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Bylined Articles

Alkamae's Founder, Dr. Susan L. Reid, writes as a small business expert for:

• 10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Online Business Money
  How's the start of 2010 looking for you and your business? Are you primed and ready to make money this year? Here are ten quick, easy-to-implement things you can do that will guarantee your online business will be making you money this year.
  
  
• Begin Your Economic Recovery. Lower Your Prices Now!
  The recession is over. The pendulum has just started its swing toward economic recovery. Now is the time to lower your prices—not six months from now. The moves you make while on the cusp of recovery will determine where you'll be standing one year from today when our economy is stronger and job security higher.
  
  
• Cultivating the Millionaire Mindset Using the Law of Attraction
  The creation of a two-million-dollar small business enterprise is only a mindset away.
  
  
• Excelling as a Woman Entrepreneur
  Learn how to excel as a woman entrepreneur. Eliminate these five things and you will.
  
  
• Financially Preparing Small Business Owners for 2010
  Put into place the three small business best practices outlined in this article to ensure your small business success this year.
  
  
• Five Keys to Sales When You Hate to Sell
  As a business professional, you know sales are important to the success of your business. However, you can't have an aversion to sales and expect to sell anything. Here's a new, helpful way to approach sales for the professional business owner.
  
  
• How is the Economy Looking for Women Starting Up Businesses?
  Let’s jump right to the question that every woman entrepreneur who’s thinking about starting up a business in today’s economy wants the answer to: “Should I start up now or wait six months?” Find out how to know.
  
  
• How Many of You Became Entrepreneurs Accidently?
  Are you an Accidental Pren-her? Find out what a Pren-her is and discover the top 10 characteristics of Accidental Female Entrepreneurs.
  
  
• How to Clear Out the Old to Make Way for the New!
  Don't wait for January 1st to make your New Year's resolutions. Enjoy and have fun with this "Three Steps to a Bright New Year" exercise.
  
  
• How to Define Your Niche for Your New Business
  Want to make sure you, not someone else, gets the lion’s share of your niche’s attention? Just follow these guidelines, fill out the niche statement formula at the end of this article, and you will!
  
  
• How to Restore Balance in Your Life
  Follow these eight steps to restore balance in your life to help reduce stress and put you back in balance naturally and simply.
  
  
• How to Utilize the Powerful Law of Attraction to Achieve Balance in Your Life
  Finding balance in today's frenetically paced world is no simple task. Yet it can be done. Complete this Life Preview exercise to utilize the powerful Law of Attraction to achieve balance in your life.
  
  
• No Guts, No Glory - Three Hard Things to Do to Succeed in Business
  You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what you need to do to succeed in business. What’s the catch? They’re hard to do.
  
  
• The Olympics for Small Business Owners
  With gold, silver and bronze medals at stake and bragging rights for the taking, this year’s Olympics are much more than just Games. Within each event, on every team, and in every individual athlete, you’ll find a shining example of what it means to be a successful small business owner in the world today.
  
  
• One Fun Way to Avoid Becoming a Small Business Startup Fatality
  The one thing no one tells you when starting up a business is this: if you don't want to end up becoming a small business startup fatality, you must do one very important thing—take a vacation.
  
  
• Put Your Marketing Real Estate Agent to Work For You
  When done correctly, your business card will turn into a dynamic piece of marketing real estate working hard for you, even when you're not around.
  
  
• Six Weeks or Less to Double Your Productivity in Tough Economic Times
  Implement these six surefire weekly action steps to double your productivity, and get your small business ready for the future right now.
  
  
• The Super Bowl for Small Business Owners
  From the first notes of The Star-Spangled Banner to the presentation of the Vince Lombardi Trophy, this year’s Super Bowl was full of powerful examples of what it means to be a successful small business owner in the world today.
  
  
• Take Control of Your Money: Become a Freelancer
  Freelancing is one of the easiest and quickest things you can do to flow more money to you. Whether you are out of a job, have had to take a cut in salary, or simply need to increase your cash flow, become a freelancer to take control of your money.
  
  
• Ten Steps to Successful Online Book Marketing
  There is a method to marketing your book online that you'll need to follow if you want to leverage your efforts and steadily increase sales. Follow these ten steps to build interest and drive sales. Implement them in the order given to maximize your online marketing efforts.
  
  
• To Lay Off or Not to Lay Off? That Isn't the Question.
  Before you make any business “survival plans”, consider these ten ideas to stabilize your business that will enhance, not hobble, your future success.
  
  
• Top 10 Resolutions for a More Productive 2009
  Resolve now to make 2009 a profitable year for your business. Implement these top 10 resolutions for a more profitable 2009, and you will be doing your part to help get America and the rest of the world moving forward.
  
  
• Top 10 Ways Women Entrepreneurs Boost Productivity
  Interested in boosting your productivity? Pick from any one of these top 10 to get you started.
  
  
• Turning Your Business Dreams Into Reality: Managing The Critic
  Want to know how to turn your business dreams into reality? Are you looking for a way to silence that ever-present inner critic? Read on.
  
  
• Why Hire Employees When You Can Build a Team?
  Are you a small business owner, party-of-one, thinking about taking your business to the next level? Have you been wondering what it would take to make that happen? Wondering whom to add next, to do what? Here's how!