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If you’re a selling writer, you’re well aware of the new boom in writing for the Web.
This boom won’t end anytime soon. Competent writers have all the work that they
can handle.

If you’re looking for writing work, start now to pursue more Web copywriting work.

As a copywriter, what can you write for the Web? Anything and everything. Main
pages to Web sites, sales pages, product descriptions, blogs (yes, companies do pay
writers to write blogs, which are Web logs or journals, if you’re not au courant),
newsletters, ezines — the list goes on and on.

If I were a new copywriter starting out today, I’d focus strictly on the Web. You get to
work with companies worldwide, you work at your own pace, and you can see the
results of your efforts almost instantly. What chiefly appeals to me is the wide
variety of the work, and the terrific relationships you can make.

How much money can you make? If you’re a complete beginner, you can estimate
that you’ll make $50,000 for the first year. If you’re more experienced, you can
easily double that amount.

=> How to get started as an online copywriter

How do you get started copywriting in the online world?

It’s not a requirement to have your own Web site, but it helps. With your own site,
you can point prospective clients to work samples, and can show them that you
know how the Web operates. They can also get an idea of your writing style. The
biggest benefit of a Web site is that it’s painless marketing. After the site has been
up for a year or so, clients will come to you, you don’t have to hunt for work.

You can find Web writing work in many ways. The best way is to approach
companies directly, with a proposal.

You can also respond to online job ads. However, please be careful when
responding to such ads. I’ve received several anguished yelps from writers who’ve
been conned by rip-off artists. These characters get writers to write (and write and
write), and when the writer sends an invoice, there’s no payment.

If you have doubts about someone after Googling them (entering their company
name into Google.com). You can also check out the Whispers and Warnings at —

http://www.writersweekly.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=14

=> Please get a retainer up-front

A further warning— if you don’t know the client, and haven’t worked for the
company before, get some money BEFORE you start working on a project.
Copywriting is not speculative work. Please make sure that you get your writing
services agreement signed, and that you get a retainer up front. You might not
require a retainer for small projects if you know the client, but you should definitely
get a retainer for any job over $200, and for all new clients. The retainer can be as
low as ten per cent for a large project, with regular payments to be made at
intervals, or half the total fee.

If you don’t have a writing services agreement, please create one. It’s a simple form
explaining the scope of the project, its deadline, the number of revisions, the
payment, and how and when that payment is due.

If you enjoy writing, enjoy the Web writing boom. It’s a chance for you to get started
with a writing career if you’re a beginning writer. If you’re a pro, it’s a great chance
to increase your income.

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Everybody is familiar with the old retail chant, “Location, location, location!” It speaks volumes about making the right decisions from the start to make your retail establishment a success. Once you’ve decided what it is your store is offering to the general public, the next step you’ll take is finding the right location. Once you’ve found it, the next step is to decide how to dress up your establishment; you’ll need to decide what retail store fixtures will properly display your product. At this stage another invaluable cliché applies, “Presentation is everything!”

It’s true that how you present your products for sale is as important as the location, the timing of your venture and the pricing of your merchandise. On one hand, you wouldn’t display expensive wares in cheap, shoddy or dirty store display fixtures. An appearance that turns people off the minute they walk into your store isn’t going to help sales and, in fact, it will probably hurt them. On the other hand, you don’t want your display choices to completely overwhelm the merchandise. Dazzling displays that distract from the sales appeal of your merchandise won’t help business either.

In order to maximize your sales potential you need to decide what look and feel of the store will appeal to your target customer. Remember, no sale is complete until the customer leaves the store satisfied with his purchase, and a crucial part of that process is the way in which your products are displayed. There are many choices to make. It can be helpful to visit other stores selling similar merchandise even if your product is so unique that you have to travel to another city to find them. Even if you are selling an invention of your own that doesn’t exist anywhere else, it will still fall into a category of stores that you should investigate before setting up shop. Art stores have one look, plumbing supply stores another and clothing boutiques still another. Even if your investigation helps you decide which display perspectives don’t work for you, that knowledge can save you time and money in the long run.

Store Fixtures Info provides detailed information on metal, antique, wholesale, and used store fixtures and store fixture parts. Store Fixtures Info is the sister site of Mannequins Web.

It is common practice that the bride and groom will offer a small token of appreciation to their wedding reception guests, commonly known as wedding favors. There are many different kind of wedding favors. Wedding favors vary in material and purpose. The savviest brides often seamlessly integrate the wedding favors into their wedding theme. For example, a beach wedding may have beach wedding favors, such as flip-flop candles as wedding favors.

A common characteristic of wedding favors is that they are usually inexpensive. Brides and grooms usually spend no more than a few dollars per guest. Many brides chose to make their own wedding favors, but most will end up purchasing them ready made.

It is important to remember that the primary purpose of the wedding favor is to show your appreciation toward your wedding reception guests, your friends and your family.

The most popular wedding favors are edible. The most popular edible wedding favors are chocolate. Personalized chocolates are especially popular with brides and wedding guests. Let’s face it, everybody loves chocolate, so chocolate wedding favors are a sure hit with wedding guests of all age. While some wedding favors may be more popular with women than man, or vice versa, chocolate is a gender-neutral wedding favor.

To make chocolate wedding favors even more exiting, some companies offer personalized chocolate wedding favors. Personalization adds a special touch of elegance to your wedding favors. The personalization service includes printing the names of the bride and groom on the front of the candy wrapper. Some companies even offer to print a special message from the bride and groom on the back of the wrapper. Not only, that the personalized chocolate wedding favors can include the names of the bride and groom, but they can be color coordinated to fit the wedding colors.

George Meszaros is affiliated with Sweet Reflections; a leading provider of wedding favors www.sweet-reflections.com

If you have debts of around £15,000 (or higher) that you are unable to repay, an IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement) is a Government-backed debt solution that could help you get back in the clear by writing off a substantial amount of your debt. As part of the Insolvency Act (1986), it’s a legally binding means of getting out of debt that helped over 40,000 people per year in both 2006 and 2007.

An IVA proposal can only be put forward by a licensed Insolvency Practitioner. If the IVA is approved, you will pay a set monthly amount towards your IVA, usually for 5 years – after which your debt will be considered settled.

Before entering an IVA, your circumstances will be thoroughly reviewed to determine how much you are able to pay each month once living expenses have been taken into account. Creditors are likely to accept an IVA if they can see that a) you are not able to repay the full amount, and b) they will get more from your IVA then they would by petitioning for your bankruptcy.

How does an IVA work?
1) Firstly, you will speak to a debt adviser about your situation. If they think an IVA is your best option, they will work with you to draw up a proposal, telling your creditors how much they would receive if the IVA goes ahead.

2) The proposal is then submitted to your creditors for approval. A Creditors’ Meeting will be planned to give your creditors a chance to discuss the terms.

3) The Creditors’ Meeting invites your creditors to get together and vote on whether to approve your IVA proposal. For the IVA to go ahead, those who vote in favour of the proposal must collectively own more than 75% of your total debts.

If any of your creditors do not respond to the proposal, it is automatically considered a vote in favour of the IVA.

4) If approved, the IVA begins and you will pay a fixed amount each month, which will be divided between your creditors. This will usually take place over 5 years. Your creditors are legally required to stop charging interest and may no longer pursue any kind of legal action, unless the terms of the IVA are broken.

5) If you are a homeowner, you will probably have to free up the majority of the equity in your home in the 4th year of your IVA, and this will also be divided between your creditors.

6) If you successfully keep up payments for 5 years, the IVA is complete and you are legally debt-free. However, it may take up to a year afterwards for the IVA to disappear from your credit history.

Article contributed by M Taylor of www.debtadvisersdirect.co.uk

Some humor ‘experts’ say that you should not laugh at your own jokes and stories when you are speaking in public. This may work for some, but it is definitely not my style. When I’m in front of an audience, I’m having a great time. I’m there because I love humor and laughter and I love sharing it with the audience. I can’t help laughing sometimes. I laugh at what I say. I laugh at what they say. I laugh at unexpected occurrences during the presentation. That’s my style. I believe that to fully connect with an audience, you must be accepted as one of them. If I expect them to laugh, then I should laugh too.

Sometimes you can laugh to tell the audience it’s time to laugh. Within a matter of minutes your public stage persona will be evident to the audience. As soon as they catch onto your style and rhythm, they will pick up on the cues you give them. When you laugh, they know it is time for them to laugh. It’s almost like holding up an applause sign. Some presenters use facial expressions or gestures or a combination of many cues that tell the audience it’s OK to laugh.

The opposite of a laughter cue is a deadpan expression. This is a serious expression that is contrasted with funny lines. The contrast evokes a larger laugh than the line could get by itself. I use this to set the audience up for some fun questions. I look completely earnest when I say, I’m the foremost expert in the world [pause] on dumb questions. It always gets a good laugh.

When speaking in public go ahead and laugh when you feel like it. Both you and your audience will enjoy the speech more.

Copyright © 1998 – 2005 Advanced Public Speaking Institute

Tom Antion provides entertaining speeches and educational seminars. He is the ultimate entrepreneur, having owned many businesses BEFORE graduating college. Tom is the author of the best selling presentation skills book “Wake ‘em Up Business Presentations” and “Click: The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing.” It is important to Tom that his knowledge be not only absorbed, but enjoyed. This is why he delivers his speeches laced with great humor and hysterical jokes. Tom has addressed more than 87 different industries and is thoroughly committed to his clients’ needs. http://www.antion.com

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Users of the World Wide Web are here to seek information. And what better way to get information than to read articles related to the subject they are interested in?

Writing and getting articles published on various places on the net is one of the extremely good ways to promote your business. Every published article of yours will be followed by a ‘Resource Box’ or an ‘About the Author’ info which contains a brief description about you, your business and your website url. Articles will be published on a variety of websites and will benefit you in two ways. First, if people like the article, they will certainly look up the ‘About the Author’ info and visit your website. Second, your every published article (along with your website link at the end) will increase your link popularity for search engine positions!

1. Writing Articles

The first step here is to write or get written, some articles related to your business and target audience. With all the experience in your field of business, you could gather useful tips and information and put it together to form an enriching article. Always keep in mind that your article should be beneficial to your readers. Readers should find something they find useful. Only then will they be tempted to visit your website for more information.

An alternative to writing articles yourself is to get articles written from a copywriter. You can get relevant articles ghostwritten for as low as $10/per article of 300-500 words. There are many firms on the internet providing copywriting and web content services. All you will need to do is get the articles written and then get them published (see below for how to get your articles published).

2. Getting Your Articles Published

For getting your article published, first of all your article needs to be ‘Free of Cost’ or ‘Free to Reprint’. This will encourage most number of publishers to publish your article. A ‘free to publish’ article generally carries the condition that it is to be followed by author info and website link. Publishers need free content for their websites and are willing to give you a link (which you do not even need to reciprocate to!) in exchange for your article.

But even free articles need to be promoted thoroughly. Ensure that the following steps are taken to effectively promote your free articles:

List the articles on your website and add a note at the end of the article that it is free to reprint on other websites and in newsletters as long as the ‘About the Author’ info stays intact.

Submit your articles to ‘Article Directories. These directories are most hunted by publishers looking for free content to publish their websites.

Submit your articles to Ezines and Newsletters. Write to the editor of ezines that accept articles personally attaching your article along with the email or as their rules require.

Submit your articles to websites that accept article submissions. Every time you visit a website and note that it has a special link for submission, make sure to bookmark it or write down the url somewhere and make your own list of places to submit.

Make a page on your website and list all your ‘free to reprint’ articles on that page. This page is likely to get indexed by search engines and shown to publishers searching for free content.

Submit articles to ‘Article Announcement Lists or Newsgroups’.

Make use of an article submission service to submit your articles to directories and interested publishers. You can search for such services using search engines.

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Most surveys show the average business loses about 19% of its client base each year. In fact, the authors of, “Customer Winback: How To Recapture Lost Customers – and Keep Them Loyal” estimates the average at 20 to 40% per year.

This means that if you have 500 customers and lose 19% or 95 customers you must get 95 new customers each year just to stay even.

Research shows it costs six times more to get a prospect to buy from you than it does to keep an existing customer, and it’s 16 times easier to sell to an existing customer than to a new one.

So why would you spend any marketing dollars on new prospects before doing everything you can to get more business from your existing and past clients? Let me repeat that, “Why would you spend any marketing dollars on new prospects before doing everything you can to get more business from your existing and past clients?”

The truth is that the real money to be made by most businesses is from additional sales of products and services to their existing customers and those they refer. Getting repeat and referral business is something most small business owners are not proficient in.

If you want your business to be successful, you need to have a compelling reason, “Why should your customers and prospects do business with you, rather than your competition”? You need to become someone they will gladly and often refer new customer prospects to!

The one strategy that can do more for building your business than just about anything else you can do and the most overlooked marketing tool by almost every business is “Follow Up”!

You need to immediately put in place a strategy and an effective system to follow up with:

- Existing Customers
– Past Customers
– Potential Customers or Prospects

Since it costs six times more to get a new customer to buy from you, it just makes sense to spend much of your time, effort and money on strengthening your relationships with your existing customers and turning them into referral machines for you.

In developing a follow up system for your customers and prospects, you need to determine:

- The number of times you want to contact them and over what period of time

- The frequency of contact. For example, every two month plus on their birthday

- The method of contact. Will you send a greeting card, post card or letter? Research has shown that a greeting card will get opened 12 times more often that other types of mail.

- Determine the purpose of the contact. Will you be thanking them for buying from you, making them a special offer or asking for a referral?

A study done by the Association of sales Executives revealed that 81% of all sales happen on or after the fifth contact. If you’re only doing one or two follow up’s, imagine all the business you are losing. Not following up with your customers and prospects is like filling up your bathtub without first putting the stopper in the drain!

Here’s an example of an eight contact follow up system you could put in place in your business, modify it to meet your business needs:

1. When they buy from you – send a “Thank You” card
2. January – send a “New Years” card
3. March – send an Item-of-Value or Special Offer letter
4. May – send a “Referral Request” card
5. July – send a “Fourth of July” card
6. September – send an Item-of-Value or Special Offer letter
7. November – send a “Referral Request” card
8. Birthday – send a “Birthday” card

According to the Guinness book of World Records the Greatest Salesman of all time was Joe Girard. During his fifteen year selling career, he sold 13,001 cars … an amazing feat. What was his secret? Greeting Cards! Every month, every person who had ever bought a car from him got a greeting card. It didn’t matter if it was Christmas, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, or the person’s birthday … Joe was a greeting card sending machine!

With today’s technology it’s not necessary to spend your time doing it manually like Joe and his assistants did! On the Internet there are online card sending services where you can send “REAL” physical full color glossy greeting cards, mailed with a real stamp, from your computer. The one I use has a ton of features, like being able to set up automatic mailing campaigns. And, it’s very inexpensive at $1.37 a greeting card, which includes postage.

According to the National Association of Realtors, 70% of homebuyers said they would use their real estate agent again. However, only 11% reported buying through the real estate agent they had used before. Why? Because clients haven’t heard from them and they assumed the agent didn’t want to do business with them.

Whatever your product or service, don’t let that happen to you!

Commit to putting in place a system to insure continual automatic follow up to your customers and prospects. Your business depends on it!

Joel Weiner is a Referral Marketing expert. He helps small businesses and professionals generate more sales through referrals. More information can be found at his website: http://www.Best2U.com

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Supposing you haven’t yet learned about gambling saloon wagering, please read on…

In the name of clarity, a betting house is a construction that focuses on wagering. At such a place, guests are expected to take a wager going for one-armed-bandits or trying out alternative betting games. Gaming room games as a rule include mathematically derived likelihoods governing them which maintain that the company holds on to its edge over the gaming enthusiasts.

A large amount of gaming room games can sway you into getting dependent quickly. We can look at the standard slot-machine, a mechanical contraption with 3 plus cogs that spin when a knob coupled to it is tugged. This gadget more often than not will compensate punters according to a set arrangement of symbols shown on the screen of the appliance. Regretfully, betting saloon pastimes furnish an illusion of jurisdiction, thus tricking the betting aficionado — the punter is provided with judgments, but in reality these cannot hope to realistically compensate for the client’s long-term disadvantage. This is induced by the gaming room never paying the full amount as expected. This methodology will persistently be found in popular casino games such as five-card stud, craps, roulette or blackjack.

Poker is indeed an immensely popular casino pastime. The gaming fans, holding partially screened hands, wager into a principal pot which is finally awarded to the last player bearing the best set of cards. (Of course, the coolest bluffer may win as well…)

Commensurate with seven card stud, blackjack is also a very popular casino game. Plenty of its celebrity is caused by its particular mix of luck and smartness & choice making, and a routine titled “card counting”. This is an approach in which gamers may force the winning odds of the card game to render them an advantage both by betting & tactical actions in agreement with the hands shown.

“Craps” is yet another famous wagering game using the throw of two dice. Gamesters can make wagers on the end result of 1 spin, or on a series of rolls on two dice. Contrary to blackjack, there can’t be a conceivable killer system punters could employ to improve the odds.

Roulette is an extremely popular casino based pastime — a croupier twirls a roulette wheel which accommodates 37 (as in European roulette) or exactly 38 (American or Vegas roulette) independently marked divisions in which the tossed ball will finally settle, thus defining the final winning number If our punter bets on a specific number which is successful meaning they’ve got a lucky hand, the set repayment is 35 to 1, the stake proper will be returned. Thus in totality it is increased by thirty six.

Persist in being very alert as these betting establishment betting games should be considered categorically addiction forming. So many lives are proven to have been wasted in the course of gambling + while it definitely might be entertaining, please do strive to exert moderation.

What, you say! My life is not and has not been violent. I am a peace loving person and would not even hurt a fly. What happens when that fly decides to hurt your? Violence in neighborhoods is still rampant and you live close by. People get robbed, raped, and beat upon on a regular basis going from work to home or home to stores or just traveling on what they would think is a safe street.

Many of us, fortunately, have learned ways of avoiding attacks and the violent subculture that thrives in and around our lives. What about those of us who cannot sidestep this problem? We have always had to learn to defend ourselves the best way we can, physically or emotionally.

There is, and always has been, a plethora of articles and videos on how easy it is to –take care of yourself– and do not worry, you can beat that fly that is attacking you. Many people simply cannot defend themselves or their families without help. The answer may be in actually investing in some sort of self defense product and learning how to use it.

Interestingly, crime reports do not list the statistics about the billion dollar expense of lost work, medical expenses, legal costs, and the tremendous psychological toll for the victims, their friends and families. A woman, even with minimal self defense knowledge, who fights the attacker back, may have up to a 90% chance of successfully getting away without getting hurt. Products such as pepper spray or stun guns may give her that advantage to –get away. Likewise, a man has similar percentages of stopping the attack if he has some fighting skills.

The more strategies you use to –fight back– means you have a higher chance of successfully escaping an attacker. Strategies such as yelling, running, being very observant, and/or fighting mean that you have a greater chance of escape without harm. Men and women who stop an attack by successfully defending themselves spend much less time with therapists, have fewer problems at home, and are able to resume their normal lives faster.

You can reduce your chance of being harmed seriously, or at all, by learning how to defend yourself, either through an accredited self defense program, or by purchasing self defense products and learning how to use them. Take charge of your life and your defenses. You have a choice, allow the fly to swat you, or you learn how to swat the fly.

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With the dawn of the new era of technology, the Internet has evolved in such haste that people find shopping online an alternative. That’s why eBay is considered as a viable place to bid on things that they want to acquire.

The nature of eBay is based on the bidding concept of shopping. People need to bid on the item first before they can have the rights to purchase it. To make online shopping a lot more convenient, eBay uses an automated bidding system that facilitates the auction. The bottom line is that the highest bidder gets the chance to buy the item.

Shopping on eBay is relatively easier than when doing it on a traditional market. However, it could be a little more complicated especially if the bidder doesn’t know how to do it properly.

Hence, it’s a must for every bidder to know the process and equip himself with the principle of creative bidding.

The first consideration when bidding on eBay is the item itself. Bidders should be aware of its composition from the price down to its technical details. This is to assure themselves that what they are trying to obtain is worthy of their money.

Bidders should also take note of the descriptive details of the item. They should assess themselves if they can tolerate any blemish on the item such as scratches, slight cracks, or dents.

It’s also a must for every bidder to do a little background investigation on the seller based on the seller’s feedbacks, demographic profile, and the other items that were already sold on his or her behalf, if there’s any. This is to ensure the buyer if it’s safe enough to proceed with the bidding process.

Consequently, the potential buyer should contemplate on the item first before bidding. The buyer should make it a point that he or she is ready to purchase the item in case he won the bid. This is because the bid is already deemed as a contract that will bind the buyer to an agreement that he or she would have to buy the item in the event that they got the highest bid.

The buyer may also opt to wait until the wee hours of the listing period before bidding, that is, if he or she is really determined to get the product.

Bidding on eBay could be an exhilarating activity while shopping online; yet, it could also be a buyer’s worst nightmare if done inappropriately. So, it’s a must that a buyer takes bidding on eBay a serious matter to avoid any trouble.

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