Saturday, January 5, 2008

10 Essential Criteria For Choosing Your Target Market (CORRECTION)

A specific group of people you will focus on selling your services to is your target market. This is not to be confused with the problem you will be solving for this group.

Why choose a target market? You need to decide exactly who your audience is before you sell your services. Deciding on your target market lays a critical foundation for your business. When you get clear about who your target market is, you will:

* know where to focus your selling and marketing efforts.

* know where to focus your research efforts. You want to intimately understand your market: the problems they have and the language they speak. The greater your level of understanding the more magnetic you will become.

Your target market will determine y View the rest of this article


Your Best Menu... Ever!

Your Best Menu... Ever!


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Growing up, I had an insatiable desire to accomplish things. When


I was one year old, I sat on my kitchen floor and placed hair


clips up and down my legs, one clip at a time. Then I patiently


took the clips off, one at a time, and put them back in the tin.


My mom said I did this for hours at a time.





When I got a bit older, reading became my passion. I checked out


20+ books at a time from the library and devour them in a few


days. Then I entered them into my "Book List, View the rest of this article


Friday, January 4, 2008

What Is Front Porch Attitude?

What is front porch attitude? Well, it's not an easy thing to explain, but I'll see if I can try to explain it by telling you a story.
Before my wife and I moved from Texas to Oregon, we owned a beautiful house that was built in the early 1900s. As was common in those early days, our house had a large L-shaped font porch. The sides of this porch came up about 3 feet and it had screening up to the roof. It had beautiful banisters and it was totally enclosed.
During the evening, my wife would work at the local Waldenbooks until 10 p.m., and I would stay at home with our four year old daughter, Jessica. Most nights, Jessica and I would sit out on that front porch in my large rocking chair waiting for her mom to come home as I rocked her to sleep. The chirping of View the rest of this article


How You Can Save On Conference Calling

In recent years, companies have recognized the need to expand their businesses in the international arena. Breakthroughs in communications and transportation have facilitated this move and have enabled these companies to trade in various countries all over the globe. It is now easier for company representatives to travel armed with business proposals and tap or create connections in remote places.





An obvious downside is the expenses attendant to air travel as well as the general difficulty of coordinating seminars and promotional conferences with numerous and/or remote participants. When a company representative in one country, for example, needs to present a proposal for a business deal in another country, he has to book a flight, arrange for ac View the rest of this article


Common Search Engine Optimization Mistakes and Solutions

To many websites, webmasters discover that major sources of website traffic come from search engines. Therefore, they are all keen on gaining top search engine placements through search engine optimization.

Based on our several years of SEO experience, we point out some common mistakes and shed some lights to correct it.

1. Cannot Get Indexed by Search Engines, Really?

A garment ERP software solution provider came to me and asked a question: "I have established a new website for 1 year, and found a SEO company to submit my website. However, my website can be found in search engines only when I type my domain name in search query box. The SEO company told me my domain got banned. What can I View the rest of this article


MLM Success- The Secrets of MLM Recruiting and Talking to the Right Prospect

by Doug Firebaugh

There are only two types of people you will run across in MLM.

To be blunt, they are in every business.

Every Company.

Every Corporate Board.

Every Church.

Every Family.

Every Association.

Every Athletic League.

Every School.

Every University.

Everywhere.

And Anywhere.

You Name it.

You will find them.

There are More than just One in MLM and Network Marketing.

And you will find that there is more of one than the other.

And you wll find them in EVERY Network Marketing and MLM Company.

Ok... who are they?

Simple:

People that are OPEN to a new idea, And peo View the rest of this article


Cricket Tips: Goal Setting For A Successful Cricket Season

One of the essential cricket tips I ever learned was that of goal setting. The ability to set goals and effectively motivate yourself to achieve them are two essential cricket tips and skills that will help you achieve success in any cricket season or sport.
Starting a cricket season without goals could be compared to batting blindfolded in the dark. What would be your chance of hitting the ball? It is essential to set goals at the start of the season to aim for: How many runs, wickets or catches will you takes? Giving yourself a target to aim for will help focus your mind and mentally prepare you for setting plans to achieve them.
If when you start your cricket season, you have no goals and aim at nothing; is it not unlikely that you will hit nothing and ach View the rest of this article