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March 31, 2004
5 Tips to Help Massage Therapy Practices Increasing Clients Retention
Author: Annick Lemieux, LMT
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Business
The following tips are for sure very basic techniques. However, when used, they dramatically increase your client retention and attract a brand news clientele.
1.Be visible and be known as the best. Greater exposure instantly gives you greater credibility.
2.Provide hands out to your clients on a regular basis. A top notch quality newsletter shows your professionalism. Some websites specialize in creating high quality affordable newsletters that you can quickly and easily personalize.
3.Kee read more
Five Steps to An Effective Business Plan
Author: Vishal P. Rao
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Business
Copyright 2004 Vishal P. Rao
You have an idea for a business. You know what you want to
sell, who you can sell it to, and how much you stand to earn
from it. There's just one more thing you need: a business
plan.
Many people dread the idea of preparing a business plan.
They think of them as complicated, unnecessary documents
that exist only to make it more difficult for them to get
started as an entrepreneur. They are wrong.
Business plans are necessary because they help you “see"
your ... read more
One-Two-Three Punch Marketing
Author: Catherine Franz
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing
Printed material is just as important today as it was before the Internet. With sp*a*m getting out of hand, its a wise choice to rev up, update or create printed material, ads, catalogs, direct mail, press releases, letters, templates
and the like.
You will notice that I didn't add brochures to this list.
Brochures are not a good investment for a first piece. When
someone asks for a brochure and you don't have one, this
doesn't mean you ignore their request. Worse scenario, you
may run wildly ... read more
Irritable bowel syndrome: Simple self-help tips
Author: Sophie Lee
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Health
If you have been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), you will know how difficult it is to treat. Doctors can be dismissive of IBS symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation and bloating, and when treatment is offered it may only help for a short while before the distressing symptoms return.
Sufferers often find that they have to deal with the symptoms themselves, through self-help methods and supplements, rather than by using conventional medicines. However, this does not mean that ... read more
What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail?
Author: Sandra A. Daley
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Motivational
The next time you find yourself relaxing on the couch, having popped some corn and about to watch the Sopranos, instead, pose this $1,000,000 lottery question to yourself and see what flows. What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Would you work, not work? If you knew anything you touched or did held the possibility for success - whatever that is, what would you do? If there were no time constraints, no obstacles, no self-doubt, what would you do?
Some of you are already saying, ... read more
Is Your Marketing Strategy Killing Your Profits?
Author: Charlie Cook
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing
With the wrong marketing strategy you could be killing your
profits and limiting your business. Your marketing strategy
is like the driver in a car, with marketing tactics being
the engine. If you know where you want to go and how to
get there, your marketing tactics will help you attract
many more clients, if not you could crash.
Every business uses one or more of the following tactics
to attract clients; mailings, advertisements, phone calls,
networking, promotional events, a web ... read more
The Eight Week Cholesterol Challenge
Author: Barrett Niehus
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Health
The Eight Week Cholesterol Challenge
by Barrett Niehus
http://www.freetrainer.com
When I first started down this path I was looking for something to reduce my cholesterol levels without giving me a heart attack. My doctor recommended Lipitor, but I had read an article in the American Heart Associations web site that indicated Lipitor and other statin drugs may possibly be worse for me than my high cholesterol. (The article that I read is here: ... read more
Top 5 Exercise Plateau Breakers
Author: Gillian Hood-Gabrielson
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Health
Plateau. That dreaded word that you do not want to hear, let alone experience. Especially if you have been diligently exercising in an attempt to get fit or lose weight. We have all experienced a plateau at some time all of a sudden you stop losing weight or you just cant seem to run any faster. When you hit a plateau, dont panic. It doesnt necessarily mean you need to work harder or spend more days at the gym. Here are five ideas that may help you break through in record time.
Take an Active ... read more
Movement That Matters: Exercise With a Greater Purpose
Author: Gillian Hood-Gabrielson
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Health
Youve seen the commercials Ive fallen and I cant get up! While this has been a topic of many jokes and late-night comedy skits, the reality is falling is a very real danger for many people. Too often falls can lead to broken bones, hospitalization, and sometimes life-threatening illnesses due to being confined to a bed while recovering.
A less extreme, but still real situation is when a person lacks the leg strength to get out of a chair. Or someone who throws out their back just picking up ... read more
Get Moving!: Top 7 Exercise Motivation Secrets
Author: Gillian Hood-Gabrielson
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Health
Lets face it, we all know we need to exercise. Many of us know how to exercise. How many books and videos do you own? How many gym memberships have you had in your life? You may even be an expert on the perfect exercises for your body. But youre not doing it! Why? Well the problem isnt lack of knowledge, its lack of motivation. Does this sound familiar?
What can you do? Focus less on gaining more knowledge, and more on getting and staying motivated. As you become more consistent and start ... read more
Your Fitness Success: Just a Phone Call Away
Author: Gillian Hood-Gabrielson
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Health
Did you jump out of bed this morning, ready to exercise? Or was it another morning where the snooze button won over your best intentions? Do you have a crazy morning business schedule, but promise yourself you will work out at the end of the day? How many times have you actually followed through with that promise?
Most people know they should exercise, and many know how to do it, but simply cant get motivated. Many busy people have found their answer in a growing trend in fitness known as ... read more
Straddling the Science/Magic Line: A Look At Magnetic Therapy
Author: Maya Talisman Frost
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Science
What's the difference between science and magic? It's our understanding of what makes something happen.
If magic is hocus-pocus, science is simply well understood hocus-pocus. Fire? Solar eclipse? Volcanic eruption? Earthquake? Once we can explain it, it becomes science. But sometimes we're stuck straddling that science/magic line.
Consider magnets.
Remember when you were a kid back in elementary school and you first discovered the wonder of
magnets? What a thrill it was to explore the ... read more
Defining Success Your Way!
Author: Ann Ronan, Ph.D.
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Self Help
Our society defines success primarily around three elements: power, money and fame. Many of you reading this may be saying, wait a minute those elements are not the most important things to me. Success is often intangible. Its certainly unique to each person. Have you considered how you will know when you are successful?
For one of my career coaching clients, a definition of success is having autonomy in her work. She wants to set her own goals and direct her own activities. Shes considering ... read more
How to Buy the Right Digital Camera
Author: Kathleen Wade
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Computers And Internet
How to Buy the Right Digital Camera
When buying a digital camera there are many things you should consider. First you should understand how a digital camera works. What you are using your digital camera for will help you decide what features to consider and how much you should spend. I am here to educate you and help you decide.
Lets start with understanding how a digital camera works. A digital camera uses semiconductor chips instead of conventional film. Its usually a Charged Coupled Device ... read more
Wealth for Free
Author: Kathleen Wade
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Computers And Internet
Wealth for Free
When I started my on line company a year ago, I knew very little about optimizing my website. I had a very small budget so purchasing a prime spot on a search engine was out of the question. So my quest for free information began. There were so many sites offering how to books, companies offering their services ect but not for cheap. I dug a little deeper. To my surprise, everything that I would have spent thousands of dollars on, you can get for FREE! Of course there is a lot ... read more
Water...How It Effects Aging
Author: Paula Willard
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Health
How many times have your heard drink eight to ten glasses of water everyday? How often do we actually drink that much pure water?
Would you believe that as you are reading this page you are dehydrating? We were all born as grapes, but now we are turning into raisins. Your body was once more than 70% water and now, if youre like most Americans past the age of 40, you are lucky to have a hydration level above 60%. The bodies of most hospitalized elderly are less than 50% water.
Today, ... read more
Your Health
Author: Sergios Charntikov
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Health
How are you? Are you OK? Do you feel all right? These are the simple questions that could be asked in order to determine basic health condition of a person. The lowest level of a good health could be maintained by prevention of simple chronic diseases (like ) and muscle-skeletal injuries. Basic advice is to stay away from sicknesses of any kind, especially the one that are the chronic one and could be prevented, plus it is nice if you dont break your bones and pull your muscles every ... read more
The Rep
Author: Keith D Commiskey
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Humanities / Kids And Teens
As a young girl, while growing up in Junior High, if you show that you are too eager to be with boys, or even a certain boy, you will, sooner or later, be seen as "desperate". Come High School, reputation becomes more important (to girls) than looks. Imagine if you have a bad hair day, your next day you can still shine. But if you get a bad rep one day, your entire year can suffer. At least that's the case in High School (in Junior High your bad rep is forgotten the moment someone else becomes ... read more
How to Increase Web Site Visitors For Relevant Terms Using Your Less Relevant Listings
Author: Tinu AbayomiPaul
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing / E-Commerce
Completely by accident and through no effort of my own, besides the effort to get my site spidered by Yahoo's Slurp Search Engine Spider and Google's Googlebot Search Engine spider, I've seen an accidental increase in the visitors to my web site.
Suddenly, I was ranking first page for Google, Yahoo and AOL for the phrases like "picture of William Hung", and "william hung she bangs".
The Good news is, this means that when the Yahoo Slurp spider came to the site and indexed my front page last ... read more
Adventures of a Newbie/Victim of a Spammer
Author: Stephen Currier
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing / E-Commerce
Do you use an auto-submitter for your website? Have you received requests for verifications? And received all kinds of offers as well from FFA pages? Have you answered some of these ads? You need to be very careful about answering the ads as some of them are collection points for spammers. They not only collect your email address, they also collect your IP address.
I have a problem that just started because I answered one of the ads that was sent to me. There is a spammer who is posing as me ... read more
How Can You Be Sure That Your Marketing Efforts Will Generate Profits?
Author: John Taylor
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing / E-Commerce
There are several ways to ensure that your adverts are responsive let me outline my top ten response boosting techniques:
1. An attention grabbing headline is crucial. Yes, headlines are one of the most important elements within your web pages. The majority of professional copywriters have been known to spend as much time on headlines as they do on all other elements of an advert or web page combined. The purpose of a headline is to grab your targeted prospect's attention and pull them into ... read more
Google AdWords and AdSense - A Dynamic Small Business Marketing Duo
Author: John Jantsch
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing / E-Commerce
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last year or so, you probably know that Google has become the king of the search engine hill. There are many reasons for this but number one in my opinion is that above all else they put value on content. Today I want to introduce you to two very powerful small business advertising options created by Google.
These two ingenious programs have all but revolutionized the way advertising is done on the web. Warning: If you are thinking..."web ... read more
Making Money With Any MLM Program
Author: Joe Featherston
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing / E-Commerce
Multi-level Marketing companies abound by the thousands. A great many well-known economists are predicting this form of selling to become the prevailing method of selling by the turn of the century.
A lot of people have joined multi-level marketing programs and have made a fortune from their efforts. Anybody with just a smattering of ambition and energy can still join up and attain financial freedom.
However, unless you know what you're doing and how to do it, you'll probably never make ... read more
"Maximizing The True Value Of Your Traffic"
Author: Ewen Chia
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing / E-Commerce
You may be shocked to hear this.
You DON'T need a lot of traffic to make your website a screaming success.
Many new marketers are led to believe the key to profits lies in throwing as much traffic as possible at their sites. Hence increasing the popularity of traffic blasting programs which are inevitably money-drainers for the honest marketers.
If only it was that easy.
The truth of the matter is, there're only two basic ways to increase the profitability of any website, and in turn ... read more
Do You Have a Plan?
Author: Dirk Wagner
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing / E-Commerce
Writing a business plan for a home based business is every bit as important as writing a business plan for a conventional outside the home business. The lack of a concrete plan can be linked to many businesses failing before they realize their goals.
There are numerous software programs available online for creating business plans or you may want to consult an attorney or accountant. However, if you intend on doing it yourself there are some general guidelines for you to follow.
So Just What ... read more
Think All the Good Domain Names are Taken?
Author: Dean Walden
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing / E-Commerce
Have you heard of the other tlds (top leve domains) such as: .free, .church, .video, .travel, .llp, .golf, .school, .agent and .love? There are many more too. Wait! Don't wretch just yet. I'll tell you why in just a minute.
If you look for a great domain name for very long you will learn how rare they are. Trying to find a one word dot com is a futile effort. The only exception to that is the occasional name that someone gives up. The problem with that is you must search a list of thousands ... read more
Speed Up Or Lose Out! How To Improve Your Website's Download Speed
Author: Mike Cheney
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Marketing / Site Promotion
So your web site's online and you've got high rankings in the search engines attracting lots of visitors. But the statistics tell you most of them are leaving after viewing just one page, what's gone wrong?
One possible cause could be a slow download speed of your web site's homepage or the web site as a whole. There is nothing worse than having to wait for a web site to load up. Studies indicate that the majority of visitors will only wait 3 - 5 seconds for a homepage to load up before ... read more
How To Enjoy Croatia
Author: Neven Grubisic
Written: March 31, 2004
Category: Lifestyle / Travel
1. Why Croatia ?
Croatia is the closest Mediterranean destination to central Europe. It takes 2 hours by plane from London, 45 minutes from Munchen... Croatian natural beauties are significant and amongst the best preserved in the world ( over 5,800 km of coast, over 1,000 islands, numerous national parks ... ). More about Croatia find on the official web site www.croatia.hr
2. How to Croatia ?
Traveling by car you have to keep in mind that the traffic is increased in summer season. National ... read more
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