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Each month of this year develop one new habit

Each month of this year develop one new habit. Make it simple and doable. At the end of each month decide on a new habit for the next month and continue doing the existing habit. At the end of the year 12 habits will be developed. All of these habits will be written down and be simple enough that I can verify if they have been done. Experts say that most actions take at least 21 days to become habits so a month should be ample time for it to become routine.
Use travel time productively.

• It’s all matter of priorities setting, if someone said : "I didn’t have the time for this project", it’s only that he didn’t assign enough priority to it.
• Use a paper planner -Filefax, weekly and yearly. The yearly will help you determine your position in the year. So fill it too.
• Mark on your planner everything you want to do no matter how simple or evident it may seem. Time fade away so easily…
• Use a calendar with 7 days in a page : a week at a glance.

How to get even more knowledge faster ? First, accelerate your input of information. Second, choose materials to learn wisely. Third, accelerate your own tempo.

Accelerate your Input of Information

Audio Programs
For audio listening, use Foobar 2000 and the SoundTouch plug-in : http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/plugins/show.php?id=199
Set the tempo to 40% more or less depending on the speaker speed and your capacity to process.

Video programs
For video watching use Cyberlink PowerDVD or Gom Video Player. Gom Video Player is free and you can press B to bookmark a position, C to accelerate tempo and X to deaccelerate. You can set the speed to 1.5 or 2.

Internet auctions started as a hobby for a few computer people in the San Francisco area to have a “virtual swap meet” and get rid of some things they had, and find some things they wanted. In just ten years, this fun little idea has become a multi-billion-dollar enterprise and a global phenomenon, and amazingly, presents one of the best low-risk opportunities in history to start or grow a business! The potential is unlimited and still growing.

You’ll need to use Persuasion in your sales letter. Here’s a summary of most of the persuasion principles. Think about ways to apply this to your business to get even more customers.

Principle 1 : Reciprocation on concession

If you want people to accept to give you a favor, you start with a large request, one likely to be turned down. Then retreat to the lower offer.
Always start with the large request, if the answer is no, you can retreat to the second request.

Principle 2 : Scarcity

People want what they can’t have.

Amazing graphics don’t make sales. They increase page loading time, so your visitors arrive (if they even bother to wait) impatient and irritated. Even if your graphics are especially compelling, all they do is distract the customer from making the purchase.
Not good!

Your logo doesn’t need to be elaborate. Visit the following examples. These are the top 6 “e-tailers” and their corresponding logos… (Source: PC Data Online)

Amazon.com

Ticketmaster

CDNow

See anything spectacular? I sure don’t. Simple. Easy to read. Functional. And that’s all your logo needs to be. You don’t have to be a graphics expert to create a satisfactory logo.

To improve your homebased business, you need to focus on your strengths. Probably one of the best books I’ve read ever about finding your own inner strengths is Gallup StrengthsFinder 2.0. This book comes with a test that will determines your best overall talents.

For my case, my strengths are:

• Focus
• Restorative
• Futuristic
• Intellection
• Learner

Once I got my strengths, I thought at first : now what ?

When selling a product, a lot of people make the mistake of developing their product first, and then trying to find a market for it. Of course, the process should be reversed.

Find a market first that spends money, then find out what they want and give it to them.

It is certainly easier said than done, but there are a lot of places online where you can do your market research for free. They’ve done most of the work for you already. You just need to know where to go and what to do to connect all the dots.

In this new articles serie, courtesy of MSS2002, we will try to present you a step-by-step system to get your own website running. We’ll cover all the steps, from creating your website to hosting your domain name. Follow the guide !

Getting started on the Net is becoming easier and easier. Barring the SEs’ gradual move towards paid listings, it’s also becoming cheaper. Things are improving on an almost daily basis.

What are the absolute necessities to get started?…
• A HTML editor (preferably a WYSIWYG one)
• This book (congratulations, I see you have it already!)
• A graphics editor
• Own domain name, plus hosting fees
• The odd “how-to” book for technical issues
• A business plan.

Today’s post is courtesy of David Nour, the relationship and networking expert.

Top 10 list of what NOT to do in when it comes to your efforts to build and nurture real relationships :
1. STOP sending out blank holiday cards; they’re useless! If the point is to remind them that you’re thinking of them, personalize it by including an updated picture of yourself, your family, or adding a simple note about what you accomplished in 2005, and please – make those notes interesting!