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How to Start a Home Business Online and Make Money on the Internet

Everyone dreams about leaving the daily grind and their nine to five jobs behind in favor of a home bases online business. You may be one of the many who is thinking about this day in and day out, but the problem lies in knowing how to get started. Before you can have a successful online business you do in fact have to start one and knowing the process of doing so will help you realize your eventual dream of being self-employed.

There are number of steps that should be taken in order to start your home business online. Here are some steps you will need to complete in order to get your business rolling:

1. Decide what you want to do: How do you propose to make a living online? While there are many avenues that you can take you must first decide what you will do in order to know where to go. For example, if you decide you are going to start a business selling items online you need to decide whether or not you will have a website to sell your items, sell on eBay, or do a combination of both. But again, you need to first determine your plan for a business.

2. Decide to incorporate or not: Depending on the business you set up you may want to incorporate as a C Corp or an S Corp. Then again you may want to stay as a sole proprietor. Whatever you decide, you do have to pick something. The best thing to do when making this decision is to make an appointment with your accountant and have them explain to you the pros and cons for each in regards to the business you are planning on opening up online.

3. Find out about licensing: With whatever business you decide to do online you will more than likely at least need to obtain an occupational license. Furthermore you may have to get licenses specific to your state or even your county and city. There may even be additional licenses that are required by the industry in which you will be participating in accordance to the law. The point is you need to find out what licenses you will have to obtain in order to do legitimate business online.

4. Promote Yourself: The last step in staring your home business online is to promote yourself and let it be known by all that you are coming out of the gates with thunder. It isn’t enough to just have a plan, but you also need to let others know that you are out there and let them know exactly what it is that you will have to offer them.

While working for yourself is probably the most rewarding job of all, if not started properly you can be in for a big disappointment. By taking the appropriate steps to start the business off the right way you too can be up and running with a home business conducted online that will allow you to leave the rat race far in your rear view mirror.

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4 Ways to Exhibit Confidence When Giving a Presentation

Imagine this is what will happen to you the next day. You are going to give a presentation to a group of people whom you have not met before. The presentation topic is something you are familiar with because this is not the first time you present this topic. As a result, you believe that you can do a good job to deliver this topic smoothly to your participants. On the day of your presentation, unexpected events happened. You have unconsciously used a wrong phrase to explain a concept and you participants spotted your mistake. You have just discovered a typographical error on one of your slides. You were challenged by one of your participants who disagreed with a point you made in your presentation. How would you react to these unexpected events?

Here is the truth. In all presentations, always expect the unexpected. If you were hesitant, your confidence level would go down immediately and this could affect the flow of your presentation. The question is what you could have done to maintain your confidence level notwithstanding these unexpected events. In this article, I am going to share with you 4 tips that could help you to exhibit your confidence when giving a presentation.

Dress appropriately

As a speaker and trainer, I do presentation on different topics, for example, tax training and personal development training. I have my own dress code for different types of training.

In my tax training, most participants will be working professionals. Hence, I will put on my business suit to make me look professional. This is always my way of building rapport with this group of participants and raising my credibility.

When it comes to my personal development training, I will dress differently. The reason is that my participants can come from all walks of life and it does not make sense to wear business suit. Instead, I tend to wear black shirt because studies have shown that black colour signals power and authority. Whenever I am in black, I feel strong and unstoppable, and this helps to boost my confidence level and prepare for the unexpected events during my presentation.

State clearly your purpose

Have you come across with speakers who are experts in their relevant fields but do not look confident when giving presentation? Based on my own research, I discovered a secret. That is, they do not have a clear purpose of giving the presentation. There is a saying that “the bigger the why, the easier the how”. What this means is that we must know why we are giving the presentation before doing it.

Here is what I do for my presentation. I will write down my purpose of giving that presentation. I will put myself into the shoes of the participants and ask this question – “Why should I listen to you?” Very often, what I have written down becomes part of the introduction of my presentation and this is another powerful technique of building rapport with my participants and maintaining my confidence level.

Learn to say “Yes”

I am not sure if you notice that we are surrounded by a lot of negative people and negative thoughts. I was told before that for each positive statement we made, there would be 14 negative statements before and after that. In my presentation, I do my best not to allow any negativity to be present because I know that it will affect my confidence level.

Here is what I do in my training. I encourage my participants to say “Yes” with me whenever opportunity arises. When saying “yes’, say with conviction and make sure that all the people in the training room can feel the positive energy. Positive energy in my view is clearly a booster of my confidence level.

Put on our listening ear

Here is my final tip – to put on our listening ear. As mentioned above, one of the unexpected events is that my participants do not agree with what I said in my presentation. Even though I feel strongly that I am right, I will remain silent and let my participants finish their point. I will listen carefully to what they say and handle the objection tactfully based on my business training. Sometimes it may be useful to handle such objection offline because the longer it drags on, the more negative energy will be built in the training room, resulting in a drop of my confidence level.

I hope you enjoy my sharing. Use these tips if they make sense to you and share with me your success stories in my website. I would love to hear from you.

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Carriage Clocks Past and Present

Carriage clocks have a unique and classy style. An old horse drawn clock can be considered very collectible. They were originally conceived so people had a means of telling the time whilst travelling in the 1800′s as wristwatches were not invented until the 20th Century. They are easily identifiable as they have a distinctive style and shape.

In the 1800′s people travelled around in carriages and as clocks technically evolved it became possible to build a medium sized one which people could carry around, hence the name carriage clock. Before that clocks were very large and were basically either grandfather or large wall clocks such as Town Hall or Railway Station time-pieces.

The carriage clock of today is smaller and more compact but in the 1800′s they were still quite large by today standards. They were rectangle in shape and built to withstand the rugged travel in a carriage on uneven roads when horse drawn carriages were the only means of transport. The carriage clock casements were solid to protect the mechanism.

Carriage clocks have a standard shape which makes them instantly recognizable. The case is usually made from metal or polished brass. The face often has a glass frontage with the background of the face being made from porcelain. Modern clocks tend not to have the porcelain face unless you purchase an expensive one, and then it would probably be decorated with an intricate design. The more decoration on the face usually signifies the superior quality of the timepiece.

Another Identifiable part of a horse-drawn clock is the handle which made it much easier to carry around from a carriage to a place of rest. As the carriage clock became more advanced it would have incorporated a bell or chime on the hour. Similar designs on other types of time-pieces were also afforded to carriage clocks such as scrolls on the corner of the frame and inlay gemstones. Modern carriage clocks tend to have mass produced quartz movements but back in the 1800′s movements would have been spring driven mechanical mechanisms.

Today clocks are based on the original clock design, but they tend not to have the intricate mechanical movement, ornate design or the decorative detail of their predecessors. This does have advantages as modern clocks are much more affordable. Carriage clocks are still very much in demand today and are often given as wedding presents, anniversaries or retirement gifts. You can buy a clock from as little as £10 today.

The lower price clocks tend to be replicas however you can still buy authentic carriage clocks. Authentic clocks have glass back doors which allow you to wind the clock up and see the mechanism and all the internal workings of the clock. Some high priced clocks will have gemstones set in the clock, with gold and silver incorporated in the clock.

As we began not to ride around in carriages, and cars and modern homes took over, you are now more likely to see these types of clocks on mantel pieces. The more complicated clocks will play tunes using a hammer which strikes a bell every hour. If you have one of these clocks with inset precious stones, enameled porcelain glass face and decorative scrolls, then it’s a collector’s item. As with any clock its worth having it serviced every year to keep it in full working order, and to maintain an accurate time. This will also help to maintain it’s on sale value.

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