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You have heard the various sagas of how we are teaching our children to read. Our enlightened colleagues with the various letters are their names have come up a variety of alternatives to learning basic phonics. Yet we see a decline in the reading ability of our high school graduates.

I was recently introduced to an excellent video on the “new” math being taught in some of our public schools. M.J. McDermott, a meteorologist, does an excellent job of comparing some of the new with the old.

Make sure you entrepreneur understand math basics!

I have been learning lots over the last several months and have much to share.

However, I watch a couple of key Internet Marketers. One is Brad Fallon. He is an SEO expert and has a successful membership site. Brad is also an entrepreneur and just came out with a new website and I recommed you go check it out:

MyIQMall
This is a very interesting concept and has the potential to be huge but BEST OF ALL….

IT IS FREE!!

This is going to be a great affiliate marketing tool!
It is a great way for exposure for your product and find free info.

It will just take a few minutes of your time to set up an account and get started.
(I think I need to work in a video on this…:o)….)

Go get out MyIQMall.com now and I’ll give you more info later,

Wanting you to succeed,

Linda

PS You can see my profile at:http://www.freeiq.com/lindajoseph

Thinking like an entrepreneur is not an easy thing to do. Most of us have been raised in traditional institutions and are trained at being good employees.

The current public and private schools do an a reasonable job of performing this task. If your goal is to be a good employee, then you are probably on the right track.

If you goal is to think outside the box then you need to expose yourself to others who are not blinded by the box. I understand it is not an easy thing to take on. There are days every bone in my body is screaming, “Get back in the box! It is safe in the box.”

I will make the first step easy. Go to the library and check out a copy of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki and read it this week.

Wanting you to succeed,
Linda

Classes for would-be entrepreneurs are a hot trend at America’s universities. But can risk taking and originality be learned?

By Patricia B. Gray, FORTUNE Small Business, with additional reporting by Anne Field

March 10, 2006: 11:47 AM EST

NEW YORK (FORTUNE Small Business) - At 21, Diana Reed has already reached the pinnacle of one career. A senior at the University of Iowa, she is the Hawkeye Golden Girl, one of the top twirlers in the Big Ten. Every Saturday during football season, she strutted down the 50-yard line in sequins and Spandex, flinging her baton into the sky before a stadium jammed with tens of thousands of howling football fans.

Besides four hours of baton practice a day, Reed runs Diana’s Golden Twirlers, a for-profit school she started freshman year. One of her squads recently won the state twirling championship. A dual major in dance and business, Reed credits the four classes on entrepreneurship that she has taken at Iowa.

The new campus craze

The number of U.S. universities offering entrepreneurship classes has increased dramatically.

1985 300

1991 1,000

2005 1,992

Source: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

“I learned how to think about twirling as a market, not just a sport,” she says. “My career as a competitive twirler may be coming to an end, but I can see there’s almost unlimited potential in the twirling market.”

Diana Reed has caught an entrepreneurial fever that is sweeping the nation’s campuses, as students jam into classes to learn how to launch, finance, and run their own companies.

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RESEARCHER - . Use your talent to provide research data, technical details and background information for clients who need this type of work. You could provide library research and Internet research. Charge by the hour, page or a flat fee for your efforts.

Word Processing Services: Learning to type quickly and accurately is a skill every student should learn. However, not everyone is proficient in this skill and would love to have someone type their information for them. Decide whether you would like to type from hand written pages or audio. I see a need for transcribing from audio.

This is a great service to offer. You could offer to take their audio and provide a transcription. Most services charge by the word. You could charge by the page. You could have a basic rate for transcribing and then additional charges for editing. (You could even have different editing categories. You could offer a rough edit and a fine edit. You need to make sure you have the skills to offer different types of services.) You could charge extra for rush jobs.

There are many Internet Marketers who do numerous teleseminars and use transcibers to put the call into a document.
There are authors who are good at speaking their material and could use someone to take their recordings and turn them into a document.

Do a search on transcription services and see what the most services are charging. Is there anything you could do which would make your services unique and more desirable?

PS If you develop this skill and need work, please let me know.

Short Business Idea:
MINIATURE GARDENS. Create various types of container gardens for different needs. You could specialize in live plant container gardens for those in the hospital and as entertainment gifts. You could specialize in food producing plants for balconies, decks, and other confined areas. Include care instructions with each product.

If you understand computers, you can become a computer tutor.

You can go to a client’s home or office and instruct
them to use their equipment and operate their programs.
Advertise your consulting service to prospective buyers of
equipment and programs. Offer a line of shareware programs.

You could specialize in a particular area. There is a need for good spyware. Become an expert on different spyware programs and provide a review of the various products. You could offer to install and update their computers.

You could specialize in retrieving information from disks that crash. Business owners who have not properly backed up their data will pay quite a bit to retrieve their lost info. Then offer consulting on how to properly back up information.

Think about what you like to do.
What are you good at doing?
What do you enjoy doing?
How can you use that knowledge and enjoyment to help others?

Keep thinking differently, Linda

I have used Skype for a couple of years for calling friends outside my local calling area. They would install Skype and we could talk or “chat” over the Internet. I then started listening to a lot of teleseminars and their SkypeOut product was only $0.021/minute. This rate was better than my phone card rate of 2.5 cents/minute. (I scoured the Internet just to fin 2.5 cents/minute.) Skype had the best price.

I needed a phone line for my new business and decided to use SkypeIn. I could pick out my own number and would pay approximately $12/3 months for incoming phone service. (The phone company wants $20/month after a $60 installation fee. As a new business, I couldn’t afford that much. SkypeIn also provided voicemail support. Granted, I have to be at the computer if I want to take a call, but if I miss their call, I can easily call back. (Skype save the incoming number for me!)

Skype was bought by eBay and they are growing by leaps and bounds. They now offer free calling to landlines until the end of the year. This is a fantastic deal! You can call any landline in the US for free! Think of the friends and family you can call. Think of the free teleseminars you can listen to for free!

Don’t wait, sign up for Skype now.

Linda
PS I even made a video to show you how simple it is!
PSS Skype also has every accessory you need for using the Internet phone service!

If you want to encourage your entrepreneur, you need to encourage creativity. You also need to be willing to hang on to odds and ends that most normal people would have pitched long ago.

We recently took a family field trip to the Higgins Armory. (If you are ever in the Northeast and are interested in the Middle Ages they have an extensive collection of amor and weapons from the Middle Ages. On the first and third Saturdays of the month they also provide various demonstrations.)

Weaponry of any type is of intense interest to my twelve year old son. He found the exhibits quite interesting but what he loved was the demonstrations. Can you imagine the excitement of seeing two knights in amour battling with swords and knives? Can you imagine the focus while watching the various attacks and counter moves with the long sword or the rapier? He also enjoyed watching the making of chain maille. They demonstrated how the wire was coiled and cut into ringlets and the special way to open the ring without stressing the metal.

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