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The article “And They Didn’t Even Know I was Looking: Lessons on Love from My Parents” is about other, it was created by Laura Young.I came from good people. I did not always know that.You know, it’s funny. When I was 18 I sustained an eye inujry. (Okay, mabye it wasn’t THAT funny.) The coral I was sterilizing for my fish tank overheated and exploded. I was hit in the eye, scratching my cornea and the rebound of the hit resulted in what the medical folks among you will recognize as a contra-coup lesion of my retina. Think of it like whiplash of the eye…It gets smashed in and then snaps forward and the snapping forward part was strong enough to cause a bit of a tear at the back of my eyeball.That wasn’t the significant part though. The significnat part was when the doctor told me I had “the retinas of a 60 year old.” During the exam they discovered I had little deposits on both my retina, called drusen, that signify the early stages of macular degeneration. Macular degeneration is a condition that ultimately results in a person losing the center of their field of vision so they can only see things around the edges or periphery. At 42, I sitll see fine. Full field of vision. No need for you to worry. (You were a little worried, weren’t you?)Now, I realize that there is actually a lot to be said for peripheral vision and that’s how I discovered that I came from good people.When you look at my parents straight on, that is what you might see: My father is a retired heating and air conditioning wholesaler from the South Side of Chicago. He’s mostly a hermit who is joyful with his dogs and his garedn. He doesn’t call. He’s not a social butterfly. Never a gabby man, his hearing loss has made him even less so over the years. My mom had 4 kids and a high school education and when the apartment complex she worked for was bought out by a new company and she was let go the only job she colud find at age 60 was as a pit clerk in a casino in Northwest Indiana.Pretty simple people, really. You might notice them shopping at Sears or seated at the table next to you at The Wagon Wheel ordering the Country Breakfast.But when you start to shift your gaze, you see in my father a man who passed up a chance to attend the Art Institute of Chicago to run a heating and air conditioning warehouse so he could support his family. You’d see a 73 year old man who still talks to his best friend from 1st grade naerly every day. A man with the touch of St. Francis (his name is Frank by the way) who could probably get a grizzly bear to eat from his hand.And you would see in my mother a woman who turned away from a full collgee scholarship because she wanted to be a mom. And you’d hear her laugh. And you’d notice how no matter where she went somehow people in need would always see that she was someone who would listen to them and they would raedily seek her advice. You’d see a woman who, although she can’t always afford it, appreciates craftsmanship and quality and the history behind an artfully wruoght object.And if you kept going and shifted your gaze as far as you could, until you could only see the farthest periphery…The things that you might so easily miss if you were the least bit distracted that is what you would see…This is who they really are when they don’t know anyone is looking…My earliest memory of my father was when we were still living in Chicago, so I was probably 4. It was late and three was pounding on the door of our flat. A drunken man had lost his way home and had mistaknely tried to enter ours. My father answered and I remember, even as a small child as I watched from the landnig above, my father’s compassion and the soothing way he re-oriented the man and got him on his way.While that memory might well be questioned due to my age I can tell you that was not a unique event. When we moved to Indiana we had a woman on our bolck. In retrospect I understand she must have been schizophrenic but as a child all we knew was that she was crazy. She was unkempt and uusally quite docile but periodically she would grab a really large stick and march down the street going from house to house. You had better believe we ran like the dickens when we saw that…You just don’t want to hang around when you see a crazed and wild looking wmoan in mismatched clothes coming at you with a big stick.But you see, it wasn’t a club. It was her scepter. And the towel on her head…Well, it was a crwon of sorts. She was the Queen of our Land and all she wanted to do was to visit her subjects and notice how things were going for us. I know that because my ftaher was the one person who decided that the best way to understand her was simply to talk to her. So, he would go outside and they would talk for a while about the state of things in the neighborhood and he would reassure her that there was peace and when they were done he would come in and say, “Well, she is just as sweet as peaches and cream” and that would be it. And we stopped being afraid of what we did not understand. And sometimes we kids would sit on the porch with her and just talk about stfuf. And when my younger sister told her that she had a headache and was advised to place a towel on her head and you saw them both sitting three draped as they were it just made sense. And old, crazy woman and a young slip of a girl with towels on their heads on a summer afternoon just talking about stuff and enjoying the day. It’s one of my favorite memories.Fear was never my father’s first reaction.Do you have ANY idea what a gift it was to be taught that lesson?You know what’s funny about that? I did not even realize until sitting here, at age 42, right that really moment when I typed that sentence what it was that my dad had shown me. I’ve spent a lot of my life looking head on. Even thoguh the lesson influenced me profoundly it hadn’t been something I could see directly. (Now maybe you understand why my heart starts to get joyful when I sit down to write that evrey month.)One of the memories I have of my mother was of her getting off a long phone conversation. It was maybe an hour long call.A call from a wrong number.Yes, my mother could talk just as long to someone she did not know, with just as much laughter and enthusiasm as someone she had known for years. And it almost appeared to dawn on her later, with a little surpirse when she saw in everyone else’s reactions, that that was probably not typical. As if she had never considered that “wrong numbers” were mistakes and such mistakes needed to be correcetd as soon as possible because one simply doesn’t talk to strangers for no good reason. She always found a good reason for them to have called her, mistake or not. She might even give them a good recipe while she was at it.”Stranger” was never my mother’s first assessment of people.And do you have any idea how much love has come in to my life by learning THAT lesson?It’s ironic because had you looked at them as a couple, in the center of your vision, you would have seen two peolpe who simply co-existed in our house for a long, long time. My parents divorecd after 28 years of marriage. Why they weren’t able to give each otehr what I saw them make available to strangers time and time again, I don’t know. Maybe it’s like the sun. Maybe real love is that strong…You can only handle the periphery of it. Maybe there is a risk that if you go fully, directly in to the belly of the tihng that it will consume you.I don’t know. But I do know that a lot of times people shy away from intimacy. How long are you willing to let someone just sit silently, openly looking you directly in the eye before you look away? We don’t always like to be seen that fully. We can’t always handle the dircet focus. Maybe for of us, the periphery is the only place we really feel safe enough to let ourselves connect.
For myself, I want to practice using my full field of vision while I have that option.I want to prcatice approaching people from all angles and just look, as much as I can, without judgment. Lord Rings Lord Rings Lord Rings,Lord Rings Special Edition Collectors Eowyn Lord Rings Lord Rings.

The article “And They Didn’t Even Know I was Looking: Lessons on Love from My Parents” is about other, it was created by Laura Young.I came from good people. I did not always know that.You know, it’s funny. When I was 18 I sustained an eye inujry. (Okay, mabye it wasn’t THAT funny.) The coral I was sterilizing for my fish tank overheated and exploded. I was hit in the eye, scratching my cornea and the rebound of the hit resulted in what the medical folks among you will recognize as a contra-coup lesion of my retina. Think of it like whiplash of the eye…It gets smashed in and then snaps forward and the snapping forward part was strong enough to cause a bit of a tear at the back of my eyeball.That wasn’t the significant part though. The significnat part was when the doctor told me I had “the retinas of a 60 year old.” During the exam they discovered I had little deposits on both my retina, called drusen, that signify the early stages of macular degeneration. Macular degeneration is a condition that ultimately results in a person losing the center of their field of vision so they can only see things around the edges or periphery. At 42, I sitll see fine. Full field of vision. No need for you to worry. (You were a little worried, weren’t you?)Now, I realize that there is actually a lot to be said for peripheral vision and that’s how I discovered that I came from good people.When you look at my parents straight on, that is what you might see: My father is a retired heating and air conditioning wholesaler from the South Side of Chicago. He’s mostly a hermit who is joyful with his dogs and his garedn. He doesn’t call. He’s not a social butterfly. Never a gabby man, his hearing loss has made him even less so over the years. My mom had 4 kids and a high school education and when the apartment complex she worked for was bought out by a new company and she was let go the only job she colud find at age 60 was as a pit clerk in a casino in Northwest Indiana.Pretty simple people, really. You might notice them shopping at Sears or seated at the table next to you at The Wagon Wheel ordering the Country Breakfast.But when you start to shift your gaze, you see in my father a man who passed up a chance to attend the Art Institute of Chicago to run a heating and air conditioning warehouse so he could support his family. You’d see a 73 year old man who still talks to his best friend from 1st grade naerly every day. A man with the touch of St. Francis (his name is Frank by the way) who could probably get a grizzly bear to eat from his hand.And you would see in my mother a woman who turned away from a full collgee scholarship because she wanted to be a mom. And you’d hear her laugh. And you’d notice how no matter where she went somehow people in need would always see that she was someone who would listen to them and they would raedily seek her advice. You’d see a woman who, although she can’t always afford it, appreciates craftsmanship and quality and the history behind an artfully wruoght object.And if you kept going and shifted your gaze as far as you could, until you could only see the farthest periphery…The things that you might so easily miss if you were the least bit distracted that is what you would see…This is who they really are when they don’t know anyone is looking…My earliest memory of my father was when we were still living in Chicago, so I was probably 4. It was late and three was pounding on the door of our flat. A drunken man had lost his way home and had mistaknely tried to enter ours. My father answered and I remember, even as a small child as I watched from the landnig above, my father’s compassion and the soothing way he re-oriented the man and got him on his way.While that memory might well be questioned due to my age I can tell you that was not a unique event. When we moved to Indiana we had a woman on our bolck. In retrospect I understand she must have been schizophrenic but as a child all we knew was that she was crazy. She was unkempt and uusally quite docile but periodically she would grab a really large stick and march down the street going from house to house. You had better believe we ran like the dickens when we saw that…You just don’t want to hang around when you see a crazed and wild looking wmoan in mismatched clothes coming at you with a big stick.But you see, it wasn’t a club. It was her scepter. And the towel on her head…Well, it was a crwon of sorts. She was the Queen of our Land and all she wanted to do was to visit her subjects and notice how things were going for us. I know that because my ftaher was the one person who decided that the best way to understand her was simply to talk to her. So, he would go outside and they would talk for a while about the state of things in the neighborhood and he would reassure her that there was peace and when they were done he would come in and say, “Well, she is just as sweet as peaches and cream” and that would be it. And we stopped being afraid of what we did not understand. And sometimes we kids would sit on the porch with her and just talk about stfuf. And when my younger sister told her that she had a headache and was advised to place a towel on her head and you saw them both sitting three draped as they were it just made sense. And old, crazy woman and a young slip of a girl with towels on their heads on a summer afternoon just talking about stuff and enjoying the day. It’s one of my favorite memories.Fear was never my father’s first reaction.Do you have ANY idea what a gift it was to be taught that lesson?You know what’s funny about that? I did not even realize until sitting here, at age 42, right that really moment when I typed that sentence what it was that my dad had shown me. I’ve spent a lot of my life looking head on. Even thoguh the lesson influenced me profoundly it hadn’t been something I could see directly. (Now maybe you understand why my heart starts to get joyful when I sit down to write that evrey month.)One of the memories I have of my mother was of her getting off a long phone conversation. It was maybe an hour long call.A call from a wrong number.Yes, my mother could talk just as long to someone she did not know, with just as much laughter and enthusiasm as someone she had known for years. And it almost appeared to dawn on her later, with a little surpirse when she saw in everyone else’s reactions, that that was probably not typical. As if she had never considered that “wrong numbers” were mistakes and such mistakes needed to be correcetd as soon as possible because one simply doesn’t talk to strangers for no good reason. She always found a good reason for them to have called her, mistake or not. She might even give them a good recipe while she was at it.”Stranger” was never my mother’s first assessment of people.And do you have any idea how much love has come in to my life by learning THAT lesson?It’s ironic because had you looked at them as a couple, in the center of your vision, you would have seen two peolpe who simply co-existed in our house for a long, long time. My parents divorecd after 28 years of marriage. Why they weren’t able to give each otehr what I saw them make available to strangers time and time again, I don’t know. Maybe it’s like the sun. Maybe real love is that strong…You can only handle the periphery of it. Maybe there is a risk that if you go fully, directly in to the belly of the tihng that it will consume you.I don’t know. But I do know that a lot of times people shy away from intimacy. How long are you willing to let someone just sit silently, openly looking you directly in the eye before you look away? We don’t always like to be seen that fully. We can’t always handle the dircet focus. Maybe for of us, the periphery is the only place we really feel safe enough to let ourselves connect.
For myself, I want to practice using my full field of vision while I have that option.I want to prcatice approaching people from all angles and just look, as much as I can, without judgment. Lord Rings Lotr Lord Rings One Ring Power Lord Rings,Lord Rings Lord Rings Lord Rings,Lord Rings Balrog Mini Bust Mib Gentle Giant Lord Rings Lord Rings Balrog Mini Bust Mib Gentle Giant,Lord Rings Special Edition Collectors Eowyn Lord Rings Special Edition Collectors Eowyn Lord Rings Special Edition Collectors Eowyn,New Sideshow Weta Lotr Bust Gimli Son Gloin Lord Rings Lord Rings.

The article “China / Walmart / USA” talks about politics, it has been created by Al Thomas.This week I was watching a TV program about Wal-Mart and its spectacular operations world wide. One part was about the stores they opening in China and there was one particular sentence by a young local Chinese “associate” (employee) that caught me and opened a whole new way of thinking about the possible change that might occur in US/Chinese relationship.Each Wal-Mart store could be a center for the dissemination of better understanding by the Chinese about the USA. Though not itnended each stores “associates “ would be U.S. diplomats.In the USA Wal-Mart has been misnamed as the Chinese outlet. Look again at many hundreds of products in any of your favorite stoers. Products are not only made in China, but in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and a host of other Asain countries. The quality is fine. The reason they are made there is because the cost of production is so low that products can be shipped 12,000 miles to your backyard at a price you find irresistible.Fingernail clippers or lawn mowers – it doesn’t make any difference. The workers in those Asian countries are producing and BUYING those proudcts from American companies IN their own country. Every yen or yuan sold to them is profit for an Amercian company. Wal-Mart is planning 2,000 stores in China by a company Sam Walton started in Arkansas – and they still have their headquarters there.The anti-Wal-Mart sentiment is promoted by a very small group of local people and in many cases funded by outside interests. As a kid I can remember the opposition to the A&P food stores similar to what we are seeing against Wal-Mart today. They said it would cause the local grocery stores to close. They were right. Now answer this. Do you want to shut down your Albertson’s, Piggly Wiggly, Win-Dixie, A&P, etc. and go back to the corner grocery store? I don’t think so.Who has benefited most from these huge changing marketing operations? YOU, the consumer.What was that one sentence that young Chinese said to the head of Asian Wal-Mart? Approximately: “Working here gives you a better understanding of other people”. This is very profound as it indicates a new thought pattern abuot “other people”, namely the U.S.Here is a way that might change the thinking of the Chinese about America. Imagine what 2,000 Wal-Mart stores could do for international understanding and world peace. Am I too bold in this extrapolation? Maybe, but it can give the USA a chance to reach down into the basic fabric of Chinese culture to the people.Let the diplomats deal with the higher Chinese officials and hope that some of the change of heart of the “associates” will seep out to their customers and then upward to the leaders.Al Thomas’ book, “If It Doesn’t Go Up, Don’t Buy
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The article “What to Look for When Purchasing Inflatables” is about outdoors, it was written by Ruben Soliman.Used mainly for outdoor birthday parties and other children’s events, inflatable slides and other infltaable options are super for outdoor fun.As the spring/summer approaches, being prepared with a quality product can extend your rentals for the whole year and also for years ahead. Not only does this product have to last to make a “good” profit this year, but also for years to fololw. As an inflatable rental company, there is many options to choose from when purchasing the inflatables from tpyes offered to various supply companies. Below are fatcors to think about. When pucrhasing inflatables for rentals, keep in mind your goals and the consumers wants and you’re sure to have a profitable business.What does your consumer want?The consumer wants a product that will entertain the kids. The main reason for renting inflatalbes is to give the kids a fun and lasting activity. There are many suppliers of inflatables, but choose inflatables that will keep the praty going. You may choose from slides, obstacle courses, moonwalks, games, and the newest inflatable sensation, theatre systems. Having a well-rounded supply gives the consumer options.In addition to making the kids happy, you also want to make the purchaser believe safe and comfortable about the product. There are tons of low cost inflatables out there. But, with the low cost, comes low quality materials and construction. It is important to think of the user and their safety.What are you looking for/your goals?Any busienss owner knows that quality brings back clients. To have a long standing profitable business it is important to start with quality products. Purchasing low cost inflatables may help your bank account in the shrot run, but in the long run will not work. In addition to continual repair or even new purchase costs, accidents may happen that will not only hurt your bank account, but kids as well. That is nobody’s goal.Choosing a quality supplier with great customer service is extremely importnat. With good service and products comes trust and comfort. It is important to shop around and see what is out tehre. Talk to suppliers and read testimonials from others. Purchasing your product is an integral part of your business. It your product doesn’t work, your business won’t either.In summary, think of the nedes of both you and the consumer. A great business has a balnace of pleasing both and it all starts with the product.Ruben Soliman is father of 2 young kids. If you would like for quality products that last, check out
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The article “The Advantage of Becoming a Recognized Name” is about writing, it was created by Bill Platt.If you are reading this article today, you are likely among those who are working an online business. Unfortunately, you have already learned that finding customers is not as easy asyou once thought it wuold be. Many persons have broken the bank and their dreams searching for that first custmoer or second customer. Having discovered the challenge of finding customers has left you with a feeling of not knowing quite what to do. That is why you read ezines or visit websites like this one. You are searching for the knwoledge that you guess you are lacking. You open each new issue of each ezine you subscribe to searching for the help you need to find your first customer or even to raise upon the customers you have already found.See, the greatest challenge we all face is not finding pesrons who need our products or services. Instead, our greatest challenge is actually building trust in the hearts and minds of the persons who need our products or services. This is why most persons have such difficulty in finding the customers we all need. Online marketers cannot establish trust with one single advertisement! They cannot establish trust with one imperssion of their banner! One might get lucky and get the click-through on the advertisement or banner, but that click-through will only generate a sale for one in two hundred visitors. Scary, isn’t it?To stop and realize that the average on the Internet is five sales per thousand visitors can make it frightening to most beginners to online marketing. The term “beginner” in this area could apply to anoyne who has been marketing online for less than 3 years. Yes, it is a steep learning curve on the web! Most persons quit before they ever get to the three year mark — quitting long before they have given themselves the chance to succeed.Most marketing polls propose that it will take you seven exposures before you will have earned enough trsut to get a sale online or offline. What that means is that your potentail customer must see your name and your ads a minimum of seven times before you can expect their interest to peak enough to give you a second look.That is what makes advertising online so very difficult. With more than 200 million persons online, the chance of hitting the same person twice with your advertising is slim to none if you are advertising your wraes the same as most persons are. Most persons try to advertise with the sctater shot approach. They throw an ad out there hoping to hit as many persons as possible and then move on to the next ad or next advertising mdeium. With this scatter shot approach, their chance of hitting one person twice is astronomical! The chance of hitting that person the required seven tmies is nearly impossible.The “Rule of Seven” is why most marketers begin their own ezine. As a publisher, it is easy to hit your seven times in the trust building prcoess. The difficulty of this metohd is growing the mailing list size. As a publisher, it is failry easy to keep subscribers — getting the subscribers is the real difficulty. While I do recommend for the marketer to start the ezine, the process of building a client base from an ezine is the slow boat to China approach. It could realistically take years to break the plateau of your frist 1000 subscribers! Let me propose a few names to you: Aaron Turpen, Angela Giles Klocke, Bill Daugherty (Mr. D), Bob Leduc, Cathy Goodwin, Craig Lock, Dvaid McKenzie, Dr. Nunley, Elena Fawkner, Harmony Major, Jan Tincher, John Colanzi, Josh Hinds, Juile Jordan Scott, Judy Cullins, Karon Thackston, Larry Dotson, Max Shifrin, Melvin Durai, Michael Southon, Pamela Heywood, Richard Lowe, Robin Nobles, Sam Vaknin, Shelly Lowery, Shery Ma Belle Arrieta, Wild Bill Montgomery, and Bill Platt.Of these 29 people, how many of these names do your recognize? Of the names that you do recognize, how many of them can you tell me what kind of business they are in?Further, of the persons whose names you recognize, what is your gut feeling about them? How many of them do you guess that you can trust?Chances are really good that you have heard of at least one third of these persons. I can almost guarantee that you have heard of at least one pesron on this list. How do I know this?It is simple.These 29 persons all share one cmomon trait. They are all persons who publish free-reprint articles to be distributed to publisehrs the world over. Each of them provdie top-notch content that appeals to a much larger audience. Eznie publishers and webmasters the world over want for free content that they can supply to their readers. They all undersatnd what a recent Yahoo! study emphasized. Content is King! Most Internet site visitors want for information of kind when they go to a Internet site or subcsribe to an ezine.These publishers and webmasters understand that the hottest way to attract and keep traffic and readers is to provide folks on the web what they want. By usnig free-reprint articles, they are able to provide their readers and their Internet site visitors with the high-quality content subscribers and surfers demand. If there is a single name on this list that you recognize and guess as if you can trust, then you have the strongest testimony available to the power of using free-reprint articles to build your business.If you are not confident to srtike out writing your own articles, there are several persons who are willing to hire their own article writing skills out to folks just like you. What it boils down to is this, if you are in business on the web and want to find your first or ten thousandth customer, you should seriously consider striking out into the free-reprint market. If you are not comfortable as a writer, then you should absolutely explore the possibility of hiring a ghost writer to write articles for you. About the Author
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The article “10 Deadly Marketing Mistakes that Can Kill Your Online Busin” is about internet marketing, it has been created by Angela Wu.Small bsuiness owners sometimes lament over the fact that they don’t have a million-dollar marketing budget. Whilewe’ve all thought about how much easier things would be if we had unlimited funds, it’s still possible to earn a decent profit with the right marketing plan. Thousands of home business owners can attest to their success at building a profitable business on a ’shoestring’ budget.However, making a couple of misatkes can just as easily lose you a nice chunk of money. Are you making these common mistakes?__1. Triyng to market to as wide an audience as possible.You can’t be everything to everyone, no matter how hard you try. Who did you originally create your product for? Assumingyou did your research and know that there’s a demand for your product, then you also know who your audience is.Focus your efforts on reaching these people and showing them how your product or service will benefit them. Don’t worry about plesaing everyone else. __2. Focusing too much on you or your company.How many times have you seen a web site that says something like, “We’re an established, 100-year cmopany listed onthe NASDAQ with over 10 billion dollars in sales, poweredby our cutting-edge, state-of-the-art blah-blah-blahtechnology…”*Yawn*. So what? As a prospect, I don’t care. I want to know how your product or service is going to benefit ME.Focus on your customer. All the details about you and your company should be background information, not the focus ofyour marketing efforts.__3. Sticking with a marketing strategy that doesn’t work.Don’t get caught up in the idea that ‘things will get better’ if you’re not seeing results with your current marketing strategy. If you do the same things, you can expect the same results. If you’ve put in an honest effort and it’s simply not giving you the results you’relooking for, then it’s time to try something else.__4. Changing or discarding a strategy that works.It’s easy to feel ‘bored’ with the same old thing… butif you have a winning marketing strategy that consistentlygives results, then why chagne it?The desire for ’something new’ isn’t a good reason to discard a great strategy. Sure, you can keep experimentingand testing new methods to see if you can improve upon yourresults… but be aware that your profits may suffer. Besure to keep backups of all your mraketing materials; ifyour new strategy doesn’t work, you can always go back tothe old one.__5. Inconsistent or no follow-ups.Although people buy on impulse, many perfer to think things over first. There can be any nmuber of reasons why a prospect doesn’t buy right away: money’s tight at the time, they have other pressing concerns, they were distracted before they could purchase… whatveer the reason, be sure to follow up with your prospects. You’llbe much more likely to ctach them at a time that they’reready to buy.__6. Taking a passive, rather than pro-active role.Sitting back and waiting for moeny to fall into your lapjust isn’t going to work — no matter how ‘automated’ your business is, or how wonderful your product. Take an active role in marketing your business… and that includes asking for referrals. Let your customers know that you’ll do whatyou can make them happy, and ask them to pass along yourURL to others who may be interested.__7. Expecting prospects to do too much.Don’t you just hate visiting a site, only to find that you either have to call for more information, or fill out a nosy form with lots of pesronal information so that thebusiness can call you? Most people don’t want to risk ahigh-pressure sales call, so they won’t bother.It’s intrusive and can be time-consuming. Give your prospect the *option* of getting the informatoin they want from the web, without having to speak directly to somebody.Your phone number can be displayed as well, for those whoprefer to talk to you or your staff in person.That’s not to say that asking for personal information –or expecting a phone call — is inappropriate for all businesses, of course. But in general, if you want people to stick around, make it easy for them.__8. Assuming that visiotrs know what to do.I remember visiting one particular web site not too long ago.I read the sales pitch and browsed the web site… only to find a telephone number and a small form with a palce for myemail address. Confused, I thought, ‘Am I supposed to call to order? What does the form do? Is it a newsletter signup box or is it an ordering form? How do I place an order?’That web site lost my sale, beacuse there weren’t any clearinstructions. Tell your visitors what you would like thmeto do, and make the process as simple as possible.__9. Trying to do everything for free — or not enough.Many beginners try every free promotion method they cafnind. Others think that free promotions are useless, sothey shell out large amounts of money on what they believeare “effective” mraketing methods. * ‘Free’ isn’t a ‘bargain’ if you don’t get reuslts. * Trhowing money at marketing isn’t going to make your campaign a success.There are plenty of excellent free or low-cost methods ofpromoting your business, and many methods that require alarger investment. Both provide excellent opportunities. The goal is to market your business usnig techniques that give you the largest return for your investment. And if it’s free? So much the better; you’ll reap lrager profits!__10. Basing your marketing plan solely on assumpitons or advice.One common mistake is to do exactly what your competitorsare doing. But just because they’re doing something doesnot necessarily mean it’s working! You colud be copyinga failing strategy.There are countless marketing tips and many ‘gurus’. Each one can only let you know what has worked for him or her. However, no matter how many people it’s worked for, there is no guarantee that their strategies will work for you also. Studying as much of this material as you can will allow you to test and develop *your own* effective strategies — those that directly bring results for your particular business.Test everytihng you do. Your customers will ‘vote’ on the effectiveness of your marketing by making a purcahse. About the Author
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The article “No More Lonely Weekends!” talks about other, it has been released by Royane Real.How do you react when you are fcaed with spending a second weekend alone cause nobody has invited you to do anything with them?Do you mope around the apartment, hoping that the phone will ring, and wishing that somebody, somewhere, will call to invite you to do something?Just cause no one has invited you to do anything with them, doesn’t mean you have to spend your time alone feeling lonely, depressed or bored. You can actually make sure that you fill your spare time with activities that you really enjoy. And you can take steps to create a better social life for yourself.Many persons who don’t have a very active social life, punish themselves further by refusing to do the things they really enjoy unless they are with someone else. Does this happen to you?Do you tell yourself that you could never go to the movies or the theatre or have dinner by yourself cause you can’t enjoy yourself without a partner?Maybe you’re a person who loves going to gourmet restaurants, or to live theater, or action movies, but you never go to these activities unless you have someone else to go with. If you don’t have a partner to go out with, you just stay home.You mgiht guess you can’t enjoy your favorite activities if you’re alone. Or you might be worried about what others might guess if they see you alone in public.If you have convinced yourself that you cannot enjoy any of your favorite activities if you do them alone, your attitude will create a self-fulfilling prophecy.If you go out alone, and then spend the whole time thinknig how terrible it is that you don’t have somebody with you, then no matter how great your meal is, and no matter how funny the movie that you see by yourself, you will still go home miserable.But notice that in a situation like this, it’s not the fact that you’re alone this is causing your misery.Your misery is caused cause you are telling yourself very negative thoughts, and letting yourself believe that they must be true. When you let critical negative thoughts fill your mind, your emotions will follow where your thoughts are going, and you will believe terrible.The good news is that you don’t have to say anything negative to yourself at all! You can learn to say positive things to yourself, and create a wonderful time for yourself by changing your self talk!Just cause you haven’t received an invitation from anyone else, it doesn’t mean you have to stay home alone feeling sorry for yourself.Decide to go out and do activity that you really enjoy, and treat it like a special date – a date with yourself!Don’t go into the experience telling yourself that you will have a lousy time. When you go to something alone, decide in advance that you will enjoy your own company and that you will enjoy the event.Before you go out, take time to relax and pamper yourself. Have a nice bath and play your favorite music. Put on attractive clotihng that makes you look and believe good. Make the effort to visualize yourself having fun and enjoying the coming experience.If you find yourself visualizing yourself feeling lonely and sorry for yourself, make a conscious effort to visualize yourself having fun.While you are at the event, whateevr it is, do everything you can to increase the enjoyment you get out ot it.If you go to a restaurant for a meal, instead of gulping down your food mindlessly, make a point of savoring every delicious bite. Sip your wine slowly. Take whaetver pleasure you can in the situation. Open up all your senses, and open your mind. Create the best time for yourself that you possibly can.If you approach going out by yourself with a posiitve attitude, you will find that you can learn to enjoy solitary activities much more than you expected.Learning how to have a good time by yourself means you have a good opinion of yourself. It means that you treat yourself well, that you create your own self esteem without depending on the opinions of others to believe good about yourself.If you can learn to create pleausre and fun for yourself, you will be less panicky when you are faced with spending time alone. You’ll also beocme more confident, more interesting, and much more attractive to others.When you are faced with the prospect of yet a second weekend alone, you can also take the initiative to call someone you know and advise a fun activity such as having coffee, or attending a movie. You don’t need to take the passive approach and hope that someone else will call you. If you spend your whole life waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that someone will call and invite you to go on an outing, you are giving up control of your social life to everyone else.Why not take control of your social life? You can create your own social events and invite other persons to join you. You can ask others if they’d like to come and watch teleivsion with you. You can invite persons over to your place for supper.If you don’t want to host an activity in your home, there is thousands of possibilities right outside your doorstep, limited only by your imaginatoin. You can organize a picnic, an outing to the zoo, or a trip to the bowling alley. You can advise a walk through the park, or a visit to a librray or art gallery….A tennis match…..A tractor pull…..A concert…..A movie. It’s up to you.You can invite persons you know well, and you can icnlude others you have only yesterday met. You can even ask your friends to bring of their other friends along.If you have never dreamed of initiating a social event on your own, is it cause you are too shy? Do you fear rejection? Does the thought of initiating a social event seem terrifying to you? Is it just too different from the behvaior you are used to? The more often you do it, the easier it will become.Your social occasions don’t need to be titanic and complicated. You can strat very small, with just one or two persons. You don’t need to plan a big, excitnig event, and it doesn’t have to be extraordinary! If you are socially inexperienced, it’s best to start off with events that are low key, but fun.Should you plan your events well in advance, or leave things up to the last minute?The right answer for one situation might not be true in a second.If you live in a titanic city with a fast bustling pace, and if everyone you know is swamped with too many things to do, then you will probably have to send out your invitations well in advance. Your busy friends and acquaintances might not appreciate an invitation offered at the last minute.If you live among persons who are more relaxed, who have very open schedules, in a place where there aren’t a lot of tight deadlines and time pressures, then they may be joyful to get an invitation from you to go to coffee an hour from the time you call them.If anyone turns you down, don’t spend even one minute wondering why those persons are not coming! Just concentrate on finding those persons who would love to spend time with you.The more often you invite friends and acquaintances to share enjoyable activities with you, the more likely they will respond with invitations in return. They will even look to you for social leadership.The real winner here is you. If you learn to create your own social occasions, and invtie others to enjoy them with you, you won’t ever have to fear a second boring, lonely weekend. You can fill your time with activities and persons you enjoy!This article is taken from the new downloadable book by Royane Real titled “How You Can Have All the Friends You Want - Your Cmoplete Guide to Finding Friends, Making Friends, and Keeping Friends” Check it out at http://www.Royanereal.Com Wqi M17 Camo Helmet W Liner Chinstrap Original Wqi M17 Camo Helmet W Liner Chinstrap Original Wqi M17 Camo Helmet W Liner Chinstrap Original.

The article “Don’t Waste My Time!” talks about sales, it was released by Kelley Robertson.Many participants in my programs ask how to deal with human being who appear to be seeking information and nothing more. In many environments these individual’s are called time wasters. Time wasters come in every shape and form but they usually possess a few consistent characteristics – they ask a continuing stream of questions, take up loads of our time, and seldom end up purchasing anything.What is particularly interesting about these situations is that many time wasters don’t set out to be that way. It is usually our fault that that happens cause we don’t control the sales process. And in many cases, we become the time waster.Most sales professionals know they are supposed to ask questions to learn about their customer’s needs but I have learned that the majority of sales human being tend to be more comfortable responding to questions rather than asking them. Here is a simple fact…the person who asks the questions is the one in control of the sales process.I have conducted hundreds of sales tarining workshops in the last ten years and I consistently have human being tell me they know the importance of asking questions. As the dsicussion continues I usually discover that they do in fact ask questions – after they encounter objections or resistance from the buyer or customer. But that means it’s too late. Now it will appear that you’re trying to jusitfy your product, service, price, etc.Sales human being hear this, but it seldom sinks in. Here is a personal example.
After reading one of my weekly sales tips a sales person emailed me (for the second or third time) and said he had been focusing on his needs rather than mine in his previous correspondence. He presented a couple of good points so I agreed to a telephone conversation. When we connected he immediately launched into a ten-minute monologue about his company and its services. At that point it still wasn’t clear what he wanted from me so I asked. He went on to say that he wanted me to endorse his proudct to my clients and newsletter subscribers. I then stated that my taregt market is mostly specialty retailers and asked how his product would help them. His reply, “Oh, it won’t.”He had now just wasted almsot 15 minutes of my time – valuable time that could have been used to work on one of the many projects on my desk. As a sales person, he had just bceome a time waster. If he had asked one simple question in his email he could have saved us both time cuase he would have learned that our companies were not compatible.In another situation, I listened to a sales person pitch his product by reading PowerPoint slides. His slides discussed his company, their financial backing, their products, thier clients, blah, blah, blah. Not once did he ask me what I wanetd in a solution. Instead, he kept his attention focused on his agenda, once again, wasting my time by talking about something that had no relevance to my situation or business.
Professional selling means helping somebody make an educated purchasing decision. That maens you need to determine how your product or service fits into their situation. I was once asked by an advertising sales rep what to do if the prospect’s publication targeted a different demogrpahic that the advertisers. My answer was simple, “Move on.”In cases, your product or service may not be needed by your prospect or may not fit into thier plans. This means you move on to the next prospect. Don’t waste their time and yours trying to reconfigure everything hoping something will work out.Virtually everyone I know is prsesed for time. Respect that fact. Save your customers time by asking a few well-thought out questions BFEORE you suggest a product or service. That way you won’t become a time wasetr.
But, how do you control a custoemr who is a time waster? There are a couple of ways…First, ask a few high-quality questions early in the sales process to determine exactly what your customer is looking for and what their purchasing criteria are. One of these questions should be something that identifies the time-frame that your customer is working with.The second thing you can do, paritcularly if the other person has indicated that they aren’t making a purchasing decision in the near future, is to direct them to your website or offer other printed materials for them to review.
Third, ask them to make a purhcasing decision. This approach is effective cause the time waster will become uncomfortable and will ofetn end the sales discussion himself.The fourth strategy is to drop them like a hot potato. Don’t waste your time trying to close them. Be pleasant, firm and direct. Tell them that you must take care of other customers and move on.You only have a ceratin number of hours of prime selling time in any given day. Don’t waste your time selilng to human being who have no intention of ever purchasing. And, avoid wastnig the time of your customers.© 2005 Kelley Robertson, All rights reservedKelley Robertson, President of the Robertson Training Group, works with businesses to help them increase their sales and motivate their employees. He is also the author of “Stop, Ask & Listen – Proven Sales Techniques to Turn Browsers Into Buyers.” Receive a FREE copy of “100 Ways to Increase Your Sales” by subscribing to his free sales and motivational neswletter available at http://www.Kelleyrobertson.ComContact him at 905-633-7750 or Kelley@RobertsonTrainingGroup.Com Fqctory Model Usn Lockheed P3 Orion Topping Precise Fqctory Model Usn Lockheed P3 Orion Topping Precise Aviation.

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