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You want your home to sell, of course, for the highest possible price, and in the shortest amount of time. Here are a few good tips for making sure that happens, long BEFORE potential buyers visit your home.

First, make sure that your home’s curb appeal is at least as good, and preferably better than the other homes that are for sale in your area. Buyers often drive around in the neighborhoods they’re interested in, and if they see a home that looks great from the street, they’ll generally follow up with a phone call or visit. Make sure your home is one of those that catches home buyers’s eyes from the street.

If your home needs paint, carpet, a new roof, or any other relatively major repairs, do them BEFORE any buyers visit your house. Just telling people you intend to repair or replace something does no real good. They only see the old situation. Home buyers don’t visualize the new one, nor should they have to. Do the work before anyone comes to see your home.

Make sure you have all the information about your home that a potential buyer might want. That’s where a nicely printed, attractive flyer can prove invaluable. It covers all the pertinent information about the home itself and the financial details. Buyers can take the flyer home and use it to make their decision, even when you’re not around to answer their questions in person. Remember, buyers, especially first-timers, often need some help when it comes to buying homes. Provide them with all the help they need to make the purchase. Seek help from a mortgage broker with making a financial flyer that gives the buyers details like suggested down payment and monthly payments.

Taking care of these details well before any buyer visits your home can sell your home more quickly and for a higher price.

Copyright © 2006 Jeanette J. Fisher

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Many solopreneurs work in a team environment either with their client’s staff, or with subcontractors. Having spent over 20 years in a teaming environment before becoming a solopreneur 13 years ago, I know that during the course of any highly functioning team effort, the leadership and followership roles flow back and forth between the members.

An observer of such a team would see that at any moment, the person on the team who has either information, wisdom, or creativity to offer steps quietly forward to assume the leadership position. After she has delivered her knowledge to the group, she then steps quietly back into the role of a follower, as the next person slips into the leadership position. This ebb and flow of leadership and followership is one of the hallmarks of a highly-functioning and productive team.

“So you did this just because all your friends did it?
If all your friends laid down on the tracks
in front of a train, I suppose you would too?
Do you want to be a follower all your life?” — Your Mother

You Mother was right. To be effective in today’s teams, you can’t be a follower all your life. You need to step out into the glare of the lights and assume the leadership mantle, contributing your unique specialness, knowledge, and creativity to the group. In this way, the work product of the team is strengthened.

This leadership role is not granted you by title or position. Instead, you take on the role voluntarily. And your team members grant you the role because of your expertise, credibility, reputation, or influence. In other words, it is a temporary role on the team that you earn over time.

To be effective in this type of leadership role, you must first secure the respect of your team members in at least one of the following three areas:

1. Knowledge. You must have respected expertise and proven judgement in areas relevant to the team’s goals.

2. People Skills. You must care about your team members and value the team’s goals.

3. Performance. You must show that you are willing to take on tasks and activities that actually help the team meet their goals.

To build respect and credibility in either of these three areas, you must first be a terrific follower. Not the type of follower your Mother railed against. But the type of follower who is committed to helping the team reach their goals. A follower who contributes focus and influence to getting the work product delivered to the required standards of quality and timing. A follower with a courageous conscience and controlled ego. A follower with the ability to think creatively and critically, who is self-motivated, proactive and self-disciplined.

This week, monitor your role on the team’s of which you are a member. Are you shifting smoothly in and out of the roles of leadership and follwership as appropriate to you and the team? Or are you failing to step into the leadership role when appropriate? Or failing to step back and contribute in the role of a follower? What could you change about how you shift between these roles to better contribute to the team?

Copyright 2004, Rose Hill, Inc

Rose Hill, Founder and Owner,of Biz Whiz Expert (http://www.SoloBizVille.com) and Team Member of Solo-E.Com (http://www.Solo-E.Com) has been self-employed since 1990. Knowing how to run corporate departments and how to market corporate entities, products, and services did nothing to prepare her for successfully running and marketing a one-person business. That is why Rose created the SoloBizVille and SoloBizU community to specifically to help solo entrepreneurs jumpstart their business success without all the trial-and-error learning.

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Imagine a world where everyone tells it like it is. Rather than
as it isn’t. Imagine a world where you could not get rich
overnight but you could become wealthy over time. Imagine a
world where your financial rewards were directly related to how
hard you work. Imagine a world where ethical business practices
were rewarded by loyal customers and repeat business. Imagine a
world where reality was not something that killed a deal but
made it. Imagine a world where the charlatan was seen for what
he is and not as someone who has the magic power to release us
from the tyranny of effort. Imagine.

Those of us earning a living on the Internet recognize its true
potential. We also recognize the damage caused by those who
perpetuate the fantasy of another kind of WWW. Wealth Without
Work. It just doesn’t exist.

If you want to make serious money on the Internet then, with a
few exceptions, you really need to be involved in network
marketing. Many of you reading this article are already involved
in one or more network marketing programs. One of the most
important objectives (along with selling your product at the
retail level) is introducing new people to the business aspects
of the program in the hope that they will join your network (or
downline) of distributors. If they do so, you earn a commission
on their sales.

Imagine what would happen if you told it like it is rather than
your usual hyped-up promises that you know deep down where it
counts are only going to fall flat. Imagine what would happen if
you told your prospects that it was probably going to take them
a solid six months of work before they even started making money
with your program. Nine out of ten would move on, right? Maybe
nine point nine would move on. Good! Good? Yes, good! Why do you
want to waste your time and effort on the nine who are not
prepared to do what it takes to make a success of your program?
You don’t become wealthy by having a lot of people in your
downline. You become wealthy by having productive people in your
downline. One productive person will always be MUCH more
valuable than ANY number of people who never do anything with
the opportunity before them.

So why not spend your time and effort weeding out the
tire-kickers? Make people have to QUALIFY for your attention.
Force them to make an investment in your opportunity BEFORE you
make an investment in them. Protect yourself from people who
would only waste your time. How? Your first line of defense is a
good gut- check. When people respond to your ad for more
information, read the literature you make available and say,
“Sign Me Up!”, qualify them for admission. No, it is NOT enough
that they fog a mirror. Remember, you don’t get rewarded merely
for the number of people in your downline. You get rewarded for
developing and nurturing a hard-working, PRODUCTIVE downline.

So, prequalify your prospects by asking them the three tough
questions:

1. Why does this program appeal to you in particular? The
correct response is that they love the product! The

best network marketers are products of the product. If someone
wants to join your program without having a clue about the
product, that’s *your* first clue that this person is not going
to be worth your time and attention. Personally, I would not be
prepared to work with someone who was not at least as passionate
about the product as I am.

2. How much do you want to earn from this business?

Some people may only be looking to supplement their existing
income by a few hundred dollars a month. Others are looking to
quit their jobs and become wealthy. Either (and anything in
between) is a perfectly acceptable response. There is no right
or wrong answer to this question. Its utility only becomes
apparent when we get to question number 3.

3. How much time do you want to devote to this business?

Now, someone who wants to become wealthy and thinks he only has
to devote five hours a week is someone who needs a reality
check. Give it to him! On the other hand, someone prepared to
devote 20, 30 or 40 hours a week has a better grip on reality.
So does someone who only wants to spend five hours a week and
make a couple of hundred dollars a month. What you’re looking
for here is some sort of parity in expectations between income
earned and time and effort invested.

By employing this formula and declining to deal with people who
don’t meet your strict criteria, your downline is going to grow
much more slowly than many of your colleagues’. But this race is
not to the swift. The foundation you are laying for your
business will be so much stronger for hand- picking every single
brick that makes up your foundation.

You will be investing your limited time in productive people who
truly understand the program and what it takes to succeed. By
training these people to approach their business as you approach
yours, they too will be investing their time and attention in a
productive downline and their and your income will grow
exponentially. Far, far better to invest 100% of your time and
effort in a downline of 5 productive people than 500
unproductive people.

Let me finish with a real-life example - Bill Britt of Amway.
When asked his secret of success, he replied: “There is no
secret. I simply showed the plan to 1200 people. 900 said, ‘No.’
and only 300 signed up. Out of those 300, only 85 did anything
at all. Out of those 85 only 35 were serious, and out of those
35, 11 made me a millionaire.”