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  1. Freelancing as A Career Option by Lewis Low

    Home bound workers can either consider telecommuting or freelancing. While telecommuting may keep you out of your home for some hours a week, online freelancing is a good way to make money if you are forced to stay at home. For example, homemakers, part-time students, retired folk, or others who wish to supplement their income from jobs or businesses can all consider freelancing.
  2. The Secret to Becoming Rich by Elise Fisher

    Napoleon Hill, the author of Think and Grow Rich, believes that a person does not have to be a genius to become rich. Any person can become wealthy if he thinks positively and has a deep desire to achieve his goal.
  3. Protect The Merger Or Sale Value Of Your Business: What You Can Learn From The DaimlerChrysler Deba by Greg Caruso

    In the heat of summer 1997, Daimler Benz purchased Chrysler for 37 Billion Dollars in a reported business merger of equals. Now, not quite 10 years later DaimlerChrysler is selling Chrysler for a reported 7.4 billion dollars for 80% of the firm. If the loss of 30 Billion Dollars in business value is not bad enough apparently the entire purchase price being paid by the buyer Cerberus will be placed into Chrysler and not retained by
  4. Are You Famous or Focused? by John Di Lemme

    Are you famous or are you focused? Let's start with "famous". When people look at you, what do they say that you are famous for? Are you famous for procrastination...negative words...poor time management...What are you famous for?
  5. Your Greatest Asset by Joe Heller

    Your greatest asset is your own customer list. These people have already purchased something from you in the past. If you've delivered as satisfactory product, they are very likely to buy from you again.
  6. Permanence of Paper by Joe Zicherman

    Historically, most of society's writings and visual images have been recorded on paper. However, paper is an organic material and is subject to deterioration caused by chemical, physical and biological agents. While documents on paper several hundreds of years old have endured, most paper manufactured in the last two hundred years has a limited storage life due primarily to acidity induced as part of paper manufacturing processes used during that time period. Exposure to acidic air pollutants
  7. The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Everyone is Your Prospect! by Corrisa Malone

    Outdated network marketing ideologies (some people call them lies), have made failure a common destination for most network marketers in our industry.
  8. Your Toll Free Number Could Be Turning Customers Away by Bill Lampton Ph.D.

    When I launched my company, Championship Communication, ten years ago, a veteran entrepreneur advised me, "Get your toll free number right away." He argued that I would attract more clients and keep ongoing clients happy if they could call me at no charge.
  9. Learning To Compete In A Very Competitive Industry: Travel by Bill Platt

    Over the years, many of us have heard about the opportunities available in wholesale travel. As a consumer, we can recognize that if these wholesale travel packages are legitimate, then we will have access to vacation packages that would make the average traveler drool over their possibilities in travel destinations. When we slide the shoe to the other foot and consider wholesale travel as a business opportunity, we question whether we have the knowledge or fortitude to
  10. The Magic Move to Being in Business by Heather Dominick

    Lots of entrepreneurs that I speak to spend a lot of time "being busy." They're attending meetings, answering emails and a ton of activity that fills up their schedule. They have great ideas in the middle of it all, but are so overwhelmed they fall into "productivity paralysis" and are just plain perplexed about how to really get to that next level. There's a magic move to being productive and profitable in business that no one
  11. 12 Ways Leaders Tell Their People They Are Important by Andrew Cox

    Leaders know the old saying "How you act shouts so loudly I can't hear what you're saying" is the truth. They use it to their advantage. Leaders know the greatest sense of accomplishment and importance often comes from non – monetary rewards, and from positive recognition from the person who is the boss. And they know they can do it without "breaking the rules" or incurring big expenses.
  12. How Much Debt is Too Much? by Jo Ann LeQuang

    People have a certain threshold or tolerance for debt. Most of us can tolerate a little bit of debt. How much debt is all right? And when are you in over your head?
  13. Office Equipment, the WEEE Directive and Global Warming Issues by Jimi St Pierre

    Environmentally Friendly photocopiers and other office equipment are crucial to workplace energy-saving and waste-reduction. Many measures (procedural and technical) have been implemented by equipment manufacturers, dealers and distributors - even before the government's introduction of measures via legislation such as the WEEE directive. Additionally, all government departments and private enterprise organisations have become acutely aware in recent years of the need for the implementation of energy-efficiency measures - not least to address bottom-line profitability as well as the wider
  14. Time of Day To Day Trade by Larry Swing

    Day traders are a special breed of animals from the investors and swing or position traders. To them, there is a routine throughout the day they notice and take advantage of them. Each segment of the trading hours has special meaning. When it comes trading, these traders know when they are at their best and when they will not make a dime.
  15. Reach out and touch someone -- Coupons and promotions on your cell phone by James Wong

    It's lunchtime, and you can't decide what to have today. So you take a stroll outside, just to see what looks good at the various restaurants in the neighborhood. As you're walking along, browsing at the different menus displayed in the front of each restaurant, you get a notification signal on your mobile phone. It's the newly opened bistro on the corner, asking you if you want to receive a coupon and a menu. You respond
  16. Employers: Save Time By Hiring A Private Investigator To Conduct An Employee Background Check by David Almeida

    If you are in business, you know that it's important to have a variety of information about those individuals who are working with you. This is true whether the position involves a security detail, handling large amounts of cash or working with a great deal of information such as the social security numbers and credit information for your company's clients.
  17. How To Hire Executive Protection by David Almeida

    Doing business sometimes comes along with a high degree of risk. There are patents that might be stolen. There are top secret plans that competitors are interested in obtaining. There's the money that comes from a high level of success.
  18. Cafeteria Benefit Plans and Your Workforce by Scott Turner

    Especially if you happen to be one of those unflinchingly ambitious micro-business entrepreneurs, I've been reading about everyday in pubs like Crain's Chicago Business, you'll eventually find that designing and offering up an attractive employee-benefits package will be an essential component of your future growth. An attractive health plan will do just that - attract - helping you recruit and retain crucial employees (meaning those fought over creative class/knowledge worker types Richard Florida is always yammering about). You'll
  19. "Fear – Your New Best Friend" by Matt Bacak

    Do you know the three steps to creating wealth? Creating wealth for your business depends upon your ability to sell, sell, and sell your products and services. Let's look at the three steps to creating wealth beyond your wildest dreams.
  20. Definition Of Supply Chain Management by Sandra Stammberger

    Supply chain management can be defined as the process of planning, implementing and monitoring the everyday operations of a supply chain. Supply chain management is an all encompassing process as it undertakes the management of availability of raw materials, their processing into finished goods and the distributions of the same. The aim of all this is to provide the highest level of satisfaction to the customer and thus increase the business of the company. And with the
  21. Forex: The Keep It Simple Stupid Guide by Jim Wilson

    A wonderful way to diversify your investment portfolio is to learn forex trading. Many new investors have discovered the world of foreign exchange trading to be an exciting new challenge. One that is filled with rewards that are beyond what they were achieving as stock traders. Currency forex trading is a great way to branch out into new investments. Experience a completely new world of investing by stepping outside of the chaotic domestic economy.
  22. How to Determine the Fear of your Customers by Matt Bacak

    You know the power and importance of knowing the fear that plagues your customers. But do you know how to determine this fear? Should you just guess? Should you use your own fears as a guideline? No. Guessing and using your own fears will not adequately serve your customers and in fact could hurt your bottom line.
  23. Right Product - Right Service by Paul Stanton

    Choosing what product or service your new business will sell is all too often a 'knee jerk' reaction and not a careful consideration of the facts.
  24. How Can Hiring Your Kids Help You Save on Income Taxes? by Kristine McKinley

    Hiring your children in your business can be a great tax savings strategy, as well as a way to teach your children about business and money.
  25. How A Published Author Can Become A Paid Public Speaker by Wendy Keller

    A book is your golden ticket into the speaking business. If you had a book published by a "real" publisher within the last 12 months in your hands, you have the calling card you need to get those speaking engagements now.
  26. How to Attract your Goal Income each Month by Matt Bacak

    Can you answer the following five questions correctly?
  27. Dollar Store Coaching VS. Millionaire Mentoring by John Di Lemme

    I'm writing this article sitting in front of a dollar store in West Palm Beach, Florida. As you know our corporate headquarters is located here in the beautiful Palm Beaches of South Florida.
  28. The Most Overlooked Technique For Doubling Profits by Joe Heller

    Your goal is to increase the number of times a customer does business with you. The purpose of marketing as a whole is to attract customers. Once you have them as customers, it's your duty to keep them coming back for more.
  29. The Power of Attraction by Matt Bacak

    The power of attraction concept has become very popular in recent months. The power of attraction is a mindset that you can have things attracted to you if you take the right steps. For example, if you change your mindset from worry to confidence then you will attract the things you desire. Another example is to let your desire be known and send this information out into the universe. The universe will respond by sending the
  30. Questions to Find and Implement Fast Solutions for Accomplishing 20 Times as Much by Donald Mitchell

    You should assume there are many pathways to creating a 2,000 percent solution (any way of accomplishing 20 times more with the same time, money, and effort) that improves a high profile benefit while enhancing many other benefits as well. With these questions, you will identify the opportunities that you want to use the eight-step process to develop.

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