6. Record all your new promotion ideas into an idea journal, good or bad. Sometimes you can combine ideas to create new ones to increase your sales.

7. Convert your web site and free e-mail newsletter into different languages. This will increase your over- all target market.

8. Make your classified ads stand out in a crowd. Use all capitol letters in headline, divide letters with extra spaces, add in text symbols, etc.

9. Remember your customer is always right, even if they are not. Resolve all conflicts quickly and painlessly. They are lifeblood of your business.

10. Create a bond with your visitors by bringing up likes or dislikes you have in common with them in your ad copy. Just make sure you do your research.

Week four: Just found out boss gave new guy at office a few of my responsibilities. Great! It takes some work off my plate. Kind of odd, though. Did supervisor forget that that was my area? Didn't he like way I was doing it? Is everybody in office talking about me, criticizing me, now that I'm not there?

They're jealous, that's what it is. They probably think I'm sleeping in, getting my nails done, watching soaps on company time. They say being alone too much can make you paranoid. But I'm not, really I'm not. Say... you haven't heard any rumors, have you?

Week five: The annual office party was last night. I found out about it this morning. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say. It's okay. I don't like steak and lobster and dancing anyway.

Week six: Telecommuting has its ups and downs, but it has convinced me to go it alone... to sever ties with bi-weekly paychecks, daily headaches and humiliations. It's given me hankering to start my own home-based business. And, yes, I am terrified. But like book says - feel fear and do it anyway.

However, first I have to find guts to hand in this letter of resignation and do it with grace and class. Without recriminations or fear. Wish me luck.