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What to Do When Someone Offends You Let’s say you’re sitting around the swimming pool and someone tells a joke about a group everyone knows you belong to. Or let’s say someone doesn’t know something about (like that you alphabetize the soup cans in your pantry at home) and makes a joke about people who alphabetize the soup cans in their pantry. In the one case, you can pretty well assume they meant to offend you, personally, whil. . .
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Website Basics The BasicsYou have a flourishing business - everything is in its place. You just miss one important piece of marketing: an Internet Presence a website. Like everything in business, getting a website needs planning. Getting an effective website needs even more planning.Here are some basic things to know and plan:The WWWWhat is the www or the internet? Basically a network of websites from all over the world you can access via your computer for which you need an internet connection and a browser. Internet connections are available from ISPs, and most of the popular browsers are free downloads from the internet. Just like writing/typing an address on a postal envelope, you type the website address in the browser beginning with www. and ending with either .com, .net, .org, .biz, .nz, .uk, etc. So if you want to access the microsoft website, you would type www.microsoft.com in the browser a. . .
Well-Written Articles Can Help You! Hans HasselforsYou've heard it time and time again: if you want to get your name out there, write articles and allow them to be freely reproduced (with a resource box pointing back to you, of course). Largely, that is true. Well-written articles can: - help you build your profile as an expert - draw traffic to your website, and - help you to build a database of potential clients through associated e-courses or a newsletter. So far you probably haven't heard anything you didn't already know. What YOU are likely to be struggling with is the process of actually writing the article. Sure, you can come up with the content - but how do you really grab those readers? How do you keep their attention all the way through? And most importantly, how do you make them want to come back for more? Let's assume that you understand the basics of constructing and editing an article (it has a beginning, . . .
Ten High Powered Ways To Increase Your Traffic Once you have finshed designing your website, you want to get as much traffic as possible. You can use the following ways to get traffic. 1. Trade links with other web sites. They should be related to the subject of your web site. Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified ads, etc.2. Start an e-zine for your web site. When people read each issue they'll be reminded to revisit your web site. They'll see your product ad more than just once which will increase your orders.3. Form an online community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community they will regularly return to communicate with others.4. Write articles and submit them to e-zines, web sites and magazines that accept article submissions. Include your business information and web address at the end of the articl. . .
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Day Trading – The Ultimate Work-From-Home Job? Ever dreamt of giving up the daily grind? Want to strike out on your own and work from home, but don’t know what you could possibly do to make a living? Full time Nasdaq trader Harvey Walsh wondered just that, and now he asks “Is day trading the ultimate work from home job”?We’ve probably all had the same thought at some time or another, as we trudge off towards another day at work – the same w. . .
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