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NO, that’s not one of my secret dreams It’s an observation that you need to make. Years ago, I read Harvey MacKay’s fantastic best-seller, Beware The Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt. I really enjoyed the book and even sent Harvey a note. He sent me an autographed copy of his book “Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive.” It’s one of my most prized possessions - but back to the naked man…

When you surf the various websites offering advice and information products teaching you how to earn an online income, it becomes glaringly obvious that many people who created these products haven’t done what they teach! They are in effect, “naked men offering you their shirts.”

Anyone just starting out online can understand why this happens. If you put up a website on making money online, and you admit that you haven’t made any yet, people will realize that you have no useful advice to pass on. To avoid this consequence, beginners often “fake it, until they make it.”

One of the reasons many online marketers never “make it” in the first place is because they ARE following the advice of “naked men.” They are absorbing, believing, and then re-teaching the conventional wisdom so prevalently shared in the internet marketing arena. The consequence is that not only does the creator of the info product fail, but so do all of his mislead followers.

We have two problems within this situation. The first is, “How does a beginner establish himself as an expert if he has achieved no major online marketing success?” The answer is that he creates a product in an area that he IS an expert in or that he has very thoroughly researched.

The beginner can also very easily create a product by interviewing or partnering with someone possessing the knowledge or skills he lacks. I sort of touched upon this in another article I wrote entitled, “Don’t Pretend To Be An Expert, Become One.” That article is available on my website at:

http://williecrawford.com/articles.html

The second problem is in knowing who is genuine and who hasn’t really learned the ropes yet. My advice to many of my clients is to fully check out anyone before following their advice. Simply go to any major search engine and enter their domain or their name. Visit many, MANY of the sites that are listed as featuring something related to this so-called expert. This will give you a very good feel for who you are really dealing with.

If sites about them contain testimonials, contact some of the people providing the testimonial… especially if something doesn’t quite “feel right.” That’s right… I’m advising you to trust your instincts.

Another way to easily check out someone is by using a website called “The Way Back Machine.” This website visits sites scattered across the internet and takes a snapshot of them. So if someone tells you that they’ve been in business for 5 years and you see that their only website is barely a year old, run away very fast - and don’t look back!

The way back machine can be found at: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

If you enter my url, http://williecrawford.com in the search box, you will see that it offers snapshots of how sad this website looked beginning in 1998. Prior to that time, all of my websites were self-replicated websites offered by various affiliates programs, and websites built on free hosts such as FreeYellow, Angelfire, Hypermart, Webspawner, and about 30 others

To digress just a little, I purchased my own domain name when someone responded to one of my posts in Links Exchange Digest insisting that I would have a lot more credibility if I got my own domain name AND ditched the Hotmail account. I kept websites on free hosts for several more years, but finally started really listening. People were telling me that using a free hosting company… building and promoting their domain, was just bad business. When I listened and took their advice, that’s when things REALLY took off for me.

I’ve just pointed out to you a way to avoid the naked man look. If you are a beginner, get you own domain… one with a url that is easy to remember and that suggests what your business is all about. My domain name, WillieCrawford.com was a poor choice in many ways, but over the years it has developed a very strong brand. My second flag-ship domain, Chitterlings.com, was a better choice since it centered around “soul food” and the name was easy to remember to anyone familiar with that category of cooking.

Another way for beginners to avoid pretending to be something that you are not, and build online credibility, is simply to market other people’s products. If you want a higher than normal commission either approach them about joint ventures, or obtain reprint rights to in-demand products. Don’t waste your time and resources promoting products that there is no demand for. Many reprint rights that are offered for free are priced that way because the owner of the product couldn’t sell them

The benefit of obtaining products that are proven sellers through reprint rights is that you often get a tested website that will generate a steady income for you if you just drive traffic to it. It’s really easy, but again, you have to make sure that the product is one that is worth the effort. The criteria that I use and suggest you use is, ask yourself if you would purchase the product at the price you plan on offering it for. Also read the template website being offered and notice whether or not it gets you really pumped up. If not, look elsewhere.

I do recommend that you eventually develop your own product or service. However, that may take some time. In the interim you need to establish a professional business that’s built on quality and integrity. Avoid coming across as a fake or “naked man.” Also beware of those who have to fake it until they make it. You know and appreciate that we all had to start somewhere. Most of us could not afford to buy a huge, thriving web business, so we had to start from meager beginning. Just look at my websites in The Way Back Machine for proof of that

Copyright 2004 Willie Crawford

About The Author

Willie Crawford has been teaching others how to build an on-line business since late 1996. Frequently featured in radio, magazine and newspaper articles and interviews, Willie teaches the average guy what the top marketers are doing but seldom talking about. Willie provides detailed how to information in his newsletter, through his personal coaching, and at his annual how to workshop. Learn more at: http://InternetMarketingHowToWorkshop.com

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Just completed this for the December Noni Pearls Magazine, thought I would share it with all of you. Hope you enjoy it.

Avoid the most common mistakes

Here are the 10 most common mistakes that networkers make. These mistakes are often ones of attitude, missed judgment calls, or misinformation.

Common mistake in network marketing -#1

Inflated Earnings Expectations

There are many millionaires in the Network Marketing Industry. There are also many millionaires in the NBA as well, but how many schoolyard ballplayers make it to the NBA? VERY FEW! This is the case in Network Marketing and those who become millionaires as well. While a large number home based business owners earn a great part-time income. The average individual spends more time dreaming about what they are going to do, or spends their time in fruitless activity. Realistic expectations for the average part-timer should be an extra $400-$500 per month. Don’t sell anyone else the millionaire line. It may happen, but it simply is not the average.

Common mistake in network marketing -#2

Go For the Product, Not the Plan

I hear it nearly every day. Just last night I received an unsolicited call. The conversation went something like this: …”Hello, I understand you want to start a home based business and make boat loads of money”……I stopped her at this point and asked her if she has used that introduction very long. She said, “oh yes, I have been doing this for years now!” So I asked her how effective she was in calling phone numbers with that opener. She said, “I make lots and lots of money”. Our conversation went on for about 10 minutes with her telling me how much money she was making and how easy it was to make “boat loads” of money. Ten minutes into our conversation, she had yet to reveal what it was she was representing–what was it she was selling to make BOAT LOADS of money with? This should be one of the first things you speak about.

It was at this point in time I informed her that I currently had a home based business and was not looking to enter into another business. “Could we please speak business to business here as I am not a prospect”. She stammered a little bit but politely agreed. As it turns out, she simply copies pages out of the phone book and calls each name one at a time. She has been doing this for a year with very little positive results, and is struggling tremendously to earn more than $200 per month. You guessed it, I asked her if she would be interested in learning more about my company and the team benefits. In the end, I mailed her a copy of the current magazine and some additional literature. She was excited to hear that we work with our team members one on one coaching and mentoring. She stated that the person who signed her up has never spoken or responded to communication in more than 3 years. This is just sad and pathetic.

Too often, the temptation is to speak with our recruits or prospects about the “money” which can be earned. As a result, you may sign a few new people up who are looking only for the money…while this may work, you are missing one of the biggest, best and most effective sales tools…….YOUR PERSONAL TESTIMONIAL. How effective is a man, who has never cleaned, cooked, or used a vacuum cleaner in his life going to be at selling items to make these chores easier? It is much more simple to speak about the “business end” when your audience believes you because you believe in the products.

Of course, a fair compensation plan, which provides good incentives, is important. But in the long run it is the company’s quality products which people bond themselves to. The management and the vision make all the difference in the world.

Common mistake in network marketing -#3

Don’t Think Short Term

The Network marketing business is like any other worthwhile endeavor. Realistically, a distributor should not expect to see the real fruits of their labor until at least six months into their business. Those who have been truly successful have been at it a long time. Don’t expect it overnight and never quit working towards the goal.

Common mistake in network marketing -#4

It’s Not Easy Money

We have heard it a million times, we may have even believed it a time or two. This is one of the things I hate most about the industry. People seem to think that the pitch should be “easy money”, you don’t have to work, you don’t have to sell, you just make a list, sign a few people up and they do all the work for you! Sound familiar? Still waiting for the pigs to fly into your mailbox delivering great big checks?

Experienced Network Markers will tell you that it is not an easy money game. It is not merely a recruiting game. Distributors who are successful know their product, know their customers, know the company’s vision, and are prepared to do that which is necessary. HARD WORK. Look at the name Network Marketing.

Common mistake in network marketing -#5

“Free-Bee” Product - Forget About It

You get what you give and you take what you get! It’s not about offering something for nothing, it’s about adding value to what you have! I cannot stress this enough.

If you want to sit on a roller coaster of ups and downs. Downs being the money you spend for a freebee or a gimme product, the Ups being the instant traffic or interest you have while someone walks up to you…. with their hand out for your freebee. You will generate a great deal of Interest only in the trinket, but not what it is you have to say! Once they have what they want, they will never look back. You want activity, likewise, you also want FRUITFUL activity. If you must offer something for free, associate a value with it that benefits the individual. We offer a $25 Gift Certificate for all new Case Autoship Qualified Distributors. They in turn may use this with the company on a future purchase. Why do we do this? Because the chances of them trying another product from the company is high–we know the quality is second to none and feel that the additional exposure will show them the true value of other products.

Common mistake in network marketing -#6

Don’t Ignore the Company Track Record

A distributor who is looking to increase their odds of becoming successful is looking for a company with a good, strong, firm, and consistent track record. A track record demonstrates quality of management and products. This is very important for those who are genuinely “business builders”.

Common mistake in network marketing -#7

Run –Don’t walk!

You should avoid a company who requires you to carry large investments of inventory. The monthly minimum should be what you can realistically use in a single month. Autoship programs for both customers and distributors, represents a far more fair and long-term approach than large front load requirements.

Common mistake in network marketing -#8

Look for Products with Profit Margins

There are many Network companies in the world today. A great deal of them offer very low if any profit margin return. As a business builder, you know that Network marketing isn’t for everyone. However if you have a good product, the product can be sold to everyone, you have a good thing going. Far too often distributors concentrate on the compensation plan and earnings hype then spending time looking at the profitability of the products or services offered by a company. A company with an exclusive product, these companies, can justify a higher profit, which means the ability to pay commissions in the long term from the sale of the products.

Historically, this is why the largest and most successful Network Marketing companies have had, as their mainstay, consumable products that are proprietary. These products are unique to the company, allowing for sufficient profit to pay commissions. If the products are available in every shopping club, grocery store or nutrition store, chances are, that is where the public will make their purchase.

Common mistake in network marketing -#9

Don’t be a junkie or a ping-pong

Very few distributors in the industry have developed the ability to work multiple programs effectively. These types of distributors are few and far between. As the average distributor is part-time to begin with, you should carefully pick a company and stick with it. History favors the long-term committed distributor rather than the next-opportunity-junkie who hops from opportunity to opportunity. Focus and energy is hard to maintain with one company and its products, let alone several. Splitting your time and energy with several companies will most likely end with limited or paled results. Focus in on yourself, your goals, and your desires in one direction.

Common mistake in network marketing -#10

Turn off the TELEVISION

Activity is the name of the game in network marketing. You must do more than complete the distributor application; call your friends and sit back waiting for the money to be rolling into your mailbox. Turn your television off and get proactive. Do you know how many hours you could find in a day if you simply were willing to turn the television off?

The most successful people in network marketing are the ones who are constantly recruiting, selling and calling upon the same prospective customers and recruits multiple times. Those who sit back and watch the television in all their spare time will have unfulfilled expectations.

For the full version of this article or others please visit http://www.nonipearls.com

This article is in the December issue in the Building your Business section. Can’t find the answer to what you are looking for? Join in the Community Forum, someone will come along and answer your questions for you.

About The Author

Noni Pearls Magazine© is an official publication of the Noni Pearls Team and is published four times per year (give or take a few articles each month). No reproduction, copies, or duplication of any kind may be made of this material without the express written permission of Noni Pearls. http://www.nonipearls.com

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The more you know about your customers, the better you’ll understand them. And the better you understand them, the better you’ll be able to sell to them.

One of the best ways to collect this information is by creating a quick online survey.

The data you collect from customer surveys can be invaluable to the operation of your business.

Survey results allow you to examine your marketing strategy and ask important questions like:

- Are you promoting the fact that you have a huge product range, when what your customers actually want is extended operating hours?

- Are you promoting your products as technically superior when what your customers really care about its ease-of-use?

- Are you heavily promoting cheap prices when what your customers are more concerned about is customer support?

If you take the time to ask, you’ll be surprised at how helpful your customers can be.

To begin with, the two key areas you want to explore are Demographics and Psychographics.

Demographics identify ‘Who is your customer?’, and
Psychographics asks ‘Why does your customer buy?’

When collecting demographic information, you’re trying to find out what the profile of your ideal customer is. When collecting psychographic information you’re trying to determine what motivates your ideal customer to buy.

Here is some of the information you’ll want to gather from your customers.

Demographic Questions

- Are they male or female?
- How old are they?
- Are they married, single or divorced?

- What is their average household income?

- Where do they spend the majority of their time online?
- What are their interests?

Psychographic Questions

Of the people who purchased your product or service…

- What do they think of your product or service?

- Why did they buy your product or service?
- What do they like about your product or service?

- What do they dislike about your product or service?
- How do they think you could improve your product or service?

Of the people who didn’t purchase your product or service…

- Why didn’t they buy from you?
- Do they feel you are overpriced? Underpriced?
- How did they say you could improve your offer?
- How do they think you could improve your product or service?

What’s the Best Time to Collect Customer Information?

The best time to collect this valuable customer information is at the time of purchase (or directly after). The other option is to offer some form of an incentive in exchange for filling out the survey.

What Sort of Incentive Should I Offer?

Remember, you’ll get a much better response to your email surveys if you offer something of value in exchange for their personal information.

This can be in the form of a:

- Free report

- Prize
- Discount off their next order
- Offer with a high perceived value

Adrian Mullan is the author of ‘The Internet Demystified’ and founder of WebDummy.com - a popular Internet marketing resource for small business owners.

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The most important letter in direct mail fundraising never asks for a gift. Ever.

The thank-you letters that you mail to donors have one goal: to thank your donors for their generosity and support. Yes, your gift acknowledgement letters, notes and cards strengthen relationships and build donor loyalty. And yes, if mailed soon enough and if worded sincerely enough, they do increase your chances of receiving more gifts. But these things are secondary benefits. The main benefit of a thank-you letter is that your donor knows that you are thankful. Because you said so.

So don’t ask for another gift in your thank-you letter. Ignore the consultants who say that the thank-you letter is the perfect place to solicit a second gift. It’s not. It’s the worst possible place. You haven’t earned the right to another gift when you haven’t even spent the first one yet. But there are better reasons to avoid this blunder.

Are you thankful . . . but?

Asking for money in a thank-you letter is like receiving an apology from someone who says, “I’m sorry . . . but.” I think you’ll agree with me that an apology followed by a “but” is no apology at all. Apologies should be unequivocal and absolute. “I was wrong. I’m sorry.” End of apology. No clauses, no excuses.

The same goes for your thank-you letters. They should say “thank you” and nothing more. Extending your thanks and extending your tin cup at the same time is plain rude. And bad for business.

In a study conducted by Penelope Burk and Cygnus Applied Research, Inc., 53% of individual donors surveyed said asking for another gift in the body of a thank-you letter is rude. Eight percent said they stop giving if this happens.

And yet 66% of individual donors say they have received requests for another gift within the body of thank-you letters. Thanks to disrespectful fundraisers, that is.

Let me put it this way. Do you want to be rude to over half of your donors? Of course not. So don’t say, “Thank you, but.” If you are going to say anything in addition to a sincere thank you, say this:

• say what you are doing with the donor’s gift
• praise them for their involvement
• tell them the difference their donation is making right now
• thank them for participating in your cause

You may be thinking that asking for another gift in the thank-you letter is cost effective because you don’t need to mail another appeal. You say thanks and solicit a gift with one stamp. I admit, you might raise more money that way. But you’d lose more donors.

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About the author
Alan Sharpe is a professional fundraising letter writer, instructor and mentor who helps non-profit organizations raise funds, build relationships and retain loyal donors using creative fundraising letters. Learn more about his services, view free sample fundraising letters, and sign up for free weekly tips like this at http://www.RaiserSharpe.com

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So what’s the most profitable internet marketing strategy you can apply to your business right now and start profiting from it for years to come?

It’s having your own responsive mailing list.

Here’s how it works:

You CAN start today by collecting the names and email addresses of people who’s interested in what you’re selling. And start selling it to them.

There is no doubt about it, owning a responsive mailing list is THE most profitable thing you can do online. It’s more profitable than …

Writing eBooks or reports.

Getting thousands of visitors to your site.

Having the hottest sales copy on the Internet.

Having a “top 1%” Alexa rating.

Being the smartest person on the planet.

It’s even more profitable that having an army of affiliates!

Or ANY other ONE thing that you can do online.

Having your own responsive mailing list means that you can make offers week after week for YEARS, and your list will faithfully buy what you recommend. Now THAT’S marketing power!

If that sounds good to you … keep reading.

The only way to reliably have a mailing list that is HIGHLY responsive is to build it yourself. The good news is that building a list of your own is actually VERY easy when you know how.

In fact, you probably have the seeds of a small list right now, even though you might not know it.

Let me be 100% clear. You do NOT need an advanced degree in marketing, need a big time “guru” reputation, have to spend thousands of dollars, or a huge mailing list.

All you need is to have something to say, and to learn HOW (and when) to say it in a way that gets subscribers to take action now!

To help you get started building your own profitable list here’s a few marketing tips that you can apply today:

You can work together with other site owners. The idea here is that you get traffic that I’ll never see, and I get traffic you’ll never see. So, we make an agreement that allows us each to benefit from the other’s traffic.

The most common form of this is what is called a “thank you page private co-registration”. That’s a fancy way of saying that I’ll show your subscription form on the thank you page of my website, and you’ll show my subscription form on the thank you page of your site.

The thank you pages involved here can be found in a variety of places. Each one has the common denominator that they are viewed after a visitor takes action. This is good, because studies show that visitors who take one action are likely to take another action.

Here are some common thank you pages where you can place your subscription form:

After a sale is made.

After someone subscribes to an ezine.

After they download a free gift.

After they complete a survey.

The possibilities are endless, and this is one of the most underused marketing methods around.

So if you can find a site that compliments your site, these arrangements can be a powerful list building method.

About The Author

Houa Yang

YES YOU CAN build a powerful mailing list! Having your own mailing list is THE most profitable thing you can do online. Don’t put it off … begin building your list today. It’s easy! Just visit: http://www.email-marketing-strategy.com.

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1. Find someone in your target market that either publishes an ezine or has a website. Ask them if they would like to join your affiliate program and promote your offers in their ezine, or on their site. In return, you’ll give them the product at no charge, and if you have an ezine or website, offer to promote something for them. Remember to make it an irresistible offer for them!

2. Use your own visitors and subscribers. Give them something free that has some sort of small advertisement of yours on or in it. It doesn’t have to be a flashing sign. Just a subtle ad with your URL or subscribe email placed somewhere visible. By using this method you could have your little ad all over your entire market! It takes a snowflake to start a snowball! Your visitors and subscribers will be happy to get something for free, and they’ll be even happier that it doesn’t have ads ALL over it. DON’T get greedy. Give a little and get a lot! Find someone else in your market that does the same thing. Offer to give their “give aways” out if in return they give your “give aways” out.

3. If you can’t beat ‘em… Join ‘em! Round up several others in your market who you think there would be a mutual benefit to partner with. Have a “Joint Venture team”. Your team could pool your resources and beat the “big guys” in your market. Those in your “Joint Venture team” could cross promote each other’s products, services, and/or programs also!

4. Find 5, 10 or however many ezine publishers who are in your target market. Offer them all discounts to their subscribers on your offer. Give them your product for free also. Let them know that you are partnering with other ezine publishers for your discounted offer, and that you will give the ezine publisher who produces the most result a bonus. Just make sure your bonus is GOOD! Make it something unique and semi-personal. I’ve always thought when rewarding someone I do business with that I shouldn’t give them a “business gift”. Try giving a semi-personal personal gift. You may not really know that person, but there are sites online that will tell you the gifts women like and the gifts men like. Use those sites to find semi-personal gifts. (*Please note that this does say semi-personal. Business is business, so make sure your gift/bonus is appropriate.)

5. I saw a site the other day at: ThankYouAds.com This is a WONDERFUL idea. The basics of the concept are placing other people’s ads on your Thank You page. What a great time to send your customer off to your most trusted JV partner while the customer still has their credit card out! You’ll want to be careful when doing this though. Make sure you’ve already sold that customer all that you can before passing them to your Joint Venture partner.

6. Contests are a WONDERFUL way to market, and you can conduct them for any type of market. Contact an ezine publisher or website owner in your market. Offer to hold a contest giving away an item or items you are offering. In return for this, ask that they run your ad, or place your ad on their website. If it’s a really good contest, ask that they run your solo ad, or put your ad in a very prominent spot on their site. Another way to use contests is by doing a “contest swap”. Let them know you’ll promote their contest if they promote yours. If they don’t have one offer to come up with one for them. Explain the benefits behind having a contest. Offer to have one for them. Let them know you’ll donate the prize (it doesn’t have to be anything really expensive) if they would like, and show them how to set it up. This is relationship building at its best. The next time you approach that person with a JV they will trust you because you were willing to go out of your way to help them.

7. We all know that article writing is one of the best ways to market. You show people that you know something about the topic you are writing on, you are automatically giving them something (your article), and it’s a viral way of marketing. Your article could go all OVER the place. Online and offline. If you know an ezine publisher or website owner who publishes articles on your market topic, ask if they would like to swap articles. You promote their article, and they will in turn promote your article. The best thing about this idea is you can do it with many people, and you can do it over and over by writing new articles.

8. Another writing idea would be for you to write a column on your market and offer it to an ezine publisher or website owner. I would suggest that you write unique content for each ezine publisher or website owner if you are wanting them to advertise you or for you. I know ezine publishers and website owners would go for this idea because as an ezine owner and website owner, I am currently seeking several people to write original content for my many sites and ezines in exchange for free advertising.

9. Swap business cards with others in your market. Your hand out your joint venture partners business cards and they hand out yours. This is just like word of mouth advertising, which is the best kind around. Business cards are a wonderful way to put your advertisement in someone’s hands. Putting it in their hands in one of the keys to selling.

10. If publishing and ebook, you could offer part of your ebook for free. Offer one chapter to potential customers, so that they can “test” your ebook. Find other ebook publishers in your market and ask if they could do the same with their ebooks. If they agree you could advertiser their free chapter, and ask that they advertise your free chapter in return. This can also be done with membership sites. Offer a 3-day free trial. Find others in your market that offers memberships to their sites. You advertise their free trial, and ask that they advertise yours. What about software? Many people offer free trials for software. If you offer a free trial to your software, go to www.download.com. Search for software related to your market. When you find software that isn’t in competition with yours, but that would compliment the other person’s software, contact them and ask to do a JV where you promote their software and they promote yours! I’m sure you can think of a way to do this with your product or service.

11. Survey swap? You bet! Surveys are hot right now. Sometimes you have to offer your visitor or subscriber a little bit of an incentive to do it, but the information you will get is well worth it. Find others in your market that asks their visitors or subscribers to take surveys. Let them know that you also ask your visitors or subscribers to do take surveys. Ask if they would put a link to your survey on their site, and in return you could do the same thing. If you are asking for personal information on your survey be sure not to share that with the other website owner. If you do, make sure that it is noted in your privacy policy or you could lose visitors or subscribers!

About the Author

Liz Tomey has been involved in Direct Mail Advertising since 1998. She runs a network of over 25 sites related to Direct Mail Advertising. Her newest business http://www.TomeyMarketing.com is related to unorthodox advertising methods. She’s currently developing unorthodox advertising methods exclusively for online marketers. Her latest work is at: http://www.JointVentureSeeker.com Teaching marketers the POWER of joint ventures!

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Buying a car is not like buying a radio; you cannot return it to the store for a refund if you do not like it, or if it has a manufacturing defect. In fact, for many years, if you purchased an automobile that came from the factory with defects, you were just stuck. You could try to get the dealer to repair the problem, but if the problem continued and the dealer could not repair it, you were out of luck.

In 1982, the luck of owners of so-called “lemons” changed for the better, as California and Connecticut passed the nation’s first “lemon laws.”

These laws, spawned by consumers who had waged tireless battles against major auto companies, allowed owners of defective automobiles to seek compensation or replacement with the help of their respective states. These laws swept like wildfire throughout the country, and now all 50 states have some form of the lemon law.

The specifics of the lemon laws will vary from state to state, but in general, they define a “lemon” as a vehicle that:

Has a “nonconformity” that affects the safety, use, or value of the vehicle, and

The nonconformity has not been successfully repaired after a “reasonable” number of attempts, and/or

The vehicle has been out of service for a total of a certain number of days for repair of the nonconformity.

The length of the warranty period also varies; coverage typically runs anywhere from one year or 12,000 miles to two years or 24,000 miles. As previously stated, the specifics vary from state to state, particularly the number of repair attempts that constitute “reasonable” and the number of days that the vehicle must be out of service in order to qualify. In some states, repairs that affect the brakes or other safety equipment need only one repair attempt to qualify as “reasonable.”

Restitution is fairly consistent from state to state; it usually requires the manufacturer to either replace the vehicle with one of comparable value, or refund the purchase price, along with taxes, registration and delivery fees. Some states leave the option of replacement or refund to the manufacturer, but most give the option to the consumer.

What should you do if you think you have a lemon? You should:

Make sure that you document everything relating to repairs of the vehicle, including when and where it was repaired, who signed the work order and what work was done.

You should contact the manufacturer in writing, alerting them to the nature of the problem.

You should consult with your state’s Attorney General’s office to learn how your state’s law affects you directly.

You may have to go through an arbitration process; this involves both you and a representative of the manufacturer explaining your respective situations to a panel that will then provide a ruling. The arbitration ruling is usually binding on the manufacturer; they will have no recourse should the panel rule in your favor. Generally, if you don’t agree with the panel’s ruling, you still have the option of filing a lawsuit in court.

You may wish to hire an attorney to represent you; there are plenty of lawyers who specialize in lemon law cases, and they can probably bring the case to a solution more quickly than if you handle the case yourself. Be sure to contact your state’s Attorney General’s office regarding the specifics of your own state’s lemon law. You don’t want to miss a deadline, or you could be stuck with your lemon for a long time.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

©Copyright 2005 by Retro Marketing. Charles Essmeier is the owner of Retro Marketing. Retro Marketing, established in 1978, is a firm devoted to informational Websites, including http://www.LemonLawHelp.net

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You’re A Mathematical Genius, You Know!

(c) Copyright 2003 by Murdo Macleod

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This may come as a surprise to you.

But the truth is, you really are good at mathematics.

You see, every day you solve complex problems by breaking
them down into tiny little “baby steps”.

And just like the world’s most powerful computer or the
greatest ever mathematical prodigy, it’s this step-by-step
process that enables you to do practically anything.

Let’s see this process in action with a couple of examples:

* * * Example 1 - Calculating the Dreaded Sales Tax

The sales tax rate varies around the world, but here in the
UK it’s 17.5%. Urgh! What kind of figure is that?

Let’s look at it again and see how we can tame the beast by
breaking it down.

17.5

It consists of 10, plus 5 plus 2.5, doesn’t it?

And those numbers form a distinct sequence. In other
words… “10, plus half, plus half again”.

Now that we know this, we can do something really clever…

Suppose you want to calculate 17.5% of 40 UK pounds. How
would you work this out? (Stop! Don’t even think of
reaching for that calculator!)

Start with the 10. 10% of 40 is 4. Add half (2) and
half again (1) and you get 7.

So you proudly announce to your colleagues… “So by adding
17.5% sales tax to our £40 product, the total retail price
will be… £47.”

They look on amazed.

Let’s take another example and show how simple math really
is…

* * * Example 2 - Help your daughter with her homework.

You arrive home and your daughter needs some help with her
math assignment. It’s those darn fractions again.

She just can’t make sense of them.

“A half times a half is a quarter. So how, when you multiply
things together, can you have LESS than you started out
with!”

You explain that multiplication and division are two sides
of the same thing, and you make it “real world” for her with
a little analogy:

You get her to imagine a cake.

You remind her that “multiplying by half” is another way of
saying divide by 2. So she pictures herself halving the
cake, giving one piece half to her friend Jane, and keeping
the other half.

You daughter now has half a cake.

She multiplies her piece by a half (i.e. “divides it into
two again”) and she’s left with a quarter.

She goes off to bed happy, dreaming about birthday cake And
you get to watch the ball game on TV.

Again, it’s just a matter of simplifying.

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Real world math is not about mental agony, or learning
mechanical formulas that you follow mindlessly like a robot.

It’s about common sense, seeing how numbers really work, and
breaking things down.

You just need a little imagination. After all, that’s what
genius really is.

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Murdo Macleod is a reformed calculator user and co-author of
the ‘Fun With Figures’ mental math course. Come and see
what parents, students, home schoolers, business people, and
math phobics around the world are raving about:
http://FunWithFigures.com/
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Murdo Macleod is a software developer and co-author of the
‘Fun With Figures’ mental math course, which shows anyone of
any age or ability how to calculate quickly and easily.

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