If you want to build any business, you need to learn how to do it, the skills that require you to build a successful business. This applies to building a home based business too.Here are the 5 critical business building skills that you need to guarantee your success in your home based business.1. Marketing SkillsAll businesses need marketing. Marketing is about finding a group of people who are looking for a particular need, and you find solutions to provide for their needs. That’s where your business comes in. You must know how to target these group of people, and market to them effectively!Many people don’t know how to market their business and they just try to sell them to All people, which is wrong. They will then go ahead and pitch their deals to every person that they know, and thus losing friends and chasing people away from them! If you want to get sales and results, you have to know how to market.2. Relationship Building SkillsBusiness is about building relationships. You want to build strong and long-lasting relationships with business partners, with your team, and your customers too! Remember? People buys from people they know, like and trust! Only when strong relationships are built, there then comes long-lasting businesses.3. Leadership SkillsLeadership skills is crucial to the growth and success of a business. All successful businesses are led by leaders. In your home based business, you are your own leader. If you have a team of business partners, you have to be the leader to lead them, and groom them to become leaders, to lead their own people too!4. Communication SkillsI can’t stress this further. We all communicate, however, to be successful in your business, you have to communicate well. You have to be professional and present your benefits of your products or services to your clients the right way. You have to communicate well with business partners when doing business with them.Business fail when communication breaks down and misunderstandings occur. And hence, it is very important that you master communication skills too.5. Teaching And Coaching SkillsThis skill may not be very important in other industry, but it is especially important in the home based business industry. If you are working with a group of business partners, you must learn how to teach them and groom them to become independent entrepreneurs too. You must be able to coach them and make sure that they are able to learn and apply what you have taught them, without being information overloaded.Only if you know how to pass on your skills and grow them to become independent entrepreneurs, then your business can run and grow without your presence.These are the 5 really important skills you have to master, if you want true success in your home based business.
You Can Fight Back Against Special Education Denials That Hurt Your Child!
Are you the parent of a child with autism, learning disabilities, or another disability receiving special education services? Are you sick and tired of special education personnel in your district denying your child needed related and special education services? This article will empower you to fight back for your child by addressing important advocacy skills.
Advocacy Strategy 1: Educate yourself about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 2004 (IDEA 2004) and your states regulations on special education. You can do this by reading books, attending conferences and developing friendships with more experienced parents of children with disabilities. By being educated on federal and state law your chances of success with your advocacy increase.
Advocacy Strategy 2: Documentation is critical in winning a special education dispute. Begin sending letters to document what is occurring in your child’s education. Important verbal conversations must be followed up by a short letter, to the person you spoke to. For Example: Your child’s teacher states in a phone conversation that your child is not progressing, and needs more intense related and special education services. Immediately write a letter to the teacher, including the date and time of the conversation, and what was said. The letter needs to be Hand delivered to the teacher, or sent certified with a return receipt. This will document what the teacher said, even if she denies that she ever said it.
Also, save any letters or other documentation sent from special education personnel. You should save important school papers, any notes about negative behavior, any documentation that you need to strengthen your advocacy position. I once advocated for a young boy who had negative behavior at school. The school was sending home daily behavior sheets, and I advised the mother to date them, and not throw them away. We used them at a due process to show that when the school district stated the child’s behavior was out of control, the behavior sheet said he was fine. Documentation can win a case, or lack of documentation can lose a case.
Advocacy Strategy 3: Tape record all IEP meetings, and if possible and necessary have a transcriber transcribe them for future use. Transcriptions of IEP meetings can be used at due process as documentation.
In all my years of advocacy, I have never been a huge fan of tape recording, but I have recently changed my mind. School districts have become so bold in denying things they tell parents, that it is critical that parents have documentation of what is being said in meetings, and what the school district is agreeing to. I find a huge discrepancy between what many special education personnel agree to in a meeting, and what is being documented in a child’s IEP. A transcript of a tape recorded meeting could be used as evidence in a due process hearing, to show what the school district agreed to.
Advocacy Strategy 4: Whenever special education personnel want to change a child’s label placement or refuse to change your child’s label or placement, they must give prior written notice (PWN) to you. Also, if they deny services that your child needs, they must also give PWN. For example: If you take your child to an independent evaluator and bring the report of recommendations to the school district, and they refuse to follow the recommendations, they must give you PWN, on why they are not following the recommendations.
Advocacy Strategy 5: Be willing to file state complaints or due process for non compliance with IDEA 2004, or if the school district does not give your child FAPE. Going over the school districts head is the best way to ensure that your child is getting the appropriate services that they need.
With these advocacy strategies under your belt, you will have a better chance of prevailing in a dispute with your school district. Your child is depending on you so work hard for their benefit.
10 Reasons For Women to Start an Online Home Based Business
Starting an online home based business for women in my opinion is one option available for the stay at home mom nowadays. It is a quick and less costly method of earning money. Here in this article we go into 10 reasons for women to start an Internet business for women, we’ll also look at one reason not to!1. For The Money:Easy, we are always looking to earn more money. The mortgage needs to be paid each and every month. We could all do with money to spend on the kids for cloths new toys, for days out!. The main reason to look into starting your own online business.2. For Our Family:Working at home can easily provide a solution to the regular problem we have with taking care of our kids when we go to work especially if they become sick. A home based business can help you organize yourself because you are the one in control of your time and not your boss!3. Your Self Confidence:Staying at home just looking after the children is enormously stressful we all know that. You feel like that all the problems of the household are put on your shoulders with no help from anyone. Setting up and running a successful and profitable online home based business for women can achieve this self-confidence.4. For Your Local Community:What could be more inspiring than being a role model for other women in your local community. Showing them that with a little work and organization it can be done. This has other benefits to the community, it gives your more confidence and helps your community in creating more businesses.5. Reduce You Tax Bills:Amongst the other benefits you have by creating an online business, large tax deductions can be made on all the expenses you have in creating and running your Internet business. This enables you to have more money in your own pocket.6. All Round Savings:Your current work expenses will be reduced instantly. For example how much do you spend on the clothes you wear to work each month?. Your travel expenses to and from work also will be zero, working from home cuts all this out.7. Controlling Your Time:You choose what time you start and finish work, you are your boss. For example if your child becomes sick you don’t have to phone into work asking permission for time off, you control this not your boss.8. Your In Charge:The buck stops with you,with an online internet business, you no longer depend on any outside factor such as an employer for the amount of income you receive. The main decisions and direction of your life and business commitments are in your control and no-one else.9. Control The Amount You Earn:Similar to the point above, the amount of time and therefore the amount of possible earnings is in your court. The advantage of you working from home is that you decide how many hours you work. If you want a wage rise go out and create another profitable product you get an instant wage rise.10. Investment in your business:The potential earnings of your online business are extraordinary. A lot of successful Internet entrepreneurs build up profitable home based businesses and then sell these on for massive amounts of money. These entrepreneurs began just like you are now.And the reason not to start an online home based business for women: If you go into this to make someone else’s ideas come true and not for your dreams to come true – don’t do it.There are many reasons for building home income, but doing it to show off to friends and family is not enough. A well based reason to start your online home based business, is what is required here, so that you continue to grow and prosper using your own incentives.