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From A Writer's POV is in the beginning stages of setting up two new Literary Divisions. If you are interested in setting up a Literary Division, please check out our website www.fromawriterspovmagazine.com There is a start up fee for this but Paid Subscribers of our network http://fromawriterspovcommunity.spruz.com are able to start a Literary Division free.

Briefly, a Literary Division is a group that offers a literary service or common interest amongst the members. If you are a Poetry lover and want to start a poetry group, this feature is for you. If you are a PR and want to start a group for those who are in need of this service or get a few others that offer this service together in a group, this is for you.

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10744044895?profile=originalIf you are in business then you probably subscribe to newsletters or some other resources to help you make more money in business. Recently, I started thinking about how the wealth of free information helps business owners today and how it can impact attitudes toward business growth. Two thoughts for making the best use of free information are:

1. Good Stewardship. A great deal of the work that I do involves creating accounting systems for ministries. In the process, we find ways to monitor, manage, and multiply the resources that they have. But the concept of stewardship is not limited to religious entities. It is the practice of managing with excellence the time, talent, and resources that you are in direct charge over. As a business steward (or manager) your role is to control the flow of resources that come in and go out of your company. The goal is to reduce waste, increase efficiency, and maximize resources. When applying this to how you handle free information keep in mind that the best alternatives will help you get the most out of your time, energy, and finances.

2. The Law of Sowing and Reaping. When it comes to stretching your budget there is no substitute for free. But what about the saying that, “Nothing in life is free”? And when are free resources a great idea in business? If we reap what we sow does that mean that the more we seek to get free resources, the more others will want free resources from us? Assuming that is true, the best way to approach giving value that is free comes from know how to make those requests work for you. Small business owners with limited time and budgets will always be on the look out for no or low cost alternatives to business growth. The question is at what point does free information start to be valued? Now I am not saying that everyone should start blowing their budget and look for costly resources all the time. What I am suggesting is to begin looking for opportunities where you can give back. If a free report, seminar, or article helps by adding value to your company, why not send the author something for their time? Perhaps you could stop by their website and post a testimonial on their blog or reciprocate with a free offer that you have created as a way of saying thanks. Even if you decide not to go beyond their free offer you could still send them a token of appreciation. Who knows? Maybe they'll remember you when their next paid event comes up and add you as a beta tester to return the favor.

No matter the offer it is always good to stay focused on your goal, manage your time well, and appreciate the value that comes from things that are free. What are some ways that you can return the favor to others who share no cost information that helps you make money in business?
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Rev. Angela Butts-Chester,Angela Chester Ministries,Women of Wisdom and Understanding - Empowering Christian Couples


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Learning to use the steps of P-I-L-L-A-R will help you be the best wife that you can be for your husband; the way your husband needs you to. Men and women are different, but that doesn't mean that your relationship needs to be difficult.


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Renee Wiggins shares her latest Book, "Transformations: Give Up the Struggle." We all have had our ups and downs in our lives, some more than others. But, how we end up in the end, determines how we actually see the storms.The affirmations presented in this book can be a turning point in your life. To learn more about the book, prize giveaway, or participate in Renee's Social Media Tour [click here] and also visit Renee's wellness company, Results by Renee.

Vicki Irvin, the "Real Estate Investment Queen", invites you to her upcoming event the "Extreme Women Entrepreneurs Event" happening July 9th-11th, in Washington DC. Vicky also wants to share her business, family, health, and fitness tips with you. Click here for more details.

Making Connections on BBWO: Join our forum, share your stories and ask questions. I will do my best to spotlight discussions and help you build a stronger network via the BBWO Community. My latest discussion: Keep Fighting Until the End.

Also, if you need help marketing your business click the following link to learn more about my ecourse: Selling Your Services Online. Special promo code for 1st 30 members to use it: SOS30. To have your news featured in next weeks BBWO Broadcast, click here.

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It's that time again. From A Writer's POV is opening the door for advertisement. As you may already know, our ads start as low as $5. We realize that money is an issue to some authors and business owners. So we want to give you what you need but at a low price. Our advertising prices are not expensive at all and do not run over $100.

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I am working on a project now that I'm at school that could possibly be part of a documentary. I want to focus on the good things that are happening that puts a smile on someone's face when one goes the extra mile. I am volunteering this summer at homeless shelters and other ways to give back to the community besides staying at home and just praying 4 people. It's time to put love in action! How about you--what have you done or what is it you know you should do to be JOY and bring the love of God to someone in need?
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Networking

Attention Business & Nonprofit Owners:

Whether you are just starting your business/nonprofit or a season owner, I would like to invite you to attend the Maryland Chapter of Powerful You! Women’s Network Meeting. These meetings are not your typical network meetings ~ they are filled with discussion and interaction, business growth tips, opportunities for learning and lots of heart. In fact, we call it “Networking with a Heart”, and we hope you’ll join us to experience it for yourself. The next meeting is on Saturday, June 19, 2010 at 10:00 am. We will be meeting at

Viet Net Café

14757 Main St Ste B2,

Upper Marlboro, MD 20772

We will be discussing how to make Meaningful Connections and providing more information about the chapter. If you would like to RSVP, you can reply to this email or call me by June 15th at (240) 988-4959 or visit www.powerfulyou.com for more details. There is a small fee for members and non-members, but you will agree that it is well worth it.

I look forward to seeing you there.

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Motivational quotes to inspire you.

"The mathematics of high achievement--

Begin with a dream.

Divide the problems and conquer them one by one.

Multiply the exciting possibilities in your mind.

Subtract all the negative thoughts to get started.

Add enthusiasm and determination.

And the result will be attainment of your goal."

- Anonymous

For more motivational quotes & articles, check out my blog, Mocha Writes.

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A Little Song & Dance Goes a Long Way

We get this a lot. Maybe you can identify.

One of us from Idea Cafe is at a family party or meeting with people we want to work with. And it never fails -- just as we pop a yummy dessert tray cookie in our mouth, some innocent soul says, "So, what do you do? What's Idea Cafe?" All of a sudden we're on the spot. We've only got a minute or so (tops!) to introduce Idea Cafe and get them interested in the concept. Some Net-naive family members still think we're running a coffee shop, not a website!

Even if your business concept is more familiar, chances are you get put in the same spot. You often have to give an impromptu one-minute presentation that says who you are, what you do, and why anyone should bother. Many kinds of presentations are useful, but before you invest in PowerPoint and videoconferencing, it's invaluable to master the One-Minute Presentation Schpiel*.

*Schpiel is Yiddish for a song and dance routine. As with any song and dance, it helps to rehearse. Get it ready before you're on the spot.

Four Questions to Help You Create the Most Effective One-Minute Presentation Schpiel

1. What do you want them to remember most? They won't remember everything -- so choose carefully! Maybe you're the leading manufacturer of your product. Or the first to have designed it. Or the only one in the tri-state area.

Example: Idea Cafe is the leading small business website on the Internet.

2. Your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) This is a phrase or sentence that describes your biz in a nutshell.

Example: Idea Cafe offers a fun approach to serious business.

3. What would add credibility to you? Have you been in business five years? Do you sell stationery to Levi's? Were you recently featured in a trade magazine?

Example: Idea Cafe is a pioneer on the modern Internet, having gone live in 1995.

4. What benefits can you offer this person? If you know what the need of the person is, tie that into your description. What can you do for them?

Example: If we were talking to potential advertisers, we'd say we create an atmosphere where advertisers can show a great commitment to the needs of the small biz community.

Another example: If it were the chamber of commerce, we'd say Idea Cafe provides a hearty banquet of great biz ideas for free -- ideas that help when you're feeling alone with a problem.

Things to Avoid

  • Telling people how you do your biz. Don't explain the process. The natural inclination is to talk about your workaday goings-on, anecdotes, extraneous info, industry-specific facts. Avoid jargon!!

  • Prices or costs unless it works to your benefit or it's part of your positioning.

Selling yourself short with qualifiers.

Example: We have just nine employees. We've been in business

only three years. We've just started. There's no need to bring our insecurities into the formula. Don't highlight the things you don't/can't do.
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We all know the saying, "It's who you know!" when it comes to finding most jobs. The same principle applies to finding new customers for your business. Current customers and employees are terrific resources for cultivating potential new customers.

Referrals are the backbone for many salespeople and can boost the clientele of any small business. Whether you're a one-person operation or a business with many employees, encouraging your current clients and employees for referrals (and possibly providing incentives for them) is a smart marketing move.

Food for Thought: When asked for a favor, many of us enjoy and appreciate a pat on the back, so consider offering a dessert for any successful referral a customer or employee provides. Desserts could include delicious discounts on products or services, a bonus in the paycheck, or the office favorite -- a dozen chocolate donuts!

Donuts or no donuts -- getting new customers thru referrals only sweetens your biz dealings.

If you are interested in receiving a Sample Customer Referral Letter, please email me at info@tcmandassociates.net with the following information:

Your Name:

Business Name:

Type of Business:

Years in Business

Email and/or website.

Thanks

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Hey Guys,

I just wanted to drop a few lines to let you know that i'm about to change the way on conduct business! I'm taking it up to the NEXT LEVEL and I ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THE SAME! It is sooooo important for us as business owners to be able to effecively communicate with our team members and business partners!

Let's begin to change the way we communicate....let's be more personable, after all it wasn't your opportunity that attracted your partners to you...it was YOU!!! Let's get prepared for a PARADIGM SHIFT in the way we communicate! Your teams and business partners will thank you for it!

It doesn't what you're doing, marketing, services you're providing...we all can use some help in the area of communication! The goal is to continue improving yourself...you then become more valuable to others!


Stay tuned for more!


Don't get left behind!

Dr. LaKeidra
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PERFECTION

You will reap the fruits of your faith when you least expect it. It will seem like it came all of a sudden, but you and I know that that will not be true.

So hold on and keep pursuing your desired goal. The fact that you have the desire and goal is the very guide that the Universe has set in your heart.

When all forces meet at the intersection of syncronicity we will witness the perfection of the Universe

GCWHITLEY

TheSelfHelpMillionairess

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We live in a world of convenience. It is really easy to buy from Black people, but it is easier for most of us NOT to buy from Black people. It is easier to say I got bad customer service at the Black owned store and never return. But when we get bad customer service from a store owned by someone of another race, why do we keep going back and spending our money with them? That is a HUGE problem. It has been so convenient to drive to the mall or the super center where you have thousands of products to make a selection. Even when some of these products have proven to be a health risk to people of color!

Just think of it this way, itis easier or more convenient to drive one mile to go buy junk food. But it is better for you to drive 15 miles to the Black all natural health food store for your cereal, rice, fruits and vegetables. So just because it is easier to go down the street to buy from the Asian hair care store than to drive 20 minutes to buy from the little Black hair care store... which one is the right thing to do for OUR community, even if it costs a few dollars more on gas and product? There are over one million Black owned businesses in this country, but unfortunately we spend 95% of our income outside of our community.

Have youever asked yourself why there are so many commercials with Black actors that are targeted to the Black consumer. You might have thought, Wow! This company must really care about Black people to
have this type of commercial. Or you see major bank like Wells Fargo sponsoring a huge music event with top Black entertainers. Or a panel like Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union. Well think again. McDonald's became so convenient for us, we started eating breakfast, lunch and dinner and now have the highest obesity rates ever! Wells Fargo was one of the worse companies in this country who put Black people into horrible loans. It was if they designed these loans for the Black home owner to fail after 3-5 yrs. Some were put into
interest only loans, some were put into adjustable rate loans that after the “teaser” period was over, the interest rate could adjust up every six months until it reached 15%! So I believe one of the purposes of sponsoring the events is to get more Black consumers to patronize their products/services, and for no other reason. So why
do we put so much faith into companies like these that continue to rip us off, than in our own Black owned businesses?

I worked over 20 years in broadcasttelevision working with consumer market research. Main stream advertisers continue to spend millions of dollars to find out where Black people spend and how often they spend. There are thousands of data bases with information on what TV shows we watch, what radio shows we listen to and what newspapers and magazines we read. So that these corporations can customize their advertisements to entice us to buy their products. Knowing that as a race we currently spend about $900 billion dollars as consumers... who wouldn't want a piece of that kind of money. Isn't it sad that our highly spiritual people would rather go for convenience rather than the principle of doing the right thing. This is THE same thing that Marcus Garvey, Dr. King and Malcolm X spoke about. We MUST buy from our own people because it not only is the right thing to do, it is the only way for us to rebuild our communities, with thriving Black businesses and give our children more role models that are business minded in nature.

Lookat how many businesses Marcus Garvey built between 1916-1920. Do you realize what he really created? He created communities with Black people organized with their own self-sufficient economic resources. Grocery stores, laundries, hotels, clothing shops, every kind of biz for Black people. I believe desegregation lead to the downfall of Black businesses for decades!

Fast forward from 1920 to theyear 2008, millions of us pulled together as a people and registered to vote in numbers that were staggered the imagination, so that we could vote for a Black as President. So why can't we come together on creating our own economy by recycling our dollars back into our own communities by buying from more Black owned businesses just like the Jewish and Asian communities do? How long are we going to let other ethnic groups set up shop in our communities and take that money back to their neighborhoods to spend with their own people? We are probably the only ethnic group in this country that DOES NOT support
each other on a wide scale economic basis. (Excluding the brothers and sisters in the Nation of Islam.)

So how long are YOUgoing to keep doing what is convenient... instead of doing the right thing for you and your community? Especially when we have brothers and sisters who make high-quality products that are made specifically for OUR skin, OUR hair, OUR body types, etc. I really want to know what you think.

Darlene Robinson

Independent Marketer

TAG Team Marketing, International, Inc.

www.BlackBusinessNetwork.com/TeamDollar

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