Wooffer is a collection of thirty-three short animal-adventure children stories originally written by Betty Fasig for her family. The center character is Wooffer, a hairy dachshund puppy that "mom", the author, receives as a surprise Xmas gift from her fun-loving family. A host of animals gr...

There are many people who have tried to work at home and have not done a good job. At the same time there are many more people who have been successful at working at home. The trick is the successful people know some of the tips to making working at home work out. The following list explains four ...

Although this may sound like a funny metaphor, if you try to focus on the possibilities as they apply to writing a story, an article, a report or almost anything, I think you may gain some helpful insight into your particular approach to this passionate profession. Below are five strategies I consid...

Publicity is that elusive thing that can make or break your book - in all sorts of ways! Learning to promote you and your book is something that can take a bit of "re-training" for most new authors (and many old-timers too). Publicity is really all about selling your idea (and you), but all too ofte...

If you have a busy private practice, chances are you also have pockets of cash lying around available for the plucking. It simply hasn?t been collected yet, and may even have been overlooked. Here are 10 ways to increase your cash flow over the next 30 days. Collect at the Time of Service Include ...

A missionary and his family were forced to camp outside on a hill. They had money with them and were fearful of an attack by roving thieves. After praying, they went to sleep. Months later an injured man was brought into the mission hospital. He asked the missionary if he had soldiers guarding h...

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No matter how wonderful you are sometimes other people will try to take advantage of your good nature. They will push you, get you to do more than your fair share and keep asking you to do even more. And worst of all -- often your efforts will be taken for granted. Unless you can say No, the situati...

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When you first start a stay at home job, no task seems too large or too boring. Your enthusiasm for your stay at home has you on your own little stay at home work cloud and you feel you can tackle anything. You have enough motivation for 5 stay at home jobs! Then it happens. You wake up one morni...

When I was selling Encyclopedia Britannica door-to-door many years ago, it was an obligatory part of the job to ask for referrals. And I hated it. It made me nervous and shaky just to think of it. Is this how you feel too? I hated to ask for fear I was imposing on my prospects, or even destroying my...

If you?re like me, you?re pretty skeptical of all those claims you hear about people making loads of money on the internet. Oh, I knew there were people out there making cash, but I had many excuses for why I couldn?t do it. That all changed as I watched a friend become wildly successful in his in...

According to former Harvard Business School professor David Maister, typical marketing practices are not only inapplicable for professional service firms, but they may be dangerously wrong. Often professional service firm principals tell me they are frustrated with the quality of their marketing mat...

That?s what I needed when I delved deeply into my first acting class. I was 60 years old and had a lifetime of experiences behind me but anger or rather the act of reacting to it was not in my skill set. The teacher was working on my scene with me. It was a very dark Mamet piece and I needed to sh...

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Finding ways to get your home business noticed has always been at the forefront of a successful home business. With the Internet giving us all a much more level-playing field, the opportunties for getting your home business noticed by potential new customers is through a networking strategy. There a...

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What stops most people in MLM and Network Marketing? After studying this industry for over 20 years, and talking to thousands of folks, you learn a thing or two. Many people enter this industry of Network Marketing, and find themselves out of it within a year or less. Why does this happen? There can...

Someone new to business ownership recently told me, ?Before I opened my business, I thought I was pretty well prepared. I knew how to produce and deliver our product. I worked through the numbers with my accountant and banker. I talked to many others in the same business. I was optimistic that m...

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Whether you are just starting out with your online business or you are seasoned pro, writing and distributing articles is one of the most effective and low-cost ways to drive lots of targeted traffic to your site. Writing articles and submitting them to the article directories will get you free traf...

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Knowing exactly what an editor wants. Unfortunately, many new writers struggle with finding ideas and when they do get one, don`t know exactly what to do with it. New writers turn their ideas into articles and send them to newspapers and magazines hoping editors will buy them. In some cases, article...

Does the drive to and from work wear you out? Do you wake up depressed because you are going to a job you hate, come home depressed because you did a job you hate, and go to bed dreading going back to a job you hate? It may be time to consider a new approach to your career. In three easy steps yo...

It is the fantasy of most businesspeople to develop a product that is so unique, or a patent that is so ironclad, that we end up with a 100% market share?with, in effect, a monopoly. But if you look at the history of monopolies, they?ve ended up being decadent and remarkably non-innovative. Customer...

News is about disseminating information that is to everyone. So follow the golden rule: Only contact a reporter if there is something concrete and news worthy to convey. Most reporters, work on tight deadlines and wasting their time is unjust. Just as you learn how to present news, give intervie...

Did you know that you might be eligible to gain entry into the field of patent law even without a law degree? The basic requirements are a degree in a technology-related field and the will to pass the Patent Bar Exam. The field of patent law is wide open to Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, Comput...

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Part one looked at telesales, yellow pages and other directories, using mailing lists and advertising in local papers and journals. In this article I will be considering direct selling techniques, leaflet drops and internet advertising. 1. Direct Approach You could simply cold call on a company ...

How can you establish the earning potential for a new job? For example if you are looking for the salary of a freelance editor, how will you find this information? There are several ways that you can do this. However there is one determining factor that will cause you to be better or lower than t...

This useful article is published for global tourism marketers who want to enhance the travel brochure and Ebrochure marketing. Revise these mistakes for better brochure and electronic brochure marketing result and efficiently entice global visitors. This is a long article with many parts of inter...

This is a fascinating principle about optimising your white space ? and you can take that as metaphorical or as practical as you like. The other day, I was having dinner at a roadside café and I noticed that the little sugar bags that came with my coffee had ADVERTISEMENTS on them. That?s your c...

STEP Analysis The STEP analysis of the Colorado Creative Music aims at analyzing macro-environmental factors of the music business the company is engaged into. These factors fall into political, economical, social and technological groups (Pearce, Robinson, 2000). Political factors affecting mu...

Are you constantly banging your head in frustration on not receiving all the internet traffic you would like to get to your web site? Are you tormented from information overload listening to all the latest free website traffic tactics and not being able to understand any of it? Are you dejected of p...

What are Reciprocal Links? Reciprocal links are links with other sites which are usually are related to the theme of your website. The concept is very easy to understand, you link to a site and that site links back to you. The idea behind this goes back to you scratch my back I scratch yours. Some...

Creative Writing Tips ? When an idea comes to us for a short story, we either think of a story line first or a character first. Whichever we think of first, and later on build, we have to make sure the plot and the character suit each other. Example one ? We think of a story line first. Your s...

‘Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” Stephen King Ever wonder what the hands of fate will deal you in the way of success as a writer? Or why some individuals reap the rewards of literary recognitio...

If you think proofreading equals editing, then you`re wrong! Editing is a lot more than just scrutinizing your manuscript for misspelled words or missing punctuation marks. As a whole:

• Edit only *after* you`ve written the *whole* piece. If you stop to edit after every paragraph or se...