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How To Deliver the Best Online Customer Service

It seems in this day and age of exploding online business start ups on the Internet, a lot of effort goes into creating the perfect online presence. Including website design, SEO optimizing, marketing and promoting. But so often, one of the biggest things that can make or break your business is having great customer service. Sure you can have a fantastic website, great products and mass marketing campaigns going on. But if your customers feel your customer service is awful then your business will surely suffer for it. You have to look at it this way. If you walked into a store you would surely expect the owner or sales person to be courteous and helpful right? Well, so do your customers online. When I say "customers", I'm also referring to businesses that offer intangible services and have clients also. Without customers and clients where would your business be? They are your greatest asset and you should treat them as such. So now that we've established why customer ...

Credit Card Fraud: What to Do If You Become a Victim

Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning consumers that even if their credit or debit card never leaves their sight, they could still become a victim of fraud or identity theft and need to be prepared to act quickly to minimize the damage. The 2008 Identity Fraud Survey Report from Javelin Strategy & Research states that fraud is declining in the U.S. – down 12 percent from 2006 – and that 8.1 million Americans were actually victims of identity fraud. However, the Identity Theft Resource Center, says 127 million personal records were reported compromised in the U.S. in 2007, a six-fold increase over the previous year. “Stolen belongings continue to be the main source of personal identity fraud in the U.S., but businesses continue to report alarming security breaches that expose millions of Americans’ identities and financial information to would-be thieves,” said Bert Hubbell, President and CEO of the BBB of MN and ND. “Identity thieves are certainly stealing some wallets, but the b...

Getting Started Working From Home

It has been my experience that looking for a good home business online can be frustrating, challenging and down right discouraging. We hope that these companies will do what they say and say what they do, but time after time and scam after scam we are sorely disappointed. Legitimate companies do exist but how do we find them and what do we look for? Here are some tips to get you started on the right path. 1. Estimate: How much time, money and effort are you willing to invest into starting an online home business. 2. Evaluate: Find the "niche" business that's right for you. Write down favorite past times, hobbies, and personal interests and evaluate which niche would you enjoy doing as a home business and which one is most profitable and marketable. We all want to make money online but statistics show that more people with an online business succeed doing a business they love, enjoy or have a passion for. 3. Educate: Like any business starting out, education is the key. Fa...

How to Make Earning Money Online Enjoyable!

In a job satisfaction survey, more and more Americans are becoming discontented and unhappy with their jobs. With the looming recession, it becomes important for anyone to earn extra income while holding on to his/her 9 to 5 job. If you are among those who are held captive of the 9 to 5 job, then you need to defend yourself from the dangers of unemployment. Knowing how to make money online is your best course of action. With this, you essentially enjoy while adding money to your bank account. Outlined below are two methods of earning money on the Internet, the fun way! The Appeal of Online Music There are two methods of making money through music. Let it be known, on the contrary, that each one requires your dedication of listening to music, whatever genre it may be in and however unusual it is for you to spend time with it. The first method involves creating original audio and video files of your music. Through this, you are given the opportunity to flaunt your creative juices to the ...

How Online Selling Can Bring Hundreds of Dollars Into Your Account

As paradoxical as it may seem, today is actually the best and the worst of times. With the threatening recession and impending layoffs, anyone would certainly be in a state of panic. But just like anything else, every cloud has a silver lining. The Worldwide Web has continued to become more pervasive and it has spread its power on allowing you to earn those extra hundreds of dollars. You can actually sell others’ products online and earn hundreds from such an effort. With this, you will be hitting two birds with one stone as besides earning extra bucks, you’ll also be polishing your marketing skills in the process. So read this piece of writing so you will discover how a simple 10 minute period on the Internet could reward you with thousands of extra bucks. Advertising Revenues The Internet advertising revenues last year (2007) practically reached $21.1 billion. This happened despite the economic decline that is said to have hit the world market. Wouldn’t this sizeable amount of money ...

Do You Have What it Takes to Earn Money Online Income?

There are really just two things different between those who earn extra money online and those who wish they could the knowledge of how to do it, and the patience to actually do it. The knowledge can be purchased everyone is willing to sell you information on how to earn thousands next week. (Whether such claims are true or not I leave to your imagination). But the information is also widely available on the Internet for free. There are hundreds of forums where people discuss how they are earning money, and hundreds of websites where you can pick up the necessary information. The information simply isn' t that difficult to find. It s literally all over the place on the net. The difficult thing for most people is having the courage to work without an immediate paycheck visible at the end. It s this reason that stops more people than any other for without the absolute conviction that your efforts will be rewarded; people don t want to spend the time learning what s needed to earn ext...

3 Secrets to Landing a Home-Based Position

Landing a telecommute position isn't easy. Finding them in the first place is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Then, when you finally do find one that looks promising, it's filled before you can even click on "apply for this job". Why are they so few and far between anyway? Don't employers realize the benefits of allowing their employees to telecommute; less sick time, increased productivity, lower overhead, and so forth? The truth is that you'd be surprised to know just how many companies do hire telecommuters. Most of them simply don't want to advertise those openings on the Internet . 2008 "Top Picks" Work at HomeEarn $10 to $75 per hour part time,We offer Work At Home listings that have beeninvestigated and approvedby a large community of researchers.We offer a fair review of thebest work at home programs. But it's not all bad news. There are three very important rules that you should follow when pursuing a telecommute job . If ...

Are You Missing Your Chance to Work at Home?

Have you missed the turnoff that leads to your dream of working at home? Wouldn't that be disappointing? No one likes to think that they have wasted their chance, missed their opportunity. But that's exactly what happens to many. 2008 "Top Picks" Work at HomeEarn $10 to $75 per hour part time,We offer Work At Home listings that have beeninvestigated and approvedby a large community of researchers.We offer a fair review of thebest work at home programs. Sometimes you can become so focused on a single-minded purpose that you miss the opportunity when it presents itself. Maybe it wasn't the goal that you started out with, but that doesn't mean that it's not the right path to follow. Years ago, I left my career to stay at home with my kids. I remember the months after I had made up my mind… I was obsessed with my dream of becoming a stay-at-home mom. It was all I could think about: How would we make it happen? Could we afford it? I dreamed of watching my girls...

Make Money With Online Freelance Jobs

Freelance opportunities will offer you the ability to take on part time jobs you can do from home that will fit around your schedule. No matter what kind of skills you have, you can easily put your talents and experience to work doing part time freelance jobs. Here are some tips to help you learn how to make money with online freelance jobs you can do from home in your spare time. Decide what you want to do.The first step in learning how to make money with online freelance jobs is to decide what type of work you're interested in doing. Do you want to use the skills you already have or learn how to do something new? Many freelancers choose to do several different types of work. If your background is as an administrative assistant, you could do virtual assistant work, appointment setting, data entry or typing, internet research, answer emails, or even do freelance customer assistant work. If you enjoy writing, you could do freelance writing for websites, write for ezines or newslett...

SMC

Tom Bosley , currently is the spokesman for SMC. My previous review about Specialty Merchandise Corporation basically didn't recommend the opportunity because of the lack of unique marketing methods that they taught. Yes, they have a nice selection of products but the marketing was, well frankly, cheesy. I thought that was going to be the end of the story. I was wrong. Kerry Cox who is the VP is marketing for SMC. A friend of mine took the time to get in contact with Kerry Cox and this is what was told to me; (I called Kerry thinking that it was going to turn into a shouting match but he was incredibly professional and very cool. He basically agreed with me that a few of the marketing methods (and manuals) that SMC did in the past were not their best materials and he would love to have me review their newest manual. I said, "Sure!" He ended up sending me a new complete Specialty Merchandise Corporation kit. I didn't want to get something for free with him thinkin...