10 Simple Steps to Home-Based Transcription Business Success

I'm often asked how someone can not only establish, but also succeed as a home-based transcriptionist. This is a difficult question to answer - even after more than 14 years in the business. There are so many different factors to consider, not the least of which includes YOUR experience, training, education, skills and "homebase" (area of the country you operate from) as well as your…

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the Google “Snippet” System in Action

Dear Dan, My name is Brandon Stone. I'm senior tech and webmaster for a company called Martin Yale Industries. We manufacture office and graphics equipment. I took over the company website about a year ago. It had previously been ignored for about five years. So, I went out and bought a copy of FrontPage and taught myself to build webs. I have been building for…

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Setting Your Rates And Raising Your Rates

What is a mailing list? It's a discussion group that converses by e-mail. Mailing lists cover a wide variety of topics, at all levels. Many lists have a moderator, who will check posts for suitability before the go out to the list members.

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What do you Mean, PROMOTE MY SITE?

So, you've spent some long, hard hours and invested your hard-earned money into creating the perfect website for your business. Now its time to start promoting. But what exactly does that little word, "promote", mean?

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Beware of Today’s Targeted Scams

There are zillions of scams floating all over - online websites, emails, regular snail-mail, and phone calls. You need to be wary of everything - and that's a tough call. As a funding agent, I got a call the other day, and this woman was asking of we can do a certain type of loan - I asked her to explain, and she said she…

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