Making the Most of Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a great tool and resource that allows you to keep track of your life and the life of others. The calendar helps you to track of your important life events, and meetings while at the same time giving you the ability to look for different features and events that may be of interest to you.

You can even put the schedules of your family members and significant others right next to yours to view and keep track of. Events can be added quickly and effortlessly. If you chose not to let everyone see your calendar then you have that option by selecting those that see it. This great tool allows you to create invitations, send reminders as well as RSVP's. You can even promote events like seminars and workshops. Google calendar has it all including automatic reminders.

This calendar can be set up to be viewed on a day by day, weekly or even monthly basis, whatever your preference. You can navigate backwards and forwards with some nifty arrows. Your calendar or calendars can be private or public and searchable by other users. If you list an event you can see all of the details such as date, time, location, address, and all of the other items about the event all on your calendar.

To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640

Evaluating Google

Let's just take a look at Google and evaluate everything and put it into
perspective.

Google is an awesome internet search engine as well as a vehicle for advertising online including the use of google ad sense. Some estimates put Google as the largest United States organization with over 15,000 employees . It has expanded into web-based email, online mapping and other products and services. There is a non-profit area of Google which is Google.org and it was established with an initial fund of one billion dollars. It was founded for a good cause and that is to combat the issues of climate change, global public health, and global poverty.

During it's time in existence Google has acquired some smaller companies one of which was Pyra labs which is also the creator of blogger, the free blogging site that allows you to set up your own blog, again at no cost.

If you have been paying attention to the news you know that Google acquired YouTube for an outstanding amount of money, somewhere in the area of 1.65 billion dollars.

Google has also partnered with other organizations to fulfill different goals and objectives, companies such as Sun Microsystems and Time Warner's AOL.

The large majority of Google's revenue comes from advertising. Advertising revenue in 2005 alone was over 10 billion dollars and over 100 million dollars from other licensing and other revenues

To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640

The Art Of Coaching

Have you ever wondered how some of the best athletes in the world continue to get better year and after? What about some of the most successful individuals in the areas of marketing, sales, and business, how do they continue to perform at exceptional levels and outperform everyone else consistently?


The answer is very easy. They have coaches that help them set up game plans to hit their goals. A Coach can help you discover things about yourself you may not have been aware of. They help you tap into your creative genius to bring about the desired results. Coaching helps you reach your full potential and take your game to the next level. It also serves as a mechanism to improve your performance, and at the same time provide avenues of continued growth and development. Coaches are ruthlessly results oriented and they help to hold you accountable.

The primary function of coaching is to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be.... A coach should assess your performance by reviewing the situation as it stands today. Next you and your coach should sit down and define achievable realistic goals, explore several ideas by brainstorming, and then put a plan of action into place with needed follow up.


Initially you might think you don't need a coach, but I would suggest you think again. Anyone that has ever achieved any level of greatness in any endeavor has had a coach. Michael Jordan arguably the greatest playeer to have played the game of basketball had a coach. Tiger Woods has a coach. Professional athletes can have a variety of coaches for different areas such as conditioning, health and nutrition, free throw shooting, blocking, batting, passing and defense, depending on the sport.


You would do well to do the same. Sometimes a life coach can help you maximize your potential in the various areas of your life, such as the mental, physical, spritual, social, career, and family.


Get a coach today and raise the bar and go onto the greatness you were destined for.


To Your Great Success.

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Take A few moments and reflect on
the things you are thankful for.


Happy Thanksgiving.

To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson

Use Podcasting As A Marketing Tool

What is podcasting? Well podcasting is an audio show or file or submission which is basically put together by web pages. When people search for various information and they land on your site or page it becomes available to them by way of streaming audio or downloading onto their computers.

There is a tremendous market for podcasting it stands in the millions. Podcasting is so great because it allows individuals to focus on and actually click on the items they are interested in. Podcasting helps you to target a specific market or niche. In terms of cost effectiveness it will save you a lot of money because it is not on the same vein as traditional radio. This happens because you don't market to the masses but rather a specific targeted market thereby reducing your costs. It's basically niche marketing focusing on those individuals that are more likely to purchase your product or service.

To make your podcast the most effective you want to keep the message short and get right to the point. This does not allow the listeners attention to drift off. Also understand that today's customers are better educated, more intelligent, and more aware of the different product offerings and services. They know if what you are advertising is on the up and up or if you are trying to pull the wool over their eyes


To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640

Promote Your Business Using Social Networking Tools

If you can just establish a presence on one of the social networking sites then you have 50% of the battle won. These sites receive so much traffic it's unbelievable. All you have to do is put together the right marketing tools that will attract enough site travelers and you have it made. Of course you want to make sure you have the things in place such as the good quality products and services as well as effective and efficient marketing tools that will get you repeat visitors.

Social net-workers are pretty savvy and are always looking for fresh content, new ways of advertising and communicating. What worked yesterday may not work today, therefore it is up to you to get creative and utilize that creative genius on the inside and come up with some exceptional ways to capture the imagination and interests of those looking for the amazing. Let's face it anybody can do the status quo. This only gets you mediocre results. If you want to capture huge circles of interest on the social networking sites then you have to set yourself apart, be different. Your advertisements should have content that just sticks out in someone's mind making them always want to return to your particular space and find out what new and interesting things you have to offer. There is nothing worse than become stale, stagnate and outdated with the information you provide.

Let the vision you have for your business be somewhere amongst the stars. Shatter the limitations, what ever they might be and capture a vision of success for your business in all that you do. After all you are in fact establishing your legacy and it should be of the highest order. Go forth and get noticed and believe me you have the tools and the wherewithal to get it done.

There are so many gadgets at your finger tips for you to utilize to make your goals a reality on the social networking sites . There is absolutely no excuse for not succeeding in your various endeavors. Make it happen. Don't let the obstacles stop you. There has never been a time like now to make a name for yourself on the social networking sites.

It's all a matter of persevering and applying yourself until you hit your stated objectives. Make it a personal goal to be successful on a social networking site. In fact make your mark on several.

To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640

What's the Best Way To Make Money

The best way to make money is earning it doing something you are passionate about. When you are excited, enthusiastic, motivated, energized, happy, and passionate about what you are doing in essence you are not working. Work becomes play.

Your passion will begin to help you see opportunities that others don't see and a whole new world will avail itself to you. That's when you begin to attract the people and the things in your life that will help you accomplish your financial goals in life and then you will truly start to make some money because people will want to become a part of what you are doing because they see the excitement you exhibit.

Have a plan of action written about regarding the money you want to make. It first starts with a mindset that says you will make money and become financially independent despite the setbacks, and the shortcomings and the pitfalls. You will persevere against all odds and continue on despite the difficulty until you start making the money you want.

Once your plan is in place and you have absolute clarity about how much money you want to make and when then you must work hard, very hard.

The best way to make money is to write down how much you want to make because that now becomes a written goal. Writing out your goals makes the subconscious mind go to work on breaking that written goal into existence.

To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640