NOBOSS UPDATE: Global Economy Sparks New '05 NOBOSS BizPlan PREFACE: Earlier this year we touted Tom Peters new best seller book "RE-IMAGINING" to all NOBOSS members as an important thought-starter deserving of their attention.
At that time, we'd not caught-on to the one core issue that we at NOBOSS Inc. were overlooking. It is the classic forest-for-the-trees situation. Here we were telling 100,000+ members to consider 're-imagining' their home business while we paid only cursory attention to our own advice. YOU'LL SEE IT ALL in our Editorial this issue: SNEAK PREVIEW -'05 AND i-NOBOSS... and to add some meat to the table we're kicking the concept off with the new emphasis on current events -- the NOBOSS NEWSBriefs section of our Update ezines along with the new NEWSBriefINTERNATIONAL WATCH section just published. It's really quite simple. While you may well be running your business out of your home -- your potential marketing effort is now international in scope -- and so what happens in Sri Lanka could be meaningful to you in Toledo (or wherever you may live). PS: and vice versa. Plus, addressing those millions of employed Americans who are justifiably concerned about maintaining their jobs and hope to launch a back-up part time home based business, we recently launched a PR campaign to focus attention on an impartial NOBOSS resource to guide you through all of the biased hype-and-hoopla provided from opportunity sources. Catch it at: < http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/8/prweb153089.htm > In addition, we've opted to give up our Top Story position to Harmony Major who addresses one of the most aggravating issues a homepreneur faces in her new article "e-Mails Not Getting Answered? Shhhh! Here's Why..." -- and much, much more in todays NOBOSS Update issue (see below) The NOBO$$ 2004 Update An E-ZINE of Insights and Information for Homebased Entrepreneurs & Biz Opportunity Seekers ------------------------------------------------------------ Vol. 10, Issue 16 http://www.noboss.com 09/09/04 ------------------------------------------------------------ ************************************************************ * Responding to the dynamic world we live in, NOBOSS * strives to arrive in your e-mailbox with some special * hot-off the-press communication of significant interest to * the serious biz-op seeker/active home-based entrepreneur ******************************************************* IPT! IF YOU ARE CHANGING YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS you need to update your Profile OR to CANCEL RECEIPT OF NOBOSS UPDATE, PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS at the bottom of this posting. ************************************************************ *========== BIZ-OP OF THE MONTH ============================ * * Here is a "Win-Win" proposition for all NOBOSS members looking * to capitalize upon the "soon-to-be" trillion-dollar "Wellness" * industry. * * This months' Biz-Op Of The Month is a 16 year old publicly * traded company that is so confident you (and your future * customers) will love their products they will GIVE you a * month's supply of two top of their top selling products to try * for F*r*e*e.... nada.... zilch. * *< http://www.noboss.com/FRbizop.html > ================================================== ============ CONTENTS =========================== IN THlS ISSUE... * EDITORIAL: SNEAK PREVIEW -'05 and "i-NOBOSS" (n) * TOP STORY: e-Mails Not Getting Answered? Here's Why... (o) * PARENTPRENEUR CORNER: The Time Management Dilemma (n) * NEWSBrief - INTERNATIONAL WATCH *** Sri Lanka President Reins In Pyramid Schemes (n) *** Home Based Businesses Focus Of Jeddah Expo (n) * NEWSBRIEF - DOMESTIC WATCH *** USANA Ranks Number Nine in Business Weeks Top 100 (n) *** Attorney General Exonerates Dallas and Gas Up USA (n) * GENERAL NOTES ** Advertising to 100,000+ NOBOSS members ** Privacy Policy ** Your Responsibilities (n) indicates new, fresh editorial/copy (o) indicates outside editorial selected for reprint (r) indicates repeat. For the benefit of new members and old subscribers NOBOSS takes the liberty of repeating selected information we deem to be currently relevant and significant. (u) indicates repeat information that has been updated **************** *NOBOSS PrimeSpot* *********************** * * Today, since 'Business-As-Usual" no longer exists ... 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Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age" is our inspiration to select one fundamental idea and translate it to address the needs and interests of our home-based business constituency. ------------ In addition to the potential for expanded marketing (as discussed in our Preface above) -- we are in the process of recognizing that there are plenty of other global issues that can be very meaningful to home-biz entrepeneurs in the U.S. and around the world. Home-based business, expecially (but not limited to) 'online' biz's are thriving in Europe, South America, Asia -- and it only makes sense that there are universal truths and events happening in opposite ends of the earth that can be adopted OR that have major impact IF we've got the sense to spot it and use it. One example -- the cel phone. Anyone with an eye to what was going on in Japan -- years before the cel phone became an indispensable device in the states -- might have positioned their businesses to somehow participate in that phenomena. Sure -- this makes no sense for the home-biz who sells 'jumpers' at birthday bashes or store openings... the point, however, is that ALL our members need to be positioned to spot the trends so they at least have a chance to integrate them in their biz-plans. Just as the unprecedented 'globalization' of the worlds economy due to the spiraling effect of innovation and technology is impacting the international workforce -- the emerging growth of new, exciting, highly profitable individual home-based businesses is a major force that crosses all the old and provincial national borders. In recognition of the emergence of this truly global economy, NOBOSS is in the process or morphing from its decade old (1995) essentially national focus on domestic (U.S.) home-biz issues to encompass the worldwide market that ALMOST every individual homepreneur can access from their desktop PC. Which is why we are now in the process of revising ourselves to become "i-NOBOSS" (The new "inter-National Organization of Business Opportunity Seekers and Active Home-Based Entrepreneurs") ... which requires us to inject a brand new 'look- and-feel' to our Website, our ezines and our services. It also means that if you are currently active in ANY home-biz and are not seriously looking at the potential value of expanding your vision to the huge global audience available to you -- you are likely missing a massive opportunity for additional profit. To be formally launched in early 2005, the bits-and-pieces of i-NOBOSS are now just coming together. Over the next several issues we will continue to bring you insights into our expanded vision and explain in detail what it means to you... and how you can best take advantage of it. So stick with us as we turn our original NOBOSS into i-NOBOSS... and see us jump through the hoops -- as just by watching us turn our attention to the potential of a home-business involved in global marketing -- it may spark that idea (or two) that can work for YOU. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ Now - Check Out Our MID SPONSOR _/_/_/_/_/ * EARN UP TO $40,000 part-time AND OVER $100,000 full-time * with the American Home Inspectors Training Institute * <http://www.noboss.com/moreinfo.php?vID=24> _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ ======================================================= *> Top Story: e-Mails Not Getting Answered? Shhhh! Here's Why... ======================================================= Copyright 2004 Harmony Major Let's face it -- none of us like to be ignored. But sending an e-mail to a colleague that commits even ONE of these four cardinal sins can mean the difference between a speedy reply ... and that big e-mail receptacle bin in the sky. :-/ Here are four common reasons why YOUR mail could be going "the way of the spam", and how to reverse them to get your messages answered -- and answered *fast*: 1. "Can you hear me now? Durn! Can you hear me now? Frick! Can you hear me now? Cripes! Can you...?" Follow-up e-mails are okay, and quite necessary during these times of overzealous spam filtering. But for the love of all things good and holy ... please give your recipient a reasonable amount of time to answer the FIRST message FIRST! If you haven't waited *at least* 24 hours -- particularly on a first contact -- you haven't waited long enough. People do have to take care of lives, and spouses, and hunger pangs, and bathing, and... (well okay, maybe not those last two if we're in a REAL pinch ;)). 2. Please, God ... *NO* HTML! It still boggles my mind how many people ignore this rule. HTML mail comes to about *twice the size* of plain text mail with equal content. If your recipient can set their mail to skip downloading messages over a certain size, and that size is set low, your e-mail will be cut off in mid-message. This means the recipient then has to make an extra effort to retrieve YOUR message from the server. (Annoyance #1.) And people who send HTML mail seem to always choose a bright blue(??!) hyperlink-colored font that's WAY too tiny for the average eye to read. Umm... WHY?! Just about anything other than Courier New is GUARANTEED to be hard to read in some e-mail programs -- and it's usually blind luck that your recipient will HAVE one of those with this problem. (Annoyance #2.) And don't even get me started on the odd "glow" blue text has when plopped on a white background ... please? 3. "NO, Mommy! I don't WANNA read an ezine!" It's inconsiderate to send ezine length e-mails to business people -- period. You're almost guaranteeing that your mail won't be fully read, or that you'll get a half-a**ed reply, because the reader didn't feel like wading through your verbosity to get to the goods. "Ezine length" is generally about 9 kilobytes (9k) and above. You can usually tell how large an e-mail is before sending by checking its size in your mail program's outbox. If not, for your reference, 9k is about 650 words. (Yeesh!) Unless the recipient is *expecting* a long reply from you, 3k (200 words) is a good stopping point for a first contact. NOTE: YES, this goes for personal e-mails too. Being "friends" with someone isn't license to consistently disrespect their time with mammoth e-mails unless they send the same to you -- consistently. So, no saying the same thing 8 killion different ways, or using "flowery" language and "pretty" mental pictures to get your point across. Just say it, say something else and for Heaven's sake ... KEEP IT MOVING. 4. Umm, seriously ... is it really THAT important? Ugh. Do I really need to explain this one? People who mark ALL of their messages High Priority remind me of the little dude who cried wolf, if you know what I mean. When I consistently see these from the same people all the time, I start ignoring the priority and answering them LAST in a mail check, just to spite 'em. Granted, not everyone is as crazy as me and will do this. But at the very least, you're still hurting your chances of getting a reply to *seriously* urgent messages quickly, by abusing priority markers. 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Send an E-mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] f or more info and a FrŒe Sample. _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ 3 ======================================================= ******> PARENTPRENEUR CORNER: The Time Management Dilemma ======================================================= While this single issue is important to everyone -- for the active home-based Parentpreneur juggling the demands of kids along with household under a single roof, the challenge of 'time management' becomes, perhaps, THE most critical skill that will ultimately decide who 'wins' the war and who does not. And, the key to making it happen in real-time is usually one of the intelligent ability to 'prioritize'. OK -- without question Family is #1 and your home-based business is #2. That, by itself, is NOT a problem. However, IF your Family absolutely requires 99% of your time -- forget the home-biz. On the other hand, if you can carve out 2 hours a day or 10 to 20 hours a week (or more) -- then there is no good reason why you cannot earn significant money from home PROVIDED you can 'control' your work-time. To this end, we found several websites that specialize in helping you to most effectively manage your time -- none are specific to the parentpreneur... but each may be well worth a look: http://www.thinktq.com/ http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/homemgt/nf174.htm http://www.businesstown.com/time/time.asp Your best intentions can easily be sabotaged without the active support of your involved family. So -- before you make your time committments, make sure you have enlisted their enthusiastic support. ======================================================= ******> NEWSBRIEFS: INTERNATIONAL WATCH ======================================================= IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS: Items below often link to independent online pages (outside of NOBOSS) that carry very long text- strings... and these often wrap-around and lose the convenience of a hotlink where you can just click and go to the information. In that case, you simply Cut & Paste the entire string into your browser. Note: items appearing in Newsbriefs are current events. If a hotlink should not be active, realize that sometimes these do disappear after just a few days * Sri Lanka Reins in On Pyramid Schemes . ---------------------------------- . While the home biz snakes still occasionally pop up in the U.S. (just as corporate snakes ala Enron can never be totally eliminated) -- emerging economies are rife with this kind of abuse. The statements from the President of Sri Lanka regarding this predatory type home-biz is a worthwhile read for us all. < http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/09/09/new02.html > NOBOSS COMMENT: tie this one in with the comment under Domestic Watch (below) about Gas Up USA -- and think about why you need options when working a home-based biz. * Home Based Businesses Focus Of Jeddah Expo . ------------------------------------------ . Arab News, the Middle East's Leading English Language Daily reports on the second Saudi Working Women Exhibition to be held in Jeddah in September. "It will also be a chance for women who work from their homes to deomonstrate and distribute their products... first event about the importance of home-based businesses (snip) because they reduce unemployment, help women achieve their ambitions and solve the transportation problem for them." < http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=51226&d=9&m=9&y=2004&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom > NOBOSS COMMENT: It's exciting (to us) to realize we are all on the cutting edge of a true international trend... and it suggests the potential we all have to export our expertise to the benefit of others and potential profit for ourselves. Not to overkill, but as NOBOSS turns into i-NOBOSS and our focus becomes international -- our market for subscribers has grown exponentially -- see what we mean? ======================================================= ******> NEWSBRIEFS: DOMESTIC WATCH ======================================================= IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS: Items below often link to independent online pages (outside of NOBOSS) that carry very long text- strings... and these often wrap-around and lose the convenience of a hotlink where you can just click and go to the information. In that case, you simply Cut & Paste the entire string into your browser. Note: items appearing in Newsbriefs are current events. If a hotlink should not be active, realize that sometimes these do disappear after just a few days * USANA Ranks Number Nine in Business Weeks Top 100 . ------------------------------------ . A press release just distributed by USANA Health Services points out that its very high rating in Business Weeks top 100 small growth companies was NOT featured in the biz-press... probably because of the nature of its distribution system. The release suggests, however, that USANA, and companies like it, could represent the wave of the future. < http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/9/emw156152.htm > NOBOSS COMMENT: Sounds to us like USANA must be doing something right -- NOBOSS members who have not checked it out as a potential home-biz that may work for them can get straight to the Source Page in our Online Database by going to: < http://www.noboss.com/$DB/$S/$usana.php > * Attorney General Exonerates Dalius and Gas Up USA . ------------------------------- . In almost perfect juxtaposition to the Sri Lanka article noted above, the "Gas Up USA" story that just broke is an interesting issue for all domestic U.S. homepreneurs to consider. Gas Up USA created a huge flap when it launched a year or so ago -- and the large numbers of individuals who signed onto represent the program that proported to save consumers dollars are the pump was dramatic. That was until the Kansas Attorney Generals office called it an "illegal pyramid scheme". Well, long after the fact and after those individuals who signed up had lost dollars, time, interest and energy -- the Pennsylvania Attorney General -- after a years investigation and tens of thousands of public dollars has set the record straight. And it appears there was a villian in the story -- but it was, of all things, a bank involved in the program and not the founder/ promoters. So it may not have been the concept at all... and certainly not the fault of biz-op seekers who jumped onto the program thinking it could be a winner. Moral of this story: #1 none of us are immune to biz-op disasters ... and #2 all is not always as it seems... and #3 under the BEST of circumstances, it is always wise to have more than one home-biz 'cause you never want to rely on just one supplier. < http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prweb123781.htm > General Notes : ------------------------ * ADVERTISING: please visit our web site -- log-on to * < http://noboss.com/index.php/m_FRadv.html/ADVFAQ.html > ------------------------------------------------------------ * PRIVACY POLICY: NOBOSS does not sell or release your * private email address to anyone. Any member wishing to * unsubscribe see the link at bottom of this posting. ------------------------------------------------------------ * YOUR RESPONSIBILITY: Information and advertisements * presented herein are published in good faith, however * by making use of information in articles or * advertisements the reader assumes all risk that * information may be proven incorrect. 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