7 Steps to Become an Authority in your Industry

Becoming an authority in your industry can be a great way to promote your business and help you better serve your clients. It takes a consistent dose of education and risk, but the rewards can be well worth the effort.

Why? Becoming a go-to person for industry leadership should incentivize potential clients to seek out your wealth of knowledge. The bottom line is that authority can lead to profitability.
Here are seven steps that can allow anyone to develop a reputation as an industry leader:
1. Think like a leader. For entrepreneurs, this might go without saying, but your life and business will change the moment you begin to think like a leader. Leaders aren't focused on trying to maintain the status quo. They're focused on doing what must be done to ensure growth and profitability in the future, which is not an easy road to take.


2. Innovate. New things get noticed. This means you can't be afraid to present something new to your market, even if it's just a variation or an addition to an already-existing product or service. Simply innovating doesn't guarantee success, but you'll learn far more from the risks you take than by maintaining the status quo.

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3. Keep the lines of communication open. Your clients are critical to your business. Don't lose touch with who they are and why they've chosen to do business with you. That means call or send a friendly email every couple weeks to stay in contact. This also means you keep up with key employees who interact with your clients on a day-to-day basis. The moment you lose touch with your market, you're done.
4. Publicly address industry changes. Every industry has changes that affect the way business is done. Strive to address these changes through an online platform such as a company blog. Detail your opinion, along with tangible ways to make the most of it. This can allow you to be seen as an industry leader and potentially increase traffic to your site as people begin to search out information and answers about these changes.
5. Respect your time. Being an authority doesn't mean you must solve everyone's problems. Your main responsibility is to continue growing, innovating and sharing your knowledge. Don't allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say "no" more often. Yes, you want to assist people, but not at the expense of losing your edge or slowing down your innovation.
6. Develop your intuition. The most successful leaders I know have learned to "trust their gut." But this doesn't happen overnight. It takes practice to learn when it's your gut talking or when it's just fear or pride. Your business life requires you to make difficult decision and sacrifices. Just remember that your intuition should get a vote, too. It's not always about numbers and statistics.
7. Keep learning. Industry leaders are students of their craft. Study the great success and failures of your industry. Also learn from people outside of your industry to see which principles are transferable to what you're doing. I know the phrase "never stop learning" is nothing new, but are you really practicing it?


Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/225225#ixzz2PW8whHcS

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Control who can see when you’re online by opening the Facebook chat box, clicking the settings icon and choosing Limit Availability. Select ‘Make me unavailable to’ from the drop down menu and tick the Acquaintances, Close Friends and / or Limited Profile options. Or just deselect ‘Available to chat’.



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John McAfee, Software Pioneer, Is Arrested in Guatemala

By ELISABETH MALKIN

Published: December 5, 2012

 

MEXICO CITY — The antivirus software pioneer John McAfee was arrested in Guatemala City on Wednesday after he slipped over the border from his home in Belize where police want to question him in their investigation of the murder of his neighbor.

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John McAfee spoke during an interview in Guatemala City on Wednesday.

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The interior minister, Mauricio Lopez Bonilla, told The Associated Press that Mr. McAfee, 67, had been arrested on charges of entering Guatemala illegally. He said that Mr. McAfee had been arrested at a hotel in the capital and taken to a detention center for migrants who are in the nation illegally.

Mr. McAfee had been on the run for almost a month since his neighbor, Gregory Faull, on the Belizean island of Ambergris Caye was found dead at his home on Nov. 11. Police there cited Mr. McAfee as a “person of interest” in their investigation, but Mr. McAfee disapppeared.

But he did not disappear from the Internet. He kept up a continuous stream of comment on his blog and on Twitter, accusing the Belizean authorities of persecuting him.

On Tuesday, he resurfaced in Guatemala, dressed in a suit, his blond curls dyed dark brown.

Accompanied by his 20-year-old Belizean girlfriend, Samantha Venagas, and his Guatemalan lawyer, Telésforo Guerra, Mr. McAfee said that he would seek political asylum in Guatemala. Mr. Guerra, a former Guatemalan attorney general, told reporters at a chaotic news conference outside the Supreme Court that his client was being persecuted because he refused to pay Belizean authorities off any longer.

Mr. McAfee has not been associated with the software company that bears his name since 1994, when he sold it and began to pursue his other interests. He ran a yoga retreat and then built a complex in New Mexico to indulge his hobby of flying motorized ultralight airplanes.

He moved to Belize about four years ago, buying properties on the mainland and on Ambergris Caye. It was there that he clashed with Mr. Faull, who complained about the unleashed dogs that Mr. McAfee kept on his property.

On Nov. 9, several of the dogs were found dead. They had been poisoned.

During his time in Belize, Mr. McAfee had apparently become interested in developing a designer drug called MDPV. He posted extensively about his experiments on a Web site.

But he attracted the attention of Belizean authorities, who raided one of his properties in April. He spent a night in jail, but law enforcement officials found no evidence that he was producing methamphetamine and dropped the charges.

After that experience, though, Mr. McAfee appeared to become increasingly convinced that he was being persecuted by the Belizean government. Officials deny that they are persecuting him.

Mr. Guerra told Guatemalan reporters late Wednesday that since there was no warrant for Mr. McAfee’s arrest and since his client was not a fugitive, he would seek to have his client released and returned to the hotel where he would remain under guard.

 

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A PRACTICICAL GUIDE ON 'HOW TO SELL SHOES' on ebay

A PRACTICICAL GUIDE ON 'HOW TO SELL SHOES' on ebay

This guide if for those who are interested in selling second hand or vintage shoes and want some handy tips. Some of the tips will apply to selling new shoes too.

1. The photograph you submit is your shop window. Some shoes and boots look better when modeled  others look great without, so experiment. Good lighting and a plain background really helps. You can get a good shot by putting on the shoes, lying down indoors and shooting your feet against a white ceiling!
2. Do make sure if you are having the shoes modeled that the feet are the right size for the shoes, CLEAN! and with a good pedicure. The sight of varicose veins and hard skin ain't gonna get buyers racing to buy your wares.
3. Make sure the shoes you are selling are clean and polished. A little silicone spray will give them an instant face lift. No one wants to see chewing gum or worse on the soles so take the trouble to clean them too.
4. Be honest in your description about the condition - used shoes for example often have marks on the heels which I like to call 'glitches'. 'Worn out' should mean 'have been worn outside' not ' completely knackered' so choose your terminology with care!
5. Re-heeling shoes can be very expensive so don't even bother listing an average pair if they need this doing, as the new owner isn't likely to want the expense (except for a pair of Jimmy Choose perhaps!)
6. List the manufacturer in the title. The name may not mean a thing to you, but people will be searching by label and will be prepared to pay several times more for a designer brand in good condition.
7. Don't forget to list the width measurement across the ball and the inside length too. Advise customers to measure a similar styled pair that fits them to determine the fit. Even so, you may wish to mention in your terms that you can't guarantee correct fit and think about your returns policy.
8. In photos, folk want to see the front view, a side view showing the profile and a shot of the heels (front and side can be in a single frame to save money on the listing).
9. Sticky price labels inside or on soles should be removed by peeling off slowly, or try putting a hairdryer on them to loosen the adhesive.
10. One way to brighten up shoes for the photo is to insert some colored tissue paper into the toes - it makes them look well cared for too. If the shoes are a bit shapeless, try putting shoe trees in overnight before photographing (remove before you take the shots).
11. Try and advertise the shoes as boxed. The shoe box need not be the original (state if it isn't though) and it will make the shoes look far better presented.
12. Wipe inside the shoes with an antiseptic  baby wipe or similar if you are concerned about hygiene and odors.
13. Give UK, EU and US sizing where possible.
14. Be aware of suspicious correspondence from people posing as would-be buyers but who are foot fetishist. They tend to ask for several shots of ladies high heels being modeled.
15. If the shoes have leather soles, do mention this in the ad - cheap shoes usually have synthetic soles so this can be a good indicator of quality.
16. Ladies court shoes look fabulous when modeled with seamed stockings. It's worth keeping a pair for the purpose.
17. Finally, when you have prepared your ad, take a look at the preview. Think 'would I buy these shoes, based on this ad?' If the answer is 'Yes, possibly' then you may be onto a winner

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