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Getting A Leg Up
Legging Up Your CompetitionLet’s face it. When you graduate from college you need an edge over the competition, right? Every year thousands of college students just like you enter the job market looking for the same thing you are, a job / career. Since that is the case you need something other than a paper degree to get your first job.Here are a few suggestions you can do while you are still in school:Project-based experienceMany schools give their students an opportunity to work with a local organization related to your field on a project the company needs help on. For many of these companies they are viewing this student help in the same manne

Do You Need Professional Help
The short answer is yes. No person is an island and no one has all of the specialized skills or answers needed to open or run a successful business. Your business represents one of the single biggest investments of time and money that you’ll ever make. Trying to go it alone is a penny wise, pound foolish decision. Try to go it alone and at best you’ll be leaving profit on the table. At worst, you’ll blunder your way to failure. I’m not saying you need to blow every spare cent hiring every consultant in town. I am saying that you need to assess your skills and knowledge and plug in the gaps. This is especially important when starting or reinventing a business.

After months of scouring the internet, I could not put my hands on the 2 million links various search engines said were available to do my book promotions. First, let me say I perceive myself as an intermediate user of the internet, but maybe my perception was misguided as I searched and realized I couldn’t put my pointer on the links I wanted.

The promotion of my book began with submitting a press release (PR) to one of the major PR services on the internet. They tracked how many click throughs received, and I began to think, if so many eyes are looking at the PR on this site and web crawlers (whatever those are?) are picking up the PR for other sites; what would limit me from submitting as many PRs as possible? This was not the only site that provided this wonderful FREE service and the more places I had the PR, the greater my chances of being picked up by “big” media.

My imagination began to go wild, conjuring up that lone journalist who was itching to break the story on the next bestseller. You chuckle! With this PR service, I placed the needle in the haystack but I could improve my chances if many needles were placed. A techn

Your Best Business Opportunity Is Sitting Between Your Ears
You see the pitches all the time..."The Greatest Business Opportunity Ever...""37 Level Matrix Easy Qualifying""We Do It All For You...You Don't Even Have to Get Off Your Butt to Go to the Bank.""Just Give Me Your Credit Card and I'll Take Care of Everything.""Make $100,000 or More Without Lifting a Finger"I could go on and on with more of them, but I'm tired of thinking about them already.You see these types of pitches all the time. They tell you that you don't have to do any work whatsoever. They tell you that you don't have to do anything.They even tell you that you don't have to think!Let me tell you the rule o

but maybe my perception was misguided as I searched and realized I couldn’t put my pointer on the links I wanted.

Contracts - A Copywriter's Lifeblood
It used to be that a four-line memorandum of agreement was all you needed to jump into a copywriting assignment.Not so any more.With lawsuits on the rise in America, copywriters – the true ghostwriter if ever there was one – have to be just as diligent in their written agreements as a contestant is on American Idol.While it may be tempting to only review the paragraphs outlining compensation, you could walk into some major problems if you ignore the rest of it.The best way to be proactive in your freelance business is to have a set of contracts you use regularly. There are short forms for flat fee compensation and for compensation with a bonus or ro

net. They tracked how many click throughs received, and I began to think, if so many eyes are looking at the PR on this site and web crawlers (whatever those are?) are picking up the PR for other sites; what would limit me from submitting as many PRs as possible? This was not the only site that provided this wonderful FREE service and the more places I had the PR, the greater my chances of being picked up by “big” media.

Teleconferencing Helps You Build a Business Empire
You balk as you look at the phone bill. In the three months it took your company to branch out to a location three continents away from where you are, you've spent enough money on phone bills to buy both an apartment in New York and a Porsche. What worries you the most is that you know this isn't the end of the story, or your phone bills. With key members of your staff calling each other almost every hour, you know those bills would remain as high as your blood pressure level.With this pressing reality in mind, why not turn to teleconferencing? Teleconferencing is a meeting involving people in various places around the world. They talk to teach other using telephones or

itting as many PRs as possible? This was not the only site that provided this wonderful FREE service and the more places I had the PR, the greater my chances of being picked up by “big” media.

How to Improve Your Business Presentation Skills - Part1
Many moons ago, when I first started presenting in front of groups of people, I used to wonder with awe at those seasoned presenters who seemed to just ‘have the gift' of being able to stand in front of an audience and effortlessly present their ‘message' or ‘ideas'. To hear them talk, I'd swear they were natural born ‘presenters'. Well guess what....they weren't. In fact, even the world's top presenters all began their public speaking careers as rank amateurs. I then learnt that, along with most things in life, it's all down to practice.It's amazing what practice produces - in all areas of your life and business. The very best presenters today once all started in the s

conjuring up that lone journalist who was itching to break the story on the next bestseller. You chuckle! With this PR service, I placed the needle in the haystack but I could improve my chances if many needles were placed. A technique I learned from my days of online sweeping. What is that you ask? If allowed, the more you entered a particular sweepstakes the better your chances of winning as was one man’s story where he would send out literally thousands of entries and had won valuable prizes. My odds with sweeping were not that stellar but I do have a few trinkets to show for limited efforts. Hopefully, with my quadrupled book promotion efforts I could have stellar results—dreaming again. Tip 1: There are auto-fill internet form software available and some even designate a few empty fields for your own personal use. A lifesaver when you have to input the PR summary line more than a few times. Tip 2: Don’t input your social security number and credit card information because I have read of mistakes made because of the ease of auto-fill.

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I never thought it would happen to me, but it did. In July 2003 my identity was stolen. Why would someone steal my identity? I had bad credit, a poor credit rating and no money. Apparently, all identity thieves want is your information because the thieves were able to get credit from companies that had refused me credit just weeks earlier. So, no one is immune from these vultures.

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