07.23.08

What Does Your Business Card Say?

Posted in Internet Management at 10:23 am

Business cards are the most underutilized and
misunderstood marketing tool in business. Many
people spend the bucks for cards and don’t make an
effort to get them into the hands of those who can
hire them or buy from them.

Everyday people throw away stacks of undelivered
business cards. Money down the dumper.

Your goal is to design and use a memorable card
and get so many delivered you have to re-order.
Forget about those clever articles about what to
do with stacks of leftover cards.

The only time you should have cards still in the
box is when something on the card becomes outdated
or obsolete.

If you designed your cards as a marketing tool and
planned your distribution, tossing unused cards in
the trash should become the exception rather than
the rule. If one item on your card changes the
cards are obsolete and should be pitched.

Car dealers are famous for finding ways to save
money on business card expense. With the revolving
door turnover of salespeople, many dealers stopped
ordering individual cards for new hires. They
print a master card with color dealer logo and
phone numbers and leave a big space in the middle
for the new salesperson’s name to be penciled in.
That way, when the would-be fast talking, glad
handing flannel mouth doesn’t work out, no new
cards need be printed.

A swell image: handwritten business cards.

It would be interesting to run the numbers
on how much money was saved at the printers versus
how much business went somewhere where the
salespeople appeared more professional. With car
dealer margins, one sale would buy a lot of
business cards.

Worse is using a business card with a black or
blue marker blotting out a line of type and a new
name,address or phone number written (or typed)
above the black line. Ugh!

Some people painstakingly cut itty bitty strips of
computer labels printed with the new information
and stick them over the old just to save a few
bucks. Calculate what your time is worth and the
savings turn into an expense, not to mention what
the “corrected” card does to future business.

Dig out that stack of business cards you have been
collecting for years and flip through them, you
will see at least one with a correction.

If you are in any business and venture outside
your cubby-hole for any reason, you should carry
business cards at all times. You should be able to
“whip one out” without diggout out your wallet and
digging thru pics of the kids, or plunging to the
bottom of your purse past the hair spray.

You card says a lot about you. And you say even
more about you when you offer your card.

Say it in business-like, professional style.

For more about buiness cards, get my article
“What Does the BACK of Your Business Card Say?”

©2005 BIG Mike McDaniel All Rights Reserved
Mike@BIGIdeasGroup.com
BIG Mike is a Professional Speaker and Small
Business Consultant with over 30 years experience,
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07.22.08

The Wonderful Samsung i780

Posted in Telecommunication & More at 2:26 pm

The i780 has not proved the best reviewed handset Samsung have every built, despite this it is still worth thinking about if you find one with low line rental or cash-back. The i780 is an entry level mobile handset and, compared to some of the more successful handsets for this price it is really well featured. Like other similar mobile phones from Samsung the visual aesthetic is fairly cutting edge and would be appealing to a very broad range of customers.The i780 from Samsung is a sleek and stylish mobile phone.

The i780 weighs in at 120 g. This handset can only be bought in Black. The i780 is compact and lightweight. This mobile handset is bluetooth enabled making a great deal of devices compatible. The i780 has support for 2G GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 and 3G HSDPA 2100. A 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video, secondary VGA videocall camera is integrated into the i780 camera. If you use the Internet on the move, you will be pleased to know a WAP 2.0 / HTML, Opera Mobile 8.65, compatible browser is included. Moving on to the display the phone is fitted with a 2.55 inch screen, which is a nice big display for the money. A TFT touchscreen, 65K colors display is fitted to this handset. The Samsung i780 is that is supplied with a Li-Ion 1480 mAh, battery. The battery cell life the i780 is 7:00 talk time and 400 hours reserve time. The ring-tones on the i780 are Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3 on top of which is a vibrating alert. The i780 also has, Built-in GPS navigation, Java MIDP 2.0, Windows Media Player, SmartConverter, Finger Mouse, Search, Mini Player, MS Office Mobile, A-GPS support, Callia Player, Callia Reader, Side bar, Voice memo and Photo Slides.

Although this is quite a new model, it has already been replaced. This means it is quite easy to get some great deals on the i780. Because of the web it has never been faster or more cost effective to buy a mobile. Buying online can save you a significant amount of money, believe it or not, it is possible to get a Samsung i780 with 6 months free line rental , which, in theory should not cost you anything.

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Copying Content - Still Valuable, or A Thing of The Past?

Posted in Internet Management at 2:56 am

Within the virtual world of the internet, “content” is to “money” in real life. Content is our commodity, it is what people trade all around the world. But is “other people’s content” actually valuable?

There are many specialists out there that believe that content that has been copied is not valuable anymore and may actually penalize your website online for listing such content but I on the other hand beg to differ.

Ezine article directories world wide consistently list the same ol’ content as the other. They all pull into the same pool of authors who ultimately submit the same articles to each directory. My question is this, if copied content is not valuable anymore, why is it that these article directories are some of the most popular websites world wide?

See if you break down the authors article, you start to get clues as to why “copied content” can still be mistaken for original content.

Title & Author Stay The Same, But The Rest Is Not Just Gravy:

One constant is true for all articles submitted by authors: Their “title” and “author” are always the same but everything else tends to change in the process of submitting the article.

See, some article directories ask for a “description” to post online leading to the article. In many cases, I’ve seen authors simply make up their own description as they go which in turn gives the article a unique feel to it.

HTML Formatted Articles Changes The Dynamics Of The Article:

In other cases, some article directories allow for HTML to be posted with the article. When this is allowed, you will usually get a unique article created by the author and edited by the author. For those sites that allow HTML, there are others that don’t allow HTML which in turn depends on the article directory and its own “author guidelines” about a well formatted article. Some article directories allow images, while others do not.

Some article directories have “internal” HTML editors known as “WYSIWYG” editors. These act as an HTML editor which allows the author to personalize their article with bolding text, adding links, etc.

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With All Of These Different Scenarios, Is The Content Still Valuable?

ABSOLUTELY! Beyond and besides the fact that every article directory requires different methods of submitting your article, each article directory is also unique to each other thus providing different content around the article itself.

It’s well known that search engines do pick out and identify your “template” content, vs. your “internal” content but at the same time, your template content is unique and hopefully isn’t 100% copied somewhere else.

In Conclusion:

Although copied content is looked down on, every website out there has some form of copied content somewhere within their site. Whether it be within your menu system, or content. The fact is, you can ultimately change copied content into unique content by changing the dynamics or properties of the content itself.

About The Author:

Martin Lemieux is the owner of Smartads. We help business owners to increase their marketing efforts online and offline. Today’s Topic “Content & Copywriting”.

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07.14.08

Titanium Jewelry: A New Perspective from the Cutting Edge

Posted in Better Jewelry at 9:46 am

Titanium jewelry is on the cutting edge and for a good reason. It has numerous advantages over other types of metal jewelry. Although metals like gold and silver will always be popular, if you are looking for something new and innovative, titanium just may be your jewelry of choice.

Titanium jewelry is very attractive and unique. Its unusual color gives it a very modern look. Now you can have high quality jewelry at a fraction of the cost.

Titanium jewelry is strong and durable. It is as strong as steel and platinum. You can rely on titanium jewelry to last a lifetime.

Titanium jewelry is extremely light. It is up to 45% lighter than steel, making it a very comfortable jewelry to wear. You can wear it for hours, not even knowing that it is there.

Titanium jewelry is inexpensive. There is no need to spend a lot of money to acquire attractive jewelry anymore. A pair of titanium wedding bands, for example, can be as low as $100! This is far less than you would pay for gold wedding bands. And while with gold or silver, the majority of the price tag is the metal itself, with titanium, the majority of the price tag is the craftsmanship. The end result is more unique and attractive jewelry.

Titanium jewelry is virtually non-allergenic. The vast majority of people will not have an allergic reaction to titanium. If you are one of those people who suffer from jewelry allergies caused by other metals, titanium would be your jewelry of choice.

Whatever type of jewelry you are looking to purchase, whether it be rings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets or watches, you are sure to enjoy the many benefits of titanium jewelry.

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07.12.08

Nightwear Acknowledged as Pre-Eminent Objects of Yearning Of Young Women

Posted in Recreation Resources at 7:12 am

According to a recent research project, alluring underclothes are the highly talented yearning assured to motivate both young and elder females to feel stunning. Being the front-runner in the extravagant women’s nightclothes market, Myla is a London residing famous British corporation subscribing to enabling both young and elder females to feel seductive and self-possessed in alluring lingerie. The Myla lineup of products comprises suggestive fishnets conterminous with suspender belts, enticing sleeping raiments plus, also, fun and flirty bedroom pleasure gear.

Being subscribed to the best in sensuous delight the sales team at Myla’s offers its customers the most inspiring underclothes in lush textiles inclusive of satin, chiffon, dentelle de Calais plus, also, mesh lingerie. Designed to pamper coquettish members of the fair sex young and old you can find soft triangle bras with panties, triangle bras with conforming silk and lace thongs and garters or, maybe even enticing playful negligees in chiffon and dentelle de Calais. Naturally, this astounding product range offers its customers lace basques, knickers, silk satin camisoles plus, also, long silk satin halter nightcaps. If your ambition is undefiled suggestive glamour, lingerie lovers will pick a striking cup padded balconette or that preformed padded plunge bra pitted against knickers and a garter finished with stockings. Tailor-made for the bed room, there is a selection of pure silk satin and tulle lace up corsets, panties, cami-shorts, g-strings and frilled garters.

If you’re going for fun and flirty bedroom apparatus lingerie lovers will pick vibrating toys, lace stilettos, stockings, garters and stimulating scented flirt candles. Entrance and stun with mini Guinea fowl feather ticklers, fluffy tie ups, satin & chiffon blindfolds, stimulating fractionated coconut massage oil, silky body paints made from chocolate sauce or a playful paddle. Being subscribed to the best fun and flirty pleasure gear, the sales team at Myla’s offers its customers a broad inventory of erotic toys specially developed by a legion of acclaimed craftspeople. Lingerie buffs will choose amongst a sweeping palette inclusive of Habitat Creative Director Tom Dixon’s sleek vibrator, New York based Scott Henderson’s C-Shell variable speed vibrator or Australian born Marc Newson’s sensual Mojo.

For luxury underwear London check out Myla!

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07.11.08

Transfer Huge Files Online Fast And Free

Posted in Business Performance at 12:45 am

If this problem hasn’t hit you yet… it will.

With the ever-increasing popularity of sharing home-videos, mp3 audios, and other large files online, actually transferring those files to your customers, friends, and family presents a problem.

Most email systems limit the size of the files you can send, and often completely restrict some file types, such as .exe, from passing through their email servers.

Most computer geeks say, “Just ftp it to your server and I’ll download it from the Web.”

Unfortunately, that solution often proves too much of a hassle, and actually rates impossible for those without ftp access to a website and the knowledge to use it.

To solve this problem, a new breed of website file transfer service has emerged to help the technically or time-challenged masses share their huge files online.

** http://www.YouSendIt.com **

I discovered this website as most people discover new sites, I saw someone else using it.

A friend wanted to send me a 10MB “zip” file while he traveled from San Francisco to Boise.

He couldn’t use his ftp program to upload it to the Web, and his ISP wouldn’t let him send such a huge file.

So, he logged on to www.yousendit.com and completed a 4-step process.

(1) He entered my email address, (2) chose the file he wanted to send by browsing his hard drive, (3) entered his email and typed in a brief message, and (4) clicked the “send” button.

The service uploaded the file to the web and sent me an email message with a link to download the file from their website.

After I downloaded the file, I clicked a link to delete the file from their server.

If I didn’t bother to click that link, the server would automatically delete the file after 7 days.

A few things make this service unique.

First, it allows you to send files without forcing you to register as a user; it’s totally anonymous.

Second, it allows you to send up to a 1 gigabyte file.

This enables you to send virtually anything you can think of to anyone with an email address and Internet connection.

The site appears to make its money from advertising revenue generated by popup ads and Google AdSense (where they earn a commission every time someone clicks a link).

Third, like Hotmail.com did when first starting out, YouSendIt.com encourages message recipients to turn around and use the service to send files to their friends.

This “viral marketing” effect should help them spread the word quickly without a huge marketing budget.

** http://www.DropLoad.com **

DropLoad.com also enables users to send large files, though they restrict file sizes to 100 MB.

However, DropLoad.com offers one extra feature lacking in YouSendIt: delivery confirmation.

Dropload enables you to know when the person you sent the file to actually clicks the link to download the file.

This cuts down on the “I never got the file” claims and acts like the Post Office making them sign for registered mail.

You can’t prove they read it, but you can prove they received it.

DropLoad.com does require you to register for a username and password, but the service is free.

Overall, both services do an excellent job of solving a growing problem for a huge audience worldwide.

Also, if you sell information products customers download from the Internet, the link expiration and confirmation features can come in handy (such as giving out free samples or preview copies to potential joint venture partners).

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07.09.08

Orlando, FL Vacations

Posted in Travel Tips at 6:28 am

When you take a vacation, one of the most important things to do before you go is plan all the different things you will see and do. Most of the time, the first thing people think of when they think of Orlando, Florida they think of Disneyworld, Epcot, Magic Kingdom, MGM Studio, or Animal Kingdom. But there is more to Orlando, Florida than meets the eye.

On of the most intriguing non-Disney things to do in Orlando are the Arabian Nights Dinner Theater. This “equestrian theater” includes amazing horses and performers prepared to perform in front of 1200 people. The stunts are magical and the horses beautiful. This is a definite must see for anyone traveling to the Orlando area.

Another equestrian-themed treat is Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede. An enticing dinner theater, this show entertains with comedy, music and incredible action between man and horse. There is even ostrich racing!

In addition to these entertaining options, Orlando, Florida also offers a massive amount of ecotourism. You can start your ecotourism tour with Dolphins Plus. Dolphins Plus gives you a glimpse of the Florida Everglades where you will experience a wide variety of Florida wildlife such as birds and alligators. Toward the end of the day you can enjoy a swim with the dolphins, an experience you will never forget.

Another opportunity to experience Florida ecotourism is the Florida Adventure Tour. The day will begin with a breakfast over King’s Bay. On this trip you will enjoy swimming with the manatees. In addition, this trip includes a wildlife jeep safari waiting to entertain you.

If you’ve had enough of ecotourism and dinner theaters, another option as a part of the Orlando vacation for those who want educational options are museums. Three such museums are the Morse Museum of American Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. The Morse Museums offers a permanent collection of Tiffany glass and 19th century American paintings. The Orlando Museum of Art offers impressionist art and ancient American Art while the Cornell Fine Arts Museum offers several different types of collections.

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07.08.08

Anger- Signs Of Its Effects In Everyday Life

Posted in Living With Psychology at 1:25 am

A young man, who had suffered with trauma following a road traffic accident came for treatment. One of the unusual experiences that his wife described related to his behaviour in sleep. She had noticed that if she was to touch him, even inadvertently when he was sleeping, he would lash out with anger. On waking up he would not remember what happened during sleep. When the relevant issues were addressed, his wife reported a noticeable change in his behaviour.

Another young man was having a difficult time with his girlfriend. They would have rows on trivial matters. They tried to resolve the matter many times, but it did not work. As he was undergoing treatment for his anger with me, we addressed his suppressed anger with his mother. The rows stopped. The relationship with the girlfriend improved.

If a child shows strange or cruel behaviour to animals or younger children, it warrants concern. It is a sign of repressed anger. If not addressed, the child will grow up to be a problem adult in the community.

A middle aged professional once came for treatment for an excessive sexual drive. His sexual activities and fantasies were alarmingly aggressive. From the world’s viewpoint, he was successful in many ways. He was an unhappy individual on his own. Dealing and addressing his anger issues helped him immensely and his behaviour changed to his own and others’satisfaction.

Anger can manifest itself in many forms. A milder variety of it is called ‘annoyance’. If it is intense and is not expressed, it is termed ‘resentment’. When very intense and is translated or acted out in behaviour, it is termed as ‘rage’. People can get carried away in the semantics of how to describe anger. The bottom line is that when anger is suppressed,the person develops low threshold for feeling angry and may either continue to hold back or act out suddenly and explosively to cause damage to property, relationships or to life.

Someone carrying low threshold of anger will have a ’short fuse’. This is a learnt behaviour. No one is born with a ’short-temper’ or a ’short fuse’ or an aggressive or hostile temperament. These words describe various levels of learnt responses to everyday situations in life. The angry responses are learnt from the environment in which a person was brought up. The more suppressive the environment in which they lived, the more anger a person will carry.

On the softer side, bullying and harassment in the work place are signs of repressed anger. The other name given to it is ‘work stress’. When an employee is harassed, in my observation, both the perpetrator and the victim are angry people even before the event. Violence in the marital relationships is due to repressed anger too.

A few years ago, in the Unites States, a young man had killed many students and teachers in school. The academics wondered what had gone wrong with the boy, who seemed to have a normal upbringing. He came from a background in which he did not have any opportunity to release his anger in a constructive manner. The boy also killed himself in the incident. His repressed anger resulted in the damage to many families, including his own.

In Dunblane, in the UK, a physical education teacher did the same. He lived alone. No one knew much about him till he killed many students. He had no record of any major problems. The reason was that he continued to carry the anger in himself till he exploded. It caused an immense damage to the community.

These are some but not all the signs of suppressed anger. Anger is best dealt with by expression on a regular basis.

Pradeep K Chadha is a psychiatrist who specialises in helping patients with meditation and imagery using little or no medication. He is the author of The Stress Barrier-Nature’s Way To Overcoming Stress published by Blackhall Publishing, Dublin. He is based in Dublin, Ireland.His website address is : http://www.drpkchadha.com

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07.07.08

Liver Detox

Posted in Online Health at 3:17 am

In today’s environment, our bodies are constantly bombarded with toxins, chemicals, and animal hormone injections. This is an established fact: our livers take the brunt of the abuse from the increased presence of all these foreign substances in our diet.

We often never even consider the liver or any other interna organ when we are digesting that new candy bar, or the latest cola on the market. However all of these products are made with various forms of petroleum by-products. Some of the coloring used in candies even contains tar. How can these substances possibly be good for your bodies?

They aren’t good for our bodies, and it’s the livers responsibility to help eliminate these from our bodies. Quite often we overload the liver, the kidneys, and the colon and the resulting effects can be quite lethal.

The liver is the only organ in the body responsible for cleansing the blood as it travels throughout our bodies. Blood enters into the liver on its trip from the intestines; after being cleansed, it passes on to the heart and other vital organs. As with any other filter, it needs regular cleaning.

There are many herbal products available today that can accomplish the liver detoxification, and do a very good job. The problem with this approach is that we don’t practice good eating habits that help to keep our liver clean and functioning at peak levels.

Even though the levels of chemicals, hormones, and other foreign substances injected into our food supply is quite well regulated, the levels are not comprehensive. It simply is not possible to determine who will eat what. Therefore, the government of any country cannot say, this level is safe for everyone, because we simply don’t know what every person may eat compositely.

Information such as this, coupled with the fact that we know we are consuming greater quantities of these chemicals and toxins than ever before should alert us to the need for cleansing our liver.

Learn the proper way to detox your system at Liver Detox.

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07.03.08

One-Product Sales Sites: Avoid These Top Blunders

Posted in World Wide Web Resources at 5:58 am

One product, one long web page: this kind of web site is
sometimes called a sales letter site or mini-site, and it
focuses on one and only one goal, as many sales of that one
product as possible. With a one-product sales site, no
distractions, no subsidiary goals, such as newsletter
signups, are allowed to interfere with that goal. So let’s
look at some common mistakes and omissions for a sales
letter site.

Your headline serves as the key point of orientation for
the reader and should be as strongly worded and pointedly
targeted as you can manage. Do not use the name of your
product as the headline - that’s a weak marketing message.

Instead, dramatize either the problem solved by your
product or the solution offered, or both. For instance:

Discover Your Family’s Roots Through Easy, Fun Internet Research

You can often add a subhead after the headline for even
greater punch:

Turn Words into Money with Copy That Even a Skinflint Can’t Resist!

Get a Juicier Return on Investment from Your Marketing With the Easy-to-Apply Secrets in This New Manual

Normally you want to start your sales page by building
rapport with the reader with respect to the problem or goal
at hand. Make sure, however, that you not only make your
case in a positive way for your product but also address
and head off each and every worry, objection or doubt the
reader might have about buying your product. For instance,
how can you know so much about knee injuries if you’re not
a doctor? Or, do these money-saving strategies apply if I
live in Canada or Bermuda?

The biggest worry people have buying online from companies
or individuals they’ve never heard of is, are you
trustworthy? Am I going to get what I order and have some
recourse if it’s a pile of crap? A money-back guarantee
goes part of the way toward assuaging this, as do
testimonials, but just as important, and much more often
neglected, is posting a mailing address and telephone
number for the vendor.

If it’s a physical product that will be shipped, make sure
you explicitly say how and when it will be shipped and
whether you can ship it anywhere in the world for that
price. Don’t make the reader click through to the order
form to learn how much your product costs, or how much it
costs with shipping.

As your copy builds toward its conclusion, remember to
include what marketers term the “call to action”:
explicitly ask for the order. Do so prominently, so that
someone skipping down the page can quickly find the “order
now” button. Even better, insert an order button or link
near the top of the page so that someone who arrives
already wanting to buy can do so immediately.

When you’ve built the strongest possible case for your
product and orchestrated your pitch properly, consider the
formatting of your sales page. Since this sort of site
doesn’t have a left navigation bar, the column of text
often ends up much too wide for comfortable reading.
Studies have shown that paragraphs wider than six or seven
inches are difficult to read on a computer screen. Add
blank columns to the left and right of your sales copy to
narrow it to that width.

Make sure too that paragraphs go on no more than seven
lines, and a long run of paragraphs is broken up by
subheads. And make those subheads interesting and meaty.
Someone who skims down the page should be able to get the
gist of your marketing message just from reading the
subheads.

Marcia Yudkin is the author of Web Site
Marketing Makeover and 10 other books. A four-time Webby
Awards judge and internationally famous marketing
consultant, she critiques web sites and performs web site
makeovers for clients. Learn more about her detailed
critique sessions on five different kinds of web sites
(including one-product sites) at
http://www.yudkin.com/websitequiz.htm .

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