Actual for You - Writing and Speaking

It's Your Home Business - Will it Sink or Swim?
Businesses fail for many different reasons. Here’s what you should be thinking about so that your business is not one that sinks, but one that swims and stays afloat!If you’re looking at a new business, make up a business plan, include your goals and financial projections. YOU need to know more than anyone where you are headed. Your business plan doesn’t have to be drawn up by a professional business planner, you can do it yourself. Write down the hard costs of getting the business started and maintained, including costs of licenses, equipment, inventory etc. Don’t forget to include how much income you will need to be bringing in, or have saved up

, then how long before the Internet defines ethics?

(Don’t) Take it From Me

As an online writer, you definitely receive a crash course in ethics and intellectual property rights—usually because yours have been violated. This may be cynical, but it seems that some people review and scrutinize intellectual property laws to see what they can get away with. And if that scrutinizing eye likes your content, and lives in another country, they may very well get away with the evil scheme. The issue online with intellectual property is that while content you create is protected by laws in your country, that doesn’t necessarily mean a person in another country has to obey them. And if said person from said other country copies your content, you must hire lawyers and pursue the matter in the offender’s locati

MLM & Network Marketing Branding - What Blogging Platform Should You Use
Blogging is simply putting your content on a different platform. It is not just a diary, a gimmick or cheap party trick.But blogging for your MLM or network marketing business, or just about ANY business for that matter?Though they certainly didn't start out that way, blogs are incredibly useful content management systems when set up properly.If you are marketing your MLM or network marketing business on the web and you don't have a blog, you will always be beaten down by your competition.You cannot get ahead by using the tools of Web 2.0 without a blog. Period.Beyond a shadow of a doubt, blog content management systems are the darling of the s

New Media, web content, Google AdSense, SEO articles, Elance, ebooks, ecourses, I thank you all. Without these editorial introductions of the 1990s and beyond, some writers might still be starving. (Thanks to the new McDonalds dollar menu, we starve no more.) As a writer, small business owner, and Cubs fan I’ve noticed that there seem to be three inalienable facts in the profession of online article writing: good writers will have their content stolen, and new writers will be offered absurd and many times unethical jobs.

Carnivorous Clients

First let’s talk about absurd jobs. You have to love these, because they certainly add humor to the day and give writers something to talk about (like now.) These jobs are always presented on a silver platter by the buyer as if he/she is doing an angelic service by selecting you out of alllllll the interested parties, to pen 10,000 original articles in three days for a total price of $2. The buyer promises euphoric after results, like a stellar reputation thanks to five star feedback, or repeat business, but, oh goodie, next time it will be 40,000 articles in one day for $4. These are usually the same buyers who state that if you don’t take the job, someone in India will (will laugh is more like it.) There are several reasons why you should not take these jobs. First, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Second, some buyers want everything, right now, and for free. They aren’t happy no matter what, how much, or for how inexpensive a price you deliver it. And thirdly, if you don’t deliver this in the unrealistic deadline you agreed to, be assured the buyer will leave you the worst feedback known in the history of words. These buyers prey on writers with no confidence. Don’t take jobs for pennies per article because you feel you need the feedback to become established. You won’t have time to be established because you’ll be dead from article writing overload. A lot of good the buyer’s feedback will do you then. To avoid this, know your hourly rate and your limits and hold out for the thousands of excellent and well-paying buyers out there.

Have a Heart

Not every job is on the up and up. While working as a freelancer, I was contacted by a third-party who wanted me to create fake profiles for their client, a dating site. The goal was to regularly email members with “chit chat” to keep them interested in the site and continue paying a subscription fee. I was presented with a “formula” used to create quick and fun five sentence emails. Of course I turned down the job--I never accept jobs with “chit chat” in the description—no good can come of that.

A year later, I signed up for a popular dating site to do research for an article (doh, that’s what they all say.) After not accessing the site for a while, and a week or so before the subscription expiration date, I received an email alert that I had a message and—woo hoo—the guy looked exactly like Joseph Fiennes (probably because he used a picture of Joseph Fiennes.) It was no surprise that the email (heck yes I read it) was the “formula” I had seen a year earlier. And that's the sad truth about these jobs--there is always a taker. The point is, if a lack of ethics continues to dominate online business practices, then how long before the Internet defines ethics?

(Don’t) Take it From Me

Literature and Women: The Power of Words
Much has been written about women and women's issues throughout the ages - by women themselves, and about women by men. Books and poems about women's mastery and mystery, their beauty and perceived lack of it, the ties that bind them to good men, the lies that bind them to bad men. Millions of words have been written about women's tight-knit bonds with other women, their co-dependency on men, the wondrous bliss and fulfillment of being a new mother. Writers throughout the ages have turned ordinary women into legends, pariahs, or superheroes being equally vilified, vindicated, or honored in their society for their perceived weakness, overcoming the odds, or simply because they ar

e by selecting you out of alllllll the interested parties, to pen 10,000 original articles in three days for a total price of $2. The buyer promises euphoric after results, like a stellar reputation thanks to five star feedback, or repeat business, but, oh goodie, next time it will be 40,000 articles in one day for $4. These are usually the same buyers who state that if you don’t take the job, someone in India will (will laugh is more like it.) There are several reasons why you should not take these jobs. First, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Second, some buyers want everything, right now, and for free. They aren’t happy no matter what, how much, or for how inexpensive a price you deliver it. And thirdly, if you don’t deliver this in the unrealistic deadline you agreed to, be assured the buyer will leave you the worst feedback known in the history of words. These buyers prey on writers with no confidence. Don’t take jobs for pennies per article because you feel you need the feedback to become established. You won’t have time to be established because you’ll be dead from article writing overload. A lot of good the buyer’s feedback will do you then. To avoid this, know your hourly rate and your limits and hold out for the thousands of excellent and well-paying buyers out there.

Have a Heart

(Don’t) Take it From Me

Online Paid Surveys Scams - Smell Them From Afar
Online paid surveys are rewarding businesses for survey companies. Consumer goods manufacturers and branding companies are always interested to hear what you the consumer and survey taker have to say about their products. It does not matter what market segment or product line. Consumer opinions and emerging market trends are equally important. This is where online paid surveys companies fill the gap by finding such market research information for the companies. And this is also why online survey takers are valuable to them. Unfortunately, unscrupulous online marketers seeing how lucrative the business is quickly set up scam sites to fleece genuine income opportunity seekers.

eave you the worst feedback known in the history of words. These buyers prey on writers with no confidence. Don’t take jobs for pennies per article because you feel you need the feedback to become established. You won’t have time to be established because you’ll be dead from article writing overload. A lot of good the buyer’s feedback will do you then. To avoid this, know your hourly rate and your limits and hold out for the thousands of excellent and well-paying buyers out there.

Have a Heart

(Don’t) Take it From Me

Make Customers Come Back - Winning Customer Retention Strategies
Customer Retention marketing is a tactically-driven strategy to keep relationships with customers going and increase customer interest. This strategy relies on the study of customer behavior. Here are the basic tenets of a marketer that seeks to increase customer retention:1. Past and Current customer behaviorThis is the best predictor of how customers will behave in the future. They are the characteristics marketers should most often look at. Analyzing customer tendencies and trends allows the marketer to anticipate, if not predict, the customers reaction to different situations. The marketer must take note that behavior is action oriented, not a description. For

resented with a “formula” used to create quick and fun five sentence emails. Of course I turned down the job--I never accept jobs with “chit chat” in the description—no good can come of that.

(Don’t) Take it From Me

Small Businesses and Employee Incentives
There will always be differences between large and small companies. Businesses with unlimited resources can always fall back on money. Internally, employees can be enticed to remain at a job by a big raise or a bonus. Owners of smaller enterprises must find creative ways to keep their employees happy. There are plenty of ways, even with a smaller budget, to make your workers feel like their hard work is really appreciated!The employees of smaller companies, in general, live near the workplace. What better way to make them feel at home than by being involved in the community? An employee might have a child playing little league baseball – help the team out by getting them

, then how long before the Internet defines ethics?

(Don’t) Take it From Me

That's All Folks

Love it or hate it, the Internet has provided an extraordinary amount of jobs for writers--be it good or bad or somewhere in between. In a profession of financial highs and starving lows, the line between good and bad can be blurry. I wonder what George Orwell would think about the state of online business? I bet Abraham Lincoln would vote that we cut the Internet from the Union and let it float away. It would bang up against the coast of England like an old tin can before it sank to the bottom. Thousands of years later explorers might search to uncover the “Lost Internet” once rumored to be an unsinkable metropolis. They could make a movie about it, “Tin-Can-It.” Mark Twain would probably just light a cigar, cough, and scream, “Shut up, and write the 10,000 damn articles for the client, and when no one is looking, sell them in another country.” Of course if asked if he thinks the Internet will ever return to its non-money hungry, or non-search engine obsessed, information/resource roots Hemmingway may say, “Yes, isn’t it pretty to think so.”

HTTP = HTML link (for blogs, profiles,phorums):
<a href="http://www.actual4u.com/article/167346/actual4u-The-Allusion-of-Article-Writing.html">The Allusion of Article Writing</a>

BB link (for phorums):
[url=http://www.actual4u.com/article/167346/actual4u-The-Allusion-of-Article-Writing.html]The Allusion of Article Writing[/url]

Final-hour trading is effective during typical market sessions that are dominated by economic reports and the collective action of institutions and individual investors.

A paralegal is a person who assists the attorneys in the delivery of legal services. A paralegal is also known as legal assistant. A paralegal should be qualified through education and training to perform substantive legal work. Substantive work of paralegal includes recognition, evaluation, organization, analysis, and communication of legal facts. Paralegal cannot represent a client. Attorneys are responsible for the legal work delegated to paralegals. The attorney is held responsible for ethical violations committed by a paralegal. Paralegals are members of national and local associations and they should follow the ethical codes of those associations.

I own and operate several successful businesses on the Internet, and I take extreme pride in my follow-up skills, patience and the ability to virtually teach anyone how to start a business on the Int...

Tags

Links

Actual for You - The Allusion of Article Writing

Related Articles: