7 Top Tips for Using Job Search Websites

Finding a job online is not longer a luxury or something reserved for only a few lucky people who know how to find job opportunities on the Internet. Today, anyone can get quick access to a large variety of job listings on major job search websites such as Superjoblist.com or Monster.com. Such websites allow you to post resumes and apply to a job through online forms. Newsletters and email announcements that let you know of new jobs in the areas you are interested in are also available and should be used extensively to get the edge on new listings. In addition to the actual job listings, you may also find resources on how to secure a job and how to make your CV more attractive. Here are a few general tips that apply to all major job search websites – assimilate these ideas in your job hunt strategy and your chances of success will skyrocket.

1. Use online and offline social networking to get more resources on new jobs and to get recommendations.

2. Don’t rely on a single job hunting website and try to diversify your search. There are literally thousands of niche job sites that might give you a better chance than a huge general job searching website.

3. Job search engine websites are also an interesting option – they work similarly to Google or Yahoo, but they only display results closely related to job offers.

4. Local websites should also be included on your list, together with national job listing websites.

5. In addition to creating profiles on job websites, also check with your Chamber of Commerce and local newspaper listings.

6. Job banks are another resource that can land you your dream job. Search by keyword, location, career type or any other relevant criteria and narrow down the list to only the most relevant available jobs.

7. When applying for a job, you should try to personalize the message as much as possible, and show the employer that you actually took the time to read through their ad and to go through their company profile. A simple copy-paste cover letter won’t do much good, especially if it is very vague and general.

Finding your dream job is not as difficult as you might think. However, remember that you are not the only one hunting for a good job, so expect some tough competition. Success won’t necessarily happen after one or two job applications, but perseverance and a good baggage of skills will definitely put you on the right track.
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Selling your Business – Step by Step Process

So finally the time has come to sell the business. After investing years of your time and uncounted thousands of dollars, it has become successful, providing for your needs and wants, and it's time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Where do you start?

A good time to start thinking about selling a business is right after startup, when it shows signs of beginning to succeed and become self-sustaining. Even if you are planning on bequeathing it to your progeny or a partner, it's never too early to think about what will happen afterwards.

The first step is to take your time--selling a business is a complex process and you will only do it once. Confidentiality is a necessity at this point, as word of an impending sale can cause repercussions among employees and business partners (suppliers, customers, etc.) alike.

Your position in the business is also a point to consider. If you are the sole proprietor, the decision is yours alone. However, if you are a partner or board member, selling your part of the business will involve more considerations.

Finding a good broker is worth any amount of time needed to locate one you are comfortable with. Check the Better Business Bureau for any investigation history, and get referrals from fellow business owners or from industry associations like the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA). This is a non-profit "trade association of business brokers providing education, conferences, professional designations and networking opportunities" (IBBA), as well as professional certifications and boasts over 1300 members.

Next, a professional appraiser should be consulted, as just like selling a home, a professional appraisal will give a fair value to begin negotiations with. Keep in mind though, an appraisal is an estimate of the fair value of a business' hard assets, and the market value of the business may be higher or lower, as a business is only worth what someone else is willing to pay.

Determining major terms and price are issues that you are going to have to work out with your broker, but a few basic factors come into play: what do you want to get out of the sale? Continuing salary? Lump sum? Stock options? This is a step often overlooked until late in the negotiations, often to the detriment of the seller.

Financing the sale is usually about 90% left to the seller. If you can't or won't be willing to cover the costs of the sale, it may not be a good time to sell.

Once you and your broker have located a buyer and agreed on a price, a Letter of Intent is drafted. This letter outlines the terms and tentative price in a non-binding document and allows the buyer time to thoroughly investigate the business. This process is subject to Due Diligence, as the onus of discovery is placed upon the buyer and buyer's agent.

After the discovery process is completed to both parties' satisfaction, the Purchase Agreement is drafted. This set of paperwork creates a formal agreement between buyer and seller regarding purchase price, terms, and other legal details. Once the respective lawyers have finalized the details and complied with state law requirements regarding the sale, the Purchase Agreement is signed, closing documents finalized, and the sale is complete. If everything has gone well, it's time to breathe a sigh of relief and start planning what to do with all that free time!

About the Author:
William King is the director of All Wholesale UK, Wholesale Pages, Wholesale-Canada and Dropshipping Directory. He has 18 years of experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping retailers and startups with their product sourcing, promotion, marketing and supply chain requirements.

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Top 15 Tips To Promote Your Online Business

To make money on the internet you need an effective marketing plan.

So here is the best marketing tips that you must follow to make your website a powerful magnet for traffic and sales.

1) Banner Advertising

Although many marketers already know about the pay-per-click search engines, very few are purchasing guaranteed banner click-thru's that are available on hundred's of sites.

Look for sites that cater to your target market and look for, or ask for, their advertising rates. Slowly but surely most of the sites that sold banner impressions are starting to offer performance advertising in the form of pay-per-click.

2) Write articles

Writing Articles is an excellent way to promote your website and best of all you can get recognize as an internet business expert.

This is very easy to do, for people that don't know how to write real good yet look at other articles to get good ideals (Don't steal them). After you write a article insert a link to your site and there you go.

If you don't know what to write. Just write what you know best. You must have some knowledge or experience in one domain. Don't you ?

You can submit your article to ezine or article directory like : http://www.articlecity.com

3) Exchange links

Exchanging links is one of the best method for getting web site traffic and ranking higher with search engine When you start a site you should exchange many as possable links with sites that are RELATED to YOUR site. Search Engine's robots are eager to find new links and fresh information.

4) Mailing List

Having a mailing list can bring wonders to a web site, not only will it help bring old visitors back , but they will send the newsletter to their friends (If they like it).This is like gold for you. The only real purpose for a consumer website is to capture leads and to sell products. By leads I mean e-mail addresses.

You want to build up a customer list and then you want to work it repeatedly. Send out a monthly e-zine that offers FREE valuable information and mentions similar products they may be interested in. They may see something that a friend of theirs will want to buy from you.

5. Search Engine Optimization

It is no secret that search engines are the number one traffic generating method for driving visitors to web sites. Search engines are very useful in helping people find the relevant information they seek on the Internet. The major search engines develop and maintain their own gigantic database of web sites that can be searched by a user typing in a keyword or keyword phrase in the search box.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of studying the search engines in an effort to determine how to get your web site to rank high on user searches. Depending on the statistical information reviewed, search engines account for over 80% of the visitor traffic to web sites.

6. Pay-Per-Click

It is good to get traffic but it is even better to get sales. Pay-per-click advertising is a great way to pull targeted traffic. Could anything be better? In many cases, pay-per-SALE advertising is a better choice. With pay-per-clicks, you may or may not make sales.

With a pay-per-click program, there's very little or even NO risk. You only pay when you make sales. Affiliate programs and joint ventures are examples. Set up deals where you pay only for each sale.

7. Free online forum.

The forum can be on any topic that they are most interested in. One forum can be about "Online Business". Another forum can be about " Joint Ventures". When people join those forums, make sure that they need to come to your site first and log in from there, if they want to log on and post on the forum.

8. Give Something For FREE

FREE Ebooks or Software is a good way to bring on visitor and to keep them at your site Visitors like to receive free offers. Entice your visitors with freebies and have them coming back for more.

9. Postcard

Simple low-cost postcards have become a valuable internet business tool for modern marketers. They can produce a wave of traffic to your web site or a flood of high-quality sales leads.

10. Market Statistic

You can use features on your website such as visitor polls, online surveys and your website statistics to find out what your customers like more and how they feel about certain aspects of your business to determine how you can improve your product and the way you do business.

11. FREE Advertising

There is alot of FREE Advertising on the Internet. There is Classified Ads. FREE For All Pages (FFA), Ezine, Article Submission and Newsgroup of course and many more.

12 . Blogging

Blogs are a relatively new and popular way to publish content on the Internet. They allow the blogger to publish content veryquickly AND get feedback from the people that read it. Because they are new and content is created regularly, search engines love indexing them - and if search engines love them, you should too.

13. Real Syndicated Content

RSS marketing is a tool used by many on the Internet to deliver articles, advertisements, emails, customer support responses, ezines to clients and potential clients. It is also a good way to rank higher on search engines and traffic from different websites with RSS.

14. Press Releases

A press release is a public relations announcement issued to the news media and other targeted publications for the purpose of letting the public know of company developments.

You should write on news about your business. Don't make your release a sales letter. It will get banned.

Search engine adores press releases. They are food for them. A good press releases can bring thousand of free visitors to your website.

15. Offline Marketing

Put your website URL everywhere. On your car, t-shirt, mugs. Dont forget to leave your business cards whenever you go too.

Thats it folks. Have a good marketing day...
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Online Business Is Easy To Start

Many people have dreamed of getting online and using their home computer to earn a little extra cash. Surprisingly, this can easily be accomplished for many of us right in our own home, by starting up an online business. Now is the time for you to earn extra money using your home PC, and you don't even have to be at the computer to make money.

Want to jump into the online world? Start your own online business! Millions of people all around the globe are online at any given time, purchasing products from online stores--perhaps you're even doing that right now! The internet is a quick, easy, and convenient way to buy things; join in on the profits!

A successful website must revolve around a good business idea. There are perhaps millions of websites that are online trying to make money today. Different businesses have different purposes, some based in things such as crafts and art, while others cater to services. The sky is the limit, as long as you have a solid idea upon which to base your business you will find the internet a rich source for profit. However, it will take time and effort on your part!

When you've come up with a great idea for an online business, coming up with the actual website and domain name is easier than you'd think! Many different websites will build webpages for you, or you can use auction sites or other established websites to help start your business. Even if you are selling something obscure or rare, on the internet you will be able to make a profit. Businesses just have to make sure that their customers know who they are!

If you have a website or any other business what you need is to get people enticed to it, attract customers and viewers, that's what business marketing it's about, to get the attention of the people. That can be done in a very different ways, paying for advertising in other places or submitting your website to online search engines.

With enough initiative, effort, and ingenuity, you can start an online business and start making money on and off the computer! Many people have started successful businesses, selling a variety of things and services to the millions who surf online. You can have that success too! Start making money today, why wait? It could be your source of success, money, and fortune!

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8 Cheap Marketing Tactics For Your Business

The majority of small business owners rely on only 2-3 marketing strategies for pulling potential customers within their grasp. However, the fact is that "Caffeine Marketing" is about encompassing all possible marketing resources available and gaining a profit from it. Here are a few tactics for gaining more customers and referrals:

1) Referrals: The key to productive referral business is a proactive approach. You cannot sit back with a good image and expect that business will be driven in. Never assume that you current clients or customers will refer you. Ask them for a referral. Send out business gifts and thank you cards to current clients to help smack your companies name back in their mind. People will usually not accept something for free. Especially when they are satisfied customers they are 10x more likely to refer you for being so generous.

2) Writing: Industry experts are highly recognized and praised. Article writing and submitting those articles to the masses will help you get recognized in your industry, amongst your competitors as a threat, and increase awareness. The internet is filled with e-zines looking for material to send out to their paid subscribers and customers. I write at least 1-2 articles PER DAY and then take the next day to submit the articles I write to a list of e-zines that I am registered with. This marketing strategy alone has generated $5000 this month for my web design business. I know its challenging to think of something to write about. The easiest thing is to write about the business you're in. Share your expertise.

3) Newsletters: Some newsletters are nothing more than advertising so be sure to write about something that your subscribers care about. 90% of your newsletter should be about something important to the subscriber and only 10% should be your selling point. Sure, the 90% content rich portion can help lead to that close but never be over boisterious.

4) Cold Calling: I remember when I spent 3 months as a telemarketer raising funds for the Republican National Committee. That was the worst and scariest experience of my life. However, there are many people who actually love just opening up the White Pages and randomly calling people. A good way to turn cold calling into hot warm "Caffeine marketing" style calling is to define your businesses target market and categorize the people you plan on calling. Birds of a feather flock together and calling the right potential customers will dramatically increase your success.

5) Free Information: Give away as much possible information you can without giving the complete answer. Offer a newsletter or blog of information that links to your web site or has your businesses phone number.

6) Guarantee Your Business: Nothing is more promising than a guarantee. People associate their business ties with trust that has been built over the years and over experiences. Trying to get a potential customer to switch to your services or products can be tough. A guarantee can often sway them. Use your guarantee like you use your logo and tag line... everywhere.

7) Networking: People often join their local Chamber of Commerce in hopes of building good relationships with potential customers or clients. They end up bouncing from person to person like a human business card machine. "Thank you, come again" says Apu. No one will call you if you behave like this. You must cultivate and build a relationship through a meaningful connection when networking. Playing the lottery (handing out 100 business cards in hopes of one callback) does not work for most. One way I help detour this when having only a few seconds to chat (an elevator pitch for example) is to put a guarantee on my business card and a 10% off discount with the card.
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The Difference In Business Marketing and Sales

Marketing and sales are one of the most important components of a business’s survival in the market. Marketing involves designing a product according to the needs of the market and customers, promoting the product through advertising etc. and setting up a competitive price for the product. Marketing is a platform which drives sales. While on the other hand, the sales process is how to successfully sell a product and fetch a contract. Sales and marketing together is a part of selling and one cannot do without the other. They can also be called activities. The success of a business is critical to the success of these two important activities.

Marketing is the backbone of a company’s future and launching pad for the sales. While the marketing process encompasses the design of the product, advertising etc. the sales process is the execution of all the efforts which involves direct interaction with client, either by in-person meeting or cold calls or by networking. But there is always an ongoing rivalry between the two, one claiming dominancy over other. The marketing people say they have an upper hand because they think it is they who designs the products, lays down the strategy and also develops tools essential for sales. They say sales are the outcome of marketing and thus should follow its directions. The sales people might not agree to this view and may be completely opposite in their opinion. They think that it is the sales people who actually sells a product and bring money to the business.

But many experts believe that marketing should play a pivotal role among the two. A successful marketing campaign makes sales easy and makes people believe that it is actually the sales people who are the dominant leaders. The most important role of marketing department is to create opportunities for the sales department. Marketing drives sales and sales drives companies’ success. Marketing is like a life support for sales, one who is constantly backing up the sales department and enabling them to successfully deliver the end product. There shouldn’t be a race to gain supremacy over another department but a race to win the market and customers working together.

Many businesses combine sales and marketing together but in reality they have different targets. While the sales department is interested in fulfilling the requirements of what the customer asked for, the marketing department is actually busy studying what the market demands. The goal of the marketing department is to foresee how the market will shape up in future. They should envision their product catering to the needs of the market for next few years and be ready to make design changes in their product accordingly.

It is very important that a company integrates their sales and marketing department in a well fashioned manner. It is the correct integration of these two important entities that fuels the growth of a company. The sale people should not be merely treated as the cash collectors. Each department has its own role and should go hand in hand in selling the product of the company and should be the foremost important criteria.

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Protecting Your Identity While Job Hunting Online

By Heather Eager

If you’ve conducted online job searches, you know that in the application process you will have to provide some level of personal information to complete the preliminary screening process.
If you are a part of the growing club that feels incredibly uncomfortable giving out your personal information over the Internet, don’t let it slow you down. There are ways to conduct your online job search without exposing yourself to hackers and identity thieves.

Limit Personal Details on Your Resume

As you may know, many online job searches require that you submit your resume electronically so that employers can simply sort through them. In most cases, your resume probably lists your home address and phone number, along with an email address and any other personal details you decide to include. While disclosing this information makes you easier to contact, posting it on a website can leave you very vulnerable to predators of all kinds.
One way to avoid the danger of leaving too many personal details out there for whomever may be lurking on the other side of the computer, is to provide temporary contact information. For instance, you can rent a post office box just during the time of your search. Also, you can get a temporary cell-phone number and email address, both dedicated to the search. By listing this temporary information on your resume, or submitting it with an application, you can increase your privacy and lower your risk of identity theft.

Apply Directly to Employers

It’s not uncommon that, as a part of their online job search, people sign up with job banks that allow them to post their resume on the site. Many jobseekers take this route because of the benefits it offers, including allowing hiring managers and headhunters to locate them more easily.
The only problem with this type of job search is that it leaves your personal information just sitting out there for the world to see. For this reason, some experts suggest that instead of posting your resume on a job site that allows employers and headhunters to find you, you consider searching for jobs on your own and applying to them directly. This can be done by contacting the company and asking if there is a way to email the hiring manager directly for the position. That way, you don’t have to post your resume online – and you don’t have to worry about entering personal details through online forms that get sent who-knows-where.

Take Advantage of Privacy Features

Increasingly, job sites that allow you to post resumes provide privacy features that limit your exposure. By blocking contact information from the general search, you can make it possible for employers to reach you only through a confidential email address created on the site.
Since so many employers require electronic job-application submissions, it’s a good idea to figure out your submission options sooner rather than later. That way, you won’t miss out on any great opportunities because you feel nervous about spilling too many beans.

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Give Your Job Search More Direction

By ARA Content

Job hunting has evolved from searching the classifieds to browsing online job boards and career search engines. But before you get settled in front of your computer, you should ask yourself some important questions – then be prepared to go social.
Marc Scoleri, director of Career Services at The Art Institute of New York City, recommends doing a self-directed job search in conjunction with other search techniques.
A self-directed job search takes into account your personal preferences and businesses of interest. Realizing personal preferences and having a sense of self-awareness as it relates to your career is important when determining which companies to research.
In working with students attending Art Institute schools, Scoleri compiled the following inventory questions, which can help any jobseeker clarify objectives and plan a more focused job search:
• What industry is most interesting to you for a career? Why?
• What geographic location is most appealing?
• What duties do you enjoy doing most and least as they relate to your industry?
• What is the minimum pay you can survive on?
• What topics within your industry do you want to learn most about?
• What are some of the job titles that interest you?
• What position do you want three to five years from now?
• What personal goals can you achieve by obtaining a position in your chosen industry?
• What is your ideal work schedule?
• What employer-offered benefits are important to you?
• Whom can you contact within your industry of choice?
After you’ve answered all the questions, target companies based on your responses. Then contact managers within the departments of interest, even if they are not currently hiring.
"Personally, I’d prefer to interview someone who went out of his or her way to call me directly, over someone who found a posting on some stale job board," Scoleri says. This is where socializing begins and networks are developed.
LinkedIn.com has become one of the most respected online networking tools for professionals. Complete a profile on LinkedIn.com and you’ve taken an important step toward creating a powerful online network. It takes, on average, 65 contacts to create a network large enough to result in substantial and meaningful findings on LinkedIn, notes Victoria Snabon-Heath, career services director at The Art Institute of Tampa. She urges jobseekers to set themselves apart from the ordinary, dime-a-dozen applicants who inundate companies on a daily basis. "Go social. Begin utilizing virtual, social marketing techniques in addition to your online job search."
Snabon-Heath says it’s important that students, recent graduates and the unemployed extend themselves by joining and volunteering with professional organizations in their field of focus. Attend a monthly professional organization meeting, such as one of the local chapters of IEEE if engineering or technology is your profession.
"Students have participated in monthly social mixers in order to meet the hiring managers and directors who may be too busy during the workweek to respond to emails and phone calls from eager prospective hires," she says. "Put yourself out there. It’s who you know that can help get you in the door and what you know that keeps you there."


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Make Job Hunting Job One

By Scott Brown

Many facets of life require discipline: getting up every morning to go to work, paying your bills, putting gas in your car, and countless other things. However, many people consider looking for a new job as a hassle that can be addressed whenever the mood strikes them.
Many Americans today have an ‘it can wait’ attitude, and their career search suffers as a result. Finding a job, just like putting food on the table and keeping a roof over your head, requires discipline and extreme effort to accomplish.
People who join the military get a taste of discipline during boot camp and basic training. However, even those folks often lose a considerable amount of their discipline when they enter the civilian working world. If you have the discipline to work out every day or to get up and go to work, then you have the discipline to find a new job and find it quickly.

Look Everywhere

The discipline required to find a good job starts with looking diligently for the right employment opportunity. You have to look continuously, and when I say continuously, I mean during every free minute that you have.

Finding that perfect job means spending part of your lunch hour at the library doing research into the types of employers that are most likely to hire someone with your background and skill set. It also means spending a minimum of one hour a night surfing job boards. And that is just the beginning.
Once you have disciplined yourself enough to spend all your free time looking for new employment, you can begin to divide your job search time into specific tasks. One important aspect of looking for work is to make new contacts. One way to do this is by sending your resume to placement agencies that work with people in your industry and letting them know the type of position you are seeking.

Networking and Beyond

Never underestimate the power of networking: Nearly half of all jobseekers get their jobs through referrals. Begin by networking with your friends and family for ideas and inspirations. Then extend your network to include those acquaintances whose spouse might work for a good company, or that person you met at church who works for a company that might be hiring. No matter what the source, you need to take advantage of any contacts you may have.
Another element of a disciplined job search is looking at all possible sources for a job. This might include multiple job boards, several newspapers, and many different company websites. It never hurts to send a resume to a company that is not hiring, because they will generally keep your resume on file for six months or more.
Finally, it’s worth your time to browse the phone book and Internet, calling places where you might like to work. I have actually gotten a job while the market was terrible by blindly calling software companies to see if they needed help.

Stay Positive and Focused

Disciplining yourself to find that perfect job also includes maintaining a positive attitude – even in the face of rejection. I have sent out hundreds of resumes without a response, but continued sending out my resume until I landed a job.
Unfortunately, looking for a job is not like going to McDonalds. You can’t just pull up to the drive-through and select your new job from the super value menu. To make this meal truly satisfying, you have to start from scratch and follow the recipe (advice from experts) as closely as possible.
If you approach getting a new job or advancing your career as one of those events in life that require perseverance and discipline, you will succeed where others fail. If you are able to dedicate any and all free time to finding that perfect job, your efforts will be rewarded. So, put your nose to the grindstone and accept the fact that finding a new job is going to take a lot of work, extra effort, and your utmost discipline.

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More Graduates, More Job Seekers

By Ira Boudway


It's graduation time at colleges around the world, and the job market is a little more welcoming to 21-year-olds than it was in the depths of the recession. Still, graduates are struggling to find their place in the workforce, with high rates of unemployment and underemployment in the industrialized world. Here's a sampling.
U.S.

A survey by the National Association of Colleges & Employers found that 24.4 percent of 2010 college graduates who applied for a job have one waiting after graduation, up from 19.7 percent last year.
Japan

According to a joint survey by the labor and education ministries, the employment rate for students who graduated in March is 91.8 percent, a 3.9 percentage point drop from last year and the lowest rate since 2000, when 91.1 percent of graduates were able to find work.
China

The Human Resources & Social Security Ministry hopes to place 70 percent of the graduating class by July and aims to push that figure to 80 percent withinthe year. Last year 68 percent of the graduating class was placed by July 2009 and 87 percent within the year.
Great Britain

A survey of 16,000 students by High Fliers Research found that of the 55 percent of final year students who have already applied for positions, 15 percent have received offers so far, slightly above last year's rate.

Boudway is a reporter for Bloomberg News.

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