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How to tell a good business opportunity from bad

By GC | Published: November 25, 2009
Anyone who is interested in working from home has probably made some searches online. They will have found countless opportunities available including a huge amount of junk offers or scams. In the past few years the internet has allowed the simple ‘get rich quick’ industry to mushroom and splinter beyond prediction. The internet allows for quick testing, ... continue reading ...
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Right Job — Wrong Job
Do you hate your work?

By GC | Published: November 20, 2009
Following on from the previous post starting a new business prompts some obvious questions: what business should I be in? or Why don’t I like my job? Work is much easier if we like what we do, or if we are very good at it, or better still, both. If we enjoy our work some would say ... continue reading ...
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What is the hardest thing about starting your own business?

By GC | Published: November 17, 2009
How many people work in a job they don’t like? How many people are not working at all? How many of these people would like to start their own business? How many people have a home business idea or an idea they’d like to turn into a small business? How many will actually start their own business ... continue reading ...
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How can Google’s Adwords improve your offline advertising?

By GC | Published: November 13, 2009
Anyone who markets their business online will have heard of Google’s Adwords; or they should have done. Adwords is Google’s name for their pay-per-click (PPC) service; it’s the very core of their business. Essentially PPC offers highly targeted advertising, it provides the facility to place your advert right in front of the very people that ... continue reading ...
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not happy community times

By GC | Published: October 29, 2009
Some time ago I requested information about a Community Times franchise. I was interested because I’d published information booklets for my local community. The information pack promised a lot, but the franchise was expensive — more than £5000. Now, however, it seems all is not well. There appears to be some franchisees who are less than happy with ... continue reading ...
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Become a publisher

By GC | Published: October 20, 2009
Very pleased to announce the publication of ‘Publishing for Profit in 30 Days’. This is the course that shows how to start and run your own publishing enterprise. It’s been a long time in the making, indeed, it is based on the sound business ideas that have been used successfully since the 1940s. This type of publishing is ... continue reading ...
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Echinacea Does Cure the Common Cold

By GC | Published: July 13, 2007
Well, according to the UK newspaper, The Times, researchers have now discovered what many of us have known for a long time. They say, ‘An analysis of the evidence has found that taking the remedy more than halves a person’s chances of catching a cold and shortens the length of a cold by an average of ... continue reading ...
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What is your explanatory style,
and does it matter?

By GC | Published: January 25, 2007
I can’t answer the first part of that question, but I can answer the second with a very firm ‘yes’. If you are in business, particularly sales, then you need to know about this. By explanatory style we mean how you explain the events that you experience. For example, say you’ve just left your laptop on the train. ... continue reading ...
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Amazing sales presentation

By GC | Published: October 23, 2006
I came across this the other day in a book published a few years ago. It’s a short story describing a very bold but effective sales meeting. It may not be a strategy many of us would think of using, but it’s a fantastic example of very canny selling; not for the fainthearted though. The salesman in ... continue reading ...
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Free Office Software

By GC | Published: October 23, 2006
It’s very important when starting a new business venture to keep costs down as low as possible. So, isn’t it nice to get something really useful for free? Especially when it’s this good. OpenOffice offers a real alternative to costly office software. It is absolutely free, very capable and compatible with the industry standards. You can run it ... continue reading ...
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