If you were hoping to read a column about how to keep your star performers forever, I recommend that you turn the page this isnt it.

The truth is that the majority of your best people will eventually leave.

Assuming that the previous statement is a fact, how do many leaders (business owners, managers, etc.) approach this challenge? Unfortunately, they treat their people (even their most talented employees) like a leased vehicle. These leaders try to get as much out of them as humanly possible, while investing as little that they can because they know that the lease is eventually coming due.

Did you invest in new tires and brakes immediately before turning in your last leased car? Of course you didnt. You ran the vacuum, washed the windows and hoped the dealer didnt notice the big scratch on the back bumper or the crack in the cup holder.

So, if we agree that our best employees will eventually leave, why not treat them like a used vehicle? Why not just work them hard while investing little until they pack up and move on?

Other than the obvious fact that improving the lives of others is the right thing to do, I believe that there are 3 key reasons why you should treat your top performers like that minivan you just bought with hopes it will last until your infants high school graduation.

1. Investing in your employees will dramatically improve the overall performance of your company. As Zig Ziglar states, People dont care how much you know until they know how much you care. If your best team members recognize that you are just as interested in them as you are in the bottom line, they will produce more. Would your top performers be less likely to spend 45 minutes every morning on ESPN.com if they knew that you just spent $2,500 on a training class that will help them develop valuable skills?

2. Your best employees will stay longer in an environment where they are constantly being challenged and improving. The key to keeping the most talented individuals as long as possible is to diminish the powerful effects of the grass is always greener syndrome. One way of doing this is to ensure that they are continuously asking themselves Would I be able to learn all this great stuff somewhere else?

3. If and when they do leave, those employees who recognize how valuable your efforts were to their careers will provide you with two important benefits. First, they will be more likely to return and second, they will recommend their peers who will also tend to be top performers.

Ive hopefully convinced you that investing in your best employees is not only the right thing to do but that it will significantly improve your companys performance. Now the question becomes how do you do it?

As most leaders will agree, its not easy. I have heard many business owners complain that they spent tons of money on these employees and they still left. Heres why these companies have absolutely no idea what their employees really want or more importantly what training/mentoring/opportunities they need to get what they want.

My personal experience serves as a perfect example. Early in my career, I worked at a large consulting firm. After my first year, I decided to sign up for an expensive technology course that many others with my background and tenure had completed. Unfortunately, after 5 days of intensive training on software development the only thing I remember is that there is no way I was ever going to be a software developer. Six months later I was gone.

Later in my career, I was approaching the 1-year mark with a much smaller firm. We had recently downsized and had no immediate budget for any training. My supervisor took the time to find out what skills I thought were most important to help me reach my long term professional goals. About a month later, I was given a great opportunity to manage a sales team and work under a seasoned and extremely talented individual. I stayed another three years.

Whats the lesson? You need to find out what your employees really want. Most of the time this will require helping them uncover where they want to take their careers. Once you understand this, provide them with opportunities to develop the skills to get there. This doesnt have to be an expensive training class in Las Vegas. It can be as simple as providing them with an opportunity to learn about another part of your business.

Be different this year. Get creative. Help your employees understand what they want and provide them with the skills to get there - the long term benefits to the bottom line will be remarkable.

CJ McClanahan is an business coach and inspirational speaker (http://www.coachcj.com/). You can reach him at 317-845-9742 or cjm@coachcj.com.

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Theres a Fifth Element to building online revenues from your hotel web site, and without it you will never appear on page one of Google, Yahoo or MSN for the highest volume search termsa Fifth you say? And the first Four Elements are?

Well, the first Four Elements are: a search-engine-friendly technical site structure, rich original content, appealing design and conversion techniques focussed on converting lookers to bookersbut even if you get these first four completely right, and you can, you still wont appear on page one of Google, Yahoo or MSN for high traffic generating search terms. Highly frustrating I know - been there, done that, got the t-shirt; this is the answer you have been looking for

The Fifth Element has nothing to do with anything actually on you hotel web site; the Fifth Element involves actively building more Inbound Links to your web site from other web sites. In the simplest of terms, a Search Engine sees a link to your web site as being like a vote of confidence in your web site. Search Engines believe that if other websites are linking to your web pages, you must have something good to link to and they will rate the page being linked to positively.

Search Engine robots or spiders continuously travel virally from web site to web site following links like an enormous daisy chain; in fact Search Engines initially discover your web site via a link from another web site. Once your hotel web site has been found, each page of your site is then ranked by Search Engines based on a complex set of criteria known as an algorithm; a piece of computer code that takes into consideration on-site and off-site factors collected by the robots or spiders. Data is then assembled, collated and evaluated in order to come up with a Page Score or Rank. This is how a search engine determines which sites to present when someone types in Hong Kong hotel with harbour view or New York five star lodging near Wall Street.

All things being equal, when two hotel web sites have similar structure and content, the site with the best links will be served up first. Note that I wrote best links not most links. Some time ago, a site with the most links would have won out, however, although Search Engines may be blind to images, they are not blind to webmasters manipulating their algorithms. They are continuously fine tuning their spiders to exclude web sites that attempt to fudge their results. Remember that a Search Engines prime function is to deliver highly relevant results, not some mysterious pharmaceutical products when you are searching for that boutique London hotel near Knightsbridge.

Search Engines today take into consideration several additional factors when rating Inbound Links to your site:

• the reputation or Trust value of sites linking to your hotel web site
• the Theme or Relevance of sites linking to you
• the Anchor Text (the words that the link is embedded within) in links to your site

Trust for example, a link from a government tourism site is highly trusted by Search Engines, is on theme and will most likely have anchor text including your hotel name (and destination + hotel if you have been e-smart or have read ahead). Theme or Relevance a link from a destination guide web site that may also list other hotels in your region is on theme; a link from your local scout troop site is of little value; not no value but little value.

Anchor Text - this is now so critical in maximising your sites appearance at the top of the Search Engines Results Pages (SERPs) that we recommend that, for online purposes, that you include your destination in your official property name eg The Stafford Paris Hotel. The terms destination + hotel are usually among the major search terms that online searchers use for locating their accommodation options. The result of this is that links to your site embedded in you property name will also, almost always, have destination + hotel in the anchor text. Having your keywords in the anchor text in links to your web site will help you climb up to page one on the Search Engines.

There are already some links to your site from other web sites, you just dont know who and how many. Helpfully, the Search Engines can tell you how many links there are currently to your site and from which sites. Go to Yahoo and type in linkdomain:www.yourwebsiteurl.com (replacing yourwebsiteurl.com with your own URL) and hit the Search button. Now, before you get all excited, do the same on Googleusing the slightly different command link:www.yourwebsiteurl.com and you will see a much smaller number. Each of the Search Engines evaluates and counts links differently and Google is the fussiest of them all.

How many trusted, on theme, relevant links with the right words in the anchor text (getting the hang of this now?) do you need to march your web pages up the rankings? Whilst it does depend on how competitive your keywords are, about 30 links recognised by Google, and 600 on Yahoo and MSN will sufficeand adding about 100 a month means six months work and a lot of patience, although you will start to see results within a few weeks. And please dont try to add 600 links in a week (or sign up for those 1000 links for $19.95 in a week services); the Search Engines are smart enough to know the difference between reasonable, natural link growth (some acceleration is acceptable) and web sites that are trying to fudge the results and compensate for that.

So, how do you go about building more Inbound Links? Here are three simple, easy methods to start with:

• talk to you suppliers and ask them to link to your web siteyour suppliers web sites are likely to be on theme (they supply your industry), somewhat trusted (dont we all trust our suppliers) and will more than likely be happy to phrase the link text exactly the way you want (and if you add this request into your final negotiations it is difficult for them to say no)
• encourage your Conference and Events team to ask their clients to link to your hotel web site, that is, the venue for their upcoming conference, event or meetingnot so strong on theme but usually they are trusted corporate or association sites and again, if you supply them with the link and anchor text, theres a pretty good chance that they will simply add the link verbatim
• talk to your local partners, attractions and neighbours and ask them to link to youthey will be on theme (destination), relevant etc etc

You may be asked to provide a link back, and that is fine, but the preferred result is a one way link to your pages. In simple terms links in minus links out gives you a net link value from the Search Engines (in reality its more complex than that).

Naturally, there is a lot more to building more Inbound Linkswe havent touched on submitting to web directories, outbound links to trusted sites, reciprocal links, link exchanges, buying links, renting linksin highly competitive online markets you may need to use all of these tools and more.

Oh, and sorry, but there IS a Sixth Element to consider as you work your way up to page one on Google for your main keywordspatience. You just cant hurry along the Search Engines. The same way that the very best chefs know that you need time and patience to create a culinary masterpiece, so you will need time and patience to work your web site up to page one for your optimum search terms. There is no quick fix and anyone who promises to achieve a page one listing for high volume keywords in a month for $49.95 is a liar.

Yes, short term results can be achieved through certain black hat techniques and I know a lot of thembut the risk of having your web site banned from Google, Yahoo or MSN, is just too great. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The Search Engines employ some of the smartest software engineers on the planet and they are light years ahead of anything you could think up to fool them.

Starting today, now, put into practice the simple methods I have outlined above to build relevant, theme-based links with the right anchor textand watch as your web site starts heading North over the following few weeks and months. Assuming you have the first Four Elements in place, the results of implementing your own Fifth Element, an effective Inbound Link building program, will be rapidly growing visitor traffic to your web site, increasing online revenues and growth in RevPOV (Revenue Per Online Visit). And dont forget to add in that elusive Sixth Element, a little time and patience. Or you could just contact us at Hotel Marketing Workshop (www.hotelmarketingworkshop.com)wed be very happy to assist.

- ENDS -

Keith Paulin is the General Manager of Hotel Marketing Workshop. Keith has worked in senior marketing roles within the hotel industry (Hilton, Regent, Hyatt, Accor) and in other industries (HP, Lion Nathan, Shell) and holds degrees in Marketing and Business Management. Hotel Marketing Workshop works with chain and independent hotels, large and small, delivering tactical, practical hotel e-marketing strategies that work and they assist with expert implementation. Keith has a deep interest in the world of e-commerce, Search Engine Optimisation and Search Engine Marketing and a clear track record in producing growth in RevPOV (Revenue Per Online Visit) for hotel clients.

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Nokia N73 Music edition is a all rounder cell phone as it comes with a effective camera, nice music support, display and huge memory and all this in a cell phone which is very light in weight.

The phone comes with a 2 .4 inch QVGA TFT color display. The handset is available in several colors like metallic red, silver grey and mocha brown. The cell works on the Symbian operating system and has the inbuilt internal memory of 40MB.

The handset supports the various networks like GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900, EGSM. The phone comes with the various Connectivity options like 3G, Bluetooth, Infrared, USB.

Nokia N73 music edition has few features which makes it different from the other Nokia N73 normal edition like the presence of a 2GB miniSD Card and a superior AD-41 adapter/stereo headset. It also has a standard 3.5mm stereo connector embedded in the control unit of this cell phone. This feature enables the user to simply plug in its own ear headset instead of remaining fixed to the cheap Nokia Earbuds.

Since it has been given the name of Music edition it by default explains that it is bundled with the various mart features of the music player. The handset comes with a brand new version of music player which has two Windows-style Visualizations along with the complete support for the Windows media player, along with the facility to adjust the stereo loudness and widening.

The user can very conveniently send and receive SMS and MMS. The cell has a 3.2 mega pixel digital camera. The phone supports the polyphonic format.

The phone declares that the cell has the talk time of 3.7 hours and standby time of 370 hours The Nokia N73 Music edition in itself a complete music station for the users who are in love with the handsets which have the advanced technology and feature related to music.

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In the similar manner in which Indian government is focusing its attention on clamping down scenes in Bollywood (name of Indian Film Industry) flicks in which the hero or the heroine is shown to be pressing a piece of cigarette or cigar to their lips, if the authorities worldwide implement such anti-smoking measures, do you think any substantial result would be the outcome?

Buddy dear! The addiction of the harmful substance nicotine happens only when your mind remains indelibly attached to nicotine and you are unable to kick off the habit. And nicotine cravings are such deeply rooted that even after trying out a plethora of measures smokers around the world become unsuccessful in inducing quit smoking. As it is the truth, I dont think that you would be able to quit smoking just by watching a couple of flicks that shows your favorite hero or heroine getting rid of the disastrous habit of smoking addiction.

To be frank, scenes in movies depicting Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise with cigarettes are not totally responsible for the increase in cigarette addicts across the world. When it comes to the factors responsible for nicotine addiction, there are other substantial ones like peer pressure, a false belief on the part of the youngsters that the guys who smoke are smarter than the others and also the inclination seen among a section of the young generation to try out cigarettes and keep stress at bay.

Cigarette smoking by film stars and celebrities is not the cause behind the public falling in the grip of smoking addiction and it is also not possible that if they leave to smoke, the public would also get rid of smoking addiction. Then what is the suitable anti-smoking measure that you can incorporate in your life and relieve yourself from the evil influence of nicotine? It would be best on your part to ask a doctor first and if he recommends the quit smoking medication Chantix, you can unhesitatingly opt for it. Chantix is Food and drugs Administration (FDA) approved medicine and with its help you can easily make your way out of nicotine addiction.

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Meow, these cat party games will delight the whole family and youre party will be a hit with the kids who are always entertained with fun games.

Kitty Cat Scavenge:

Give the adults at the cat party games a chance to rest with these cat party games. Before the party starts you should have hide a range of objects around the cat party games area and made a list of them. Make copies of the list to give one to each group of three or four players. This includes one cat leader (who will be the adult) and the rest will all be kitty cats. The players in each group will decide before the game on a special kitty cat meow they will call out when someone in the group has found an object. When a cat has found one of the objects they must make the sound that theyve chosen until their team leader gets up and goes to retrieve the object from the cat player.

Players cannot bring the objects to the team leaders. Those teams who have managed to find the most objects are the winners of the cat party games.

Feeding Time:

This is a funny but messy cat party game for the guests to play at your party. Set up a finish line with clean bowls of cereal or some other type of food on the floor or have each bowl resting on a chair if you feel its more hygienic. Then create a starting line where each of the cats or players will line up and get ready to race. As your go, each of these cat players will rush to their own bowls of food and eat all the cereal in them, without using their hands, then when their bowls are empty theyll rush back to their starting line.

These two cat party games are great activities to get your guests involved in. Plus youll get the kids at the party so worn out they wont be bouncing off the walls later on.

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The short answer is yes. The money you received from selling items online is, indeed, income. If you have no receipt or other documentation to prove the amount you originally spent on the item, everything you received from selling it is considered profit. In this instance, it is as if you got the item for free and sold it for 100% gain, incurring no additional expenses along the way.

Nothing in this world is free. So we will assume you did not obtain the item for free. How do you convince the IRS of this if you lost your original receipt? Give your inventory value. On your taxes, when valuing your inventory (the stuff you have sold or have available for sale) you can choose to use the exact amount you paid for something or the fair market value - which ever is less. This means, if you no longer have the receipt documenting what you paid for that old television you sold, you can use the fair market value. It is unlikely the fair market value would now be greater than what you originally paid for it. Research similar items on a site like eBay. Average the prices the similar items are going for to come up with the fair market value for your item.

In order to keep accurate records of how you came up with your value in the case of an audit, it is advisable to print out a few pages showing similar items being sold at the same price at which you valued your item.

Now, we need to factor in the fees you incurred to list the item for sale. Do not forget the amounts you spent on packaging supplies and postage to mail the item once it sold. All of these expenses may be added to the cost of your item. Now, subtract all of that from what you received from buyer. If you ended up with a negative number, you actually lost money. Any positive number you are left with is your profit. Now, do this for every item you listed and/or sold this year and add it all up. If you made a profit, you are in business.

Net Operating Loss

If you had net earnings (after expenses) from self-employment (selling online, for instance) of $400 or more in a given tax year, you must report it. Even if you had less than $400 in self-employment income, it may be to your advantage to file. If, with deductions, you get your self-employment income down to a loss, you may be able to offset other income earned by you or your spouse. If you have made quarterly, estimated payments, you may be due a refund.

When claiming internet income, you will need to file a Schedule C, along with your 1040. Schedule C is where you will account for both your business income and expenses. It is a form which basically walks you through the steps of determining profit discussed above. If you get to the end of your Schedule C, and the remaining number is negative, you have what is called a net operating loss. This simply means you lost money this year; the cost of doing business was more than the income. The IRS understands that businesses, especially in their start-up years, may not always make a profit.

Hobby or Business

What if you lost money, but you were truly trying to make a go at an online business? If you make a profit, you are in business. If you continuously lose money, however, you risk having your business activity classified as a hobby. The IRS sets several guidelines to determine whether they think you are a business or indulging your hobby at a discount. You do not necessarily have to make money, but must show you are making an honest effort to do so.

3 Out of 5 Rule

One thing the IRS looks at to determine your intentions is to examine the past five years of your business. If you have made a profit in three out of five consecutive years, the IRS considers your venture a legitimate business. So, in essence, you may claim a loss for at leas the first two years before anyone bats an eyelash. However, this is not the only thing the IRS studies.

If you fail the 3 out of 5 rule, but can still prove you are actively pursuing profit, you can still be classified as a business. Ways to do this include advertising, keeping good business records, past success in a similar business, having a business license (which is not necessary to be considered a business with the IRS in the first place, by the way), courses taken to improve your skills, and if this is your sole source of potential income, because that proves financial need.

Why Does it Exist?

The hobby rule exists to keep people from indulging their hobbies by continuously offsetting their other income with business losses. Even online selling can be considered a hobby if you keep losing money at it.

What if it is a Hobby?

What if you never make a profit from online selling? What if the IRS decides to classify your business venture as a hobby? In this case, not all is lost. You may then still deduct some of your expenses, as long as those expenses to do not create a loss. The deductions you may take from hobby expenses are filed on a Schedule A (instead of taking the standard deduction) and are subject to the 2% floor on miscellaneous personal deductions. Hobby income is reported on line 21 of your 1040 (other income).

Regardless, you must keep records of your income and expenses. If you are ever audited, and the IRS finds you had internet income, you will need to be able to prove the expenses associated with that income. Otherwise, the taxes and penalties may be heavy.

Simon Elisha, author, Taxes for Online Sellers-
A How-To Guide for Individuals on Federal Tax for Internet Sales
ISBN: 978-0-9796328-0-8
http://www.taxesforonlinesellers.com
Copyright 2007 -2008

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Who would you be if you werent in charge, and if you werent in control? Do you have the self-esteem it takes to risk looking foolish? Are you willing to put it out there in a big way and trust your teammates to catch you if you fall?

What would happen if you had to find a way to agree with the present moment? Would you have the courage to allow the flow and stop resisting what is? Are you willing to accept or even agree with others even when you dont fully understand their point of view?

Depending upon your role in your company, owner, president, employee, entrepreneur, youll have a standard seminar answer. If youre on the top rung of the ladder youll say something like Ive been to Coveys Seven Habits Training. If you are on the middle rung youll say something like, I teach this stuff and have developed the material. Or if youre on the bottom rung youll say youve been through the ropes course at the company retreat.

Although these courses and methods are valuable, if you want to know the skinny on these answers to these questions, take the eight-week course at the Skinny Improv. The Skinny Improv is a comedy troop in Springfield Missouri. The troop performs every Friday and Saturday night, and offers lessons to anyone who wants to learn the same skills to use in business or in life. If you have an improve troop in your area it is worth the personal investment. Youll learn a lot about team building and even more about yourself. Here are some of the lessons Ive learned after six weeks of investing in myself for the training.

Lesson One: Its not about you.

Although you are on the team, its never really about you. Its about making everyone else look good. When you do your part and your intention is to be there for the other team members, then everyone is a star. Its not your job to get the limelight, to get the last word or deliver the funniest line. Its your job to make everyone else look good. When you focus on yourself, you do so at the expense of the team. In the business world being competent in lesson one will work magic for the team and work miracles for customer service.

Lesson Two: Go with the flow.

In Improv, you never know what the other person will do, so its easy to get thrown off guard. When you are caught off guard, the natural response is to resist instead of looking for agreement. When you are used to being in control its difficult to let go. If you are in a position of power you are used to planning and facilitating but you forget what its like to participate. Its easy to ask others to step up but when you go with the flow you become a participant instead of the controller. So often in the business world we resist and stress over the current situations instead of looking for opportunities to go with the flow.

Lesson Three: Trust is paramount.

In order to have a great team you must trust that your team members are there for you. They will rescue you when you stumble, they will catch you when you fall. After all, they also believe in the philosophy that its not about them, but it is about making you look good. What goes around comes around. The end result is a great customer experience and in Improv the audience is the customer. In the business world your end result is to satisfy the customer so that you can keep them. You do this by making sure the team supports each other so that they can deliver the end result.

Lesson Four: Judgment blocks success.

Its impossible to be creative in the midst of criticism. It doesnt matter if the criticism is directed toward someone else or yourself, judgment blocks the flow of energy. It takes discipline and practice to learn how to suspend the gremlins in your head that tell you how stupid you look and it takes a conscious positive intention to allow others the same courtesy.

Lesson Five: Growth takes courage.

In order to learn something new we have to be willing to leave our comfort zone momentarily and that takes the courage to risk. When you believe that everyone on your team has your best interests at heart, and that you will not be judged your capacity for courage is maximized. You can only risk when you have trust, when you have learned to go with the flow, you let go of judgment, and when youve been on the giving and receiving end of the philosophy that it isnt about you.

Marlene Chism works with people who want to stop the drama and take charge of their lives.
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It is with no doubt that hemorrhoid truly entail embarrassment and humiliation to the one having it. It is unimaginable that unexpected bleeding from the behind can actually occur to someone who has this condition. (Let the case of menstruation among women rest in this issue.)

Uncontrollable itchiness and the burning sensation that usually accompanies the condition are just too much for some individuals to bear. Because of this, it is without doubt that people are dying to undergo medical treatments or relief treatment procedures just to get rid of their condition.

Soaking the anal area in a hot tub is one of the most effective hemorrhoids remedy that can offer immediate relief. Sitting in lukewarm water for several minutes repeatedly during the course of the day can help aid relief from itchiness and pain brought by it.

Hemorrhoids can also be relieved by applying topical ointment onto the affected area. It can relieve the burning and itching feeling due to the irritations at the affected area. Aside from topical ointment or special cream, a suppository can also be a good alternative. Suppositories containing soothing medicine can be inserted in the anal canal.

Apply ice packs or cold compress to the inflamed veins. The coldness can help reduce swelling as well as redness.

Medical experts have also been pointing at that a good remedy is maintaining a fibrous diet. A person with the condition should avoid eating too much meat and dairy products since these can cause constipation. Constipation should be avoided by someone who has this problem because the straining brought by it can aggregate more pain towards the inflamed veins. Too much pushing during defecation can also cause it to rupture and bleed. In this manner, fibers are really needed in the body to help aid digestion and to have a clean and soft stool - making way for an easier defecation.

It is recommended that one should take at least 40 grams of fibers per day. Fibers can be found among green leafy vegetables, rice, oatmeal, citrus fruits, cereals and whole grains. Another part for a healthy diet is the drinking of at least eight glasses of water daily. This is to avoid dehydration and to help, as well, in having soft stool.

Another remedy that is just so easy to do is to have regular physical exercises. Sedentary lifestyle might cause hemorrhoids to further bloat as excess weights are continuously pushing pressure towards the lower abdomen. Notably, people with excess weights (or those who are obese) and pregnant women are more prone to the problem. Refrain also from sitting and standing in just one position for prolonged period of time.

No matter how small or large the size of your hemorrhoids may be, it is always advisable to consult a doctor the soonest time possible. This is to ensure further complications and problems. Furthermore, seeking medical advice at an earlier time can help treat it right away; thus, reducing further pain and discomfort.

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Your Ultimate Marketing Plan: Four Key Areas

There are several strategies you can use to grow your business, but they all fall under four general categories:

Attract new customers.
Increase the average sales amount from each sale.
Entice your customers buy from you more often.
Keep your customers for life.

The first and last are obvious for reporting in your marketing efforts. But the two in the center are just as important in the overall growth and profitability of your business. If a small business is receiving a significant potion of its new business from referrals, they are probably not spending enough time attracting new customers from the marketplace.

But referrals are the best kind of customers, you say. Yes, they are great, but if you spend the majority of your time and money trying to get them you may be neglecting a whole group of new customers that are waiting to buy from you. Also, if a small business spends all its time marketing to new customers and ignoring existing customers, you may be missing out on a lot of ripe fruit. As I mentioned, there are many ways to leverage your marketing efforts in these four categories. Here are just a few ways to improve each of your areas of growth:

Attract more new customers
Select a niche market that you can easily contact and dominate it.
Develop a CONSISTENT marketing strategy that compels your prospects to
contact you to learn more about how you can help them.
Establish an active referral program.

Increase the average sales amount
Upsell your customers
Suggest add-on items and services that complement your customers purchase.
Sell in sets at a savings from separate item prices.

Make your customers buy from you more often
Establish CONSISTENT communications that present enticing, reactive offers.
Follow up with your customers after the sale (what a concept!) Answer questions and suggest other product that may help them.
Track your customers usage and buying patterns to suggest purchases right
before they actually need them (this also helps keep the competition away).

Hold on to your customers for life
Deliver STELLAR customer service by going the extra mile.
Give your customers the opportunity to go on record by giving you testimonials
about your great customer service.
Survey your customers from time to time to gauge their level of satisfaction.

How do the top direct sellers get where they are? They build a strong team!

If you are interested in recruiting, you sometimes need to recruit beyond the obvious. In addition to money, career, etc., many are driven by an emotional need. The following are a few terms to use to pepper your recruiting conversations.

“Imagine the feeling of this:” (Name a Benefit…)

“Imagine the feeling of complete freedom to do what you want and live where you want?”

“Imagine the feeling of being in a position to have the resources to help a friend or family member in need. How would that feel?”

“Imagine the feeling of accomplishing your goals and having the power to help others accomplish theirs? How would that help you?”

These ideas may help spark you to look at your business practices a bit differently. Give them a try and see how they can help you develop not only your sales, but your team and downline as well.

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Music phones enjoy the patronage of a lot of people, as it frees and liberates the mind. These devices are quite popular among people who are crazy about music. As a matter of fact, the phones in this category can refresh the users after long and hectic working hours. Among such mobile handsets, the walkman-series from Sony Ericsson is quite popular. The Sony Ericsson W580i is one such high-end gadget from the well-known W-series.

The Sony Ericsson W580i is a slider phone with a compact design. With a smooth slide, the users can access the keypad, which is situated underneath the wide screen. A wide colour screen and external navigation tool enhances the design of the W580i. The external music controls allow the users to play the music, even in the slide closed position. The phone is available in urban grey coloured casing complete with turquoise coloured keys and white coloured casing with bright orange coloured keys.

The multimedia options of W580i comes with some of the best features pertaining to both music as well as imaging. The owners can personalize the experience by using stereo headsets. The Walkman W580i media player provides high quality sound for some out-of-the-world experience. As matter of fact, the media player comes with a range of highly interesting features such as TrackID, PlayNow, MegaBass and many more. The built-in 2 megapixel digital camera comes in a suite of digital zoom and advanced image capabilities ensure that there is never a dull or blurred image. With the help of the multimedia messaging options, the owner of the device can share the captured images and music files with friends.

Moreover, on the Sony Ericsson W580i, the users can store the multimedia content worth 12 MB. With the option of expandable memory there is no shortage of space to store different types of mobile content. Among the connectivity options, the handset is empowered with EDGE, Bluetooth, USB, fast port & GPRS . Therefore, the users can connect to other compatible device without any hassles.

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