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How should a recommendation letter be written from an Indian high school, so that the top US college need not to verify it for undergraduate?How to write good letters of recommendation - You can google for this official MIT blog, which has an excellent piece of advise and is my favourite. This applies to any college and not just for MIT.But, they can choose to validate, even when this comes from official email ID, if they get suspicious, but rare.Read this in detail and share with the teachers you are approaching for LoR.Because of our highly competitive applicant pool, letters of recommendation hold substantial weight in our admissions decisions. A well-written letter for an outstanding applicant can show impressive characteristics beyond their own self-advocacy.A guide to writing evaluations for MITBoth guidance counselor and teacher evaluations are most helpful when they are specific and storied. They should provide us with the information and impressions we cannot glean from the rest of the application. Try to give a complete sketch of the student and the context of their accomplishments. Support your conclusions with facts and anecdotes whenever possible.Try to address the following questions in your evaluation:What is the context of your relationship with the applicant? If you do not know the applicant well and are only able to write a brief summary, please acknowledge this.Has the student demonstrated a willingness to take intellectual risks and go beyond the normal classroom experience?Does the applicant have any unusual competence, talent, or leadership abilities?What motivates this person? What excites them?How does the applicant interact with teachers? With peers? Describe their personality and social skills.What will you remember most about this person?If you have knowledge of MIT, what leads you to believe MIT is a good match for this person? How might they fit into the MIT community and grow from the MIT experience?Has the applicant ever experienced disappointment or failure? If so, how did they react?Are there any unusual family or community circumstances of which we should be aware?Please pay special attention to the opening and closing of your evaluation. Remember, we are reading over 20,000 applications, and we appreciate strong statements that we’ll remember as we evaluate each candidate. With that said, please write in a way that makes you feel comfortable and do not shy away from giving us your honest impressions. We are only looking for glowing superlatives if they are backed up with examples and give us context; what is behind a student’s achievements. Above all else, make sure to go beyond a student’s grades and academic performance. We can get this information from other parts of the application.Letters of recommendation are confidential in the MIT admissions process.Examples letters of recommendation and critiquesTeacher recommendation for David:It is a great pleasure for me to recommend David for admission to MIT. He is one of the most extraordinary students I have encountered in 20 years of teaching. I taught David A.P. Calculus last year as a tenth grader, and he was one of the very top students in an extremely able group of mostly seniors. He has a high aptitude for math and was very much involved in his work, applying himself with persistence and dedication and often going beyond the regular class assignments.David’s abiding interest, however, is computer science. He has developed a series of “strands” for use in providing computerized drill and review in the basic skills and techniques of algebra and arithmetic and has recently adapted these to other subjects. David’s work in this area has been so original and significant that he has published a paper on it and delivered several lectures to professionals in other parts of the country. This is a phenomenal accomplishment for anyone, especially a young man in rural Arkansas. It is also worth noting that both last year and this year David taught computer programming to a tenth-grade class of mine for two weeks. He took over completely, preparing lectures, assignments, and tests with great care and thought. His lectures were clear and well organized, and it was obvious that he had expended a great deal of effort to make the course the success that it was.David’s personal qualities are as impressive as his intellectual accomplishments. An extremely kind, sensitive and sensible boy, he has had a difficult family situation for a few years now. He provides emotional support to his mother through her battle with cancer without allowing the situation to undermine his own stability and accomplishments. He has exhausted all that we have to offer him in this small community, and the maturity that he has demonstrated leads me to believe him capable of entering college a year early, as he now plans to do. I sincerely hope that you will be able to offer him a place in MIT’s freshman class.Critique: Excellent! This recommendation is filled with comments from someone who clearly knows this student well. We get a clear sense for not only David’s intellectual capacities, but also emotional maturity. His genuine love for computer programming comes through in this teacher’s description. We also realize that he is pushing academic boundaries in his community and making opportunities for himself – a trait that is especially important for a candidate seeking college admissions a year early.Teacher recommendation for Jen:Jen was a student in one of my predominately senior physics classes. She took physics her junior year in high school and was a good student. Through hard work, she was able to develop a good understanding of the subject material.Jen also had personal qualities that are commendable. In the two years that I have known her I have never known her to be dishonest or untrustworthy. Once on an exam paper I had made a grading error in her favor. She brought this to my attention even though it resulted in a lower test grade.In conclusion, I feel that Jen has both the academic and personal qualities to be a credit to the college of her choice, and I give her my recommendation without reservation.Critique: We receive thousands of recommendations like this each year. It is all positive, but it doesn’t give any real depth to the candidate. In this instance, the reader is left feeling the writer is reaching for something to say. Honesty and trustworthiness are certainly admirable traits, but they are not uncommon among the nation’s top college applicants. We are looking for a compelling reason to admit someone, so information on the class material does not help the candidate. Although Jen may be a hard worker, most of our applicants are. Although the comments are positive, it is difficult to grasp onto anything tangible to make this candidate’s case stronger. Was this faint praise intentional? How does Jen fare in comparison with other (more outstanding?) candidates at the school?Counselor recommendation for Mary:Mary has contributed to the school community in a variety of ways, most notably through her participation on the newspaper and yearbook staffs. Frankly, I am impressed with her aggressiveness, creativity, determination and ability to schedule extracurricular activities around a full academic workload. I have never heard Mary complain about her workload or refuse any assignment that she has been given. It is not adequate to say that she accepts responsibility readily. She seeks responsibility. Oh, for more such students!As business manager for the paper and co-editor of the yearbook the past two years, Mary has done an outstanding job. She personally brought the town’s business community from the view that the school newspaper was a charitable organization to the realization that the paper is a direct pipeline through which advertisers can reach students. She also took the initiative to set up the advertising rate schedule for the paper that produced enough revenue to expand coverage from a four-page paper, so that it is an eight-page and often twelve-page paper. Her work as photographer for both publications has been equally outstanding.Her motivation is not forced upon her, nor does she wear it like a badge. She has tremendous self-discipline. Mary is also a dedicated, versatile and talented student who will be an asset to your undergraduate community. She has my respect and my highest recommendation.Critique: Good. Lots of specifics here give us a very clear impression and help us to know why that impression is held. We have evidence of her newspaper directives and overall character.Counselor recommendation for Jane:Jane is an outstanding young woman whose academic record may not fully reflect her ability. Her parents were divorced during her junior year, and, for several years before that, her home situation had been in turmoil with a great deal of fighting between her parents. Her father has an alcohol problem, and Jane certainly endured a great deal of emotional distress. The fact that she has been able to do as well as she has done given the circumstances says a lot about her. Now that the home situation has stabilized, her performance has improved. I believe her senior year grades are a much better reflection of her ability.Critique: You may wonder whether or not the above information is appropriate in a letter of evaluation. It is! We appreciate anything that gives us insight and perspective into a student’s performance and the environment. Comments about problems that a student has experienced will help us understand the context in which they have accomplished whatever they have achieved. The extent to which they have dealt with these problems is useful to know as well.Counselor recommendation for Mike:I do not really know Mike very well. He has come to me for routine matters but generally has not had any problems that he has discussed with me. In this large school, I do not always have the time to personally get to know each of my advisees. From the comments I get from Mike’s teachers, I have the impression that he is one of the strongest students this school has seen.Critique: We do not learn very much from this report, but we understand why. The counselor is very honest, and we are not left guessing as to the reason there is not more information and will turn our attention to other parts of the application.Teacher recommendation for Brian:Brian was in the top five in my class consistently. He is certainly motivated to study. His character and personality are admirable. Brian is an excellent student, hard worker and has above average reasoning ability.Critique: This is an example of an evaluation in which we really don’t know what the writer is trying to tell us. The comments provided certainly do not give much substantive information. We are left wondering whether there is just not much to say about this student or whether the teacher just didn’t bother to put much effort into the recommendation. This is a situation where we will probably form our impressions based on the pattern of all the recommendations. If all are equally uninformative, we will assume there wasn’t much to say, but if the others are better, we will assume this teacher did not give much effort to the recommendation.PS: Quora now-a-days does not allow even relevant official blog to be shared with URL and such answers get deleted.

100 Creative Ways to Advertise Your Real Estate Business and Generate Leads!1. Take a small zip close baggie (snack sizes work well) & include the following in it: Your Business Card, Business Op Mini Flyer, a Piece of Candy - such as hard candy or a lollipop, mini flyer of current host specials, discount coupon (opt) etc. Hand these out to the bank tellers, retail cashiers, at your kids sport events, everywhere you go!2. When I stay at hotels & motels I leave a mini catalog, my business card & discount coupon and the mini coin canister for the maid! I put her tip inside the mini coin canister! I have gotten 3 orders by doing this! Be creative when you leave tips for Hotel Maids, Waitresses, Waiters, Hair Dressers, etc. Don't just hand them your business card, make it memorable! You can also buy cute little beaded change purses at your local dollar discount store!3. Print out flyers with your contact info (not your personal address), your website address & email address along with any current specials you are offering. Then contact local area mobile home park offices, apartment complex rental offices, housing developments, etc. and ask them if you can leave fliers in their office or hang on their tenants doors. Give the office employees a free gift or discount on their personal orders.4. Contact local area bridal supply stores, bridal gown stores, caterers, tux rental centers, wedding D.J's etc. Ask them if you can leave your business cards & fliers about the great (Company Name) Bridal Gift Registry for them to give to their customers. Offer store owners a free gift or a personal discount for helping you spread the word about your business.5. Daycare Centers! They are excellent to contact and leave business cards and/or fliers at! I print out a flyer of just a few items from our product line and I attach my business card & a discount coupon. I get a lot of orders by doing this! So whatever company you represent, find some items that cater to children or to moms and make up a flier!6. A lot of churches hold a Spring and Fall Fest! Contact them about getting a table or a booth. A lot of times this will cost you under $15.00 for a space! Make sure you take products with you along with business opt fliers, plenty of catalogs, business cards etc. Do a contest drawing at these types of events. Make up entry blanks that gather the customer’s info so that you can initiate contact with them again!7. Join your local area chamber of commerce! They are always holding local business events that you can participate in.8. College Campuses! Dorms & Housing Students are always looking to spend money! A lot of college students are also looking for an extra income so target them with the real estate opportunity too! Drop off fliers and business cards to the College Student Center! They usually have bulletin boards, tables and other things where you can leave your information at for FREE!9. Contact your local area Welcome Wagon or Welcome to the Neighborhood Group! Ask them about you leaving mini catalogs, fliers, business cards, discount coupons, freebie mini gifts, etc. with them. They are always looking for additional items to place in their Welcome Bags!10. Contact your local area hospitals and ask for Human Resources Dept. The Majority of hospitals hand out New Mommy Diaper Bags filled with products, samples and other stuff for New Moms who just had a baby! It's FREE for you to add in your information! I have gotten leads, new customers and new recruits by participating in these types of programs.11. Contact your local medical offices, particularly Gynecology and OB Offices and Pediatric Offices and inquire about you leaving information with them.12. Donate a Product to your local area Radio Station, they have numerous contests and they are always looking for sponsors! Your donation can be written off as a tax deduction plus you will get FREE Advertising & Business Exposure for your donation!13. Donate a Product to your local area Bingo Halls! They are always looking for sponsors of their Bingo Prizes! Bingo is BIG in a lot of areas!14. Call your Chamber & find out about Local Job Fairs; get a booth & set up info about your real estate business!15. Call your Local Area Colleges & find out when their next job/employment fair is. A lot of times you can get a booth or table for less than $35 & you’ll get a lot of GREAT new recruit leads by participating in events like these.16. Contact local area car dealerships. I have 2 in my local area that hand out a small packet that I made up for FREE to their customers who come in to take a free test drive!17. Target your local area gyms! You can get a table space for $20 or less in most cases! Make sure you have plenty of information about who you are, what services you offer, business cards and fliers.18. Network with others in your community who are in home business. Find out what events and activities that they participate in. They are usually "in the know" and can help you get started in networking in your community.19. Contact Companies in your area to see if you can come in and set up a table in the employee lounge or cafeteria for a employee shopping break! These days a lot of companies will allow you to do this if you ask them! They may also allow you to be their “preferred” real estate agent!20. Does your local area TV cable company have a local information channel? Inquire about advertising! These ads will reach thousands of potential buyers for you! I recommend you only use your website address for these types of advertising and not your personal at home address.21. Contact local small companies & shops to see if you can offer an exclusive discount or freebie (CMA, market analysis, etc.) to their employees. Companies are always looking for a way to "treat" their employees to specials from the local surrounding community.22. Small Home Town Newspapers! I don’t get too good of a response when I do big newspaper city ads, however... when I target small town newspapers I usually get a great response. If you are going to do any type of newspaper advertising, inquire about getting your ads on specific pages in the newspaper that targets the group of people most likely to buy from you.23. Get a low-cost outdoor banner printed up with your business information on it. You can usually get them done for $55 or less depending on who makes it. You can have these outdoor banners displayed at outdoor music/concert events, outdoor children’s sporting events, outdoor adult sport events, outdoor neighborhood block parties, outdoor community events, carnivals, fairs, etc.24. Take your business on the road during nice weather. Contact local area parks & community centers to see what their schedule of events are and inquire about setting up a booth or table. This is a great way to network & market your business to those in your community.25. Community Clipper Coupon Packs & Sales Flyer Mailings. These days a lot of communities have mailings such as these, contact them and see how you can participate and advertise your business.26. Contact small local area businesses such as hair salons, massage parlors, boutiques, banks etc. See if you can leave some fliers, brochures, and your business card.27. Contact local area pizza shops, diners, and deli’s and coffee bagel shops to ask them about advertising on their paper placemats, packaging, pizza boxes! Customers do read those ads!28. Contact local area restaurants, bars and clubs and see about advertising on their paper beverage coasters!29. Local Television Stations are always holding on-air contests & website contests for their viewers, contact them about you donating a prize or gift certificate to sponsor one of their contests! Great business exposure for you!30. Attend Local Area holiday shopping events. Customers who are ready to spend holiday shopping money turn out for these events by the thousands! You can usually get a booth for less than $50.00 so they are economical to participate in!31. Hold a local area community Block Party at your home or local community center! Families are always looking for something to do during the nice weather seasons! Optional: Attend your neighborhood block party and set up a table with your real estate information. Get out there in your community and get your business seen!32. Get your business listed in your city’s telephone book yellow pages!33. You can take this phone book advertising one step further by finding out what company makes the plastic vinyl phone book covers which have local business ads on them and get your business added to it!34. Get your business information printed up on pencils and hand them out to local colleges and technical schools for them to hand out to their adult students! This keeps your business information in front of them! (Make sure you only donate them to schools with adult students).35. Get a vehicle banner made for your automobile. I recommend the vinyl window clings or vinyl cling ones that stick to your automobile but don’t scratch or remove the paint. You can easily remove them when washing your vehicle!36. If your city has a travel guide that tourists request, contact that business & find out how you can advertise in it too!37. Local City Maps! These days even city maps have advertising on them! You can usually get a small business ad printed on them for an economical price.38. Contact local area hotels, motels and bed & breakfast inns and ask them if you can do up a Lobby Basket and leave it in their Lobby. What is a Lobby Basket? You make up little packs of info about your business and put them into the Lobby Basket for their patrons to take. They usually have a pamphlet wall or area too with pamphlets from local area attractions etc. If they don’t have a lobby basket area, inquire about leaving your business info in their pamphlet area. You may pick up relocation clients this way!39. Get your business info printed up on balloons! This is very economical to do! You then distribute them to local community centers, sporting events and other types of places where parents book their children’s birthday parties! These balloons can be displayed at the birthday party giving your business exposure. You can usually get them done for .3-.8 cents each. Your business name & website address is all you need on them!40. Find a few other self-employed business owners in your community and team up! You can all sponsor a local parade float, parade clowns etc. Make up signs with your business info imprinted on them so that you can receive some great business exposure during the parade!41. Get some T-shirts printed up with your business information on it (both front & back sides) and hand them out to some friends, family and co-workers and ask them to wear them out and about in the community. This is their FREE gift for helping you to spread the word about your business! Opt: Get ball caps printed up with your business info!42. Get some canvas tote bags printed up with your business information printed on it. Find a few ladies who are very active in your community and ask them to use your tote bag and give it to them for FREE under the agreement that they will use it every time they go out in the community for errands & events!43. Get a license plate made up for your vehicle! If you have your normal license plate on the back of your car, put your business named one on the front of the car! You can get one with just your business name on it for about $20-$30 per plate!44. Wear a business name tag every time you go out into your community. Even better – wear it upside down! It will attract attention and start conversations with strangers when they tell you that it is “upside down”!45. Local Area Magazines! Does your city publish a City Magazine? If so, contact them about advertising or if they hold contests for their readers offer to donate a product or service for their contest!46. Check out your local area State Fairs & Community Carnivals, there are always a lot of them going on during seasonal weather. Ask about getting a booth or table & set it up with your business information! People love to shop at Fairs & Carnivals and you may find a buyer, seller, or recruit!47. Get some Business Card Magnets printed up and hand them out everywhere you go! Have your friends & family pass them out too! People are more apt to keep a magnetic business card compared to a regular one which gets shoved into a drawer or wallet. By having a magnetized card, your business is kept in front of the potential customer/client.48. When you give closing gifts to family, friends, neighbors, co-workers etc. make sure you give them gifts that have your business information on them somewhere! These allow other people to see & touch your gift meaning FREE business exposure for you!49. Invite your spouse’s co-workers over to your home for a little mingling party! Serve some refreshments or do a cookout BBQ and make sure you have a conversation about your real estate business!50. Do a neighborhood gift wrapping party! I do this before Christmas. Invite people to come over to your home and bring their gifts and you can wrap them! While wrapping, you can talk to them about real estate, ask for referrals, etc.51. Do a joint party with another person in a non-competing business. Partying with a friend is always fun! You can hold it at one hosts home, your home or at a local community center. Invite everyone you know and have others help you spread the word. Hang up fliers at local centers & businesses too! Get the word out about your real estate business!52. Put an AD in the back of local high school yearbooks! You can usually get these ads for around $40.00 which makes it affordable advertising for you!53. Put an AD for your business in local Athletic Sport Programs! You can find these at the High School Level, Minor League Level and at Professional Sporting Events!54. Contact Local Churches & Religious Groups and see if you can place an AD in their weekly church bulletins & program guides!55. Do you have a local Community Play House? If so, get your business ad placed in their play programs! You can usually get ads in them for less than $25.0056. Co-Sponsor a Local Youth Athletic Group! Baseball teams, softball teams, cheerleading squads, gymnastic squads and swim teams, etc. are always looking for sponsors! Co-Sponsoring a team will help get your business noticed in your local area!57. Get a Yard Sign! If you have a home business, get a Yard Sign printed up & proudly display it in your front yard!58. Does your neighborhood hold local Meet & Greets? If so, make sure you go out and attend them! Get to know your fellow community members!59. Donate a Raffle Drawing Prize to a Non-Profit Group or Charity in your local community! They are always looking for prize donations for their charitable raffles. Note: Make sure you get a receipt for tax purposes!60. Do you have a Online Business & Website? Consider getting some computer mouse pads printed up with your website address & business name on them! This will keep your website & business in front of them every time they get online!61. Local Bus Stops & Bus Sheds! Have you noticed that a lot of them have local business advertising on them? Call up the company and see how much it would cost you to advertise there too!62. Does your local area grocery store allow advertisers to place business ads on the back of their cash register receipts? If so, contact them about getting your business ad on there too!63. Local baby expo's and baby events/contests! Set up a booth or table with your business info! These events are always very popular and a great way for you to reach new customers!64. Watch your local newspaper for Wedding, Engagement and New Baby Announcements! Make a list and then go to: Find and Investigate People. Verify and Append Contact Information. to try to track down addresses. You can mail off your business info to them announcing your real estate business and you may pick up a buyer or seller.65. Stamp your business info to the outside of all outgoing postal mail! Include your business card on the inside. Do this for personal mail, business mail and for paying your bills!66. Contact your local Fire & Ambulance companies & see if you can set up a table at next BBQ or fundraiser event.67. Contact LOCAL Assisted Living Centers for Senior Citizens (this is different than a nursing home!) and see if you can sponsor one of their events! Their families will appreciate your support and you may pick up buyers/sellers/referrals from their family members. They also appreciate the adult company!68. Are there local small summer concerts held in your local parks? We have them here during the summer months! Ask about advertising options during these community events!69. BUY little boxes of Smartie Candies! Put your Business info on one side & on the front side slap on a label that says "Be a Smartie, Hire me as your REALTOR!" Hand them out everywhere you go!70. Make up candy packs with your business info attached to them and hand out to the Halloween Trick or Treaters!71. Exchange Business Cards, Fliers or Coupons with another business owner in a NON-Competing Business and place her filler in your packets & outgoing packages & have her do the same for you!72. The PUBLIC Library! I go in there often and see all kinds of local advertisements for businesses there! See if you can leave a few business cards!73. Do a brochure SWAP with another business owner (NON competing business). See if she will swap a few brochures with you. You hand out a few of her brochures at your events, open houses, etc. and have her do the same!74. I have a friend & fellow network member who prints out for me...mint books...she prints a pretty graphic on it, along with my business info...they look like matchbooks and inside is a piece of peppermint hard candy! They are inexpensive too! I think I paid $8.00 for 40+ of them! She includes the candy too! I can refer her to you if you want to try those! www.bboopsworld.com/75. Hold a “vendor blender” of several vendors from different companies. Host it open-house style and have all of the vendors (including yourself) send out blanket invites to all neighborhoods involved or putting an ad in local papers!76. Ask about getting your info printed onto golf tees & balls, and then donate to a local golf course or mini golf course!77. FOAM DRINK COZIES, the foam thing you wrap around a cold beverage can! See if you can get some of those with your business info on them & hand them out at local sporting events!78. Indoor Concert Arenas. Have you attended a concert lately? Tons of advertising by local and national merchants at concerts! Check into doing some advertising!79. Children LOVE Stickers! Buy a slew of stickers with your business name on them....hand them out! Chances are that the kid's parents will see the stickers too!80. Temporary Employment Agencies...again drop off packets of info about your real estate business to them. The Economy is sluggish in a lot of the areas in the USA...ask Temp. Employment Agencies to refer some clients to you who may be interested in becoming a real estate agent!!! You could offer the staff a commission discount or small gift for referrals.81. Print up some flyers and get permission from local shopping centers to see if you can leave them on car windshields! Always ASK permission first!82. Does your community print up FREE Renters Guides, House Buying Guides Etc? (You can usually find them for FREE at your local supermarket). If so, contact them about placing your business ad inside one!83. Got a local ice cream man who drives around in his ice cream truck throughout your community? Talk to him about passing out Open house/just listed flyers or letting you add a logo onto his truck via a vinyl cling logo banner!84. Do a web search for your local county, local township and surrounding areas. I found tons of websites for my area with FREE online business directories which I was able to get my website listed in. They also have offline ADS that you can advertise in too! A great way to also find out about upcoming local community events to participate in!85. Are there any professional moving companies in your area? If so, contact them! They usually give out new business packet info to their customers/clients to welcome them to their new home. See about adding your business information to their "New Move" Packs!86. Local small town radio stations that are usually found on the AM frequency usually offer very low-cost local area advertising on their small radio station. This is a great way to get your business info out to those in your local community.87. Get your business information printed out onto paper text book covers! You can make them yourself! Donate them to local area adult technical schools and colleges!88. Is there a local business in your area holding a upcoming Grand Opening? If so, contact them! A lot of times they are giving away freebies to the first few hundred customers plus they do heavy advertising announcing their Grand Opening. This is a GREAT way for you to capitalize on that!89. Get your business info printed up on inexpensive bookmarks! Then give them to local area colleges, adult technical schools, book reading groups, libraries etc. You can usually print up your own bookmarks with your business info on them for less than .8 cents each! This will keep your business info in front of those avid book readers!90. Put your Business Knowledge to Work! Offer to teach classes to adults! Ex: A First Time Homebuyer class; a financing class, etc. You can find adult programs by contacting: Local Community Centers, Local Civic Groups and a lot of High Schools & Community Colleges offer evening classes to adults. (continuing education).This generates leads & sales and only takes a short amount of time!91. Put the word out to your friends, family & co-workers that you offer freebies to party goers. What do I mean? Well, people who are holding baby showers, bridal showers, birthday parties, anniversary parties etc. contact me about my “freebies”. They make up party goodie bags and are always looking for things to stuff them with. Depending on what type of party it is depends on what I donate! I print out pretty bookmarks, recipe cards, candy wrappers, gift bag tags, shopping lists, and chore lists etc. with pretty designs on them along with my real estate business info. I also attach a coupon. I keep my cost down to .15 cents per person. This is an inexpensive way to reach new potential customers.92. Print out your own labels! Stick them on everything! Put your contact information and real estate logo on them. I stick them on gas pumps!93. Establish a Referral program for your business and print out referral coupons! Offer established customers a free little gift or personal discount if they refer a new customer to you! I like to give out 3 Referral Coupons to every new customer I get so that they know they will be rewarded for referring new customers to me.94. Print out Coloring Pages with a small section on them advertising your business and donate them to local area restaurants, daycares etc. I was able to find 4pc. Crayon sets for ONLY .05 cents a box which I also donated along with the printed out coloring pages! Parents hang them on the front of their refrigerators after the children are done coloring them which keeps your business in front of the parent daily! Cost: About .03 cents for printed out coloring page with your business info located somewhere on it and .05 cents for the mini box of crayons.95. Contact your local area Girl Scouts, 4-H Club & other youth groups. Talk to them about you coming in to do a project with the youths in the group. During the summer time there are a lot of youth camps throughout the community. You can also find youth camps through local churches. Some are seasonal & some are yearlong programs. The Y is also a great resource!96. If you are crafty with your computer you can print out tea bag wrappers with a pretty design on them along with your business information. I purchased a few boxes of individually wrapped tea bags and then put my printed business tea bag wrapper over it. You can hand them out throughout your community.I like donating them to: Assisted Living Centers, Senior Community Centers, Daycare Centers (to be given to the parents & teachers), School Teacher Lounges, and Employee Break Rooms etc. Example of Cost: .03 cents for a printed color wrapper and about .03-.05 cents per tea bag.97 Make sure you leave info about your business on your voice mail message! Not everyone who phones you knows that you are in real estate!98 Take your outdated listing fliers and write “SOLD!” on the front with a red sharpie then distribute them in your community! Let people know that you have more properties, or if you don’t have any listings, use a listing from your office!99 Get Business-Themed Banking Checks! Your bank checks pass thru tons of hands that could become potential clients! If possible get your email address or website URL preprinted onto them! I also suggest using preprinted postal address labels too!100. Get your business info printed onto matchbooks! Donate the matchbooks to candle shops, smoke shops, and clubs etc. to help get your business name out in your community!Hopefully this list of ideas will be helpful to you!

You should not commit suicide.Many things you try are either met with success or failure. Planing and prudence increase the probability of success but this never becomes a definite recipe for success. One should try to learn to live with success and failure. Here are some quotes to inspire:But They Did Not Give Up"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."~ Samuel BeckettAs a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success. He turned to politics and was defeated in his first try for the legislature, again defeated in his first attempt to be nominated for congress, defeated in his application to be commissioner of the General Land Office, defeated in the senatorial election of 1854, defeated in his efforts for the vice-presidency in 1856, and defeated in the senatorial election of 1858. At about that time, he wrote in a letter to a friend, "I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth."Winston Churchill repeated a grade during elementary school and, when he entered Harrow, was placed in the lowest division of the lowest class. Later, he twice failed the entrance exam to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He was defeated in his first effort to serve in Parliament. He became Prime Minister at the age of 62. He later wrote, "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never, Never, Never, Never give up." (his capitals, mind you)Socrates was called "an immoral corrupter of youth" and continued to corrupt even after a sentence of death was imposed on him. He drank the hemlock and died corrupting."Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."~ ConfuciusSigmund Freud was booed from the podium when he first presented his ideas to the scientific community of Europe. He returned to his office and kept on writing.Robert Sternberg received a C in his first college introductory-psychology class. His teacher commented that "there was a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another." Three years later Sternberg graduated with honors from Stanford University with exceptional distinction in psychology, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2002, he became President of the American Psychological Association.Charles Darwin gave up a medical career and was told by his father, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat catching." In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, "I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect." Clearly, he evolved.Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.""Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophy."~ Sumner RedstoneAlbert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7. His parents thought he was "sub-normal," and one of his teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams." He was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. He did eventually learn to speak and read. Even to do a little math.Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15th out of 22 students in chemistry. In 1872, Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, wrote that "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded.R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York City caught on."Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. One fails toward success." ~ Charles Kettering"Failure provides the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." ~ Henry Ford"The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate." ~ Thomas Watson Sr.Fred Smith, the founder of Federal Express, received a "C" on his college paper detailing his idea for a reliable overnight delivery service. His professor at Yale told him, "Well, Fred, the concept is interesting and well formed, but in order to earn better than a "C" grade, your ideas also have to be feasible.F. W. Woolworth was not allowed to wait on customers when he worked in a dry goods store because, his boss said, "he didn't have enough sense."When Bell telephone was struggling to get started, its owners offered all their rights to Western Union for $100,000. The offer was disdainfully rejected with the pronouncement, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy.""So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" ~ Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer."Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly."~ Robert F. KennedyJohn Garcia, who eventually was honored for his fundamental psychological discoveries, was once told by a reviewer of his often-rejected manuscripts that one is no more likely to find the phenomenon he discovered than to find bird droppings in a cuckoo clock. (sort of a cute critique actually)Rocket scientist Robert Goddard found his ideas bitterly rejected by his scientific peers on the grounds that rocket propulsion would not work in the rarefied atmosphere of outer space.Daniel Boone was once asked by a reporter if he had ever been lost in the wilderness. Boone thought for a moment and replied, "No, but I was once bewildered for about three days."An expert said of Vince Lombardi: "He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation." Lombardi would later write, "It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up."Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams. Jordan once observed, "I've failed over and over again in my life. That is why I succeed.""I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.I've lost almost 300 games26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot ... and missed.I've failed over and over and over again in my life. That is why I succeed."~ Michael JordanBabe Ruth is famous for his past home run record, but for decades he also held the record for strikeouts. He hit 714 home runs and struck out 1,330 times in his career (about which he said, "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."). And didn't Mark McGwire break that strikeout record? (John Wooden once explained that winners make the most errors.)Hank Aaron went 0 for 5 his first time at bat with the Milwakee Braves.Stan Smith was rejected as a ball boy for a Davis Cup tennis match because he was "too awkward and clumsy." He went on to clumsily win Wimbledon and the U. S. Open. And eight Davis Cups."I never learned a thing from a tournament I won."~ Bobby JonesTom Landry, Chuck Noll, Bill Walsh, and Jimmy Johnson accounted for 11 of the 19 Super Bowl victories from 1974 to 1993. They also share the distinction of having the worst records of first-season head coaches in NFL history - they didn't win a single game.Johnny Unitas's first pass in the NFL was intercepted and returned for a touchdown. Joe Montana's first pass was also intercepted. And while we're on quarterbacks, during his first season Troy Aikman threw twice as many interceptions (18) as touchdowns (9) . . . oh, and he didn't win a single game. You think there's a lesson here?In his first professional race, cyclist Lance Armstrong finished . . . drumroll . . . last. He made up for this lackluster first effort by being the only man to win the Tour de France six consecutive times. And still counting. Talk about overcompensation.After Carl Lewis won the gold medal for the long jump in the 1996 Olympic games, he was asked to what he attributed his longevity, having competed for almost 20 years. He said, "Remembering that you have both wins and losses along the way. I don't take either one too seriously.""Our achievements speak for themselves.What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts.We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust,and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay."~ Eric HofferWalt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the city of Anaheim on the grounds that it would only attract riffraff.Charles Schultz had every cartoon he submitted rejected by his high school yearbook staff. Oh, and Walt Disney wouldn't hire him.Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" ~ H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers Films, 1927After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, read, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." He kept that memo over the fire place in his Beverly Hills home. Astaire once observed that "when you're experimenting, you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, that you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion." And here is the reward for perseverance: "The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."When Julie Andrews took her first screen test for MGM studios, the final determination was that "She's not photogenic enough for film.""Flops are a part of life's menuand I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses."~ Rosalind RussellFederico Fellini's first films, "Luci del varieta" and "El sceicco bianco" were dismal financial and critical failures. In 1952, one film critic wrote, "We shall never hear from Fellini again." Two years later, Fellini directed "La Strada," which went on to garner the Academy Award and New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. What is it they say about critics ... something about knowing the worth of everything and the value of nothing?After his first audition, Sidney Poitier was told by the casting director, "Why don't you stop wasting people's time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?" It was at that moment, recalls Poitier, that he decided to devote his life to acting.When Lucille Ball began studying to be actress in 1927, she was told by the head instructor of the John Murray Anderson Drama School, "Try any other profession."The first time Jerry Seinfeld walked on-stage at a comedy club as a professional comic, he looked out at the audience, froze, and forgot the English language. He stumbled through "a minute-and a half" of material and was jeered offstage. He returned the following night and closed his set to wild applause."The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."~ Edwin LandIn 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." I'm sure you know that Norma Jean was Marilyn Monroe. Now . . . who was Emmeline Snively?At the age of 21, French acting legend Jeanne Moreau was told by a casting director that her head was too crooked, she wasn't beautiful enough, and she wasn't photogenic enough to make it in films. She took a deep breath and said to herself, "Alright, then, I guess I will have to make it my own way." After making nearly 100 films her own way, in 1997 she received the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.After Harrison Ford's first performance as a hotel bellhop in the film Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, the studio vice-president called him in to his office. "Sit down kid," the studio head said, "I want to tell you a story. The first time Tony Curtis was ever in a movie he delivered a bag of groceries. We took one look at him and knew he was a movie star." Ford replied, "I thought you were spossed to think that he was a grocery delivery boy." The vice president dismissed Ford with "You ain't got it kid , you ain't got it ... now get out of here."Michael Caine's headmaster told him, "You will be a laborer all your life." Caine labored his way to two Academy Awards.Charlie Chaplin was initially rejected by Hollywood studio chiefs because his pantomime was considered "nonsense.""I don't believe I have special talents, I have persistence … After the first failure, second failure, third failure, I kept trying."~ Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Prize winning PhysicistIn high school, actor and comic Robin Williams was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."Enrico Caruso's music teacher said he had no voice at all and could not sing. His parents wanted him to become an engineer.Decca Records turned down a recording contract with the Beatles with the unprophetic evaluation, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out." After Decca rejected the Beatles, Columbia records followed suit.In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after one performance. He told Presley, "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him "hopeless as a composer." And, of course, you know that he wrote five of his greatest symphonies while completely deaf."No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible."~ BaudjuinThe Impressionists had to arrange their own art exhibitions because their works were routinely rejected by the Paris Salon. How many of you have heard of the Paris Salon?A Paris art dealer refused Picasso shelter when he asked if he could bring in his paintings from out of the rain. One hopes that there is justice in this world and that the art dealer eventually went broke.Van Gogh sold only one painting during his life. And this to the sister of one of his friends for 400 francs (approximately $50). This didn't stop him from completing over 800 paintings.John Constable's luminous painting Watermeadows at Salisbury was dismissed in 1830 by a judge at the Royal Academy as "a nasty green thing." Name of the judge, anyone? Anyone?Rodin's father once said, "I have an idiot for a son." Described as the worst pupil in the school, he was rejected three times admittance to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. His uncle called him uneducable. Perhaps this gave him food for thought.Stravinsky was run out of town by an enraged audience and critics after the first performance of the Rite of Spring. Later in life, he observed that "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."When Pablo Casals reached 95, a young reporter asked him "Mr. Casals, you are 95 and the greatest cellist that ever lived. Why do you still practice six hours a day?" Mr. Casals answered, "Because I think I'm making progress.""Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;but great minds rise above them."~ Washington IrvingLeo Tolstoy flunked out of college. He was described as both "unable and unwilling to learn." No doubt a slow developer.Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, was encouraged to find work as a servant by her family.Emily Dickinson had only seven poems published in her lifetime.12 publishers rejected J.K. Rowling's book about a boy wizard before a small London house picked up Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.15 publishers rejected a manuscript by e. e. cummings. When he finally got it published by his mother, the dedication, printed in uppercase letters, read WITH NO THANKS TO . . . followed by the list of publishers who had rejected his prized offering. Nice going Eddie. Thanks for illustrating that nobody loses all the time.18 publishers turned down Richard Bach's story about a "soaring eagle." Macmillan finally published Jonathan Livingston Seagull in 1970. By 1975 it had sold more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone."Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down again ...What's he to do when he gits knocked down?Why, take it for his share and go on."~ Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsThe Yearling21 publishers rejected Richard Hooker's humorous war novel, M*A*S*H. He had worked on it for seven years.22 publishers rejected James Joyce's The Dubliners.27 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss's first book, To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.Jack London received six hundred rejection slips before he sold his first story.English crime novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.William Saroyan accumulated more than a thousand rejections before he had his first literary piece published. Way to not take a hint, Bill!"Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements."~ Maria MontessoriGertrude Stein submitted poems to editors for nearly 20 years before one was finally accepted. See . . . a rose is a rose.I bet you didn't know that John Milton wrote Paradise Lost 16 years after losing his eyesightOne of Professor Pajares's first research efforts came back with a review that began, "There are so many things I don't like about this article I just don't know where to begin."There is a professor at MIT who offers a course on failure. He does that, he says, because failure is a far more common experience than success. An interviewer once asked him if anybody ever failed the course on failure. He thought a moment and replied, "No, but there were two Incompletes."Let's end with Woody Allen: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Eighty percent of success is showing up.""There is something to be said for keeping at a thing, isn't there?"~ Frank SinatraSource: They Did Not Give UpAlso, I have given details on how to overcome suicidal thoughts here: Suminda Sirinath Salpitikorala Dharmasena's answer to I'm self-destructive, lonely, depressed, anxious, suicidal, anorexic and obsessive. What should I do?