6 Ways In Which You Can Easily Increase Your Profits

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1. How to Turn an Idea into $100,000

Do you ever wonder why some people seem to get all the lucky breaks in business while others struggle to barely get by? They seem to be in the right place at the right time.

Fact is, maybe they’re not at the right place at the right time; maybe they just know how to make things “happen.”

As a business advisor I often see people begin and end a business before they have given it a chance to grow. For some reason, they seem to think that all they have to do is have a product or service to sell and the rest magically takes care of itself.

Nothing could be further from the truth. For any business to succeed there are steps that must be taken.


2. The Steps from Product Idea to Product Success

Michelangelo once said that his statue of David was embedded in the block of marble and he merely chipped away the edges to reveal it. Is your product idea inside your mind just waiting to come alive? Or, is your product already formed and you need only to smooth out the edges?

Using my Market-Step process your idea will come to life as we progress in the following steps from idea to launch:
1. Self-Evaluation
2. Concept Evaluation
3. Prototype Evaluation
4. Product and Market Planning
5. Product Development and Marketing Tactics
6. Product Launch, Marketing and Selling
Please use this roadmap as a navigational tool to guide and monitor your progress.

3. Is This the PR You Thought You Were Getting?

You know, where you do something positive about the behaviors of those outside audiences that MOST affect your organization? And where you do so by persuading those important external folks to your way of thinking, then move them to take actions that help your department, division or subsidiary succeed?

Yes, that’s right, it’s where you use the fundamental premise of public relations to produce external stakeholder behavior change – the kind that leads directly to achieving your managerial objectives.

What it boils down to is
(1) your public relations effort must involve more than special events, brochures and news releases if you really want to get your money’s worth, and
(2), the right PR really CAN alter individual perception and lead to changed behaviors that help you succeed!

4. How to Easily Increase Your Profits

Do you remember the last time you went into a shop and the person ‘serving’ raced over to you, greeted you with a lovely smile, heaps of enthusiasm and said, “Welcome to our store, what can I help you with today?” And then listened attentively to what you had to say?

Doesn’t happen very often does it? In fact, while I was writing this, I couldn’t recall when I had experienced it. I’m sure I must have yet it would have been so long ago, I can’t remember.

Let me tell you what happened this week…
I belong to a well-known trade exchange which I have found very useful for my business. I wanted to purchase a suitcase from a particular store which usually takes trade dollars.

From time-time the store will limit the use of trade dollars if they have reached their maximum for the month. Anyhow I quickly discovered this wasn’t going to be my lucky day.

5. A Simple Formula for Success

Leaders in the business world need public relations big time, and they show it every day.

How? By staying in touch with their most important external audiences and by carefully monitoring their perceptions about the company, audience member feelings about hot topics at issue, and the behaviors that inevitably follow.

Could there be an angle here for your business?

What I mean is, once you interact with, then learn what that key target audience of yours believes about you and your organization, a corrective public relations goal – a specific behavior change -- can be established.

Which then requires that you identify a strategy. There are just three choices here, create opinion where none exists, change existing opinion, or reinforce it.

6. Attracting Clients With Ease

Whether you are already running your own business, or still thinking about starting your own business, I suspect that deep down you know you have gifts and talents that can really make a difference to others.

In an ideal world, you'd spend the majority of time doing the work you love to do, with a steady stream of clients knocking at your door as and when you want them. The reality, however, can be somewhat different, and the whole process of finding new business can be a time consuming challenge full of uncertainty.

Some would be entrepreneurs are so intimidated by the idea of finding clients that they never put their dreams into action. Others start promising businesses, yet give up disillusioned by the frustrating lack of clients. Some die-hards persist, but at great emotional and financial cost as the uncertainty about attracting and maintaining clients takes its toll.


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Steve Pike, is a internet infopreneur and author who is interested in the internet marketing world. At the age of 49, he has become interested in writing, selling online, and managing online businesses:


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A Thousand Kisses: Episodes 1-5

A Thousand Kisses is a delightful, low-key drama. At first it's simply a refreshing change of pace from all the histrionics and over-the-top romantic and dramatic action in other dramas, from City Hunter (which is amazing but very definitely intense) to tearjerkers like Scent of a Woman to even recent rom-coms like The Greatest Love. As it goes along it switches from enjoyable to addicting, however, and my only regret in starting this drama is that it is 50. episodes.long. It's still surprisingly fast-paced for a 50-episode weekend drama, however. The first episode is admittedly slower than a snail on a hot day and I would never have made it through had I not been promised romance in the future. Just grit your teeth and get through it, because it does pay off. Episodes three to four really introduce us to our characters and set up the character dynamics.

Woo Joo Mi (Kim So Eun) is a sunny, determined girl who was raised by with her older sister Woo Joo Young (Seo Young Hee) and their grandmother, since their mother walked out on them at a young age. A magazine writer, she falls for Jang Woo Jin (Ryu Jin) at first sight when she runs into him (literally) while running one day. Woo Jin is a cold, socially awkward businessman who lives a lonely home life with a domineering father and a stepmother.

Joo Mi's older sister, meanwhile, Joo Young, at first appears to be a happily married woman with a young son. A devoted wife, she's contantly cooking for her mother-in-law and is taking an Italian cooking class because her husband and son's favorite dish is spaghetti. Ji Hyun Woo, meanwhile, plays Jang Woo Bin, a former national soccer player who became a sports agent after getting injured on the field.

The "theme" of the drama, by which it marketed itself, is a story which plays with age couples: Joo Young's soon-to-be-divorced housewife is older than Woo Bin, while Woo Jin is much older than 20-something Joo Mi. There's also apparently a romance later in the series between chaebol/grandpa Byung Doo (Lee Seon Jae) and his caregiver Ji Sun (Cha Hwa Yun). Thus far, however, the age difference really  hasn't mattered, which is all to the good in my opinion. When Ji Hyun Woo first came onscreen, I admit all I could think is "how ugly!" But the upside is that he does have a decent amount of screen presence and most importantly plays someone with a good deal of maturity and cool-headedness. Which means that his pairing with Joo Young doesn't feel odd at all – in fact if I hadn't already known that he's a good deal younger than her, I wouldn't have been able to tell.

Episode five is when the emotional connections are really made, when the drama really comes home I think. I was expecting to watch this solely for the Ryu Jin/Kim So Eun storyline, but surprisingly, it's the Seo Young Hee/Ji Hyun Woo storyline that is more affecting in the beginning part of the drama, partly becuse it's more developed, but more because it's so real. There's heartbreaking truth to the way Joo Young, a devoted wife, forgives her husband multiple times when he cheats on her, each time hoping desperately that it's the last time – and yet he always does it again until finally she snaps and can't take it anymore. It's easy to see why she forgave him before – partly for her son's sake, but also because he's willing to do and say anything to placate her and keep her in the marriage, and each time apologizes profusely, telling her it will never, ever happen again and confessing his wrong. He's the quintessential weak-willed, self-centered jerk who's so hard to cut off, eager to have everyone around him be happy, but unwilling to make any sacrifices to make that actually happen.

The scene in which Woo Bin silently follows Joo Young in his car as she walks along the road weeping, having found her husband cheating again, was particularly effective. Not because we haven't seen a similar scene in multiple other dramas, but because Woo Bin doesn't have to be here. Unlike most other drama heroes, at this point he barely knows this woman, has no particular designs on her, and certainly no responsibility toward her – and yet here he is, silently following her to make sure she's okay and feeling desperately sorry for her.

It's achingly real as Joo Young stays locked in a silent prison of misery. And then the flashback, which should feel forced but somehow doesn't, explaining why Woo Bin understands, how he can empathize with her at this moment better than perhaps anyone else.

As for Woo Jin and Joo Mi, well, their problems are all about personality clashes and less about age gap – she's upbeat, forthright, and cheery, and he's uptight and entirely unsure how to deal with her constant intrustions on his life. They have one of the most adorable meet-cutes ever (I unfortunately couldn't screencap it because too much motion happening): surely a classic. Tiny girl running backwards crashes straight into the tall, quintessentially offended businessman, and instead of turning around like a normal person she just slowly tilts her head backward and looks up, as he looks down in complete confusion. The cute doesn't end there though – these two really do have the cutest scenes.

I really like their pairing because I actually see it working for both of them – it's not just the chemistry, though they certainly have that, but Joo Mi needs someone calmer and more stable because she can be a little flighty, and Woo Jin certainly needs someone to soften him up and bring some happiness and social functionality laughter to his life. I am also really, really hoping that later on in the drama Joo Mi gets herself in some sort of trouble and we get to see Woo Jin, having fallen for her, sweep in and protect her with all the strength of his adult-ness and money and position in life. That would be delicious. Joo Mi is just exactly what he needs because he'd never let anyone in easily, he needs someone who will fight for him and not be easily disuaded, and Joo Mi has tons of both determination and warmth to spare, just begging to be poured out on this icy, slightly messed-up man. It's not coincidental that his mother died some time ago – he's been lacking both a woman's warmth and a woman's guidance in his life which is probably why he is the way he is. He's not a jerk, however (Joo Won of Secret Garden provided us with enough bastardry to last for at least three years of dramas thank you), so on the whole, I'm entirely behind this pairing and can't wait to see it develop some more.

On a final note, can we agree that Joo Young's husband (whom I refuse to dignify even with a name) is one of the most despicable drama characters to ever walk the earth scar our eyeballs?

Ryu Jin’s Thousand Kisses

A Thousand Kisses for Ryu Jin? Yes, please. Hopefully with me involved somehow.
Too bad we’re just talking about a drama title, which will take up a weekend slot on MBC come August. And I fear that we’re looking at another second-lead role for Ryu Jin, which is great from a drama’s point of view since he’s so good at it, but sucky for those of us who want him to end up happy and not alone. (He’s currently being alternately adorable and swoony in Baby-Faced Beauty, where he’s the quiet, gentle, but stern boss who’s a single divorced dad to a kid who adores the woman he won’t win, Jang Nara. You’d feel worse about that if Daniel Choi weren’t so devotedly sweet.)

A Thousand Kisses is a drama about a woman who divorces (Seo Young-hee of Bedevilled) and faces all kinds of hardships on her way to success…which sounds an awful lot like that other upcoming weekend drama, Hooray For Love, which briefly starred Jae Hee before he dropped out due to injury.
Ji Hyun-woo plays the other male lead, and it seems like he’s in for another noona romance (Birth of the Rich, My Sweet Seoul). I suppose when you have an adorable puppy-dog face and demeanor, it’s what works for you.
A Thousand Kisses will replace All That Glitters (aka Twinkle Twinkle) on Saturdays and Sundays.

Via Osen, TV Report
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