30 Positive Things You Can Do To Change Your Life

Since a negative command can be a bit tricky on the brain — some research suggests the mind does not register a negative and “STOP doing that” is not as effective as “START doing this!” — 
I reframed them into a list of actions to green light in your life. ENJOY: 

1. Start spending the time with the RIGHT people – Surround yourself by people who inspire, challenge, value, love, and appreciate you! Also, be with the ones who make you work harder and raise your game. 

2. Start facing your problems – 

The first step is just acknowledging something is not right and needs an adjustment or solution. No sense in sweeping anything under rug! 

We all know that is just a temporary fix, so get in there and mix it up with whatever is not in alignment and do something to make it better.  

3. Start being honest with yourself – Love the author’s suggestion to read The Road Less Traveled. 






The only one who knows how you really feel, what you really think, your needs, what is working and what is not is YOU.

4. Put your own needs on the FRONT burner – Oooh, I love this one! This is a tough, especially being a strong believer in doing service. But what it comes down to is honoring your own self care and priorities so you CAN be available to others.

5. Be yourself – Any other options? Didn’t think so.

6. Live in the moment – We all have stories about our past but they are just that, stories. The most powerful thing you have on any given day is the moment you are in, so plant and be where your feet are.

7. Feel free to fail – That’s right! Know that mistakes are going to happen, you have a right to be imperfect and one of the best ways to succeed is to fail miserably, correct, then kick ass.

8. Practice self-forgiveness – You did this but “should’ve” done that. Years spent in a certain relationship, career, addiction, negativity, shitty health, fear – the bottom line is, it is all okay. 

You cannot really move on until you forgive yourself for being human.

9. Buy groceries not happiness – There are certain things money can buy. Like organic grapefruits. Other things, not so much. Like happiness! Happiness is one of those states of mind which don’t have a price tag.

 Certain things create sensation of joy, passion, love, pleasure, but HAPPINESS, that is a certain place inside you, accessible by choice.

10. Look to yourself for happiness – It is not going to come from someone else. 

Not the soul mate, career changer, guru or family member who finally stops nagging you on the holidays. 

All these people can be appreciated but are not IT.

11. Get moving! Don’t think I have to tell you this one :)

12. Believe you are ready now. This is a great one to practice every day. I’m not saying you are ready to go in and perform open heart surgery without med school training, but probably there are things you are STILL putting off because you don’t think you’re ready when in reality, you ARE. 

13. Get involved in healthy relationships for the right reason. If you are looking for someone to save, fix, complete, or solve any emptiness in your heart that is NOT the right reason to be with someone! 

If you are looking for someone with whom to share your happiness, love, abundance, pleasure, joy and various highs/lows of life’s journey while maintaining your own sense of self, that is the RIGHT reason to be with someone! :drops the mic:

14. Be open to new relationships even if old ones didn’t work. 

Any previous relationships are just driftwood, lily pads, stepping stones, a little piece of patchwork on the soccer ball of life. 

Be thankful for every moment.

15. Compete with yourself. 

You will save a lot of energy if you only seek to be YOUR BEST SELF every moment of every  day.

16. Be inspired instead of green eyed. If someone else is manifesting their greatness, let that be a source of inspiration  and motivation. 

If jealousy grabs you by the you know what, notice it and then make a shift. Life is too short to be bitter.

17. Get off the pity pot. Self pity and complaints, as far as I am concerned, are the like kryptonite on steroids. 

They suck energy and then, worse, attract the kind of people who like to join the pity party, so all that’s being created is an energy ball of negativity. 

Walk away from that behavior and anybody who brings it out in you.

18. Let go of grudges. Sometimes it’s fun to make a list of all the people you are still pissed at and why, then see that most if not all of it is ridiculous. 

19. Rise to the level you deserve. Not everybody shares the same standards and this can be difficult to accept. 

When you begin to dictate to yourself what you need and what you are worth, you will attract the people who appreciate your value.

20. Follow your heart. No need to explain yourself and your choices to other people. Just be you.

21. Give yourself a break! I know this one is also hard for us pound the pavement :) 

But, we all know that we are human beings not human doings, so attempts to go-go-go without a break will lead to a loss of perspective. Breathe.

22. See the beauty of the small moments. Last night I was walking home and within 5 seconds saw a rat and cockroach on the street. 

And I swear, I had this moment where I smiled and said, Ahh, NYC. Thanks for being true to you. 

And THAT is what it is about. NYC will always have rats and roaches, it is what it is and if you can find the beauty in that rightness, you can find the beauty in anything.

23. Accept your imperfections. The world is full of flaws and so are you, truly. It makes you exquisite.

24. Be extraordinary. There are no shortcuts on the path to extraordinary.

25. Be real. If it’s not fine, don’t say it is. If it’s not okay, don’t say it is. 

If you don’t feel good, don’t fake it! Be real, be real, be real.

26. Take responsibility. I will quote the article directly “The extent to which you can achieve your dreams depends on the extent to which you take responsibility for our life. 

 When you blame others for what you’re going through, you deny responsibility – you give others power over that part of your life.”

27. Keep your focus on the important people who matter. This is about letting go of being all over the place or “trying to be all things to all people.”

 Just keep the focus on your commitments and people in your circles of choice.


28. Chill out. Worry is like praying for what you don’t want. Worry is a rocking chair that goes back and forth and back and forth and gets you nowhere. 

Worry is a wart on the face of hope. ENTER YOUR FAVORITE SLOGAN HERE. 

29. Focus on what you WANT to happen. You have energy and you have a brain. You can spend your energy projecting negative outcomes OR you can put your focus on what you WANT to happen.

 You can visualize it to the extent that it feels real, the details, the people, all of it. It is just a choice of where you want to put your attention.

30. BE GRATEFUL. Super duper closer here! Every day I email 10 things I am grateful for and I swear it’s helped me orient myself towards appreciation.

 There are so many reasons to be grateful and when you call up your gratitude, your heart opens, you soften, you become more of who you really are AND into your lap will fall even more things to appreciate.

And finally, eat more apples. That’s my addition. Because apples are awesome.

Source:Projecteve 

This great article floating around the internet called 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself by Marc Chernoff.

 A lists of 30 habits of thought and action that suck your energy and leave you feeling unfulfilled.

Develop Profitable And Money Making Ideas Now

It isn't the billions of ideas that pop up the minds of humans around the globe that makes money. Very few ideas are worth the time it took for the thought. 

 Most ideas are fleeting 'sparks' that go no place and are forgotten before the next day.  

Of the ideas that are very good, very few are followed up and ever end up as a worthwhile development in the market place. 

Most people are just not oriented to do anything about their ideas, while others believe it would take too much of their time or leave them open to others taking advantage of their original idea and benefiting themselves. 

The situation is wide open for the person who can’ create' profitable ideas, and then invest some time and money in following through the idea to completion.

There are three major formats you can use to create profitable ideas:

1. Find something that already exists, the presence of which has never been known before.

2. Invent something. Most inventions are merely new arrangements of things that have already been invented.

3. Alter or improve in any number of different ways something that already exists.

As you create ideas, write them down. What you dream of can be your key to great wealth. 

Keep your mind opens as you go through each day. What did you notice in the department store that would reduce costs, save money or increase sales if some simple procedure were added or something changed?

Ideas for improvements are one of the most valuable things you can contribute to society and at the same time add to your bank account. 

To create ideas for improvements, consider every possibility and alternative for the things you want to improve.

Learn to create ideas by evaluating all the different aspects of the products, method or concept you are interested in.

 Put your imagination and subconscious to work and write down your thoughts pertaining to each of the things you expect to improve.

 Use the New Wealth, 'Idea Format' that follows as your guide for creating Money-Making improvements.

Idea Format: list the things you want to improve:

Why should it be improved?

Who will benefit from the improvement?

What is wrong with it at the present time?

Did someone else cause a problem with it?

How do you propose to improve it?

Do you have the facilities to do the work?

Do you have the ability to do the work to improve?

Exactly what part needs to be improved?

Should it be smaller or larger?

Should the Color be different?

Would more activity help make it better?

Could it be combined with something else to make it more practical?

Would a different basic material work better?

Is it too complicated, could it be simplified?

Would a substitute be more meaningful?

Is it priced too high?

Would a change in personnel help the situation?

Can the shape be changed to advantage?

Can a new marketing plan make the difference?

Is it safe?

Can it be mass produced to cut unit cost?

Should the appearance be changed - streamlined?

Is there an adequate guarantee?

What can make it appeal to a bigger audience?

Would new packaging or trade name enhance it?

Can it be made heavier, lighter, higher, lower?

Can it be franchised?

Is there a good maintenance program to back it?

Can financing be simplified?

List ways to increase production.

List ways to increase sales.

List ways to reduce costs.

List ways to increase efficiency

List ways to improve quality and increase profits

What can be done with it to satisfy more people?

This new wealth idea format will start the ideas sparking and as related ideas come to mind write

them down in every variation you can think of. 

Do not judge the good or bad points of the ideas as they materialize to you, just write them down and

judge them afterwards. 

You will stop the flow of ideas if you are critical of your thoughts before you put them down on paper.

When you have answered everything you can about the product or concept and know how it fits in with your plans, sit down and evaluate all the details you have written.

After you have found or created a good idea, follow it up with questions on what should be your next move in order to do something about it, then act. Get it moving. 

Expose it to the world with sufficient tests to determine the value.

Come up with ideas that are still in the processing stage rather than get stuck on several vague points that may be worked out later as your subconscious goes to work. 

If your idea fails, so what; you are just that much closer to finalizing another one, then another, until a useful more valuable idea is born.

 Every manufacturing plant, retailer, attorney, accountant, every business person large or small cannot continue to operate in the competitive world of today without someone in the organization constantly coming up with new and better ideas.

Old ideas drop by the wayside as new ideas take their place. Old companies without new ideas fade away. 

Those who learn and know how to create ideas and anticipate the changes needed, as the future evolves, have the opportunity to be a great success with big money-making potential.

Another tool you can use to help dream up that million dollar idea, is to spend several minutes each evening, relaxed with your eyes closed. 

Pick any object that comes to mind and try to change it in your mind's eye. Change it in every manner you can think of to improve it.

The following evening pick another subject or object and repeat the process. Soon you will be using 20% of your brain power instead of the 10% normally used by the average person. As your

knowledge and brain power increase so will your bank account.

Just think what we could accomplish if we could get the other 80% of our brain power working. 


On second thoughts; let's not try to get 100%

efficiency out of your human computer: we would probably blow up the world for sure.

Protecting your idea.

When you have come up with a good idea, write a full description of it and make a sketch if necessary. 

Place the written information, the sketch and any other pertinent facts or documents. Of course if your product has a properly registered trade mark, has been copyrighted, or you have a patent you are protected from infringement.

A few idea sparks.

When you come up with an idea, program or product that is so superior in style or performance that it is unbelievable you may need a notarized statement to assure your customer you are offering an honest deal.

Make a habit of examining each piece of correspondence you receive, taking care of it right at the time, do what is necessary right then.

 Never put it aside to be handled a second time if at all practical. This can save more time than anything else for an executive who handles a large amount of correspondence and mail. 

You can also save many more hours each week but doing several of the most important things that need to be done each day before you take up other, time consuming important details.

Another good way to spark ideas is to go through the classified and wanted ads in the newspapers.

Also the yellow pages of your telephone directory.

As you read, think of something that would be of value to the company or person, or enhance the item you are reading about.

In summary, learn to develop ideas from observing everyday things and details. Think of what could make something better. 

Dwell on things that have a large marketing audience, something that everyone needs and wants. 

Write your idea down.

Put a pencil and pad on your bedside table. 

When you remember a good dream, don't just lie there, by morning you will forget it; jot it down on the pad. You will be surprised what you can dream up.

Maybe the million pound idea will magically appear on your pad tomorrow morning. 

Have a great time.

10 Low Cost Agriculture Business Ideas To Try

1. Urban Agriculture or Crop Cultivation
Urban agriculture is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in, or around, a village, town or city. Urban agriculture in addition can also involve animal husbandry, aquaculture, agro forestry and horticulture. Urban agriculture contributes to food security and food safety in two ways.

  First it increases the amount of food available to people living in cities and secondly, it allows fresh vegetables and fruits and meat products to be made available to urban consumers.
Urban  agriculture is generally seen as sustainable agriculture.
2. Start Selling Fresh Fruits
Without any doubt, this is a business that should be checked out.
With a little professionalism and good public appearance or hygiene, you can make money in this business because a lot of people who live in most of our highbrow area, like to eat fresh fruits especially if it is neat.
 Some people even prefer it served chilled.
So if you have blenders and an extractor, then you are bound to make a lot of money. A lot of people are tired of all these artificial juices in the market and I bet they will pay and still thank you for giving them the natural source of vitamins which is needed in this age of fast foods and artificial flavors.

3.  Rabbit Rearing
There is no law prohibiting the keeping of rabbits in Towns and Cities.
A backyard can serve as a good source of additional income, food and employment; thus reducing poverty, hunger and idleness. Rabbit do not compete with humans for food, as kitchen leftovers, cut grasses and formulated or compounded feed can sustain them.
Rabbit keeping does not require much capital for investment and maintenance.
As little space is needed, most rabbits could be kept in the backyard or in the abandoned sheds.
4. Foodstuff Retailing or Grocery Service
In today’s busy and sophisticated world, convenience has become a real business opportunity.
 Foodstuff like rice, beans yams plantain, potatoes, onions, pepper, oil etc.
These items can bought in bulk, cleaned and packaged in specific portions and sold direct to end users.
Many people who are unable to find time to shop will be relieved to know that they can just make a phone call and the groceries are delivered.
Get a list of people you know who may patronize you. If you can get them to pay up-front, then you are better up with cash flow.
5. Fish Farming
Over the years, quite a few people have made fortunes from fish farming, as the population is swelling and protein needs are far outstripping the available supply. Food is always a winner in any country or environment if done well. Fish farming is a sure bet business if you put the right structures in place. More and more people are turning to fish for its low cholesterol protein.
 All you need to do is to get a space, buy or construct tanks, buy finger links for between N50 to N100 and feed them for 4 to 6 months, then sell from between N700 to N1,500 depending on weight and size. The breed of fish to train is your choice to make. You can choose to specialize on Catfish, Tilapia, etc.
6. Herbs, Flowers Framing and Gardening
Walking through a grocery store, a herb store, a health food store and even in gardening sections of home centers, you will find herbs in their dry forms to be used by consumers.
 Using the right equipment in your home garage or shed or by building a green house, you can start and raise both herbs and plants to resell to larger outlets and to the consumer as well.
Plants are the basis for all landscapes, homes, gardens and even for brightening offices. You will pay pennies for packets of seeds and make way more when selling starter plants. The more space you have, the better you are going to do.
If you really have the space in your landscape and outdoor garden, creating gardens where you will grow plants and drying them out will add so much to your inventory and you can make great amounts of money selling dried flowers to retailers, wholesalers and even to flower shops themselves.
7. Livestock Feed Production
The production process is not so difficult. The ingredients required are mainly, maize, soya beans, fish bone, sorghum, groundnut, blood meal, wheat, rice shaft, additives etc. All these can be sourced from the market, any animal consult outlet, or any agricultural product shop around.
8. Setup a Small Poultry Farm
Technology has enabled many to operate profitable poultry, yet make it free of odor that a neighbor next door will not know you operate a poultry farm.
This is a business you can start from one room, car park or from that abandoned property near you with 50 to 500 birds.
9. Mushroom Farming
Mushrooms are natural phenomenon that can give you much money.
The untapped potential of these fungi is so much that if you invest on the venture, your room can no longer be your bank. Mushrooms are rich in vitamins, protein and minerals; they are favored over meat or even fish by some people, considering the nutritional value and superior health implications.
There are two main broad categories of mushrooms; the edible and the non-edible (which is poisonous). The deliberate mushroom cultivation is therefore essential to eliminate the imminent threat of mistakenly gathering the dangerous type.
The start-up requirement are mushroom shed or house, sawdust, Polythene bags, Spawns/mushrooms seeds, Urea/nitrogen fertilizer, Lime, water, ceiling machine, weighing scale, extra hands, Refrigerator.
10.  Basket and Broom Production
Baskets are used for packaging agricultural product such as Okra, bitter kola, tomatoes, pepper, onions, oranges etc. Since baskets are produced in various sizes, they help the farmers to grade his brands of product for easy pricing. Our concern here is how to convert palm front and leaves to finished product for economic and commercial gains. Should you need further help on these ideas, contact me.

Vuvaa And How It Works

This Platform is specifically built for making instant payments and collections for merchants which will address the issues that usually come up in processing payments and receiving collections from many payers through any bank.

It is specifically built for making instant payments and collections for merchants which will address the issues that usually come up in processing payments and receiving collections from many payers through any bank. 

Vuvaa is an online platform for making and receiving payments for merchants. 

 This platform will serve as bridge between various merchants and consumer of goods and services. It has also been designed and developed to address the issue of CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) cashless society policy.

What kind of merchants can use Vuvaa for collection? 

It is specifically built for making instant payments and collections for merchants which will address the issues that usually come up in processing payments and receiving collections from many payers through any bank. 

Merchants that can use Vuvaa for collection includes the following:

• Schools
• Churches
• Government (for payment of taxes)
• Insurance firms
• Travel agencies
  
  
• Hotels
• Courier services
• Third party online stores E.T.C    

 Your organization will be registered and signed up on Vuvaa platform as a merchant.

 Vuvaa [COLLECTION] is anchored on major payment switches/gateway in Nigeria. Vuvaa [COLLECTION] has been integrated to Interswitch, eTranzact, and VISA platforms on the Web. 

It has also been integrated to NIBSS and eTranzact Fundgate/Mobile Money Platform (PocketMoni) on Instant Payment service (Account to Account transfer). 

Thus your organization will be able to make collections such as school fees via the Web, ATM and POS on the platform. 

This feature allows you to send cash from your vuvaa account to another vuvaa account. It requires MAGIC PIN authentication, which will be sent to your mobile phone via SMS to complete the transaction. All SMS are charged at vuvaa standard rates.

Collection can also be done at Bank branches through Account to Account transfer on NIBSS/eTranzact platform.

Vuvaa is a web-based Payment System that is complemented with an Instant Electronic Money Transfer platform [anchored on major payment gateway and settlement system], which enables you to do a stress-free, error-free payment [including salary administration] as well as payments to suppliers, contractors and other types of beneficiaries.

You can subscribe to Vuvaa for making payments by Clicking here.

Login in to your email account and activate your VUVAA account

Once you login to VUVAA for you to do any transaction, you must recharge your VUVAA account using your ATM card.

Once your VUVAA account is funded you can do any purchase on the platform, Vuvaa can function as a Self Service Application. Cost of Integration is free. 

However, transaction cost for the use of Vuvaa for Collection on the Web, ATM and POS is very flexible and competitive. 

How secure is the Vuvaa platform?

Vuvaa platform is protected by the following security features:

Encryption: VeriSign Secure Site Pro Extended Validation (EV).

Up to 256-bit encryption with 128-bit minimum enables strong encryption for transactions.

Vulnerability assessment and daily Web site malware scanning.

Strong Authentication and encryption enforced, Role-Based access control, Transaction Based Tokens

Audit trail and journaling.

You have exclusive rights to your bank details. You will keep confidential all security-related information such as passwords, Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) and Second Factor Authentication Token.

 Please, note that Access Solutions Limited, banks, their affiliates and service providers will never request you to divulge any of this information by phone, mail or any other means. 

You are obliged to report any representation to the contrary to Access solutions Limited and your bank promptly.

What kinds of payments can be made with Vuvaa?

Any form of fund transfer from Vuvaa account to another bank account and one bank account to another bank account domiciled in Nigeria.

 These include all forms of payments such as salaries, bills, bonuses, vendors and contractors, loans etc.

Vuvaa works with any Nigerian bank of your choice. Click here to join today.

How To Receive Mobile Payments Worldwide With Paygol SMS Micro Payments

Accepting micro payments by SMS mobile phones is the easiest way for you grow your business without any significant marketing investment and with easy development.

Time to time we can offer a better Percentage % for the SMS payments.

Create revenue-generating SMS micro payment services

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We provide you with professional analytics tools to track and optimize all your SMS transactions.

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We also provide several modules for any kind of web sites and you can use for free.

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That’s a huge number of people who is willing to pay using their mobile phones.

In most countries we can cover all carriers with different prices you can charge your customers.

You can select the end-user price that works best for your product or service.

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Join Apsense Business Social Network For Free Traffic

APSense is a business social network where people come together to share their business through networking, exploring and creating quality business content. 

There are also tools to help you connect with potential partners and contributors to your business building. 

Build Your Own Private Social Network. You can start building your own social network by simply inviting your friends to APSense.

 Friends who you personally invite will automatically be placed into your network. 

In addition when the friends in your network invite their friends they will also be placed in your network.

Build Your Contacts.
 There are thousands and eventually millions of people in APSense that you can easily meet and stay connected with.

 When you see someone you would like to get in touch with, simply add them to your contact list.

 You can send and receive messages to and from your contacts at anytime. Join Business Interest Groups. Joining a group it is a great way to network with people that have similar interests. 

Find the group you are interested in joining, get to know the group members and participate in new group discussions every day!

Exploring

Explore Articles. Valuable business related contents are added regularly! 

Our articles directory includes categories like business how to's, business news, marketing tips, success stories, search engine marketing and much much more. Explore, discover and learn!

Explore Group Discussions. Visit our Groups area to explore valuable discussions on today's most popular business issues. 

The most popular discussions are easily spotted as they are listed earlier in the search results and browse directories.

Explore RevPages. These are pages where members have reviewed their own or other business sites. 

Again they are arranged in many different categories, so there will be many to select and explore.

Explore Talents. Members have offered their services in the Talents area. Explore them to find if there are any talents that will meet the needs of your business.

Creating

Create Your Own Articles. Create your own article and share them with the APSense community. 

If users like it and it becomes popular, your contents will be listed on our hot contents areas such as our home page, newsletters and article directory.

 Your articles can be anything from success stories to business how to's. 

Take advantage of the new Page Tour tool and help your readers interact with your articles (and other content).

Create Your Own Business Discussions. Build your own group or join an existing group, in any case you can start your own group subject discussions. 

Join in the conversation by exploring and sharing your opinions with other users. Create Partnerships and Outsourced jobs. Use the News Feed to update when you have a Special Offer, Joint Venture or outsourced job available to help your business grow and prosper.

Add On Services

APSense has several extra services that will help to build your business. They include Business Centers, promotional tools and other useful services. Check the Add Ons for more information. 

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The Business Social Network For Free Taffic

APSense founders understand that Social Networks have become the driving force behind the future of the internet. 

Along with websites like Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin and Blogger.

 APSense has provided a home for people to connect with each other. 



Many businesses, both large and small have recognized the power of these social networks and are increasingly using them in their marketing strategies. 

Experts forecast that more of these businesses will take advantage of this growth. 

 Combine together the rise of social networks and the promise of growth for many different types of business, APSense was born and grew to accommodate Business Social Networking. 

APSense in a Nutshell

APSense is a business social network where people come together to share their businesses. Imagine a place where you have all the tools you need to help your business grow. 

We enable users to share their business through networking, exploring and creating quality business content. 

The development of new networks and constant exchange of information is happening everyday at APSense. We are changing the way people build their businesses while making money online.

Meet Other Business Individuals

In its purest nature APSense is a web 2.0 enabled social network. We promote the exchange of business networks by providing tools for users to easily communicate (Articles and RevPages), create interest groups (Groups) and even build their own private social network (Connections). 

There are also Add-Ons that can be used to promote and add value to your business marketing strategies. 

Ultimately our goal is to make it simple for you to connect with other business individuals for activities such as marketing, promotion, joint ventures and outsourcing.

Explore Valuable Business Contents

All contents on APSense, from articles to discussions to product and service listings are collectively rated by the users(that would be you).

 Top rated contents are pushed to the top of our content listings so you can find the most popular and trusted business information quickly. 

So if you are looking for valuable business information online to help you build your business, don't waste time searching for it anywhere else!

Create Your Own Business Contents

While all types of contents on APSense are being viewed and rated by the users, these same type of contents can also be created by you. Why create your own contents?

 Everyday millions of people are searching for contents related to your business by using search engines and web 2.0 enabled websites like APSense. 

So by creating your contents on APSense, you are enabling millions of people to find contents about your business.

 For us, content is your business interests, your products & services, your business experiences, and anything else you would like to share about you and your business. 

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10 Survival Tactics Small Business Owners Must Know

1. You must know how to sell.
Too many people decide to hang their shingle out only to learn they don’t know a thing about sales. Entrepreneurs must be diligent at developing the self-confidence, attitude,  discipline, and perseverance to ask people to hand over their hard-earned money for a service of value.

2. You must live the ‘publish or perish’ mentality.
Write articles for trade publications and membership newsletters. Here are generated content helpful for credibility.

 3. You must be willing to speak in public. You were brave enough to launch a small business. There’s no time for being shy or nervous. Partner with a networking group to be the guest expert at a meeting, conference, or webinar. You’ll be front and center with dozens of potential prospects interested in your topic. Beats cold-calling.

4. You must be able to validate others.
Validation is an acknowledgement that the other person (your prospect or client) is being heard.Validation is proof that you are listening. For example: “I can imagine that the loss of your vendor has been difficult.”

 5. You must know how to ask for what you need.  No one expects you to know everything.
That’s why there are contact lists, databases filled with names of people who can provide products and services to you. Get rid of this self-induced pressure and be willing to speak up. Asking for help is a sign of a true leader.

6. You must be able to identify your ideal customers. This is accomplished by self-communication.
Ask yourself: Who do I enjoy working with? What niche am I passionate about? Who needs my expertise? Do these people have the budget or resources to pay me?

7. You must have thick skin. People can be awfully mean. They say crap that’s not helpful or positive. Entrepreneurs are so fully vested in their own businesses that it’s hard not to take things personally. Don’t take the BS to heart.

8. You must communicate patience when educating people.
Clients do business with you because you offer a valuable product or service that they want or need. You, on the other hand, are entrenched in your niche or business and will have to slow down to educate those who don’t know all the ins and outs like you do.


9. You must develop charisma. Charisma is that special charm or personality trait that draws people to you. Self-confidence, along with a friendly and easy demeanor, will take you a long way in business.

10. You must be willing to reinvent yourself. Chances are you are planning to be self-employed for a long time. Businesses and people change. The very and only thing that remains permanent is change. It’s a given. How can you effectively communicate changes in your messages and direction, without alienating people? 

Cheers to the brave small business owners around the world! All the very best. Stay safe and healthy.

12 Quotes For Every Entrepreneur

1. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” Mary Kay Ash, founder Mary Kay Cosmetics

2. “Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.” Barbara Walters, broadcast journalist and author

3. “What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best — which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.”Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Bakeries
 
4. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Maya Angelou,author and poet

5. “Hope is a thing with feathers / That perches in the soul, / And sings the tune without words / And never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson, poet

6. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” Maya Angelou, author and poet (This may be a prohibited language on some platforms, but it is reality!

7. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady

8. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin, author

9. “Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozey, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.”Billie Jean King, former professional tennis player

10. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. ” Margaret Fuller, American journalist, critic, and women’s rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement

11. Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.” Oprah Winfrey

12. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill 
 I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby

Have a wonderful day. 

5 Easy Ways To Create And Maintain Effective Business Relationships

How do you create good business relationship with your associates, customers, suppliers and investors? If you are interested in learning how to create effective business relationships; then please read on.

 Relationships of all kinds are often perceived as very delicate things that require extra effort to maintain. However, a relationship can also be something that can provide security and can also be long lasting despite many trials.

Building effective and lasting relationships in business is a necessity for several reasons. For example, in a group or business organization; the well being of the people depends on how efficient and effective that group or organization works.

 The group or organization is also dependent on how the members work well with the management. Building business relationships is a role every entrepreneur has to play to remain relevant in business and the society at large.

 Business relationship is not just about the customers, investors, employees and suppliers; it also involves the society at large. That’s why we have the term “Corporate Social Responsibility” in the business world.

Society is defined as a web of relationships, which requires all parties to work and contribute their share in order to achieve a common goal.

 Having a relationship that is good; where cooperation and respect are manifested, can make society work better. In this way each member works for the good of the whole and towards achieving a common goal.

This can only be attained with effective and efficient relationships. Now how do you go about creating such business relationship?

1. Understanding

Understanding is the fundamental key to creating a good relationship in business. Understanding the other parties’ feeling and position creates an effective and efficient relationship.

The easiest method to understand what is important to another party is to ask them what they want and listen to what they have to say. 

When the other party realizes this, they would feel the importance given to them. Effective and efficient relationships require parties to openly express their feelings and positions on all matters pertinent on the relationship. 

Assuming that the other party understands our needs and should give us when we need it without asking for it is not a good practice.

2. Respect Others

Respect is the key to relationship. In order to create a more effective relationship, both the customers, business owner, employees and investors should treat each other with respect. 

You can show respect just by listening to the other party and by trying sincerely to understand how they function.

You can also show respect to other parties by confirming that they are doing everything they can. The opposite of respect is quick forming of judgments based on unfounded facts and prejudice. Respect is the very foundation for a great relationship. This also means respecting yourself and respecting others.

3. Be Open

Another key area in forming an effective relationship is to tackle differences of the other party directly. Differences between parties or people are quite interesting. 

For example in a conversation where each party listens to the other party, you may observe that each is having two different perspectives. To build a stronger relationship, you must be open. Don’t go brooding over misunderstandings; let it out.

4. Work towards a win-win solution

This can be done when at least one party acknowledges that the relationship is important. That party would then exert more time, effort and energy to understand the other party’s needs and deal with it to get it out of the way. Should they fail, it is comforting for that party to know that they tried.

5. Effectively listening and no pre-judging

This is important if parties are to understand each other. Informal discussions are conducive for parties. They bring out issues and concerns comfortably. They also feel more relaxed making them think more clearly.

 Developing an atmosphere where the other party can express their feelings when they need to is also important. When parties fail to express whatever is on their mind or their feelings, it can get in the way of building an effective relationship. 

You should be aware that certain things exist naturally but should be controlled in any dealings in any relationship. Human nature is one.

 Some of these things found in a relationship also include a history of stereotyping or mistrust, blaming the other person or party for a strained relationship, excluding the other party’s feelings when focusing on a task, no clear and defined objectives, roles and expectations of each party in a relationship is also unclear.

Relationships are important to anyone, addressing issues and problems right away is a must to further improve the relationship. As they say ‘No man is an Island.‘

Have a wonderful day.

How To Boost Online Businesses With Keywords

You already know once you identify the best keywords and keyword phrases relating to your business. it's important to use them in your promotional and marketing activities as well as on your website itself. 

There are a number of relatively simple ways to do this.

First, you can write articles about topics relating to your business (making sure to include the appropriate keyword phrases within the article text), and submit them to publication directories like Ezine Articles (www.ezinearticles.com) and GoArticles (www.goarticles.com) etc. This can be a great way to get additional exposure for your website, because these kinds of websites get very large amounts of traffic every day.

Be careful, though.  If you’ve already published an article on your own website, you shouldn’t spend any time submitting the same article to a publication directory. Internet search engines ignore “duplicate content” from or linked to a particular website.

 You can always rewrite, modify or update your previously-published articles, of course, and as long as they are sufficiently different from the original, they will help your search engine ranking. One key part of the submission process is that you can upload a short biography of yourself to go along with the article itself. 

 In this biography, you can include a couple of links directly to your website. One of your links will likely point directly to the webpage that you want the reader to go to immediately after they read your article. 

Make sure that when you first create your user profile on the article directory site, you add a professional-looking picture of yourself if that option is available.

Having this picture included in your biography at the end of the article can go a long way to creating a more personal relationship between you and your prospective customers. 

 A picture also draws attention to the biography, which makes it more likely that a prospect will click on one of your links (which is ultimately the entire purpose of submitting the article to the directory). Another great way to use your keyword phrases is by associating them with online videos.

Online video is rapidly becoming one of the most effective ways of business promotion. Take a little time to create a simple video that somehow relates to your business, or to your market niche.

  One popular format is the “how to” video – depending on how much time you’re able to spend, you could also do a series of “how to” videos to keep drawing in potential customers. Your goal is to upload these videos onto popular sites like YouTube (www.youtube.com) and MetaCafe (www.metacafe.com), and as part of this process, you’ll need to come up with a title, description, and list of tags for each video.  

Not surprisingly, the title, description and tags will all be based upon (or contain) the keyword terms and phrases that you’re targeting. 

 You can also use free tools like TubeMogul (www.tubemogul.com), which is a bulk video uploader, to make sure you’re getting the widest distribution and viewership as possible.

Once you get into the habit of preparing and distributing promotional articles and videos that use your target keywords, you’ll find it much easier to do so on a regular basis. 

This will lead to an increase in the targeted traffic that comes to your site, which in turn will boost your website’s bottom line.

Have a wonderful day.

What Are Keywords?

Once you’ve decided to start your own online business, you’ll first want to get a firm grasp on how your potential customers use the Internet.

In particular, you’ll need to learn what exactly they use the Internet for.

It would certainly be great for your company if every person who logged on was doing so because they had their credit cards in hand, and were looking to buy precisely the kinds of products and services you offer services.  But of course this isn’t the case.

Rather, most people use the Internet to get information.

 That search for information often takes the form of trying to answer questions that these individuals have been unable to find answers for elsewhere.

So how do people tend to go about finding answers to their questions?

 As you might guess, these days most Internet users tend to rely upon search engines like Google, Bing (Microsoft’s search engine) and Yahoo.  

While most Internet users will have heard of (and probably used) at least one of these three search engines, there are also hundreds of other search engines available.

However, those other search engines generate far less traffic than the big three (Google alone garners over 2/3 of the Internet search traffic), so we’ll focus our attention on the big ones.

As you probably know, a person uses a search engine like Google by typing a word or phrase into the search box.

 This specific word or phrase is the key to your business success, because the word or phrase indicates exactly what that person is looking for.

Let’s say, for example, that the individual is interested in losing weight.  If they type the phrase “weight loss” into Google, the search results page will provide two things, paid and organic search results.  Go ahead and Google “weight loss.”

Notice the yellow box at the top of the page, and the narrow column that runs down the right side of the page.

 These are paid search results – companies have paid Google to have their text (and links to their company websites) displayed whenever someone searches on the term “weight loss”.

Not surprisingly, you can see that these companies appear to be selling weight loss and diet products and services.

The majority of the page displays the so-called “organic” or search results.  This means that the Google search engine determined these web pages to be most naturally (or “organically”) related to the phrase “weight loss”.

The phrase “weight loss” is what we refer to as a “keyword term”.

You can see the importance of the keyword term by the fact that the phrase “weight loss” is highlighted throughout both the organic search results and the paid search results.

In order to maximize your business opportunities, you’ll need to research and identify the terms and phrases that potential customers will use when they look for the kinds of products and services you’re selling.

After identifying those keywords, you could certainly launch a paid advertising campaign like the ones in the screenshot above.  This would be an easy way of driving lots of relevant traffic to your website, right?  

Unfortunately, because of the level of competition for the attention of prospective customers, it’s very easy for beginning advertisers (and even some advertisers with more experience) to end up spending a lot of money but have very little to show for it.

New web business owners will probably want to wait to do paid advertising until they are more firmly established, and instead focus on getting the best organic search results placement for their website.

 You can do this by using keyword research skills and optimizing your website accordingly.
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