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Success Jobs and News April 20, 2007
Welcome to WAHS Jobs and News where each week you'll find work-at-home job announcements, articles to inspire and inform, scam alerts, telecommuting trends and much more!
Contents:
- Notes from Leslie
- Work-At-Home Tips, Tidbits and Inspiration
- Work-At-Home Jobs
- WAHS
Reviews
- Telecommuting News!
- Scam Alert
- Work-At-Home Opportunities
- Marketing and Promotion for your home based business
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Note From
Leslie
I am a resident of Virginia, but you don't have to live here or even just in the United States to feel the shock and sorrow over the killings at Virginia Tech earlier this week. When things like this happen, there is always a question of what could have been done to prevent it. Why didn't the school go on lock down? Why were the teachers attempts to get the shooter help unsuccessful? But mention gun control, and you're over reacting. This really angers me. What is wrong with our society that its "bad" to consider having some better regulations when it comes to buying an arsenal of guns?
As an adoption worker, I spend a great deal of time with families making sure they are suitable parents. They endure criminal history checks, interviews, home visits, and are provided with adoption education. It seems so odd to me that we check out prospective parents more thoroughly than the people we sell guns to. Why not have a criminal history check? Why not have an interview to determine the reason and purpose to owning the gun, as well as assess the character of the person? Why not have fire arm education; not about how to use it, but the risks and correct storage?
Those against gun control point to their constitutional right to bear arms, but this administration has had no problem circumventing the constitution when it comes to fighting terrorism (remember wire tapping and being able to see what books you check out at the library?). Then there is the self defense argument. But people wouldn't have to defend themselves against guns if there weren't 260 million guns in the United States. And according to my research, "for every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides," (University of Utah)
An LA Times opinion piece today says gun control isn't the answer. It reports that while, yes the number and ease of getting guns in the U.S. leads to more deaths, gun control won't work because we can't regulate the guns already out there. Huh? Well golly, there are sooo many guns, we can't possibly try to manage them. Are we really going to accept that reasoning?
Guns kill about 30,000 each year ... thats about 82 people a day. If anything else killed even a quarter of that amount, it would be recalled. Defective tires, Vioxx, bad peanut butter, bad spinach, even pet food were all leading to deaths and all were recalled. And yet we don't even try to manage gun deaths? What's wrong with this picture.
I'm not calling for a ban, but surely something can be done that can prevent events like that at Virginia Tech or Columbine High School or Cleveland Elementary school where Patrick Purdy killed 5 children with an AK-47. Why are pro-arms people defending the right to have automatic or assault weapons available to the public anyway? I mean, why would anyone need one unless he intended to do harm?
The United States likes to pride itself on being a world leader. Do we really want to be the world leader in gun deaths...particularly of children. Well, congratulations, we are!
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Are Your Articles Getting Published?
by Leslie Truex
I'm sitting here weeding through article after article trying to find two to put in my weekly newsletter. You would think that finding two articles would be easy, but its not. So far, each one I have read is unorganized, unclear, and often painful to read. Here is an example of what I'm talking about: Can You Really Make An Income Working Online?
I'm no Hemingway, but my articles do get published on websites and in ezines all over the net, so I feel as if I have something to share. If you're going to take the time to write articles, make sure they are of a quality that publishers want to run. The sample article fails to deliver on the title, is awkward to read, and doesn't really tell us anything we don't already know.
Here are some tips to make sure publishers run your articles:
1) Articles should be light and conversational, but not written as you actually talk. The opening paragraph of the sample article is an example of this. If the reader was talking to us, it would be easy to understand, but in written form its cumbersome to read.
2) Keep to the topic. Using article example above, I expected to find an article about whether or not one can be successful working at home online. I thought I would get strategies that make a successful home-based worker, as well as examples of others who have succeeded. But this article covered 1) I have to work anyway so I might as well do it from home and confirmed that having money was better than not having money, 2) having a home business is like toast with jam, 3) the benefits to working at home, 4) working at home is a good idea, and 5) Yes, people can make money at home and its simple.
3) Avoid too many clichés. "Having money and not having money. Having it is much more fun". "...crème de la crème!", "Some do…some don’t..." Again, while you want a friendly tone, an article is a written, not spoken document so the language should be clear and concise, and void of clichés. But don't go so far to write a theme paper with fancy words and complicated sentences. Straight forward text is all that is needed.
4) Set your article aside for a couple of hours and then read it again, word by word out loud. Reading out loud will help you identify the errors and awkward parts of the article. Nevertheless, when reading our own work, we frequently read what we expect to see and miss the errors. Plus we read based on how we hear it in our head. So you may want to ask someone else to read it for you. A proofreader can find the errors and let you know the areas that didn't flow for them.
Free articles are a great way to build your business. Publishers like myself are always in need of great content to add to their sites. Make it easy for us by writing to your topic, in clear, straightforward language. Thank you!
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Free job search sites
- CareerBuilder
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CraigsList.org (Search jobs under the city nearest you. Click on the "telecommute" option in the job search. Search other cities as well.
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Marketing Tips
The 30 Second Business Infomercial -- An Entrepreneur's Guide To Getting Noticed In A Noisy Marketplace!
By TSUFITInfomercials, elevator pitches, commercials, whatever you call ‘em, you gotta have one, a little show, ready at all times. You never know when you're going to be called onto the stage.
My Credentials
Before I begin to spout out about business networking infomercials, (and there will be spouting out), let's briefly, review my credentials on this subject. I've watched more than my share of TV commercials, I've been in them, as an actress, both on TV and on the big screen cinema, and I've studied Cannes Award Winning Commercials. OK, so maybe studying is exaggerating a bit; I ate cheesecake while watching them at a neat little joint called "The Groaning Board" in Canada. So, if you're content with my qualifications, let's proceed.
Many clients complain to me, "Tsufit, I can't possibly tell them what I do in just 30 seconds".
Let me tell you, if you can't boil it down to 30 seconds, or better yet, to one sentence, you don't know the essence of what you're selling. If you can't say it in 30 seconds, you won't be able to say it in 30 minutes either.
OK, now let's map out that 30 seconds.
1. Open with a dynamic attention grabbing statement. It can be provocative or part of a story. Remember, start in the middle.
2. Present the problem that your product or service addresses.
3. Tell us how your product or service solves it, or just make the claim and let them come ask you more.
4. Do either step 2 or 3 above (or both) in the form of a story.
5. Tell us your name and/or company name, for the first time, 2/3rds of the way through the infomercial.
6. Give us one more enticing sentence related to what you said earlier.
7. Repeat your name and then end on an interesting tag line.
Don't ramble. Don't read. Don't give us a shopping list of your benefits. Just entertain us and reel us in.
Here's an example of one of my informercials which has brought me many clients:
North America's Public Speaking Coach
"I have just been named North America's Public Speaking Coach. [Stage Direction: Bow, so audience applauds.] It's a very great honor.
Admittedly, the panel of judges was a little teeny weeny bit small, just me and my mom.
Nah, who am I kiddin'? She doesn't think I'm that good. Pretty much just me. But it's still a great honor.
I'm Tsufit of Follow That Dream! I coach entrepreneurs and keynote speakers to be spectacular every time they open their mouths in public.
Tsufit, for when you're ready to get noticed!"
Where the idea came from: I got the idea when I was at a networking meeting of consultants and some guy claimed he was Canada's Sales Coach. I wondered if that was an official designation, whether some magazine had named him that or if he had just decided to anoint himself. I thought it was pretty funny, so I decided to spoof it. And it worked!
Why It Works:
Grabs their attention: The award thing, any distinction, always attracts attention.
Gets them to participate: applause. If they don't spontaneously applaud (usually they do), I make hand gestures inviting them to applaud.
Humor: They laugh when they realize it's not true. (This is a risky move. Some of them believe me initially and they may not be so forgiving when they find out I was just reeling them in.)
Tagline: at end. The audience members say to themselves, "Well, she's right. I did notice her."
Show and Tell: In this infomercial, I demonstrated to them that I am able to do for myself, what I claim to be able to do for them. It's like show and tell.
Most entrepreneurs only tell. I saw a speaker get up and do a networking infomercial where she told people that she is a humorous speaker and gives very entertaining keynote speeches. But her infomercial was very conservative and boring. She told, but didn't show.
I later had the opportunity to see her give a keynote speech and she wasn't exaggerating, she was hilarious. But her infomercial gave us the opposite impression. What a shame.
Don’t let that happen to you. Remember, it doesn’t matter if you’re the best darn accountant this side of the Tallahassee River. If no one knows about you, you ain’t nothin!
About the Author: TSUFIT is an author & coach specializing in helping entrepreneurs & keynote speakers & authors captivate their audiences. For short practical tips on how to attract rather than chase your prospects sign up for Tsufit’s 11 F.r.e.e. Secrets from the Spotlight,at http://www.secretsfromthespotlight.com
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