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Minerals are an essential part of every diet. And the diabetic needs particular minerals if he is to avoid the complications that always arise as a result of the lack of nutrients. Without minerals, our bodies could not function as efficiently. Sadly, many Americans are woefully deficient in several minerals and because of poor dietary habits. The diabetic is extremely vulnerable to blindness, fatigue, and poor circulation. The best cholesterol lowering minerals are chromium, calcium, magnesium, selenium and zinc.

Chromium: 90% of Americans do not get 50mcg (micrograms) of chromium a day. The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences considers 50 to 200 mcg to be necessary. As a diabetic you need at least 200 to 400 mcg a day. Chromium works with insulin in helping open the cell membranes to accept glucose. Without it, insulin's action is blocked. Its GTF (glucose tolerance factor) is the crucial molecule that helps speed excess glucose into the cells. It not only improves insulin's action to get into the cells, but it has been shown to decrease fasting blood glucose levels, improve glucose tolerance and decrease cholesterol and triglyceride levels as well as the HDL, good cholesterol.

Cheese, legumes, beans, peas, whole grains and molasses are good sources of chromium. The best source is brewer's yeast. However the taste of brewer's yeast makes it hard to take, so sprinkling it with your breakfast cereal or mixed in orange juice is a better way to take it. Chromium comes in may forms; chromium picolinate, chromium GTF and chromium enriched yeast are all suitable in your diet. The soil from most farms have been depleted of this essential mineral. It is crucial for proper blood sugar control. As most Americans are deficient in this nutrient, it explains the high incidents of obesity and the high number of people with Syndrome X whose blood sugars are normal but who have a higher-than-normal rate of insulin production. Chromium GTF or chromium picolinate make good supplements.

Magnesium: Low intake of magnesium is a major risk factor that leads to retinopathy and heart disease in the diabetic. The RDA recommendation for healthy men is 350 mg per day and 300 mg for women. Between 300 to 600 mg ideal. Many peole only get between 143 to266 mg far short of the RDA standard. Our highly refined diet lack magnesium. Magnesium, like chromium is involved in glucose metabolism. Supplementation has been shown to improve insulin response, glucose tolerance and improve the fluidity of red blood cell membranes in diabetic patients. Most magnesium comes from seeds, nuts, legumes, tofu and green leafy vegetables. You should take the highly absorbed form of magnesium such as magnesium aspartate or magnesium citrate. Take at least 25 mg of Vitamin B-6 per day to go along as this vitamin is linked with magnesium content in body cells. Without B-6, magnesium doesn't get into the cells and is otherwise useless.

Potassium: It's the major mineral inside of all cell membranes and its electrical charge generates what is called “membrane potential”. It's believed that the ratio of sodium (which exists on the outside of the cells) to potassium is off kilter and this is one of the reasons why insulin cannot open the cell doors to High potassium diets have been shown to lower the risk of many degenerative diseases such as cancer and heart disease and help improve glucose tolerance. Plant foods such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains serve as the best sources of potassium.

While a high intake of salt promotes high blood pressure, potassium counteracts this by helping lower blood pressure. Potassium supplementation can lower the systolic and diastolic blood pressure an average of 12 to 16 points. It you want to avoid salt, you can substitute with potassium as a safer alternative. NuSalt or No-Salt both contain potassium chloride and make good salt substitutes. Generally supplementation of potassium is safe unless you have kidney disease.

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Ok, now that you're done with the structure and content of your website, it's time to think about making money from it!

There are any number of models you can put to use in a content-rich niche website. All of them work - but you need to find one (or preferably a few) that work for YOU.

I'll list a selection of options - pick the ones you are most comfortable with, and try them out. Keep the ones that work, and drop the non-performers. Replace them with another, and test again.

Contextual Advertising: Google Adsense ads are a popular income model forniche websites. Other alternatives are Kontera, Revenue Pilot, Chitika, Context Profits, CB Grabber and others. These services automatically display ads related to the content and keywords on your site - and you get paid each time a visitor to your site clicks on the ads.

Affiliate Marketing: By displaying ads and endorsements for products andservices related to your niche topic, and using your 'affiliate' link, you could get paid a referral commission for any sales resulting from visitors to your site.

Banner Ads: Selling banner ads (directly or through a network) is another way tomonetize your site visitors. Various options include being paid per banner viewed, clicked or sales resulting from them.

List Building: Pop an opt-in box on your site, and you could start building a nichemailing list. The revenue possibilities are vast - you could sell to them directly, broker this list and rent or sell it to other businesses, run endorsements for other products and share profits, or anything else.

Direct Selling: If you own (or create) a product or service relevant to your nicheaudience, you could sell it from your site directly.

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The next cause that Forrester Research identified for outsourcing challenges is “The lack of a good process for specifying the work”. This is also an obstacle to getting more leverage in your business, and the reason why entrepreneurs struggle so much with systemizing their business.

One of the best ways to document the way work should be done, and how it interrelates to other activities inside your business, is by process mapping.

Edward Deming, the father of the quality movement and the man responsible for Japan’s rise after World War II said “If you can’t describe what you’re doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” I couldn’t agree more.

The good news is that process mapping is really simple. There are only  different elements to a process map - That’s it! The oval represents the start and end so you really only use that twice. The arrows just show you the direction. So you’re left with just two symbols to use; an action symbol or a decision symbol. The beauty of this is anything that you do can be reduced down to its core using this method.

One reason why process maps are really important tools is that it makes it very easy to optimize the way you do things inside your business. The first time you do any activity inside your business it’s generally not done the best way it can be.

When you start drawing your process map, it’s really easy to see why your current way of doing an activity is less than ideal; more importantly you’ll see where it can easily be improved upon. Looking at a process in a visual way makes it’s easier to understand the flow, the interactions, and the sub-processes and sub-activities that are constraining your performance.

Listen, it’s impossible to achieve optimum performance inside your business with flawed processes. Quality experts tell us 94 percent of any breakdown inside a business is due to faulty processes, not human problems, not anything else, it’s a breakdown in a process. That’s why having a tool as powerful as process mapping is crucial to streamlining your current operation.

In my company we process map everything we do, this allows us to easily train others, to outsource functions easily, and to continually improve our overall performance. Here’s an example of a process map from my company. It’s a little outdated now, (meaning we don’t use this process anymore) but the fundamentals are here for you to learn from.

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There are many ways to earn income from your audio video creations. With those files that you have created or those purchased from others that included resell and / or other rights, you can set up websites with sales pages and leads capture forms both with sales copy and sample video / audio clips uploaded and linked in the promotions that entice visitors to buy and maybe even sign up for a learning or other related series when they purchase your products.

You can also package and sell recordings of your own teleseminars, online, in-person at workshops and other events. After you record them, have transcripts prepared and package them with your recordings. Offer hard copy versions, too, by converting your files so that they’ll go onto CDs and DVDs with accompanying print guides / transcripts to package and sell that way, too.

Then publish your own audio files and video clips where you’ve interviewed attendees of the events to use as promotional pieces. Upload them to your promotional web page, add sales copy, and sprinkle digital photos around, too, with captions. Here are other popular ways to earn with your recordings.

Set up your own affiliate marketing system with a program like Clickbank. Then develop and set up sales and marketing materials for your affiliate marketers so that you’ll have an army of sellers out there earning you income. For example, set up a site for selling the recordings with samples, digital images (like ebook covers for your videos and audio packages), sales copy, leads capture form with autoresponder series to sell longer term (and to cross sell other items down the road) and ad spots: full color banners in various sizes both horizontal and vertical. And regularly add articles and fresh classified ad content and new ad images for your affiliates to brand with their affiliate links and use to market your products.

Joint ventures (JVs) are another excellent way to leap ahead in earning income. Head to JV sites in your niche through search engines. Then network and see what you can offer other entrepreneurs. For example, maybe you can set up a membership site in your niche with another business person, create, package and sell items together to both of your lists. Be sure to research what the other person does first, though, and learn more about how you can help them, too. Don’t just ask people to sell your products to their lists. Seek long term solutions for both of your businesses.

One killer way to use the power of video is to create a short personalized video and send it to the person you are interested in joint venturing with. For example, create a video and then first discuss your potential joint venture’s business interests. What I mean is, describe on the video how you are a customer of this person; you are a subscriber, etc. Get them buttered up so to speak, and then include a soft pitch to ask them for their help on your project.

You don’t want to go into full detail on the video, just describe briefly what your project is about, the commissions, contests you are running, etc. etc. You just want to gauge interest. And believe me, when your potential J V partner sees you took the time to make them a personal video, it will certainly raise some interest! I use this tactic on every product launch 1 do and it works like a charm. Try it; 1 know it will do well for you too.

Setting up a membership site on your own is another excellent way to earn income with your recordings. Offer a monthly rate and add new recordings and other products and services each month. Then get help with product creation and selling by outsourcing product creation at online bidding sites like Elance. Hire articles to be ghostwritten so that you can slap your byline and links in them and submit to online and offline publishers and directories. Offer your membership site in JV offers.

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What is a Vendor Party? It is a fair or expo where homebased business owners or distributors pay to present their business and products or services to others. Some have time slots, some don't. Some have games and prizes. In most cases these are not free-for-alls and follow some sense of order. Here are some guidelines to make the Online Event a pleasure for everyone.

Sign in with your name only unless you are a paid vendor for that particular fair. If you are a paid vendor for that fair then put your company initials after your name

When you come into the chat room, say hello and then wait to see what's happening.

Be attentive. Do not come in and then go and do something else where you aren't paying attention to what's going on. There's nothing worse for a vendor to feel like she's talking to herself.

Don't just start talking. A vendor might be in the middle of a presentation. The host will will welcome you and tell you what's going on. (She may PM {private message} you to tell you this)

All of us think our products are the best, but you can't PM a guest or another vendor and say that your products or offers are better. You wouldn't want someone to steal the person you were talking to in a presentation so you can't do it to others.

If you are not a paid vendor you CAN NOT mention your business unless specifically asked to by the host. Sometimes in a lull they will ask everyone present to post their URLs.

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Many of the blogs on the Web have been set up specifically to keep families in touch. There’s nothing wrong with that. If you use a blog to put up pictures of your kids or show your aunts and uncles what happened on your last vacation, you’ll have a great family relationship.

But you won’t have much money from AdSense. Writing solely about your family might be very easy and a lot of fun but few people make much money out of it. After all, other people’s family’s are only interesting for a short space of time.

Unless you turn a blog about a family into a blog about a family issue.

So if you had a child who had a stammer for example, in addition to writing about what she had for dinner last night or the trip to the amusement park last weekend, you could make sure you included plenty of regular posts about her speech therapy and the latest advances in treatment for stammerers.

You’d get plenty of ads for speech therapists, get talked about by other people interested in stammering and pick up plenty of free traffic.

Or if your son was keen on soccer, you could make sure you talk about youth soccer leagues, give the latest news on the tournaments and describe what happens behind the scenes as kids dream about becoming professional soccer players.

The idea is always to expand the interest in your family blog beyond your immediate family. You do that by giving it a theme that will appear to more people than your favorite aunt and uncle.

If all the people who would want to read your blog can fit around your dinner table at Thanksgiving, you can forget about making any money from AdSense. You’ve got to find some aspect of your family to expand the circle.

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This step will teach you not only how to quickly build an email list, but how to make money with the list. The secret is to grow relationships with people by way of opt-in "series" email marketing. Opt-in series email marketing is a secret weapon many big name marketers prefer not to talk about much. Bet they all use it.

This is easier than most people think. It starts with a freebie. You simply GIVE AWAY something at your website. For example, this special report you are reading right now. It was free. It helps you reach your goals. And it helps me get to know more people. People who may someday buy one of my products.

Here's exactly how it works... You put together an attractive and irresistible freebie and offer it to everyone who visits your site. When your visitors claim their freebie, they are required to enter then first name and email address. They then are subscribed to your series of personalized, scheduled email messages that you have pre-written. The best type of series is one that offers free valuable help and information about the subject they were looking for help on in the first place.

A well-written email series will form relationships with your best prospects, something that holds more value than most online businesses realize. Perhaps the best part of this strategy is that once you do the setup work, everything is completely automated and personalized. That's right, the email messages sent to your prospects, address them by first name and many people really think you are sending them a personal message. It's quite a powerful idea and it's no wonder it works so well.

The technology behind this is called a follow-up email autoresponder service. I use my WebBusinessWizard Service for my own follow ups but there are tons of services available such as Aweber, Getresponse and more. When used properly, and with a bit of originality and flare, this email marketing strategy can be one of your top sales producers. And it's all done on auto-pilot.

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Most people who sell products online automatically jump into the Search Engines when they’re looking for wholesalers of products to sell. Believe it or not, the Search Engines are just about the last place you want to look.

The vast majority of real Wholesale Suppliers do not need (or even want) to advertise on the Internet. For the wholesale supply industry, there is an entire sales and marketing structure that has been in place forever, long before the Internet ever came to be.

Real wholesale supply companies deal for the most part with LARGE retailers: Sears, Kmart, Wal-Mart, etc. These wholesale supply companies have entire sales divisions in place, with salespeople who actually travel to and call on these massive accounts personally. That’s the way it’s been done for so long that real Wholesale Suppliers take a very serious risk of hurting themselves by deviating from that strategy.

They also realize that this advertised web site approach will attract thousands of very small retailers. That means a large influx of very small accounts; accounts who will only buy a few hundred or a couple of thousand dollars worth of product at a time, not hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time.

Wholesale Suppliers pay their Account Reps good money to bring in and work with new accounts. The larger the account, the better for the Wholesaler. Many Account Reps also earn commissions from the sales they make to their accounts. So, from the Wholesalers’ point of view, large accounts are good and small accounts can be more time-consuming than they’re worth.

This doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with small Home-based Internet businesses! Again, this is simply the way most of the big wholesalers view their world and you have to understand that in order to make progress with them.

There are many real Wholesale Suppliers who will work with small retailers. It’s just not usually in their best interest to help you find them! The big brand name wholesalers of the world just don’t go around spending time and money advertising themselves to an Internet audience that they feel won’t be a significant part of their overall business.

That's why, as an online retailer, YOU have to go to them. Wholesalers don't go out of their way to make it easy for the Home-based business owner to find them. However, they CAN be persuaded to work with you if you can just find them and ask.

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That’s right! Creativity and smart thinking are the main factors of building a successful business but not before you make all preparations from your part. The HOW is more crucial than just the WHAT. Gone are the days when you could setup few page sites and make money for a living. Nowadays, Online Marketing, at least, does not work like that. And the successful businesses are well aware of that too.

There are many e-books out there teaching you techniques that require you to invest hours of hard work on WHAT about it, not the HOW to do it right. Some of those techniques really work but you can’t relay on them for a long term.

Online Business gives you the chance to be involved in lucrative market, gives you the luxury to work smart, work less yet earn a lot more than the hard workers ever will. You really don’t think that the big guys who make hefty six or seven figure incomes online work real hard to achieve that… Do you…?

The successful entrepreneurs know that smart thinking pays in this industry and they earn money while sleeping, when vacationing, while playing golf… Some of the newcomers have learnt tricks and techniques that are junk and useless, that sometimes they just cannot think straight.

Some of the ‘money-making’ e-books found on the open market, have been released in recent times. Many times they put the newcomers on the wrong path and the wrong direction deliberately.

The information found there shows you money making tricks that may help you earn, at best, a few hundreds of bucks but it’s not the way to build a strong, healthy online business for years to run. This is not the way to succeed Online. The industry where you can earn thousands of dollars for a few minutes of smart work isn’t managed that way. This is the philosophy of the online marketing and it’s high time that you understand this too!