Ezine March 14, 2005

COMPANY NEWS

Latest News at WebPageOne.org

Happy Birthday this week to Tedra and Valerie! May the next year be a sparkly one for you both.

Welcome New Members! Jennifer of The MOM Team, Lisa from Bittersweet Candle Company, Tamra of White Lily Candles, Tammy of WAHM Connections, and Cindy from Bright Minds.

New Product Announcements on our forum. This board was created as a place for you to advertise a new product launch, upcoming product launch, sales or other things related to your business.

Our forums are ready for Company Specific Message Boards.
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Company Spotlight- Cindy Powers of Bright Minds

Bright Minds is a fairly new division of The Critical Thinking Company (aka Critical Thinking Press). It was developed by the founder's daughter-in-law to get more of these wonderfully effective books and software materials into the hands of more parents and educators. She also wanted to provide homeschool moms and other sahm's with an opportunity to run their own business at home.

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March Schedule of Events

March 23 & 24th
Business Empowerment Webinar
12pm ~ 9pm EST
http://www.webpageone.org/seminar/

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Marketing Salad

Discover How to Run a Successful Online Business

Dear Entrepreneur,

Every day more and more people get internet access, go online and start shopping. With the constant influx of new shoppers, overall online sales have reached $65 billion in 2004! Many online businesses are doubling or even tripling their profits every year. Many business owners, however, are not taking full advantage of their internet presence, and are losing money as a result. Stop throwing that money away!

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Newly added feature to our ezine: Artist Showcase

Our new "Artist Showcase," where we'll regularly feature folks in the artistic fields, ie, writing, painting, photography, etc. If you are an artist and would like to be a part of this great new Web Page One feature, or know someone who'd fit in well, please let me know: EMAIL LINDA.
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ACCORDING TO LIFE

"Get Better, Not Older", © Susan Dunn, MA, The EQ CoachT

My friend who retired last year from years on Wall Street tells me, "I have to watch very carefully how I spend my money. I don't know how to do anything."

One of the reasons people find retirement challenging, is also the solution to the problem of better aging: we identify with roles in our lives. Worse than that, we enjoy them. They're what our life is all about or we wouldn't have been doing them in the first place.

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How to use Illness in Order Heal Ourselves, © Robert Najemy

Our difficulties and tests are like the weight lifter's weights that help him to build up his muscular power. By exercising our inner power in response to these challenges, we develop our emotional, mental and spiritual muscles. We become emotionally stronger and mentally more positive and assured of our ability to face any possible situation.

Here are some concepts that will help us to grow through our life experiences:

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Intimacy and Abuse, © Sam Vaknin

It is an established fact that abuse - verbal, psychological, emotional, physical, and sexual - co-occurs with intimacy. Most reported offenses are between intimate partners and between parents and children. This defies common sense. Emotionally, it should be easier to batter, molest, assault, or humiliate a total stranger. It's as if intimacy CAUSES abuse, incubates and nurtures it.

And, in a way, it does.

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ALL ABOUT THE BUSINESS

Guaranteed Ways to Build Up Your Ezine List, © Suzanne Falter-Barns

Want your ezine list to catch fire and really start to fill up? Jenna Glatzer took her own list from the hundreds all the way to 75,000 in 7 years by simple, steady marketing, and using many of these techniques. (Jenna bought only 4000 0pt-in names along the way.) Here are some tips we provided, and some I've pulled from my own experience, building my list for The Joy Letter to 17,000 over five years.

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How do you Find a Topic to Speak On?, © Sandra Schrift

People are always looking for solutions to their problems. Do you have an expertise that can help people solve their challenges and frustrations? Ask people to see what bothers them. Find out what they need to achieve their goals.

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Getting Past The Shoulds To Write, © Catherine Franz

During the past few months I have received many questions as to how I have gone from an unknown writer to overcoming society's adversarial thoughts on
what writing should be and become a well known writer. So, today, I was inspired to write on this. Let me present a gist of my story. And like all stories there's always more depth.

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ARTICLES


Ten Resume Writing Tips You Can't Live Without, © Theresa Castro, MBA

For some job opening, employers receive hundreds and even thousands of resumes. When you are looking for a job, how can you best promote yourself? How can you convince a prospective employer to pick-up the phone and call you for an interview?

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You Cannot Hide From Public Record Search Engines, © Mike Banks Valentine

As a search engine optimization specialist, I often run across search engines of different sorts than most people are aware of. This week I stumbled across a free site that is used by journalists to do background checks and fact checking on sources of news stories. I am also an advocate for personal and financial privacy and find privacy invasion particularly offensive, so this search engine offends me.

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Meet Linda Alexander

Multi-cultural Linda Alexander has lupus. She has written about porn stars, Messianic Jews, and novels of good and evil, and appeared on the Oprah show. Her print credits -- newspapers, magazines, and newsletters -- include The Washington Times and Soap Opera Update, and interviews with Jim Varney, Robert Stack, Linda Dano, Michael Zaslow, Gary Puckett, and Tiny Tim. In Linda's personal and business worlds, anything can happen. It does, and she writes about it. Website: www.lindajalexander.net