For many, speaking or training is a full time business. Yet for other business owners, we use speaking/training as a way to market a business and bring in extra income. No matter which it is... all or part of your business gets paid!

Being paid means receiving money for the value you present. So first off, find places that will pay you. Even Community College Continuing Education programs pay the trainers by the hour!

However, sometimes it is customary for a group to NOT pay you with $$ - like the Rotary, Elks Club, or many associations.

What's the difference between an article directory and an article bank?

Article directories are one-way places on a web site where the site's owner lists their articles. Here you can read the articles and sometimes these articles are available as free or paid content for publishers.

Article banks are two-way web sites or pages within a web site.

Many service-related business owners these days are giving away their business services - and then wonder why people aren't hiring them in droves. In the name of "marketing," business owners are providing way too much information for free. Some shifts in thinking are necessary if these business owners expect to be in business years from now.

No one expects to go into a shoe store, ask for free shoes, and walk out of the store! If you don't value your services, no one else will.

Weigh the differences. Did you really go into business to be self-employed?

About being self-employed!
When you're self-employed, you do "ALL the work," of course, AND you're also "the boss," so you do the marketing, the sales, the book keeping, and everything else ________! The self-employed have done one thing - created a paycheck for themselves along with some extra deductions.

Who would have thunk it? You've completed several written articles on the same topic - a good idea if you want to become known as an expert. Now you want to turn those articles into a money making ebook. But how to do it? What's next? What do you need?

You could simply take your articles, jam them into a PDF file, and call it an ebook. However, if you want your ebook to reflect your professional, credible self, and get you "this" much closer to creating a "book", then follow the steps below:

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Do you enjoy one-on-one networking, however, the thought of walking into room full of people you don't know horrifies you? You're not alone. Yes, even a social butterfly, President of the Social Committee in High School and avid networker knows how you feel. Here are some of my tricks. And they have all worked!

A great way to network at a conference is to volunteer at the registration desk.

That might sound like a strange question, but hear me out. You may have a case of Client Resentment Disease.

If you are not being paid what you deserve, you will feel resentful each time a client does something - even a little "off" - like miss a deadline, not return your call, asks you to do something "today", is late with a check, etc.

One of the ways you - as an owner of service businesses - can increase your profits is to create muliple streams of small business income. And the place to start is by designing informational products. The products could be based your knowledge - things like CDs, e-books, booklets, teleseminars, and articles. You know -- these are the very things you've been watching me develop over the years.

It sounds ideal, doesn't it? Conference calls in your pajamas, doing laundry in between talking to clients, saving money on all those work lunches! But is working from home always a perfect situation? Here are some things to watch out for if you're already working from home, or things to think about if you're considering making the move.


This is work, this is home.