| 1731 | How To Build Up Your Samples for your Portfolio Without Professional Experience Preview: Article submitted by http://www.Allfreelancework.com - 1000s of freelance jobs What should you do if you have no professional examples to place in your portfolio? If you are in a situation where you don't have any professional samples to place into your portfolio, then you obviously have a lot of work to do. You might be able to get away with pla... (more) Published By: Rachel Goldstein Submitted: 11 January,2003 |
| 1732 | Fraud in real estate, are you being victimized? - Part I Preview: Rip off artists appear in all shapes and sexes. They usually are nice looking, well dressed and very smooth talkers. They, in conversation, tell you about a financial killing they made, or are in the middle of closing. Then they change the subject. A really smooth talker never asks or suggests you invest. They wait until you beg and plead with the... (more) Published By: Willard Michlin Submitted: 11 January,2003 |
| 1733 | 4 Tips For The Successful Businessman Preview: I have a passion for the bald eagle or Haliaeetus Leucuceohalus according to his scientific name. I have this passion as long as I can remember. But it is not a logical passion. I am Dutch and a passion for a bird of prey that is common in The Netherlands would be more obvious. But life is full of inexplicable surprises and left me with this passi... (more) Published By: Joop Liefaard Submitted: 13 January,2003 |
| 1734 | First Aid For Writer's Block Preview: Stuck? Not for long when you try these remedies for creativity on call. 1. Go somewhere else. One of my clients hops a train whenever she has a deadline and writes on board. 2. Freewrite. Right this second, copy the following starter phrase and keep writing nonstop wherever it leads you: "What I really want to say in this piece is..." 3. Ch... (more) Published By: Marcia Yudkin Submitted: 14 January,2003 |
| 1735 | Web Conferencing Killed The Video Star Preview: Web Conferencing Killed The Video Star (c) 2002 copyright Laurence Chilcott and Terry Telford In the 80’s, a popular song said "Video killed the radio star." What comes around goes around. Now it’s video’s turn to be replaced. The new song of the millennium is "Web conferencing killed the video star." The Worldwide Web Conferencing market gen... (more) Published By: Terry Telford Submitted: 14 January,2003 |
| 1736 | A Way to Find More Happiness Through Your Work Preview: First of all you have to know what you're good at and focus on that and build on it. Then even when you're in a group that's good at what you do, you can still stand out, like Wayne Gretzky tracking the puck. He was famous for his ability to predict where the puck would go and get there first. Wayne "Go where the puck is going, not where it has be... (more) Published By: Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach Submitted: 16 January,2003 |
| 1737 | Committing To and Succeeding With Your New Year’s Resolutions Preview: By Carole Nicolaides, Copyright © 2003, All Rights Reserved http://www.progressiveleadership.com What is the problem with New Year’s resolutions? They are supposed to symbolize a new beginning, hope of doing things better, having more fun, and improving energy and success levels in our lives. Yet, so many people abandon them within a month (or e... (more) Published By: Carole Nicolaides Submitted: 20 January,2003 |
| 1738 | Case In Point: Developing An Ezine Built To Last Preview: by Karon Thackston © 2003 http://www.creatingezines.com Jill Whalen is well known for her search engine optimization talents. She’s equally well known for her ezine, High Rankings Advisor. From its inception in 2000 until today, she has built an exceptionally loyal subscriber base of over 15,000 that would literally follow her to the ends of the... (more) Published By: Karon Thackston Submitted: 20 January,2003 |
| 1739 | 35 Surefire Ways to Kill a Meeting Preview: 35 Surefire Ways to Kill a Meeting translates into how to run a meeting. 1. Play “find the meeting” by changing the location and time of your meeting at the last minute. 2. Don’t bother to book your meeting room in advance. Lead the group from room to room trying to find another place to meet. 3. Bring 5 handouts for 20 attendees. 4. Leave and sa... (more) Published By: John Gravitt Submitted: 20 January,2003 |
| 1740 | Resume Success Factors--What Exactly is a Resume Anyway? Preview: You know you're good...real good. The problem, though, is that you are struggling to demonstrate just how good you are on paper. Ah...the resume. If you've ever written one you know what a challenging task it can be. The Gregg Reference Manual tells us some fundamental facts about resumes: * The purpose of your resume is to get you an emplo... (more) Published By: Peter Hill, CPRW Submitted: 20 January,2003 |
| 1741 | How to implement Network marketing to your advantage... Preview: "As the competition on the Internet grows to an enormous rate, companies in order to successfully expand and brand their operations, have resorted to Network Marketing and its' unclaimed derivative, Stealth Marketing. 'Building' a squad of similar content sites to attract and to effectually attain a great portion of a targeted and specific market... (more) Published By: George Papazoglou Submitted: 20 January,2003 |
| 1742 | Public Relations: Time To Fix It! Preview: Is it broken? It will be if (1) you buy public relations services, then rely on tactics alone, and (2) fail to insist on a visible modification in target audience behaviors as a conclusive measure of PR success. Ask a CEO. Many will tell you “I want end-game behaviors that convince me I’m getting my public relations money’s worth.” Which is exact... (more) Published By: Robert A. Kelly Submitted: 20 January,2003 |
| 1743 | E-marketing Preview: E-marketing Let me explain some fundamental marketing aspects about e-trade: First of all, you must get the potential clients to visit your site , and that’s a whole science by it self. Visitors, who reach your site, read a description of your company and your products. Depending on weather you first of all want to tell about your company and b... (more) Published By: Gunnar Berglund Submitted: 20 January,2003 |
| 1744 | Don't Call it an E-book! Preview: Terminology greatly affects how people perceive value. Call something a "brochure" and no one will want to pay for it. Call it a "booklet" and it sounds small and insignificant, perhaps worth up to four or five dollars. Call your digital document an "e-book" and people instinctively compare it to tangible books and will pay no more than what ... (more) Published By: Marcia Yudkin Submitted: 21 January,2003 |
| 1745 | Fraud in real estate, are you being victimized? - Part II Preview: The phone range and Peter was on the other end of the line. "Willard, I have a friend of mine that has a real estate problem." I said, "Send him over." Two hours later, Jerry sat in front of me terribly upset. Three years earlier, he had been talked into buying a 4 unit building in partnership with Smooth Talker, a knowledgeable, smooth talking re... (more) Published By: Willard Michlin Submitted: 22 January,2003 |
| 1746 | Small Business Success - It’s a Matter of Confidence Preview: I was floored! I couldn’t believe what they were saying! But there they sat -- three of the biggest film stars of our age -- telling the world they had issues with confidence. I was watching an interview where Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore were talking with Oprah Winfrey. Their conversation gave me a lot to think about in regard t... (more) Published By: Diane Hughes Submitted: 22 January,2003 |
| 1747 | Building An Unstoppable Multi-pillar Business Preview: Jay Conrad Levinson, in his books Guerrilla Marketing Weapons and Guerrilla Marketing Attack, points out that there are easily hundreds, if not thousands, of tools/methods you can use in your marketing. He points out that your competition is probably only using a few. He also emphasizes that if you just use a few more - effectively - you will dom... (more) Published By: Willie Crawford Submitted: 22 January,2003 |
| 1748 | Your Assumptions About Job Descriptions Can Harm You Preview: One of the worst things you can do is get in a “box” and this applies to job descriptions—or rather, what you assume someone else is capable of doing because of your misconceptions about their job description. Compounding this is the current thrust toward “niches.” BROADEN YOUR THINKING: YOU MIGHT MISS SOMETHING When I’m marketing for clients, I... (more) Published By: Susan Dunn, Marketing Coach Submitted: 22 January,2003 |
| 1749 | Want to Motivate People? Want to Be More Effective? Try Emotional Intelligence. Preview: “Motivation is not a thinking word,” say John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen, in their book, “The Heart of Change.” They go on to say: “Analysis has three major limitations. First, in a remarkable number of cases, you don’t need it to find the big truths. Second, analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best whe... (more) Published By: Susan Dunn Submitted: 23 January,2003 |
| 1750 | Using Those Business Cards Preview: One of the first things you do when starting a business is to have business cards made up. The next thing you need to do is give them out. If you keep them in the card holders or the box in your office, they are not doing what you got them for. You should send a card out with any correspondence you send. You should tell all your friends and famil... (more) Published By: Sue and Chuck DeFiore Submitted: 23 January,2003 |