Hey guys, today I was buzzed by a friend, who said that Daniel Scocco just released a new report worth a read on his blog site.

“10 Deadly Business Mistakes You Should Avoid”

It’s a very short report, so easy to read, but contains some great info. I like to share this common mistake that we do, and I am going to admit that 4 years back I did the same mistake.

One of the mistake is “Lacking money focus”

The Internet is certainly erupting with opportunities. All it takes is an idea and passion to build a website around it, and in a matter of months you could have a real business on your hands. Curiously enough, this abundance of opportunities is also what leads many online entrepreneurs to fail. How come? Because they end up trying to pursue too many things at the same time.

They start several blogs, promote affiliate programs, create mini websites for AdSense and offer consulting services on top of that. As a result, they end with average, if not mediocre results in each of these activities. If you want to create something powerful, you need to concentrate your efforts on it. This is true for most things in life. Just think about light. When you have dispersed light beams, they are not that strong. When you concentrate the light beams, however, they become very powerful. So powerful that they can cut steel! This is the concept behind the laser.

Testing with different business models and ideas is ne, but once you decide what direction you want to go, you will need to focus all your time and energies on it.

As you probably know, the online market place is a crowded one. You have thousands of blogs in every niche, hundreds of websites in every segment and dozens of online companies offering similar services. If you want to be pro table, you need to be the best at what you do, and you will only achieve that if you have a laser sharp focus.

This obviously does not mean that you will need to stick with one project for the rest of your life. If you grow your business effectively there will be a point in time where it will pretty much stand alone, and you will be able to step back and pursue new ideas. Until you reach that point, however, you need to focus ALL your time and energies on that single project.

Get to know more by grabbing your copy now – 10 Deadly Business Mistakes to Avoid Link

Take just a few minutes now from your day to read his free report, you will be glad you did and you will thank me later!

Have a great day,
Rosli Hanip

My little advise to you:
Overall I still believe there are no shortcuts to success. Whether you work for a corporation or have your own small business, if you want to succeed you’ll need to work your butt off. If you have your own online business, on the other hand, all your sweat will go into something that you actually own. If you hit a home run, you’ll collect all the profits, and you can also decide to sell the whole business down the road.

OK, grab the free report today!

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Hi! Hope you have a great weekend with your family. During the weekend I received few emails on asking how to reduce expenses on my work from home business during this difficult time. Working from home is less costly than renting office space. Once you have decided to skip the hassle and expense of commuting, there are additional ways to reduce your costs. Here are some tips for you today.

1. Keep complete and accurate accounting records, and review your expenses at the end of each month to determine where you could cut back.

2. Join a purchasing alliance for small and home-based businesses to get discounts on everything from health insurance to office supplies.

3. Purchase a multifunction copy, fax, scanner, and printer machine. This can save on the costs of buying each one of these separately. (All-in-One machine).

4. Take tax deductions for business use of your vehicle and home.

5.  Try to earn supplier discounts by paying an invoice within 10 days of the invoice date.

6. Give free Internet access services a try, i.e. free broadband hotspot.

7. Talk to your insurance agent about ways to cut insurance costs.

8. Use a small business accounting program instead of paying a pricey accountant software. This can save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year.

9. Do not pay for marketing and promotional services for your home based business. Use your website as a way to advertise your products and services. Add your URL to your website in your signature when participating in online forums and groups. Take your business cards with you to pass out whenever you meet someone who might be interested in your services.

10. A fellow friend helped me learn an important lesson. Write up a job description and send it to the career placement office at your local college. If you want a student with a particular major – such as biology or marketing – contact the secretary of that department at the college. You will help a student gain experience while you get the assistance you need.

11. Learn how to build a massive list of targeted followers fast with Twitter. Discover ways to get targeted followers on autopilot! Just set it once, forget it about it and start seeing floats of followers to your Twitter account in DAYS!

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Wow! I got an online training from Alec Baldwin today.

The Art of Selling.

More Sales Tips videos at 5min.com

Here are the 15 tips that can help any techie transition into sales:

1. Learn to be comfortable interacting with others and try to develop a comfort level in talking with people you have never met. Joining a couple of social groups such as Toastmasters International that assist all types of professionals in public/group speaking can help.

2. Consider taking a sales course at a nearby college, entrepreneurial center, chamber of commerce or an online class.

3. Develop a strong level of self-confidence in your ability to speak effectively and sincerely about your product or service. Believe that if you convince prospects to become your customers they will be better off because of what you sold them.

4. Seek mentors who have been successful in sales or sales management. Use them to bounce ideas off or and share your enthusiasm for being in sales.

5. Remember: Everyone is a salesperson to some extent and nothing happens in any company — or any relationship — until something is sold. If you are married, you “sold” your wife on marrying you. Competent teachers are salespeople too. They’re selling ideas and concepts to motivate students.

6. Be able to convince your boss (or a senior sales manager in your company) that you are confident in your ability to sell and motivate others.

7. Start by asking your manager if you can assist in a “sales support” role so you can observe how a sales professional handles preparations and objections.

8. Learn to become a good listener — if you are not already — and remember that successful sales professionals cannot sell anything if they don’t listen to and understand the needs of their buyers.

9. Consider the possibility that you may be more qualified than you realize. Technical managers, for example, have sales skills because they are responsible for motivating others, getting projects approved, and selling management on larger budgets or additional tools, to name a few.

10. Find out who your competitors are and examine the merits and pitfalls of their products. You will be selling against them.

11. Know your products and their advantages over those of your competitors (i.e., price, ability to ship, quality, or value-added concepts your company offers).

12. Learn how to use the sales professional’s most valuable tool — the phone and now with Skype or Yahoo Messenger. Be comfortable and confident in what you are saying. Don’t be disappointed by rejection.

13. Be prepared to handle rejection. It’s hard to take in the beginning. Once you gain confidence though, it ought to be a motivator.

14. Learn how to deal with objections to setting appointments or resistance to buying your products, and learn how to ask for an order (close the sale). If there are no objections, there will be no sale. When your prospects ask questions they are asking you to tell them why they should buy.

15. Know that a sale is always being made. Either you sell your prospect on the advantages of buying and a sale is made or your prospect sells you on the reasons for not buying and you lose the deal. Even a commitment for another meeting or follow-up action is a sales commitment which can lead to a sale.

These are tips for a conventional sales person but since I am now doing my business online, get in for the free tips here. Online Business is a thing to do in this current economic situation.

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Guys, in this current economic situation many people are looking for alternative ways of making money. Some people are contemplating of quitting their job to find a new job with higher salary. My advice is do not do that. As in this current situation, employer tend to tighten their belt and may consider retrench their staffs and may not hire new anyone. If you quit your current job, you may face problem finding a job yourself. So what is the alternatives? Get a second job. Do a work from home chores. So as the title speaks today, “cash in on your talents”, will be the best choice if you consider it wisely.

Example if your hobby is taking high-quality photographs, it may well earn you some passive income. Explore the possibilities to all photographers out there to http://shutterstock.com/ to sell your photos to the world online. Get this idea into your head with these wordings, “Don’t let the photos sleep in your hard-disk drive or thumb-drive. Let them make some money”.

Same goes if you are a talented writer or your passion is writing, you could earn money in your sleep via royalties from books or songs that you have written. Same goes if you are a chef, writing cookery book is viable to making money and could do it online too via blogging strategies.

So guys there are ways for you to make money with your gifted talent. Do not waste your talent. Make good use of your talent to make money and believe me, if you manage to do that, you will like it and upon time you will quit your 9 to 5 job easily. Why? Because you have convert your passion into money making machine. Many people have done it and who know this will be your time.

Today, go home, have a nice shower, sit in front of your mirror and ponder about this post today, “cash in on your talents”

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Guys, I think I already discuss this topic sometimes ago but today I would like to share what I discussed with one of my friend yesterday. He is still working with one of the corporate company in Malaysia for more than 10 years now. And yesterday I walked-in into his office to discuss few matters on the current business that I have with his company. While discussing, I noticed via his body language it told me that he have something to ask me. Suddenly my guess is true, he changed the topic and asked me, “What do you think if I quit my job and take care of my business fulltime?”.

Then he told me that he had already been running a company with couple of his friends to do some business but of course not related to his current work. But the business need him to attend for few meetings during office hours and he felt that it is not right for him to divert his time from his 9-5 job to attend to the meetings on behalf of his own company. He felt that he is not sincere to his current employer. What a noble guy to have such a feeling or principle on what is right and what is not. So I told him, “Dear friend, just ask your gut feelings out of it. If it says you have the will power to forgo your current job and concentrate fully to run your business, by all means go for it.” To me it is all in our mind. But I told him to get ready of some important matters. I said, “If in the difficult times or the hard times or the early days of your business, and you forsee yourself could sustain your style of living for at least a year or so, then you are ready to jump into the band wagon of the business world.” This is to me is no. 1 item in your check list.

To do your own business you need a preparation too and let’s start out with a few questions about you, your resources, and your abilities:

1. I can afford to quit my job and live on next to nothing for at least a year or two
2. I can work part time and get my business going on the side until it takes off
3. I have good credit so I can easily get funding for my business for inventory, salaries, etc.
4. I am good at managing my time
5. I like to train and manage others and I am good at managing people
6. I always take responsibility for my own success or failure
7. I have a network of contacts I can use to get supplies and services
8. I have good negotiating skills
9. I am willing to take risks to achieve my goals
10. I know the value of a Business Plan and how to write one
11. I am willing to work very long hours, including weekends and to forgo vacations to get my business up and running
12. I can quickly jump from small tasks to larger planning issues
13. I communicate and work well with others
14. I can do my own bookkeeping and accounting
15. I have the personnel, partners or resources to fill in the blanks where I don’t have the skills to do the job myself AND I will be able to afford to pay these people.
16. I can communicate my passion for my business to bankers, lawyers and customers alike
17. I am a good sales person
18. I like to work hard
19. I have enough assets or money to invest a reasonable amount in my own business
20. I am good at problem solving
21. I am not afraid to learn new things
22. I know how to set goals and measure results
23. I accept setbacks and keep on trying
24. I can work on a ‘shoe-string’ and I am great at managing money
25. I understand the importance of marketing and know the difference between marketing and advertising for a small business vs. a large corporation
26. I am a good God given servant.

If you were able to say ‘YES’ to more than half of these questions, you have starting from a position of some strength. If you were able to get 75% of the items above, you are likely to do well in your business, provided you choose the right business type and the right location.

Are you ready to become your own boss? Be Your Own Boss: The first tip.

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Oil, Gas, Petrol Prices have been skyrocketing due to the weakening US dollar and heavy speculation in world markets.

So I have one question to ask you today. Here it is . . . .

Will gas prices ever go down again? I wish I could say “yes”; however, there is no sign of a change in the near future. That is why we, the consumer, have to learn how to be frugal at the pump. I have arrived at 10 tips on how we can save money at the pump an also help preserve the environment.

#1 Make sure your car is serviced, regularly. Cars that do not run properly use more gas.

#2 Check your tire pressure, consistently. Over-inflated tires can reduce your fuel efficiency just as much as under-inflated tires.

#3 Try to avoid running your vehicle’s air conditioning unit. Running the air conditioner causes lower gas mileage. If you have to have the air conditioner on, then keep it at a low setting. Another alternative is to turn the air conditioner on until the car gets cool and then turn it off and let the fan circulate the cool air. If you are alone driving, just off the air conditioner and open your window

#4 Likewise, when traveling at high speeds, keep your windows closed. If you have your windows open when you are traveling at high speed, then the open window will cause a drag. The drag will lower your gas mileage.

#5 If you are traveling at fast speeds, then make sure your gears are not in low. Obviously, am I right?

#6 If you are stuck in traffic and will not be moving anytime soon, then it is a good idea to turn your engine off, instead of letting it idle for a period of time.

#7 Stop and go traffic hurts your gas mileage. So, if at all possible, change your work time to avoid the morning and evening rush hours. This may mean leaving earlier or later. The best is to work from home and not to worry about the rat race!

#8 Do not let your car “warm up” on colder days and this does not apply in Malaysia but to you guys in the US and Europe. Again, you will lose gas mileage, if you let your vehicle idle for periods of time.

#9 Take unneeded items out of your car. Excessive weight just bogs down your car and gas mileage. Also recommended you to exercise or go on diet to have an ideal weight (Like me, play futsal every evening)

#10 Plan your trips well to avoid unnecessary driving. If nearby like going to groceries or to buy an errant, just walk.

Remember that you do not have to be a victim at the pump. There are steps you can take that will prolong your visits to the gas station. Check the latest gas price here.

Guys, I got one more bonus tip for you . . .

Do not drive your car, just car pool with others. Or sell off your car and just take public transport example bus, LRT, monorail, etc, Or simply get one of the user friendly and cheap “convertible” . . . .below . . .

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GOOGLE HATES YOU…

Or That’s What Some Of The So-Called “Gurus”
Want You To Believe.

… But The Truth Is That Those Who Have Been
Following My Instructions Are Still Raking In Massive
Passive Income By Claiming Their Piece Of The
$3.2 BILLION Dollar Google Cash Machine

How would you like to do a joint venture with the world’s biggest search engine? Google.

Everyone knows Google, but not everyone knows that Google is handing out money to people like you and me.

It’s true!

Since 2003, a select group of website publishers have been quietly collecting checks from Google. And we’re not talking small checks. We’re talking BIG checks!

Google takes in billions of dollars in advertising revenue every year and they want to pay you to put their ads on your site via their AdSense publisher program.

But is it as simple as putting code on your site?

Perhaps…

But there is much more to making money with AdSense.

And that’s why I encourage you to run, not walk, to pick up a copy of Joel’s new AdSense ebook, Google AdSense Secrets: Fourth Edition.

http://www.roslihanip.com/recommends/adsensesecret4.0/

It’s been over two years since Joel last released an updated version of his best selling “Google AdSense Secrets” ebook. This book is the definitive guide to making money with AdSense and it is the only book you ever need to master AdSense.

Joel regularly sells this book for $97.00. It’s worth every penny.

But what is doing now is going to send shockwaves through the industry! It is unbelievable.

So how is Joel saying “thank you” by offering this book?

It’s the price!

Are you sitting down?

You are going to think I am toying with you, but this is the honest truth…

For a limited time, Joel is offering AdSense Secrets v4.0 to you for just $9.95!

Yes, you heard me right!

That’s just …$9.95!

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Welcome to the biggest no-brainer of the year.

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Honestly, I don’t know how long Joel will make the book available at this price, so I recommend you hurry and download it NOW!

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You may be wondering who is Joel?

Joel as the author of The New York Times Best seller, “The AdSense Code” and the Host & Executive Producer of “The Next Internet Millionaire” reality show, continues to produce top-quality resources and training materials that have helped thousands of people increase their online income.

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Yesterday we discussed about Secrets Of Writing Sales Materials Revealed and today we will look at what copywriting as a job has to offer.

There is a great deal of benefits if you have copywriting as a job. The salary for a copy writer is much higher than the average wage in the United States. According to the magazine Advertising Age, the average salary for a copywriter in the United States is right around $60,000 when you include bonuses and that was for the year 2005. You can imagine that the income will be higher now, given that there has been inflation in the last two years. The Bureau of Labor Statistics comes up with a similar but slightly lower number, right around $57,000 for a copywriter.

Copywriting does have a great deal more flexibility than many jobs. You do not need to worry about keeping set hours usually because the focus is upon you writing good copy. This could allow you to live a full life in some ways because you can plan some events around the fact that you can make up more time in hours on certain days if something comes up. This is something that many jobs such as banks or restaurants are not able to do.

Copywriting as a job also offers a great workplace environment. Many copywriters work within an advertising agency, which can be a great place to work. You often have many other creative people and there you can bounce ideas off of one another and these people often have high energy which you can feed off of. This can be a great group of people to work with because you will often find that you are challenged due to the intelligence and creativity of this group of people. There are many different sizes of advertising agencies see you could decide to work for a smaller advertising agency if you like a close-knit group of people or you could work for a larger advertising agency if you want more competition. This could be structured according to how your mindset and makeup are. There is a great deal of flexibility within your workplace environment as demonstrated here.

Writing good copy can be very challenging so you will find that this job will never grow boring. If you work at an advertising agency, you often will have many different types of clients so the work that you do every day can change. This is good because you’ll get a great variety of different things they would never get bored.

Copywriting as a job offers great benefits to you no matter how you look at it. You are able to make very good money, considering that the average wage is right around $60,000. If you are able to establish yourself as a master copywriter, you can obviously earn a great deal more money than the average salary. The workplace environment often will be crackling with creative energy and the flexibility that you will have from the job is more than most other jobs can offer.

There are a great deal of copywriting jobs out there today. Within this article today, we will look at the future of copywriting jobs as well as where you can find more information.

The number of copywriting job is enormous. As of February 10, 2008, if you did a keyword search of “copywriting“, there were more than 609 open jobs. This is only a small part of the market and you could find many other copywriting jobs on other websites as well. With the evolution of the Internet, there are more and more jobs available to write good web content among other things on the Internet. Often many copywriting jobs can be found where you will find a plethora of advertising agencies and a good example of this would be in New York. Within your area, there will be a good number of smaller marketing agencies where you may be able to find work as a copywriter. The number of opportunities for a copywriter is very high and this is a great feel to work in.

Copywriting salaries usually range from $41,000 a year up to $56,000 a year or more. From this website, 41,000 represented what the 25th percentile are making on average within the field whereas the people earning 56,000 a year were in the top 75%. This is a rough gauge on what you could potentially make if you decide to take a copywriting job.

To look just be on the realm of grabbing a job as a copywriter, you could also look at doing some freelance copywriting. If you’re not happy with the amount of money that you could make within the copywriting field, you could look at supplementing this on the side by bidding for projects at either of these two following websites: www.elance.com or www.directfreelance.com. On either of these two websites, you are able to bid on projects that are listed as well as set up a profile to showcase your best work. You can create search criteria so that jobs that meet what you want can be e-mailed to you. This is a great way to supplement your income.

But you could be a copywriter too. How? Read this, Dynamic & Influential copywriting

Copywriting jobs are out there for the taking. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, copywriting jobs will grow in line with the general economy over the next decade. This means that you will see probably about average growth for the industry but you could see a great deal more growth if you focus on Internet copywriting. This is a very flexible industry in which you have potentially a greater chance at dictating your terms and conditions and how you would like to work. This is something that you can look into when you start talking with a potential employer. Do not underestimate also the opportunity to work as a freelancer because you could command higher rates and this would increase the amount of flexibility you would have within your life.

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