Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Can You Make A Fortune Network Marketing

By Rosie Cottis

So will you ever make a fortune network marketing? Some people really do get rich, while others are happy just to be able to take a vacation when they want. Whatever you want from your home business you have to train yourself to focus.

Running a successful work at home business is the dream for thousands of people today. Whether you want to spend more time with the kids, make a few bucks while you're home anyway, fire your boss, or simply stop wasting time in the daily commute, a network marketing internet business can be the top work at home plan.

However, it is not as easy as some marketers want you to think. Pick up a copy of Ann Sieg's free report The 7 Lies Of Network Marketing to find out. The drop out rate in MLM or network marketing businesses is huge. Around 90% of new recruits will fail. This gives MLM a bad reputation. But did you know that the dropout rate for any other type of self employment work from home is just as high?

It's not MLM that is the problem. It is hard running any kind of home business. And the main difficulty that most people have can be summed up in one word:

Focus.

Distractions, interruptions, lack of motivation, spending too much time on unproductive tasks ... working from home with no boss hanging over us, we all suffer from some if not all of these issues. They all lead to time wasting and lack of focus, which means less money coming in.

The worst thing we can do is hop from one task to another during the day. Every time we change our focus to a new task, we waste time getting into the 'zone' of the new task. Recent research suggests that it can take as much as 20 minutes to get completely into the zone of whatever we are doing. Only then are we really focused on the task and able to work most effectively.

Yes, have plenty of breaks. Take 10 minutes to stretch, relax, fetch a glass of water. But do not watch TV or pick up a magazine. Take a notebook so you can write down ideas that come to you during your break.

Set your working hours and stick to them, without interruptions or distractions. Focus on your top priority for the day, and do not start any other work until it is finished. Or for longer projects, set aside a certain number of hours each day to it, and catch up with your email, calls etc in the rest of the time. But however you do it, hold on to your focus through all of your working hours. - 15790

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Beware of Chiropractic Website Marketing Promises

By Matthew Loop DC

If you currently have a chiropractic website and it's not producing new patients or sales from information products that you have, you are not alone. In fact 90% of chiropractors that have websites, don't know the first thing about driving massive amounts of visitors (traffic) to them to get new patients. Typically they are promised by their webmaster that after the site is created, the flood-gates will open and they will begin to get noticed by people in the community.

These webmasters are making a killing on you, and they're trying to suck as many other chiropractors in as they can. No matter how wonderfully designed and professional your website looks, you can't magically attract people to it just by the fact of its very existence. As the website continues to cost you more money, you need a marketing strategy that will draw people there, and it should cost you nothing.

It's crucial that you understand internet marketing if you're a chiropractor looking to acquire new patients and other forms of income. If you don't have the slightest understanding or interest in internet marketing, there's no doubt that your practice will suffer like all the rest. With all the different forms of marketing online, including Pay-Per-Click, Banner Ads, email marketing, and social media marketing, the question becomes: Where do you start?

You need to understand that expensive marketing tactics are a thing of the past, and they will drown you if you continue to use them. Businesses are just beginning to wake up to the potential and necessity of marketing online, and social media is the Mecca of this new trend. When you start a marketing campaign through MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Digg, or LinkedIn, you will begin to see your business expand before your very eyes. And not only that, but these networks are totally free.

It's imperative to have a mentor that can show you how to drive hundreds or thousands of highly-targeted visitors and traffic to your website daily. If you go at it alone, you risk wasting thousands of dollars on paid or ineffective advertising for mediocre results.

When you use video to market on YouTube or similar sites, you have a free outlet for your information that is directly targeted to your community. You're going to see countless new patients walking through your doors, and the advertising works for you continuously 24 hours a day.

After only a few short months, some of my videos were seen by literally thousands of people. If this were a Pay-Per-Click engine, can you even imagine how much that would have cost? That's a huge amount of money! You can get some phenomenal indexing for your video on Google if you know the tricks of the trade. Soon you'll find yourself at the top of the search engine, for a price that's cheaper than you ever imagined.

Webmasters want you to believe that your website is a self-contained success remedy, but it just isn't true. That fancy website of yours can be a money pit if you don't have the expertise to guide people to it. Social media marketing and Web 2.0 have the power to drive thousands of people to your site to learn about your chiropractic practice. And all of this can happen with minimal effort, even as you sleep! - 15790

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Becoming a Freelance Copywriter

By Ray Edwards

The Internet has opened up many business opportunities not previously available. It is a seemingly endless supply of information and a great way to make more money.

Copywriting is one field that is finding great success on the Internet. Freelance copywriting is attracting more of an audience because the freedom and control it offers.

Freelance copywriters are independent minded and have a strong desire to succeed. They mix their own vision with proven copywriting techniques to build a successful business. Copywriters now look to the Internet in order to gain the creative independence they desire. Copywriters freelance their services in order to gain more projects and opportunities to make more money than their current jobs.

Copywriters write the written content on most advertisements. They help create most radio commercials, television ads, newspaper cut outs, direct response mail ads, web content, and Internet sales letters. Freelance copywriters work for a variety of different clients. They can handpick their work and structure their schedules around their lives.

In order to be successful you will need to constantly improve the quality of your product. There are always new things to learn about marketing, so you should continue to educate yourself to help you write better copy. Writing everyday and reading books from the experts will also help you write better copy.

Successful freelance copywriting includes research into your target audience. You need to know what gets their attention and how to reach them. Research is a very important aspect of a successful copywriting business that is often overlooked.

Before you decide to become a freelance copywriter you must know what market in which you want to write. Some copywriters write for a broad range of clients and try to appeal to many different markets. Others specialize down into one field, such as writing web content. In order to please your clients, you must be willing to be a little flexible no matter how specialized you become. Here are some tips that will strengthen your freelancing career:

1. Create a Network. Networking with other copywriters is very important if you truly want to be successful. It gets your name out there and it puts you around people that will stretch your business. Go to seminars and meet people. Don't forget your local market as well. Watch for local businesses that might need your help and you can also join your local chamber of commerce to make contact with other businesses.

2. Build a Portfolio. Your portfolio will give potential clients a chance to preview your work. It also helps build their confidence about hiring you. Make sure to include samples of your best work, testimonials from previous clients, and a sales letter explaining your credentials. Your portfolio needs to be neat and professional in order to be effective.

3. Develop Unique Sales Techniques. Freelance Internet copywriters need to have a set of developed and proven advertising techniques. Your business will see success if you can sell a product well, but it will soar if you can do it creatively.

This article was supposed to help you see into the world of freelance copywriting. Hopefully you found it helpful. You should look more into this exciting field if it interests you as a possible new career course. - 15790

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Increase Your Income And Grow Your Business With a Life Coach

By Christina Helwig

After burning the candle at both ends trying to accomplish some large goals in my life, I finally bit the bullet and hired a life coach. The differences I have seen lately have completely excited me. My coach has assisted me in ways I never thought possible to grow my business and create real wealth for my family.

When we first met my coach took the time to get to know me. She did not ask me what I wanted to accomplish or what my goals were. I thought this was a little surprising at first but I now understand why she did it. Instead of rushing in to save the day, she wanted to understand what was holding me back in life. By understanding what my struggle points were, she could better craft a plan to help me move forward.

It took me time to find a life coach that I liked. One of the biggest requirements for me was personal responsibility. Would the coach call me when they said they would? Would the coach follow up on a lead that I gave them telling them that I wanted to work with them? And most importantly were these coaches demonstrating in their own life the type of accomplishments I wanted? Were they happy, healthy, wealthy, were they genuinely great people and lastly did they have great relationships in their world?

I had also made the decision that I personally wanted to work with a woman coach because women have unique concerns that a male coach might not always take seriously or fully understand. This is in no way intended to disparage a male coach, it was just a personal preference I had at this time in my life. I have had male coaches before and they were wonderful mentors.

After contacting a few women life coaches that met my criteria I was getting no where with finding the coach I wanted to work with. I put the thought in the back of my mind and continued working on my different projects and goals. Then on a cruise in the Caribbean I had the good fortune to run into a friend / acquaintance that did life coaching. I was a little nervous but I asked her at dinner if she would coach me and she to my delight said yes. Earlier that week I had watched her interact with people and more importantly observed how she connected with me personally. She was warm, gracious and had built a life for herself that I wanted to emulate. She was someone I could look up to and someone I wanted to work with deeply. Her coaching started off at my pace and was not a preset agenda she led all her clients through. It was truly personalized and was built for me and for what I wanted. She was also accessible and responded to my questions and concerns quickly. I did not have to hunt her down and felt like I was her only client. The sessions completely focused on me and what I wanted.

You have to first understand where you are and how you got there before you can really rocket yourself to success. My coach helped me see things about myself that I did not recognize. Now don't get me wrong, I am no stranger to personal development and self-improvement materials. I am an avid reader and I personally coach people to help them reach their goals. Because of this I understand that to really get great results, I had to practice what I preach and get myself a formal life coach.

You should really sit down and think about whether or not you are hitting the goals that you set for yourself. And more importantly are you merely setting goals you think you can achieve? Your goals should be a stretch, something to reach for and challenge yourself with. Not something that you can clearly see yourself achieving. Your goals have to scare you a little bit and make you a tad nervous, otherwise you are not thinking big enough. Remember that you are trading your life for the goals that you set for yourself. Each day you give up should be worth it. When you look back at your life you want to see great accomplishments and a truly fulfilled life, not a life that was lived in the shadows or played safe.

Think of the type of life you really want to lead and look at how you are living now. Do you think that your current habits, actions and thoughts are congruent with what you want to create in your life? What can you do to bring those three things into alignment. - 15790

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Here's how to run an employee background check - it's easy!

By Glen Pearson

Running employee background checks are an important part of any hiring process. This gives an employer a perfect way to find out background information on their applicants that they wouldn't be able to find out otherwise. This can be a critical step in finding out if the applicant is an appropriate candidate for the job.

Lots of employers skip this process, but they regret it later on when they find out something unpleasant about an employee. A simple background check will give you someone's full history, from employment records to criminal records, address history and more.

This could be a big help when the time comes to make your decision. Just doing a simple employee background check could help you find an amazing amount of information. It's sad, but some applicants lie on their resumes about previous jobs, or don't mention previous criminal convictions. While you might have hired them if they'd come clean, turning up the information on a background check tells you they're dishonest, and you avoid making a big mistake.

Job applicants should probably run checks on themselves, too. That's so they'll know what an employer will see, and can address any false information. Sometimes, there's even something in our pasts that we forget to bring up, but which could lose us the job if it's hidden.

Having a copy of your own background report to check over before your interview allows you to anticipate the questions you'll be asked and develop good responses. You'll also know more about what your potential employer knows before you go in.

So how is an employee background check done?

It's now easier than ever. You can do it all online without hiring any help from an investigative service.

That's because there are lots of companies out there with huge databases of information, including full background data on almost everyone. Just go online, enter the person's name, and get information about them.

You will have to pay a small fee for the services of these companies, and generally there are two options. If you're only doing one or two background checks, you can pay per check. However, if you anticipate doing any larger number of checks, you'll be able to pay a membership fee for unlimited searches on as many people as you choose. Membership fees usually cost only two or three times what one report will cost, so they're often the best choice. Employers who hire more than every once in a while will prefer this option.

Employee background checks should be used by any company that is looking to make sure that they hire the right people for the job. It's an easy and inexpensive way to screen applicants. - 15790

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