Team= Together Everyone Accomplishes More or so the acronym says. We often hear about teams in sports, military, corporations and politics. But team dynamics can also be found in very low-tech businesses. Consider if you will a crew of mobile car washers or mobile fleet vehicle washers.

A crew of mobile car washers may have up to 4 people on the crew and a team of mobile fleet vehicle washers may have five or more on the crew and if they operate in an efficient manner like the sports team; the company will make it a lot more money and they will get each job done sooner so they can do more jobs.

One way to build a strong team on a mobile car wash business is to make sure the team leader is a high-energy person with some athletic experience. Once the crew starts egging each other on the real synergy can be developed and they can pick up the pace.

Having been in the mobile car wash business for over 27 years I can tell you when working with new franchisees that once the team got good working together it was incredible the number of cars that could be washed in a single day.

I can remember times where we would pull into a parking lot and our competition would be their detailing or washing a few cars and we might wash and wax some 15 cars and leave, while they were still working on two cars. Why, well together everyone accomplishes more. Consider this in 2006.

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Selling your home on your own is not easy and arriving at the negotiation stage is a big achievement in itself. If you decide to sell your home for sale by owner, you need to be ready and well-prepared for this stage. Several FSBO sellers actually feel the stress of the whole process on reaching this point. They often agree to terms of the buyer and give in to the buyer’s demands. Sellers often find themselves in this situation as they are eager to take the sale to the next level. This is because they think they won’t come across another similar buyer. They might not want to lose their chances of closing the deal or they might be under the impression that they won’t get a better offer.

This whole concept of thinking can go against the entire rationale of selling by owner – to make extra money. When you’re selling on your own, you want to make sure you get the best deal and not just the fastest deal. Home buyers generally tend to negotiate a lot more when it comes to FSBO properties as they’re under the impression that they also may be able to take a share of what would’ve been the agent’s commissions. As a seller, you need to be aware of the market conditions and the prices running for similar properties in the market. When negotiating, remember that price is not the only factor you can negotiate with. You can choose to give away part of your furniture, choose to offer a few finacing options, … – there are plenty of other factors you can negotiate with.

Once you’ve reached an agreement and arrive at the contract stage, as a seller, you must be aware of any contingency the buyer has added to their offer. You must fully understand the terms and conditions of the agreement before taking it forward. You must also make sure that all necessary disclosures about the property are made to the buyer, as this has often been the cause of post-sale legal disputes.

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l. Introduce yourself to the editor of your local newspaper. (Or, if you do business within a certain neighborhood, talk to the editor of the neighborhood paper or shopper.)

Tell him/her about your profession. Express your availability to serve as that paper’s free-lance “expert” for that profession.

2. Invite the editor to call you anytime the paper is doing a story on your field.

3. If you offer to work for free initially, it should be easier to get published. And this will show the editor your ability to generate interesting, informative copy.

4. Suggest a question/answer column about what you do. Develop a “sample” column where you ask questions consumers might have…then provide the answers.

5. You don’t need to stop at just one newspaper! If your customers are located throughout a metro area, approach all the neighborhood and business-related newspapers that serve the community. (However, if a newspaper’s eager to run your material for free, you may want to grant that newspaper exclusive use of your materials within the area.)

6. Give your sample column a memorable name…one, perhaps, that details the service you provide. (Examples: “Insurance Info” or “Tennis Talk,” etc.)

7. If newspapers don’t want to run you columns for free, how about paying for them? You can still use a question/answer format for your ad, or you might want to develop an “ad-vertorial” style column. That’s an ad that looks like a news story.

8. IMPORTANT! When you’ve had a few of these columns published, ask each paper for written permission to reprint these articles (giving a credit line to the paper). You may decide to use these articles later in your own print advertising or direct mail.

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Connect two of man’s dominating quests and you will unearth a mania that’s commonly called a sportsbook wagers web location. Can you think of anything that could conceivably be more resourceful. Imagine a knot of sports dudes cheering over any given preferred team, and incessantly stakes will be announced complementing the commotion. So keen to catch more of the delights, onlookers will generally seek to surmise who will prevail the coming competition. All this finally turns into a good-humored competition termed sportsbook wagers web location. Glavine goes on DL for first time

Granted that it may sound quite uncontrollable, instead sportsbook betting is actually merely an amusement and of teaming up with one’s fellow sports devotees. Here, you’ll be able to wager a a small sum of moolah and still have an outstanding time. See below for many basic facts to get started sportsbook betting.

In order to bet, you’ll want to search out a sportsbook wagers web location, i.e. a place which takes in sportsbook wagers web location. In the US, we currently have no less than four states where to do sportsbook betting legally, but if legality is no concern, you may go for it anywhere you like assuming you can pin down a bookie AND happen to be legally of age. Amongst the sports activities you can wager on are professional including, obviously, college football + college league basketball, professional hockey, professional hockey, including, obviously, horse and dog racing. Visitors can bet on the general score of a game or fight, in what round a contestant will be knocked out, and even if a given tossed coin in a game or fight will come down heads or tails.

The odds maker establishment will rely on statistical methods to aid you discern which team you think will prevail. There’s the balance, in other words specific advantage as expressed in points pertaining to a weaker club presumed to lose by x number points. Evidently, this describes the betting establishment’s official routine of organizing evenhanded antes for a sports book. E.g., a customer might bet money on a party presumed to lose and and still profit from the wager assuming the club loses by x number of points.

It stands to reason that there are loads of different genres of bets- straight bets, teaser antes,parlays, alongside over-unders, the straight being the dominating one in sportsbook betting. Why not just go for it, and enjoy the fun at one fell swoop. Only make sure that you won’t get gripped and throw away your complete retirement fund on a vagary. If not, you will probably end up feeling sorry for yourself for life.

Mother’s day is almost here and I urge you to start thinking about unique gift ideas for your mom. There is only one day each year when we can really thank our mother for all the effort and love she has given to us. Lets do it right. Lets give her the perfect gifts for mother’s day.

I know many people that join the birth day gift for mom with the mother’s day gift. Don’t do it. She deserves the two gifts. And you could always find a gift to buy her. After all, she is a woman.

My first suggestion would be to put aside for a few moments the tax and gift cost. Try to think your mother wants or what she needs. No body knows your mother better than you. For example, my mother loves everything related to cats. She has a huge cat collection of cats statues and I get her a new one each year – I admit cat lover gifts are easy to find.

If you have figured out what your mother would like as a mothers day gift, decide on your budget and start searching for it. Start looking for the best gift as early as possible. This way, you will be able to make a comprehensive market research and buy the best gift at the best price.

If you haven’t thought of a specific gift to buy for mother’s day, do one of the following, and I guarantee you will find a gift for your mom:

1. Search for gift ideas in online gift stores. Try searching for: “gifts for mom” or “personalized unique gifts”

2. There are several gifts which will always be perfect gifts for mother’s day. These are
Jewelry, picture frames, bath spa gift baskets, designer diamond pendants, american express gift cards and visa gift card.

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Mark Twain sagely noted that “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.”

Choosing the right words is essential for crafting professional business communications. Would you be satisfied with almost closing a sale or almost getting a promotion? Do your marketing materials urge customers to almost contact you? Then why settle for the almost right words?

Your writing will be most effective if you select words that express your ideas exactly. Strive for precision. Edit to ensure that every word does necessary work and that you have chosen words for their sound and feel as much as their meaning.

Improve your next newsletter, corporate report or promotional brochure by choosing words that are bright, brief and bold.

Be Bright
Choose words with clear meaning. Don’t say stentorian when you can say loud. Don’t say perspicacious when you can say keen. Use words to communicate with your readers, not to impress or confound them.

Resist the allure of corporate jargon, which is trendy and often confusing. A colleague once thanked me for “flexing during our interface and taking it offline.” To this day I’m not sure what that means, but it made me feel like a computer!

Edit your writing for corporate-speak like competencies, achievables and value-add. Your reader will understand skills, goals and benefits just fine, and your writing will be stronger and more professional.

Be Brief
Unless your circumstance requires a formal, academic writing style, choose the shortest word that can do the work. Don’t acquire when you can buy. Don’t investigate what you can check. Whenever possible, use your staff instead of utilizing your personnel. Brevity keeps your writing fresh and appealing to your reader.

How can you make your writing brief but not under-written? Pay attention to the goal and context of your writing. Consider your readers, your position relative to them, and what you want to accomplish with your writing. Are you offering sales training tips or a medical opinion? Are you writing a press release or summarizing a clinical trial? Be brief within the context of your communication.

Promotional writing, in particular, must be both brief and specific in order to motivate consumer action. For example,

“Our sales training workshops are superior.”

Brief but not specific. Tell me what makes them superior.

“Our sales training workshops are innovative, relevant, interactive, motivational, challenging, memorable, progressive, fun”, etc.

Brief and specific. Now I’m interested in your workshops.

Be Bold
Writing boldly means never having to say you’re “very”. Instantly become a better writer by treating “very” as a virus that weakens and sucks the life out of your words.

Very interesting, very important, very well-supported. Edit ruthlessly and replace every “very” with a word that can stand on its own. Riveting, seminal, airtight… these are words that your reader will feel and remember.

Precision is habit-forming. As you choose your words more carefully you will become more attuned to the nuances of language, and your writing will be clear and powerful. Choose wisely and you will achieve more with less: less words, less time and less demand on your reader.

Sally Bacchetta – Freelance Writer/Sales Trainer

Sally Bacchetta is an award-winning sales trainer and freelance writer. She has published articles on a variety of topics, including selling skills, motivation, marketing and pharmaceutical sales.

You can contact her at sb14580@yahoo.com and read her latest articles on her website.

Is money a friend or a foe? I dare say neither. Money just is. It is a medium of exchange (nothing more and nothing less) that our society has elevated into a determination of status.

Much of western civilization has determined that the size of one’s bank account determines the value of that person. You hear much to the contrary, but as the saying goes, actions speak louder than words.

Next Thursday, we in the United States usher in the start of the holiday season with our celebration of Thanksgiving. The next 30 – 45 days will be filled with good cheer and best wishes and thoughts of “Peace on Earth” and “Good Will to Men”. Charities find the next 6 weeks to historically be their best season in receiving monetary donations. The homeless are given shelter as churches and synagogues seek special donations for Christmas and Chanukah gifts for children. Everyone of every faith prays for peace and understanding.

But what happens the other 46 weeks of the year? Oh, sure, the charities and foundations are still there. But how do we as a society treat them and those with less or no money? How do we as a society treat those with less status?

According to the most recent statistics I have seen, the numbers of people without any health care coverage in the United States are approaching 46 million. Why? Unemployment in the United States is officially over 6%. But what is the real figure? Millions have been out of work so long, the government doesn’t even count them anymore. If one has become so discouraged in not being able to find employment and so he/she gives up for a while, that person isn’t counted anymore as being in the workforce. I have seen estimates that put the actual unemployment figure at close to 10%.

And this doesn’t apply to the United States alone. Different countries, different societies have different ways of handling this. But, as a general rule, Western civilization has determined money to be a determinative of one’s value.

And, this is not good. Yet, contrary to where you might think I am going, money is not evil. Money is good. Some think the Bible states that money is the root of all evil. It does not say that – anywhere. The Bible does say, “the love of money is the root of all evil”.

And the Bible does not refer just to “money” when it calls the “love of money” the root of all evil. “Money” serves, here, as a euphemism for material goods, selfishness, even thoughts and ideas.

When material items, such as money, and thoughts and ideas become more important than the person and people in general, we are entering upon evil. In the movie “Wall Street”, Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, states in one scene that “Greed is good”.

Gordon Gekko was wrong. Greed is evil. I am not a linguist, but I dare say that the statement in the Bible that “The love of money is the root of all evil” would be better translated as “Greed is the root of all evil”.

The “love of money” being the root of all evil, and hence taken by many people as money, itself, being the root of all evil has caused many of us to have deep seated thoughts of hostility towards and fear of money and financial riches. Nothing can be further from the truth, and this underlying hostility towards money has probably caused untold heartaches and poverty and hopelessness in our world.

If you are having difficulties in achieving your financial and material goals, your attitude towards money may be what is holding you back.

Ask yourself these questions:

What does money mean to me?

What are my core beliefs about money?

What did I learn as a child about money?

What do I think it really takes to earn and acquire financial abundance?

Ask yourself these questions and ponder your answers. Do you have answers such as the following?

 Money doesn’t grow on trees.

 We can’t afford it.

 God loves the poor.

 I just need enough to live.

Or do your answers resemble these?
With enough money, I can give a good education to my children.
Money enables me to travel and enjoy God’s creation.
Money relieves the stress from day to day living.
With money, I can help all those who are less fortunate.

If you find that your beliefs about money are holding you back from achieving and empowering your dreams, then you need to change your beliefs immediately.

Money is not the problem. As with many things in our lives, it is our attitude that is the problem.

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