Big Marketing Power in a Little Word

Your English teacher isn’t going to like this.Don’t get me wrong; the grammar and composition you learned in high school English class are critically important, but those rules don’t necessarily apply all the time.Allow me to explain.Your old English teacher would have preferred you write, “By carefully employing certain words, a professional gains a powerful advantage when selling his or her products or when trying to persuade others to accept his or her ideas.”Here’s a slightly different version: “By carefully employing certain words, you gain a powerful advantage when selling your products or when trying to persuade others to accept your ideas.”What’s the difference?These two statements essentially say the same thing, but the first one...

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What is an Angel Investor?

Angel investors generally have a net worth of $500,000 to $5,000,000. Typically, these private funding sources also generate an income of $200,000 to $1,000,000 per year. The demographics among these investors vary considerably, but they are all generally looking to make investments of $100,000 to $250,000 into a small business that is located within 50 miles of their home location. This article will focus on issues pertaining to working with angel investors as well as alternatives to angel investment. Almost all angel investors are considered to be accredited investors. An accredited investor is an individual that has a net worth of at least $1,000,000 (excluding a primary residence) and earns an income of at least $200,000 per year.Typically,...

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Converting your Hobby into a Business

Hobbies are a matter of national interest. At some point in our lives, most of us have maintained an interest in an activity outside the workplace, a hobby. They fall across a wide range of spectrum of activities. The interest in the activity pursued as a hobby is generally due to the passion or the fruit of the pursuit, not pecuniary gain. On average, people spend 1.3 to 1.7 hours per day on their hobbies.Depending on the level of devotion a person has to a particular hobby, it can be easily be converted into a profitable business. Turning a hobby into a business is one of the best ways to create a profitable business because of the combined passion for the activity and the potential for   establishing an income stream. Do you recall...

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Are You Financially Literate? A Checklist for Managers

Managers must constantly evaluate their firms’ strategies to assess how their decisions have been performing, modify these strategies as conditions change, and devise new strategies to boost performance in the future. Which activities should we devote more resources to and which should we cut back on? Which resources are not being used effectively? Should we outsource an activity or continue to perform it ourselves? Business decisions like these need to be based on information, and financial statements are a major source of this information.But many managers don’t have a background in accounting and finance, so they don’t have the tools they need to answer these questions. They don’t understand the reports they are given to help them make...

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How to Start a Business without Personal Expertise

The right business could be a natural extension of your skills, education, and training. You can start a business based on what you know, what you are good at, and what you can do very well.You may be a whiz in the kitchen and your family and friends have always complemented you on your delicious cupcakes. Using your baking skills as a startup point, you start a cupcake shop where you create and sell your delicious cupcakes.You may also be very skilled in programming, and so you decide to use those skills to start a business creating apps for various businesses.However, what if you don’t have any strong skills that you can parlay into a business? You don’t cook well; you don’t know how to program; or you don’t know how to design clothes.Here...

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Home Based Businesses Do Work

There are so many people out there who have finally had enough of their nine to five job and quit. There are some people who want to stop working for someone else but they are afraid to make that leap into the golden business opportunity that they have been presented with. So many people are under the impression that working for yourself proves to be nothing but trouble but that could not be any further from the truth.Remember, you will never become rich working for someone else because you are working hard to make that person rich. Why continue to work for an hourly rate that is set by someone who barely knows you? It would not matter if you started working twice as hard, you will only be paid the same hourly rate. When you have your own business opportunity that you are working on you will...

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First Formula 1 Night Race Brings Big Money For Escorts

Fast cars and beautiful women. Somehow, they seem to go hand in hand, as proven by this weekend's F1 race in Singapore - the first night race ever to be held for Formula 1. TheStarOnline reports that there's been a surge in demand for escorts for this weekend :Singapore’s inaugural Formula One Grand Prix race this weekend has revved up demand for ‘social escort’ services from high-flying executives, a newspaper reported yesterday.High-end social escort agencies say business is up by 20% as a result of the F1 race, with one client reportedly paying S$40,000 (US$28,368) for a six-hour booking, The Straits Times said.The report goes on to make me green with envy :Singapore Escort Services, which said it was handling the booking, declined to give...

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7 Ways to Save on Home/Central Heating Oil Costs this Winter

The price of heating oil has risen to levels many of us couldn't have imagined as recently as just a few years ago. This leap in rates has sent many people searching to find ways to save on their monthly utility bills, particularly during the winter months. While paying for home/central heating oil is unavoidable for many people, there are a number of ways to reduce how much you pay and the amount your home uses. Here are 7 of the best.Due to online comparison websites and easy access to company websites, prices are more transparent than ever. There are a few online comparison websites dedicated to heating oil companies in the UK. Using these sites has replaced ringing around heating oil businesses as it is more efficient in terms of time and money, i.e. they very quickly let you know which...

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One 24 – Take THIS Road to Retirement?

One 24 ? Take THIS Road to Retirement?Can One24 really help you achieve your retirement goals in as little as two years?  According to CEO and Founder Mark Seyforth, it?s possible!  The company claims that under their linear compensation plan it is actually achievable to earn over $100,000 per month in only 18 months for anyone who joins the company through the waiting list.  (To clarify, everyone who wishes to join the company must first be put on a waiting list.)The next question is:  Will it work?  No one yet knows for sure; the company is too young ? less than half year old.  One24 boasts having the most unique and first of its kind compensation plan in the United States, and, it looks promising.  During a recent conference call, it was reported that...

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Work At Home Entrepreneurs Profiting From Micro-Blogging

If you are one of those people who work at home then this article will get you thinking. There is a new kid in the block called micro-blogging. These are social networking sites where users can send short messages to people following them. Unlike blogging where you have to come up with a full article, micro-blogs are like one liner messages; talk of lazy work at home blogger. The amazing thing, you can generate huge traffic from this websites.Whatever business you are running, attracting customers to your business is the key to your success. Currently, social media marketing is the way to go. But websites like Facebook and MySpace have been given a run for their money. This happened with the introduction of sites like Twitter, Yammer, Plurk and others.The advantage of micro-blogs is that...

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8 Simple Steps to Replacing a Heating Oil Filter

8 Simple Steps to Replacing a Heating Oil Filter By: suzie smith2/16/2011 4:45:23 PM You should make it a regular part of your Autumn maintenance program to change the filter through which heating oil passes before it goes into the burner of a furnace. The filter, in most cases, is usually located on the tank and looks like an oil filter or cartridge filter. Changing it is extremely simple and will only take a minute or two. It?s important to remember to purge the air from the system after you have completed the filter change. This is a necessity. If it?s not carried out, the burner will not run due to air being in the system. It is therefore important that you get all the air out of the fuel line. 1 Go to the heating oil tank and find the...

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The Good Entrepreneur Competition

Are you an enterpreneur with a green idea? "The Good Entrepreneur" is a new TV series that will be screen on CNBC later this year. It's a new business competition that's backed by business and financial news channel CNBC. Also backing the competition are Allianz a global financial services provider. The aim of "The Good Entrepreneur" is to find the entrepreneur with the best sustainable, responsible and innovative eco-business concept.Budding entrepreneurs across Europe with a green idea or business plan for a product or service are encouraged to enter online at www.thegoodentrepreneur.com.The winner of ‘The Good Entrepreneur’ will receive a prize package worth more than £220,000 which includes financial support, advertising on CNBC and business...

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Affiliate Marketing Benefits

Affiliate marketing is beneficial both for merchants and the marketer.  It?s a popular method to earn profits, helps merchants to increase their sales and is the cheapest business on the internet.  There are many important benefits of affiliate marketing to marketers and merchants.  A few of these are discussed below.A few benefits to the marketer are:1.       Products are already provided for you.A benefit of marketing is that products are already provided for you, so there is no need to create a product.   You just need to select the products to sell, get the required affiliate links and start selling.  There is no need to worry about the production or delivery of the products.  It?s taken care of for you.2.      ...

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A Resume Reference Guide

Are you about getting a new job or changing carriers? If yes,you should be ready to prepare a resume for yourself. Some believed creating a resume is complicated and nerve-wracking to develop,while to others the problem is references.On your resume,there is high probability that you must list references. These references may come in two different formats. These are personal references and professional references. Many employers actually prefer to see a combination of them both. Also,according to research most hiring companies like to see at least three references on their job applications and resumes.If you are now clear of what many companies want when it comes to references on a resume,you may as well start to list your references now. While this approach is necessary,you must proceed with...

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If U Do Not Know This, It Is Likely U Fail Online

The reason some people fail or quit online has a lot to do with their not recognizing what marketing system to use to market the product or the program they are involved in. Example of such thing is getting involve in a sales marketing company that employs a network marketing strategy to train their marketers.You are bound to achieve very little or no success at all no matter what you do. This also applies to a sales marketing company who attempts to treat all its customers like a business partner.If this company sell a product to a consumer it will find it difficult to call this consumer at least once per week to inquire whether they are getting the most out of the product like they would an actual business partner. This phenomenon do exist, therefore the moment you are guided by this simple...

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How to Prepare and Print Form 1099-misc Yourself

As business owner, if you hire contractors, you need to furnish each contractor a completed Form 1099 by Jan 31. You also need file 1099-misc Copy A of all paper Forms 1099 with Form 1096, Annual Summary and Transmittal of U.S. Information Returns, with the IRS by Feb 28. Are you headache of the tax reporting now? For this tax season, you can take benefits from the features of ezW2, the easy-to-use 1099 & W2 printing software, which is trusted by thousands of users.ezW2 1099 W2 software was specifically engineered with non-accountant business owners in mind. Its intuitive interfaces allow the user to get started on filing and printing Forms W2, W3, 1099 and 1096 without the long learning curve typically associated with financial software.Followings are the 5 simple steps to printing...

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4 Tips For Small Business Owners To Stay Optimistic In A Tough Economy

Businesses seem to be hitting a tough patch right now. While researching for this post, I stumbled upon this made-up term by a doctor, but I think if such a medical procedure DID exist, a lot of us would need it at one point or another :Dr. Ralph Capone, the chief medical director of Excela Health came to talk about the new Strategic Plan and Vision for the health provider. First he had to add his own word of the week though, opticalrectumectomy. It is a new procedure in which a long pair of scissors is inserted up the rectum in order to snip the optic nerve behind the eye. It is designed to remove an individual’s shitty outlook on life.Did you get the joke?Here's another snippet that's in tune with what our good doctor is trying to say :A...

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Passive Online Profits: Scam or Legit? Claims of Weekly Payments Whether You Sponsor or Not

I must say that I have reviewed and participated in many an internet marketing opportunity over the years. Some are valid business endeavors and some are truly garbage. It is not uncommon to find companies on the internet, especially network marketing companies, over-promising, overstating their capabilities and embellishing or exagerating the true potential of their opportunities.  That is why I had to really scrutinize the promises I came across not too long ago being aired by one network marketing company. When anyone tells me I can make any amount of money by doing nothing, my antennas swiftly rise. And when I am told that such an income would be continuous; that I would be receiving a passive income on a weekly basis whether I sponsor anyone or not, said antennas nearly shoot out...

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