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Bring Your Inner Entrepreneur to Life
Some people have spent their whole lives dreaming about being their own boss and working from the comfort of their own home, but never quite had the opportunity. Now, with the emergence on the internet as a strong business platform, the opportunity exists for all that have an internet connection. Online business is booming despite the current recession and with a worldwide audience at your fingertips, you can do business in just about any industry you like.

Do Your Investors Use Your Product?
Brad Spirrison has a nice article in the Chicago Sun-Times titled Feedburner’s investors have its technology at their fingertips. Among other things, he highlights that three of the FeedBurner investors – me, Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures, and Matt McCall at Portage Ventures are active bloggers that use FeedBurner’s services regularly.
Using Social Media to Build Your Brand
This article is about the different types of social media and how to easily and effectively use them to promote your product or service.
Computing Without the Hardware…Software…Support…Fun
Today's Web 2.0 social media environment offers a tremendous opportunities for companies to closely engage with customers, prospects and market segments in a positive, mutually beneficial manner. The problem arises when marketing and communications people view these new 1:1 outlets as a great marketing/sales and PR pitching opportunities. They forget that the individuals if not treated properly and with professional respect can turn and instead of being the ones who are being hunted can become the hunters. People -- regular folks -- can be mean and brutal if they are abused. Marketeers need to know the pros/cons, challenges/opportunities. Consumers need to know that they have a powerful platform to strike back and cause real damage.

Making Multiple Choice Quizzes Efficiently with Quiz Makers
Multiple choice plays an important role in educational testing and could be the most widely used question type on examinations nowadays. Quiz makers are good tools to make multiple choice quizzes.
Your Internet Business and the Power of Focus
How does being able to focus on what is really important in your new on-line business impact on the results that you are able to achieve? This article looks at some of the distractions that make moving forward with your business seem much slower than you would expect.
Stepping out of the comfort zone & Building the Business
Making changes is not always easy. Stepping out of the comfort zone is half the problem. Once that's overcome, a person can fly with the opportunities given or sink. It's up to each one of us to decide if we will fly or drown.

Welcome to Paradise! Now Go Home
What happens when staying at a world class resort hotel and they lose your luggage? Take this lesson in customer service.
Sales Best Practices: Maintain a good filing system, with all the useful information readily available.
Not being organized is a crippling excuse to being successful in sales. Renowned sales trainer Dave Kahle discusses how to improve your organizational skills in this best sales practices article.
Minimize The Effects of The Recession
You have your greatest asset at your fingertips Ð Your Employees! Explore ways to stabilize your company, and then grow it into a powerhouse!
The Value of Branding
When a small entrepreneur understands what a brand really is, and learn to focus on their business development from that angle, then they will "grow up" to be the big businesses of the future. Big business that grows from the small entrepreneur standpoint are connected with the impact they have on their customers and the world - but are finally operating from a place of power. All of this comes from having effective branding for your business!
Top 5 Small Business Franchise Opportunities At Your Fingertips
A small business franchise is a great way to break into the business world in this economy. You get the stability of a franchise (one of the few sectors of business that has shown growth in the last year) and you get all of the benefits of owning and operating your own business. Here's 5 great examples of small business franchises currently available.
From Staplers To Sticky Notes: Why Desktop Items Make Sense As Proomtional Products
How can you position your company’s name and contact information where it will be seen many times every working day, just where it matters most? Desktop imprinted products might be your answer. When you give useful desktop items, such as pens and memo clips, to your potential customers, you’re ensuring that they’ll see your company name many times throughout their business week. Colorful imprinted products, such as sticky notes, brighten up the desktop “landscape” and create a cheerful, positive association with your business in the customer’s mind.

Home Business Spotlight--TVME Inc
There are few media systems that can compete with TVME. If you’re a great salesman with a desire to make outrageous profits from an exceptional product, this is your ticket.
Rare Investment Opportunity
With the stock market down, and gas hitting new lows, a lot of people ask me, "What should I invest in?"Very simple... People! Now, more than ever people are looking for leaders to invest in their success! You have this opportunity and it’s right in front of you at your fingertips!
How To Survive Tax Season
How To Survive Tax Season - The very words "tax season" can send shivers down the spine of every small business owner. While tax season might never be fun, it can be far more manageable than it is with a few simple best practices. In this article, you'll read how you can prepare for tax season in order to lessen its time-consuming, work-time-stealing burden. It IS possible!

Starting a New Business Online - 5 Secrets on How to Fail Miserably Online
You have decided to start your online business. It is so great and you are assured to meet success. Millions will rain in a few days and in the next few months you'll be richer than Bill Gates. What will you do then? You'll get bored! With this in mind, below I give you 5 secrets that will make your site a failure and years of bankruptcy.
Three Steps To Change Anything
To succeed in today’s ever-changing world, there is no such thing as status quo. We live in a consumer savvy, knowledge-based, microwave society.If we want an edge in today’s marketplace, we must embrace change.
10 Secrets to Pruning Your List
I know, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, but you are only as good as the ideal client profile or prospect list you create and communicate with in a meaningful way, consistently over time. It’s a simple as that.

Natural Search Engine Optimization or Pay-Per-Click
The internet is literally like having the world at ones fingertips. Not only does it provide families a cheap way to stay in touch (e-mail and instant messaging), it allows students to cram for finals and write last minute papers in the middle of the night, long after the library has closed, but the internet is suddenly a way for the smallest business to break into a global market.

7 Great Home Based Businesses For The Natural Salesman
There's always a job available for someone with a real knack for sales, but often times you may end up working your way up from the bottom or selling something that you really aren't passionate about just to make ends meet. Here are 7 home based businesses that will put your sales skills to work while putting you in the driver's seat of your career as your own boss.
Self esteem Workout
I am sharing some useful coaching tips and support from my monthly newsletter 'Coaching at Your Fingertips', today tips on how to boost your self-esteem. Self- esteem is about how we view our intelligence, physical ability and our emotional capabilities.
Wisdom vs. Knowledge
How many people have you met who have an immense amount of knowledge, are like walking encyclopedias but aren’t very wise? And how many people are very simple and don’t have a wealth of knowledge or information but are very, very wise? How wise are you and those you hang out with?
Using SEO Marketing Analysis to Assess your Competition
Before you enter a competitive online market, you need to understand who the major players are so you can (a) fly under the radar and learn from the trail they left behind and (b) look for patterns to formulate ranking strategies from their nearest competitors. Like any good SEO management campaign, it starts with strategic planning, but without knowing what to look for when assessing the competition, then how can you possibly expect to surpass them?
Bundling SEO, PPC, CRM and Beyond!
There is intrinsic value in bundling lead acquisition and retention services coherently to serve a common goal. Opportunity is measured by your ability to grasp and act on useful and pertinent information. However, gleaning or foraging this crucial information is dependent on your vision and the tools you use to research, analyze and assess potential data. Just like a tip of the iceberg, it’s not what you see or you engage within the scope of your market, it is what you overlook and do not that results in missed opportunities.
Press Release Distribution
Your Press Release is ready to go. Now you have to determine what audience would be the most interested in reading or hearing about it. But it is also important to think about where these people are located and how to best communicate with them.
Maximise your PR with Thought as well as Action
How a PR pause can help you plan effective PR goals.
Garber on Business: Selling online? Help your potential customers shop online safely
Good deals, convenience and choices abound on the Internet. But before customers use all the Internet has to offer, help them be cyber-smart and make their online experience safe. When shopping online, there are several things you can do to add to your shopping safety. Being aware of technology scams, checking website policies and understanding your credit card rights will go a long way toward providing privacy and identity protection.

Global Competition, Where do I Place?
Your product is not unique. Likely there is global competition thanks to the Internet for every industry imaginable. In order to see results of your marketing efforts you must advertise globally via the Internet. Websites are becoming a predominate way to find useful information on any product or service. When focusing your marketing efforts to in whatever media advertising you choose, keep in mind the four P’s of marketing: Price, Product, Place, & Promotion.

Raise Your Work Quotient - Five Strategies to Increase Your Value to the Company
Do you long for a promotion or to make more money? How much positive influence do you bring to your work? Utilizing these five strategies can make you more valuable to your company and raise your level of awareness of what it takes to be more successful, and more savvy regarding your career.
Business Management Skills - Seven Levels of Delegation
In any business, unless you are a true one man band, you need the help of valuable people around you. By ensuring their capabilities are developed as you go, you will bring along a team supporting you, that will be able to do pretty much everything you can do. Delegating can be tough to get the hang of, but it is of immense value. Here's how to let go, comfortably...

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Rare Investment Opportunity
With the stock market down, and gas hitting new lows, a lot of people ask me, "What should I invest in?"Very simple... People! Now, more than ever people are looking for leaders to invest in their success! You have this opportunity and it’s right in front of you at your fingertips!
Signature Line: An overlooked, virtually free marketing tool
No matter what kind of business my clients are in, they all have the same excellent relationship marketing tool at their fingertips...
Minimize The Effects of The Recession
You have your greatest asset at your fingertips Ð Your Employees! Explore ways to stabilize your company, and then grow it into a powerhouse!
7 Rules for Sales Success
There are lots of books and articles written on sales success - by authors much smarter than I. However, with so much information at our fingertips, I thought these simple 7 rules may prove helpful. Although basic, these common sense yet powerful rules - if done repeatedly - will become habits and contribute to your success.

The time is Now!
With all the financial meltdown in the world today, it is time to put your financial house in order. You do not have to follow the herd over the cliff. Get educated and take action, and doors will open for you that you never thought possible. We live in incredible times with the technology at our fingertips.
Allowing Your Expertise to Shine Through: Common Reasons That Keep Entrepreneurs from Moving Forward
In today’s fast paced world we have access to more information than ever before, be it books, media or opportunities for education. And while it’s great to have all this information and learning at our fingertips, it can sometimes be a detriment to us. In fact, for some people, it can be an excuse for them not to move forward in their business.

The Internet is The Newest Tool For Social Media
Social media is a method used to influence people to believe certain ideas to follow certain courses of action. Social media in the past has sold everything from toothpaste to war. Now we have the greatest tool at our fingertips…the internet.

Is it time to be unreasonable?
Are you a co-builder of our new world or are you hanging onto the old one by your fingertips? Is it time to be unreasonable?
Video Is The New Post Card
Searching for affordable ways to connect with clients and prospects? Look no further. You’re about to learn the fastest way to stay in touch is right at your fingertips.
Hi-Definition Sales Preparation
The changes in selling are profound and require that sales organizations and salespeople adapt quickly. A major area for adaption is preparation, and, fortunately, the tools to prepare at a hi-def level are at your fingertips.

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