Archive for December, 2006

Here are 5 paradoxes of MLM.
1. When you have 100 distributors, you want the payplan to pay out most of the money in the first 3 levels because that’s where your people are.
When you have 10,000 distributors in your downline, you want most of the money to be paid out on the back end of the [...]

Recognition reaps rewards with employees… a little thanks goes a long way to boost morale.
Recognition reaps rewards with customers… if you can find something to recognize people  about, they appreciate it and will often reciprocate with more business and referrals.
So where do you get cheap ways to recognize people?
Try these free printable certificates and coupons!
There’s [...]

The last few days, I’ve written about the importance of getting amateur reviews (especially 5 star reviews) to help your book sell. You can read those posts here and here.
After yesterday’s post, probably most of you went… sure I’d love to get 5 Star Reviews for the cost of a book and postage! But where [...]

This review is sponsored by one of our readers.
Before the Internet and PC age, I can remember when people earning Ph.D.’s would have to write the future footnotes of their dissertations on index cards and file them away in a shoebox. Because their future employment hinged on keeping their studies safe, they’d hide the shoebox in [...]

I just found this at Alfa Mercado’s site and wanted to pass it along… Podcaster’s Wanted
451Press wants podcasters in these areas of expertise. The gig pays a base + a percentage of revenues generated:
1. TV
2. Travel
3. Technology
4. Sports
5. Shopping
6. Health
7. Automotive
8. Personal Development
9. Parenting
10. Education
11. Current Events
12. Humor
13. Gaming
14. Food & Cooking
15. Entertainment
16. Books
17. Business
18. [...]

Carrie Lukas attributes it in part to telecommunting and being able to work at home. She puts it this way…
According to the nonprofit research institute Catalyst, just eight Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs, and women account for just 5.2 percent of those companies’ top earners.
A Harvard Business Review survey of midcareer women with graduate [...]

An online pal of mine, Joe Sabah, and his daughter Renee are helping people learn how to do what she did.
After 6 years at a “corporate” job, she decided to strike out on her own and charge what she’s worth as a personal assistant.
She’s got more business than she can handle and lots of people [...]

Yesterday I wrote about the growing importance of amateur reviews - especially 5 star reviews - at Amazon.com.
That left the question… well how do you get THOSE? Of course everybody wants them!
Here’s how.
You ask for them.
If you’ve got a book that sells on Amazon (or Barnes and Nobles for that matter) you simply identify people [...]

When you’re starting a business, find those steady customers can be tough.
You want to get your name and business concept in front of people repeatedly but you don’t have a huge budget. Your headline or “elevator speech” may be great, but if it doesn’t register with enough people enough times, it’s not really effective.
Sometimes “leave [...]

If you’re looking for another free place to post your business related press release, here’s one. It’s PRNewsBlog
It’s a new service and you submit press releases by emailing them to the address on the site.
As they say in online marketing, every little link helps…