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5 Tips For Getting More from Facebook
In continuing with my series of quick social media tips (check out 5 tips for LinkedIn) I’m covering some tips for business use of Facebook here. I’ve actually written about some of these tips in great detail before, but this can act as a quick primer for folks who like their info snack sized like this.
A Simple, Easy-to-Use Tool for Staying Top of Mind with the People Who Matter
Google Alerts is a free tool that allows you to keep tabs on your most important contacts’ interests as they make news across the Web.
Start A Home Business Working With Your Spouse
In our last article, we talked about how to start home business successfully with your spouse. Here are some additional tips that will help you and your spouse run that business successfully.
Use Your Journal To Record Your Experience.
As you grow and expand yourself or your business, it is important to record your experience. If you do not journal already, please start right away. It is critical to understanding yourself.

Marketing Opportunities in Difficult Economic Times
"Business as usual" is NOT the most effective strategy for surviving/thriving during economic downturns. Consumers don't stop buying during tough times but they do buy more cleverly. And they spend A LOT more time researching their purchases, seeking advice from friends and associates and otherwise doing their homework. Recession Marketers need to refine their tactics as well. In this article we share 7 essential tips to help you sharpen up your offerings (and actually most of these tips contain useful advice for marketing more effectively in ANY economy, good or bad). You won't blossom in 2010 simply by acting as if it's business as usual. Nor is it a time to hide your budget under a bushel. As one major advertiser summed it up: "When times are good, you SHOULD advertise. When times are bad, you MUST advertise."
The Importance of Fresh Content
Creating new, fresh content for your site on a regular basis is a must! This is the main driving power to get your pages indexed by Google regularly. Google hates sites that stagnate and have the same old content that Google’s spiders have already crawled. What is Google’s main purpose? If you think about it logically, Google and the other search engines were created to be able to supply the user with the most accurate, interesting and current information for the search query that is used in the Search Engines.
How to Convert More Sales
As a salesperson, it’s always helpful to have a long list of prospects. However, if you don’t have a well thought out plan for converting them into customers, you are simply setting yourself up for failure. A low conversion rate is a common problem for salespeople, but one that is correctable with understanding the steps to take through the entire sales process. These steps are easily implemented with little or no cost and can make a tremendous difference in converting a higher percentage of prospects into customers.

How to Keep Tabs on the Greatest Presentations Made Everyday
People are presenting incredible information about your industry or topic of interest in conferences, workshops and trade shows everyday. Wouldn’t it be great if you could know what was being presented in those venues in near real time, without every leaving your office? Or, better yet, wouldn’t it be great if you could also have access to the slides from those presentations the day they were made available?
Facebook skeptics…
Just wanted to post something short and sweet today. I’m still a little perturbed about my meeting at work on Tuesday, so I decided to post some opportunities the new Facebook layout proposes for businesses. My theory is that if I can potentially present sound principles that shift traditional thinking it may become easier to sway the skeptics.
Commercial Property: 10 things not to do
Commercial Property is a low entry market, that is unqualified buyers enter and exit. Jones Commercial has put together 10 things not to do to help those new to the market be successful.
Controlling the Assumptions in Your Sales and Marketing Strategy
When you incorporate a new strategy into your service business there are certain assumptions that are made upon which the success of your strategy relies. These assumptions need to be monitored and controlled to give your company the greatest chance of accomplishing your stated objectives. The assumptions we make as business leaders are limited to two primary areas: 1) the external environment and how it will change, and 2) the industry in which we operate.

Paper Control! 8 Questions to Ask Before You Throw any Paper Away
So, how many of you have experienced this: You walk into your office and you say to yourself, "Today is the day!" You are excited and you say, "I am going to get this place organized and I'm not leaving until it is done!" Then... you pick up the first piece of paper, look at it, say, "Hmm, well... I'll look at that later." and you put it down. You pick up the second piece of paper, look at it, say, "Oh geese!" and you put it down. The next thing you know, everything from the right side of your office has been moved to the left side of your office and you are tired and call it quits.

Organizing CDs, DVDs, Software and other Discs
Do you struggle with organizing your discs? Many people do! If you are like a lot of people, you have tried the disc books and other popular organizing strategies. Today I'll tell you about a different alternative.
Internet Marketing: Swipe! Create the Ultimate Swipe File
In internet marketing, article marketing, great sales pages and great marketing emails it turns out the best written are not truly created, they are swiped. You have probably heard the term, but what does it mean? Is it okay to just copy someone else’s work and call it your own?
"10 Ways To Improve Employee Loyalty"
Any successful business owner will tell you that finding quality and loyal employees is very difficult. In most respects this cut throat world that we live in is to blame. No matter how good a company is there is always a place that seems to be better. This is the old grass is greener on the other side of the fence type thought process.
Top 10 Ways To Create An Employee Incentive Program
Any successful business owner will tell you that finding quality and loyal employees is very difficult. In most respects this cut throat world that we live in is to blame. No matter how good a company is there is always a place that seems to be better. This is the old grass is greener on the other side of the fence type thought process. However, it is now more then ever, for a company to hold onto the employees that are producing for them. This is a difficult task considering the fact that some other company is lurking around the corner waiting for you to slip up so they can snatch said employee.
Companies Use Incentive Programs for a Variety of Reasons.
They want to change customer behavior. They want to attract new customers to their products. These customers later become loyal customers and provide the company with a continual flow of revenue. They want to reward loyal or long time customers. These are the companies’ bread and butter and companies will go out of their way to see that they are kept happy. A company can use and incentive program to gather information about their customers. The most successful companies are the ones that have an accurate, up to date data system that includes information about their clients.

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A Big Sales Tip
Here's a big sales tip. How would you like to keep close tabs on your biggest sales prospects, best customers, and fiercest competitors without having to lift a finger or pay a penny? Now you can!

A Retail Holiday Tale
I had my own interesting retail experience the other day, which I think you might find entertaining. In keeping with holiday tales it may be enlightening too. I like to keep tabs on the current retail environment, and also as a consumer I enjoy going to stores such as Costco to see what interesting values their good buyers have found. The point I am making in this article is that successful retailers take the appropriate actions to deal with the environment at hand, rather than deciding it is out of their control.
Women Entrepreneurs And Their Greatest Starting Lineups: How To Hire a Champion Team
As a business owner, hiring a team can mean several different things. It can mean delegating. It can mean sharing. It can mean expanding. But it also can mean balancing several personalities, keeping tabs on what everybody’s up to and making sure things get done without micromanaging. So how do women entrepreneurs do it?

A Simple, Easy-to-Use Tool for Staying Top of Mind with the People Who Matter
Google Alerts is a free tool that allows you to keep tabs on your most important contacts’ interests as they make news across the Web.
Right #3 You Have the Right to...Take Care of Yourself!
I have a confession to make. Like many of you, I'm a single mom who's been without insurance - for eight years. In that time I cared for sick and dying parents (they passed away just 4 months apart). I also moved in with my ex-husband and cared for him while he fought cancer (he's now in remission). And I continually care for my diabetic daughter, help with my grandchildren, work on another daughter's ventures, market my business, work, write, and in the meantime take plenty of vitamins, aspirins, sinus tabs, Nyquil, and diet pills. I fall into bed at night exhausted, often only to stare at the TV or the ceiling. I was recently coaching a physician who shocked me with this eye-opener. Years ago, she said, it was the talk of the emergency room when a 49-year-old came in with a heart att
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