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New Tutorial Lady Guides for PDF and Kindle

(1) Tutorial Lady's Guide to Alt Key Symbols
(2) Tutorial Lady's Guide to Curing Spelling Amnesia
(3) Tutorial Lady's Guide to Designing Attractive Flyers with Word 2003, 2007 & 2010

(1) Tutorial Lady's Guide to Alt Key Symbols

PDF Version

Tutorial Lady's Guide to Alt Key Symbols includes not only codes for Windows Alt Key characters, but also Unicode characters and HTML numerical codes for 150 symbols not found on your computer keyboard. 

Examples:

Alt Key symbols work best with common text fonts: Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman

(1) How to Make Windows Alt Key Symbols
Using the numeric keypad (NumLock on), hold down the Alt Key and press the numbers shown, in succession. Then let up the Alt Key.

(2) How to Insert Unicode Symbols
Type capital letter U, the plus sign (+) and the numbers and letters as shown, in succession. Then hold down the Alt Key and press letter x. Then let up the Alt Key.

(3) How to Use HTML Numeric Codes
Type the Ampersand symbol, followed by the Number sign - &# - and then the numbers in order - followed by a semi-colon. Try these for your Squidoo symbols, though some of the Unicode symbols work also.

Copyright ©
Alt, 0, 1, 6, 9 for Print
U+00A9 (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#169 followed by ; for HTML

Trademark ™
Alt, 0, 1, 5, 3 for Print
U+2122 (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#8482 followed by ; for HTML

Registered Sign ®
Alt, 0, 1, 7, 4 for Print
U+00AE (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#174 followed by ; for HTML

You can view many of the Alt Key symbols free on this website... but the Unicode and HTML symbols are only available in the new Guide. Download the Alt Key PDF Sample page here.

Just $0.99 for the 16-page printable PDF guide containing 150 symbols in three formats - plus instructions. Here's the Paypal button for the PDF version:

Remember to click "Return to New Radiance" for your download.

 

Kindle Version

Now available on Kindle at Amazon.com... The same 150 symbols, plus instructions, formatted for the Kindle e-reader. If you have a Kindle e-reader, you can now keep your keyboard symbols close at hand, all the time.

More examples:

Bullet •
Alt, 0, 1, 4, 9 for Print
U+2022 (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#8226 followed by ; for HTML

French accent e acute - é
Alt, 0, 2, 3, 3 for Print
U+00E9 (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#233 followed by ; for HTML

Heart ♥
Alt, 3 for Print
U+2665 (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#9829 followed by ; for HTML

Here's the link for more info and a "Look Inside the Book." It's just $0.99 for the entire list of 150 symbols in three formats plus instructions. Visit http://tinyurl.com/altkeyguide

 

(2)  Tutorial Lady's Guide to Curing Spelling Amnesia

If you suffer from "Spelling Amnesia," the disorder that kills your memory for spelling and grammar rules, the Tutorial Lady has a quick cure.

If you have to stop and think about which spelling to use for THEIR, THERE or THEY'RE; ITS vs IT'S; AFFECT vs. EFFECT; or YOUR vs. YOU'RE... Tutorial Lady's spelling tutorial can help. A handy reference guide for fixing the most common spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes... before they happen.

Here's an example from the Guide: ITS versus IT'S

There seems to be a mass amnesia in spelling and punctuation centering around the word “its.” Something happened at the millennium and everybody forgot the rule for this little possessive adjective. I’ll bet this is the single biggest spelling mistake of our time.

“Its” without an apostrophe – is a possessive, third person, singular adjective that typically relates to something other than a person. The noun it refers to was probably mentioned just previously (in this sentence, “it” refers to the noun “noun”), so you know what "it" is.

“Its” refers to something “it” possesses:

The dog was so agitated, its barks were deafening.

I picked a daffodil and its color reminded me of sunshine.

“It's” with an apostrophe – is an abbreviation for (1) it is or (2) it has:

It’s a foregone conclusion. It’s raining.

It’s been proven long ago. Look at the daffodil; it’s gone to seed.

The main rule to remember here is – the apostrophe takes the place of missing letters and represents a shortened version of a pronoun and a verb: “it is” or “it has.”

No apostrophe means ownership of some kind -– and no missing letters.

Kindle Version

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PDF Version

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(3) Tutorial Lady's Guide to Designing Attractive Flyers with Word 2003, 2007 & 2010

Although Microsoft Word was originally created as a word processing program, many people began using it as a design tool for flyers, advertisements, announcements, posters and more. And while Word doesn't have the same features and capabilities as Microsoft's desktop design Publisher program, you can still create a very attractive flyer or document, if you know a few tricks.

For example: When you insert a graphic into your Word flyer, does the text end up at the bottom, leaving a bunch of white space to the side of your picture? Here's the "how-to" from the tutorial:

WRAP TEXT around your graphic:

Right click your picture, click the Layout tab, and choose how you’d like your text to wrap around your picture. If you want white space on the sides of the graphic, choose the first option “In Line With Text.” This puts your first line of text at the bottom right of the graphic (the default that Microsoft Word gives for this option).

If you want your text to start higher up beside your picture, choose “Square” or “Tight.” You can also type text on top of the graphic - just make sure that “behind text” is selected in the “Wrapping Styles” section.

The tutorial will also teach you how to:

1) Set up the Quick Access Toolbar (Word 2007-2010)
2) Set page margins
3) Make a border around your page
4) Work with fonts
5) Embed your fonts (essential for making PDFs or emailing your flyer)
6) Format paragraphs (for automatic alignment, indents, line spacing and paragraph spacing)
7) Insert, resize, rotate, move and crop your graphics
8) Change graphic colors, make borders for graphics, wrap text around graphics and rotate or flip your pictures

If you need a flyer fast, there's a special section on working with Microsoft flyer templates.

Whether you have the latest version of Microsoft Word (2010) or Word 2003 or 2007, you'll find instructions and tips for making great-looking flyers.

Kindle Version

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PDF Version

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Tutorial Lady's Guide to Designing Attractive Flyers with Word

 

Although Microsoft Word was originally created as a word processing program, many people began using it as a design tool for flyers, advertisements, announcements, posters and more. And while Word doesn't have the same features and capabilities as Microsoft's desktop design Publisher program, you can still create a very attractive flyer or document, if you know a few tricks.

Microsoft Word 2010 includes a few new bells and whistles over the older 2007 and 2003 versions, and I have added the new how-to's to my Squidoo lens on designing attractive flyers with Word.

For example...

Here's how to use flyer templates to make your design work easier:

WORD 2010:
Click on the File Tab
Click on New
Click on Flyers (you'll have a huge array of options in addition to flyers, including gift certificates, greeting cards, resumes, etc.)
Search through the 9 files for a design you like and double-click to download it.
Replace the text with your own and SAVE AS a new title in a file folder in the documents section of your computer (or desktop).

In Word 2010, you can also add a theme to your flyer.
Click on the Page Layout tab
Click on Themes
You can automatically change font types and colors for your entire document. Experiment with Themes to see which ones you like.

For more details on creating attractive flyers with Microsoft Word 2010 (and 2003 and 2007), I've created a new tutorial for Kindle and PDF called "Tutorial Lady's Guide to Designing Attractive Flyers with Word 2003, 2007 & 2010."

Kindle Version

Please visit this link at Amazon.com for more info and to purchase the Kindle version of the tutorial. It's loaded with how-to instructions for only 99¢.

Paypal Version

Here's the Paypal button to purchase the PDF format of the tutorial on designing attractive flyers with Word. Just 99¢.

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Tutorial Lady's Guide to Curing Spelling Amnesia - Now Available for Kindle and PDF

If you suffer from "Spelling Amnesia," the disorder that kills your memory for spelling and grammar rules, the Tutorial Lady has a quick cure.

If you have to stop and think about which spelling to use for THEIR, THERE or THEY'RE; ITS vs IT'S; AFFECT vs. EFFECT; or YOUR vs. YOU'RE... Tutorial Lady's spelling tutorial can help. A handy reference guide for fixing the most common spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes... before they happen.

Here's an example from the tutorial:

Rules for "Your" and "You're"

Quickie tutorial for one of the most common spelling mistakes: knowing when to use “your” versus “you’re” --

Your is the second person singular adjective that relates to something “you” possess:

Your clothes

Your car

Your outlook on life

You’re is a contraction for “you are.”

You’re going to be impressed.

You’re on the right road.

You’re going to love this post.

You can see the tutorial online here also... it contains everything you need, but it's not nearly as portable as the PDF and Kindle versions.

Kindle Version:

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PDF Version:

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Alt Key Guides for PDF and Kindle

Tutorial Lady's Guide to Alt Key Symbols - for Kindle!

Codes for 150 Symbols Not Found On a Computer Keyboard... for Alt Key, HTML and Unicode Formats

This is a useful reference tool for writers, students, Facebookers, Tweeters, Squidooers and more. Now you can know the codes for making copyright symbols, hearts, foreign accents, smiley faces, music notes, math symbols and lots more. Keep your keyboard symbols handy on your Kindle.

Instructions for all three formats are included.

EXAMPLES (Alt Key, Unicode and HTML formats for each of the 150 symbols included):

(1) How to Make Windows Alt Key Symbols
Using the numeric keypad (NumLock on), hold down the Alt Key and press the numbers shown, in succession. Then let up the Alt Key.

(2) How to Insert Unicode Symbols
Type capital letter U, the plus sign (+) and the numbers and letters as shown, in succession. Then hold down the Alt Key and press letter x. Then let up the Alt Key.

(3) How to Use HTML Numeric Codes
Type the Ampersand symbol, followed by the Number sign - &# - and then the numbers in order - followed by a semi-colon. Try these for your Squidoo symbols, though some of the Unicode symbols work also.

Copyright ©
Alt, 0, 1, 6, 9 for Print
U+00A9 (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#169 followed by ; for HTML

Trademark ™
Alt, 0, 1, 5, 3 for Print
U+2122 (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#8482 followed by ; for HTML

Registered Sign ®
Alt, 0, 1, 7, 4 for Print
U+00AE (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#174 followed by ; for HTML

Bullet •
Alt, 0, 1, 4, 9 for Print
U+2022 (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#8226 followed by ; for HTML

French accent e acute - é
Alt, 0, 2, 3, 3 for Print
U+00E9 (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#233 followed by ; for HTML

Heart ♥
Alt, 3 for Print
U+2665 (Alt, x) for Unicode
&#9829 followed by ; for HTML

150 symbols in all - with codes - for just 99¢.

Please use this link to preview or purchase the Kindle version at Amazon.com: Tutorial Lady's Guide to Alt Key Symbols

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Tutorial Lady's Guide to Alt Key Symbols - PDF Version

Just $0.99 for a 16-page e-book that includes 150 keyboard symbols using the Alt Key, Unicode character codes and HTML numerical codes.

To view a sample page from the PDF version of Tutorial Lady's Guide to Alt Key Symbols, here's the link to Download the Alt Key PDF Sample.

To purchase the complete 16-page tutorial, please use the Paypal "buy" button below, to make a payment via your Paypal account or credit card... whichever you choose.

How to Conduct and Market Teleclasses

 

Do you use teleclasses as a marketing or teaching tool? Here's info about my free step-by-step tutorial on how to set up and manage teleclasses and ways to earn extra income from your teleclasses.

Find the complete tutorial "How to Create Income Teaching Teleclasses" at my Squidoo lens: www.teleclasstutorial.com

Learn the basics of conducting teleclasses and discover additional ways to earn income from your teleclasses.

Find out which format will work best for you and whether you should charge a fee or offer your teleconference for free.

Teleclass protocols are important to know, too. I've included 10 tips to help you handle timing, muting, chiming and more.

Teleclasses are a wonderful tool to show what you know. Visit www.teleclasstutorial.com for more info.

Terrific Resource for Self-Published Authors

Seth Godin's post on The Domino Project today includes a link to a multi-page spreadsheet showing all the things authors need to do for a successful book launch.

If you have Excel, you can  download the spreadsheet and enter your own info in the cells to keep track of the dozens and dozens of "to do's" involved in publishing and marketing a book. If you don't have Excel, you could print the Google Docs pages and hand enter your information.

Amazing resource. Read about it here: Spreadsheet for Self-Publishers by Jenny Blake

How to Create Income Teaching Teleclasses - Part 1

This tutorial begins with the basics of conducting teleclasses, followed - in upcoming posts - by ways you can earn income using teleclasses as a teaching tool and info product.

You've probably also heard the words "teleseminar" and "teleconference" to describe the same thing - a teleclass. A teleclass is a seminar or educational class that's delivered over a telephone conference line to a group of people who are interested in the topic you're presenting.

So the "tele" is related to the telephone, and not to anything you'd see on a television or computer screen. Low-tech and easy.

You don't need to be a professional speaker or teacher to conduct a teleclass, but you do need to have expertise in the topic you'll be presenting. People generally attend teleclasses to learn something new.

Even if you don't consider yourself a teacher, here are 6 reasons why teleclasses might be a good option for you:

1. Teleclasses can be a source of income for business owners... and for teachers in many different fields.

2. Teleclasses can be recorded and the recording later sold as a separate product on your website. Also, for people living in different time zones... or for those with schedule conflicts, the recordings mean they can still get your teleclass content. You send an audio link to everyone who registers for your teleclasses for just that reason. For paid classes, this is automatically expected nowadays.

3. You can teach a teleclass from anywhere in the world that has phone service, even when you're traveling. So teleclasses are easy from a technical standpoint. You dial a phone number... and you're on.

4. You can use free teleclasses in a number of ways. For example, (a) you can point people to your newsletter sign up page, (b) you can inform people of other products and services you offer, (c) you can demonstrate your expertise to make people comfortable hiring your other services, and (d) you can generate buzz for yourself. Ali Brown, the former Ezine Queen, got over 6,000 registrants for her final free teleclass on email marketing. The buzz around the event became more important than the event itself. And it gave her a big launchpad for her new business.

5. Some people are better speakers than writers, so a teleclass relieves the pressure of having to create written info products.

6. You can also use teleclasses to build customer loyalty, especially if you're giving people information they really want and need.

Here's a tool I found useful for teleclass how-to information: Bob Bly's e-book "Teleconference Profits."

This Week's Free Tutorial: "Make a Big Splash Selling Your Books on Amazon"

Learn the method used by Amazon.com best-selling authors for selling hundreds - even thousands - of books in 1-2 days. For the week of December 18-25, my 45-page e-book "Make a Big Splash Selling Your Books on Amazon" is available FREE, as part of Tutorial Lady's 6-week Holiday Giveaway.

Did you ever wonder how Wayne Dyer, Neale Donald Walsch, Joe Vitale and other famous authors got onto the Amazon best-seller lists so quickly?

They used a system... one that had been tested over and over. This system became a "standard operating procedure" for authors who wanted to sell a ton of books in a short time - usually 1-2 days.

I wanted to make this system available to self-published holistic, self-help and inspirational authors... and I wrote the tutorial "Make a Big Splash Selling Your Books on Amazon" with this group in mind. But the forms, templates and methodology could be used by anyone with books to sell.

Whether you want to jumpstart sales of a new book or revive sales for an earlier title, the 'Amazon Splash' method is worth a try. And this week you can learn how it works - free.

The download link is "live" from Saturday, December 18 to Saturday, December 25 at Tutorial Lady's 6-week Holiday Giveaway lens - Click here to learn more now.

Recession-Proof Your Business - Quick Tip #2 On Pricing

In recessionary times, it helps to know your audience’s comfort zones as far as price goes. This mini-tutorial gives ideas you can implement quickly to increase your cash flow by making customers feel more secure about buying from you.

Sometimes a sliding scale works, letting your clients choose the spot on the scale they’re comfortable paying. Just make sure the lower end of the scale is one you can live with. Although, apparently, more people opt for the mid-range rather than the lowest price, probably to save face a little (rung 4 on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Ladder).

You might bundle your services into small, medium and large style offerings. Some people will only be able to afford the least expensive items, but if you bundle two or three things and give a discount for the bundle that prices it less than each item added up separately... you gain a happy customer who has gotten a bargain... and you’ve sold more items. Discounted sold items are better than higher priced unsold items, especially when your business bank account looks thinner than usual.

In the same vein – have a sale. A whopper of a sale. A once a year (or maybe twice a year) whopper. Make sure you have a clear, fairly fast deadline for your sale, though. It’ll unfreeze your cash flow and make you feel prosperous... thereby unfreezing your anxiety at the same time. This lets more good flow in. Some people offer a deep discount to the first 5 or 10 buyers of an item. That speeds up purchasing, too.

You can also extend payment terms. If you’ve ever watched the home shopping channels for ideas (it’s a worthy suggestion, by the way), you’ll notice that every so often they’ll extend their payments from one single payment to two, three or even more partial or “easy” payments. You get your item home after the first partial payment, which includes shipping and handling and, probably the wholesale cost of the item. The rest of the payments are icing on the cake, really. But it helps the customer out financially and keeps the cash flowing in for the vendor. Good for customer loyalty, too. And customers can feel more secure when they can afford the lower, spread-out monthly payments.

*** Don't forget to check out the Tutorial Lady's 6-week Holiday Giveaway... a different tutorial available for free download each week through January 1, 2011. Just visit www.squidoo.com/tutoriallady for details.

Free Dec 4-11: Tutorial Lady's Alt Key Symbols List

This week's free holiday giveaway from the Tutorial Lady is a handy 2-page printable list of 300 Alt Key symbols, including copyright, trademark, registered, bullet, French, German and Spanish accents and loads more. The PDF list normally sells for $ .99 but this week it's free at the Tutorial Lady Squidoo lens.

Here are a few examples:

Copyright (©) is Alt, 0, 1, 6, 9

Ellipsis (...) is Alt, 0, 1, 3, 3

Pound (£) is Alt 0, 1, 6, 3

Cents (¢) is Alt, 0, 1, 6, 2

One-half (½) is Alt, 0, 1, 8, 9

French accent (à) is Alt, 0, 2, 2, 4

German accent (ü) is Alt, 0, 2, 5, 2

Spanish accent (ñ) is Alt, 0, 2, 4, 1

*** For your free list of Alt Key symbols, please visit: www.squidoo.com/tutoriallady

*** Please note... you need a numeric keypad on your computer to make alt key symbols. Otherwise check out this page for alternate ways to create the symbols in your print documents (insert function and character map).