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Tornadoes, Floods, Wildfires…and we just began Hurricane Season! After the March tornadoes, I posted a Top Ten List of extremely important things to do after your property is damaged in a disaster. In the next ten postings, I’m going to expand on each of the strategies in the Top Ten List. Back in March, we here in the metro Atlanta area had an F4 tornado strike the downtown area of Atlanta. That tornado did about $300 million in damages. About a month later, another group of twisters hit between Atlanta and Macon, doing about the same amount of damage. Now, we’re seeing tornadoes all over the middle of the USA, and massive flooding has struck four or five states, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. And don’t forget the wildfires charring Southern California. But…cheer up! We have a long Hurricane Season that began June 1, and goes until the end of November!! The first strategy in the Top Ten List is….SLOW DOWN. How many times have you heard an...

You have just completed the installation and configuration of your new WordPress blog–by the book. You proudly log into the dashboard and select a customized permalink (I use /%postname%/) and then hit the “Save Changes” button to save your configuration. Your blog now–goes crazy. When you try to access your blog, your browser returns nasty error pages instead of your blog’s content. You recheck everything again, but can’t find any problem with your installation procedure. Using your FTP program or the WebShell utility at your web-host’s control panel, you verify that all of the necessary WordPress files and folders are in place and that the permissions are set correctly. In desperation, and using the control panel’s phpMyAdmin interface, you also verify that the MySQL database has been installed correctly and that the installer has configured the database tables. What could be wrong? Before deleting your WordPress files and folders and ze...

One of the toughest parts of embarking on an MLM business, is knowing how to make money in network marketing while you’re building that business. In the case of most MLM companies, you have to invest at least some money — and sometimes a fair amount of money — to get started. Then, despite what many are told, it usually takes a number of weeks (or even months) to really start earning a decent income from an MLM business. If you’re like many people, you may not be able to go that long before recouping your investment and putting some profit into your pocket. Does that mean that you can’t build an MLM business unless you are already independently wealthy? Of course not. The answer is to make money in network marketing even while you’re still building your business and your downline. So do you do this? How do you make money in network marketing while you build your business — and even if people don’t sign up to be part of your downline? Altho...

Unfortunately that famous line from Humphrey Bogart’s movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”, “Badges? We ain’t got not no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you no stinkin’badges!” is often one of the most misquoted lines in movie history, in fact, when I first started writing this, I had to correct myself when using the quote! That being said, let’s get to the point of this blog……. Planning. Our last blog discussed planning on a global, big picture scale. Let’s focus on what it means to you, as an individual running your business! The first step is to realize “WE NEED A PLAN!” How do you go about developing a plan that will be meaningful and effective for your business? There are many templates and programs that will assist you with the fundamentals, a simple Google search will provide a wealth of information. It’s what you put in the plan that counts! Following are some ideas...

Study halls can be a real savior when you find yourself franticly trying to cram for your next test after a night of hanging out with your friends. Or when you just realized that term paper you’ve been avoiding is due next period. Of course, just like anything else there is down side to study hall. What do you do when you don’t have anything to study? When you’re bored out of your mind and the teacher keeps giving you the evil eye, and it looks like she’s about to kick you out if you pass one more note, or tell one more joke to your neighbor. Fortunately a trip to the office isn’t your definite destination. There are tons of things that you can do to occupy yourself in study hall that don’t involve schoolwork. Yes, believe it or not you can find entertainment at your school and it doesn’t even involve rule breaking. 1. If you like to read you can always bring along one of your favorite novels and escape for the duration of the period, from the m...