The unemployment checks are running out and there is no potential job in sight. The wolf is knocking at the door and you need to survive.
Here are five tips to keep you afloat.
1. Ignore your ego and get everyone on board. You hate letting your children see you as less than competent and completely in [...]
In view of the increasing negative events happening around the world here are five things you can do to help you stay positive.
1. Take a news sabbatical. Listening to the news can be downright depressing. All bad news all of the time can drag you down and keep you there. Give yourself permission to stop [...]
Groucho Marx was, I believe, a comic genius; a linguistic virtuoso, offbeat, wacky and insanely funny. He was also rude, abrasive and these days he’d qualify as verbally abusive. In film after film Margaret Dumont was on the receiving end of his scathing humour. She would fall for his iconoclastic charm and [...]
It has been said that 60-80% of New Year’s resolutions will be broken within the first two weeks. In other words, a lot of people have a hard time making the changes in their life they want to make. So you are not alone. Personally, I am not a huge advocate of [...]
Looking for work can be difficult, frustrating, anxiety-provoking, and demeaning.
There are few situations we encounter in life where we feel so powerless. Not only do we have a sense that we have little control over the outcome, but we also feel judged. We become objectified, presented like a colt at a yearling auction or a [...]
Articles submitted to online publishers bring your site new visitors and increase your ezine subscribers. You can also get these benefits by submitting your articles to top Web sites that not only promote your products, but also your services.
Here’s how to get your articles on Web sites that have 1000-500,000 visitors each day.
1. Run a [...]
You have only 10 seconds to impress your potential buyer.
Your Web site visitors don’t care about you. They care what you can do for them. Give them a reason to buy. If you haven’t reaped the sales you deserve apply these ten tips:
1. Write dazzling home-page copy that gives your potential customers a reason to [...]
The query letter is simply a business letter that serves a dualpurpose. It is an introduction of you to an agent, and an inquiryas to whether the agent would be interested in seeing a particularpiece of your work. The query letter is the first “picture” an agentwill have of you and your work; and [...]
We get invited to attend so many “meetings” but do we need to attend them all? Use these 10 questions to assess if you should attend that next meeting invitation.
What is the agenda of the meeting? Don’t attend a meeting without a clear agenda otherwise you are wasting time. Don’t ever schedule a meeting [...]
Becoming a contractor or sub-contractor for the U.S. government can bring in lucrative, on-going revenue to your small business. But doing business with the government is very different than typical business-to-business selling.
For example, sales cycles can be much slower. There is a specific process that must be followed, and you’ll face stiff competition from larger [...]