Does Your Motto Begin with “if Only”?
By Ron Thomas Enterprises

Are you engaged in internet marketing? If so, you know it can be very frustrating, especially in the midst of gurus shouting “I made 315 million dollars in 6 months.” (Yes, I saw a similar claim recently – that’s the GNP of a third world country and this guys still working, but, I digress).

In comparison to these guys, your disappointing site visits, hits, clicks, etc may be causing you to internalize your own personal motto. Do any of these sound familiar?

If only I had started sooner.
If only I had more time.
If only I had more money for advertising.
If only there weren’t some many technical hurdles.

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Job Hunting – Frequently Asked Questions
By Ron Thomas

Are your job hunting efforts a little helter skelter? Successfully landing the job you want requires a plan and strategy. Just think of what you could accomplish, if your job hunting efforts were organized. Unfortunately, once we get out on our own there appears to be no one to help us. You could bring the wisdom of a war general to your job search efforts, if you could assemble the right tools and resources, but who has the time?

This article considers the elements of the job hunting efforts are most troubling for applicants? They wrestle over how to bring order to searching, applying and interviewing. One tool that may help applicants focus in on what they need to do is to isolate the key features and benefits important to them.

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Using Professional Marketing Tools to Target and Save Advertising Dollars
By Ron Thomas

Are you a new internet marketer? Just starting your own small business and brimming with small business ideas? If so, you may also be one of the many novices employing a shotgun marketing technique. What do I mean by shotgun? I’m talking about expending scarce investment dollars randomly testing each new method that comes in the email!

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How to Identify Good Keywords for your Website Marketing
by Ron Howard

If you want to succeed on the internet you must get a handle on keywords and sooner not later. As you know, a key word or keyword phrase is those words a potential researcher or customer types into a search engine in order to find pages that discuss the topic. To have their pages found when customers are searching companies strategically weave certain keywords into their advertising copy. So what do you need to do to compete?

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How to select the best web hosting package for a small business
By Ron Thomas

Too many choices can be confusing and lead to what some have called “the paralysis of analysis.” One tool that may help you hone in on what you need is to isolate the key features and benefits important to you.

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The ABCs of Home Business Success
By Ron Thomas

A – First Things First: Get Good Hosting Service
If you start a home business, your most important decision is selecting a hosting service. Get one that pays for itself - with 500 mg of space, templates, email, stats, tons of free CGI, plus free ebooks to sell. Don't be fooled by free sites, you’ll un-armed in the battle for profits. Get these features and more, plus a commission when others join. Sign up two customers and your hosting is paid! Get a commission each time they pay their monthly fee. Find out how to sign up at http://homebizh.thirdsphereplus.com/

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PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE
by Steve Goodier

Someone noted that their life and their bank both have something in common - they get out of them about as much as they put in. Which, as far as my bank is concerned, isn't much! But it means I can get a great deal of joy and satisfaction out of life if I am careful about what I put into living. [Read More!]

TIME TO REST
by Steve Goodier

It has been said that the amount of sleep required by the average person is just five minutes more! Too many of us are chronically sleep-deprived. Late to bed and early to rise. And it costs us dearly. [Read More!]

HOW TO FIND SUCCESS
by Steve Goodier

Rabbi Harold Kushner tells a wonderful story about a bright young man who was a sophomore Stanford pre-med student. To reward him for having done so well in school, his parents gave him a trip to the Asia for the summer. [Read More!]

ACT ON IT
by Steve Goodier

A little bear cub was confused about how to walk. "What do I do first?" he asked his mother. "Do I start with my right foot or my left? Or both front feet and then my back feet? Or do I move both feet on one side and then both feet on the other?" [Read More!]

WHEN EVERYTHING IS A MIRACLE
by Steve Goodier

Marlin Perkins, long-time host of television's "Wild Kingdom," spent most of his life trying to put people on a first-name basis with animals. His wife Carol wanted to marry him so badly that she never let on that she did not fully share his passion for wildlife.

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STEEL AND VELVET
by Steve Goodier

An unusual tribute was paid to Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg. The poet wrote, "Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect."

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It's said that we begin to cut our wisdom teeth the moment we bite off more than we can chew. But do we ever feel as if we have enough wisdom? That we have arrived; that we are wise?

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A LOFTIER AMBITION

One woman says she bought a computer to help her figure her budget. The first thing she learned was that she couldn't afford a computer.

Most people never feel as if they have enough money, and one of the greatest problems in too many lives is financial debt. Earl Wilson says, "Nowadays people can be divided into three classes - the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-Not-Paid-For-What-They-Haves."

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Choosing the Right Compass

"We pass this way but once," we have heard it said. But my wife has learned that, unless I've studied a map, that isn't necessarily true.

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