How To Make Money From Your Blog

Having a blog is your opportunity throw your voice into the wind and have it travel around the world. Subjects that you can opine about are virtually unlimited. Describe your kid’s first birthday or give away your grandma’s secret cake recipe, but don’t tell grandma. Your blog can be all about you and your interests or conversely some famous movie star or politician that you are zealously following online. Whatever it’s about, after your blog is up, chances are that you are paying ISP and or hosting fees for throwing your powerful voice into the wind. So how about making it pay for its own weight?

Writing diaries and journals has been a popular activity since paper and pen were readily available. So when the internet rolled around, it only made sense that writers put their words on the computer. These diaries or journals weren’t called blogs until Joran Barger phrased the term “weblog.” It was through a simple joke from a blogger, Peter Merholz that cut weblog into we blog. Other bloggers began picking up the word blog and soon it spread like wildfire.

Still for all this, the term “blog” remained relatively unknown to the mainstream public until bloggers ousted the 2002 Senate Majority Leader. Trent Lott. Senator Lott made some statements that were largely ignored by the general media who covered the event. Bloggers started writing about these hot comments. As more of the public became aware, Senator Lott became the center of a controversy. Finally, public pressure was too much and Senator Lott resigned from being the Senate Majority Leader.

Senator Lott was not the only victim of his own “fame”. The popular news show “60 Minutes” also fell victim to the tenaciousness of the blogger community. News anchor, Dan Rather, was reporting a story about President Bush’s military service. Documents presented to backup the story were later discovered to be forged and it was bloggers once again who raised the uproar. As a result, Dan Rather was fired and CBS had to broadcast a somewhat red-faced apology to the public.

You don’t have to write a blog to make money off of a blog. When bloggers get bored of writing their blog, or traffic has dropped off, they often put their blogs up for sale. You can sometimes purchase these blogs including the domain name for a very reasonable price. After a bit of investment in time and effort, sometimes these can be turned around as being much more valuable than their original price. At times it can be a very quick turn around and some have reported that this can be done without having to write a single additional word on the blog. We personally believe that a little elbow grease in polishing a rough product can always allow its underlying shine to come through more powerfully.

Other bloggers are attempting to grab a piece of the millions of available advertising dollars by putting ads on their blog. Visitors leaving those blogs often click on the ads and for each click, the owner gets some small revenue. Google Adsense, and Adbright are just two of the many online entities that allow you to customize ads for your blog.

The advantage of having ads is that they can generate residual income. You can leave your blog alone for a few weeks and still have money come in from them. It is not even necessary to move them around occasionally since Google can put video ads, picture ads or just plain text ads on your blog… Thus creating a kind of fresh pictorial content if thats the type of ad that you allow Google to place on your blog.

Affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful tools for generating income for your blog. Basically, you use your blog to sell someone else’s products for a percentage of the sales. Usually, the best products to put nice pretty “affiliate tagged” images of on your blog are those that are related to your blog topic. Your enthusiasm for the related topic will help the product to sell itself to the customers. And as a bonus for helping to keep your blog interesting, you can get great graphics that are not **just pretty pictures**.

Check out places like Clickbank, Commission Junction, and LinkShare for finding the right related products to put on your blog. There are literally thousands of products that you can earn a commission on. More sales mean more money for you.

Cluttered ads on a blog are particularly unattractive to potential customers. A nice mix of valuable content combined with related product ads is your best bet at getting your product sold. Try not to put too many different classifications of products together. This can make your blog awkward looking and turn off some potential buyers. Another tip, the more focused the topic of your blog is, is the more money you will make from Google’s adsense should you choose to use this easy option. Blogs that talk about everything under the sun, tend to have audiences that are searching and not buying. Blogs that focus on Polish Camera Lenses or light weight racing bicycles or dating in afghanistan ( note how specific these topics are ) tend to have audiences that are far more likely to buy or purchase something and Google and others are well aware of this distinction.

Getting more people to visit your blog is important to generating sales or getting more ad revenue. The more people who visit your site, the more potential for income that you have. Traffic can be directed toward your blog by commenting in other topic related blogs and leaving your own blog address in those. Consider putting your blog address in your signature as your comment in forums and don’t be shy to put your blog url/address in your Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Linkln or Myspace accounts for more curiousity seeking traffic.

Yahoo and MSN search engines prioritize blogs. To keep your blog on top, keep adding new content. Alert your readers to new content by submitting your blog to many of the ping services available. New content will automatically send a ping/alert to the 100-200 search engines particularly if you have added more ping services than the default rpc.pingomatic.com that is set up in your blog writing options area. This will re-prioritize your blog to higher levels in the search engines.

The power of a blog can be extraordinary. Most of us who have blogs update them once or twice a month, oblivious to the fact that there are others who are earning tremendous 6 and 7 figure amounts from their blog. At some point in time, most of us have heard of these few geniuses and have even tried a few things to see how we can monetize our blogs. Unfortunately most of us have failed or just not made more than a few dollars monthly. The truth is that sometimes a few simple changes can both increase traffic exponentially and also create a steady income of $50 to $100 dollars daily on autopilot, which most of us would find to be quite fantastic. What kind of changes would those be? Click below to find out.

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Rain Doesn’t Hamper Hamlin At Martinsville

Despite a late race flat tire that necessitated an unplanned pit stop, Denny Hamlin raced like a madman down the stretch and took the checkered flag at Monday’s Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 NASCAR race at West Virginia’s Martinsville Speedway. The race had been originally scheduled for Sunday, but was moved to Monday due to torrential rains. It was Hamlin’s third career victory on the oldest track on the NASCAR circuit.

Hamlin’s success at the track didn’t escape unnoticed by NASCAR betting enthusiasts, and those that backed him as a +750 choice to win received a nice payday. Series points leader Jimmie Johnson was the betting favorite for the race. Hamlin won the fall race at Martinsville last year and won this race in 2008.

Giving up the lead with ten laps remaining to head to the pit for fresh tires, Hamlin drove like a man possessed to regain the lead and take the victory. He somehow moved from 9th place to the lead in just four laps, and talked about his wild ride after the race:

“That’s hard to do. I had to bully my way through there towards the end, but everybody was just running into everyone. I flattened my tire with Matt Kenseth going down the backstretch and just somehow made it work.”

Hamlin got around seven time Martinsville winner Jeff Gordon with help from teammate Joey Logano in the shootout during the final laps and held on for the victory. Race favorite Jimmie Johnson finished 9th, which was good enough to give him the overall series points lead. Greg Biffle is second in the standings, with Matt Kenseth in third.

NASCAR will head to Phoenix, Arizona for the Subway Fresh Fit 600 a week from Saturday before moving on to Texas for a race April 18th. They’ll then head to the superspeedway at Talladega, Alabama for the second restrictor plate race of the season on April 25th.

Ross Everett is a widely published freelance sports writer and highly respected authority on football betting. His writing has appeared on a variety of sports sites including sports news and sportsbook directory sites. He lives in Las Vegas with three Jack Russell Terriers and an emu. He is currently working on an autobiography of former interior secretary James Watt.

3 Low Cost Ways To Meet Agents & Editors

These days it’s common knowledge that it’s hard to meet an Agent or an editor through an unsolicited mailing. They are more likely to pay attention to a submission coming from someone they have met in person. To that end, writers flock to conferences so they can get some face time with real live agents and editors. And that’s great. I believe writers should get out and network. But those conferences can be pricey. It’s best to combine attending conferences with a few other strategies that are easier on your wallet. Here are 3 you may find useful.

1.) Attend Author Readings

Make a point of keeping track of writers who do work similar to yours. When they’re in the vicinity go hear them read. Sometimes–not all the time–but sometimes the author’s agent and editor will be in the audience. If they aren’t, see if you can steal a few moments with the writer and ask with whom he or she works and whether they have been pleased with the experience. You can either ask for an introduction or contact the people on your own. If you’re going to do the former, first develop a rapport with the writer and stay in touch. They may not feel comfortable referring you to their agent or editor right off the bat, but in time as they get to know you and your work, an introduction may be a possibility.

2.) Attend Classes Offered by Continuing Education Groups Such As The Learning Annex

Agents and editors are in the business of looking for the next hot writer and making a name for themselves in the publishing world. That’s why you’ll often find agents and editors teaching classes related to their work at places such as The Learning Annex, which has locations in New York City, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta and Boston (http://www.learningannex.com). Recent instructors include literary agent Katharine Sands, editor Marcela Landres (formerly of Simon & Schuster) and Vickie M. Stringer, founder and CEO of Triple Crown Publications. The courses can cost as little as $30 or $40 and last about three hours so you have some time to find out if the instructor can help you or point you in the direction of someone who can.

Remember the agent or editor probably has aspiring authors handing them manuscripts all the time, so make sure you stand out from the pack. Have a killer query letter and synopsis (if your book is a novel) or book proposal (for non-fiction works) at the ready. You’ll make a great impression simply because you’re not making them lug a 500-page behemoth home in their briefcase!

3.) Look for Agents and Editors Who Have Their Own Personal Websites

When you come across the name of an agent or editor who may be appropriate for you, Google them to see if they have their own websites with email addresses that may be different from their corporate mailboxes. Some are authors themselves (like literary agent Donald Maass, author of Writing the Breakout Novel) and have books of their own to promote. Email them and, again, try to develop a rapport and get a sense of what they’re working on and what they’re looking for. It’s best to know as specifically as possible before going through the trouble of making a submission. I recently heard about a writer who submitted to an agent looking for African American authors, but in fact the agent was looking for African American authors who wrote urban romance–which was not the writer’s genre at all.

One Last Note: These ideas should get you started and I hope they’ll inspire you to try other creative routes. It does get easier because you will find that as you go to more events and tell more people what you’re doing, the more likely you will be to find the connector that will build the path between you and your future agent or editor.

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Browns Use Big First Quarter To Beat Lions In NFL Preseason Play

The good news for the Cleveland Browns was that their offense came out swinging on Saturday night, scoring 20 points in the first quarter en route to victory. The bad news–it was against the NFL’s worst team and their struggling rookie QB. Browns QB Derek Anderson played well, while the Detroit Lions rookie signal caller Matt Stafford struggled mightily as the Browns easily took a 27-10 decision in NFL preseason action. Both teams are now 1-1 in the preseason.

Anderson led the Browns to their first offensive touchdown in seven games and finished 8 of 11 for 130 yards and one interception. He gave a fairly positive assessment of his play in postgame interviews:

“I thought things went well. I played all right. I made some good throws and a couple I wish I could have back. It was an opportunity and I was happy to go out there and play well while I was in.”

Quinn entered in the second quarter, and was only 3 of 5 for 29 yards. After the game, Browns coach Eric Mangini deflected comments on which signal caller had the upper hand for the starting job:

“I’m really not going to assess it that way now. We’ll keep rolling along and move into next week and see where it goes.”

The NFLs first overall draft pick, Lions QB Matt Stafford threw an interception on his first play from scrimmage and finished with 34 yards on 5 of 13 passing. He tried to maintain an upbeat tone in his postgame comments:

“That’s what football is. You’ll play good some weeks and bad some weeks. The tough part about preseason is you get your allotted amount of plays. You can have a bad 25 plays and not get a chance to come back and fix it and make it right in the second half.”

Lions coach Jim Schwartz has the unenviable task of trying to turn around a team that went 0-16 last season, were that not bad enough he had to deal with the fallout of a fight during warm-ups between his own players. Carson Butler and Dewayne White went at it before the game. Schwartz sounded relatively unfazed by the bizarre turn of events:

“I’ve never seen that before.The thing I like about it is they were competitive and going hard. I came in and said, ‘Some of y’all thought the game started at 7 o’clock instead of 7:30.’ Obviously that’s something that shouldn’t happen and it’s already been addressed.”

Providing a good example of the lack of chemistry on a losing football franchise, White is still holding a grudge :

“We’ll probably have to go at it one more time when we’re not playing a game — next week sometime. There’s going to be bad blood between us.”

The Lions will continue their NFL preseason slate next Saturday night as they welcome the Indianapolis Colts to Ford Field. Cleveland will also play at home, with the Tennessee Titans providing the opposition. Both teams will open the NFL regular season on Sunday, September 13th with Cleveland hosting the Minnesota Vikings and the Lions traveling to New Orleans to take on the Saints.

Ross Everett is a freelance sports writer and highly respected authority on baseball betting. His writing has appeared on a variety of sports sites including sportsbooks and sportsbook directory sites. He lives in Las Vegas with three Jack Russell Terriers and an emu. He is currently working on an autobiography of former interior secretary James Watt.

Notes On Building A Sense Of Teamwork In The Workplace

It appears that it is quite essential for organizations to foster a sense of collaboration among its members. Indeed, teamwork has an important place in any company or organization that seeks to increase its chances of success in achieving its goals, mission or objectives. However, fostering a work culture that values collaboration is not as easy at it seems. There are several obstacles to working in teams and these blocks must be broken down so that an organization can finally find success in collaborative effort. In an environment where a shared goal and collaborative effort is given great value, people or employees are able to grasp and understand the whole concept of collaboration and cooperation.

It can truly be a challenge to find organizations wherein teamwork is best exemplified. Not because no one is willing to work collaboratively and cooperatively but more often than not, the reason behind this is that leaders and employees do not quite have a good understanding of what it is to work in teams and to work as a team. In many cases, they are too confined within the idea of emerging as the best that they forget that being the best can be achieved when working cooperatively. We cannot totally blame leaders and employees for this as it seems that we all have grown up in world where there is great emphasis in winning and coming out on top of the others.

There is really nothing wrong in this concept of winning. What we need to give attention to is how we go about it. If we try to realign our concept of winning and think about it as something that can be best achieved through working in a team and working as a team, we might just be able to embrace the whole concept of collaborative effort more easily.

So how do we create a culture of teamwork? There are several ways to achieve this and we can start with having leaders communicate clear expectations on teamwork and collaboration being expected from each and every member of the organization. They must also become models of collaborative effort and forget about maliciously competing with each other.

We can also consider participating in team building workshops and development programs that are built around the concept of teamwork in the workplace. And it must be emphasized that leaders and executives are not the only ones who must attend such workshops and training programs, but even the rank and file employees as well.

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Blogging For Earning With A Long Term Strategy

Many men and women dream of blogging for revenue, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work difficult, and a fundamental grasp of blogging technology. Even so, extremely few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog page. Most folks who attempt to produce dollars with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons. Usually, bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how a lot dollars they’ll make, and when these expectations aren’t met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging. The other trap that many bloggers fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a income as a blogger, the key to accomplishment would be to make a realistic plan and stick with it.

To succeed at blogging for profit, the primary thing that you will need is usually a big readership. The higher your targeted traffic, the much more advertisers will agree to pay you. On the other hand, cultivating the regular visitors that you may need to be able to make a income isnt quick. As more and additional blogs appear each day, having a great idea or a wonderful writing style is no longer enough to obtain attention. You need to be able to marketplace your web site effectively.

Too numerous bloggers invest all of their time writing posts and almost no time marketing and advertising their project. To be specific, updating as usually as you are able to is an excellent method to keep your website high on blogrolls and high in website search engines like technorati, and once your readers know that you simply update frequently they’ll return for your internet site on a typical basis.

However, it does not matter how usually you update if nobody is reading your page, so dont skimp on the time that you devote drawing site visitors to your web page. To make your dreams of blogging for revenue a reality, try decreasing your number of posts and utilizing some of that time to draw new site visitors by setting up link exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts inside the blog page community, and following other established modes of winning site visitors.

Obviously, even if you are a advertising and marketing genius or have a truly good notion for a blog, achievement isn’t going to happen overnight. Building the kind of readership that blogging for earnings requires takes time, and in all likelihood it will be at least many months prior to you’re in a position to turn much of a profit. Attempt to remain committed for your blogging project during this initial rough period. To stay motivated, set goals for how often you are going to update and how numerous readers you need to attract, and then reward yourself for sticking with your strategy.

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Calvin Borel Guides Super Saver To Kentucky Derby Victory

In the muddy mess of a rain soaked Churchill Downs, jockey Calvin Borel continued his mastery of the track as he guided Super Saver to victory in the Kentucky Derby. Super Saver had gone off as an 8-1 choice behind 6-1 favorite Looking At Lucky, and Borel took the ‘Run For The Roses’ for the second consecutive year and an unprecedented third time in four years. Borel was aboard 50-1 longshot Mine That Bird in 2009 and rode Street Sense in 2007. In the only Derby Borel didn’t win in the last four years he finished in the money, guiding Denis of Cork to a third place finish in 2008.

Borel became the ninth jockey to win the Kentucky Derby at least three times. Eddie Arcaro and Bill Hartack both won it five times while Bill Shoemaker has won it four times. Angel Cordero Jr., Kent Desormeaux, Gary Stevens, Issac Murphy and Earl Sande are the others to have won three Derbies.

After the race Lookin At Lucky’s trainer Bob Baffert gave Borel his due credit:

“This Calvin Borel, you got to give him credit, he knows how to win this race. He gets right on top of that rail, takes advantage. Smart rider; he owns this track. The thing about Calvin is he takes control of the race. He’s great here. He’s a great rider and he can get it done.”

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas concurred:

“Used to be Pat Day, now I think Calvin owns Churchill Downs. He’s got a great feel for it and they’re running for him and his confidence is sky high. He’s just a great rider, too, a great horseman in a lot of ways.”

Super Saver’s trainer Todd Pletcher also praised Borel:

“I said earlier in the week that Calvin Borel is a great rider anywhere he goes, but for some reason at Churchill Downs he’s even five lengths better. He’s just figured out Churchill Downs. He knows how to ride this track, he gets along with the colt really well.”

Super Saver won by 2 lengths over second place Ice Box. Paddy O’Prado finished third. Make Music for Me was fourth, followed by Noble’s Promise, Lookin At Lucky, Dublin, Stately Victor, Mission Impazible, Devil May Care, American Lion and Jackson Bend.Discreetly Mine was 13th, followed by Dean’s Kitten, Conveyance, Homeboykris, Sidney’s Candy, Line of David, Awesome Act and Backtalk.

Ross Everett is a freelance sports writer and noted authority on football betting. His writing has appeared on a variety of sports sites including sportsbooks and sportsbook directory sites. He lives in Las Vegas with three Jack Russell Terriers and an emu. He is currently working on an autobiography of former energy secretary Donald Hodell.

MLS Not Shopping Soccer Superstar Donovan

Landon Donovan raised his international stock with a spirited performance for the USA national team at the recently concluded World Cup. That doesn’t mean he’ll be shipping off to the Premier League or Serie A. On Thursday, Major League Soccer (MLS) commissioner Don Garber emphasized that the United States’ top professional league wouldn’t be accepting transfer offers for Donovan. Garber said that he’d be receptive to loan offers during the MLS off-season, but that his league has no plans to entertain transfer offers for any sort of long term duration.

Donovan has played in Europe on loan before with mixed results. He struggled during stints with Bundesliga sides Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich, but was impressive during a 10 week loan to Everton of the English Premier League earlier this year. Donovan scored two goals in 13 matches with Everton and was instrumental in a couple of their best results of the season-wins over Chelsea and Manchester United and a draw with Arsenal.

After scoring three goals for the USA in World Cup play, Donovan has become an even more attractive target for clubs in Europe but MLS commissioner Garber said he’s too valuable of an asset for the league to lose:

“He’s become a real soccer hero. MLS needs soccer heroes, and we have a great American soccer hero playing for us in LA, holding the torch for the sport in our country, and that’s very important. I don’t believe that it’s something we can do without.”

“Landon is in my view the greatest player of our generation and an incredibly valuable part of our history but also of our future. He proved in England last year on loan and he proved in South Africa that he’s a world-class player and he’s also proved that he loves our league and really has accepted the mantle of really being one of the leaders of the sport. It is my hope and my expectation that we have him for the rest of his career because I think the contributions that he makes are invaluable to our future success.”

Donovan certainly left open the possibility of a move to Europe with this comment after the World Cup:

“Right now, I want to be in America. If there’s something serious to look at, then I will. I never say never to anything. But for now, I’m very excited to be home.”

The notion of a Donovan move to the English Premier League became something of a hot topic last week when Everton boss Phil Neville commented that he’d spoken to him about a return:

“I’ve spoken to Landon and I know for a fact that he wants to come back here.”

For the time being, however, Donovan will continue with the MLS’ top team, the LA Galaxy. Donovan agreed in December to a four year deal with a base salary of $2.05 million per season. His agent, Richard Motzkin, had no comment on Garber’s statements.

Ross Everett is a freelance sports writer and respected authority on football betting. His writing has appeared on a variety of sports sites including sportsbooks and sportsbook directory sites. He lives in Northern Nevada with three Jack Russell Terriers and an emu. He is currently working on an autobiography of former energy secretary Donald Hodell.

Benefits Of Using Answering Services For Medical Professionals

If you are a medical professional, you need an answering service. An answering service is necessary for several reasons; to handle call overflow during regular hours, lunch coverage, sick or vacation coverage and after-hours support.

An answering service is a great back-up to have for the previous circumstances. No matter how efficient your receptionist is, there will be times they cannot answer each and every call promptly. The answering service is there to receive and handle those calls for you. Because the answering service is backing you up, the receptionist can take the time that is needed to address the current patient’s needs and demands and they do not need to feel rushed or pressured to get the patient off of the phone immediately.

Also, what do you do if your receptionist needs a day off? Turning to a temporary staffing agency to fill the gap, has its advantages, but also disadvantages. The replacement you inherit is most likely not familiar with your practice. Patients will likely not get the same level of service that they would from your regular receptionist. When you use an answering service however, the agents are trained on how to handle all the different types of calls your practice may receive, so the service your patients receive will be as close to normal as possible.

Some medical offices completely close for the lunch hour and patients’ calls are usually sent to a voicemail greeting. The only problem with this is that up to 75% of callers choose to not leave a message or even call back when they receive voicemail greetings. They will find a service provider who has a live person answering the phone when they wanted or needed them. However, if you have an answering service in place, your patients receive a friendly agent who can respond to general inquiries on your behalf and save you and your staff some time when they arrive back in the office from their lunch hour. This can greatly reduce the stress that can accompany those first few minutes after the office re-opens.

If you are a doctor who has fielded your own after-hours calls, I am sure you are aware that a large percentage of those calls are not what you would call urgent. Most issues that patients call about during the after-hours of your practice are able to be handled the next day in-office or they should be directed to the local urgent care center or emergency room. For the simple things such as scheduling/canceling/re-scheduling an appointment or Mrs. Kravitz’ persistent questions about her surgical incisions still being sore during the normal healing period, instructions you have provided to the medical answering service agent will be relayed to the caller so you do not have to have your off-time interrupted unless the situation actually requires your expertise. If the issue truly requires your attention, the medical answering service would then connect the caller to you.

If you think you can use an answering service for your medical practice, do a search online and investigate which one will work for you.

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International Expansion Consultants – Taking Company Public – Finding The Right Consultant

If you are trying to grow your company, expand, raise capital or globalize your concept I’m going to give you some insider advice. Now, I hate to be the bearer of bad news and I hate to rain on your parade but chances are, if you’re trying to achieve the above and you are doing it yourself you have about a 1% chance of succeeding. You need to hire a full service strategies consultant in order to do this properly as a qualified and full service consultant will evaluate your company and streamline the process with as few bumps in the road as possible.

Now here is the problem, entering into the realm of globalization strategists and pre IPOs is a world of shark infested waters and a sky that is down pouring with razorblades. Stay under water and get eaten alive or come up for air and get bled dry while you’re sliced and diced by the elements. This is not a place for upstarts or armatures. There are consultants who prey on people just like you. They understand your emotional needs, economic ambitions and they know what you want to hear and the psychological criteria to feed the empty spaces in your soul. There are some slick willies out there. So if you are trying to get ahead and understand the realities of failure in going it alone how can you find a consultant that will get you where you need to go with as little headache as possible?

Good question. First of all, be weary of a consultant who is on your side from the beginning of the first conversation. The last thing you want is a happy go lucky consultant that is all smiles and laughs and immediately falls for the picture that you paint for him on your first call. This guy is a chump, he’s nave and chances are he’ll take your retainer fee and 24 months later the only thing you’ll have to show for it is a negative balance on your corporate checking account.

You want a consultant that is, um well, for a lack of a better term…a bastard. You need a hardnosed, arrogant, self centered power player who has developed a sense of confidence so pure that he would tell you to take a hike before he agrees to even look at your business plan to even consider bringing you on. You want a guy that will ask you or should I say “drill you” will questions in a way that makes you feel like you know nothing at all about your company, industry or your position. This breed of consultant, if he takes you on after qualifying you as a legitimate effort will turn your world upside-down and add jet fuel to your growth strategies and fill your company with the highest pedigreed executives in the industry, globalize your concept and not just take you public, but demand action from market makers, securities dealers and investor relations servants because his track record of success and strategic pre IPO picks are so obvious and dripping with success and profitability that these individuals in the market place have no choice but to act on his advice.

This is truly an industry where the nice guy gets eaten alive. When evaluating a globalization, positioning or IPO facilitation consultant everything is based off of track record, contacts and the aura that hovers around the consultant when they are walking into a room to negotiate on your behalf.

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