Little Known IRS Office That Actually Works For the 99%
May 18th, 2012 | 
Author: This posting is considerably longer than any other I have ever done. Take my word for it. Ignore the “TL;DR” crowd, this one you will really enjoy! It’s the inside story about a government office that actually works to save all of us from paying more taxes than we should.
DEFENDER OF LAST RESORT…Nina Olson is director of the Taxpayer Advocate Service, whose job is to oversee “advocates” in every state. These employees of the IRS who represent taxpayers in egregious disputes with the service. The advocates are grease in the gears of an agency that gets jammed all too often.
Olson wins relief for 70 percent of the 300,000 people and businesses that open a case
There has been only one national taxpayer advocate, Olson, has held the position since Congress created it a decade ago. She presides over 2,000 caseworkers and data analysts–a sliver of the IRS, which employs over 100,000 people. Individuals, corporations, small businesses, even millionaires and sovereign nations have sought the help of the Taxpayer Advocate Service, as have accountants and trained tax preparers who find the tax code and the IRS impossible to navigate. In a typical year, Olson wins relief for 70 percent of the 300,000 people and businesses that open a case, according to her office. Many of these petitioners have usually exhausted most other opportunities for recourse and are often experiencing severe economic hardship.
Though she has characterized IRS procedures as Kafkaesque, Olson empathizes with the agency. Congress is constantly demanding that it collect more revenue, both to bridge what’s known as the tax gap–the more than $385 billion discrepancy between the revenue the IRS actually collects and the amount the government believes it is owed each year–and to pay down the federal deficit. While Congress demands more money from the IRS, however, it has not been generous in funding the agency.
Congress is also making the tax code more complicated every day. Right now it tops out at 3.8 million words, four times as long as War and Peace.
“For the majority of taxpayers, the IRS has become faceless, nameless, with no accountability and no liability.”
Part of Olson’s job is to target the agency’s failures and shame it into fixing them. At the same time, she’s looking at taxpayers and trying to figure out why some of them don’t pay. She recently gave a speech to the Federal Bar Association’s annual lunch with the theme: How the 99% experiences the tax system. She started with the bad news:
- One in three won’t get their calls to the IRS answered.
- The wait time for half of all people who have written to the IRS is more than six weeks.
“When I heard that“, she exclaimed, whacking her head, “I nearly hit my head against a wall.” “For the majority of taxpayers, the IRS has become faceless, nameless, with no accountability and no liability.” One of the attorney’s in the audience said “she’s completely right”. He called his dealings with the IRS “a hall of mirrors, where there are no real people and only disembodied voices with badge numbers.” He was recently snarled with a two-year fight to reverse a $24,000 penalty for a client, a Midwest manufacturer. He said “No business could stay in business behaving the way the IRS does toward people.” The case was resolved only after he brought it to the local affiliate of Olson’s agency.
“I saw the consequences of an irrational and overly burdensome approach to tax administeration,”
Olson, 58, is an improbable insider, an animated woman who prefers hot pink blazers and jangly earrings to power suits. She lives in a D.C. townhouse and walks two miles to work every day. When she was younger, she wanted to be a painter. She studied fine arts at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., after graduation to start her painting career. She took a part-time job working for a lawyer, whose clients were local wineries, coffee shops, and artists. Olson had a knack for numbers and organizaton, so friends and local businesspeople started asking her to prepare their tax returns. To her surprise, she was good at it. She bought a copy of the tax code and taught herself its ins and outs. In 1987 she enrolled in North Carolina Central University School of Law, taking night classes while working for the lawyer and raising her son by herself. Four years later she became a tax attorney. In 1991 the local bar association asked if she’d be willing to take on some pro bono work. Olson wanted to use her tax expertise to help those who were unable to buy groceries or pay rent because the IRS was levying their paychecks. The following year she started an independent low-income tax clinic, the first of its kind in the country. Soon the clinic was serving about a thousand taxpayers. One woman was an immigrant from Egypt, who earned $10,000 a year as a hairdresser and was being charged about $35,000 by the IRS. The woman’s husband, who beat her, had defrauded the IRS without her knowledge. When the agency uncovered the scheme, he fled the country. The woman could barely read English and had never filed a tax return, but the IRS viewed her as uncooperative. It took Olson four years to free the woman of her obligations. “I saw the consequences of an irrational and overly burdensome approach to tax administeration,” she says.
In the 1990′s the Senate held scathing hearings lambasting the agency for abusing taxpayers, which eventually led to the passage of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act in 1998. The new law increased oversight of the IRS and included federal funding to expand low-income tax clinics. It also created the naional taxpayer advocate, a position that reported to then Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, not the IRS commissioner. Two years later she was appointed to become the first, and to date, the only director of The Taxpayer Advocate Service, whose position has no term limits. She told herself that she would stay until she got bored or until frustration with the IRS drove her to quit. “I’m not bored yet”, she says. “And I still have a bit more work to do”.
Olson’s story ran in the April 9–April 15 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek and this posting is an except from it. As citizens of the United States we are all entitled to make use of this little known service that has resolved many tax problems of the 99%…and we are grateful for such an exemplary government employee as Nina Olson.
If you’ve taken the time to read through this posting and learned something you didn’t know before, as I did, I thank you very much and I would appreciate hearing from any new readers as well as regular followers.
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The Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Times!
Who Would be on your list? This list compiled by the editors of FORTUNE MAGAZINE and published in their April 9, 2012 issue lists their choice of The Greatest. See if you agree. All information is based on calendar year, 2011.
- Steve Jobs/Apple…Sales 108.2 billion…Market Value $546 billion… Employees 63,300
- Bill Gates/Microsoft…Sales $69.9 billion…Market Value $30 billion…Employees 255,593
- Fred Smith/FedEx…Sales $39.3 billion…Market Value $30 billion…Employees 255,573
- Jeff Bezos/Amazon…Sales $8.1 billion…Market Value $84.6 billion…Employees 56,200
- Larry Page & Sergey Brin/Google…Sales $37.9 billion…Market Value $203.2 billion…Employees 32,500
- Howard Schultz/Starbucks…Sales $11.7 billion…Market Value $40 billion…Employees 149,000
- Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook…Sales $3.1 billion…Market Value $75-100 billion (est.)…Employees 3,200
- John Mackey/Whole Foods…Sales $10.1 billion…Market Value $15.5 billion…Employees 56,200
- Herb Kelleher/S.W. Airlines…Sales $15.5 billion…Market Value $64 billion…Employees 45,392
- Noira Yang Murthy/Infosys…Sales $6.0 billion…Market Value $32 billion…Employees 145,059
- Sam Walton/Wal-Mart…Sales $446.9 billion…Market Value $316.5 billion…Employees 2.0 million
Total Sales… $796.7 billion
Total Market Value… $1.4 Trillion
Total Employees… 3,063,000
Becoming an entrepreneur is certainly a worthwhile goal if making a lot of money is what motivates you but there’s no guarantee of wealth and the majority of people who decide to start their own business, frankly do not succeed. It takes dedication, long hours and a good idea. There are many bumps along the road to entrepreneurial success so be sure to look for advice and help from those who have been successful before. One guide I would highly recommend to those who would like to own a business of their own, one that can be started part-time and is perfect for those who would like to run it from their home is MAIL ORDER, also known as Direct Response. The internet has been an eye-opener and a game changer for mail order businesses and has helped create MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRES almost overnight. Just about every successful business you see online is a mail order business. Direct Response means that products or services are sold direct to the public not through brick and mortar retailers. Companies like AMAZON, ZAPPOS, FIRST STREET, STAUER, BRADFORD EXCHANGE, HEARING HELP EXPRESS, GRAVITY DEFYER, HABAND…just to name a few of the very successful mail order companies you see advertise regularly in magazines sell their products direct to the public.
As a reader of my blog I would like to help you get started in this wonderful business that changed my life and can change yours, too.
HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE is available online from AMAZON at its published price of $39.95 plus s&h…..or you can save $10 and order it direct from the publisher for $29.95 plus $3.50 s&h (total $33.45). Send check or money order along with your name and address to: SUPERIOR PRESS 333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1032, Chicago, IL 60601. Sold on a 100% guarantee of satisfaction or your money back.
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The Secret Formulas for Success
ARE THERE MATHEMATICAL LAWS THAT GUARANTEE SUCCESS?
Scentists have uncovered special laws that reveal How To Become Successful!
- Success Code #1…The Power Handshake. Putting your free hand on the arm of the person you’re shaking hands with signifies power and influence. The handshake is a key determinant of success–it conveys, among other things, the level of regard in which you hold the person you’re shaking hands with. Make your grip firm, but not too firm. Your palm should be cool and dry, and hands should be pumped up and down three times–but for no longer than a total of 3 seconds. It’s also very important to look the person inthe eye and smile.
- Success Code #2…Promote your “Happiness Hormones”. Happiness can spread like an epidemic. If you’re happy you will attract successful happy individuals to your side. Your motivation level will rise and over a period of years by making friends with happy motivated people, who usually are successful, you’ll become one of them.
- Success Code #3…Learn to drink moderately with your friends and coworkers. The key word here is “moderately”. A study has shown that people who drink one to three beers with their friends or coworkers earn 17% more on average than those who don’t imbibe socially. Heavy drinkers are also known to earn around 6% less in salary on average.
- Success Code #4…It’s called the “Pareto Principle”. It’s a simple formula that almost always produces business success. The founders of Google knew from the get-go that their company would be successful because they relied on this principle. It’s also known as the 80-20 rule. It states that 80% of a company’s success is generated by just 20% of the work and effort expended by its employees. Therefore, one of the primary components necessary for them to be successful was to have each employee at the company spend 20% of his or her time in the development of new ideas,–such as Google +.
- Success Code #5… 1.618 If you have the desire to build an exemplary house, shoot the perfect photo, or paint a picture that all the galleries will want then make sure you know this number: 1.618. It expresses the perfect proportion between two lengths. Leonardo da Vinci’s teacher discovered this Golden Ratio (aka the Divine Proportion) in old manuscripts that he came upon more than 500 years ago. He then passed the knowledge on to his pupil, who used the formula to create the most precious painting of all time: the Mona Lisa.
- Succes Code #6…Watch your body language. Your body language can help you become successful. Start with your posture. The right posture will make you more confident. Arms relaxed, lean back slightly, chest protuding a bit. Mastering these posture hints will actually program yourself to adopt an attitude of self-assurance. A slightly tilted head is usually an indication of interest or contemplation–but if the tilt is accompanied by arms folded protectively in front of the body, it’s a sign of a defensive mechanism. This programs the brain to be uncertain and ready to flee. Keep your body straight and arms relaxed to the side. Now that you’ve figured out the situation, you’re relaxed and confident. Your eyes communicate this attitude by looking firmly straight ahead or to the side. If you’re in a position to talk to someone, make eye contact. The brain then sends out the message that “everythings under control” Do not look down or away from the person you’re speaking to. Looking down indicates an attempt to distance yourself from a situation, causing your brain to get distracted and become programmed to feel disinterest and a lack of self-confidence. Your brain then shifts its focus to concentrate on internal conflicts. If you tend to play with your fingers you’re sending negative signals. People do this generally because they’re attempting to calm themselves down when in a awkward situaion. Be aware of everything your body is doing at all times and you will be well on your way to becoming successful.
Todays blog post is excerpted from one of my favorite magazines i.d (Ideas and Discoveries) You can subscribe online: Idea & Discoveries Magazine
Now that I’ve got you properly motivated to become successful, let’s pause for our sponsor.
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You’ll learn:
- How to Get Started
- How to Find Great Products
- How to Make Your Business Profitable From the Start
- How to Price Your Product or Service for Biggest Profits
- Secrets of Creating Winning Mail Order Ads
and included in this revised edition…Complete Up-to-Date Information on How to Use the Internet to Super Charge your Business.
HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE is available from Amazon at its published price of $39.95 plus s&h or you can save $10 and order it direct from the publisher for $29.95 plus $3.50 s&h (Total $33.45). Send check or money order along with your name and address to: SUPERIOR PRESS 333 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1032, Chicago, IL 60601.
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Martinis and Ice Cream Sundaes – The Key to a Happy Healthy Old Age
Could it really be as simple and tasty as Martinis and Ice Cream Sundaes?
Read on Oh You Doubters! Irving Fields, 96 years old is not only in excellent health but looks 30 years younger than his actual age. What does he attribute this to, yes a nightly martini and an ice cream sundae before he turns in for the evening…Oh and one other thing, Never ever retire.
Mr. Fields has been playing piano in New York City since the 1920s, most recently at an upscale Italian Steak House. ” That’s his fountain of youth right there: the martini” a person squealed the other night. She was pointing to a brimming two-olive vodka martini resting on the grand piano being played by Mr. Fields.
As for the martini, a nightly staple, Mr Fields said it was as good an explanation as any for his longevity. “Don’t forget the ice cream sundae I have every night before bed”, he said while dusting off a medley of tunes from “Fiddler on the Roof” (He has never let his playing get in the way of his talking.)
“The real secret is that I love what I do, and the piano is my best friend”, said Mr Fields, who was dressed in a velvet blazer and stylish tie as he table-hopped, chatted with customers and took requests. His wife Ruth, 82, was also working the room.
(This story on Mr. Fields was reported by Corey Kilgannon in the New York Times a week ago) As for the other hints to his endurance, Mr. Fields has produced a flyer, a stack of which sit on the piano, with his “Secrets to Longevity,” a list of aphorisisms like “Eat four hours before bedtime (You’ll digest better)” and “Never make a decision intoxicated”. A regular patron commented on his piano skills “I’m big on authenticity, and you can hear the influence of the ’30s and ’40s and ’50′s in his playing. He’s lived through all musical eras and styles. Plus he’s always had the ability to play and charm his listeners at the same time, and it’s that charm that keeps you coming back”.
Mr. Fields says the six-nights a week job is perfect for him because it’s a two-minute walk from the apartment on Central Park South where he has lived for 50 years. “I get so many young people coming in saying they love Sinatra”, he said, “and they’re requesting the classics”.
Mr. Fields was born Yitshak Schwartz in 1915 and grew up in Brooklyn as the youngest of six children. he was studying piano by 1923, and by 1933, he was playing on cruise ships. By the 1940s, he said, he was playing in the biggest hotel lounges, piano rooms and supper clubs in New York City. In the 1950s, he was a fixture at the Mermaid Room and he also played the Copacabana, the Latin Quarter, El Morocco and the St. Moritz. He was the regular pianist in the Oak Room at the Plaza from 1982 to 1990. Mr Fields remembered Ava Gardner dancing barefoot to his Latin songs and Edward G. Robinson requesting Viennese waltzes.
He has made more than 80 albums, with an eclectic style that seemed to combine the Catskills, Manhattan, Miami and Havana. The owner of the Italian Steak House where Mr Fields performs says. “As long as his fingers perform, he will be playing here. He’s one of a kind. At 10:30 at night, when most people his age would be in bed, he’s going from table to table taking requests. I think it keeps him going.”
If you’re ever in New York and would like to hear Mr. Fields perform, you can find him at the upscale Italian Steak House, NINO’S on Central Park South.
I can’t teach you how to play piano like Mr. Fields, but if you’re looking for a way to own and operate your own business, and never have to worry about layoffs, companies downsizing or what you’re going to do after you retire, then you owe it to yourself to look into Mail Order as a way to “keep on working”
HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE, written by long time mail order expert, Fred Broitman has been accclaimed by by experts in the field to be “the definitive guide to success in direct response/mail order.”
You’ll learn:
- HOW TO GET STARTED
- HOW TO FIND GREAT PRODUCTS
- HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS PROFITABLE FROM THE START
- HOW TO PRICE YOUR PRODUCT FOR BIGGEST PROFITS
- SECRETS OF CREATING WINNING MAIL ORDER ADS
- COMPLETE UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE THE INTERNET TO SUPER CHARGE YOUR MAIL ORDER BUSINESS
Mr. Broitman’s book is sold with a guarantee of satisfaction or your money back.
HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE is available from Amazon at its published price of $39.95 plus s&h or you can save $10 and order it direct from the publisher for only $29.95 plus $3.50 s&h (Total $33.50). Send check or money order along with your name and address to SUPERIOR PRESS 333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1032, Chicago, IL 60601
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Can A Dead Snake Bite? The Answer Will Surprise You!
Snakes use this heat vision system to hunt their prey, warm-blooded animals–at night.
Many kinds of snakes possess a sensory organ that detects infrared wavelengths of heat energy, and this “heat vision” enables them to perceive differences in temperature of just .003 degrees C. The organ appears near their nostrils in the form of two or more small facial pits. Snakes use this heat vision system to hunt their prey, warm-blooded animals–at night. They’re able to discern the size and shape of their quarry in the dark, as well as their distance from it. Amazingly enough, the highly sensitive pit organ continues to function for up to an hour after death. So if a warm hand gets too close to a dead snake, it will trigger a reaction that causes the snake to bite. Statistics show that around 15% of all snake bites treated by doctors come from dead snakes.
This little known fact appears in the current issue of a new magazine that’s filled with dozens of other fascinating, but little known truths. More about this magazine later in todays blog post.
Do Scorpions Have Eyes All Over Their Body?
Apparently 12 eyes aren’t enough for a scorpion! Scientists have discovered that this stinging arachnid’s visual organs are located practically everywhere on it’s body. So how is this possible? The latest research results obtained by biologist Douglas Gaffin reveal that scorpions can see with their entire body surface thanks to their exoskeleton. The discovery was more or less a coincidence: Gaffin was trying to find out why scorpions glow under ultraviolet (UV) light, which is invisible to humans. While investigating how UV light illuminates a scorpion’s exoskeleton, he found that the creatures can easily navigate in the light even when their eyes are covered. The reason: it turns out that a scorpion’s hard shell serves as a 13th eye that shows it the way.
Can Surprises Make You Go Blind?
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have found that surprises act as a blindfold on the brain. Whenever we’re surprised, our brain loses the ability to perceive additional visual stimuli for around half a second–which makes us practically blind in the interim. The scientists say humans developed this mechanism to ensure our brain won’t get distracted by unimportant things in a dangrous situation.
Other subjects covered in the current issue of ID Magazine
Can Asteroids Make Us Rich?
How Deserts Swallow Civilization!
How To Recognize An Ambush!
The Secret Formulas of Success…Body Language!
For subscription info visit:Idea & Discoveries Magazine
For my own Success Secrets consider HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE: A Complete Guide To Starting Your Own Home Based Business.
Fred Broitman, a long time mail order expert, has written the definitive guide to success in direct response (Mail Order). If you would like to start a business that you can operate from your home no matter where you live, you owe it to yourself to order a copy on his 100% Guarantee Of Satisfaction or Your Money Back.
You’ll learn:
HOW TO GET STARTED
HOW TO FIND GREAT PRODUCTS
HOW YOUR BUSINESS CAN BE PROFITABLE RIGHT FROM THE START
HOW TO PRICE YOUR PRODUCT FOR MAXIMUM PROFITS
SECRETS OF CREATING WINNING MAIL ORDER ADS
and included in this new edition: Complete Up-To-Date Information On How To Use The Power of The Intenet To Super Charge Your Mail Order Business.
You can order the book from Amazon at its published price of $39.95 plus S&H or save $10 and order direct from the publisher for only $29.95 plus $3.50 S&H (Total $33.45). Send check or money order along with your name and address to: SUPERIOR PRESS 333 N. Michigan Avenue Suite 1032 Chicago, IL 60601.
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Who Knew Success Could Be So Easy!
Don’t Try to Be Good at Everything, but Be the Best at Something!
While many people dream of being good at everything, it makes more sense to focus on becoming outstanding at one thing instead.
On the surface, it may seem appealing to have well-rounded talents. But true success occurs when you focus your energy on becoming the best you can be in one specific area or at one particular type of skill.
When you do something you are naturally good at and enjoy doing, you increase self-confidence, boost efficiency, and earn a reputation as the go-to person for your particular talents.
It becomes easy and you will feel empowered and actually realize more happiness in life when you do things you’re good at and especially if those things interest you. With that in mind, here are a few tips to help you focus on honing your own talents and skills:
- Identify your strengths. Learn to recognize your talents for what they are, and strive to develop skills that will enhance your strengths and add value to what you do.
- Take note of what others say.Sometimes coworkers or friends are a great resource to identify strengths, especially if you are constantly getting complimented on a talent or skill you’ve yet to recognize.
- Never talk yourself out of doing something because of a skill or expertise you don’t have. Rather focus on what you can do.
- Let go of and accept your limitations. Don’t waste energy striving to improve your weaknesses. Instead perfect your talents and press on.
- Practice makes perfect. Remember there is always room for improvement for everyone regardless of the skill level. The harder you work at something, the better you’ll become.
When we do something we’re good at, we are naturally more engaged and fulfilled. While it’s true that strengths and weaknesses make us complete, it’s your strengths that make us successful.
WISE WORDS:
“If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.”
SOME MORE WISE WORDS from Ben Franklin:
-Light is the task when many share the toil.
-Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
-Never test the depth of water with two feet.
If you need an extra push to become successful, consider HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDRE MILLIONAIRE . It’s a book I wrote based on my many years of experience working with people just like you who were looking for a way to start their own business where they could experience success based on their own efforts. If you are tired of working for someone else, here’s an opportunity for you to stop worrying about losing your job and start earning an income where all the profits belong to you.
You’ll be surprised how rewarding it is:
- To Get Started
- How To Find Great Products
- How To Make Your Product Profitable Right From the Start
- How To Price Your Product For Biggest Profits
- Secrets of Creating Winning Mail Order Ads
- 14 Sure-Fire Check off Lists That Guarantee Huge Profits
- Complete Up-To-Date Information on How To Use the Power of the Internet to Super Charge Your Mail Order Business
HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDRE MILLIONAIRE is available from Amazon at its published price of $39.95 plus s&h, or you can save $10 and order it direct from the publisher for $29.95 plus $3.50 s&h (Total $33.45). Send check or money order along with your name and address to: SUPERIOR PRESS 333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1032, Chicago, IL 60601. Sold on a Guarantee of Satisfaction or Your Money Back.
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Free Memory Boosting Tips!
Can you trust your memory?
Forgetting where you parked the car. Returning an important phone call… It happens to all of us particularly as we get older. If you’ve ever had a moment when you can’t remember where you put your car keys or what was on your grocery list, you’re not alone. We all forget things occasionally. Truth is, increased memory loss is a serious threat for many people. Here are a few ways to sharpen your memory:
- Close your eyes. Distractions make it harder to remember things, so your memory is often enhanced when you close your eyes and shut out stimuli.
- Pay attention when learning something new. It takes about eight seconds of intense focus to get a piece of information into your memory.
- Get Organized. Create to-do lists, write down appointments on your calendar, and create a specific place for your keys, wallet, and other essentials.
- Learn something new. Give your brain the stimulation it needs to keep growing and developing.
- Interact with others. Meaningful relationships and a strong support system are vital not only to emotional health, but brain health. People with the most active social lives had the lowest rate of memory decline.
- Get enough sleep. A sleep-deprived brain cannot operate at full capacity, compromising critical-thinking skills, creativity, and problem solving abilities.
- Keep stress in check. Chronic stress destroys brain cells and damages the hippocampus, the region of the brain involved in forming new memories and retrieving old ones.
- Eat brain boosting foods such as complex carbohydrates (whole wheat bread, brown rice, oatmeal), Omega 3s (tuna, salmon, walnuts, soybeans and vegetables packed with antioxidants that protect your brain cells from damage (spinach, brocolli, cantaloupe, watermelon). Also limit your intake of saturated fats.
For more tips and tools on memory improvement, check out
www.memoryimprovement-tips.com
For those of you fortunate enough to live in a town or city with a Brain Store near you, you’ll find games and puzzles for adults and children guaranteed to keep your brain buzzing. This growing chain of stores is worth checking out, as is their website.
Now for some “words to the wise”:
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
—–Mark Twain
and from Ben Franklin
–A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
–Well done is better than well said.
–A closed mouth gathers no foot.
My thanks to my friends at THE INK WELL for allowing me to share some of their words of wisdom from their monthly CHECK OUT newsletter. This months edition also reminds us of the Five-Second Rule.
- Surely you’ve heard about the “five-second rule”, which asserts that food dropped on the floor is OK to eat if you pick it up in five seconds or less. Even though quick retrieval often means that fewer bacteria are collected on a piece of food, it’s no guarantee of safety. Here are a few things to keep in mind next time you drop food, pacifiers, or anything you’re considering putting in a mouth:
- Germs are invisible, so even though a floor may look clean, that doesn’t mean it is. If food is dropped in the kitchen or areas trafficked by shoes, which carry fecal matter, salmonella. E. coli, and other things that could be living on the floor, think again.
- Bacteria can live and thrive for up to four weeks on dry surfaces and can cling to food in mere moments.
- Moist foods (such as a slice of apple or cheese will attract more bacteria from a floor than dry foods such as crackers.
When in doubt, throw it out. A growling stomach is always a better alternative than diarrhea or vomiting, should you consume some harmful bacteria.
For creative tips on killing germs and more, check out www.vinegartips.com
WARNING! SHAMELESS PLUG COMING:
Since you’ve come to the blog about HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE, I must show you how to begin.
The book is a complete guide to starting your own home based business. No matter where you live….big city….small town….down on the farm, as long as you have access to the internet you can become successful in a business of your own operated from any room in your house with just your computer.
Read and you’ll Learn:
- HOW TO GET STARTED
- HOW TO FIND GREAT PRODUCTS
- HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS PROFITABLE FROM THE START
- HOW TO PRICE YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICE FOR BIGGEST PROFITS
- SECRETS OF CREATING WINNING MAIL ORDER OFFERS AND ADS
- 14 SURE-FIRE CHECK OFF LISTS THAT GUARANTEE HUGE PROFITS
and includes COMPLETE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE THE INTERNET TO SUPER CHARGE YOUR BUSINESS
HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE will provid you a with an easy to follow “road map” to success in a business of your own.
It’s available from AMAZON at its published price of $39.05 plus s&h or you can save $10 and order it direct from the publisher for $29.95 plus $3.50 s&h. (Total $33.45). Send check or money order along with your name and address to SUPERIOR PRESS 333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1032, Chicago, IL 60601. Sold on a money back guarantee of satisfaction.
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Can I Really Start A Mail Order Business and Become A Millionaire?
This is a question I receive quite often and even though I have answered it in earlier postings, I enjoy sharing success stories of other Mail Order Millionaires I have known or read about.
He didn’t have an office but relyed on a phone line in his father’s live chicken store on Chicago’s Northside. Years later they sold the company to STAPLES for $685 million.
Here is another giant in the industry that started out very humbly in 1956 selling office supplies door to door. Jack Miller was newly married and had a $15,000 mortgage. He didn’t have an office but relyed on a phone line in his father’s live chicken store on Chicago’s Northside. That way someone, either his father or his Uncle Abe, would answer the phone when Jack was out selling office supplies.
Miller had begun working odd jobs at age 13. He wa s a soda jerk in a drugstore, a delivery boy for a dry cleaner, an usher at a movie theater and a pin-setter at a bowling alley. He paid his way through the University of Illinois, modeling for art classes, washing dishes, digging ditches and loading freight cars. He eventually went to work for his father, slaughtering chickens and cleaning droppings off the floor, before moving to various jobs elsewhere in sales and distribution.
At 27, he decided to go into business for himself, founding QUILL OFFICE PRODUCTS, which evolved into the first mail order office supply dealer in the country. His first month, Miller sold $960 worth of merchandise and made $35 profit after expenses. His brother Harvey, joined him in the business a year and a half later; his older brother, Arnold, joined the company about 20 years later.
In 1998 Quill’s revenues had reached more than $630 million; it employed about 1,200 people. The company owned a 350,000-square- foot distribution center on a 35-acre campus in Lincolnshire, IL and nine other distribution centers around the country. Since no one in the next generation of Millers was willing to take it over they sold the company they started to Staples for $685 million in an all-stock deal. As part of the deal, Staples promised to retain the Quill brand; protect Quill employees’ benefits and pay; and retain executives, unless they made mistakes.
In semiretirement he founded the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, a nonprofit in a Philadelphia suburb, which supports teaching early American history on college campuses. Sometime after that Jack was diagnosed with an incredibly painful little known uncurable disease, peripherable neuropathy.
Now 83, Jack has dedicated his remaining years and fortune to finding a cure. His wife Goldie, who is a bit younger tells him he will live to be 100. Jack says if I’m going to live another 17 years, he would like to live some of those years free of the constant, debilitating, de-energizing, sleep depriving pain that has plagued him for the last 18 years.
Speaking to a group of 125 people, including many neurologists at a symposium on the disease. His fortune was helping pay for the three-day event as well as millions more he has contributed to start the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy, which hosted the symposium. This nonprofit is also funding research at the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, in Chicago, the John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. In coordination with those hospitals and universities, the foundation has started a peripheral neuropathy research registry of patients. Once it’s finished, researchers worldwide will be able to access the collection’s blood samples and medical histories. The symposium was one of the few times that the people conducting the clinical trials were in the same room.
Jack wound up his talk by telling the audience that this registry is just the beginning. There will be more. We think collaboration is critical so we can end the suffering so many of us go through…..and if Jack’s wife Goldie prevails, that he lives 17 years longer, he sure hopes that treatment and a cure is found so he can have some quality in the years he has left.
Jack Miller is a testament to the fact that yes one can become a mail order millionaire! Not only did he become one but due to his mail order business and the millions of dollars he made, his may be responsible for finding a cure for a painful disease that affects about 20 million people in America.
Interested in learning on how you can become a mail order millionaire? As a reader of my blog, you can receive a copy of my book HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE on a 100% guarantee of satisfaction or it costs you nothing. Buy it from AMAZON for its published price of $39.95 plus s&h, or you can order it direct from the publisher and save $10. Just send check or money order for $29.95 plus $3.50 s&h (Total $33.45) along with your name and address to: SUPERIOR PRESS 333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1032, Chicago IL 60601. If not completely satisfied, return the book for a complete refund.
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Learning To Love The Job You Have Can Lead to Your Success
Wise Words
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be sucessful. –Albert Schweitzer
IF YOU CAN’T HAVE THE JOB YOU LOVE, LOVE THE JOB YOU HAVE!
While many people say work is called “work” for a reason, it’s still possible to find enjoyment and inspiration no matter what your position. Instead of changing jobs every time you feel dissatisfied, consider changing the way you think about your job. Here are a few tips to make your workdays brighter:
- Build your relationships at work. Get to know your coworkers on a personal level. Ask them about their interests, families, or even weekend plans. Connecting on a personal level can often make it easier to collaborate on a professional level.
- Hone the skills you enjoy. Even if you aren’t able to use them in your daily job, you should keep them fresh for when the opportunity arises.
- Concentrate on what you enjoy about your job– such as your coworkers, your schedule, your pay, benefits, etc. So many people focus on the negatives that they quickly forget the positives.
- Leave work at work. Before you leave work, take a few minutes to jot down last-minute projects and tasks you will have to deal with the following day. Then leave the list (and your worries) at work.
- Reconnect with what first interested you in your job– the company’s reputation, your job position, or learning opportunities.
- Think about what it takes to do a great job in your role, and grade yourself in comparison. Look for ways you can improve your approach to your job and take more ownership in your duties.
Get involved with every training course, extracurricular activity and committee you can. Not only will you build skills and learn new, interesting things, but you will also become more employable should you decide to look for another position.
Remember, your life is more than your job. Avoid tying your identity solely to the job you do.
I know one way to make you much happier in your work life and that is starting a business of your own.
HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE
A Complete Guide To Starting Your Own Home Based Business
Long time mail order expert Fred Broitman has written the definitive guide to success in direct response/mail order. If you would like to start a business that you can operate from your home no matter where you live then his book on MAIL ORDER is all you need to get started. Whether you live in a big city or small town, the United States or Canada or Mexico or for that matter, Germany, France, Russia or anywhere else, with the power of the Internet you can become successful….and I guarantee you that success in your own business is a sure route to happiness.
You’ll learn:
- HOW TO GET STARTED
- HOW TO FIND GREAT PRODUCTS
- HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS PROFITABLE RIGHT FROM THE START
- HOW TO PRICE YOUR PRODUCT FOR BIGGEST PROFITS
- SECRETS TO CREATING WINNING MAIL ORDER ADS
14 SURE FIRE CHECK-OFF LISTS THAT GUARANTEE HUGE PROFITS
and in this new edition…Complete Up-to-date Information On How To Use the Internet to Super Charge Your Mail Order Business.
Sold on a 100% Guarantee of Satisfaction or Your Money Back!
HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE is available from AMAZON at its published price of $39.95 plus s&h but as a reader of my blog you can order it direct from the pulisher for only $29.95 plus $3.50 s&h (Total $33.45). Send your name and address along with your check or money order to: SUPERIOR PRESS 333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1032, Chicago IL 60601
15 Hot New Startup Businesses For Under $100
Can you really find a new business for under $100? The short answer is Yes! The longer answer is YES, BUT….
Finding a new business can easily be done for less than $100. But there is much more involved to guarantee your success and that’s what this weeks post is all about, but first to whet your appetite, here are 15 New Hot Startups for under $100. This information comes from an article published in a current issue of Small Business Opportunity Start Your Own Business.
You don’t have to come up with a fortune to start a small business. In fact there are dozens of great new and hot businesses you can start for less than $100. Use your imagination as you scan your community to see what’s needed. If the business you are contemplating already exists, figure out a way to beat your competition by doing it faster-cheaper-or better. Here are some moneymaking potentials for you to consider.
- Pet Biz: Pets are hot and services for pets are booming. It’s a $50 billion a year industry.
- Blog for Cash: Everyone wants a blog but can’t provide content. You do it and earn big.
- Cleaning Biz: Busy people have no time and you are selling convenience.
- Delivery Service: Connect with small biz in your area that don’t deliver and provide the service.
- Custom Cakes: Sweets are always big in any economy, Custom cakes are hot.
- Windows: Businesses that offer window cleaning are booming. Residential and Commercial.
- eBay: Sell online — your trash is someone’s treasure.
- Website: Build a website and sell stuff as you make money from home.
- Services For Seniors: You can run errands, teach computer skills, etc. for this market.
- Inventory Biz: You photograph/video and list contents of home for insurance purposes.
- Jewelry Empire: Turn your crafts into cash at sites like etsy.com
- Small Biz Owner Fill-In: Start a business filling in for entrepreneurs who need to be out of the office/shop, etc. but who have no employees to hold down the fort.
- Bottle Your Recipe: Take your sauce and sell it at fairs, online and trade shows.
- Day Care: Learn regulations and care for kids in your home or their’s.
- Apartment Prep Service: You handle cleanup, etc when tenants move out. Connect with realtors, etc.
Mail Order continues to boom! By the end of this year sales for mail order businesses will exceed more than two trillion dollars. It is a wonderful business to pursue as it easily adapts to a part-time, full- time or weekends- only schedule. You can sell from home and thanks to the Internet, you can effortlessly set up shop and sell your goods to a global audience if you like–and best of all it doesn’t matter where you live…big city or small town, on a farm or up in the mountains–in Chicago or Cleveland or Bombay, India or even from the Bahamas.
The mail order business is one of the least expensive types of business individuals can start. In mail order, a person can start small and then gradually build the business from the profits. Mail order entrepreneurs purchase products wholesale or better yet create their own products, such as a “How-To” book.
Speaking about How To books is a perfect segue to my book HOW TO BECOME A MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRE. Now in its fourth printing, it is a complete guide to starting your own home based mail order business. Easy to read and easier to follow step by step directions to a business of your own. You’ll learn:
- HOW TO GET STARTED
- HOW TO FIND GREAT PRODUCTS
- HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS PROFITABLE FROM THE START
- HOW TO PRICE YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICE FOR BIGGEST PROFITS
- SECRETS OF CREATING WINNING MAIL ORDER ADS
- HOW TO USE THE INTERNET TO SUPERCHARGE YOUR BUSINESS
- 14 SURE FIRE CHECK-OFF LISTS THAT GUARANTEE HUGE PROFITS FROM EVERY AD YOU RUN.
Convenience has always been the key to mail order success. Some shoppers love to make purchases from their armchairs. They save time,money, gas, etc. The Internet has been a tremendous boost to mail order businesses. Online shopping is a significant reason mail order selling is growing and the chapter in my book on how to use the Internet contains up-to-date information on this most important tool.
Fred Broitman, a long time mail order expert, has written the definitive guide to success in direct response/mail order. Founder and CEO of SUNMAN DIRECT, Chicago’s oldest and largest independently owned Mail Order/Direct Response Advertising Agency. He is personally responsible for selling hundreds of millions of dollars in products and services and literally helping to create many MAIL ORDER MILLIONAIRES.
The book is available for purchase from AMAZON at its published price of $39.95 plus s&h but to readers of his blog, you can save $10 and purchase it direct from the publisher for only $29.95 plus $3.50 s&h. (Total $33.40). Please send check or money order to: SUPERIOR PRESS 333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1032, Chicago, IL 60601. The book is sold on a money back guarantee of satisfaction.
