Marketing: "5 Surefire Ways To Drive Your Competition Crazy"

"5 Surefire Ways To Drive Your Competition Crazy"

Written by "Dangerous" Debbie Jenkins

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"Five Surefire Ways To Drive Your Competition Crazy"

- by "Dangerous" Debbie Jenkins

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Taking an aggressive stance to your competition is not repparttar most productive way of running a business. However, there are times when some people just get a little too cocky and need knocking down a peg or two. If you want to put an annoying competitor in his or her place then these tips are for you.

1. Keep Friends Close - Keep Enemies Closer ------------------------------------------- Befriend your competitors and learn all you can about their business needs, challenges and wants. In essence "Know Your Enemy" but don't give away too much about yourself. Then, if they get too big for their boots, go for their weak spots to undermine them.

2. Give Your Competitors Your Business ------------------------------------------- "What?!?" I hear you cry! Yes, give your competitors all repparttar 120394 leads you don't want. That means pass on repparttar 120395 desperate- blame-meisters and long-term-tyre-kickers. Your competitors will think you're nice and harmless. But you'll be sending them a Trojan-Horse-Load of trouble!

3. Own Customer Brain-Time ------------------------------------------- Make sure what you're saying is more memorable and more in tune with your customer's needs than what your competitors are saying. The easiest way to do this is to describe things in your customer's terms and shut up about yourself.

Also, make it your job to stay in touch with your customers and your competitors' customers, by providing highly valuable freebies at regular intervals. A newsletter or eZine is ideal for this purpose.

4. Patronise Your Competitors ------------------------------------------- Yes, in both senses of repparttar 120396 word. If they're doing well, tell them you're impressed with repparttar 120397 "effort" they've put in recently. In fact, tell your prospects (ie their customers and yours) that it seems they've come on leaps and bounds in recent months. All repparttar 120398 time be sure to imply that if they keep this up they may even be as good as you some day.

5 Things About Offshore Asset Protection Every Internet Marketer Should Know

Written by James Allen

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most popular tools of offshore asset protection and how they can be used by online business people and internet marketers like yourself to protect and grow your business.

1. Offshore Trusts

An offshore trust is a very simple agreement that helps put some distance between you and your hard earned assets. A trust is simply a legally binding agreement between two parties - repparttar 120396 grantor and repparttar 120397 trustee. The grantor "grants" control over specified assest and property to repparttar 120398 trustee, who is then responsible for them. Beneficiaries are listed in repparttar 120399 trust, who will "benefit" from repparttar 120400 assests being entrusted. Often this is in repparttar 120401 form of receiving repparttar 120402 assets upon repparttar 120403 death of repparttar 120404 grantor, or by receiving repparttar 120405 profits generated by repparttar 120406 assets listed.

The main point is that this agreement helps separate repparttar 120407 grantor - you - from these assets in a legal sense, making it more difficult for someone to take them from you. By moving repparttar 120408 trust offshore, there is an added layer of protection. If you've ever worried about a frivolous lawsuit destroying all you've worked for in your internet business, this is certainly a form of asset protection you'll want to look into.

2. Offshore Incorporation

There are many benefits for repparttar 120409 internet marketer who chooses to incorporate offshore. Protecting your privacy from repparttar 120410 prying eyes of an ever more invasive government - especially in repparttar 120411 area of online information, legally limiting repparttar 120412 amount of taxes you pay on your online income, and protecting your business against lawsuits are just a few of repparttar 120413 ways an offshore corporation or IBC can benefit repparttar 120414 internet marketer.

Properly planned and executed, forming an offshore corporation need not be any more expensive or time consuming than forming a corporation within your own borders. Be sure to deal with a legitimate and established firm when establishing your IBC, make sure your asset protection needs are being met and that all of your questions are answered.

3. Offshore Bank Accounts

Again, keeping with repparttar 120415 theme of protecting repparttar 120416 internet marketer's wealth from both lawsuits and privacy invasion, repparttar 120417 offshore bank account will also help address these issues.

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