Rejections hurt–and every editor knows this. They all try to be tactful, but with their workloads increasing every year they no longer have time to help a writer whose manuscript would take up months of their time to get right. So these days the chances are that, instead of a personal letter, you’ll receive a photocopied rejection that isn’t dated and doesn’t address you by name or mention the title of the rejected manuscript, let alone have a proper signature at the end of it. I’m not sure whether this will increase your hurt or lessen it. I had been receiving rejections for years before I started receiving this type of thing.
The Joy of Targeting Teenagers
Teenagers are the generation that marketing execs would and do spend millions a year to try to understand. Every product directed towards the teen crowd goes through hundreds of changes and focus groups to determine whether or not that particular ad will work. This generation has so many variations to it that to say that you are going to target “all teens” is virtually impossible. We must focus on a common factor that most teens share and can be drawn upon to create attachment to our product.
Pay-Per-Click Your Way To Success
You have heard about them. You have seen them popping up everywhere. Pay-per-click search engines are becoming one of the most popular methods to bring targeted traffic to your web site.
A Guide for Newbies
The most frequent question that we get from people is this: “Hi, I am a construction worker (or janitor, banker, donut maker – it doesn’t matter) and I want to know how to go about getting my MCSE. How benificial will it be and how much money can I make?”
Standing Out From the Crowd
How is the casual web surfer going to perceive your website as distinct from a thousand others in the same business?
10 Reasons To Survey Your Visitors, Subscribers And Customers!
1. You’ll find out what type of content visitors want to see at your web site. This will attract your visitors to revisit and read the content.
The Top 10 Tips on Building a High Performance Team
Teams just don’t happen; they are built. The following are tips that you, as a team leader or an individual member, may use to move your team into a higher performance level.
1. Develop a Vision
Identify the challenging, inspiring goals you want your team to achieve. Define how you want people outside of your team (your customers, your peers out side of your team, the corporation as a whole) to perceive your team. Get all team members involved in helping writing this team vision. Formulate this team vision into a team mission statement. Then have your team’s mission statement professionally printed and post it in the workplace for all to see.
The TAO of the Internet Entrepreneur
The word Tao means the Way.
The Tao of the Internet Entrepreneur seeks equal exchange. If the exchange between you and your customer is not equal it Will not be valid even if you get away with fooling or short changing The customer. In the end it will come back to haunt you.
HOw to Accept Credit Cards on Your Site
The most difficult aspect of selling something from your web site is figuring out how to accept payment. Asking people to send checks is an option, and it will result in a few sales. Various services offer assorted payment methods. All of them will result in a few sales. But the single most important service you must offer is the ability to accept credit card payments. In the 18 months that I have been selling templates from my web site, easily 90% of my sales have come through credit card transaction, although I offer two alternative payment methods.
Making Dragable Movies / Menues
For this tutorial you need to have basic knowledge of Flash 5.
Just about every Flash site I’ve seen gives you a chance to grab their menu and move it out of the way or put it wherever you want it.