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Get Hold of Your Elf!

"Get hold of your 'elf!"

Your weekly collection of marketing tips, hints, and advice interspersed with humor, inspiration, and other goodies to spice things up a bit. Guidance, tutoring, advice, mentoring, coaching, inspiration, English lessons, editing, proofreading services for entrepreneurs and online marketers.

Publisher: Mary Wilkey
Volume 2 - Issue 32X - November 7, 2002
Regular issue published every Tuesday

My dear readers, ever since I started publishing this ezine over a year and a half ago, I've enjoyed the heck out of it. However, in the last six months or so, because of the rapid growth of the subscriber base, the workload caused by hundreds of free ads coming in on a regular basis has become overwhelming. I've been forced to publish two extra issues a week just to accommodate them, and still I'm falling farther and farther behind.

Something has to change drastically for me to continue publishing. Therefore, starting immediately, our classified ad policy will be CHANGED as follows:

Each NEW subscriber will receive ONE free classified ad. All others who wish to submit ads will have to pay for them. Two dollars per classified ad. (I also should say here that all ads that have been submitted by existing subscribers for free publication will have to be scrapped, because I have to start somewhere, and this will simplify the process.)

However, If you are a genuine new subscriber who submitted an ad with your subscription, your ad will be published in the order in which it was received.

I also need to mention here that many times I am sent "new" subscribers by the various ezine directory services with which this publication is registered. Many times these are not "new" subscribers at all. This causes even more extra work. If you are already subscribed, please do NOT subscribe again. You will NOT receive another free ad if you do this. I'm sorry, but this wouldn't be fair to those who pay to advertise.

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In Remembrance of
September 11, 2001

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If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.

—Joseph Sobran (1995)

CONTENTS:
Sponsor Ad
Guest Article
Today’s Chuckle
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
Etcetera

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WHAT EXACTLY IS A FREE RADICAL?

As promised, I've temporarily suspended publishing personal testimonies in this slot to include a few excerpts from the amazing book that started it all, "Lessons From the Miracle Doctors," by Jon Barron.
"A free radical is a cellular killer that wreaks havoc by damaging DNA, altering biochemical compounds, corroding cell membranes, and destroying cells outright . . . a free radical is a molecule that has lost one of its electrons and become highly unbalanced . . . and seeks to restore its balance by stealing a vital electron from another molecule.
"[They] play a major role in the aging process as well as the onset of cancer, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, and possibly allergies and a host of other ailments . . .
" . . . the free radical process . . . is much the same as the process that causes fuel to burn and oil to go rancid or an apple to turn brown . . . causing, among other things, dry, wrinkled skin . . . the least of our problems. When the process gets really out of control, it can cause tumors, hardening of the arteries, and macular degeneration . . .
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GUEST ARTICLE

TEN WAYS TO FOIL CREDIT CARD FRAUDSTERS
by Heather Reimer

In the last twelve months, credit card fraud against online companies has exploded as more and more thieves figure out how easy it is. To make matters worse, online and phone orders are not automatically insured against fraud—you are 100% liable for all your losses.
So here are some easy ways to protect your e-business from credit card fraudsters:
1—Reject orders sent from free web-based email accounts like Yahoo or Hotmail. Antifraud.com says nearly all fraudulent orders come from free accounts.
2—Most real businesses have e-mail addresses that include their website's domain name. Go to their site and see if it looks legit.
3—If the billing address is different from the shipping address, this should raise a red flag, especially if they are in different states or countries.
4—Another high-risk transaction is two or more orders from the same credit card.
5—When in doubt, phone the number listed on the order.
6—US banks have an Address Verification System (AVS) that merchants can use to ensure the billing address the purchaser has given matches the one in the AVS system.
7—If you use an online order processor, make sure it has thorough fraud prevention measures.
8—Put a message on your site warning crooks you have anti- fraud protection in place.
9—Create a blacklist of bad credit card numbers so you won't get ripped off twice by the same thief.
10—If you want an extra sense of security, insurance coverage is now available against this type of fraud. One site that offers it is http://www.iib.com.au/
©2002: by Heather Reimer
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And let it direct your passion with reason,
that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection,
and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
—Khalil Gibran, Arab poet

A BIBLE RIDDLE

Who is buried in a cave at Machpelah?
ANSWER: Genesis 49:31 says: "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah." AND Jacob was buried there, too, according to Genesis 50:12-13.

"I hate women because they always know where things are."
—James Thurber

TODAY'S CHUCKLE

A COUPLE OF MOM STORIES . . .

My son Zachary, four, came screaming out of the bathroom to tell me he'd dropped his toothbrush in the toilet. So I fished it out and threw it in the garbage. Zachary stood there thinking for a moment, then ran to my bathroom and came out with my toothbrush. He held it up and said with a charming little smile, "We better throw this one out too then, 'cause it fell in the toilet a few days ago."
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One morning after getting a shower, I grabbed a towel to dry myself off, when Chase, my then 3-year-old son surprised me by bursting into the bathroom. I wrapped the towel around me as quickly as I could. He looked at me with this strange look and said: "Mommy, your wee-wee is gone—did it fall off?" In a hurry to get ready for work I said: "Yes, it did." When we arrived at my son's daycare, he blurted out to the caregivers, first thing, "My mommy is sad cause her wee-wee fell off" [Note: This was your 'elf's grandson!]

Yet another amazing fact for you:
The plant with the largest leaves is a kind of palm tree called raffia. It has leaves that are up to 65 feet (20 m) long. That's about as long as two school busses parked end to end!
Source: Ranger Rick Magazine January 1998

The wonders of the Lord never cease!

I feel that if a person has problems communicating
the very least he can do is to shut up.
—Tom Lehrer

INTERNET HINTS & TIPS

ALT KEY FOR THE EURO SYMBOL

Now that the Euro is the currency for most of the European Community, it's probably a good idea to learn how to put the Euro monetary symbol in your email correspondence or website.
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Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
—Gladys Browyn Stern

Know yourself.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as
conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

—Ann Landers

GUEST ARTICLE

PUT SOME WORK CLOTHES ON YOUR DREAMS
by Kathy Gates

Haven't you often wondered why some people are able to transform their lives and move from one success to another, while other people's lives never seem to change?
Studies show that the difference is not intelligence, education, or family background. And we all seem to know people who have tremendous advantages and throw them away, and others who start with nothing and then go on to achieve great things.
So what is it? Here's the secret: People who are successful at getting what they want out of life—big or small—are able to hold two very different images in their minds at the same time.
They are able to clearly see a long-term goal that is important and exciting to them (aka "the pull").
And based on that picture, they focus on the daily steps and tasks that are immediately in front of them.
Benjamin Franklin said, "Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes." Without putting "work clothes" on your dreams, they just stay a nice thought, a wish.
To achieve great things, you must be able to have a long term perspective and a short term focus. That combination can be found in a success formula that is common in Life Coaching: SUCCESS = DESIRE + DECISIONS + DEDICATION.
Putting work clothes on your dreams includes:
. Identify your goal clearly and specifically—DESIRE
. Assign a time frame for achieving it—DECISIONS
. Measure your progress regularly and record your progress—DEDICATION
Let's look at those a little closer.
First of all, think about kids who want to drive, or when they want a new outfit or a new toy. They don't stop trying, begging, working, learning, planning, pursuing, arguing, even demanding until they get it. That's incredible DESIRE. Put some work clothes on your dreams by looking deep inside yourself to find your message to the world. Identify your desire clearly and specifically. What is your heart's desire?
Secondly, people who are successful at getting what they want are also willing to make tough decisions. They commit their time, resources, and energy. They learn new methods and apply what they learn. Consider the Olympic athletes who make a clear decision, and then work tirelessly on making it happen. They willingly decide to postpone sleep, give up time with friends and family, hold off on vacations or careers. In contrast, how often do you just hope and wish and wonder—and maybe even plan—but never really DECIDE to make it happen? Put some work clothes on your dreams by deciding that you'll do whatever it takes to make it happen.
Finally, people who are successful in getting what they want in the long term are completely focused on the short-term actions. They are totally committed to today, the present. They are reading books, practicing, trying, adapting, always ready to take the next step. They practice daily DEDICATION, moving one step at a time toward their goal.
To achieve anything, you'll need plans and strategies. But knowledge, plans and strategies are useless, incomplete, with no real power, without the action behind them. Knowledge without action is useless! Just having a blueprint of a house won't keep the rain off your head. That house can't build itself! And neither can your dreams. The power comes from the actions you are willing to take. Put some work clothes on your dreams by taking daily actions that lead you toward the life that you want to live.
The key to your future is a long term perspective, combined with a dedicated, short term focus on ACTION! Put some work clothes on your dreams by writing your own Success Formula. Get started today!
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Kathy Gates, Professional Life Coach, believes that "Life Can Be Easy." She can help you create goals, overcome procrastination, organize your time and money, find your true passion, and learn to love the real you. Kathy is author of the Ebook, "7 Secrets to a Great Life, has an Ezine, and several Coaching Programs available. Visit http://www.reallifecoach.com, email Kathy@reallifecoach.com, or call 480.998.5843 TODAY!

INSPIRATION

Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah's Ark . . .
One—Don't miss the boat.
Two—Remember that we are all in the same boat.
Three—Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
Four—Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
Five—Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
Six—Build your future on high ground.
Seven—For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
Eight—Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were onboard with the cheetahs.
Nine—When you're stressed, float a while.
Ten—Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals.
Eleven—No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting.
Still another jewel sent in by Ray Petersen—thanks, Ray!

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