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Everyone wants something for nothing. The American Dream is still well and alive, and with a bit of schooling and a lot of determination anyone can find it. Don’t panic because you do not have an Associates, Bachelors, Masters, or even a PhD. What’s more, I am going to show you jobs that don’t even require a High School Diploma! Now don’t get me wrong, I am not telling you to drop out of High School or not go back to finish school because there are big bucks out there. What I am saying is that there are some jobs out there that could potentially better your current quality of living. And remember, if you have ambition, dedication, faith, and have a never give up attitude; you can be anything you want to. THAT is what the American Dream is all a

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4. Nationally-Based City Guides: The largest of these services, CitySearch, http://www.citysearch.com/, drives content to many other city guides. Other city guides include AOL CityGuide, http://www.digitalcity.com, Area Guides, http://www.areaguides.net, Online City Guide, www.onlinecityguide.com, and Associated Cities, http://www.associatedcities.com/

5. Newspaper-Based Local Sites: If you live in a larger urban area, your local newspaper may sponsor a site for your city, like Charlotte.com, sponsored by the Charlotte Observer) or Boston.com, sponsored by the Boston Globe.

6. Locally-Based City Guides: Again, in larger urban areas, your local chamber of commerce, convention and visitor's bureau, or a private business may operate a local portal for your city. Here in Southeast Texas, our locally based site is SoutheastTexas.com, owned by a private business. Others, like Fo

Trigger Words That Decide The Outcome Of A Sales Offer or A Campaign
Are we using the correct words that can trigger emotions to buy or to own or possess our products in the minds of our potential customers?I was at the upmarket Berjaya Times Square shopping complex in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last Sunday. Nestled near the famous Petronas Twin Towers, until recently the tallest building in the world, and in the golden triangle of the capital city, Kuala Lumpur, this shopping center is a hub of activity, with throes of shoppers on an early sunday, some probably just after their sunday worship at the church nearby.I had time to spare, and was, like many other shoppers, just browsing around...until my eye caught the words "Nature's Farm" on the signboard of one of the many shops. Now, Nature Farm is a good sh

Roughly 75% of the business owners I speak with in any given town or city see little, if any, need for an online presence. They believe in doing business the way it's always been done, with local advertising, foot traffic, telephone book listing or advertisement, special promotions, and word-of-mouth marketing, and assume that local residents will find out about their business in these same ways.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with these promotional methods, but it does create a tunnel vision view of marketing in this day and age. In September 2004, a Kelsey Group-BizRate.com study found that more than 74% of respondents said they had conducted local searches and confirmed that 20% of all searches among respondents was local. Whether business owners acknowledge it or not, the Internet is here to stay, and using the Internet to find local businesses has now become mainstream, and will only continue to grow as today's children and teens, who have been online almost all of their lives, become adults.

I know that when I do a search for local businesses, I am often taken to one of the local city directories, where I am given the address and phone number of the business, and if I'm lucky, the website URL, if they have a website. Most days, I search out the website of a local business to "check them out" before deciding to do business with them.

One of my most frustrating times comes when I want to place a takeout order at a local restaurant and don't have a takeout menu handy. I'll go online to find the menu of the restaurant, and unfortunately, unless it's a local chain with multiple locations, I don't typically find what I'm seeking. That restaurant usually ends up losing my business to one in which I can scope out the menu online and call in a takeout order.

If you have a brick-and-mortar business, how much business are you losing because you don't have an online presence, or your website doesn't contain enough information to help someone decide to do business with you? Or, if you have a virtual company, what if no one can find you when they conduct a local search of businesses in your industry?

I do no marketing locally, as there is little demand for the type of services I provide in this area. However, I began to wonder if I were losing out on what little local business might exist for my virtual company, so I did some research to find what websites would help my company website show up in any local searches.

1. Local Portal Sites: Search Google, Yahoo, and MSN for your city name and see what comes up. Are there any sites on the list with which you can exchange links, buy advertising, purchase a membership, submit articles, etc.? If you live in a small city, as I do, you might also search for larger cities that are close to your location, or search for a regional name that your area might have. For example, I found more portal sites by using "Southeast Texas" as a search term, rather than an individual city name.

2. Search Engine Directories: Search Google Directory, http://directory.google.com for your city name and look for a category that ends with "Guides and Directories". When you click on that, you'll see the directories listed by importance, as determined by Google's Page Rank feature (you'll need to download Google's toolbar to see this info. The toolbar can be found at http://toolbar.google.com. The higher the rank (10 is high), the more traffic the site has. Or, you can manually search Google as follows: Regional Directories (by continent/country): http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/ By state in the US: http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/United_States/

You can also search Yahoo Directories, http://dir.yahoo.com. To suggest your business for inclusion, see Yahoo's guidelines here: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/dir/suggest/index.html Yahoo's regional directory listing can be found here: http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/ and listing for the US states is found here: http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/

3. Yellow Pages Sites: There are a number of bigger city options here: YellowPages.com (SBC and BellSouth): http://www.yellowpages.com/guide/cityguides/ Super Pages (Verizon): http://www.superpages.com

Recent Graduates: How To Get Your Job Search Moving
For recent graduates, getting your job search moving in a positive direction can be a difficult task.Most recruiters tend to only fill jobs that require candidates that have at least several years of work experience so you might not get much help from them.For entry level positions, you might be competing with not only other recent graduates but with people with a few years of experience as well who might also be suitable for the job.One of the best ways to get your job search moving positively is through networking.Sure, you could email your resume off to dozens or hundreds of companies like everyone else does but remember that it takes one tenth the time to delete your email as it did for you to write it.When hirin

at when I do a search for local businesses, I am often taken to one of the local city directories, where I am given the address and phone number of the business, and if I'm lucky, the website URL, if they have a website. Most days, I search out the website of a local business to "check them out" before deciding to do business with them.

Why You Must Cash In On The Fact That Cheap Low Traffic Blogs Can Reach Where Web Sites Can Not
Increasingly what the Internet has done is to make markets that were previously not viable, suddenly very viable and profitable.The way it has done this revolves around the fact that it is a lot cheaper to set up, run and maintain a web site, than it is to do the same with a bricks and mortar enterprise. Then there is the fact that an online business has very few geographical limitations, meaning that the whole world is your market.From web sites the web has recently moved to blogs or web logs, as they were first called. This has dramatically reduced the costs of setting up and running an online presence down to almost zero. We now have very reliable free blog hosts and it takes less than 5 minutes for anybody to set up a blog.Wha

f no one can find you when they conduct a local search of businesses in your industry?

Small Business Marketing Solution - A Brand Check Up
Nearly every small business needs a Brand Check Up. Certainly most of your competitors do, but most won’t invest the time and effort. Here’s your chance to pull way ahead of them. Remember, successful small business marketing can be understood as a triangle containing three essential elements: Brand, Package, and People.Brand is your company’s identity. But as a small business owner your view of your company is just too intimate to be objective. You need to pull together the view of others both outside and inside your company.Below are 15 words. Please circle the top 3 that describe your business:Quality, Caring, Value, Speed, Cheap, Fair, Good, Fast, Dependable, Expensive, Friendly, Loyal, On-Time, Convenient, Honest.

ur city name and look for a category that ends with "Guides and Directories". When you click on that, you'll see the directories listed by importance, as determined by Google's Page Rank feature (you'll need to download Google's toolbar to see this info. The toolbar can be found at http://toolbar.google.com. The higher the rank (10 is high), the more traffic the site has. Or, you can manually search Google as follows: Regional Directories (by continent/country): http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/ By state in the US: http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/United_States/

Help Wanted – One New Customer for Growing IT Business
Every business owner needs new customers. They are constantly on the lookout for the next customer, then the next and so on.Your computer services business is the same, you need customers. But do you need as many as you think? Maybe not.Do you know how much each customer contributes to your business? How about how much it costs to bring in a new customer? Or to keep them after they become your customer?It’s the classic dilemma of quantity verses quality. Would you rather have fifty customers that pay you $5000.00 per month or ten that pay you $5000.00 per month? The revenue per customer is a lot higher with the ten customers.You make the same amount of money, but servicing fifty customers may just run you ragged!Focu

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7. Association Guides: Your membership to your local chamber of commerce, convention and visitor's bureau, professional association (by industry), general business groups (networking groups, men's or women's business associations, civic groups) may pay off if the association has an online membership directory where your listing might be found. Make sure that the listing includes both your contact info and a link to your website.

I've only scratched the surface of the local possibilities available for both virtual and brick-and-mortal companies. In doing the research for this article, I discovered there are thousands of businesses who aren't listed in these directories. Don't let yours be one of them. Get your business listed locally so you local customers can find you!

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Last Friday, celebrity Britney Spears decided that she would kill her pop icon status, which took over a decade to create. Her brain waves were obviously malfunctioning when she shaved her head outside of a closed salon in Sherman Oaks, California.

As a counselor, therapist or healing professional (massage therapist, physiotherapist, alternative health practitioner, etc.) it is quite likely that you did not chose your profession because you wanted to be a business person. As a result, it can be challenging to go into business for yourself and be successful. Taking time to prepare and plan as you build your private practice will help you avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes.

Big Changes in Video Marketing. 1. Youtube videos are now listed in the video.google.com video search index. 2. Youtube has announced that they will start revenue sharing with video publishers. Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday 27th January 2007 that his wildly successful site YouTube.com will start sharing revenue with its millions of users.

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