7 Tips To Grow Your Network Marketing Business With Facebook

% Set up a full and complete profile - Set up a full and complete profile including a recent picture of you, adding in at least one of your websites as well as complete information about your
hobbies, interests and business. Make minor changes such as changing your picture, adding videos and photos from time to time.

% Keep it uptodate - Spend at least five minutes keeping your Facebook account up to date. If you have the time it is a good idea to spend 20-30 minutes two or three times a week. However, Facebook can also become a time waster so you must be careful to avoid spending too much time there. Make sure to update your status with something positive that is going on, check out the statuses of your friends and comment on a few of their photos, videos or statuses, as well as to accept any new friend requests you receive.

% Join groups - Join 10-15 groups and actively participate. Post on their walls, add useful links if allowed and videos. Request to be friends with a few members of each group as well.

% Start your own group - Start your own group including a relevant photo, some links, videos, wall posts and other interesting content. Keep your group up to date by adding something new at least once a week. Invite your friends to join your group. Consider hosting at least a monthly teleseminar or other event related to the theme of your group.

% Avoid spam - Avoid spam like the plague. Do not post your network marketing opportunity directly on groups, on walls or in emails to friends. Focus on building relationships and your success on Facebook will come. Whenever you obtain a new friend, take a few minutes to write an interesting and friendly welcome on their wall. Take the time as well, to see what they do and to visit their website. Keep in mind how you can network with the person or see if you can help them out in any way and let them know about it.

% Add useful content - Add new useful content on a regular basis. This includes videos, blog posts on notes and other content others may find interesting and useful. You can also use the Facebook pages feature to create pages featuring your websites and products.

% Advantage of chat feature - Take advantage of the Facebook chat feature and every once in a while chat with a few of your friends who are live on Facebook at the same time that you are. Be friendly and helpful and develop a relationship.

11 Basic Points Before Writing Your Own E-Book

1.) Write About Something You Know About - Try to start from a hobby or a business of yours that others would like to know about. If not, then study around what other people are writing about online.

2.) Select Some Popular Topics - Topics like" How To Increase Your Income" are hot cakes these days. Select some other popular one but before you create your product, make sure there is a market for it.

3.) Tips Books Are The Easiest Products To Write - Ya , it's true , tips book is an easiest one for example"50 training tips for dog lovers, "99 profitable businesses to start for less than $500", "21 days to a newer you" etc. You can have one of your choice.

4.) Write Your Sales Letter First - This helps shape your product to be what you want it to be and what you want it to accomplish. It is like building a blueprint first before building the go-cart. List all the benefits and features your e-book is going to deliver.

5.) Get An E-Book Compiler Like Adobe PDF - Try to get an e-book compiler fast. As soon as you will get such a software , you can get excited about the money you can make with it.

6.) Use Digital Pictures To Enhance The Value - If you have a how-to type of book about a trade or a hobby, using your digital camera can greatly enhance your e-book's perceived value and the price. Plus it helps illustrate what your are teaching with the sharp color photos a digital camera can deliver.

7.) Give Your E-Book The Right Title - Just as a killer headline can increase your sales letters PULL, the right title for your book is just as important also for sales. Make that a Red-Hot title!

8.) Don't Over-Sell Your Book - Don't over-promise or over-hype things in your sales letter just to sell your e-book or you may get too many people asking for refunds. It is better to over-deliver instead. Making it way better than they thought it would be will make them amazed.

9.) Find Related Follow Up Products For Your E-Book - Find profitable "related" products or services that you can add to your book for more profits. Your readers will love the added information and you will love the extra sales.

10.) Enhance Your Product - Offer an audio or video to the deal. Just as digital pictures add value to an e-book, so does adding an audio version of it or one or more videos to the package.

11.) Lace Your Products - In time you should have several e-books you are selling online. By adding information about all your other books in the back of each one of them gives you free advertising and extra orders.

Ten good rules-of-thumb for investing

I've been investing money for about 14 years now and have had more success than failure along the way. I've also read a large number of books and articles on good investment strategy. Here are my rules-of-thumb if you want to get ahead in the money game.

Realize that all investment is risk
Whenever you put money aside for investment rather than immediate use, what you're doing is delaying consumption. You're hoping that by not spending money on your wants today, you'll generate more to spend on your wants tomorrow.

However, there's no such thing as a perfectly safe place to put savings. All investment involves the risk that you will never see your money again. The rules I lay out here should reduce that risk, but realize that there are no guarantees. Also, keep in mind the most basic law of investment which is - increased return equals increased risk.

Be conservative
Many new investors, including myself at the time, see investment as an easy path to quick riches. They throw their money into whatever asset is popular with the financial press, without really thinking about it too much, and then sit back waiting for the cash to roll in. Needless to say, they are usually disappointed.

Good investment is usually a slow process, with small gains in the short-term adding up to big gains over the long-term. It's fine to set aside part of your money to speculate on big short-term gains if that's what excites you, but be conservative with the majority of your funds.

Don't chase big capital gains
Most amateur investors think they see the core concept of the investment game straight away - capital gains.

It's true that the increasing value of your investment, as compared to the income that investment generates, can often be where most profits lie. However, one thing that history teaches us is this - big capital gains are extremely hard to predict.

Almost all speculative booms are built on the rush for what appears like certain capital gain. Most of those who participate in such booms, especially during the later stages when the capital gain is most anticipated, often lose their money.

Try to ignore the promise of big capital gains. It may be worthwhile to not think about capital gain at all. Follow the other rules-of-thumb in this article, and you'll probably get gains that more than compensate you for your risk.

Look for investments that generate income profits
The type of investment you want is one that gives you a profit even without capital-gain. Quite simply, you want to own a piece of something that's got more money coming into it than going out of it. Look for a good positive revenue minus expenses.

If you are investing in shares, the price-to-earnings ratio is a good simple way of measuring this. Don't worry too much about dividends (unless you need the cash) because a well-run business that reinvests money in itself is likely to generate even bigger profits in the future.

If you are investing in real-estate, you can work this out by looking at what a property is likely to attract in yearly rental, minus the costs of owning that property such as council taxes and maintenance.

Compare potential investment returns to what you could get almost risk-free
All investment is risk, but some things are less risky than others. The most risk-free investment of all is government debt and particularly US-government debt.

It would take something extraordinary for a developed country's government not to be able to repay its debt. Something so extraordinary that all other investments in that country would probably be rendered worthless in the process.

If a government bond is paying 6% a year, you would be crazy to accept anything equal to or less than that from any other investment. In order to take on more risk, by investing in say shares or property, you need to be compensated by getting better returns.

If you're a fairly passive investor who doesn't want to spend too much time buying and selling bonds, you can use another fairly low-risk investment as a substitute for this measure. Look at savings accounts at reputable banks. While such accounts are by no means risk-free, they are probably more so than most other types of investment. If your local bank is offering 7% on deposits, you should expect more than that before tying up your money in more speculative ventures.

Keep transaction costs to a minimum
Whenever you move money around there's always someone with their hand in your pocket - the middlemen and advisors. Keep a sharp eye on any entry, exit or ongoing fees when you invest.

If a financial advisor takes 5% commission for any money he invests for you, that's 5% you have to make up before you even get started. If a mutual fund charges 2% a year to manage your money, that subtracts 2% from your potential annual gains. If a real-estate agent charges you 10% to sell your house, that's a big chunk out of any gain. If the government puts an 8% tax on any sale of your business, you can kiss at least a year's capital gain good-bye.

Take into account the transaction costs on any investment decision you make and cut them to the bone. Be very sceptical of any promise that higher transaction costs will lead to higher returns.

Always have inflation and tax in mind
As an extension to the previous point, you should always be thinking about what effect inflation and tax are going to have on your returns. If the inflation rate is 3%, then you have to generate at least that amount every year just to maintain the purchasing-power of your capital. In other words, a 3% return in such an environment is really equivalent to a 0% return.

The same holds true for tax. If the government is going to grab half of anything you make, then you should note this before making any decision.

Keep your activity to a minimum
When most people think of rich investors, they think of someone extremely active yelling "buy" and "sell" into the phone. In fact, smart investors are relatively inactive. Once you have decided to put your money somewhere, you should stick with it unless there's an extremely good reason to do otherwise. Every time you shift your cash, you lose some of it through transaction costs. Worse, active investment is often driven by emotion, leading you to buy when prices are going up and sell when they're going down. Try to ignore the inevitable ups and downs of the market.

Spread your risk over assets and time
For most people, spreading your risk is good advice. Focussed investment can generate higher returns, but it takes a lot of work and extra risk. Generally, the majority of investors shouldn't have their eggs in one basket. A mix of cash, property, and shares with about the same amount placed in each is a good strategy. Also try to spread shares across a number of different industries and property across a number of different locations.

You can also spread your risk over time using what's known as "dollar-cost averaging". What this means is that rather than moving a big chunk of money all at once, you spread out your buying and selling over a longer period. That means you are less likely to sell when the market is at its lowest and buy when it's at its highest.

Always be on the lookout for bargains
Keep an eye on businesses, property, currencies, and stock-markets you know well. Such things move up and down a lot, and sometimes the market can present you with some unbelievable bargains. If you see something that you understand well has fallen in price a lot for no really good reason, it may be time to buy. Just remember that such events are fairly rare. Only take advantage of this when you're sure.

So there they are, my ten investment rules-of-thumb. I hope they help you accumulate riches: By Paul

5 Q & A on Smart Networking

1. What's the most critical networking mistake you see people make?

The most critical mistake is having a narrow view of networking—that it’s only for finding a job, or only to be done when you need something. It puts new networkers in a subordinate state, where they feel they have no power and they’re begging for that opportunity. It’s not a great feeling so they put it off as long as possible.

2. What are three common myths about networking?

@ Only extroverts can be good at networking

@ It’s all about passing out your business card.

@ It takes a lot of time.

But Smart Networking erases all of those myths.

3. What's your most useful tip for introverts who think they hate networking?

Advice is that you don’t have to love networking to be good at it. Don’t set that expectation for yourself. I’m an introvert too, which means I need a lot of alone time. It’s very draining to be around people all the time. I know for many introverts too, online networking can be much more comfortable because it can be easier to start a conversation with someone when they’re not standing in front of you, and you can set your own pace.

4. How would you describe a smart networking strategy in ten or fewer words?

“Networking is easier when people come to you.” The strategies in Smart Networking are all about making yourself an attractive networking target, in person and online, and then developing the skills to take advantage of those opportunities when they arise.

5. What trends are emerging in networking that we haven't heard much about yet?

The trends are towards more sharing, more user-generated media and more devices. But in the end, good relationship building skills will never go out of style. So while tools will continue to evolve to make connecting and sharing easier, if you focus on getting good at the fundamentals of networking--on building relationships to be mutually beneficial, and being someone that people know, like and trust—you can adapt to any changes that come at you.

5 Tips for success : By Narayana Murthy

The stock prices of leading Indian tech companies have been battered in recent weeks. Investors are skittish over rising inflation and higher interest rates that could tap the brakes on growth globally. But there's no sign India's companies themselves are losing strength.

Indeed, Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, and others continue to disrupt the $600 billion global tech-services industry. Infosys said on April 14 that per-share earnings in the current quarter would rise as much as 27% on a sales increase of as much as 33%.

With that as a backdrop, N R Narayana Murthy, the founder and longtime chairman of Infosys, stopped in New York on June 15 on something of a farewell tour. After 25 years at the helm, he's stepping out of his executive role and handing the baton to the next generation of leaders.

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BusinessWeek Senior Writer Steve Hamm interviewed Murthy at the company's offices in Rockefeller Center. Here's an edited version of their conversation:

You started Infosys and built it to what it is today. Why have you decided to retire from your role as executive chairman?

I set the rule that we should all retire at 60 so we can give opportunities to younger people to play a role in shaping the future of the company. I believe in the power and importance of youth. I gave up my CEO position four years ago so Nandan Nilekani could become the CEO. He will continue in the CEO role.

Until now, both of us were running the company. Now I'll become the non-executive chairman, primarily responsible for managing the board, for governance functions. I won't be involved in running the company in an executive capacity.

When you look back on the early formative days of the company, did you ever imagine that Infosys would become such an important company in the worldwide tech industry?

No, not really. We started out as seven people in 1981, with $250. We had just one customer. Last year we closed at $2.5 billion. We have 52,000 employees and a market cap of about $20 billion. We never imagined we would come this far.

However, we were certain of one thing, and that is our value system. In fact, when we sat down in the bedroom of my apartment in 1981, we discussed for four hours what our objective should be. Should it be revenues, profits, market capitalization?

No, we said it should be none of those. We will seek respect from every one of the stakeholders. My view was if we sought respect we'd automatically do the right thing by each of them. We'd satisfy our customers, be fair to our employees, and follow the finest principles with respect to investors, we would not violate laws, and, finally, we'd make a difference to society.

And then, I said, automatically you'll get revenues and profits and all that.

Why have Infosys and the other leaders of the Indian tech industry had such a dramatic and powerful effect on the worldwide tech industry?

It is simply because we are becoming more and more relevant to our customers and we are having greater and greater impact.

Why? For two fundamental reasons. We have helped our customers reduce the cycle time in designing and implementing new systems that reflect the changing marketplace and the new business rules. By reducing cycle time, we have ensured that the people in the corporation that use these IT systems are that much more enthusiastic about the flexibility of the corporation to keep pace with the changes in the marketplace.

Earlier, what was happening was it took three or four years to implement a system and there was a low level of probability of success. Because of the high level of programming talent in India, because of our focus on process excellence, and because of the power of leveraging the 24-hour work day, we have been able to take up large projects and complete them with reduced cycle time with the requisite quality.

People said, 'Now we can go think of new business initiatives to go after.'

The second thing we have done is we're able to give more value for money. Both of these things matter a lot.

Your success is having a dramatic impact on the $600 billion tech services industry-compressing revenues and margins. Will there be a lot more disruption for that industry? Is still just the beginning? Or are things settling out?

The fact that IBM, Accenture, etc have started scaling up their operations in India indicates there's more juice left in this. What we're doing is applying the principle of the global delivery model to activities that people thought were not possible hitherto.

For instance, we believe that 35% of the consulting effort can be done in India, such as proposal preparation, presentation preparation, research, and analytics. Similarly, in the case of our business process outsourcing organization, equity research for a major European bank can be done in Bangalore. The bank is getting better value for money, and they're able to compress the cycle time.

So, I'd say, the best is yet to come in leveraging the power of India -- both by the Indians and the multinationals.

Are the multinationals getting with it now?

They have started focusing in the recent past so they're still a few years behind Infosys. I'm sure they'll accelerate. But the fact that they're accelerating will force us to innovate more.

There are five elements of success. They are:

• Openness to learn: Openness to subordinate your ego to take ideas from others.
• Second, meritocracy: The best ideas are adopted and implemented using data to arrive at the best decision.
• Third, speed: Assuring you do things faster compared to yesterday and last quarter.
• Fourth, imagination: You continually bring better ideas and better innovation to the table.
• And finally, excellence in execution: That is implementation of these great ideas with a higher level of excellence today than yesterday.

I tell my colleagues that there is no guarantee we will be in business five or 10 years from now. The only guarantee is the opportunity for us to use these five attributes.

If we embrace them, we'll be in play five and 10 years from now. But the day we forget these, we'll disappear like dew on a sunny morning.

In the United States there's a lot of concern about the effect of what the Indian companies are doing on U.S. industry and U.S. workers. Do you have advice for Americans on how to respond to this?

I'm a very small person so I don't say I have any advice. However, let me say this: In the last 25 years the concept of globalization has become more and more pronounced. The world is becoming flatter and flatter and flatter.

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I define globalization as sourcing material from where it is cheapest, talent from where it best available, producing where it is most cost-effective, and selling where the markets are -- without being constrained by national boundaries.

Anybody can leverage the power of globalization. It's not the monopoly of one geography. As long as corporations recognize this and leverage the power; if they see the entire globe as their arena and leveraging the best talent for each task from the different geographies; and if they operate as a global enterprise rather than a multinational enterprise, then there is a great future for all of us.

What could go wrong for India and the Indian economy?

The first is, if we don't improve our infrastructure in the next couple of years, it will be very difficult to be effective as a manufacturing nation. The software industry may create jobs for the educated people, but unfortunately it can't create jobs for the not-so-educated people. That's where manufacturing comes in.

If we don't improve the infrastructure, we won't be able to create jobs for the less-educated people. And that will create a strong negative current of dissatisfaction in the country. It could have profound effects.

The second area where there could be impact is on globalization. There is so much discussion on the small number of jobs that have been lost in the U.S. because of Indian companies.

But the effect of globalization in India has been much larger. For instance, we had our own auto industry. The cars were not very good. But, still, they were being made in India. Today, we have GM, Toyota, everybody and his brother in India assembling lots of cars. Many of these companies import parts from other countries. As a result, the opportunity for job creation has not been as much as if the parts were made in India.

Similarly, we had our own computer industry. They were not the best. But our people were producing them. When the famous computer companies came to India, we lost a lot of jobs. The same happened with the global soft drink companies.

Probably 2 million or 3 million Indians have lost their jobs. So, do you keep all the multinationals out of India. Or, because 250 million middle-class Indians have benefited, do you embrace it? My view is we should embrace these global corporations, we should accept globalization, because it has benefited the large majority.

Now, maybe I have contrarian views. As globalization becomes more pronounced, if we're not able to create more jobs for the less-educated people, we could then say globalization has not worked.

People are saying that in the U.S. already, even though the data says something else -- that corporations are becoming more efficient and nimble and able to compete in other countries better. The same thing could happen in India.

9 Tips For Cleaning Your Face

1. Gently apply cleaning cream on the face.

2. Eyes-with the use of the fourth finger(ring finger) massage around the eyes(this should be inwards).

3. Lips-inwards from the corner of the lip.

4. Cris cross on the chin.

5. Circular movement on the sides of the face.

6. Circular movement on the forehead.

7. Download movement of the nose.

8. Circular movement on the sternum (inwards).

9. By using a moist cotton wipe out the face in the same direction you cleansed.

9 Tips for a Writing A Better Blog

1. Recognize hot stories - Don’t just copy what someone else has written. Give your own commentary on today’s news, then be sure to link back to other people who happen to be writing about the same topic that day.

2. Be Passionate - Write about what you are passionate about. You don’t have to be the ultimate genius in that particular subject. You don’t have to have all the answers. Someone with ‘heart’ in their writing will attract and keep more visitors/subscribers than someone who is ‘dry’ and knows everything there is to know.

3. Specific Theme - Try and choose a specific theme or topic for your blog. Strive to make a large percentage of your posts stay on that topic. It’s ok to stray from it occasionally. However, if every post you make is just general rambling or a new topic every day, you are not likely to attract a set audience that will stay with you. Know what kind of audience you want to pull in, and build your content accordingly.

4. Attractive - An article or headline that contains How to, Tutorial, Guide, Reference, or Top 10 has a much better chance of getting picked up and shared by visitors. I strongly recommend writing detailed “how to” guides if you want to grow your traffic on Lockergnome (as they will get promoted more).

5. Write An Amazing Headline - Write an amazing headline that nobody could pass up. Use words like awesome, great, free, finally, amazing, best, tips, top 10, how to, tricks, help, or anything that would compel YOU to click on the article if someone else was teasing it. Do not underestimate the power of headlines.
6. Give It A Personal Touch - Remember that blogging isn’t just about writing , it’s about making interpersonal connections with your readers. You don’t want to only attract visitors from the search engines , but you want to appeal to an audience that will find you and stick with you wherever you go.

7. Start Becoming Active In Social Networks - Flickr, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, etc. If you want people to read what you write, you’ll probably have to reach out to them in some fashion first.

8. Legitimate Comments - Leave Legit Comments In Other People’s Blogs. How else are they going to know about you and what you’re writing if you don’t introduce yourself first? You probably already know people who are blogging about what you love blogging about - so let them know you’re out there, too. This includes leaving comments on other Lockergnome blogs.
9. Write Something New Everyday - Without fresh content, people will stop coming back to you as a source of information. There are some people who are writing updates throughout the day, and they’re the ones who are getting the most comments from visitors.