Doing business over meals is a ritual that has existed for centuries. Taking clients to breakfast, lunch or dinner has long been an effective way to build relationships, make the sale or seal the deal. These business meals are essentially business meetings. Knowledge of your product or your service is crucial to the success of the meeting, but so are your manners. Too many people jeopardize an opportunity because they fail to use good dining etiquette. Here are a few basic rules to make the experience pleasurable and profitable.Know your duties as the host. You are in charge. It is…
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Whether you realize it or not, if you”ve been on the Internet today, you have encountered affiliate marketing. If you have ever clicked thru one site to order something from another, the first site probably received a portion of the sale. For instance, independent booksellers have limited shelf space for books. But they can offer their customers an almost unlimited inventory of titles by affiliating with companies like Amazon or Powell”s. The more orders, the bigger the affiliate percentage.Visitors to your site are interested in lots of things that may or may not be related to your product. But when…
Desiring to have fun is natural, normal and an a sound approach to a healthy state of being. Your life cannot help but flourish if your daily routine is infused with FUN. Consider it a basic need along with food, shelter, clothing, Etc! Of course, this is not to say that you dont take important things seriously. It is to say, however, that you dont treat every experience as though your life depends on it.Old patterning may have taught us that having fun is acceptable in its proper place and time. And for some, fun is interpreted as a childish…
Kathryn WilliamsonAre you stuck in a rut? Do you seem to have the same problems popping up time after time? What will it take to finally get you over your problems and into the abundant life? Here are three biblical principles to help you get out of whatever personal problems youre going through and on the road to achieving the life of your dreams.Have you noticed that almost all of our problems stem from relationships? Either someone has hurt us or we lack relationships in our life, especially healthy ones. Sometimes other symptoms develop as a result of our hurt…
Beach, chilly fruit shakes, summer babes in hot bikinis and summer escapades pretty sure you are missing them all. Summer lovin is left behind lets give winter its chance to freeze us.Chillin. Freezin. Glazin. Winter time is fast approaching. Skiing will just be as fun as decorating the streets and homes with glitzy lanterns and greetings for the Christmas season. The frostiness of the fog seems to overwhelm children. We can see them playing around nosily and merrily. Even lovers are enjoying the warmth of every cuddle. Some even manage to go on skiing – they seem to melt…
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Ray MannWorking online can provide many freedoms. An online income can also be difficult to maintain. There are many different types of online incomes. The best way to figure out what is right for you is to find support online from others who are trying to make an online income.Your reasons for trying to find an online income can be many different things. You may be wanting an extra source of income or just looking to leave the 9to5 world. There are benefits no matter your reason for trying online income.- You are your own boss.- You directly control how…
In order to learn how to relieve ourselves of self-defeating patterns, the obvious first step is to become aware of what these patterns are. The easiest way to do this is simply to become a casual observer of your own behavior and to take stock of how you treat yourself. Note both the negative and the positive aspects. Don”t make a big chore of this. Simply intend to “hear” what you tell yourself as you go about your business. Notice how you “look” at yourself. Do you ever smile at yourself in the mirror? Do you ever greet yourself as…
Six “Honest Serving-Men” – You Can Employ For Nothing To Galvanise Your Business I keep six honest serving-men They taught me all I knew Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. (RudyardKipling, from “The Elephant”s Child” in Just So Stories). Kipling”s words may no longer be politically correct but they still provide the basis of my business philosophy today. i.e. If you don”t know, ask. So I got to thinking. Is there a modern business equivalent to Kipling”s six honest serving-men? Kipling Updated: Six Acronyms That Can Transform Any BusinessSWOTStrengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and…
5/11/2005 – Light One Little Candle is a charity book drive program for cancer stricken parents and kids that was started by my childhood friend Joelle Pauporte. Joelle is 35 years old; she has a three year old daughter, Halle, and terminal metastatic breast cancer.Joelle had spent much of her life studying medicine and was just embarking on a promising career in psychiatry. She and her husband had recently moved to a new home in Connecticut when her diagnosis came. Joelle”s life was suddenly turned upside down with radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery.Amidst all the turmoil, time spent reading with her…
From my childhood memories, pride of place on the top of Christmas tree always went to a fairy dressed in white. Or was it an angel? No, I’m sure it was the Christmas fairy; and she was usually last to go on the tree apart from the tinsel. One thing for sure, it was always after the other tree ornaments such as the hanging balls.Life has become much more competitive since then, and the Christmas tree topping fairy has lots of competition now for the top spot, the Christmas-ornament-in-chief position.So what competition does the classic Christmas tree fairy have, that…
Omega 3 benefits are wide-ranging and proven by clinical studies. Understanding the best Omega 3 sources means you can include more of these healthy foods in your daily meal planning. From heart health to depression treatment to pregnancy health, Omega 3 benefits are too good to ignore if you are interested in health. What are Omega 3″s and what are the best Omega 3 sources? The Omega 3 essesential fatty acids (EFA”s) are polyunsaturated fats or the so-called “good fats”. These desirable fats cannot be made by the human body, so they must be obtained from foods or supplemental sources.…
Inkjet printers makes use of inkjet ink which a very complex formulation that makes possible for the ink to infiltrate almost any type of surfaces. Inkjet printers are also commonly used by home owners as well as various businesses. The usual inkjet printers used are bubble jet or thermal printer that are best for everyday printing needs. However, when it comes to printing for the business industry although a bubble jet or thermal printer may do some of the easy printing jobs but for some of the complicated printing requirements like the use of codes and markings in order for…
When building my website “Crossword Heaven” I came across a problem. I created a PHP object called “crossword” but needed to save the information in the object to a database. Now considering that this object contained a lot of information this was not an easy thing to do. Or was it?The answer: serialize().What the serialize() function does is take something like an array or object and converts it into a string that can be stored in a database. All I had to do so that I could save the crossword object is something like “serialize($crossword).” Easy! Some words of warning…
John WeisenbergerOne of the fundamental truths I”ve learned about Internet Marketing is that no one really wants to pay for information. The truth is, the only reason people will ever pay you for your information right now is because you can solve their most immediate and important problems right now. For example, promise someone your eBook will take away their fear or pain regarding some specific issue and they will gladly part with their hard earned cash to see if you have the solution to their problem. So what does that mean to small online dating and relationship oriented Website…