Member Spotlight: Debra Fields Sensible Solutions

At Sensible Solutions what you find are great services at an affordable price. Our Jack of All Trades member, Debra Fields currently owns and operates Sensible Solutions. Sensible solutions provides a home-based office support service; providing all forms of assistance to business and individuals. Quite appropriately located on Workman Avenue in West Covina, CA, Debra has been in business for the last 10 years. How did she do it? Click here to find out!

Maximum Marketing - Minimum Budget

Two years ago I started my small Virtual Assistant business with a non-existent marketing budget. I borrowed marketing books from the library, read countless articles on the Internet and joined a professional trade association of my peers. I learned hundreds of marketing techniques and one valuable lesson. The lesson I learned is that the financial ruin of large companies is often achieved by incredibly expensive and glitzy marketing plans that do not take into account the company's ability to earn a profit. Over time, I found that the most effective marketing techniques that allow a company to make a profit are those that are inexpensive or free. What a fantastic discovery for me at that time! This knowledge, combined with hard work and excellent customer service, enabled my small business to expand at a phenomenal rate.

When developing your marketing plan be aware that frugal marketing techniques take more time and a great deal of personal creativity but they DO produce results! Following are a few of my most successful frugal marketing techniques:

by Bonnie Jo Davis

Some More Time Management Hints
We share what we know, so that others may grow".


SOME MORE TIPS ON TIME MANAGEMENT

by Craig Lock

DECISION GUIDE

Ask yourself:

1. Does what I am doing add value to my life (and times of pure fun
and relaxation are essential too)?
2. What will happen if I don't do it?
3. Can I delegate it?
4. Can I spend less time on it?

by Craig Lock

Stop - Don't let yourself become discouraged!

"Why am I not getting it right?" you ask.
"I've done what I've been told, but things aren't working out
the way they should."

Don't let yourself become discouraged.

You are going through a learning curve.

And it takes time.

The one element necessary in every formula -

You cannot bake a cake in half the time by cranking up the heat.
So too the path to success is often a long, hard, arduous one.

But be of good cheer - if you persist, if you endure,
you will win through to the end.

by Tony Pitwood

TEN TERRIFIC SELF- MOTIVATING TIPS
No one can motivate anyone to do anything. All a person can do for another is provide them with incentives to motivate themselves. Here are ten very effective strategies to help you get up and get moving toward actualizing your enormous, untapped potential.

* Be willing to leave your comfort zone. The greatest barrier to achieving your potential is your comfort zone. Great things happen when you make friends with your discomfort zone.

* Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Wisdom helps us avoid making mistakes and comes from making a million of them.

* Don't indulge in self-limiting thinking. Think empowering, expansive thoughts.

by By Mike Moore http://www.motivationalplus.com

Search Engine Basics
Search engines and directories are one of the best ways to
round up some targeted traffic to your website. Here are
the basics of search engines and directories.


Search Engine Vs. Directories

The main difference between engines and directories is the
way they index sites. Although search engines vary in the
way they index, they all basically use a "spider" to crawl
from link to link and index the meta-tags, keywords, and
page words to get their relevancy when a user searches their
index.

Directories, on the other hand, have actual people look at
a site and decide if they will add it to their directory,
and where they will add it.

by JC Anderl

Using Meta Tags wisely to attract search engines & visitors.

Using Meta Tags wisely to attract search engines & visitors.
by Rajesh V. Tavakari
http://www.website-promotion-ranking-services.com

There are certain tricks and techniques in SEO industry, which can fetch you real quick and top ranking in short run and get banned for ever, which I am discussing in this article. Before optimizing any site, always follow code of ethics and never spam.

In this article, I will be discussing about meta tags. How to use the them effectively without spamming. Its not just another article about meta tags. Read on to find out more..


Meta Tags are very important for your website's visibility. Many search engines read them from your site when you submit it to them. META tags were developed and made a HTML standard for the purpose of addressing specific information about your web page that does not affect the way your page actually looks.


by Rajesh

Ever Feel Like Your Elevator Is Stuck Between Floors?

What do you do when you make a big mistake? When you fail? When you suffer defeat? When everything just goes wrong? When serious misunderstandings develop with others? When it appears like there is no way out? When solutions to your problems just seem impossible?

A Familiar Location; The Bottomless Pit!

What do you do; do you do nothing and allow the circumstances to push you around? Do you blow your stack? Do you bite the hand that feeds you? Do you become fearful and run away? Do you get your knickers all in a twist? Do you ever feel like your elevator is just stuck between floors?

Or, do you grab the bull by the horns and flatten him like a pancake? Do you turn bad circumstances into advantages just for the sheer joy of it? Do you look at every problem with faith and optimism knowing that positive results can and will be found?

by Richard Vegas

The Secret From The King Of Pay Per Clicks


At Joel Christopher's recent Master List Builders'
Workshop in San Antonio, Texas, Marlon Sanders told
the audience that I was "The King Of Pay Per Clicks."
He explained that there was no investment he could
think of that gave a faster or better return on
your investment than pay-per-click search engines.
After all, I had done campaigns where I earned $7
for every $1 invested.

Marlon, was just teaching the crowd that on-line
success doesn't have to be cosmic. Often, the things
you need to do are staring you right in the face.
The reaction from the crowd, and conversations with
people afterward, showed me that many people do need
to develop a strategy for using this powerful tool
in their marketing mix. So in this article let's look
at how to effectively use pay per click search engines
to drive massive amounts of highly targeted traffic to
your website.
by Willie Crawford

Nearly Everyone Uses It, and So What?


Occasionally a prospective client comes to me very gungho
about getting publicity and declares that they envision
coverage in every major newspaper in the country and on
every network broadcast. After all, their logic runs, our
product is something everyone uses -- we have close to 150
million customers a year in the U.S. alone.

"Whoa!" I reply. "That's not enough of a reason for the
media to do a story. Nearly everyone uses a toothbrush and a
wallet of one sort or another, but how often do you see
stories about either of those items in the papers or on the
nightly news? Prevalent doesn't mean interesting or timely.
So let's brainstorm about what would entice the media to
consider something about your item newsworthy."
by Marcia Yudkin

Mind Your Own Business!


And the best way to mind your own business is to insure that
those audiences whose behaviors have the greatest effect on
your enterprise keep thinking about you in the most positive
way. Reason is, bad behaviors often follow bad perceptions,
so what your external audiences think about you can mean
success or failure.

It’s not hard to do, but it’s something you must attend to on
a regular basis. How? Try this.
by Robert A. Kelly