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The Internet can be useful in many ways to increase the efficiency of your prospecting and recruiting efforts. You don't necessarily have to use it only to generate prospects at your website. You can use the internet to host your presentations.

For me the greatest gift of the internet is that I can now avoid all of the drive time and no-shows I used to sit through.

You can work your face-to-face market. You can hand out business cards with your presentation site listed or use flyers or tear-offs and send them to your online presentation. It can save huge amounts of time if your prospects are viewing an online presentation while you're doing prospecting or follow-up.

But what if your company or upline doesn't have a suitable presentation online? What if you can't find one anywhere and you don't know how to create one yourself?

In this case you'll want to get your prospects phone number either in person or at your opt-in page and then create some material of your own on your own website or email them. Then you can walk them through a presentation on the phone.

You don't need to create anything elaborate. It can be a PDF of one of your company's presentations from their website or it can be a Word Doc or PDF that you have created yourself.

Or email them a Power Point. If you can find one with a narration to go along with it then this is ideal.

I have done presentations like this up to 12,000 miles away and it's a very effective technique. It takes just as long as a one-on-one in person but there's no driving and if they don't answer their phone you just carry on with your other tasks.

The idea here is that it doesn't have to be slick. You just need a visual aid to get the idea across. If you're sincere and the person is interested then it will be a positive experience.

You can also send them to a live call presentation or webcast, but I find it's difficult to get people to actually show up for these-like hotel meetings--people don't really want to be locked in to this.

Of course the ones who do attend the live presentations, either online or in meetings are much better prospects, but I have had a devil of a time getting them to show up.

Of course a nice professional audio-video presentation on a site with an autoresponder is the ideal efficient situation, but until you have that in place you have to be creative and make do with whatever you can patch together.

If you want to stay in the game long term you'll want to be making some sideline money early on to fund your marketing programs.

If you have your own list you'll be able to show your prospects how to do this and if you write your own manual you'll be able to offer it for sale to your list and create your own stream of income to fund your marketing.

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Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He teaches people to be successful online.

Let's do juicing! Just the mention of juicing and one conjures up visions of celebrity super bodies relaxing around the LA pool, soaking in the sun and sipping some colourful concoction through elegant, sometimes flashy straws.

Well however you prefer yours, I've got no problem, but juicing is here to stay - thankfully, at long last, it's taken its rightful place on the podium with the kings and queens of dieting.

There are many wonderful benefits to juice dieting. To be frank, it's the simplest, most convenient road into the invigorating lifestyle associated with a healthy, vibrant body. Your body belongs to you and its up to you to take control of its well being. We've been led along the path to ill health and sickness long enough and the giants of the food and drink conglomerates have only been too willing to take us there.

What to Expect From Your Juice Diet
At the outset, juice diets are not to be mistaken for any other liquid diet. A diet based on fruit and vegetable juices is quit unlike a regular liquid diet. When you undertake a course of juice dieting your intake is set around consuming about 8 tall glasses, each of 12 ounces, of specially formulated juice per day. The super packed foods, which you will consume, are not the odd bottle of shop bought Tropicana from the local gas station on the way from a hard day at work.

Special Formula Juice Diet
For the juice diet to be successful you need to drink the expressly formulated juices which are obtainable online and in health food stores. These drinks are designed with the added vitamins and minerals your body needs in larger amounts than would be achievable with fresh fruit juices alone.

Once you embark on a correct fruit and vegetable diet you'll be amazed at just how you begin to feel. That feeling of wellness extends to greater levels of energy and a sense of complete vigour and this is a feeling that great many people have never before experienced, especially as you consider the act that the average diet consists of junk food that we have been fed since childhood.

Fresh fruit juices are, quite simply packed to the brim with minerals and essential vitamins, enzymes and photo nutrients, all waiting to find a resting place in your body. From the day you begin a serious fruit juice diet you need no longer think about measuring your recommended daily allowance of bottled vitamins and minerals. In fact you can cross these off your shopping list, thereby saving you money and time.

Rapid Results from a Fruit Diet
In most cases your body will be able to tell the difference in just two short days. That's all that's needed to begin to feel a new person, even after decades of neglect.

Convenience
Don't forget the convenience factor - you can put away your pots and pans and just pull out that juice extractor and get juicing for a new you.

Juicing is the natural way to revitalise your body and I'm ever more convinced of this fact. Over the years family, friends, associates and colleges have all testified to the fact that they now feel years younger, more vitalised and energised than ever before. Simply put, juicing is the most natural, convenient and delicious way of restoring the years the locust has eaten.

I wish you every blessing as you seek health and restoration, as you seek to take the initiative and live life to the full.

If you'd like to know more about healthy dieting and lifestyles then visit my blog and pick up a free email course on fruit dieting...

I wish you every blessing as you seek health and restoration, as you seek to take the initiative and live life to the full.

If you'd like to know more about healthy dieting and lifestyles then visit my blog and pick up a free email course on fruit dieting...

Peter Wellington writes for www.dietrubric.com a website providing a comprehensive archive of free information and guides on healthy diets for the modern lifestyle - he answers the common question "how can I obtain my ideal weight and still remain healthy?"

Years ago, the rule throughout Mexico was, dont drink the water. We moved to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 1997 and one of the selling features of our beautiful new villa was an in-house water purification system. It had dual cartridges, one charcoal, the other chemically treated paper, and dual ultra violet lamps for additional treatment. We also had filtration units below the kitchen sink as well as in the refrigerator. Even with the household treatment, purification, and filtration systems, we were told to thoroughly rinse all vegetables and fruit in water treated with Microdyn, a chemical used for killing bacteria, etc. For additional protection, we were instructed to take a three day treatment of pills every six months in order to prevent becoming ill from amoeba or bacteria. With all the aforementioned filtration, purification, and medication, we still used bottled water to brush our teeth and were suspect of ice cubes! Of course, when dining in restaurants, we would have only bottled drinks and would rely on our semi-annual drug treatment to protect us from getting sick.

Approximately seven years ago, Puerto Vallarta, known as Vallarta or PV by the locals, constructed new water treatment and purification systems throughout the city. During the past seven years, we have become more and more lax when it comes to maintaining our in-house purification system. In fact, we havent changed the ultraviolet lamps for more than five years and the charcoal/paper cartridges for two years. The ultraviolet lamps have been dead for at least three of those years; however we did rinse the paper filter cartridge a year ago. The sale of Microdyn in Vallarta has probably dropped to almost zero, since all fruit, vegetables, etc. are purchased in large, modern, and clean supermarkets, comparable to Safeway and Kroger in the US. The bottled water truck that used to pass our villa, ringing its bell on a daily basis, hasnt been seen in five years.

Ten years ago, the local grocery stores were filthy, non-air-conditioned, and with flies everywhere as one might expect in Mexico. The situation was dramatically changed when Sams Club and Walmart moved to PV five years ago. In order to compete and survive, all new grocery stores had to be large, clean, air-conditioned, and ultra modern. The existing stores either remodeled or closed the doors.

Ten years ago, only a handful of restaurants were air-conditioned and their kitchens were all totally unregulated as was their source of foods. Today, they are all inspected on a regular basis and if they dont meet the strict standards, they are red tagged, locked up, and sometimes put out of business. The last thing the restaurateurs can afford is to have tourists return home sick. During the ten years weve lived here, weve met many visitors, mainly on the golf course. Only a handful of them have complained of stomach pains or head aches and in every case, they admitted that their problems were brought on by an over-consumption of margaritas or cervezas during the previous evening, and it wasnt the cubed or crushed ice! There are hundreds of fine restaurants in Vallarta offering every type of cuisine imaginable and there should be no fear of food poisoning in any of them.

Today, the risk of becoming ill in Vallarta from drinking the water, eating in restaurants, or shopping at the local supermarket is about the same as in Chicago, New York, or Los Angeles. Of course the corner taco stand could be suspect and water taken from some village in the hills twenty miles out of PV could create problems, however, the thought of dont drink the water never occurs to us anymore in Vallarta.

Jim Scherrer is a retired entrepreneur from Houston, has owned property in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for 24 years, and has made Vallarta his permanent residence for the past ten years. He founded Puerto Vallarta Real Estate Buyers Agents (PVREBA), whose mission is to reveal all the recent changes that have occurred in Vallarta while dispelling the misconceptions about living in Mexico. PVREBA acts exclusively as buyers agents by introducing North Americans to Vallarta, showing them properties that meet their needs and budgets, and assisting them through the foreign buying process, with all payments made by the listing agents. For the full series of articles regarding Retirement in Puerto Vallarta as well as pertinent Puerto Vallarta links, please visit us at http://www.pvreba.com/

In offices across the United States and the world, phones drive business. Phone systems enable the vital communication portals that allow cross city, state, and country decisions to be made, whether a simple lunch order or a multi million dollar closure. One corporation that has been involved in this daily business-communication cycle from the infancy of telecommunications has been Nortel Networks Corporation. However, Nortel has not enjoyed a linear, smooth growth; like many companies aged 100 years or more, several transformations, for better or worse, have occurred to shape the giant Nortel Networks Corporation is today.

Nortel began its trek through the world of business in 1895 as Northern Electric, a spin off company of Bell Telephone Company of Canada, incorporated to manufacture business-to-business phones as well as other devices. Northern Electric morphed further into the Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company Limited before the turn of century. With its headquarters and first factories centered in Montreal, Northern Electric continued with phone and other device manufacturing and selling into the early 1900s, when, in 1914, a merger with Imperial Cable resulted in a new Northern Electric, co-owned by Bell Canada and Western Electric, a U.S. company.

Business continued to grow for Northern Electric after the Western Electric merger until an anti-trust suit was brought against AT&T/Western Electric in 1946, forcing Northern to be sold exclusively to Bell Canada, and in turn forcing Northern Electric to stop producing and distributing products built for Western Electric. Due to this critical financial and logistical set back, Northern began manufacturing and distributing their products, including television sets. In 1964, Bell Canada bought full ownership of Northern Electric and in 1973, took the company public. Within this period of time, two vital decisions were made to advance Northern Electric; first, in 1969, Northern began working on digitizing their telephone systems. Second, steps were taken to enter the U.S. market, including their first U.S. factory opening in Michigan in 1972. These steps resulted in Northern shipping its first digital switching system in 1975.

With a company name change to Northern Telecom Limited, a push to concentrate the companys emphasis on digital technology, and a merging of parent company Bell Canada Enterprises, Bell Canada and Northern Telecom, and Bell-Northern Research in 1986, business was thriving. In 1995, the company we know today was branded; its 100 year anniversary unveiled the company's streamlined corporate identity, Nortel Networks Corporation.

Gary Evans is CEO of Hi Line Supply, a Dallas-based telecommunications company with 20 years experience in finding Nortel Norstar, selling Norstar Meridian, and refurbishing Norstar BCM telephone systems. With a company at the forefront of telecommunication equipment, their services reach beyond Texas and the US to their international clients.