Wrestling with Home Based Business Opportunities!
by: Daegan Smith

What’s that you say? You say your home business has you frustrated and at your wits end. You say no matter what you try you it seems you’re only making the network marketing companies and those guru guys richer. Well, you’re probably right. But, so what!

Here’s a little story I’d like to relate to you about my own life and it has nothing to do with home based businesses. Though, by then end you should be able to draw a few parallels.

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Dealing With Clients Not Paying Your Invoice
by: Inka-Maria Kunz

Providing a translation is providing a service. Imagine you having provided the appropriate service, delivered it on time, invoiced the client accordingly (indicating a payment date not so far into the future) and the suggested payment date comes and goes without any money pouring in on your needy bank account – what do you do, how do you react? Needless to say that we are not considering the fact of this being a client that has been employing your company for a while or due to some unknown stroke of fate the bank made a mistake.

You’d be surprised if I tell you that approximately 85 % of the relevant translators DO NOTHING. My colleagues anticipate timidly that it suddenly dawns on the client to settle the unpaid invoice. A little percentage of these 85 % will send a reminder after a couple of weeks and then continue waiting for an appropriate reply.

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Turning Keyboarding Skills Into Cash!
by: BB Lee

Most with excellent keyboarding skills wonder if it is possible to use this talent in a home business venture.

Unfortunately, many would be entrepreneurs often fall prey to the misleading ads on and off-line recruiting work at home typist. Most of these ads are blatant scams.

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What Many PR Users Ignore
by: Robert A. Kelly

Simply that the behaviors of their most important outside audiences rank pretty low on their list of things to worry about. And this despite the reality that, properly cared for, those behaviors can affect whether or not those managers achieve their managerial objectives.

Unfortunately, many business, non-profit and association public relations budgets are used pretty much to produce newspaper and radio mentions, or to fund somebody’s favorite special event. And this at a time when they should be driving an action plan that persuades those key external stakeholders to the PR user’s way of thinking, then moves those audiences to take actions that help departments, divisions or subsidiaries succeed.

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Why Do You Want PR?
by: Robert A. Kelly

To get someone’s name in the newspaper or a product mention on a radio talk show?

If that’s all you expect, fine. But that response tells me that, as a business, non-profit or association manager, you may have overlooked an important reality: people act on their own perception of the facts, leading to predictable behaviors about which something can be done on your behalf.

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