Growing up in the U.S., we hear about the stresses that people encounter during certain holiday seasons – Xmas, New Years, Valentine’s Day. People experience social anxiety from dysfunctional family relationships or loneliness. But in an adult Jew’s life, the month of Tishrei, laden with Holidays and fasts, immerses us into a G-d conscious existence, …
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How to Close the Deal
An interested JobShuker is struggling with selling his products and just can’t get visitors beyond the HERE I AM phase.He writes: My question to you – if you can help – is how does one move from people reading your article to actually making them contact one? I find that people are reading the articles. …
Lessons from 1978
Taken from http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/1978-11-01/Mother-Types-at-Home.aspx Marsha’s Home Typing Service enables her to spend time with her family (and save babysitting fees!) as she earns a living doing clerical work. You, too, can be a successful mother, wife, businesswoman, and breadwinner … without ever leaving your home! -MARSHA K. STRONG – If you’re a young mother who’s struggling …
Unexpected rewards through “Good Deeds”
Do you know who Nobel, of the Nobel Prize, is? Well I didn’t. Until I came across this article Doing good can lead to rewards you never considered. It’s an interesting article, but I don’t think it even touches the surface of the subject. I hope to make a few points to illustrate how you …
Excerpt from blog post “Marketing Misfires”
Go to http://adiamondinsunlight.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/marketing-misfires/ for the original text. I receive regular Google Alerts for the word JobShuk on the web, and was sent the link above, and to my excitement, it was a negative post ! Here’s what he wrote: Rami of +961 wrote a short post earlier this week on the incongruity of seeing Lebanon-specific …
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You are the Future
Intuit, the US leaders in financial software, are continuing to forecast limitless growth and potential for small businesses, especially run by foreign entrepreneurs and immigrants. See the fun fact sheet, or go to the Future of Small Business Report page.
Getting through the hard times
There are times is an entrepreneur’s life when the emotions build up. His waking and sleeping hours are full of anxiety, stress, desperation, doubt, fear, and so on. Of course, these emotions under control can be useful to motivate the entrepreneur to succeed. But when they take over, it becomes hard to both focus on …
What is a Friend?
"You’ve got a friend request from …" "… would like to add you as a friend" These are what we’ve been seeing in our e-mail inboxes for a little while now. Sometimes they’re from close acquainances, sometimes from long-lost buddies. Often though, they’re from someone who I never considered a friend, or have no idea …
Is your business “Under Construction”?
In the beginning of the Internet popularity, before CSS, AJAX, and Web 2.0, everyone was stumbling over their own feet to get a website up. And in this intense race, it was acceptable to hang a silly, animated image of a work-horse, construction worker, and caution sign with the words "Under Construction" posted prominently. This …
Social Networking and the Void
Social Networking, or more appropriately software networking, is a term given to describe a virtual environment with a purpose of bringing together real people. Sound vague enough? You bet it is. From the old-school modem-accessible Bulletin Board Services, to the new-school MySpace and Facebook, people who may or may not know each other in the …