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Commercial Real Estate Investment 101
Commercial real estate investment is a great way to make money if you know what you are doing. Commercial real estate investments basically means investing in any type of real estate transaction that is not a single family home. Generally this term is used when it refers to real estate such as apartment complexes, office buildings, educational buildings, retail properties, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, and the like. There are a wide variety of real estate properties that are considered commercial and this may include a piece of vacant land where a commercial building could be bu

deliberately disregard our "terms of reprint" to take our words as their own.

Folks, if you are just getting started in using free-reprint articles to promote your business, please realize that it is completely unnecessary to steal the words of others! Inspiration resides in all of us, and we can find it in the most bizarre of places.

In my original article on this topic, which was written for Max Shifrin (one of my ghost writing clients by the way), this is what was said:

When in doubt, I always turn to the search engines to find inspiration. I might have a general subject in mind, but I might not know how I want to address it. That is until I am reading someone else's view of this subject, and Boom!, inspiration strikes.

A spark goes off in the old brain and I know exactly where I am going tonig

Effective and Responsible Employee Termination Interviews
It is the occasion that every manager has faced—terminating an employee. Few managers can say that this is an easy part of their job. Terminating an employee is always a difficult and stressful task. In today’s volatile workplace environment this task is even more difficult. The potential for litigation, adverse publicity, and even violence makes the way you discharge workers even more delicate. There are ways to mitigate these circumstances and the termination interview is pivotal to effective workforce management.Timing. There are two schools of thought on wh

Writing articles is definitely a very solid method of building a client base for your online business. There is no doubt about that. The writers I speak with who use free-reprint articles for the promotion of their businesses all proudly talk about the success articles have brought to them.

Articles will generate substantial traffic to those who write well. Even better, a considerable amount of the traffic will convert to sales.

The Internet is a rocky super highway. Thousands upon thousands of people have had their dreams shattered by the realities of marketing online.

Less than 5% of all online businesses will survive, so it is important to try to do the things that the 95% do not do. I will tell you one thing now --- more than 95% of all online marketers do not even attempt to use articles for the promotion of their businesses.

I have written a number of articles telling people about the promotional power of free-reprint articles. In fact, I have built my business on free-reprint articles, by helping others tap into the promotional powerhouse for themselves.

I have often said that one should investigate writing their own articles. I have even said that ideas of inspiration can be found in reading the works of others.

I wish to re-emphasize my original direction to find inspiration by reading the words of others. I said that reading around should only be used for inspiration. One will discover that as they read someone else's point of view, they will suddenly see an idea for an article on what may be a similar, but very different tact.

One should NEVER take the words of the original author and make them their own!!! Nearly every article you read will contain a copyright notice. The copyright notice is legally binding, supported by federal law.

Helpful Link:

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Overview

http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm

If you are writing your own articles but borrowing a few sentences from someone else, YOU ARE STEALING! Copyright violation is a criminal offense that can find you in court and defending your bank account!

Words that I write and put into a free-reprint article do carry clearly stated "terms of reprint". Let us review those real quick:

This is a Free-Reprint article. The only requirements for publishing this article are:

· You must leave the resource box unedited.

· Minor editing to the article is permitted.

· You may not use this article in UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email).

· Email distribution of this article must be opt-in email only.

· You must forward a copy of the ezine or newsletter that contains the article inside to the author at: mailto:bplatt@thephantomwriters.com

· If you post this article on a website, you must set the links up as hyperlinks, and you must send us a copy of the URL where the article is posted.

Where in these "terms of reprint" do I give permission to borrow a few sentences or paragraphs from one of my articles to form the basis of your article with your name in the resource box?

I have read these "terms of reprint" again, and I still do not see the permission to use my words in this way! What am I missing here?

Let us writers be aware, there are those in the our Internet writers community who deliberately disregard our "terms of reprint" to take our words as their own.

In my original article on this topic, which was written for Max Shifrin (one of my ghost writing clients by the way), this is what was said:

A spark goes off in the old brain and I know exactly where I am going tonigh

How Foreign Exchange Billing Works Internationally
If you work with a company that does international business, then you have a connection to the concept of Forex. Short for foreign exchange, the concept has to do with calculating out the current rate of exchange between currencies of different countries. Here are some of the factors that come into play when it comes to arriving at and updating those rates of exchange, and how that impacts the bottom line of your employer.There are actually quite a few different factors that come into play in order to arrive at a current rate of exchange on the currencies of any two given countri

of their businesses.