Merry Christmas!

Have a blissfully blessed Christmas, Everyone! I value and appreciate your visits with me here, at Heart's Desires Are Coming True, and your tweets with me at Twitter.com/DelynMiche. Again, thank-you! It's one of my heart's desires and prayer that you all have a physically, Spiritually and financially prosperous, beautifully productive 2010! Take care.

Your Business Profitability: 7 Ways A Freelancer Can Increase It

7 Ways A Freelancer Can Increase Your Business Profitability

Good day, Everyjone! Today's post features a presentation by Consulting WorX, which details '7 Ways a Freelancer Can Increase Your Business Profitability'. You'll read about:

• Focus on Your Core Business
• Reduce Staff Costs
• Increase Flexibility
• Control Capital Costs
• Start New Projects Quickly
• Level the Playing Field
• Increase Efficiency
  

7 Ways A Freelancer Can Increase Your Business Profitability

Gold and Silver: Wealth Building

FDIC, 9-11 and Why Michael Maloney Doesn’t Use a Safe Deposit Box

Hello, Everyone! Today's post is about wealth-building precious metals, gold and silver, with Mike Maloney of GoldSilver.com.

Mike Maloney is the owner and founder of GoldSilver.com, an online precious metals dealership that specializes in delivery of gold and silver to a customer's doorstep, arranges for special secured storage, or for placement in one's IRA account. Additionally, GoldSilver.com provides invaluable research and commentary for its clients, assisting them in their wealth building endeavors. Learn more about Mike Maloney.

Green Marketing: 5 Ingredients to Creating Buzz Online

The New Economy: People, Planet & Profit
Buzz Marketing Ingredients

Good day, Everyone! The following presentation is vividly interesting and informative, with details of how to create a buzz online. Specifically, it shares the few, key ingredients that must be present for a web campaign to be truly successful in achieving its goals. View it to discover the examples of these keys:

1. Ground Breaking
2. Cool
3. Spread Correctly
4. Believable
5. Simple

These keys may be what you need for your online/web campaign. It's so good you'll want to go through it more than once and visit the actual sites (online) of the examples! I have. Enjoy!

Green Marketing: 5 Ingredients to Creating Buzz Online

The Business of Blogging

Blogging As A Business Option

Hello, Everyone! Today's post features a presentation, "Blogging As a Business Option" by Zigfred Diaz. This presentation details:

• What a blog is
• How bloggers make money
• How traditional business owners can boost their business via blogging
• The basics of how to setup a blog

For those of you that aren't blogging yet, this should be helpful.  For those of you that are blogging already, you may learn something new. Enjoy!

Blogging As A Business Option

Related Link: Start Your Own Blogging Business (Startup)

Think Before You Post - Facebook

News Hub: Navigating Facebook's Privacy Changes ~ 12/9/2009

Good day, Everyone! Facebook has rolled out privacy changes, including the elimination of regional networks as well as the ability to specify who can see photos, links or other posted items a member adds to his profile. In the following video Wall Street Journal's Julia Angwin and Elizabeth Bernstein join the News Hub to discuss the changes.

Opportunities in Difficult Times

Steve Ballmer: Opportunities in Difficult Times
Stanford University

Summary
Steven Anthony Ballmer has been the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing, since January 2000. Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 24th employee, the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. Ballmer and the company's business and technical leaders are focused on continuing Microsoft's innovation and leadership across the company's core businesses. As a visionary and leader, Steve Ballmer has led Microsoft to the top of the computer software world.

In the following presentation Ballmer discusses a variety of topics of interest to entrepreneurs, including:

• The Economy: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
• Entrepreneurs Are the Future
• Big vs. Small Company Experience

Lucrative Luxury Brands of the 22nd Century

LuxuryLab: Lucrative Luxury Brands of the 22nd Century

LuxuryLab presented its first-ever INNOVATION FORUM, an unprecedented event addressing the rapidly changing luxury marketplace. Held at TheTimesCenter in November '09, the forum brought together thought leaders to share never-seen-before research, trends, best practices, and a passion for ideas.

Hello, Everyone!  I appreciate your presence, here! Thank-you.

Today's feature, except for the few expletives/swearwords used for emphasis, is a valuable presentation by Cindy Gallop and LuxuryLab detailing factors that she thinks will impact business with those that easily afford luxury items.  It is quite informative.  Are you positioning your business/talent-work to be a luxury brand (in a win-win/win-win-win way)?  Watch, listen and learn.

Note: If video isn't visible on this page (home page), click Lucrative Luxury Brands of the 22nd Century.

Ten Booming Business Opportunities

10 Business Opportunities That Are Booming

Hello, Everyone! I hope you enjoyed a glorious Thanksgiving Day celebration. With today's post I'm sharing the Business Insider article, below, which highlights business opportunities that are FLOURISHING in this economy! You may discover something that you can do!