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		<title>Seven Reasons to Write an eBook</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new profit center, your ebook is your best business card. It brings new clients, makes you the expert, sells other products, and brings more speaking and coaching business. 1. Your ebook is a natural extension of your oral or other written information. You&#8217;ve already created a speech, an article, a seminar, or marketing promotion. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-687" title="typewriter2" src="http://proofpositive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/typewriter2.jpg" alt="typewriter2" width="400" height="338" />A new profit center, your ebook is your best business card. It brings new clients, makes you the expert, sells other products, and brings more speaking and coaching business.</p>
<p>1. Your ebook is a natural extension of your oral or other written information. You&#8217;ve already created a speech, an article, a seminar, or marketing promotion. Half of your work is done. An ebook simply amplifies the information you already created..</p>
<p>2. Your ebook is a piece of you, your passion, your significant and valuable message. Audiences and clients want to take a piece of you home with them, so they can maintain the feelings they got from hearing you speak or receiving information over email.</p>
<p>3. Your ebook adds credibility, prestige, even fame! Writers are always listed in the ten top professions. If you write an ebook you&#8217;re perceived as knowing something. You&#8217;re the savvy expert, the authority. Any business person who uses the Internet is looking for your easy and fast to read how to&#8217;s. It&#8217;s no longer true that to be credible you need to create a print book through traditional publishing. Trust yourself and your knowledge.</p>
<p>4. Your ebook will be fairly easy to produce. Start small by using information from a booklet, special report or audiocassette. Length? Make your first ebook anywhere from 10 to 50 pages. People are more than willing to print out this number of pages. You can create a short book in less than a month. You can self-publish and follow the marketing path you enjoy. Self-Publishing doesn&#8217;t mean you do it all, but contract out what you don&#8217;t want to do.</p>
<p>5. Your ebook can be produced for a small cost. Produce your ebook for much less than a print book. In fact, it&#8217;s free. Publishing a short ebook allows you can to sell right away to maintain a strong cash flow to use for the more important job&#8211;promoting your ebook. With today&#8217;s business audience on the Internet daily, your promotion is easy.</p>
<p>6. Your ebook will bring you endless enjoyment and fun! People want to know the author. Like a magnet, you&#8217;ll attract many bright, interesting and influential people including the media. While non-fiction sells well year after year, if you put attention on it, think of your ebook as a way to share yourself&#8211;your love. Your coach didn&#8217;t put any of her 10 eBooks into print until four years after they already proved consistent high sales.</p>
<p>7. Your ebook will bring you great profits! You can make much more than the typical eight times profits on print books. Once you are published, you are the authority. Your value and opportunities increase. A new profit center, your ebook connects you with your target audience for other services and products. You can charge more for your seminars, consulting and talks. Your ebook is the cornerstone for a rewarding and successful future.</p>
<p>Make writing your eBook an urgent high-level activity so you share your unique ideas to help others, satisfy your life&#8217;s mission and benefit others.</p>
<p><strong>About the Author</strong><br />
Judy Cullins, 20-year Book and Internet Marketing Coach works with small business people who want to make a difference in people&#8217;s lives, build their credibility and clients, and make a consistent life-long income. Author of Write Your eBook or Other Short Book Fast and 10 others, she offers free help through her 2 monthly ezines, &#8220;The Book Coach Says. . .,&#8221; and &#8220;Business Tip of the Month.&#8221; at<a href="http://www.bookcoaching.com/" target="_blank"> www.bookcoaching.com. </a></p>
<p><strong>RESOURCES</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://YOUR-USER-NAME.bookcoach1.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">Write Your eBook or Other Short Book &#8211; Fast</a></p>
<p><a href="http://YOUR-USER-NAME.nontechie1.hop.clickbank.net/ " target="_blank">Ten Non-Techie Ways to Market Your Book Online</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eye On Marketing: 41 Days From Struggle And Confusion To Clarity &#38; Profit$ About a year ago, I bumped into Rodney Washington on Twitter.  Yes, in spite of the frustrations  there ARE uses for twitter &#8212; ONE of them is finding interesting people. . I tweeted back and forth with Rodney several times before I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="post_image_link" href="http://proofpositive.com/must-have-photo-business-marketing-resource/" title="Permanent link to MUST HAVE Photo Business Marketing Resource"><img class="post_image aligncenter" src="http://proofpositive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/rodney-washington-book01.jpg" width="230" height="357" alt="Marketing Your Photography Business" /></a>
</p><h4><a title="Eye On Marketing: 41 Days From Struggle And Confusion To Clarity  &amp;  Profit$" href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=785715&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=30418&amp;cl=129744&quot; target=&quot;ejejcsingle" target="_blank">Eye On Marketing: 41 Days From Struggle And Confusion To Clarity  &amp;  Profit$</a></h4>
<div>About a year ago, I bumped into <strong>Rodney Washington</strong> on Twitter.  Yes, in spite of the frustrations  there ARE uses for twitter &#8212; ONE of them is finding interesting people.</p>
<p><font size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF">.</font></font></p>
<div>I tweeted back and forth with Rodney several times before I followed his link first to his website and then to Facebook. After about a month of checking him out, I connected with him via email and  invited him to contribute to the Proof Positive Blog as a guest expert.  Rodney&#8217;s post,  <a title="Build your photography business through referrals" href="http://proofpositive.com/photography/your-photography-business/photography-business-build-your-photography-business-through-referrals/" target="_blank">Build Your Photography Business Through Referrals</a> is one of THE most popular posts on the Blog.
<p><font size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF">.</font></font></p>
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<div>I&#8217;ve been waiting for <a title="Eye On Marketing: 41 Days From Struggle And Confusion To Clarity  &amp;  Profit$" href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=785715&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=30418&amp;cl=129744&quot; target=&quot;ejejcsingle" target="_blank">Rodney&#8217;s book</a> for months &#8230; and finally got my much anticipated copy last week.  Now having gone through every single page &#8230;  I am going to encourage any professional photographer to get his book.</div>
<p><font size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF">.</font></font></p>
<div>If you are:</div>
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<ul>
<li>thinking of starting a photo business</li>
<li>who is just in the process of starting up</li>
<li>or who has already started their business and wants to grow</li>
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<p>you need to get the book!</p>
<p><strong><a title="Eye On Marketing: 41 Days From Struggle And Confusion To Clarity  &amp;  Profit$" href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=785715&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=30418&amp;cl=129744&quot; target=&quot;ejejcsingle"><em>Eye On Marketing: 41 Days From Struggle And Confusion To Clarity  &amp;  Profit$</em></a> is the PERFECT guide to growing your photography business. </strong></p>
<p>Rodney takes you  day-by-day through the steps necessary to developing a THRIVING photography business.</p>
<p><strong>On Day 2</strong>,   Rodney talks about <strong>2 Simple Ways To Promote Your Photography With Facebook &amp; Twitter</strong>.  I laughed when I saw that because I first met Rodney on twitter, and we still do most of our communicating on Facebook.  Rodney is a master of social media promotion!</p>
<p><strong>On Day 7</strong>, Rodney discusses &#8220;<strong>Does Your Website Chase Away Prospects? &amp; 3 Quick Ways to Fix It</strong>.&#8221; I was interested in what he had to say on this topic because as many of you know I am an SEO/SEM consultant. This is one of the first things I look at when I start working with a new client.  Rodney is right on!</p>
<p><strong>On Day 13</strong>:  <strong>3 Ways To Keep You Clients Coming Back</strong>.  In the marketing world, we are constantly reminded that it costs way way way more to get a new client than to get an existing client to make another purchase.  Many photographers (actually this applies to all businesses) forget about this and lose out BIG TIME.</p>
<p><strong>Day 38</strong>:  <strong>Attract New Clients With Video Contests.</strong> I have to confess that this was one of the first chapters I read, and I&#8217;m sure you can guess why!</p>
<p><strong>The thing that really makes this book VALUABLE and unique</strong> is the &#8220;Get Into Action&#8221; check list found at the end of each chapter. Rodney gives you a step-by-step check list of the actions you need to implement in order to make the day&#8217;s focus a reality.   He&#8217;s figured out what the action steps are &#8230; you just need to DO them.</p>
<p><strong>The bottom line?</strong> If you want to grow your business you need this book.  It is a great read filled with honest, practical, down-to-earth advice.  Rodney Washington is the real thing.  You will get 1000% more than you paid for and you&#8217;d be nuts to pass on this.   <a title="Eye on Marketing Photo Business book" href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=785715&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=30418&amp;cl=129744&quot; target=&quot;ejejcsingle" target="_blank">Check it out here.</a></p>
<p>My advice to Rodney is that the book is way too cheap.  My advice to you is to <a title="Eye on Marketing Photo Business book" href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=785715&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=30418&amp;cl=129744&quot; target=&quot;ejejcsingle" target="_blank"><strong>get the book</strong> </a>before Rodney takes my advice!</p>
<p>Melanie</p>
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</p><p>It is always said &#8220;If you Fail to Plan, you Plan to Fail&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Success in business comes as a result of planning.</strong> You have to have a detailed, written plan that shows what the ultimate goal is, the reason for the goal, and each milestone that must be passed in order to reach your goal.</p>
<p>A business plan is written definition of, and operational plan for achieving your goal. You need a complete but success tool in order to define your basic product, income objectives and specific operating procedures.</p>
<p>YOU HAVE TO HAVE A BUSINESS PLAN to attract investors, obtain financing and hold onto the confidence of your creditors, particularly in times of cash flow shortages&#8211;in this instance, the amount of money you have on hand compared with the expenses that must be met.</p>
<p>Aside from an overall directional policy for the production, sales effort and profit goals of your product&#8211;your basic &#8220;travel guide&#8221; to business success&#8211;the most important purpose your business plan will serve, will be the basis or foundation of any financial proposals you submit. Many entrepreneurs are under the mistaken impression that a business plan is the same as a financial proposal, or that a financial proposal constitutes a business plan. This is just a misunderstanding of the uses of these two separate and different business success aids.</p>
<p><strong>The business plan is a long range &#8220;map&#8221; to guide your business </strong>to the goal you&#8217;ve set for it. The plan details the what, why, where, how and when, of your business&#8211;the success planning of your company.</p>
<p><strong>Your financial proposal is a request for money based upon your business plan</strong>&#8211;your business history and objectives.</p>
<p>Understand the differences. They are closely related, but they are not interchangeable.</p>
<p>Writing and putting together a &#8220;winning&#8221; business plan takes study, research and time, so don&#8217;t try to do it all in just one or two days.</p>
<p>The easiest way to start with a loose leaf notebook, plenty of paper, pencils, pencil sharpener, and several erasers. Once you get your mind &#8220;in gear&#8221; and begin thinking about your business plan, &#8220;10,000 thoughts and ideas per minute&#8221; will begin racing thru your mind&#8230;So, it&#8217;s a good idea when you aren&#8217;t actually working on your business plan, to carry a pocket notebook and jot down those business ideas as they come to you&#8211;ideas for sales promotion, recruiting distributors, and any other thoughts on how to operate and/or build your business.</p>
<p>Later, when you&#8217;re actually working on your business plan, you can take out this &#8220;idea notebook&#8221; evaluate your ideas, rework them, refine them, and integrate them into the overall &#8220;big picture&#8221; of your business plan.</p>
<p><strong>The best business plans for even the smallest businesses run 25 to 30 pages or more</strong>, so you&#8217;ll need to &#8220;title&#8221; each page and arrange the different aspects of your business plan into &#8220;chapters.&#8221; The format should pretty much run as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Title Page</li>
<li>Statement of Purpose</li>
<li>Table of Contents</li>
<li>Business Description</li>
<li>Market Analysis</li>
<li>Competition</li>
<li>Business Location</li>
<li>Management</li>
<li>Current Financial Records</li>
<li>Explanation of Plans For Growth</li>
<li> Projected Profit &amp; Loss/Operating Figures</li>
<li>Explanation of Financing for Growth Documentation</li>
<li>Summary of Business</li>
<li>Outlook for The Future Listing of Business</li>
<li>Personal References</li>
</ul>
<p>This is a logical organization of the information every business plan should cover. I&#8217;ll explain each of these chapters titles in greater detail, but first, let me elaborate upon the reasons for proper organization of your business plan.</p>
<p>Having a set of &#8220;questions to answer&#8221; about your business forces you to take an objective and critical look at your ideas. Putting it all down on paper allows you to change, erase and refine everything to function in the manner of a smoothly oiled machine. You&#8217;ll be able to spot weakness and strengthen them before they develop into major problems. Overall, you&#8217;ll be developing an operating manual for your business&#8211;a valuable tool which will keep your business on track, and guide you in the profitable management of your business.</p>
<p><strong>Because it&#8217;s your idea, and your business, it&#8217;s very important that YOU do the planning.</strong> This is YOUR business plan, so YOU develop it, and put it all down on paper just the way YOU want it to read. Seek out the advice of other people; talk with, listen to, and observe, other people running similar businesses; enlist the advice of your accountant and attorney&#8211;but at the bottom line, don&#8217;t ever forget it has to be YOUR BUSINESS PLAN!</p>
<p>Remember too, that statistics show the greatest causes of business failure to be poor management and lack of planning&#8211;without a plan by which to operate, no one can manage; and without a direction in which to aim its efforts, no business can attain any real success.</p>
<p><strong>On the very first page, which is the title page</strong>, put down the name of your business-ABC ACTION&#8211;with your business address underneath. Now, skip a couple of lines, and write it all in capital letters: PRINCIPAL OWNER&#8211;followed by your name if you&#8217;re the principal owner. On your finished report, you would want to center this information on the page, with the words &#8220;principal owner&#8221; off-set to the left about five spaces.</p>
<p>Examples: ABC ACTION 1234 SW 5th Ave. Anywhere, USA 00000</p>
<p>PRINCIPAL OWNER: Your Name</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all you&#8217;ll have on this page except the page number -1-</p>
<p>Following your title page is the <strong>page for your statement purpose</strong>. This should be a simple statement of your primary business function, such as: We are a service business engaged in the business of selling business success manuals and other information by mail.</p>
<p>The title of the page should be in all capital letters across the top of the page, centered on your final draft&#8211;skip a few lines and write the statement of purpose. This should be direct, clear and short&#8211;never more than (2) sentences in length.</p>
<p>Then you should skip a few lines, and from the left hand margin of the paper, write out a sub-heading in all capital letters, such as: EXPLANATION OF PURPOSE.</p>
<p>From, and within this sub-heading you can briefly explain your statement of purpose, such as: Our surveys have found most entrepreneurs to be &#8220;sadly&#8221; lacking in basic information that will enable them to achieve success. This market is estimated at more than a 100 million persons, with at least half of these people actively &#8220;searching&#8221; for sources that provide the kind of information they want, and need.</p>
<p>With our business, advertising and publishing experience, it is our goal to capture at least half of this market of information seekers, with our publication. MONEY MAKING MAGIC! Our market research indicates we can achieve this goal and realize a profit of $1,000,000 per year within the next 5 years&#8230;</p>
<p>The above example is generally the way you should write your &#8220;explanation of purpose,&#8221; and in subtle definition, why you need an explanation. Point to remember: <strong>Keep it short. Very few business purpose explanations justify more than a half page long.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Next comes your table of contents page.</strong> Don&#8217;t really worry about this until you&#8217;ve got the entire plan completed and ready for final typing. It&#8217;s a good idea though, to list the subject (chapter titles) as I have, and then check off each one as you complete that part of your plan.</p>
<p>By having a list of the points you want to cover, you&#8217;ll also be able to skip around and work on each phase of your business plan as an idea or the interest in organizing that particular phase, stimulates you. In other words, you won&#8217;t have to make your thinking or your planning conform to the chronological order of the &#8220;chapters&#8221; of your business plan&#8211;another reason for the loose leaf notebook.</p>
<p><strong>In describing your business, it&#8217;s best to begin where your statement purpose leaves off.</strong> Describe your product, the production process, who has responsibility for what, and most importantly, what makes your product or service unique&#8211;what gives it an edge in your market. You can briefly summarize your business beginnings, present position and potential for future success, as well.</p>
<p>Next, describe the buyers you&#8217;re trying to reach&#8211;why they need and want or will buy your product&#8211;and the results of any tests or surveys you may have conducted. Once you&#8217;ve defined your market, go on to explain how you intend to reach that market&#8211;how you&#8217;ll these prospects to your product or service and induce them to buy. You might want to break this chapter down into sections such as..publicity and promotions, advertising plans, direct sales force, and dealer/distributor programs. Each section would then be an outline of your plans and policies.</p>
<p><strong>Moving into the next chapter on competition</strong>, identify who your competitors are&#8211;their weakness and strong points&#8211;explain how you intend to capitalize on those weaknesses and match or better the strong points. Talk to as many of your &#8220;indirect&#8221; competitors as possible&#8211;those operating in different cities and states.</p>
<p>One of the easiest ways of gathering a lot of useful information about your competitors is by developing a series of survey questions and sending these questionnaires out to each of them. Later on, you might want to compile the answers to these questionnaires into some form of directory or report on this type of business.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also advisable to contact the trade associations and publications serving your proposed type of business. For information on trade associations and specific trade publications, visit your public library, and after explaining what you want ask for the librarian&#8217;s help.</p>
<p><strong>The chapter on management should be an elaboration on the people operating the business. </strong>Those people that actually run the business, their job, titles, duties, responsibilities and background resume&#8217;s. It&#8217;s important that you &#8220;paint&#8221; a strong picture of your top management people because the people coming to work for you or investing in your business, will be &#8220;investing in these people&#8221; as much as your product ideas. Individual tenacity, mature judgement under fire, and innovative problem-solving have &#8220;won over&#8221; more people than all the AAA Credit Ratings and astronomical sales figures put together.</p>
<p>People becoming involved with any new venture want to know that the person in charge&#8211;the guy running the business knows what he&#8217;s doing, will not lose his cool when problems arise, and has what it takes to make money for all of them&gt; After showing the &#8220;muscle&#8221; of this person, go on to outline the other key positions within your business; who the persons are you&#8217;ve selected to handle those jobs and the sources as well as availability of any help you might need.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been in business of any kind scale, <strong>the next chapter is a picture of your financial status</strong>&#8211;a review of your operating costs and income from the business to date. Generally, this is a listing of your profit &amp; loss statements for the six months, plus copies of your business income tax records for each of the previous three years the business has been an entity.</p>
<p><strong>The chapter on the explanation of your plans for the future growth of your business</strong> is just that&#8211;an explanation of how you plan to keep your business growing&#8211;a detailed guide of what you&#8217;re going to do, and how you&#8217;re going to increase your profits. These plans should show your goals for the coming year, two years, and three years. By breaking your objectives down into annual milestones, your plan will be accepted as more realistic and be more understandable as a part of your ultimate success.</p>
<p>Following this explanation, you&#8217;ll need to itemize the projected cost and income figures of your three year plan. I&#8217;ll take a lot of research, an undoubtedly a good deal of erasing, but it&#8217;s very important that you list these figures based upon thorough investigation. You may have to adjust some of your plans downward, but once you&#8217;ve got these two chapters on paper, your whole business plan will fall into line and begin to make sense. You&#8217;ll have a precise &#8220;map&#8221; of where you&#8217;re headed, how much it&#8217;s going to cost, when you can expect to start making money, and how much.</p>
<p>Now that you know where you&#8217;re going, how much it&#8217;s going to cost and how long it&#8217;s going to be before you begin to recoup your investment, you&#8217;re ready to talk about how and where you&#8217;re going to get the money to finance your journey. Unless you&#8217;re independently wealthy, you&#8217;ll want to use this chapter to list the possibilities and alternatives. Make a list of friends you can approach, and perhaps induce to put up some money as silent partners. Make a list of those people you might be able to sell as stockholders in your company&#8211;in many cases you can sell up to $300,000 worth of stock on a &#8220;private issue&#8221; basis without filing papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Check with a corporate or tax attorney in your area for more details. Make a list of relatives and friends that might help you with an outright loan to furnish money for the development of your business.</p>
<p>Then search out and make a list of venture capital organizations. Visit the Small Business Administration office in your area&#8211;pick up the loan application papers they have&#8211;read them, study them, and even fill them out on a preliminary basis&#8211;and finally, check the costs, determine which business publications would be best to advertise in, if you were to advertise for a partner or investor, and write an ad you&#8217;d want to use if you did decide to advertise for monetary help.</p>
<p>With listing of all the options available to your needs, all that&#8217;s left is the arranging of these options in the order you would want to use them when the time come to ask for money. When you&#8217;re researching these money sources, you&#8217;ll save time by noting the &#8220;contact&#8221; deal with when you want money, and whenever possible, by developing a working relationship with these people.</p>
<p><strong>In your documentation section, you should have a credit report on yourself. </strong>Use the Yellow Pages or check at the credit department in your bank for the nearest credit reporting office. When you get your credit report, look it over and take whatever steps are necessary to eliminate any negative comments. Once these have been taken care of, ask for a revised copy of your report and include a copy of that in your business plan.</p>
<p>If you own any patents or copyrights, include copies of these. Any licenses to use someone else&#8217;s patent or copyright should also be included. If you own the distribution, wholesale or exclusive sales rights to a product, include copies of this documentation. You should also include copies of any leases, special agreements or other legal papers that might be pertinent to your business.</p>
<p>In conclusion, write out a brief, overall summary of your business- when the business was started, the purpose of the business, what makes your business different, how you&#8217;re going to gain a profitable share of the market, and your expected success during the coming 5 years..</p>
<p><strong>The last page of your business plan is a &#8220;courtesy page&#8221; listing the names, addresses and phone numbers of personal and business references</strong>&#8211;persons who have known you closely for the past five years or longer&#8211;and companies or firms you&#8217;ve had business or credit dealings with during the past five years.</p>
<p>And, that&#8217;s it&#8211;your complete business plan. Before you send it out for formal typing, read it over once a day for a week or ten days. Take care of any changes or corrections, and then have it reviewed by an attorney and then, an accountant. It would also be a good idea to have it reviewed by a business consultant serving the business community to which your business will be related. After these reviews, and any last-minute changes you want to make, I&#8217;ll be ready for formal typing.</p>
<p>Type and print the entire plan on ordinary white bond paper. Make sure you proof-read it against the original. Check for any corrections and typographical errors&#8211;then one more time&#8211;read it through for clarity and the perfection you want of it.</p>
<p>Now you&#8217;re ready to have it printed and published for whatever use you have planned for it&#8211;distribution amongst your partners or stockholders as the business plan for putting together a winning financial proposal, or as a business operating manual.</p>
<p>Take it to a quality printer in your area, and have three copies printed. Don&#8217;t settle for photo-copying..Have it printed!</p>
<p>Photo-copying leaves a slight film on the paper, and will detract from the overall professionalism of your business plan, when presented to someone you&#8217;re trying to impress. So, after going to all this work to put together properly, go all the way and have it duplicated properly.</p>
<p>Next, stop by a stationery store, variety store or even a dime store, and pick up an ordinary, inexpensive bind-in theme cover for each copy of your business plan. Have the holes punched in the pages of your business report to fit these binders and then slip each copy into a binder of its own.</p>
<p>Now, you can relax, take a break and feel good about yourself..You have a complete and detailed business plan with which to operate a successful business of your own. A plan you can use as a basis for any financing proposal you may want to submit..And a precise road-map for the attainment of real success&#8230;</p>
<p>You just complete one of the important steps to fulfill of all your dreams of success.</p>
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		<title>How to Identify Growth Opportunities</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Guest Expert is Sandy Huang, owner of Pinpoint Tactics Business Consulting. Sandy’s client base ranges from start-up businesses, to companies on a steep growth tangent, to mature enterprises. Her unique consulting process helps her clients of any business lifecycle effectively tackle their challenges and strategically move to the next level. She is her clients’ [...]]]></description>
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</p><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2287" title="sandy-huang" src="http://proofpositive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sandy-huang.jpg" alt="" width="168" height="253" />Today&#8217;s Guest Expert is <strong>Sandy Huang,</strong> owner of <a title="Pinpoint Tactics" href="http://www.pinpointtactics.com/" target="_blank">Pinpoint Tactics Business Consulting.</a> Sandy’s client base ranges from start-up businesses, to companies on a steep growth tangent, to mature enterprises. Her unique consulting process helps her clients of any business lifecycle effectively tackle their challenges and strategically move to the next level. She is her clients’ “Executive Council” and acts as an objective sounding board.</p>
<p>In this post Sandy talks about <strong>how to identify ways to grow and expand your existing business</strong>.</p>
<h2>How to Identify Growth Opportunities</h2>
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<p>Small business owners are always interested in learning ways to identify growth opportunities. Too many of us, though, get side tracked by the daily activities of running a business and forget to pay attention to opportunities that are right before our eyes. Before we know it, they have come and gone.</p>
<p><strong>Here are three easy ways to uncover potential opportunities:</strong></p>
<p>1.<strong> Examine your current client base</strong>:<br />
The cost of securing a new client can be anywhere from five to 15 times that of securing a repeat client. Consequently, developing strategies that generate repeat business on a regular basis is essential to a small business&#8217; bottom line. It goes without saying that you need to provide quality service in the first place for your clients to come back. But after a transaction is completed between you and a client, do you have ways to stay in touch and stay top of mind? Do you provide reasons and incentives for repeat businesses? Can you up sell some of your past and current clients with a new service or product you have? Do they have family, friends, and associates you can offer your services to? Assuming that you provided an excellent work to your clients, they can be your biggest fans who will gladly promote and endorse you.</p>
<p><strong>2. Look at how you are currently receiving clients:</strong><br />
A small business&#8217;s client source is generally tied to its marketing effort. Besides identifying the appropriate marketing vehicles to reach your target clients, it is important to track the effectiveness of your tactics. Are your clients mostly through word of mouth referrals? Do they usually find you online? Are they typically attendees to speaking engagements you have throughout the year? Do your strategic alliances send the majority of your clients? Once you have identified the successful sources, explore creative ways to take those sources to the next level.</p>
<p><strong>3. Identify complementary services/products that will open up a different market for you: </strong><br />
I recently asked a professional photographer colleague of mine to take pictures of my dog. She specializes in wedding and children&#8217;s photography and she does amazing work. After being pestered by my persistent requests, she made an exception and took my dog to the beach for a photo shoot. She had a blast and the photos turned out fantastically. She did not only enjoy the session, she uncovered a new market segment that complements her current client base well without having to change the fundamentals of her business. What is the service or product that complements your current offerings?</p>
<p>Beyond the above ideas, simply stay informed. Whenever there is a political, social, economical or technological change in the world we live in, or perhaps a policy change in the industry you operate in, there are business opportunities for those who are attentive.</p>
<p>Sandy Huang<br />
<a title="Pinpoint Tactics" href="http://www.pinpointtactics.com/" target="_blank">Pinpoint Tactics</a> <a title="Pinpoint Tactics" href="http://www.pinpointtactics.com/" target="_blank">Business  Consulting</a></p>
<p><strong>What are YOU doing to identify and exploit potential opportunities for business growth?</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346.html">Blog Profit Camp</a> just went live.  I think I must have clicked onto the site 1 second after the new information about the program was posted!</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t been reading my emails or some of my more recent posts &#8230; <a href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346.html">Blog Profit Camp</a> is the newest offering by super blogger John Chow.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve met John several times (we both live in Vancouver) and he is THE most successful blogger I know.  John makes over $40,000 a month  (you read it right &#8230; 40K A MONTH) with his blog. His blog is one of the top 10 blogs on the Internet and is read by hundreds of thousands of people through RSS feeds and Facebook etc.</p>
<p>John&#8217;s program <a href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346.html">BLOG PROFIT CAMP </a> is a 12-week program that will show you in great gory detail exactly how he does it. I&#8217;ll have to admit that I can&#8217;t even imagine making $40K a month with my blog &#8230; even $40K a year would be amazing.  So I&#8217;ve already signed up.  There is a full 30-day no hassle guarantee, so I figure I have nothing to lose and who knows,  I could be the next SUPER BLOGGER!</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346.html">Here is the 12 week plan:</a></strong><br />
Week 1 – Introduction to Blogging<br />
Week 2 – Building the Foundation<br />
Week 3 – Content Creation<br />
Week 4 – Blog Promotion &amp; Traffic<br />
Week 5 – Affiliate Marketing &amp; Networks<br />
Week 6 – Email List Building<br />
Week 7 – SEO &amp; SEM<br />
Week 8 – Facebook &amp; Twitter<br />
Week 9 – Email Marketing<br />
Week 10 – Video Marketing &amp; Podcasting<br />
Week 11 – Marketing Your Own Product<br />
Week 12 – Putting It All Together</p>
<p>If, like me, you&#8217;ve dreamed about making an income on doing what you love &#8230; and what you love is blogging &#8230; then go ahead and take a look.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346.html">John&#8217;s Blog Profit Camp</a> will only be open for registrations to the first 150 subscribers OR 4 days, whichever comes sooner.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a blog or a newsletter or are facing a blank page in a book or website  project, sooner or later you may experience burnout. Bobbi Linkemer, an experienced and prolific writer gives us five tips that will get us over the coals and onto the other side! 5 Things to Do When [...]]]></description>
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</p><p>If you have a blog or a newsletter or are facing a blank page in a book or website  project, sooner or later you may experience burnout.</p>
<p>Bobbi Linkemer, an experienced and prolific writer gives us five tips that will get us over the coals and onto the other side!</p>
<p><strong>5 Things to Do When You&#8217;re Experiencing Writer&#8217;s Burnout</strong></p>
<p>The word <em>burnout</em> was not even in my vocabulary when I first started writing. I knew I would <em>never</em> tire of it, <em>never</em> want to do anything else, <em>never</em> stop. I wrote at every opportunity. Looking back, I don&#8217;t know how I did it, except that I was young and obsessed. I ran on adrenaline and addiction to writing, I suppose.</p>
<p>All I wanted in life was to write full time. Strangely, that addiction has never wavered. I have been writing for 40 years and can&#8217;t think of anything I would rather do. Yet, having said that, I must admit that I have been worn out, exhausted, and blocked more than a few times over the years. Being a full-time writer means you write <em>all the time</em>. That&#8217;s pretty much all you do, except for gathering the information you will write about.</p>
<p>For the first 20 years, I had a series of great writing jobs, ranging from managing a city magazine to managing a marketing communications department. If I was burned out at that point, it was more with the vicissitudes of corporate life than with writing. But, to be sure, I <em>was</em> burned out.</p>
<p>For the second half my work life, I have been a business owner &#8211; a one-woman band who, in addition to writing, does everything else. When frustration has reared its head, it has been caused by the need to create some sort of balance among work, life, and the unbelievable number of administrative and financial tasks that come with the job.</p>
<p>The writing has been challenging, comprising virtually every industry, every subject, and every genre. The variety has stretched me, educated me, and stimulated me. What has driven me crazy is the uncertainty of finding work when there is too little, doing the work when there is too much, holding on to the work in the midst of a chaotic business environment, and continuing to love the work, no matter what it entails. Keeping all of those balls in the air all the time sometimes seems impossible. It is certainly a recipe for burning out.</p>
<p>Here is what I have learned that may be of help to you when you see <strong>BURNOUT</strong> in neon on your computer screen:</p>
<p>1. <strong>Never say never. </strong> This advice applies to everything in life. It is the one word that is guaranteed to trip you up because we never (whoops) know what life is going to throw at us or how we will feel when we must deal with the unexpected.</p>
<p>2. <strong>Admit it. </strong> You&#8217;re tired. You&#8217;re sick of what you&#8217;re doing. You hate your boss/editor/client. You&#8217;re uninspired. You have writer&#8217;s block. You wish you were a carpenter. You want to scream. The point is, don&#8217;t deny it and fight your way through it. Stop, and be aware of what&#8217;s going on inside of you. The body never lies, and, if it&#8217;s turning you into pretzel knots, there is a reason.</p>
<p>3. <strong>Don&#8217;t panic. </strong> When you feel yourself burning out, getting tired, writing mechanically, or feeling too blocked to write at all &#8211; and you will &#8211; take a break. (Oh, but I can&#8217;t; I have a deadline!) Yes, I know, but whatever you&#8217;re doing or not doing isn&#8217;t working. So, stop and take a walk, a nap, a movie, a meal, or a vacation. Read a book, veg out in front of the TV, put on your favorite CD, wash the floor, fix your car, do yoga or tai chi or karate. Do anything but write.</p>
<p>4. <strong>Know that it will pass. </strong> You are still a writer, a good writer in fact. You haven&#8217;t lost your skill or your love of the craft. It&#8217;s probably premature to throw up you hands in defeat and job hunt. Be a Taoist: go with the flow. You don&#8217;t beat yourself to death when you have the flu; why do it when you are suffering from temporary malaise? Chalk it up to a passing phase, and get on with your life.</p>
<p>5. <strong>Think it through. </strong> If it&#8217;s serious, if it&#8217;s continuous, if it&#8217;s painful, and it won&#8217;t go away, you may have to do more than go to a movie or roller-blading. You may have to examine what is going on and whether it is indeed time to move on to something else. My guess is, that given time, you&#8217;ll find some way to refresh your mind and your creativity. But if that doesn&#8217;t happen, you have a right to switch gears and find another outlet for your talents. You did not sign a life-long contract to be a writer. If it&#8217;s time to do something else, go for it.</p>
<p>Burnout is stress on overdrive. It affects your health, your psyche, and your work. When you are a writer, burnout can stop you in your tracks, rendering you incapable of doing the one thing you can and want to do. Recognize it and respect it.</p>
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<p>Bobbi Linkemer is a ghostwriter, <a id="link_99" href="http://writeanonfictionbook.com/Coaching.html" target="_new">writing coach</a>, and editor. She is also the author of 14 books. Bobbi has been a professional writer for 40 years, a magazine editor and journalist, and a book-writing teacher. Her clients range from Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurs who want to enhance their credibility and build their businesses. Her articles on writing regularly appear on EzineArticles.com and other top online article sites. Purchase<br />
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		<title>Living The Dot Com Lifestyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Chow has just released his newest eBook call Living The Dot Com Lifestyle: How To Have Time, Money and Location Freedom. Living The Dot Com Lifestyle details the rules and methods John uses to live anywhere in the world and have money come in even when he is not working. Last year, John spent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>John Chow has just released his newest eBook call <strong>Living The Dot Com Lifestyle: How To Have Time, Money and Location Freedom.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Living The Dot Com Lifestyle</strong> details the rules and methods John uses to live anywhere in the world and have money come in even when he is not working.</p>
<p>Last year, John spent over 100 days traveling with his family and during those 100 days, he made more money than he ever made before! Living The Dot Com Lifestyle explains how he did it.</p>
<p>Best of all, <a title="Living the Dot Com Lifestyle" href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346.html" target="_blank">John’s eBook is FREE!</a></p>
<p>To get your copy of Living The Dot Com Lifestyle, all you have to is download <a href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346.html" target="_blank">John’s last eBook</a>, The Ultimate Blog Profit Model, which is also free and explains how he makes $500,000 a year from blogging.</p>
<p>If you haven’t got your copy of <strong>The Ultimate Blog Profit Model</strong> yet, then go <a href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346.html" target="_blank">sign up now and get both eBooks, plus another bonus eBook!</a></p>
<p>You can’t lose with this deal. It won’t cost you a single penny and just for downloading the eBooks, you’ll be entered into a draw to win an Apple iPad! Go get it now!</p>
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		<dc:creator>Melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sure you have read numerous articles about Bloggers who make loads of money or even their living from Blogging. You may be one of the many who wonder how they do it, or if it is even possible!  I know that I make a moderate amount from my blogs, but I&#8217;ve never broken [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I am sure you have read numerous articles about Bloggers who make loads of money or even their living from Blogging.</p>
<p>You may be one of the many who wonder how they do it, or if it is even possible!  I know that I make a moderate amount from my blogs, but I&#8217;ve never broken into the BIG time!  My excuse is that I&#8217;m too busy driving traffic to my client&#8217;s websites! LOL</p>
<p>A few days ago I attended a presentation by John Chow &#8230; one of the &#8220;gurus&#8221; who DOES make a living with his Blog.   $40,000 a month seems like a pretty cool income, so though I am very jaded and don&#8217;t believe even half of what I hear or read, I DID listen.</p>
<p>John had some very interesting tidbits to share with his audience. I found that even as a seasoned Internet Marketer I had something to learn.</p>
<p>As a result of the presentation I <a title="Blog Profit Camp" href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346-2-3-1.html" target="_blank">downloaded John&#8217;s latest ebook, The Ultimate Blog Profit Model</a>,  and was again amazed by the amount of good, solid information he is willing to part with for free.</p>
<p>I highly recommend downloading John&#8217;s ebook.  Be sure to print it out and grab a highlighter and a pen for making notes. Be sure to make a list of future actions, and capture all the ideas you will be sure to come up with.  I am about to implement one of John&#8217;s many ideas for increasing newsletter subscribers and will let you know what results I obtained in my next newsletter.</p>
<p>Many of us cannot even begin to DREAM of a $40 K a month blog.  But you can dream about $500, $1000 or even $3000 a month!!  Be sure to read <a title="Blog Profit Camp" href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346-2-3-1.html" target="_blank">John Chow&#8217;s game plan</a> and see if you are willing to spend 2 hours a day to create a second income stream for yourself.</p>
<p>By the way &#8230; is Free really FREE?   <a title="Blog Profit Camp" href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346-2-3-1.html" target="_blank">John Chow&#8217;s ebook really IS free</a> and he gives away TONS of great information.</p>
<p>He is also using the ebook as a way of promoting his new course <a title="Blog Profit Camp" href="http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/346-2-3-1.html" target="_blank">Blog Profit Camp</a>.   The course will be open only for a short time and costs just under $400.  IF you really want to make money with your blog, be sure to consider it. You will get 12 weeks of detailed step-by-step instructions and information on how to develop and run a profitable blog.</p>
<p>When you see what John gives away for free &#8230; you can&#8217;t even  imagine what you will get in the course!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you use gmail?  Have you seen the ads on the right hand side of your messages?  Did you know that you can set up your Google adwords account to show ads on the gmail network? Internet Marketer, Ryan Deiss has found a HUGE backdoor into Google advertising (PPC)  that cuts costs by up to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Do you use gmail?  Have you seen the ads on the right hand side of your messages?  Did you know that you can set up your Google adwords account to show ads on the gmail network?</p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Internet Marketer, Ryan Deiss has found a HUGE backdoor into Google advertising (PPC)  that cuts costs by up to 90%<br />
and boosts conversions up to ten times.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><a title="gmail advertising" href="https://touchstone.infusionsoft.com/go/gmail/proofpos" target="_blank">Watch this 13 minute video</a> to see how you can get your ads appearing beside the gmail messages.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">PS &#8230; Ryan&#8217;s offer is good only until midnight January 19th &#8230; so do this now!!<br />
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		<title>Outsourcing and Virtual Assistants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GET YOUR FREE CD NOW! Jeff Mills is the King of Outsourcing and MY Personal Outsourcing Guru.  I met him last spring at a Internet Business Conference here in Vancouver. In addition to being an amazing resource, he is one of the NICEST people I&#8217;ve met. I have transformed my business using Jeff&#8217;s tactics and [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jeff Mills is the King of Outsourcing and MY Personal Outsourcing Guru.  I met him last spring at a Internet Business Conference here in Vancouver. In addition to being an amazing resource, he is one of the NICEST people I&#8217;ve met.</p>
<p>I have transformed my business using Jeff&#8217;s tactics and information. I now have several teams of &#8220;worker bees&#8221; working for me while I sleep.  I wake up in the morning to find that all the work I assigned the night before is done.  I can&#8217;t tell you how fabulous that is.</p>
<p>It has taken my productivity and the efficiency of my business UP by over 500%   All my workers are experts at what they do, which has expanded the capabilities of my company.</p>
<p>Jeff&#8217;s Free Video      Reveals the #1 Secret for      Tripling      your Time Off and Doubling Your      Monthly Income by Working with Virtual      Assistants &amp; Outsourced Teams Who do      ALL Your Internet Marketing &amp; Money      Generating Activities For You!</p>
<p>If you want just a little bit of that for yourself &#8230;  <a href="http://www.shopgoldmills.com/cmd.php?Clk=3324739" target="_blank">CLICK HERE </a> Enter your name and email &#8230; then fill out the form. You will get <span style="font-weight: bold;">the free CD</span> (just pay a very reasonable shipping charge) AND a <span style="font-weight: bold;">30 day FREE trial of Jeff&#8217;s Outsourcing Program. </span>This is the SAME program I belong to. You&#8217;ll get 30 days to kick it around and see if it is a fit for you!  In addition to that you will get all sorts of OTHER FREE goodies. Be sure to go and take a peek at everything Jeff is giving away.</p>
<p>If you want to <a href="http://www.shopgoldmills.com/cmd.php?Clk=3324739" target="_blank">GROW YOUR BUSINESS</a> you are nuts if you don&#8217;t take advantage of this program.</p>
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