<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785</id><updated>2024-09-02T01:46:03.370-07:00</updated><category term="business"/><category term="advertise"/><category term="marketing"/><category term="customers"/><category term="promotion"/><category term="promote"/><category term="sale"/><category term="blog"/><category term="google"/><category term="social networking"/><category term="facebook"/><category term="myspace"/><category term="sales"/><category term="amazon"/><category term="non profit"/><category term="strategy"/><category term="web 2.0"/><category term="article"/><category term="plan"/><category term="technology"/><category term="advertising"/><category term="affiliate"/><category term="banner"/><category term="fundraiser"/><category term="grow"/><category term="non-profit"/><category term="nonprofit"/><category term="press release"/><category term="promotions"/><category term="seo"/><category term="advisory board"/><category term="all tel"/><category term="art"/><category term="auto"/><category term="busisness"/><category term="cellular"/><category term="charity"/><category term="cingular"/><category term="contracts"/><category term="copywriting"/><category term="craft"/><category term="digital"/><category term="emergency"/><category term="entrepreneur"/><category term="environment"/><category term="franchise"/><category term="internet"/><category term="iphone"/><category term="library"/><category term="light bulb"/><category term="lindsay lohan"/><category term="marketin"/><category term="media"/><category term="mobile"/><category term="new york magazine"/><category term="page rank"/><category term="photo"/><category term="print"/><category term="products"/><category term="radio"/><category term="satellite radio sirius xm"/><category term="service"/><category term="sprint"/><category term="t-mobile"/><category term="television"/><category term="testimonial"/><category term="tv"/><category term="verizon"/><category term="video"/><category term="write"/><category term="youtube"/><title type='text'>Indocquent.com</title><subtitle type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;http://www.Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; is an online resource where businesses and individuals can post their products and services for sale and hire around the world &lt;b&gt;without pay-per-click prices or auction fees&lt;/b&gt;.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>294</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-218218988612545026</id><published>2009-05-05T09:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-05T09:13:25.504-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Marketing:  Increase Website Traffic in a Down Economy</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;I have designed and developed a number of websites for friends, colleagues and other organizations.  It was just within the past year or two that I have taken on the process of actually marketing the same websites that I helped build.  After doing much research on the subject, and trying a variety of methods, this one technique I am about to share with you worked better than anything else and that includes paid advertising.  This method worked so well that my one friend tried it on his website and he went from literally zero hits to two thousand hits per day in forty-five days.  His patience and hard work had paid off.  He still uses it and the last time I spoke to him (about a week ago) he was around five thousand hits per day.  Before I go into the nuts and bolts of the technique I will say this.  I don&#39;t care how hard you use this marketing method, if you do not have a website that easy to navigate and pleasant to look at and visit, your web traffic will come to a screeching halt.  Any visitors you do receive will leave faster then they arrived.  So before you implement this strategy overhaul the website to make sure it is user friendly.  The web marketing technique I am talking about is called article marketing.  If you have about forty-five minutes per day, and you can write an educational and informational piece of content that is related to your website&#39;s business, you will excel with this proven method.  Here is the best part, it is 100% free.  The only thing it will cost you is some of your time.  Here is how it works.  You write an educational and informational article that is related to your website that is no less than 500 words in length.  You submit your article and a resource box (more on that in a moment) to free article directories on the web.  These article directories then in turn display your article to its thousands of visitors to either read directly from their website or their readers can syndicate your article (i.e. make it go viral).  Step one of this process is to write your article.  Your article should be no less than 500 words in length.  It should educate the reader in something related to your web business.  Let&#39;s say you sell power tools.  A good article would be, 5 great ways to clean your table saw, or something along the lines like that.  This type of article specifically addresses a need of the reader.  The next step, step 2, of this process is to create your resource box.  A resource box informs the reader as to who wrote the article and how the reader can get in touch with the writer.  The resource box is very important because this is how you are going to get visitors to your website.  A typical resource box reads, &quot;John Jones is the owner of XYZ Power Tools.  You can learn more about Mr. Jones or XYZ by visiting their website at {insert your web address here}&quot;.  As you can see this resource box tells the reader who wrote the article, their relation to power tools, and then gives the website in case the reader wants to contact the writer.  The third and final step to this process is submitting your article and resource box to article directories.  Do a Google search on the words &quot;article directory&quot; and you will see plenty to choose from.  You only need to select a few.  They are free to join and the popular ones receive tens of thousands of hits per day.  Submit your article and resource box to the article directories you have chosen and you are done.  Now simply go back to step 1 and do it again tomorrow, and keep doing it on a daily basis.  Make it a part of your daily marketing routine for your web business.    If you wrote a good article and you have a website that is user friendly you will see a definitive increase in your website traffic within thirty days.  If you write a really good article then your web traffic could explode, because there are visitors to article directories who are looking for content for their blogs and their own websites.  If someone comes along that runs a blog related to routers and sees your article on how to clean them, they will post your article, resource box and all, onto their website.  Your article has been syndicated.  It is now receiving traffic from locations other than the article directories themselves and that is web traffic you just can&#39;t buy anywhere else.  Didn&#39;t I say it would be easy yet require dedication on your part?  With this technique you are only limited by the amount of time and effort you put in.  I recommend one article every day.  More than one and it is overkill and you will burn yourself out.  Less than one and you will be doing yourself a disservice.Would you like to make some extra money writing about your website experience?  You can join &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bukisa.com/join/2084&quot;&gt;Bukisa&lt;/a&gt; today and start earning &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bukisa.com/join/2084&quot;&gt;residual income&lt;/a&gt; on every article that you write about websites.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/218218988612545026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/218218988612545026' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/218218988612545026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/218218988612545026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/05/marketing-increase-website-traffic-in.html' title='Marketing:  Increase Website Traffic in a Down Economy'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-6538013469812861730</id><published>2009-04-28T05:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T05:13:40.146-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Great Ideas For Personalizes Notepads At Home And At The Office</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Personalized notepads are nice and useful things to have around the house or even at the office. They can help in a myriad of ways, from making mundane tasks easier to performing important things like marketing. If you are interested in making your own notepads, then there are a few notepad types that you can consider making. A lot of people are thinking of great notepad printing ideas out there for various uses. For your information, we are sharing the best ideas that we have found for personalized notepads&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The family notepads:&lt;br /&gt; One of the best and interesting notepad designs out there is the family notepad. These kinds of notepads usually are designed for the different kinds of common activities that households do. For example, there are the so called grocery list notepads for the house. These personalized notepads have designs that have &quot;built in&quot; checkboxes which you can tick off like a grocery list. Another example is the &quot;Nanny&quot; notepads which contain different fields which you can fill out as a reminder for your maid, nanny or babysitter.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; These notepads also aren&#39;t typically left with just text. Other creative families even print notepads that have personal pictures of them. This makes the family notepads extra special giving a warm and personal feeling as they are used. In some cases, families and friends give each other these kinds of personal notepads as gifts to each other, just like custom greeting cards.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The office notepad:&lt;br /&gt; Another great idea is the personalized office notepad. If you are a professional like a lawyer or doctor, printing out your own personalized office notepad is a good investment for your office or business. This kind of notepad typically will have the owner&#39;s name, contact number and signature printed on them. You can use them to write out memorandums and other notices for your employees. For your clients or customers, your custom notepads can be where you write down your business advice, or counsel to them, such as prescriptions, instructions and sometimes even fees and quotations.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Besides using the notepads for your day to day business though, you can also use your notepads as a way of promoting your business or practice. By giving away your custom personalized notepads as gifts to potential investors or clients, you are basically giving them an extra business card. In this case, it will turn out to be a very useful kind of business reminder since he or she can use it for their own note taking uses. Every time they write a note in your notepads, there will be a chance that they will remember you and avail of your services.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As you can see, there are plenty of great ideas for the use of personalized notepads your home or in the office. Some uses are quite fun and engaging, while the others are very utilitarian and quite interesting. What will your notepad be like? You can choose to design something like the ones explained above, or you can go a totally different route and design your own notepad for different purposes. The real limit to notepad printing design is just your imagination.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Visit this site for more information on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.printplace.com/printing/paper-pad-printing.aspx&quot;&gt;notepads&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.printplace.com/printing/paper-pad-printing.aspx&quot;&gt;notepad printing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/6538013469812861730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/6538013469812861730' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/6538013469812861730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/6538013469812861730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/04/great-ideas-for-personalizes-notepads.html' title='Great Ideas For Personalizes Notepads At Home And At The Office'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-6029956157623571395</id><published>2009-04-07T12:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T12:54:01.754-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What Leads to Business Bondage?</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Many owners/managers feel like a prisoner to their business, employees and customers. What are the common causes of such business owner bondage?  How do the chains get tighter and tighter?   &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; After working with hundreds of business owners, we believe the following five to be the most common causes of business imprisonment:  (1) technical tendencies, (2) busyness, (3) ineffective leadership and delegation, (4) inadequate or missing business systems, and (5) growing business complexities. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Habits determine destiny. Too many entrepreneurs are former technicians now masquerading as owners.  They think they are entrepreneurs, but they don&#39;t act that way.  As once accomplished technicians, they have a hard time letting go of such expertise and familiarity.  They remain trapped in a technical comfort zone, mindset and work approach.  Sadly, such technical expertise is insufficient for managing a business.  Moreover, they fail to develop the visionary, strategic, and leadership skills necessary to run a successful business.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Many owners confuse activity with accomplishment.  They confuse busyness with results. Hard work with smart work.  Perspiration with purpose.  Efficiency (doing things right) with effectiveness (doing the right things).  Instead of working smarter, many owners hold tight to the delusion that working harder and harder is the solution.  They keep trying to shift into higher and higher gears.  The more the business grows, the harder they work, the more imprisoned they become.  No matter how much energy you expend, however, wrong strategies inevitably lead to poor results  less freedom and more headaches.  It is like trying to catch fish in a pond with your bare hands.  No matter how many hours you work or how deep you wade, a poor strategy leads to poor results  no fish dinner!   &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Far too many small business owners are by default small leaders.  Instead of leadership, they excel at doer-ship.  They are micromanagers that like to touch and control everything.  They trust no one but themselves.  They believe &quot;no one does it as well as me&quot;. They seldom delegate, if at all.  They mistake such busyness for business leadership.  Instead of thinking and leading like owners, most think and behave like employees.  Instead of reflecting and planning, they excel at sweating and doing.  They act like they have a job instead of owning a business.  To lead effectively, one must trust others.  Not developing their leadership potential costs them dearly. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A vast majority of owners don&#39;t know how to design a new business or re-engineer an existing one to be more systems-oriented and professionally equipped with plans, procedures and policies.  As a result, entrepreneurs don&#39;t create and document the processes (specific and repeatable ways to do something), procedures and policies that allow for well organized, smoothly running, easier-to-manage companies.  Without defining and documenting the specific work that needs to be done, owners can&#39;t delegate effectively and eventually remove themselves from their technical roles.  As a result, owners are forever feeling &quot;out of control&quot;.  Tragically, most entrepreneurs have unknowingly, reactively and accidentally created an owner-centered and owner-dependent company.  They are trapped! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A growing business with its increasing number of customers, transactions and problems will eventually crush a business not properly designed and prepared to handle such growth.  Without effective leadership and adequate business systems (an integrated web of processes), a growing company does not stand a chance.  Growing pains are unavoidable.  Producing predictable and consistent results will be nearly impossible.  By failing to plan for growth, you are by default planning to fail. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Busyness, technical bias, poor delegation, inadequate leadership and business systems, and the growing complexities of a business lead to a life sentence of working on the chain gang  your company.  Fortunately, our coaching processes, along with your willingness to change, can serve as your &quot;get out of jail free card&quot;.  We can help you to escape the blues and the tyranny of technical busyness.  You will no longer have to be the jack-of-all-trades for your company.  Growing pains will subside.  You will learn to be master, not servant.  You will learn to lead more and work less.  You will learn to shape your company by design, not by default.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Daniel M. Murphy is the Co-Founder and President of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegrowthcoach.com&quot;&gt;The Growth Coach&lt;/a&gt;, who is committed to re-educating and re-focusing business owners to lead more, work less, and enjoy greater freedom, financial success and happiness.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/6029956157623571395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/6029956157623571395' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/6029956157623571395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/6029956157623571395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-leads-to-business-bondage.html' title='What Leads to Business Bondage?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-3176984426594564095</id><published>2009-03-22T06:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-22T06:42:57.457-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How To Get Your Brochures Opened And Read</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Over the years, we&#39;ve seen a lot of printed collaterals that get ignored and disposed of that easily. A lot of brochure printing in fact has seen the insides of so many trashcans that I wonder how many businesses still invest much of their resources to printing brochures.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Before you can get people to consider your message, you need to get them to take that first step  to open your brochure printing. To help make sure that you make a good job of it, here are ways you can do when printing brochures:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Print brochures and design in every way possible.&lt;br /&gt; Whatever your technique - full color brochure printing, bleeds, stamping or embossing to add texture, or even to include solid colors and tints  there are endless possibilities for you to choose from. The key is to use your elements to enhance your design. Just be careful that you use too much of your elements. You wouldn&#39;t want to distract your readers to what is important, which is your message.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Test your size and shape.&lt;br /&gt; Do you prefer your print brochures small rather than the standard size? Or would you rather go for a different shape this time? The thing is to test your size and shape first to determine whether you get a positive response or not.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Include many offers.&lt;br /&gt; Promos are great ways to entice your target clients to open your brochure printing. You can highlight as many special offers as your custom brochure can definitely carry them in its multiple pages. Show them what you got and they&#39;ll surely be so excited that they cant wait to browse the inside pages.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Be a tease.&lt;br /&gt; Include a teaser, a few sentences to generate interest. But never the whole story. The more you tease them with provocative statements, the easier it is to persuade them to read more of what&#39;s inside your color brochures.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Use all available space.&lt;br /&gt; Don&#39;t be limited with the space provided. When printing brochures, include bleeding as well as use the borders and linings for teasers. Arouse curiosity by writing brief description of your products. Make sure to use all available space so you can provide your target readers with enough information to help them make a decision, hopefully, something in your favor.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Go crazy!&lt;br /&gt; Print some pages upside down. Or add a foldable page that reveals a bonus when pulled. Invent a game. Include a rip-out coupon. Whatever your idea, the bottom line is to get them so curious that they would want to act on your call. Don&#39;t be afraid to explore your wild side and add craziness to your collateral to entice your readers.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Last but definitely not the least, if you want your target readers to act on your call, you better ask for it. It&#39;s not enough that you hint about it in every page of your brochure printing. It&#39;s better to ask your reader to do something in black and white as there would be no excuse whatsoever if they didn&#39;t act on your offer right away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; For comments and inquiries about the article visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.printplace.com/printing/brochures-inserts.aspx&quot;&gt; Brochure Printing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.printplace.com/printing/brochures-inserts.aspx&quot;&gt; Printing Brochures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/3176984426594564095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/3176984426594564095' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/3176984426594564095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/3176984426594564095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-get-your-brochures-opened-and.html' title='How To Get Your Brochures Opened And Read'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-1072029648926237269</id><published>2009-02-09T03:57:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-09T03:57:22.666-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Living Off the Grid. Why Should You Un-Plug Yourself From the System?</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Have you ever considered living off the grid? If you`re a bit taken aback with that idea, let me tell you some of the reasons why you might want to consider it a bit further. First off you are going to reduce your dependence on dwindling resources: Do you want to depend on public utilities all the time?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; First off you are going to reduce your dependence on dwindling resources: Do you want to depend on public utilities all the time? Living off the grid helps you stand on your own two feet and not rely on the governments and corporations. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Can you imagine what it feels like when you don`t have to pay for the power you use? The solar power solutions and the wind power solutions are the answers to your needs.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This is the one that seals the deal for a lot of people. Can you imagine what it feels like to have no more electricity bills dropping onto your door mat? The green power solutions give you a pretty quick return on investment and after a while the power supply to your home is free!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Have you ever stopped to think about the people who planted trees years ago? They planted those trees for the benefit of future generations but never really knew the true extent of the benefits they were leaving for us. With the knowledge that we possess these days isn`t it our duty to help our future generations by giving them a greener, healthier world.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you are thinking to your self that it`s all a bit pie-in-the-sky and not practical to live off the grid, look around for alternate power solutions. I promise you, you will be surprised at how many people have already unplugged themselves and are happily living off the grid. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To find out more about how you can unplug yourself from the system, click &lt;a href=&quot;http://http://www.squidoo.com/windmillGenerator&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; now!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/1072029648926237269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/1072029648926237269' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/1072029648926237269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/1072029648926237269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/02/living-off-grid-why-should-you-un-plug.html' title='Living Off the Grid. Why Should You Un-Plug Yourself From the System?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-8306342894830092054</id><published>2009-02-04T03:47:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T03:47:22.671-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Online Advertising Cost</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Free Online Advertising Marketers in the basic apple of the Internet accept the aforementioned botheration in accepting sales as marketers in the artery and adhesive apple - how to let humans apperceive about what they accept to sell.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Traditional marketers accept developed the agency to advance a connected battery of advertising 24/7 through television, radio, newspapers, magazines, billboards etc. so that humans become clumsy to abstain acquirements about the bags of articles offered.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Online marketers aswell are able to use 24/7 written, audio and video agency of advertising. But no bulk how abounding accretion and whistles they may put on their websites in superior content, webpage design, video, audio etc., they still charge a agency of absolution humans apperceive just how to acquisition their sites free online advertising.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; During the accomplished year online marketers accept broadcast their use of &#39;Web 2.02 methods of accustomed their sales letters to abeyant barter in adjustment to get cost-free online advertising. They yield advantage of the way free-to-use Web 2.0 &#39;social networking&#39; sites facilitate exchanges amid their associates of claimed preferences, brand and dislikes, opinions and adventures about all and every kinds of subjects, things and persons.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; However, by application the amusing networking sites the ability of online marketers is bound to the associates admeasurement of anniversary of the alone sites. The sum absolute of such memberships, although growing at a fast rate, at the present time accounts for no added than 15 to 20 percent of Internet users. In consequence, there charcoal a all-inclusive bazaar of added Internet users that Web entrepreneurs accept to reach.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of course, the by-now acceptable and arch agency of online affairs is through Pay-Per-Click -PPC- advertising, which has been authentic by Perry Marshall, in his &quot;Guide to Google Adwords&quot;, as accepting &quot;..about accepting in foreground of humans who are searching for what you advertise appropriate this moment and get them to respond.&quot; It&#39;s Internet accepted ability that the capital aperture for PPC advertising online is the arch antecedent of advice on the Internet accepted as Google, acclimated by knowledge-seeking &#39;net users throughout the world.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As its name implies, PPC (pay-per-click) advertising involves payment, so it is in abundant adverse with Web 2.0 cost-free online advertising. With PPC you pay a assertive bulk &quot;per click&quot; on your ad. If cipher clicks on your ad, you don&#39;t pay a cent but don&#39;t get any abeyant barter to your site. You pay alone for those that appear to your site. There are no costs if no-one clicks on your advertisement. But every &quot;click&quot; while accepting a amount is aswell a adventitious for you to catechumen a company into a customer. So in aspect PPC buys you a adventitious of a auction - something of a lottery, but at atomic it gives you a achievability of authoritative a sale.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But, as adverse as it ability seem, there is a way for you to get cost-free online advertising even through PPC. In what is conceivably the a lot of hasty advertisement fabricated in some time apropos the Internet, a New York doctor has appear a actual clandestine &quot;secret&quot; he&#39;s been application back the ancient canicule of targeted paid advertising at seek engines. He accepted afterwards averseness that he&#39;s gotten over $87 actor in chargeless online advertising through PPC over the endure about 8 years at such seek engines as Google, Overture, MSN, Yahoo and others.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; One agent from one of the a lot of accepted seek engines said, amusement afterwards accepting fabricated buried to this amazing secret, &quot;Wow! Ha! This is absolutely different  and in my able assessment it would alone serve to enhance and accompany added business to us at [name of seek engine withheld for acknowledged &amp; acquaintance reasons] and not could cause us to lose business in the slightest. Amazing!&quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Additionally, you should apperceive that annihilation about his abstruse either robs seek engines (so you don&#39;t accept to abhorrence Google advancing afterwards you!) or is annihilation about it actionable in any added way. What you may even acquisition abnormally hasty about his abstruse is the actuality that it in fact &quot;helps&quot; seek engines accomplish even added money! (You&#39;ll accept to see it for yourself to accept how this is in fact possible!)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As an Internet banker (paypal) you can yield advantage of the acceptable doctor&#39;s abstruse of how he gets cost-free online advertising because he has fabricated it accessible on his website, for a time, so that others can apprentice about it and put it to use. No agnosticism you will wish to acquisition it eventually rather than late&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://online-free-advertising.blogspot.com/&quot; title=&quot;Free Online Advertising&quot;&gt;Free Online Advertising&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/8306342894830092054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/8306342894830092054' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/8306342894830092054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/8306342894830092054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-online-advertising-cost.html' title='Free Online Advertising Cost'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-2822734263464939481</id><published>2009-01-28T04:59:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T04:59:10.919-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Online Presence Crucial to Agency Survival</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;At present the Internet is probably the widest and the most powerful marketing tool. It is therefore rational to say that having an online presence is crucial to the survival of your advertising agency. Aside from commercials and print ads, maintaining a website that showcases the craft of your agency and the overall talent of your staff, will go far to lure potential clients. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Many kinds of things can be found on the Internet. As to how to make people notice you in cyberspace is the challenge. Why not create a not-so-ordinary company website. What do we mean by &quot;not-so-ordinary&quot;? We advise that you create your website as chic, modern, and sophisticated as possible. This wouldn`t be hard for you since your agency has all the available &quot;resources.&quot; Ad Agencies usually offer services that include telemarketing, designing, web development, concept development, and content writing. Why not &quot;embody&quot; all of these in your website? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Also, remember that the most crucial elements to give importance to when making your website are the content and the design. If these two fail it brings down the others.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The content of the website you are about to make is very important. What to right? Think about these simple questions that the FreeMarketingZone.com listed:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; -Why should they buy from you? &lt;br /&gt; -How come you&#39;re better than the rest? &lt;br /&gt; -Why should they trust you? &lt;br /&gt; -How will you create an irresistible offer so they beg you to sell it to them? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of course after answering these questions, use your agency`s creativity and make all of them more appealing and new (in terms of concept).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The next step after this is promoting your website. Remember that your goal is to be a high ranking website in search engines. There are 2 basic things that you can do regarding this: one, optimize your website template through RSS subscription options, social bookmark links, HTML code, unique title tags, URLs, and Sitemap; and two,  create keyword rich contents and categories.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You can also promote your website by building up links. Once again, we want to note that that this task will be easy for your agency since it deals about Search Engine Optimization, one of the basics in advertising. Post in forums and blogs so that more people could notice you. These people would eventually promote your agency to their friends, and so on.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Melissadata.com included the wonders of the online Yellow pages in terms of online marketing. Since you`re practically aiming to promote your website, this basic marketing tip might give you unexpected wonders. The site added this simple tip: &quot;If the ad proves cost effective, consider enlarging it next year. If it isn`t, you can fine-tune the ad at a relatively modest cost. All successful display ads-and especially those in the phone book- should state clearly why the reader should do business with your company. List the main benefits of choosing your company, and always give them several ways to contact you...phone number, web site, e-mail, FAX.&quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You can also do the following to promote your website and be top-ranking in the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and AOL: publish articles or get listed in news stories, write and publish online press releases, blog and interact with your visitors, and join Social Networking Sites.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; References:&lt;br /&gt; Melissadata.com, Yellow Pages Strategy.&lt;br /&gt; FreeMarketingZone.com, What is an Effective Internet Marketing Strategy? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; AdvertisingAgencies.org&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/2822734263464939481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/2822734263464939481' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/2822734263464939481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/2822734263464939481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/01/online-presence-crucial-to-agency.html' title='Online Presence Crucial to Agency Survival'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-5007698247943976038</id><published>2009-01-21T13:35:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T13:35:45.499-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Isnt It Time You Use Free Radio Publicity To Promote Your Business?</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Can you explain how people can save money when buying the things they need? How about earning extra money in their spare time? Money and finance are on the mind&#39;s of just about everyone these days. And it&#39;s no wonder. There&#39;s not a day goes by that we don&#39;t hear how bad things are getting. There seem to be reports of endless layoffs, bank failures and companies closing. And when the talking heads aren&#39;t reporting the latest bank bailout they&#39;re debating whether we&#39;ll be in a recession or a depression by this time next year.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With so much talk of financial uncertainty people are hungry for ways to stretch their dollars. I bring this up because I&#39;m constantly hearing guests on talk radio shows delivering information about the economy and how people can not only save, but earn extra money during these troubling times.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I&#39;ve benefited greatly from free radio publicity as a talk show guest. I got my start a while back after writing a book that explained how regular folks could get great deals when buying real estate using techniques investors use. As part of my promotional efforts I found myself as a guest on more than 60 shows explaining the methods I&#39;d described in the book. And I sold a lot of books as a result. It so happens that real estate books aren&#39;t in vogue right now. But that&#39;s not the point.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The trick to getting free radio publicity is to offer timely, interesting and valuable information to a wide range of people. That&#39;s why I opened this piece with comments on our current economy. Getting the most bang from your buck makes for good radio these days. But getting booked for interviews certainly doesn&#39;t mean you have to do a show on money. People are clamoring for all kinds of information. They want to know more about health, love, and of course, money. When you think about it, just about everything in life revolves around those three topics.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I don&#39;t want to give you the impression that only authors get booked for radio interviews. Experts of all kinds can benefit as guests, as long as both the listeners and the host benefit as well. What I mean is, it&#39;s up to the guest to offer useful info. When he does that the host looks good, which pleases the producer and management at the station. And when you&#39;ve made the audience and station happy they&#39;re probably going to ask you to come back. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Delivering a great show is good for you as well because a happy host is probably going to plug your product or service. Maybe you can offer people great information on how they can avoid foreclosure or where they can go to get their mortgage reduced before they&#39;re facing foreclosure. Perhaps you can explain a way for people to earn extra money or how to streamline their lives so they remain comfortable while spending less. There are endless possibilities. What you&#39;re doing now may have nothing to do with saving money in our present economy yet still be an excellent topic.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Getting booked on a show isn&#39;t difficult either. This might sound too simple but all there is to it is to call and ask. Of course you&#39;ll first want to listen to the station to be sure they have a venue for your product or service. Before trying to get booked look for an angle that makes you stand out. Then write out 20 questions and practice answering them using antidotes that are informative and entertaining. I found you can deliver great info using stories. People love hearing about others who&#39;ve overcome difficulties or problems because relates to problems and loves to hear about solutions. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And when your product or service solves a problem people want to know more about you. With that sain, it&#39;s also good to provide your host with a way to contact you. If you&#39;re giving a great interview the host will often plug your stuff so a toll free number or Website where listeners can buy your product or get more information will go a long way in making you successful with free radio publicity. Hope to hear you on the airwaves soon!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The article you`ve just read is little more than a brief outline of the entire free publicity story. Yes, getting free radio publicity to promote your products is simple and you can easily use it too. To get the rest of the story and discover how to entirely avoid the trial and error process, visit:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freepromostory.com&quot;&gt;Free Promo Story Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/5007698247943976038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/5007698247943976038' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/5007698247943976038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/5007698247943976038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/01/isnt-it-time-you-use-free-radio.html' title='Isnt It Time You Use Free Radio Publicity To Promote Your Business?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-3524498132849668861</id><published>2009-01-14T03:51:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T03:51:27.826-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Top 5 Mistakes Made When Purchasing Promotional Products</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Many companies order promotional items and other promotional advertising products because they want a custom promotional product with their company name on it for themselves.  Promotional business items are meant to be given to prospective clients. Here are the top 5 mistakes made when purchasing Promotional Items.&lt;br /&gt; 1.	The imprinted promotional products don&#39;t have value.  Don&#39;t buy trinkets and trash. Purchasing cheap promotional items for the sake of just giving something away is a real waste of money. Ask yourself if the item will be thrown away or will it have a long term use such as a mouse pad or logo coaster.&lt;br /&gt; 2.	Too often I hear that companies are not willing to hand out these business promotional products. These marketing business items do no good in a closet. Look to donate them to local community events, Chambers of Commerce and golf tournaments. Get the maximum exposure of your logo.&lt;br /&gt; 3.	Don&#39;t place too much information on the promotional product, this overload of information makes the item less likely to be used and in many cases, becomes illegible.&lt;br /&gt; 4.	Placing information that does not clearly explain your message. Many times a client will want to place a slogan on the product that does not explain the business. Place your company website or a key phone number. Keep the information short and to the point.&lt;br /&gt; 5.	Don&#39;t purchase an item of value that grossly undervalues the product or service that your company provides. If your company sells million dollar machinery, don&#39;t hand out 40 cent pens.&lt;br /&gt; In summation, don&#39;t shop price, look for a promotional products consultant that can guide you toward purchasing the best valued custom imprinted promotional items. When you shop price, many times you get the domino effect of the 5 mistakes just mentioned.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Promo Shop, Ltd., a promotional products company providing  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thepromoshop.com/&quot;&gt; promotional products,&lt;/a&gt; consultation and corporate awareness for companies through the use of product identifiers such as logo embroidered apparel and other &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thepromoshop.com/store/apparel&quot;&gt; embroidered dress shirts &lt;/a&gt; since 1997.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/3524498132849668861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/3524498132849668861' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/3524498132849668861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/3524498132849668861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/01/top-5-mistakes-made-when-purchasing.html' title='Top 5 Mistakes Made When Purchasing Promotional Products'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-2332001443800145441</id><published>2009-01-12T05:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-12T05:22:06.680-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Entrepreneurs or Employees</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Sometime ago I was watching a TV interview of the famed music mogul Quincy Jones. He was speaking very eloquently and with a degree of passion regarding his business pursuits.  He spoke in a fashion that made his business interest seem very cool, hip and even sexy. He then framed it all into one simple declaration; I am an entrepreneur.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I then said to myself, &quot;I&#39;m going to be an entrepreneur&quot;. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Mr. Jones enrolled me into becoming this word we call entrepreneur. Now my definition of entrepreneur at the time was someone who started businesses, created new products and concepts, made things happen and lived an exciting life. When I was a young boy my father used to make me read the dictionary so that I would expand my vocabulary. So I decided to look the word up and here is the definition I found.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; No I said to myself, this couldn&#39;t be right! Merriam-Webster&#39;s has it wrong. An entrepreneur is a take the bull by the horns person, an innovator and business leader. Further I read that an entrepreneur assumes the risks and/or liabilities of a business. Baloney I thought, the dictionary has it wrong.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Well some years later I started my first business and along with that hired a business attorney. He proceeded to tell me all the ways I could be sued or get into problems with state governments even if I was doing nothing wrong. He would tell me how I needed to manage my risks and liabilities. (As a side note in the 2-½ years I ran that first business till I sold it I never had one legal problem).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I then recalled reading the definition of the word entrepreneur. Hmmm I thought, well I guess the old dictionary was right. But I was right too. An entrepreneur can be all of the things I&#39;ve stated as well as assuming the risks associated with being in business.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Entrepreneur or Employee?                                                          &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; We have now entered 2009 and many of you need to make that decision. Not everyone is cut out to be a risk taker and become an entrepreneur. So the alternative is to go out and get a nice, safe and secure job. But alas my friends because having a nice, safe and secure job is now an oxymoron. Therefore being employed is taking a risk as well.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The era of working for a company for 30 years and retiring with the gold watch is over, gone, done.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Who could have ever have imagined that companies like GM, AIG, Citigroup and others could be near collapse. Or that giant Wall Street firms Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns would cease to exist.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My point is obvious, whether you embrace entrepreneurship or employment, either way you are a risk taker.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Steven Seppinni is the co-founder of Seppinni-Magers Omnimedia (SM), an internet marketing and media company.  SM client base ranges from NY Times best selling authors, speakers, nutrition companies and real estate developers.   Find out more about Steven Seppinni at http://www.StevenSeppinni.com&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/2332001443800145441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/2332001443800145441' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/2332001443800145441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/2332001443800145441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/01/entrepreneurs-or-employees.html' title='Entrepreneurs or Employees'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-38599451278332656</id><published>2009-01-04T08:26:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-04T08:27:00.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Finding a Recession Proof Niche: Profit Generator Ideas</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;In case you haven`t notice, one of the biggest challenges to any small business to survive recession after shocks we&#39;re facing now is finding a profit generator. What`s a profit generator? A product, a service, an idea, a technique, a system. Anything that can generate a profit for you. The niche you have to find now has to flourish in a recession, it can happen. Did you know more new millionaires are created in economic downturns than at any other time? To find niche market ideas you have to be aggressive. I&#39;ll show you how.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But first, what&#39;s a recession proof niche? It`s what people spend there hard earned money on when money is tight. It helps people get more use out of every dollar they spend. In fact, it helps people make every dollar do the work of 3 dollars so-to-speak.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Because a recession is not for sissies or wimps especially if you`re attempting to run a small business, you`ll have to find a way to find and develop a recession proof niche now ... or suffer the consequences. The good news is you don&#39;t have to switch to another business or product. You just have to switch your thinking. I&#39;ll show you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Here`s 3 Easy But Powerful Steps To Finding a Niche That&#39;s Recession Proof.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 1. Know Your Target Customers Biggest Concerns or Worries.&lt;br /&gt; Don`t fall or settle for the obvious answer. Saving or Making money. Go deeper, remember this is a serious recession we`re in. The person goes the extra mile and digs a little deeper than their competition will find the hidden profits others overlook. As a minimum find out the following answers about your target customers.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 1. What frustrates your target customer about businesses in your industry?&lt;br /&gt; 2. What would your customers like to see more from businesses in your industry?&lt;br /&gt; 3. What`s the biggest problem your target customers have with businesses in your industry?&lt;br /&gt; Next provide them to your customers.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 2. Find Ways to Help Your Target Customers Bounce Back.&lt;br /&gt; In this recession many people have a common need, that need is a way to bounce back. Bounce back from financial problems, credit issues, relationships, business, self-esteem, you name it. The opportunities are enormous if you have an attitude to serve, you`ll make money. Try to find a way to help your target customers bounce back. If you can find a way to do that with your product or service you`ll have a recession proof niche. Get a sheet of paper and brainstorm 20 ways you can help your target customers bounce back in some way. Remember don`t criticize or judge your ideas until you`ve written down 20 ideas, just let yourself go. You`ll be surprised at what answers you`ll come up with after the 10th idea. Try it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 3. Find Ways To Make Your Product or Service Easier To Use, Buy or Operate.&lt;br /&gt; In a recession people are stressed, in a hurry, and impatient. If you can find a way to make your product or service easier to use, buy or operate than the competition you`ll have an instant recession proof niche. Offering something as simple as a video demonstration where your customer can look over your shoulder while you operate the product can do wonders. Especially if your competition only offers a thick manual saturated with technical words. Go on a personal crusade everyday to simplify things for your customer and they`ll reward you with sales.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you`ll follow the three tips to finding a recession proof niche you`ll find more customers flocking to your business. These tips will help put you in a position to find profit generators for a target market that`s in a hurry, impatient and looking to simplify there life ... don`t let them down.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Roy Primm has written dozens of articles helping others find tiny money making niches others miss. For more niche ideas and tips go to http://TheNicheMan.com&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/38599451278332656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/38599451278332656' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/38599451278332656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/38599451278332656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2009/01/finding-recession-proof-niche-profit.html' title='Finding a Recession Proof Niche: Profit Generator Ideas'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-6978531990425961650</id><published>2008-12-30T03:08:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-30T03:08:10.492-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Have You Sold Yourself?</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;You will always be your number one customer. It`s not the big account you service, nor is it the hot new prospect you just uncovered; it`s you. The reason is simple. If you`re not completely confident in what you`re selling, you will never come close to maximizing your sales potential. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; The current sales environment makes the need to sell yourself even more important. If you think you`re the exception to this rule and you`re not completely confident in the products or services you offer, ask yourself this simple question: Have you ever offered a discounted price to either keep a customer or attract a new one? Few salespeople can honestly say they have never done this. If you have, it means that you were not 100% sold on your product or service. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; As a consumer, when we don`t fully believe in what is being offered to us, we naturally expect a discount. We want something in return for not being completely confident about what we`re buying. Since the salesperson hasn`t communicated the level of confidence we need in order to buy the product at full price, we want some type of concession to make us feel better about the purchase. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; To be completely sold on your product or service, not only do you need to use what you sell, but you also need to understand all of the benefits that your product or service provides. As a sales consultant who works with thousands of different professionals each year, I`m amazed at the number of salespeople who admit that they don`t even use what they sell. How can anyone be totally committed to a product or service if they don`t even use it? Furthermore, it`s not uncommon for me to see salespeople shortchanging themselves because they are unable to identify and explain the value of what they are selling. Although this sounds basic, many salespeople cannot name five benefits their customers receive from using their product or service. They can usually only list five features. Without understanding the full array of their product`s benefits, there`s little chance the customer will ever see them too. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; A poor sales process is usually a good indicator of whether or not the salesperson is sold on the product or service they are offering. Nothing conveys a lack of confidence faster than a sales process that is not professional. Unfortunately, for many salespeople, a disorganized sales process is the norm and it only serves to destroy more sales and, ultimately, a huge amount of profit. Despite the customer`s desire to buy, an unorganized sales process creates an air of skepticism that often can only be countered by offering some type of discount to close the deal.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; With the current state of the economy, it is imperative that sales professionals be both confident and competent to achieve maximum success. In any sales call, you best communicate these qualities by being completely sold on your product or service. If you are not, find ways to better educate yourself so that you can become your number one customer. Remember, &quot;No customer is ever sold until the salesperson is sold.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mark Hunter, &quot;The Sales Hunter&quot;, is a sales expert who speaks to thousands each year on how to increase their sales profitability. For more information, to receive a free weekly email sales tip, or to read his Sales Motivation Blog, visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.TheSalesHunter.com&quot;&gt;http://www.TheSalesHunter.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/6978531990425961650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/6978531990425961650' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/6978531990425961650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/6978531990425961650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/12/have-you-sold-yourself.html' title='Have You Sold Yourself?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-4146461826208091614</id><published>2008-12-22T05:57:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-22T05:57:10.218-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fantasizing or Marketing?</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Opportunity Seeker or Entrepreneur&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Now why do I equate &quot;opportunity seeker&quot; with fantasizing and &quot;marketing&quot; with entrepreneur?  It is simply this: opportunity seekers are, well, seekers.  Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, are &quot;undertakers&quot;.  Now I realize the mortuary business has pretty much ruined that word, at least in the English speaking world.  The word comes from the French language and means: one who undertakes (some task).  Well that&#39;s it; opportunity seekers talk the talk, entrepreneurs walk the walk.  They actually do something.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Now I understand that you say that you want wealth.  But here is the question: should you be believed?  Let me give you an illustration.  Do you know people who talk about health but don&#39;t get any exercise, don&#39;t eat quality foods and don&#39;t watch their weight?  Well, do you really believe them?  See my point?  Wealth and health have many talkers but not so many walkers.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Facts, Information, Truth&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Now I hear some people say, &quot;That&#39;s my problem.  I am a seeker; but there is a good reason for it, you see, I don&#39;t KNOW what to do.&quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And that brings us back to health again.  Of course health is a tricky subject; how much and what kind of exercise should I get?  What are high quality foods?  Of the one thousand or more weight management plans out there, which ones are truly useful?  You see the problem here?  Facts, information and truth are easily lost in the mire.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That&#39;s true of wealth creation as well.  I understand that there are 150,000 new home based business started each week.  And do you know what many of them are doing?  They are making a list of 100 people they know to share their business with.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Now answer me this question: what traditional businesses do you know that make a list of their friends and family and actually think that they are going to build a 6 or 7 figure annual income this way?  Can it work?  Yes.  Will it work?  Rarely.  The fact is most people simply don&#39;t know what to do.  They want to be walkers, but they don&#39;t know where to walk.  So they keep talking about it, seeking the perfect opportunity, bouncing from product to product, company to company and plan to plan.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The Perfect Product&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Let&#39;s stop here a minute.  Tell me, what is the best hamburger you&#39;ve ever eaten?  In my case, it&#39;s a What-A-Burger.  Years ago I moved to Corpus Christi, Texas.  I wanted a hamburger and a friend of mine said, &quot;Let&#39;s get a What-A-Burger.&quot;  I never heard of it.  It was incredible.  I live in South Carolina now; it&#39;s wonderful in South Carolina except for one thingthey don&#39;t have What-A-Burgers here.  My mouth is watering just writing about them.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; How did you answer that question, what is the best hamburger you ever ate?  Of all the options possible, I&#39;m going to guess it was not a MacDonald&#39;s.  I&#39;m not saying they are bad; they&#39;re notbut the best?  Well, I don&#39;t think so.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But here is an interesting fact; MacDonald&#39;s is the largest hamburger restaurant in the world.  Why?  If it is not because they make the best hamburger in the world, then what is the reason?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The reason is simple; they have the best hamburger marketing plan in the world.  There is a lesson here.  Product is important but marketing is critical.  My point?  Represent a good company and product; it is very important you do so.  But the best product in the world will go nowhere without a first class marketing plan.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A Better Idea&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Chasing the perfect product is not the answer.  What is the real answer?  It is the creative use of the Internet to drive an endless supply of leads to you, leads that are specifically interested in multi-level marketing.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But you don&#39;t know how to do that!  You&#39;ve checked the Internet; there are hundreds of &quot;plans&quot; there on how to start a businesswhich product, which plan?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Don&#39;t worry about the perfect product, instead, above all, focus on the marketing plan.  And just what is the best marketing plan for a MLM business.  It is a plan that uses the power of the Internet to drive an unlimited supply of interested people to you, each one of them seeking information on how to achieve wealth.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Article Location: lhttp://www.how-to-do-network-marketing.com/Fantasizing-or-Marketing.html  Web Page: http://www.how-to-do-network-marketing.com/  Contact Info:  ralph.bass@businessmasterplan.com&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/4146461826208091614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/4146461826208091614' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/4146461826208091614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/4146461826208091614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/12/fantasizing-or-marketing.html' title='Fantasizing or Marketing?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-7685980857897250174</id><published>2008-12-17T08:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-17T08:09:57.495-08:00</updated><title type='text'>5 Tips to Develop Great Outsourcing Relationships</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Firms that provide outsourcing services to small businesses can gain a lot by developing great professional relationships with small business owners (or contact person). The reason for the service provider is simply to help build and maintain trust and credibility. Some tips on developing great outsourcing relationships are:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 1. Be Honest&lt;br /&gt; Everyone naturally starts off on a neutral footing. Honesty on the part of the service provider is however of utmost importance to ensure that the firm/team can be trusted with important information and assignments.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 2. Be willing to go the extra mile&lt;br /&gt; Small business owners are people with big ideas but comparatively small budget. However, that fact should in no way mean that their business is any less important. Be willing to go the extra mile by providing a bit more than expected. (That of course doesn`t mean pitching in extra hours for unpaid work:-) ).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 3. Be able to grow with the client&lt;br /&gt; A number of small business owners start of by outsourcing a single project/task. They are new to the concept of outsourcing and are just testing the waters. However, assuming that the first couple of tasks have gone well they will be looking to outsource bigger tasks to help them relieve their own burden. Moreover, it is absolutely reasonable to assume that over a period of time their businesses will grow and they will need more services. Don`t be caught off guard when that happens.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 4. Specialize&lt;br /&gt; Its great to be a one stop shop for all the services that your clients need. However, its rarely the case that you can be great in everything that can be done on this planet. Learn where your abilities truly lie and focus on those. Continue to learn and refine skills but remember that people want to pay for the best skill for a particular cost. Its better to be someone who can design great webpages for $x rather than someone who can design average webpages but also sing a nice song for the same amount!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 5. Keep communication open&lt;br /&gt; Always ensure that you are communicating frequently with your clients. If you are not available then provide adequate notice for that. If they have not responded to an email that you sent earlier then send in a polite reminder. Its never a bad idea to drop hints that you have capability to pick up more assignments or if you get to learn new skills.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.SpeedItOnline.com/services&quot;&gt;SpeedItOnline.com&lt;/a&gt; provides online support to small businesses around the globe to help them manage their work and reduce their costs. 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And now I work half the hours that I used to!&quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; What Laura understood when she got into this field and some aspiring home stagers don&#39;t, is that a promised job for $31.45 an hour is actually a complete devaluation of her talents. Laura did her research before signing up for a training program and learned that home stagers can actually earn between $250 and $700 for just a two-hour consultation. She realized what she needed were the skills to promote her services and market her own business so she could be in control of her own employment.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It certainly worked out for her. In her first 10 months as a home stager, Laura landed so many of her own projects that she ended up staging 12 vacant properties. When you consider that staging a vacant home can earn a stager anywhere from $3,000 to $10,000 profit per house (even if they don`t use their own inventory), having 12 of these in less than a full first year of a new business is significant.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The largest of Laura`s projects was a $2.5 million vacant estate home which she furnished from top to bottom. &quot;This was an intense experience,&quot; says Laura, &quot;but an awesome opportunity to put my home staging training into practice.&quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; One of her recent projects saw Laura staging a house that had been sitting on the market for four months. Before Hunter Lake Home Staging and Design came in, the real estate agent was skeptical about staging. Her thinking completely changed after Laura finished staging the property. With new furniture and accessories, the house sold in only four days. &quot;The change in the decor was like night and day,&quot; says Laura, &quot;and we didn&#39;t even have to paint or replace brass fixtures.&quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This mother of three children loves the freedom that comes along with being her own boss. &quot;I can work my own hours, set my schedule, be at home to teach (home school) in the mornings and work my staging business in the afternoons,&quot; reports Laura. &quot;My three boys get a first-hand look at running a business. I hope that the courage I found to follow my dream will inspire them to follow theirs, and to know that anything is possible.&quot; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Like many Staging Diva students, Laura approached her home staging career with the attitude that she wanted to finally use her natural talents to earn a living without having to spend 4 years in an interior design program. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &quot;I&#39;m 39 and if it weren&#39;t for the opportunities available to a stager, I would have had to return for several years of post-secondary training and then work long hours for low pay for a design firm to fulfill my dream of decorating. This would never have happened,&quot; says this mom with a degree in literature. &quot;Staging Diva Training gave me the business tools and confidence to follow my lifelong passion for design.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Entrepreneur and Home Staging expert Debra Gould, The Staging Diva®, knows how to make money as a home stager and has taught over 1000 others to do the same. Discover her secrets to business success in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stagingdiva.com/homestagingtraining.html&quot;&gt;Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/7502865796837138110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/7502865796837138110' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/7502865796837138110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/7502865796837138110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/12/mother-of-three-finds-freedom.html' title='Mother of Three Finds Freedom, Flexibility and Success in Less Than One Year as a Home Stager'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-6875355033276565439</id><published>2008-12-10T04:56:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T04:56:23.542-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Business Communications Revolution  Video Conference Technology</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Video communication has always promised a diverse array of powerful, tangible, immediate business benefits  empowering face-to-face interaction with anyone, anywhere, anytime  instantly.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Fast, measurable cost savings, enhanced productivity and operational efficiencies, greater staff rapport, work life balance and job satisfaction. Even a reduced carbon footprint. Make no mistake. When it comes to video, the eyes well and truly have it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There was a problem though. The technology was often immature, complex, and expensive. It also tended to be largely proprietary and rather greedy for bandwidth, and it came with a reputation for unreliability. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Accordingly, while the world&#39;s biggest, richest, most risk-resilient companies were able to embrace video with open arms, the rest of us had to keep getting on our trains, planes, and telephones. There was no choice.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Since then, visual communication technology has evolved of course  reliability and quality are no longer an issue. Even then however, even as more and more businesses have come to see the value and the benefits and value of using video, it has remained beyond the reach of most because of budgetary, technical, security and or IT resource constraints.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Video Conferencing has evolved into a viable solution for businesses as recent developments in Video technology have resolved all of these issues.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; New Video communication tools can be installed with no impact on your IT infrastructure, high levels of security and no drains on your corporate bandwidth.  With high definition video available with small levels of expenditure needed to setup and use, the ability to communicate without the hassle of travel has become available to any business.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Video provides a greener, quicker and more reliable method of communication for businesses worldwide.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The future of business is video conferencing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Stephen Smith is freelance consultant of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mvision.co.uk/managed-video-conferencing-services/features/&quot;&gt;video conferencing services&lt;/a&gt;. While working on this he has gathered knowledge on video conferencing using of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mvision.co.uk/products/video-conferencing-equipments-tools/&quot;&gt;video conferencing facility&lt;/a&gt;. Visit : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mvision.co.uk&quot;&gt;http://www.mvision.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; for more information and services.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/6875355033276565439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/6875355033276565439' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/6875355033276565439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/6875355033276565439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/12/business-communications-revolution.html' title='Business Communications Revolution  Video Conference Technology'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-2966155438230885843</id><published>2008-12-08T12:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T12:38:56.406-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Starting Your Business On A Shoe String Budget</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;In today&#39;s world a huge part of business success is actually down to presenting a face that presents trust and confidence to both the market and the consumer world. The devil truly is within the details, and it boils down to corporate branding, how members of the company present their selves, their EDM&#39;s, corporate brochures, ad campaigns and press releases. It is a multi billion dollar industry in some parts of the world to build the correct perception of a company. This applies even to those who are just starting out. Being cost effective is one thing but compromising on quality is quite another. Starting out a business from the cradle of your home is a good thing, but stagnating there and using your home address as your primary office mailing address could be the wrong step that will lead to a whole host of problems later on. The importance of a registered office address lies in its ability to define the company that is using it and gives the persona of professionalism that every business need.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A mailing address that originates from a home address already instils a lack of confidence in the end user. It is like a very well furbished website, detailing all the businesses and backed up by an incredible client base  only to be tarnished by a contact list that reads from some universal mail provider. There is an inherent drop in levels of trust in the company straight away and confidence is removed from the equation. These are two things that are extremely important in a purchasing decision, especially when you are not there to personally seal the deal yourself. This is about the same when it comes to the registered office address, every business needs to present an image of professionalism. You might have a killer product, you might have great presentation skills  but all these can be outdone by a shoddy mailing address that happens to be in every flyer, brochure and book that you give out. The bottom line is branding and a key component in a successful brand are the intangibles  trust, believability, confidence, history. Once you lose that confidence , then your brand recognition among your clients and soon among the rest of the consumer populations will go down the drain and you will slowly see those profit margin figures follow it dutifully. Think about hiring the services of a virtual office provider and some of them have packages which are cheap and offer basic services like a registered office address and simple mail collection, which is the first step in building reputation.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There you have it, an integral reason why anyone with the need to succeed in a business should own a registered office address. The cost is low and the benefits far outweigh the tiny investment that you have to put in to start you on the road to financial freedom and business success. This is the importance of a registered office address; it can make or break your business.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cut your business rental costs and use a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virtualofficespace.com.sg&quot;&gt; virtual-office&lt;/a&gt; instead. Sign up today at this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virtualofficespace.com.sg&quot;&gt; singapore virtual office&lt;/a&gt; or compare &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virtualofficespace.com.sg/virtualofficedetails/&quot;&gt; virtual office space&lt;/a&gt; plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/2966155438230885843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/2966155438230885843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/2966155438230885843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/2966155438230885843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/12/starting-your-business-on-shoe-string.html' title='Starting Your Business On A Shoe String Budget'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-4486047188890918367</id><published>2008-12-05T04:47:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-05T04:47:13.184-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Find Ways to Personalize Your Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       Every business I know attempts to connect with their customers in some way, no matter how big or small that company is. Consider the nation wide companies with branches in a variety of different locations. Let&#39;s say specifically a restaurant where they have a variety of different things on the walls to add character.&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        I can say with absolute certainty that each of those restaurants are going to find something about the specific location they&#39;re in to put up on their walls. This works well with sports teams for local high schools or colleges, or even just teams in that particular town. If you go into a different branch of the same restaurant in a different town you&#39;ll see various things on the wall reflecting the area the restaurant is in.&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        They&#39;re doing whatever they can to say to their customers that they know what people like there, and they&#39;re going to try their best to connect with those things as well.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;        No matter what type of marketing you&#39;re doing you need to try doing the same, and the smaller your business is the easier it will be to accomplish this. That&#39;s the strength of a local company that larger corporations just can&#39;t match. Sure, the larger companies are going to try to connect with people in each city, but they won&#39;t know the city as well, and they won&#39;t be as strongly connected to the community.&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        A good way to introduce your company when opening up a small business is with something like custom greeting cards where you can talk to people on a more personal level. Don&#39;t just send out a generic form of advertising or anything like but, but make sure that your greeting card reflects your business and the area that your business is in.&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        That way you can tell people right from the beginning that you&#39;re one of them and you know what their lives are like. Use those custom greeting cards to mention who you are and why you opened your business to begin with. Tell them about yourself so they&#39;ll see how you relate to them, and why you&#39;re connected with the community.&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        This is a chance that you won&#39;t be able to get again. You want your first impression to be as powerful as possible, and you want to introduce yourself in such a way that they immediately view you as close to them, and that doing business with you will be helping the community as well.&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        Some things just can&#39;t be bought with money, and nothing can compare with genuinely being close to the community. You want to develop a strong bond of trust, so let people know who you are, and find the best way possible to let them know about you and your business. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Visit this site for more information on &lt;a href=http://www.printplace.com/printing/custom-greeting-cards.aspx&gt;custom greeting cards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/4486047188890918367/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/4486047188890918367' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/4486047188890918367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/4486047188890918367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/12/find-ways-to-personalize-your-marketing.html' title='Find Ways to Personalize Your Marketing'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-4842056040892593520</id><published>2008-12-03T03:46:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-03T03:46:51.859-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Create a brochure that attracts attention to your product</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;It`s simple, if you want buyers to notice your brochure, start by making it look great. We all know that content is king, but people aren`t attracted to text initially, they`re pulled in with a visually dynamic image first. Good looking images tap into peoples inner guides - the ones that are saying &quot;if it looks good, it is good.&quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you`re not convinced that image is important, consider why smart, successful marketers spend millions to create their image. Television ads use attractive models to demonstrate products, car dealers freshen the paint of used cars to make them more marketable, and we all wear our &quot;nice&quot; clothes when we want to impress new acquaintances. Why would the advertisers and car dealers go through the added expense if it doesn`t work? They wouldn`t. And you wouldn`t buy the new clothes if  they didn`t make you feel and look better. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Often, your brochure is the only thing that a prospective customer has to evaluate your product or service. You want brochure recipients to believe that your product or service is worth the price you ask - that your buisiness is professional and it can be trusted. Good, solid graphic design does the work for you when you can`t be in front of the prospects yourself. Good graphic design is your best salesperson.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; When you`re about to begin the development of your brochure, hire a talented designer. All designers are not created equal. Be selective about your brochure designer - review their portfolio, check their references, talk to them about your thoughts and probe them for their ideas. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A good designer will get a reaction, turn heads and generate interest in your product or service. After the design has captured the audience`s attention, then follow up with quality content. When combined, quality design and quality content will make a positive impact on your business` product or service.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dan O&#39;Donnell is Creative Director and Owner of Direct Axis, a 4-member design/communications agency  Direct Axis&#39; primary focus is the design and writing of print and web media. Direct Axis creates brochures, catalogs, direct mail, web sites and Flash presentations.   Direct Axis specializes in nonprofits, manufacturers and higher education.  http://www.direct-axis.net   Brochure Samples: http://www.direct-axis.net/capabil.html&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/4842056040892593520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/4842056040892593520' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/4842056040892593520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/4842056040892593520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/12/create-brochure-that-attracts-attention.html' title='Create a brochure that attracts attention to your product'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-2635536715292702041</id><published>2008-12-02T10:33:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-02T10:33:56.109-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Starting A Business With A Virtual Office</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;The initial creativity of your business idea should be maintained throughout and there should be nothing that should interrupt this momentum that could lead you to your dream house in some quiet Indonesian island and retiring young. While this is an ideal, I believe that the core of the business should be  - well just business but the problem with start-up companies is that they have so many administrative and set up issues that they often come across a huge wall of red tape  even before they can get their idea up and running and making them money. Why should valuable time be wasted on setting up an office, applying for the various permits, budgeting, hiring office assistants and managers, cost evaluation, rental, space allocation  anyone who has ever tried to set up a business should know about the list of bogging activities that can happen. Profits and the success of any business should not be easy, but its should not be anchored down by the nitty gritty of business setups anymore, not in this day and age of virtual real estates and the gaining popularity of the virtual office worker.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The industry has responded with services that help new and start-up companies gain the extra added advantage with a virtual office. What a virtual office gives you is all the benefits of a physical office but its setup only takes a few days. Some of these companies offer virtual boardroom services, your very own personal assistant who will take your calls and sort through your faxes. Even a prime virtual office address will be provided for your clients to mail you. Anything and everything is granted at a fraction of the cost of setting up a real, physical office. There is no setup on your part and there is no hassle. The &#39;rent&#39; that you pay is simply a fee that upkeeps all the digital systems and pays for things like the shared receptionist and fax/mailing services. Even the most expensive virtual office providers charge an amount that is a fraction to the costs you will incur if you decide to rent or buy an offline real estate space to conduct your operations. The world is changing, and working at home doesn&#39;t mean one is lazy  but one is being prudent, working in an environment that is tactile, comfortable and increases your productivity level.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The only thing you must understand that there is a higher level of discipline to ensure that operations within the business are run smoothly. The virtual distance means that responsibilities can be overlooked and there must be constant communication to ensure that there is as little hiccups as possible when it comes to the daily ins and outs of the business. Create rules and regulations that everyone can agree to  and most of all meet up once in a while. Sometimes there is nothing like a physical handshake and a warm smile of your business partner as you discuss the latest success over a hot cup of coffee.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cut your business rental costs and use a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virtualofficespace.com.sg&quot;&gt; virtual-office&lt;/a&gt; instead. Sign up today at this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virtualofficespace.com.sg&quot;&gt; singapore virtual office&lt;/a&gt; or compare &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virtualofficespace.com.sg/virtualofficedetails/&quot;&gt; virtual office space&lt;/a&gt; plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/2635536715292702041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/2635536715292702041' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/2635536715292702041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/2635536715292702041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/12/starting-business-with-virtual-office.html' title='Starting A Business With A Virtual Office'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-845014148194830413</id><published>2008-11-29T06:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T06:39:56.274-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cubicles: more interesting then you might think</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Many different types of businesses and companies make use of cubicles as a way to efficiently divide up office space, while giving each and every employee their own semi-private workspace. Typically, a cubicle is a workspace that is only partially enclosed. Visually, employees are separated from one another (with the exception of a doorway or entrance, as well as a lack of ceiling), though in terms of audio most sounds will carry. The partitions that make up the average cubicle are five feet or six feet in height. The cubicle will be partially or entirely open on one or more sides to allow access in and out of it.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; The purpose of a cubicle is to isolate employees from one another. Without the distractions that sights and sounds can provide, employees will be able to work more efficiently, as well as have a bit of privacy during their work day. Because cubicles are not often very large, hanging shelves and other types of overhead storage will often be present inside of them. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The nice thing about cubicles is that they are quite easy to setup, modify and arrange. Cubicles can be put together and moved around using standard hardware or special fasteners, depending on the design that the employee or supervisor has in mind. Cubicles easily allow for the introduction and modification of drawers, shelves and bins, and generally offer the employee ample horizontal workspace. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Many jokes are abound in reference to cubicles. A cube farm is a term that refers to companies that set up dozens or even hundreds of cubicles in their office space. &lt;br /&gt; Cubicles are great for employees who want their own space at their place of employment. The desk within a cubicle, as well as the walls, allow for personalization. Photos, nooks, small hanging objects and calendars can easily be displayed on the walls of a cubicle. Many types of cubicle walls have holes and hooks on them, so hanging personal items is quite an easy thing to do.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Cubicles come in different forms. The typical cubicle is made up of three to four walls (if four walls are present, then one of those walls will have a break in it to allow entrance in and exit out of the space that is created within the cubicle) placed together and hooked together securely.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kimberly Green is offering her insight to the many reasons &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cheaperofficefurniture.net&quot;&gt;cubicles&lt;/a&gt; are used and how a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cheaperofficefurniture.net&quot;&gt;cubicle&lt;/a&gt; office space may prove most functional.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/845014148194830413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/845014148194830413' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/845014148194830413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/845014148194830413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/11/cubicles-more-interesting-then-you.html' title='Cubicles: more interesting then you might think'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-1273350498940330273</id><published>2008-11-28T07:43:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-28T07:43:55.114-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Clearing Up Merchant Account Pricing</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;This is a brief introduction to some components of pricing that you should be aware of as a business owner. This article will help you know enough about pricing a merchant account so that you don`t get taken advantage of when you`re negotiating with your merchant service provider on your account.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The discount rate is probably the one component of the merchant account pricing that represents the largest percentage of the fees you`ll pay as a merchant. A competitive discount rate for qualified retail transactions is about 1.29% for check or debit cards and about 1.69% for regular credit cards. Internet discount rates are typically considered competitive at 2.15% to 2.25%. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Your discount rate is determined by the risk your business may represent to the bank. The more risky your account, the higher the discount rate. The type of cards you process may also influence your discount rate, such as a business credit card vs. a check card, or rewards card for instance.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you have a lower average ticket item or average transaction, the per transaction fee represents a higher percentage and can even represent a higher percentage of your overall fees than the actual discount rate or percentage. If you have an average ticket item of $10 and a per transaction of $.20, the effective rate on this transaction is 2%. If you add the discount rate of 1.8%, the effective rate on those $10 transactions is 3.8% which is higher than it could be. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you take the same $10 transaction and could lower that per transaction fee to $.17, even with a higher discount rate, say around 1.8%, your effective rate would be 3.5% which would lower your overall effective rate on the transactions.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There is a monthly fee for most merchant accounts. There is a cost associated with providing customer support, physical or even electronic statements, and account maintenance. This is usually a $10 monthly fee that is known as a customer service fee, account maintenance fee or a statement fee. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you have a merchant account, you most likely have a monthly minimum which is what a flat fee charged every month based on the discount fees. If the discount fees exceed $25, the monthly minimum is met. If the discount fees are based on a slower month or lower volume month, the minimum is charged still at $25. If your volume is only $500 that month, the $25 represents a 5% effective rate, no matter what the discount rate is. Many providers now will waive this fee, so if you anticipate at all that fee being an issue, work with your provider to make sure that fee is either reduced or waived.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; These are the primary fees that accompany each merchant account. There are several other fees that may apply depending on whether your are processing through a wireless terminal, an internet-based account, or mail order / telephone order. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Finding a sales rep that you can trust and work with on your account will save you significant hassles later on and will be a relationship you can leverage to make this important part of your business hassle free.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You can contact Brian through his website dedicated to providing information on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merchanthotline.com&quot;&gt;business merchant accounts&lt;/a&gt;. He has been setting up merchant accounts for all types of businesses now since 2001. You can find more information on his website at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merchanthotline.com&quot;&gt;MerchantHotline.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/1273350498940330273/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/1273350498940330273' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/1273350498940330273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/1273350498940330273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/11/clearing-up-merchant-account-pricing.html' title='Clearing Up Merchant Account Pricing'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-8793672396720607450</id><published>2008-11-26T06:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-26T06:34:59.476-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Top 4 Reasons People Fail In Their Network Marketing Business</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Most people fail miserably in their network marketing business. Even though &quot;it`s easy&quot; and &quot;anybody can do it&quot; according to the Guru at the front of the room. Here are the top four reasons people fail in their network marketing business:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 1. Lack of money&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A lot of people just don`t have the money to market their business. The days of &quot;Make a list and talk to your friends and family&quot; are gone. Do you really think the big dogs on stage are still doing that? Absolutely not. They are investing every month in some form of marketing, and so should you. Luckily, you don`t need much money. With the emergence of the internet over a billion people become available to you through social sites, forums, groups and chat rooms. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you learn the art of social marketing, along with sort of advertising that captures leads through pay-per-click, solo ads, article marketing, blogging etc, you should be able to capture a decent amount of leads with as little as $50 to $100 a month! You should also strongly consider a Funded Proposal, a method of marketing that creates income for you up-front, while producing all the leads you need.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 2. Lack of Activity&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I have to admit, I`m lazy by nature, and I know I`m not alone! Give me a choice between something I WANT to do and something I HAVE to do and well... you get the idea. To combat that I have disciplined myself through making network marketing into a game. I play the game 30 minutes a day, and get points for business building activity. This has worked well for me. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Other people find business partners who they are accountable to every day, and communicate by e-mail or phone at the end of every day, comparing results and sharing ideas. Another method that works well is a team call where people can dial into a conference line and discuss the days work with several others. Just figure out a system that works for you, and commit to a small amount of reasonable activity every day, then teach your team to do the same, and if you are consistent and persistent, your team will be as well, and you will create duplication.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I don`t know who said this, but it`s absolutely true: &quot;If you want your team to go into momentum, YOU have to go into momentum.&quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 3. Lack of People to Talk To&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The big question is: Who are you going to talk to today? There are three types of leads:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 1. Warm Market. These are the people that already know you and (hopefully!) trust you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 2. Purchased leads.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 3. Self Generated leads.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Now here`s a tip I learned from one of our guest trainers, Dale Calvert: It`s all about WARM MARKET. But wait! You say. Then why are you telling me about Purchased and Self Generated leads? Simple. Your job is to turn all your leads into warm market leads. Most people make the mistake of thinking of them as &quot;leads&quot; instead of as PEOPLE! If you stop recruiting and start building your warm market, you will take pressure off of yourself, off of them, and your whole network marketing business will grow more naturally and be more rewarding.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 4. Lack of Skills and Knowledge&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My friend Pat Berry of the MLM Radio Show talks about becoming a &quot;Skillionaire.&quot; I love the metaphor. I know a lot of network marketing millionaires, and every single one of them has a high skill set. They know the industry inside out, they have developed great people skills, they are master communicators, and great marketers. And all of those things can be learned. Don`t make the mistake of thinking they were born that way. All of these skills can be developed.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Here`s a simple way to increase your skills (Thanks to Jim Rohn for these ideas!)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 1. Read at least 10 pages a day in a personal development book.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 2. Listen for at least 20 minutes a day to a good audio.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 3. Attend a live seminar at least quarterly.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Three habits that are easy to incorporate into your life, and easy to do.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So those are the four reasons people fail, and some ideas on how to overcome them in your own marketing. Apply some of these ideas consistently to ensure your success in your network marketing business.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dave Sherwin is an online network marketing expert who won the &quot;Rookie Of The Year&quot; award in his network marketing company. He is also the co-founder of the Lighthouse Marketing System. To learn how to generate DAILY targeted prospects and get the Lighthouse Marketing Guide FREE go here:  http://escapethematrix.net/blog&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/8793672396720607450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/8793672396720607450' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/8793672396720607450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/8793672396720607450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/11/top-4-reasons-people-fail-in-their.html' title='Top 4 Reasons People Fail In Their Network Marketing Business'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-9378917426263459</id><published>2008-11-25T05:53:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T05:53:47.982-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Take the Good with the Bad in Business</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;In my normal daily routine, I awoke to the dog scratching my bedside anxious to go for his early morning exercise.  In the process of getting him and I ready for our half hour trek into the morning chill I turned the coffee pot on and let that brew while I was out so it would be ready by the time we returned.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A half hour later we returned, I poured my coffee and as I often do I sat at the kitchen table reading one of my favorite business magazines.  I was particularly intrigued with an article in regards to how failure is actually a good thing when it comes to business.  In my own business experiences I have failed so I proceeded to read on as to see how what the author was describing directly correlates to my situations that I encountered.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As I concluded the article talked about parallels to my own business and probably yours, ones of finding the positives out of the negatives, meeting a new person in bad business ventures and why a person who has failed is stronger than one who has not.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Take the first point of pulling the positives out of the negatives.  It is invariably easier to get down on yourself and say, &quot;oh why did this happen to me&quot;, or &quot;I can&#39;t believe it didn&#39;t work out.&quot;  However we need to focus in on the positives here.  Write down the reasons the venture failed.  Did it fail because of, lack of funding, a bad business partner, not enough research up front or you provided a business or service that people did not want?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; All issues that are very fixable when you can clearly see what the issues are to begin with.  As I have found in business, regardless of how bad a business venture goes, you will find one or more people that are wonderful human beings, great mentors and/or excellent business people.  I recently built a property to flip and sell.  However the project took a long time to complete, as we hired people who weren&#39;t right for the job or we hit government road blocks with certain regulations.  By the time the property was complete the real estate market tanked and I had to take a huge hit on it.  Ok, lesson learned.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But along the way I met some really good people.  One&#39;s that helped steer me in the right direction and others who worked hard to get the job done in a timely fashion and on budget.  To this day I am still friends with these people and when the situation exists, I call upon them for help.  I can almost guarantee that you know many of the same that I do.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A person who fails is stronger because they now know what doesn&#39;t work!  Yes a little backwards in the way of thinking but you now have found an avenue in your business that hits unnecessary roadblocks or walls that will either cost you too much time, money or both.  Failure is a part of life, whether it is in business or your daily routine.  Those that are able to use that failure to their advantage and learn what to do because of it, are those that rise above and succeed.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;About the Author&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bruce Tucker is a contributing writer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent&lt;/a&gt;, an online advertising and social networking medium where you can promote your business, products and services for sale and hire throughout the world without pay-per-click prices or auction fees.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don`t forget to download Indocquent`s free &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/social_bookmark/social_bookmark_landingpage.html&quot;&gt;social bookmark utility&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Published By: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Indocquent.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;- An online resource where you can promote your business, products and services around the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/secondphp.php?node=125&amp;amp;idx=2007073074744&amp;amp;numofads=2&amp;amp;direction=h&amp;amp;bordercolor=FFFFFF&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com/index_files/register.htm&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for your FREE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indocquent.com&quot;&gt;Indocquent.com&lt;/a&gt; account.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/feeds/9378917426263459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7175845550556412785/9378917426263459' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/9378917426263459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7175845550556412785/posts/default/9378917426263459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://myindocquent.blogspot.com/2008/11/take-good-with-bad-in-business.html' title='Take the Good with the Bad in Business'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175845550556412785.post-5089563716060586325</id><published>2008-11-22T14:08:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-22T14:08:26.712-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Got the Right Stuff To Be an Entrepreneur? Find Out Now!</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src=&quot;NO LONGER USING IMAGES....THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY GOOGLE ADSENSE&quot; align=left border=1 bordercolor=black&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:middle;border:0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indocquentcom&quot; rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot;&gt;Subscribe in a reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Do you have what it takes to make it as a business owner? Making a realistic assessment of your skills, abilities, and interests should be considered essential. You most likely will not fit the entrepreneur profile exactly, but knowing your strengths and weaknesses gives you an advantage in preparing for the support you may need in running your business.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If your personal profile does not seem to line up with the following profile of characteristics of the typical successful entrepreneur, give some long, hard thought as to whether you are really cut out to be a business owner. The matter of your success is far too important to leave to chance.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #1 - Drive to Achieve&lt;br /&gt; One factor that is found most often is highly successful business owners is a tremendous drive to achieve. This attitude tends to override everything else and seems to have almost everything to do with success.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #2 - Desire to Succeed&lt;br /&gt; Success can be considered to be the constant achievement of worthwhile goals. Exactly what are worthwhile goals is a matter of individual interpretation. Obviously, any measure of success must agree with the Word of God.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #3 - Overall Tendency to Follow Through&lt;br /&gt; This applies to any personal commitment or the accomplishment of any task. Even when the going gets tough, the entrepreneur is not apt to quit halfway through. In a word, you must have perseverance.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #4 - Positive Mental Attitude&lt;br /&gt; Being generally optimistic even in challenging situations is a kind of attitude that generally grows out of being confident in who you are and understanding your abilities. Knowing who you are in Christ, and that you are called to the business arena, are major contributors to this.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #5 - Objective Approach&lt;br /&gt; This entails the ability to realistically and accurately view each situation and assess associated risks and determine an appropriate course of action. Being able to honestly determine one`s own abilities and limitations is vital, as is not thinking more highly of yourself than you ought.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #6 - A Respectful Attitude Toward Money&lt;br /&gt; This includes a tendency to look upon money as a means for accomplishing things, rather than as a thing to be sought after as an end in itself. The love of money is still the root of all evil.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #7 - A Tendency to Anticipate Developments&lt;br /&gt; Those who possess the ability to see things coming are able to take the appropriate course of action, rather than reacting only when circumstances are upon them. The prudent see danger and protect themselves.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #8 - Resourcefulness&lt;br /&gt; The ability to solve unique problems in unique ways is vital for entrepreneurs. They are often demanded to handle new developments with no previous experience to rely on as a guide.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #9 - Stable Relationships&lt;br /&gt; Being emotionally stable, cheerful, cooperative, and able to get along well with employees and associates are vitally important characteristics of successful business owners.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #10 - Effective Communications&lt;br /&gt; The ability to effectively communicate and present your ideas for both verbal and written means is extremely important. You must be able to communicate an idea or vision beyond just stating the facts in order to generate a response in others.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #11 - Technical Knowledge&lt;br /&gt; An entrepreneur is usually well-rounded, knowledgeable about business operations and practices, and able to skillfully utilize information towards effecting reasonable results.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; #12 - Understands Own Skills&lt;br /&gt; Successful entrepreneurs have taken a good, honest look at themselves. Answering the following questions is a good place to start. What do you like to do best? What are your three major skills, and what can you do better than most people? Describe your management abilities and how your experience applies to your business.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Running a business is nothing like working for someone else. You are responsible for everything. Truly, the buck stops with you. Are you a self-starter, capable of planning, organizing, and carrying out projects on your own initiative? 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