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Understanding the Under Utilized Auto Responder

Undoubtedly, one of the most powerful automation and promotional tools we have for our online businesses is the auto responder. Auto responders work for us when we're not online, they provide instant information for readers, and can follow up with prospects automatically for us over time. However, I still believe auto responders are often under utilized, and occasionally even used in an imprope. . .

Lunacy at its Finest ... Crazymakers and Intimidators in your life!

Did you ever run into that person that just nags and picks and scares you into submission? How about that person that appears to turn your world upside-down? What about that person that literally sucks the energy right out of your soul? Believe it or not, these people do exist and they can affect you in ways you never thought possible. --- Crazymakers --- A Crazymaker is someone who feeds on. . .

Self-Recovery from Addiction ... Taking responsibility for your life.

I've had several coaching clients come to me who, while they wanted to move forward in life, were actually stuck in a self-destructive addiction. Of course, I cannot directly confront them about their addictions, as they had to open up to me that it was part of the problem that was keeping them in the same rut in which they found themselves day-after-day. As we worked together to make plans a. . .

Self-Divine-ation ... Defining a divine future!

In some of my counseling and coaching sessions, my clients ask me to perform a reading to tell them their future. In many cases, my response is, "why don't you tell me your future?" They stop and stare, speechless. Of course, that sounds sarcastic and demeaning, but indeed, you know your future better than anyone else! I am in no way knocking the psychic arts, but I'm presenting you with the. . .

How The Affiliate Masters Make Massive Sales

Everyone involved in Internet marketing knows the names of the affiliate program masters. Marlon Sanders. Mark Joyner. Jimmy D. Brown. Terry Dean. Everyone knows them because at one point or another 95% of us signed up as an affiliate with at least one of them. We also know them because these are the guys who have pulled in the BIG money we all dream about. They've actually done it, and so. . .

Writing the Recipe

Writing the Recipe (c)2003 Pam White It sounds simple. Sell your family recipes for money. Gather up your community's traditional dishes and submit them to magazines. List meals you make for guests and slap together a cookbook. Right? Wrong. Writing down recipes is an art, and one that keeps reinventing itself. I have a wonderful cookbook - "The Home Queen Cookbook" - that is packed with recipe. . .

Apostrophe Usage Made Simple

APOSTROPHE USAGE MADE SIMPLE Copyright 2005, Michael LaRocca According to one of my previous articles, whenever a Southerner says "Y'all watch this," get out of the way because those are probably the last words he will ever say. Well, I'm a Southerner. I used to live in the southeastern United States, but I moved to the southeast of China. And, I'm about to say the magic words: Y'all watch this. . .

Harry Potter and the Gargantuan Page Turner

Three frustratingly long years after the publication of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling’s legions of fans were rewarded for their patience with the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – launched simultaneously in Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and in other English-speaking countries at one minute past midnight on 21st June 2003. This fifth book in Rowling. . .

30 Minutes That Could Save Your Dream

If you’ve got a dream you’re intent on pursuing, chances are you’re going to bog down at some point. That’s just the way dreams are. In fact, there’s a little known rule about this called the Second Rule of Thermodynamics, which states that sooner or later everything returns to chaos. In other words, expect your dream to come crashing down around your ears periodically. Yet, no need to despai. . .

Discover the Llyn Peninsula

Stretching from the peak of Snowdon to Bardsey Island (or Ynys Enlli - the Island of the Tides), the Llyn Peninsula is a unique and beautiful part of North Wales, renown for its natural charm and mild climate. So spectacular is its coastline that many thousands of acres have been protected by the National Trust, and vast tracts of land have been designated Areas of Special Scientific Interest.. . .

The Big White Golfball

I remember well the first ship that I joined that had a Satellite Phone on it. I joined as Chief Engineer on this tiny little Research Vessel on a tiny little river in Papua New Guinea and I never saw the ship when I arrived at the wharf, all I could see was this massive white Golf Ball perched high on the top deck. Looked as if it was pushing what little there was of the ship down into the wat. . .

History of the Merchant Navy and the Web

A web site dedicated to the writings of the sea, ships and all those that sail on them? It sounds strange as who knows what the Merchant Navy is or what those at sea actually do all day, those who work in the Industry that is. Isn’t the Merchant Navy something to do with fishing or fighting? What is interesting about that? “Get a real job”, some would say and others would ask “and so why haven’. . .

How to Improve Your Spelling.

Spelling. Some of us don’t really consider it at all, since we don’t have a problem with it but for some, it’s enough to send shivers down your spine. Unfortunately, if you are a writer, you need to be able to spell and the old spell check just isn’t good enough to fully cope. So, what can you do to improve your spelling? The first thing you need to do is figure out your learning style. Do y. . .

Dazzle The Press With The Facts

Achieving media coverage is not as difficult as one may imagine. The media needs to produce interesting, newsworthy stories each day of the week. They cannot possibly be at all places at one time to gather firsthand information on their own. Thus, they rely on others to provide them with leads they can turn into a story. One method that works well for the media, as well as businesses and or. . .

You've Got The 'Insane' Traffic, But Are They Sticking Around?

"What is the best form of promotion?" If only I had a dollar for every time I'd been asked that question, I could retire and not have to worry about it! It seems everything these days is all about driving insane traffic to your site, getting massive hits, and blowing the bearings off your hit counter! Actually, I'm still not sure why anyone would want 'insane' traffic anyway, but that's anothe. . .

Benefits Of Resisting The "Buy Now!" Temptation

There are countless Internet marketing articles out there on how to influence your customer to get excited and 'buy now!' That's great, but let's turn things around for a minute. What happens when YOU are the potential customer? Guess what? Others will be reading those same articles and trying those same tactics on you! That's ok, I mean, fair is fair, but what can you do to make sure you do. . .

Cookbooks for Children

Children love to cook, so what better way to encourage them than giving them their own cookbook. There are many good cookbooks geared to younger children; the books reviewed below are only a sampling of what you can find in your local bookstores or online. Silly Snacks Jennifer Darling, Editor; Better Homes and Gardens, Editor Meredith Books, 1998 ISBN: 0696208 This spiral-bound cookbook’s rec. . .

Common Mistakes by Beginning Fiction Writers

There are certain things that nearly all beginning writers do. It’s almost a right of passage, to have them picked up and commented on. So to save yourself from possible embarrasment, try to avoid doing the following things. 1). Underusing the word “said”. It’s almost as if we’re scared that ‘said’ is too boring. So we use ‘demanded’, ‘insisted’, ‘commented’. Anything but ‘said’. The prob. . .

Get Trained or Be Trained - What's the Difference?

You may be asking yourself right about now what am I talking about. I don't blame you. It's not everyday you see a question like that. But before you become the proverbial judge and jury of me, let me clarify what I am talking about. What does it mean to get trained or be trained? Well let me explain it this way. Today there exist many schools that teach various subjects from Math to Computer. . .

Quick Troubleshooting Techniques

In my years of PC troubleshooting, I've corrected many perplexing problems and many ordinary problems. I decided to make available to you this list of common problems and solutions to help you with your own troubleshooting efforts. The most common complaint When I handle service calls, they end up with me training the user on how to work with the computer rather than actual repair jobs. That's . . .

Viral Marketing Part I

Copyright (C) G Kumar 1999-2001. Permission is granted to reprint the following article as long as no changes are made and the byline, copyright information, and the resource box is included. Please let me know if you use this article by sending an email to zodiac20@vsnl.com Article Title: Viral Marketing - Secrets Revealed Part I Author: G Kumar Contact Author: zodiac20@vsnl.com Publishing Gu. . .

The Lighter Side of Spam

The Lighter Side Of Spam by Tim Ward 'The Online Jester' Every morning when sit down at the ole computer and go to check my email I know two things will happen. (1) I won't have received any new sign-ups in any of the hundreds of affiliate programs that 'guaranteed' me a massive downline and (2) I will have at least 30 emails that are unsolicited or SPAM. As an experienc. . .

It's EQ, Not IQ, That Will Make You More Money

Years ago, I read a biography on Nikola Tesla. While I found many aspects of this great inventor's life intriguing, the one thing that really made an impression on me was not his many inventions, not his significant contributions to science, and not even his incredible intelligence. It was the fact that he died a very poor man. It's unfair, really, that such a great man never enjoyed financial. . .

Are You Marketing A Product That's Unrealistic For You?

Fact: There are far more people wishing to make substantial incomes from home over the Internet than there are actually doing it. That's an obvious statement to be sure, but why is that true? One factor often overlooked in my opinion is that many people make poor selections when choosing what they should sell. People, more often than not, decide what business to enter based on emotion, excitem. . .

Stocking Up

There, you have just got a boat. A nice new hobby for the weekend and it is time to stock it out. It is time to get all that equipment and gear that you have read about in all the magazines and that you have dreamt about for so long. Time to fill that boat up with all the latest goodies and set sail into the unknown. Sail out and over the horizon, ready for all that may be placed in your way! T. . .

Taiwan Architecture

Even after living in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for over a year I still get lost if I walk around on my own. Most times in a strange town or place it is easy to get to grips with the layout and to not get lost after the first week or so. In Kaohsiung all is different and although I recognize the major buildings and streets, as soon as I leave them I am totally and utterly adrift. To look at the average . . .

Christmas at Sea

Ships do not stop for X-mass. They do not stop for Easter or for Thanksgiving or any other national holiday. Ships do not stop at all unless the company says so and especially not for the crew of a ship to enjoy themselves. It would be very nice if they did! It would be excellent if ships¡¦crew could just switch off the engines, lock the doors and go home for the weekend, returning the next da. . .

Get Backups Right

One day, I was working in Word. I had two other programs running in the background. I was writing in a previously saved document when all of a sudden my computer went down. The blue screen of death came up. I hit the enter key to get rid of the screen and my computer shut off. I lost almost all the data from files I had opened. When I tried to start the computer, I heard several beeps and then. . .

Are You a Self-Saboteur?

Are You A Self-Saboteur? A Questionnaire by Suzanne Falter-Barns, http://www.howmuchjoy.com Take this questionnaire to get clear on what you may be doing to undermine your own success and happiness in life. An explanation of your score awaits at the end. 1. When someone offers help you usually a) answer no without even thinking b) consider for a moment, but then decide their help would be inad. . .

How to Use Email as a Marketing Tool

Creating effective Web sites and providing outstanding copy are two methods you can use to effectively market your business on the Internet. There are others, one of which is e-mail. Email is a resource that all people share. With Internet Cafés and free email accounts, there is practically no one who doesn't have an email account. However, what people don't realize is that it is a powerful. . .

Disk Stripe Windows XP

Many applications need better performance than a standard installation can generally provide. For example, creating DVDs requires the hard disk to read information at a very high speed. Fortunately, there’s an easy way of insuring that Windows XP performs at the level you need, by boosting the disk's performance. How is this accomplished? Implement disk striping. In this article, I’ll explain. . .

Keep Your User Settings When Upgrading to Windows XP

When you upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows 98 or from Windows 98 to Windows Me, the upgrade process tries to preserve your applications and data. However, depending on the OS you're migrating from, when upgrading Windows XP, you may have to perform a few new steps to save that data. If you upgrade a single user computer from Windows 95, 98, or Me, to Windows XP, XP's Setup program will automat. . .

Discover The MAJOR Force Driving Internet Sales Today

Simply put, permission email marketing is THE true profit producer fueling the success of the Internet age. If I didn't make that point strong enough, please re-read that statement until it really sinks in. No other Internet marketing strategy produces as high of a return on investment as permission email marketing. NOR does any other strategy truly achieve it's peak effectiveness until it is . . .

How to Find Closure From 9/11 and More in 5 Steps

Ever since 9/11, many people are still suffering emotionally or mentally. Mental health professionals across the country have noticed an increase in emotional and mental problems due to the trauma caused by the terrorist attacks. The events of 9/11/2001 have traumatized Americans beyond belief, in ways conventional means of counseling was unprepared to handle. For the first time in history, Am. . .

Subscribing to Newsgroups

When you are promoting your Web site or product, you need to publicize it for all to see. There are many ways to do this. One way, is by posting to newsgroups. Using newsgroups is an easy way to accumulate sales instantaneously and to keep traffic coming to your site in the future. A newsgroup is an online forum where people who share common interests ca ngather to exchange ideas. Users post an. . .

Discover The 7 Key Areas Crucial To Business Development

Everyday your online, literally hundreds of pieces of information are laid out before you, and ALL of them claim to contain knowledge critical to your online success. Now obviously we can't read all of it, nor do we need to do so. Therefore, isn't it about time we finally took a few moments to discuss just exactly what areas we DO need to focus our time on? That way WE are in control over what . . .

Get Rich Writing Fiction

GET RICH WRITING FICTION Copyright 2005, Michael LaRocca Some of us write simply because we can't not write. Ideas grab us, move us, and demand to be written. We strive to make it as real as we possibly can, to improve at our craft every day, hopefully to make it into the realm of literature as well as entertainment. We want to craft an entire world where the places and people are so real that. . .

Secrets to Sales-Driven Brochures

Secrets to Sales-Driven Brochures by Lisa Sparks, http://www.integritywriting.com After you’ve gotten past the basics of identifying your audience, knowing your message and determining the right tone of voice, you have to do one of the toughest jobs that even some professional writers haven’t mastered yet - spill the beans about your product or service’s benefits. How Not to Fall Into th. . .

KNOW THYSELF: Thoughts on the Poetry of 9-11

John Horvath Jr editor of PoetryRepairShop InternetUser Nearly 3,000 died in the towers. I lost no one Unwarranted causes. Unnecessary conflict. Unwanted violence. Perhaps, when Stephen Crane wrote 'War is Kind', his time was one whose standards of selflessness - glory, honor, sacrifice - greatly differed from our own standards (if indeed we have any). We daily struggle among myths of multicul. . .

Using CPR In Your Marketing

Be Consistent, Persistent, and Resistant to any negative thoughts when you don't feel it's worth your while. I call it the CPR for marketing! Keep consistent with your goals and creating positive thoughts. Be persistent with the life of your service and/or product and show that passion to others. Resist anything or anyone who hinders or stands in the way of your progress. Resist and let go so t. . .

Create More Contacts By Varying Your Promotion Methods

Most likely, you are restricting the growth of your business by unknowingly restricting how you promote it. So many in network marketing promote their opportunity in a very limited fashion. They approach others with the idea of working from home or owning their own business. But is that really the only way you can market? Now, eventually to sign someone up under you, that subject is going to h. . .

Budgeting Your Time And Talent

© 2001, Rozey Gean, Marketing-Seek.com If you could put a price tag on your time, would you be selling yourself short or cashing in on what you are actually worth? Should we take the time to run the calculations, I would venture to guess that the majority of us would discover that we are definitely coming up on the short end when it comes to our time and talent. As entrepreneurs, it is import. . .

Marketing During Uncertain Economic Times

© 2001, Rozey Gean, FrugalandFun.com The recent tragic terrorist events that threatened our country's safety have left behind a cloud of uncertainty for business owners throughout the USA. Our economic well being is in the hands of our fellow countrymen as we strive as a nation to stand on our feet and keep the economy strong and prosperous without feeling the strain of predicted recession. A. . .

Eight Days A Week

(c) 2001, By Rozey Gean, Marketing-Seek.com In today's busier-than-ever-before society, I frequently make contact with an individual who is looking for that eighth day in every week. "If only there were eight days in a week, I could accomplish all I have to do." The cold, hard reality of the matter is, as most of us already know, it does not matter how many days there are in a week. If you c. . .

Is Working From Home Really For You?

Forget the hype! No, NOT everyone can make big money working from home. Is it possible to make a six figure income working from home? YES!. Is it possible to enjoy more freedom in your schedule, own your own business, fire your boss, and all of the other work from home fantasies? YES! Can you do it? Well, now that one's not as easy to answer. I can't solve that riddle for you. I CAN, however. . .

Create A Winning E-mail Signature

© 2001, Rozey Gean, www.Marketing-Seek.com I receive e-mail all day long, each containing a signature with the purpose of marketing to me-appealing to me as a consumer and/or entrepreneur in some way to visit a web site or purchase a product. Signature lines are a great marketing tool, but often misused to the extent that they are either overwhelming or a major turn off to a potential client. . . .

Turning Ideas Into Books

Here's this month's royalty-free article about writing for children from Laura Backes, Publisher of Children's Book Insider, the Newsletter for Children's Writers. You have permission to publish this article electronically in your ezine and website free of charge, as long as the author byline and "About the Author" are included. If you choose to use this article, please let us know by e-maili. . .

It's A Good Thing Internet Marketers Don't Swallow Swords

I'm afraid Internet Marketers are an extremely unfocused group of individuals. I know I can be anyway, and from what I've heard from others, it seems I'm not alone. I don't think there's any one of us marketing online that didn't get suckered in, at least to some degree, by the promise of big money on only a few hours of work per week. Well let me tell you something if you're just starting out. . .

Creating Killer Copy for Ads

Creating successful ad copy is important to the success of your company or web site. Without the right structure or word format your chances of selling your products or services are slim to none. One of the most important aspects to writing killer copy is a belief in your product or service. If you don’t, forget it. If you truly believe your product or service is something very special, everyth. . .

Read This Before You Write Your Ad

You have a product you believe will benefit the public. You are confident in what you are offering. You are anxious to get your product in the public eye. So you write an ad you think will attract people. After the ad is placed, nothing happens. Why? Think about it. What are two reasons people react to what they read? They want instant satisfaction. They want to know what's in it for them. Will. . .

Funny you should say that...

Here is a typical article that has appeared in FYSST: --------------------- BAD NEIGHBORHOOD From Dan Russell: I was watching the History Channel last night and heard an interesting word origin: The wrong side of the tracks referred to the side of the tracks that, due to the wind, usually received most of the locomotive's black, sooty smoke. And so you've come to us for the final word on this . . .

How to Effectively Market Yourself on the Internet

Create Your Own Newsletter Many people don’t know how easy it really is to run a successful newsletter. They also don’t realize the importance of having one. There are two main types of newsletters: free and paid. Newsletters are the best way to generate sales and will be for years to come. It is critical that you offer a FREE subscription to a newsletter on your web site and every person yo. . .