A beginners guide to networkingWritten by Susan Prince
You will not have worked on internet for long before you start to read about networking. To be successful in business it seems you must participate in art of networking if only you knew how or what it meant. Networking Is proactive marketing of yourself and your business. It is all about communication and getting your name and that of your business known. It is art of meeting people and benefiting from information and links that you establish. People on net are real people with real everyday problems and lives of their own. To network successful you have to establish and build relationship with other people. You must remember that people are not machines and what you say on internet can make you friends or enemies. Some of ways we network are: Email Place a signature onto your emails.Every time you email someone you are advertising your business. messenger boards/chatslines A great place to get your name known. Web sites Reciprocal linking to other websites will put your name and your business all over net. Forums These are meeting places for like minded people.Offer advice,give out information.You cannot openly advertise but can add a signature once again getting your name known. Articles Start writing some articles.Put your signature at bottom and submit them everywhere and anywhere.
| | Literally Littered with IlliteracyWritten by Stephen Brennan
There’s some ‘alliteration’ for you! My great concern though, is fact that there are too many today who wouldn’t understand title or know meaning of ‘alliteration’ (a repetition of words beginning with same letter – as in Peter Piper picked a peck......). You might ask, "What has this to do with Internet Home Based Business?". I'll get to that.I’m a member of a number of forums and in each, at some point, and often on a number of occasions, there is long discussion regarding standard of literacy among graduates these days (or over last twenty years or so). It's perfectly obvious in every forum that many people don’t have even most basic skills when it comes to grammar and spelling. Perusing as many websites as I do on a daily basis, as do all those who make their livings through home based business, I sometimes find myself despairing for some of those who have recently been through so called ‘educational institutions’ that pass as schools in western countries. I am Australian, I have spoken with many in U.S., Britain and Canada and it would seem that problem isn’t only relevant to any one country or area. Even when I worked in ‘real’ world, I had occasion to hire graduates who, of course, needed to fill out an application. I still have a couple of extraordinary examples of ‘education failing miserably’. I posed earlier, "What does this have to do with Internet Home Based Business?". When you consider that level of literacy required to put together a reasonable quality website, fill it with passable content and promote it to search engines and Internet population in general, is beyond average High School graduate's writing (spelling and grammar) cabilities, this is indeed a huge concern. Of course, you not only have to be able to write but also have to be able to read and understand others. Where will we find ourselves in ten or fifteen years if something is not done now to remedy this long-standing problem. Time and again throughout years I have heard people complain about quality of grammar and/or spelling of our graduates, let alone ability to create and write a good article, some reasonable website content or a passable essay.
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