Posted by Ashea Goldson on November 15, 2008 at 10:05pm
Is it just me or shouldn't a time of economic recession be a good time for hiring good people? Not in my experience. As the co-owner of a Christian school I have been interviewing for weeks trying to find a replacement pre-school teacher, and afterschool teacher. Now, don't get me wrong,the response to my ad for employment has been overwhelming however, many of the candidates have been less than employable.Let's just start with the interviewing process alone. Some come to the interview in jeans and sweatshirt, without apology mind you. Some come significantly late and have pathetic excuses. Some actually show up without experience when the ad specifically states that you must have experience. Then some come in smelling of smoke, or lacking in some other area of personal hygiene. Some come with an air of arrogance, with all their degrees and/or certificates, and after talking to them for a short while, I discover that they still don't have a clue about common sense. Others come with babysitting and/or car problems before they're even hired.Then there are those who thankfully make it through the interviewing process but can not or will not do their job. They must be told what to do, although they have experience and/or education, at every turn. Or they're trying to take days off for any little excuse. Yet, my business partner and I miss no days, and always have to take up the slack.The list of issues seems endless. Where are all the hard workers, with common sense and a good work ethic?Share
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At MIT's Emerging Technology conference, I had the opportunity to speak to Matt Glotzbach, Product Management Director for Google Enterprise.Chief among the new enterprise capabilities we spoke about were the new video features for business that have been added to Google Apps. We also spoke about the potential effect of Android phones on Google enterprise offerings.
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Posted by Trina Newby on November 15, 2008 at 8:01pm
Raising money for your business can be quite a challenge and with today's economy on the low, it's almost impossible to get a small business loan without having to have at least 10-20% of the amount requested already in cash as good faith on your part or pay a higher interest rate. In addition, you must have what they call a good, "liquidity ratio". That simply means they want to see seasoned (90 days or more in account) cash in your checking.If you're needing $5,000 or less to give your business a cash boost the best thing to do is to come up with creative ways to raise the funds yourself. Below are 3 ideas:1. It's the holiday time and other business owners are trying to show their wares. Think about giving a holiday expo using the local community center. Charge a reasonable amount for vendors. Depending on the space arrangement, you can clear about $500 to $1500.2. Sale your electronic items that you are not using. Have one too many computers, televisons or game players? How about holding a garage sale. Speaking of garage sales, I know of a client that raised more than $5,000 holding garge sales twice a month for about 4 months. She also went to other thrift shops and found other things that she could sell. With so much success, she decided to join a swap meet and do it on a regular basis to help fund her business.3. Hold the old fashion fish or chicken fry and sell dinners over a period of weekends. Let your friends, associates and family know that you are raising investment funds for your business. Design and sell tickets ahead of time.The above are just some ideas on how you can raise money for your business. There are hundreds of other ideas and I'm sure you probably have some yourself. Grab some quite time and sit down for a brainstorming session with yourself or friend. Think of at least 10 ways you can raise funds for your business without having to borrow it or getting a loan.Make sure you open up a savings or separate checking account to deposit your funds as they come in. This way you'll be able to keep up with how much you're accumulating and also gain motivation from knowing you don't have to pay it back, it's yours!For more great ideas on starting or growing your business, click on the link below and check out the Women About Biz website.Click here for Women About Biz WebsiteHere's to your successTrina NewbyYour Business & Success Coach
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Networking, effective networking, takes time. So many resources and contact to be made. To minimize feeling overwhelmed. Make your contact often and message short. You see, contact is about value not trying to cover weeks of activities in one entry.Let folks know you are still "in the game" and press on .Do it moving.My networking contacts have grown so much , I must manage contact activities. However, making the contact is critically essential to your professional and personal growth.So as I stated on several occassions . Determine What is Important now ( WIN) i.e make consistent contacts to network sourcesthen Do it Now ( DIN).Well , you are reading this entry. SUCCESS!!!!!!Networkingly yours,Rickeywww.juniques.us
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Posted by Andrea Fields on November 15, 2008 at 4:09pm
Do you remember the book Iyanla VanZant wrote titled Faith in the Valley? That best selling book, which I believe was her catharsis, inspired and motivated countless people. Consider the founder of MADD – a woman who used her grief as a catalyst to save the lives of an incalculable amount of people. These are just two of a myriad of examples of people who used misfortune and personal tragedy to benefit mankind.Many of us have learned early in life that no one likes to be around people who make a habit of verbalizing their worries and complaints “no one likes a worry wart” is the adage that I best remember. A few of the other adages that have shaped my life’s conversational patterns are: “Keep a stiff upper lip”, “Silence is Golden”, “Successful people know how to keep private matters private” and one that I believe is universal: “Keep your business to yourself”.My cherished readers, I believe that our growth and success in life is a direct reflection of the lessons we’ve learned from people who were not too proud or afraid to share their personal triumphs. Information is a key proponent of growth. Be it intellectual, spiritual, physical, psychological . . . information is a stimulus, a catalyst, an activator. There will ALWAYS be nay Sayers in the world. No matter what you do or how you do it, there will be people who criticize, minimize, and ridicule not only your actions but your intents as well. We are always sharing information either with our words and actions or our silence and inaction. I herewith encourage each and every person reading this message to share with others the transformational lessons you’ve learned during the fires in your life. Your teachings may not only help someone through their personal fires, they may also save others from enduring needless fires.Being our brother’s keeper requires us to share information – not necessarily tangible goods. Remember teaching a person to fish is infinitely more valuable than giving them fish.Read more…
Hi!I'm Kerri, CEO/founder of Oasis Cosmetics and Natural Skin Healing.With so many people part of this wonderful network, it's hard to meet and greet everyone the way I'd like to.In my search for the best ways to network, I have created a birthday calendar of all my networking friends and family. If you would like to get better acquainted, cut and paste the link below to your address bar and enter your birthday for me!It'll just take a few seconds and you don't have to reveal your true age if you don't want to :))))))http://www.birthdayalarm.com/dob/82975162a779490416b363Thanks & Peace*Kerri*http://www.OasisCosmetics.ning.comp.s. Don't forget......Schedule AND attend your yearly mammograms!!!! Do regular self-exams at home!!!!
Hello,Here are just a few photos of customers wearing Tomoka's Twists hair accessories and earrings. I enjoy getting the pictures because it is one way that I gauge my success. Some clients will blog about products they adore and share details such as how it works, customer service, and why they like it. I have even seen a blog suggest a lower price for them. Another wished for a how to video even though she wore it well, I did grant her wish. Customers will respond with an email or phone call of praise, suggestions, and questions. One thought it would be cool to have earrings. I did too and taught myself how to make earrings and bracelets to match the hair accessories. I once asked a customer if there was a color that she would like to have, silver was her answer. To this day the silver one has been my best seller.In summary ask your clients what would they like and how you can serve them better. Customers have ideas and can work as your design team. Remember to reward the client for great advice, they will appreciate it.Take care,Carmen
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Posted by Denise Bethune on November 15, 2008 at 12:09am
Greetings All,I need your assistance. Robbie began his culinary skills first by watching our mother then by working in restaurants where he was considered quite a chef. My brother Robbie had a stroke in March 2004 which impaired his left side. He was hospitalized for about 3 months, went to a nursing home for rehab and began to drive, and do some other mobile activities. Before Robbie had his stroke he always had a passion for food, this was one thing that Robbie enjoyed the most. He is considered disabled but you know what his desire to open up his own restaurant is still much alive. We need your help, if their is anyone that can help us to put together a plan which includes funding please reach out to me at deb157_2000@yahoo.com, we may have a location already invisioned right here in our community.
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Posted by Dominique on November 14, 2008 at 11:44pm
*"The Tension Reliever" will be pre-released on ebook through my website only for $7.00. It comes out on November 17th, 2008 and you can sign up to be reminded the day it's released here: http://dominiquewatson.webs.com/remindme.htm*I'm also releasing the personal journal of "How to Keep God in your Life" on my birthday 2/4/09. It will only be sold on my website and it's only $5.00*Lastly, I've added all ebooks of my previous books to my personal website for purchase.So please check out the site and see exactly what I have going on!------------------------------I'm starting a new newsletter called "Hot Off the Press" This newsletter will consist of inspirational messages along with great info about my books, websites etc. This newsletter is free and is received monthly through the mail. If you are interested in receiving this free newsletter monthly, please sign up here: http://dominiquewatson.webs.com/hotoffthepress.htmI look forward to being able to inspire you!!!!!!------------------Don't forget...2/FOR $20You can now purchase Dominique's Books here: http://dominiquewatson.webs.com/apps/webstore/Get both books for $20.00/ $10.00 each SIGNED! NO SHIPPING ADDED!Also available at....http://www.barnesandnoble.com/http://www.amazon.com/“The Tension Reliever”Volume 1A Poetry CollectionBy: Dominique L. WatsonMy 3rd book coming soon!Check out my forums as well to see what I'm talking about!!!!http://dominiquewatson.webs.com/forums.htm-------------------My Magazine, From A Writers POV has started new message boards and I am one of the contributers. My article this month was on the Ten Commandments in the bible. So I started my forums off with that. Come stop by and get and give encouragement. You never know who is reaeding and looking for some support.To join the forums and website is FREE!So stop by! I would love to read your posts!Here's the link: http://fromawriterspovmessageboards.webs.comI truly appreciate all the support!!!http://dominiquewatson.webs.comDominique L. Watson
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Posted by Christine on November 14, 2008 at 8:09pm
How many times have you heard those commercials that claim you can make thousands of dollars working at home for two or three hours per day? Being an entrepreneur is a role that many aspire to, but not everyone can be one. Although it sounds simple, becoming a successful work at home entrepreneur takes diligence, patience and determination.Before you run in and quit your day job, you need to sit down and evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. Not everyone has the temperament to be a work at home entrepreneur and it’s best for you to be honest with yourself from the start. After you have completed an honest evaluation of yourself, the next step is to determine if you can manage an online business for yourself.Organization is a key strength for running an online business. If you are selling information products, you must organize your time to compose, upload and set up the process by which you will sell these products. If you are selling physical products, you must organize your product and delineate the time for inventory, packing and shipping. In the beginning, you should also be able to work alone because guess what – you’re the boss now! It’s YOUR business and you have to be responsible for it.Let’s go back to those commercials that say that online businesses can be run without many problems. Don’t believe the hype for a minute, because even with an online business, you still have to deal with business issues. These issues cannot be avoided, because they’re just a part of doing businesses whether you’re doing business online or offline. You can avoid some of these issues just by doing a bit of homework and choosing the best home based business for you and your working style.Running an online business is not easy. Because are both boss and employee, you have to manage your time wisely in order to not become overwhelmed and discouraged. You must be a risk-taker, a self starter and have the understanding and temperament to deal with all types of people.As an work at home womenpreneur, take the time to make an assessment of your skills and temperament, then move forward in the field or industry that you feel works best for you. Working in a home-based business requires dedication, hard work and excellent time management. Much success to you in your endeavors!
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Posted by Regina Mullen on November 14, 2008 at 8:01pm
Thank you, LaShandra for the post about raising the standards for this portal and inviting ideas on how to improve this community.My feeling is that you can change the site yourself, but it's going to take some work. This post took about an hour to write, so know that I'm serious. We need this site to work.So, I have to admit, I don't come around much for three reasons:1) The objective of the site is not clear2) Forums and teleseminars don't make a community site3) Pink and distracting banners do not say "business"Point 1: The objective of the site is not clearWhat is this site about?Forgive me for being preachy, and maybe you know all of this and more, but I'm just wrapping up a course on Project Management, which I highly recommend to EVERYONE using this portal, if they're not experts in it already. And, what I sense is a lack of planning and focus.This was all stuff I learned from my Daddy, an engineer (i.e. professional problem solver), but it never made sense until I had some life experience to prove that he was (almost always) right. That lead me to actually spending the $700 to take a course, to learn how to do it properly to get results. This, in turn, has given me a framework to rapidly retool not just my business, but the code I write for my domains (about 130 of them).So, before you can make a success of anything, you have to PLAN. Not plan to make money, --if you do thing right, the money will come. What I'm talking about is really sitting down over a few weeks and figuring out what this site is supposed to do. Test against the data you already have (log in info, server logs), and figure out where to "change the angle." A few degrees can make all the difference.I have a great resource to suggest to you, and that is Tamra Adlin's The Persona Lifecycle. I was so very fortunate to be able to participate in a session with her while working at Avvo. I learned a lot from them as well, because they assembled an amazing team of specialists to get the job done. Nice to have VC money, I know, but it doesn't take money, so much as it takes the time to sit down and study.The first step is to figure out who you want to serve. What's the "scope" to put it in PM language. "Black Business Women." OK, but WHICH ones?"Sistapreneurs"? Does that scream serious to you? Or, is the idea that you want to build a warm place where we can be comfortable in our skin,--but not get a lot done? If you can, spend the time to read this book and call Tamra,--or someone else, to get a few minutes of support. She's a seriously smart, no nonsense cookie. On the cheap, look for seminars and papers on community building. Well worth several afternoons at Borders!"C-Level"? Well, chances are they got there by being highly disciplined and, somewhat hard-nosed about their business and how they spend their time. Figure out where black women have made good in business, look at their job descriptions and tailor the site accordingly.Now that Barack Obama is our President, the folks I went to school with (and maybe you did to) are going to be coming out of the woodworks. There aren't enough of us who have made it, but there are certainly enough to form a core of advisors.They give all sorts of advice in Black Enterprise. Sure, its conservative and kinda "party-line," but then, business is conservative. The objective is to separate people from their money by giving them something they value more than their money. Simple to think about. Hard to do.Bottom line: if this site is about business, keep all the social stuff to one side and make it about BUSINESS.Point 2: forums/teleseminars do not a "community" makeI think you had a lot of initial interest, but the forums are full of fluff. if the target audience are people needing wigs and buying plastic, then that's the quality of interaction you're going to get. The teleseminars MIGHT have been interesting, but I get the overwhelming feeling that I'm just going to be sold a wig or piece of plastic,--or worse, some pseudo-guru service.Right now, I put time aside in my calendar for only a few webinars, and they are dense highly technical sources of information within my fields of expertise. My interest is in cutting edge,--if not bleeding edge, stuff, so to get my attention, the webinar has to really give me something of value."Social networking" is really about the relationship between pieces of data and how you massage input people are willing to give you to help them make choices.It's hard to do that with an off-the-shelf solution because it lulls you into not thinking about the story you're trying to tell with the site. But, if you want this thing to fly, you really have to show a deeper level of thinking. Or hire someone to do it for you,--because it really is a geeky thing to do.So, one suggestion would be to study, in a transparent way, really strong sites like LinkedIn and FaceBook. Not just from the perspective of how to run a community so that it runs itself, but in order to learn better how each piece of information flows in and out of the system they've created.Point 3: Pink and distracting banners do not say "business"This is admittedly personal, but pink annoys me.When I am in a serious mood and looking for resources and a place to spend my work time, pink just doesn't do it for me. When I am looking for a place to kick back, I sure as heck and not going to go to an eyesore.One suggestion would be to look at the data you already have. See who is here and who has stopped coming. Look into their domain names: are they at ibm.com,--OR are they at hotmail, yahoo or some untraceable offshore domain?For my part, i gave my real company (Legal Data Services, LLC), but the site is under development. What does that tell you? One of two things: either I am a busy entrepreneur OR I am not at all serious. Sometimes, I wonder myself, but I assure you, it's the former.The look and feel of this portal are under your control, so I'd suggest an overhaul that looks at the site objective and where you want it to go. You can feminize the site without all that pink.Second, all those banner ads screaming for the user's attention are a distraction.And not a welcome one.Even as I type this, I want to run away because of all the changing content pulling at my attention. It's not just this site, it's any of them. Pop up ads don't get clicked. Rotating banners are very, very old school and they just don't work.Instead of people paying for banners, why not have them contribute content instead and then you promote the posts with banners of your own? Just an idea to follow up on the one you already suggested.You can't expect to make money from click ads until someone sees them, so I'd suggest building up the site FIRST, then gradually adding in a conservative number of ads, strategically placed to raise the likelihood of the user actually WANTING to click on them.I didn't intend to go on this much, but I wanted to use the time to say something that i hope will be useful, not just to you, but to anyone else hoping to build a web presence.
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Posted by Dominique on November 14, 2008 at 5:53pm
Published Authors, if you have a book tour or event going on that you want exposure to for this summer, let us know! We are including a special for Book Ads with interviews for the summer months. (June July August). We are looking for 3 published authors, with events coming up in those months who want to advertise their event and receive an interview with a book ad. It is on a first come first serve bases!Currently this feature is $15. But we are allowing those who have events going on during the summer months to only pay $10. Your Ad will be featured under our Summer Feature called "Look Whose Hot This Summer" for one full edition. Sign up will start in January!Thanks, Dominque
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Posted by Dominique on November 14, 2008 at 5:52pm
We are also looking for Poem Writers and published authors. We want to shine light on our writers and let you know we appreciate your work!Poem Writers will submit their poems through our weekly features. You will get two weeks of exposure on our magazine. You must follow the guidelines for weekly features. Here are the two week Weekly Features dates:*November 21st, 2008-January 2nd, 2009*April 3rd, 2009-June 12th 2009*September 4th, 2009-October 30th, 2009If you are looking for just a little more exposure on your poems, this is the place for it! Reserve your spot today!http://fromawriterspov.webs.com/advertisementinfo.htmThanks, Dominique
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Posted by Dominique on November 14, 2008 at 5:48pm
From A Writers POV is looking for active readers and subscibers. We are looking to give away FREE advertisement for the next few months to those who are frequent viewers of our magazine. This subscriber must be on our mailing list, post comments to weekly features and articles. Reserve spots for ads, submit articles, weekly features or inspirational writing. You can also register your book with our library.We are giving this away to 2 people. One person will receive the Advertise your service package, free for 3 months. Another person will receive the half-page advertisement for one month. All you have to do is become a frequent visitor. We will notice you!!!!www.fromawriterspov.webs.comThanks, Dominique
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My Power Mall has chosen a child from Africa to receive coporate profits. Many profits for this holiday will be going to One-Child-At-A-Time program. If your coporation is interested in helping out or if you have your own organization in mind, go to http://www.mypowermall.com/biz/home/96348. Click on Yes-I Want A Business Starter Mall. This mall is your own business mall. If you would like to make more money and allow more money to go to your organization, you may choose the World Changer Mall. I do not recommend this mall at first because you want to start making money for yourself and organization before you commit to paying $15.95 a month. The other mall is free. Again, that website ishttp://www.mypowermall.com/biz/home/96348The Posting For The Organization Is Below:One-Child-At-A-TimeJoan Ayebazibwe is the current recipient of the One-Child-At-A-Time program.CLICK HERE for her story.6% of corporate profits will benefit Joan.ProgressThanks!Ms. Kay
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