Thursday, July 16, 2009

Dive With The Carnatic

By Ned Middleton

Sha'b Abu Nuhas is one of those Reefs that, to put it simply, is in the wrong place - as many a ship's captain has discovered to his cost. It is a prime example of a Coral Reef that barely reaches the surface and, from a distance therefore, is not easily seen at all.

Today, of course, there are radar reflectors and small solar-powered lights situated on top of the Reef - and all regularly maintained in the most difficult of circumstances, but one hundred and thirty years ago things were very different.

Unfortunately, at least as far as shipping is concerned, Abu Nuhas lies right at the very edge of the busy shipping lane called the Straits of Gobal. This is the southernmost end of the Gulf of Suez - where the north west Red Sea begins to narrow. Even today, these are hazardous waters - imagine how treacherous they must have been at night without any form of warning light.

The Peninsula & Oriental Passenger Steamer "Carnatic" was built by Samuda Bros of London and technically described as an "iron framed planked passenger steamer of 1776 tons." Her dimensions were 294.7' x 38.1' x 25.4' and in addition to her square-rigged sails, she was powered by a single 4 cylinder compound inverted engine producing a very handsome 2,442 HP - also built in London, by Messrs Humphrys and Tennant.

The Carnatic was launched in December 1862 and, after successful sea trials, was registered by P & O (though that abbreviation was not used in those days) in the March of 1863 before sailing for Calcutta on June 27th.

For most of her working life, P & O employed the vessel between Suez, Bombay and China and latterly she had been the proud command of Captain P. B. Jones - one of the ablest officers of the company.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Search Engine Positioning

By Frank Palani Madan

Search engine positioning is the key towards building a web site that gets customers. A web site that nobody visits is useless, a site that gets just visitors and no paying customers is also useless. The challenge lies in leading internet users who are searching for your products to visit your web site.

Nowadays, the Internet is a great tool for building a customer base, keeping in contact with your customers and as means of advertising. You can offer instantaneous information about your products to millions of users around the globe, if you can get searchers to your site.

For good search engine positioning your site needs to be search engine friendly. Designing a company web site that is search engine friendly is essential. The point is people need to find your web site when searches type in keywords in search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, AOL and others.

Once a keyword relating to the products or services that you offer is keyed into a search engine, a direct link to your web site should show up on top of the list or at least on the first page.

Here are a few tips to use search engine positioning techniques to make it to the top of the search engines:

Search engine positioning efforts start with your domain name registration. Do not take the task lightly. Choosing the right domain name for your web site is a very important factor to its success. You want a good web site domain name that will rank high to ensure that the most number of targeted visitors will find your site.

If you have an existing web site, optimize the one that you currently have instead of starting over. It will take time before the search engines will update the information on a new web site, so it is best to use the one that you currently have instead of creating a new one.

Keep in mind who your target audience is and take aim at them. If a searcher types in your product in a search engine and clicks on search, they should immediately have your web site right in front of them. This is not easy to do for most keywords but no matter what products you sell there will be many you can still do this for.

Make sure that your visitors get 'hooked' on your web site. When a search engine shows the link to your web site, their job is done.

What you should do next is to make sure that your visitor will not leave your web site without them trying out your products or services, or at least leaving some information so that you can contact them in the future.

When you do research on your target market, learn about their interests so you can have an idea of what you can offer them in return. Then, link their interests to your products and services.

Do Research for the right keywords. Be clever and persistent when doing keyword and keyword phrases research. You need more than just a few keywords to optimize your site.

Vary the phrases that you use for each page on your web site, this will get you more paying customers as you keep your key words reliant to what you are selling.

Focus on your web sites content. Keep your content fresh. Routinely update your web site's content, the search engines look for this and visitors will come back if they can find something new when browsing through your site. Keeping the content updated is a must. When it comes to information about the products and services do the best you can.

Keep in mind your target market when building your web site. The design itself should include the general theme of the web site. You should also pay attention to smaller details such as color and font style and size. Make your site user-friendly with useful articles and tips that relate to the products you sell.

Use Title and META Tags. Make sure every page of your website has the Title and META Tags filled out with good keywords. The Description and robot .txt attributes are combined with the META tags to tell search engine what results you want. It is good to add a brief description about the page and use appropriate keywords all through the page content. Also use the IMG ALT tags to provide image descriptions, which will help your optimization process.

Following these basic search engine positioning techniques will help you rise to the first page of the search engines and get buyers not just visitors to your site.

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What to Avoid in Pay Per Click Marketing

By Sean Galusha

You may have heard about pay per click marketing and how it is a cost-effective means to promote your business online. However, there are no such thing as a perfect advertising tool and any techniques always have at least some pitfalls that need to be avoided to reach your desired results.

Pay per click may be an ideal tool in online advertising but like any other ventures, it also has some downsides and drawbacks. With this, it is always advisable to make sure you know about the tool before using it and research on what can be pitfalls of the technique. This would also help you in coming up with a good strategy when it comes to online advertising using pay per click.

One common mistake encountered in pay per click is the wrong choice of keywords. Most often, failure looms in bidding for very broad keywords and spending higher pay per click rates on it. Be careful also of some "auto bid" settings which increases your bid automatically to retain your ranking.

Another risk in pay per click marketing is that, there may be clicks to your ad that do not mean anything to your business. This case, it would mean paying for a click that does not have any value for you.

In pay per click, the returns on investment could also be a little difficult to measure as the profit you can get from every dollar you invest is quite a little difficult to determine. However there are online tools as well to help you with tracking on the conversions of these clicks into sales.

The cost of advertising in pay per click is definitely cheaper than the usual advertising and you pay only for what you get, but be careful and always keep in mind that as soon as you get huge traffic to your site, your total advertising cost will also increase.

Generally, pay per click is successful but it also needs careful study and proper implementation to get good results when it comes to promoting your product online.

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Discreet Sneaking With Keyword Tool

By John Knight

In these days, with the use of the keyword tool finding your business competitors secrets are no longer a big deal. There are related materials such as this application to match your budget and business needs. The prime motivation of a site to employ this type of marketing aid is cost savings and better advantages for the business. Maintenance issues can be minimized when you have the proper mechanism that is single-sourced which can focus on your intentions - looking into your competitors business discreetly!

You can set you position in advance and make your target with the keyword tool. That is the most important thing you care about in this keyword stuff. You can now eliminate surprises from your competitors. You can already measure exactly what you need and you are enabled to plan in advance how what are the necessary words that you should inject to your keywords.

You will be amazed to see when the search pages appear and you are on the top ten of the search engine list. Is not that amazing? Is not it that you want? Now you have what you want and your support need to do more work for you to be always on the top of the line. You are already armed with the knowledge you have gained from the keyword tool and you are ready to attack using your bullets of words.

It can help you accomplish the things you need to do as efficiently as it can be. It is therefore your chance to take advantage of the system provided by this marketing material for you to progress in the web site business. The keyword tool is your practical guide to sneak on your business adversaries.

You are just one of the minute entities of that virtual reality over the net and a virtual support is needed. Always bear in mind that there are millions of products in the web. There are also hundreds and hundreds of web site owners who are advertising their wares. There is a need for you to have an effective and efficient mechanism such as the keyword tool.

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How To Find Your Personal Style In Home Decorating

By Janice Nickole

Does your living room or bedroom lack style and comfort? Are you ready to create a space that is both stylish and comfortable for your friends and family? Something you are proud to show and not be embarrassed?

So how can you decorate your home to be stylish, inviting and comfortable? Decorating your space starts with your personal style. Your personal style is a reflection of you. Do you know what your personal style is?

Your personal style is collected through your life's experiences, travel. Education, shopping sprees and more, and add memorabilia that can be proudly displayed in every room in the house.

These collectables are a reflection of your style and personal taste. What made you smile when you picked it up at the market place? Was it the gold picture frame you purchased in England? Or perhaps it was the pottery on your last Italy trip?

All the special memorabilia that you've collected, whether it came from a special vacation cruise or second hand store were purchased because you liked it or it made you feel good. This is what your personal style is.

Now if you are in doubt about what your personal style is, take a stroll to a few furniture stores in your area. They will display designer showcase or "vignettes" that will give you tons of decorating ideas for your home, from furniture to lamps and everything in between.

These vignettes will display various interior rooms like living room, dining room, bedroom and kitchen, completely decorated, and will give you great decorating ideas for your home project.

If you plan to purchase on one of these shopping sprees, first and foremost, make sure you have your measurements readily available. Never buy furniture without measuring your space.

Besides shopping furniture stores, you can shop online to get your decorating ideas. Also, clip out your favorite home decors from decorating magazines. Ask yourself what you like best and least about your selections in the vignettes and magazine cut outs. These pictures will always inspire you and help you to connect with your personal style.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Best Types Of Investing Software

By Christopher Latter

Investors all around the world are in need of some investing software that helps them in their financial trades. Keeping this need in mind, plenty of software packages already crept in the market and the number is continually growing with great intensity. With numerous financial software packages already in the market, it is often difficult for an individual to decide on software that best suits his needs. The following article, though not the all, throws some light on the tips that you need to take in order to select the best possible software according to your needs.

There are plenty of investment styles in the market; but there is no other investment software than the one that employs an organized and disciplined manner. Organized and disciplined investing software can deliver perfect and efficient results according to ones business needs. As already said there are plenty of software packages available, but following are some key factors that one has to look for while deciding on any investing software:

1. Look for software that organizes your trading and that prepares the reports accordingly. It should automatically monitor your portfolio.

2. Software that can present complex information visually in a way that can be easily analyzed. The software that can check the stock status and analyze the trends, area of resistance and support.

3. Software that can implement and test your trading plan and perform the risk assessment: the investing software has to build and test the trading plan to manage several discipline trading rules such as when and where to enter/exit the market. The software also has to calculate the money needed to run the project.

Almost all the above features are offered by all the investing software packages. So it is obvious that one gets confused in selecting the right kind of software that caters to his needs. Of all the investing software found in the market, FAP TURBO is considered the best option by many. The reason is that the software delivers 96 percent of success rate in its operations.

FAP TURBO, as with the other investing software, is a stock-trading robot that runs from your machine. It does all the trading automatically"it helps you by not allowing you to look for the trades the whole day. The other interesting feature with FAP TURBO is that it can be used both when offline and when online unlike the traditional software that requires an internet connection to operate. FAP TURBO employs a forex hosting service to host itself on to the server"facilitating the user with the ease of operation at times even when he is not connected to the internet.

Getting used to FAP TURBO is very simple and easy. It has a tutorial section that one can make use of to get acquainted with this investing software. The tutorial section has several 3-7 minute videos explaining how the software works and on how to setup the system. Moreover, FAP TURBO comes at an unbelievable price of $149. It also comes wrapped with a 60 day guarantee period affirming the user of its operation and stability.

No matter what type of investing software package you purchase, be sure that it caters all your needs. Do not cling on to high-end software that does not even benefit you by any means. Be wise in making your choices and happy investing!!

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Ways Of Earning Residual Income

By Louis-Charles Martel

Residual income is an income that goes no paying without additional work. It is something like a work done in the past giving dividends to you till date. The most profitable way to do this is the direct marketing with appropriate products of choice and relevant services to earn direct revenues. The residual commission programs are provided to develop interest in participating public.

This opportunity to make the income from home is gaining tremendous popularity these days. You too can earn residual income from the comfort of your home in a satisfactory manner. The residual income possibility is important due to many factors. This income generation adds to the monthly income of an individual to meet the expenses of the person and his family.

Wish to know how to go kick start you're earning from this method? There are numerous ways to it; however, everything requires certain amount of skill, patience and ability to pursue with determination, because the results are not immediate. With passage of time, this program has shown to improve one's ability to seize opportunities, and turn them into monetary gains.

The main question is how to embark upon this program. There are several ways to earn residual income from home. Remember that it is neither easy nor it can give you immediate result. You will have to devote maximum time into it so that it improves the opportunities in this line and finally result into economic gain.

For those with the flair for writing, a slight value addition to your talent can help you earn income that way. You might have penned many poems, short stories, or even novels. If you have copyright ownership over them, you will be paid royalty by the clients who buy them from you. In case your stories are turned into movies, you are provided with more chances of making money.

Once you have created a chain of sales persons or service providers, your earnings get two-fold. Firstly you're earning directly from your own customers, plus, you earn by way of commission from your chain of sales persons. As your chain grows from one level to another, your income gets augmented from two-folds to three-folds and so on. In other words, money generated from sales in all the levels of this marketing chain continuously flows into your wealth pool, while others do the leg work.

In this, you an earn money from direct marketing of the products as well as the sales commission you get when your customers market the products. Thus, you make use of the several levels of marketing the same products. If you have kick-started the small chain, then you stand with the possibility of earning income from all levels. It is a lifetime opportunity of income generation.

Next is the real estate investment line. You can make solid investments in properties and collect rentals. This is a way to earn a regular income and you own the property till you sell it to someone else. Finally, the Internet provides innumerable business prospects which can be utilized from the comfort of your home to make money as a residual income.

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Pay Per Click: Pay Per Click Services

By Sam Ernie Orion

If you have been considering using Pay Per Click services, then you will need to do a little homework before making this investment. Typically, it is fairly easy to use Pay Per Click, but there are some things that you need to know. If you are not aware of what these services provide the it is best to contact the search engine you are targeting and get some help. Still, it is pretty simple to use and you do not have to do a lot of work figuring out the demographics of your market.

This is because that most people use the three main search engines Google, Yahoo, and MSN to do their searches. In fact, for Google alone it is said that 1/3 of all search engine queries go through this site. Because of this, you could feasibly use Google alone and find some success.

The one key thing that you need to do is find out what your keywords are. This is probably the most important consideration. You must understand what terms people will use when they want to look up your products or services.

There are some ways to do this. You need to be sure that the keywords you choose are the most relevant for your site. You do not need a long list so try to keep your choices narrow. Once you find out what people are searching for, then you are pretty much ready to go.

Pay Per Click will allow you to immediately target your customer base so you can start gaining new clients right away. Pay Per Click is a smart move no matter what else you do in terms of advertising, and you will find that Pay Per Click services may help you get more business than all of your other forms of advertising.

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The Best Free MLM Training to $10k per Month in Any MLM

By Samuel Levitz

With the status of our current economy, people are scratching their heads wondering what is next for them. Every new day comes more depressing news about people losing their jobs, losing their houses and losing their minds. Did you know that with just an extra $300 each month, 85% of all bankruptcies can be avoided?

Did you know that if the average American family just had another $300 each month, that would prevent 85% of all bankruptcies? Staggering figure....Only $300! There is an ever increasing number of Americans working from home, designing their own future rather than believing in Fox news channels daily dose of doom.

The answer to this recession is simply a home business.....Sounds easy? Well, it can be if done correctly and properly trained. Nu Skin, Amway and Herbalife are industry standard names that have proven themselves as powerhouses in the MLM game over the last 20 plus years. Imagine being home with the family and not feeling the crunch of the economy like 90% of the rest of America.

What is the secret that 95% of new MLM'ers miss? The answer is proper training and lack of automatic systems. If you are not making at least 5-figures each month, I can tell you that your training and your systems are not in place. Better fix that quick or you will end up as another statistic saying that MLM does not work.

The new face of the internet, called web 2.0, is making it systematically easier for the average MLM'er to obtain that elusive $10k each month that they hear about. With tools such as social media, social bookmarking, articles and blogs, there is new found hope for the rest of us if used correctly. I am not saying that you will make $10k per month, rather, by following the correct system, your chances will exponentially grow.

Twitter, as you may know, is one of the most powerful tools on the internet today. Do you know how to properly market without barfing on others and ruining your relationship before it starts? Most people don't. Because of this, several accounts are being closed for spamming. Don't let this happen to you, get educated on proper etiquette.

Your upline meant well, and maybe they are there for you on the three way calls, But, are they training you on becoming a lazy network Marketer and Still make Huge Money while capturing the online market for your business? I didn't think so.

Implement your systems Now to attract all the customers you want. Let your system sign them up and you will prosper. If you miss this point, you will quickly become a statistic in the Internet world.

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Neckties

By Pri Vag

No matter what style dilemma you've recently been beleaguered by, chances are there's an accessory that will solve it. Having a bad hair day? Sort it out with the latest must-have hat and get compliments all day long. Going away and need some new luggage? Check out our latest picks for every kind of holiday or business trip imaginable. In short, whether you need new shades, cufflinks, neckwear or gloves, or you want to learn all about the rules for wearing socks, turn here to stay on top of what's hot in the world of accessories.

Men's Accessories Fact:

Though in ancient times neckwear often signaled social status, it was during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) that neckties became a thing of fashion. When Serbian mercenaries in the French service of the Military Frontier wore traditional knotted neckerchiefs, the Parisians went crazy for them. Soon afterward, men and women across Europe started sporting fabric around their necks.

There is formal wear and there is black tie. If the invitation says "black tie," you better wear a tuxedo and make sure the tie is indeed black. If, however, it is a formal affair, a tailored dark suit in black or dark blue is appropriate. You may try a pinstriped suit if the stripe is very light, but you're better off with a solid color without a pattern or stripe.

The difficulty here, however, is how to complete your formal wear wardrobe with the right accessories. Choose your formal wear accessories poorly and you'll look like the new hire at his first office party.

Choose your formal wear accessories wisely and you'll have everyone's attention when you enter the room. The most important rules to remember for formal wear accessories are to go dark with subtle flashes of color, if any at all, and to delicately use patterns and stripes.

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Movie Reviews and How To Download Films Online

By Bisque Studnicka

Some film reviews are listed below. In this paragraph I will give you some search terms to reach movie download sites. You can find good results with by searching "Online Movies Tv", "Online Movies Rental" and "Movies Downloads".

Dracula's Dog: Transylvanian vampire and bloodthirsty mutt, equipped with vampitish mannerisms by the original vampire, go to L.A to find Dracula's last living successor. Cast includes Jose Ferrer, Michael Pataki, Reggie Nalder, Jan Shutan, Libbie Pursue, and John Levin. (90 minutes, 1978)

Curdled: Curdled is a black comedy in regards to youthful female addicted to the how's and why's of vicious crimes, who gets a job scrubbing up after them on the Post-Forensic Tidying Service. Cast includes William Baldwin, Angela Jones, Bruce Ramsay, Lois Chiles, Barry Corbin, Mel Gorham, Tulip Fuentes, Kelly Preston, and Carmen Lopez. Grisly (94 minutes, 1996)

Murderous Maids: A new take on the infamous 1933 murder case that rocked most of France. Christine Papin (Testud) and her younger sibling Lea, like their mommy before them, work as house maids. However, Christine's simmering resentment of her mom, her circumstance, and her administrators starts to wear on her in assorted damaging ways. Cast includes Sylvie Testud, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Isabelle Renauld, Jean-Gabriel Nordmann, and Marie Donnio. (94 minutes, 2000)

Big Shots: So-so adolescent venture in reference to an ignorant white boy and streetwise city black that come together and find themselves hired as hit men. Cast includes Ricky Busker, Darius McCrary, Robert Delight, Robert Prosky, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Paul Winfield. (90 minutes, 1987)

Strange Interlude: Talky Eugene O'Neill play gets to be marathon of central opinions exposed only to spectators in journal of Gable, Shearer. It is about growing old without settling their complications. This is a preoccupying film, with Shearer at her brilliant best. Cast includes Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Might Robson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Robert Youthful, Ralph Morgan, Henry B. Walthall, and Alexander Kirkland. (110 minutes, 1932)

Mr. Ricco: Martin in eccentric role as a lawbreaking lawyer engaged with racist killings, sex and various brutalities, although looks too exhausted to care. The film has an excellent puzzling angle to the plot. Cast includes Dean Martin, Eugene Rocbe, Thalmus Rasulala, Geraldine Brooks, Denise Nicholas, Cindy Williams, and Philip Michael Thomas. (98 minutes, 1975)

Heartland: Basic, well informed tale of hearty Americans surviving the frontier life, circa 1910. Ferrell plays a youthful widow who acknowledges a job as housekeeper for dour rancher Tom in the wilds of Wyoming. Well performed, well filmed, and beautifully understated, based on the real journals of a pioneer lady. Cast includes Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell, Barry Primus, Lilia Skala, Megan Folson, and Amy Wright. (100 minutes, 1979)

Iron Eagle 2: Comparably idiotic sequel, with General Gossett enlisting guide Humphrey to team with his Soviet counterparts on a secret mission in the Mideast. Cast includes Louis Gossett, Jr., Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin, Alan Scarfe, Sharon H. Brandon, and Maury Chaykin. (105 minutes, 1988)

The Last Seduction: Pathologically malevolent and stunningly sensual female ditches her spouse, snatches the money he's made in a drug deal, and escapes N.Y.C. to a tiny upstate town where she allures and bewilders a local gentleman who becomes her latest patsy. Fiorentino's spicy femme fatale makes Stanwyck in Triple Indemnity look like Snow White! The movie is a scorching, seductive thriller from contemporary film noir master Dahl and author Steve Barancik. Cast includes Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, J. T. Walsh, Bill Nunn, Bill Pullman, Michael Raysses, and Zach Phifer. (110 minutes, 1994)

This short list is an example of the variety of films you can find online that you can download. Internet searches like "DVD Rental Movies" and "Film Downloads" will help you find film download sites. A final search with "Online Movies To Watch" might get you what you need if the other ones fail.

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How To Make Money On The Web And M.L.M. Tips For Your Business

By Brian J Williams

I would like to discuss a few of the most common and challenging problems in network marketing, lack of automated recruiting systems, weak training, , poor follow up methods and no-motivation.

How do you keep your team motivated and stop the revolving door of attrition, one come, one go?

The last thing you want is a down line lacking motivation, uninspired, and frankly lazy M.L.M. down line.

You must learn how to drive your down line, since everyone's success depends on personal production, it is vital that you learn how to keep your team motivated.

Always remember your team depends on YOU to teach them how to duplicate success. This is the key to success. A successful line wants the big bucks as much as you do; Your downline will not continue to work hard, if they don't have quick visible success.

So, in large part, training and motivating your representatives rests on you first. However when you are starting you obviously are learning yourself, so that is where a strong up line team and support are so important. This means giving them real skills from you or your up line mentors that are measurable, predictable, and reliable.

What type of skills do they need for success in M.L.M? It depends on their skill set.

Here are several tips to focus in on to fold the corners of your Network Marketing down line to keep the new affiliates from falling over the edge.

1. The first things you should do is a game plan interview to find out their biggest challenges, goals and strengths. Some of them may be totally new to M.L.M.

In response, give them a step by step road map, a step by step system for lead generation to suit there strengths, follow-up methods and expected conversion ratio. Those are the three most important elements in marketing any network marketing company.

2. The biggest reason why new M.L.M. affiliates are uninspired is because they don't know how to get started and become frustrated. You will want to instruct them on what to do and most importantly lead by example.

There should be training material available from your M.L.M. company that will cover motivation and down line management. If your company does not provide this then contact your up line for support. If in the rare case you receive no up line support you may want to consider another company! You are welcome to contact me and I will offer you some guidance on motivating and building your down line.

Include training calls ending with open Q & A.

3. You need to show them how to execute effectively. This is very critical for duplicating great results quickly. After listening to your training calls, a good portion of your group should be getting good results, and be very excited to be part of your team.

Do not let them rest on their laurels. Don't let them settle for 1 or 2 sales per month when they could easily make 20 plus. Since some people's competitive levels are lower than others, appeal to their ego.

Remember rewards and recognition are great motivation. If a video-email communication has been established for your network marketing down line, you can offer up a little public praise by featuring video down line success stories in a monthly newsletter. If you do not have a video email system in place get one. This is the most critical tool in your down line management and recruiting systems.

You might even want to find a way to reward them with purchased gift. For example, you could purchase a tool that will help them in their lead generating program or self development course, for example and give it away free to the most productive down line member.

Remember always treat your team like you would like to be treated and don't forget there are no limits to the possibilities when you keep your team motivated. Let them know that you care about their success as much as your own, and show it by always being accessible and positive. Follow these simple yet powerful tips and watch your Network Marketing business grow.

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Joint Ventures For your Online Business

By Graham Avery

Are you looking for a cost effective way to make more sales on the internet? Maybe you have been working on your SEO and pay per click campaigns, wondering what it is going to take to make the income you are truly after. Ever thought about using joint ventures to save yourself the investment of paying for advertising yourself? You may be wondering how one gets started connecting with the people who can really help you. If so, then keep reading and discover how you can use joint ventures to skyrocket your online income.

The major benefit of joint ventures is that using it everyone wins - your customers will get a product or service they were looking for, your partner receives a percentage of the revenue for providing his client list for you, and you get a profit. So when it comes to joint ventures, the greatest task to find people, who actually possess a big client list and to make a deal with them.

Once you made it, you can start building your own client base and generate profit at the same time. The following tips will make a process of finding a joint venture partner easier for you.

First you have to make the offer absolutely, brain dead simple for your business partner. This means that before you contact the owner of the list or ezine, you look at what they have to do in order to say yes and set the campaign off. If the steps are difficult, overly complicated or unreasonable, you need to go back to the drawing board. The secret is to make it really convenient for them to say yes.

Secondly, you need to know how to establish relationship between you and your partner. You can either find them through a service like Charlies directory of Ezines, or you might already know these people from another projects you were working on. Could be you worked for that person in the past, lets say as a designer, developer, or PPC professional. It would be a benefit, as you have built trust between you already.

The third thing to remember when creating joint venture relationships is to increase your customer base in doing so. This means that when your partners customers buy your product, you collect their information and build your own list. Pretty soon, you will have people contacting you about joint ventures.

The other thing to do is get testimonials from people you have partnered with and put them on your website. This will insure that your personal brand will speak for itself when you seek to build new relationships.

Put these principles into practice when starting joint venture relationships and soon you will see your business growing and your revenues increasing the way you couldnt even imagine.

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Technological Revolution

By Finbar Minstrel

In a very similar fashion to the way that the industrial revolution re-shaped the financial world of business, we have seen the next great revolution begin to take shape over the last few years. Unlike the last one however, the gain is there to be had regardless of geographical location and levels of accessibility.

It was very difficult to begin competing nationally before the Internet, let alone globally. This was because there were no affordable methods of advertising. You could have had a TV or radio ad, which would have been very expensive. Magazine advertising would have only appealed to a niche market, and ads in national newspapers are also very expensive. Despite the cost, before the explosion of the Internet, these were all reliable and effective ways of attracting business.

At many times in the history of commerce, it has been the businesses that are able to keep on top of new, emerging technologies and adapt their practises to them quickly and effectively, that stay a step above their competition and ultimately, succeed where others fail. Pioneers have led the way on many occasions, such as Henry Ford who almost single handedly invented the mass production line, and by the same hand, massively improved product consistency and quality, severely cut his costs and gained a huge advantage over the competitors, helping to guide the Ford Motor Company through harder times.

The difference between the companies that adopt new technologies and those that are set in their ways is often profound. Now that is more true than ever as the opportunities for advancement come at an alarming rate.

The wall that had previously blocked potential entrepreneurs from fulfilling that potential has been removed by the Internet. Many good business ideas went to waste because of the lack of financial backing, but all that has changed with the arrival of the Internet.

Instead of an advertising campaign for a product costing tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds, an efficient sales funnel website correctly optimized for Google and Yahoo will attract thousands of potential customers who are already pre qualified to buy from you, for a fraction of the investment. A good website and a couple of years Search Engine Optimization can be bought for less than 5,000 - 10,000 and will be seen by potentially billions of people.

The Internet is in its infancy, we are only just scratching the surface of this information revolution. 98% of all the information online is inaccessible to strangers as it has not been designed for search engines to read. Because of this, many good ideas are going to waste. It is only recently that SEO has reached the public consciousness. In 5 or 10 years what will the Internet look like?

There is little doubt that the companies who change with the changes in information technology, will be the ones on top in the coming years.

The world wide web is a truly brilliant gateway of opportunity for everyone and anyone with a good idea and a small pocket of cash for a website to turn their idea into their trade.

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All About Free Websites

By Chad DeBolt

Over the years, millions of people have come online in hopes of striking it big on a financial standpoint. The only problem is, most individuals don't have the upfront funds to make it happen. When you think about the costs for web hosting, domain names, marketing, advertising, and everything else involved, you're out a lot of money if things don't go the way you planned. So instead, people turn to free websites.

While there are many instances where online business entrepreneurs have proven to be very successful, most people who try such a business are not successful. That is why it is wise to keep an eye on the bottom line and free websites help in this manner. Free websites generally mean you use the host (free) services domains. They will then place advertisements on your website once it is published which will allow them to recoup their investment. This may provide for a free website but it undermines many online advertising strategies for the entrepreneur.

There are, however, a number of different avenues one can take to make money online without having to deal with free websites. Granted, it is definitely worth the effort to look into what free website services have to offer since they do present a great value. In some instances, these sites can prove quite helpful as a means of teaching you the way setting up a website can properly work. Use the venture as an opportunity to gain experience and avoid losing valuable time. Afterwards, you can start thinking about launching your own website that is not a joint venture with a free service.

It is recommended that you procure a web hosting plan offering all publishing facets in one centralized location. This is because unless you are an avid web designer, it could take forever to build a website from scratch. Those who try and lack the proper experience will usually end up quitting. To avoid such a scenario, it is best to find a service that is not free but also not too expensive.

There are a few things that need to be taken into consideration when looking to set up a website and customer service is among the most important of all. Does the website service present a quick setup time and the uptime they offer on a daily basis. As a bonus, one should be able to set up forums, blogs, and templates as a bonus within the package as well.

It is important to remember that when you first looked into the internet for various ways to make money, you may have figured out that owning your own website would be a smart move. Of course, when you do actual publish the website to promote a product or service, if is important to have payment options integrated into the website. E-commerce and PayPal would be great additions to the site.

Upon reading everything you have read here today, you may wish to venture out and acquire a free website and see how things go. This is understandable as free websites do offer many positive benefits. However, it is important to realize that taking such a step will revolve around a trial and error process that may take days, weeks, or months to get the hand of.

We did it, other people have done it, and you may have as well. If you're tired of spending hours to accumulate $10 or $15, then it's time to take a different approach. If this is your first time setting up a website, then we'll save you the hassle of free websites and help you discover a real plan that will get you a good return on your investment. All you need is a company that wants to help and its right in front of you.

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Starting The Business Of Free Online Games

By Rick C Dominix

If you are looking for a business opportunity that can keep the cash registers rolling, starting a business of free arcade games is a good idea. The way online games are becoming popular with the teenagers, starting a business of providing free online games is like grabbing a good opportunity.

In the 1980's, kids used to go to arcades and amusement centers to play games. The arcade business was growing fast. It used to be one of the more amusing self employment options in those years. Setting up an arcade business was not that costly, between $1000 and $50000. These investments used to get easily financed by bank loans or angel investors and were invested in renting space, vending machines, some seating arrangements and of course the arcade game machines themselves.

But with the advent of internet, free arcade games have become the order of the day. The traditional arcade business has taken a backseat and a new type of business opportunity had emerged. Now, there are webmasters who make the websites that offer you a plethora of free online games today. There are negligible set up costs required for establishing such websites as compared to the traditional arcade business. Moreover, a large chunk of revenue comes from the advertisements placed on the site. Thus the cash registers never stop rolling.

When it comes to investment, designing these online games requires making use of software such as adobe shockwave or adobe flash. Designing online games is not that a technical job as it appears to be as the designing programs are easy to use. Also, online arcades today are making best use of this business opportunity by allowing users to design their own online games and submitting them to the website owners. In this way, without incurring too much of set up costs and with revenue coming from advertisements, online game developers are able to make good profits.

The major target audience of online game developers is kids in the age bracket of 10-18. Kids of these age groups simply love gaming and the competition among friends and peers is also intense. For such kids, winning and making a high score is a matter of pride as well as joy. Another important segment of target audience is the people at office. The office people who are stressed with work go in for free online games at the office for de stressing.

Thus, if you are looking at self employment options of selling free games on the internet, then you can easily indulge in this growing business. One needs to make a through research on the cost options and also into the technical nature of developing these games. Having good networking skills helps attracting different advertisements, which is the major source of revenue for such online game developers.

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How To Earn Money Online

By Louis-Charles Martel

Global impact of the recent revolution in information technology has ensured that, with market recession there is going to be little effect on the worldwide job opportunities. This is because of the immense scope for an ever-green home based online money making prospects.

With the changing time and demanding market scenario, these home based jobs are not just limited to 'pocket money', but has become a regular source of income with good profits. The profit and flexibility attached to these home based jobs have many people attracted towards it, so as to help them earn quick cash online. In the prevailing tough, economic situations, home based online jobs are fast becoming primary sources of income.

Advantages of Home based opportunity

The internet offers immense options when it comes to home based online money making opportunities. It is therefore required that you keep your patience and invest some valuable time in identifying that perfect option, which interests you the most.

Bear in mind that there are offers that require you to invest a little amount of money before taking on an opportunity while a host of others don't require any investment at all. If taking on jobs that require investment, make sure that you make proper assessment of returns versus investing amount and ensure its viability. Good businessmen rely on intuition. But since you are a beginner, use your brains and research, nothing else.

How to find the best online home based opportunities?

When you select any work from online home opportunity, you must make sure that you take up only legitimate jobs. There are numerous online jobs that promise to make quick returns on your investments; please don't take up any of these fraudulent opportunities. Some web sites are made to attract people to invest with quick returns in maybe twenty days or thirty days. Stay away from these online scammers. Always consider legitimate online jobs. Invest with little money in beginning, so that you make sure that these companies would really pay you the profit share.

Online home based jobs

Three of the most reliable and sure shot ways to success in online money making business are listed for your convenience.

1. Affiliate Business programs: In affiliated business programs you earn money by sending traffic to the product owner's websites. Whenever the particular product is sold, you earn money in the form of commission. Affiliated Business programs are an attractive and simple way to follow business opportunity. With these programs you can earn high profits with meager initial investment.

2. The next wise option would be to trade on eBay - the most popular auction and shopping website, where goods and services from antiques to trendy accessories are bought and sold by people and businesses on a global scale, irrespective of its location. With proper understanding, one can also profit from middleman trading on such auction portals.

3. Freelance work: There are many freelance job opportunities; you have to bid on a particular freelance project. The buyer would pick lowest bid provider and you earn good money freelancing your talent. The buyer would transfer funds to your pay pal or escrow accounts.

To be successful in any business you need to establish your name in the market that you are looking for as your target segment. Initially, you may be required to devote more time and money on the particular job profile. Once your presence is felt in the market, you can attract many buyers. With good technical and creative skills, you can achieve impossible targets. You can reach great heights in the online home based jobs with a real positive attitude.

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Be Productive By Working From Home

By Daniel Molano

When you work under a boss you have to meet his or her demands. You often have no choice but to comply to even the silliest of whims that he or she has. The logic about working for a boss is that you have to keep them happy so you get your next paycheck. Bosses can say "You're fired!" as easily as they say "You're hired." Sometimes they can make life a living hell for you. You love the moments when he or she says that you can work from home because it almost feels like heaven when you don't have to see your boss' face.

Admit it, you hate running errands for your boss who seem to have an unending "to-do-list" for you. After spending almost an hour stuck in traffic, you have to run by the nearest Starbucks to get your boss' coffee. You arrive ten minutes late and your boss will give you the scolding of your life while sipping the coffee that was reason for your being late. At lunch, you have to run by his or her favorite Deli and buy the special sandwich for the day for him or her rather than eating at your favorite pizza parlor. Your afternoon coffee break is spent running to the laundry shop for his or her dry cleaning. It can go on and on or you can work from home and spend your time wisely.

Your home is your happy place or the place where you can effectively extract your creative juices because you are comfortable in there. You can work easily and efficiently when you are in an environment that is not very stressful. In an office, you will have to bear the brunt of your boss' bad day. If your boss is having a bad day he or she will most likely affect everyone in the office and you will all end up being unproductive because of the bad mood. If you work from home, you can be sure that any bad mood can be cured your pet, your favorite show, or a tub of ice cream in your fridge.

You can also start your own business that works via the internet. This way, you can really be the boss of your own self. No need to meet demands from an authority other than your customers. You will run your business in a comfortable zone because you will work from home where you can think better.

There are so many things we can wish for but there's only so much we can do. We can wish that we can be successful or we can actually work hard to be one. We can wish for a steak for dinner or we can actually make one. We can wish for our boss to disappear into outer space or we can actually work from home and be in charge of our lives. We need to take action so our wishes will not remain as a wish we will be making for the rest of our lives. We have options and we should choose what is best for ourselves and what could make our wishes come true.

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Marketing By Email Deliverability Tips

By Brian J Williams

As an owner of an online marketing company one of the questions I get a lot about autoresponder software is how do you maximize deliver-ability to clients and customers. There are several things to consider. The number one step when using autoresponder software is to confirm that the people who ask for your information have actually asked to be on your list. When marketing by email you should be using a process called confirmed opt-in to send a link to the attempted subscriber when they request information. Before adding the person to your list they must click that unique link and confirm that they are the same person that owns the email address and requested to subscribe.

When requesting website visitors to opt-in ask for their primary email address instead of a free email address like Yahoo or hotmail. Free emails tend to be throw away accounts and have a shorter lifetime than a primary ISP address.

Always promptly remove undeliverable addresses that bounce when you send email to them. The system I work with automatically does this for you but some systems require you do it manually. An address that bounces with a permanent error 2-3 times in a 30 day period should be removed from the list. ISP's track what percentage of your newsletters bounce and will block them if you attempt to continually deliver messages to closed email boxes.

When marketing by email and using HTML messages to allow for text formatting, multiple columns, images, and brand recognition is growing in popularity and is widely supported by most email client software. Most spam is also HTML formatted and thus differentiating between requested email and spam HTML messages can be tough. A 2004 study shows that plain text messages are undeliverable 1.15% of the time and HTML only messages were undeliverable 2.3%. If sending HTML it is important to send a plain text alternative message, also called multi-part mime format.

Many ISP's filter based on the content that appears within the message body.

Website URL: Research potential newsletter advertisers before allowing them to place ads in your newsletter issues. If they have used their website URL to send spam, just having their URL appear in your newsletter could cause the entire message to be filtered.

Words/phrases: Choose your language carefully when crafting messages. Avoid hot button topics often found in spam such as medication, mortgages, making money, and pornography. If you do need to use words that might be filtered, dont attempt to obfuscate words with extra characters or odd spelling, youll just make your messages appear more spam like.

Attachments: With viruses running rampant and spreading through the usage of malicious email attachments many users are wary of attached documents. Its often better to link to files via a website URL to reduce recipient fear of attachments and reduce the overall message size. The service I use as well as some others provide this option as part of the email marketing system.

Relationships & White listing: Contact with major ISP's and email providers is essential in letting them know about your requested subscriber email. Many large providers such as AOL and Yahoo have specific white listing programs and postmaster website areas to ensure your email is delivered as long as you meet their policies and procedures in handling your opt-in list.

Remeber when marketing by email deliver-ability is about ensuring requested opt-in email is delivered to the intended recipient. While no single tip will enable you to get 100% of your email delivered each one utilized as a group can go a long way to reaching that goal.

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Methods Of Finding Hot Selling Products To Market

By Ferdinand Emy

In order to locate products that make a killing online,we must comprehend what individuals already want to buy. Finding a good choice of idea or product is at all times accompanied by interfacing the need for the product in the current market and the level of contest the product is going to be having at long last.

What must I sell? What goods are hot promotion? These are the questions most individuals are attempting to find an answer in order for them to make the decisive and definitive decision. And whether or not we in truth want to recognize the answer to this question,our only choice is to do a little investigation and exploration. There are all kinds of twists along the path that can lead you to think you have a high-demand idea. We ought to be competent to comprehend and satisfy the demand,wants and demands and expected values of our clients on a sure product that they are attempting to purchase. This three are called the original needs or minimum requisites in a buy. Needs are the original reasons or the minimum requisites buyers are on the lookout for in a product or service. they are called the qualifying or gatekeeper dimensions in a buy. Wants are the determining dimensions amidst a good deal of selections. demands and expected values,then again,are values or intangibles related with a product or service. demands and expected values are really percentage of wants but they become exceedingly indispensable when goods or services are not differentiated.

For example,in reading a logic book,university students search for the next applicable logic ideas, use of simple language,easy to comprehend and low-priced prices. These similar ideas may be employed in internet sales in addition. After all,the world wide web is just another place to sell goods. The original conception of demand is the same here like in other place, and has been all the same.

Now,the second thing that ought to be looked at in finding hot products to trade is the level of contest or the market shares the product is going to have. Level of contest means the proportion of your brand sales against the total market sales. While companies would of course define its target contenders,its really the buyers who finally determine the competitive frame,or the list associated products or services that buyers look at when exercising their purchasing power. We ought to accordingly choose the market segment where we may have a possible leadership or at least a firm competitor role. Because the overriding objective of getting into this business is not only to satisfy the necessities and wants of our clients but to do so fruitfully better than his contest. Otherwise,our contest will end up satisfying the clients better than our own intentness and interest.

Third component to be looked at in finding hot promotion products is finding out the popular interest level with regards to the product. popular interest in a product assists us to gauge where our demand and contest numbers fall into the huge picture. Simply put it,if there is not much demand for the product,and there is less contest,what it means is that the product is not advisable to be promoted. But the exploration does not stop here; there is one last thing to be looked at to precisely find the hot promotion products that you have been on the lookout for. We ought to likewise learn how others are advertising those products. whether or not there are a good number of them doing so,it can mean that it is a good product to get into. Coming to the last phase of the operation is analyzing and assessing complete details that has been gathered. We have to consider all of the info we have gathered on demand,contest,and advertising,and make decision as how they all play out.

And here are assorted components or distinct features that ought to be sustained and measured:(a)no sufficient demand means no sufficient individuals are going to purchase(b)too much contest means no sufficient net profit to go around(c)overly advertising drives up the price of pay per click ads,and contest in addition(d)not sufficient popular interest, grouped and combined with low demand,means there can not be a good market even whether or not there is contest attempting to make the sales.

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Network Marketing Scam - Are You a Victim?

By Eldon Beard

What exactly is a "network marketing scam"?

Because of the significant amount of money you can make with this business, scammers often design schemes designed to pass as legitimate network marketing plans, thus deceiving many well-meaning home income seekers.

What else makes people think "network marketing scam" when presented with a legitimate opportunity? Often, it is negative experiences that they (or other people they know) have had.

Other things happen that give this business a poor reputation.

First, people are sometime led to sign up and start a business, without being told that it really takes work and planning to be successful. Sometime, overzealous recruiters promise a lot of money for little effort. When it doesn't happen quickly, people quit and tell others they know it didn't work.

Another scenario is set when people sign up with a "lottery mentality". This means they expect, for whatever reason, to sign up a certain number of friends and then sit back while those friends make money for them. When the bottom falls out after a while, they think "network marketing scam" and kick themselves for being "so stupid".

One other thing often happens. When a new associate works hard for a few months, but has little to show for the effort in terms of money, they often decide that the business isn't worth pursuing any longer.

Starting and building a profitable network marketing business takes effort. Four things must happen.

Do your homework and choose a reputable opportunity, with a sponsor and upline team that is anxious to help you build a profitable business. Talk to them extensively before signing up. You must feel comfortable working with them.

Take time to "plug in" to your upline's success system, and follow coaching on how to be successful. Be open to learning to do things perhaps differently than what you envisioned.

Plan your business and follow the proven system. It's great to be creative and innovative in building your business, but get the basics down successfully first.

Look at the big picture and don't let yourself grow impatient. Realize that reaching your goals may require 2-5 years of focused effort, but the reward is a significant ongoing residual income.

People who say "network marketing scam", when referring to an opportunity they tried and gave up on, were often expecting faster results than are realistic. It is, when all is said and done, a business and not a get rich quick scheme.

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Lung Cancer Survival Rate Help!

By Anne Durrell

It is not simple to understand all the figures about the lung cancer survival rate.

You really have to understand how these are put together and what exactly they represent.

There are several factors that really influence how lung cancer survival rates are determined; also, what you see in the figures may not be exactly what you think.

The Nitty-Gritty

Lung Cancer Survival Rate statements refer to a group of people suffering from one specific type of lung cancer, at a certain stage.

Survival statistics may also indicate rates for people suffering from lung cancer at any stage of the disease.

No matter if the person still has cancer or is in remission, usually the statistics relate to the survival rate after 5 years.

Understand that the lung cancer statistics are based upon average and a large group of people. And since every case is very different, so they only predict what the survival rate will be for a particular person.

The Factors of Survival Rates

As I have written above that, many things influence the lung cancer survival rate statistics. Below are some factors that can alter survival rates area:

* The stage

* Cancer type

* Signs present

* General health conditions

* The date of diagnosis

When a doctor informs his patient on the possible outcome of their cancer diagnosis, he usually give it upon what happens in the average case.

It is only an estimate, not an exact science.

The Average Survival Rate

For those diagnosed with early stage of lung cancer, the average survival rate is 49%, which means out of 100 people only 49 live for at least five years after diagnosis.

On the other hand, people diagnosed with lung cancer that has spread have only a 3% survival rate or only 3 out of 100 people live at least 5 years after diagnosis.

Using Survival Rates

Now you know what lung cancer survival rate statistics means, and you can begin to find out how they may be used.

The most common use is to help patients understand what lies ahead for them in dealing with the disease and the possibility of their death.

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Online Resources For Work At Home Moms

By Cherie Brunetti

In order to be able to stay home with their children, many moms decide to work from home. This may mean getting a telecommuting position or starting their own home-based business. Many experienced and well educated women who quit working in order to stay with their children are looking for ways to re-enter the workforce. These work from home moms may provide a much needed boost to our floundering economy.

Because of the current economic difficulties, many people are trying to start their own business, either on a part-time or full-time basis, in order to help support themselves and their families. The number of women who start businesses is growing at twice the rate of the number of men. Currently, women start four out of five new businesses. Eighty percent of these women are mothers.

Small businesses help to stabilize the economy. Small businesses stimulate the economy and provide jobs. Small businesses owned by women employ over 12 million people and they generate almost two trillion dollars in sales. There has been a 90% increase in the number of businesses owned by women in the past decade.

Women who work for companies from home are also helping the economy. If a company is unable to give raises or promotions, it can offer employees the chance to work from home as compensation. This allows employees to save the cost of commuting as well as other giving them other benefits of being able to work from home. Often, companies that allow their employees to work from home can save money by decreasing the amount of office space that is needed.

Businesses are finding that hiring stay-at-home moms is a cost effective. Mothers are also finding that working from home is rewarding for both professional and personal reasons. Stay at home moms can find many resources online that will help them to find jobs and network.

The Center for Women's Business Research provides comprehensive and current data about businesses owned by women. This is a great site to go to for information about programs that are meant to help women who run their own business.

WAHM.com is an online magazine for work from home moms. It provides a variety of information about home business, childcare, and parenting.

Hire My Mom is a website where companies can look for home-based professionals. Moms can fill out an application and join the pool of work from home parents.

Home Based Working Moms helps women grow their businesses and provides women with advice and business resources.

Moms who work from home can help their family, their company, and the economy.

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Mortgage Leads, Important Things You Need To Consider

By Chris Johnathan

Mortgage leads are a collection of data pertaining to individuals that would be interested in a mortgage or refinancing loan. A real time mortgage lead is one that arrives on your desk within seconds of the potential prospect hitting the submit button on the on line application.If you are a loan officer or mortgage broker, you may be looking for mortgage leads. You may even be thinking about buying them exclusively. Purchasing exclusive mortgage leads may be such a good idea if you want to do away with your competition.Not only will you want to buy your mortgage leads exclusively, you will also want to make sure that the mortgage lead is being sold in real time, or what is known as fresh.Just as important is the mortgage leads itself, while doing your research; consider these three things about the type of mortgage lead you will be purchasing.

* Where did the mortgage lead come from?

The 4 main Mortgage Leads are:

Another thing that you should look for in a reverse mortgage lead is the value of the home and the length of time the homeowner has been paying on the home loan. Someone who is looking for a reverse mortgage is probably doing so because they need a large sum of money for a specific purpose. This may be medical bills, home repairs, or peace of mind knowing that they have a cushion to fall back on when things get really lean.

These leads also help the companies spend more time in actual business dealings than in qualifying and finding prospective borrowers or customers. The information obtained often directs the agencies to the most worthwhile customers.

You can find hundreds of reverse mortgage leads by searching on the Internet. But there are several things to take into account to be sure that you are getting quality leads.

Reverse mortgage leads are sold to various companies at very competitive and affordable prices. The right reverse mortgage leads can facilitate business for a reverse mortgage firm.

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Take Amazing Pictures With The New Dash Smartphone

By Christopher L. Grant

When the T-Mobile Dash was released it was a very popular phone. It had its quirks but it still was successful. T-Mobile wanted to create a seamless transition into the smartphone race so they decided to upgrade the already existing Dash. T-Mobile just released the Dash 3G and despite one or two flaws it is still a great phone for anyone who needs an affordable smartphone.

The Dash 3G has a great look and feel. It is a more professional looking phone due to the soft finish along the backside of it. The phone appears unique among all other shiny metal finished phones. The phone is not too big and will fit neatly into ones pocket. One of the more notable drawbacks to the Dash 3G is the screens small size. The resolution is only 320x240; in the smartphone world that isnt much. You may see some stray pixels when viewing photos, videos, websites etc. One the plus side the trackball navigator is very easy to use and will make surfing the web really easy. It is a step up over the rudimentary d-pad found on a lot of phones out there. Also the full QWERTY keyboard is very comfortable to utilize. The keys arent cramped and small like on most smartphones. The Dash 3G features a very spacious keyboard which anyone with big hands and fingers which surely appreciate. The buttons are easy to read because they were printed using very vibrant colors and ink.

The Dash 3G is able to link up and use the amazing 3G service. On this phone users will be able to surf the web and download content at amazing speeds. The phone also features an application for linking up email and instant messaging services. This allows users to receive email and message alerts straight to his or her own phone. Also made readily available is the expansive GPS tracking system. A Dash 3G customer will be able to receive real time voice directions utilizing the TeleNav Navigation system.

The Dash 3G houses a 2 megapixel camera. When compared to the 1.3-megapixel camera found on the first Dash this new camera is a great improvement. The camera takes very nice looking photos, and offers up a nice variety of image capture options. The Dash 3G can also record video. The video quality is decent but can be quite grainy at times.

The T-Mobile Dash 3G is a very good phone. It enhances and improves on everything the Dash did. Its a great phone for anyone who is looking for a versatile phone packed with amazing features. But be wary of the small screen.

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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Does Clickbank Offer A 2 Tier Affiliate Payout

By Justin Harrison

There are many programs available on the internet that use the theme of clickbank for gaining wealth. The ease of finding affiliates that will promote your products or the ability to become an affiliate and sell other peoples products and earn a commission is very attractive to some people.

Clickbank is one of the more popular affiliate programs on the internet. There are various types of programs that will pay out to the affiliates in many different ways. Clickbank offer members who pay on a pay per click basis as well as a pay per sale basis. Clickbank even offers its affiliates a two tier program for an even higher commission payout.

The pay per click commissions will be paid out for every unique user who clicks the member sites banner from your site each day, the pay per sale will only pay out if that user makes a purchase on the members site. The two tier programs allows affiliates to recruit others to place the members banner on their site and they not only receive commissions from their own traffic driven to the member but the recruited affiliate as well.

The two tier programs offer a way to earn the most money since there will be a larger pool of traffic generated to the member site. However the program is set up to pay out for your affiliation it will pay out in the same manner for all your recruits.

The pay per click pay outs as well as the pay per sale pay outs are easily beneficial to an affiliate using the two tier payout programs. The payouts will be the same for the recruits as they are for the original affiliate. So if you are getting paid per click and you recruit another affiliate for that member site they will also be getting paid per click and you will earn a portion of their earnings.

You may think it is odd that a member site would pay you for simply placing a banner to drive traffic from your website to theirs. The fact is that the search engines will give the members a higher page rank due to the many backlinks the program offers them. They are also benefiting from increased traffic to their site and they stand to have their sales profit go up with this increase.

The more closely your website is optimized for the member site the more luck you will have with earning commissions. If your website has nothing to do with the site banner you place on your page then chances are the traffic that is being directed to your site will have no interest in the members site. You need to ensure that the site members you choose are at least related to your site in some way to enable the traffic to be targeted for the member site and not only yours.

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Residual Income Opportunities Exist For Everyone

By Louis-Charles Martel

What is residual income and who earns it? Residual income is money is a continuous stream of money that comes from a body of work that has been completed or may need regular maintenance. It can be earned by anyone who chooses to do work that earns this type of revenue.

Royalty payments are the most recognised form of residual income earnings. Many well know personalities are extremely rich from the royalties they receive from their creations. For example, JK Rowling will earn a payment from every copy of Harry Potter that is ever sold. The payment on each sale might not be very significant but as millions of copies are sold the combined amounts make her a multimillionaire. Each book is a completed body of work but JK Rowling potentially stands to earn royalties from that finished work beyond the foreseeable future.

In the same way, musicians earn royalties from the music they create. Every time a piece of music is sold it earns royalties and every time it is played on the radio or used for any other commercial purpose, the creators will be paid.

Music producers get royalties each time the piece receives radio airplay and any time it is rerecorded by another artist. Actors receive royalties in a similar way and get paid any time their movie is broadcast for public viewing.

Perhaps a much less considered means of royalty payments is paid to inventors and patent owners. Any new invention belongs to the person who invented it and he can protect his ownership by securing the patent on it. Once that invention is used to create commercially available products the patent owner receives residual income from the sales of that product. It could even be later used as an ingredient for another product not invented by the patent owner but still warrants royalty payments. The patent on pharmaceuticals is a typical example. Royalties are still payable even after the owner is dead. The ownership of the music, person's image or patent get passed down through inheritance.

Today, it is not just the rich and famous or technological geniuses earning residual income. With the onset of the information age, whole new leagues of residual income earners have been created in its wake. This is mostly through website ownership. It is now possible for some webmasters to be away in some exotic location on vacation while their websites continue to earn them money.

Website owners mostly earn money from advertising placed on their websites. This is often through affiliate marketing where products related to the website content are advertised on the site. Visitors to the site provide a targeted stream of potential buyers for that product and thus help the site owner generate an income each time their visits convert into sales. Adsense is a type of affiliate marketing run by Google. With Adsense, the webmaster does not have to do any work sourcing relevant ads. Google Bots are able to read the content of a website and thus automatically select the most appropriate ads to appear.

Although website ownership can earn very attractive residual incomes for their owners there is an important difference between this and the royalties earned from a book or movie or a patent. Generally speaking, moneys earned as royalties are paid on work that has finished or is complete entity in its own right. However, website owners may have to continuously update their websites in order to earn a residual income. Websites have to be seen as up to date in order to attract the volumes of traffic that will make them profitable from advertising. However, maintenance of a website is comparatively little work compared to the potential income that can be earned from it.

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Falke Socks

By Pri Vag

A great fitting and comfortable pair of socks can really help your feet enjoy their day, from arch support to climate regulating fabrics. Whilst many different fashion brands focus more on the appearance, sock specialists such as Falke have invested in technical functionality for a well rounded sock.

Lots of designer socks for men look great, but do they last? All too often I have to throw my best socks out because they have holes in the toes or heels. Whilst quality is very important in a good sock, I have been surprised at the ways in which a sock can be improved for comfort. I have very slim fit and need to wear orthotics in my shoes, so any extra help from my socks is very welcome.

Whilst most specialist sock brands make some effort to make technically proficient socks, I have found none that compare to Falke. It is a German company that has been established for over 100 years, specialising in innovative socks aimed at improving quality and comfort. This article focuses less on the actual appearance of the sock (pattern and colour) and more in terms of their design construction and clever use of materials.

The first hurdle a sock must overcome to be considered technically proficient is availability in a large range of sizes. The wider the range of sizes, the better fitting the sock will be as it is more tailored to the shape of your foot. The reason this is so important is because socks are designed to fit from the heel to the arch to the ball of your foot to the toes. If the sock is slightly too big the sock provides no support, whilst if it is too small it will constrict your foot causing discomfort.

Whilst most sock specialist brands have a range of sizes (as opposed to the one size fits all approach from many fashion brands), few have as many size options as Falke. In fact, their mens dress socks come in six different sizes; 39-40, 41-42, 43-44, 45-46, 47-48, 49-50. This vast array of sizes guarantees that you will find a pair of mens socks that fits perfectly.

A technically superior pair of socks must also be of excellent quality. Falke make every effort to create a durable sock, with its reinforced heel and toe (most common places for holes) and reinforced stress zones on every pair of mens socks. In addition, a majority of their socks have a pressure-free hand linked toe which ensures that the toe seem is closed with a flat and smooth finish. Without this feature, the seam bobbles and can cause discomfort when wearing a snug fitting pair of dress shoes.

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A History Of Pens

By Pri Vag

Humans have been writing and making marks as far back as the caveman. It was the ancient Egyptians who were the first people to write on paper. In around 3000 BC the scribes from ancient Egypt used reed brushes to write on papyrus scrolls. The reed pen was used up until the Middle Ages, although the quill pen had begun to replace it as early as the 7th century.

The quill pen is made from a trimmed goose feather whose shaft has been cut into a good writing point. Trimming the quill was a real skill, and a talented scribe could create some very nice calligraphic effects.

The quill pen was first used in Qumran, Judea to write some of the dead see scrolls, and was introduced into Europe in 700AD. It was also used to write and sign the constitution of the United Stated of America in 1787.

The quill pen was replaced by the metal dip pen in the early 19th century. The metal dip pen had a steel nib with various holes to hold the ink. The nib was attached to a wooden handle, and could be manufactured quite cheaply. John Mitchell of Birmingham started to mass produce the metal dip pen in 1822, and by 1850 they came into generalised use.

The dip pen had to be constantly dipped in ink, and it wasnt long before the people demanded a pen which contained a reservoir of ink (a fountain pen). Inventors came up with various forms of the reservoir pen, dating back to the first half of the 19th century. The first few attempts at a reservoir pen were pretty unsuccessful because the ink flow was very inconsistent.

The problem with the early fountain pens was the feed system, which regulated the flow of ink to the nib.

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