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What would January be without personal commitments for change? It’s a chance for a fresh start! With the promise of a new year before us, we believe that anything is possible.Yet, all too often February can bring a familiar refrain of resolutions not kept and promises broken.What can you do this year to change this pattern and ensure your resolutions have staying power?Here’s my list of 7 Sure-Fire Steps to take you from Resolutions to the Results you desire… 1. You’ve Got to Want to 2. See the Outcome as Real 3. Break it Down 4. Put Some Skin in the Game 5. Create Accountability 6. Have a Cheering
Today, I got an email from a lady who hates all business people and entrepreneurs, because they are Greedy, Arrogant and a Host of other atrocities. She was replying to an article I wrote about entrepreneurs and how they bring to the civilization; everything you see, everywhere you go and without us, you would have nothing. Here is the email I received:“Dear Entrepreneurial One,Well it was not the entrepreneur that did all this. It was the consumer who bought the stuff from you. If we didn’t have needs we would not buy what you produced. It is the consumer who should be guarded from Greedy Corporations.I run a co-op and live in Sa
1. If a scammer sent you a second chance offer directly to your email address on an item you didn’t win on EBay:
What to Do: Do not accept any offer outside EBay. Ensure all your communications are through EBay’s ‘Contact Seller’ form. That way, EBay keeps track of your communications with the seller.
2. An online seller provides you with a foreign phone number to call if you have any question:
What to Do: Foreign number is a red flag. Some scammers expect you may not call the number in order not to incur any long distance charges. Therefore, adopt a policy of “If I can’t reach you, I won’t do business with you”. Try and limit online transactions to your country of residency unless you are experienced in international business.
3. The Seller requests payment through either Western Union money transfer or Money Order.
What to Do: Do not make payment by Credit Card, Western Union or Money Order to foreign sellers. PayPal is better and a more secured option, at least for now. Anyone who does business on the Internet knows that once a scammer in a foreign country receives your Western Union money transfer, or Money Order, you absolutely have no way to get your money back. Unfortunately, some of the scammers in some foreign countries work closely with local bank staff in those countries. Do no expect any help f
List building is so hyped these days online – and rightly so – it really works for me and for others who are actively building relationships online.You see, list building should really be called relationship building – then a lot of the people who think they are list building would not be able to call themselves relationship builders – and they would be the ones who fail.List building takes time to learn to do effectively. You will be learning a brand new method of building relationships, and the optimal ways to do that are not the same as many offline relationship building techniques.When you first get started, you will build a
1. If a scammer sent you a second chance offer directly to your email address on an item you didn’t win on EBay:
What to Do: Do not accept any offer outside EBay. Ensure all your communications are through EBay’s ‘Contact Seller’ form. That way, EBay keeps track of your communications with the seller.
2. An online seller provides you with a foreign phone number to call if you have any question:
What to Do: Foreign number is a red flag. Some scammers expect you may not call the number in order not to incur any long distance charges. Therefore, adopt a policy of “If I can’t reach you, I won’t do business with you”. Try and limit online transactions to your country of residency unless you are experienced in international business.
3. The Seller requests payment through either Western Union money transfer or Money Order.
What to Do: Do not make payment by Credit Card, Western Union or Money Order to foreign sellers. PayPal is better and a more secured option, at least for now. Anyone who does business on the Internet knows that once a scammer in a foreign country receives your Western Union money transfer, or Money Order, you absolutely have no way to get your money back. Unfortunately, some of the scammers in some foreign countries work closely with local bank staff in those countries. Do no expect any help
Would you blow your entire annual marketing budget on just one ad to run once during the Superbowl?Of course you wouldn't. You know that people seeing your message just once wouldn't be enough.Then why do we tend to spend our time and dollars on single-shot marketing, rather than repeated messages?The answer is... most folks just don't know any better. Or, perhaps it seems boring to repeat your message over and over and over and over.But the truth is, your fortune is in the follow up!This past weekend I went to hear direct marketing master Bill Glazer (my marketing mentor who runs Ways To Avoid Fake Art On The Internet
I’ve been collecting artwork since the mid-1970’s. Back then, you went to a gallery or auction and could see or touch the pieces. The dealer would answer your questions in person and you could view the documents or other certificates of authenticity. Today, all that has changed with the advent of the Internet. Auction sites have listings posted for almost every type of artwork imaginable. Ebay is the main avenue for selling art and therefore the target of most of the fraudulent dealers. I’ve seen several types of misrepresentation and feel I need to explain to the laymen what to watch for.Let’s start with the obvious. If you see a Picasso that’
3. The Seller requests payment through either Western Union money transfer or Money Order.
What to Do: Do not make payment by Credit Card, Western Union or Money Order to foreign sellers. PayPal is better and a more secured option, at least for now. Anyone who does business on the Internet knows that once a scammer in a foreign country receives your Western Union money transfer, or Money Order, you absolutely have no way to get your money back. Unfortunately, some of the scammers in some foreign countries work closely with local bank staff in those countries. Do no expect any help
If you work in marketing communications, you’ve probably seen this scenario a dozen times: A harried sales guy, shirts-sleeves rolled up to the elbow, storms into your cubicle. “I got a hot sales call in Toledo in three weeks. I got to have a brochure to leave behind,” he says, smacking his fist into his open palm.You sigh. So it begins -- yet another brochure. And you know how it’ll end: Thousands of dollars and multiple late-nights-against-deadlines later, he’ll have his brochure. But the company won’t have the sale. And you’ll have a coat closet stacked with bulging boxes of forgotten collateral.Is there a better way to support sales?
4. The Seller forwards a UPS’ Cash on Delivery (COD) form to you containing instructions, where you will fill in a Western Union Money Transfer Number (MTN), and shipping information. Normally, the form will instruct you to fill and submit the form and it will be sent directly to UPS’ database and not to the seller. It may further explain that a UPS staff will review the form and keep the Western Union code. A UPS staff will first inspect the item from the seller and receive it on your behalf for shipping, and finally release the Western Union code to the seller to receive his/ her payment. The form normally will look like an official UPS online form with logos, colors, trademarks. Everything will look genuine.
What to Do: According to UPS, they hardly do COD on international shipments. Therefore, this type of online UPS form is fake, and does not originate from UPS. If you receive a similar form by email do any of the following.
Cross-check The Web address:
Look for underscores, hyphens, extra letters, or numbers added to the web address to mimic an official website. For instance ‘www.ups.com’ is definitely not same as ‘www.ups1.com’. Also ‘www.westernunion.com’ is not same as ‘www.westernunionn.com’ (notice the extr
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