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Thursday, February 9, 2012

The Insider Secrets to Selling on eBay

"Discover the Exact Step-by-Step Program
You Can Use To Start And Grow
Your Own Profitable Internet Business...
... You Don't Need Business Experience,
Products To Sell, Or Even A Website!"
Product Review:
"The Insider Secrets to Selling on eBay"

By The Internet Marketing Center
If you'd like to start a business on the Internet, and potentially earn $10,000+ each MONTH -- even BEFORE you have a website -- you'll want to read this article very carefully...
I recently read the newly revised and updated version of IMC's "The Insider Secrets To Selling On eBay," and I've got to tell you, it's a must-have for ANYONE wanting to start earning money online!
It doesn't matter if you have NO business experience, NO money to invest, and NO products to sell...
... IMC's team of eBay PowerSellers will show you the EXACT steps you need to follow to start a SERIOUS eBay business.
IMC's experts have spend YEARS researching, developing, testing, and perfecting these strategies (which less than 5% of eBay PowerSellers know about), and thousands of people with no special skills or talents have used them to earn incomes of $2,500... $5,000... $10,000 and MORE each month.
In "Insider Secrets to Selling on eBay," you'll discover:
  • How to identify the hottest markets on eBay and guarantee auction success!

  • Where to find the products that offer the greatest profit potential!

  • How to write “bidder magnet” listings that explode your final selling price!

  • What you can do to automate your business — so you have more time to grow it!

  • Ways to drive swarms of traffic to your auctions with top-secret promotion strategies!

  • Advanced techniques tested and proven to grow your business further!

  • The LATEST changes to eBay's rules, and how to take advantage of them to beat your fiercest competition

  • And MUCH more
And because the entire program is delivered online, they constantly update it, whenever there are new test results or techniques to report (or eBay makes a change to its rules).
It's the only eBay "how to" program that NEVER goes out of date!
PLUS... IMC is also giving away FOUR super bonuses, including a 90-minute live webinar TOP with their TOP eBay expert!

As far as I'm concerned, "Insider Secrets to Selling on eBay" is a perfect 10, and I recommend you take a look at it right away.
And IMC's currently making trial copies available, so you can try out the profitable strategies for 30 days -- and prove to yourself that they really DO work -- WITHOUT risk!
To find out how, click here now...

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Sameness kills your business

The number one reason why most businesses get killed by the
competition and fail is because of 'sameness.'  The tuition centre that the new entrepreneur starts is just like hundreds of other tuition centres. The electronics store that the
new entrepreneur opens is just like all the others in the
neighbourhood. The hairdressing salon that the new entrepreneur
opens is just like any other. And so on...
When your business is no different from anybody else's (the only
thing different being the name of your company), then you will find
that your chances of success is just like everybody else...very low!
Remember that only 10% of businesses succeed and 90% fail. So, if
you do business the same as everybody else, you can bet that you
are going to be among the 90% that will fold up.

Wherever I conduct my entrepreneurship workshops, people tell me
the same thing. Competition is tough, very tough. They tell me that
business used to be good, but when all the competition came in,
prices fell and profits disappeared.

So they ask me what kind of business they can get into which has
less competition and more opportunities? This is a story I hear all
too often. My reply to them is that every industry is competitive if you do
business like everybody else. However, if you do your business in a
totally different way, you will find that you will have NO DIRECT
COMPETITION.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

If your busines cannot run without you ...

The reason why most entrepreneurs fail is because they build a business that depends solely on their presence and unique skills set. They are the primary producer of the goods or services. They are the one attending to the customer, making the sale, cutting the hair, doing the accounts, cooking the food etc...

They are the business and the business is them. These entrepreneurs are, in real terms, self-employed individuals and not the owners of a business that works. The business needs them to be physically there in order to function. If they aren't there, they lose the sale, the goods cannot be made, the service cannot be performed and the customers will not come.

So what's the problem with this?

The problem is that if your business only works when you are there, then you have sacrificed the most important reason for being an entrepreneur...FREEDOM. You can never take a holiday. If you were to ever take leave for a month, your business may no longer be there. In this scenario (which is all to common for most entrepreneurs), you will be trapped in your self-created 'cage' until the day you die. You will never be able to sell your company or let someone else run it for you while you retire. You will end up spending seven days a week, working 13-hour days or more, and working to the very end.

Not a rosy picture, is it?  I'll share with you how you can escape this trap and work ON your business and not IN your business. To continue reading ...

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Working on your business instead of just working in your business

Have you ever wondered why some businesses never seem to be able to grow, no matter how much effort the owner puts into it? At the same time, I am sure you have also seen many examples of entrepreneurs who started small and ending up building hundreds of outlets/ offices in so many countries, returning millions of dollars in sales every year. The difference lies in the kind of work the entrepreneur is focused on.

The biggest mistake that entrepreneurs make is to focus all of their time working IN the business and not enough time working ON the business.

Working IN the business involves doing the tactical work necessary for the business to operate day to day. This work is usually the urgent stuff that must be done immediately to keep the business running. It involves selling the product, making the product/providing the service, delivering the service or product, administration and accounting.

On the other hand, working ON the business involves the strategic work of creating a successful business system and then replicating this system by opening up multiple branches/outlets. The entrepreneur knows that once the business system is created, anyone can be hired to work in the system to produce the same level of service/product quality in any subsequent branch/outlet - and that is to generate profits and income.

Is it by accident that every McDonald's server will greet you with a warm smile and a "Welcome to McDonald's" everywhere in the world? No, it is because Ray Kroc created a system of standards where every server in every one of their 200,000 restaurants will deliver the exact same greeting. The Lesson here is that if you don't plan to focus on the strategic work of building your business system, you will find yourself being consumed with day-to-day tactical work and that will keep your business forever small, and dependent on you.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Step-by-Step Guide to Selling Online

Product Review:
REVISED AND UPDATED FOR 2010!
The "Step-by-Step Guide to Selling Online,"
By The Internet Marketing Center...
Start Your Own Successful Internet Business From Square One, With a Proven
A-Z Program for Making Money Online
If you'd like to start making money on the Internet, but don't have ANY business experience, technical skills, or ideas for what you should sell, I highly recommend you take a look at The Step-by-Step Guide to Selling Online, a comprehensive, step-by-step program for starting a successful Internet business from scratch.
Created by the Internet Marketing Center, The Step-by-Step Guide reveals the exact process they themselves used to generate over $100 Million in sales online.
Using simple, easy-to-understand language, and plenty of helpful video and audio tutorials, The Step-by-Step Guide walks you through the six steps to building a successful Internet business from square one:
  1. Find a lucrative niche market and decide what to sell...
  2. Easily create your website, complete with winning sales copy
  3. Attract your first eager visitors ...
  4. Take your first credit card payment
  5. Ramp up sales & traffic quickly
  6. Automate your business to be "hands free"
Then, once your website is live, and you're getting your first visitors, you can take advantage of The Guide's hundreds of ADVANCED strategies to improve your business, and drive your sales even higher!
And because The Step-by-Step Guide is 100% online, they're able to update it whenever there are new test results to add, or new techniques to try out, so it NEVER goes out of date!
When you try the Step-by-Step Guide, you get:
  • Over 1,250 pages of detailed, moneymaking strategies and techniques carefully laid out in easy-to-follow steps

  • "Real time" updates with the latest and greatest online marketing strategies

  • Streaming videos to make your learning even easier

  • Content you can print out, or download to your iPod, so you can learn new techniques, even when you're on the go, and away from your computer

  • A "private rolodex" of hundreds of Internet marketing tools and resources

  • A one-on-one 15-minute phone consultation with one of their IMC's marketing specialists

  • IMC's exclusive Ebusiness Road Map System
I give The Step-by-Step Guide to Selling Online an enthusiastic 10 out of 10! It contains every last tip and technique you'll need to start your money-making website. Thousands of other people have already used it to earn money online -- six figures annually, in many cases -- so you can be confident it will work for you, too!
If you want to make money online, I urge you to get access to this proven online business building program now.
To find out how, click here now...

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Temasek Looking to sell Majority Stake at Pakistan bank

Temasek make paper loss of S$245mil investing in Pakistan's NIB bank.

Source: Asiaone.com

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Customer Account Review (CAR) & The Customer Knowledge Assessment (CKA)

What is CAR and CKA? The 2008 global financial crisis has led regulators to re-examine the sale and marketing of certain investment products. MAS has released new measures to further safeguard the interests of retail customers. These measures, which will take effect from 1 January 2012, apply to trading/investing in certain investment products generally called “Specified Investment Products” (“SIPs”). However, existing investors are encouraged to complete and return the assessments to avoid the risk of disruption to their trading/investing activities.

It is compulsory for broking firms to assess retail investors for relevant knowledge and experience in trading SIPs. These products have structures, features and risks that are relatively more complex and difficult to understand.The Customer Account Review (CAR) enables us to assess whether you can trade in listed SIP products. The Customer Knowledge Assessment (CKA) enables us to assess whether you have the relevant knowledge or experience to understand the risks and features of an unlisted SIP.
Customer Account Review (CAR)Customer Knowledge Assessment (CKA)
The current list of listed SIP includes:Unlisted SIP includes:
  • Certificates
  • Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
  • Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs)
  • Futures (Extended Settlement contracts)
  • Structured Warrants
  • Callable Bull/ Bear Contracts (CBBCs)* CBBC has yet to be launched
Specified Investment Products listed on SGX derivatives market include:
  • Futures
  • Options
Listed products ( not on the list of SGX securities) also include:
  • Foreign shares
  • Contracts for Difference (CFDs)
  • Unit Trusts & Mutual Funds
  • Investment-linked Products (ILPs)
  • Leveraged Forex

Who is affected
These new MAS requirements apply to all retail clients.
Affected retail clients will have to undergo the Customer Knowlege Assessment(CKA) & Customer Account Review(CAR).
Who is exempted
The following segments are exempted from the new MAS requirements and do not have to undergo the Customer Knowlege Assessment(CKA) & Customer Account Review(CAR).
  1. Accredited Investors as defined in Securities and Futures Act(Cap. 289) section 4A
  2. Expert Investors as defined in Securities and Futures Act(Cap. 289) section 4A
  3. Institutional Investors as defined in Securities and Futures Act(Cap. 289) section 4A
  4. High net worth individuals who are clients of private banks
  5. Corporations, unincorporated entities, partnerships, or trusts.
Source: www.poems.com.sg