Make yourself invaluable at work. Even if you are in a dispensible position, make yourself indispensible by doing the little things at your workplace that fellow co-workers don’t do. Friendships are important, networking with the company bigwigs will count as well. But the way to make an impact is to learn the business inside and out and do tasks that are regularly not assigned to you. This way, when downsizing time comes, they’re likely to consolidate positions so multi-taskers will win big here.
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By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack. Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp, keep yourself adaptable and on the move. Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed. The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything changes.
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-The first rat gets killed in the rat trap and the second rat gets the cheese.
-Don’t panic. Give it 48 hours, get all the facts, then take action based on facts not emotion.
-It takes the same amount of time and effort to make a thousand dollars as it does to make ten thousand dollars.
-You learn a whole lot more on the way down than you do on the way up.
-The harder you work, the luckier you get.
-The only constant in business is change.
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1. Personal Trainer. If you’re physically fit and know your way around the gym, you can get certification and start offering your services. Place ads in local newspapers, around gyms or college campuses.
2. Tutor. From a piano instructor to math tutor, you could offer your services to help students in need.
3. Planner. If you’re into planning parties, you could start being a party planner, then move on up to a wedding planner.
4. Photography. If you’ve got camera skills you could either become a glamour photographer or an event photographer.
5. Web Design. Nowadays every company wants to have their own website. By now most companies already have one, but some of them look so awful. It’s easy to find local companies online and offer them a great deal to spice their site up – if you’ve got the skills.
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In rough economic climate like these we’re experiecing, some see RISK, some have FEAR.
I see OPPORTUNITY. This is the time to buy a car from a scared Escalade owner, who sees his rising gas bill. This is the time to buy someones failing business at below market cost.
Things will pick up, they always do. If you have the money, right now you have the POWER.
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I often get asked: “What type of site should I create?”
While I can’t tell you what topic, I can share my own personal experience that “build and forget” sites typically do better than sites requiring constant upkeep. (This applies to internet marketers on small to medium budgets)
In the long run, when considering the time/money ratio, you’re better off spending your time coming up with new ideas and promoting your sites rather than sticking to one site and updating it often. I’ve found that I make the same amount of money updating a site once a month compared to once a week.
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When you see a business in trouble, do you see a mess you want to run away from or do you see endless possibilities? When I go to a business (fast food place, auto body shop, spa) I see all sorts of ways to improve their bottom line.
It can be anything, for example office-like formalities such as getting a signature here and authorization there and proper stamps on forms. I’m sure getting rid of office politics and ancient methods could improve the efficiency of the business.
I notice so many fast food joints who waste money needlessly. They let you get as many ketchup packets as you want, as many napkins as you want and unlimited refills. There’s plenty of abuse at these places. It’s best to keep those things behind the counter and give paying customers exactly what they want – but they have to ask for it first.
I see businesses all the time where the owner is slaving himself doing work that employees can do. If only he would devise a system/method, hire & train somebody, he could concentrate on another aspect of the business that’s being neglected.
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Over the last week I sold off a few domains. These were sites that weren’t a great success. If I kept them I’m pretty sure they would have earned more than their registration fees every year if I just left them alone. But why would I keep a site that makes $15 a year and costs $10 a year to keep? It’s only $5 and it’s just noth worth it to keep checking stats every year and maintain the hosting and ads on the site.
So I decided to sell them – to thin the herd. I didn’t want to have a group of sites that did well, and another group that didn’t do well.Now, at least mentally, my network of sites are stronger because I’ve cut off the dying weeds growing on them and holding the rest back. It’s just a theory, but thinning the herd makes the remaining herd stronger.
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