With summer in the air Matches is the best place to see those fabulous a hot summer skirts. Of which there are tons of beautiful clothing items this season as there are every other season. The very best things about buying from this gorgeous boutique store is that the designer shop now have the marvellous summer sale on. 100s of reduced items that are just really pleading you to pick up as part of this seasons best items and will probably give you the want to buy with the designer company again and again.
The retailer is still regarded as a small chain but this does not mean anything. The designer shop have seen over 15 years of sales and now has a number of tons of fashion retail stores placed in popular areas such as Notting Hill. Along with this the designer store recently experienced the launch of their colourful website. Now you do not even need to visit and be in central London to acquire the trendiest shoes. Find the very latest Freda clothes at www.matchesfashion.com/catalogue/designer/freda.
In fact it has been noticed that since the launch of their site the retailer has allowed more and more trendy people to become aware of the retailer and the lovely trousers the organisation stock from brands such as Day Birger Et Mikkelsen and J Brand along with numerous others.
The fashion store philosophy has forever been to dress women and gentlemen in trends and clothes that suit their very own personality, to always give you the desire to wear something more daring but still allow you to wear the clothes, not for the clothes to wear you.
Each and every year the highly fashionable workers at Matches advise what they believe are going to be around the key shirts of each season, this is a fashion talent that loads of clothing buyers lack but year after year the retailer keep coming up with best trousers. Just like every other fantastic year, we know 2009 Summer at the fashion company is going to be something to look out for.
Here is part of an email I received recently:
Follow the directions below and in two weeks you`ll have at least 2,000 dollarsbecause most people respond due to low investment and high profit potential. Webelieve the return rate is currently as good as 80%!
Just donate five dollars ($5.00) to one 1 person! After the first time, you`ll see how EASY it is and it DOES work! Now let me tell you the simple details!
*Log into your PayPal account, and send $5.00 to the name in the NEXT DUE slot.
*Next, move the PENDING address up into the “NEXT DUE” slot and put your own e-mail address into the”PENDING” slot. After you have retyped the names in the new order, send this e-mail to as many people as possible IMMEDIATELY! (Using a Bulk Email Service will really boost your donations), use blasters, safelists, whatever you have.
DO NOT SPAM - it`s against the LAW.
This is a very basic pyramid scheme. Now, does the person who sent me the email know that this scheme is illegal? I don’t think so, because he provides his real name and email ID.
What’s ironic is that he warns us not to spam, because spamming would be illegal!
He does offer an interesting rationale for joining the scheme:
“Think of it like a lottery ticket. You put in your $5, and you may or may not win.”
The lottery-ticket analogy is appealing, but not correct. In a lottery, every ticket holder has an equal chance of winning. In a pyramid scheme, only the early participants are likely to win. That’s why such schemes are illegal!
Scammers have also discovered ways to operate what I call “disguised pyramids”. These schemes are legal (or quasi-legal), and are much harder to recognize as scams.
Disguised pyramids
There are a number of different ways to disguise a pyramid scheme. On the internet, the most common method is to have a multi-level affiliate program.
In a single-level affiliate program, you receive a commission if a visitor to your site purchases a product that you are promoting. There is no additional incentive for you to
sign up other affiliates.
In a two-level affiliate program, you receive commission for signing up other affiliates. There may be an up front reward (when the affiliate signs up), and there may be ongoing
incentives. For example, you may receive a small commission of every sale that your downline affiliate makes.
A two-level affiliate program makes sense, because it encourages you to sign up other affiliates. However, you do need to make sure that your market size is large enough to support a large number of affiliates. Otherwise, you end up with too many marketers chasing after too few customers.
A multi-level affiliate scheme with 3 or more levels is really just a pyramid in disguise.
What’s wrong with a pyramid in disguise?
My favorite example of this is Global Domains International (GDI). GDI sells you a domain name plus a small web site for $10 a month. This purchase entitles you to build a downline of affiliates, up to 5 levels deep. You receive $1 for every sale by any of your downline affiliates.
Therefore, if you have 5 affiliates, and they each have 5 affiliates (and so on), you have a pyramid 5 levels deep with a total of 3905 affiliates. Every month, you receive a check for $3905.
Wow! This sounds great! What could possibly be wrong with this?
The problem is the shape of the pyramid. It is very narrow at the top, and very wide at the base. In the example above, there are 5 people at level one, and 3125 people at level five!
Now, GDI claims that there will be 500 Million domains active in the next 10 years. Let’s accept that at face value, and assume that GDI gets 20% of this market that would be 100 million domains. Even this huge number only supports 30,000 people with five-level pyramids! Meanwhile, at the base of these pyramids, 80 million affiliates will be scrambling around, finding it difficult to sign up even one new affiliate!
Even if these numbers are confusing to you, just remember this: only 1 out of every 5 affiliates are making any money. Only 1 out of every 1000 will make serious money.
So what?
Now at least you know the odds of success. You may still decide to join such a scheme. If you work hard, and work smart, you may rise to the top.
Checklist: How to recognize pyramids in disguise
- There are more than 2 levels of commission
- Much more focus on recruiting members (or affiliates) rather than selling product
- The price of the product is way above typical market price.
Learn more about Pyramids and other tricks in my book “Scams and Deceptions”.
You can find out more about the book at the IBiz Zone.
You can also order it here.
Back in the day, when I was Lori “Computer Babe” Davis, I managed Microsoft and Novell LANs and WANs. I was constantly surrounded by high-level technologies and loved it! These days, my home office is on a much smaller scale and yet, I fully employ technology to make me happy and to make my life easier.
Submitted for your reading pleasure are Lori’s Top 10 I’m Trapped on a Deserted Island Must Haves. **
Microsoft Outlook
I L-O-V-E Outlook - one of the most important secrets of my success. I’m using the 2002 version while I contemplate the 2003 upgrade.
Outlook gives me all the tools I need and the three features I use most are e-mail, calendar and tasks. I manage e-mail accounts for numerous clients and Outlook makes it easy to setup and manage new accounts. In addition, Outlook’s Signature facility is superb.
I use a third-party tool (see below) to help me manage calendars for my clients. Imagine having the ability to manage a client’s calendar who’s three time zones away. Trust me, it can be done!
Outlook’s Tasks folder helps me everyday, letting me know what’s due for that day and what I need to focus on in the future.
I use Outlook to manage my professional and personal lives, and the schedules for my clients.
Tools for the Home Team
Holy remote access, campers! 4Team has a great offering of products (http://shareoutlook.4team.biz/) that let you share Outlook with your clients.
I use Calendar4Outlook for a number of my clients and they’re amazed, and pleased, with the software’s functionality. Calendar updates are sent via e-mail and are applied automatically. No “click here to update” hassles. I see the client’s Calendar in real-time and book their appointments without having to call them to verify their schedule.
Invaluable tools which I encourage you to demo.
Believe the Skype Hype
Skype’s tagline says it all, “Skype is free Internet telephony that just works.” Checkout their site at http://www.skype.com. Skype is free (cool), easy to setup and even easier to use. Skype is internet telephony and an instant messaging package all in one.
I used Skype last year when I was recruiting Santas for the Desktop Santa project. I interviewed hundreds of Santas, some of whom were located in Canada and the United Kingdom. Could you imagine my phone bill if I had used a conventional telephone service to call the U.K. and Canada? I can and it’s a bill I’m not willing to pay! I used Skype to stay in touch with my Santas who were outside of CONUS (Continental United States).
If you’d like to test Skype, I’m more than happy to help! Feel free to contact me and we’ll test Skype together.
The Tank
I snub my nose at today’s keyboards — they’re too small and they have no bounce-back. I’m sure there’s a technical term for “bounce-back,” I just don’t know what it is!
To the rescue comes my IBM keyboard, which I affectionately refer to as The Tank. The Tank is 20″ wide, 8.5″ in depth and jet black. The Tank is hefty — I estimate it weighs approximately 10 pounds. The Tank’s claim to fame is that perfect bounce-back and tactile feel of the keys. I type very fast (120 WPM) and The Tank allows me maintain a fast typing speed.
I was lucky enough to find The Tank at a tag sale in San Francisco many years ago. The seller only wanted one buck for this beautiful piece of equipment. Can you believe it? An original IBM keyboard for $1.00. Score!
Hopefully The Tank will last forever so I don’t have to resort to using modern day keyboards!
No More Sliding at the PO
stamps.com is a fantastic tool and an incredible use of the Web. I login to my account, purchase and print postage for standard letters, postcards and special delivery packages.
The best part of using stamps.com is I no longer have to wait in line at my local Bronx post office, where my average wait time was nearly one hour. That’s a lost hour in my book - time which could be better spent working with my clients or snuffing out the competition.
Cool Timer (http://www.harmonyhollow.net/)
This little gem of a desktop timer is one of my fave freebies. I set the timer at the start of scheduled interviews, always setting the timer for 30 minutes. Cool Timer then bellows when time’s up. It’s free, it’s small and incredibly useful.
Just the Fax, Ma’am (All right … I know it’s an old joke!)
eFax gives me freedom - freedom from having yet another piece of equipment on my desk! In addition, the company’s monthly pricing is on par with what I would pay for a separate telephone line. You must scan hard copies of documents before faxing, but I do very little of that type of faxing, anyway. My outgoing faxes are either Word or WordPerfect documents.
Check them out at www.efax.com.
Funny Web Site Name; Great Little Tool
I love the “Memento” software from Guys with Towels (http://www.guyswithtowels.com/downloads.html). Little desktop sticky notes which I use to jot down fleeting thoughts and other ideas. Keep ‘em on your desktop or hide ‘em away when you’re done.
Must … Upload … Website
My FTP (file transfer protocol) software of choice is CuteFTP Professional by GlobalSCAPE. Easy to use and also loaded with enhanced capabilities. A girl’s gotta have a way to upload her site! See them on the web at http://www.globalscape.com.
Clip, Snip & Share
TechSmith’s (http://www.techsmith.com/) SnagIt is a fab-u-lous screen capture utility. SnagIt allows me to capture a wide variety of things, include text, images and web pages. The program is super easy to setup and use, as well.
I hope I’ll never be stranded on a deserted island - truth is, I’m afraid of deep water! In the unlikely event I’d ever have to run my business from an island, I’ll need to ensure I’ve got my top 10 tools handy and ready to go!
I’d love to hear from you. What are the tools you simply cannot live without?
** All products and names are trademarks of their respective company.
Copyright 2005 Lori Davis. All rights reserved.
Lori Davis is Director of the Future at Davis Virtual Assistants, a New York-based VA firm. To learn more about Lori and DavisVA, please visit http://www.davisva.com and http://loridavis.typepad.com/davisva/. You may contact Lori at 917.319.8224 and via e-mail at lori@davisva.com.
A new approach to serving one of the oldest and most basic needs of even the smallest business community, a home-based secretarial service can satisfy the entrepreneurial needs of even the most ambitious woman!
This is a kind of service business with a virtually unlimited profit potential. Third year profits for businesses of this type, in metropolitan areas as small as 70,000 persons are reported at $100,000 and more. It’s a new idea for a traditional job that’s growing in popularity and acceptance.
As for the future, there+s no end in sight to the many and varied kinds of work a secretary working at home can do for business owners, managers and sales representatives. Various surveys indicate that by the year 2,000 - at least 60 percent of all the secretarial work, as we know it today, will be handled by women working at home.
For most women, this is the most exciting news of things to come since the equal rights amendment. Now is the time to get yourself organized, start your own home-based secretarial service and nurture it through your start-up stages to total success in the next couple of years.
Our research indicates little or no risk involved, with most secretarial services breaking even within 30 days, and reports of some showing a profit after the first week! Your cash investment can be as little as $10 to $25 if you already have a modern, electronic typewriter. You can set up at your kitchen table, make a few phone calls, and be in business tomorrow.
If you don’t have a modern, office quality electric typewriter comparable to the IBM Selectric - a portable just won’t do, because it’ll break down, wear out, and fall apart after a month of heavy duty use… If you’re aware of this delicacy of a portable electric, you can conceivably begin with one, but you’ll definitely have to graduate to a bigger, heavier machine as soon as possible…
An IBM Selectric, complete with start-up supplies kit which includes a dozen ribbons, can be purchased for less than a thousand dollars. On contract, this would break down to about $175 for down payment and monthly payments of less than $50 per month over a 2-year period. Naturally, you’d want to include the standard service contract which costs about $100 per year, and means that whenever you have a problem or want your machine serviced, you simply pick up the phone and call the service department. They’ll ask you what kind of problem you’re having, and then send some one out to rectify it immediately.
Shoestringers can rent an IBM Selectric for about $60 per month, plus a small deposit. And those of you who are really on a tight budget, can contract an equipment leasing firm, explain your business plan, and work out an arrangement where they buy the machine of your choice for you, and then lease it back to you over a five or ten year period for much lower payments.
Whatever you do, get the best typewriter your money can buy. The output of your typewriter will be your finished product, and the better, “more perfect” your finished product, the more clients you’ll attract and keep. It’s also imperative that you have one of the modern, “ball” typewriters. Only these kinds of typewriters give each character a clear, even and uniform impression on your paper. Typewriters of the “arm & hammer” type quickly become misaligned, producing a careless look on your finished product.
As mentioned earlier, you can start almost immediately from your kitchen table if you’ve got the typewriter. However, in order to avoid fatigue and back problems, invest in a typing stand and secretary’s standard typing chair just as soon as you can afford them. Watch for office equipment sales, especially among the office equipment leasing firms. You should be able to pick up a new, slightly damaged, or good used typewriter stand or desk for around $20 to $25. A comparable quality secretary’s typing chair can be purchased for $50 or less.
While you’re shopping for things you’ll need, be sure to pick up a chair mat. If you don’t, you may suddenly find that the carpet on the floor of the room where you do your typing, needs replacing due to the worn spot where the chair is located and maneuvered in front of the typewriter. You’ll also want a work stand with place marker and a convenient box or storage shelf for your immediate paper supply. If you plan to do a great deal of work during the evening hours, be sure to invest in an ad just able “long arm” office work lamp.
When buying paper, visit the various wholesale paper suppliers in your area or in any nearby large city, and buy at least a half carton - 6 reams - at a time. Buying wholesale, and in quantity, will save you quite a bit of money. The kind to buy is ordinary 20 pound white bond. Open one ream for an immediate supply at your typewriter, and store the rest in a closet, under your bed, or on a shelf in your garage or basement.
In the beginning, you’ll be the business - typist, salesman, advertising department, bookkeeper and janitor - so, much will depend upon your overall business acumen. Those areas in which you lack experience or feel weak in, buy books or tapes and enhance your knowledge. You don’t have to enjoy typing, but you should have better than average proficiency.
Your best bet in selling your services is to do it all yourself. Every business in your area should be regarded as a potential customer, so it’s unlikely you’ll have to worry about who to call on. Begin by making a few phone calls to former bosses or business associates - simply explain that you’re starting a typing service and would appreciate it if they’d give you a call whenever they have extra work that you can handle for them. Before you end the conversation, ask them to be sure to keep you in mind and steer your way any overload typing jobs that they might hear about.
The next step is “in-person” calls on prospective customers. This means dressing in an impressively professional manner, and making sales calls on the business people in your area. For this task, you should be armed with business cards (brochures also help…), and an order or schedule book of some sort. All of these things take time to design and print, so while you’re waiting for delivery, use the time to practice selling via the telephone. At this stage, your telephone efforts will be more for the purpose of indoctrinating you into the world of selling than actually making sales.
Just be honest about starting a business, and sincere in asking them to consider trying your services whenever they have a need you can help them with. Insurance companies, attorneys and distributors are always needing help with their typing, so start with these kinds of businesses first.
For your business cards, consider a free-lance artist to design a logo for you. Check, and/or pass the word among the students in the art or design classes at any nearby college, art or advertising school. Hiring a regular commercial artist will cost you quite a bit more, and generally won’t satisfy your needs any better than the work of a hungry beginner.
Be sure to browse through any Klip Art books that may be available - at most print shops, newspaper offices, advertising agencies, libraries and book stores. The point being, to come up with an idea that makes your business card stand out; that can be used on all your printed materials, and makes you - your company - unique or different from all the others.
I might suggest something along the lines of a secretary with pad in hand taking dictation; or perhaps a secretary wearing a dictaphone headset seated in front of a typewriter. You might want something distinctive for the first letter of your company name, or perhaps a scroll or flag as a background for your company name.
At any rate, once you’ve got your logo or company design, the next step is your local print shop. Ask them to have the lettering you want to use, typeset in the style you like best - show them your layout and order at least a thousand business cards printed up.
For your layout, go with something basic. Expert typing services, in the top left hand corner… Dictation by phone, in the top right hand corner… Your company logo or design centered on the card with something like, complete secretarial services, under it… Your name in the lower left hand corner, and your telephone number in the lower right hand corner…
Everybody that you call on in person, be sure to give them one of your business cards. And now, you’re ready to start making those in-person business sales calls.
Your best method of making sales calls would be with a business telephone directory and a big supply of loose leaf notebook paper. Go through the business directory and write down the company names, addresses and telephone number. Group all of those within one office building together, and those on the same street in the same block. Be sure to leave a couple of spaces between the listing of each company. And of course, start a new page for those in a different building or block. Now, simply start with the first business in the block, or on the lowest floor in a building and number them in consecutive order. This will enable you to call on each business in order as you proceed along a street, down the block, or through a building.
You’ll be selling your capabilities - your talents - and charging for your time - the time it takes you to get set up and complete the assignment they give you. You should be organized to take work with you on the spot, and have it back at a promised time; arrange to pick up any work they have, and deliver it back to them when it+s completed; and handle dictation or special work assignments by phone. You should also emphasize your abilities to handle everything by phone, particularly w hen they have a rush job.
Establish your fees according to how long it takes you to handle their work, plus your cost of supplies - work space, equipment and paper - then fold in a $5 profit. In other words, for a half hour job that you pick up on a regular sales or delivery call you should charge $10…
Mike Smith is an online marketer. Learn from the website:
http://www.imcmake-money-fast-online.com/Laser.htm
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There is a real estate broker in Mobile, Alabama who sells homes. Before buying the house, you need to survey the insides and the neighborhood. You need to check does the master bedroom come with an attached bathroom? And is the kitchen large enough to cook for a family of 5? Does it have enough cabinets to store the cutleries, cooking pots and pans? Can it accommodate a big enough table for your family to dine together? Other factors include does the house have area for drying clothes and to do laundry? These issues need to be taken into consideration before you purchase your house. Because once you move in with all the furniture and utensils, it would be difficult to shift again and move out.
You need to settle down quickly and get used to your neighborhood. Also, you may need to survey the housing area to know your directions to the market, hospital, eating places, mini-market, schools and so on. The quicker you settle down, the easier it is to continue with the business of getting used to your new home. Then you don’t have to worry too much and stay in full confidence that all your needs are provided for. And you don’t have to travel too far just to get your groceries.
A good home will be your life long living area. And when you make friends with your neighbors, they can help to look out for you and make the place even safer to stay. In a closely knit neighborhood, you can even invite your neighbors for parties, birthdays and any other social functions. The social gathering will enhance friendships and make the whole housing estate a peaceful place to stay. So it is important to make friends and not enemies and keep to yourself. In case of emergencies, your neighbors will be the first to come to your aid, not your siblings who live a distance away.
Along the highway in Dan Diego there is a billboard that quite
simply asks in big black letters - Had Enough? I have no idea
whether the person or company that owns the advertisement sells
cruise vacations or a better brand of Vodka, but you have to
admit it gets you thinking on a long trip.
The older we get the more we hate change. The thought of leaving
something familiar through repetition to start over again can be
intimidating. There is safety in routine. Still, no one is
locked into a relationship or a job. Free will dictates that
your life is yours to live. You can walk away from either
situation if it isn’t working anymore, or better still drive
away and watch it disappear in your rear view mirror.
Why is throwing in the towel so painfully resisted by human
nature? Are we too embarrassed to admit another mistake? Are
past screw-ups mounting? Is it easier to put off quitting until
we’re fired? In my working career I only got the boot once. But
he did it with such gentleness that no blood was left on the
carpet. He was wise enough to see my lack of enthusiasm; my
readiness to fly. I thanked him as we parted.
Not all ideas are good ones. I-changed-my-mind is perfectly
acceptable. Use it for heavens sake! Humans are natural learning
machines. It’s inevitable that we turn down dead-end roads. In
time you begin to recognize the outcome before it even happens.
Failures and moving on are all part of the path to maturity.
It’s like trees in the Amazon designed to reach towards the
sun’s rays and soak up every bit of sunlight they can get. Not
all acorns grow to mighty Oaks. The tree that captures the most
sunlight, wins. It will be the tallest and the widest. No one
said it would be easy.
The entrepreneur faces an equal struggle. If it was a snap
there’d be no dilbert-cubes. Yet these free-thinkers hold a
deeper understanding of ‘going to happen’ vs ‘hope to happen’.
They are high energy people with long term goals. And they
aren’t afraid to take a risk.
No better time in history offers the entrepreneur a fighting
chance thanks to the Internet. So close your eyes, hug your
computer’s monitor and make a wish. It’s almost that easy. If
you’re going to leave the herd and seek your freedom, you have
to put one foot in front of another and start walking.
Currently 125,000 people a week go online in search of a
Home-Based Business. This alone is an amazing statistic. As an
entrepreneur you can now literally work from anywhere while
seamlessly running your business. Not any of your clients need
to know you are not in some downtown high-rise.
With the bare bones of a mobile office in place you can spend a
month in Mexico or on an island in the Pacific. How about
working today from a bench in the Park, or under an umbrella at
Ocean Beach or a booth in Starbuck’s coffee shop? Your
office-bound clients and prospects will travel with you.
With smaller, more powerful laptops, improved internet
connectivity worldwide, and variety of cellular and web services
to choose from - we’re no longer confined to the home office
either.
Having brought a smile to your face just putting yourself in
this picture, I must add that this freedom comes with the
personal responsibility for your own taxes, social security
contributions, and medical insurance.
However, when you can earn in one month what you have been
earning all year as an employee, this will not be a hardship.
Calculating your business-use-of-home income tax deductions
should offset most of this anyway. Uncle Sam loves us business
owners.
For most employees, losing their job is a fearsome and
ever-present possibility. As your own CEO, you’ll never again
feel like you’re walking a tightrope without a net.
Entrepreneurs are — the last free Americans.
© 2005 Esther Smith