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You have finally decided that you need a houseboat at all cost. So you begin your search for one either within your locality, on the web or by browsing through the newspapers.

Before you venture out to even ask for the price of a craft, ther e are some few things you should consider first.

Do you want a new boat or a used one? Your budget and desire to carry out additional repairs or reconditionining will determine your answer to this question.

Are you seeking to buy a 10-seater or a 20-seater craft? After an assessment of your needs, you can decide whether you need a personal craft or a family type which can carry the entire household on a trip.

Are you buying though a broker or making the purchase yourself? If you are not familiar with the practicalities and technicalities of sea going vessels, then you better contact a broker.

Where are you going to moor the boat ? Remember you can only moor the craft at canals, lakes, rivers or the sea.Each craft has been built for a specific water body and you may need to factor this into your purchase.

After you have decided on all these, you will now have to go out to find out the boat of your dreams.

You can find excellent boats for sale at www.boats-for-sale.com.

Alternatively, you can visit boatyards and speak to the repair workers there. They may know someone offering his boat for sale. You can even find notices on some houseboats offering them for sale.

Visiting boat brokerage companies can also lead to a good purchase. These companies maintain a list of offers and can advise on what will be a good sale.

You may also contact brokers who are well-versed in these jobs and can do the negotiation and inspection on your behalf so you get a good bargain and a better buy. The greatest risk that comes with purchase of houseboats arises when you are buying used ones. Unlike a car which when troublesome you ca park along the highway and walk home, if you buya faulty boat and there is leakage, you may not find anywhere updteam to stand and call for help. It is therefore essential that you do a thorough check on used houseboats before you make a purchase. Look at the hull and see it it has undergone sandblastiing and painting as these will protect it against damage. If the hull is aluminium, is it intact or if it is fiberglass, is it fractured? If you are buying a pontoon, check for cracks on board as that is their greatest vulnerability. You can use a hammer to knock the floor to detect weakspots. Inspect the engines for oil leakages, cracks and loose fittings. So now you now know how to find a houseboat to enjoy your vacation.

What you need to know before you commit to an italian charm wholesale purchase:

Italian Charms have quickly become one of the hottest new jewelry items on the market. They’re a great addition to any store- you could sell out very quickly. So, you’ll want to get a great italian charm wholesale deal… …but there are dozens of places to buy them online. This is a guide to help you choose the right online italian charm wholesale supplier.

The main problem with most online italian charm wholesale suppliers is that they have horrible websites. Most of them are too busy with graphics for you to tell what you’re supposed to do.

But stay focused- The first thing you need to do it to sign up for an account. Every online italian charm wholesale supplier has a different process for this. Some of them let you sign up online – most of them are going to require you to fax them a copy of your resale license and/or proof that you’re a retail business. Of course, if you’re in a state like Oregon that doesn’t require a sales tax license, the online italian charm wholesale supplier shouldn’t require one from you.

I’d suggest, if you’re serious about getting italian charms wholesale and selling them in your store, you sign up with 2 or 3 online italian charm wholesale suppliers, and see which one does the best job for you, then stick with that one.

Before you go any further, though, you’ll want to assure yourself of the quality of the online italian charm wholesale supplier’s goods. You may already know that there are real and fake italian charms. Real ones are made from flattened, molded solid 18k gold ribbon, soldered on their back to a strip of stainless steel links, rinsed, dried, and polished – at some point, an enamel may also be applied to the italian charm for protection.

Reputable italians charm wholesalers sell charms from top manufacturers like Roma, Puzzle Talexia, Casa d’oro, Italia, GP Firenze, Boxing, Unodomani, Zoppini, Nomination, and Brunoz Zanetti. All of these italian charms are interchangable from the consumer’s perspective. The knock-off fake italian charms, often imported from Asia, are made with gold plating and are glued rather than soldered.

Once you’re set up with your online italian charm wholesale supplier(s), you’ll be ready to order. You probably won’t have access to any italian charm wholesale prices before this point (though you’ll be able to see their retail prices if they also do that). And now you’ll be wondering: What’s the minimum initial order? Some suppliers have a $500 minimum, but the standard is closer to $100. It’s up to you- if you don’t mind buying more italian charms, and you like a supplier enough, you might go for it.

If you really want to give your prospective online italian charm wholesale supplier a thorough going over, come up with a question that their website doesn’t answer, and call them to ask it. You’ll see what kind of people they are from their customer service.

Hello, do you have a website and sell something on the internet?

If yes, may I offer you 10 amazing web promotion secrets to jump start your sales
at your website!

1. Find a strategic business partner. Look for ones
that have the same objective. You can trade leads,
share marketing info, sell package deals, etc.

2. Brand your name and business. You can easily
do this by just writing articles and submitting them
to e-zines or websites for republishing.

3. Start an auction on your website. The type of
auction could be related to the theme of your site.
You’ll draw traffic from auctioneers and bidders.

4. Remember to take a little time out of your day
or week to brainstorm. New ideas are usually the
difference between success and failure.

5. Model other successful business or people. I’m
not saying out right copy them, but practice some
of the same habits that have made them succeed.

6. Take risks to improve your business. Sometimes
businesses don’t want to advertise unless it’s free,
sometimes you have to spend money to get results.

7. Include emotional words in your advertisements.
Use ones like love, security, relief, freedom, happy,
satisfaction, fun, etc.

8. Ask people online to review your website. You
can use the comments you get to improve your web
site or you may turn the reviewer into a customer.

9. Out source part of your workload. You’ll save
on most employee costs. You could out source
your secretarial work, accounting, marketing, etc.

10. Combine a product and service together in a
package deal. It could increase your sales. If you’re
selling a book, offer an hour of consulting with it.

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What can strike terror into the heart of even the most successful sales professional or entrepreneur?

Cold Calling.

What can crush self-confidence, destroy self-esteem and leave even the most seasoned sales professional quivering with humiliation and defeat?

Cold Calling.

But why?

Every culture has its myths and stereotypes, and one of ours is the stereotype of the manipulative, unscrupulous salesman. The term “sales” conjures images of untrustworthiness and deviousness. We have the stereotypes of the “traveling salesman,” the “used car salesman” and, of course, the “telemarketer.”

These terms do not literally describe what the person is selling; they take on a larger meaning. For example, our cultural translation of “used car salesman” is not simply someone who is selling used cars, but instead means someone who is unethical, uncaring and will pressure you into a sale that is not necessarily in your best interest. “Telemarketer” has come to mean not just someone who sells over the telephone, but someone who interrupts your dinner, doesn’t listen and tries to pressure you into meaningless, valueless purchases. It can also mean someone who is running a scam over the telephone, usually preying on the elderly.

This is not the reality of individual telemarketers or used car salesmen. It is the stereotype. And these stereotypes do a huge disservice to most salespeople. Far too often, salespeople buy into these stereotypes, these images of untrustworthiness, placing themselves, in their own minds, on a lower level than their prospects.

If you buy into these negative images, you are at a disadvantage before you even pick up the telephone to call your prospect. It is imperative to change the way that you think about this process. Examine your intent:

Is your product or service meaningful?
Does it provide a benefit?
Do you believe in the value and benefit of what you are selling?
Are you doing the best that you know how to insure that your customers get what they need?

If your answers to the above questions are that you have a meaningful product or service, it provides value, you believe in your product or service, you are doing your very best to insure that your customers get what they needif those are your answers, why then, you don’t fit the stereotype. Stop acting as if you do! Stop apologizing. Stop feeling uncomfortable. Proceed with pride and integrity.

But there are some additional reasons that people fear cold calling. When you are face-to-face with someone, you have all of the visual cues to help you through the sales process. How does the person look? How is she dressed? What are her facial expressions? Does she make eye content? Is she smiling? Is she frowning? We instantly and intuitively assess these cues, and they help us determine what is happening in our communication.

On the telephone, you have none of those cues. That’s what makes it so scary. It’s as though you are suddenly blind, and you cannot tell what is going on. It is important to train yourself to listen very deeply when you are on the telephoneyou must hear those cues that you would normally see. And rememberyour prospect has no visual cues either! That is why it is imperative to use your voice expressively and have a clear message.

© 2004 Wendy Weiss

Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling & Selling Success, is a sales trainer, author and sales coach. She is the author of Cold Calling for Women and the recently released Cold Calling College. Get her free e-zine at http://www.wendyweiss.com.

There are several distinct advantages to outsourcing your bookkeeping functions. First and foremost is saving money. Having said that don’t step over dollars to pick up dimes. You get what you pay for and if you don’t pay for quality than you won’t have quality service. However, you can save money by outsourcing because you won’t be paying for employer payroll tax expense (FICA, FUTA and SUTA) workman’s compensation and general liability insurances, vacation time, sick time, health insurance and other benefits a good full time bookkeeper will expect from his/her employer. Just remember, however, that these costs will be built into the consultant’s hourly rate and their fee will reflect these costs. Any bookkeeping consultant who has not taken these costs into consideration is not a bookkeeper you want – if they don’t know enough to include these costs into their fees, then they don’t know enough to be a help to your business. You should expect to pay at least three times what you would pay an experienced full charge bookkeeper.

And just how do you save money by paying three times the amount you would pay an employee? Well, let’s see. There will be no recruiting, interviewing and training costs for start. And if you should find yourself unhappy with the services there will be no additional recruiting, interviewing and training to replace your bookkeeper. Also, you will not have to be concerned about law suits such as sexual harassment, unlawful firing, age discrimination, sexist, etc. Or an increase in your unemployment rates because you laid off an employee that you really wanted to fire but had no lawful cause to do so. So right away we have less time and money spent and potentially less hassle if things don’t go well.

And of course you will not be paying the 7.65% employer’s share of FICA and Medicaid, or SUTA or FUTA expense, or workman’s compensation and general liability insurance premiums. Also any worthy bookkeeper will expect at least two weeks vacation, coverage for sick time, health and dental insurance, a 401k plan where the employer matches employee contributions and even perhaps more benefits.

Most free-lance bookkeepers will have their own offices saving you space within your office. So you will not be buying that extra desk, calculator, computer and computer software. Your bookkeeper will be providing all of that as part of his/her fee. No software updates, computer maintenance, training costs, etc. Of course should you prefer to have your computerized bookkeeping records available to you at your office, a small investment in software installed on your computer makes this possible. Also no office supplies to be paid for. You will be amazed at just how much pens, pencils, and paper can be used by a bookkeeper. Your consultant bookkeeper will either ask you to drop off the work at their office, will pick it up at your office or some may even offer remote bookkeeping service. And by having your bookkeeping done off site, your bookkeeper will be able to work more efficiently and accurately because her/his office will most likely offer less distractions than your busy office. All of this is saving you money.

And the best reason for outsourcing is that you control the amount of money spent on bookkeeping. What I mean by this is that the person you hire to do your bookkeeping will be doing just that – not answering the phone, dealing with drop-bys, chatting to other employees, etc. Also you can start with just a few hours a month and add on when you need to and then adjust downward again should it be necessary. Can you imagine finding an employee to start with only four hours a month, then asking them to put in 20 hours a week for awhile and then back down to four hours a month again. I don’t think you would keep them for very long, but a free lance bookkeeper is able to work around these variables and even more importantly expects to work with flexible schedules.

So have I convinced you yet? If so, then just remember “you will get what you pay for”. Go for top quality because your financial records are the core of your business and without great bookkeeping you cannot expect to succeed no matter what type of business you have. After all don’t you think you are worth it?

Copyright 2006 Bookkeeping R Us All Rights Reserved

Bookkeeping R Us

Online chatting has become a day-to-day necessity, and messaging software is available for this purpose. While chatting, a list of contacts is maintained, each one represented by an icon. These icons are commonly known as buddy icons, especially in the context of AOL messaging. The word buddy is commonly used to refer to friends, and buddy icons are used to represent contacts or buddies in chat rooms.

Buddy icons are small pictures that are placed next to names of contacts in a messenger and keep appearing to show who is chatting. They act as identities of people in a buddy list. Default icons can be used as provided by different messengers, new ones can be downloaded or unique ones can be created. Some people also like to display their personal photographs as their icon. The buddy icons and names remain dim if availability status is offline. Contacts can be communicated instantly only if they are online, otherwise they receive messages when they come online later. A percentage symbol also appears to indicate that a buddy has been warned by others for sending unpleasant messages.

Buddy icons need to be compact and are very small in size, usually 48 x 48 pixels. They are available in easily compressible file formats like JPEG or BMP. Buddy icons are available in both still and animated forms. Creating a static icon is an easier process than an animated buddy icon. There are free software packages available to make simple icons. However, to do complex ones like moving cartoons or ones that require transformation, advanced software is much more convenient and is usually available only on payment. Advanced software packages are especially useful if the user is interested in creating many buddy icons and plans to make money by selling them.

Buddy icons are also used cleverly by advertisers. People download new and interesting icons meant to popularize a product or film. When in use, many people get to know about it automatically. One may be tempted to download or use an existing image for a buddy icon, but it may not always be an easy process. Sometimes it is very difficult to crop and size down an image to required dimensions. One of the easiest ways is to visit the messenger official website and download icons from there.

The choice of buddy icon is important, as it reflects a person’s personality, interests and identity. However, unlike a name, buddy icons can be changed anytime.

Before beginning, here’s a quick recap of why the bank statement should be balanced each month as soon as you receive it:

• Finding Errors. While banks don’t make errors very often, you only have a certain amount of time to alert the bank if you do find any.
• Verifying Entries. Balancing the bank statement is one way to ensure your entries are being recorded properly in QuickBooks.
• Takes Less Time. The longer you wait, the more transactions you will have to examine, making the process take longer than necessary.

Now that we know why we should balance the bank statement, here are step-by-step instructions to make sure it’s done right:

1. Open QuickBooks. From the top menu, select Banking, then select Reconcile. The Begin Reconciliation window opens.

2. From the Account drop-down box, select account you wish to reconcile.

3. Enter the Statement Date as shown on the bank statement.

4. Verify that the Beginning Balance in QuickBooks is the same as the beginning balance on the bank statement. If these amounts are not the same, you may have changed or deleted a previously reconciled transaction. See #b below.

5. Enter the Ending Balance as shown on bank statement.

6. Enter any Service Charges. From the Account drop-down box, select a Bank Service Charges account.

7. If the statement shows any interest earned, record it in the Interest Earned box. From the Account drop-down box, select an Other Income account called Interest Earned. If this account does not exist, scroll up to create it.

8. Click Continue. The Reconcile window opens.

9. Place a checkmark next to each entry that appears on the both the bank statement and in the Reconcile window. Notice that there are two columns-one for Checks and Payments and one for Deposits and Other Credits. Under normal circumstances both of these columns will have checkmarks in them when you are finished.

10. While doing this, verify that the amounts recorded in QuickBooks match the bank’s amounts exactly. If an amount in QuickBooks is incorrect, double click the entry to open and change it.

11. If all entries were made correctly, when you are finished checking off everything, the Difference (located in the bottom right corner) will be zero. If it is zero, click Reconcile Now.

12. IMPORTANT: when given the opportunity, print a Detailed report and staple it to the bank statement. If you are running QuickBooks Pro, the printed Detailed report will be your only record should you ever need to go back and see a previous reconciliation.

If the Difference is not zero, errors were made. Verify the following:

• Checkmarks may be placed next to items that do not appear on the statement, or some items may not have been checked that should have been.
• Carefully verify that all amounts in QuickBooks match the bank statement amounts exactly.
• It’s possible, although unlikely, that the bank made a mistake by recording an item incorrectly. If this is the case and you can verify that the Difference is the amount of the bank’s error, contact your accountant. There are a couple different ways to handle this and your accountant will be able to advise you according to his/her preference and your situation.
• Always try to make the Difference amount zero before clicking Reconcile Now!

Situations Requiring Outside Help:

a. Pro versions of QuickBooks allow access only the last month’s reconciliation. Premier versions allow access to all previous reconciliations. If you need a previous reconciliation report and are running QuickBooks Pro, ask your accountant if he/she is running Premier. If so, have your accountant upload your file to his/her computer, then generate the necessary reports.

b. Never delete or change a transaction after it has been reconciled. If you do, it alters the subsequent reconciliation, making it much more difficult. If the beginning balance in QuickBooks was not the same as on the statement, or if the Difference is not zero because a previously reconciled transaction was deleted, contact your bookkeeper or accountant to help resolve the issue.

c. If the difference amount was not zero when you reconciled, QuickBooks made an adjusting entry in both the checking account register and the account called Open Balance Equity (OBE). OBE should always have a zero balance. Contact your bookkeeper or accountant if you ever see a balance in this account.

About the Author:

Jennifer A. Thieme is dedicated to helping small business owners get the most from their accounting software. She’s the owner of Solid Rock Accounting Services and has been in the bookkeeping, income tax, and payroll business for nine years. She’s a Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor, and a Registered Tax Preparer. Jennifer specializes in diagnosing and resolving accounting and QuickBooks issues, and also offers training, general bookkeeping, income tax, and payroll services. Call or email today for free QuickBooks software trials, free payroll quotes, and a free initial consultation. Visit her link above for contact information.

Around eight WiFi VoIP handsets and phones have been tested by leading security experts, who say that security problems range from potential DoS attacks to more severe issues that allow “deep access” to the handset that lets unscrupulous individual get hold of any sensitive information on the phone.

Such threats are inevitable. So who should sort it out? It has been suggested that if we see practices like this continue as these devices get more popular then the manufacturers will only have themselves to blame when there’s a widespread attack.

VoIP hacking is the contemporary version of war dialing – a strategy of automatically scanning telephone numbers using a modem, often ringing every phone number in a local area to find where computers or fax machines are available, then attempting to access them by guessing passwords.

Still there are actions people can take to protect themselves. Here’s a list of WiFi VOIP security issues, and some useful ways to guard against them:

Many directions of attack:
As the VoIP phones get more advanced, so could the points of entry for would be hackers. Email, client Web browsers, Bluetooth, SMS, WiFi, media players, and image viewers could all give hackers a point of entry. Though users can use open-source and commercial tools to regularly test their phones and networks, they’ll ultimately have to rely on vendors to also do thorough testing on these devices.

Targeting phones in public environments:
One way of doing this is a Bluetooth scanner could be hidden at the entrance to a major airport or train station and be used to steal user data. It may be best to keep Bluetooth and other wireless features swicthed off when not needed.

Rogue access points:
Meanwhile at the office or on the road, users will have to always be wary and scan for rogue access points. Unscrupulous individuals will set up access points to specifically target WiFi phones in a business environment as well as at conferences and other places business people like to frequent. Good device authentication and encryption can help provide protection here.

Specific attacks:
Select attacks on precise voice-over-wireless networks could also be an issue, although perhaps one that the victims may try to downplay.

With the scope of advancement occurring in television machinery in the present day it is definitely worthwhile to be familiar with a little of the critical developments. This guide to liquid crystal display tellies (LCD) investigates the particular pros of the equipment. This insight offers you all the essential facts on how to get the excellent picture & gives details on a number of the critical elements to remember when it comes to Liquid Crystal Display TVs.

There at this moment two compelling advantages with Liquid Crystal Display TVs over Plasma tellies. The 1st is that LCD televisions can possibly be a great deal easier to view when matched to a traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) television. This is principally because TV displays are substantially brighter with a high contrast & flicker free picture. Liquid Crystal Display televisions on average work correctly in more or less any type of room from bright to ambient. Next, LCDs have a higher native resolution than plasma televisions of the equivalent size hence making them ideal for hi-def output. Even though plasma televisions are currently better for sheer screen size, as more & more TV channels come in hi-def TV (HDTV), Liquid Crystal Display products will be expected to come to the front.

How LCD Televisions In Fact Work?

LCD products are relatively complex and are growing each and every day. This technology is based upon the fact that liquid crystals are, in their usual state, warped. The ability of the crystals to let light through can be modified by submitting electric voltage. Very simply put, a light source is sent through a liquid containing crystals held amid two polarised displays. By permitting the exact measure of light to pass through, the needed display is produced. Don’t miss huge discounts on Sony DVD Recorders by Sound and Vision. Visit Here!

One of the issues that most small business owners overlook when building starting out in business is the use of technology. Whilst computer technology may require a significant investment when starting out; Overtime, if your systems are built correctly they will in fact save you very large sums of money, in particular in the area of staff wages.

When I first started my business, One-on-One Personal Computer Training, I started out with a $3,000 Credit Card, which when you talk to any business adviser or business-coach is absolutely the worst thing you could do. One of the issues I have been most conscious of is the cost of having a large number of staff. The way I achieved a high level of efficiency in such a competitive market was to automate as many of the day-to-day tasks as I could. The best tasks for automation are those that are repetitive.

As soon as I mention the word Business Automation, most technophobes will put up a barrier and go into a minor or major fit. Business automation can be as simple as creating just a few Microsoft Word templates. Business automation doesn’t necessarily mean hiring a huge plethora of software developers and toiling day and night to build some monsterous and complex system. It can and should be simple so that you as a business owner can in fact do it yourself. Let me explain!

Microsoft for all its good and bad issues, has provided business one of the most awesome tools – Microsoft Word allows you to build templates that you can reuse as many times as you wish.

What Is A Microsoft Word Template?

Essentially, a Microsoft Word Template is like any traditional word document, the difference is that it is designed to be reused as many times as you require. Why not create a normal word document then. Well, the difference is that when you use a Microsoft Word Template, you can store the template under the New dialogue box, so that each time you want to use the document you go to that one point and it will be available.

Did you know that you can even create your own folders in the New dialog box? For our team at One-on-One Personal Computer Training, we have created our own tab called One-on-One which is where we store all of our templates for our staff to use.

What Sort Of Templates Might You Need?

This is one of the key questions I get asked the most. The most common templates I see small businesses require are items like Sick Leave Forms, Leave Applications, Order Forms, Sales Letters, Purchase Order Forms and so forth.

One of the reasons why I chose to build Microsoft Word Templates in my business was to ensure a level of continuity of contact with our customers. By building a series of Templates such as:

- A Company Letter Head
– A Company Fax Sheet
– A Company Leave Application
– A Company Thank You Letter
– A Company Weekly Timesheet
– A Company Sales Letter
– A Company Visitor Sign-in Sheet
– A Company Purchase Order Form
– A Company Order Form

By having these forms in a central place I have ensured that my staff don’t need to be recreating these styles of documents each time they have to send a letter or fax. Further to this, I know that certain sales letters used by my staff will achieve the sales outcomes that I am looking for. By using a Microsoft Word Template, they know that when they get and enquiry that they can simply fill-in the customer details and the letter is done.

In our sales letter templates we use Microsoft Word’s Fill-in field to prompt our staff for key information like the Customers Name, Address and Company Name ensuring that the information does get put into the letter. Once they have completed that they simply press the Print button and its ready to go to the customer. As a business owner, knowing that that’s all my staff have to do to achieve the sales makes me feel far more comfortable than them having to write their own customised letters each time a customer enquires about our training.

Microsoft Word templates are an incredibly useful tool in automating common documents that your staff maybe creating and I believe that this is the first process that all business owners should be using in automating their business.

Chris Le Roy is the Managing Director of One-on-One Personal Comptuer Training. He is a Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor and MCSE and has written a range of training material to help individuals become Microsoft Office Specialists. To find out more visit – http://www.1-on-1.biz or online shop at http://shop.1-on-1.biz. One-on-One Personal Computer Training also offers a Free online help forum for Microsoft Office Issues at http://help.1-on-1.biz