******************************************************************************************** ………………………………Helpful tactics, info., & links for Job loss, layoff, unemployment, self-employment,…………………………….. and recession-proofing you &/or your business
If you don’t have the inspiration of an interesting or unique idea you’re NOT an entrepreneur. All entrepreneurial endeavors start with an idea – to do/make something bigger, better, faster, more efficient, or brand-new that the world has never before seen. Once you have such an idea, do you know what to do with it? The following is a list of general tools you will almost certainly need to pursue your new career as an entrepreneur. You can expand on any of these items with the use of the online search engines:
1.Industry-specific Research Tools and Resources
Once you have your brainstorm you’ll need to find out if someone else has already had a similar one or if your idea looks like one the market is craving. The best way to find this out without spending a lot of cash is to delve into the various resources that are at your disposal. Certainly, online searches are the first place to look, but don’t discount books & magazines that you can find in your local library.
~ Network Marketing is a method of marketing products, services, and/or ‘opportunities’ to other people you know, you know of, your relatives know, your friends know, or your cousin’s boyfriend’s mother’s sister’s co-worker’s mailman’s aunt’s father-in-law, etc., etc. knows. “Word-of-mouth” has been proven to be the most effective form of marketing. There are all sorts of names and terminology associated with “network marketing”, such as “relationship marketing” or “referral marketing”, but most of them are redundant. The two main ‘types’, or subsets, of network marketing are “MLM” or “Multi-Level Marketing”, and single-tier marketing.Read the rest of this entry »
As a mother or father, you have a lot of responsibility to deal with just in taking care of the basic necessities of your child and growing that child into a ‘good citizen’. This takes a lot of your time, focus, and other resources, so you might not have the ‘chops’ yourself for doing what it takes to be an entrepreneur. But, since we are all born with some basic entrepreneurial ‘tools’, It’s very possible that you have created a budding entrepreneur who just needs your support to grow into a full-fledged success.Read the rest of this entry »
One of the more specific definitions of the word, “Entrepreneur”, is “a person who organizes, operates and assumes the risk for a business venture”. To paraphrase an old saying, ‘A great idea and a quarter will buy you a cup of coffee.’ You may have the best idea you’ve ever heard of since sliced bread, but do you have the entrepreneurial spirit and the tools, both internal and external, to bring that idea to life? Those external tools generally all simmer down to one thing: Read the rest of this entry »
Is there any other way to ‘bite the recession’ than to make more money? How do you do that when you are either a: 1) Person working for someone else – i.e., an Employee; 2) Student or Teen; 3) Budding Entrepreneur or Stay-at-home Mom or Dad, or; 4) Business Owner? Regardless of your situation, there are ways to make (extra?) money and increase your ‘bottom line’ that are common to any of the above situations.Read the rest of this entry »
…Or are you depressed &/or frustrated by your perceived lack of power to change the things that affect you and yours in negative ways?
No matter what area, village, town, city, county, state or even country that you have chosen for your home, the recession has hit everywhere in the world to some degree — Some worse than others.
Has the recession caused you grief? Have you suffered financial loss because of it? Have you gotten angry? Depressed? Unfocussed? Directionless? Have you started feeling useless and friendless?
Job loss or business failure, domestic partner or business partner, there are several things you MUST consider as strategies if you want to “bite the recession” together and come out of these hard times with your integrity intact, if not your relationship:Read the rest of this entry »
Here are the three things you MUST do to “bite the recession” without losing financial ground whether you are male or female, employer or employee: Read the rest of this entry »
