Volume
1 - 25th Edition, June 2012
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Hello Adlanders,
As I'm writing this article,
I'm feeling the heat of summer bearing down upon
me, which means summer is just about here in the
Northern Hemisphere.
When one thinks of summertime, it often triggers
different memories or
ideas from the past. Many moons ago, my folks
and I visited the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan. Blueberry season was on,
and did we ever harvest
a few buckets full of blueberries, and boy were
they delicious. Michigan
is well known for all kinds of good produce in
the summertime, and when
we lived up there, we definitely took advantage
of the opportunity to get
out in the fields whatever it was, and
handpicked to our delight.
When it comes to internet marketing and produce,
how can we tie them
together one might ask? We as internet marketers
or online workers are
always looking for opportunities and ways to
improve our lives. We are
constantly on the lookout for new opportunities,
and then we spread them
around with everyone we know.
Let us remember that only unless we are
connected to the true source...
as is the fruit is to the vine, can we have end
results that bring abundance.
This month I'm featuring an article that was
written by one of our very own
--Joyce Hyde Parker. She has a way with words,
and I'm sure you will
enjoy her special work.
Sincerely,
James Wright
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Are You
Just
Getting Started or need a Refresher?
If you are just starting your online business
advertising, I would suggest using a checklist
until you have become accustomed to everything
you should be doing for maintenance and tracking
of your ads. Here are some things you should be
watching for:
1. Ensure you have used the correct spelling and
grammar in your ad. The easiest way to get an ad
dismissed as serious is if the spelling or
grammar are bad.
2.Make
sure all links are working correctly and will
take the viewer to your website you wish to
direct them to. Test the link yourself just to
make sure.
3.
If there are any tracking features for your ads
make sure you check the stats at least twice a
week. This is so important but it's also tough
because you want immediate results. Patience is
a good trait, remember there are a lot of
sellers who use the one out of every thousand.
This means, they want a conversion/sale out of
every thousand views they have. Make sure you
give your ad a chance to work.
4.
If an ad is not producing never hesitate to edit
or replace the ad. Like the above statement this
is reversed. If an ad is not working it's time
to make a change. Maybe the ad did very well but
like all ads in every area of advertising they
can fade.
5.
Always watch for any feedback for your ads and
always respond to the feedback. Any feedback or
questions should be answered as soon as
possible. This is an open door and it can lead
to sales or beneficial information that could
help you promote higher sales numbers, so be
ready to reply.
Regards,
Barry Scott
Adlandpro Client Support
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My Decades of Life
This earth’s assignment suited me very well!
Being sent to earth as an emissary from
heaven was a very prestige assignment in the
angel core. You see, when angels reach the
age of thirty; they are given their work
orders. We get sorted out by our special
skills and personalities, and then, get to
choose where and to whom we will be
earth-born.
Now, when we were in training, Jesus would
visit often; sit and talk with us while we
were growing up and show different versions
of life paths we could choose when we went
to save our earth brethrens.
Jesus probably, more than likely spent equal
time with all the young angels, but me being
me, I Just feel like I was special to him.
Well, in truth, He told me so, but in
hindsight, I cannot imagine that He would
not have said the same to all of us. After
all, this was going to be a treacherous
journey we would undertake, and He wanted us
to be 100% sure that we thought we could
handle it.
The point is that none of us is here by
accident. We came to give light and hope to
those who need to change their point of view
to find what they are searching for. As the
only child of the formidable Annabelle
Parker, imagine my shock to find that she
was my drill sergeant assigned to teach me
and protect me until I was ready to start my
earth job. She must have been the best in
her angel class, because she taught me so
much valuable stuff, I am still uncovering
new lessons to aide me to completion of my
job.
In my second decade, it started to get a bit
frenetic. My joy came from having the only
television set in the neighborhood and
watching with my mother in the dark, the
ecstasy of Elvis, happiness at becoming a
teenager and going to lunch at Woolworths
and McCrory’s, shopping for shoes at Baker
shoe store and thankful for going to school
and not falling on my face while making the
perfect curtsy in my Cinderella white gown.
I had not yet developed any kind of
vocabulary that had progressed beyond “I
want this” or “Mama, can you?”
In my third decade I began to transform.
Some kind of “inside out kind of thing” All
of my “I wants” suddenly were on behalf of
someone else. My son was born. It started
rather innocuously.
When I was pregnant, I would crave foods –
or he would. My mom had to buy stacks of
these little pizzas and I would eat them all
day long. I began to only see baby things
when I went shopping. I did not have to
worry about a name, because my husband had
promised to divorce me if I did not name him
– the third. Well, since he was somewhere on
a submarine, serving the country, I was
hardly in a position to dissent.
With my daughter, five years later, all hell
broke loose in my head with the names
competing in there! To make it worse, when I
would try one out for someone, they never
liked what I liked.
I was happy to leave New Orleans for
California. I lived a very happy life there.
By this time, I had completely forgotten
about my job as an earth angel! I was
terribly busy with the children.
Then-it started! The first one I got to
watch on television when Rodney Glen King,
an African American taxi driver was
violently arrested by officers of LAPD. This
was soon followed on April 29, 1992 when
three of the officers were acquitted by a
white dominated jury of twelve. The jury
verdict triggered massive rioting in Los
Angeles, which lasted for 4 days, making it
one of the worst civil disturbances in Los
Angeles history.
Thus, began my awareness of having been born
Black. I was 43 years old. My husband came
home and found me sitting on the sofa
crying, uncontrollably. The city was being
set afire.
I think it was shortly after that I began to
study Buddhism, looking for answers; I have
to make world peace, there must be something
I can do. My sense of urgency was intense. I
was embraced and nurtured by my Buddhist
friends when I was trying to decide if it
would be safe to try this. I sat for hours
with the Bible on one knee and the Buddhist
scriptures (Gosho) on the other; looking for
contradictions or admonitions. I argued with
God, or rather shifted the blame to Him;
after all, I reasoned, He brought this to
me. Somewhere in here on January 4, 1994, I
was woken up at 4 am positioned upside down
head to head with my husband who was
unexplainably on the floor. It seems that I
had been rudely awakened by a violent 6.7
scale earthquake. Later that year, my
husband would move to New York. My
grandmother, mother, several aunts, uncles
and cousins died within six or seven months.
I lost count.
They were probably all my trainers from the
angel core and I had graduated into my own
job at this time. Now, this was indeed a
strange course this life path was veering
into. I kept reviewing the tapes of the life
I had led up until this point and all of the
events of those years and their attendant
feelings and emotions.
My fifth decade turned out to be the all
time “Blackouts-Blizzard-Bombings” I moved
to Staten Island, NY.
The last was catalyst to being returned home
to the launching pad. I would need to use
every single lesson I had learned; and still
had more to learn on the fly. The past
twenty four months have been as close to
being in a cocoon as I could possible come.
I am in suspended animation waiting for the
spinning to stop. I have been supplied with
life support via connection of the internet,
constantly fed life giving infusions of
love, laughter, energy and prayers that keep
me connected to the source. I wish I could
see through the threads but they are there
for protection until all of the fall out
settles.
In the meanwhile, it’s quite comfortable in
here. It’s a lot of hard work as this great
big old house was build over a hundred years
ago, so I have to improvise almost
everything. Air conditioning is available
but not at all practical and way too
expensive to actually use it. The lace
curtains cover it nicely, so it doesn’t get
too much dust. I do have the exquisite
luxury of having a ten (twenty maybe?) year
old washing machine. It only occasionally
gets angry and tries to shoot the agitator
out the top. I am truly grateful that it has
not figured out how to escape and bop
somebody in the head, as that would most
likely be me.
I love starting my morning load of laundry
on the way out to greet the girls. Watering
the flowers as they wake to the morning sun
gently peeking out with not a hint of the
coming brutality in store is blissful. By 8
am the sun god is angrily marching across
the sky as if in hot pursuit of a mortal
enemy, mindlessly destroying everything in
its path. The gentle breezes brought through
by the sister trees will not let us perish.
Hang in there girls, I promise I will bring
the salvation of the water hose as soon as
the Sun God has left the sky. You can do it,
just remember how beautiful you will be in
the morning.
We are very grateful to be alive!
About the Author:
Joyce Hyde is a super achiever and very dear
Adlandpro Online Community friend. She is a
champion doer of Love and Peace, she
exhibits tremendous leadership character
that has been a great assistance to her
successes in her life and by far the life of
others.
http://www.samiplus.com/blog/2011/12/15/my-decades-of-life/
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How to Mix Business and Friendship!
by Rich J Sayer |
Have you been told to never mix business and friendship? Or
heard that it is "a cocktail for disaster" that will destroy
your friendship, and yet despite these warnings, find
yourself excited about a new business venture with your
B.F.F (Best Friend Forever)? Well, if you are, you have come
to the right place!
Today's "love affair" can be tomorrow's "divorce" if
business partners are not vetted well. Indeed, it is hard
enough to know your own mind, let alone someone else's.
So, when "courting" a friend as a new potential business
partner, why not take a few days to follow this 10 easy
steps to ensure both your business and friendship thrive!
1. Individually write out your vision for the new
business.Be sure to go into as much details as possible. Be
explicit! Do not rely on your friend "thinking" the same way
as you do. Consider things such as how much time each of you
will put into the business (on a weekly basis), what in
competitors it will have and what will you do to be unique
in your market?
2. What responsibilities will each of you have? What roles
will each of you have? What hours will you each contribute?
What is most important to you? What are your personal and
professional goals? What do you hope to achieve and in what
time frame? What if it doesn't work? Do not be afraid to
discuss the negatives, thoroughly!
3. Clearly define what success & failure in the business
means to you? What financial return do you need to survive
in the first 12-24 months? Some people might have to exit
out of a new business venture, if it cannot cover their day
today expenses after 6 months (For cash flow reasons). For
others, the size of return on their time and money may be a
factor that sees them lose interest in the business. Imagine
the horror of discovering your business partner wants to
pull the pin on a business that you think is doing well,
because their expectations are different from yours and you
had not discussed it prior to the venture!
4. And then there is the money bit! What financial capital
is required to start the business? Where or who is that
coming from? How will profits be distributed? How much will
be reinvested back into the business and how much will be
taken by the owners as "return" on their investment? What if
you run out of money and money cash is need to keep the
business afloat? How will shares be diluted or other
investors bought in?
5. What about what the expenses? Clearly outline what
expenses the business will cover and not? How much can one
partner spend without consulting the other? Clearly define a
process or protocol to handle disagreements?
6. Then there is the time issue? Who does what and when?
What about when one partner puts in many more hours than
another? How will you handle this?
7. What is your exist strategy? Is this a business you want
to build to sell or pass on? Go into the business with the
end in mind! Do not be afraid to discuss the tough topics,
like "What if one of us wants to leave the business and the
other does not?"
8. Then it's time for Group Share! Once you have dumped your
personal manifesto and vision for the new business on paper,
come together with two copies each. Then pass the talking
stone!! Read each others ideas, share the excitement,
clarify points of agreement and disagreement. Once done, I
recommend a good meal!! (complete with wine!) Go home and
read over your own vision again, then your potential
partner's (Yes, that is why the two copies!). Do this daily
for a few days and let the ideas percolate! Your first ideas
are often good, but great ideas may require effort and
thinking!!
9. Then write it all down together! Once you have decided
that you do have a shared vision, common goals and time
frames, sit down together and write your mission and vision
statement together along with a memorandum of understanding,
outlining everything you have shared and schemed in the
previous days! The more detail the better.
10. Once done, find a good lawyer to help you set up the
most appropriate entity (company, trusts, partnerships etc)
for your venture.
Remember, it is cheaper to ask for help at the beginning,
rather than later!
All of the warnings you will hear are well founded! I have
seen a number of my friends have a seriously tough time
together, over business ventures that have absolutely tested
the fortitude of the friendship. Luckily, in most cases the
friendship has prevailed, but this is not always the case!
Sometimes a relationship that starts as a friendship, heads
south over a business deal that unravels, and personally, I
think you are better off! Real friendship will survive these
hurdles, however the people who "befriend" you for the sake
or the deal or business, will pass you by! (Making more room
for those that deserve you!)
Friendship and business can mix like a very tasty
cocktail. Shaken not stirred!
Despite the warnings and stories of doom and gloom, and the
"common belief" that business and friendship don't mix, I
have been personally blessed to have worked with my best
friend for many years. In fact, I have a number of cherished
friends with whom I have actively sort to create business
relationships. Let's face it, you know your friends better
than most other people, and you trust them. Even more
importantly, if you are a little idiosyncratic like me, they
know you!!
Knowledge and trust are two powerful commodities in
business, and fact worth keeping in mind, and investing
into!
With this in mind I will leave you with the idea that open
communication, that is heartfelt and honest rarely leads you
astray. If you have a business idea that excites both you
and a friend, then you both deserve to share the excitement,
try it on together, and use each other as sounding boards.
Keep in mind some great friendships have combined passion
and purpose with the trust and knowledge to create massive
profits!
* Two friends that created Google: Lawrence E. Page and
Sergey Brin
* Two friends that created Apple: Steve Jobs and Steve
Wazniak
* Two friends that created Hotmail: Sabeer Bhatia and Jack
Smith
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