Networking with e-zine publishers in your field is a good business strategy. These publishers are one of the most important parts of your marketing and it is suggested you start building a list of appropriate e-zines now.

There are ezine directories that can direct you to appropriate places. Vist them and subscribe to several e-zines in your chosen area. Don’t try submitting articles until you get a feel for the e-zine about sleep number bed by reading a couple of issues. The Directory of Ezines at www.directoryofezines.com , along with several others, even tell you information if article submissions are accepted, where to send them, and what rules tofollow. This information is priceless.

Contact the ezine publisher directly if you decide to submit an article. Most e-zine owners like to know the person who is sending them an article for publication. Not contacting the publisher first does not create a good raport.

Send a personal note telling the publisher how much you like their publication. List something specific you especially like about the ezine. Next, tell the publisher you believe readers would like your articles and ask if you might submit one or more. Finding one specialized point within the general interest area will increase your chances of being positively received.

Don’t send tons of articles all at once and overload the publisher’s already full mailbox. Limit yourself to sending only one article weekly, and sometimes even one a month. Make the e-zine publisher feel important by providing short articles once a week that you wrote just for that e-zine. E-zine publishers like knowing they are the only place a person can find a particular article.

If you are running an office, naturally you need someone to man the phone. It would not look very nice if a director picks up the phone and answers it if a client is calling. It would only look nice if the call passes through 2 or 3 stages after it reaches you, and it should be worked in such a way that the issue of the caller is solved in the 2nd level itself. The clients should contact directors by mails, and the directors should be able to reply to those mails when they fell like it.

Well, I never let any one else attend calls on my mobile phone. Not even my wife. No sir. Not a single person would dare to touch my phone. Not friends not family no one. But today, I had forgotten my phone on a staff’s table when I was sitting with him for a discussion, and had gone outside for a puff of smoke, and when I came back he said that someone had called me, and to my surprise, the one who called me would not have known the office number and knows only my mobile number.

I asked him and he said that the call was on the mobile. Well, there is one way to look at it, that he is a new guy and he doesn’t know that my phone is important and that he shouldn’t be picking it up, though he might have thought that he must be helping me out by answering a call for me. But only a select list of people know my number and so my phone is exclusive.

I guess I should be talking to a Mesothelioma lawyer soon to find out how to keep your phone from being answered by people at your office when you forget it on their desks.