Eight Powerful Questions That Will Change Your Life

November 21st, 2008

One of the keys to living a life of passion and purpose is discovering your unique brilliance and living it. Many of us have wondered ‘what is the meaning of my life’ and ‘what am I here to do’.

One of the skills I have developed as a business coach is to ask provocative questions that challenge people to think beyond the ordinary and discover their own personal vision for how they can make a difference in the world. I ask my clients to think about what’s really important to them, what they love to do, and what energizes and inspires them.

The following are some of the most thought provoking questions I ask my clients to consider. These are great questions to ponder and journal when you feel a little stuck or frustrated. They will give you a better perspective, clarity, and direction about your life as you live it each day.

Take the time to really listen to your answers from inside as you would listen to a dear friend. Tune into your authentic inner voice. Have an inner dialogue with yourself to determine the answers to what your vision is of what’s possible for the world.

1. What is my personal definition of success?

2. What am I passionate about? What lights me up and brings me joy?

3. What are my special gifts and talents and how am I using them every day?

4. Does my work currently bring me meaning and fulfillment and allow me to express my uniqueness?

5. What do I often dream about doing that I have never done?

6. What is my BIG vision of what’s possible for the world? How can I make a difference?

7. Which three personal qualities do I value most, and how deeply am I expressing them in my relationships and in my work? (examples: truthfulness, love, spontaneity, fun, leadership, inclusiveness, mastery, positive attitude, presence, joy, creativity, peacefulness, committed)

8. What would I want to be written on my obituary or said about me in a eulogy?

Once you have your answers to these questions, ask yourself what actions you could take to make these changes and to give your gifts and talents fully to your work and to the world. Most often, it’s the smaller steps we take on a consistent basis that bring about renewal, rather than major changes.

Think about what you could do today to move you closer to where or how you want to be. How do you want to be living your life next year? What do you want more of or less of in your life? What do you need to start or stop doing? What changes do you need to make in your work, relationships, and physical environment?

These questions can be revisited from time to time for fresh insights. Make a commitment to listen to your answers and act on them. Be guided by your own inner wisdom and longings.

Are you living the life you thought you’d be living?

Take the time to reevaluate where you are and where you’re going, and what you want out of life. Nothing is more interesting than your own life. Become fully engaged in your present. Start to live your life by design rather than by accident.

Set your intention, follow your intuition, and be on the lookout for clues and coincidences that will change the direction of your life. Take a risk. Think outside the box. Dare to live a larger life.

Start each day with an intention and a commitment to achieving the positive shifts you want in your life, and watch for miracles to happen!

Jan Marie Dore publishes the newsletter and blog “Success Secrets for Professional Women”. She teaches solo professional women marketing and sales strategies to attract new clients, grow their business, and make more money in less time. sign up now at my website which is at http://www.femalepreneurs.com/ezine

Start Your Internet Business Using Free and Open Source Tools

November 21st, 2008

When you’re starting a new business venture on a next to nothing budget, it’s wisest to use free and open sourced tools on the Internet. The Internet has a plethora of tools to use, and just because the sources are free, doesn’t mean they are useless.

Free html editors such as Kompozer and NVu can help you build websites from scratch and make them user friendly and easy to navigate. There is some research and self education to be completed to successfully pull it off, but follow these simple steps and suggestions and you’ll fly through it with ease.

Let’s say you’ve decided to use Kompozer to help you build your website. This html editor will give you step by step instruction as to how to begin your initial set up. It is designed to be used with ease for any non-technical person who wants to create a professional looking website without needing to know what web coding or HTML is. This complete web authoring system combines web file management and web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage- now called Microsoft Expression, Adobe DreamWeaver and other professional programs. This free service should definitely be used by the new and less experienced. There will be no guessing or misunderstandings of what is to done.

Something you should definitely consider when creating your new web project are using the most popular key words out there to draw attention and/or traffic to your site. Keyword research is the single most important task when developing a new web page. Knowing how to go about finding them is something else, and this is when you should use yet another open sourced tool. Wordtracker provides a free key word research tool that will aid you in finding just the right key words to describe and use on your web site. The Google sandbox checker tool can also assist you in checking to see if your site’s keyword(s) is in the Google sandbox.

Marketing your website through the use of articles and posting them onto articles directories or blog sites are an effective way to get the word out about your site. Online advertising is very easy to do and doesn’t take more than a few minutes to complete; depending on what you are promoting. Once you begin blogging or writing articles, you can post your website link or ads into your blogs. This will help generate activity when someone is searching a topic with keywords you have used for your blog and your link will pop up.

You may also use videos, audios, and ebooks to market your website. To do so, programs such as OpenOffice, Audacity, and Camstudio should be utilized to get you up and running in no time. These programs are fairly easy to use and again are free open sourced tool. All you have to do is download the program(s) from the Internet and begin to create your master piece. Remember to keep it interesting and market your product or web page in a way that draws traffic to your link.

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Getting Cash From the Top 20% Paid Surveys

November 21st, 2008

Finding the paid survey sites is both easy and difficult to do. While you can certainly do a search for “paid surveys” or “online surveys” through Google or another search engine, the results you get back may not always be as helpful as you would hope. It’s likely that many of the results you get back are membership sites that require a payment to join. Otherwise, you need to go through hundreds of results to find all the good paid survey sites that you should be joining to be successful as a survey taker. While this works, it is a long and time consuming process.

In all honesty, the membership sites in most cases have done a very good job finding the relevant survey sites for you and they are worth considering if you want to get a fast start in getting paid to take surveys. If possible you may even find a free paid survey directory although these are getting harder and harder to locate.

Whether you decide to pay for membership to a survey directory or try to find a free survey directory or even take the time to locate all of the good survey sites yourself one thing is always going to be true. The majority of your earnings in paid surveys will come from a small set of the total survey companies. This has also been called the 80/20 rule which means that 80% of your survey earnings will come from just 20% of the survey companies you join.

While you might now wonder if you should avoid joining all the survey companies you can find I suggest you still register for all of them because you never know which are the 20% that are going to pay YOU. Different people will have different results with each company simply because each company is often looking for people with a different profile. Young people may do good with company A while older married folks will do best with company B and so on. You never know for sure which survey site will be best for you, so you need to join them all and find out for yourself.

To have the best chance to make money with paid surveys try to find a survey directory, free or paid, that will give you links to hundreds of paid survey sites you can register with. If this means you need to pay $30 to access a quality database of survey sites then so be it. You’re likely to make that money back within the first few days anyway as long as you take action after joining.

Paid surveys can be a great way to make some extra money, especially for those with lots of free times. If you could use some extra cash then I think it’s time you looked into paid surveys for making money online.

Learn more about making money from paid surveys and why YOU should start taking paid surveys if you need extra cash by visiting the authors website.

Psychology of Joint Venture Marketing

November 21st, 2008

Psychology plays an important role in most consumer purchases, and the psychological effect of a joint venture marketing platform is no exception to this rule. Psychology is at play subconsciously in so many areas of our lives. Have you ever noticed how most supermarkets are organized in the same way? There is a floor plan for how to run a successful supermarket, down to the optimal lighting and the temperature at which the supermarket should be kept to maximize consumer purchases.

When you are in a supermarket, and looking for a specific product, it may seem that products are organized somewhat haphazardly, but this is not the case. Products are organized to inspire you to purchase items that you did not intend on purchasing when entering the store. The last minute checkout line purchases are the best example of this: how many of us have picked up a magazine, gift card, candy bar or pack of gum we didn’t really need, simply because we were standing in line and those products were there. This is consumer psychology at work at its best.

Consumer Psychology at Work in Joint Venture Marketing

You may be thinking, that makes sense, it sounds easy enough to capitalize on consumer psychology when you have customers walking through the door, but I have an online business, not the same thing at all! True, with your online business, you don’t have the benefit of customers walking through your doors, but you have something that when used to your advantage can be even better: you can go to your customers, reach them at home or on the road via emails - increasing access to your clients to a point where you don’t have to wait for them to come to you!

America was built on creating opportunities, and most Americans appreciate businesses that take initiative and create opportunities: it is the American way. But there is a fine line between creating opportunities and being invasive to your clients. Americans are also busier than ever in their lives, so bombarding them with countless emails and solicitations that convey the same message will most likely serve to alienate potential clients, rather than gain them. These are aspects of psychology of which it is important to be aware when running your online business.

Creating “Friendly” Marketing

A joint venture marketing partnership can help bridge the gap between effective marketing and invasive marketing, helping you gain the right balance to assertively attract new customers without being overbearing.

With a joint venture marketing partnership, you can piggyback with your partners on marketing tactics, such as customer email alerts and newsletters. With the joint forces of your marketing partnerships behind you, you can capitalize on the principles of consumer psychology and reach multiple customers on various levels without making them feel overwhelmed. If for instance, a certain customer buys from both you and one of your joint venture partners, you can attach advertisements or reminders to a “thank you for your purchase email” and remind your clients of your appreciation for their business without being invasive by sending unnecessary correspondence.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing &
Consulting firm empowering business owners to discover and implement
profitable Joint Venture marketing tactics to solve specific business
challenges.
http://www.christianfea.com
christian@synertegic.com

Ireland Millionaire Indicators - Are They Turned On?

November 21st, 2008

In my capacity as an Event Promoter, I have associated with a large number of extremely wealthy and successful people, and although I’ve read pretty much every wealth and success book on the market, no one has yet conveyed just how basic the process of becoming wealthy for life really is.

To a man (woman) the principles that I have noted are the same!

Its not what you believe, its not what you want, its not the things that you say to yourself, its what you do. In a word, its your BEHAVIOUR!

What will other people observing your behaviour say about you, “Well Gary, talks about becoming wealthy and successful, but he never gets his ass out of bed before 11 o’ clock.”

Or, if you desire to be a top athlete - “Steven has bought every exercise and fitness magazine in the shop, but he loves “the chipper.”

Or more ideally, “no matter how much cr@p is going on, the guy is able to focus on what he wants, and works on getting it.”

When we shine the brutal torch of common sense on our actions its only too obvious what the outcome is going to be.

Consider this - you’re driving your car and you come to T junction. Its 8.45 in the morning, and you’re trying to make your way into heavy traffic to your left. There are two things that you could do.

One, you could sit back with your foot on the brake and hope that someone will guess that you want to move into the flow of traffic today, and decide that you’re their good deed for the day, and let you in. Is this likely to happen quickly or ever? Is your life like this?

Or, alternatively you can turn on your indicator to show everyone where you’re going, seek to make eye contact with someone who may be able to let you in, and continue to edge forward until someone does in fact “choose” (because its obvious that you know what you want) to do the right thing and let you in.

Contrary to what many believe, people want to and enjoy helping each other, this applies to making money, getting the job or succeeding in whatever undertaking it is that you choose. However, they are much more likely to give you a worthwhile break or opportunity when you demonstrate that you know what you want and are determined to get it.

And just how do you demonstrate this?

By your behaviour of course, if you think about it, its the only way that people can really come to a conclusion about you, what you want or what it is that you’re about.

Some of the obvious behaviours that we have noted in people that are successful include

- the ability to make a decision and follow it through until they get their result,

- the ability to keep moving forward (no matter how slowly) in the face of strong opposition,

- the capacity to overcome obstacles - under, over around or through, and

- the desire to constantly learn more about their world, and the new or existing methods that they can utilise to more successfully adapt to what is unquestionably a fastly changing world.

A recurring word in this article has been the word “obvious.”

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Making Money Online While The Economy Tanks

November 20th, 2008

With the economy being heavily hit the internet business is booming for some people.If your job is in jeopardy you may consider starting an online business as a part of your fall back plan.

Now is the time to get etarted before rough times fall upon you. If you get started now and do some research you could start a very lucrative home based internet business and you will be wondering why you even went to a job in the first place.

Since the internets inception tons of millionaires have been created and there are a lot of people out there making 6 figure monthly income from the internet. There are probable kids out there making more money in one month than you make in an entire year. Try wrapping your mind around that one.

On the internet the information business is booming. Information on how to get rich has always been heavily sought after and being rich is the American dream.

It is never to late to try something new like an internet business. You could start with what you do at your current job. If you are an expert in whatever field,take it to the internet and sell your information to people that are like minded. Investigate the internet and its many opportunities that are right at your finger tips! All you need to make money online is the right knowledge. With the right knowledge you can uncork a geyser of cash and really start making some serious money.

Why I havee seen guys go from an ordinary job to making $10-$15 thousand a month in as little as 2 months. Does that not sound like the greatest thing that could ever happen to you. It would almost be like winning the lottery. With that kind of money there is nothing you could not buy.

The key is to learn how to market an internet business and create a residual income. This can be done with one simple method and can be magnified if you use all of the strategies that professional online marketers use.

The answer is so stupid that you would never believe it and yet most people cannot figure out the right equation for success.

With just one simple method the cash could be rolling in. In some cases I spend $1,000.00 and make $26,000.00 in one day and I do this over and over again.This is the same method that the “professionals” use and it is so simple !

So what are you wating for get on the internet and start making some serious money ! Remember this that time waits for no man and either does money.

Here is a clue to the method that can make you rich on the internet. Here is the clue: You get it every day, delivered and opened,except for Sundays.

If you figure out what the clue is than you may very well be extremely intelligent and making money on the internet is your destiny.Unlock the clue and you will onlock the internet !

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Joint Venture Marketing: Giving Your Customers More

November 20th, 2008

When running any business, online or otherwise, customer service is one of the main tenants needed for building success. Building a strong and loyal customer base will ensure your longevity and ultimately long-term success. To create such a base of loyal clients, you’ll need to provide them with not only excellent customer service, but also with something they cannot get from other businesses providing similar services.

Joining forces with other businesses by forming a joint venture marketing partnership can give you an edge not only with your business and advertising, but also with your customer service. Providing varied and dynamic customer service is as important as providing superior customer service to your clients.

You want your marketing campaign to stand out and give your clients something unique they don’t get from other companies. It is also important to make your customers feel important, that you value their business and that having their business truly matters to you. Embarking on a joint venture partnership is one way to successfully address a broad range of diverse customer service needs.

Expanding the Customer Service Base

When you develop a joint venture marketing partnership, the goal is for new customers and new client relationships to grow out of this enterprise. However, with more customers come more customer service responsibilities. Luckily with your new joint venture marketing partnership, you can diversify your customer service with the assistance of your partners and provide successful and unique customer service that will make a visible difference to your clients.

You may wonder how a joint venture marketing partnership can assist with your customer service platform. This is a marketing plan, not a customer service plan, right? That is accurate. A joint venture marketing partnership is primarily about cooperatively advertising and marketing your business, but any good marketing plan will account for and influence customer service.

When you form a joint venture marketing partnership, it is a collective sharing of ideas and expertise. You will gain insight into how to reach customers in new and different ways based on how your joint venture marketing partners run their customer service. This is one of the main benefits of partnering with other businesses.

When working with your joint venture marketing partners, you will also have the opportunity to naturally diversify your customer service and to reach more customers. This will ultimately create a potential influx of new and loyal customers. Ideally, with a joint venture marketing partnership, you will end up gaining customers from your partners, and vice versa.

When you gain customers that are part of your partners existing client base, the customers are generally aware of the association. You can capitalize on this association by adding an advertising or customer service message to the customer service correspondence that your partners are sending out. This increases your contacts and relationships with your clients and serves to do the same for your partners.

Your clients will get regular correspondence from you and your partners, creating a greater feeling of involvement and importance and it won’t be the same boring emails over and over. You will actually be able to capture and hold your customer’s interest and attention, which is exactly what every company wants!

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing &
Consulting firm empowering business owners to discover and implement
profitable Joint Venture marketing tactics to solve specific business
challenges.
http://www.christianfea.com
christian@synertegic.com

Hillary Clinton Nomination Is On Track - Washington Post

November 20th, 2008

ABC News
Hillary Clinton Nomination Is On Track
Washington Post, United States - 4 hours ago
she might not want the job and questions persisting about the business work and international ties of her husband, former president Bill Clinton.
Video: Rumors Fly Over Clinton CBS
Clinton Set to Be Nominated Secretary of State After Nov. 27 Bloomberg
Obama on track to name Clinton as top diplomat Reuters
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Real Estate Coach - Like A Chess Player

November 20th, 2008

Real estate coaching is like the game of chess, with your real estate coach being similar to a chess player. Like the game of chess, there are a number of different ways to conquer your goal. In order to have thorough control of your destiny, you must have an accurate working knowledge of every piece on the board. As this is true in chess, it equally true in real estate coaching. This is why it is so important to choose a real estate coach who understands the strategy of real estate investing, just as it were a game of chess.

Your coach should be someone that has a thorough understanding of your goals. Whatever aspects of real estate that may lie in your horizon, your coach needs to have a working knowledge of it advantages as well as the disadvantages. Some areas will not be as active and others will be a vital part of your success. This is the strategy in which the coach and you will create such as in chess.

After a strategic plan has been worked out, your coach oversees its construction and you. Real estate investment is not must a physical and mental challenge, but an emotional one as well. Unsuspected developments are a part of the business and take place under the tightest of plans.

Your coach will guide your temperament through to maximize every situation that may arise. And count on these situations arising. However, although it can be a very temperamental type of investing, real estate investing is also very lucrative. One of the reasons why you need a real estate coach is to help you overcome some of the common pratfalls along the way that are bound to come up.

There must also be a plan to protect your assets during and after every project. Your coach can point out several methods of insuring your profits.

Whether you are looking at long term investing or short term, having a qualified coach is strongly recommended. Remember, your goals support you and your family’s financial freedom to allow you’re enjoying life the way you want. Finding that coach that understands your motivation is imperative.

The real key to your success in a coaching relationship is your personal relationship. This is the one vital ingredient that a coach cannot accomplish without your participation. Along with good qualification, a good face to face relationship will be the engine that will completely drive your success in real estate.

Peter Vekselman has been successfully investing in real estate since 1996. He has completed over 1000 real estate deals, owned a construction company, been a private lender, and owned a property management
company. To learn more about Peter please visit
http://www.coachingbypeter.com.

Real Estate Training - Get Started Now!

November 20th, 2008

There has never been a better time than right now for real estate investing. More and more Americans look to either break into the real estate business as a part-time job or take it on full-time. In both case, and much like any other business, people are searching for good training and not just inspiration.

There are plenty of people today who lost quite a bit of money in the real estate market who thought that it was easy. Just like anything else, successful real estate investing takes knowledge and time. And there are no short cuts. This is why real estate training prior to investing is so important. It can be the difference between being a successful real estate investor and taking a bath.

Real Estate is more transparent today as a result of our current economical crisis. People are seeing the incredible deals in residential homes, some as low as .50 on the dollar. However, at the same time, they are watching the US dollar shrink and its flow restricted. There is more to real estate investing than just buying homes for little money. You have to understand the market and the trends.

This is where real estate training comes in. The real estate market in the United States is very volatile right now. But it is also prime. Many novice investors are afraid to embark on a venture and there are many opportunities out there for someone with the right real estate training.

Unlike the housing boom, where many individuals trip over an idea and fell into small fortunes, it takes a savvy investor to make a dollar in this market. It is for certain that the same clumsy acts will not surface in this time of housing crisis.

An experienced trainer can bridge ideas to fortunes in this and in any market. Someone in the business before the housing boom and has experienced every aspect of investing.

First time buyers also benefit from investment training of a real estate. They will get an inside view of the strategies building, repairs, market value, neighborhood developments, and so much more. Home buying is the most significant investment most people will make in their lifetime.

Regardless, if the buyer decides to upgrade in a few years or expects to grow old in a particular home, the wise instruction of sound trainer can make the difference in a successful stay or one of painful lessons.

Whether you are an investor or looking to purchase the home of your dreams, get trained by a professional.

Peter Vekselman has been successfully investing in real estate since 1996. He has completed over 1000 real estate deals, owned a construction company, been a private lender, and owned a property management
company. To learn more about Peter please visit
http://www.coachingbypeter.com.