November News & Updates
	November 21st, 2005
	Greetings!                                        View in your web browser with all graphics.                                                                      An UNSUBSCRIBE One-Click is at the bottom. We hope you are doing well.  As we enter the holiday season and face the end of the business year, there are many productive things to do in wrapping this year up and planning for 2006!  Enjoy this month's newsletter and have a Happy thanksgiving! ~ Paul Helmick 1- Productive & Profitable Year End Sales Tips With less than 20 business days left in the year, what can you really do to drive any final sales in 2005 and position yourself as a strong partner to clients in 2006? This is a short excerpt from a series of articles I'm writing on sales & marketing strategies for small businesses.  I share three productive and practical things you can do with the last few business days of the year to enhance your sales and increase your personal business value to your clients.   Enjoy reading this short article. 2- New Premier Strategies Literature Online For each stage the business life cycle we share a simple, one-sheet services profile.   If you or your friends are Starting, Growing, Buying or Selling a business, we can help. Here are the four new service profiles including services and rates. Starting a Business Growing a Business Buying a Business Selling a Business          3- New West Virginia Business Lists Available Did you know there is public information available that helps you learn what new business startups there are each month?  Use this tool to help grow your business. Visit WV's Secretary of State has done a fantastic job of publishing an online database of every WV Business. It's a great resource for looking up an owner or verifying an address of of record for a business. Visit the site at http://www.wvsos.com/wvcorporations/  Each month a list this public data for startups & corporate changes is published.  Here is a review of October 2005 - that shows you an example of new business listings by city. There were 481 new/updated businesses in October - below are the top 10 cities. City Oct 05  Charleston 51  Morgantown 33  Fairmont 15  Wheeling 12  Martinsburg 11  St. Albans 10  Huntington 9  Princeton 9  Parkersburg 8  Bridgeport 8 These companies are excellent prospects if your company serves new businesses. Please let us know if we can help you market effectively to these new businesses and business owners. 4- Free Video iPod for New Client Referrals Enjoy one of the hottest personal media devices ever! We'll give you one FREE for any business referrals to business owners who are starting or growing their business.* *For each new prospect you refer who chooses to use Premier's monthly consulting services to help them startup or grow their business; we'll reward your referral with a FREE 30 Gig Video iPod and you can enjoy the best mobile audio/video experience possible! Just email us and let us know whom to follow-up with. If you have a friend or client who is just starting or trying to grow their business - we can help. We'll be very responsive to the referrals you share with us. If they become a consulting client - you will enjoy an iPod as a reward! Thank you again for your trust and your referrals! Did you know that just today, TIVO announced that in the first quarter of 2006 - you'll be able to copy your TIVO'd shows over to your iPod? What's next? 5- 2005 Inc. 500 - Fastest Growing Firms Learn from the CEO's of America's fastest growing companies.  Understand what markets are hot and being well-served by these leading companies in each industry. Each year since 1983, Inc. Magazine has honored a selection of the fastest-growing private businesses in America with its Inc. 500 list. What makes a business great? Learn from the Inc. 500.  Here are two links to the Top 25, and some statistical highlights from the CEO survey of these companies leaders. Inc. Magazine's Inc. 500 for 2005: www.inc.com/inc500   Yahoo's Summary: http://biz.yahoo.com/special/500_04.html 6- This Month's Google Power Tips & Tricks One of our newsletter's most read tips & tricks is always about what Google can do to make your life easier. Indexing every book on the planet is a good start... http://books.google.com/ - You've probably seen the headlines... Google's ambition to index all of the out-of-print books, books whose copyrights have expired, index the contents of some of our nations largest university libraries - and it's all at your fingertips for free.  They are extremely protective of author's and copyright issues and can bring visibility/availability to books like never before. Visit the site - type in something of interest like "Drucker" and you will see a variety of his works, can browse the front/back cover, the index and table of contents.  With your free google acount you can drill down into the inside of each book and view the text or scanned images.  Better yet, pick up a business book you use/read off your own bookshelf.  Pick a page and type in a section of text. More often than not, it's been indexed/scanned! What a great tool to be able to reference and search your own library and printed resources! Enjoy this is a very powerful research tool for you, your staff, your children - It truly opens up the world of print to everyone. Thank you for allowing us to share this news with you.  We appreciate your relationship and interest.  Have a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday! Sincerely, Paul W. Helmick, CEO Premier Strategies, LLC www.premierstrategies.com paul@premierstrategies.com 800.300.2725