5 Tips To Choosing The Best Online Piano Course by Alex Nguyen

Tip 1: The course must be reputable. Make sure the course that you’re choosing is one that has a good reputation. Do a search on google or your favorite search engine and read reviews, feedback from other users and expert reviewers. You may also want to go to piano forums and post a question about the particular online piano course that you’re interested in. Find out how long they’ve been around and the satisfaction level of its past and current users.

Tip 2: The course must go beyond just the basics. Some online piano courses only focus on the basics and leave you hanging. If you wish to continue, then you must order another course in order to progress further. Some authors use this tactic as bait. They might price the course very low and then upsell when the student is done with the initial course. Look for an online course that goes beyond the basic level, at a reasonable price, of course.

Tip 3: Is the course well rounded? Ask yourself this question when choosing an online piano course. The course must be well rounded, meaning it covers theory, sight reading, chord construction, ear training, improvisation and various musical genres. A well rounded course translates into a well rounded musician. You may choose to focus on one area at the time, but it’s always a good idea to learn as much as you can about all areas of music. It’ll give you a broader perspective and knowledge about music.

Tip 4: Test drive the course by subscribing to its newsletter. Some authors offer free mini courses to subscribers. Take advantage of this. Test drive these lessons and notice the quality of the information. Is it well written and easy to understand? Does it have plenty of diagrams and audio/video files for you to follow?

Tip 5: Do they offer a money back guarantee? Make sure the author offers a money back guarantee. It’s easy to get sucked into a slick salesletter about an online piano course that over promises but under delivers. If that’s the case, you want to make sure you get your money back. So if you’re unhappy with the course, you can ask for a refund. Guarantees vary among courses, but you want to look for at least a 60 day refund period. This will give you ample time to examine the course thoroughly.

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How to Write Effective Campaign Ads by Roy H.White

Writing effective campaign ads requires time and effort. When creating your ads you want only people who are interested in your product to click on your ad. Since you are paying for clicks you want every click to count and not throw away your advertising dollars.

It is impotent to use highly relevant keywords so that the right prospects will find your products .Once you have the right keywords listed try to use the primary keywords from your list directly in the headline of your ad. This will catch the eye of the user and they will immediately see the searched keywords in the ad. This will increase your ad performance.

If you are using any ppc campaigns be sure to follow the editorial guidelines. Running your ads without first reading the guidelines is a great way to write poor and underperforming ads. Are you guilty of this? If so, do not run another campaign ad without reading the guidelines.

Do not mislead people and try toe as clear as possible in our ads. This avoids bringing the wrong people to your site. Yu also need o give a reason for customers to come to our site. Whether it is to save, make money get healthy or whatever the reason is. Include any unique features regarding your product on your ads so it can stand out.

You should also use attention grabbing words such as sale, low cost etc. Considering the fact that space is limited, you should abbreviate as much as possible. Most likely you are selling a product to make profits so state clearly that your product is not free. Get more people to click your campaign ad more often by using call to action phrases.

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Sales Managers: Don’t Just Manage Down, Manage Up! by Gary Jones

As Sales Managers, much of our time is spent managing our sales staff. Training, forecasting, ride a longs. The list goes on and on. Our days are so busy, we are often taken by surprise when our VP or Senior Level Manager emails or calls us with an edict from on high. You know the call. Some new “thing” that the CEO or Board has come up with that your sales team needs to implement immediately. And what do you do? Without even thinking that deeply about the request, its validity and/or viability, you call an all hands meeting and roll out your plan to get this idea into action. Your being a good manager, right? Taking those orders from above you and disseminating them to your staff for implementation.

Oh, and one more thing. Before you can even hold your all hands meeting, they have two more great ideas and have changed the first one they gave you three times. Sound familiar?

This is where many Sales Managers (and managers in general) could utilize the “Manage Up” philosophy. Managing up is very similar to downward managing. The difference being, you are managing your managers/superiors as opposed to managing subordinates. Your time is valuable and you need to manage it properly to maximize your value to your organization. Interruptions to your short and long term game plan are inevitable. We generally think of these interruptions coming in the form of subordinates breaking our stride with mundane questions or fires to put out. We expect this and management training course after management training course teaches us how to deal with these issues. But has anyone ever trained us to deal with the frequent interruptions of our superiors? Let’s look at this concept.

Briefly Analyze the Request

Don’t just take the order and run with it. This isn’t the Marine Corps. Generally, people in VP and C-level positions are there because of their highly advanced skill sets and business ac cumin. Given the nature of their “40,000 foot view”, they sometimes forget the day to day pressure of running a sales team. An idea may seem easy to implement to them, but in reality, it may be a logistical nightmare and not practical or profitable at all.

Briefly look at each request and see if it makes short and long term sense. Not “will it be easy to implement?”. That’s not the criteria. Does it make sense from a business standpoint. Don’t be afraid to go back and ask clarifying questions. Your are going to have to sell this idea to your team. Like anything you sell, you have to believe it is good for your buyer, in this case, your sales team to make a believable pitch.

Their time frame may not be your time frame

What are the time parameters your superiors have set on this project? Are they realistic given your current activity level and other commitments (trade shows, presentations, outside training, etc.). Don’t be afraid to go back and open a discussion about adjusting the time frame. Remember, you are Managing Up! In reality, it is you who are in control of your day. Not those below OR above you. Have some input into how you will spend your time.

Be clear about outcomes

To often we take an idea from our VP of Sales and run to implement it without really being clear about outcomes. Again, don’t be afraid to go back and ask clarifying questions. You are going to be judged on how well you carry out this task. Make sure you don’t waste time and energy (both yours and your sales teams) going in directions you don’t need to go. Be clear. Clarity and agreement on outcomes is of the utmost importance.

What if the idea stinks?

Now come on…don’t tell me you’ve never thought this? We all have. No matter how much we respect the skill level and experience of our superiors, sometimes they come up with rotten eggs. Ideas that are so far removed from reality that they make you chuckle inside when you hear them. What do you do? Remember, we are Managing Up!

Listen attentively, analyze and ask questions for clarification. Maybe you missed something? Ok, so you didn’t. It’s still a stinker. Don’t be afraid to let them know of your reservations. But you have to do it in a positive and constructive manner. And always let them know that even though you have reservations (make sure you have stated them clearly and concisely), you are willing to do everything in your power to implement their suggestion. Carefully document the process and make notes of any successes and/or failures. At a pre-determined time, have a follow up meeting and discuss the progress. If your VP sees that you have made a valid effort and the idea is not taking off, he/she will be more willing to rethink or even throw out the idea.

Conclusions

Your time is extremely valuable. Make sure you control the pulling on your time in both directions, up and down. Don’t be afraid to Manage Up. You will be surprised at the feeling of freedom knowing that you are not totally at the mercy of someone else’s whim, whether they work for you, or you work for them!

I hope you have enjoyed this article and find it helpful. Wouldn’t this be a great key note for an annual sales meeting or managers meeting/training? Contact me at gary@salesmotivation.net and we can discuss how I can help you to better equip your sales/sales management team to succeed.

Sell More Books With Your Sparkling Introduction by Judy Cullins

Why write an introduction? Nobody reads it anyway. Up until now, this opinion has had clout. But now, with a shorter introduction of one to two pages, and through the five essentials below, your introduction will become the fourth sales tool for your book. When people read your clear, concise personal note to them with benefits they will receive, they will buy your book on the spot!

Your Book’s Introduction Includes:

1. The hook. Your first paragraph must compel your potential buyer to read more, so they will buy your book. Make your opener short–one sentence is best. Answer their question, “So What? Why should I buy your book?” Your opener might be a shocking statistic or fact, powerful quote. Or the best, answer your audience’s # one question about their #one challenge. Start with where your audience is now. Don’t tell them, engage them. .

2. The background. Your particular audience has challenges. Describe where they are now, why they haven’t succeeded, how they are uninformed in a few paragraphs. Include a few sentences on why you wrote the book. At the end of this information, state your thesis statement, a general statement of what your book will give them.

3. The benefits. In the next paragraphs, keep answering the “So what?” that is inside every potential buyer’s mind. Show the general benefits such as increased health, communication, finances or fortune. Show specific benefits. For instance, in “Write your eBook or Other Short Book-Fast!” Create each part of your book as a sales tool, rewrite less, publish cheaper and faster.” 4. The format. Every non-fiction book needs a format that gives your audience an idea of what they will experience ahead. They have already looked at the Table of Contents that gives them a general format and direction. In your introduction you need to say what features will benefit them in each chapter. Ech chapter format will probably include a hook and thesis, the middle part with information, how tos, tips, a story.

5. The last sentence. Invite your reader into the text of your book. Entice them once again with an enthusiastic “read on.” For example in one of my writing books I used this last line, “You’ve been waiting too long to share your unique message. Read on and apply all the simple steps I give to make you a successful author.”

Now that you’ve written a sparkling introduction you have helped your potential buyer decide to take out their wallet and purchase your book. This “Essential Hot-Selling Point” is all important-it’s kind of a mini sales letter you can adapt for your book’s back cover and your web book sales letter.

Judy Cullins © 2007

How to Deal With God’s Chastening by Sue C.

How to Deal With God’s Chastening

The following article is based on notes from a sermon  by my pastor, Pastor Charles Surrett, on Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Pastor Charles Surrett is pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kings Mountain, NC. Notes used by his permission.

The text for this sermon was Jeremiah 29:1-14

Whom God loves He chastens. He chastens His children so that they will repent. For those who refuse to repent after God has chastened them, the Bible says that there is a sin unto death. On the other hand, the Lord will be found of us if we seek for Him with all of our hearts.

In this passage of Scripture, God gives at least 5 principles that show us how to correctly respond to His chastening.

I. Be prepared to stay in the situation for a long time – vs. 1-7 Verse 1 introduces “the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.”

The Babylonian captivity was the consequence of Israel’s sin. This captivity lasted 70 years. This seems like a long time, but Israel lived in idolatry for over 350 years. God forgives instantaneously, but the consequences of sin do not end instantaneously.

There are 2 types of consequences for sin.

1. temporal – these are only temporary, only experienced on this earth. These consequences include sickness, injury, loss of job, etc.

2. eternal – everlasting separation from God in the lake of fire.

Verses 5-7 describe some of the things God told Israel to do. “Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.”

A. God wanted the Israelites to build houses and make provisions for material needs.

B. God wanted the Israelites to marry and reproduce and increase in the land where they were taken captive.

C. God wanted Israel to pray for peace upon the land that had taken them captive. This may seem like a strange thing. Can you imagine Israel praying for Babylon? Yet this is what God told them to do. When God gave Babylon peace because of Israel’s prayers for it, God would also give peace to Israel.

So if you experience chastening from the Lord, if God has had to “spank” you for not listening to Him when He warned you about your sin; be prepared to stay in the situation God puts you in for a long time.

II. Do not try to fight against the situation – v. 7 “And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.”

Do not fight against the situation. Accept it and pray to God for His help. God will give you peace. The situation may not seem pleasant now, but it will help you to be more godly and to live right in the future. Chastening is not designed to be pleasant. But it is designed to bear good fruit. God’s word says, “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” (Hebrews 12:11)

III. Do not listen to those who teach otherwise – vs. 8,9 “For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.”

False teaching does not come from God. Notice how God says, “your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.” The false prophets were not speaking words that God had told them. They were speaking things made up by man.

If God dealt with the Jewish people, His chosen people, in this manner, it would not be at all surprising if God chose to deal with America about her sin. We have turned against our godly foundation and the right principles upon which our country was founded.

IV. God wants what is best for you – v.11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

A. God thinks thoughts of peace toward you.

B. If you had “stayed in the land” and continued living in idolatry (doing whatever gives you pleasure for yourself instead of pleasing God), everything would have been wiped out.

C. God uses chastening to bring His children to the place where they must depend upon God. He uses chastening to bring them to repentance.

D. God uses chastening to correct His children so that things will go better for them in the future.

God does this for your peace. God wants the best for you. The Bible says that “the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?” (See Romans 2:4) But if you rebel against God’s goodness, He will deal with you severely. This severity is also designed to bring you to repentance. This, too, is good.

V. Seek the Lord with all your heart – vs. 12-14

Since Israel did not return to God when God warned them about their sin, God had to deal with them severely. God may deal with us in the same way. Our military, our national heritage – these cannot sustain us.

It is hard for us to live for God when things are easy. We do not depend upon God for each thing. We do not have to ask God to “give us this day our daily bread” when our cupboards are full. We begin to take credit for things ourselves.

But if God must deal with us severely, He tells us what His response will be if we seek Him with all our hearts. Look at Jeremiah 29:12-14, “Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me , when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.”

If you seek for God with all your heart, He will be found of you.

It would be better for us to seek God before He chastens us; but if we seek God with all our hearts after He chastens us, He will still be found of us.

If we would seek God, this brings pleasure to God. We have the opportunity to bring pleasure to God. By this we bring God glory. In III John 1:4, John says, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” If this is true of an earthly father, how much more must it be true of our heavenly Father! And if walking in truth brings God great joy, how much sorrow must it bring God when His children rebel against Him and walk contrary to His ways!

When we experience chastening from God, let us not think that we deserve better treatment from God. Rather, we deserve much worse.

Consider again the principles for dealing with God’s chastening: (I.) Be prepared to stay in the situation for a long time – Jeremiah 29:1-7; (II.) Do not try to fight against the situation – v. 7; (III.) Do not listen to those who teach otherwise – vs. 8,9; (IV.) God wants what is best for you – v.11; (V.) Seek the Lord with all your heart – vs. 12-14

(All Scripture verses quoted from KJV)

by Sue C.

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