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If you have invented something, the chances are that you don’t have the resources to mass-produce the product yourself. You will need to send the plans and designs off to someone else to make in their factory. When you do this, how can you protect your idea against the people that might see it? The answer is patent registration. This tactic will give you the exclusive right to profit from your invention.

A patent gives you the exclusive right to profit from an invention for a set number of years. If anyone else tries to sell something that is covered by your patent, you will have the legal right to make them either pay you a license fee or stop. Each patent has a number. You have probably seen this on any number of products. Patent pending means that a patent has been applied for but not yet granted. Your invention must qualify before you get a patent. Not all inventions can be covered by patents. Check that your invention meets the following criteria.

Is it new and secret? You can not have showed your invention publicly before you apply for a patent. Whatever you do, do not take your invention around and demonstrate it before you think about patents. Is it obvious? Your invention must not be something that would be obvious to experience in your chosen industry. You cannot apply for a patent for a scientific or mathematical theory, or method. A work of art books, plays, and computer programs, a way of doing things or business method are also not elligible for patent. Many of these are covered by copyright. Patents are intended for actual physical inventions.

You need to apply at a patent office in your country. There are also patent agencies for larger areas, such as the European Patent Office or ultimately the World Intellectual Property Organization. It is best to get a lawyer to guide you through this and make them sign a non-disclosure agreement. Depending on your country, applying for a patent can either be absurdly cheap or really expensive. You should note that if your patent application is refused at any stage, you won’t be getting your fees back. You can usually apply again, if you want to pay again.

If you have looked at the prices, you might be wondering: what is the worst thing that could possible happen to me if I didn’t get a patent? The only answer to this is that anyone, to whom you happen to explain your idea or product, can steal it. In this situation, you won’t be able to do a thing about it.

Once your invention does come on the market, success will attract many imitators. They will probably be able to produce your invention cheaper by sacrificing quality. A patent gives you protection in the marketplace for your home business against competitors.

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Abstract: Based on significant research, Entelechy has defined characteristics of effective teams.

Entelechy reviewed over 50 studies on high performance teams and compiled a list of high performance team characteristics. We grouped characteristics into eight categories as indicated on the graphic below.

Participative Leadership

Aligned On Purpose And Vision

Task Focused

Shared Responsibility

Innovative

Problem Solving

Strong Communication

Responsive

Self Monitoring

See if your team shares characteristics of High Performance Teams. Circle the characteristics that describe your team; cross off those that don’t describe your team.

PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP

Envisioning leadership and organizing leadership

Clear leadership role that is shared

Enables people to make choices

Shared norms

Shared values

Members drawn to the team

Team identity

Belonging/membership

Synergism

Future focused

ALIGNED ON PURPOSE AND VISION

Common shared purpose

Clear shared vision

Self directing

High morale

Team goals align with personal goals and organization goals

Problem solving, not laying blame

Clear, shared understanding of team members’ roles

TASK FOCUSED

Challenging tasks

Individual accountability/ownership

Equality in workload

Quality focus

Clear tasks and milestones

Mutual respect for ability

Commitment

SHARED RESPONSIBILITY

Shared decision making

Rewards linked to team performance

Recognize expertise/value added in individuals

Cooperation

Clear standards of acceptable performance

Celebrates success

Clear authority and responsibility

Contribution

Members responsible for team success

INNOVATIVE

Creative talents

May promote personal relationships

Respect for individuals

Empowered and empowering

PROBLEM SOLVING

Upfront and direct; confronts issues not people

Trust

Clear decision-making process

Conflicts managed well

Freedom to express ideas

Freedom to share opinions

STRONG COMMUNICATION

Superb communication

Open communication

Openness

Clear communication channels

Share common language and terminology

External communications

Time managed well

Structure, purposeful meetings (facilitator, timekeeper, recorder, scribe)

RESPONSIVE

Unite/partner with other teams

Flexible

Outward focused

Focus on the customer

Allows risks and mistakes

Promotes group learning

SELF MONITORING

Self correcting; evaluates its own performance

Individuals pleased with work results

Assigns opposing views

About The Author

Terence R. Traut is the president of Entelechy, Inc., a company that helps organizations unlock the potential of their people through customized training programs in the areas of sales, management, customer service, and training. Check out our 40 customizable modules, training tools, and eGuides at www.unlockit.com. Terence can be reached at 603-424-1237 or ttraut@unlockit.com

First, allow me to preface this report by stating,
advertisers in 2005 have spent $5.75 BILLION on
Search Engine Marketing according to the latest news
article published by:


SEMPO (Search Engine Marketers)

Website marketers cited Search Engine positioning was
the top methodto drive traffic to their sites (66%),
followed by email marketing (54%).

Source: Direct Marketing Association.

Assuming this relationship is still the same, (Good Guess), then, it is common sense to maximize your marketing efforts using both TARGETED Email marketing AND Search Engine
Marketing to INCREASE profits.

The most cost effective way, to market your website, online,
is to obtain several top 10-search engine rankings on the
major search engines for your KEYWORDS.

Here is some interesting information:

Google grew approximately 75% and received 48.8% of all
search engine traffic for December 2005. Yahoo received approximately 53.3%, down .3. MSN received 20.0% down 3.1.

Let’s face it, Google is simply the largest search engines being utilized online today.


Source: Nielsen//NetRatings February 9, 2006

If you had a “bricks and mortar” corner store at SOMEWHERE WORLD, how would you advertise and promote that store?

Classified? Newspaper ads? TV ads? Radio?

Forget all that.

Welcome to Internet Marketing!

I am a very big fan of Search Engine Marketing using
KEYWORDS, and email marketing using a highly TARGETED,
(niche) market. But, this could cost anarm and a leg
if you are not careful.

It is absolutely necessary to have some knowledge of
how these resources work.

Or, have a well recommended, highly regarded company
provide services for you. We use a company that is
known world wide and also performs SEO services for
Yahoo, along with many other International companies
and organizations.

Feel Free to contact us for more information.

When I first investigated resources to promote my site,
I started by asking for bids.

Was I ever amazed! They ranged from an iniitial cost
of $300 plus monthly reoccurring costs, to $3000 plus
monthly reoccurring costs. And, that was just for SEO
services. We still have KEYWORD bidding, (marketing),
we need to discuss.

Site submission is uncontrolled chaos. No one, and I mean
NO ONE knows what GOOGLE thinks. Here is a little tongue twister. The real key in getting top position is selecting
the right relevant KEYWORD with the best KEI value. More
on this in a future Article.

Can’t wait, can you?

Employees of GOOGLE don’t know how they evaluate sites for ranking. Promises of top search engine ranking in 10 days
are nonsense, unless, your ranked with some obscure KEYWORD that no one uses. I thought about that for awhile and came
up with a solution.

Become COKE, PEPSI, FORD, CHEVROLET, etc.

“BRAND” your product, service, or website. Use your
“BRAND” name everywhere; your ads, email, website,
submissions, keywords.

Gain recognition.

This is a slow process, but it WORKS! I registered my
BRAND:

“Opportunities Now Internet Marketing Services”.

It is indexed in all major Search Engines.

You can read an article we wrote about branding here:

http://ezinearticles.com/?id=58554

Some Interistesting Facts:

Top ways websites are discovered :

Banner ads 1%

Targeted email 1.2%

TV spots 1.4%

“By accident” 2.1%

Magazine ads 4.4%

Word-of-mouth 20%

Random Surfing 20%

Search Engines 46%

(Ref. – Popular Search engine review.)

Please be careful how you interpret these stats. This
refers to being DISCOVERED. SALES are made by Keyword
marketing (about .52%), and targeted email marketing,
about 48%.)

In Summary

Combine your email marketing with Search Engine Submissions
to cover ALL your market. Use a reputable company for SEO, (Search Engine Optimization)services. Some even offer a 90
day free trial.

Start growing YOUR own “in house” safelist. We started with
366 subscribers 60 days ago, and grew our DOUBLE OPTINLIST
by over 1000% today. (We can prove this claim).

If want to know how, contact us.

We are very fortunate to have a relationship with our very highly regarded, respected, and valued subscriber list. We would NEVER sell, transfer or lease our list to anyone.

If you are using “spray and pray” marketing techniques,
you are missing 50% of your potential sales and nearly
99% of your market.

Final Tip: Make a BUDGET you can afford;(It does
not matter the how large, or small, your budget is..
Set aside about 50% for SEO and 50% TARGETED email
marketing.

Watch your traffic and sales grow.

Yahoo Feed “Go Articles”, an excelant source for
information.

http://www.goarticles.com/

BE NUMBER ONE!

I began my work from home business three years ago, operating successfully, as an affiliate for several quality online businesses. On October 11, 2005, we took a major step forward and launched our website: http://www.bestworkfromhomeopportunity.com

Since then, we have more than doubled our online sales, and profits, using techniques we learned over the previous three
years. Our goal is to help other work from home business surive and grow successfully too.

Our site provides all the necessary products and services needed to have that dream be reality.

In my point of view gaming notebooks have lost their once sustained specialist title. I recall when they were not so popular. Obviously for the resellers they were greatly money making regardless of them not shipping in significant quantities. The most sought after laptops were the ones that were too overpriced to contemplate buying. In my view they were the best laptops about. Having said that most of us most likely did not buy laptops of this variety because of the price. These days things are a lot different with bigger manufacturers also producing gaming laptops.

In contrast to the littler retailers these manufacturers know they can make even more margin. Its certainly a good alternative to bigger profits. Getting prospects to buy laptops is pretty effortless for international manufacturers. Could this be the downfall of the little system builders? I know for sure that laptops for gaming will get more accessible for many. In addition society just look to trust bigger brands more.

To my surprise the mass produced gaming laptops are as good or even better than the best laptops available. This is one opportunity the smaller resellers should apply to their benefit. I do not believe consumers would like to have a similar specification as everyone else in this form of sector. These kinds of prospects more often then not are well grounded in the technology and will compare part for part. For people of this sort, how well it performs usually is more important than what it looks like.

All of this is really beneficial from the customers standpoint. I would forecast a few price wars taking place in this niche later. I think even industry experts would have a hard time seeing where the market is headed. I think technology is becoming more advanced but the new laptops should always be pricey. The large manufacturers have already started in the gaming laptops sector so we will have to be patient and observe what occurs I guess.

I can see the impact of this at this time. Just check out how inexpensive the gaming laptops are at http://www.rizeon.com

The opportunities to get free advertising for your product or services are limited only by your own imagination and energies. There are so many proven ways of promoting your objectives without cost that it literally boggles the mind just to think of listing them.

One way is to write an article relative to your particular expertise and submit it to all the publications and media dealing in the dissemination of related information. In other words, become your own publicity and sales promotions writer. Get the word out; establish yourself as an expert in your field, and “tag-along” everything you write with a quick note listing your address for a catalog, dealership opportunity, or more information.

Another really good way is by becoming a guest on as many of the radio and television talk shows or interview type programs as possible. Actually, this is much easier to bring about than most people realize. Write a letter to the producer of these programs, then follow up an in-person visit or telephone call. Your initial contact should emphasize that your product or service would be of interest to the listeners or viewers of the program–perhaps even saving them time and money.

Other ways of getting free or very inexpensive exposure include the posting of advertising circulars on all free bulletin boards in your area, especially the coin-operated laundries, grocery stores, and beauty and barber shops. Don’t discount the idea of handing out circulars to all the shoppers in busy shopping centers and malls, especially on weekend. You can also enlist the aid of the middle school students in your area to had out circulars door-to-door.

Some of the more routine methods include having a promotional ad relative to your product or service printed on the front or back of your envelopes at the time you have them printed with your return address.

Be sure to check all the publications that carry the kind of advertising you need. Many mail order publications just getting started offer unusually low rates to first-time advertisers; a free-of-charge insertion of your ad when you pay for an order to run three issues or more; or special seasonal ad space at greatly reduced rates. And there are a number of publications that will give you Per Inquiry (PI) space–arrangement where all orders come in to the publication, they take a commission from each order, and then forward the orders on to you for fulfillment.

Many publications will give you a contract for “” space. In this arrangement you send them your ad, and they hold it until they have unsold space, and then at a price that’s always one third or less the regular price for the space need, insert your ad. Along these lines, be sure to check in with the suburban neighborhood newspapers.

If you send out or publish any kind of catalog or ad sheet, get in touch will all the other publishers and inquire about the possibilities of exchange advertising. They run your ad in their publication in exchange for your running an ad for them of comparable size in yours.

Finally, there’s nothing in the world that beats the low cost and tremendous exposure you get when you advertise a free offer. Simply run an ad offering a free report of interest to most people— a simple one page report with a “tag-line” inviting the readers to send money for more information, with a full page advertisement for your book or other product on the backside. Ask for a self-addressed stamped envelope, and depending on the appeal for your report and circulation of the publication in which your ad appears, you could easily be inundated with responses!

The trick here, of course, is to convert all these responses, or a large percentage of them, into sales. This is done via the “tag-line,” which issues an invitation to the reader to send for more information, and the full page ad on the back of the report, and other offers you include with the complete package you send back to them. As mentioned at the beginning of this report, it’s just a matter of unleashing your imagination. Do that, and you have a powerful force working for you that can help you reach your goals.

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like you! To find out the best online business opportunities,
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“Health Care Roles Listed below are some examples of the different types of Health Care roles in the U.K:

Medical Assistant – They assist physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and optometrists by performing routine administrative and clinical tasks.

Medical Technologist – They undertake chemical, biological, haematological, immunology, microscopic, and bacteriological tests and can also be known as a Medical technician.

Podiatric Medical Assistant – Their job consists of castings of feet, expose and develop x-rays. They will also assist podiatrists in surgery.

Ophthalmic Medical Assistant – Related to eye-care they give assistance to ophthalmologists during medical eye care.

Medical Records – As the name suggests, they gather patients’ health information to maintain an exclusive record. They aim to collect details of patients’ medical history and ensure that they are properly stored.

Physiotherapists – Work with patients to regain mobility following operations or accidents

Cardiovascular Technologists – They undertake various tests related to the heart, lungs and blood. They will generally specialise in internal or external cardiovascular technology as well as having knowledge about catheters, pacemakers, and Holter machines.

EKG Technicians – This is also connected to the treatment of heart patients. They will read heart rhythms and activity through electrodes placed on the patient’s skin. They also help in diagnosing heart disease and analyse changes in the patient’s heart.

EEG Technologists – They specialise in the examination of the brain and the nervous system. They will help the doctors in diagnosing and giving treatment to people with head injuries, strokes, brain tumours, infectious diseases, epilepsy, sleep disorders and other medical conditions.

Medical Laboratory Technicians Jobs – This role includes collecting body samples such as blood, skin tissues and cells from patients to test for disease. They also learn how to create drugs to prevent diseases.

Respiratory Technicians – They treat lung and heart related patients by diagnosing and giving treatment to breathing disorders such as asthma and emphysema as well as providing emergency care.

Ultrasound Technologists – Will undertake ultrasound examinations to produce pictures of peoples’ internal organs or of a pregnant woman’s unborn baby. They are also known as diagnostic medical Sonographers.

Summary : There are many different types of health care roles both in the private and public sector.

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Family values . . . now that’s a term we’ve certainly heard a lot about lately.

In the midst of all the rhetoric, have you ever wondered how values become established and communicated within the family?

Values communicated over time

One of the key ingredients to establishing values within a family is time … time spent simply being together and experiencing life together.

If this is true, here’s an interesting and frightening statistic: The average American family spends only l4l/2 minutes together each day. To make matters worse, 12i/£ of those minutes are spent correcting, disciplining, etc. This leaves a bare 2 minutes for communicating values in our families.

Remember, this is only an average. Perhaps you spend more or less time together.

The point is simply this: Time together is the key ingredient in communicating what is important and what is not.

Rituals and traditions strengthen the family

One of the simplest and most enjoyable ways to communicate what’s important is through family traditions or rituals.

A family tradition or ritual is simply something that a family does together, with some kind of regularity, that provides each member with a sense of belonging to the family.

I’m not talking about being in a rut and never changing. A wise person once said that the only difference between a rut and a grave is the dimensions.

When I was growing up, we had a Friday-night ritual. I call it my “Friday-night dinner out and paper towel story.”

Every Friday night, my family would have dinner out. I was about 8 or 9 when I heard a friend’s parents talking about going out to dinner on a Tuesday night. I remember being surprised to learn that restaurants were open any night besides Friday!

Friday night after Friday night, we would go to the same restaurant. And then we would change restaurants and go to that same restaurant Friday night after Friday night.

I’m not really sure how we decided to change restaurants. The places probably closed down.

After dinner we would take my mom to the grocery store to do the shopping for the week. On the way, we would stop at whatever store that my father had identified as having the best sale on paper towels. Back then they were typically four for a dollar.

Once we got there the following ritual would take place:
My dad would give each of us (my mom, my sister and me) a dollar. We would each go get four paper-towel rolls and head to separate registers (so they wouldn’t know we were together). Then we would meet back at the car with our 16 paper-towel rolls.

This is an example of a family ritual that became a rut.

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Online writing is really self-publishing made easier and potentially much more lucrative with much less cost and investment to be made. But what is self-publishing and what does it have to do with online writing?

Self-publishing is older than America and through the centuries great fortunes have been made by folks who opted to privately produce and market their own writing. Yet all the amazing stories of great success in the past pale when compared to what has happened online already and what is to happen in the days, months and years to come.

The World Wide Web was really made for self-publishing in more ways than one. For example, in the offline days a self-publisher would have to raise hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars to produce their book or special report for sale. Then they would need to look for more money to advertise and market their information aggressively in newspapers and opportunity magazines. Finally they would have to ship their information out, usually using the postal service (snail mail).

If Joe Karbo (the greatest self-publisher of all time) were alive today, he would quickly become a billionaire many times over by going online. Today the self-publisher uses blogs to avail their information at a cost of virtually zero. Then there are numerous effective advertising and marketing tools online, including the very blog itself that can be used to market the self-published information. Self-published special reports can be instantly emailed to clients. Not to mention the fact that the self-publishers market is now enormous covering virtually every corner of the globe.

Who Was This Self-publisher Joe Karbo?

Joe Karbo was on the brink of personal bankruptcy when he self-published his classic, Lazy Man’s Way to Riches in 1973. Using his amazing knowledge of human behavior, he created tiny ads to advertise his self-published book available via mail order. His ads remained the same for years and later he graduated to bigger ads in newspapers and magazines from coast to coast.

By the time Karbo died at the age of 55, he was a millionaire many times over and his place in the self-publishing hall of fame was guaranteed. His techniques are still used by mail order self-publishers the world over, many of whom have successfully moved their operations online.

The arrival of the World Wide Web has not changed human nature and this is the reason why Karbo’s techniques and way of thinking have transferred so well to the Internet.

The Huge Advantages Of Online Self-publishing

While it is true that the rules of the game are a little different for the online self-publisher, the truth is that things have never been better. In the old days, the offline publisher had only one source of revenue that came from selling copies of his self-published information. The online self-publisher can still charge for copies of his special report, newsletter or ebook but he or she now has other amazing sources of revenue. They can post ads like Google Adsense ads, not to mention the dizzying choices of high earning affiliate programs he can sign-up for.

What all this means is that an online writer who understands that they are self-publishers capable of making serious money from the information they provide in their blog, email newsletter or special report, will have a distinct advantage. To take advantage of an opportunity, you need to “see” it first.

Let us take a closer look at the various self-publishing opportunities available online for writers.

Blog Power Works Wonders For The Self-publisher

Blogs or web logs as they were originally called is a self-publishers dream come true. The most profitable way to use a blog is to use it to promote a website or product available online.

Christopher Kyalo earns a living writing online. To read the rest of this article visit his blog at http://100grandonlinewriters.blogspot.com. His free email course on making money from online writing can be obtained by sending a blank email to writertips@freeautobot.com. He can be reached at strongwallafrica at yahoo.com