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If you ever wanted to start your own business, here's the place to start. You'll learn: what business structure is best for your business; what's the ideal business to operate; taxes and tax deductions; sales training; marketing and self-promotion tactics I use to market my own books and businesses; PR and getting free publicity; speaking; interview training; and so much more. Most definitely, I know you'll find this section most valuable to your success in running your own business. I know I have ...
2.1 Small Business Development
  2.2 Making Money & Getting Paid From Your Clients
  2.3 Doing Great Business In Tough Times!
  2.4 Start Your Own "Rich Coach" Coaching Business
  2.5 Customer Correspondence & Contact Management
  2.6 Call-In Centers, Fulfillment & Order Taking Services
  2.7 Sales & Selling Tactics & Principles
  2.8 Marketing & Self-Promotion Tactics GALORE!!!
  2.9 Public Relations, Publicity & Interview Tactics
  2.10 Public Speaking, Seminar & Workshop Training Tips
  2.11 Business Structures, Tax Deductions & More
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  2.1.1 Let's Get You Started

When you need help starting your home-based business, look no further than my special reports!

The Ideal Business — Wow, can you imagine what that might be? Well, in simple terms, here it is!
Start Your Own Business — A few words of encouragement to help you with your new business!
101+ Home Based Business Ideas — Over 101 businesses you can start/work from home!
My Getting Started Checklist — What to do first when it comes to starting your own business?
My Quick-Start Business Plan — Organize "your thoughts" in "this order" for great success ...
5 Essential Ingredients — For a successful online business, here's what you need ...
25 Hidden Profit Killers — If you run your own business, you need to be aware of these!
Rent a Mail Box (Don't Rent a P.O. Box) — If you run your own business, rent a Mail Box; here's why!
My Banking Tips — Great banking tips and ideas for all small business owners ...
The Risks — When starting your own business ...

  2.1.2 Professional Skills Development 

Secrets Of Your Success — Excellent words of wisdom for you when starting your own business.
Before You Get StartedBusiness perspectives to ponder when starting your own business.
My Seminar Notes — How would you like to have access to my seminar notes from 50+ seminars?
Improve Your Telephone Skills — Simple, yet effective ways for improving your telephone skills ...
Avoid Being A Workaholic — Reduce your work load; relax and enjoy working for yourself ...

  2.1.3 Need Help With (Any Part Of) Your Business? Let's Find You Some!

Need help with your business so you can make more money? Would you like to help others for pay?

Find Help With Your Business Needs — Programmers, webmasters, logo designers, graphic artists ...
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When it comes to making money in today's economy, making money from your website, asking clients to pay you, invoicing clients for money, accepting and charging credit card payments from your clients, etc, it's vital you know A LOT about this area. Your bank account balance depends on it and so does the security of your financial future.

  2.2.1 Making Money ...

How Do You Make Money In Today's Economy? When it comes to making money, here's what you need to know ...
50+ Ways To Make Money With Your Website If you have a website, or want to build one, make sure you know every possible way you can make money from your own website!
How Much Money Can You Make Providing Business Services To Others? — Learn what skills you need to possess in order to earn x-amount of money working from home helping others all around the world ...

  2.2.2 Asking To Be Paid ...

Tutorial Learn How To Get Paid From Your Clients When it comes to getting paid, what do you say? How do you ask them?
Tutorial My Personal Income Processing Checklist If you own your own business, what are the ways you can get paid?
Tutorial Contracts Made Simple To ensure you get paid for the work you will perform for someone, it's best if you have a contract. Well, not to worry! Here's my Contracts Made Simple tutorial on how to write a contract. Read about it, and then download my templates to customize it for your use.
Tutorial Create Payment Links For Clients To Pay You When a client owes you money, send them a payment link to pay you ...
Tutorial Be Your Own Collection Agency — When clients don't pay you, here's how you can collect from them ...

  2.2.3 Credit Card Processing ...

Tutorial Accepting Credit Card Payments With Your Own Merchant Account — Learn what a Merchant Account is and how you can accept credit card payments from your clients and customers in person and from your website!
Tutorial Charging Credit Card Payments With Your Own Virtual Terminal — Learn how easy it is to charge credit card payments from your clients with your own Authorize.net online virtual terminal. Just watch my video tutorials!

  2.8.6 Testimonials & Referral Marketing

Tutorial Testimonials — How do you ask for them, and how do you place them on your blog or website?
Tutorial Referrals — How do you ask your clients for them, and turn them into more income for you?
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When business is slow, or the economy's got you down, you can still wind up "doing great business" even in "tough times" with my personal business and marketing tips and strategies ...

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DOING GREAT BUSINESS (OVERVIEW)
Bart Smith, TheMarketingMan.com
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THE CHALLENGE: "DOING BUSINES IN TOUGH TIMES!"
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CHANGE to Succeed!
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MEASURE to Succeed!
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TEST to Succeed!
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FOCUS to Succeed!
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Become "CLIENT-FOCUSED" to Succeed!
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Become "SERVICE-FOCUSED" to Succeed!
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TEAM-UP With Others to Succeed!
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INCREASE your INCOME with INCOME MARKETING TACTICS!
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CONCLUSION
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Rich Coach Broke Coach by Bart Smith & Mandy Pratt

Rich Coach Broke Coach by Bart Smith & Mandy PrattWhether you're just starting a coaching business, currently running a successful coaching business or simply want to learn more about coaching, coaching skills or how to start earning both passive and residual income as a coach on top of your active coaching income, then you've found the right book to help you do all that ... Rich Coach*Broke Coach ...

I co-wrote Rich Coach*Broke Coach with a friend of mine in the coaching industry with over 10 years of additional coaching experience to add to your "training" (as a coach) inside MyTrainingCenter.com.

It's easy to see how in depth this book goes. Out of 101 coaching tactics you need to learn, I provide you with 20 select excerpts for your reading enjoyment. Click on the links below to find out more about what's inside Rich Coach*Broke Coach ...

CLICK HERE TO START REVIEWING THIS BOOK

Rich Coach*Broke Coach will teach you key coaching concepts and coaching skills, the coaching business, marketing your coaching business and money-making tactics you need to master so you too can become a "Rich Coach!"

Sold separately, can also purchase the 350+page paperback book and/or 12-CD audio version through my eStore.

It's important to communicate with your clients, customers, vendors and suppliers with professionalism. Also, it's vital you keep a contact database on these same people/companies.

Tutorial Sample Business Letters — Need to write a letter to a prospect, customer, vendor or other person?
Tutorial Offline Contact Database — Manage your personal/business contacts with any of these software programs.
Tutorial Online Contact Database — Manage your business contacts online with Gmail like this ...
Tutorial Mailing Labels Have your mailing labels printed in bulk if you send out a lot of mailings.
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  2.6.1 Shipping First Class, Priority Mail, Bulk & Overnight Services

Tutorial Pay For & Print USPS Priority Mail + "Flat Rate" Shipping Labels Online — Conveniently pay for postage and print shipping labels without leaving your home/office using the United States Post Office's Click-N-Ship® postage and shipping method online. Doing this saves you a lot of time! No more waiting in line at the post office just to pay for postage when you have to mail one or more packages to your customers.
  Simply enter in the customers' mailing information, choose your shipping method, pay for postage and print your label. Affix and drop it off at the post office counter without waiting in line to drop it off. You can even arrange for the USPS to pick your packages up at your home/business location. Your time is valuable. Learn how this is done.
Tutorial Need Fulfillment Services?Do you have product you need fulfilled? Here's what to look for when you hire a fulfillment company to ship your products (i.e., books, workbooks, audio sets, DVD sets, etc.). Great information for speakers, authors, coaches and consultants.

  2.6.2 Recommended Resource Links Inside "My Rolodex" That May Help You!

Tutorial Need an Toll-Free 800/888/877#? — You can order your 800# number online within minutes, like I did!
Tutorial Order Shipping SuppliesNeed shipping supplies, like boxes, tape and labels?
Tutorial In-Bound Call Centers — Need a professional in-bound call center to take telephone orders for you?
Tutorial Fulfillment Service Companies — Need a company to stock, pick/pack and ship product orders for you?
Tutorial Overnight, Ground & Express Couriers — Need to track a package or schedule a pick up from UPS, FedEx or DHL?
Tutorial Check Postage Rates OnlineWow, what a time saver! It's nice to be precise!
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Do you sell for a living? Do you sell products/services online, offline or both? Then, you might benefit greatly from learning some (if not all) of my personal sales and selling principles. I wouldn't sell anything without them.

Tutorial My Personal Sales & Marketing Principles — These are my personal marketing strategies I live and work by!
Tutorial More Sales & Selling Concepts — When it comes to sales and selling, you should keep these in mind!
Tutorial Become A Celebrity — Make it one of “your marketing goals” to get known, popular, talked about.
Tutorial Come Up With A Gimmick — Help separate yourself from the growing crowd of competition out there!
Tutorial Why Do People Buy? — Yeah, why do people buy? There are lots of reasons. Appeal to them all!
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When comes to marketing your business online and offline, here are the marketing tactics I resort to in order to make sure the world knows about what it is I have to promote and sell.

  2.8.1 Marketing & Self-Promotion 101

Tutorial Build Your List — To make money, you have to build a list of prospects, clients & affiliates. Here's how!
Tutorial Top 10 Marketing Tactics — Here are my personal "Top 10" tactics for marketing your business!
Tutorial 21 Ways To Market Your Business — Here's my complete list of "21 Ways" to market your business!
Tutorial Daily/Weekly Marketing Checklists — Want more business than you can handle? Do these!
Tutorial Give Away FREE Information — One of the most powerful forms of marketing; check it out!
Tutorial 21 Ways To Spy On Your Competition — One way to boost your marketing effectiveness is to spy on your competition!
Tutorial 51 Ways To Market Your Website Address — Where can you market your website?
Tutorial Comprehensive Marketing Tactics   — Wow, you'll learn A LOT about marketing in this section!
Tutorial Consultant Marketing Tactics   — Want more business than you can handle? Live these tactics!
Tutorial Classified Headlines & Words That Sell  — Need help with a headline? Here are 700+ samples!

  2.8.2 Internet Marketing Tactics Galore

Tutorial YouTube.com Video Tutorials — Learn how to upload videos to YouTube for marketing exposure for what you sell.
Tutorial Article Submission Tactics — Learn how to submit articles to sites that accept your articles!
Tutorial Create Your Own Podcast — Learn how to start your own podcast so you reach the world with your message.
Tutorial Start Blogging With WordPress — Learn how to setup a blog so you can communicate with prospects/customers.

  My Networking Tactics by Bart Smith, TheMarketingMan.com2.8.3 Networking With Others & Trade Show Marketing Tactics

Tutorial My Networking Tactics — Get more business, leads and sales from my networking book!
Tutorial Social Networking Tutorials — Get set up on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more!
Tutorial Trade Show Marketing — Learn my trade show table display/setup tactical checklists!
Tutorial Plastic Display Holders — What kind should you have and how do you use them?
Tutorial Business Card "Marketing Tactics" — Marketing ideas to employ with a business card!

  2.8.4 Business Card, Flyer & Postcard "Layout Design" Tips

Tutorial Business Card "Layout Design" Tips — Hmm, how should you design your business card?
Tutorial Flyer "Layout Design" Tips — Here's a great way to layout words and images on a flyer.
Tutorial Postcard "Layout Design" Tips — Here's a great way to layout words and images on a postcard.

  2.8.5 More Marketing Tactics

Tutorial Tele-Seminar Marketing TacticsHere's how you can use tele-seminars to market you business!
Tutorial Webinar Marketing Tactics — What can you barter for in your business? Check it out!
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There's nothing like "free publicity" to kick-start your marketing campaign. But, if you're unfamiliar with how to go about getting publicity, getting interviews, being interviewed, writing press releases ... well, this is the section for you!

  2.9.1 Press Room & Press Release Tutorials

Tutorial Writing & Distributing A Press Release — Learn how to write and distribute a press release to get the word out about you!
Tutorial Creating a Website Press Room — Did you know you should have a press room on your website about you?
Tutorial Hire A Publicist/Publicity Company To Promote You — Here's how to hire a publicist or PR company to promote you!

  2.9.2 Interview Preparation Tutorials

Tutorial Interview Tactics — Prepare to be interviewed by the media! Here are "34 Killer Interview Tactics" ...
Tutorial 10 Ways To Improve Your Interview SkillsMy personal tips for improving your interview skills.
Tutorial Getting Interviews — When you're ready to start marketing, kick off your efforts with tons of interviews!
Tutorial How To Prepare For Interviews — There's a lot that goes into giving the perfect interview. Here's what you should know.
Tutorial Get Interviewed and/or Find Guests In The R.T.I.R. — Check out my Radio TV & Interview Report (R.T.I.R.) tutorial.
Tutorial Conduct A Radio Tour — How would you like to cover the country in a matter of hours on the radio?
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Do you speak for a living? Would you like to launch a speaking career? You'll find my personal tips for eliminating presentation nervousness, among my personal speaker tips and presentation tactics for delivering powerful presentations every time!

Tutorial Speaker Success Tips — Learn how to sell product in the back of the room, and lots more!
Tutorial Eliminate Presentation Nervousness — Learn how I overcome presentation nervousness when I speak ...
Tutorial Preparing "Fill-In-The-Blank" Handouts — If you want your seminar presentations to go smoothly and you want your audience to learn what you have to present, then prepare these highly interactive "fill-in-the-blank" worksheets!
Tutorial Seminar Checklist — If you want to put on a seminar, here's my checklist to ensure it's a success!
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If there's one area we can always learn more about it's in this section: taxes, business structures, etc.

Tutorial Business Structures — Learn about the different business structures, which you could choose to operate a business.
Tutorial Tax Deductions — Learn how legal, allowable business deductions can help you save money on your taxes.
Tutorial How To Pick A Good CPA — Learn how to pick a good CPA to help you file your taxes for you and your business.
Tutorial Independent Contractors — Here's what you need to know about being an independent contractor vs. an employee.
 
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