Archive for May, 2010

A new way to navigate the best blog and video resources

When searching information upon hair removal, the first idea is to make use of a search engine. Enter “hair removal” into Google and you will find millions and millions of results of all kinds. To find more relevant information, you have to know exactly what you are looking for, thus add one or two supplemental keywords: for example, “laser hair removal”. But what if you don’t know which additional keyword to use ?

If you want to get informed of last techniques, reviews or opinions, a good source are blogs, where you will find related articles, links to additional resources, and comments. Many bloggers are savvy people, willing to produce content for the Internet in order to become popular and connect with other people or make business.

To find these relevant blogs about your favorite topic, you can make use of a search engine for blogs, like Google Blog Search or Technorati.com, but you still need to have the supplemental keywords to refine your search…

Here comes a new way of gathering information on various topics, such as hair removal. This website aggregates the very best tags, blogs and videos for that topic, and organizes that information in a way that is very simple to navigate. First, select the category you want to explore, for example Permanent hair removal and watch the related blogs posts or videos. If you are still not satisfied, you can refine by selecting an additional tag to Permanent hair removal, for example Electrolysis permanent hair removal to find new videos and blogs on that further detailed topic.

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Mo Bernard is the owner of Vegeo.net. He previously founded Ep.com and TeraDoc.

Social Positioning To Persuade The Affluent

“Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.” ~Confucius

Here’s a great exercise for explore your affluent prospect’s values and beliefs, thereby really getting into their mindsets.

The idea of social position has a lot to do with how you view yourself in a particular context. Are you ‘one up’ at work, ‘equal’ at home, and maybe ‘one down’ when dealing with police officers? These are broad generalizations which I’m using just to give you the idea.

I remember when I was nineteen years old and I wanted to go run a health spa for the company that I was working for. I went to see the vice president and I sat down with the guy and he says, “Well, what can I do for you today?”

To which I responded, “It’s not what you can do for me, it’s what I’m going to do for you. As your top salesman, I hold every company record in sales and you’re going to make me the manager of this club.”

“Yeah, right,” he said.

And I said, “I don’t think you’re hearing me. Now you’re going to make me the manager and if you don’t, I’m going to take the European Health Spa right next to one of your strongest clubs and I’m going to run yours to the ground.”

He looked at me and asked, “Are you serious?”

I said, “I’m dead serious.”

“You can’t do that.”

To which I replied, “What’s stopping me?”

He said, “You’re not good enough.”

I said, “Okay. Goodbye.”

I got up and walked out and did just that. And then I recruited all the sales staff I had hired and trained and brought them with me. And then the company had a fit and tried to get me back.

What do these social positions mean?

Whoever has the most power in a situation is the person who is ‘one up’. There’s absolutely no judgment involved. One person is not better than the other.

This has to do with logical levels of thought as well. If I elicit criteria from you about selling your house and I get to the higher level value of, let’s say, freedom. Freedom is not equal to “I want to sell my house”. It’s what you want to accomplish by having your house sold.

In order to move someone from one position to another, elicit their highest value and use that value to move them. In order to do this, you’ll have to learn how to move up and down efficiently and effectively.

How do you approach your prospects? As a ‘sales person’?

Are you working from a lower level and supplicating yourself, saying, “I’m so lucky that you’re even listening to me. Thank you so much for just a few minutes of your time”?

That’s baloney.

The goal is that you want your affluent prospects to immediately understand your value. To do this, you’ve got to come in as equals and quickly, flawlessly, move to a higher level.

This doesn’t mean you’re going to come in like an arrogant fool. Maybe you have to go one down to begin with, but realize that these are positions in your head and you had better get good at traversing between them.

Maneuvering between the levels of social positioning will help you remain fluid and flexible, and in turn, help you become a better persuader.

Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies.

Children in the Home Business Environment

Operating a home business is seldom easy and interruptions come in all shapes, sizes and forms.

Between the family, friends and neighbors who call or come by, and the telemarketers who insist on ringing your number off the hook, getting through the workday can be a real challenge.

When you introduce children into the home office environment, your productivity and patience can be seriously tested.

For example, right now my five-year old son is pulling on my shirt and begging me to read her a story. Clearly, I’m in the middle of something important here, but how can I say no to those eyes? Ill be right back…

Ok, that wasn’t so bad was it? He’s happy, I’m happy (having bonded with my son) and now I’m back to continue my conversation with you :-) What’s the lesson here? Flexibility is a major key to balancing your home business priorities with your family’s needs.

I can tell you from first-hand experience that maintaining a deep level of concentration on work in a home business for long periods of time is next to impossible. Naptime does offer some reprieve, but any break from the kids is usually short lived.

Even with older children, summertime introduces new challenges with kids running in and out of the house all throughout the day.

I would like to share with you some of the tips I have discovered to help manage your home office with children in your midst. Since children of different ages pose different challenges, I will present my tips in terms of age groups.

OLDER CHILDREN AND TEENS

We will look at older children first since they pose the least challenge to our work productivity.

Children, who are old enough to understand the idea of schedules and chores, are old enough to understand the needs of your home business. Explain to your children that you do your work at home so that you can be near them when they need you. But also be sure they understand that you must do your work so that you will have the money necessary to keep your house, feed the family and to provide them with money for entertainment.

Once your children understand the necessity of your work, then outline a work schedule and explain it to them. Do make sure they understand that emergencies are definitely an acceptable reason to interrupt your work. Then make sure they understand that between hours x and y, you will be doing work — and then hold them to respecting your schedule.

INFANTS

Infants will never understand your needs for work. But fortunately, babies do well under a schedule or routine. Instead of expecting your child to work around your schedule, schedule your work around the needs of your baby.

It is simple. Babies eat, sleep and poop. Sometimes they play. Fortunately, babies sleep more than they do anything else.

Naptime offers the best advantage for getting your work done. Get your baby into a routine of eat, sleep and play, and you will experience unexpected levels of productivity.

TODDLERS

If you have a toddler running around the house while you are operating your home business, then you may find that your hair turning gray or disappearing altogether. But, gray hair is a sign of character, right. ;-)

I am venturing to guess that the person who devised the door lock for the inside of the house did so because he had toddlers in his own home. Inside door locks should only be utilized when you are making that important phone call and your toddler is screaming for your attention. At all other times, your door should remain unlocked with your door open.

Develop a routine with your children for meal times, naptimes, and play times. Work these times into your work schedule and adhere to them. If you fail to keep appointments with your children, your children will have less respect for your work and do more to prevent you from the completion of your work.

Don’t be afraid to let your children sit in your lap while you are working. It helps them to feel wanted and it helps them to be a part of your daily life. There are times when it is okay for them to be sitting in your lap while you work, and at other times you need them out of your lap. Don’t be afraid to tell them to get down and go play or read a book so that you can resume your work.

Permit your children to have their toys in your office. Often they will sit contently and play while you work. Just knowing you are near is enough to keep them happy.

Be prepared to take an hourly break to deal with your toddler. Try to do potty breaks at your hourly break and to do drink refills. This can help your child grow into a routine that will work well with your home business. At each break, spend a few minutes with your child giving hugs and kisses and talking with your child about what he or she wants to talk about.

Toddlers don’t always do well with the routine, so be prepared to take a few minutes when needed to give the attention that your child so desperately needs in the moment.

IN CONCLUSION

I hope these tips serve to help you in the challenge of operating a successful home business.

My home business permits me to fulfill my financial obligations *AND* see my children grow up. I would never contemplate trading my home business for another kind of business. Even with the added challenges of dealing with toddlers in my home office, the upsides far outweigh the downsides.

Growing my own home business with children around has definitely given me a new respect for all people who successfully run a home business with kids in the work environment. Kudos to you!

Anthony “The Biz Opp Mentor” is a Best Home Based Business Ideas and Opportunities Specialist so you can work at home visit: www.pluginprofitsite.com/main-18365