Archive for September, 2009

Numis Network – An Independent Review

by Ellie Gant

I have had success with several MLM programs in my time as part of the multilevel marketing industry. I have seen all kinds of products and programs and I am always trying to keep up with what is current in the field. The Numis Network is a new contender in MLM but the people behind it are not.

Whenever I evaluate a MLM opportunity like the Numis Network I look at the same three things. I look at the product, the company and its founders, and the marketing materials available for distributors. This system allows me to evaluate every MLM I look at fairly with an open mind.

The Numis Network product is not new though I cannot recall seeing it offered by any multilevel marketing program in the past. Numismatics is essentially the study and collection of currency. In short “coin collecting.” The Numis Network’s product is collectible coins. They currently do not have a lot different collectible coins though they have announced plans to add coins graded by different agencies as well as different coins than the MS70 American Eagle Silver Coin they presently offer.

Currently I only saw one type of coin available from the Numis Network, MS70 American Eagle Silver Coins. Numis does intend to eventually expand into other coins in the future as well. If the recession turns around in a timely manner Numis may have a very attractive looking product.

The majority of the founders of Numis Network are MLM heavy weights. The one exception is Mike Mezack who is himself a well known numismatist. With his expertise and coins and the MLM expertise that Jake Kevorkian, Ian Cordell, and Christopher Kent bring to the table there is plenty of veteran leadership in Numis.

When you look at the accomplishments of Ian and Chris with their previous venture, IDSTC, it only seems reasonable to expect that the back office tools and marketing materials provided by Numis Network will be top notch. The quality of these tools will be irrelevant if a distributor lacks the marketing knowledge needed to use them effectively.

The Numis Network is still a fairly new MLM opportunity having launched as recently as June of 2009. Often people think getting into a MLM program early is the key to success. The real key to success in MLM is marketing knowledge. Joining a program like Numis just increases your potential that much more.

Ultimately the biggest factor in success or failure with any MLM, including the Numis Network, is marketing skill. With the proper techniques you can turn any MLM into a viable home business opportunity.

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SEO is no place for amateurs

by Ricardo d Argence

Let’s face it; not a day goes by where we don’t see someone offering their services as a Search Engine Optimization specialist. The strange thing is however, many of the people offering such services on the various forums tend to have no runs on the board themselves.

There are plenty of good, even great internet marketing consultants and firms around, but there are a lot more who have next to no or even no practical experience in the field. These would be SEO experts, of course aren’t likely to be doing anyone’s website much good.

Why you Should Avoid the Amateurs. Essentially, you need to bear in mind that while any Tom, Dick, and Harry can learn about search engine optimization, it takes several years of dedication, practice, and careful analysis, in order to fully understand the different techniques, and how to apply different techniques to different types of business.

A successful SEO campaign entails a complex set of tasks beginning with keyword research. This is the process of determining which keywords will work the best for a particular site.

After identifying these keywords, many decide to just throw them into the site’s content and wait for their page ranking to rise. Unfortunately, it rarely works this way in the real world. For the most part, popular keywords are also highly competitive, meaning that it will be extremely difficult to get results with these keywords – and it can take half a year before the search engines even begin to take notice of your site.

On the other hand, a specialist who is highly skilled in internet marketing will be aware of which relevant keywords and keyword phrases will help to improve a website’s ranking. Likewise, a true professional will also know where the keywords and keyword phrases should be placed on a website in order for them to have the maximum amount of impact, without being penalized for keyword stuffing.

Analytics and tracking tools are other things which are part of the toolkit of a professional SEO specialist. Tracking the progress of any sort of internet marketing campaign is an essential part of ensuring its success – SEO and online marketing are highly traceable and campaigns can easily be fine tuned on the fly. Anyone who doesn’t carefully monitor their SEO efforts is not doing their best to ensure a good return on investment; not an encouraging sign.

Unfortunately, but also as is to be expected, the internet is full of undesirable people who focus entirely on targeting honorable businesses by means of providing them with false promises regarding guaranteed results. These people will more often than not guarantee that they will get your website to the top of the search rankings by using specific keywords.

There is a kernel of truth to the claims these unscrupulous firms make about being able to rank in the top slot for the keywords they suggest. Of course, these companies give you keywords to work with which no one searches – meaning that it is easy to rank first for them; but since no one uses these search terms, ranking does not equal more traffic in this case.

Any consultant or company which makes claims such as being able to get your website to come in as the top result in search engines is not being honest with you (or is woefully uninformed) and should be avoided. Since the algorithms that the search engines use to determine page rankings change frequently, no honest, credible internet marketing company will promise you these kinds of results.

The most important thing of all is that you acknowledge the fact that going with the wrong internet marketing company can end up costing you a considerable amount of money for nothing. On the other hand, if you choose to use the services of a reputable company, you can almost be certain that your website will end up ranking much higher than it did before.

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by Danny Ricks

The smart parts ion is the best marker for a beginner who does not need to have an expensive marker. What is important is you have a weapon with the much needed fire-power efficiency. You can have a fresh tactical experience with a marker such as this. This is one of the least costly markers which are especially designed for professionals and beginners with the level of a professional marksman.

It features a seventeen-ball per second semi-automatic firing rate with three burst shots. The marker is also capable of full auto and rebound firing mode. The smart parts ion has been carefully engineered to cope up with the standards of professional marksman. This particular weapon has a military styling and ultra rugged lightweight structure which is constructed for speed and for long-lasting durability.

This particular weapon is designed for winning whether you are a beginner or a professional. For a perfect alignment, the eyes are mounted on a separate board with a reliable and durable break-beam vision anti-chop system which is not affected by its body color or paint. It is very manageable and may be upgraded as you wish. As for its tools, Allen wrench is all you need to have for its disassembly or maintenance.

The smart parts ion has also features like an electronic trigger, teardrop barrel and automatic hopper. A marker such as this is among the lightest high end makers ever made with a featherweight at 2.2lbs. This comes in many colors and this unit allows you to change instantly the color of its body because of its high-quality aluminum internals which are protected by composite shells.

You can browse and check online on the other parts and accessories that you need to customize and upgrade it. The weapon has been created to be everyones marker who simply loves paintballs. Its construction is designed to take abuse of use for it still fires balls to its best performance like any smart parts ion.

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Tom’s Shoes Improving our Community

by Tami Starling

Best known for holding shoe drops in impoverished countries, Tom?s Shoes is now helping the community by holding those same shoe drops State side. Tom?s Shoes was given this chance to help last year as well. It looks like they had so much fun helping their own community that they came back for more.

Tom?s Shoes was started in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie who wanted to show he could start a philanthropic company while also turning a profit. The idea came to him after visiting Argentina where he befriended local children and learned that they had no shoes. Thus the famous Tom?s Shoes one-for-one motto was born.

Blake Mycoskie said he was asked often why Tom?s Shoes doesn?t hold shoe drops with its home of the United States. He pondered this and came to see that there is still a great need for proper fitting shoes. Many children in the States own shoes, but they are in anything but functional conditions. They are too tight, too big, or even falling apart. That is when Tom?s Shoes decided it was time to use the one-for-one model in the community.

Equipped with 33 volunteers Tom?s Shoes went to New Orleans to give away over 2,000 pairs of shoes to students at 5 different schools in the area. The crew had no problem reaching this number, and did it all with smiles.

Tom?s shoes went beyond just providing the children with new proper fitting shoes; they decided to give those kids the opportunity to personalize those shoes. Tom?s shoes set up tables and scattered markers so once the children had their shoes in had they could go make them there own. Many of the children expressed that customizing the Tom?s Shoes was their favorite part of the day.

Like Blake Mycoskie you too can help in and outside your community by participating in the one-for-one philosophy.

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Tactics to Upselling

by Amy ANderson

Try Upselling Tactics

Cross selling and upselling to the existing customers can be difficult if you want to trade more as well as make more cash ”

Customers who had already purchased from you, however, who trust in and notice value in whatever you do and who are in a purchasing mood are fine prospects for cross selling and upselling. There are many possibilities that the customers will purchase more if you make them aware of it.

You should know what you have that you could cross sell and upsell ”

Having a full knowledge regarding what you could upsell is important. Upselling the irrelevant or wrong services or products would only alienate your customers. Cross selling and upselling the right kind of stuff at the correct time is considered to be your duty. There have likely been times where you have purchased something only to get it to your house and then realized that you could have bought the more expensive one which had more features and matched up better with your preference. If only the salesman had informed you or showed it to you.

Ensure that you (the salesperson) ask ”

Perhaps the greatest block to upselling is that the salesperson doesnt ask. It might be that they are scared or intimidated. Maybe salespeople feel cheesy. Perhaps they might think that they have no right to ask. Maybe they are worried that the client will refuse.

The biggest factor which stops or prohibits upselling is that most of the salespeople do not ask and stay quiet when it comes to upselling.

Try to keep upselling simple ”

About eighty percent of selling is showing up and having the right kind of attitude and playing the game.

Salespeople need to ask for the higher end sales as theyre so experienced, but not forget to follow through on sales basics.

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by Anne Torres

Not offering your customers the practicality of using their credit cards to pay you online means that you have been losing a lot of money. Aow, it is very important to get to the bandwagon and follow the existing trends in business and one of this is to allow your customers to use their credit cards to pay you online and this is essentially one of the greatest foundation of most online businesses.

Just picture out how much money you could be losing the moment a visitor would try to make a purchase and understand that you don’t accept credit cards, just imagine the dismay or the frustration that your customer will be feeling. The solution? Well, it’s obvious. You have to get a merchant. This solution may sound very tricky not to mention all the requirements that you have comply first. But still, having this merchant account will make you have the ability to accept credit cards and this will be, in the long run, the best step you have ever taken.

Obtaining the perfect kind of account for your company or for you business may seem like a very tricky hurdle but its just all about being open to the numerous programs and strategies that merchant banks or account providers have. Yes, you will wish to go with the one that offers the lowest rate but gives you the optimum business service there is.

Depending on the plan that you have chosen, you may make a decision to accept credit cards. There are also a lot of options like accepting bank transfers and many other methods of payment. There are also a lot of different fees and your work is to evaluate these fees charged bay many providers and examine what you may get in return for each fees you pay.

Worrying about your application getting approved will not do any good unless you try and get your own account. But there is a saying that the more risk you take for your business, the higher the return and the higher your chances of getting the best merchant account. For instance, if you are a retail shop, you are promised an approval for your application. On the other hand, if your business gives insurance plans where in the possibility that the bank will shoulder the expenses in case you would not be able to, there is a lesser chance for your application to be approved.

It’s always a good move to be acquainted with what your chances are by looking into the type of business you’re in before lodging an application. If you honestly think there’s big risk involved, you can avail of the services of a third-party merchant. This third-party merchant will be cushioning whatever financial difficulties you might experience while accepting credit cards.

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IT Training In India

by Albartio Pheung

The growth of the software industry has been such that it now bigger than most other industries in the world on the basis of one main aspect; the fact that its growth and work have no limits or boundaries.

But in the early days, the challenge was to get trained people who are certified in all the latest developments in the industry. With Microsoft taking the lead, and most of the large companies following suit, we today have a great network of certified training institutions which follow stringent parameters to churn out world class software specialists, time after time.

One of the most popular places to carry out certified software training is in India. This is mainly down to its world class training premises and trained experts who can teach others, as well as easy connectivity from all of the worlds biggest airports.

In addition to those reasons, India’s popularity for IT training is also down to its extremely low costs. If you train in India, you will pay around half of what you would pay in some other places that offer the training, however the standard of the training is easily comparable if not of higher than many other places.

Yet another huge advantage of training for your IT qualification in India is that there are instructor led training sessions available. In the main markets of the world such as the USA and the UK, home-learning is becoming very popular and with establishments, this is the only way you can learn and while this can be convenient, there are some modules that are immensely difficult to master on your own and require some instructor lead training sessions which are available at almost every learning institution allowing you to master even the most complex of modules ensuring that your qualification is worth as much as possible.

So if youre looking to get yourself qualified in a new software module, then heading over to India to do it could land you with a higher standard of qualification than you may have first thought!

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How Awesome Is iPhone Email?

by Jimmy Benjamin

There are a number of people already who are using iPhones these days. And most of these people who are using iPhones are not only those people who love multimedia but also people who are in the corporate world. Since emails are important for businessmen, they would set up an iPhone email account so the mobile phone will receive the emails sent to your email address or account.

For the average businessman, to be able to access emails is hugely crucial in their success and performance rate. Hence, they would sign up an iPhone email account so that they can receive emails through their mobile phones. To do this, it is important that you have enough knowledge on how to go about setting up the iPhone email account for your mobile phone to successfully receive the mails sent for you.

In setting up your account, you have to set an appropriate email account supported by your computer. For example, iPhone is included in the Mac family therefore it will work well with it. However, this can also work with other computers with installed Outlook application.

Next is to find the options for mail in your mobile device. If you have an account already, then you just proceed to the settings and choose mail option of your phone.

The next thing to do is to tap on “Add Account.” You will be presented with the POP option once tapping on “Add Account.” You would then need to put the details of your account on the fields. You will then be asked for the incoming mail server information, username and account password.

Once you finished filling the server for incoming mail information up, you will now need to fill the outgoing mail server. Since its information is the same as the incoming mail server, you will be asked to type in both your username and account password.

When you are done with all the filling up of needed information, then proceed to the advance option which can be found under the SMTP. Turn off the SSL, both incoming and outgoing. This is just about the final step you need to know during the setting up of your account.

Setting up your iPhone to receive iPhone email will definitely be very advantageous for you as you will not miss any important updates or meetings that might result to loss of clients and thus loss of income for your business. This is a new development in technology that will make emails accessible wherever you go.

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Start Raising Bees for Business

by Calvin Wapasa

If you want to start raising bees as a hobby or as a sideline business, below is a quick guide to raising bees because there are things you should know before you start.

You will have to spend some money in the start-up of beekeeping, but before you start investing money, you might want contact beekeepers in your area, as a rule, they will more than happy to share their experience with you and help you in getting the right bee equipment for your area.

Clothing and Equipment Needed For Beekeeping

The veil is the most important clothing for beekeeping. Bee stings on the face can be very painful and there is the possibility of damage to the eyes and ears.

Wear white or light colored coveralls. If you are not using boots, don’t wear dark socks. Boots that fasten over the coveralls or in the coveralls should be worn. A wind breaker jacket will help you to avoid being stung. Pants, veil, sleeves should be fasten securely so that the bees don’t get in the clothes.

You first need one bee hive, and a good place to get one is your local store or beekeeping society’s from your area.

This equipment cab be bought either used or new. But if you buy used equipment make sure its in great condition, also get it examined by the Apiary Inspection Service for any possibility of disease. The normal price for beekeeping equipment is $250-$450.

You can also build you very own bee hives, which is not difficult at all, if you have the time, but make sure your dimensions are correct because bees will build combs in places you don’t want them to.

Getting the Bees

There are quiet a number of ways to get bees, no matter which method you choose the right time to buy bees is spring, established colonies will cost you more, but they can be worth the extra money.

The Package Bees

The package of bees consists of 2 or 3 pounds of bees, and a queen in a separate cage (Beginners should be able to handle them easily)

The Queen Bee

The most common practice of introducing a new queen requires an introductory period of about three days the queen is placed in a cage and is fed by the colony bees though the wire gauze which covers the cage. The only way she is let go is when workers bees eat the candy entrance, or the beekeeper can decide to let go the queen into the colony self willingly.

The success of the colony depends largely on the quality of the queen. As a beekeeper you may notice a difference in the production of honey from one colony to the next. The difference in production can depend on several factors, one of which is the queen.

Obviously this beekeeping guide for beginners touches just a little at what’s required, make sure you research before you start buying equipment, get all the information so you can make a good decision as to whether bee-keeping might be for you.

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by Terry Stanfield

A recession causes anyone to look more closely at the bottom line and how any resources can be changed to improve profits. A prospecting company can be one such resource. This article will explain why you will want to look at a prospecting company to gain more sales at a lower cost.

A prospecting firm takes care of the outbound telemarketing that can communicate the benefits of your business. This can free up your salespeople to focus on other activities that they do well. The dread of outbound telemarketing can lower the productivity of your salespeople so placing this task on the shoulders of a prospecting firm can help you increase sales.

One of the biggest obstacles for most companies is an inconsistent sales pipeline. The consistent use of a prospecting company can help keep your sales pipeline full so that your sales can increase.

Many companies do not watch their advertising dollars very carefully. Using an outbound telemarketing company can allow you to closely track your return on investment and often is more cost effective than expensive television advertising campaigns.

Most businesses reduce their expenditures during a recession. You can choose to spend less money but use an outbound telemarketing company because this is a fast and inexpensive way for you to develop leads, increasing sales in your company.

Any business in a recession will watch their dollars very closely and want to be extremely frugal with them. Using a prospecting firm can allow you to free up current staff to work more closely with existing customers to gain more market share while still filling a new customer pipeline.

Businesses or individuals often are more receptive to ways to save money during a recession. Outbound telemarketing companies can have greater success due to this cost consciousness during a recession than during an economic boom.

With marketing budgets decreasing, few of your competitors will be apt to do business over the telephone. Using a prospecting company can allow you to increase your market share so that your sales increase either at that point or in the future when buyers reopen their wallets.

McGraw-Hill did a study to compare maintaining marketing activities and dollars versus reducing them during a recession. They found that those who maintained and increased this dollar amount enjoyed a 275% increase the first year after a recession and this is a spectacular argument why to spend money on an outbound telemarketing company.

Many firms have layoffs during a recession and pare down their spending. If you find that you are in a similar boat and do layoffs, you can continue to increase sales with less staff by using an outbound telemarketing company. A recession will cause you to look at the bottom line very closely. Watching how much it costs to gain a new client is one such way to grow sales and one way to grow sales in a cost-effective manner is through using an outbound telemarketing company.

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