| Firefox 3.6 is almost here, and if the release candidate is any indication, it's looking mighty good. To my delight, I found that Firefox uses considerably less memory after prolonged use than its predecessor, Firefox 3.5.6. Better memory use may not strike you as the most exciting thing about a Web browser, but if you're a serious Web user, with multiple tabs open at once for hours at a time, it's a big deal. I, and other users, have noticed memory issues with Firefox 3.5.6 that slowed a PC's overall performance. In my testing of 3.6, these memory problems appear to have been fixed, and that alone makes it a "must upgrade" in my book. There's more to a browser than just fast page rendering, and Firefox 3.6 offers numerous new features that I think make it a compelling browser choice. |
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| By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at Computerworld. |
January 27, 2010
Firefox 3.6 RC: New Life To An Old Browser
January 20, 2010
How to Blog For Cash
Every internet professional, veteran or rookie
is constantly looking for simple ways to make
money online.
Let me tell you about one that you might not be
aware of.
If you have a blog you are already a leg up on
the competition.
Should you not have a blog now is the time to
start one if you want to make use of one of the
simple ways to make money online.
To get paid to post on your blog you are going
to have to join one of the paid blogging networks.
There are a number of them and you will have to
research which of them you want to use.
Before jumping on this bandwagon there are a few
things that you need to be aware of.
1.) Some of the blogging networks will not accept
brand new blogs. They require that your blog be
established and have proven longevity.
In most cases they require a minimum age of
3 months.
2.) Many require that your blog already be
indexed by Goggle and or Yahoo.
3.) Most will not accept blogs that promote hate,
violence, or contain content of an adult nature.
4.) All of the networks require that your blog be
active and well maintained with a minimum post
count per week.
There are some simple ways to make money online and
blogging for cash is one of them.
If you do not have a blog get one started and a few
months down the road you could be raking in the cash.
By the way... Here's a website that shows you how
to make $100,000.00 per year with a simple blog...
http://eca.sh/M6HL
To your blogging success,
is constantly looking for simple ways to make
money online.
Let me tell you about one that you might not be
aware of.
If you have a blog you are already a leg up on
the competition.
Should you not have a blog now is the time to
start one if you want to make use of one of the
simple ways to make money online.
To get paid to post on your blog you are going
to have to join one of the paid blogging networks.
There are a number of them and you will have to
research which of them you want to use.
Before jumping on this bandwagon there are a few
things that you need to be aware of.
1.) Some of the blogging networks will not accept
brand new blogs. They require that your blog be
established and have proven longevity.
In most cases they require a minimum age of
3 months.
2.) Many require that your blog already be
indexed by Goggle and or Yahoo.
3.) Most will not accept blogs that promote hate,
violence, or contain content of an adult nature.
4.) All of the networks require that your blog be
active and well maintained with a minimum post
count per week.
There are some simple ways to make money online and
blogging for cash is one of them.
If you do not have a blog get one started and a few
months down the road you could be raking in the cash.
By the way... Here's a website that shows you how
to make $100,000.00 per year with a simple blog...
http://eca.sh/M6HL
To your blogging success,
I-S
January 18, 2010
7 Ways to Create Value & Profit Out of Thin Air
One of the most powerful gifts I was ever given was Paul Zane Pilzer's "Economic Alchemy." That was 15 years ago and at the time I only had the slightest inkling of what that could truly mean. But I was riveted. He explained that wealth and resources are not things that are merely dug out of the ground or "negotiated out of" or taken from other people -- they are actually created out of thin air by ingenuity.
-Intel makes Pentium chips (worth their weight in gold, literally) out of sand (which itself is almost worthless).
-Every single person who has ever written a piece of software was creating value, literally, out of thin air. Re-arranging 1's and 0's. Pure ingenuity, yet immensely useful and productive.
Today, 7 "thin air" strategies that take existing resources and apply them in new ways. You can do these things within your own business - or using what already exists in somebody else's business. Either way you profit:
1. Transform Expertise into Profitable Training - between the ears of every company's employees is knowledge and expertise that goes largely untapped. When I worked for a high-tech firm selling networking equipment, I realized that customers desperately needed to know what my own support staff knew. (That's why they were calling for support.) Furthermore, I knew a service / installation company in Pennsylvania that literally had more experience with this than any other company in the country.
With the company in Pennsylvania, I assembled a training program and we sold it to our customers for $1500 a head. Every $1 we spent mailing our customers flyers about our training events brought us $8 in sales.
Please understand, before we did this we were not even remotely in the training or seminar business. Our gig was selling industrial equipment. But the training created an extra revenue stream for us and it also did something else: It positioned us as Grand Central Station for training on this technology in our industry.
2. License something you have to another company - I'll just stick to the example I already gave you. Once we had this training system in place, we sold it to a major trade organization who in turn sold it to their 300 member companies.
If you have any kind of real business, you probably have something you can license to somebody else.
3. Tollgate Joint Ventures - If you're "only" a consultant or freelancer, but you have friends or clients who do have a "real business": You can license their know-how to others and keep some of it in your pocket. That's called a Tollgate Joint Venture. The essence of doing this is making it easy for the people on both sides. Be willing to do the legwork and make it easy and there's little resistance.
4. Customer Re-Activation - Friend of a friend is a retired dentist who goes around in his motor home now and every time he wants to make $40 grand he works out a "customer reactivation" strategy with a local dentist office somewhere. He takes their old customer files and mails out letters that get those people back in the door. His cut is 100% of their first visit. Re-activating old customers is highly profitable, whether you do it for yourself or others.
5. Re-Niching or Sub-Niching a Product - You know the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books? Those are the quintessential example. Chicken soup for the Chiropractor's soul, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul, Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul, the list is endless.
You can probably do this too, even with products that have nothing to do with books. All you have to do is cater to the identity of your customer. Often the necessary changes to your product are minimal.
6. Selling Leads for Big Bucks - Affiliate marketers and Google Cash guys do this a lot but that's not the only place you can do it. My first consulting gig - this company sold expensive software and I asked El Presidente how much money it cost him to acquire one new customer.
He said, "It costs me $50,000 to get a new customer."
I said, "What if I got that number down to $15,000?"
He said, "That would be great." I knew it was just a matter of generating the leads. If it took 100 leads to get one customer, then a lead would be worth $150. I sent him an action plan, he signed off on it and we had a deal.
If you want to sell leads, all you have to do is find out what one is worth. If you're any good at marketing you can get the lead for a lot less than it's worth to your customer.
7. Knock Yourself Off - The prevailing Google advertisers in my coaching programs occupy not just one but two, three, four positions on the page. One position is their original flagship product but other ads emphasize other things - different shapes and colors; one accents high levels of service, another goes for lowest price. Doubles their market share.
Hey.... If you don't do it your competitors will.
If you want to build a business that capitalizes on all seven of these concepts - and does so with an ongoing, evolving stream of information - I invite you to investigate my Mastermind Club. Mastermind is for people who aim to achieve a six or seven-figure income with direct application of state-of-the-art marketing knowledge:
http://perrymarshall.com/mastermind
There is wealth and profit sitting literally under your nose. All you need is someone to lead you by the hand and show you how to put the pieces together. Mastermind Club can do that.
Here's to more Economic Alchemy and Success in your corner of the world.
Perry Marshall
-Intel makes Pentium chips (worth their weight in gold, literally) out of sand (which itself is almost worthless).
-Every single person who has ever written a piece of software was creating value, literally, out of thin air. Re-arranging 1's and 0's. Pure ingenuity, yet immensely useful and productive.
Today, 7 "thin air" strategies that take existing resources and apply them in new ways. You can do these things within your own business - or using what already exists in somebody else's business. Either way you profit:
1. Transform Expertise into Profitable Training - between the ears of every company's employees is knowledge and expertise that goes largely untapped. When I worked for a high-tech firm selling networking equipment, I realized that customers desperately needed to know what my own support staff knew. (That's why they were calling for support.) Furthermore, I knew a service / installation company in Pennsylvania that literally had more experience with this than any other company in the country.
With the company in Pennsylvania, I assembled a training program and we sold it to our customers for $1500 a head. Every $1 we spent mailing our customers flyers about our training events brought us $8 in sales.
Please understand, before we did this we were not even remotely in the training or seminar business. Our gig was selling industrial equipment. But the training created an extra revenue stream for us and it also did something else: It positioned us as Grand Central Station for training on this technology in our industry.
2. License something you have to another company - I'll just stick to the example I already gave you. Once we had this training system in place, we sold it to a major trade organization who in turn sold it to their 300 member companies.
If you have any kind of real business, you probably have something you can license to somebody else.
3. Tollgate Joint Ventures - If you're "only" a consultant or freelancer, but you have friends or clients who do have a "real business": You can license their know-how to others and keep some of it in your pocket. That's called a Tollgate Joint Venture. The essence of doing this is making it easy for the people on both sides. Be willing to do the legwork and make it easy and there's little resistance.
4. Customer Re-Activation - Friend of a friend is a retired dentist who goes around in his motor home now and every time he wants to make $40 grand he works out a "customer reactivation" strategy with a local dentist office somewhere. He takes their old customer files and mails out letters that get those people back in the door. His cut is 100% of their first visit. Re-activating old customers is highly profitable, whether you do it for yourself or others.
5. Re-Niching or Sub-Niching a Product - You know the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books? Those are the quintessential example. Chicken soup for the Chiropractor's soul, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul, Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul, the list is endless.
You can probably do this too, even with products that have nothing to do with books. All you have to do is cater to the identity of your customer. Often the necessary changes to your product are minimal.
6. Selling Leads for Big Bucks - Affiliate marketers and Google Cash guys do this a lot but that's not the only place you can do it. My first consulting gig - this company sold expensive software and I asked El Presidente how much money it cost him to acquire one new customer.
He said, "It costs me $50,000 to get a new customer."
I said, "What if I got that number down to $15,000?"
He said, "That would be great." I knew it was just a matter of generating the leads. If it took 100 leads to get one customer, then a lead would be worth $150. I sent him an action plan, he signed off on it and we had a deal.
If you want to sell leads, all you have to do is find out what one is worth. If you're any good at marketing you can get the lead for a lot less than it's worth to your customer.
7. Knock Yourself Off - The prevailing Google advertisers in my coaching programs occupy not just one but two, three, four positions on the page. One position is their original flagship product but other ads emphasize other things - different shapes and colors; one accents high levels of service, another goes for lowest price. Doubles their market share.
Hey.... If you don't do it your competitors will.
If you want to build a business that capitalizes on all seven of these concepts - and does so with an ongoing, evolving stream of information - I invite you to investigate my Mastermind Club. Mastermind is for people who aim to achieve a six or seven-figure income with direct application of state-of-the-art marketing knowledge:
http://perrymarshall.com/mastermind
There is wealth and profit sitting literally under your nose. All you need is someone to lead you by the hand and show you how to put the pieces together. Mastermind Club can do that.
Here's to more Economic Alchemy and Success in your corner of the world.
Perry Marshall
January 12, 2010
5 Blog Traffic Tips
Below listed 5 blog traffic tips. Read it and take it as your own profit.
1. Submit your blog to all major blog directories
like Technorati.com
2. Participate in blog carnivals. This is very similar
to submitting articles.
3. Provide an email subscription form that allows your
blog readers to receive your blog posts via emails.
Use the Wordpress plugin "subscribe2"
4. Rewrite some of your blog content and post it to
articles directories to increase backlinks and
traffic. Try using ArticleMarketer.com
5. Find a hot topic on Technorati, post about it on
your blog and then ping Technorati with your new
post.
like Technorati.com
2. Participate in blog carnivals. This is very similar
to submitting articles.
3. Provide an email subscription form that allows your
blog readers to receive your blog posts via emails.
Use the Wordpress plugin "subscribe2"
4. Rewrite some of your blog content and post it to
articles directories to increase backlinks and
traffic. Try using ArticleMarketer.com
5. Find a hot topic on Technorati, post about it on
your blog and then ping Technorati with your new
post.
That's all.
Be happy...
I-S
January 08, 2010
7 Reasons To Fail
I get emails from readers and customers all the time with
a common theme, which is...
"Why can't I make any money online?"
So I sat down and wrote this article to tell you 7 Reasons
Why You Never See a Buck Online...
Even if you think you're a failure, and don't have a hope
in the world to make_money online, this article might just
turn you around and put you in high spirits.
See if you can relate to any of these common reasons why
people fail in their internet business....
1) Information Overload
You are trying to learn everything at once and you are
paralyzed. You can't put any of the info together and it's
frustrating you.
2) You don't know the Fundamentals of Business
You don't know what it takes to SELL something. If you
can't sell off-line, then it will be hard to sell online.
3) You Don't Know the Technical "Know-How" stuff
Website building like domain names, hosting, cpanel,
FTP, HTML, PDF, ZIP, PHP. It's all Greek to you!?
4) You're Trying Everything by Yourself
You don't have any contacts in this business and you are
afraid to ask and you don't know who to ask for help.
5) Low Commitment Level
You don't think seriously about your business. You
procrastinate. You don't take the steps to turn your
business around because you're not committed enough to
succeed.
6) You're Afraid of Success
With success comes power, with power comes responsibility.
Many of us don't like responsibility. We don't want things
to become big because it will be too hard to keep under
control.
7) You're Afraid to Lose Money
It costs money to run an internet business. It's easy to
lose that money, when you don't know what you're doing.
But what you need to know is that money makes money.
Leverage your money in wise investments or assets to
bring you more in return.
So which one is the big one stopping you Isyaias?
Hopefully not all of them? ... lol
Believe it or not, are NOT the only one who is having a
hard time trying to get their head around the internet
marketing business.
The fact is, more than 9 out of 10 people never make a
single penny online, and and give up in 6 months or
less!
===========================
So what can you do about it?
===========================
If you decide right here and now that you're not going to
be part of the majority, there is hope for you to start
seeing success, right away!
Starting right now, I want you to put your finger on
one of the seven reasons I wrote about above.
Then starting right now, THINK of how you can overcome
it.
And then DO IT! And if you don't know how to do it,
learn and research HOW to do it.
But it's up to you to take some action. Look, if you
have a question, ask someone. Ask me!
Obviously I can't stand there next to you telling
you what to do but I can point you in the right direction.
After that, it's up to you to take action and overcome
your obstacles.
Working from home requires you to be proactive!
Once you have thought of a solution and start to
overcome your barriers, you will feel you've achieved
something. You'll feel that there is hope for you.
And hope is what we need to get through each day with
a smile on our face.
Eventually, our hope will lead us to success. More
success than our wildest dreams - whatever they may
be.
The ball's in your court now Isyaias.
Remember... "THINK, LEARN, DO" - The recipe for success.
All the best,
Stuart Stirling
a common theme, which is...
"Why can't I make any money online?"
So I sat down and wrote this article to tell you 7 Reasons
Why You Never See a Buck Online...
Even if you think you're a failure, and don't have a hope
in the world to make_money online, this article might just
turn you around and put you in high spirits.
See if you can relate to any of these common reasons why
people fail in their internet business....
1) Information Overload
You are trying to learn everything at once and you are
paralyzed. You can't put any of the info together and it's
frustrating you.
2) You don't know the Fundamentals of Business
You don't know what it takes to SELL something. If you
can't sell off-line, then it will be hard to sell online.
3) You Don't Know the Technical "Know-How" stuff
Website building like domain names, hosting, cpanel,
FTP, HTML, PDF, ZIP, PHP. It's all Greek to you!?
4) You're Trying Everything by Yourself
You don't have any contacts in this business and you are
afraid to ask and you don't know who to ask for help.
5) Low Commitment Level
You don't think seriously about your business. You
procrastinate. You don't take the steps to turn your
business around because you're not committed enough to
succeed.
6) You're Afraid of Success
With success comes power, with power comes responsibility.
Many of us don't like responsibility. We don't want things
to become big because it will be too hard to keep under
control.
7) You're Afraid to Lose Money
It costs money to run an internet business. It's easy to
lose that money, when you don't know what you're doing.
But what you need to know is that money makes money.
Leverage your money in wise investments or assets to
bring you more in return.
So which one is the big one stopping you Isyaias?
Hopefully not all of them? ... lol
Believe it or not, are NOT the only one who is having a
hard time trying to get their head around the internet
marketing business.
The fact is, more than 9 out of 10 people never make a
single penny online, and and give up in 6 months or
less!
===========================
So what can you do about it?
===========================
If you decide right here and now that you're not going to
be part of the majority, there is hope for you to start
seeing success, right away!
Starting right now, I want you to put your finger on
one of the seven reasons I wrote about above.
Then starting right now, THINK of how you can overcome
it.
And then DO IT! And if you don't know how to do it,
learn and research HOW to do it.
But it's up to you to take some action. Look, if you
have a question, ask someone. Ask me!
Obviously I can't stand there next to you telling
you what to do but I can point you in the right direction.
After that, it's up to you to take action and overcome
your obstacles.
Working from home requires you to be proactive!
Once you have thought of a solution and start to
overcome your barriers, you will feel you've achieved
something. You'll feel that there is hope for you.
And hope is what we need to get through each day with
a smile on our face.
Eventually, our hope will lead us to success. More
success than our wildest dreams - whatever they may
be.
The ball's in your court now Isyaias.
Remember... "THINK, LEARN, DO" - The recipe for success.
All the best,
Stuart Stirling
I-S note: Be my friend on PS
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