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November 6th, 2009

Quick Steps to Making Your Own Chocolate Candy

Posted in Creativity, Fine Fare, Sales Center
The human body has the capacity to considerably exceed its limitations when there is a demand. As an “addict” if you eat chocolates, the regulatory hormone of gastric functions, serotonin, is released. Any excess of this hormone is used by the brain out of physiological necessity to control your appetites, moods, angers, excitement and energy.
Scientists do not concede that this habit is an “addiction”. They say you surrender to this habit due to the stimulation chocolate effects on your senses and this results in mood changes. Now you can buttress your desire to eat chocolates as it’s now easy to make them right at home. But your learning process starts with knowing the following:
  • Cocoa beans, ground and roasted, will make available to you cocoa liquor and from cocoa liquor, you extract cocoa butter, the main ingredient of chocolates. The texture and flavor of the chocolates are the handiwork of cocoa butter.
  • The unsweetened and hard chocolate you get after the cooling and molding is finished, is known as baking chocolate.
  • Couverture, which contains 35% cocoa butter, gives the attractive shine to chocolate candies and truffles.
  • The cocoa powder used for preparing instant chocolate drinks is produced by dehydrating chocolate liquor that had all the cocoa butter extracted.
  • 35% of chocolate liquor is present in dark or bitter chocolates.
  • If you intend to produce semi-sweet chocolate, you should add appropriate amount of sugar to chocolate liquor of 15% strength.
  • Attractive chocolate candy bars are usually made with milk chocolate, which contains chocolate liquor, sugar and milk.
  • Though chocolates do not originally occur with shine and smoothness, you can impart these qualities by tempering, which also enhances the shelf life of chocolates.
Planning is an important step in anything so that matters do not drift out of control. Therefore, plan to acquire items like a double boiler, a mixing bowl, candy molds or baking sheet and a spatula or spoon, as well as purchase the main ingredient, white or dark chocolate, before starting chocolate candy making.
Chocolate candy making starts by melting the chocolate bars in the double boiler, while you continue to stir it with a spatula or a wooden spoon while it’s being heated. Then you use a baking sheet or the candy molds or a freezer to set the melted chocolate. Fruit-filled candies can be had by enrobing fruits with the still-liquid chocolate. Make sure there are no air bubbles present.
If you skip the tempering process, there will be blotches or crystal formations; the crystals in the chocolate will be unevenly distributed; and the chocolates may lack luster and shine. Maintaining specific chocolate temperatures during melting is important to keep the chocolates tempered; but if you want to avoid this, you may opt to invest in a countertop tempering machine.
“Addicts” are a good market for your handmade chocolates. Imagine the revenues if you can turn your “addiction” into a money-making proposition.
August 31st, 2009

Affiliate Marketing Tools: the Points Everybody Really Needs to Have

Posted in Living With Marketing, My Commerce, Sales Center

In essence affliliate marketing is very much like a consignment shop. Your web site pushes merchandise for this, each purchase brings in commission. There’s less work, very few operating costs, it sells 24/7, and it’s simple to pick up. To begin with, you have to make a decision as to what items or niche market best suits your interests. A way of going about this is, you need to find out solutions to problems a particular set of web users are experiencing, and what solutions are on offer to assist them. An effective method of doing this easily is to look for specific highly specific words and phrases; in general people look for these less frequently, even so they convert far more.

To discover these lucrative keywords, use Micro Niche Finder or or a a similar application. The results collected by this software or analogous computer programs and services results in related terminology in a list format providing valuable targets to earn a high placing in the search engines and generate a high number of hits.

Additional information is supplied from the program, for to illustrate search frequency, the number of competing websites, even competitor information. Finally, the info returned can help identify suitable domains, aid you in putting together your web site, and even identify the best sales opportunities.

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Building a web site is the next step; yet you still have a few important tasks to complete. Search engine optimization is absolutely crucial. Programs such as SEO Elite will make this less complicated. Your competitors’ websites are examined by the software which then provides suggestions to increase search results.

In SEO Elite the information created from the software package advises you on links, which words or phrases to focus on, and details on where to submit articles. Concisely, the results generated are the same sort of suggestions that an SEO specialist may provide.

Once you have decided on your niche market segment, have your product ads, and your site has been constructed, then it’s time to positively expand your search engine rankings. You’ll collect regular payments and you will wonder why you always struggled to make money!

July 1st, 2008

Salespeople: Doubt Equals Poison!

Posted in Sales Center

I was reading comments about the book and film, “The DaVinci Code,” and one pious person said they are very damaging; indeed “poison” because they “make people doubt.”

Looking beyond these works, and the controversy surrounding them, this comment is very much worth examining.

To put it succinctly, it says: DOUBT IS POISON.

What an incredibly provocative notion, especially for salespeople. If you expect to succeed, you can’t afford to poison yourself, or allow yourself to be poisoned by doubt.

If you do, it can be lethal to your job and to your career.

I can trace my serious sales slumps to my doubts. When I have doubted, my income has plummeted, and when I have been certain about my products and my abilities, my earnings have soared.

Period.

This correlation pertains to EVERYTHING I have sold, from books, to car leasing, to seminars and speeches, to coaching.

I can also see how this correlation applies to happiness and fulfillment in my personal life.

A more positive way to construe this is to say:

CERTAINTY SELLS.

You can translate this phrase any way you wish, substituting the word, “confidence,” but this isn’t quite the same. To me, confidence is a relative term, denoting a quantity of something.

You can feel 20% confident that you’ll earn a sale, for instance. But certainty is absolute.

It’s definite, a done deal.

You could try to equate “believing in your product,” said to be a plus for salespeople, with certainty, but again, beliefs can be strong or weak.

If you merely believe or are only confident, you still foster some doubts. Part of you is moving ahead, and the other part is holding you back. You can only achieve mediocrity this way.

In a separate article I mention that the strongest appeal you can make to a prospect is to say, buying is inevitable. The famous tire ad that declared, “Sooner or later, you’ll own Generals!” tapped into this power.

This is an example of certainty rolling up its sleeves and getting down to work.

I realize that the purpose of philosophy as an area of study, and perhaps the liberal arts, in general, is to promote doubt as an intellectual exercise. I support this; it makes us smarter, and more open and complete beings.

However, once we put on our sales hats, we’re not taking a class, or engaging in an intellectual exchange.

We’re doing something that must produce consistent, predictable, and reliable results, like applied sciences, if you will.

So, every time you’re about to speak to a prospect, eradicate your doubts as to whether your goods and services are the best choice for him.

They are, and the time to buy is now.

Period!

Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone® and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: gary@customersatisfaction.com.