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Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
-Henry Ford
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July Magazine |
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 For entrepreneurs, "intrapreneurs," small business owners, artists, writers, freelancers, and anyone seeking more creative options, Free to Succeed will help you achieve greater fulfillment in your career and your life. (FREE TO MEMBERS!) |
 Founded in 1857, The Atlantic continues to cover the important issues of the day, from public policy, foreign affairs, politics, and economic and social trends to arts and humanities, poetry, fiction, & more.
(INCLUDED W/YOUR MEMBERSHIP!) |
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| Networking Tips |
 Networking innovations vital to your business... |
Cultivate Your Network
by Yank Elliott, MBA & IAHBE Writer
 To set the stage for the importance of networking, not only from a business view, but from every aspect of your life, please allow me to describe my personal experiences with effective networking. This was a totally low-tech effort for me and my family; there was no Internet or computer of any kind involved. We just recognized the effectiveness of networking at a time when we desperately needed help. Later in this article we’ll discuss some ideas reflecting the innovation in network techniques...
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Book Review |
| Put What You Already Know To Work For You... |
reviewed by Jeanne M. Theunissen, IAHBE Staff Writer
The Slight Edge is not just another self-help success book with all the latest information on how to improve your life and achieve your dreams. According to author Jeff Olson, all of the information you could possibly need to improve any area of your life is already available, and has been for years. If access to the right information were all that was needed, everyone would already be rich, healthy, happy, and fulfilled. Rather, this book is more about how to process that information and apply it to your own life. The Slight Edge is the book you need to read before you read the health book, the sales book, the investment book, or the positive attitude book... |
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Your Business Senses |
| Finding solutions from within... |
 Sixth Sense: Intuition As A Powerful Success Tool
by Yank Elliott, MBA & IAHBE Writer
Concepts like using your sixth sense, gut feeling, intuition, and other relatively new ideas are often met with skepticism from professionals in every quarter...and our society has always taught us to respect and accept the authority of professionals and allow them to take unquestioning charge of our lives. Our entire power structure is based on blind acceptance, and even to think of questioning “experts” is a threat to our existing structure. The increasing complexity of everything we do, however, demands a totally different way of looking at things... |
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Business Tool Advice |
| Team meetings from home made EASY... |
by Yank Elliott, MBA & IAHBE Staff Writer
Teleseminars and Webinars are both forms of teleconferencing. A teleseminar uses the telephone as the only communication medium, while the Webinar uses the Internet and computers for presentations. The interconnectivity of communications makes it difficult to really separate these two forms...I say don’t worry about little differences. Get the big picture, which is this: seminars by whatever means that don’t require travel are very cost effective for any business, no matter the size... |
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| MIT OpenCourseWare |
 Expository Writing: Consumer Culture
Take advantage of MIT's free courses and advance your expertise in the world of business!
In this Expository Writing class, you'll examine: What is the good life, and can you shop there? Would you want that life if you couldn’t? Has shopping replaced working as the activity that gives the most meaning to our lives?
You'll also explore what it means to belong to a consumer society—to think of ourselves, as Douglas Rushkoff puts it, less as citizens than as consumers. Course includes examples of effective writing techniques, essays that explore cultural meanings of shopping and the way advertising works, critiques of consumer culture from several perspectives, including those of psychology, gender, art, environmentalism and ethics, and much more!
A fascinating course for writers of all experience levels or just those entrepreneurs looking to expand their horizons. Best of all, it's FREE!
Click HERE to download this course now (ZIP file--773 KB).
NOTE: You can also check out the course's main page at MIT here. |
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Software Of The Month |
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Avast Home Edition 4.8
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A complete antivirus, anti-spyware & anti-rootkit package. |
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| Home-Business Trends |
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Size matters: micro business coming into its own... |
The Rise Of The Nanocorp
by Yank Elliott, MBA & IAHBE Writer
 What’s a nanocorp? According to Daniel Pink, author of Free Agent Nation, the term was coined by a pioneering research and development company called Sohodojo and is a micro business that remains “ruthlessly small” as both a personal preference and a competitive strategy. The name describes a product of the New Economy that we who have chosen to be home-based entrepreneurs are spearheading. Did you know you are on the cutting edge of a wave of new economic thought spreading across the U.S. and the entire globe?
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| Tool Review |
| Home is where you hang your mouse... |
Two For The Road
by Yank Elliott, IAHBE Staff Writer
 The mobility of our society is ever increasing, and it’s no wonder that software developers have jumped in to meet the need for ways that we can stay in touch—with clients, customers, business associates, and friends—when we’re not in our own office. The progress in both function and affordability is very encouraging, and improvements continue to be developed...
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| Business Basics |
| Don't let your emotions use YOU... |
by Yank Elliott, MBA & IAHBE Staff Writer
Many people say emotions have no place in business. Saying emotions have a place in business, according to some, is an oxymoron. It’s an impossible thing to do. Perhaps you agree, but first, let’s see what is involved here...
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| Choose your own direction... |
Entrepreneurial Democracy: The Power & Freedom Of Self-Employment
by Yank Elliott, MBA & IAHBE Staff Writer
 It’s important for each of us to consider, once in a while, why we are entrepreneurs, especially the home-based business kind. True, many of us do it for the money, others for the freedom it offers. Then there are those who have started their own business sort of as a protest against authority, some were forced into it because they had no job after being caught in some corporate disaster, and still others have become part of a new way of life which Daniel Pink calls “The free agent nation” in his book by that name. Regardless of why we are entrepreneurs, we are all exercising our rights as citizens in a democracy to do as we wish whenever and however we want. We are true examples of Democracy at work in daily life. Isn’t this great?...
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| Computer Q&A
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Short
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 Tabbed Windows, Vista, & Wi-Fi...
Find out how to have a tabbed user interface with your open applications; Get the XP look with your Vista OS; Learn how to improve your Wi-Fi reception and more...all in this month's Q&A...
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Special Edition: United States Postal Service News—Learn about the what the USPS' new 62¢ stamp can help your business, "green" innovations from the postal service, how you can get Intelligent Guides for more resources, and more...in this month's Short Takes. |
| Marketing Tidbit |
Marketing Strategies |
 Four Ways to Get Your Opt In Subscribers to Trust You Quickly
There are those who subscribe to receive mails that promote your products and services...Businesses are so lucky when they can get these kinds of customers; the basic element needed to get them (and keep them) is trust... |
Bonus Tidbits:
• "Ka-ching! Ka-ching! Make the cash register ring!”
• Are you missing America’s Largest Minority Group?
• Learn How to Use Video in Your Marketing
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How eBay Works |
Mark Deo addresses the concerns of many a network marketer: "If only I could get in front of a prospect I could sell them my services." In this Learning Program we'll present principles, approaches and techniques that will get you more appointments with qualified prospects.
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 eBay is a global phenomenon—the world's largest garage sale, online shopping center, car dealer and auction site...In this article, you'll find out how you can buy and sell items on eBay.
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