How to Identify and Cancel Troublesome Recurring Payments

Have you ever checked your credit card bill or bank account statement and realized you’re making regular, recurring payments for subscriptions you don’t use?

 Maybe you signed up for a free trial of some kind of program and didn’t follow through on the options to cancel once the free period expired.

Or perhaps you simply subscribed to a pay service you no longer use and just never got around to canceling.

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New Threats Emerge in Our Top Scams List for 2016

Some things never change, yet new things are always happening, that just about sums up our annual list of top scams for the past year and the coming one.

When we look back on our predictions from 2015, we found that most things turned out as we forecast, but there was still room for a couple of surprises.

Let’s take a quick look at how the situation unfolded as the months rolled by before we head into 2016’s forecast, with a couple of nasty trends on the horizon.

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15 For 15 - Worst Scams of the Year

Among the hundreds of news reports that cross our desks every year, there’s always a batch that we nominate as the worst scams of the year.

They’re usually stories involving tens of millions of dollars’ worth of frauds, or tales of barefaced cheek or almost unbelievable behavior in tragic circumstances.

Each one of them also carries an important message or lesson for us all about the risks of scams we face every day and the awful consequences that can happen when things go wrong.

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Attract Customers 60,000 Times Faster With This Amazing Method

• Posted by   Susan at Active World
• Posted in  Affiliate Marketing, Online Marketing, SEO, Traffic Generating
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While the debate continues as to whether or not we are now living in a ‘Post Digital’ world, we can all agree that humankind is immersed in Digital actions, thinking, and speaking. The universal language continues to be recreated and everyone speaks “Image Creation.”

Image Creation Dominates

According to pcmag.com 43% of the world’s population use their phone as their primary camera. Another amazing statistic stated by jeffbullas.com, is that between 2014 and 2015, 10% of ‘all’ of history’s photographs were taken. Statements from Thinkwithgoogle.com continue these fascinating figures explaining that Facebook hosts 140 billion photos which is 10,000 times the size of the Library of Congress!

Attract Attention to Your Business 60,000 Times Faster

Get this… according to the 3M Corporation we process visuals 60,000 times faster than text. Our human brains decipher the elements in an image simultaneously, whereas our language is decoded in a sequential, linear manner which takes us more time to process.

“…Words are processed by our short-term memory. Images, on the other hand, go directly into long-term memory where they are indelibly etched.” This quote is from Dr. Lynell Burmark, Ph.D. Associate at the Thornburg Center for Professional Development, found on Themarketingbit.com website.

Expose Your Business with Engaging Image Creations

The Best ways to persuade your audience with image creation is to use a DIY service like AdKreator.com. This is the place where you can easily use their image creation software instead of having to purchase and install expensive software on your own computer.

Adkreator is an easy to use yet very powerful do it yourself banner/ad/splash page creating service. Whether you are new to image creation, or experienced, this is a program that will please you with success and results for your business!

Increase Sales With the Power of AdKreator’s Professional Image Creation

• Boost you ad campaigns with dynamic promotional materials
• Easy to use and uncomplicated if you are not an artist
• 100% web based so there is no software to download
• Video tutorials are provided to assist you with how to make a professional looking design
• 1100+ templates — you don’t have to start with a blank page
• Image editing and photo manipulation
• Import your own photos and graphics
• Remarkable splash page creation
• Add video and subscribe forms to your squeeze pages
• Create banners and boost your advertising
• Captivating animation creation
• Make commissions with the affiliate program, up to 30%
• Professional owner who is willing to answer and assist you
• Use the Free level or upgrade to save, edit, and have unlimited designs

Connect with Your Audience and Communicate with Image Creation

It is imperative to implement image creation in your online marketing. Whether designing for your blog, your website, advertising, social media platforms… no matter where you are, you need to use images to communicate and broadcast your business.

Even since early prehistoric times, humans have communicated with drawings, artwork, and graphics. Using visuals to connect with your audience is more prevalent and successful today than ever before. Image creation will entice your customers to purchase 60,000 times faster than if you only use textual content and advertising for your business.

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Susan Nichols is the editor/publisher of Active World Online Marketing Newsletter providing you with quality content marketing, home-based business solutions, income-generating leads, and free advertising. Susan will also assist you with original article writing, ad copy writing, editing, and proofreading at Active World Writing services.

It’s December. Do You Know Where Your Business Goals Are?

Did you set goals for your business back in January of this year? It’s a fairly common practice among entrepreneurs to set new intentions when the year begins. So, how are you doing on those January goals?

It’s also pretty common for business owners to get to December, and realize:

1. They’re nowhere near reaching the goals they designed for the year.
2. They don’t remember what their goals were, or have just now recalled they even had some.
3. They feel like a failure because they didn’t reach their goals.
4. 4. All three of the above.

Are you ready to make a commitment for next year to be different? Here’s what you need to do:

• Know exactly what your goals are. Don’t just state your goals; define them. Goals often fail to be realized because they aren’t specific enough. “Get more clients” isn’t a goal; it’s a wish. “Get 4 new retainer clients paying $500 each per month by March 1st” is a goal.
• Design a way to track your progress. When you make a goal numerical, it’s easy to track. If you’re shooting for four clients and you have three, you’re 75% of the way there. With a goal that’s more qualitative, you can still track your progress by assigning a starting and ending grade or score. Then instead of the vagueness of “learn to sell better,” you can benefit from the exactness of “raise my sales skills from a C- to a B by June 30th.”
• Check in with your goals on a regular basis. This reminds you what your goals are, motivates you to work toward them, and helps you plan what to do about them each month, week, or day.
• Build in an accountability structure. You need something or someone that will remind you of your intentions on a regular basis. Depending on the level of accountability you might need, this can be notes in your calendar, phone calls with a business buddy, meetings with an action group or success team, or sessions with a business coach.
• Divide your goals into projects and commitments. Goals are often too large to tackle all at once, and that can make them seem overwhelming. For every goal you set, define either a project (something you do once and then it’s complete) or a commitment (something you do repeatedly). “Write the copy for my home page” is a project. “Go to my BNI group once a week” is a commitment.
• For motivation, use rewards, not punishment. Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t reach a goal; instead design a juicy reward you will earn when your goal is achieved.
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If you didn’t do any of these things this year, December isn’t the time for blame and remorse. Instead, use this yearend time to follow these steps so you don’t end up in the same place next year.

Copyright © 2015, C.J. Hayden

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7 Tips for Avoiding GoFundMe Tricksters

People helping people - there’s nothing better, and that’s one of the reasons why the crowdfunding site GoFundMe has become so popular.

It’s not so much for people with business ideas to find backers but more a great way for us to show support for charitable causes and individuals with ambitions or financial woes.

But it’s inevitable that, just like charities, fundraising sites like GoFundMe are also attracting their share of scammers.

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