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What is the hardest thing about starting your own business?
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
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How can Google’s Adwords improve your offline advertising?
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
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Echinacea Does Cure the Common Cold
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
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What is your explanatory style,
and does it matter?
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.
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Amazing sales presentation
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
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Free Office Software
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
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Free ebook download — Seth Godin
It’s always nice to be able to give something of great value. Yes, give.
This is a fantastic book about permission marketing by one of the great business writers, Seth Godin, it’s called Unleashing the Ideavirus.
Seth explains how, in this age of such rapid information exchange, good ideas can be spread extremely quickly.
This is very relevant
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Never Underestimate the Value of a List
One of the great challenges that face the solo worker is that of actually getting through the day having done all that we intended, without going off on some wild journey of distraction.
Most people (especially me) are familiar with the feeling of excitement and determination that greets each new day. However, something — and I’m
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Right Job — Wrong Job
Do you hate your work?