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Is Your Business Ready For a Do-Over?

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Let’s say the business of your dreams allows you a comfortable income, enough money for contributions, more than enough for retirement purposes and a little bit of fun along the way.

However, your clients get in the way.

They may contact you too much, not follow up on their commitments, cost you too much, drain your energy or may just be the wrong clients for you at this stage of your business.

Maybe it’s time for a Business Do-Over.

What does a Do-Over require?

First, review your client list.
Second, check out how you are acting in your business.
Third, evaluate, eliminate, elevate and expand your business.

For either long or short term clients, depending on how your business operates, you always want the best business fit.

What does a good fit mean to you?

A good fit is your Ideal Client.
An example of a good fit is someone:

- Ready to pay your fees.
- Prepared to respect your ideas and input.
- Willing to do whatever it takes to be successful
- Able to commit to the process of success.
-Willing to be satisfied with the process and its outcomes.
- Ready to ask you the right questions that push them to
where they want to be.

When you are signing up prospects, what they are called prior to becoming clients, the prospect may seem excited, ready to go forward and say Yes! To everything.

Then things change.

Clients may turn on you and themselves; the client may be late with fieldwork, consistently cancel appointments, stretch out the contract, (especially if is time dated) and do many other things that make you question your abilities, commitment and theirs as well.

What do you do?

Step One: You Evaluate the process.

- Did the problems occur because the client does not fit your criteria?
- Did you bend your own rules?
- Did you become too attached to your clients’ outcomes?

No matter the cause, you must reevaluate.

Operating your own business does not mean you were meant to suffer. It is time to take stock of your existing client base, your criteria for new clients as well as where your life, and business are heading.

Reassess the client:

1. Is the client following through, creating success and satisfied with the outcomes? If the answer is No, time for a conversation.

2. Is the client lazy, unwilling to stretch themselves or unable to take directions?

If the answer is Yes, again, time for a conversation.

If the results of the conversation are that the client will not change, or transform, time to let them go.

This is also the time for you to evaluate your process.

Reassess yourself:

- Are you using sales techniques from years past?
- Are you satisfied with your initial presentation?
- Do you want to quit and start all over again?

Maybe it’s time to go back to the beginning.

- Why did you want to start your own business in the first place?
- Has your niche been empty for a while?
- Do you like what you do?

When looking at everything you do as if you are a beginner, you will get the opportunity to see with more clarity.

Step Two: Eliminate anything standing in the way of your success:

What is the one true thing bothering you about your business?

- Do you work longer hours than necessary?
- Are your fees too low? Too high?
- Do you have the time in your schedule to complete the required business tasks?

First, STOP! Wasting Time.

Small business owners, entrepreneurs and independent professionals who are not successful can waste loads of time on inconsequential tasks.

- Give up answering your telephone. Hire a service or only answer your phone at specific times. Leave a voice mail message that says: ‘I will return all telephone calls between the hours of 11 a.m. and noon, and 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. during weekdays.’

- Clean out your office.

- Do only tasks of high value, and then go for a walk.

- Review your clients and friends and eliminate those who do not support you.

- Answer your email in the afternoon only. Use the morning time for high-level tasks. If any message requires an immediate response, wait until the next day to attend to it. Always let issues settle for at least twenty-four hours.

If possible, hire an assistant to do these tasks for you. It is time to create a clean plate, to go back to the beginning.

Then, fire your lowest paying clients. Yes, I said fire. Trust yourself that you will be able to attract higher paying clients, train them better and make you more money.

If you work strictly on commission, as in sales or real estate, stop working with losers. If a prospect has not purchased or listed in over a year, reframe your contact time to once every three or four months. Send a letter, postcard, email them or pick up the phone.

Just don’t spend unnecessary amounts of time pushing them. It doesn’t’ work, you will get frustrated and letting them go will give you more time and energy to find newer, better prospects.

Step Three: Elevate Your Standards

It is time for you to raise the bar, as far as you, your business, your clientele and your values are concerned.

First, you. If you are not living up to your own expectations, take a survey of clients and friends and get feedback.

Ask them questions like:

* What five words define me?”
* What do you know about what I do?”
* What do you think I do?”

You may be amazed a how your clients and friends perceive you. Be willing to listen to them and adjust your own evaluation of yourself.

Are you providing Nordstrom’s service?

One thing Nordstrom’s subscribes to is:
“Act as if it is your name on the door.”

If you own your business or are an independent professional, this goes without saying. But does it show?

The other motto from Nordstrom’s is:
“Respond to unreasonable requests.”

These statements go hand in hand with your business. Also, do you have an assistant? Without an assistant, your success may be limited. We were not meant to work alone. Reassess the technical aspects of your businesses. You may need just to hire someone to submit your articles, redo your website or handle your mailings.

Do you have a business vision or are you just going from day to day, client to client?

With a true business vision, all your decisions are easily made, because all your decisions are in alignment with your vision.

Create a vision for your business, align it with your goals and mission and start anew.

Also start anew with your choice of clients. Make sure that the criteria you have established is criteria you stick to. The more allowances you make for new clients, the more you will pay in the end.

The right fit, your ideal client, is the only way to go.

Step Four: Expand Your Business

To expand your business can mean many things. It could indicate more clients, higher fees, or fewer clients. My strong suggestion would be to fire the troublemakers. If not fire, do not re-up the contract. Be clear in your determination to expand your business by expanding your marketing. If you already speak, write articles and have written a book, it may be time to conduct seminars or teleclasses on a consistent basis. It may also be time to expand your geographic area, possibly going virtual.

This would mean you would need a good website, blog and a hookup to Skype in order to speak to people throughout the world.

Check your market for comparable fees. Customers like to pay a more than the other guy for many reasons. It could be for bragging rights or just thinking that if you charge more, you are worth more.

Maybe that is something for you to ponder. Are you charging enough for your services? Consider: you are not selling time, you are selling know-how.

Like the plumber who comes over, fixes the leak, and five minutes later charges for a full hour

The plumber knew what to do.

So do you.

Do not accept clients or customers who only buy on price. You will not want them. What is the value of the solution you are providing? Price is derived from understanding the value to be provided to the client, not hourly or cost pricing. If price came from cost, fee per hour for service, then Starbucks coffee would cost about fifteen to thirty cents a cup. What is the value to the customer or client? It is risk versus reward. What is the cost not to solve, versus the benefit to solve the problem?

Bottom line, stop charging hourly fees.

There are many things you can do to expand your business. Determine that the business of your dreams provide you with the income, enough money you desire, the clients that work the best for you and time to enjoy your successful life.

Joanne Victoria, 25-year Real Estate Coach and Core Vision Strategist, helps real estate entrepreneurs and independent professionals gain clarity and focus so they can achieve more of what they really want. Author of 3 books including: Vision With a Capital V- Create the Business of Your Dreams. Joanne offers FREE help through her monthly E-zine, Create the Business of your Dreams at: mailto: CreateYourBusiness-subscribe@topica.com CreateYourBusiness-subscribe@topica.com

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Preparation Before Traveling Europe

Monday, March 31st, 2008

First of all congratulations for your smart decision to travel one of the best places in the world. Europe would be an ideal place for an explorer or let’s say a voyager in an adventurous mood. Before tipping on the preparation, one needs to ensure certain aspects before going to Europe. Lets see a bit of a background for the land of dreams.

Most of the Europe is full of Ultra modern and high-tech cities and exotic destinations. Further more, Europe is divided into two sections. Countries that’s a part of the European Union and the countries which are not in the E.U. The Europe has been focusing a lot on the tourism and travelers so there’s nothing that would disappoint you.

Preparations before traveling Europe

1.1 Plan your trip

Tickets

? There is a lot that awaits you in the Europe so the first and the foremost thing one should do is to think about what exactly your taste is like and what would fancy you more: would it be sleepless and enthusiastic countries like U.K., France, Germany, Netherlands Or rich cultured, full of beautiful countryside, mountains, valleys and nature possessed places like Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Rome, Greece and more?

? Well, even though most of the countries are a mixture of all and amazing in their own ways, if you are going there for the first time then a travel maker or tourism companies could be more prolific. They design your trip and know what people like because they are in the business for long, unless you are an explorer who likes to make his own way. Also, traveling on your own may be a bit cheaper, but there are pros and cons.

? Most people buy the tickets online because sometimes it’s cheaper and you don’t have to wait in queues or telephone. The best time to book a ticket is actually two three months before you want to go that could save you a lot.

? A Schengen visa could probably be another good option, as it includes most of the European countries and you could enter those countries on a single stamp visa, except the U.K. and some other countries, which are not yet on that visa.

? Once you are done with your tickets, the second most important thing is to work out your money. There is a common currency for E.U. known as Euros and it could be used in all countries under E.U. Countries like England has Pounds as the currency but you can still work out with Euro.

Money

? It is highly advisable that you carry along traveler’s cheque which is replaceable by its company or bank, just in case you lose them and are easily exchangeable for cash when needed. But, you should also carry some cash which comes in handy when you just arrive at the airport or hotels. A credit card could also be carried along for it is convenient and usable almost everywhere.

Packing

? Hopping continents while moving around could be weary and in first place you are out there to enjoy and not sweat.

? Europe is cold most of the times so don’t forget to carry a jumper or a jacket.

? In few countries rain is uncertain to a rain jacket might come in handy.

? Always stuff your important documents in a small carry bag or a money belt that sticks around your waist. Also, learn how to stash your money.

? Well just pack the right things and avoid stuffing needless things and you are all set to go.

? Last but not the least, always reach the airport early at least two hours before the flight departure time.

? I wish you all a happy and a safe journey.

Puripong Koomsin is the owner of Travel Europe Guide Europepathway is comprehensives resources and guide for travel europe. Preparation before traveling Europe is one of many useful articles from Europepathway.com http://Europepathway.com . Contact him at webmaster@europepathway.com webmaster@europepathway.com

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Steakhouse Manhattan serves food for the true gourmet

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A gourmet’s dream would be to find himself in a quality restaurant where everyday is like an ongoing celebration of exceptional food and wine. And if that person happens to be fond of steak then there is nothing that can compare to a steakhouse Manhattan which is home to the finest quality of aged prime steak. A steakhouse which is also known as a chophouse serves not only the premium quality beef steak cooked to suit your taste but also many other kind of meat according to the preference of the patron. A steakhouse Manhattan is the place where you can indulge in steaks, seafood, ribs, chops, salads and more which have been prepared only with the finest quality ingredients and served in an ambience that compliments the food. Although a steakhouse Manhattan will be usually frequented by a confirmed steak lover but a person can also enjoy other kinds of meat like a hamburger, lamb, pork, game, chicken, barbeque, seafood and even pasta.

Steakhouse Manhattan serves steaks that are grilled, broiled or maybe even pan-fried. Although steaks are usually prepared of beef but they may also be made out of red meat or fish depending on the preference of the patron. Also since steaks are prepared on dry heat so the tenderest parts of the animal is used to prepare a steak in any steakhouse Manhattan. This in turn causes the steaks to be sold at a premium and hence a person who frequents a steakhouse Manhattan is also perceived to be holding a good status in society. Also a steakhouse will usually serve the main course with side dishes according to the choice of the diner. A side dish could be rice, pasta, beans or potatoes. Usually a small serving of cooked vegetable also accompanies the main dish and the side dish. The vegetables that are usually preferred are spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms and onion rings. At times only a green salad may be served with the steak.

A Steakhouse Manhattan also serves popular accompaniments such as prawns or lobster tails with the delicious steaks. The patron also has a choice of alcohol based drinks to add to his eating experience with family, friends or colleagues at any steakhouse Manhattan. The soothing and pleasant ambience only enhances the experience of enjoying your favorite steak at such a steakhouse. The staff is both friendly and helpful and is always willing to guide you with your choice of dishes in case you are experimenting with any particular dish at a steakhouse in Manhattan. Several other kind of food is also called steak without actually being one such as a Swiss steak or a Hamburger (Salisbury) steak. However a true steak lover has many varieties and options of actual steaks to chose from which are as varied as high priced Sirloin steak to a Skirt steak. So if you are a true gourmet and prefer to have your steak rare, medium or well done a steakhouse Manhattan should be your destination of choice.

Neil Folley holds a Masters Degree in Hotel Management. He loves good food and arranging private parties.To book for Sunday Parties and enjoy tasteful food at South Street Seaport Restaurant, Steakhouse Manhattan visit www.markjosephsteakhouse.com http://www.markjosephsteakhouse.com

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Paydex Score - The Secret to Business Financing

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

As a business one of the most important things to know is your Paydex score. Your company’s paydex score is the business equivalent to your personal FICO score, or personal credit score. Knowing what this number is and having the secrets to increasing your Paydex score can mean acquiring the financing needed to start or grow your business and make the difference in achieve your business goals. On the flip side, not managing your Paydex score can cost your business.

The exact definition from Dunn & Bradstreet, or D&B is: The D&B PAYDEX? Score is D&B’s unique dollar-weighted numerical indicator of how a firm paid its bills over the past year, based on trade experiences reported to D&B by various vendors. The D&B PAYDEX Score ranges from 1 to 100, with higher scores indicating better payment performance.

The higher the score the better. Now, how do you increase your Paydex score or establish a score if you don’t have one yet. First, know what you are doing.

1 - Know what your payment pattern means

If you are under the impression you should have the highest Paydex score because you pay before the due date, you are wrong.

The highest scores are given to Companies who pay the bill PRIOR to the invoice being sent. This payment pattern is considered an anticipatory payment pattern. The company anticipates the payment is due and pays it ahead of time. This is the highest responsibility a company can display and will earn high points for your company.

2 - Understand what the Paydex score means

So, your business has a paydex score of 75. What does the paydex score mean? Is this good or bad? Well, for this example a 75 Paydex score would be the equivalent of a FICO score of about 700 or above. This is a good Paydex score.

You can use this D&B key to help you interpret the PAYDEX Score.

Key to the D&B PAYDEX? Score

PAYDEX SCOREPAYMENT100Anticipate - Payment detail may state: payments are received prior to date of invoice (Anticipated)90Discount - Payment detail may state: payments are received within trade discount period (Discount) 80Prompt - Payment detail may state: payments are received within terms granted (Prompt) 7015 Days Beyond Terms6022 Days Beyond Terms5030 Days Beyond Terms4060 Days Beyond Terms3090 Days Beyond Terms20120 Days BeyondUNUnavailableThe payment details section may include the following comments on your payment patterns:

Antic - payments are received prior to date of invoice (Anticipated).

Disc - payments are received within trade discount period (Discount).

Ppt - payments are received within terms granted (Prompt).

Slow - payments are beyond vendor’s terms. For example, Slow 30 means payments are 30 days past due.

Ppt-Slow - some invoices are paid within terms, others are paid beyond terms.

(#) -indicates that no manner of payment was provided; the number merely reflects the line where it appears in the listing. For example, (004) means it is the fourth experience listed.

Payment Commentary - such as Cash in Advance, Account in Dispute, Credit Refused, or Placed for Collection may also display next to trade details. Placed for Collection means the account was forwarded to a third party for collection action during the past year.

It may also indicate comments like, seasonal purchasing pattern if many transactions are recorded in a certain period of time, routinely, during a specific time of year.

You can view a sample Paydex report at www.dnb.com

3 - GAIN CREDIT - THERE ARE CREDITORS THAT DO NOT REQUIRE A PERSONAL GUARANTEE or PAYDEX SCORE!

There are creditors that will grant lines of credit to businesses without a personal guarantee or a paydex score. This is a great way to establish credit for your business. Gaining a small line of credit with these types of vendors and making anticipatory payments will increase your Paydex score or establish a strong score for your business.

The website www.extremebusinessmakeover.com provides you with a program to build your Paydex score within 90-120 days and will tell you which creditors will grant you a line of credit with no Paydex score required AND no personal guarantee. This program has assisted many companies in not only increasing their Paydex score but gaining substantial lines of credit.

You should know that less than 3% of businesses that attempt to receive funding on their own ever do! If you apply at multiple places without pre-qualifying, you may damage your credit and will destroy your chances of receiving funding from the sources that would have done your deal. It would be in your best interest to consult a company like extremebusinesscreditmakeover.com prior to attempting to gain credit lines.

4 - Manage Your Business Credit Responsibly

If you own your own business you are probably not 18 years old anymore and should know how important maintaining good credit is. A strong Paydex score can give you the credit lines you need to increase your marketing effort, buy the needed equipment, get the supplies required to land big clients, and could be the difference in your companies success.

With all that at stake it is of the utmost importance to manage your credit with the highest level of responsibility.

If you are not in a place to make the required payment at least by the due date, then DO NOT MAKE THE PURCHASE ON THE CREDIT LINE.

It would be careless to abuse this credit line since can be such a key to your long term success.

Armed with this information you are on your way to increasing your Paydex score and gaining the credit you need to make your business thrive!

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Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci Announces The New Last Minute Special Offers For Summer 2007.

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Florence, Italy July 13, 2007 — Don’t you have a plan for this summer? Are you looking for a different holiday? Once again, Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, one of Italy’s largest provider of in-country Italian language schools in Italy, is announcing new special offers for the summer 2007 presenting innovative plans to promote the learning of the Italian language.

This year following the great success of the last Special Offers in 2006, Scuola Leonardo da Vinci will feature new last minute language travel packages in Italy in all its Italian language school centers (Florence, Milan. Rome and Siena).

The last minute language travel package is an offer comprehensive of a 2 week language and culture course and an accomodation in shared apartment, for students who wish to experience living and studying in Italy.

For the morning you can study Italian, while for the afternoon you can visit the city, with the free guided tours, or partecipate to the many cultural activities organized by the school. For the night you can have an aperitivo, a dinner in a typical restaurant, a disco night with the new friends you’ll meet at the school and with the school staff, who usually partecipates and organizes the nightlife. Then, during the week-ends, the Italian school organizes daily excursions and tours around the Region, to visit the best places in the country, the lakes or some wonderful typical Italian towns.

Created to provide an opportunity for motivated and deserving students to experience the magic of study abroad at an Italian language school, the last minute language travel package aims to:

- progress from your language level to the upper stages;
- develop speaking and listening skills through daily conversation classes;
- give an introduction to the everlasting beauty and charm of Italian art;
- allow you to understand the mixture of tradition and change which characterizes contemporary Italy.

When asked about her experience, Sanda S., who studied in Milan with Scuola Leonardo da Vinci last year, commented: I was delighted at the chance to travel to Italy and attend Scuola Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the programme helped me to improve my Italian in a friendly and supportive environment. I really enjoyed meeting people from around the world. Being able to study in Italy also helped me gain an understanding of the Italian culture. It was certainly an experience I will never forget and intend to repeat in the future.

Program details and supporting information, including students opinions and histories on the Language Course Experience in Italy, may be found on the Scuola Leonardo da Vinci Web site at www.scuolaleonardo.com/ http://www.scuolaleonardo.com/ . Next Starting dates, as written on the Web Site, are 30 July, and 08 August 2007.

For 30 years, Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, the market leader in in-country Italian language courses, has been exclusively dedicated to the teaching of Italian to foreigners. Each year the company welcomes students from 60 countries to its Italian language schools in Florence, Milan, Rome and Siena. The company’s Web site, www.scuolaleonardo.com, an Italian language portal offering information and pages of Italian language courses, culture and resources on 12 languages, receives more than 3,000 visits daily.

For general questions, contact the Marketing Office of Scuola Leonardo da Vinci.

Information and Registration Center (Florence, Italy)
Tel.: +39-055-29.03.05
Fax: +39-055-290396
www.scuolaleonardo.com http://www.scuolaleonardo.com

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Put Down Your Credit Score, Avail Adverse Credit Secured Loans

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

As you need, food, clothes and shelter to make a living, the same way you also need money in order to make your living a bit easier. And for that purpose, loans are of great help. But sometimes your bad credit creates problem in availing loans. Money lenders refuse to take risk by offering loans at a low rate. Adverse credit secured loans are one such option that offers loan despite your bad credit history. Read through and find how you can benefit from these loans.

Adverse credit basically offered to individuals who have a bad credit history. Bad credit history includes anyone of the following:

-Arrears

-Defaults

-Bankruptcy

-CCJ

-Late payments

-Poor credit score

If you have encountered any of these ever in your financial history, you will be said to have a bad credit history and are usually considered as high risk borrowers by the lenders. This is because they know that bad credit holders are themselves undergoing a financial setback and hence they might not repay a loan properly. Adverse credit secured loans are thus offered in a very reasonable and affordable rates so that you can easily repay.

In order to avail an adverse credit secured loan, you will have to put collateral against the loan amount. Collateral can be anything such as your house, car, real estate, jewelry or any valuable property. Since you are offering a security, the lender becomes assured that he will not lose his money. If you somehow fail to repay the loan amount, the lender repossesses your property and gets the loan amount back by selling the property. This is also the reason why lenders offer a good loan amount to you.

A bad credit secured loan can offer a loan amount ranging from ?3000-?75,000 and for a repayment term of 2-25 years. The interest rate depends upon the loan amount and the repayment that you choose.

Applying for an adverse credit secured loan is quite easy. With the coming of online borrowing system you can avail loan in the minimum time and with least hassle. You just need to fill an online application form giving few details about your credit history, employment proof, residential details etc. After submitting the form, the lender will contact you quickly and transfer the loan in your bank account.

Adverse credit secured loans are a fast and secured way to get money. Now your credit history can no more stop you from achieving your dreams.

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Why Do Successful Realtors Earn Money When They Sleep?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

With the Internet penetrating every aspect of our life, it’s getting impossible to stay uninvolved. You can’t ignore the World Wide Web with its millions of users, or else it will ignore you. If you deal with vacation rentals business, but you haven’t yet gone online, you are missing an opportunity to vastly increase your exposure to potential customers and increase your revenue.

“I wish I could work 24 hours a day as my web site does”, - said one of my friends. And here it is, the main secret of online presence: You can be in many right places at many right times. In fact, the time and place are always right on the Internet. Discover other secrets:

Full automation of your business

If your business is online, you can earn money round the clock. The property management software, which your rental portal is based on, automates guest-owner negotiations, accepts payments, tracks the statistics, shows property photos, and displays the available/ reserved dates for a property. The best thing about it is that it requires no involvement from your side.

Money Flow

You may charge property owners for being listed on your rental portal. This is more convenient than taking commission on every rent. A regular, stable income is better than one time commission “jackpots” from rents; at least if you intend to be in the business for a long time. Still, no involvement from your side is needed. Owners can simply pay the membership fee via a built-in credit card processor. You may clean your teeth, sleep, eat, do whatever you want to do; the Internet means that you can accept payments from eager property owners to your online account at any time.

Word-of-mouth advertising

Those who offer rental property via your web site and see good results are likely to recommend you to their colleagues. Thus, more and more owners will want to be listed on your web site. The more owners you have, the more money you earn.

Likewise, those who rented a property via your web site and liked the ease and availability of the online service are likely to recommend you to their relatives or friends. Bringing them to your web site is better than to just giving your phone number. Via phone, you can not show property photos and very often can not check immediately the availability of the property within the specified period of time.

Affordability

To market your properties online you do not have to invest a lot of funds. You may purchase a turn-key solution and install it in a few clicks. It costs from $200 to $400 depending on the features. Other expenses you will have are customization costs (if needed), hosting fee, and advertising. But the online world charges for all this much less than an offline one does. All this can be done from your home computer, isn’t it a real honey?

Quick return on investment

The beauty of taking your business online is the speed you start returning your investment with. Most online realtors state that to become conspicuous in an Internet media is easier and quicker than in other media. Indeed, you may promote your rental web site all over the world. Anyone from any location can access your web site 24 hours a day. More visitors result in more customers. Would you mind being globally known?

Dear realtors, I urge you to take your business online. Do not lose precious time.

Stacey Daniels is an advertising copyrighter and a marketing consultant of iStateSoft LLC www.istatesoft.com http://www.istatesoft.com

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I Love Lucy (Season 3) DVD Review

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Widely considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, show in television history, I Love Lucy signaled the ascendance of the prime time TV era. The brainchild of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, I Love Lucy revolutionized the television industry with its extensive use of a live audience and the employment of multiple camera angles. The result of true comic genius, the show’s ability to entertain is just as relevant today as it was fifty years ago…

Real-life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz play the prominent roles of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, a married couple living in a New York apartment complex. Ricky is a Cuban-born band leader who wows night clubs with his act, while Lucy is a homemaker. Lucy and Ricky’s best friends are landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz who often become intertwined in Lucy’s get-rich-quick schemes, screwball ideas, and comic shenanigans. Former masters of the stage, the cast comes across as a likeable bunch, with Lucille Ball stealing the show with her goofy antics and brilliant facial contortions. If ever there were a television classic, then I Love Lucy is it…

The I Love Lucy (Season 3) DVD offers a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere The Girls Go Into Business in which Lucy and Ethel buy a dress shop, and then struggle with all things business-related including what to name the store. When they fail to sell a single dress, they’re forced to sell off the shop… Other notable episodes include Equal Rights in which Lucy and Ethel demand equal rights (which prompts Fred and Ricky to ask for four separate checks for their dinner). When the girls can’t pay, they must wash dishes. And Oil Wells in which the Ricardo’s and the Mertz’s get a hot stock tip from their new Texas neighbors, prompting them to investigate as to whether the new couple is a pair of swindlers…

Below is a list of episodes included on the I Love Lucy (Season 3) DVD:

Episode 68 (The Girls Go Into Business) Air Date: 10-12-1953
Episode 69 (Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress) Air Date: 10-19-1953
Episode 70 (Equal Rights) Air Date: 10-26-1953
Episode 71 (Baby Pictures) Air Date: 11-02-1953
Episode 72 (Lucy Tells the Truth) Air Date: 11-09-1953
Episode 73 (The French Revue) Air Date: 11-16-1953
Episode 74 (Redecorating the Mertzes’ Apartment) Air Date: 11-23-1953
Episode 75 (Too Many Crooks) Air Date: 11-30-1953
Episode 76 (Changing the Boys’ Wardrobe) Air Date: 12-07-1953
Episode 77 (Lucy has Her Eyes Examined) Air Date: 12-14-1953
Episode 78 (Ricky’s Old Girlfriend) Air Date: 12-21-1953
Episode 79 (The Million Dollar Idea) Air Date: 01-11-1954
Episode 80 (Ricky Minds the Baby) Air Date: 01-18-1954
Episode 81 (The Charm School) Air Date: 01-25-1954
Episode 82 (Sentimental Anniversary) Air Date: 02-01-1954
Episode 83 (Fan Magazine Interview) Air Date: 02-08-1954
Episode 84 (Oil Wells) Air Date: 02-15-1954
Episode 85 (Ricky Loses His Temper) Air Date: 02-22-1954
Episode 86 (Home Movies) Air Date: 03-01-1954
Episode 87 (Bonus Bucks) Air Date: 03-08-1954
Episode 88 (Ricky’s Hawaiian Vacation) Air Date: 03-22-1954
Episode 89 (Lucy is Envious) Air Date: 03-29-1954
Episode 90 (Lucy Writes a Novel) Air Date: 04-05-1954
Episode 91 (Lucy’s Club Dance) Air Date: 04-12-1954
Episode 92 (The Diner) Air Date: 04-26-1954
Episode 93 (The Black Wig) Air Date: 04-19-1954
Episode 94 (Tennessee Ernie Visits) Air Date: 05-03-1954
Episode 95 (Tennessee Ernie Hangs On) Air Date: 05-10-1954
Episode 96 (The Golf Game) Air Date: 05-17-1954
Episode 97 (The Sublease) Air Date: 05-24-1954

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find where you can find more reviews of movies and TV series. Source: thedvdreport.blogspot.com/2006/02/i-love-lucy-season-3-dvd.html http://thedvdreport.blogspot.com/2006/02/i-love-lucy-season-3-dvd.html

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Goal-setting A Daily Affair!

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

We need to have Long term goals and short term goals.

Long term goals:

Be bold!
Just write down anything outragous!
It’s ok, it’s GOAL anyway, right?

Remember, no invention begins without a BOLD Dream! We will not have computer, if someone dream of having a machine think as fast as us. We will not have car if on one ever though of having a machine to drive us around, we will probably still on horses.

Also, write down not one or ten…but, challenge and push yourself to write down 100 goals! Trust me! it’s not easy, but it is worth it! To date, i just managed to write 50 of them. Will complete it and rewritten it again every year! It’s interesting to see and review yearly goals and notice the priority and importancy changed accordingly due to many factors.

Short term goals:

Be realistic
Achievable.
Something that can make us out of comfortable zone a little

Generally:

Write in present tense as if it’s already achieve.

Set a date realistically. It’s ok to slipped a little, just adjust accordingly.

Be as clear as possible (used of words such as “by” or “from” or “on”…)

Be as detail as possible (write down the color, shape, dimension, smell, sound, environment…etc)

Write in positive positive and not negative positive way. (eg, “i want to replace smoking with exercise” as compare to “I want to stop smoking”)

Use affirm word and not trying word. (eg, “I MUST have …” as compare to “I WISH to…” or “I will TRY to…”

Set a plan.

Write it down EVERYDAY.

Yes, for short term goal, it’s important to write it down EVERYDAY! Not many goal setting resources will tell you to write EVERYDAY. YES! EVERYDAY! Why? so that our mind can be congruent to what we aim and shoot for. If possible, start a new day with writing down the goal FIRST THING! This will remind us and tell us each day, what ever we do, are we gearlng it towards our goal!

Remind that this is not those “daily” achieving goal where I will do this and that today. This is your short term goal which I will encourage everyone to write it everyday!

I started this last year for 3 months and then stopped due to whatever excuses I can find. But during that 3 months, amazingly, I managed to achieve 2 of my goals which i have replaced it this time.

I MUST write down everyday and persistent through. Will use this blog to remind myself!

BTW, you may ask, what if I miss the deadline? Well, reset, review and rewrite again! Hey, rocket scientist do not launch their rocket to moon with one single projectile. The actual path of rocket launch was correted consistently throughout the whole projectile! So…

You = Rocket
Goal = Moon
Deadline = consistently corrected throughout projectile

Thus, by writing down our goals daily, will help us to correct oand review our daily tasks if we are on the right track.

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Find the Best Car Financing Online

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Looking for buying new car but worried for finance? Car buying has become very easy these days with all the financing companies. Number of finance company provides online finance to buy car.

Online car finance is an easy way to get the finance in the market and its interest rates are flat as compared to other finance that is available in the market.

Some car owner may not be satisfied with their high interest monthly car payments. Consider refinancing your car loan with low interest rates. If you are planning get finance for car from dealer then new car financing can be headache for you. It is lengthy process as all the paper work should be done, yet you think you are signing a contract which is really a very time consuming. Sometimes dealers call and say they found you a lower APR but you just make sure they did not increase the number of months. If that is the case then do not re-sing any contract. This would have been avoided if you used online car financing.

Many people have got a new car from approved online car finance. Now you can too.

Use online car financing site which is the best way to get car finance with in the limited time period and to get online car finance is not a lengthy procedure. It’s not always necessary to do down payment for all car loans. You just have to provide them with all the details of employment and income for verification. The car interest rates and repayment terms are based on credit risk, car model selection, and equity position of the car loan.

So now what you are waiting for? You can purchase new car without any hesitation in your mind. Nowadays, once you hear this statement uttered by your credit collector, it is nothing more than idle threats.

Anna Josephs is a freelance editor having experience of many years in writing articles and news releases on various topics related to health, automobile and social issues. Currently, she is working on www.benzer3.com http://www.benzer3.com . To get more details on Online Car Finance, please visit automobile.benzer3.com/ http://automobile.benzer3.com/ . Please feel free to write feedback on this article. Anna Josephs can be contacted at annajosephs@gmail.com annajosephs@gmail.com .

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