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Home Study: What Life-enhancing Skill do You Learn?

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Jan 262023
 

Home Study: What Life-enhancing Skill do You Learn?



You’re already doing unofficial home study when you research a project online and write an essay. Study in class has its place, but…



Up to date I’ve done many courses in classrooms but only two were very useful. I’ve learned most of the useful stuff from books or the Internet.

What will help you most in life?

The most valuable thing you learn at school is to write an essay.
Essays help you organise your thoughts. An essay helps you convince
people. Your feedback in a home study course will mostly be essays.
This will encourage you to write a good essay.



Many years ago I read about Electronics, and took a correspondence
course on the subject, and made electronic gadgets for where I worked.



Then I decided to study Electronics at college. Unfortunately
the nearest I could get to it was Physics with Electronics as the
main subject, so I qualified in Physics.



The lecturers were shockingly out of date. One of my classmates and
I spent a lot of time instructing the lecturers. We’d learned
modern stuff from books and practical use.


It has been said Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
What this means is that lecturers sat through lectures and passed exams.
They go on to teach what they learned in these lectures – which is
already out of date. That’s the first benefit of home study.




Three advantages of classroom study

    You can get recognised certificates when you pass exams You can get a useful plan for what to study Facilities for practical work


You’ll have noticed that although I learned more from my home study
course, I still did a four-year course at college. I couldn’t get
recognised exam certificates from correspondence courses. That was
the main benefit.



If you want to study genetics and you don’t even know what a gene
is, you obviously don’t know enough to plan a syllabus for your home study.



You get a useful skeleton outline from your lectures. Using my book
about exams you will learn how to improve on the skeleton, but you need one
to improve on!



At home you don’t have a chemistry laboratory or a machine shop or
volunteers to practice dentistry.



Apprenticeships let you learn about real life from an employer.
Schools and colleges have labs and workshops for you to do your
practical work.



Lecturers don’t know as much about practical work as an employer
would. I hated doing chemical titrations because they took such a
long time.



Then I noticed that one of my classmates took about a quarter of
the time, with greater accuracy. He worked during his holidays
at a chemistry lab. He showed me the tricks and I was soon flying
through my titrations too.


Even if you do have a machine shop at home, you’ll be taught safe
working procedure in a conventional course. That could save you
from being a cripple for the rest of your life.




Instant Feedback

When I was about to hold a chunk of metal with a rag wrapped round
my hand to give me extra grip, my lecturer yelled a warning. That
probably kept me from losing my hand.



Even if you’re learning something safe like oil painting, you can
learn faster with instant feedback from a lecturer strolling around
behind the students.



Oh, you could take a digital photograph of your oil painting and shoot
it down the line to an instructor, but she could be having a meal, or
even be asleep if she is on the other side of the world. So you still
won’t have instant feedback.



Writing essays works fine.




Conventional courses for abilities

It seems that conventional courses win out when you want to develop
an ability, unless your parents already have that ability to pass
on to you.




Knowledge courses

Of course, there are knowledge courses such as English, Philosophy,
History, Anthropology where you don’t have a practical syllabus.
These are ideal for home study, and perfect for using an essay
as a tool.



More and more Universities offer online courses. You can get
recognised certificates with home study. You just need to be good
at writing an essay (see my free report) and a few other exam
techniques to succeed.



Even technical courses have lots of theory. University extension
courses allow you to study the theory online. Then you just go to
college for your practical work.




No Distractions

A friend of mine refused to be distracted by girls or parties or
sport until he completed his degree as a dentist.



I don’t think I could have overcome these distractions. If you do
home study you don’t have any distractions.




Conclusion

I prefer home study any time that it is available.
However you can’t learn to sing, or master karate, or dentistry without
a teacher, so conventional study is often needed to supplement
home study. Essay writing is particularly useful in home study.

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3 Simple Ways To Harness Concept Of The Free Offer For Internet Marketing

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Jan 252023
 

One of the reason why the concept of free stuff online works really well has a lot to do with the nature of the internet where people go online to find free information and share music online. Many good internet marketers have learnt that offering free things to their website visitors can help make them more money online and this article highlights three simple strategies that successful internet marketers have used.



Free Ebooks



Giving away a free ebook to visitors to your website can help establish you as an expert and help you increase the number of subscribers to your newsletters. Ebook software today allows the creator of the ebook to get the email address and name of the person reading the ebook and build his mailing list.



Another way people use these free ebooks is to embed their affiliate links and product links into them so that readers of the ebooks will click on them and thus get more website traffic to their websites and make money when these get converted into sales. Other ebooks writers today allow readers to access the first three chapters free so as to whet their appetite and then make the reader pay for the rest of the information.



Free services



Most people are quite unaware of this business model online. Add lots of resources to your website and let it become an advertising portal where other advertisers pay to place ads on your website. Simple things that you can provide for your website visitors can go a long way in getting them to come back. For instance, adding rss feeds related to the content of the website also increases the chances of people returning to your website.



Another way that most people are doing today is starting online forums and allowing people to join them for free. By helping others, you get paid from contextual advertising on your website.



Free information and pre-selling



This concept amount internet marketers was first made popular in a large way when Ken Evoy started talking about pre-selling in the area of affiliate marketing. The idea behind this concept is simple. Simple focus on a keyword rich niche and just give your website visitors information on the niche without any trace of sales copy and embed your affiliate links in the webpage. You make money from visitors that purchase from your merchants from your links.



In conclusion, the concept of the free offer is here to stay on the internet and internet marketers have used it to great success. Learn from them and use these strategies to increase your online profits today!

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Customer Service For Huge Profits

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Jan 242023
 

Customer service is the most vital asset for a Business, whether it is online or offline. It’s the critical factor which determines if your business has a future or not. There are two vital components to every interaction you have with a customer



1) The purchase or transaction

2) The relationship



In order to distinguish yourself among your competition, providing just good service is not enough. Your competitors do the same. You must provide EXCELLENT service. That will happen if you follow these rules:



a) Solve your customer’s problems as fast as you can without hassles.



b) Your employees should know their stuff and should be well-trained.



c) Treat customers with respect, a quick response, and appreciation.



d) Authorize employees to provide as accurate information as they can and make things happen for customers.



e) The customer should leave with a positive feeling.



One of the most serious problems corporations and small business deal with customers is the defection effect. It is the silent process where the customer takes his business from you and start dealing with your competition. This happens without yelling or showing disappointment for your service up-front.



That process applies to many industries and trade sections. It’s an epidemic. The cure here is to do the best you can in order for the customer to come back again and again. Most of your profits will come from few large accounts ordering continuously.



It is with these kinds of customers you should focus your efforts and customer service. For example you could create a toll free call line 24/7 for tiding your large firms you do business with.



On the other hand, that does not mean that you should leave your small clients “out in the cold”. Supporting them is important too. Imagine what would happen if a large customer stops working with you? What do you think the consequences for your company would be if you leave your small customers?



Of course it costs less keeping a customer who makes revenue by continual orders than chasing and finding new clients. It’s not a secret the 80/20 rule, meaning that 80% of your profits will be produced from the 20% of your clients. The rates of course are not absolute, it could be 98% to 2%. There are Real life examples for these rates.



After all, the most effective advertising in the business world is the “word-of-mouth advertising.” It’s so effective because the testimonials gain you trust , which means the happy client has no self-interest causes for proposing a particular firm to his friend. This can be accomplished if you have provided exceptional service to your clients.



Another important factor of a great customer service is that it has to be countable. For example: ” You must answer the phone fast” doesn’t mean anything . On the contrary : “You must answer the phone sooner that the third ring” is an accurate customer service rule.



Finally, one of the most important leaps in customer service we can find in today’s business world is the individual section mindset most of the companies follow. That means the interactions between

the different sections of the company (Sales/Telemarketing, Shipping, Technical support, Credit/Collections, Order processing) do not function as a team but more often as individual sectors of the firm.



The most discouraging feeling for a customer is dealing with more departments with lack of critical information between them and not being able to find a solution to the problem.

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Internet Network Marketing Downlines That Impede Rather Than Help You

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Jan 232023
 

If you have been in the network marketing arena be it online or offline for a while you will know that there are some downlines that do not help your business grow in any way. This article identifies some downlines that you do not want working with you in your team and explains how to exclude them from your team at the start.



Freebie lookers



Internet Network marketing involves two elements, increasing your network and marketing be it online or offline. These downlines are looking for freebies and have no conception of what a business involves. Any business venture whether online or offline has the need for you to purchase a product and the need to promote the business. These downlines failing to realize this, spend lots of time in an endless search for free ways to promote their business online and like the popular adage “when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys”. To weed out such people you should always have in your welcome email something that states that you only work with people who are willing to follow your system as it will ensure their success. Tell them that you system involves costs like most other business ventures and can make them money if they work it like you do.



Get rich quick



We all know the reason why many people join internet mlm business ventures it is because of the money. However there is the concept of delayed gratification which is very hard for some people to swallow. They think that because they join online, their profits are “lightning quick”. Some even have the mistaken idea in their mind that they just need to find the “right program” online to make it big. This is patently wrong. Internet Network marketing is like all other business ventures and requires time, effort and training before you become successful. Thus in your marketing material and communications to your downlines, always teach them a system and tell them to work hard at it and not to expect profits to drop from the sky. The fastest way to get this kind of downline is to offer “free” this and “free” that stuff to them as they will not have the right mindset when they join your internet network marketing business.



Complaining and paralysis with analysis



Internet network marketing seems to paralyse people because of the great variety of business opportunities and ideas that are available online. Just looking though some of the internet network marketing business websites will give you an idea of the vastness of this “internet jungle”. I always have downlines asking me about the “next best thing” or complaining about what is wrong about this present business. You want to attract downlines who are serious about working rather than complaining into your internet network marketing business. To do this, some marketers have used the interruption pattern in their sales material. This uses business English which is pitched at a higher level of reader so as to weed out the casual surfer from signing up to join your internet network marketing business.



In conclusion, attracting the right type of downlines is critical to building a good network marketing business online. Spending some time tweaking your advertising copy can reap you dividends in the long term in the form of better qualify of signups and people who are actually willing to work hard online.



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Christmas Gifts For Dolphin Lovers

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Jan 222023
 

Choosing a dolphin lover gift may not be as easy as it is for a pet lover, but that is not to say it is not possible. In fact, you will find quite a range of dolphin related gifts around the internet, although in your local store it may be hit and miss as to whether you will find anything. In my case, I received the true, ultimate dolphin lover gift, some years ago, but more of that later.



The demand for dolphin gifts, though, is undoubtedly high. On a brief and unscientific survey, dolphin lover gifts are about half as popular as cat lover gifts. If you think about it, that is amazing. Most people will never see a dolphin in their lives, yet we are surrounded by cats.



What is it, then, that makes dolphins so appealing? I love birds and cats especially, but dolphins I adore. They are wonderful and appealing creatures with a mystique that helps their popularity. Dolphins are the stuff of sailors’ tales, and true stories, about dolphins and man. They have faces that are expressive in a human like way, and they seem to smile. Dolphins also seem to follow man out at sea, when men venture out in their boats or into the water.



Dolphins are also performers, not just in captivity, but in the wild. While they do travel at high speed and jump out of the water in so doing, they do come across as playful, and capable of enjoying life. So, in a way they are partly human like, and therefore easy for us to relate to. They are also very intelligent.



Dolphins engender excitement, and at times everyone becomes a dolphin lover. In my country of origin, England, dolphins off the coast have always been something of a rarity; although I have read that large numbers of dolphins have been seen off nearby Wales recently. While I still lived in England, though, the appearance of a few dolphins close to shore may even have made the television news and front pages of the newspapers. Now, that’s something cat’s cannot do!



I am one of the lucky few, though. I was fortunate to be able to live on the Dorset coastline, where a group of about 6 dolphins had become familiar passers-by just offshore. Very rarely they ventured into Swanage Bay, but mostly they were observed sometimes off Durlston. But, you needed a lot of luck and patience to see any dolphins there, even when they were known to be in the area. I had a naturalist friend who had lived in Swanage for 25 years, and was a frequent visitor to Durslton; he had never, ever seen a dolphin there.



I was a member of Dolphin Watch, spending long hours on the cliff top looking out for the dolphins to record their movements. I had no luck ever while on duty, nor had many fellow dolphin lovers on the watch. My luck suddenly changed, though, when I was out walking with my daughter one Sunday afternoon, on the cliff tops at Durlston. It was early December, and winter and Christmas were in the air.



The grass slope was a little bit slippery, and I slipped over, ending up on my back. After my daughter’s initial concern subsided, we both had a good laugh, and I hobbled over to a nearby bench to get my breath back. The bench was looking out to sea. That’s when something of a miracle happened; well, at least a major coincidence; an incredible coincidence.



As we sat down, I said: “Ok, we will sit here until we see a dolphin, even though it may mean missing Christmas.” Christmas was 3 weeks away, so it was a rash thing to say. We looked out to sea, and within a minute, I saw two dolphins. I was in disbelief, but I took another look; I had my glasses on so was not being deceived. It really was dolphins.



My daughter thought, assumed, and was sure, I was joking. Then she saw them also, plus a third dolphin. We watched them for about 45 minutes, walking along the coast with them, and then back again. It was a mesmerising and unforgettable time, even though they were so far away; those three bottle-nosed dolphins were, to me, the ultimate dolphin lover’s Christmas gift. A few weeks early, and free, but a wonderful gift nonetheless.

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5 Core Skills To Build Before Starting Internet Marketing

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Jan 212023
 

5 Core Skills For Internet Marketing
By Stuart Tan

It kinda bugs me that there are people who are constantly writing about the
things that do well in Internet Marketing. I think that’s real silly. People want
the real stuff. They want to know the exciting stuff, but they want the
truth too.

Why have internet marketers hidden from you, the costs of getting to
where they have gotten? Because it is the one thing that separates the real
players and the suckers. If you do not know how much time and effort they
spent, don’t think that internet marketing is a walk in the park.

My business partner was so excited after a conference, he started up a mini-
site that was selling a set of products we already had in existence. It was a
great plan, except that for the kind of product we put up, he sold the
package at a drop dead price of $97. Now, I operate from Singapore, and
we know that most of the people who would buy this product would come
from the other side of the world. Without verifying the shipping charges, he
happily took orders from the internet. The first one had him jumping up and
down¡­ only to realize that the cost of shipping took about 90% of that
$97. We couldn’t cover the production costs. Straight away, it was a loss.

But everyone talks about shipping their products as if it were a simple thing.
Most people have forgotten completely about the people living on this side
of the world and what it takes to sell something. This means that there are
a few things that most beginners in internet marketing need to be careful
about and learn.

#1 – Learn Copywriting.

Copywriting is the most important skill ever to be taught to marketers and
business people alike. If you don’t have the ability to write your own sales
letters, it will be easy for people to tell you to outsource the writing. My
advice: DON’T. You are letting them develop the skill that you should be
building up. No one ever gets to be an expert copywriter overnight. Learn it,
and learn it well.

#2 – Understand Business Models

There are about 7 or 8 different business models on the internet. Because I
need to make sure that people really understand about business per se, I’ve
put it in the form of a freely downloadable format at

Go grab it – no holds barred.

#3 – Drive traffic

I’ve included a list for those of you newbies out there, the multiple ways to
drive traffic over the internet. There are over 100 ways you can use to drive
traffic and I would highly recommend you hop over to learn about these. I
directly credit people like John Reese, Jeff Johnson and Yanik Silver for their
invaluable knowledge that I have gotten from them. If you don’t know
about them, please begin today! They are great people and I highly
recommend that you visit them at www.trafficsecrets.com
, www.searchenginevoodoo.com
and www.surefiremarketing.com
respectively. Download my traffic
generation chart on www.stuarttan.com/affiliate/Traffic Boosters.pdf

.

#4 – Learn New Internet Technology Fast

You need to be learning really fast. I’ve discovered that there are a large
number of new internet technologies that keep coming up and they can be
very powerful, provided you know how to use them. If you don’t know how
to use them, it will most definitely be to your disadvantage. For instance,
most people still don’t know how to use RSS and Blogs. In addition, some
people are clueless about XML feeds and how that helps to create massive
content sites and increase search engine rankings. You need to learn fast.
The only way for you to master your learning is to read about them. I highly
recommend that you visit www.stuarttan.com/learning/
for more information that I can’t
deal with here.

I am going to give you something good, though. If the entire internet
marketing world is doing it, DON’T. If you just follow, you will not be at the
breakthrough point of technology usage. Start innovating and think
creatively to solve a problem. Sometimes, even the simplest things can bring
about massive profits online!

#5 – Keep Relationships Going

Keeping relationships going on the internet is a difficult thing. But it is
essential. You need to be able to do autoresponse messages, personalized.
However, most people miss the point. Automatic isn’t going to build
relationships. You need to keep them warm. Call them. Give them ideas.
Give them free stuff (learnt this from Yanik). More importantly, ask Jeff
Johnson’s single most asked question – ‘Can I help you?’.

I’m all for making money – but if it is at the expense of friendships and
relationships, I think it is going to be really stupid to continue making money.
Give yourself a chance to put back, in your heart, what many poor, scammy
internet marketers have taken away – quality and the desire to help people.

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Audio On The Web – How To Do It With Ease

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Jan 202023
 

It always amazes me at how many bands and musicians don’t have audio on their web sites. Doing so increases sales of your album and makes it easier to get people to come out to gigs, so why wouldn’t you?



There are usually two reasons:



1. People are scared to giveaway their music because “people don’t buy what they get for free.”



This isn’t true and the best example I can think of to illustrate the point is bottled water. People can get water for free, of basically free, but they pay a premium to have it in a nice container.



Why wouldn’t they do the same with your music?



2. People don’t have the technical skills to do it.



If this applies to you, get Audio Generator because you simply upload your music to their servers, they give you a snippet of HTML to add to your site, and you’ll be up and running within a couple of minutes.



Another great thing about Audio Generator is that you can call in a message via telephone and then send out an “audio greeting” to your mailing list. This is VERY powerful for getting people to take action.



For example, you could record a message which said, “Hey, this is Dan from Band X and we’re playing tomorrow night at Club Z. Mention this message and I’ll buy you a beer.”



Whatever… You get the idea.



Audio is a powerful way to strengthen your relationship with your audience.



Thanks to Music Business Radio and the audio books I’ve released, a lot of people know what my voice sounds like, but before I had all of this, I had to work twice as hard by hitting people face-to-face.



Don’t work so hard! Use technology to help you create and expand your customer relationships.



And speaking of voice stuff, I highly recommend Audio C4. This book has excellent instruction on how to create audio messages that sell. In addition, you’ll come off like top voice talent, rather than some guy who has never spoken to a crowd before.

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Write An Apology To Your Spouse: How to Apologize In a Way That Really Works For You

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Jan 192023
 

Being apologetic doesn’t come easily for me. Unfortunately, being inconsiderate and self-centered does. So I realized long ago that my marital survival would depend on two things: 1) learning to apologize and 2) becoming less selfish and more considerate.

It was easier to start with apologies. Over time I got better and better at learning how to apologize. I was amazed at the effect.

First, it was the basic mumbling of, “I’m sorry.” Those two words were remarkable in healing bruised feelings. It was as if I had a license to do what I wanted– as long as I looked sincere and said, “I’m sorry.” It was like having a “Get out of jail free” Monopoly card.

When my apology failed to produce the desired results, I spruced it up. I would put my apology in a tuxedo, and my wife would be so grateful that I would get another reprieve.

Given my personality, I had lots of opportunity to practice making apologies. Ultimately I created a formula. It’s for the bigger offenses or for smaller offenses that you have repeated so often they’ve created a lot of tension with your spouse.

Five Step Formula For a Really Good Apology

1. Describe your offense. This is necessary so your partner knows exactly what you’re apologizing for.
2. Describe what you think is the effect on your partner. This display of empathy is comforting to the other person.
3. Describe why you did what you did. This reassures your spouse that you’re on top of the problem and reduces their need to nag you about it.
4. Describe why you’re interested in changing the offensive behavior. This demonstrates an understanding of the big picture that as couple you’re a team.
5. Describe a self imposed penalty for not changing. This one is the clincher. Think of an appropriate penalty for your offensive behavior, and tell it to your spouse. Tell them that if you don’t change you will impose the penalty on yourself. This reassures them that you mean business.

I encourage people to write their apology. Writing it out first or writing it and then giving it to your mate has several advantages:

1. You can collect and refine your thoughts. It is very difficult to think through an apology on the fly, especially if your angry partner is on the offensive.
2. You will be heard all the way through. Nobody will interrupt and start yelling at a spouse when they are reading an apology.
3. You avoid the hostile questions that often interrupt you when you start speaking the apology. These negative questions have the nasty effect of derailing your good intentions and then you just have another argument which demands another apology.
4. You avoid the raised eyebrows and squinting eyes during the apology which just derail you again. (See the last sentence in number 3.)
5. It looks like you have given this some serious thought (which might even be true).
6. You don’t have to sleep on the couch tonight.

Putting It All Together

1. Honey, I’ve been thinking about your comments that I don’t follow through consistently when I say I’ll do something. I apologize for that.
2. Being inconsistent means you can never be sure whether I will follow through or not. I imagine it keeps you on edge and wondering if you should “remind” me or not. If you don’t speak up you run the risk that I won’t follow through and then it is too late to take corrective action. If you do speak up, you run the risk of coming across like a nag.
3. I hate to admit it, but when I agree to something, sometimes it’s just to get you off my back. I think, “well, I’ll do it if I get time.” But if it’s something I really don’t want to do, often I simply don’t make the time. I’m also unreliable when my priorities collide with yours–and my priorities too often prevail. This means I really haven’t thought much about us being a true team where we can each count on the other to follow through.
4. I actually have some interest in improving my reliability. I would feel more aligned with my higher intentions about being a good partner, and we could probably have more fun together.
5. Finally, I want you to get off my back as a policeman to make sure I follow through. Both of us will feel better about that. So when I don’t follow through or give you a timely warning (stuff does happen) then I will work on cleaning the garage the following weekend for at least two hours every time I blow it.

My book, “Tell Me No Lies,” includes some helpful insights about apologies. For more information or to order, visit http://www.couplesinstitute.com/couples/products.html.

May all your apologies be little ones.

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