Archive for December, 2005

It’s possible for your business to build up a credit rating and make purchases without your personal
guarantee.
As your home business grows, it’s time to get your own Business Credit.
Business Credit Services offers a free downloadable ebook and other resources that may help you establish business credit.
You can download the ebook here…
http://www.corporatecredit.biz/leads/freebusiness.php

Are you still using [...]

From Ask:
A reader asks…
I have a good job where I make a decent amount of money and have very little stress. I also have a side business that generates roughly the same amount of income as my day job. I want to do my business full time, and I know I can continue to make [...]

From Dien Rice @ Sowpub.com
There are many persuasion techniques. Many are ethical. Though a few are dubious and rely on deception.
One absolutely ethical persuasion technique is to include details. Be specific!
For example, instead of saying the Sowpub forum has over 25,000 posts, I could say the Sowpub forum has 27,021 posts. It’s more [...]

From AOL News:
The Federal Government owes you money in overcharges.
It’s still collecting too much.
And it won’t refund you unless you hire an army to complete the paperwork.
But hey, who’s going to stop them?
Phone customers are due $9 billion in tax refunds and a 3% cut in wireless phone and long-distance bills, according to a series [...]

Not all of them dropped out of college you know…
Jeff Bezos, president, CEO, and chairman of the board, Amazon.com. Bachelor’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering, Princeton University (1986). Bezos took an unusual career path, going straight from a technical education to Wall Street, where he worked as a financial analyst.
Warren Buffett, investor, financier, [...]

From Click Z
As a direct mail writer, I was trained to always first write the order card, or call to action. Working with the final objective in mind keeps copy focused and succinct. That’s even more important in the real-time world of online marketing.
You can see that action-oriented philosophy at work in a series of [...]

Perhaps you’ll enjoy these tips for business success: Joe Vitale’s 10 Laws for Writing Letters that Get Results

1. Know what’s in it for your reader.
Get out of your ego and into your reader’s ego. Complete this sentence: “Get my book so that you can…(fill in the blank).” Your book (or whatever you are [...]

The other day I accidentally deleted a post about FreeCardMatrix.com.
I pressed delete because I saw a URL prominently in the comment field and I thought it was more blog spam.
As the message was dying, I realized the person was trying to say that Free Card Matrix would now have a residual income component.
I couldn’t resurrect [...]

From Start Up Journal:
Don’t worry about finding new business ideas. Some politician will come up with a new regulatory burden that businesses will pay to relieve. In this case it’s the Sarbanes Oxley Act a huge regulatory burden aimed at reducing corporate fraud.
While it’s crime fighting abilities are yet to be proved, the frauds of [...]

Working at home is sometimes too little work and too much unfocused activity.
From the Globe and Mail:
How much of your time is actually spent working when you bring the office home?
Twenty-five per cent of 2,450 workers polled admitted spending less than one hour on their office work, 53 per cent spend less than three [...]