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In today’s SpeakerNetNews (which I recommend you subscribe to; it’s free): US readers: Reporting gifts and trades — Bill Hodges Many speakers get in trouble each year for failing to report trades for services. One speaker fell more than $100,000 in tax arrears because he failed to report the trades. A clothing manufacturer paid him [...]

Tags: bartering, Bill Hodges, gifts, reporting, trades

Resource for you: As a follow-up to Gini’s teleseminar on “Words That Fall Out of Your Keyboard:  Writing Naturally,” I wanted to make sure you had this list of places to submit your writing.  I based this on someting I got from Alicia Smith, someone I’ve taken many excellent teleseminars from, especially when I was first [...]

Tags: Alicia Smith, article submission, writing

Suggestion from a MEMc member: A while back Linda shared information about Susan Jeffers and her inspirational website.  I have signed up for her newsletter and really enjoy what she has to say.  This latest information is about an author, Robert Holden: Everyone Continues to Love Robert! As I reported to you in my May [...]

Tags: inspirational, quote, Robert Holden, Susan Jeffers

Question: Is it difficult to get the bridgeline and AudioAcrobat to “communicate” with each other? Posted by Billy Simms | 5/29/08 Answer: It’s easy, really. Here are the steps: First, you call into the bridgeline and get squared away there. Secondly, you hit the “flash” button (which is just the “hang up” button on your [...]

Tags: AudioAcrobat, bridgeline, communication, conference call, telephone, teleseminar

Question: I just finished listening to the recording from Saturday’s teleseminar. It was good. I also just finished getting myself set up with a bridgeline through allfreeconference.com. When I received the instructions from them, they have a way to record the call. What is the difference between using their system to record and using Audio [...]

Tags: AudioAcrobat, communication, conference, recording, teleseminar

Question: What’s the difference between all the extensions on domain names?  Posted by Cindi Supko | 5/23/08 Answer:  The first part of the answer comes from 1and1.com (the place where I register all my domain names):  “A domain name is a unique tag that identifies you to other computers connected to the Internet. Every domain [...]

Tags: .biz, .com, .info, .net, .org, .us, domain names, extensions, name

Recommendation: Today I was talking with someone who will be joining MEMc in the next few days and she has built her website using http://www.citymax.com/.  She said it’s been easy and inexpensive and her site looks great!  As soon as she’s joined, I’ll post her info, but I wanted to get this recommendation right out [...]

Tags: citymax.com, website

Quote: “You’ll be amazed at how inspired and rejuvenated you feel when you step out of your comfort zone!  Try it.”  Suzanne Russo Please post a comment about one thing you have done or are doing that is “outside your comfort zone.” Here’s mine:  I am going to have a TV commercial about Make a [...]

Tags: comfort zone, Suzanne Russo

Good acronym: Messages that give us feedback about life. Interruptions that shoudl cause us to reflect and think. Signposts that direct us to the right path. Tests that push us toward greater maturity. Awakenings that keep us in the game mentality. Keys that we can use to unlock the next door of opportunity. Explorations that [...]

Tags: Failing Foward, John Maxwell, mistakes

“How to Get Focused Instead of Fighting Fires” by Kendall SummerHawk I bet that right now you have more projects on your to-do list than you have time to complete. But the problem isn’t the number of projects you have, it’s which ones get your time and attention. How to get focused is the #1 [...]

Tags: focused, Kendall SummerHawk, priorities