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Networking 2
Another way to network is by using an 800 number and establishing a network of experts to refer your clients/customers to. An 800 number provides a way for your customers to reach you. You can answer information needs, resolve problems and obtain information from your customers. You will of course n...
How Do You Want To Spend The Rest Of Your Life?
Those who have the desire to work for themselves, or in effect run their own business, go through numerous stages.
There's the "Do I want to lose the security of my job" stage. So many people still think that their job is secure. Well -- newsflash -- no job is secure. You can be terminated at...
Realistic Goals...How To Set Them And Why
So many people want to start a business today and be rich tomorrow. Sorry, people it doesn't happen that way. If it did, everyone would do it. There is no free lunch...it takes hard work, determination and realistic goal setting.
Think about the businesses you have worked at, look at the bus...
Reminders For Running A Better Business
The following tips are from an article we contributed to Compute magazine. These are ideas that we all should know, but many times forget. It constantly amazes us how quickly a basic tenent of business can be shoved by the wayside in the heat of daily transactions.
If we all try to keep these...
Marketing Tips 1
This month we will deal with the issue, Where Can I Get Clients From? The following tips have come from a wide variety of sources; some from other successful businesses we know, some from our Home-Based and Small Business Support Group meetings and some we've developed by trial and error.
Som...
How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 4
Effect Of Bad Debts
So far, we have covered the major factors involved in setting your fee structure. We have set a realistic number of billable hours, calculated the effect of expenses and taken into account the cost of a benefit package.
This has brought us to an hourly rate of $77....
Marketing Tips 5
Typical methods of advertising-newspapers, radio and television are effective if used properly, but there are other, less expensive ways to get your company's name out.
Local or cable television is an inexpensive alternative to the traditional forms of advertising. Even if you have no experie...
How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 2
Effect of Expenses
The last article examined how to calculate your realistic billable hours. If you remember, we arrived at approximately 1100 hours in a year. To earn our mythical $46,000 per year, you needed to bill at a rate of $42 per hour. Now we need to take into account the expenses of...
How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 5
How To Raise Your Fees
There comes a time when it is inevitable that you must raise your fees in order to maintain both your profit margin and income level. You will find that the greatest resistance to this comes from your oldest clients.
There appears to be a direct correlation betwe...
Organizational Techniques - Tickler and Chron File
One of the biggest problems we encounter in our consulting with businesses, and our students, is time management and organizational techniques. This article will concentrate on some good organizational strategies. Two of the best organizational techniques I have found over the years are the Tickler ...
Defining Your Goals
Probably one of the most important things we do with our Partnering For Your Success students is to help them define their goals. We discuss their need for both short and long term goals. This might sound trite to you, or you might say, Yeah, everyone says to define my short term and long term goals...
How To Improve Your Negotiating Skills
Negotiation will be an important area for every homebased business owner, especially in lease purchasing. Whether you're dealing with suppliers, employees, or prospective clients, you're negotiating. The following tips will help you to negotiate better.
A. Know what you want. Establish a goal...
Realistic Goals...How To Set Them and Why
So many people want to start a business today and be rich tomorrow. Sorry, people it doesn't happen that way. If it did, everyone would do it. There is no free lunch...it takes hard work, determination and realistic goal setting.
Think about the businesses you have worked at, look at the bus...
Marketing Tips 3
This tip is so simple, that many people we've talked with never bother using it, but it is highly effective. Prepare a 30 second verbal commercial about what your business offers. This should be 50 words or less, and practice saying it until it becomes second nature. End it with phrases such as "I'd...
Are You A Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda?
The impetus for this article came from one of the 40 to 50 e-mails we get each week that go like this:
"Dear Chuck & Sue,
Can you recommend a business that will help me earn $10,000 to $20,000 each month. I need to start earning this type of money as quickly as possible.
Sincere...
What Is A Mission Statement?
In order to do your mission statement you need to be able to answer the following:
Why should this business exist?
Who will be its customers and how will it benefit them?
Why will they be better off?
These questions are easy to answer for Lease Purchasing. Why should ...
Resolutions....How To Keep Them
It's now February, have your resolutions already fallen by the wayside. Research shows that most resolutions don't last past the second week of January. Why? That's what this article is going to concentrate on, and how you can keep your resolutions on track.
The most popular resolutions are t...
How To Improve Your Sales Skills
One of the biggest problems for many business owners is the ability to overcome objections. In fact, for many, this skill could be the difference between succeeding and going back to being an employee. Since none of us want to do that, we need to hone our sales writing skills and our in person skill...
Getting Organized For The New Year - Part 1
The following procedures will insure an organized and well run office.
1. Have a daily To Do sheet. This is made up at the end of the day. You might have items left over from the previous day, put those items first and work from there. If you make deposits on a daily basis, add them to the li...
Summertime Scheduling
It's the end of Summer. The kids have been home for awhile and you realize that you've lost a good amount of time this Summer from your business. How do you avoid this happening next year or during the various school year breaks? Read on!
Let's say it's the middle of June and depending upon ...
Taking Charge Of Your Files
One of the first steps is to box up last years files. However, before you do that be sure to go through your files and clean them out. The files that can take up a lot of space during the year, can be easily tossed. For example, your correspondence file, newsletter files, chron files. You can also c...
Organizing Your Incoming Email
Organizing Your Incoming Email
By: Janet L. Hall
Everyday your electronic inbox is flooded with new email.
Some of these emails might be spam or newsletters you
have subscribed to. Yet other emails might be of importance
and need your immediate attention, say from your boss, an...
EEK! A Mouse on My Desk? A Wizard in My Window! What is this STUFF?
EEK! A Mouse on My Desk? A Wizard in My Window! What is this STUFF?
By: Janet L. Hall
I sometimes forget, as many of you might, that not everyone I talk or write to is as knowledge as I am using a computer or the Internet. Now Im not claiming to be an expert, but I do have a lot of experie...
Are You Finding What You REALLY Need?
Are You Finding What You REALLY Need?:
Internet Searching Techniques
By: Janet L. Hall
Remember the game Hide & Seek? Just like the game,
websites can be hiding from you on the Internet while you try
to seek out particular information, services, or products.
How do you find wha...
BLACK CORAL JEWELRY
Rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces and pendants.
...
COMPUTER VIRUS THREATENS MY HOME BUSINESS!
COMPUTER VIRUS THREATENS MY HOME BUSINESS!
Lee Wise 2002
A deadly virus threatens my home.
A computer related virus.
I have located the virus and even discovered
its name.
WHAT'S MY NAME?
The name is ... Lee.
Several code names identify the nature of <...
THE UNIQUE "TOUCH OF YOU!" (Being A Positive Influence In Your World)
THE UNIQUE "TOUCH OF YOU!"
(Being A Positive Influence In Your World)
Lee Wise 2002
I was in front of the computer at home.
Nothing new for me!
I heard a few voices and the dog barking.
That small dog "yap yap" that triggers not
nice thoughts in my mind. I wont...
Bosco Goes To Work?
A Job or a J.OB.?
Bosco has a job. His boss, Mr. Crabapple, seems to have
hemorrhoids everyday. When they kick up, old Crabapple
gives all his employees, well, grief!
Fang at the next desk at Bosco's job, thinks Bosco has lost
his mind. How dare any of Fang's friends think ...
10 Underground Tips For Inflating Your Profits!
1. Utilize holidays to increase your visitors or sales.
You could give away free electronic greeting cards,
hold discounts, send customers holiday cards, etc.
2. Become well known by speaking or chatting at
seminars. The seminars could be held offline, in
a chat room, by telephone...
The Key Ingredients for Internet Success
The Internet has opened a whole New World of opportunity
for even the smallest home-based business owner. There
are countless numbers of new self-made millionaires that
achieved their newfound success on the Internet. These
new millionaires are no different from you and I. They start...
ENE WEB SHOP
At our online supper store we have many items to chooes and low prices every day.
...
When Do I Start Getting Money and Where Does It Come From?
When Do I Start Getting Money and
Where Does It Come From?
2002 Elena Fawkner
I received an email during the week from a reader of a
recent article "The 10 Most Popular Myths About Running
A Home-Based Business Online"
(http://www.ahbbo.com op10.html). That article w...
Keys To Success -- #1 Commitment
The world we live in is based on commitments. Businesses sign
contracts, banks sign us to loan agreements, couples agree to terms
of a marriage, and even our children are taught the ideals of keeping
commitments by having assignments due on certain days at school.
Why then, do so...
In Praise of Thinking Small
All your life you've probably been beseeched to "Think Big!",
the idea being that if you think big you achieve big, while
thinking small gets you nowhere fast.
That's probably good advice as a general rule but it
shouldn't be taken literally when it comes to creating an
Intern...
What has YOUR biz op done for you
Think about it. What has your business opportunity
done for you lately?
Are they REALLY helping you succeed online? Or
did they just give you a free website and a bunch
of hype?
The sad reality is that MILLIONS of people worldwide
are waking up to the fact that when they jo...
How Will Your Business be Judged?
Like it or not, people DO judge a book by its cover. It's
just a fact of life. Everything having to do with your
business that is presented to the outside world is one more
judging opportunity. How do you measure up?
You've probably heard it said, "You only have one chance to
make...
Make it Better!
Whatever you make, sell, or do, you can undoubtedly make,
sell, or do it even better than you already do.
There, I said it.
It's nothing personal. I'm sure that you already do a great
job, but there is always room for improvement; there are
examples all around us. And I am abs...
Absolute Internet Truth, from a Slant
You've heard it said the Internet provides a level playing field for
businesses.
What exactly does that mean, do you know?
Well, I'll tell you. What it means is that you are literally as good as
what people perceive you to be. Now, that's true offline as well, but
online there...
Success Tips for the Entrepreneur
Reprint article in print or via the Internet with these
requirements:
=> Keep article intact
=> Include byline with active link
=> Please send a courtesy copy of newsletter or URL to
coaching@premeditatedlife.com
=> Ask for changes you'd like made to an article or byline...
Be Your Own Customer
Do you actually use your own product or service to see how
well it works? I am constantly amazed at the number of
products that are simply "unusable" for one reason or
another.
For example, we purchased a large spill-proof water bowl to
bring in the car when we take the dogs. For ...
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