Debt collection letters--an overview ?Debt collection letter? in the singular may be an oxymoron, since unfortunately, one is rarely enough. You should have a series of letters to send to deadbeat clients, each one becoming a little more insistent. Here are some ideas for a five-letter series. Don?t...

Creating a steady income from home can be a daunting process. Being successful from home can often take more work than your regular 9 to 5. But, if you learn to break things down and follow a simple forumla, your home business can give you all the income and time freedom that you are seeking in a...

Having worked in investments for many years, "performance chasers" are those people or investment managers who are always looking for the "hottest stock" that will get them the most bang for the buck now. There`s nothing wrong with optimizing performance, but they lose site of long-term investmen...

Marketing your book whether you went the POD, e-book, or traditional route can be a daunting process. Figuring out what works and what doesn?t can take time, energy, and if you?re not careful a lot of money. When I first self-published my science fiction novel GETTING OUT ALIVE, I had already done q...

Multimedia is everywhere on the Internet, whether in the form of floating ads at major websites, streaming video or animated presentations. Of course, there is a good reason why multimedia has become such an integral part of the web experience: it?s an effective tool for capturing attention or provo...

Do you routinely sign up thousands of direct referrals? Me either. I do get a lot of signups for some of my programs without doing ANY promoting. Want to know my secret? I submit new programs to a downline club. By submitting a new program, my ID becomes the ROOT ID for everyone else to sign up unde...

Before you read any further in this article, I`d like you to take a moment and write down who your biggest competition is. OK, got it? I`m going to go out on a limb here and tell you that no matter what company you wrote down, you`re wrong. Here`s what I`ll tell you; no matter what industry you`re i...

You`ve decided to dump "the man"--become your own boss. Leave corporate America behind. But what kind of business will you start? Are you hoping to turn your hobby into a money-making venture? Buy an existing business? Purchase a franchise and capitalize on the franchisor`s existing brand identity? ...

Congratulations! You just landed a big new contract. Now for the bad news. Who will run your company while you?re buried under the onslaught of work? Often a new project will derail a business owner?s efforts to build a successful business?marketing activities screech to a halt, bookkeeping tasks pi...

First, let me clarify what kind of Home Business I?m discussing. There are many different kinds including just about anything that you could do from your home. I?m specifically talking about the kind of home business you do from your computer on the internet. It could be either a part time or full t...

You have heard the experts talk about goal setting. Most Experts will tell you for a Goal Setting method to work it needs to enable you to set realistic, reachable and measurable goals. Furthermore it needs to set goals that challenges you and move you to action. The 90 Day Cycle is really the perf...

Almost every search we operate on the web begins with a search engine, for most of us Google. usually after the first optimistic shot, we get thousands of results, some of them non relevant, others full of pop-ups and when you`re lucky you finally enter an enjoyable site that soon becomes very annoy...

Has this ever happened to you... `John, you have a lot of mail this morning dear`. Stunned as a goldfish you walk over to the kitchen table and pick up the envelopes. Each one is a quality envelope that has an address label with your name on it. You flick through them and the labels are more or less...

Do you know what you really want to do for your job? Some people dream about starting their own business and know what type of business they want to create immediately. Then there are the rest of us... Knowing we want to have a business is only the first step in starting. Many of us then s...

Publishing articles on the Internet is a tremendous way to increase the number of inbound links to your site. As articles are assimilated into search engine indexes, they also begin to act as landing pages generating traffic for your site. Whenever possible, you should publish articles to promote yo...

Ever dreamt of escaping your desk job and having more freedom? Of course you have! Trouble is you eventually wake up and remember that you?ve got a job and bills to pay, right? What you need is your own portable means of income that will give you the flexibility and freedom to work anytime, anywhe...

Although the expressed reasons for wanting to work from home are many and varied, most home based business owners cite the ability to set their own hours as a major factor in their decision to work at home. However, many people that have work at home businesses often fall into a trap that flies...

Working from home seems appealing to so many people, but knowing how to keep work and home separate can be a bigger challenge for some individuals. Now, many people start a work at home business mostly because they want flexibility in their own schedules. However, some people get lost in the passi...

Whether you`re a manager, professional, or entrepreneur you need to think ahead. When you do it in a formal sense, it`s called it planning, when you do it informally it`s something like speculating. Whether you`re planning or speculating, the exercise represents just the tip of the iceberg. For the ...

(Speech and Presentation Coach & President of Speaking Success, Inc.) A conversation, a sales meeting, a board meeting, an interview, a courtroom case... all are special situations which require you to communicate clearly, drive the action and create the result you want. You can learn skills to engi...

Who`da thunk it! Yup, this Biker Chick climbed up on the back of that motorcycle, plopped on the helmet, plugged in the heated vest, cranked on the stereo and boogied on down the coasts of BC, Washington, Oregon and Northern California with my husband on the bars. I now know the feeling of "Biker Bu...

Like most of us you have heard that the key to generating revenue from your website is tied to keywords and content?lots and lots of content! So every day you invest hours or perhaps even hard cash in the form of outsourcing to increase the content on your site. Search Engine Optimization is all th...

Setting up a home-based virtual assisting business is relatively easy, but it`s important to have a complete plan of action set out in advance. I`m a firm believer that the initial planning phase of a business is crucial to its success. This ensures that you don`t leave any vital steps unaddressed...

Of course you`re familiar with using *headlines* to call attention to Web copy, brochures, articles, or documents. But *subheads* can be just as effective in bringing out key points for your readers. And they also help make any document easier to read, because they break up long blocks of text into ...

An Age-Old Question Searching for more meaning in our lives has been an age-old preoccupation for us humans. Why am I here? What am I meant to do? What`s the point of it all? And, most importantly in the modern-day world, what is it that will make me happy? Dissatisfaction, or "Gimme More!" It is hu...

Presidential candidate John Kerry is fond of stating that ?... not since Herbert Hoover has any president lost more jobs than George W. Bush.? And there is a kernel of truth to the statement; thanks to technology, jobs require less human intervention to complete. However, a larger factor in this see...

Moon Child by Simone Maroney is a larger sized adventure, fantasy novel with 55 chapters. The story line involves complex relationships between six main characters, which are delicately balanced leaving room for intrigue. Hanna, the chief character, was selected from birth by the Goddess, given ...

NetPreneurs fail all too often because they wrongly assume that marketing on the Net is a no cost business when, in reality it is simply a low cost or targeted cost business. The most successful NetPreneurs invest either targeted advertising dollars AND/OR targeted "sweat equity" in order to generat...

PART 1. Like many others online, I started off with high hopes of earning money from the comfort of my home! My job is likeable enough. I can`t complain about the money. I don`t have any issues with the people I work with in a way that makes me unhappy. I`m pleased that I have a job. Many don`t....

The IT training industry has certainly seen some major changes over the last couple of years. The majority of the "top-flight" training companies have experienced substantial reductions in the revenues they enjoyed several years ago. Although, there is still a strong belief that training has a signi...

When we are ill and don?t know it, we are in a state of ignorance or delusion. We don?t view ourselves as sick, so we don?t believe it?s necessary to go to a doctor or take any medication. We fail to recognize our own need for care and support. The same is true of someone suffering from afflictions ...

RECYCLING MOBILE PHONES IS ONE OF THE BEST NEW OPPORTUNITIES OF RECENT TIMES! Every so often a new powerful trend starts ? and that trend creates a whole stream of other income generating possibilities. The (relatively) new trend is mobile phones and recycling them is a side opportunity that, shocki...

Are you a computer-worm? Do you thrive on a computer 24/7? A ?computer-worm? is analogous to ?book-worm? ? a person who spends most of the time working on a computer. Do you expend most of your time reading or writing emails, chatting with friends, watching movies, listening to music, cyber-window-s...

When hosted CRM was first introduced, concerns were voiced about its drawbacks: the lack of customization, integration with other applications, support, third party storage, control over data control and the performance of service reps - not to mention the all-important security issue. Hosting?s big...

It`s really strange! Too many people start an MLM business with excitement, enthusiasm, anticipation and thrill, only for the reason that they want to be a successful home businessman. There are many people, who right now are not as successful as they would like to be. If your performance in this fi...

One of the biggest challenges to developing superior communication skills is that you already have your hands full in those situations where you need help. Take a typical scenario - meeting new people. If I give you tips for listening more effectively and you rush off to practice the tips you may no...

Writing articles has proven time and time again to be one of the best ways to drive targeted traffic to any website. Here are ten quick tips to help you use your articles to the best of their potential. 1. Submit them to e-zines and web sites for publishing. Include your resource box at the end of t...

The battle at Gettysburg is one of the most notable events in U.S. History. It is a battle where more lives were taken than in any other battle in North America. In this small farming community in 1863, George Meade?s Union Army comprising of 90,000 troops met Robert Lee?s Confederate Army of 75,0...

There are a zillion ways to do mortgage marketing. Obviously we cannot cover even a small percentage of them here. But what we will cover is a few basic mortgage marketing advertising tips that can help you succeed in your mortgage marketing. Mortgage Marketing - Lesson #1 All your marketing sho...

Seminar Business Marketing and Promotion When you feel like you`re always busy working on your business, but not getting where you want to go, it can be frustrating trying to figure out how to get your marketing on track. It can easily become a ?not seeing the forest for the trees? feeling. Here...

A certified proofreader is one that has taken a few courses and learned the proper way to do proof reading work. It is essential that individuals who want to become proof readers, have qualifications that can help them to prepare work that is of high quality. There are many different things that y...

So you have been writing mortgages like crazy now for the last few years. You have a pretty big database of customers and hopefully you have been getting and keeping full contact information for them. An organized database is the first key to customer retention. The next step is to put together a ...

I was thinking about the statement: ?The Small Business Administration tells us that 80% of all small businesses will not make it more than 2 years, and by 5 years 90% will have gone out of business. If that is the case, then why does every business out there try to be like the others? Most cop...

1. Find someone in your target market that either publishes an ezine or has a website. Ask them if they would like to join your affiliate program and promote your offers in their ezine, or on their site. In return, you`ll give them the product at no charge, and if you have an ezine or website, offer...

How Toyota Captured the #1 Market Share . . . Through Solid Decision-Making! Toyota is arguably one of the most recognizable brand names in the world. Toyota captured the Number 1 spot in automotive sales, by creating high standards for quality, reliability and customer acceptance. In short, th...

The internet has spawned yet another class of web sites designed to save consumers money by helping them to locate the best deal on the internet for products and services. This is how it works. Entrepreneurs at web sites such as www.bargainminde...

Self-publishing is not for the faint of heart. The publication process is lengthy, involves a considerable number of detailed, administrative tasks and can be expensive. This is the easy part; the real challenge involves ?S & M? ? sales and marketing. For an author to become a successful self-pu...

When I say free ezine advertising, I`m not talking about the free ezine ads that some publishers offer, this technique is FAR more powerful than that. One of the best ways to get free traffic to your site, is to write articles for ezines. Now before you shudder and click away, it isn`t that har...

Writing surveys is easy; or is it? The truth is that writing surveys is easy but writing effective surveys is more difficult. The following are twenty tips that if followed will help you write more effective surveys. 1. What is the purpose of the survey? Surveys are conducted for many reasons. B...

When you`re just starting out in business, it`s a safe bet that you need more clients. But what if you have been up and running for a while, and you`re still not making as much money as you would like? You may be in the habit of thinking that attracting new clients is the answer, but this isn`t alw...