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Sunday Quotes 08.05.07 2007-08-05 05:00:00 "The Bible gives us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. One list of human stories is used as examples – do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning." -- Jim Rohn “When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.”  -- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor "Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape." -- Michael McGriff, M.D. "There are none so blind as those who refuse to see." -- Helen Keller<:))))><< ...

Protecting Your Home Business Equipment 2007-08-04 05:00:00 Protecting Your Home Business Equipment The success of a business whether large or small, is largely dependent on hard work and ingenuity.  No matter how industrious you are, one disaster can wipe out all your profits and even the business.  There are several ways to protect your business equipment.  When buying equipment for a home business, buy the extra extended warranties.  The longer the warranty, the more the cost, but it is worth it.  One trip to the repair shop can exceed the cost of the extended warranty.  Most power problems can be eliminated with proper wiring and grounding.  Avoiding circuit overloads can also reduce electrical problems.  Circuit breakers are designed to protect against overloads and short circuits.  It is probably a good idea to have a licensed electrician inspect all the wiring in the house before starting the business. Properly installed electrical service meter surge protection devices used in the conjun ...

Posting To Chat Forums Can Bring In Business…Here’s How! 2007-08-03 05:00:00 Posting To Chat Forums Can Bring In Business…Here’s How! If you're a frequent visitor to chat forums, you can use them to your advantage without worry about spamming anyone. That doesn't mean that you have to go in there with the sole intention of promoting your business, but there are a few things that you can do in a subtle way that can possibly land you some new customers. It can be one of the easiest ways in the world to draw business to your website, and you don't even have to do any work to accomplish it. Most chat forums allow registered users to add a signature line underneath their name. This information shows up each time you post a message to the forum, and can be advantageous to someone who is looking for any of your products and services. Some forum posters don't bother looking at the websites of users unless they are regular users of the forum, and then they might get curious. Another thing is if there was a discussion and you just happened to mention that you h ...

Amazing Video 2007-08-02 13:52:43 Click here for an amazing video of the Minneapolis bridge as it fell. <:))))><< ...

Four Tips on Building an Online Presence for Your Company 2007-08-02 05:00:00 Four Tips on Building an Online Presence for Your Company I n a day and age when the Internet is mushrooming and there are virtually no corners on the globe left that are not connected or at least connectable, as a business you will have to have an online presence to stay competitive. Of course, building an online presence for your company is not as easy as it sounds, and the number one mistake made by those who might be small business owners is to do it themselves and cut costs wherever possible. This leads to a host of sites that look or feel simply unprofessional. Here are four tips on building an online presence for your company: 1. Hire a professional web designer and ask to see samples of their work. You want to see currently working sites that have been put together by the outfit to ensure that you like what the finished product would look like. It is too easy to be wowed by a web designer’s low price tag only to later end up with a site that is either run of the mill ...

Research and questions can help you make money online 2007-08-01 05:00:00 Research and questions can help you make money online By studying how other people make money on the internet and asking some questions, you will likely discover that you can make money online too. People make money online with all kinds of different items from physical goods that are delivered to the customers to information and services. There's ebooks, works of art or writings, affiliate products and the like. You can even start up your own non profit organization and help other people. Non profit organizations can pay they employees of the company (i.e. you) but not make any money after expenses. If you're earning a wage, it's still money in your pocket, it's just not called profit. If your life long dream was to help any particular group, this might be the most rewarding for you. If you do a little research on work at home opportunities, you might find a lot of ideas that you never even thought of. Some of the most common ideas are medical billing, network marketing p ...

What Are Auto-responders? 2007-07-31 05:00:00 What are Auto-responders? Have you ever sent an email and had a message that bounced back stating that person was out of the office or was unavailable at that time, but to contact someone else at the following email address? It happens quite frequently in a world where emails are the fastest way to make contact with a co-worker, friend or loved one. Auto-responders can be great, for when you need someone to know something important, when they are trying to reach you, but they can be a problem too, when you are in urgent need to contact someone and you receive an auto-response. Auto-responders are software programs that automatically send a response when an email is sent to an individual that has set their limits to have an auto-response. These can be as simple as you would like to make them or as complicated. Having a simple message can make things easier for those that will receive the reply email. Having an auto-response to emails that come in regarding your company can be a q ...

Motivational Monday 07.30.07 2007-07-30 08:24:52 This story ought to be copied and placed where you will see it often - and then every time you come across a project you think you cannot successfully complete read this story again. Eight-year-old Glenn Cunningham raced into a burning schoolhouse to rescue his big brother. When he regained consciousness five hours later, his brother was dead and Glenn's horribly burned legs lay limp and without feeling. Specialists urged his parents to have Glenn's legs amputated immediately - he would never walk again - but Glenn pleaded against them. Even though the toes of his left foot were gone and the bone supporting the ball of his left foot practically destroyed, Glenn was determined to walk again. That was the summer of 1919. One week later Glenn announced he was ready to stand up. His father lifted him out of bed, stood him upright and let go. Glenn crumpled to the floor. Every day Glenn's parents carefully rubbed his dead limbs. Every day for weeks, they repeated the lifting-falli ...

Sunday Quotes 07.29.07 2007-07-29 05:00:00 We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. - Unknown There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Unknown Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. -- Phyllis Diller We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. -- Will Rogers I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. -- W.C. Fields Money can't buy you happiness .. But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. -- Spike Milligan<:))))><< ...

Is Pay Per Click Worth Your Time? 2007-07-28 05:00:00 Is Pay Per Click Worth Your Time? One method of search engine marketing techniques widely used today is pay per click advertising and many website owners are questioning the cost of such ads and whether the return on their investment justifies the expense. Many search engines offer pay per click ads based on the sale of certain keywords, and there are also networks offer pay per click as a means of gathering more customers to their sites. A website can contract with one of the search engines, such as Google, Yahoo! or MSN an bid on keywords. When a person using the search engine enters one of the keywords in the search box, their ad pops up on the search results page as a sponsored ad. The search company pays every time a person clicks on their ad, with costs ranging from one cent to maybe 50 cents for every click. This is in addition to the cost of the keywords bought in an auction atmosphere. With network advertising such as Google’s Adsense and Yahoo’s publisher network ...

Search Engine Optimization That Anyone Can Understand 2007-07-27 05:00:00 Search Engine Optimization That Anyone Can Understand Search engine optimization, or SEO, is used by online businesses as a way to increase their chances of being in the top ten rankings on search engines. Because most consumers only look at the top three or five websites listed, being that high in ranking increases the possibility of making a sale. Because there are many tricks to using SEO, you may become confused easily if you are not used to it. The best ways to use SEO is to add keywords and phrases to your web pages and create back links to your website so potential customers will be able to find your site regardless of whether they use a search engine or not. Search engines use web spiders that search each website and sites connected to it in order to create rankings. While this occurs very quickly, search engines actually check millions of pages checking for sites that are frequently mentioned online. Adding keywords and phrases and adding back links on other websites a ...

Should You Be Involved in MLM Marketing? 2007-07-26 05:00:00 Should You Be Involved in MLM Marketing? Everyone wants to strike it rich, and a lot of people are doing it online, with at home businesses and through multi level marketing, which can also be known as the pyramid scheme. There are some companies that are legitimate businesses; however, there are a lot of companies that just scam the public. Multi level marketing works on companies starting out with one person who hires a number of other sales representatives who, in turn hire more reps who also hire more. It’s a vicious cycle that rarely ends well for anyone other than the originator of the company. Some of these have been called pyramid schemes and are, in fact, illegal in some states. Be wary however, because sometimes the not so legitimate multi level marketing companies can be guilty of price fixing and falsely advertising profits for members. Price fixing is a maneuver used by companies to promise the other to sell their products at the same price which can ultimately dri ... Marketing

Are Online Ads Worth Your Buck? 2007-07-25 05:00:00 Are Online Ads Worth Your Buck? Whenever you are surfing the internet looking for information you will see a plethora of online advertising offering virtually every conceivable product or service under the sun. As more people hit the information highway, often shunning traditional information sources such as print, television and radio, advertisers are also making the switch. Online advertising can a cost-effective method of reaching web surfers and getting their message in front of a different audience. One of the biggest advantages of online ads is also one of the biggest disadvantages. Online ads can reach a wider audience and if you have a global internet business can expand the boundaries of your customer base. In most cases you have the ability to determine the types of sites on which your online ads will appear, but in many instances once you place the ad, especially if going through an online ad agency, your site could end up on sites that are inconsistent with you belie ...

Free Training 2007-07-24 11:01:04 Michael Lemm at Best MLM Resources has an excellent post, Free Training From AWeber On Effective Email Marketing. It is worth a read. AWeber is a solid, customer friendly company. ...

The Next Generation Of Marketing: Permission Marketing 2007-07-24 05:00:00 The Next Generation Of Marketing: Permission Marketing If a company paid you to watch their commercials on television, you would probably be more inclined to not get up for a snack or reach for the mute button. However, this is not happening and your favorite programs are interrupted. You family time may be interrupted by please for donations from charitable organizations or political organizations and your computer screen is bombarded thousands of times, each day you turn it on and sign onto the internet. In an effort to reduce the number of interruptions every person has everyday through every media available, the push is on for companies to get permission before taking your time. It would be like a television commercial giving you a choice of whether to watch the commercial or continuing with the program. No advertiser in their right mind would offer that choice because they know their message is broadcast to thousands of viewers and if they had to get permission from them al ... Marketing