley

The increasing amount of workload on businesses has established a special place for outsourcing in the business market. Be it accounting or bookkeeping or any other work, outsourcing is becoming successful in solving thousands of problems. The matter of outsourcing is concerned with giving your work and responsibilities to the other company. Finance accounting outsourcing is meant to shed off the excess workload regarding the maintenance of accounts. Maintaining the accounts is a very difficult task that has to be accomplished with proper attention. And if you have to handle the other work also, then the accounting work will suffer.

Finance accounting outsourcing will save a lot of your precious time. The time thus saved can be used for concentrating on other matters of your business that need more attention. When the accounting work is outsourced, then you are left with enough time to take care of your marketing division, production division or any other division that reaps more and more rewards. After all, we all do business for earning profits and not suffering losses. Moreover, accounting outsourcing will give you higher quality of efficient work. It is because the professionals at other companies are only concentrating on your work. They don't undertake any other department.

Usually, the accounting firms give the excess of work to specialized companies that can handle them easily. Finance accounting outsourcing has been considered cost effective also. The expenses of keeping an entire specialized staff for managing accounting work can be more expensive than outsourcing it. You and your accounting firm will have to manage the salary and various allowances of the employee. On the other hand, you don't have to give any allowance or higher salaries to the outsourcing companies. You just have to pay them a fixed amount for carrying out your task that can be less than your other expenses.

Finance accounting outsourcing is the best way to improve your efficiency. The excess workload can hamper your progress. It is because you will not be able to give enough time to other areas that call for appropriate attention. The main disadvantage of working under pressure or with excess of workload is that you tend to suffer losses. You may gain control and hold over the problems and their timely solution. Accounting outsourcing or any other type of outsourcing will enable you to save a lot of time that can be spent in solving the matters of other aspects of your business.

The process of finance accounting outsourcing involves giving your work to the third party, with the help of an accounting outsourcing firm. The main aim of adopting such method is to free you from the burden of overload of work. An important aspect of accounting outsourcing is that your work can be done in the half the time as compared to the work done in house. The reason behind this is that the outsourcing firm specializes only in such type of work and there is other workload on your employees also. Even the quality of work will be much better than the in-house employees.

Michelle Barkley is a CPA working for IFRworld.She specializes in Accounting Outsourcing services ,Finance accounting outsourcing and tax returns preparation outsourcing.To know more and to use the services visit www.ifrworld.com

Landscaping Business Motivating Crews

Writen by Lance Winslow

Landscaping is hard work and this is why most Americans, Government Agencies and Businesses hire out the service. The key to the landscaping business is staying efficient and having the right team. As a landscaping business expands it becomes harder and harder to get all the work done. If you have weather issues or cannot get to an account on your regular schedule the customer maybe left without good service and you may not be able to get to them for a week.

The most critical part to staying efficient is having good crews or teams, which hustle. Motivating your crews is difficult. One brilliant idea, which was developed by Expert Landscaper Jon Bitzer, was to modify summer work schedules due to hot weather and humidity. Jon takes care of the landscaping for much of the redevelopment area, including all the parks in Atlantic City. With only 42 people, his crews are broken into specialty teams. Each crew is designated tasks and assignments on a schedule, which includes every thing from mowing maintenance to installations of new parks.

Systematically and block-by-block Jon Bitzer has revitalized the ambiance of Atlantic City and is part of the reason for the tourism increases. Once a city known for its drugs, crime and graffiti adjacent those lavish casinos is now an area filled with pedestrians, shoppers, couples and tourists enjoying a multitude of events, restaurants, shows and loving every minute of it. It was the image which brought back the crowds; the removal of the graffiti and trash, the placement of custom potted flowers, well manicured sidewalks and medians and nearby parks where ghetto type buildings and debris once abounded.

Jon explained; "We recently set new schedules where employee come to work at 6 am in the morning and work straight thru until 1 pm, without breaks or lunch; 7 hours and then go home." But in his new plan they get paid for eight hours. Why? Easy explains Jon; "We were finding our crews coming back late from lunch 15-30 minutes sometimes, showing up late for work and this broke the momentum of the work pace." Additionally Jon took a gamble which paid off big time in his Atlantic City specialty work teams; he instituted a plan that if no one was late to work in the morning or getting back from lunch that they would receive a $1.00 per hour pay raise. Productivity jumped by huge margins, while the rates of tardiness to work which was nearly 30% went down to 5% then as some workers saw a $40.00 extra per week increase others decided that was a good bonus and then the rates of being late for work were cut again and some weeks is less than 3%. Imagine a 95% on time to work rate for a landscaping business?

Today Jon's teams take care of over 52 properties in the downtown area of Atlantic City, the city for lovers, and it shows. The city has never looked better, is up for City Beautification Awards and the Redevelopment Project is nothing short of a total success. Learn from this experience of how to motivate your crews from the man who made Atlantic City a new shinning star.

Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

3 Essential Components To Creating Internet Business Plan

Writen by Jeff Flow

When most people get started developing an Internet business they usually have the wrong understanding that all you need is a lot of traffic to your website and you will be successful.

The truth is that you need to have a well thought out Internet business plan in order to succeed. There are three components that you need in order for your Internet business to be successful: a well made website, a steady stream of good content, and persistent contact with your customers.

One of the biggest challenges you will have when you set up your online business is that you have zero Internet presence. You have to make your presence felt. You need to set up an identity that shows your visitors that you aren't some scam artist that is trying to separate them from their hard earned cash.

Your website needs to show your visitor that you represent a genuine business that can provide them with what they need. The only view of you that your visitors see is your website and your communication with them.

A good website is quintessential to your online presence. It is your online office; people come there and draw an impression. Even the first glance can make or break a great business transaction. Your website should be neat and clean. It should be accessible to people of all abilities and it should have a well-structured navigation system. There should be no broken links and all the essential pages should be there.

The next component to a successful Internet business is to have the right kind of content on your pages. Your website needs to speak directly to your visitors, since you can't do it in person. You want to make your website express great value to your customers and to be as convincing as you can. Take a lot of care in crafting your site and make sure that you provide a high value to your customers. If you have the funds, use a professional writer to create the sales pages.

When you are designing your website make sure that you are providing your visitors with a tremendous amount of value. Separate yourself from other websites by providing the best graphics, layout, content, and design.

Establishing an identity takes time, and this is not just unique to the Internet. Companies invest millions of dollars on establishing their brands. On the Internet, you need to establish your identity, you need your name to sound familiar, and you need to be there almost all the time.

The next step is keeping persistent contact with your visitors. You should be accessible to your present and future customers and clients; you should always be in a constant conversation. A good way to carry out a regular conversation is publishing a regular newsletter (ezine) or blog where you post regular updates about your business.

Building your Internet business is going to be harder than you think. There are many sites that claim that you can make millions by just joining their programs. This is a joke. It is going to take hard work to build your business. You have to be consistent in building your business and you have to focus on providing great value to your visitors.

Remember that when creating your Internet business plan focus on creating a good website that provides great value, a steady flow of original content, and on keeping persistent contact with your visitors. You can do it – Jesus loves you.

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Build Your Own Nocost Mailing List

Writen by Martha Retallick

I've never used a mailing list broker. Reason? When I first started doing postcard mailings back in 1996, I could barely afford to pay my house rent. So, renting a mailing list was out of the question.

One of the advantages of operating on a low budget is that you can't spend your way out of problems, you have to think your way out. In the case of my mailing list, the thinking centered around the question of Who Do I Know?

A spin through my desktop Rolodex yielded a treasure trove of names. Then there were those helpful family members and friends who referred names to the list. (Most of the time, I didn't even have to ask these people for names. But it never hurts to ask!) And thumbing through the directories of organizations I belonged to was also useful.

So, there you have it, four readily available sources of names:

1. Your Rolodex (or some other business card file)
2. Family and friends
3. People referred by your family and friends (ask them!)
4. Membership directories from organizations you belong to

You'll be able to build up quite a list in no time. And if you keep postcarding over the years, your list will grow some more.

Martha Retallick, "The Passionate Postcarder," hails from Tucson, Arizona, USA. She is the author of Postcard Marketing Secrets, a downloadable PDF manual that will show you how to put postcards to work for your business?profitably. Learn more about it at: http://www.PostcardMarketingSecrets.com

The Road To Success Action

Writen by Liane Wood

Without question almost every home business owner has struggled with time management. Working from home has many perks, but along with the perks come distractions.

Those distractions if left unchecked can destroy your business. So, how do you find a balance between home life and home business life?

In its simplest form, the answer can be boiled down to how you manage your time.

Realistically, it's about doing the right things when the right things need doing.

Read that last sentence over again and really let it sink in.

Do the right things when the right things need doing.

That leads us to the next obvious question. How am I going to know what the right thing to do is and when to do it?

The key to that answer can be found in the word ACTION.

A-AWARENESS

You have to be consciously aware of what needs to be done. Take the time to put a plan together for your business. A well prepared plan gives you the ability to see if you are on track or not. Not too many people would leave on a cross country road trip without a map and a destination in mind. Along with that, most people would have ideas on where they might stop along the way, and a holiday budget. Why would you run your business with no map, destination, ideas or a budget? Think about what your business will need, where you want your business to go, and what you need to do. Be AWARE of what needs doing.

C-COMMITMENT

Be committed to your business. Once again, the road trip holiday can provide us with some ideas. If you left on a road trip holiday with no plan, and weren't committed to getting to a destination, would any of your friends be surprised if you didn't successfully complete the trip? Of course not. Without a commitment to your business, you will fail. Make a COMMITMENT and see your plan through to completion.

T-TENACITY

Have tenacity to persist and see it through. Back to the road trip. If you get a flat tire, do you give up and go home? Not likely, you fix it and continue on. Don't allow little things to stop you from the big things you have planned for your business. Focus on your goals and plans and be persistent. Have TENACITY and don't give up.

I-INGENUITY

Use ingenuity to find the workable way. When an obstacle appears, pull out your road map (or plan), take a look at it and see if there are other routes available that will keep you on track to your destination. Seek advice from the locals (or other people in home businesses similar to yours). Your ability to use INGENUITY will directly affect your business' success.

O-OBJECTIVITY

Use objectivity for an undistorted perspective. Take a break, a breather, step back, clear your head every now and again to maintain your objectiveness in making decisions for your business. Take a moment to survey the lay of the land on your road trip, it will make travel much easier. OBJECTIVITY gives you the ability to see things in your business clearly.

N-NAVIGATE

Navigate a manageable pathway. If the vehicle you're taking on a road trip has marginal brakes, don't plan a route that takes you through the highest mountains!! Know what your limits are and what you can do. Navigating a manageable pathway to your destination betters your chances for business success!

There you have the home business keys to taking purposeful ACTION.

I'll leave you with one final thought...

Energy without ACTION is power without purpose!

Liane Wood is a stay at home mom and the owner of http://income-opportunity-home-based-business.com

Power Tools The Products Behind The Colors

Writen by Debbie Johnston

It's kind of funny how the sales and marketing/advertising folks of the power tool companies have "drilled" into our heads the brand logos and the coordinating colors that accompany them. Do you think this was done completely by accident, or were there secret tests going on behind the scenes in your local hardware store's backroom? Whatever the case may be, orange and black means Black & Decker; DeWalts brand is yellow; Milwaukee is the "power-color" of red; and Hitachi is that bright, neon-greenish hue that might one-day attempt to glow in the dark.

Believe me when I tell you that the colors are all part of the big picture for the brands that are behind them. This creates an easily identifiable product in a sea filled with cordless fish, 36-volt electric eels, and 2-speed, man-eating sharks. Simply put, when you're at your workplace or friend's house, you'll see someone else with a power-tool that looks like it would suit your needs perfectly. The color recognition that's in your head will immediately tell you the brand, limiting your remaining search criteria to what the tool will be used for.

For the typical around-the-house jobs like hanging up blinds, curtains and picture frames, a 12 to 14 volt Black and Decker, complete with its orange and black color story, will do a fine job and last for quite a long time if used properly and taken care of according to the manufacturer's directions. If you're planning to build a shed, add-on a sunroom, or build your dream home at the lake, an advanced, professional grade of tool (maybe something like DeWalts and their yellow power tools, or Makita's quality offerings) with a higher voltage will be worth its weight in gold for your project.

After you've decided on your voltage, it's time to check out "under the hood" for the power and muscle of your power tool! Higher voltage usually translates into more torque (the force at which the drill bit turns)-which then transforms into more power.

And you can't forget about speed and their settings- more than one is well worth your consideration to be able to change it with your current task or project without having to change tools. When you think about it, what good will all of the speeds in the world do for you if you lose time changing tools?

Debbie Johnston recommends Makita power tools from BigScrewdriver.com.

Status Cross Cultural Differences

Writen by Neil Payne

Status exists in all societies but varies in fundamental ways. Cross cultural differences in they way in which we perceive status, gain status and react to status differ from culture to culture.

In this article we examine the cross cultural differences with relation to status and analyse how they manifest in certain areas in the workplace. For the sake of simplicity we identify two types of status; 'ascribed-status' and 'achieved-status'.

Ascribed-status:

Ascribed-status refers to those cultures that base status upon external qualities such as age, wealth, education or gender. If one has the right external characteristics, status is ascribed to them. In such cultures there is little room for others to gain status through actions and achievements.

Achieved-status:

Achieved-status, as its title suggests, is earned. Internal qualities are valued more than external ones. Therefore, status is achieved through accomplishments such as hard work and contributions to a company or community. In such cultures status is malleable, in that it can be lost as quickly as it is gained and status can shift to other individuals.

Status and Hierarchy:

An area that status impacts within businesses is organisational hierarchies. In ascribed-status cultures there tends to be rigid hierarchies that define roles, practices and processes. For example, employees will tend to focus solely on their own responsibilities and generally not offer suggestions to those above them in the hierarchy, as to do so would be disrespectful. In such organisations, change is very rarely bottom up.

In achieved-status cultures, hierarchies exist but are less formal. The egalitarian nature of such cultures usually means that more value is placed on development and progression rather than respect for status. Consequently, lower level employees would generally feel empowered to make suggestions directly to seniors.

Status and Formality:

The formality of a culture is usually a good indication of the significance of status. The use of names between colleagues is one of the more observable manifestations of status in the workplace.

In ascribed-status cultures colleagues will generally address each other using titles and surnames. Professionals, such as doctors, architects and lawyers, would expect to be addressed by their professional titles. First names are usually only used between family and friends.

In achieved-status cultures, people commonly use first names. This is because individuals will usually feel of equal worth with one another and see no need to demonstrate deference to a more senior ranked colleague.

Status and Management:

A manager in an achieved-status culture will usually take on the role of a mentor. The manager will be a reference point and will guide those under him/her to develop their skills and perform their duties with minimal guidance. Subordinates can and do challenge a manager's decision.

In contrast, in ascribed-status cultures, the manager is expected to give orders and know all the answers. The manager is seen to be experienced, knowledgeable and able to deal with problems effectively. Rather than a mentor, the manager in such a culture takes on more of a parental role as he/she is expected to take care of employees by ascribing duties and overseeing how they handle them. Manager's decisions are typically not challenged.

Status and Information:

The flow of information between people in companies and organisations is another area affected by cross cultural differences in status. In cultures where status is achieved, information usually flows easily between ranks. Directly approaching a senior colleague of another department for consultation, advice or feedback will have a certain amount of protocol attached to it, but is commonplace.

Conversely, in achieved-status cultures information flow is a lot less fluid. There are only certain avenues one can take to either relay or gain information. For example, if the scenario mentioned above occurred in such a culture, the senior colleague would probably feel offended. In this circumstance, the correct protocol would be for the lower ranking colleague to approach his/her manager and ask them to approach the manager of the other department for information or feedback.

As we have seen from the few examples cited above, cross cultural differences with relation to status can and do impact upon a business. If a business is multi-cultural, problems can occur where differences in hierarchy, status and protocol lead to poor communication between staff and frustration with colleagues.

Neil Payne is MD of cross cultural communication consultancy, Kwintessential. Visit their site at: http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/cultural-services/intercultural-training.html

Exponential Futurebe Prepared To Start Slow And Build Momentum

Writen by Sean Mize

I believe there are three primary types of individuals online today. The first category, of which is comprised almost everyone that is online, are those who are making little or no money online, or who are spending more than they are making. There is another group of individuals who are making money online, but they are barely eking out a living. And the last category of individuals online are making a lot of money.

So what is the difference between each of these groups? I believe that knowledge is the biggest difference. Those individuals who are making millions online have the same access online as you do. They have the same ability to market to the same people online as you do. The only difference is they know what to say, how to say it, and who to say it to.

Those individuals who are barely making a living have learned some of the methods of success online, and after struggling for such a long time to learn what they have, they are simply grateful that they are making something online, and in some way have become content--or at least they have given up the dream.

The biggest group---the ones who are losing money or not making any, simply don't know what to do online. They read and read, and study, and try something here, make a sale here and a sale there, and likely jump from program to program and from product to product.

But the ones who have really made money online have simply stuck with their niche and have learned everything they need to know to make money. They try many different methods to drive traffic to their site, they try many different methods to convert visitors to subscribers, and they try many different methods of converting subscribers to customers. When something doesn't work, they try something else. When something doesn't really work, they tweak it. They continue fine-tuning until they have a money machine.

Which are you? Are you going to jump from product to product and program to program, hoping to luck into something that will get you rich fast? Or are you going to commit to doing whatever it takes to figure out what works, how it works, and what it will take to stay profitable for a long time to come?

One advantage to this manual is that all the steps are laid out. You literally have all the steps at you fingertips. But you still have to do the work. You still have to write the headlines, build the squeeze pages, and test your various scripts. If you will take the blueprint given to you here, and build with it, and test until it becomes profitable, you can enter the ranks of the wealthy online. But if you just set up on squeeze page, send some traffic to it, and then walk away from it after your first sale, you will forever stay in the ranks of those who don't make money online. Which are you? What will YOU do?

This has been an excerpt from "Step by Step Guide to Building an Online List", a step by step report on building massive lists. To read more by this author, simply follow this link: Internet Marketing Secrets Are you interested in learning how to build a responsive mailing list? Click here: List Building

The Online Business Crucial Success Factor

Writen by Rami Doleh

In a marathon the physical factor for runners might be very comparable, but what could be the main differentiator between those who get to the finish line and those who don't? And what would be the main differentiator between those who finish first and those who finish last? What makes a person push himself/herself to the maximum limits to achieve his/her targets?

Depending on the field, things like physical fitness and knowledge are pre-requisites of course, but endurance and patience are the common denominator that separates the winners from the quitters in any field.

From normal observations we realize that the level of endurance and patience to achieve self set targets differ between one person to another. So what is it that creates this difference? It is motivation and more importantly self motivation.

The engine that drives us to overcome obstacles and enhance our endurance and patience is how well we can motivate ourselves. We need to differentiate between external motivational factors and self motivation.

Results and achievements motivate most of us, but if failure and slow or no improvements are happening, the only source of motivation available is within ourselves.

Online business is an industry that requires a huge amount of self motivation. Self motivation is the sole driver for discipline, endurance and patience which are the success factors that differentiate the winners from the quitters.

This makes self motivation the most crucial success factor in online business as external motivators take time to materialize.

How can we fuel the self motivation engine to keep it running? There are numerous ways:

1- Set clear Targets: I know you have heard this a million times, but the reason we are mentioning it here is the following:

a. Clear targets are easily measured and accordingly you will see by time the small improvements you are making. Thus energizing your self motivation by this external factor.

b. When setting clear targets, you can easily divide them into targets to meet within smaller time intervals. Accordingly, you see closer results.

2- Keep remembering your initial driver: Keep reminding yourself why you got into online business in the first place. Keep implanting this driver into your head on daily basis.

3- When you completely lose hope and realize that online business is not for you, try to find other options that would satisfy the driver that made you start your online business. If you could not find other options you will realize that online business is your only option.

4- Do not talk about your online business with potentially skeptical people.

5- Pick an active forum and hang around there every now and then, not only because it is good for the business, but to keep you motivated by helping others and getting help from others. You can find ideas that you never thought of before and are easily implemented which will give a huge boost to your motivation.

6- Try to enjoy your online business and make money a secondary issue. By enjoying the work you will find the material factor accomplished without you noticing. If you keep stressing yourself out regarding the monetary achievements, each day in online business will seem like a whole year. This one is the most magical of all solutions.

Do not make your online business like any other job. This is your kingdom and you can create any working environment you desire. Therefore, create an environment that will keep you motivated all the time.

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The Traveling Office Organizing Your Car

Writen by Denise Landers

"I wish I had ____ with me." You fill in the blank. How many times have you been offsite, meeting with a client, only to discover you were missing a form or a brochure that would have helped you wrap up a discussion?

Whether you are in sales, real estate, consulting or a variety of other jobs, travel is usually involved. Even when you spend most of your day in an office, you still have to travel back and forth, often bringing work with you, or you might be meeting a client for lunch, and have that, "I wish I had…" comment running through your mind.

Here are some basics that would benefit everyone.

Front Seat Calendar: Since everyone is now reachable at any time by cell phone, you would want to have a calendar handy, whether paper or electronic. If you use an electronic calendar but are not syncing with your PDA, then you can periodically print out a monthly calendar and carry that with you.

Notepad: If you have to pull over for an extended talk with a client, you want to make notes on the conversation. Do not count on storing everything in your head for later. Write it down now.

Index Cards: Carry these with you at all times. They can go in your shirt pocket, purse, briefcase, and car. Whenever something comes up that you need to do or want to remember, write it down on an index card. When you get back to the office, staple that to a full sheet of paper and place it in your Daily Action file.

Mileage Log: If you have it close at hand, you will be more likely to remember to record the miles traveled. It is so much harder to do this once a month or to recreate the data at the end of a tax year.

CDs: If you want to make good use of all the travel time, this is an opportunity to listen to recorded business books or to conference break-out sessions. On the other hand, if it is advantageous for you to relax before a meeting or while headed home, pick some music that unwinds you.

To store these materials, you might consider an auto organizer with multiple compartments, one that ties over the headrest and sits against the passenger seat. It provides easy access. When you have a passenger, you simply move it around so that it hangs in back of the seat, still within reach.

Have a zippered plastic case for extra pens, pencils, and other basic desk supplies. You do not want all of these to be loose in case of sudden stops where they could become flying projectiles.

Back Seat Casual Reading: Have a folder of materials handy to grab any time you have unplanned open time—stopped traffic or arriving early for an appointment. It will allow you to effectively utilize your time while you wait, and in turn will lower the potential stress caused by the delay.

Map Book: Even if you have a GPS system, it is a good idea to have a backup for emergencies.

Umbrella: Do not leave this in your trunk. It does not cover you when there is a sudden downpour while you are heading into a meeting.

Trunk Forms and Brochures: Use a small travel box or crate that holds hanging file folders. That way you can keep a supply in the car without having to guess what you may need every time you head out.

Product Samples: Get plastic bins that can contain your products. When you have them organized in containers, it leaves more room in your trunk.

Grippers: These pieces cling to your trunk carpeting and keep things from sliding around. Place them strategically at the corners of your containers.

If you use something up while you are out, make a note on an index card so you will remember to replenish that item when you get back.

Returning to your office, be sure to take out all of the new materials-order forms, business cards, conference bags, ToDo index cards-and bring them in right away. Replenish anything that you have used up. This will ensure that you always have what you need at hand, and your car does not become a clutter trap.

Your car is a reflection of you and your methods. If you find yourself embarrassed or apologizing when someone unexpectedly has to ride with you, make changes today.

The preparation will add to your confidence as you head out to your next meeting knowing that you have what you need. You are in control and you look the part.

©2006 Key Organization Systems, Inc., All Rights Reserved

Through Key Organization Systems, Denise Landers provides solutions to organize your business, car office, or soho office for optimum productivity. Learn more time management strategies at her blog.

Business Opportunity Leads

Writen by Kevin Stith

Business opportunity leads are very important to the growth of all types of businesses. Building your business implies obtaining the right business opportunity leads. But most of the time, it is hard to find the right leads for the business. The best business opportunity leads will cost you a large amount of money.

Purchasing leads from a lead generating company is one way to obtain business opportunity leads. This kind of lead is considered as a convenient and reasonably priced method to create business contacts. The lead generating companies also help you decide which leads will fit your business best. They sell fresh leads created within the past 24 to 48 hours.

Companies offering business opportunity leads use a number of techniques to generate the leads. Some commonly used techniques are direct mail, telemarketing, requests for proposals, and requests for quotes, referrals, trade show demonstrations, seminars, and advertising. If done properly, each of these techniques will generate the right leads for your business.

Before hiring a lead generating company, you should also check whether you can create your own business leads. Generating your own leads help you get the best quality leads. A number of ways are available for obtaining your own leads without having to pay anyone else.

Collecting people request information through your website is one the simplest ways to get your own leads. Pop-up advertisements on your website or a link to obtain more information on your business may help you achieve valuable leads. Other methods include creating your own direct mail and advertising campaigns.

Whatever method you choose to generate business opportunity leads, the most important consideration needs to be the leads? quality. So make sure that your lead generation company gives you the best quality for money. Also, try to use proven techniques while generating your own business opportunity leads.

Business Opportunity provides detailed information on Business Opportunity, Internet Business Opportunity, Home Business Opportunity, Small Business Opportunity and more. Business Opportunity is affiliated with Business Valuation Software.

Sap Business One In Brazil And South America Localization Implementation Overview

Writen by Andrew Karasev

SAP Business One has up to 10 thousand installations worldwide and in the perspectives of Latin/South America we are talking about multiple countries, such as Chili, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, etc. Brazil however has some implementation, localization and customization challenges. Being purchased from original vendor in Israel, SAP Business One has such nice features as Multilanguage in one database/company, multicurrency, MRP/Production/Manufacturing, Service Management, CRM (with graphical interactive sales funnel), integration with MS Office on COM level, Drag and Relate, from technical side – Microsoft SQL Server database platform, etc. We'll describe Brazilian market challenges in the small article format:

• Tax Engine. Who is familiar with the subject understand the importance of Brazilian, Indian, Russian, French tax engine localization. Being very efficiently designed, SAP Business One object model structure still required a lot of development efforts to localize SAP Business One tax engine to Brazilian tax code. SAP seems to have global strategy, while developing Brazilian tax engine. It plans to use the same flexible construction to adopt/localize SAP BO to Indian market, where we have similar issues (uniqueness of the tax code)

• Potruguese/Braziliero translation. This is where SAP BO is really strong – you can switch American English to Portuguese by clicking CNTRL-XXX combination (you will have to close all the SAP BO windows, but hey – this is not a big deal comparing to the amusement to have Multilanguage feature in the same company). Plus you can have user profile to define the language for the named user (SAP Business One has named user flat licensing fee)

• Integration to SAP. SAP Business One has integration gateway to SAP, which makes this product attractive for franchise network, where you consolidate franchisees into central ERP.

• Competitors. You should expect that SAP will try to get market share from such local ERP solutions for midsize (and even large) companies as Microsiga and RM, Microsiga is probably the focus. SAP Business One plans to come up with price strategy, which will make this brand name product licensing price slightly below Microsiga

• Lockbox Processing. Current Localization will allow you to work with several central banks, such as Banco do Brasil.

• Some Drawbacks. No Payroll, just HR, No Project Accounting (however you can emulate project allocation for inventory items through user defined fields, etc.), no Retail Management solution (for Brazil, however 3rd parties exists in Venezuela for Auto Dealership and in Argentina - RMS)

• Licensing. You can start with just one license. In the case if your business has large sales department you can purchase CRM users only licenses and half of the price (you will have access to CRM module with ability to create the quote, order and invoice, plus see the interactions and reporting for these)

• CRM. You can have workflow (compare to Microsoft Sharepoint) with approval cycles, CRM uses messaging through Microsoft Outlook client

Good luck with implementation, customization and integration and if you have issues or concerns – we are here to help! If you want us to do the job - give us a call São Paulo 55-11-3826-3449, USA: 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918! help@albaspectrum.com

About The Author Andrew Karasev is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com ) – SAP, Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Microsoft CRM Partner, serving clients in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Manaus, Lisboa, Coimbra, Porto, Cascais and having locations in multiple states and internationally.

Drug Testing Facilities Vs Instant Home Drug Tests Amp Pros Amp Cons Of Drug Testing Methods

Writen by Serhat Pala

Drug testing labs provide accurate results for drug tests in a short period of time. Oftentimes, companies require lab drug tests in order to maintain a safe and healthy work environment for their employees.

Why Are Drug Testing Labs Used?

A drug testing facility is used to detect the use of drugs in the workplace, the home and even in law enforcement. Many times, employers will require a drug testing lab test prior to hiring as a sort of screening. Also, parents may send a sample to a drug test facility in order to discover whether or not their teen is abusing drugs. Drug testing labs are available in many different forms including urine testing, saliva testing, sweat testing and hair testing. After a sample is collected from a donor, the sample is then sent to a drug testing facility and tested for traces of illicit substances.

How Accurate Are Drug Test Facilities?

Drug test facilities provide the most accurate of drug testing options on the market today. However, many on site drug testing products are equaling lab test quality, making for a more price conscious and convenient option for businesses and families who wish to utilize drug testing.

Pros and Cons of Home and Lab Drug Testing

Deciding between using a drug testing lab or a instant drug testing kit can be difficult. Many different factors should be weighed, including the level of required accuracy and reliability, the rate at which results are produced, sample collection and cost. A drug testing facility will typically cost much more than an instant drug testing kit, although its accuracy is often guaranteed. Regardless of the drug testing method used, once a sample is collected, it can be tested immediately with an on site drug test, whereas a drug test facility will require the sample to be sent to the lab—a process which could take up to a week or more.

All in all, on site drug testing is more effective for the average consumer to use. Businesses can save large amounts of money when buying home drug test kits through corporate bulk accounts and are still guaranteed a high level of accuracy.

Worried parents who fret over their teen's potential abuse of drugs can use at home drug testing kits to find out whether or not they are using on the spot. Waiting for a drug testing lab to return results can be excruciating, especially when it is your child's health and wellbeing at stake. While a drug testing facility may be the most accurate and reliable form of drug testing, home drug testing kits provide a reliable alternative that save consumers and businesses money, while protecting families and employees alike from the hazards of drug abuse

Information about this article can be found at Find Drug Testing Lab Facilities. The article is prepared by Serhat Pala who runs the website TestCountry.com. Some of the information used in this article are taken from: Workplace & Employee Drug Testing

Distinguish Your Business Cards From The Usual

Writen by Florie Lyn Masarate

What would you feel if you hand a black colored and "menu type" business card? Would you cringe in embarrassment? Or would you feel proud that you are handing something these people do not see everyday? Have you thought about the power of what an unusual business card design can do?

One of the keys to success in a business is to show your customers and potential customers that you are different and far superior than your competitors. The usual design that companies use in their business cards is black ink on a white colored paper stock. Why not try it the other way around? White ink on black card stock. Sometimes being different is better.

With today's modern technology, business and company owners can now embed or imprint their contact information on nearly every surface imaginable. Wood, plastic, metal, magnets and glass, just to name a few. If you are more innovative, you can think of other mediums other than the ones mentioned.

So, where would you want your business card to be printed next?

Before deciding on what best to do with your business card, think for a moment and consider some important things first.

What is the main purpose of your business card? Granted that it can impress anyone and will give out information about you; will it serve its primary purpose as well? You should know that getting the attention and having your contact details printed on your business cards are just secondary purposes.

The main purpose is to make you memorable and desirable enough for the readers to consider buying what you are offering or trying out the service you are providing. Your designs should initially do that. It should be effective enough to make them not only read what is written but to take actions on it.

If your prospect kept your card, remembers that they have it and uses it later when the need arises, then you got yourself an effective marketing tool. If you haven't heard from them for the longest time, chances are your cards have been thrown away or stacked among other business cards. Too bad.

There are advantages to printing your business cards the non-traditional way and using non-traditional materials. And it is up to you to think what style will work best for you.

Use your creative mind and see how well the results would be. Shift away from ordinary-looking business cards.

For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.businesscardsprintingonline.com

About The Author Florie Lyn Masarate got the flair for reading and writing when she got her first subscription of the school newsletter in kindergarten. She had her first article published on that same newsletter in the third grade.

Will Lawyers Sue Ford Motor Company On Behalf Of Shareholders If They Go Private

Writen by Lance Winslow

We may see some interesting type lawsuits and new case law develop in the very near future as Ford Motor Company's stock drops. Why you ask? Well it appears Ford Motor Company is going to go private, but in doing so some might say that it is purposefully finding things to do in order to lower its stock price prior to going private. Will those shareholders who have lost money due to the fast stock price drop sue? Will some lawyer try to file that class-action case against Ford Motor Company?

This will be an interesting class-action lawsuit in that they are damned if they do and damned if they don't and this could prevent future companies from attempting to go private. More and more companies are considering this due to the massive over regulation of the SEC Securities Exchange Commission and the incredible class-action lawsuits from groups of minority investors.

Would such a suit hold water? No, probably not really because all the US Automakers are having troubles. Even DaimlerChrysler is attempting to hold their head up high as they manuerver thru though times and turbulent waters. General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and Ford Motor Company have all announced lay-offs. Ford Motor Company announced 300,000 lay offs to occur over the next few years and 14,000 will be leaving immediately whether they take the buy-put severance pay package or not. So, there are certainly some issues here as this game strategy un-folds.

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Create Effective Memos In Five Easy Steps

Writen by Sharon Mann

Here are five proven ways to help ensure that the memos you generate achieve the results you want:

1. Less words, more impact: In preparing a memo, keep things short and simple. Most people reading your memos have other work to do and will appreciate a brief message as opposed to a book, or even a letter. People who receive your memos are more likely to read every word and absorb what you're saying when there are less words.

2. Bullet your thoughts: Readership studies show that the intimidating format of a paragraph often turns off some readers. Using bulleted copy points instead to stress key ideas. This makes the memo more inviting to the reader and enhances the overall impact of the memo.

3. Solicit feedback: Another smart way to add impact to your memos is to engage the reader personally by asking them to get back to you. If your memo is about the implementation of a new filing system for invoices, request that your readers take action by submitting back to you their own ideas for the new system.

4. Become multimedia savvy: In the 21st century, electronic communication is becoming the norm, but some of us still prefer pen and paper. Remember how your audience prefers receiving information to ensure you reach everyone with your memo. Circulating memos to co-workers by combining the old-fashioned paper way with cyberspace provides people with more opportunities to read your memo.

5. "Carbon Copy" the people in charge: When preparing your list of who will receive your memos, remember to keep the people you report to (and possibly the people they report to) in the loop. Send these people memos along with the others you send. Including the names of top management in the "cc" section of your memo not only keeps everyone informed, it also brings importance and urgency to the memo itself."

While memos are an efficient way of communicating with management and co-workers, they can easily be thrown away if they go unnoticed or are met with complacency. Put yourself in your readers' shoes. Ask yourself if you would read, react and respond to your memo.

Sharon Mann is an organizational expert for Pendaflex (http://www.pendalfex.com), the world's leading maker of innovative organizing products and also serves as president of the Pendaflex "I Hate Filing" club, a dedicated group of nearly 100,000 office professionals who dislike filing but enjoy finding new ways to become more organized and more productive in the workplace. Sharon is the author of "I Hate Filing", Everything you need to Get Organized for Success and Sanity at Home, on the Run and in the Office.

The Biggest Mistake Internet Marketers Make

Writen by Barry McDonald

Everywhere you look and nearly every e-mail you open everyone seems to be making a killing?

But what about you, have you made it or are you like the other 95% chasing the next big thing? You know the drill by now you open your mail box and your e-mails some of which are usually made up of the following message….. "Buy this product, it's fantastic your life is going to be changed for ever blah, blah get your copy now!" and you think "WOW" that sounds fantastic you get your credit card out and you go and buy it and start to use it and then you find out later that it was the big thing last year and now it doesn't produce the results and you're back at square and probably $100 out of pocket. At this stage you're probably cursing yourself for falling for it and parting with your cash and you'll never do it again.

But……

The next day comes and you're back reading your e-mails and you see the same type of e-mail again except it's for something new that that does this, and that, and you really should get it today, your life is going to be amazing, I'll build your business for you etc, etc, etc.

I'm sure you know what I mean. It's a good job they haven't invented smell-a-vision yet because your mailbox would sure smell bad with the amount of "crap" sitting in it.

So what do you do? Do yourself a favor now and stop everything!! Go to your inbox and do a mass delete. Don't even read them, if it's such a great opportunity it will surely come your way again. There are that many opportunities on the internet you'll never be short of finding one, that right one for you that is,… and not because someone else says it's the right thing for you.

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The Value Of Virtual

Writen by Dana Blozis

While secretaries and administrative assistants have been around for years, the term "virtual assistant" is a relatively new term that has become popular along side the Internet. What is a virtual assistant? Also called a VA, a virtual assistant is the online equivalent of an office administrative assistant.

As independent contractors, virtual assistants work for their clients off-site, performing a variety of administrative tasks. Common duties include data entry, web design and maintenance, bookkeeping, word processing and transcription. While many virtual assistants offer basic office skills like these, others specialize in areas like accounting, research, mailings, marketing and public relations.

Because virtual assistants work off-site, often from their own home offices, businesses that hire them do not incur additional overhead expenses, payroll taxes or benefit payments. Instead, the business gains the experience and expertise of the virtual assistant while only paying for the services performed. This set-up can be particularly valuable to the small business owner or nonprofit that can't afford to hire additional staff. It can also be ideal for firms that need to fill employment gaps during peak times, maternity leaves and vacations.

How does it work? Once a virtual assistant has been selected, the hiring firm and the VA outline their terms. This is typically done via e-mail or telephone (e.g., virtually). The hiring firm spells out the work to be performed, standards of performance and the needed deadline. The virtual assistant quotes a price, or an hourly rate, for the work and her payment terms. Prices and rates vary based on the type of work, level of expertise required and the deadline. More complex projects or those that are needed right away will likely be more costly than simple tasks. Once an agreement has been made, the VA gets to work, contacting the hiring firm as needed with questions. Once the project has been submitted and approved by the hiring firm, the virtual assistant paid. This can also be done virtually through online payment systems like PayPal.

How can you find a virtual assistant? There are a number of professional virtual assistant associations accessible online including the International Virtual Assistants Association (IVAA), the International Association of Virtual Office Assistants (IAVOA) and the International Association of Virtual Assistants (IAVA). In addition to offering certification programs for virtual assistants, these associations often include online directories where you can search for virtual assistants. A simple Google search of the term "virtual assistant" will also yield millions of results.

The key is finding someone:
(1) who can perform the needed tasks on time;
(2) who will communicate clearly and on a timely basis;
(3) that will maintain your privacy and confidentiality; and
(4) with whom you will enjoy working.

If you can accomplish these four goals with a virtual assistant, she can become a valuable part of your virtual team.

Copyright 2006 Dana Blozis

With 20 years of professional experience and a degree in business administration, Dana Blozis is the owner and president of Virtually Yourz, a Seattle-based virtual assistant firm. Virtually Yourz specializes in writing, editing and marketing services for small businesses and nonprofit organizations. For more information, visit Virtually Yourz at http://www.virtuallyyourz.com.

The Complete Bartender How To Become A Better Bartender

Writen by Ben Ehinger

The complete bartender has specific qualities that his or her customers benefit from. I am sorry to say, but not a single one of these qualities includes anything physical. Yes, it is nice to have a decent looking person serving you from behind the bar, but that is not the most important thing and most customers will gladly trade in a hot bartender for one that will take care of them the right way.

Quality #1 – The complete bartender knows how to keep your drink full

The first thing a complete bartender will do is make sure you always have something to drink. The bartender should be asking you when you have about ¼ of your drink left if you want another one. If they are a complete bartender their timing will have you ready to have another one when they ask.

Quality #2 – The complete bartender will know their current events

If you are at a sports bar and your bartender has no idea what is going on in the world of sports, then they are not a complete bartender. The complete bartender may not know every score, but they know what the most local team did and they know all the big news of the day in sports. They should also have knowledge of what is going on around the world.

Quality #3 – The complete bartender goes from conversationalist to drink maker in a matter of seconds

A bartender needs to know how to talk with you when you are one of the only customers in the bar, but when it gets busy they need to be able to flip a switch and turn on the drink maker in them. This is the most important quality when it comes to speed bartending, and the complete bartender does this without hesitation.

There you have it the three too qualities that the complete bartender possesses. These are the most important qualities for the complete bartender, but they will possess even more. You will know this bartender when you meet them. They just seem to always have the answer and they are always on the ball.

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The Cyberspace Business

Writen by Patrick Connor

Welcome to the world of cyberspace market. It's a world where people can conduct business and buy products and avail of services by just clicking the mouse. Nowadays, person to person conducting of business and buying of products are becoming phased out as people are more engaged in online business. It's no wonder. For, people these days want to get things in a fast and easy manner. This is what online businesses do, they make lives less complicated as it promises convenience for the consumers. On the other hand, wealth and stability are promised for the businessmen.

During these days, the concept of pay per click marketing is very rampant and is in full bloom. Pay per click marketing is bidding on a certain rank or position in a search engine. Every time someone clicks your site, you get ten cents or two dollars. The amount you get depends on your position in the search engine. The nearer you are on the top results, the higher amount may be earned for each click received. The farther you are, the cheaper it is. The only advantage of being on top position is that people can easily spot and visit your sites, thus, earning you a lot of money even though the cost per click is costlier. On the contrary, those that are farther from top results can save a lot of money since the cost per click is cheaper but the chances of people visiting your site is minimal only.

Many businessmen are enticed in using pay per click marketing since it's a good way to advertise their products and services. A lot of people are into internet and online shopping so there's a huge probability that they can view your advertisements. Billboards and flyers costs a lot and there are few people in the area who can receive the ads. Online advertisements are faster and cheaper as opposed to any medium of advertisements.

The concept of a pay per click marketing is similar to a search engine, although the basis for results depends on the position that it bids. The rank of your website in the search engine would depend on your capital or investment for this. If you agree in paying high, then the ranking of your website will increase from number sixteen to number four, for example. One of the advantages of availing pay per click marketing is that it can create traffic in an instant. If you really want to draw customers to your sites, then it's better to use this. As you pay higher, your ranking goes on top too. Pay per click marketing provides an avenue for businessmen to test the waters of their service or product's marketability. The owner also has full powers to the rank and cost of the sites in pay per click marketing. There's just one major setback of pay per click marketing and that is the click cost.

Domain name is also one of the associated terms when it comes to doing online business. Domain name can be seen in the *url address*. For example, in the site, www.wikipedia.com, the domain name is wikipedia. Businessmen are advised to use a unique name that is related to their trade or the products they're selling. In this way, people can easily visit and remember their sites. Domain names can be called as the identity of the website, for it separate other websites from your personal or business site. It is relevant to have a domain name registration for it to operate fully and legally. There should also be a connection to a web server. Domain names play a significant role in the success of the business. Like pay per click marketing, domain names are necessary strategies for better advertisements online.

Aside from domain names and pay per click marketing, another word related to online business is affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are basically like get paid to refer friends in essence, since it gives commissions whenever the affiliates cause traffic in the website. Affiliates are also advertisers who made transactions and even just traffic possible. This is a multi-layered marketing or advertising strategy as consumers who are referred by affiliates can refer their friends. By referring other people, the consumers can profit from it. It is an endless cycle of referral and profit, which can gain businessmen a lot of money.

Cyberspace market is really the hottest phenomena in the information highway these days. Today, people can invest their money to sites and by just a click of some individual, you can gain easy money.

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Adsense Secrets Attracting More Clicks On Your Adsense Ads

Writen by Ricky G

More CTR (Click Thru Ratio) means more clicks on your Google Ads. But, is CTR all about position and colors of your ads? No! It's a lot more than that. CTR also depends upon the quality of traffic, relevancy of ads, and even the subject of your website. Let's get in detail:

Do you own a High CTR website?
Yes! CTR varies from Industry to industry too. It depends upon the keywords you are using to make your web page. It has been observed that more technical the topic is (but not necessarily) less CTR it will give you (for example Search Engine Optimization, Affiliate Network - exceptions are always there), but still works if the Ad content is well written.

However, this is only one condition; there are many undiscovered conditions that affect the CTR of keywords. At times, a particular season also has an effect on the performance of keywords. For example family of 'Turkey recipe' keyword is more active around November and December only and a quite sluggish rest of the year. It becomes really necessary to study the behavior of keywords before starting a massive website of Adsense around a topic.

Your Ads position and color: Old but very effective
Google heat map helps improve the CTR (Clicks Thru Ratio) of your website by suggesting you the most converting areas for your Adsense Ads. You can have a glance at the Google's Survey that illustrates the ideal placements of ads on your web page.
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html#17954

The above link talks a lot about position and color. I would like to leave this here and concentrate on other points.

Get targeted traffic – Most essential part
Traffic that is interested in your content (also called targeted traffic) is interested in your ads too. Thus, there is every likelihood that your ads will be clicked more frequently. Targeted traffic means more CTR, more earnings, and enhanced ad convertibility. On the other hand, the untargeted visitors are not interested either in your content or your ads, so keep your website's traffic targeted.

You can gather highly targeted traffic for your website by web promotion strategy and effective optimization of your web page structure. Effective web promotion strategy requires an appropriate Anchor text and more back links from relevant websites. And, to develop an effective web page structure, you have to optimize your Title Text, internal linking of your website, and most importantly your web content, in the best possible manner.

Choose the Right Anchor Text for Back Link Campaigns
Choosing the right anchor text for back links promotes your website to the traffic you exactly need from the search engines. Choose the Anchor text that directly speaks to your visitors and pulls the traffic that your web page requires. Targeted traffic results in increased CTR of ads.

Help Google detect theme of your webpage
There are many on-page and off-page elements that affect your ad relevancy. Better targeted ads increase both your CTR and EPC. Use keywords in your Meta tags, Title text and inject them in the first and last paragraph of your content. Also, wherever possible, divide your article in headings and sub headings ( H1 and H2 ). After Title text, here is another chance for you to dictate keywords to Google Mediabot.

Boost Relevancy Artificially – Use Google's Section Targeting
Now, you can enhance Ad relevancy by using Google's Section targeting. Using this technique you can advise Google mediabot about the areas of your content which should be considered or ignored while matching the Ads with your content.

For more information on the same topic, visit: https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=23168&topic=371

Block Junk Websites and Competitor Websites from Showing Ads
There are many junk websites that might be displaying ads on your website. These websites steal the traffic from your website and recycle it on their own Adsense ad blocks. Recognize such websites and stick them in Adsense Competitive Ad filter. Also, you can block your competitor websites using this competitive filter.

This trick can sometimes double or triple your Adsense income, augment user experience, and makes look your Google ads more genuine. For more information about this tool, visit: https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=21593&ctx=sibling.
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Information Storage Create Instant Access With Your Own Search Engine

Writen by Paul Hooper - Kelly

We're living in the Information Age. But, unless you can quickly locate your store of information, it's worthless.

So, if you have Microsoft Word, here's a simple way to electronically file all your information, so you can retrieve it with a click of your mouse.

Open up a new Word document and type a title describing the category of information you intend to store in it.

Let's suppose your file title is "Website Design". If you want to access this file frequently, here's a simple way to avoid scrolling through to "W" every time.Start your title with the number "1 A" -- for example: "1 A Website Design". That way, it will appear at the start of your document list.

Using the same "1 A" code, followed by the actual title, will position all such documents at the front of the document list.

Then copy and paste all the information you're keeping in various places in your computer, on that particular subject, into this new document, giving each item a descriptive heading to allow you to readily identify the contents.

I bet you've plenty of odd documents scattered around that would benefit from being grouped into a single, readily accessible document. So, once you've pasted them all into your new document, you can carry out some spring cleaning. Slimming down your list of documents in this way, will go a long way to help you operate more efficiently.

Once you have all your related information grouped in a single document, each with its own heading, here comes the clever part.

Click on the double A icon on the bottom left of the MS Word toolbar. This will open up a panel on the right of your screen.

Click on the "Show" button at the bottom and select "All styles".

Scroll down until you see a group of titles: "Heading 1" through "Heading 9".

Make sure you only use these headings, as they all contain a hyperlink that makes this system work.

Now go through your document, and highlight every heading, identifying the separate items of information. Each time you highlight a heading, click on "Heading 1".

If you want to sub-divide your information into sub categories, simply highlight the sub category titles and click on "Heading 2", and so on.

Once you have assigned a class of heading to all your headings, return to the top of the document and place your cursor at the start of the document, in the centre, and left click.

Then click on "Insert", on the top toolbar. Then click on "Reference" followed by "Index and Tables".

A blue box, headed "Index and Tables", will then appear. Click on the "Table of Contents" tab at the top.

Then check the number of levels shown is the same, or more, than the number of different categories of headings you have chosen. If, not, adjust the number in the "Show levels" box. Finally, click the "OK" button.

A table of contents will now appear, showing all your "Heading1" titles. If you selected sub headings, by highlighting and clicking on "Heading 2", these will also appear, indented, below their relevant heading, as will "Heading 3" headings (if you've used them), and so on, up to 9.

This table is hyperlinked. So, place your cursor over any page number, then hold down the "Ctrl" key and left click your mouse and the item related to the heading you have chosen will instantly appear.

If you add further information, later, highlight the heading and click on the relevant heading box, in the same way.

You will then need to update your index, at the top of the document. This is very easy. Simply place your cursor at the top of the index and left click. Then repeat the "Insert", "Reference", "Index and Tables" and "Table of Contents" procedure. This time, because you already have an index created, you will be asked if you wish to replace the selected Table of Contents.

Click the "OK" button and the index will instantly be revised to include the information you've just added.

You can use the same technique to create an instant table of contents in your e-books. And, as an added bonus, if you convert your book to an Adobe PDF, you will find that a list of interactive bookmarks are automatically created, allowing the reader to jump to any part of the book at the click of a mouse.

Use "Heading 1" as the chapter number and "Heading 2" as the chapter title. Any sub headings within the text should be "Heading 3", and so on.

When using this technique for e-books, you'll probably prefer a different typeface or size. Fortunately, it's really easy to alter the appearances of these headings.

Simply, run your cursor over "Heading 1" in the right hand panel and click on the downward pointing arrow that then appears. This will open up a box where you can change the typeface, size and color, as well as choose bold, italic, underlined, ranged left, centered or ranged right.

You can do this to as many of these nine hyperlinked headings as you wish. That setting will then be good for every heading you create this way.

This means you can develop a consistent "house style" for your books at the click of a mouse. But these settings can be revised at any time, by simply repeating the procedure.

© Copyright 2005 Paul Hooper-Kelly

Paul Hooper-Kelly owns http://AutomaticMillionaires.com/ helping people achieve their dream lifestyle by creating automated websites that provide passive incomes. Paul publishes a regular newsletter, called "Escape To Freedom", devoted to helping create a dream lifestyle by setting up multiple streams of passive income. Grab your copy at http://AutomaticMillionaires.com/passiveincomenewsletter.html

Internet Pitfalls And Pinnacles

Writen by John Dir

P.T. Barnum has been associated with the statement, "There's a sucker born every minute." Though it is questionable that he ever uttered the line, most people think about him when they hear this quote. Whoever coined the words might have phrased it differently if they were living in modern times to something like, "There's a sucker born every minute, and they are all trying to do business on the internet." Despite all the many twists and turns, promises and hype, anyone with the dream of owning a successful business on the internet has a road to travel that in many ways is more difficult than opening a successful brick and mortar enterprise. With a brick and mortar business, it can be easier to find qualified walk in business than it is to create lucrative traffic to a web site. Before you get all excited about creating your own internet based money machine, there are some things you should consider.

The day you decide to start a business on the internet, be prepared to hear the sound of the money vacuum starting up to suck all the cash you can feed it out of your pockets. Where there are hundreds of ways to throw away money in starting a local business, there are thousands of sure fired ways to waste your money in getting started on the internet. Some of the easier to find ways to waste your time and money with no guarantee for return on your investment involve a variety of "traffic building" schemes. Though any means of attracting qualified customers can lead some people to success, a serious internet entrepreneur should be slow to jump at using some techniques which may not sound bad at first glance.

1. Paid "Banner Advertisements" - This type of advertising promises big dividends in qualified traffic to your website. The method is the equivalent of waving an advertisement in the face of anyone passing by on the sidewalk, with the hope that a few who glance at it will be intrigued enough to click to your site and see what you have to offer. If someone happens to be thinking about what you are trying to show them, a few might take time out to have a quick look at your site. If your products and services are in such high demand that anyone would buy them if they only know where to go to get them, a banner ad may be useful. The question you need to ask yourself is how many times you or someone you know has not only clicked on a banner ad, but actually bought something from the site where it leads. This type of web advertising can be very costly, and may require thousands of visitors to your site before you make one sale. This method has been around long enough to have many internet users conditioning themselves to block out any distractions created by these ads.

2. Opt-in Email Advertising - This method of traffic building can also be expensive, and for many well intended businesses, is one step away from falling into the spam bucket. Whether or not your potential customers did something to invite your email based advertising, it will not take many repetitions of this to become irritating to the recipients. Unless your customers are highly intrigued by what your business offers them, chances are very good that they will decide to delete your money down the drain on sight.

3. Pay Per Click Advertising - One of the "dirty little secrets" about using search engine pay per click advertising is that good keywords cost you money faster than the spinning drums of a slot machine. Search engines can also bar your site from using certain keywords which actually bring traffic to your site whenever the whim strikes them. Getting people to engage in your web based services is far more difficult than getting people to visit. Gaining page one positioning on a search engine by the name of your business is only good if your business name is how people are looking for what you have to offer.

4. Ready-made Site Building Businesses - There are a lot of companies on the internet that promise to make you rich with "proven" packages, site building assistance, marketing, and help with getting your business started. Few of these, if any, guarantee any kind of return on your investment. If the service is not free to you, and does not guarantee a return of the money you invest to get started, prepare to watch your money disappear.

5. There are many companies that offer to sell you the "secrets to internet success," that promise you everything except a guaranteed return on your investment. When given a taste of what these packages have to offer, they promise top placement on internet search engines, lots of hype, and a lot of tired advice on how to build a successful web site that you can get for free elsewhere. Be careful of people who are willing to sell you a $300 package on how they made millions on the internet, especially if the secret advice is to replicate their convincing hype, and sell the same package with your name on it.

If you are wondering about whether or not to start your own internet business, consider how much more difficult it will be to build trust with your potential customers when you cannot get to know them in person, and physically interact with them as you would be able to do in a retail store. With all the scams, fraud, and downright dirty tactics unscrupulous businesses use to hoodwink people in the real world, you can multiply the worst the planet has to offer in cyberspace. These risks pose a threat on both sides of the table. Both businesses and customers are using the internet to discover new ways to cheat people with false hopes and false intentions. Despite its potential for good, the internet has rapidly grown to become a place for conscious scrutiny.

As a legitimate internet business, there are things you should look for to help enhance your chances for success. Some of these include the following points.

1. Be prepared to wait a long time to build a viable customer base from the visitors you receive from the web.

2. Demonstrate your good faith in doing business by responding quickly to customer requests for information, inviting on site feedback, and offering customers the ability to receive your product promptly upon payment.

3. Offer customers free trials, discounts for bringing new customers to your site, volume discounts, coupons, and other incentives to help them get to know you and your business.

4. Find ways to build relationships with visitors to your site, and allow them to contact you by email, mail, or phone.

5. Be prepared to change your site to provide more of the things your customers express an interest in coming to you to learn about.

6. Be prepared to offer a level of value in your products and services that could not be obtained outside the internet, or found anywhere else.

7. Utilize as many free traffic building resources as you can in building traffic to your site. If you are paying for such services, find out what guaranteed return on investments the plans have to offer. A query on this alone will eliminate getting stung by programs that do not deliver what they are trying to convince you they have to offer.

8. Remember that no matter how good your ideas and services are, they are worth nothing if you cannot connect with the customers who are interested in receiving them. No matter how much you try to plan for contingencies, you will not know if your business can succeed until you make an attempt. Chances are good that you will have to figure out on your own what is making or breaking your business.

Director of Software Concepts BHO Technologists - LittleTek Center Teaching computers to work with people HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~jdir

Why I Decided To Fire My Boss

Writen by Frankie Torres

Many people have been working for a person who yells at them, points at them and tries to make you feel you are worth nothing compared to him; he's called a "boss". What a joke! What bosses don't realize is that they are less compared to his employees! Why? - you ask. Well they actually have more responsibility and a reputation to take care of.

Employees may hang out freely, drink a lot of alcohol until getting drunk, smoking to death, and more. But your boss can't do that; he needs to take care of his reputation so he doesn't become the topic of the day.

Anyway, bosses still want to make you feel that you need them and that without them you'd be a bum. I used to work like this but it was getting me sick. I wanted to spit on my boss's face and send him to... well you know where I mean.

So, after getting sick and exhausted with that unhappy life, I decided to look for alternatives. I started looking at newspapers, magazines, internet, books, and at many more resources. One day, I found on the newspaper "Your Dream Job", which got me deeply interested so I started reading. To summarize the whole thing, it talked about internet marketing and how much it had been growing over the years.

Without losing time, I turned on my computer and started looking for internet marketing on the internet. I found a lot of search results. I started joining every program I found. I went through a lot of them but I noticed they were worth little to nothing. After 6 months I had only made like $100. I got dissapointed with all this stuff and I quit.

I continued with my day job, still holding myself back from fighting my boss to death. How I hated that job! After 1 month or so, I decided to give internet marketing a last shot. This time I got the goodies. I learned how to work with adsense, adwords, affiliate networks and so on.

The first month I earned $400+. It's a good start! - I said to myself. So I decided to continue enhancing the techniques I had learned, and adding some more ideas to make even more money the next month.

The next month I made $1512.20 from affiliate networks alone! And $177.35 from Adsense! My dream always was about making money from my own home, without someone to tell me what to do or when to do it. So I was actually making my dream come true. So, after months I was able to quit my day job and started working from my own home.

To kill your curiosity, I told my boss how I felt all those years and I pulled out off my soul all that darkness I had about him. You can imagine the look on his face; yeah, he looked so funny I had to laugh at him.

I am Frankie and I want you to do the same to your boss. FIRE HIM! To learn more about what I did to fire my boss, go to Money Trigger Thanks for reading!

The Easy Anyonecandoit Way To Write Free Reprint Articles

Writen by Steve Shaw

As you may already know, writing free reprint articles and then distributing them to publishers and web sites is one of the best ways to promote your web site - a single article can result in hundreds of new links to your web site and a rapid increase in traffic levels. But there's nothing worse than staring at a blank screen, and wondering how you're going to fill it with hundreds of words. That's why I'm going to give you an easy way that anyone can use to write an article - even if it's your very first one!

1. Get a main idea, or focus for your article.

This is what your whole article is going to be about.

The main idea for your article needs to have some relevance to the web site that you link to in the resource box, because this is how you are going to get the benefit when your article is published.

This is why articles are so effective at directing targeted traffic to your site - the reader will be searching for information on a topic, find your helpful and informative article, and follow the link to your site for even more relevant information. Writing free reprint articles fits right into how Internet users surf the web, and benefits you with targeted traffic.

2. Jot down five or more key points that provide information on your article topic.

For example, if your article's a how-to type of article, you can have say five steps towards accomplishing a specific goal. If your article explains different ways to do something, think of five or more different ways. Each of these points will form a paragraph in your article. Often as you write your article proper, you will find that you can expand each point into two or three paragraphs, which will give you an ideal length for your article.

3. Write an introduction.

Just introduce your topic. Give a little bit of background to the article's topic, and then summarize what you will cover in your article.

Again, you want to keep the reader interested, keep them reading, and push them along to the link in your resource box that you want them to click. So try to spike their curiosity a little, and they won't be able to help but read on to find out more.

4. Write a conclusion.

Your conclusion really just quickly summarizes the main points in your article, similar to how your introduction works, except now you are drawing your article to a natural close.

It's good practice to take a look at some articles in an article directory, and see how authors have concluded their article. Don't copy word for word, but you can base the format of your own conclusion on one that you like the look of.

5. Add a tantalizing title.

You may want to write this at the very beginning, but it's often helpful to write at the end once you are really clear what your article is about.

Your title is also one of the most important elements. It has to draw the reader in, encourage him to read further, make your article stand out from the crowd, and if at all possible contain an element that plays to the reader's curiosity (i.e. literally force them to read just to satisfy their curiosity).

6. Check the length

The ideal article length is 600-800 words, this is what most publishers are looking for, and will ensure that your article gets published in the maximum number of places. If you're short, see if you can expand on certain points, or add a couple of new points in.

7. Write your resource box

The last and arguably most important bit is to write your resource box. Again, it's a good idea to have a look around some article directories and note how other authors have structured theirs.

In my experience, the most effective way to structure a resource box is to first write a sentence about yourself that also gives you some authority on your topic. Then write a sentence about your web site, with a link to it. And that's all it needs. Keep it simple, keep clear of promotional language, and just include a single link.

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Once you've practised these techniques a couple of times, you'll find it as easy as pie and will be churning out quality articles in half the time. There are a few common mistakes that you will also need to avoid, but this is covered in a previous article I wrote at www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Steve-Shaw-1/submit-article-963.php/, there isn't room to go over them again here.

All you need to do now is get your article out there and published as widely as possible.

Copyright 2005 Steve Shaw

Steve Shaw provides systems and software for effective e-marketing. Find out more about how to publish articles for profit online with his popular free ecourse, available at: => http://www.takanomi.com/publish-articles.php

Guidelines For Choosing A Guru Coach Or Mentor

Writen by Sue And Chuck DeFiore

The following tips are meant as a guide for those of you who wish to enter into a coaching or mentoring relationship with a Guru, Coach or Mentor.

1. If you are not going to work with the individual you are paying, don't do it. You need to work with the individual who's charging you, so you can have accountability from him/her.

2. Take a very close look at the cost/benefit ratio of the relationship. Is similar information or help available at a lower cost or from other sources. Please understand that most of the information needed to succeed in Creative Real Estate or Home-Based Businesses is available for free if you have the time and ability to research it yourself.

3. Be very careful of those who claim to have secret or proprietary ways of doing business. The dictionary defines proprietary as made and sold by one with the sole right to do so; exclusively owned; private; benefiting an owner; owned by a private individual or corporation under a trademark or patent.

Now ask yourself, does anyone in the field of Creative Real Estate own an exclusive method of doing business. The answer is no. It is just marketing hype designed to entice someone into parting with his/her money.

Most of the methods for finding, acquiring, renting, selling, optioning property have been around for years. Can someone bring a slightly different twist to these methods, yes; but this is hardly proprietary.

Take Lease Options, people have been doing options for well over one half of a century. There is nothing new about sandwich leases, assignments, etc.

Wouldn't you think that if someone had a proprietary method and he or she shared that method, that it would no longer be proprietary. Of course! Once shared, it is no longer exclusively owned, therefore not proprietary.

Which really leaves the part of the definition about benefiting the owner. As we have seen, there are truly no proprietary or secret methods; so who does this claim benefit? Why the one trying to separate you from your money with this hype.

4. Be careful about long term relationships. Be sure any contract you sign can be canceled if you are not satisfied with the service being provided to you. You should be the final arbitrator of whether or not a relationship is worth your money.

Do not pay for the entire period up front. Many Gurus, Coaches and Mentors have a non-refundable clause in their contracts. By paying the entire fee up front, you lose leverage in case of dissatisfaction with the services provided you.

5. Be sure any material supplied to you and any services to be provided during the course of the relationship are covered in detail. Get a listing of what will be covered and the order in which it will happen. Do not accept generalities or vague comments like "We'll get to that". Know exactly what you are paying for.

6. Don't be led on by overly high prices. The most expensive is not always the best, especially for you. This is one area, where cost does not equal caring or commitment to your needs. Nor, does a high price indicate quality. Don't be fooled by the "I'm worth it" line.

7. Speaking of quality and caring, don't settle for lip service that someone cares about your future, make them demonstrate it. Speak to them a number of times. Do they give you the bum's rush if you can't afford their services right now, or do they take some time with you. Do you get the sense that they are more interested in selling you something? If you do, think very carefully before agreeing to enter any relationship with someone like this. What makes you think that their underlying attitude will change with the passing of money.

8. Do they seem to get more benefit from the relationship than you do? By this we mean, do they ask you to help promote their activities or products in your marketing material or promotional material. Do they ask you to do things for them, but are reluctant to do things to help promote your business? If they do, these are warning signs that this could well be a one sided relationship. Don't fall for the line "Well, you'll receive some back end benefit from this". Remember, you're in business to promote yourself, not someone else.

9. If your Guru, Coach or Mentor makes a promise to do something for you, get it in writing, particularly if it has a monetary consequence to you. By getting it in writing, you avoid any misunderstandings and you have recourse if he/she does not follow through.

10. When you speak with your Guru, Coach or Mentor, does he/she remember the details of your last conversation or do you need to start at the beginning each time. If you need to start over with each conversation, this may be a sign that he/she is too busy to keep track of all the people they are working with. Is this what you are paying for? The last thing you need, is to feel like a part on an assembly line. It's common sense that anyone can only work with so many individuals before the quality starts to suffer. You may want to ask before you get started, how many others the person you are considering is currently working with.

11. If your Guru, Coach or Mentor provides material for you, be sure you understand where and how it can be used in your business. Get it in writing. Don't depend upon verbal representations as to its use. You want to be sure that any material, particularly contracts, can be used in all facets of your business. If the material can't be used in all facets, what are the restrictions? Can you live with them? How this material can be used, may well influence what you are willing to pay. If you can, try to arrange to examine the material included before you make a final decision. You want to avoid material that is more fluff than substance. Understand, most Gurus, Coaches or Mentors will not mail this material to you first. Unfortunately, there are too many individuals who would take and copy this material with no expectation of ever working with someone. If you don't live in geographic proximity to the person you are considering, they should at least be able to provide you with a very detailed Table of Contents and Sub-Headings for their material. If they are not willing to do that, Pass.

12. Does your Guru, Coach or Mentor give you realistic suggestions to help you, or are they unfeasible given your situation. In other words, are the suggestions given within your financial means to carry out. Will they have an impact on your bottom line within a reasonable time frame? Do you have the technical expertise to carry out the suggestions? Or, do you get the feeling that everyone your Guru, Coach or Mentor works with receives the same suggestions. Remember, he/she is there to help support, guide and nurture you. Any suggestions given should have those principles in mind.

13. If suggestions are made, be sure to get specifics. Don't accept generalities. If a suggestion is made to write a book, do a tape set, give a seminar, etc., be sure your Guru, Coach or Mentor gives you details as to how to do it, if you've never done something like this. He/she should be able to give you a step-by-step plan of action to implement these suggestions. If they can't or won't, this is red flag. After all, you are paying for their expertise, be sure you receive it.

14. Be careful about references. No one in business is going to give you the name and telephone number of someone who is dissatisfied with their service as a reference. So understand that any references you receive are going to be positive ones.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that not only will any references be positive, they'll be glowing. Why, every business has some customers who believe the business can do no wrong. Therefore when you ask for references, any names you're given will come from this pool.

Rather than references, look to see if the guru, coach or mentor offers the type of programs where you pay an amount up front (which is reasonable to cover the initial time with you and materials you receive) and the balance as you succeed. In other words, the guru, coach, or mentor covers some expenses up front, but gets paid the balance of his/her fee as you do transactions.

Or, does the guru, coach or mentor have a program where you pay an initial fee and the balance at the end of the time period, if and only if, you are satisfied with the help you received.

In both of these types of programs, the guru, coach or mentor is demonstrating his/her confidence in their ability to help you. In other words, they are putting their money where their mouths are.

In this type of program, the guru, coach, or mentor has a real vested interest in your success, not just lip service to your success. If you don't succeed, he/she doesn't get paid.

I would be much more confident in this type of program and guru, coach or mentor then in one who only offers suspect references.

15. Most Gurus, Coaches and Mentors will look to sign you up for one to two years, or longer. One thing most will not tell you, is that they expect that your calls will diminish over the first few months. Therefore, you may be paying for service that you will not need in the long run. Avoid long term contracts if at all possible. It may be better to pay as you go if you can. The extra money you save may be better spent on your business.

We hope these guidelines will help you in choosing someone to work with if you decide that is the best way for you to accomplish your goals. The bottom line, be very careful before committing yourself to a long term relationship. A good one can greatly accelerate your learning; a bad experience can set you back years, and possibly even kill your dreams.

We wish you the best.

Copyright 2004, DeFiore Enterprises

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