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    Help Wanted – One New Customer for Growing IT Business
    Every business owner needs new customers. They are constantly on the lookout for the next customer, then the next and so on.Your computer services business is the same, you need customers. But do you need as many as you think? Maybe not.Do you know how much each customer contributes to your business? How about how much it costs to bring in a new customer? Or to keep them after they become your customer?It’s the classic dilemma of quantity verses quality. Would you rather have fifty customers that pay you $5000.00 per month or ten that pay you $5000.00 per month? The revenue per customer is a lot higher with the ten customers.You make the same amount of money, but servicing fifty customers may just run you ragged!Focus on acquiring quality customers and you will be amazed at how prosperous your business becomes.High quality customers become part of your family, your inner circle. By growing your business slowly you can build lasting relationships that will benefit both parties.I have customers that actively drum up business for me, because we have built up a relationship.How do you create these ongoing relationships? Be selective when choosing your customers. Choose only the customers that you wish to retain lo
    year in repairs and renting a car for a weekend trip may cost around $100. Therefore, including two weekend trips per year and the repairs on your older vehicle, the cost is still $1800 less than the payments on a new vehicle.

    Insurance

  • Shop around for the best rates. Get several quotes before you decide on a new service.
  • Increase the deductible if possible to decrease monthly payment.
  • Older, paid off vehicles do not require full coverage, refer to your sta
    How US Targeted Web Site Traffic Can Increase Sales
    US targeted web site traffic is essentially visitors that come to your website who are located somewhere in the United States of America. You might ask, how can this increase sales?To answer this question, think about a brick and mortar retail store. Lets imagine that you build this store out in the desert. I know you would not do this, but just imagine for example sake. Now you know that no matter how beautiful and attractive your store is, and no matter how well priced your products are, you just are not going to make sales.Why? First, nobody knows where you are, so you have no customers and second, if they did know where you were, why would they travel into the middle of the desert to buy from you?The only logical reason they might find you is if they get lost and discover you by chance. However if they got lost more than likely they are not going to want to buy a new tv or the like, they may want a map or some refreshments. Do you stock these?This can be the way a lot of visitors find your website. They may just stumble upon it. But you may just not have what they want and so they leave. Now imagine if they are from China visiting your web site. They may not be able to read your web site and second they more than likely can get it a
    Achieving financial peace and independence in life is hard, especially when you can barely afford the necessities. Life should be enjoyed, but it is hard to have a good time when you are funneling all of your money into your bills instead of your vacation fund.

    Believe it or not, little changes made throughout the year is almost like giving yourself a raise. As a bonus, money saving habits can improve your health, not to mention your stress level.

    With patience, planning and discipline you can add thousands of dollars to your year–end bottom line and your personal net worth.

    Here are just a few ideas you can consider to save money:

    TRANSPORTATION

    Many families budget nearly $1000 per month for transportation costs, which may include several car payments, insurance, fuel and repairs.

    Payments

  • Generally, buying a car less than two years old is unwise. Most cars depreciate so quickly that before you even park the car in your driveway for the first time, the loan is already upside down.
  • Discipline yourself to pay off one car loan before you finance a second vehicle.
  • Do not buy vehicles on impulse. Shop around, read consumer reports and choose a vehicle with a good resale value.
  • Do not buy more car than you need. It is not prudent to buy a $40,000 truck for two trips to Home Depot per year. To haul items, often you can rent a truck for less than $20 per hour.
  • Before financing a car, set aside the payment amount and increased insurance amount for several months. If you cannot do this, or you fall behind on other expenses, you are not ready to finance a car. If you can do this, and kept up with your regular expenses, use the saved amount as a down payment.
  • If you are uncomfortable taking your older car on long trips, rent instead of buying. If you were to buy a new car, at $250/month it totals $3000 per year just in payments. An older, paid off vehicle may require $1000 per year in repairs and renting a car for a weekend trip may cost around $100. Therefore, including two weekend trips per year and the repairs on your older vehicle, the cost is still $1800 less than the payments on a new vehicle.

    Insurance

  • Shop around for the best rates. Get several quotes before you decide on a new service.
  • Increase the deductible if possible to decrease monthly payment.
  • Older, paid off vehicles do not require full coverage, refer to your stat
    How to Create SIZZLING Value Propositions
    You know those dramatic commercials on late night TV for slicers and dicers and steak knives and juicers and rotisseries, don’t you?What do all of them, the successful ones, those that stick around and actually tempt you to buy; what do they have in common?They’re crackerjacks at creating VALUE. Literally, their offers SIZZLE.“For a rotisserie this great that will save you gas and electric, that will cook the most delicious food you’ve ever had, that will cut your cooking and clean-up time by 80%, and that will give you healthier meals, you’d expect to pay $300 or more.“Our price isn’t $300, or $200, or even $100! It’s an amazing $79.95, and not only do you get this phenomenal cookery but you get the tasty companion recipe book, “Delicious, Healthy Eating on A Budget,” itself a $29.95 value, for FREE!“And on top of that, we’re including valuable supermarket coupons good at your local stores worth far more than $79.95 in savings.”“But let’s not stop there. The proof is in the pudding, right? Use and enjoy this marvelous rotisserie for a full 30 days, and if you’re not thrilled with it, you can keep the money saving coupons we’ve enclosed with your purchase and return the rotisserie for a full refund. So, we’ll actually pay y
    line you can add thousands of dollars to your year–end bottom line and your personal net worth.

    Here are just a few ideas you can consider to save money:

    TRANSPORTATION

    Many families budget nearly $1000 per month for transportation costs, which may include several car payments, insurance, fuel and repairs.

    Payments

  • Generally, buying a car less than two years old is unwise. Most cars depreciate so quickly that before you even park the car in your driveway for the first time, the loan is already upside down.
  • Discipline yourself to pay off one car loan before you finance a second vehicle.
  • Do not buy vehicles on impulse. Shop around, read consumer reports and choose a vehicle with a good resale value.
  • Do not buy more car than you need. It is not prudent to buy a $40,000 truck for two trips to Home Depot per year. To haul items, often you can rent a truck for less than $20 per hour.
  • Before financing a car, set aside the payment amount and increased insurance amount for several months. If you cannot do this, or you fall behind on other expenses, you are not ready to finance a car. If you can do this, and kept up with your regular expenses, use the saved amount as a down payment.
  • If you are uncomfortable taking your older car on long trips, rent instead of buying. If you were to buy a new car, at $250/month it totals $3000 per year just in payments. An older, paid off vehicle may require $1000 per year in repairs and renting a car for a weekend trip may cost around $100. Therefore, including two weekend trips per year and the repairs on your older vehicle, the cost is still $1800 less than the payments on a new vehicle.

    Insurance

  • Shop around for the best rates. Get several quotes before you decide on a new service.
  • Increase the deductible if possible to decrease monthly payment.
  • Older, paid off vehicles do not require full coverage, refer to your sta
    Small Business Opportunity – A Simple Business with Huge Profit Potential
    Imagine a business with that gives you the opportunity to make 100% or more per annum in net profit, that requires an hour a day, you can do from the comfort of your armchair and only needs a computer and an internet connection.Furthermore, there is never a recession; you need no staff and a small amount of capital to start.The business is.Trading global energy markets. If you have never considered this as a business opportunity consider the following in addition to the advantages we have already listed:1. Trading can be learned by anyone in a few weeks with the desire to learn and succeed.2. The money in the business can be leveraged many times over to seek bigger gains.3. There are opportunities all the time (consider the recent big bull market in crude oil as an example) and there is an energy market that is about to take off and could give bigger profits than crude and many traders made triple or quadruple digit gains here!More of that in a moment lets first look at some questions you may already have thought of.Can anyone really learn to trade these markets for profit?The answer is yes, but of course everyone does not succeed. It depends on learning the basics and having the right mindset:T
    ur driveway for the first time, the loan is already upside down.
  • Discipline yourself to pay off one car loan before you finance a second vehicle.
  • Do not buy vehicles on impulse. Shop around, read consumer reports and choose a vehicle with a good resale value.
  • Do not buy more car than you need. It is not prudent to buy a $40,000 truck for two trips to Home Depot per year. To haul items, often you can rent a truck for less than $20 per hour.
  • Before financing a car, set aside the payment amount and increased insurance amount for several months. If you cannot do this, or you fall behind on other expenses, you are not ready to finance a car. If you can do this, and kept up with your regular expenses, use the saved amount as a down payment.
  • If you are uncomfortable taking your older car on long trips, rent instead of buying. If you were to buy a new car, at $250/month it totals $3000 per year just in payments. An older, paid off vehicle may require $1000 per year in repairs and renting a car for a weekend trip may cost around $100. Therefore, including two weekend trips per year and the repairs on your older vehicle, the cost is still $1800 less than the payments on a new vehicle.

    Insurance

  • Shop around for the best rates. Get several quotes before you decide on a new service.
  • Increase the deductible if possible to decrease monthly payment.
  • Older, paid off vehicles do not require full coverage, refer to your sta
    How To Succesfully Market Your Business
    Do you own a business and need ideas on how to market your products or services to your customers? Well, the one thing that every business owner needs to know is that in order to survive, you need customers willing to spend their hard earned money for your products or services. While you always want your products or services to meet the needs of the customers, this becomes more significant in a sluggish economy because purchases construed as "luxuries" decline.If you and your business partners schedule 40 minutes every month to discuss your answers, you can start to develop products and services that lead your market, you will begin to anticipate what your customers want tomorrow and your business will cope better with what the outside world throws at you. More importantly you will be much more able to customise your products and services to the specific needs of your niche market and demonstrate not only that you understand them, but that you care. You should be able to keep up with market changes and try to anticipate them beforehand because it keeps you a step ahead of the average consumer.At each exploratory step in your market, as you target your sales, you will gain a better return by focusing your marketing effort on the customers who most b
    t aside the payment amount and increased insurance amount for several months. If you cannot do this, or you fall behind on other expenses, you are not ready to finance a car. If you can do this, and kept up with your regular expenses, use the saved amount as a down payment.
  • If you are uncomfortable taking your older car on long trips, rent instead of buying. If you were to buy a new car, at $250/month it totals $3000 per year just in payments. An older, paid off vehicle may require $1000 per year in repairs and renting a car for a weekend trip may cost around $100. Therefore, including two weekend trips per year and the repairs on your older vehicle, the cost is still $1800 less than the payments on a new vehicle.

    Insurance

  • Shop around for the best rates. Get several quotes before you decide on a new service.
  • Increase the deductible if possible to decrease monthly payment.
  • Older, paid off vehicles do not require full coverage, refer to your sta
    How a Spoof Website Grabbed 3217 Email Addresses in a Matter of Weeks
    The crazy notion rattling around in a disordered dream finally forced me out of bed at 2.45am. I staggered to my computer, knocked out a sketchy to-do list, and crawled back bleary-eyed to my pit.Six hours later I set about my task and here is what I did…1. First I checked in at searchenginewatch.com to review the most popular keywords of the day 2. Then I visited Google Zeitgeist where an unlikely keyword phrase was ranking at No.2 in the Top 15 3. Next I wrapped some text around the keyword phrase, peppered it with a few similar keywords; enough text in all to form a mini web page 4. Now I set up a spoof site and tagged it to an existing URL 5. I broke up the text with a form; compliments of responders.com 6. I injected some magic into the Meta tags to lure the spiders 7. Finally I committed my page to the tender mercies of a battery of search enginesTen days on and here is what was happening…1. The site had an Alexa ranking of 198 2. It had captured the No.1 Spot for the core keyword phrase on Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Lycos and Ask Jeeves 3. My hosting service traffic stats reported 18,945 visitors 4. The form had grabbed 3217 email addresses.Some little time later I pulled down my
    year in repairs and renting a car for a weekend trip may cost around $100. Therefore, including two weekend trips per year and the repairs on your older vehicle, the cost is still $1800 less than the payments on a new vehicle.

    Insurance

  • Shop around for the best rates. Get several quotes before you decide on a new service.
  • Increase the deductible if possible to decrease monthly payment.
  • Older, paid off vehicles do not require full coverage, refer to your state laws and see if you can make any changes to decrease your payments.
  • See if your insurance offers lower rates for monthly, payment in full or other arrangements. For example, many quote a lower rate if you pay six months up front instead of per month.

    Fuel

  • Shop fuel prices, do not let yourself run so low on gas that you are stuck going to the most expensive option.
  • Use public transportation when possible.
  • Combine your trips. Instead of running multiple errands in several trips, organize a list and complete everything at one time. Do not run your errands during high traffic hours and burn fuel sitting in traffic.
  • Walk, bike or run to where you need to go.
  • Ride share.
  • Keep your car tuned.
  • Drive your vehicle that gets the best gas mileage most of the time.
  • Think before you go, driving to the store to buy $1 worth of soda, while spending $1 worth of gas is not cost effective.
  • Ask your employer if you can telecommute.
  • Purchase your gas from discount wholesalers like Costco or Sam’s Club.

    Repairs

  • Shop around; get at least three quotes on major repairs.
  • Keep up the maintenance on your vehicles to prevent larger problems later.
  • Put aside at least $50 per month per vehicle for repairs.

    FOOD

    In America, more and more families and individuals are eating out. This means they spend as much on one meal as they would an entire day or even a whole week if they ate at home.

    Eating Out

  • Limit how often you eat out, for example once per week instead of once a day.
  • Use coupons or eat out at lunch instead of during the higher priced dinner hours.
  • Look around, often you can find a locally owned restaurant with excellent specials.
  • Order water with your meal instead of soda or other higher priced items.
  • Split a meal.
  • Order only what you want, if you really onl

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