Clearly, if you need the money, this is a rational problem. What’s important is that, despite the personal relationship you share with the other party, you don’t let emotional issues come into play. For the investment or loan to work for both of you, it must be sought and given on purely impersonal terms. The bond between the two of you must remain an unspoken subtext and never become the subject of discussion. Treat their rejection as entirely rational, even if you suspect it may have emotional underpinnings, and you’ll be able to turn it around.

Before even asking for the loan or investment you should have made sure you were an expert in the industry you were entering, and in the specific business you were planning to launch. You also need to know your business plan and loan proposal like the back of your hand. If you have to check the text for the numbers to answer basic questions you’re not expert enough. All of this information must be openly demonstrated for the other party to have confidence in you.

Expertise on the other party’s wants and needs, however, shouldn’t be flaunted. Instead, it should be used as the basis for your proposal. Your pitch should appear to be tailor-made for them . . . because it is. Remember the example I gave earlier where a relative would not loan money because of a bad experience he had with another relative who never paid him back? Becoming an expert means becoming an expert, not only on your business plan, but also on the motivations/feelings of those you are asking for the loan. The amount you ask for, and their planned exit, should perfectly fit their current financial plan.

Let the trust you have built up in your personal relationship remain in the background. It should serve as an invisible foundation for all the traditional business techniques you would use so create trust in someone you had never met before. You should dress and act the same in pitching Aunt Daisy as you would Citibank. Do any less and you’ll appear to be a less than serious businessperson who is taking the other party for granted. That’s not someone to trust with your money.

The secret to reversing a no from a friend or family member is the same as if it came from a banker or venture capitalist. You must first look behind the no and learn the reason for it, and then you need to ask for a reconsideration based on new facts that directly rebut the given reason.

One advantage of asking friends and family for seed money is that it’s easy to subsequently ask them for the reason for their rejection. The problem is they may not feel comfortable telling the truth. You’ll need to stress the importance “for your future efforts” of your getting the truth, and you’ll also need to be able to read between the lines. Remove all the euphemisms and camouflage and you’ll find that there are really only three reasons why a friend or family member wouldn’t give you seed money: they don’t think your business will succeed, they don’t trust your ability or character, or they don’t have the money.

If anyone says the reason they rejected your proposal is they didn’t like your business plan, then they should be asked for specifics. Say that you respect their opinion and want to see if you can overcome their problem. If they can’t offer any specifics, their real reason is something else. However, if they cite a particular element of the plan, offer additional facts that either dispel their fear or clear up their misconceptions. 

If you’re told the reason for a rejection is lack of funds, you’ve either made a mistake in your earlier research into their finances, or they’re covering up another reason. You can find out which is the case by asking them to become a loan guarantor rather than an investor or lender. If the only reason for their rejection was that they didn’t have money available, they’ll likely agree. If they continue to balk, then their real reason is something else, probably a lack of trust.

A friend or family member is unlikely to come right out and say that they don’t trust your skills or abilities. Instead, they’ll initially offer other reasons, and then when pressed, raise vague questions. “Are you sure you know what you’re doing?” they’ll ask. “Do you really think that’s the business for you?” they’ll wonder. Alternatively, if they’re concerned with your character they’re apt to cite some irrefutable rules like “I never lend money to relatives,” or “I never invest in retail businesses.”

Since your recent efforts at establishing trust in yourself as an entrepreneur, coupled with the personal trust you had built up during your prior relationship, weren’t enough to overcome their worries about you, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to turn them around yourself. Instead, ask if you can come back to them later, after you’ve lined up other investors or lenders. Then, your request for a reconsideration can be based on the demonstrable new facts of there being others who trust you enough to invest in your future.

Nowadays, most of the people wish to create their own web pages to express their views and thoughts and also to get feedback from the viewers of the web page. But, most of them have doubts like: Whether can we create our own web page? Will it be expensive? And what type of programs will be required for creation of own web page? Let us see the answers to these questions in this article.

The fact is that anybody can create their own website in an attractive manner within a few minutes and without any additional software than the already built-in software in their computer. All that is needed for creation of a web page is a computer with internet connection. Nowadays, different websites are offering dozens of free templates to its members for creating their own web page. All that is needed is to log on to the website and choose a suitable template and you can start making your own web page.

One of the best websites offering the facility to its members for creating their own web page is weebly dot com. With the help of this website you can create your own web page, blog and even website at free of cost. The website offers this free service only to its members, register yourself by entering username, password and email address of any other websites like Gmail, yahoo, rediffmail, etc…

Weebly.com also does free domain hosting service and the web page or blog can be created easily by simple drag and drop interface. Here, no technical skills are required for web page creation. Dozens of professional design templates are available with weebly and you can choose your favorite design for your website.

Once you have selected your template you will be able to see some tabs on the left side of the screen and by clicking on these tabs, you will be able to see different images appearing on the right next to these tabs. These images will enable you to insert a picture, a video or a file and you will also be able to enter some text if required. Then, you can choose one column, two columns or even three column layouts.

With the help of weebly.com, you can add pages to the website created by you and can also set navigation tabs on your page, which will be useful for the visitors to go through your website easily. In each navigation tabs you can add different information like your name and profile in one tab, you contact information in another tab, your interests in another tab, etc…

Create your own website with weebly.com and share your thoughts effectively to the outside world! What do you think about this service?

Residential leases, while less complex than commercial agreements, are still complicated enough to require an attorney. In fact, I tell all my clients who are contemplating becoming landlords to hire professionals to oversee the entire process. Unless you plan on getting into the real estate business full-time you don’t have the time to do the kind of job that’s required to insure your interests are fully protected. Leave the drafting of the lease to your lawyer and the screening of tenants to an agent. All you should have to do is deposit the rent check on the first of the month.

Won’t the tenants create damage?

This is an entirely rational problem. Tenants almost always create damage, just as any residents will. You must expect a certain amount of wear and tear anytime property is used. In order to mitigate damage problems you must express your concerns to your attorney when she is preparing the lease. She can insure that your lease requires an adequate security deposit, insist that no changes can be made to the property without your approval, and provide you or your agent with the right to make occasional formal inspections of the premises.

You also need to make your worries plain to your renting agent. He must be prepared to make a real judgment of the tenant’s character, and to check their references and background. In addition, get the agent’s input on what type of restrictions make sense. After all, a family of four with two pets will create more damage than a couple with no pets.

What if I can’t get them out?

As anyone who has ever tried to evict a tenant can tell you, this is an entirely rational problem. It is very difficult to get someone out of a residence, even if they haven’t paid rent. In many states, the law bends over backward to protect the tenant at the landlord’s expense. This is one reason why I don’t encourage my clients to get into the rental business.

You can never totally protect yourself from this happening. A tenant who interviewed well, and who was reliable for years, can suddenly change and become a problem. All you can do is mitigate the problem. First, make sure you have an experienced agent do the screening, looking out for potential problem tenants. Second, ask your lawyer to do everything possible to keep a recalcitrant tenant from barricading himself in your property. She may be able to construct the lease so that tenants become trespassers if they overstay, allowing you to enlist the aid of the police in having them removed.

1. Dealing with a CROOK: A lot of sites are available for sale everyday, there are a lot of forums and market places where you can find thousands of websites that you can buy. The price of the website will depend on the quality, traffic and revenue that it generates, BUT you don’t have to trust everyone who says that my website makes $$$ per month or receive thousands of visits everyday.. My advice is not to buy a website based on this data, try to look for the site archive, check if the domain is dropped, check Page Rank, backlinks, Alexa rank.. Anything that can show you the real value and how much this site is worth!

2. Transfer your new site: When you’ll buy a website from someone, in 90% of the cases he’ll give you the site files and you have to transfer the site to your new hosting account if you paid for a new hosting plan. This is not an easy task, especially if you bought a large website, it will take time to transfer files to new server. You may ask the support to move the site for you but ‘be sure’ about the fact that they will ask you for the login information for the other host where the site is originally hosted so that they can download the backup and upload it again, which is not possible all the time.

3. Losing reputation: All the time and when buying an established website, you have to take in consideration that a niche that make $1000 per month can make only $100 in the next month, especially that when moving from server to server a website can lose ranking in search engines or what we call SERPs if it is transfered to a new IP class, visitors because of the downtime that you will expect when moving and also revenue as a keyword that pays $3 today can pay only $1 tomorrow.

All of this is based on my personal experience, you may have been in luck better than me and grabbed a nice deal but all what I want to let you know is to be careful and study the market and conditions before taking a new decision of buying a website, it’s real business. Did you faced any of these difficulties? Did you faced other problems when trying to buy an established website? Share with us!

Be honest with people and don’t try to sell something to them all the time. You wouldn’t spam your facebook or email about your latest products or services. Don’t do it with twitter.

If you own a blog, business, website, its ok to tweet about them and their subjects. However, you should also tweet about things that are not related to them. Twitter is personal, so remember to tweet about some “real life” things once in a while.

Stop broadcasting and join in on the conversations! Often times webmasters and bloggers simply broadcast about their latest post or update. You should not only do this, but try to integrate yourself into the conversations. You’ll grow your network and will create a positive image for yourself.

Be efficient on twitter. Their is a 140 character limit for a reason! Keep your messages short and to the point. Having your followers running in circles or pondering will only frustrate them – worse, they don’t even understand what you’re trying to get through!

Keep on updating that twitter status! Followers expect news, information, and updates on what you’re doing. If you’re not updating, you’ll end up losing a lot of your followers if not all of them.

Twitter is a social network. You have to be social or reap the misfortune of being bored and plain. Their is no point in simply lurking and reading others tweets. You’ll get very little back lurking. Dive right in and start tweeting and networking!

Remember that twitter is for building your relationships and learning about new things. Sharing is extremely important on twitter as it is in the real world. Get tweeting and don’t forget to follow me @ZakShow :)

If your lease gives the landlord the right to approve assignments or sublets, this is an actual problem . . . whether it’s expectant or extant. This is also entirely rational. The landlord looks at transitions in tenants as opportunities to increase rent. If you assign your lease he’s missing out on that increase. In addition, he may have developed confidence in your business’s ability to pay the rent. The new owner is an unknown quantity.

If you are planning on selling and you didn’t successfully negotiate a flexible enough assign ability clause when you the first signed the lease, you need to go back and renegotiate one now. Bring in your attorney as your hired gun and do whatever you can to change the lease so it smoothes the way for you to sell.

Theoretically the landlord already trusts you. Your mission now should be to get him to trust your buyer as well. Do everything you can to demonstrate to the landlord that he’ll actually be in a better position with this new tenant than with you. For instance, if she’s younger than you, that would guarantee him more years of continued occupancy; or if she has “deep pockets” that could make it easier for him to increase the rent when the lease expires. 

The only further (act you can add if you need to ask for a reconsideration is that you will serve as personal guarantor of the lease for part of the remaining term, or the new owner can offer an increase in the security deposit.

My employees will bolt.

This is also entirely rational. Seasoned employees know that wholesale staff changes almost always come close on the heels of changes in ownership and management. The minute that word leaks that you’re thinking of selling, your best people will become flight risks. 

The key information you need to gather is actually from the buyer, not your employees. If the buyer plans on making wholesale immediate staff changes she may not want you to stop your employees from bolting. On the other hand, if she wants to hold on to people, at least for a little while, she’ll be helpful in solving the problem. 

Your employees, understandably, aren’t going to trust any verbal promises from either you or the future owner. Even though they trust you, they also know that you won’t be around much longer, and that your primary concern is closing the deal, not saving their skins. The solution is to sign your key employees to contracts. The difficulty is that this will be a three-way negotiation among you, the future owner, and the employee. That’s why I suggest clients in this situation focus on crafting simpler termination agreements instead. These should provide sufficient security to the employees without binding the future owner’s hands. 

If an employee refuses to sign an agreement, you can make a personal plea for him to reconsider. Meet him privately, as a friend rather than an employer, and explain that the termination agreement won’t prevent him from looking for another job. All it will do is memorializing his severance package. And since he suspects he’ll be terminated shortly anyway, this is a chance for him to get more than he would have otherwise.

Historically, buying real estate has been as much an emotional as a financial decision. When you owned your own home you were literally king of your own castle. No absentee landlord could raise your rent, turn off the heat, or make you put up with a leaky roof. You could grow your own food and raise your own livestock, or you could put up a trampoline and basketball hoop for your kids. You could put up knotty pine paneling in your dining room and build a workshop in the basement. You were in control. Financially, you could deduct the interest on your mortgage, and rest assured that your home’s value would probably outpace inflation. If nothing else, paying a mortgage rather than rent was a form of enforced savings.

Things changed in the 1980s when the leading edge of the baby boom generation began entering the home-buying market. Because of post¡ªWorld War II prosperity, federally subsidized home loans, and the development of the middle-class suburb, many baby boomers grew up in homes owned by their parents, unlike previous generations. They wanted to buy homes similar to those they’d grown up in. But because there were so many baby boomers, the demand drove prices up. Houses purchased by a boomer’s parents in 1965 for $15,000 were selling in 1985 to a young boomer family for $150,000. The same demographic anomaly that forced home prices up kept salaries down in real terms. To afford to buy their parents’ home, boomer couples had to bring in two salaries and spend a higher share of their income on shelter. 

Prices kept soaring throughout the 1980s as more and more baby boomers entered the market. Older boomers were able to buy and sell homes quickly, make a tidy profit off younger boomers, and use the money to buy an even larger home. But then at the end of the decade the tide turned. The number of buyers began to drop, demand slowed, and prices stagnated and then fell. The age of real estate as an investment was over. But not everyone has gotten the message.

Most people with real estate problems are still thinking as if it were the 1980s. It’s not. Today people should be buying a home they’re willing to stay in for a long portion of their lives. They should look at it as a spiritual and emotional purchase, as more of a quality-of-life issue than a financial issue.

Let’s take a look at some of these ways:

Yahoo Answers

This is one of the best ways of generating instant traffic to a website. For this you need to have a Yahoo account and it will only take a few minutes to create. Then you log on to answers.yahoo.com and use the built in “search” option to find questions related to the niche of your website.

Once you find a question you are able to answer, then answer it in such a way that you come across as an expert in the topic. You must leave a link to your website in the source field. Don’t restrict yourself to answering just one question, do this with as many questions as you can.

This works wonderfully and fulfills two things: sending direct and immediate traffic to the website as well as generating indirect traffic. Yahoo answers is considered as an authority site and all the threads are picked up by the search engines in a matter of hours. Imagine if you left your URLs there, your websites will also be indexed very quickly.

Digg

Whenever you publish new content, you can use digg.com to submit it to. Digg is an effective social bookmarking site where if your content garners enough interest, people will vote and you earn Digg points. Once you gather sufficient Digg points, it will be prominent for millions of people to see.

Blog Commenting

Make a note of the popular blogs in your niche and keep visiting them and leave comments, making sure to leave your link there. For this method to work, your comments have to be relevant to the blog post. How this works is, when visitors to that blog read your comment and find it interesting and useful, they will be tempted to click on your link. This method generates direct traffic, which means immediate visitors as well as indirect traffic to your web pages.

Technorati

Whenever you have a new post or article in your site, submit it to www.technorati.com. You should submit it under an appropriate tag. Here’s the best part – You can use any tag you want. You can make the tag one of the well-searched for keywords related to your niche or it can be an innovative tag that has never been used before. The newest submissions appear at the top of the site.

Wikipedia Link

This is not as easy as it sounds but if you can manage to get your link in Wikipedia, you are going to see a huge increase in traffic. Wikipedia is currently one of the hottest properties on the World Wide Web. See if you can add something useful that is not already there, related to your niche. You will be allowed to leave your URL as a link when you add content to Wikipedia. The only problem is, even if you manage to get your link in, there is no guarantee that it will remain there for any significant amount of time. But whatever little time your link remains there, it is going to give you incredible results.

These are some of the more popular strategies you can’t go wrong with and bring the results you desire. Even if it takes time, it is worth the effort to see your web pages ranking high on the search engines, in turn bringing in thousands of visitors. There are several other ways, which we will take a look at in a different article.

Web sites are becoming so common that it’s difficult to find a professional that doesn’t have one. If you don’t have one, then get one. Let me tell you why.

• Having an online presence gives you more credibility as an expert.

In a place where perception matters most, having a presence not only help increase your visibility, but also builds familiarity for your clients and potential clients.

• Having a website allows people to become more familiar and comfortable with you.

Your site is like a service window that represents you to the world. It’s always open for business and always conveying your message. The more familiar people are with you, the more they tend to trust you. And the more they trust you the more likely they are to buy your product or use your service.

• A website does business in places you can’t.

You may have the cutest trinkets for sale in Austin, TX. But, that doesn’t mean you’re capable of opening a store in Las Vegas, or Canada, or Norway. But, a website is open to the world and can do business or share information in places that you just can’t be.

• The internet is a place that never sleeps.

Through your website, your office is open 24/7/365. Direct customers to your site and they’ll always be able to find you.

• Your website immediately speeds up your sales cycle.

Not only can you use features of your website to do the selling for you, but you can use it as a tool to enhance and speed up your sales cycle. Orders will come in at all times of day, whether you’re monitoring the traffic or not. Maybe a buyer or client you spoke to this morning has made their decision after hours. Thanks to your website there’s no reason for that person to wait for you overnight (when they have time to change their mind again). They can go to your site and place their order right now.

Your website is more than just an extension of you or your business. It is your business. Get savvy about how to use it and take advantage of everything it offers. A solid website will put you miles ahead of your competition.

People can quickly be let down by working endless hours with seemingly little results. As grandpa used to say, that’s just the way it is.

Succeeding in an online business takes just as much if not more self discipline that succeeding in any other job. To give you a better idea of just what it takes, I’ve thrown together a list of ideas for internet success based on my own experience. Enjoy and learn (and mostly learn).

• Set work hours like any other job.

Just because you might not get up, dress up, and go to a place to do your job doesn’t mean you’re not at work. Believe me; it’s all too easy to get caught up in doing things besides work during the “working hours.”  It’s even more difficult if you office at home. Distractions start by doing the lawn during your “lunch” and the laundry on your “break.”  Eventually that turns into your spouse or partner asking, “Well, since you’re home why you can’t just…”

Be clear about your work time, and make sure people around you are equally clear.

• Separate work time from play time.

You’d do this at your regular job, wouldn’t you? Just because you’re not in an office doesn’t mean you can spend time on your favorite social networking site, or playing games because there’s no boss there to tell you not to. You have to be the boss. Keep yourself in line.

• Avoid the email trap.

What did we do before email? Really. Because sometimes I’d like to go back to those days. I get so much email that my little indicator just keeps going and going. Email used to be thought of as a useful productivity tool, but now it’s often a trap that can be the biggest single time killer in our day. Avoid the trap by checking your email only at specific times during the day. Checking once in the morning and once right before the end of the day would be good.

Run your online marketing business like a regular business, and with some discipline and hard work you’ll be reaping the rewards.