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The “WordPress” developer team has successfully launched their latest version of WordPress, called “WordPress Ella”. Numerically, the version number is called version 2.1

To the uninitiated, news like this seems like a normal announcement from software developers and are often passed on by. However, from the eyes of a trained mind and savvy businessman, the news of “WordPress Ella” contain many benefits that online business owners can immediately tap into and profit from.

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Let’s see, which came first the chicken or the egg? While the jury is still out on that old story, I recently realized that many entrepreneurs don’t clearly understand the difference between branding and marketing.

I’m here to set the record straight once and for all! The findings might surprise you and will forever change the way you look at your business.

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For many marketing specialists, writing sales letters can be difficult. In a few paragraphs, you need to sell not only a product or service, but the company as well. You need to convince the recipient that the company is in the best position, and has all the credentials to produce the best product or service to meet the needs of its prospective customers. If there seems to be no need for the product or service, you have to create the need for it. Moreover, you need to do all these to sell a product or service to a potentially saturated market that has little or no time to read sales letters.

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Introduction

Submitting your resume online is quick and easy and is done in three different ways depending on the agency with whom you are submitting. Those who offer all three ways allow you to submit using their wizard that works you through the task. Alternatively, you can submit an MS Word DOC file or an Adobe PDF file, or submit into a template by cutting and pasting.

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JV the Costs – Whether it’s an office you share, or a receptionist, or an administrative assistant, or standby conference call lines, you can make deals with other businesses that may not need a full-time receptionist, for example, to keep the costs down. A local school supply business shares an office with a surveyor. A small downtown Hartford mail order firm shares office space and conference rooms with an advertising agency. A New York investment consulting firm shares the mailing address with a Florida realtor who is also licensed in New York and wants a local presence. Things like office and mail services, help desk support, and other shared services are becoming more common. If you can’t find one that makes sense for your business, why not invent your own solution?

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With the recent drop in gas prices, should online retailers expect a cheery holiday sales forecast? According to the National Federation of Retailers (NRF) one-fifth of all retail sales in the United States occur during the holiday season. With the critical holiday shopping season upon us, many companies are gearing up for a busy and eventful holiday season.

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Though all my customers know I make many different crafts, what I am known for, and consequently what I sell, is jewelry. In a week, jewelry making/selling takes 80% of my time. If I’m not at the craft room, coiling wire, then I am at the computer, promoting or writing. In many weeks, that 80% of time becomes 100%.

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Event management is comprised of the study of the complexities of brands, identifying target audience, creating event concepts, and planning the logistics. It also includes coordination of technical aspects before getting down to truly implementing the modalities of the planned event. Event management implies the application of management science to the creation and development of festivals and events.

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Network marketing is often tied to home based business ventures. Get rich quick. Find me two people and build an empire. Sounds familiar doesn’t it. Well the internet and infomercials have hit the media with a big bang. You cannot surf the channels without seeing at least one new venture promising a yacht and full release from corporate America. So let’s break it down to simple terms. A network is a group of things tied together in its simplest form. Phone lines all converging on a switch box become a phone system from which 100′s of calls go in and out of. Thus a network. Traditional direct sales organizations are made up of *typically* Vice President of Sales, Regional Sales Managers, District Sales Managers down to Account Sales Representatives.

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The countdown to Christmas is now in weeks rather than months. Christmas decorations have appeared in the shops, the first murmurs of Christmas parties are in the air and I find myself approaching my first Christmas as a Soloist.

Recently I celebrated my 3rd Birthday is business – can you tell I love a good celebration?! However, for the first 2 years I ran my business part-time and worked 3 days a week in a corporate environment. For the past 2 years I had the best of two worlds at Christmas – the freedom and flexibility of a soloist and the indulgence of corporate Christmas parties.

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If you are like most individuals, you probably are not happy with your current career or JOB (Just Over Broke), and occasionally think about working for yourself. The 80-20 rule just might apply to everything, including careers and jobs? Being self-employed, however, does not necessarily mean owning a business with the burden of employees, inventory, capital expenditures, and the other trappings of the 20th century “brick and mortar” business model.

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Many talented and intelligent people invent many new tools and devices that are helpful in many ways. These inventions are a result of months and years of meticulous research and planning in a specific field or area. Most of the inventors are common people with absolutely no knowledge of the intricacies of the legal and patent related issues.

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This is a problem common to managers in every industry. Here are a few of the reasons.

Human beings, managers and otherwise, simply don’t like confrontation and all the things that go with firing involve confrontation. In fact, managing people is really the art of controlled confrontation. For that you need training in how to talk to people who work for you about their performance

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Most people start into an MLM (Multi-level Marketing) or other Network Marketing company with huge thoughts of success. So what happens? Things aren’t going as well as planned; people just aren’t interested in the products or services that your company offers; you have talked to just about everyone you know and their tired of hearing about it. Then what? You throw your hands in the air and exclaim “this doesn’t work!” Maybe the person that enrolled you led you to believe that riches were just a mere days away. Maybe you thought the product or service was so phenomenal that people would have to be crazy not to join up with you. Maybe the compensation was so great that you thought everyone would just jump on board and it would avalanche into a fortune. It could be a combination of all of these.

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When I ask my accountant, he tells me that Profit equals Revenue minus Costs. He then spoils this simple equation with two caveats:

Revenue is the cash flowing into your bank – this is sales without the bad debts, returns or shrinkage.
Costs include your materials, labour and energy bills as well as everything else needed for long-term trading such as your contingencies, investments, replacements, training, and insurances.

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