Nine Successful Online Business Must Haves
1.) Products & Services – Your products and services must be quality products that you would be proud to offer your Mom. There’s nothing worse than providing a shoddy product that you as the owner wouldn’t even purchase. Your product represents you and your business. There are millions of whole sale companies and quality products to resell or create your own. Do not settle for less than the best!
Consumers Can Fight Back With FTC Do Not Call Registry
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it will roll out it’s National Do Not Call Registry beginning July 1, 2003. This is great news for consumers who have grown tired of annoying sales calls by pesky telemarketers.
Masterminding Our Own Business
Bill’s a videophile. Dave’s an audiophile. As mediaphiles, we use to carry all sorts of files like AVI, MP3, or WMA on Zip disks or burn them to CDs, just so we could bring our favorite movies and songs wherever we went: the office, school, radio station, or home. But those days are over, now that we’ve got Mastermind by DivX. Mastermind is a free, media management service that lets us manage and organize our video and audio files, access them, and play them back wherever we are.
9 Free Ways To Grow Your List
You could once rely on free classified ads to bring you money. But today, for the work you have to put in, it’s just not worth it. There are better ways. Why don’t you try these?:
21st Century Career Success
When it comes to modern career development, one thing we can all count on is change. With the advent of technology, telecommuting, and E-commerce, how work is performed is in a state of reinvention.
Keep Your Website Up-To-Date
In almost every business publication there are articles telling us how, as a small business, we need to have a website. This is very true! The Internet is where most people go to find a product or service that they are interested in or may have heard about. And, if your business is capable of serving customers throughout the globe, what better way to keep your information available to that huge target audience than an Internet presence?
Your Ebay Swipe File
Despite being on eBay for a while and watching the auctions whenever I can, there always seems to be new types of auctions and products sold at auctions popping up every day.
America’s Highly Skilled Workers Take Big Hit in Jobless Recovery
America’s highly skilled workers continue to take a big hit in the jobless recovery. These workers are suffering scant wage growth and unusually high unemployment. With the overall U.S. unemployment rate at 6% in April, most are ready, willing and able to get back to work.
Brewing Trouble
Admit it: When you’re faced with a lengthy checklist for testing, you’re tempted to skip steps. Some of the items aren’t really necessary, are they? They might be so obvious that there’s no need to include them in the list. In this week’s column, Elisabeth Hendrickson offers some advice on constructing useful checklists that are brief but complete.
Be Bold!
I like what Billie Jean King, the feminist tennis professional, had to say: “Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozey, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.” Does the fear of making an error keep you from doing things you say are important to you?