About Barbara

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Life….it’s Character-Building! 

Welcome!  My name is Barbara Ling, and I’m all about

• Teaching via humor
• Making money
• Enjoying today
• Sharing what I’ve learned over the past decade about being successful in life. 

You’ll have a blast enjoying my site, as I always feel that humor makes everything shine brighter.

In other words…..

Short bio: Barbara Ling:

• Online entrepreneur who has authored 25 books/ebooks on various consumer and business related topics on the Internet
• Pioneer in Internet Recruiting
• Website design innovator since 1991
• Coffee Fan
• Online trainer/motivational speaker
• Maverick mother to 4 children and 15 parakeets
• Martial Arts enthusiast
• Guest post at John Chow.com - Empower Your Children To Out-Earn Their Professors
• Interview at SEOMOZ - Barbara Ling: Secrets of a Veteran Webmaster

Long bio: Barbara Ling has been consistently in the right place at the right time when it comes to demystifying the Internet for consumers across the globe. She:

• Authored the only Internet recruiting resource, The Internet Recruiting Edge, that received 5 stars from Inc magazine when it debuted
• Was a Microsoft Small Business Success Story
• Wrote:
  • Avoiding The Contractor From Hell
  • The Internet Recruiting Edge - 7th edition
  • The Safe and Smart Internet Weight Loss Edge
  • The Real Estate Pro’s Internet Edge
  • Make Them Beg To Hire You
  • New Client Profits
  • Job Posting Profits
  • 7 Days To Your Auction Success
  • Lingstar Learning Teach Your Child to Read
  • Auction Search Profits
  • 24 Hour Digital Product Creation
  • Way of the Rich Hermit
  • Dynamic Affiliate Profit Linking
  • Online Search Profits
  • Easily Find Free Resumes Online
  • The Internet Marketing Edge
  • Others no longer in print
• Appeared on the Sallie Jesse Raphael Show and CNN
• Has been written up in the Wall Street Journal
• Pioneered the first Internet recruiting eSeminars series
• Traveled the country giving tailored, customized recruiting training seminars
• Broke the Google code in 2004

Currently, Barbara teaches consumers via her avid blogging in several venues including her Macgyver Blogging site and her Virtual Coach site. Other hightlights include

• Seeing herReal Estate industry book The Real Estate Pro’s Internet Edge become a Product Pick from The National Association of Realtors magazine (even though she’s not a Realtor. She simply got to know her audience and found out what needs they wanted solved)

• Being the Small Business Success Story showcased at the Microsoft Site

• Being mentioned in Inc newsletters by the following tag - When Barbara Ling Talks, We Listen.

• Single-handedly creating and presenting to thousands of recruiters/HR the dynamic content for the RISE Internet e-recruiting seminars. The time required from concept to delivery of the first official seminar in Toronto (including content, workbooks, CDROM, laminations and more) was merely three short months. Extremely successful, she has conducted dozens of workships around the country.

• Coaching many business and personal colleagues on how to achieve their personal and business goals in rapid fashion.

• Appearing on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show regarding her experiences with the Contractor From Hell

• Speaking at companies including:
  • Deloitte Touche
  • Campbell Soup
  • Continental Airlines
  • The American Chemistry Society
  • The Society of Human Resources, Mid-Atlantic Region
  • The Society of Human Resources, Granite State
  • The Society of Human Resources, Massachussetts
  • The Association of Legal Professionals

• Being spot-lighted in key publications including:
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • Inc. Magazine
  • Family Money
  • Ms. Magazine
  • Computer World
  • Internet Business
  • The American Chemistry Society Inc.
  • Texas Realtors Magazine
  • Realtor Magazine
  • New Jersey Magazine

• Originating of the concept Becoming The Recruiter Of Choice. She’s correctly forecasted several recruiting trends.

• Being a columnist for several publications including The Boston Herald

• Creating three Internet newsgroups including comp.text.interleaf, rec.pets.birds and att.xksh

• Achieving a 8-fold increase in targeted website visibility for Recruiters Online

Her over-a-decade of employment at firms like AT&T, Lucent and IBM as a Internet consultant, lead unix systems administrator and systems engineer has taught her effective problem-solving techniques that greatly benefits her research. She have been profiled in many publications and sites, including Monster.com. Additionally, her years of educating others how to use their software and environments has enabled her to teach in an easy, informative fashion that emphasizes creativity instead of rote activity. She love training and teaching. And that just comes out in her writing, works and motivational seminars.

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