Books and Book Reviews » Business http://philipjubb.com Books New Audible Books Second Hand Borrowed or Aquired Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 LinkedIn – Worth it for you? http://philipjubb.com/2012/01/linkedin-worth-it-for-you/ http://philipjubb.com/2012/01/linkedin-worth-it-for-you/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:19:20 +0000 Philip http://philipjubb.com/?p=1415 Creating a LinkedIn profile is an effective business strategy. Here are a few ideas on how it should be done. 1. Setting up a LinkedIn profile is free, there are no related costs.. Just log in to the site using your account, find the “Companies” menu and follow the instructions. LinkedIn’s wizard will guide you.

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Mark T He asked:




Are you a scientist at heart? Are you interested in learning how things work and what they are made of? Do you find scientific experiments fascinating to watch? If so, you may be interested in learning more about chemistry and discovering what types of jobs are available to degreed chemists in academia and industry. This article contains only a few examples of chemist jobs that can be obtained by an individual with the proper training.

Materials Scientist. Regardless of what division of society you are in, materials scientists play a key role in determining what materials will be used for any particular application. Examples include the type of rubber used for the tires on your car, the type of plastic used to wrap your ground meat at the grocery store, the type of metals used to create circuits in your computer. The types of plastics used to create the molding on you high efficiency automobile. The list is quite extensive and many of these thing we take completely for granted.

Formulation Chemist. A formulation chemist’s responsibilities center around the proper formulation and mixing of different chemicals to create a batch of a certain type of fluid product. Formulation chemists work extensively behind the scenes to make sure that all of the products we use have the proper amounts of various additives so as to make the product we are using safe and effective. Formulation chemists are hard at work making sure that things such as the shampoo you use has the proper amount of surfactants added as well as the proper amount of fragrance, that the gasoline in your car has the proper amounts of additives so as to make it burn cleaner, that the paint you use has the necessary components so as to protect your house from weathering, that the natural gas being pumped into your home has enough energy to heat it while at the same time verifying that you are being charged a fair market price for the energy, high as it may be. Again, the list goes on and on.

Analytical Chemist. Analytical chemistry jobs are fundamental to every aspect of your life. Generally, analytical chemistry falls roughly into two categories, wet or solution-based chemistry or instrumental analysis. Analytical chemists perform extremely important roles behind the scenes and are responsible for things like making sure that your water is safe to drink, making sure that your soil is not contaminated, making sure that your food is safe to eat, making sure that the fertilizers used to fertilize the vegetables in your garden have the correct amounts of their primary components, making sure that the fuels used to run you car are free of smog producing elements such as sulfur. Once again, the list goes on and on.

If you are interested in chemist jobs or a career in chemistry, check out the site in the authors signature box below and you will find all of the recommended tools to get you started.

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Dan Toombs asked:




The world of marketing is a much different place than it was even a few years ago. Nowadays there are some excellent ways to promote your cooking school while at the same time getting to know your target customers. If you are not currently using social media to promote your business – you should be. If you are not using business gifts to promote your school – start doing so now. Here is why…

Quora

Quora is one of the newest social networking platforms that is perfect for experts in all fields. Just like Twitter, you can follow people but you can also follow topics such as Italian cooking or Indian cooking. Members can ask questions for others to answer and they can answer questions that others have asked.

Let’s say your cooking school specialises in Italian cooking. You would be very well advised to join Quora and answer the questions about Italian cooking that have been posted by other members.

Your knowledgeable answers will quickly establish you as an expert in your field. Your name can link to your school’s website so members can read more about you and your classes.

Facebook

As Facebook is now an old friend to most people, you probably already have a Facebook Fan page. If you don’t, please get one! It’s easy to set up and a great way to share recipes and keep in touch with your target customers both old and new!

I mentioned Facebook after Quora because there is a Facebook icon on Quora. Click it after you post an answer to a food question and the URL of your answer will be posted on your Facebook page. It will read something like ‘Read my answer to – how to make fresh pasta on Quora at…’

What a great way to keep in contact and get people interested in your school.

Twitter

You can also post your Quora answers to your Twitter account. Twitter is really becoming popular. Many people love food and reading recipes. You should therefore not have any problem getting people to follow you who are really interested in what you have to say.

Again, setting up a Twitter account is easy and really a necessity in this day and age.

Promotional Products

I am a keen home chef. I love reading cookery books and cooking from them. I also love attending cooking classes. At many of the schools I have attended, there is a gift shop.

The shops usually include cookery books but they also sell personalised products such as aprons embroidered with the cooking school’s logo. Larger schools sell complete personalised chef gear along with engraved spice grinders, glasses, knife sets, salt and pepper grinders and even pestle and mortars.

Whatever cooking products you are interested in, they will be easily found online.

Your loyal students will love purchasing your embroidered aprons or chefs’ clothing. If you are not taking advantage of this, you should start thinking about what personalised products you would like your students to take away with them.

Watch how happy and excited they are when they say goodbye after the class holding on to their shopping bag of promotional products.

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]]> http://philipjubb.com/2011/04/4-ways-to-promote-your-cooking-school-and-have-fun-doing-it/feed/ 0 I Want A Job http://philipjubb.com/2011/04/i-want-a-job/ http://philipjubb.com/2011/04/i-want-a-job/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:45:46 +0000 Philip http://philipjubb.com/2011/04/i-want-a-job/
Al Thomas asked:




Are you graduating from high school or college or maybe lost your job? What can you do to become employed with a paycheck once again? Maybe your industry is one that is shrinking, one that is sending jobs overseas where the people work for less money, no pensions and no health insurance. Better pick another industry. It is hard to start over, but you may not have a choice.

As a high school graduate without a college degree and no experience it is strike two, but you can make up for it. As a college kid with no experience it is strike one. As a recently unemployed you may have to settle for much less money. How do you get the job you want – or any job with this slowing economy. In a smaller business you can haunt the business owner every day. In a large corporation with an employment division and a screening staff it is more difficult.

Day one you are an unrecognized number. Day 2, 3, 4 or later the employment officer may remember you. If the company is big enough there will be a turnover and you are there EVERY day. Your application will no longer be in the filing cabinet or on the bottom of the pile. Yes, every day. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. You know that story. After you get hired your job will be to learn everything there is to know about the industry. If it is a paint company, retail or manufacturing, start hitting the chemistry books about paint.

Do you want to be store manager or plant manager? Your choice. Give 110% to your occupation. Especially when the unemployment rate is over 10%. The boss has to realize you are his most valuable employee. If it is a big company let him take credit for your ideas. As serious economic times continue you must realize employment is not just 9 to 5. Employees must bring extra value to their companies. If a company does not make a profit it goes out of business and workers end up in the street. Ask the boss how you can contribute You want him to notice you.

Depending on your age you may want to set goals 2, 3, 5 years out. In a grocery store that might be bagger to cash register clerk, to department manager, to assistant store manager, to store manager, to regional manager, to Vice President, to President. Don’t limit your horizon. Continue a college education at night or on the Internet. Find ways to make yourself more valuable. Become a speaker at company functions and help train new hires. Whatever your current circumstances this is no time to quit.

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]]> http://philipjubb.com/2011/04/i-want-a-job/feed/ 0 Public Domain Part Three http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/public-domain-part-three/ http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/public-domain-part-three/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:08:22 +0000 Philip http://philipjubb.com/?p=177 There are a lot of ways someone can make money with public domain and now that you know where to get your material you need to know how to take that free stuff from the internet and make money with it!

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Chapter 3: Your Journey Into The Public Domain

There are countless public domain resources online, including directories and databases that house categories for all public domain material and media, from images to audio files.

Many of these websites also require a fee, either in terms of membership or on an individual purchase basis. Whether you are interested in exploring the public domain yourself, or you would rather take advantage of one of these services, this chapter is devoted to helping you begin your journey into the public domain.

Your first step is to determine what type of public domain material you are interested in.

Are you considering using content-based material, including poetry, novels, short stories or plays, or are you primarily interested in images, portraits, graphics and paintings?

There is also audio, midi and even lyrical material available within the public domain as well.

Once you have a good idea as to what type of content you are interested in finding, you can easily begin your search, keeping one last thing in mind:

When you begin exploring the public domain, you have two different choices. You can either obtain public domain directly or indirectly.

When going about it directly, you are pulling material out of the public domain for personal evaluation. You are responsible for verifying your right to use the material, however the benefit to direct search is that you are not required to comply with any outside restrictions.

When utilizing an online search database or directory service, many of these public domain resources require that you comply with their license restrictions, meaning that because they host the images, content or material, they are able to attach additional restrictions on the material, often minimizing your ability to resell it or even modify it yourself.

This can become quite confusing, after all, isn’t the whole point of using public domain mainly focused on your ability to use free content material however you wish?

That is the true spirit of the public domain, however because these services spend a lot of time and money researching, extracting and hosting the material for you, they are justified in requiring that you read and follow their guidelines. While not every resource site will restrict you in your ability to modify or resale the material, make sure that you read the fine print prior to downloading and using the content.

For example, the Digital Gallery, applies specific restrictions on the material from the public domain that they host and distribute.

While you can always find the SAME public domain material if you search directly yourself, by using their service you must comply with their requests.

Keep this in mind when planning out how you intend to use public domain and make sure that these restrictions (if any) do not affect your plans.

My personal strategy is to use the online services as a guideline. They help me find titles, media names, file types and with that ready-made research, I can create a swipe file of material that I am interested in.

I then go directly into the public domain and extract this content myself, so that I am not restricted by anyone’s guidelines.

For public domain imagery, I recommend browsing through the Library of Congress, at http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

You will find everything from paintings to postcards up for grabs. Just make sure that you verify the time stamp as having been created prior to 1978 unless you are going to personally verify that the material is copyright free (if created after 1978).

The Digital Gallery also provides an abundance of imagery based material, carrying over 1.5 million public domain images:

http://www.digitalgallery.nypl.org

When it comes to finding documents, including books, poetry, screenplays, scripts and even novels, the Gutenberg Project is infamous for their vast collection of public domain works. Their database search is user-friendly, and their collection is always expanding to include additional material.

You can begin exploring the public domain by visiting their site at http://www.gutenberg.org , or by reading their introduction guide at http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

The Gutenberg Project is such a popular public domain website simply because of their organized collections and ease of use.

You can begin searching through recent downloads, recent updates, or by title, category or topic.

You can also choose to volunteer to be part of the Gutenberg Project team where you can evaluate public domain books, offer proofreading services or even reformat material into new digital works.

The public domain doesn’t just offer content in the English language either. If you are interested in catering to other languages or countries, you can often find literature produced in Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Mayan and even Russian, or you can download English titles and hire a translator so you can penetrate new markets easily.

You can also use their built in internal search engine to locate books based on specific topics or categories to speed up your search.

You could also search between 1923 and 1963 paying notice to the fact that a small portion of work may be copyright protected, and require further research to evaluate your right to use it.

Note: Only a small percentage of material created between 1923 and 1963 contains copyright protection, so don’t overlook this time period altogether. Just keep in mind that you should never automatically assume that the material is available for use and spend a bit of extra time evaluating material from this specific timeframe.

iBiblio, available at http://www.ibiblio.org is a fantastic tool for exploring the public domain quickly, easily and at no cost. It offers a very clean, simplistic search process allowing you to easily locate hundreds of books and images.

Bookfinder is yet another valuable resource for finding public domain content and is available at http://www.BookFinder.com

With Bookfinder, you can easily enter in a book title or author’s name to locate all material associated with your search query. You can also choose to search through recent searches (conducted by other users on the site) or based on category to get a good idea of what is popular.

For example, if you were interested in searching for information relating to the “dog training” industry, you would enter in “dog training”.

Note: If you know the author’s name or a specific book title that you are interested in, you can enter it in the search box as well. Otherwise just using keywords will quickly reveal hundreds of available books and material.

Now, before you hit the Search button, within the publication year menu, enter in “Publication Before 1923″. This will ensure that you only search for material that is free of any copyright and readily available within the public domain.

That’s it! You will have an incredible collection at your fingertips and just by using pre-defined search queries that limit the search dates, you can eliminate any need to conduct further research verifying a copyright date or publication date.

Just search for material prior to 1923 and you’re good to go!

Whenever you find public domain that you are interested in using, you can choose to download it directly from any of these distribution agents, however one thing to keep in mind is that you will be required to pay a nominal fee for this material as it’s being researched and collected for you.

The great thing about this however, is that with sites like BookFinder.com and AbeBooks.com they’ve done all of the work for you. They not only research the public domain regularly to locate additional material for all available topics, but in many cases they create a digital version of the material for you!

Imagine just how much easier it is to create ebooks that you can turn around and resell, if 100% of the work has been done for you, including verification of the material being free of copyright AND the document or manuscript being transformed into digital format.

These services will save you an incredible amount of time while also ensuring that you are only using public domain content that is freely available, eliminating any potential problems from mistakenly using copyright protected work.

Another chapter another day another dollar as the saying goes.

‘Till next time

Philip
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]]> http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/public-domain-part-two/feed/ 0 The Finale – Barter Basics – How Barter Expands Profits For You http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/the-finale-barter-basics-how-barter-expands-profits-for-you/ http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/the-finale-barter-basics-how-barter-expands-profits-for-you/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:44:42 +0000 Philip http://philipjubb.com/?p=158 There are actually many different benefits to barter for any business, by the largest benefits are to those in early start up or those that are in need of more cash flow within their current businesses.

]]> http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/the-finale-barter-basics-how-barter-expands-profits-for-you/feed/ 0 Barter Is Better, Use It Today http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/barter-is-better-use-it-today/ http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/barter-is-better-use-it-today/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:24:45 +0000 Philip http://philipjubb.com/?p=149 Barter is better in many ways with today’s economy and mindset. With creativity and a little trial and error, anyone and any business can increase their cash flow and income by using trade effectively. The days of direct trade face to face are gone, and in it’s place is a modern evolved solution, which can be one of the greatest tools of the trade!

]]> http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/barter-is-better-use-it-today/feed/ 0 Barter, Think Smarter, Source For http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/barter-think-smarter-source-for/ http://philipjubb.com/2010/02/barter-think-smarter-source-for/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:15:39 +0000 Philip http://philipjubb.com/?p=146 Start watching the online marketplaces. Places like Craigslist and eBay can provide great little deals at really low prices that you can leverage into bigger items on trade exchanges. Pay attention for the deals, where the seller doesn’t realize the value of the item they hold.

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