Brainstorming! The Key To Wealth

Brainstorming! The Key To Wealth

by: Roy Primm

Advertising executive Alex F. Osborne first coined the word ขbrainstormingข in the early 1940’s. Since then literally millions of ideas, products, services and solutions have been created and improved on.

Every institution from Fortune 500 companies to Universities and Government agencies have used the principle of brainstorming. They’ve use it to create everything from new ad slogans, and medical breakthroughs, to how to get your child to eat more peas.

Fact: For every product in your home or office, chances are a person or group of people brainstormed about it. They brainstormed on how best to create, market, sell, manufacture, advertise, or distribute it. This is how powerful brainstorming is.

One of the best things about brainstorming is that it can be used by anyone. You don’t have to be a C.E.O or army general. You can gain from brainstorming if you’re a housewife, janitor, student or unemployed.

Yes, you can use the principles of brainstorming for the largest project or the smallest project. You can use it to plan a million dollar ad campaign, or use it to plan what you’ll have for dinner tonight.

If you simply follow and practice the following steps you will soon be amazed at the ideas and solutions your fabulous brain will give you.

Before we go any further lets discuss the 7 steps for effective brainstorming sessions.

The 7 Magic Steps For Powerful Brainstorming Sessions!

1. The brainstorming session can be done with one person or one hundred people. The rules are the same. The only requirement is the participants should know or know about the problem, business, product or subject of the brainstorming session.

2. Don’t use critical thinking. Critical or judgmental thinking slows down or kills the creative process at this stage. Because as hard as you may try, you can only think one thought at a time. When your creating you can’t judge and when you judge you can’t create.

3. Keep the session light, loose and free spirited. Humor has been known to help oil the wheels of our creativity. A large portion of our creativity is released through our humor. Watch a comedy, or tell a few jokes before you proceed.

4. Make sure you have a pencil and paper to write down any and all ideas, or if you’re in a group, designate someone to write down the ideas.

5. It’s best to set a minimum length of time or amount of ideas you want to get out of each brainstorming session. Setting a goal helps everyone to focus; it also helps everyone avoid wandering minds.

6. Write down the problem, the goal, or the subject at the top of a piece of paper. For example, ขWays To Attract More Customersข. Next number each idea you or the group comes up with. Write down every idea, the good, the bad, and even the ugly. Remember, the goal is to get as many ideas listed on paper as possible.

7. Next evaluate the most doable ideas and take action.

That’s the 7 tips for effective brainstorming sessions. Follow them and watch the ideas flow.

About The Author

Roy Primm (The NicheMan) has written hundreds of articles on how to create a moneymaking niche. Get the edge on your competition this year read his free report ก14 Ways To Create a Niche and Grow Richก go to NicheBrain.com

This article was posted on January 10, 2004

by Roy Primm

Writing a Business Plan After You Buy a Business

Writing a Business Plan After You Buy a Business

by: Sandi Schneider

Business plans are usually written when you want to start a new business; however, writing a business plan is an excellent way for you to lay out on paper exactly what the company is about, and understand what it does best, what its weak points are, etc. This will prove very helpful when you’re trying to work out how to go about adding a new service. Be open to advice from anyone in your company who might have a good idea.

How well does the service you want to add fit in with the current functioning of the company? If it’s an extension of areas the company is already involved in, is it a service that existing customers will need? Or will you need to spend money to market the new facets of the company?

If you’re venturing into an entirely new area of business, do you have the workforce and infrastructure in place to handle the changes, or will you need to hire new talent, purchase new equipment etc.?

Share your thoughts with your employees and take their feedback very seriously. They are the ones who will ultimately execute your ideas and make them work.

What Do the Customers Want?

Your business sense aside, the customers’ ideas are easily your most valuable pointers to what your business needs. If you find several customers asking you whether you offer a particular service, that’s a clear indication of the natural direction in which the company can grow. Your existing customer base will provide sufficient momentum to your initiatives to ensure that they get a fair chance. If you please your existing customers, wordofmouth referral alone will help the new areas of your business grow and you may find that you don’t need to market yourself aggressively at all.

Share Your Enthusiasm

Being a new boss, it’s important that your first few big ideas don’t fall flat, so err on the side of caution. Be a dynamic communicator so that you have the support of your employees and customers. Set realistic goals and motivate your employees into attaining them. Constantly revise progress with your team members, so that they feel that they’re a part of the change, and have a stake in making it work. The company’s enthusiasm will be passed onto the customers, giving any sensible business plan a good chance of success.

Timing is of the utmost importance, so be prepared to put your plans on hold until the company is ready to go through a change. When you buy a business, the period of transition can be somewhat unstable so any changes you plan need to be planned out to the smallest detail possible.

About The Author

Sandi Schneider

Get help from experienced business brokers to help turn your business dreams into reality. At Vested Business Brokers we have enough experience in putting together successful deals. Our web page is www.vestedbb.com.

This article was posted on September 08

by Sandi Schneider

Organizing Your Data to Write Better Copy

Organizing Your Data to Write Better Copy

by: Neroli Lacey

Last quarter I talked about interviewing / gathering data. So now you’ve got several thousand words of notes, hopefully digitally recorded. What comes next?
GETTING ORGANIZED
I suggested organizing your interview questions into 4 groups. I’m going to label them for you A, B, C, D.

·what is the business problem? = A
·what is the high level solution? = B
·can you tell me more about the solution? = C
·why should I trust you (as my vendor?) = D

Any decent piece of writing has a beginning, a middle and an end. So before you start editing / writing you want a map, to show you where you are going. Take a blank sheet of paper, write four major headings and label them A, B, C, D, as above.
Now read your notes. When you find data relevant to ขAข (the business problem), underline that copy and mark a big ขAข in the margin (in red?) . Keep working through until you have marked up relevant copy for all four sections of your piece.
You will be leaving out anything that does not seem suitable as you go.
THE CUT AND PASTE JOB
Next comes a cut and paste job. Group together all the ขAขs, then the ขBขs, ขCขs and ขDขs.
Next, take a look at all the ideas you have in the A group. It helps if you take a new sheet of paper and write a list of the ideas or facts in the A group. Now prioritize. Be ruthless. And trust your first instinct. If an idea seems to leap out and have life, put it first. The less important ones come later. Weed out any repetition or weak data. Now you work on flow. Do you have a logical flow of ideas that your reader can follow? Are you telling him/ her a story that you yourself could believe in?
You will go through the same exercise with the remaining blocks of notes, ie ขBข,ขCข and ขDข.
EDITING IS PRIORITIZING
Editing is prioritizing. Often you will want to limit a list of ideas to 3. Three has a flow to it. And is about as much as any reader or listener can grasp at one sitting.
Finally you polish. Now you are reading for flow or musicality.You are cutting out superfluous ideas and words.
This is the long way to write.
THE SHORT WAY TO WRITE
The short way is to sift and prioritize all your notes in your mind ie you turn on your thinking tool. The key idea will pop into view, and hey presto, you begin writing about that one. You have a feeling for what comes next and what after that. You understand how to prioritize your ideas. Soon with a bit of jiggling ideas around the page, your story has a beginning, a middle and an end.
You can teach yourself the short way by writing the long way, again and again. Or by turning copy round in the middle of the night for an 07.00am deadline as I often had to do as a newspaper feature writer.
ขWhen we encounter a natural style, we are astonished and delighted: for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.ข Blaise Pascal. Quoted with thanks to John R. Trimble, Writing with Style published by Prentice Hall.
Do you have a robust marketing plan to execute against? How clear and persuasive is your website, brochure copy or direct mail? Call Neroli Lacey NOW to win more business TODAY.
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About The Author

Iกm Neroli Lacey of Beyond Communications Inc. in Minneapolis, MN. I’ve been helping executives transform their businesses and their lives with outstanding marketing materials since 1995. VISA, 3M and Perot Systems are some of my bigger clients. I have worked with clients in Boston, San Francisco, Dallas, Austin, Minneapolis, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin and Delhi. I used to be one of the top journalists in Britain writing for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, New Statesman, Vogue and Tatler.
Before newspapers I was an investment banker. I grew up in London, England, studying Latin with Greek at Bristol University.
Please visit my website: www.beyondcommunications.com

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This article was posted on April 30, 2004

by Neroli Lacey

The Big Bang Publicity Campaign

The Big Bang Publicity Campaign

by: David Bell

Famous is as famous does and the famous get known through publicity. Yes, thatกs right, fame doesn’t discover you, you create it through strategic campaigning. Whatกs more, the techniques for increasing your exposure isn’t as difficult to attain as you might think. A great publicity campaign starts with courage, then planning, and lastly, it succeeds through persistence. If your not sure why you should seek fame, consider fortune because the two go hand in hand.

Fame will bring your business into the forefront of your target audience faster than any advertising campaign can hope to do. It solidifies you as an expert and creates a deep, abiding confidence in the consumer. It makes you a shining star with infinite possibilities. So whatกs are the steps you ask? Well paste a gold star to your forehead and letกs get started.

1. Press Releases: Increase awareness through a press release. Yes, I know, press releases have become quite the popular little tool around cyberspace with releases being blasted hither and there, but is it working? Probably not. Blasting your press release will bring blasted little results. Instead, thoughtfully put together a very dynamic one page press release and target publications that would be most interested in you and your business. Don’t drone out the details, make that press release sing your praises. Then send it to a real live editor and follow up with a phone call. In other words, let the press release be the invitation to your follow up phone call. Begin making connections with the media. Be polite, be excited, and be patient.

2. Create A Press Kit: A Press kit is basically an exaggerated press release turned into a package. Itกs more complex, tells more about you and your company, and is all pulled together into a nice neat folder. Of all the questions I receive, first is, what is a press kit? Simply, it is a folder of information about you or your business. It should contain:

An Introduction Letter

One or Two Press Releases

A Fact Sheet (This contains the facts about you or your business.)

Bio Sheet (Which is a biography of you and your accomplishments.)

Copies of Published Articles

Company Literature

A Business Card

Send your press kit when an editor, publisher, or producer wants to know more about you.

3. Newsletters Offline. Don’t forget that a whole world exists offline. Locate newsletters or smaller print publications offline and submit articles. This can be a very dynamic way to increase your exposure as well as add to your press kit. You can locate newsletters in your subject area by visiting the local university library reference section. Ask for a directory of trade newsletters and do your research. Once you have been published, itกs easier to step up to the larger publications. Fame starts small and then snowballs onto itself.

4. Speak Up! Yep, thatกs right. Start giving speeches on your area of expertise. Start locally at civic clubs and local educational programs. Then find the local talk radio shows and make your case to the producer. Itกs surprising how many talk radio shows are actively looking for new speakers. Once you have achieved Talk Radio, the opportunities will start coming to you.

5. Publicity Pitches: Put together several dynamic article ideas. Just the ideas, not the actual article. This is called a Publicity Pitch. Take those ideas and then pitch them to editors of targeted publications. This can work very well as it saves Editors time and puts the outline right into their hands. As a past Editor I know how well this works. Editorกs love ideas, especially ideas that are completely outlined and correct for their readership. This means don’t send pet article ideas to cooking magazines. Send pet articles ideas to pet publications. Seems like a no brainer, huh? But youกd be amazed at what editors see that don’t apply to their own publication.

Fame comes from planning and persistence. It has itกs rejections, but if you can learn not to take it personally, it will eventually work. Remember, once you start, keep going. Once you stop, you have to start all over.

I hope this helps in your future marketing decisions.

About The Author

David Bell is Manager, Online Marketing, at http://www.wspromotion.com/ , a leading Search Engine Optimization services firm and Advertising Agency.

This article was posted on April 25

by David Bell

How to Find Ideas for Articles & Speeches

How to Find Ideas for Articles & Speeches

by: Chirag Parmar

Do you have problems finding ideas for articles and speeches?

I know have had at times, and others tell me the same thing. At my Toastmasters club, for example, Iกve often heard members say they have difficulty finding topics for speeches.

But, Iกve learned, like others who write and speak a lot, to start with what I know. To use my own experiences or perspectives to make even a simple subject uniquely my own. And you can do the same.

Indeed, what seems mundane to you may fascinate someone else. Suppose, for example, you work in a fast food restaurant tell me about the best and worst customers, or tell me about the processes and training that make it possible to go from order to delivery in just a couple of minutes.

Hereกs a reallife example from my own experiences. I have a parttime job as a directory assistance operator for a telephone company, and that produces some interesting stories, like the time a woman called because the door knob to exit her borrowed apartment was broken, and she couldn’t figure out how to get out. She didn’t know who to call except Directory Assistance, and we had an interesting time figuring out a solution. Now thereกs a story to get an article or speech started, and perhaps even a theme such as กStrange but true stories from a directory assistance operator.ก

Then, thereกs the idea of providing insights for others. If you drive a truck, for instance, you might create a Top Ten list of common mistakes you see on the streets and highways. As a professional driver, you have special insight into the patterns of amateur drivers.

Beyond your personal experiences, think about issues that intrigue you. If you’re interested, doing research and thinking about a subject will be enjoyable and easy. Perhaps you can even satisfy your own curiosity as you prepare an article or speech that enlightens someone else.

These approaches should lead you to any number of story ideas. Make a list, of say five or ten possible topics. Now, ask yourself which of them will be the most enjoyable or easiest to develop. You also might ask yourself if you have enough examples to illustrate the points that fall under a specific topic.

Now, write an outline, to set out the main themes in your speech or article. By the time you finish outlining these themes, youกll probably have a number of new topics that could be developed into topics that stand on their own.

For example, looking back at the contents of this article so far, I see that discussing something others don’t know much about is one of the points. That would open the door to what I call the กEverybody knowsก syndrome, the unfounded assumption that others know what we know. Perhaps you think that your parenting experiences are just like everyone elseกs. Yet, your feelings may very well be unique and of great interest to other parents.

If all else fails, get ideas from others. For example, I subscribe to many online newsletters because I write a lot of articles myself. As potential story ideas come in I store them away in a folder, ready to be searched when I don’t have anything available in the top of my mind.

I can use the original article as the starting point, creating something new and unique by using my own experiences and ways of doing things. Or I can abstract someone elseกs article in my own words, again creating something new in the process. In both cases, Iกm creating something new based on my unique experiences or perspectives.

So, never be stuck for an idea for an article or speech! You already have enough experience and knowledge; itกs simply a matter of developing one of those ideas within that framework.

And hereกs a bonus: If you’re writing or speaking about something thatกs happened in your life, you won’t have to work hard to create the article or speech. Just follow the path through your memory.

About The Author

Chirag Parmar is 14 years old Indian boy. He is gujarati. Living in Mumbai. He is student but he likes to write this is why he is writing. he editor and content manager at his web site www.chiragparmar.tripod.com. Weekly free ezine: กWriter’s Heavenก filled with tips, subscribe it at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chirag_parmar. Chirag manual กHow to write article?ก a four part series.Download it to learn how to writ? And for success, can be downloaded at: http://www.chiragparmar.tripod.com/howtowrite.html. Do you need free content for your website or ezine? Our archives deliver more than 270 freereprint articles available for your use. Send me email what type of article you want, then I will mail you more than 10 article.Email: [email protected]

This article was posted on April 11, 2004

by Chirag Parmar

Cกmon Rich, Tell Me What To Do…

Cกmon Rich, Tell Me What To Do…

by: Richard Grady

I get hundreds of emails per week and as you might expect, many of the emails contain similar questions. There are probably ten questions that I get asked most. I will save nine of them for another time as I want to talk about just one of the top ten questions today.

The basic form of the question varies but essentially it is the same and here it is:

กI have read everything I can about marketing online.

I understand how to get traffic to my website.

I know how to make my website appealing to customers.

I know about generating income with กbackendก products.

I understand everything you have taught me over the past X years….

BUT WHAT DO I ACTUALLY DO?ก

Yup, the question is simply กWhat should my online business actually be what should I offer what do I do?ก

Of course, this is the $64,000 question and there is no easy answer. If I could pluck guaranteed business ideas out of the air every time someone asked for one, I would be a rich man. Unfortunately, I can’t and neither can anyone else. Even if someone did have a pool of surefire ideas, would they really be willing to share them with others for nothing?

However, I can try and help you come up with your own idea by making suggestions and eliminating some, almost certainly, bad ideas.

Firstly, do something that interests you and that you know about if you are not interested in your product and don’t have the first clue what you are talking about, I can guarantee that you will not be successful. For example, don’t try and sell products about making money on the Internet if you yourself are not making money on the Internet.

Secondly, don’t do something that is already being done by thousands of other people unless you can add a highly unique ‘twistก. For example, you will never make any money setting up a general online auction site there are already plenty of established sites with millions of registered members. Why would anyone want to use a brand new auction site with no members when they can sell on eBay?

Thirdly, (and I know I keep banging on about this but it is important), find a small market that is easy to target rather than a huge, general market. Small doesn’t have to mean กsmallก on the Internet. The money is in the niche markets trust me.

I know how hard it is to come up with an original idea but it isn’t impossible and plenty of people do it everyday. If you can’t come up with something yourself, spend time surfing the Net and กbrainstormingก with others in forums such as: http://www.traderonlineforum.com

Copyright 2004 Richard Grady

About The Author

Richard Grady has been helping people earn online since 1998. Find out more about Richard at: http://www.thetraderonline.com. Free wholesale search engines: UK http://www.wholesale118.co.uk and US http://www.thewholesaletrader.com.

This article was posted on November 01, 2004

by Richard Grady

The Tech Heads Need To Make It Simple For the Aver

The Tech Heads Need To Make It Simple For the Average Human

by: Jesse S. Somer

The techheads need to build new software that makes obtaining information and collective communication a simple process for the average human.

Being the total opposite to a technical person, it is hard to imagine future Internet software advances. The technohumans have come up with incredible ideas and subsequently their ideas have come to fruition. It seems like anything a human puts their mind to can be done. Our species has come such a long way, but I feel the key to the next part in our evolution of technology and consciousness is to integrate the ideas of the average person. Who do we build all this technology for anyway? I think it’s made for humans to have a better life. It’s time to start making the technological advances in computing with the noncomputerbased people of the world in mind. A famous American journalist Sidney J. Harris once said,

ขThe real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.ข

Computer and Internet specialists have to realize that they have gone so deep into their fields that they now can no longer see what the computer world looks like to a novice like myself. All this technojargon and hundreds of different types of software can be quite overwhelming to a normal person who just wants to take part in this new way of interacting with reality and society.

We’ve got to simplify if we want this awesome force to be integrated into our lives in its highest form. I know the Internet is growing at an incredible rate already. One only has to look at the example of India to see the incredible mark Information Technology has made. You can go into a tiny village that looks relatively the same as it has been for fifty years; the general infrastructure is shocking: broken traffic lights, decrepit buildings, power lines splaying out in chaotic patterns. But, something big has changed; each town now has a satellite dish, and an ISP connection (Internet Service Provider)! This is truly amazing. However I believe it is only the beginning of a new revolution that will arrive when we simplify the information and communication processes.

So what’s the special answer to the sacred question? Well, I haven’t got all the ideas, but I know of six billion human souls out there who I’m sure would have an opinion if you asked them. Find out what people really want and need. Recently I wrote an article on how great it would be if we could get our News from multiple sources instead of the onetomany, topdown structure that feeds us so much negativity today. An opportunity to only read relevant News to the individual’s liking also sounds like a great project to take on. Wouldn’t it also be great if we could communicate easily with others of similar interests? E.g.: Finding the blogs and websites that interest us without having to search for days on end to find them!

These are just a couple ideas the software masters could approach to make the new revolution of collective consciousness and independent thinking a reality. I truly believe the Internet could be the gate of entry into a new dimension for the average citizen of Earth, a dimension that thrives on the sharing of knowledge from multiple perspectives, communication that involves everyone, and incredible access to individuals who you’ve always wanted to meet. Come on people, let’s get with the program! Humans are a resilient, powerful race of creatures; it’s time to duplicate all this energy we’ve put into producing technology and put it into making it easily used by the masses for positive means. The plant has grown into a tall healthy tree, now it’s time to harvest the fruit of all our labor.

About The Author

Jesse S. Somer

http://www.m6.net

Jesse S. Somer is a simple humanoid attempting to help bring the separate worlds of social consciousness and technology into the ‘one world’ it is destined to become.

Check out his personal humanistic/philosophical blog: www.thepowerofeverythingthatis.com

This article was posted on November 18, 2004

by Jesse S. Somer

Make Money At Home Online

Make Money At Home Online

by: Joel Teo

Need an idea to make money from home online? Here is a list to provide you with a good place to start!

1. Try looking for a telecommute job. You may be uncomfortable with a home business, try instead bringing your job home to you. You could try asking your boss but if that doesn’t work, search online for telecommute jobs.

2. eBay is hot! Try selling some of those items you’ve collected over the years and sell them at auction and get top dollar for your products. It’s quick and easy.

3. Make a website with chat rooms. Chat rooms are popular. Niche them to make a concentrated gathering. If it’s a music chat room, you can put up affiliate programs from Amazon.com.

4. Take flour and eggs and make dog biscuits! These are a hit online as well as offline too. You could sell them wholesale to pet stores.

5. Start an online directory. People will want to leave their links with you and link back to be included. People will save your website as a resource if you niche it out. Put up advertising too.

6. Google Adsense offers a great way to earn some money. Write an article, put it on a website and put the ads in the page. People will come, read your article and click on the matching ads.

7. Take $2 and turn it into $20. Buy wholesale and sell retail online. Sometimes you don’t even need to carry the products. Drop shippers will be happy to do all the hard work, you just make the website and sell.

8. Do you know things most other people don’t? Do you know how to take a new author and help him sell his first novel? Offer your services for a fee as a consultant or a coach.

9. Kids are a great way to make money. Make a kid’s website and sell advertising space. Make sure that it is per click and companies that sell toys or candy will love the added exposure.

10. When in doubt, look at what you love and do what you love to do! If you like games, make a game website. If you like teddy bears, sell teddy bears. Stick with what you know and you will never be steered wrong.

Also, try asking around for more ideas. Look at business you admire and figure out how you can make it better. Sometimes the best ideas are ones that are adjusted from old ideas. This is how a lot of people get their start, why not you?

About The Author

Joel Teo is the owner of the Money Making Directory which boasts of money making tips, recommendations and resources to help ordinary people make money online. Signup for his free newsletter today at http://www.MakeThousandsToday.info and receive his complimentary ข7 Insider Secrets to making money onlineข Course.

[email protected]

This article was posted on August 07

by Joel Teo

How To Write A Killer Sales Letter

How To Write A Killer Sales Letter

by: Patric Chan

I sit down and look at my notebook. Then, I put myself into the ‘zone’.
That’s how I start to write web copy that sells.
Whether you agree with me or not, your web copy will determine whether your product’s going to sell online or not.
Simple reason. In an offline sales pitch or presentation, you get to interact with your prospect. You get to touch him. He gets to see you personally.
But not online. No, no, no. It all depends on the words on your site. See how powerful words are?
I’m not saying I’m a guru at web copy. There are many other copywriters who are far better than me. Many. But I’ve written my own web copy and it’s selling. And at the same time, I’ve been hired to write for others.
Keep on reading on how I write killer web copy and you can pick up any of the tips.
The first part to write a copy, you MUST be in the ‘zone’.
What the heck is the ‘zone’? The ‘zone’ is like… the mood. You see, writing a great copy is like an artist painting a beautiful picture. When you are in the ‘zone’, your hand can’t stop typing and your mind keeps on coming up with amazing ideas to write.
Like, I’m in the ‘zone’ when I write this article.
How to be in the ‘zone’? I’m not sure how you can achieve that, but for me, I put in a lot of passion to write a killer copy and I look into the future to see how this copy will sell like crazy.
That’s how I get into the ‘zone’.
Once you are in the zone, keep on writing. Don’t stop. Even though, you know you are writing wrong grammar or putting in weird ideas. Just keep on writing.
Then, after it’s finished, read it all over again. This time, you’ll pick up the mistakes and you’ll add in more ideas. Continue doing this until you are satisfied with your work. Finally, edit your work.
When you start your copy, your headline is one of the most important parts of the copy.
Some copy writers write tons of headlines before they start. For me, I’ll write about 5 headlines and read it over several times. Then, I’ll pick the best and fine tune it at least 510 times before I decide to use it.
One more part of writing copy; don’t feel bad ‘borrowing’ some ideas from successful copy you’ve seen.
Get a swipe file of the best copy you can find.
And the last thing you need to keep in mind when writing a killer copy is this:
ขWhat’s the end result the reader will get if they buy from you?ข
Your copy MUST sell hope and benefits to the reader if you want them to buy anything after reading your copy.
Now go write your killer copy.
All the best.
Warmest regards,
Patric กHighSpeed Marketingก Chan

Chief Marketing Strategist
Copyright 2004 Patric Chan

About The Author

Patric works with worldclass internet marketing gurus to build successful online businesses. He is also the author of ‘How To Make More Money Easily’. Discover more insider secrets and the exact proven strategies to make money online: http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com

This article was posted on June 01, 2004

by Patric Chan

So What If You Don’t Have A Website?

So What If You Don’t Have A Website?

by: Sean DกSouza

Gasp! Choke! Gag! That’s how people react when you tell them your business does not have a website. So do you really need one?

This article attempts to show you how you can use the internet (and websites) to maximise your business potential using simple internet marketing strategies.

Hello, Mr. Superman

If all you do is answer your email promptly, respond to queries and conduct some sort of business over email, you will be achieving more in one day than most websites do in a year!

Life Without Websites: Cกest Possible!

Paper was the most effective method of making sure things were read until email came along. If you look at email as a dynamic form of paper, you will be able to achieve the same (if not better) results in getting your message across convincingly. Unfortunately, most people look at email as a letter writing tool instead of using it as a communication tool.

How to Use Email Powerfully!

The key to email is to have a client database in the first place. Not just any database, but people who have worked with you.

Secondly, it must be permission based. People must see your email as being of help to them in their daily lives. Once you have their permission, you can email them on a regular preagreed basis and be sure that they appreciate you keeping in touch with them.

A Very, Very Important Fact..

People don’t care about you or what you’re selling. All they’re concerned about is themselves. If your email isn’t helping them in some way, they’ll read it once and trash it. You may never get a second chance! Make sure, your email is about them, them, them!

Which Businesses Can Use Email?

Weกve not figured out how a funeral director can use it yet. Other than that, most businesses can use it extremely effectively!

So What Good Is A Website, After All?

Websites are online brochures. They save you time having to explain what your company does.

Besides, there are millions of ways to harness the power of your website and actually increase your business.

Don’t panic if you’re without a website right now. Use the power of email today and plan your money making website tomorrow.

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This article was posted on April 10

by Sean DกSouza

What? Me Start a Home Business?

What? Me Start a Home Business?

by: Rudy Cline

Most folks in the workforce dream at one time or another of starting their own business. Have you ever heard the phrase กYou need to fire your bossก? Many of us would like to do that! Yet when it comes right down to it, most will never venture to make it on their own. Even worse, statistics show many who do venture out on their own, fail within the first five years.

To succeed, you must have a passion and a plan.

Enter me. At the age of 45, I found myself an unemployed Purchase Manager as my textile factory shutdown. I looked all over to find a job of equal maney and/or benefits. During a period of high unemployment, I was not successful in my search. Thus I began to look for ways to make money from home or starting my own business.

In my quest for my own business, I found that franchises offer a simple prepackaged business or money making idea. But most franchises would require a million dollar investment. I found myself looking elsewhere.

However, on the internet, there are literally hundreds of home business ideas from which to choose which will suit every personality and all levels of financing. From internet marketing to growing your own profitable home garden to sell gourmet foods to restaurants and catering services.

While brainstorming and searching the net, I found some of the following ideas for a home based business:

mobile windshield service

vending service

answering service

multilevel marketing (mlm)

floral plant service for offices and hospitals

pooper scooper service

dog walking service

gift basket service

income tax service

pool cleaning service

landscaping service

pet grooming service

Hopefully the ideas above will give some fresh ideas of your own. Once you do have your idea, it is a good idea to find someone else who has had success in this business. Then wherever possible, copy them as much as possible.

Whatever your choice for a home business, once you have made the decision to go forward. Go for it!! Do not accept no! Remember to tell yourself กFailure is not an optionก. Too many businesses fail because the owner lacked confidence or passion. Like the now deceased coach Jimmy Valavano told his team many times: กNever, ever ever give up!!ก. You MUST be passionate about your future.

Good luck in all of your self endeavers and don’t forget to enjoy your new found freedom!

Copyright 2004 Rudy Cline

About The Author

Rudy Cline of Homeworkforyou.org can help you launch your own moneymaking website thatกs 100% ready to take orders and pull in massive profits right now…guaranteed! Visit: http://www.pluginprofitsite.com/main2380.

I am a former Purchase Manager of a large corporation for 12 years. My company got moved overseas. I am semiretired and spend much time surfing the net. I\กve been sucessful at making money on the internet and enjoy helping others do the same.

This article was posted on March 24, 2004

by Rudy Cline

The TechHeads Need To Build New Software That Mak

The TechHeads Need To Build New Software That Makes Obtaining Information And Collective Communication A Simple Process For The Average Human

by: M6.net

Being the total opposite to a technical person, it is hard to imagine future Internet software advances. The technohumans have come up with incredible ideas and subsequently their ideas have come to fruition. It seems like anything a human puts their mind to can be done. Our species has come such a long way, but I feel the key to the next part in our evolution of technology and consciousness is to integrate the ideas of the average person. Who do we build all this technology for anyway? I think it’s made for humans to have a better life. It’s time to start making the technological advances in computing with the noncomputerbased people of the world in mind. A famous American journalist Sidney J. Harris once said,

ขThe real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.ข

Computer and Internet specialists have to realize that they have gone so deep into their fields that they now can no longer see what the computer world looks like to a novice like myself. All this technojargon and hundreds of different types of software can be quite overwhelming to a normal person who just wants to take part in this new way of interacting with reality and society.

We’ve got to simplify if we want this awesome force to be integrated into our lives in its highest form. I know the Internet is growing at an incredible rate already. One only has to look at the example of India to see the incredible mark Information Technology has made. You can go into a tiny village that looks relatively the same as it has been for fifty years; the general infrastructure is shocking: broken traffic lights, decrepit buildings, power lines splaying out in chaotic patterns. But, something big has changed; each town now has a satellite dish, and an ISP connection (Internet Service Provider)! This is truly amazing. However I believe it is only the beginning of a new revolution that will arrive when we simplify the information and communication processes.

So what’s the special answer to the sacred question? Well, I haven’t got all the ideas, but I know of six billion human souls out there who I’m sure would have an opinion if you asked them. Find out what people really want and need. Recently I wrote an article on how great it would be if we could get our News from multiple sources instead of the onetomany, topdown structure that feeds us so much negativity today. An opportunity to only read relevant News to the individual’s liking also sounds like a great project to take on. Wouldn’t it also be great if we could communicate easily with others of similar interests? E.g.: Finding the blogs and websites that interest us without having to search for days on end to find them!

These are just a couple ideas the software masters could approach to make the new revolution of collective consciousness and independent thinking a reality. I truly believe the Internet could be the gate of entry into a new dimension for the average citizen of Earth, a dimension that thrives on the sharing of knowledge from multiple perspectives, communication that involves everyone, and incredible access to individuals who you’ve always wanted to meet. Come on people, let’s get with the program! Humans are a resilient, powerful race of creatures; it’s time to duplicate all this energy we’ve put into producing technology and put it into making it easily used by the masses for positive means. The plant has grown into a tall healthy tree, now it’s time to harvest the fruit of all our labor.

About The Author

Jesse S. Somer http://www.m6.net

Jesse S. Somer is a simple humanoid attempting to help bring the separate worlds of social consciousness and technology into the ‘one world’ it is destined to become. Check out his personal humanistic/philosophical blog: www.thepowerofeverythingthatis.com

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This article was posted on May 04, 2004

by M6.net