Hey business owners how safe is your income or what happens if you get injured and can t work

Hey Business Owners - How Safe Is Your Income Or What Happens If You Get Injured And Can't Work

When your income is dependent on your availability, your income is never fully safe. Your wealth is threatened. Your happiness is threatened.

Just like there is no such thing as job security for an employee, there is no such thing as income security for an owner/operator.

This thought was driven home to me recently while I listened to an acquaintances story. He gave me a perfect example of the threat business owners face when they ARE the business. He granted me permis...

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When your income is dependent on your availability, your income is never fully safe. Your wealth is threatened. Your happiness is threatened.

Just like there is no such thing as job security for an employee, there is no such thing as income security for an owner/operator.

This thought was driven home to me recently while I listened to an acquaintances story. He gave me a perfect example of the threat business owners face when they ARE the business. He granted me permission
to share his story with you.

Gary owned a remodeling company.

He met with leads, priced and sold the work, did the carpentry, oversaw the subs, sent out the invoices, and paid the bills. He was a typical owner/operator.

He loved the work. His two employees were easy to manage. He was his own boss. He set his own hours. His two employees were easy to manage. He didnt have to worry about someone disappointing his client or costing him money because he controlled everything.

Gary had a thriving business going. His superior craftsmanship and hands-on customer service earned him a great reputation and produced a flood of referrals.

Gary was purposely staying small. He didnt want the headaches of finding and managing workers and trusting their ability to meet his expectations. He was at his maximum work load and was quite happy about it.

He and his wife enjoyed a very comfortable lifestyle that had no end in sight.

Ah, but life never is that easy is it?

Gary fell off of a roof, spent several weeks in a hospital and couldnt work for a year.

His business couldnt function without his hands-on involvement. He lost his only source of income - and he lost everything else. Gary was forced to declare bankruptcy.

That is the ultimate threat to the owner/operator. Complete financial destruction.

Unless your company can run itself, your financial security is ALWAYS at risk. ALWAYS.

Think of this newsletter as your personal hurricane warning system. The hurricane may miss you or it may hit you. At this point, neither one of us knows which course its going to run.

This weeks email is not meant to be an attempt to frighten you. Its an attempt to open your eyes to a threat that you may never have sufficiently
considered. The need to build a business that is self-managing.

Do you have a choice? Yes.

Is it a painful choice? It can be.

Is it an easy journey? Not for most.

What choice should you make? Thats up to you.

Allow me a moment to show you what a self-managing business looks like.

A self-managing business is one in which your daily involvement is not needed; one where your marketing system creates good leads; one where your sales staff meets with prospects, qualifies their fit to your business, and closes deals at attractive prices; and one where your operations team gets the work installed per budget and schedule.

Its a business that you can monitor from out-of-state (or in a hospital bed) via computer, fax machine, and telephone. Its a business that continues to spin off cash whether you are there or not. Now, thats a
self-managed business.

There is a famous Warren Buffett quote in which he describes the type of business investors should look for, "You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will." Warren was describing a business that is so strong, it doesnt need superior leadership to keep the profits flowing. Thats the type of business that gives its owners income protection.

Now, there has been much ink spilled over how to create such a business, the most common advice being "install systems". Well, the easiest way to do that is to perfect them yourself then teach someone else how to do perform them.

Heres the basic sequence for building your business:

1st step: Perfect your lead generation process.

2nd step: Perfect your selling approach.

3rd step: Perfect your method for getting the work done.

4th step: Bring in foremen and teach them how to produce the work.

5th step: Bring in a salesman, teach him how to sell, and pay him for profitable sales.

6th step: Bring in an operations manager / estimator to run the work.

7th step: Put in place tracking systems to key an eye on EVERYTHING and EVERYONE.

If all the other wonderful benefits of owning a self-managing business fail to inspire you to build one, income protection should be enough incentive for you to put forth the required effort.

 

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This article is a HGH review. HGH supplementation is a confusing arena of advertisers and charlitans. Weed through the mess here and learn some of the differences between the various products.

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If you are at all interested in anti-aging news or nutritional supplements, youve probably heard about hGH or Human Growth Hormone. Although it is important to discuss what HGH is and how it works, the main focus of this article is to review the various types of HGH supplementation. Lets briefly cover the basics.

What Is Growth Hormone?

GH is a hormone released by the pituitary gland. It generally releases the hormone in bursts. GH levels are high during puberty and then fall off. They remain stable during mid-adulthood (the 30s) but then decline progressively through old age. By the time many people reach 60, GH levels are very small. One third of the 60+ adults produce NO GH at all!

What Does It Do?

Why should we care about our GH levels? GH is important in repairing damaged tissue, promoting cell regeneration, enhancing muscle growth, burning fat, and supports healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

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As a potential hermit crab owner, you might be wondering if there is a limit to the number of hermit crabs you can have in a certain amount of space. This is something I first wondered when I started keeping hermit crabs as pets. There is no really easy way to answer that question with exact numbers and measurements. The best number of hermit crabs to have for a certain amount of space all depends on the type of situation you have, space-wise. When deciding how many hermit crabs you can house, you have to consider tank size, personal space, and furnishings.

The first thing you need to consider when you are trying to determine how many hermit crabs you can house is tank size. This is a factor. If you have the minimum 10-gallon aquarium, you are most certainly not going to be able to house as many hermit crabs as a person with a 150-gallon aquarium. The small hermit crab kit cages are most certainly not adequate for one hermit crab to live in comfortably, let alone more than one. A 10-gallon aquarium is the smallest recommended to house a single crab and be able to expand your crab habitat somewhat.

Another thing you must take into consideration when deciding how many hermit crabs you want to buy is the fact that, while hermit crabs are social creatures, they must be able to roam around in their own personal space. Many pet stores have an appropriately sized aquarium for a few hermit crabs, but they have the audacity to jam it full where the hermit crabs are forced to live on top of each other. This is an unacceptable situation for anyone to have, but especially pet stores that are supposed to be humanely housing their stock of animals. You have to take into account if each of your hermit crabs will have enough room to go off on their own for a little while. Each crabbie should be able to have some alone time now and then.

Another thing to consider is that, if you are a keeper of hermit crabs for any length of time, you will inevitably run into a crab that must go through the molting process. You need to make sure that in your hermit crab habitat, there is plenty of room for a safe molting haven. If the hermit crabs do not have the space to molt, they can not molt safely, away from other hermit crabs. Also take into account that if you have quite a few hermit crabs, more than one crab may molt at the same time. You must allow for this. Another thing to think about is whether or not you want a variety of different size crabs.

One last thing to consider when making sure to purchase a home big enough for the amount of hermit crabs you want to buy is to consider the furnishings that must go into the tank with the hermit crabs. Remember, you will have food and water bowls, climbing toys, shelters and other decorations in your tank. In order for your hermit crabs to live comfortably around these things, you must take this into consideration as well. You also want to make sure the hermit crabs have space to take a run as well as the space to maneuver between objects without getting stuck. One more aspect of spacing the furniture is that you need to keep things in the central part of your hermit crab habitat. If you set items near the edge of the habitat, hermit crabs are more prone to escape.

Though there is no set number of hermit crabs per gallon like goldfish have, the biggest thing to remember is to use your best judgment and common sense. Dont allow the hermit crabs to be so crowded that they cannot maneuver around each other or their furnishings. Make sure everyone has a spot to call their own. Just keep the comfort of your hermit crabs in mind when deciding on the number you can care for.

 

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Glendalough State Park is the newest member of the Minnesota State Parks family. Its land was given to the state by a private donor in the 1990s and the lakes on the park acreage were fished privately for nearly a hundred years. No one other than members of the donors family or their guests was allowed to utilize the lakes at Glendalough State Park. As a result, fish sizes and populations in the Glendalough lakes are more representative of historic times than of modern times.

Annie Battle Lake, the largest of the Glendalough Lakes, allows the angler to experience fishing as it was in Minnesota during the 1800s. Motors of any kind are not allowed on the lake. Canoes and rowboats are available for rental at the park office and shore fishing is a pleasure from any location here. Gas powered vehicles are prohibited, as are any type of electronic fish-finding device.

Large bass, panfish, walleye and northern pike abound under the crystal clear waters of Annie Battle Lake because the waters are unpolluted by gas or oil. Catch-and-release regulations and fishing limits are strictly enforced here, maintaining the size and count of the population for generations to come. A small brook connecting Annie Battle Lake to another of the park lakes is waist deep with a sandy bottom, providing excellent wading areas for bass fishing.

The Lave Net Fishery at Blackrock on the Severn Estuary in Wales is the last of its kind in Wales and has also been designated as a heritage fishery. Treacherous tidal waters averaging speeds of 7-8 knots have witnessed generations of fishermen pass along this fishing technique. Less than a dozen lave net fishing licenses are issued by the Welsh government each year, with all belonging to a local association dedicated to preserving this unique method of salmon fishing. The only noticeable difference between modern and historic lave netters are that they now sport waders as opposed to animal skins.

The lave net itself, a Y-shaped structure constructed of wood and a hand-made net, remains unchanged. Anglers wade into the river and either cower, waiting for the salmon to approach him, or watch for the telltale salmon splashes announcing their location. The fisherman can then net the fish before they head to deeper water. This kind of fishing is restricted by law and by the tides. Anglers have about 1.5 hours before low tide to practice their craft when conditions are calm. Their knowledge of the tides and of the area, received from the generation before, serves as their guide.

Kjaerra Laxefiske on the Kjaerrafossen River near Helgeland, Norway dates back to 1388. Ownership of the two heritage fisheries here is marked by the markebol, a medieval unit of measurement. Salmon are caught via the use of ancient fishing tools, while the buildings surrounding the fisheries were restored to medieval timber and stone during the 1950s. Visitors are welcomed to the weekly opening of salmon pots every Thursday where the catch of the week is revealed.

Wherever they are located, heritage fisheries are an important part of the environment and the community. In addition to offering the simple thrill of fishing itself, they provide an opportunity to learn from the past, as well as preserving the present heritage of fishing for future anglers.

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In a previous article, I introduced you to the six systems that control the fate of your construction business. To refresh your memory, they were:

1. Marketing


2. Sales


3. Staffing


4. Planning


5. Tracking


6. Financial Control

In this article, I am going to expand on the seven components that should come together to form your marketing system. Do you remember that the sole purpose of your marketing system is to generate a flood of qualified sales leads?

Whether you cash in on those leads is a sales issue. Do not expect your marketing system to close sales and ring the cash register. Do not expect your estimator to do that either, that's not his job nor is he well suited for selling.

To generate the volume of quality leads your business needs to achieve your sales goals, you need marketing systems for:

1. Generating leads from new customers


2. Generating leads from existing customers


3. Prodding referrals from existing customers.


4. Collecting testimonials.


5. Building relationship with your customers


6. Publicizing your business


7. Developing new advertising pieces.

Lets dive into the seven marketing systems, discuss their purpose, and highlight a few tricks that will make them productive for you.

1. Generating Leads From New Customers.

Here is the mountain all businesses must climb - generating opportunities with new customers. Getting them is really not the problem. Getting them without breaking the bank is the problem.

You cant afford unlimited advertising. You cant afford to hire a large staff of sales personnel to cold call everyone. You need an efficient and effective system for generating new leads.

Here a couple of tips for that.

Get your website up and ready for prime time. It is your most cost effective method for capturing quality leads. You may not be computer oriented, but your customers most assuredly are.

Second tip, copy the successful advertising practices of a best-in-class peer. You will need to contact contractors outside of your city to pull this one off.

Track down the best in the business. Get the owners name. Call them. Youll be amazed how generous non-competitive peers will be if you approach them humbly and with genuine respect of their incredible success.

Every time you put a new lead generating system in place, monitor its effectiveness. Tweak it and monitor the improvement or lack there of. Keep tweaking until you learn the most efficient method for generating the quantity of new customer leads you need to fulfill your sales goals.

2. Generating Leads From Existing Customers.

You need a system for stimulating repeat business. Sam Walton used to say that the first time someone bought, he had a sale. The second time someone bought, he had a customer.

Your easiest sell is to your existing customer.

You need to prompt those repeat sales. If your service is cycles (landscaping, pavement maintenance, painting, roofing, air conditioning) send out reminders when they should be approaching on the date they would need new service.

As a job finishes, ask your client what future projects they are considering. Put the information into your scheduling calendar and start calling them or mailing them prior to that time.

If you have multiple services, send advertisements and coupons that invite them to try the services they havent used yet. If you offer a maintenance service, send educational materials that explain what maintenance should be done...and offer to do it for them.

If you already have a large customer base, expand your services to tap into all the goodwill youve already created. Your existing customer base is the most valuable resource your business has. Learn how to mine new sales from it.

3. Prodding Referrals From Existing Customers.

Word of mouth advertising is the most effective means of generating leads from new customers. What carries more weight with you when deciding whether to buy something or hire someone to perform a service for you?

Advertising?
Exhaustive research?
The recommendation of someone you trust who has previously bought the product or used the service?

Its human nature to take the word of a trusted advisor over all other information. The one thing we all hate is spending money on something that disappoints us. So we take the word of someone who already purchased and wasnt disappointed to avoid regretting our purchase.

Now flip that around. Your customers can be your most effective sales people if you encourage them to.

To stimulate referrals, you need to:

(a) Ask for the referrals.
(b) Make it easy for them - create the referral letter.
(c) Reward them for the referral.

Referrals always work best when your customer contacts their friend on your behalf. Getting the friends name and mentioning that you were referred works nowhere near as well, but it does work better than having no referral.

4. Collecting Testimonials.

Testimonials should be the fuel of your advertising efforts. Testimonials overcome buyer resistance. They have greater influence on buying behavior than almost everything else short of a direct referral.

A process for collecting testimonials should be built into your customer close-out. Typically, if you ask for one it will be granted. Most satisfied customers are happy to provide testimonials, assuming you give them some guidelines.

Store your testimonials in accordance with the benefits they speak to. That way, you will have them ready at hand to prove you will meet your prospects needs when making a sales call or submitting a proposal.

5. Building Relationship With Your Customers.

People buy from, and keep buying from, people they like.

You need a system for maintaining your relationship with your customers. Typically, that means tracking and celebrating their birthday, their spouses birthday, their childrens birthdays, etc.

Send handwritten greeting cards on their special occasions. Send handwritten Thank You cards upon completion of the work. Track their hobbies and send them interesting information as you come across it. Make them think they are never far from your mind and you will have a customer for life.

6. Publicizing Your Business.

Since advertising is so expensive, you need to be set up to take advantage of every opportunity for free publicity.

Local newspapers are often looking for content. Any time something of substance happens in your business you should send it to them as a press release. That would include landing large or high profile contracts and receiving industry awards.

Get to know the business columnists in your area and become a source for quotes. Give interviews to magazine editors and feature writers.

Give presentations to Rotary, Lions, and other clubs. They are always looking for presenters. The subject doesnt matter. They will remember someone representing your firm spreading goodwill among business leaders.

Strike up joint ventures with other businesses that serve your clientele.

All of these efforts need to be organized, scheduled, and assigned to someone. They need to be part of system.

7. Developing New Advertising Pieces.

The development of a new advertising piece should be the result of a well executed design process.

Start off by identifying the market segment you wish to target. Choose the problem(s) you are going to solve. Come up with a killer offer. Round up the appropriate testimonial or three. Then find a graphic artist and copy writer to pull it all together for you.

Do not outsource your advertising decisions to an advertising agency or consultant. They do not know your customers as well as you do. You or a trusted employee should make all final artistic decisions.

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Before releasing the money to print the new piece in quantity, it should be tested for effectiveness in a test run of a small set of prospects. Track your results and modify the headline and offer until you arrive at a combo that produces a significant increase in buyer response. Then roll out the full advertising and start raking in the new sales.

 

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But, how do you get traffic, traffic large enough that could make a small percentage of eventual buyers enough to make a good profit. Many big companies generate traffic of tens of thousands a day and a measly ten to fifteen percent actually buys, but that small percentage is enough to provide them with good business.

Many of these success stories get their traffic from paying others. Yes thats right; you have to spend money to make money. Advertising is the key. The more people that knows that your site exists; the more people would of course go to your site, thats common sense.

While there are many ways that can get you advertising for free, this do not generate the same high volume as those methods that are getting paid. These paid advertisements include advertising schemes by Google and Yahoo.

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Search engines provide information to the millions of users that they have each day. They provide links to many sites that a user may be looking for. If your sites link pop up in the high ranks of the search results page, you get a great chance that they will go to your site. While search engine optimization is a cheaper and low cost way to get your site a high rank, paying for advertisements will ensure that you will be on the top ranks.

When you pay for your advertisements, it is like paying for your traffic. This may sound like not such a good idea, but the payoffs would tell a different story. When you pay for your traffic, you are guaranteed of a consistent traffic flow to your site. You will never go with an empty sales day.

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Ready to learn what you already know?

Grab three or four advertising, direct mail sales letters from your junk mail pile and read them. As you are reading them, see whether the following questions pop into your mind?

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4. What's in it for me?

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They did, didnt they? I hadnt noticed it until it was pointed out to me by a copy writing expert.

If you rely on direct mail or email to promote your construction business, you MUST craft your piece to answer those questions in the order shown.

Those five questions go through every prospects mind whenever you telemarket, direct mail or cold call them.

That is because your prospects defense system is on high alert as soon as they come across your message. They are thinking...

"Im busy. Do you realize how important my time is? If you can solve a problem, I might give you a few more seconds to explain yourself."

When you try to get their attention, you are interrupting their day. Youve got to get their attention quickly and hold on to it.

If you dont address these questions in the right order, you will lose their attention. You will frustrate them. They will throw your letter away, hang up on you, delete your email, erase your voicemail, or have their receptionist send you packing.

Getting them to stay with you until you answer the fourth question is the trick. You cant jump the gun by answering question number four first. It will not work.

Most advertisers makes that mistake. They go right to question #4.

Naturally, your answers to each question must be worded properly. Dont say something like:

"Im Carl the Painter. I paint anything and everything." (Who are you?)

"I want you to hire me for your painting needs." (What do you want?)

Yeah. Thats going to work well.

Listing services is a mistake commonly made by contractors. Look at their web sites. Look at their advertising. Its simply amazing how frequently contractors answer the first three questions by listing their services without ever mentioning a
benefit to the prospect.

Get to the point and get there fast. Tell them why your offer should matter to them. Give them a reason to care and some of the benefits theyll gain and they will keep reading.

"Hey Paul, Carl Friendly here, and I have a quick question for you.

"Do you enjoy painting your house? You know what I mean - repairing the walls, covering the floors, climbing ladders, and cleaning up afterwards? I dont know about you, but I just hate the long hours it takes to keep my house looking good. I know Ive got better things to do with my time. Dont you?

"Wouldnt it be great if you could snap your fingers and make your house look great again? Well, Ive got the next best thing for you. Hire me to do the work for you.

"Ill get the work done quicker, it will look better, and you will be free to spend your time on more enjoyable and valuable activities.

"Call me (866-555-1212) to get your house looking great again while you are out golfing, fishing, or doing whatever you like to do with your free time."

Sounds better, right?

Something else to keep in mind - people buy what they want, not what they need.

People buy things to solve the problems they want solved, not the problems they need solved. Don't try to pitch to a problem they don't care about.

Last but not least, you must understand your prospects frustrations and problems before trying to write copy. Make sure your copy commiserates with them (shares their pain). You know, misery loves company. Its an emotional thing.

 

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My friend Bob called me the other day. He was frantic...
"Albert" he cried, "My computer just crashed. I think it was my hard drive, but I am not sure.
It won't turn on or boot up. It just keeps making this weird sound. I think I lost everything. All my pictures, and
my taxes, totally completed and ready to file.
Also, all of my email addresses and email that I had saved. Plus lots of other important data. The worst thing is I don't know if I
will ever be able to get ...

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My friend Bob called me the other day. He was frantic...
"Albert" he cried, "My computer just crashed. I think it was my hard drive, but I am not sure.
It won't turn on or boot up. It just keeps making this weird sound. I think I lost everything. All my pictures, and
my taxes, totally completed and ready to file.
Also, all of my email addresses and email that I had saved. Plus lots of other important data. The worst thing is I don't know if I
will ever be able to get my computer running again."

"No problem," I replied. Just use your back-up drive to restore your data."
"Back-up drive?" he asked, "What's that?"

"Bob, Bob, Bob," I lectured.

"You wouldn't think about driving your car without insurance. If you own a house or apartment,
you absolutely need insurance. You probably have some type of life insurance. Why is your computer any different?
If you have a computer: you need insurance. Data Insurance.
You need to have a back-up drive to save all of your important data!"

Do you have insurance for the important information on your computer? On my computer I have all of my
websites, personal emails and essential documents. I also have software and e-books I purchased.
I even have the beginning of the Great American Novel.

I purchased a back up drive for my computer.
You need one, too!
What do you have on your own computer? Think about the important files,
pictures, programs and other priceless information...
Some of the stuff you have may be irreplaceable.
Sure you can use a jump drive to save and move data. The biggest jump drives will
not back up your entire system, however.
You invested hundreds of dollars in your computer. For Bob, the data he lost was priceless.
Don't be like my friend, Bob. You need to invest in a total back up system.
You need a back-up drive.

Here's what I did:

I was able to find a Back Up Drive on-sale for a little over $100 The back up drive is 300 GB. That's way more than I need. Since I installed it, I have much more peace of mind. The great thing is, once I installed the software, it continuously makes new back-ups of all my recent data.You should be able to find a back-up drive at a reasonable price as well. Check out big box computer stores as well as Office Supply stores.

So don't be like Bob. He lost everything. Remember, it's not if your computer will crash, it's when.
So take out some Data Insurance by purchasing a back drive for your computer. Remember to back up all of your data.
Here's why:
You will be prepared if your hard drive crashes
You will have another copy of all of your important files and programs
You will have total peace of mind
Most back up drives come with software, which will back up you data automatically. So you will be able to "Set it and forget it".
Be well. Stay well.
And don't forget to back up all of your data!

 

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I hear two complaints CONSTANTLY from contractors.

1. I cant find enough good work.

2. I cant find enough good workers.

What most contractors fail to realize is that the two problems are closely related. The first causes the second. And both are a function of the market you operate in.

Finding an adequate supply of good workers can always be solved with money. If you can afford to pay the wages workers want and give them the hours they need, they will flock to y...

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I hear two complaints CONSTANTLY from contractors.

1. I cant find enough good work.

2. I cant find enough good workers.

What most contractors fail to realize is that the two problems are closely related. The first causes the second. And both are a function of the market you operate in.

Finding an adequate supply of good workers can always be solved with money. If you can afford to pay the wages workers want and give them the hours they need, they will flock to your company.

A lack of high margins is what complicates staffing.

The market you sell to greatly affects your ability to make money and your ability to hire good workers.

You need to choose your market wisely, very wisely.

Before permanently committing your destiny to a market (including the one you are currently focused on) you must research the following issues.

1. Can you track down enough prospects?

2. Can you market to the prospects cost effectively?

3. Do clients value anything beyond lowest price?

4. Does the work require expensive equipment?

5. Can you find enough sufficiently skilled people to do the work at the wages you can pay?

6. Is competition weak?

7. Are margins high?

8. Do you have the cash reserves to survive the markets pay cycle?

The greater your number of "nos", the more you will struggle. Here are the facts of business life:

Fact #1: You may be the best at what you do but no one is going to pay you for it if they dont value it.

Fact #2: Heavy competition leads to price competition.

Fact #3: If you cant market your business cost-effectively, youll waste all of your income chasing leads.

Fact #4: If you cant hire workers, you cant grow a business.

Business boils down to solving problems of value more efficiently than your competition. Choosing the right market essentially means picking one from which you can generate good leads; for which you afford to hire the right workers; and for which you can afford to buy the right equipment.

Choosing the right market is essential to realizing your financial goals. You cannot overcome a bad market.

Bad markets translate into low profit margins.

Low profit margins mean that you cant afford to pay above market wages. So you will struggle to find reliable, hard working, skilled workers.

Low profit margins mean that you cant afford to take a bath on ANY job. So you sit tight on your foreman, which makes him sit tight on his crews.

That drives good workers away.

When you compare your market to your capabilities, you may discover that the current fit isnt good. Don't fret, you may have several attractive options.

You may find that your current capabilities and services fit a different client than you have traditionally pursued. I see this often. A contractor builds a company perfectly suited for commercial work yet is chasing residential work.

You may find that you need to narrow your focus to a specific size and type of project and become the best, most efficient in that niche. Dont try to be a "full service" shop for every possible client. Thats recipe for certain failure.

If you find yourself in need of a new market, prepare for a tough transition.

You may need to overhaul your marketing system, your selling approach, and possibly your equipment fleet. You may need to let go of some workers and find new ones. Your job costing data may be rendered completely useless.

Your decision will be governed by many factors, not the least of which is the strength of your relationship with your present clients and your companys reputation on the street. If your relationships are strong, you should be able to raise your prices sufficiently to recruit and retain skilled workers. If not, you need to throw those relationships overboard and start anew.

If your street reputation is strongly identified for a given market, rebuild your company around that market or shut it down and open up under a new name. Changing your brand image is almost impossible. Either work within it or flush it.

Nine times out of ten, a haphazard approach to market selection seals the contractor's fate: failure. Great advertising campaigns, superior operations management, and a tight money control will not overcome a poorly selected market.

Did you fail to research the eight basic strategic marketing questions? No time like the present to run through them. It's the first step to building a really successful business.

 

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Hereditary hair loss affects both men and women, but with different pattern of symptoms. Here is a description of the symptoms, causes and treatment options by this problem.

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The ordinary kind of hair loss, called hereditary hair loss, can affect both men and women, but women are usually affected less than men. The condition is so common that it nearly can be regarded as a part of the normal aging process.


SYMPTOMS OF HAIR LOSS

The pattern of hair loss and baldness are different for men and women. On men special areas on the head begin get totally bald. These areas are usually at both sides of the front, and the top back side of the head. The hair loss then progresses with these areas extending, and at last most of the head can be totally without hair. However, a great area in the neck uses to remain unaffected and keeps a thick hair cover. The same is usually true about the area in front of each ear.

On women all the hair on the head begins thinning, and then gradually progress over the whole head for many years. Women seldom get totally bald areas on their head, but the hair often gets so thin that the scalp is clearly visible through the hair.


THE CAUSES OF HAIR LOSS

 

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All the products that you want to sell online are ready. You have already signed up with the Google Adsense program or with other affiliate marketing programs and you have already prepared the ad you want to post on your affiliates site. Your mind is now set to being the next most successful online businessman. But is there anything else that you might have forgotten to prepare? Maybe none. But how about your landing pages? Are they all set for your business?

Landing pages are simply web pages where visitors are directed to whenever they click a result in a web search or whenever they click a web ad. For affiliate marketing, landing pages would refer to the web page where you, as a merchant, would want your potential customer to be directed after clicking your ad on your affiliates website. Landing pages are, at most times, nothing really different from other web pages in a particular website, especially if the said website is an e-commerce site. Some online businessmen would even use the homepage of their websites as the landing page for their ads. Are these businessmen making a big mistake? Or should you follow their method in creating landing pages for their ads?

Well, you can always follow what most online retailers do, directing their potential customers to the homepages of their websites. But if you want to achieve something more from your online business, and if you want to earn a lot of profits, you better create a special landing page for your web ads. Why? Here are a few reasons why you need to use landing pages for your web ads. And take note, it would do you a lot better if you create a great landing page than a so-so one.

Reason no. 1: It is the only way you earn conversions in an affiliate marketing program.

There are a variety of affiliate marketing programs today, but most of these programs let the merchant pay the affiliate in a pay per click basis. Basically, all you have to do is sign up with the program and submit your ad. The program owner would then distribute your ad to various affiliates who would then place your ad on their websites. Whenever your ad is clicked, a visitor would be directed to your landing page and you would have to pay the affiliate for his service.

As a merchant, you earn in an affiliate program through conversionsthat is whenever a visitor that is directed to your site actually buys a product on your site. Without these conversions, you actually earn nothing from the program. Also, the more visitors that your affiliates have directed to your site, the larger would your expense be. And the only way that you can recover from these expenses is through conversions.

Now, you sure won't get any conversion if you have posted an ad on your affiliate's site without an actual landing page for the potential customer to be redirected into. It's just like advertising a product without actually having a store to sell your product. Your advertisement may be enticing enough to encourage people to purchase a product, but without the landing page, how will they know how to purchase the product

It is therefore important to have landing pages for your ads because it is the only way for you to earn something in an affiliate program. Without landing pages, all you do is spend money paying your affiliates without actually getting anything in return.

Reason no. 2: Other web pages may just not be enough.

Many people make the mistake of making their website's homepage as the landing page for their ads. The same is true for those who make use of other pages like a "contact us" page or a product page. Homepages are often designed to serve multiple users and contains a lot of links to other pages or to other websites. The same is with the other two pages mentioned. If you want to be successful in an affiliate program, we're sure that you don't want your landing page to cater to the needs of various people, most of which may not be really interested with your product.

When choosing a landing page, you must always have the customer directed into that page in mind. Therefore, your landing page must be relevant to the keywords and the contents you placed on your ad. It is also important that the landing page can induce your visitor to take actionthat is to purchase your product or at least provide leads for potential customers.

Final Word

You probably entered into an affiliate marketing program with these things in mind: to save on advertising expenses and to gain more profit. But if you get into an affiliate marketing program without actually having a landing page, you'll end up paying too much without getting anything in return. So if you still don't have a landing page for your ads, you better start creating one now. And don't get us wrong; it isn't enough for you to have just a landing pageit should be a great landing page!

 

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If you want to be a happy bird like me you have to train your parents to spend time and invest in training you. Lets face it we dont like to be stuck in a cages or on our stands all day screaming our heads off. We are going to live a long time so we might as well be happy. Read on to learn how I was parrot potty trained.

If youre not a happy bird like a lot of us are or were at one time, tell your parents to just start spending time with you. One of my favorite things to do is to sing with my parents. Theyre not that talented so I enjoy training them how to sing.

For you parrots out there who like to come out once and while but you get put right back because you poop on the floor or the furniture, tell your parents to start parrot potty training you. Its very easy to learn. Here is how my Papa taught me. He waits for me to poop in my cage while saying to me "sit" because sit sounds nicer than go poop. Then when I do he takes me out and plays and cuddles with me for a short time. Then he puts me back in my cage and tells me to "sit again" and when I do (so to speak) he takes me out and plays and cuddles with me again. After a short time the only place that I want to "sit" is in my cage or on my play stand. Tell your parents potty training parrots is much easier than potty training dogs, cats or even children.

 

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Have you ever received a golf training tip that didnt work? I think we all have. That can be very frustrating to say the least. But the key to implementing a golf training tip thats effective is to look at your swing.

Do you lack a full, 90 degree shoulder turn on your backswing? Do you breakdown at impact where it really counts? Or do you have a hard time staying in your golf posture through out your swing?

Youve got to take a deeper look at your swing faults AND physical limitations to determine what golf training tip will be the most effective in improving your driving distance.

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