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The wind of change is blowing through the continent.

–Harold Macmillan

Irresistible forces are beyond our control. We need to bend to their force.

Such forces remind me of the wind. Wind has often been invoked as a metaphor for change. Having grown up in an area known for its Santa Ana winds, I was well aware of how the wind affects our moods and our daily tasks.

Face into a howling desert wind and your eyes are soon filled with grit. At night, the same force drives cold drafts of air through the house and makes being indoors unpleasant. The sound of that force makes sleeping difficult. The trash that piles up in your yard from the wind clearly represents undesirable change.

However, when you run a race with the wind at your back, you feel jet propelled. When the wind tapers off, everyone has a sense of new opportunities and optimism.

What are some of the forces that are beyond the control of organizational leaders? You should make your own list, but the most common irresistible forces described to us by CEOs are new technology, changing customer needs, fashion, government regulation, demographics, economic trends, financial markets, the weather, and currency exchange rates.

The wind was also one of mankind’s earliest sources of power for travel. Where winds were common, simple sails filled with the breeze pushed primitive vessels forward when the wind came from the right direction. Otherwise, oars were used for much slower progress. Later, shipbuilders learned to make adjustable sails and gear that would capture the wind’s power from any direction other than straight ahead. By shifting course to go in a zig-zag style, progress could be made even into a head wind.

On land, windmills were eventually employed for other kinds of work, from pumping water out of low-lying areas (as in Holland) to powering electrical generation in windy deserts. The biggest windmills originally had a serious drawback: Like the earliest sails, they only faced in one direction. If the wind came from another direction, little or no benefit was gained.

Like the clever shipbuilders before them, windmill makers learned to adjust: They made propeller blades with vanes behind them that automatically pivot to optimally face the wind and generate power whenever there is wind. Those adjustable windmills are a metaphor for the kind of strategy and actions that individuals and organizations should take: Use an optimal strategy or action, and the irresistible forces are always creating power for you that allow more to be accomplished.

Using adjustable windmills as a metaphor reminded me of a favorite client who collected little statues of Don Quixote. This man was always trying to set the world standard in his industry and realized that such high goals could amount to being overly optimistic. At times during the early days of the 400 Year Project, we had wondered if we, too, were acting like Don Quixote in some of his more comic moments such as when he tilted at windmills.

How adaptable is your organization to such irresistible forces? What can you do to add helpful flexibility?

Donald Mitchell is an author of seven books including Adventures of an Optimist, The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise, and The Ultimate Competitive Advantage. Read about creating breakthroughs through and receive tips by e-mail through registering for free at

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The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people.

–Steve Biko

Natural circumstances that seem to defy expectations can teach critical lessons for organizational and personal success. Did you know that lizards in the Bahamas were able to physically adapt to their hostile environments more than 2,000 times faster than evolutionary biologists predicted?

That discovery was an unexpected finding from an experiment to study extinction. The lizards were placed on islands where they were supposed to rapidly die out because the environments were too hostile for them to survive. But instead, the lizards had thrived in their new homes in various ways on 14 different islands with unique environments by changing physically and learning new behaviors that perfectly fit each island.

Why could they adapt so much? Evolutionary biologists didn’t realize until recently than there are many untapped genes that aren’t triggered until environmental circumstances change. It’s like a hidden insurance policy in our DNA.

That example is important because people should be even more adaptable than lizards by drawing on resources such as ideas from others, helping each other, and using various kinds of work and thinking tools.

For organizations, there’s no more important quality than being flexible and able to thrive in any environment. Who can do that? Well, do you know about the amazing survival abilities of cellular slime molds?

Cellular slime molds (a type of amoeba) live individually on the forest floor. The available food supply limits their growth and prosperity, as it does for all amoebas. When the food is gone, stationary amoebas die out.

But unlike stationary amoebas, cellular slime molds act in a most unusual way when food is scarce: The cellular slime mold amoebas clump themselves into a community that oozes along as slime until it reaches a spot where more food is present.

They have another trick for finding new homes as well. Clumps of the amoebas will undergo additional physical changes, creating a multicelled stalk holding a sac filled with dormant spores. When animals or people brush against the sacs, the spores attach themselves and are carried to new locations beyond the range that the clump could move on its own.

As a result of these physical adaptations, it doesn’t matter where the amoebas start out because they are designed to move themselves and their descendants to a better place. In essence, cellular slime molds are designed for adjusting to rapidly varying conditions . . . much as early humans did by roving in hunting bands to where the game was.

How can your organization learn to adapt in the same ways?

Donald Mitchell is an author of seven books including Adventures of an Optimist, The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise, and The Ultimate Competitive Advantage. Read about creating breakthroughs through and receive tips by e-mail through registering for free at

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Discovering the ABC’s of photography is a worthwhile activity that naturally enhances knowledge and creativity. Anyone has the privilege to work with it as a hobby, profession or career. Especially in times when the global economic cycle of each nation becomes precarious, people try hard enough to look for another source of income.

Entrepreneurship states an ability to generate a cost with your own capital, but what if there is no sufficient capitalization to put up a small business? Look closer at the things around your home and workplace, and definitely you would notice tons of photos stuck everywhere.

Recently, photography has grown as a thriving market for leisure and personal needs. It is the extension of our daily lives. Admit it or not, photography gives an aura of happiness and satisfaction, most especially when it captures the special milestones of our life’s journey. Whether you are a professional or an amateur in this field, you have a unique capability to direct people to your vision. Then it’s just a matter of knowing how to boost creativity and stimulate the desire to purchase your product.

You must first evaluate your rationale of establishing a photo business. Do not be scared to ask questions of other business men who operate in a similar marketplace. Make a note of their tips and inquire about the possible problems that you may encounter in the operation. Make a business plan to determine the strength and weaknesses of your upcoming venture.

As you start in your endeavor, as with any other business, you must make a small investment. You’ll need a camera, photo printer, and Photoshop software to enable you to conquer the industry. A creative mind and resourcefulness are the factors that will build a successful proprietorship. Develop packages and services which hit the affordability mark. Pricing is relevant in any business, so investigate a recommendable cost.

Invent fresh concepts at all times which target a wide array of consumers. Do not be conventional, experiment on various elements of photography that breeds exclusivity for what you do. Manufacture distinct products for a particular consumer, in this way people will remember your merchandise as a valuable commodity.

Most people begin their photo business as a pastime. They get enjoyment out of the photographs they produce. This love of the art grants the perfect foundation to maximize resources in jumpstarting commerce. Every picture has a definitive value so learn to take care of them. Subsequently, finding the best avenues to market your products will be a definite plus to your income. The availability of technology such as the internet guarantees that your goods and services can reach whichever buyers you choose to focus on.

Risk is inevitable in structuring any type of business. Be inquisitive and surmount the fear of failure. Always be positive and do not be stagnant on your abilities. Communication is another vital tool to in the story of your success, so be friendly and share your warmest smile with every person who is interested on your endeavor. Who knows what the results might be.

In the long run, you can not foretell who can help to launch you into a bigger and stronger industry. The success of it will begin in your hands and that is one of the marvels photography can offer, a livelihood of pleasure.

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Buying business cards can be expensive and a hassle, especially if the printer gets it wrong! Instead of buying them, try making your own, it is easy and much cheaper.

Most office supply stores carry everything you need, except your imagination!

* Always make your name or your business name prominent. When you hand someone your card, you want them to see your name and remember it. Try using raised letters. You want your name to be the focal point on the card.

* Design a logo to place on your card. It can relate to your business, life or just be something you really like. If your business is dog grooming, try adding a picture of one of your dogs.

* Make sure your card looks professional. When selecting card stock material, make sure it is sturdy and durable. You do not want a card that looks and feels cheap or one that the ink will smear on when you design it. Office supply stores will carry a large selection of business cards for your computer. Just take your time and find one that is nice.

* Be different, but practical. You don’t want an odd shaped business card that a potential client will toss aside because it won’t fit in their wallet. Also try choosing a card that’s slightly colored, this way it won’t just blend in with other business cards, remember, you want yours to stand out.

* When you design your card, always remember to put the important things on it; like your phone number, email address, physical address and if you have a website, include it also. Make sure it’s neat and does not look cluttered.

* You can get real creative and print on both sides of your business card. Maybe a picture of your business or driving directions or a map. The sky is the limit. Be inventive, think outside of the box!

* If you don’t have access to a program that lets you create or print business cards, some office supply stores have kiosks where you use their equipment and design your own cards. It usually takes about 15 minutes or so, and the cost is around $30.00 for 100 cards. You are in control of your cards design.

* Use your computers page layout or business card software. Let the wizards or templates help you design a card that is perfect for your business.
Just a few ideas to get your business off and rolling, you don’t need to spend lots of money when you can do it yourself! Have fun, be creative! Take your time and look at other business cards. Think of ways you can make yours stand out. Take a few cards out of your wallet and examine them. What do you like and dislike about the card. Is your card serious or light natured. It all depends on your business and what clientele you are trying to reach.

Jill works for Inside Realty. They operate sites in the Corpus Christi real estate and Dallas real estate markets. They also have a site about San Antonio real estate.

If you would love to be financially independent and have more time to do things in life you want to do, you can start a home business online. Home businesses do not need to be massive empires with hundreds or thousands of individuals involved. They can be, but they don’t have to be! Individuals have all classes of home businesses that they do online. From Multi-Level Marketing and network marketing to selling their own services and merchandises online. Of course when you start talking about providing services we are talking about more of an independent type of business, but nevertheless this is still categorized as a business you can do at home, on your own time, and gain profits from the gross sales you receive.

Some other things you can do as a home business worker as said above is sell your own merchandises online. This is a good idea if you already sell your products offline and want to reach a broader clientele. For the most part a lot of people that sell their products online don’t sell them offline. Or they do sell them offline but, they receive most of their clientele from people online. There are various sites you can check out if you would like to know more about having a home business. The initial thing you should do is figure out what type of business you would like to do. And since there are thousands if not millions of diverse jobs you can do at home, there are also thousands if not millions of sites you can take a look at for different “opportunities” so to speak.

I began working from home few years back after I heard about all the hype about how I could work at home, make lots of good money and not have someone constantly telling me what to do all the time like I did when I had a boss. Plus the amount of time my offline job took prohibited me to do anything in my life I needed or wanted to do. I thought this was pretty nice as well considering I was working as a Chef in a hot kitchen for 16 hour days, 7 days a week, 365 days a year on awful pay. Most of the time when you read e-books on home businesses the writer was in the identical position I was in. Unhappy, underpaid and overworked. So, if this sounds like you, then you should know there is hope!

Do yourself a favor and check out the following sites for some good data as well as e-books and much more. These web sites were designed to help you have your own home business. Again, it’s probably a good idea if you figure out what you want to do in beforehand, but maybe these sites will shine a little light on you and give you some ideas:

Websites:
WorldWideNetworkAtHome
WAHM (great source for work at home moms)
BizyMoms
BBB
WorkingFromHomeGuide

Books:
The 200 Best Home Businesses: easy to start, fun to run, highly profitable by Katina Z. Jones
Start & Run A Real Home Based Business by Dan Furman
Best Home Businesses for People 50+ by Paul and Sarah Edwards
101 Businesses You Can Start With Less Than One Thousand Dollars: For Stay-at-Home Moms & Dads

And finally the sweetest thing you can read are magazines like Entrepreneur. This magazine in general offers up a lot of really spectacular selective information on subjects such as business ideas, franchises and opportunities, starting a business as well as other things like the top 100, things to do in your spare time to make money and much more. You can also travel to bookstores like Barnes & Noble, in the business section and discover few books there as well. There is so much selective information available to you both on and offline that you shouldn’t have any problem finding the best niche. The hardest thing for me was sticking to one thing because there are literally millions of ways to make money from working at home, now you just have to find your special niche! Good luck and have fun!

Before starting a Home Business, Kristi recommends visiting this site http://www.envisionfreedom.net

As a female entrepreneur or woman in business, we’ve heard it so many times before: “success is a state of mind”. Some people would argue that success is a result of proper planning, preparation and focused action, and that viewpoint certainly holds a shred of truth - but there are also many exceptions to disprove that “rule”.

Have you ever wondered how two female entrepreneurs can attempt the same objective in the exact same way and yet only one of them succeeds with achieving her goal? How could that be? Is it sheer luck? Timing? Tenacity? More often than not, it’s a person’s mindset that determines whether they fail or succeed.

What is a mindset?

Typically a mindset refers to your predominant state of mind. It’s what you think about, focus on, and expect from your daily experiences. Think negatively, expect the worst, feel pessimistic about your options and that’s exactly what you’ll seem to attract into your life. Likewise, think positively, expect the best and focus on a successful outcome and that is the result you will get it most of the time.

But how exactly does this work? Why is a success mindset so important?

1. A success mindset boosts one’s confidence and self-belief.

A lack of belief in yourself usually comes along with a sense of powerlessness and futility, which is the exact opposite of a success mindset. Lack of confidence means you see no point in trying to be successful because it won’t happen anyway. Obviously, this negative mind-set is a recipe for failure in any endeavor.

On the other hand, having a true success mindset means you believe in yourself and your capabilities. You believe you can succeed at almost everything you try, and you’re willing to give it your best. Better still, the more you try, the more confidence and self-belief you build - until you’re virtually unstoppable!

2. A success mindset strengthens your determination.

Without a success mindset, one failure is usually enough to convince you that pursuing your goals is a waste of time. Tenacity and determination don’t exist in your world. If you don’t become an instant success on your first try, you surmise that it simply wasn’t meant to be. Unfortunately, few things worth having are obtained so easily!

A success mindset, however, strengthens your awareness that a failure is not the end of the story - it’s simply feedback or just one more way that didn’t work out the way you planned so you just need to try it a different way. In fact, a true success mindset makes it obvious that the only true failure occurs when you stop trying.

3. A success mindset encourages fruitful actions.

Have you ever found yourself wandering in around in circles because you didn’t know the best way to approach a specific goal? Perhaps you had an idea of the best course of action but you felt intimidated by some of the steps required. As a result, you may have kept sabotaging your efforts as you searched in vain for an easier or less frightening way to your goal.

With a true success mindset, you’ll always know the most effective action steps that will lead directly to your goal. You’ll also have the inner confidence and determination to pursue them - which is a sure recipe for success!

Following are a few tips to develop a success mindset:

- Go for your dreams
- Think positively
- Believe in yourself
- Believe you can do better
- Learn, grow and develop yourself
- Be willing to take chances
- Give it your all
- Expect the best in every situation
- Be willing to fail
- When you fall down, get back up and try again.

Follow the above tips to develop and maintain your success mindset and you can’t help but become successful, from the inside out. Your personal and professional world as a female entrepreneur or woman in business will embrace you.

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Setting up a company could potentially cost you a lot of money, however, did you also know that there are ways you can market your website for free? Yep it’s true! All you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness to get the job done. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site! Now, I won’t beat around the bush, free traffic can take quite awhile to start working, but at least you have a fighting chance with these free methods I’m going to tell you about, which is especially good if you don’t have the capital you need in order to advertise your world class website to people.

Forums -
This is one of the greatest mediums to take advantage of. Not only can you use a signature and incorporate your website link that way, but if you are selling something or have a service you can usually join up with the forums marketplace or service section; this section will actually allow you to make a thread about your business, prices, links, etc. People can then talk in your thread to you, or PM you. The point is that you are getting your website out there and that thousands of people could potentially be reading the thread. Another way to get into the forum scene is to get into some discussions with members of the forum, if they are talking about something relevant to your site, mention it nonchalantly in your discussions.

Newsletters -
Supply individuals with a catalog of your products with interesting and entertaining articles. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who sign up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your Internet site increasing your traffic.

Link Exchange -
This is pretty simple; make an agreement with a webmaster in exchanging links. He will place your link on his site and you will place your link on his for X amount of time. This means that for all the traffic that he receives YOU have a chance that they just might visit your site, and vice versa.

Article Writing -
You can either get someone to do the article for you, or do it yourself. In my opinion, if its worth it and the writer is good at what they do, hire them on and let them do all the hard work! This option works as a backlink service; when people read the article they will be interested enough to click the link in the author box, which sends them to your website! The article can either be relevant or irrelevant, it doesn’t really matter. Just make sure the article is interesting and well written!

Of course there are more methods but these are some of the best, and yes, also the freest ways to drive more traffic to your website. All it takes is a little bit of extra effort on your part and a few extra hours. Learn all you can about the methods listed above and soon enough you will have a website with a constant and consistent traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it!

Before starting a Home Business, Kristi recommends visiting this site http://www.envisionfreedom.net

In a relationship marketing platform, creating long-term relationships with customers is an integral part of a successful marketing strategy. Building strong affiliations and contacts through superior customer service is the first step towards a successful marketing platform. Just as important as building strong customer relations, is developing new ways to give the customer more than other companies are providing and more than then the customer expects.

Giving Customers Something They Can’t Get Elsewhere

If you are operating in a niche market, chances are you are already offering a product or service that’s difficult for customers to find elsewhere. In a competitive marketplace, what can you do to distinguish your business from the competition? Give your customers something that they don’t typically get from other companies.

One idea that isn’t universally implemented is free samples and discount coupons with each order. Another good idea that’s only utilized by a handful of businesses is birthday recognition. You can send your customer a birthday greeting by email or by card, offering special discounts or free samples during their birthday month. People love to get something for free even though a high percentage of people who receive the coupon never actually redeem it. The feeling of goodwill and loyalty is still planted in your customer’s mind.

Giving Your Customer the Totally Unexpected

This is somewhat similar to the above suggestions, but with a slightly different twist. Doing something for your customers that is really unexpected and out of the ordinary will set you apart from your competition.

How about a follow up email after an order to be sure that the customer is happy with their products? Instead of a free birthday coupon that the customer can redeem, how about just sending a small sample with a birthday greeting? What about automatic re-order email reminders? Reminders are popular for products like contact lenses, but how about for coffee or skin care supplies?

Thanking Potential Customers Who Don’t Make a Purchase

How about a “thank you” to customers who don’t end up buying from your site? This may sound a bit odd, but if you’ve reached out to a new client, but they haven’t made a purchase, it’s still a good idea to thank this person for their time and consideration. This is not a widespread practice. Typically we only thank people who make a purchase. The idea here is that just because this person did not buy this time doesn’t mean they never will. If they are thanked regardless, this will distinguish you from the rest and cause them to think of your company when make future purchases.

All of these strategies are suggestions and ways to help you strengthen the relationship marketing platform you are building for your business.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing
firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by
creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.
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Web logs also known as blogs are one of the newest things on the Internet. They are usually a platform used to share your thoughts and person feelings however, they can also be used for promoting, writing, and publishing. If you are new to blog marketing, there are some important points you should take a look at before starting. Listed in this article I’m going to outline a few of these points in hopes that you can start making money as soon as humanly possible without going through all the red tape and worries that marketing can sometimes bring to the outsider.

Blog marketing is fairly easy if you have a marketing mind. You are going to see that numerous individuals utilize blogs as a journal, and sometimes these blogs that are used for this purpose are not intended to make them money, but merely a way to put their thoughts out there and find others that are going through the same thing. If you have never even had a blog before, the simplest thing that you can do is to start one, and just write in it for a while. This will allow you to learn just what it takes and what it is all about to keep up a blog. When you are just journaling your thoughts and what is on your mind, you have nothing to lose and nothing to gain. You don’t even have to make your blog public if you don’t want others to read what you have to say. That is an individual preference. Still, doing this will let you see how it works. Then, you can move on to trying to promote a product or a service.

Using a blog is usually cheaper than running a website, after all you don’t pay to pay for a domain name, hosting, or any of the other stuff affiliated with websites. Plus when it comes to blogs there are all sorts of websites out there even sites like Xanga and Myspace can be used for this option. Once you have your very own blog you and only you are in charge of what goes on the blog, so really the sky is the limit on this. Whether you want a blog that does website critiques and takes nominations, or you want to sell things that you make out of your home, the choice is yours. Using a blog to get the word out about whatever you want to is a great way to market and promote something!

Blog marketing can potentially make you a load of money, in fact there are people out there making a six figure income with this! Obviously this isn’t done over night and takes some time, so if you are a bigger blogger don’t worry about the 6 figure income right now, instead focus on your content, start small, build it up and keep the content consistent. Blog marketing is a fun thing to learn. If you can sell items from a blog, you can sell them anywhere. Making money by using a blog is one of the most satisfying things that you will ever learn how to do. Just do not expect to make money over night, know that you have to work at it consistently every day, and remember to put into it what you want to get out of it. This is a give and take relationship. You can’t just make one or two blogs and expect it to generate large sums of money for you! Work it!

Before starting a Home Business, Kristi recommends visiting this site http://www.envisionfreedom.net

One of the most popular subjects between individuals on the Internet, is how can you make money online. Believe it or not this is really one of the simpler wonders in life, and listed in this article I’m going to name a couple of ways you can attempt for yourself, this way you can contemplate the more elusive wonders in life! These are all regarded as “easy” paths to take in order to make money online. In some of these ways you will have to invest a little money, but not very much, especially for the amount of money you will be producing! Alright none of these and I repeat none of these are in any particular order!

Cash Gifting - These websites allow you to pay a particular sum of money to get into the “business.” Cash gifting is an easy way for people to help people. Individuals will help you make a particular amount of money and then you will help them make a particular amount of money. Note this doesn’t occur over night, sometimes it takes 30 to 90 days to really see any profit, but in most cases more often than not you will see a proficient amount of money being made here! .

Affiliate Marketing - Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting Internet businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is paid back for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her attempts.

Domain Parking - If you have a domain, you could be earning possible money from it. This is one of the simplest ways to make money online! If you have a domain simply join a site such as Sedo, Parked or Fabulous, park your domain, point your DNS settings at your registrar to the parking site, direct visitors and voila that’s it. Of course you can’t tell people to do searches on your site, or tell them to click links but you can earn good money from this! See, ads or “feeds” are placed on the domain with feeds from sites like Google and Yahoo. When people do searches on your site google pays the domain company and the domain company pays you a certain percentage of that money. Pretty easy. Check out Parked, they are THE best!

Freelance - This is pretty simple. If you can provide a service to someone, you can sell it online. Have it be designing websites, web hosting, domain registering, article writing, SEO, SEM, etc. If you know how to do something that will benefit someone else, you can easily make money off of this simply check out forums that have Marketplaces or Service sections, and try sites like e-lance or scriptlance. If you’re good enough and people like your service you could make this a full-time business!

That right there is just five of the hundreds of different ways you can make money online. You can also find telecommuting jobs online, work at home jobs online, or anything else for that matter. Check out Google for more information about the “job” ideas posted above. You will be really amazed at the amount of things you can find online to involve yourself in, and the different ways to make money online. Who knows, you could be engaged with something right now and you could be making money from it and you don’t even realize it! Get to it!

Before starting a Home Business, Kristi recommends visiting this site http://www.envisionfreedom.net