HOOVER, Ala. — Reverting back to its offense-challenged ways, Ole Miss lost to LSU 8-0 on Saturday morning to end its stay in the double-elimination Southeastern Conference tournament at Regions Park.
LSU right-hander Ben Alsup (4-0) threw a complete game in only his second start of the season, giving up just one hit over seven innings. The game was shortened to seven innings after rain forced a 1 hour, 30 minute delay before the game started. Both teams and SEC officials agreed to the arrangement.
Now Ole Miss (38-22) will wait until Monday to find out who it plays in the 64-team NCAA Tournament. The bracket will be announced at 11:30 a.m. on ESPN. The Rebels are unlikely to be one of 16 teams selected to host a regional site. Those will be announced at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.
LSU (39-20) will play the winner of Alabama-Florida in the SEC championship game at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
Playing its fourth game in four days, Ole Miss was low on fresh pitching and it showed. Fifth-year senior Rory McKean (4-2) started, but lasted only 2.1 innings after giving up four runs. LSU’s big rally came in the third inning, when it scored three runs on three hits and a walk to stretch its lead to 4-0.
UM’s lone hit came in the fifth inning, when Matt Smith hit a line drive the deflected off Alsup’s glove for an infield single.
Friday, June 4, 2010
BigLaw: Five Ways to Remain Sane in a Large Law Firm
Today I wield a wider brush … I'm swooping it through the sensuous goo of Cadmium Yellow, Alizarin Crimson or Ultramarine Blue to create the biggest, brightest, funniest, fiercest damn dragon that I can … you have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be … no one else can paint it. Only you. — Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace.
Your alarm clock goes off and you groan. I know. Most Americans feel the same way. Too many of my mornings started that way during this recession.
Large firm culture is tough to survive, especially in a down economy. I've heard every "chin up" phrase in the book: "Be grateful you have a job," "Hang in there," "Of course you hate your job — that's why it's called a job." These lousy aphorisms typically come from people who hate their own jobs and have no idea how to address their predicament. Please ignore them.
Even in a law firm filled with stressed out people, poor morale, and the looming threat of layoffs, you can survive and keep your sanity intact. Give these ideas a try and let me know if they help you see a a brighter future beyond the gloomy horizon. They worked for me.
1. Earn Some Beer Money, Maybe Even Vacation Money
Say goodbye to income from a single source and hello to the reality of the new economy. In February, I started a yoga teacher training class. I just graduated and am now using this experience to begin my own business. For the past two years, I've worked on my freelance writing projects, which have paid off in spades with job offers, paid writing gigs, and loads of contacts. Think about what you enjoy doing, and then find a way to use it to make a little extra on the side, and more importantly, expand your social network.
2. Talk to Entrepreneurs and Read About Them
Entrepreneurs are the economy's fountain of youth. They face tough odds, and their businesses go through more ups and downs than large firms yet they keep looking up. A wise yoga teacher once told me, "I'd rather do my own work poorly than do someone else's work well." Every other entrepreneur I've ever met feels that way too. Their energy will get you thinking in new ways about your own role in the world. They'll inspire to take your future into your own hands.
3. Ask for Work You Want
If there's a matter that interests you at your firm, ask to work on it. The worst your assigning partner will say is "no." So what? If you're going to be "stuck" at your job for a while, at least learn what you want to learn. Your firm uses you to get its work done, so why not use it to get the experience you want? Turnabout is fair play.
4. Volunteer and Get Your Firm to Help You
Through work, I got involved with pro-bono projects that enable me put my business skills to work for nonprofits that want to change the world. I teach several classes through Junior Achievement of New York, and took the United Way's nonprofit board training, all sponsored by my employer. My company matches my charitable contribution up to $8,000 a year and I've leveraged this benefit for the good of the organizations I support. The psychic benefits from volunteering help me keep stress at bay.
5. Have a Creative Outlet
No matter how bad work gets, I come home and write every day. My blog is for me, no permission required. It's one area of my life that no one else has a say in, and having a creative vehicle that's solely my own is a gratifying, empowering experience. My writing has made me a seriously happy, confident person. Change your mind, and you change everything.
Conclusion
In short, the world can't afford to have us frustrated and lost and discouraged. It needs us, the very best of us, everyday. Stop wishing for the economy to get better, for your boss to fully appreciate your contributions, or for the government to deliver a bailout that answers your needs. You are the person you've been waiting for to lead yourself out of these dark days and into a better world. Each day is not just an opportunity — it's your responsibility as a well-educated, passionate, creative person to give the best you've got, regardless of circumstances. Be fierce — better days won't just magically appear. You have to build them yourself. A masterpiece is a terrible thing to waste.
Your alarm clock goes off and you groan. I know. Most Americans feel the same way. Too many of my mornings started that way during this recession.
Large firm culture is tough to survive, especially in a down economy. I've heard every "chin up" phrase in the book: "Be grateful you have a job," "Hang in there," "Of course you hate your job — that's why it's called a job." These lousy aphorisms typically come from people who hate their own jobs and have no idea how to address their predicament. Please ignore them.
Even in a law firm filled with stressed out people, poor morale, and the looming threat of layoffs, you can survive and keep your sanity intact. Give these ideas a try and let me know if they help you see a a brighter future beyond the gloomy horizon. They worked for me.
1. Earn Some Beer Money, Maybe Even Vacation Money
Say goodbye to income from a single source and hello to the reality of the new economy. In February, I started a yoga teacher training class. I just graduated and am now using this experience to begin my own business. For the past two years, I've worked on my freelance writing projects, which have paid off in spades with job offers, paid writing gigs, and loads of contacts. Think about what you enjoy doing, and then find a way to use it to make a little extra on the side, and more importantly, expand your social network.
2. Talk to Entrepreneurs and Read About Them
Entrepreneurs are the economy's fountain of youth. They face tough odds, and their businesses go through more ups and downs than large firms yet they keep looking up. A wise yoga teacher once told me, "I'd rather do my own work poorly than do someone else's work well." Every other entrepreneur I've ever met feels that way too. Their energy will get you thinking in new ways about your own role in the world. They'll inspire to take your future into your own hands.
3. Ask for Work You Want
If there's a matter that interests you at your firm, ask to work on it. The worst your assigning partner will say is "no." So what? If you're going to be "stuck" at your job for a while, at least learn what you want to learn. Your firm uses you to get its work done, so why not use it to get the experience you want? Turnabout is fair play.
4. Volunteer and Get Your Firm to Help You
Through work, I got involved with pro-bono projects that enable me put my business skills to work for nonprofits that want to change the world. I teach several classes through Junior Achievement of New York, and took the United Way's nonprofit board training, all sponsored by my employer. My company matches my charitable contribution up to $8,000 a year and I've leveraged this benefit for the good of the organizations I support. The psychic benefits from volunteering help me keep stress at bay.
5. Have a Creative Outlet
No matter how bad work gets, I come home and write every day. My blog is for me, no permission required. It's one area of my life that no one else has a say in, and having a creative vehicle that's solely my own is a gratifying, empowering experience. My writing has made me a seriously happy, confident person. Change your mind, and you change everything.
Conclusion
In short, the world can't afford to have us frustrated and lost and discouraged. It needs us, the very best of us, everyday. Stop wishing for the economy to get better, for your boss to fully appreciate your contributions, or for the government to deliver a bailout that answers your needs. You are the person you've been waiting for to lead yourself out of these dark days and into a better world. Each day is not just an opportunity — it's your responsibility as a well-educated, passionate, creative person to give the best you've got, regardless of circumstances. Be fierce — better days won't just magically appear. You have to build them yourself. A masterpiece is a terrible thing to waste.
Apple’s Jobs: iPad Plans Began Before iPhone
Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s D8 conference this evening, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said he expected tablets like the iPad would eventually supplant the personal computer for most people; and that the idea for the iPad actually came before the iPhone.
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diggJobs also commented on Flash, the “lost” iPhone, the Foxconn suicides, the competition with Google, and even his sex life in a wide ranging conversation with the Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
When asked if tablets replace will notebooks, Jobs used the analogy of trucks versus cars, saying all vehicles used to be trucks, but now more are cars. Cars added things like windshield wipers and automatic transmission, so they attracted more people, but trucks continue to sell, just in less volume. He said the same thing would happen to PCs (explicitly meaning Windows and Mac-based personal computers) and that would be very jarring for those of us used to the PC era.
“I think people can create a lot of content on the tablet,” he said. He noted that people could use Bluetooth keyboards and that the software will get more powerful over time. He said he could imagine everything from productivity applications to video editing to music on a tablet.
Jobs said he actually started work on a tablet first, long before the iPhone. He said he had the idea in the early 2000’s for typing on a glass display, and took the idea to people on his team who invented things like inertial scrolling. But the company was working on a phone at the time, so he applied that to the phone, and put the tablet “on the shelf”. Once the iPhone business was established they took the tablet project off the shelf, and that became the iPad.
He said the problem with earlier tablets was the stylus. When you take that out, you take out the precision of a desktop operating system, so you need a completely different user interface, he said.
When asked whether the iPad and tablets can save journalism, he talked about the difficulties facing newspapers and other editorial organizations. “I don’t want to see us descend into a nation of just bloggers myself,” he said, and anything they could do to help The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal get paid enough to keep their editorial operations going was a good thing.
His advice to publishers was to “Price it aggressively and go for volume,” and he suggested that electronic content should cost less than print because it doesn’t have the expense of printing and delivering.
On pricing for books on the iPad, he said the changed model would make publishers more responsive to demand as a driver for pricing.
On the decision not to support Flash, he said Apple has been successful by choosing which technologies to ride. “We try to choose things that are in their Springs,” he said, saying the company chooses to focus on emerging technologies and do that well, rather than supporting old technologies. He talked about how Apple was first in adopting 3.5 inch drives and USB 2.0, and in removing things like serial and parallel ports, floppy drives, etc.
Seventy-five percent of the video may be in Flash, but 25 percent to 50 percent is also going to be also in video, Jobs said. “There are holes in some Web sites, but those holes are getting fixed really fast,” Jobs said, adding that the holes that are there are mainly ads.
Jobs said Apple decided not to support Flash on the iPhone years ago, but it was only when the iPad came out that Adobe “made a stink about it.”
“Different people make different choices,” Jobs said. If the company makes the right choices of technology to invest in, customers “will buy them; if we don’t, they won’t,” he said. And with the iPad, “We’ve sold one every three seconds since we launched them.”
He said Apple supported one open platform -including browsers and HTML 5 – and one “curated platform” where a bunch of people make sure the application does what it says, doesn’t crash, and doesn’t use unsupported APIs. He said Apple approves 95 percent of the applications it receives for the App Store. Jobs said Apple has a policy of not allowing applications that deface people, but made an exception for political cartoons.
The opportunities for content owners to get closer to their customers are enormous, Jobs said. Movie companies used to spend a lot of money running trailers on TV; now they can spend money more effectively online targeting customers directly. Jobs said he thought studios need new ways of communicating with their customers – and need to let customers watch the content whenever they want, wherever they want.
iPhone on Verizon?
Jobs was evasive about whether Apple would support multiple U.S. carriers for the iPhone, such as Verizon. Would there be an advantage in having multiplen carriers? “There might be.” Will Apple do that? “The future is long.”
He said AT&T was “doing fine in a lot of ways,” saying it was handling a lot more data traffic than all its competitors combined, and said its biggest issue was getting equipment from its suppliers, on what he said was the fastest network. He said he thought any of the other carriers would have had the same problem, and that AT&T would end up with the most robust network because of its early experience.
In response to an audience question about dropped phone calls, he said he understood that a lot of equipment had to be replaced, and things typically had to get worse before they got better. But he said he had a lot of faith things would be a lot of better in most places by the end of the summer.
Asked about Google, Jobs said, “they decided to compete with us.” When pressed about his relationship with Eric Schmidt or Google, he said “my sex life is pretty good. How’s yours?”
Jobs said he wasn’t going to remove Google or Google Maps from the iPhone, or go into the search business. What he said he likes about the consumer market against the enterprise market is that each person votes for themselves , and if enough people vote for your product, you stay in business. “Just because we’re competing with somebody doesn’t mean we have to be rude.”
“We never saw ourselves in a platform war with Microsoft — maybe that’s why we lost,” Jobs said. Instead, “We were always trying to build a better product…. And that’s how we still think about it.”
Jobs noted that every modern Web browser, including Apple’s Chrome, is based on WebKit, which was Apple’s browser project that was made open source; and he said making it open source helped make it a real competitor to Internet Explorer.
Jobs added that Apple was going into the mobile advertising business in order to lets its developers make more money, so they could continue to offer free or low-cost applications. He said that the free and low-cost application was changing how people used their devices, and said that as a result, on phones people aren’t using search as much as on PCs. Instead, he said, phone users need advertisements that don’t take them “out of the app” and into the browser, but instead leaves users within the application.
Asked about privacy, Jobs said that he thought Apple took privacy very seriously, more than most other Silicon Valley companies. For instance, he said, rather than telling applications they had to ask to get location information, Apple provides the data and always puts up a screen asking for permission. “A lot of people in the Valley think we are really old-fashioned about these things,” he said.
On the lost iPhone, he said one of Apple’s employees was testing a phone – he said it wasn’t clear whether it was lost in a bar or taken from the employees bag -and the person who took the phone tried to sharp it around. He said the person under suspicion’s roommate was the one who called the police, not Apple; and that courts were making sure the police were only looking at relevant data on the confiscated PC.
On the Foxconn suicides, he said flatly, “Foxconn is not a sweatshop.” He said it’s a factory, but it has restaurants, movie theaters, swimming pools, etc., and said that the suicide attempts were very troubling.” He said the suicide attempt rate there was less that in the U.S., but the company was very interesting in studying and improving the environment there.
Jobs said Apple passing Microsoft in market capitalization was “surreal” but not all that important, saying it has nothing to do with why Apple employees go to work, or why people buy Apple products.
He credited Apple’s resurgences to the employees, talking about how when he got back he found lots of people who said they “bleed in six colors,” a reference to the old Apple logo.
He said Apple was organized as “the biggest startup on the planet” with no committees and with people who trust each other. He said what he does all day long is meet with product teams and help them make better products.
He said Apple’s core values were the same today as they were five or 10 years ago, to make products that people like. And he said the same would be true in the future.
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch opened the conference by talking about how the worlds of content and technology have come much closer together over the eight years of the D conference.
“As human freedom advances and human beings have more chance to interact, innovation increases,” Murdoch said. Thanks to technology and the crumbing of barriers to trade, men and women who live in even the most remote places have access to innovation, he said, expecting an asymmetric benefit for countries and companies that are innovating.
diggs
diggJobs also commented on Flash, the “lost” iPhone, the Foxconn suicides, the competition with Google, and even his sex life in a wide ranging conversation with the Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
When asked if tablets replace will notebooks, Jobs used the analogy of trucks versus cars, saying all vehicles used to be trucks, but now more are cars. Cars added things like windshield wipers and automatic transmission, so they attracted more people, but trucks continue to sell, just in less volume. He said the same thing would happen to PCs (explicitly meaning Windows and Mac-based personal computers) and that would be very jarring for those of us used to the PC era.
“I think people can create a lot of content on the tablet,” he said. He noted that people could use Bluetooth keyboards and that the software will get more powerful over time. He said he could imagine everything from productivity applications to video editing to music on a tablet.
Jobs said he actually started work on a tablet first, long before the iPhone. He said he had the idea in the early 2000’s for typing on a glass display, and took the idea to people on his team who invented things like inertial scrolling. But the company was working on a phone at the time, so he applied that to the phone, and put the tablet “on the shelf”. Once the iPhone business was established they took the tablet project off the shelf, and that became the iPad.
He said the problem with earlier tablets was the stylus. When you take that out, you take out the precision of a desktop operating system, so you need a completely different user interface, he said.
When asked whether the iPad and tablets can save journalism, he talked about the difficulties facing newspapers and other editorial organizations. “I don’t want to see us descend into a nation of just bloggers myself,” he said, and anything they could do to help The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal get paid enough to keep their editorial operations going was a good thing.
His advice to publishers was to “Price it aggressively and go for volume,” and he suggested that electronic content should cost less than print because it doesn’t have the expense of printing and delivering.
On pricing for books on the iPad, he said the changed model would make publishers more responsive to demand as a driver for pricing.
On the decision not to support Flash, he said Apple has been successful by choosing which technologies to ride. “We try to choose things that are in their Springs,” he said, saying the company chooses to focus on emerging technologies and do that well, rather than supporting old technologies. He talked about how Apple was first in adopting 3.5 inch drives and USB 2.0, and in removing things like serial and parallel ports, floppy drives, etc.
Seventy-five percent of the video may be in Flash, but 25 percent to 50 percent is also going to be also in video, Jobs said. “There are holes in some Web sites, but those holes are getting fixed really fast,” Jobs said, adding that the holes that are there are mainly ads.
Jobs said Apple decided not to support Flash on the iPhone years ago, but it was only when the iPad came out that Adobe “made a stink about it.”
“Different people make different choices,” Jobs said. If the company makes the right choices of technology to invest in, customers “will buy them; if we don’t, they won’t,” he said. And with the iPad, “We’ve sold one every three seconds since we launched them.”
He said Apple supported one open platform -including browsers and HTML 5 – and one “curated platform” where a bunch of people make sure the application does what it says, doesn’t crash, and doesn’t use unsupported APIs. He said Apple approves 95 percent of the applications it receives for the App Store. Jobs said Apple has a policy of not allowing applications that deface people, but made an exception for political cartoons.
The opportunities for content owners to get closer to their customers are enormous, Jobs said. Movie companies used to spend a lot of money running trailers on TV; now they can spend money more effectively online targeting customers directly. Jobs said he thought studios need new ways of communicating with their customers – and need to let customers watch the content whenever they want, wherever they want.
iPhone on Verizon?
Jobs was evasive about whether Apple would support multiple U.S. carriers for the iPhone, such as Verizon. Would there be an advantage in having multiplen carriers? “There might be.” Will Apple do that? “The future is long.”
He said AT&T was “doing fine in a lot of ways,” saying it was handling a lot more data traffic than all its competitors combined, and said its biggest issue was getting equipment from its suppliers, on what he said was the fastest network. He said he thought any of the other carriers would have had the same problem, and that AT&T would end up with the most robust network because of its early experience.
In response to an audience question about dropped phone calls, he said he understood that a lot of equipment had to be replaced, and things typically had to get worse before they got better. But he said he had a lot of faith things would be a lot of better in most places by the end of the summer.
Asked about Google, Jobs said, “they decided to compete with us.” When pressed about his relationship with Eric Schmidt or Google, he said “my sex life is pretty good. How’s yours?”
Jobs said he wasn’t going to remove Google or Google Maps from the iPhone, or go into the search business. What he said he likes about the consumer market against the enterprise market is that each person votes for themselves , and if enough people vote for your product, you stay in business. “Just because we’re competing with somebody doesn’t mean we have to be rude.”
“We never saw ourselves in a platform war with Microsoft — maybe that’s why we lost,” Jobs said. Instead, “We were always trying to build a better product…. And that’s how we still think about it.”
Jobs noted that every modern Web browser, including Apple’s Chrome, is based on WebKit, which was Apple’s browser project that was made open source; and he said making it open source helped make it a real competitor to Internet Explorer.
Jobs added that Apple was going into the mobile advertising business in order to lets its developers make more money, so they could continue to offer free or low-cost applications. He said that the free and low-cost application was changing how people used their devices, and said that as a result, on phones people aren’t using search as much as on PCs. Instead, he said, phone users need advertisements that don’t take them “out of the app” and into the browser, but instead leaves users within the application.
Asked about privacy, Jobs said that he thought Apple took privacy very seriously, more than most other Silicon Valley companies. For instance, he said, rather than telling applications they had to ask to get location information, Apple provides the data and always puts up a screen asking for permission. “A lot of people in the Valley think we are really old-fashioned about these things,” he said.
On the lost iPhone, he said one of Apple’s employees was testing a phone – he said it wasn’t clear whether it was lost in a bar or taken from the employees bag -and the person who took the phone tried to sharp it around. He said the person under suspicion’s roommate was the one who called the police, not Apple; and that courts were making sure the police were only looking at relevant data on the confiscated PC.
On the Foxconn suicides, he said flatly, “Foxconn is not a sweatshop.” He said it’s a factory, but it has restaurants, movie theaters, swimming pools, etc., and said that the suicide attempts were very troubling.” He said the suicide attempt rate there was less that in the U.S., but the company was very interesting in studying and improving the environment there.
Jobs said Apple passing Microsoft in market capitalization was “surreal” but not all that important, saying it has nothing to do with why Apple employees go to work, or why people buy Apple products.
He credited Apple’s resurgences to the employees, talking about how when he got back he found lots of people who said they “bleed in six colors,” a reference to the old Apple logo.
He said Apple was organized as “the biggest startup on the planet” with no committees and with people who trust each other. He said what he does all day long is meet with product teams and help them make better products.
He said Apple’s core values were the same today as they were five or 10 years ago, to make products that people like. And he said the same would be true in the future.
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch opened the conference by talking about how the worlds of content and technology have come much closer together over the eight years of the D conference.
“As human freedom advances and human beings have more chance to interact, innovation increases,” Murdoch said. Thanks to technology and the crumbing of barriers to trade, men and women who live in even the most remote places have access to innovation, he said, expecting an asymmetric benefit for countries and companies that are innovating.
Great Tips on How to Improve Your Marketing Skills and Make Profits in Your Online Business
I used to wonder in the past why some network-marketers can recruit people easily in their online businesses, while others, including me, were struggling in spite of hard work.
I spent long hours in cold calling, attending conference call and hotel meetings but still, I could hardly convince people to join our home-based business. What’s the problem?
This question had been bugging me for several years while trying to develop my network-marketing organization. I knew that I was serious, accountable, passionate,had belief in myself and belief in the products of the company.
Then I thought I need to try harder. So I tapped my warm market and bought expensive leads .I encouraged my prospects to attend conference calls. I sent extensive e-mails to my prospects, yet I was still frustrated because only a few joined my organization. There has got to be a better way !
I kept on searching for a better way to recruit people. Then one day, I came across The 7GreatLiesofnetworkmarketing. This is a free book that opened my eyes and showed me all the things that I had been dong wrong with my prospecting. It showed me that prospecting for members of your organization is less effective than marketing my product.
Actually I learned that the real product that I should market is not even my company’s product.The real product is me. So I have to know how to market myself.
I have to position myself in the market place, develop and share values to my prospects so that they will look for me instead of me chasing them.
So here are the six great tips to improve your marketing and make profits on your online business:
1. Know exactly what you are doing wrong with your prospecting.
2. Download the Free book The7GreatLiesofNetwormarketing and learn all the flaws of the old methods of prospecting.
3.Buy the RenegadeNetworkMarketer book and study all the wisdom of this great reference volume.
4.Enroll in the Renegade University, you can start Free, the upgrade as a Professional so that you get all the benefits of your efforts.
5.Be resourceful in searching for the better ways to promote your Personal website, and the rest of the Social Marketing Values that you will accomplish.
6. Evaluate the effectiveness of your new-found method.
7. Learn the techincs, educate yourself, be patient, learn and apply what you learned.
8. Teach and help others about your new-found model of marketing.
I would like to tell you that a lot of patience is required if you really want to be a professional and eventually benefit from the wealth of materials to be learned.
The effort you spend in learning this new model of marketing is all worth your precious time. You will learn the techniques to market yourself,so that your prospects will look for you,follow you and even join you in your organization
You do not need to harass anyone anymore. Your prospects will be lining up for your opportunity instead. And then you will realize why Traditional Out-dated Methods of marketing are literally self-sabotaging your success.
So let me tell you the best tip of them all which changed my life. Because of this, people are coming to me to join my organization. But first, let’s get acquainted. Go to my website Then I’ll guide you to learn more.
Dr. Ariston P Awitan is a physician, retired orthopedic surgeon and a Marketing Consultant with a passion to help struggling but serious network-marketers.
I spent long hours in cold calling, attending conference call and hotel meetings but still, I could hardly convince people to join our home-based business. What’s the problem?
This question had been bugging me for several years while trying to develop my network-marketing organization. I knew that I was serious, accountable, passionate,had belief in myself and belief in the products of the company.
Then I thought I need to try harder. So I tapped my warm market and bought expensive leads .I encouraged my prospects to attend conference calls. I sent extensive e-mails to my prospects, yet I was still frustrated because only a few joined my organization. There has got to be a better way !
I kept on searching for a better way to recruit people. Then one day, I came across The 7GreatLiesofnetworkmarketing. This is a free book that opened my eyes and showed me all the things that I had been dong wrong with my prospecting. It showed me that prospecting for members of your organization is less effective than marketing my product.
Actually I learned that the real product that I should market is not even my company’s product.The real product is me. So I have to know how to market myself.
I have to position myself in the market place, develop and share values to my prospects so that they will look for me instead of me chasing them.
So here are the six great tips to improve your marketing and make profits on your online business:
1. Know exactly what you are doing wrong with your prospecting.
2. Download the Free book The7GreatLiesofNetwormarketing and learn all the flaws of the old methods of prospecting.
3.Buy the RenegadeNetworkMarketer book and study all the wisdom of this great reference volume.
4.Enroll in the Renegade University, you can start Free, the upgrade as a Professional so that you get all the benefits of your efforts.
5.Be resourceful in searching for the better ways to promote your Personal website, and the rest of the Social Marketing Values that you will accomplish.
6. Evaluate the effectiveness of your new-found method.
7. Learn the techincs, educate yourself, be patient, learn and apply what you learned.
8. Teach and help others about your new-found model of marketing.
I would like to tell you that a lot of patience is required if you really want to be a professional and eventually benefit from the wealth of materials to be learned.
The effort you spend in learning this new model of marketing is all worth your precious time. You will learn the techniques to market yourself,so that your prospects will look for you,follow you and even join you in your organization
You do not need to harass anyone anymore. Your prospects will be lining up for your opportunity instead. And then you will realize why Traditional Out-dated Methods of marketing are literally self-sabotaging your success.
So let me tell you the best tip of them all which changed my life. Because of this, people are coming to me to join my organization. But first, let’s get acquainted. Go to my website Then I’ll guide you to learn more.
Dr. Ariston P Awitan is a physician, retired orthopedic surgeon and a Marketing Consultant with a passion to help struggling but serious network-marketers.
Spouse calls: Casualties of war and PTSD
Sheryl, an Army wife, writes on the Spouse Calls blog:
As I watched the towers fall, I knew our lives would change. My heart ached for the people in the towers and their families, and then I got a cold shiver and knew my life was about to change, too.
That day I knew we were going to war and my husband was going to go … I just didn’t know that it would mean that I would lose my husband and our family, too.
Forward to mid-tour homecoming from Iraq: The man I picked up at the airport was not my husband. After all of those months, he hugged me and patted me on the back. He didn’t embrace our children. His eyes were cold. In fact you, could see right through them and the sparkle that was once there was gone.
Forward to the Iraq homecoming: Again, he got off of the plane. The excitement to see me wasn’t there. He was trying, I know he was, but they left my husband and what he was in Iraq, never to return.
We were the couple that everyone thought would be together forever — never gave it another thought. Now we are separated and going through divorce.
I am teetering on the 20-20-20 rule (of spousal benefits), depending upon when the judge says the divorce is final. Due to a year of reserve duty between the Navy and the Army, I might not have anything in the end, no husband or military benefits, nothing.
To help ease the pain and make a new life for myself, I went back to school to get my master’s degree. I know that I will have to depend upon myself for the rest of my life and will have to take care of our children. So I take it one day at a time, with therapy, friends and family. It has been over a year and a half of separation and we still are not far along with the divorce, but I am getting more at peace with it every day.
My biggest fear and complaint is that there are so many like me — so, so many and many more to come. This war and the multiple deployments and a military that is so short of staff has left so many with the pain of (post-traumatic stress disorder). The military, though they say they are making strides, (has) let the families down.
Though they are treating soldiers, they are leaving out the families. I am still fighting Tricare to get my son’s mental health paid for. My therapy is not being covered. The military has left these huge holes in families and is not helping with the clean-up of the mess that was created.
I think that the Army doesn’t want it known that they are deserting families.
Something needs to be done to call attention to the families that are no longer whole, no longer functioning. Yes, we married our servicemen, but expected the Army to care and take care of us. I gave countless volunteer hours, was an OWC president and a neighborhood mayor — all of the functions that are necessary and we don’t get paid for — only to be left alone because of a war and PTSD.
I am moving on and doing okay. It is a challenge, but my next goal and challenge is to speak out and make the military listen to me. I don’t want this to happen to another family, and I will do what I can to speak up, speak out loud and try and make it better for those who are behind me.
As I watched the towers fall, I knew our lives would change. My heart ached for the people in the towers and their families, and then I got a cold shiver and knew my life was about to change, too.
That day I knew we were going to war and my husband was going to go … I just didn’t know that it would mean that I would lose my husband and our family, too.
Forward to mid-tour homecoming from Iraq: The man I picked up at the airport was not my husband. After all of those months, he hugged me and patted me on the back. He didn’t embrace our children. His eyes were cold. In fact you, could see right through them and the sparkle that was once there was gone.
Forward to the Iraq homecoming: Again, he got off of the plane. The excitement to see me wasn’t there. He was trying, I know he was, but they left my husband and what he was in Iraq, never to return.
We were the couple that everyone thought would be together forever — never gave it another thought. Now we are separated and going through divorce.
I am teetering on the 20-20-20 rule (of spousal benefits), depending upon when the judge says the divorce is final. Due to a year of reserve duty between the Navy and the Army, I might not have anything in the end, no husband or military benefits, nothing.
To help ease the pain and make a new life for myself, I went back to school to get my master’s degree. I know that I will have to depend upon myself for the rest of my life and will have to take care of our children. So I take it one day at a time, with therapy, friends and family. It has been over a year and a half of separation and we still are not far along with the divorce, but I am getting more at peace with it every day.
My biggest fear and complaint is that there are so many like me — so, so many and many more to come. This war and the multiple deployments and a military that is so short of staff has left so many with the pain of (post-traumatic stress disorder). The military, though they say they are making strides, (has) let the families down.
Though they are treating soldiers, they are leaving out the families. I am still fighting Tricare to get my son’s mental health paid for. My therapy is not being covered. The military has left these huge holes in families and is not helping with the clean-up of the mess that was created.
I think that the Army doesn’t want it known that they are deserting families.
Something needs to be done to call attention to the families that are no longer whole, no longer functioning. Yes, we married our servicemen, but expected the Army to care and take care of us. I gave countless volunteer hours, was an OWC president and a neighborhood mayor — all of the functions that are necessary and we don’t get paid for — only to be left alone because of a war and PTSD.
I am moving on and doing okay. It is a challenge, but my next goal and challenge is to speak out and make the military listen to me. I don’t want this to happen to another family, and I will do what I can to speak up, speak out loud and try and make it better for those who are behind me.
Financing a New Company by Factoring Invoices
Securing funding for a new venture has always been a challenge for business owners. Ensuring that the company has the proper level of financing is one of the most critical tasks. However, finding financing for a new venture can be very hard. On one side, you can try and secure venture or angel funding. This type of funding will require that you give up a portion of your equity/ownership in the business. It means you will end up with additional partners – or managers – in your company.
Another route consists of trying to get conventional business financing, such as a business loan. However, few startups can get business loans because most financial institutions require that the company have a track record of successful operations and substantial assets. Since most startups don’t have long track records and have few assets, few can meet these requirements.
Cash flow can even be more problematic for companies that sell to other businesses or to government agencies. This is because they usually have to invoice when they deliver the goods, and then wait 30 to 60 days to get paid. Growing a business while waiting a month or two to get paid can be hard to do. Many times growth is delayed and opportunities are passed. This is an alternative however.
What would happen if you could get your invoices paid in 1 or 2 business days and essentially ran a cash business? Would you still need financing? Would you still turn away opportunities? This can be accomplished by using a neat financial trick – factoring your invoices.
Invoice factoring enables you to get a substantial portion of your invoices paid immediately, providing you with the funds you need to pay suppliers and employees. More important, you get the funds you need to keep up with your growing orders. If you have a business that is firing on all cylinders, factoring accounts receivables can really help fuel your company’s growth.
Factoring offers a simple proposition. A finance company, called a factoring company, advances you up to 80% of the net value of your invoices. You get the immediate funds while the factoring company waits to get paid. Once they get paid, you get the remaining 20%, less the factoring fee.
One of the more important features of factoring receivables is that factoring companies biggest criteria (though not the only one) for providing financing is the quality of your clients. This means that if you do business with large credit worthy companies you stand a good chance of qualifying for financing. Furthermore, Invoice factoring can be setup quickly. Usually it takes a week or two to set up an account, and after that, funding can be done daily.
Although factoring financing has been around for a long time, it has been gaining traction and notoriety recently as a solution for growing companies. It offers great flexibility, as your financing is determined by your sales and the quality of your clients. This makes it a great solution for companies whose biggest asset is the clients that they do business with.
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Another route consists of trying to get conventional business financing, such as a business loan. However, few startups can get business loans because most financial institutions require that the company have a track record of successful operations and substantial assets. Since most startups don’t have long track records and have few assets, few can meet these requirements.
Cash flow can even be more problematic for companies that sell to other businesses or to government agencies. This is because they usually have to invoice when they deliver the goods, and then wait 30 to 60 days to get paid. Growing a business while waiting a month or two to get paid can be hard to do. Many times growth is delayed and opportunities are passed. This is an alternative however.
What would happen if you could get your invoices paid in 1 or 2 business days and essentially ran a cash business? Would you still need financing? Would you still turn away opportunities? This can be accomplished by using a neat financial trick – factoring your invoices.
Invoice factoring enables you to get a substantial portion of your invoices paid immediately, providing you with the funds you need to pay suppliers and employees. More important, you get the funds you need to keep up with your growing orders. If you have a business that is firing on all cylinders, factoring accounts receivables can really help fuel your company’s growth.
Factoring offers a simple proposition. A finance company, called a factoring company, advances you up to 80% of the net value of your invoices. You get the immediate funds while the factoring company waits to get paid. Once they get paid, you get the remaining 20%, less the factoring fee.
One of the more important features of factoring receivables is that factoring companies biggest criteria (though not the only one) for providing financing is the quality of your clients. This means that if you do business with large credit worthy companies you stand a good chance of qualifying for financing. Furthermore, Invoice factoring can be setup quickly. Usually it takes a week or two to set up an account, and after that, funding can be done daily.
Although factoring financing has been around for a long time, it has been gaining traction and notoriety recently as a solution for growing companies. It offers great flexibility, as your financing is determined by your sales and the quality of your clients. This makes it a great solution for companies whose biggest asset is the clients that they do business with.
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Earn Money Online With Internet Marketing And Pay Per Click
Are you wanting to earn more income? Would you like to turn that computer you spent so much money on into a cash cow? Well it is possible. It won't happen overnight but with time and hard work you'll soon be working from home if you choose.
Do you currently have a website? Do you wonder why it isn't making you any money? You keep posting great content, wonderful writing samples and articles but still your balance is zero. Well perhaps you need to expand your horizons. By signing up for paid advertising affiliate web sites you can soon see cash going into your account simply by maintaining your site.
One of the most popular Pay-per-click programs is Google adsense. Google Adsense will take care of the advertising for you. When you sign up, your site will have new advertisements and banner places in the open spaces. If anyone visits your site and clicks on one of the ads, you get a referral payment. Again, Google takes care of the ad placement allowing you to concentrate on increasing the traffic to your site.
Joining a scheme such as Google adsense is a good idea. They will help to promote your site and advise you on how to increase your traffic.
If you have been building your website for a while, maybe you know that one of the best ways to attract traffic is through the use of keywords. The right keywords will have them flocking to your site. The wrong words will have them running in droves. Web sites such as Google adsense can help with this as well. They operate Google ad words. This will help maximize the key word usage and help get the correct one for the most traffic. Google does charge for this service so you need to be sure it is worth it before buying. You don't want all of your profits ate up by the ad words scheme.
When you sign up for Google adsense, you can be assured that page appropriate ads will be places on your webpage. If you have a pet care site then things based on that topic will be placed. Obscure and ads that have nothing to do with your page are not likely to impress your reader or increase your earnings.
Google Adsense is only one example of search engines that offer a pay-per-click money making service. There are hundreds of others. One of the most notable is Yahoo publisher. It functions in much the same way as Google adsense and offers a similar style of service. Which one you choose will largely depend on you. If you have several sites, you could try both schemes. See which one is better and go with that one.
If you have a or several web pages that just seem to be doing nothing, then look into a pay-per-click program. Sites such as Google adsense and yahoo publisher will do most of the hard work for you. They will place the ads and decide which ads will be best for your site. This will leave you time to do the most important thing; increase your site traffic and at last your ad revenue. If you have websites, look into pay per click. The service is free so you have nothing to lose.
Do you currently have a website? Do you wonder why it isn't making you any money? You keep posting great content, wonderful writing samples and articles but still your balance is zero. Well perhaps you need to expand your horizons. By signing up for paid advertising affiliate web sites you can soon see cash going into your account simply by maintaining your site.
One of the most popular Pay-per-click programs is Google adsense. Google Adsense will take care of the advertising for you. When you sign up, your site will have new advertisements and banner places in the open spaces. If anyone visits your site and clicks on one of the ads, you get a referral payment. Again, Google takes care of the ad placement allowing you to concentrate on increasing the traffic to your site.
Joining a scheme such as Google adsense is a good idea. They will help to promote your site and advise you on how to increase your traffic.
If you have been building your website for a while, maybe you know that one of the best ways to attract traffic is through the use of keywords. The right keywords will have them flocking to your site. The wrong words will have them running in droves. Web sites such as Google adsense can help with this as well. They operate Google ad words. This will help maximize the key word usage and help get the correct one for the most traffic. Google does charge for this service so you need to be sure it is worth it before buying. You don't want all of your profits ate up by the ad words scheme.
When you sign up for Google adsense, you can be assured that page appropriate ads will be places on your webpage. If you have a pet care site then things based on that topic will be placed. Obscure and ads that have nothing to do with your page are not likely to impress your reader or increase your earnings.
Google Adsense is only one example of search engines that offer a pay-per-click money making service. There are hundreds of others. One of the most notable is Yahoo publisher. It functions in much the same way as Google adsense and offers a similar style of service. Which one you choose will largely depend on you. If you have several sites, you could try both schemes. See which one is better and go with that one.
If you have a or several web pages that just seem to be doing nothing, then look into a pay-per-click program. Sites such as Google adsense and yahoo publisher will do most of the hard work for you. They will place the ads and decide which ads will be best for your site. This will leave you time to do the most important thing; increase your site traffic and at last your ad revenue. If you have websites, look into pay per click. The service is free so you have nothing to lose.
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