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What Is a Small Business?
According to the Security and Exchange Commission a Small Business is... For SEC purposes, small businesses are defined as domestic companies with revenues of under $25 million, and not investment companies. Subsidiaries of larger companies do not qualify as small businesseswhile The Small Business Association says... There are many definitions of a small business. In general, any business with revenue under $500,000 per year will qualify, but many larger agricultural and commercial businesses may also apply.And many Business Schools and Authorities to Find a Small Business... as a business with a small number of employees. The legal definition of "small" often varies by country and industry, but is generally under 100 employees. These businesses are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorshipsFor those of us who own and operate a small business or dream of having their own business in the future, small business is much more than those definitions.The small business is:1. A place where dreams can come true2. Somewhere that allows us to control our own destiny3. Encourages its owner to be creative4. A first challenges that people with a career in a cubicle, could never imagine5. Is the place an entrepreneur goes to work because they want to, not because they have to6. The small business is the jobs growth engine of the country. 80% of the new jobs are created by small business.7. Offers an entrepreneur the opportunity to build something greater than themselvesThere seems to be something inside some of us that continues to drive us to be our own boss and control our success. The need to be creative will continue to drive budding entrepreneurs to leave the office cubicle behind and strike out on their own

of all time, Leta Nolan Childers.

PublishAmerica sent me an author’s questionnaire where they asked for basic biographical information; cover art suggestions, and a long list of people who might want to read my forthcoming novel.

“Please prepare a list (names, and addresses,) of people who know you well enough to be interested in your success as a writer: personal friends, colleagues, relatives, etc., to receive a book announcement…Please limit your list and your labels to a maximum of 100 contacts. Also, please do not include businesses or organizations of any kind, including bookstores, media contacts, or government organizations. Include friends and associates only.”

Resell Rights Packages Success Tips
Planning to sell a group of Resell Rights products? Well, I do have some success tips to share with you![1] Ensure that the products are of the same theme.For example, if you are targeting the writers market, then the Resell Rights products you acquire must be writing-related to form the group of products. The more focused your package is on your target market and the bigger your target market, the higher chances of success you will sell your package.[2] Sell a group of products at one affordable price.The reason I said “affordable” and not “cheap” is because you want to convince your prospects of the value they are getting from purchasing your package and the same time, make a reasonable amount of money on your part.[3] Write your own persuasive sales letter.Most Resell Rights product authors allow you to freely use and edit their principal sales letter. Therefore you can create your own sales letter that pitches the benefits of each product to your prospect simply by copying and pasting the benefits pitched by the principal sales letter for each product.Also, you must convince that your prospect will be getting a whole lot more for only one price, and that it would have cost them even more if they acquire the Resell Rights products individually.Copyright (c) Edmund Loh

My story is that an author who’d done online writing for such dot gones as Themestream, Written By Me, and The Vines, someone trying hard to have fiction, poetry and nonfiction in print for real, recommended PublishAmerica. She claimed it was a traditional book publisher. I was struck with their slogan, “We treat writers the old fashioned way – we pay them.” Wasn’t that what publishers were supposed to do?

But since my novel was just sitting on the DiskUs Publishing site and doing nothing but supplying me with enough money to buy a pair of skate laces every three months, I thought maybe it would have a better chance over at PublishAmerica where it would be available as a trade size paperback both on and off-line.

So this author, Ellen Du Bois, had a big thing on her Geocities site about books being available in brick & mortar bookstores & they’d have ISBN numbers and be online and all that stuff. Also had her full size book cover up so I sat there for 5 minutes waiting for the damn thing to appear. Not impressive, but she liked it. Ellen was a cheerleader for her book and sent reviews from a weekly community rag and she bulk e-mailed several pieces of correspondence during those heady days when her book was in prerelease, then release stage in the summer of ’03. I broke down and bought a copy from Amazon – took almost 3 weeks to get. And I struggled to read all 176 pages. Tripe. Clich?s abounded. Spelling/grammatical errors weren’t there at least. But the writing was thin. The story moved too quickly. The main character was the most realistic as it was most likely based on the author. The dialogue was okay. The descriptions were minimal. Had there been a real editor, the book could’ve been very good. I wrote to Ellen and told her the positive things about the story, avoiding the negativities. She’d been an online correspondent for almost two years, yet after I didn’t review her book on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble she didn’t contact me. Almost a year later she sent me another e-mail – to promote a book of her poetry. I was just someone to sell a book to and she was only interested in the sale and hopefully a glowing write up.

A Future PublishAmerica Author

Since I’d already signed the contract with PublishAmerica, I wanted to cancel it after reading that trash. Now my book would be affiliated with a company that put out just about any piece of writing that came its way. I wasn’t expecting much what with my dealings with the extinct eNovel and RJ’s eBooks, along with a tiny eBook publisher named Crafts Across America where I wasn’t paid monthly as promised. And my novel and short story collection languished at DiskUs, home of the alleged Number One Best selling eBook author of all time, Leta Nolan Childers.

PublishAmerica sent me an author’s questionnaire where they asked for basic biographical information; cover art suggestions, and a long list of people who might want to read my forthcoming novel.

7 Coaching Predictions and What To Do About Them
To prepare for our segments, Milana asked us to reveal in no-holds barred fashion, a mindstream of the 3 most important trends, opportunities and landmines we could foresee for professional coaches in 2007, including how each is likely to impact a coach's business (that's you!), and what I'm doing about the predictions myself.Here are the promised notes from the predictions I made, for those who missed the call or prefer reading over listening...Coaching Prediction #1: Expect to see lots more coaching jobs.By that I don’t mean jobs that involve coaching skills, but jobs where coaching is the core deliverable. This will happen at three levels:(1) the Executive level - this is already happening and there will be many more of these.(2) the non-Executive level - these coaching jobs are becoming part of the woodwork in fitness and wellness industries, in the academic world, etc.(3) AND – coaches who are reaching a certain degree of success are now hiring associate coaches themselves, creating a demand for coaches with the skill set and experience set who don't want to build businesses.How to prepare for this trend?- Collect testimonials of the hard-core type - Use before and after progress worksheets - Be prepared to provide examples of your coaching abilities in a resume…Tip: As a natural benefit to your 1-1 or group coaching clients, you can already be offering to record their sessions, confidentially for their use, of course. It's a great value add and costs you little if you use an easy recording service like this.When the time comes you then also have the option of approaching them for permission to use audio clips you record for the purpose of your coaching portfolio. This bolsters your application immeasurably as you are helping prospective employers

aperback both on and off-line.

A Future PublishAmerica Author

PublishAmerica sent me an author’s questionnaire where they asked for basic biographical information; cover art suggestions, and a long list of people who might want to read my forthcoming novel.

The Captain of the Titanic Wasn't in Sales
Did you know sales success and icebergs have something in common? And no …this article is not about cold calling!Many of us know an iceberg has about 7/8th of its mass below water. But did you know the largest Northern Hemisphere iceberg on record was encountered near Baffin Island in 1882? It was 8 miles (13 km) long, 3.7 miles (6 km) wide and rose 65 feet (20 m) above the water. The mass of that iceberg was in excess of 9 billion tonnes - enough water for everyone, in the world to drink a quart (litre) a day for over 4 years.Well thanks for the lesson on icebergs you’re probably thinking but what has that got to do with sales?Go back to the first fact; the majority of an iceberg is below the surface. In sales, much of what controls our success is below the surface. Let me explain.Think of the iceberg, the tip which we see, could be compared to the action and results of sales professionals. We see sales results. Companies track share of market, percentage of plan, year-over-year performance to name just a few metrics. We also see what a sales person does. We can observe and track the number of calls made, appointments kept, sales made, and referrals obtained.What we can’t see, the part under the surface is what the sales professional is thinking. This I submit is the most critical component for a sales person to be successful. We talked about icebergs, now for a short psychology lesson.Cognitive behavioural science suggests that what we are thinking about today determines our reality tomorrow. That is, a person’s outer world is a reflection of their inner world. If a sales professional is interested in creating a new reality for themselves, whether that new reality is bringing in a new client or whether it is moving up to the next level in sales effectiveness, this new frame of reference

176 pages. Tripe. Clich?s abounded. Spelling/grammatical errors weren’t there at least. But the writing was thin. The story moved too quickly. The main character was the most realistic as it was most likely based on the author. The dialogue was okay. The descriptions were minimal. Had there been a real editor, the book could’ve been very good. I wrote to Ellen and told her the positive things about the story, avoiding the negativities. She’d been an online correspondent for almost two years, yet after I didn’t review her book on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble she didn’t contact me. Almost a year later she sent me another e-mail – to promote a book of her poetry. I was just someone to sell a book to and she was only interested in the sale and hopefully a glowing write up.

A Future PublishAmerica Author

PublishAmerica sent me an author’s questionnaire where they asked for basic biographical information; cover art suggestions, and a long list of people who might want to read my forthcoming novel.

Business Management Software - Do You Really Need It?
As we all know, not all advances in technology are necessarily for the better. Some people swear that having a computer program to manage a business is a 'must have', but is this really true?I have a friend, Chris, who runs a physiotherapy clinic. For the last ten years, he's used a paper diary and a pen. And it's not a small business either. Two receptionists, five practitioners and hundreds of clients every week. When I ask him why, he says it's totally reliable, never breaks down or crashes, doesn't require updates, no license fees and doesn't need any equipment to run it.I must admit, those reasons sounded quite good to me too!Before finally committing his business to paper, Chris hired a developer who wrote a custom application for him. Unfortunately, the developer disappeared and after a short while Chris was left with software he couldn't use. This ultimately made the decision for Chris to stick with what he could comfortably manage himself.Desperate not to repeat this bad experience, Chris carefully weighed up all the options that were available to him. Does he go for another paper based system? Or does he try his hand again with a computer?He knows very well, that there are many disadvantages to his paper system, but he also feels there are many advantages too. And this is an important point. Whatever system you employ, you need to be happy that it's going to work well for you and that it's manageable. Chris says he sleeps well at night because he knows his books will always be working when he opens up shop in the morning.Chris's business is situated in a very old, very grand, Georgian house. When you walk in, you're immediately filled with a sense of nostalgia. The massive leather bound appointment book on the secretary's desk, looks perfectly in keeping with t

k of her poetry. I was just someone to sell a book to and she was only interested in the sale and hopefully a glowing write up.

A Future PublishAmerica Author

PublishAmerica sent me an author’s questionnaire where they asked for basic biographical information; cover art suggestions, and a long list of people who might want to read my forthcoming novel.

Create More Poor Then Crush 'Em
Anyone familiar with the book of Proverbs knows that it has a lot to say about the everyday issues of life, including things said about the poor. In Proverbs 14:31 of the Bible, we find that anyone who oppresses the poor shows contempt for God their Maker. Certainly, only someone truly cold hearted would systematically oppress them.The problem with the poor being oppressed has been with us since the beginning of time. The only difference now is that those who are on the leading edge of this oppression can recruit the help of unsuspecting participants who do not realize they are helping in an evil scheme. They may even refuse to believe it if they are told because no decent person would want to do that.Suppose this were actually happening. What if millions of people were unintentionally participating in something that could undermine our economic system? What if it was taking advantage of poor people while driving even more people to poverty in its wake? Chances are, anyone who tried to sound an alarm would be considered a paranoid extremist.Allow me to illustrate the world's wisdom, the exact opposite of God's wisdom, with something I learned in a marketing class. I strongly disagree with this, but it is what I was taught. In marketing, you seek to identify trends. That's good, I agree with that. You don't cast moral judgement on trends, don't try to sort out right from wrong, just sell, sell, sell. It may not have been put in those exact terms, but that was the gist of it. I choose God's wisdom and disagree, but folly is a driving force in modern marketing.For this reason, we have an abundance of predatory lenders. They set people up to fail and specifically target the poor. But that's supposedly OK, because the people they are taking advantage of want instant gratification and easy money. They are fill

of all time, Leta Nolan Childers.

PublishAmerica sent me an author’s questionnaire where they asked for basic biographical information; cover art suggestions, and a long list of people who might want to read my forthcoming novel.

The editing process of my manuscript took two weeks over the Christmas holidays. I was able to ascertain that the first few pages had been read as some minor alterations had been made, but no changes followed for another 50 or so pages. One of the errors that occurred was clearly the result of a spellchecker on the part of PublishAmerica as a question mark appeared after the end of a statement. I’d read of real authors receiving instructions to change chapters, alter endings, delete numerous pages, in other words, really struggle to rewrite a book. Why so much effort? Names. Reputation. The publisher wanted to put their name on the best quality book that they had invested in. The author wanted a book that was saleable but also well written and something they were proud of. PublishAmerica’s editing comprised neither ideal as all they did was put the computer program’s spelling/grammar checker into action.

My two free author’s copies arrived in early March and it was nice to see my trade paperback book in print sans a cheesy cover and stapled spine. ‘North of Sunset’ actually had decent looking stock cover art of a few silhouetted palm trees, a noticeable font, and a spine where the book title, publisher and author’s name was apparent. It would look good on bookstore shelves, I imagined.

Reviews – What Reviews?

What was Publish America doing to make sure my book was reviewed? Nothing. I decided to contact local daily and weekly newspapers by e-mailing a press release. The only responses I got were two e-mail autoresponders announcing the editors were on vacation.

I spent $40 on copies of my book’s galley and mailed them to three national newspapers and the Library Journal magazine. Then I phoned a book reviewer at the ‘San Diego Union-Tribune’ and asked if he’d be interested in reviewing my book but before I could even describe what it was about, he asked who my publisher was. I told him. “We don’t review books by that publisher,” he stated.

I called all the local bookstores and spoke to the managers and/ or community relations people about my book, including a couple of stores who were physically located on the street I’d written about. An independent bookstore owner told me that since PA didn’t have a return policy she was unable to stock my novel. Another said that I could sell my book on consignment. The chain stores of Borders and Barnes & Noble said my book would be available through Ingram if anyone chose to order it.

Tried getting PublishAmerica to send review copies out and it took them weeks to do so. Had to call and make sure on two occasions that the books had been mailed. Maybe quoting one of their enthusiastic promoters on the message board, a guy with a natural genius for marketing and the budget

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