YES YOU CAN

Markets for votes with Subvert and Profit

2010-12-14T15:52:00.000+08:00

Your votes in Digg and StumbleUpon can now make you money. Describing itself as a black market for votes, Subvert and Profit pays you $0.50 for several votes. The paid vote is hidden among the other votes. And the beauty of all this is that it does not violate any TOS if you follow the guidelines.
How It Works
1. Register free as a Social User.
2. You will be given a link to Digg and StumbleUpon to verify your accounts.
3. You must follow the links given and not go directly to either sites by typing in the url to avoid detection and risk having your account cancelled.
4. A minimum $10.00 is paid through alertpay.
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1. If you want your article end up on the front page of Digg, sign up as an advertiser.
2. The quality of your content will be taken into consideration before being accepted.
3. To reach the first page of Digg, you need to buy at least 50 diggs, preferably 100. This will cost about $75.00 putting its CPC at US$0.003 – a bargain if you consider other advertising options such as AdWords where its CPC is about US$0.20.
4. For StumbleUpon, you have to limit the number of votes to buy at 30 for a particular url.
5. You should spread the number of votes to a few urls from your site to avoid detection.
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2010-11-29T19:28:00.001+08:00

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2009-11-25T19:48:00.001+08:00

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2009-10-30T03:43:00.001+08:00

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The third network marketing techniques: Free Marketing Strategy

2009-04-20T20:13:00.001+08:00

Free things that everyone likes, so all times. Free marketing strategy also has a strong vitality.

Internet was free, not commercial. Therefore, the number of people on the Internet have a tendency to line things should be free of charge. Online there are many good things it really is free, and free network marketing is very effective as a means.

Free strategy to make the viewer into a fixed-users much less resistance. A visitors coming to your site, if you provide some free things, so that visitors become your customers, or a free trial customers, or members, after he also had the opportunity to sell products that increase the likelihood of payment.

On the viewer is not white, without download the white does not download, do not look at non-white perspective, there is no loss to him. On the head, an increase in users to a free future, an increase of more than a possibility of paid subscribers.

Free strategy is also a strong viral strategy. In your site to see what free people can not psychologically afford recommend to others. In any case, is free, and will not be what people feel is the rebate or benefit received only recommend people look at your site.

Free things everyone likes, so it is easy to spread.

Of course, the same word the other is the truth: There is no free lunch.

Free strategy or foundation for the future profitability of the online marketing strategy. Things with free access to users, is bound to make a come back in other places.

Free strategy can have many forms, give you a few examples for you to develop ideas.

1) free stuff can also be bundled together and paid the premium products. Sometimes the product a total of 100 money, but you can give a lot of things, and things that give value add up, looking very happy, may be worth a few hundred pieces. Of course, such things are often given a lot easier to copy, without the need for high cost, such as e-books, white papers, reports and so on.

Some final decision to buy things, often give a lot of free gifts made under the impetus of the.

2) e-mail marketing strategy is often the need to support free of charge. Numerous online e-magazine, what viewers want to subscribe to your E-zine? This time on the need to give viewers a reason, anything free is a good reason.

Subscribe to our e-magazines, you will receive the report of our industry, beauty tips, beautiful screen saver and so on, viewers see the copies of these free gifts will be subscribed to on. Station received e-mail address, it has been further opportunity to promote their products.

3) In many cases of primary products is free of charge, but must pay for the upgrade. For example, Free Web Hosting, to non-advertising, or increase the database, PHP and other functions, it is necessary to become paid subscribers.

The software industry is also commonly used strategy in this free trial version for free, but over time the software will expire. Or the primary version is free, but limited functionality. Want the full version of the software without restriction, they have to pay. The software is very effective marketing. Of course the premise is your software really useful, people try it, think good value for money.

4) strategy can also be used free of charge to improve market share, rapid access to a large number of users.

Finally, to emphasize that the strategy is not a liar free strategy. Free things you have to have its value, do not hope to send more spam, and then make money from users.

Two of the network marketing techniques:Article marketing

2009-04-19T14:22:00.000+08:00

The article marketing is as just about as soft text, write some articles that do good to the others, hope other station-master redistributions, bring several advantages:
1)Redistribute reserve of the chain connect the authority degree that can raise an oneself website and search engine placings.
2)The chain that reserved while redistributing connects to bring to directly click discharge.
3)Have no chain to answer while redistributing on the whole, author's name can also raise popularity for you.
Certainly premise BE, the station-masters redistribute at least must reserve the original author's name.

The article marketing isn't only a soft text
Although the article marketing is similar to the soft text truth,I feel that scope and the spirit substantial and soft text of operation are still distinguishing.
The article that in fact uses to an article marketing can be very extensive, as long as contribute to customers can write.Suppose you sell a vegetables table, completely can write how choose kitchen to have, how become a good cook, how seek the good restaurant etc. contents, not always write I how expand a so-and-so some vegetables table website.

The article that you write needs to prepare authorization to other station-masters
When own website announces these articles, can leave a copyright information pronouncement, for example:Redistribution is welcome, but redistribution need to reserve author and original source, and provide a chain to connect to return to original source.
The copyright like this declares in fact very effective on English website of, the overwhelming majority person will do according to the designation while redistributing.
In view of copyright law angle, if the author didn't declare to redistribute at first, the others could not redistribute, on the whole reserve a copyright information also can not.So you put previous welcome the pronouncement of redistribution, have already in advance authorized other station-master of redistribution, can't have a law problem, other station-masters can't fear that the trouble contacts you but doesn't redistribute, either.

Deliver the article to the article catalogue website
If English there aren't a few article catalogues websites in the website, station-master ascends these websites of own original article hairs, more station-masters looks for the contents that can put on the oneself's website in these websites, the article seeing you feels suitable, will redistribute to up own website, certainly also want to reserve a copyright information.
Have a lot of websites are very hunger and thirsts of at look for contents in the website of, as long as you of the article is of great value, a lot of website station-masters will find out you of article combine redistribution.

Write easily is redistributed of article
Some articles are easily redistributed, the article having isn't necessarily liked by other station-masters.If there are two types of articles being redistributed most easily, , on being resources, for example be like this English SEO blog and forum.

Another is small key, the headline of typical model is "how xxxx".The article like this need not grow, need not be very whole, as long as you provide a dessert to get and work out a small problem of other customers all right already.

One of network marketing techniques: Email Marketing

2009-04-18T21:18:00.000+08:00

E-mail marketing methods network marketing is the most ancient one, it can be said than the overwhelming majority of e-mail marketing web site promotion and online marketing practices should be old. In contrast, search engine optimization is the younger generation.

Permission-based e-mail marketing

E-mail marketing, said here is not to spam, and spam is also not a little.

And recommended me to introduce the so-called permission-based e-mail marketing, meaning that the recipient take the initiative to ask you to send an e-mail to him.

This permission is usually the user of the website you leave your name and email address. This data will automatically enter your e-mail list, and then automatically issue a welcome letter, but also can be automatically issued a series of regular e-mail prefabricated. If you e-mail every month to this list made a useful article, this mailing list turned into an electronic magazine.

The key point is the need for users to take the initiative to leave your site to his e-mail address registered to your E-zine, not you crawl from the Internet or e-mail from others to buy. E-mail records of those registered, you should record when the user registered the IP address, the exact time to make a complaint after the event that you are not fat, junk e-mail evidence.

More secure approach is to double licensing of e-mail, meaning that users receive a registration confirmation letter will only click on the link in the confirmation letter, this message was not formally included in e-mail list. This prevents a lot of people use fake e-mail address or e-mail address wrong.

Why should I sign up subscribers to your mailing list?

Must give the user a reason to take the initiative to register. For this reason tutorials can be free to the industry report, coupons, etc. can be. With more and more Web site, allows users to e-mail more and more difficult to leave. To some of the benefits you do not, it is difficult to allow users to take the initiative to leave the e-mail address.

For the convenience of users registered to join the mailing list, the proposed form only asked the name and email address, do not ask a number of other important information such as gender, work unit, telephone and so on, the more simple and easier to persuade the person is registered.

The registration form should be very prominent on the site where the proper use of pop-up window can be.

The benefits of e-mail marketing

A user came to your site, it may be looking for information, there may be things to buy, there may be around. First time users of the site you will be able to have a proportion of sales is very low. Users must see your site on many occasions, well, have a sense of trust easily from your web site to buy things, or you want him to carry out any action.

Most users did not come to your site to buy things, then leave it out of the future, once again to your site the chances are very low.

E-mail address to attract customers to leave is after you to remind them of the existence of the best way. It was found that a user visits your site after 7, the possibility to buy things to reach a relatively high level of stability. Should be repeatedly reminded by e-mail users to your website, product benefits, or made some useful information.

This software allows the use of the whole process is very simple, fully automated.

Write the contents of the e-mail marketing?

First of all registered users receive the welcome letter as soon as is necessary. And then through a series of fixed-interval programming tutorials and so on. For example, the day of receipt of the registration of a course, received the third day of the Second Course, 7-10 for e-mail tutorials. These are available through the default process.

Select a month after that fixed date, write a useful article, an electronic magazine distributed to all subscribers. When you have time for new products, special offers or when the information can be sent to subscribers. It should be noted that this electronic journal must contain useful content, advertising and things that can be easily unsubscribe.

Personal experience

4,5 years ago in the beginning of time to do the site, almost all in their use of the Web site e-mail marketing system. As explained in front of users leave your name and e-mail address will be received by a number of free e-books, or free screen saver and so on. And then in the next 14 days, will receive the theme of seven sites associated with the course.

The best performance of a Web site, in the year attracted more than 10,000 registered.

So far, such a permission-based e-mail marketing is still very effective. A lot of e-commerce experts have a huge mailing list, what new products, send a email will be able to sell many.

Finally, bear in mind that this is spam-fat are two different things.

How to build a profitable network system?

2009-04-18T16:29:00.003+08:00

To build a profitable network system, there are many ways to talk about here is mainly profit from the clickbank.

First of all, it is necessary to carefully study the above clickbank products, because your money is spent on the above, it is necessary to be responsible for their own money.

I have studied the above clickbank products are from cbproads and the cb-analytics analysis. cbproads back to provide you with free advertising, using the very convenient

So how to find products? The following recommendations can References:

* Weight loss: there are also tons of sub-niches within weight-loss, like loose belly fat, get killer abs, etc ...
* Health & wellness: live longer, get fit, etc ...
* Breaking bad habits: stop smoking, stop nail biting, etc ...
* Crazy hobbies: golf, WoW, PSP / iPhone downloads, piano / guitar playing, etc ...
* Solutions to health problems: acne, sweating, yeast infection, anxiety, etc ...
* Make money (outside of the IM niche): paid surveys, forex, stock trading, betting, etc ...
* Make money (within the IM niche): adwords, PPC, SEO, Web 2.0, blah blah blah ...

Above, these products have millions of dollars in the market, so do not worry be divided, only the patient and painstaking research to make a profit.

Secondly, to establish a website PRESELL.

The focus here is to write the story of a very lively, so that we all accept your point of view.

Consumers often use lies to support their actions, I do so, you are like that. Marketers can use this in mind, creating a story to meet the people's point of view in order to have a long-term sales.

A good story will inspire people to generate action. On how to prepare the story, you can google search, google there are a lot of relevant information, you can also buy from amazon-related reference books, such as: All Marketers Are Liars.

Your story to the people you should be the discovery of these findings to resolve the relevant issues, and not open to some sort of blatant product sales.

Know that people hate to "sell" things to them, but they like to "buy."

Are often looking for some solutions, you mentioned in the story of the product is to provide him with a solution to help him realize the wish.

You have to understand tell them that your product can help them solve the problem, the realization of desire.

Third, the domain name and space.

No domain name and space complexity, as long as you can buy, you can ask professionals to help you do

Remember, do not directly connected to product sites, as would result in clicks will not lead to sales, is futile.

Fourth, the results of conversion tracking. This is important, there is no follow-up results, you do not know what words profit, which should be removed. I recommend the use of tracking software Xtreme Conversions

Fifth, the words. General we are using google Keywords tool or tools wordtrack, I generally use keywordelite tool, you can also use, as long as the payment of the cost of not very high you can have.

Sixth, the construction of google adwords system, resulting in traffic to presell page.

Temporarily forget seo, forget article marketing and web2.0, marketing ads here as long as it is predictable, controllable, and immediately effective way of marketing.

To turn off the adsense page advertising, the advertising model, opening up the future.

Set up two ad groups, each directed to presell page.

Seventh, the test results. Xtreme Conversions will tell you which keywords have a benefit, which did not, as long as the proper use of Xtreme Conversions, can be very easy to operate.

Eighth, repeat steps 7 and above.

To build a profitable small-scale system, nor is it a very easy thing. Here we focus on how to use clickbank or to create a mini-profit system. See the next chart:

As can be seen from the chart or other use of adwords advertisers bidding to guide people to your page Preseell, and then can be directed to the product Web site or directly to the clickbank payment page.

Guide people to pay directly to the page clickbank reasons are as follows:

1, the product well and good, but do products that are spam sites, description unclear, so that people do not want to purchase this product.

2, there are many products on the site outside the chain, so that makes it easy for people to distraction, making it difficult to have a desire to buy.

3, the product website, such as pop-up ads.

4, the product website to collect email software, so that you may become a client of the client station.

Reasonable to increase your Google Adsense revenue recommendations 9

2009-04-18T15:56:00.002+08:00

1. Non-technical areas of concern: that the concern about the TECH is one of the reasons for low-income, because we usually have abnormal sensitivity of the olfactory advertising, they avoided much of the advertising; and most of the use of Firefox browser screen a large number of advertisements; say too much science and technology Web site, they think that a considerable number of the trust's Web site to access to information, maybe they learned that information earlier than you. So if you want to do the technical aspects of the site or Blog to make money Google Adsense, you better plan, otherwise you will regret it! However, to earn Google Adsense is absolutely no short cut, you should be content to stay away from tech site or Blog.
2. The best medical attention or legal aspects. Why? Lawyers and doctors are relatively high-income jobs, so people generally avoid dealing with them, after all, spend too much, in fact, most people do not want to spend the money. So many people looking to access to information networks, they would rather own a lot of useless information from the find, were unwilling to seek the advice of experts. Built in this area and if the Web site or Blog is actually very simple, you can use the wiki search wikipedia or googleBlog health and legal aspects of search for material.
Personal or even a specific release of the Google Adsense website are to introduce the medical disease, but this page has been changed to only the word plagiarism. Why have some people out of such a high price to take advantage of the words to advertise it? Of course, driven by interest, because there are many lawyers in the United States is willing to find the high mesothelioma or asbestos cancer had a similar disease, such as customers, because these people will make claims agent legal fees from the lawsuits will be very high. This is an inspiration to us, we can find a way to find some relatively high prices of the key word, these words should be the distribution of profits in some industries. How to find your own Keywords, mainly depends on you myself. Note that here I would like to give a piece of advice: don't put a bunch of keywords in your site, not just to adsense and some high prices with the keyword stuffing, Google will eventually punish such acts.
3. Web site should have a certain degree of interaction. Nothing could be a long time not updated the site To make matters worse, perhaps you do not have enough time to update the site, but bear in mind one thing, there should be an interactive network, especially with the visitors! In order to give visitors access to a good experience, it should be noted the following areas: Web site should be avoided, such as mandatory registration, which is the biggest killer to prevent interaction; not set up a member of the so-called area, in the powerful search engines to crawl in front of the robot, which everything becomes meaningless, enrich the contents of your bar, and then to raise them as open to your visitors.
4. To make your site easy to remember. Affirmed and, like most people, a meaningful memory that the Web site more easily, and it can provide initial information content. Especially when it appears in the search results list, you said that you would point.
5. Do not devote too much effort to establish a loyal readership. Yes, high Google Adsense is often a source of income to those new readers, for those frequent visitors, they are already familiar with the location of your ads, but also has become a kind of reading habits, so turn a blind eye to the ad. Therefore, the face of reality of it! The vast majority of your sources of income to those who are new, these people usually come from search engines, you have to consider is how to get visitors in the search list to choose your site so that potential visitors to become reality users, but allow them to regret your site clicks and this can only make them more concerned about the high return on your website advertising, this method is not the author's invented, but the so-called marketing experts as a secret.
6. Try not to use a lot of people have used the key word, as a display of words that only people in the less time the more expensive. You'd better have a lot of people looking for a competitive, but people who can show a few words.I would recommend the use of Keyword Elite and Keywords keywordspy Find!
7. As far as possible to increase your pr value page, there is evidence that the page you pr value higher revenue-per-click also higher. Pr value and higher, the more conducive to browsing through search engine search to your page, so that your page views will also be greater.
8. For your viewers in the United States Eastern time when the early morning every day click on your Google Adsense ads, because ads Chamber of Commerce set the day's biggest advertising costs, this cost will not be after the click income. So as far as possible so that your ad is clicked in before others.
9. Adjust your ad placed in position, color, size, bring it into line with the coordination of your website, and eye-catching comparison.
More than 9 to improve to improve your Google Adsense ad performance, hoping to be a source of inspiration for you!

Write a blog article, What is the purpose?

2009-04-18T15:39:00.000+08:00

The twinkling of an eye to maintain a daily time for writing more than three months, and back to think about it, that want to do something spontaneous lifetime thing, apart from the previous day to play tennis, this is the second back to it? The course of a number of demands on themselves to write every day is the hardest word about their own need to write every day in the end, because each person's ability, experience and knowledge are limited, it is not possible out of thin air every day of the birth of a articles come out, and this is what I forced myself to write it every day no matter how busy regardless of the reason why something can not have been overdrawn, and the need to write through the day feeling whether sentiment, or some work , industry, or their own face the challenge of social observation, and even watch a film, a book of thoughts, etc., the ultimate goal of only one day even if it did not do anything, or screw up something so that the original behind expectations, both in an article in the daily gain ...

In fact, writing articles on the Internet, many of the blogger, and article written a few good people, but every time I read the article after the others have a sense of loss, perhaps this is because long-standing "practice" derived from to the skill, I think I have yet to be strengthened, and also need to these predecessors, to learn more, because the network's every blogger a good article, have given me a lot of inspiration, but also let me write a number of learning skills ...
However, so many blogger write What is the purpose of it? That is not good to speculate on other people's thoughts, but nothing more than self-promotion it, every writer who ages have different needs and intentions, including some of the original author of a book by blog users dependent from the first reading habits and willingness to read, but also a disguised form of surveys, because it is an interactive world; and some of them would like to publicize their ideas by those who blog, after all, in reality this layers you want to smoke in the first class is not easy, and the blog is a good means of publicity; or some people just want to write some articles by some enthusiasts to gather, use the Internet to the characteristics of this without Borders, learn their own life outside the club around the vicinity of ...
In addition, as a result of a bad economy, want to find work and hence their own to set up a personal blog or similar sites such as News, and the use of Google Adwords Keywords or network-related advertising to make money the number of a few ...
As far as I am concerned for them? I think the most important thing is said in the first paragraph of the daily self-learning growth. In any case, starting from the moment of life to write all sorts of insights and experiences, network, technology, finance, reading, the trend of globalization, wrote these text, but also his life as a reflection for the future, and also feel that with the growth of age, as well as every day, such as the prison in the office want to know more about a number of different areas, different age groups and even in real life very few have the opportunity to know all kinds of people may have an opportunity, as I said before a bit more open and let their own through their own learning experiences of a channel, let everyone know I, and I also have an opportunity to get to know more people ...
Modern society may be said, the message of knowledge explosion, so we all become smarter, but also consider themselves very wise, but still maintain the stay hungry, stay foolish this attitude, and this seems very vast social in fact everyone's life is more and more narrow, everyday life is nothing more than the company (or school), home, or traveling between them, write their own blog is to make the best use of real low cost of this learning network platform, at the same time expanding their own living circle

Easy to start at zero cost advertising techniques to make money

2009-04-18T05:21:00.000+08:00

Can not spend a penny to join the advertising to make money, you need to pay only a matter of time and effort.
This is not daydreaming.
Here, I would like to describe this 100% free marketing mode:
(A) to choose a good Affiliate networks, because it is free of charge to join.
Here I recommend two largest, the credibility of good company, ClickBank and Commission Junction, a new can be added immediately, with no annoying
Approval process.
After adding them, we can choose from thousands of products, or to find your favorite.
Then you have to start to promote their products to obtain the payment.
(B) I introduced the two at no cost free method of promoting
1) Forum Marketing
To think about, if there is a place thousands of people talking about the things you want to promote, you will go? Generally speaking, of course, would go.
This is the forum where the use of value. If your product is located in or about in line with that theme, those members of your products is of interest to people
And is a strong potential consumers.
In other words, 100% free of charge to our marketing program is to get a lot of interest and those who might become customers, while the forum is doing it good
Place.
Understand the meaning of the above, the next we have to do is:
A. Find the forum, and your choice of niche-related;
B. those who are allowed to put a signature forum link, you can personal data in some well-designed signature file;
An attractive practice your signature is a prerequisite for the sale of soft, when you post every time, the signature began to work for you;
C. How to post? For those associated with the new, back problems, and add your comments; or question your own.
Your signature on your left, will still be a steady flow of sales you have to add fuel.
2) BLOG marketing
Large-scale free BLOG, such as Blogger, WordPress, or any other site of the BLOG.
Once you set up a free BLOG, you will be able to put your Google AdSense (of course, must be the google consent), affiliate products, or both.
BLOG that is zero cost to achieve your dream of a good place for marketing. With it, you can have the right to promote thousands of products, even if you do not have money to build their own web sites;
With it, you will be able to enjoy all of your wisdom and intelligence to play at the Forum in marketing;
Now, you can be sure that, at zero cost advertising easily start making money is completely true, exist.

China Online Ad Spending

2009-04-09T09:47:00.000+08:00

More Internet users than any other country, still low spending.

According to MAGNA, ZenithOptimedia and Bernstein Research, Internet ad spending in China will reach $1.7 billion in 2009.

In 2012, ad revenues are expected to generate $3.5 billion, a 24% compound annual growth rate from 2007.

China’s online ad market pales in comparison to more developed countries, however. In the US, eMarketer estimates that $25.7 billion will be spent online in 2009, and $37 billion in 2012.

Digital ad spending in China is almost evenly split between search and traditional display and rich media ads, with other channels such as video, classifieds and e-mail making up a steady 6%. By 2012, however, search will overtake display and rich media.

The Bernstein projections closely resemble eMarketer’s in the short term. (eMarketer predicted that online spending reached $1.4 billion in 2008 and will hit $1.95 billion in 2009.) But the similarities end after that, as the firm expects online ads in China to generate nearly $5 billion in revenues in 2012.

What Are UK Women Doing Online?

2009-04-09T09:28:00.000+08:00

According to IPC Media, 74% of female Internet users in the UK went online every day last year.

In terms of login sessions, slightly more women went online on weekdays. But on the weekends, they spent more time online—an average of 20 more minutes a session.

Shopping was the most popular online activity. Nearly all the women (97%) said they researched products online, and 92% said they bought products online.

Social networking sites are becoming more popular, too. One-half of all UK female Internet users visited Facebook; slightly fewer went to MySpace and Bebo.

The appeal of video seems to be flattening out. While more UK women said they had visited YouTube in the past, 5 percentage points fewer said they were regular viewers.

“It’s no surprise that women’s love affair with the Internet has continued,” said Karin von Abrams, senior analyst for eMarketer. “But this study shows just how vital a tool the Web has become for women in the UK.

“Three-quarters of female Internet users are online every day, weekdays and weekends,” said Ms. Von Abrams. “And a phenomenal proportion of women using the Net are researching or buying products online, signaling a real revolution in retail.”

The UK iPhone Mania

2009-04-09T09:26:00.000+08:00

Cheery-i, old chap!

Not only do UK users love their iPhones, they are learning to love mobile media, too.

According to the first data to describe iPhone usage in the UK, from comScore, 93% of iPhone owners in the UK accessed mobile media in January 2009.

Comparing iPhone users to smartphone users to mobile phone users, comScore found that the iPhone users did almost everything more on their phones than their counterparts.

Nearly 80% of iPhone users accessed news on their phones, compared with 48% and 20% of smartphone and mobile phone users, respectively. And so on down the line.

“The penetration of e-mail usage on the iPhone is more than double that of the smartphone category as a whole,” said Alistair Hill, an analyst at comScore.

iPhone users accessed weather information over twice as much as smartphone users and almost six times more than mobile users.

Why would iPhone users be embracing mobile applications more than other mobile users?

“Consumers are clearly embracing the iPhone’s touch screen keyboard,” said Mr. Hill. “The UK smartphone market has been dominated by the Nokia 95, which lacks a QWERTY keyboard.”

Of course, it is still early days. The iPhone is currently in the hands of only 2% of mobile phone users in the UK.

Broadcast TV Streamers Responding to Ads

2009-04-08T00:32:00.000+08:00

Viewership up, but action declining.

According to a Knowledge Networks poll, 80% of online network TV viewers would prefer to view ads in exchange for unpaid video content, up from 67% in 2006.

The data indicates a grudging acceptance of preroll ads, the most popular video ad format currently available. In 2008, 7 percentage points more network TV viewers (37%) said they watched videos with preroll ads than did in 2006.

How the ads were consumed varied depending on the content.

The viewing rate was highest among people who solely viewed online-only features, with 46% saying they watched the prerolls. Among those who viewed only full episodes, 76% watched or listened to the ads. The lowest viewing rate was among viewers of only episode clips.

Action resulting from playing ads, however, has declined between 2006 and 2008. Nine percentage points fewer viewers (17%) forwarded ads to others.

In addition, three percentage points fewer (25%) went to an advertiser’s Website to see an ad.

The ads may be less annoying but they should not be less effective as well.

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2009-04-04T19:38:00.002+08:00

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A Holiday Break Does A Work At Home Business Good

2009-03-22T17:04:00.000+08:00

If you work at home, you know all to well that it’s not always a bed of roses. Working a business is definitely not predictable. We have good days and unfortunately bad days. It goes with the territory. But remember…working from home has some huge benefits.

The important reasons why you work from home

* You have the freedom to call your own shots
* You get to spend quality time with your family
* You come and go as you please

Well this also should include taking time off whenever you need to. Whether it be for holidays, sickness, or just to take a breather and capitalize on new energy and strength. When the holidays arrived, I was ready for a break…and I took full advantage of it. I enjoyed a stress-free Holiday Season with my family and didn’t worry about my business. I made the necessary arrangements and made the announcement on my sites and my forum that I wouldn’t be available during this time.

I did have a lot of work and emails waiting for me after the holidays were over…but I didn’t let it overwhelm me. I thoroughly enjoyed my time off and as a result, I was able to forge ahead with my business with a new perspective and with new motivation. And along with that came new goals for the new year.

If you work your business relentlessly without any breaks…you run the risk of burnout and losing your enthusiasm and passion, and you will most likely fail without it. That’s why it is so vital to your business to take a break from your daily work at home agenda and rejuvenate. You need to realize that YOU deserve a vacation from your work from time to time. You work hard, therefore a break is certainly well deserved. Also, allowing yourself time away from your business will result in more productivity and success.

Below are some helpful break tips for your work at home schedule

* Take one hour out of your day just for you
* Go out to eat for lunch with a friend
* Read a paragraph or two in your favorite book
* Take a brisk walk
* Take a leisurely drive before picking up the kids from school
* Watch a favorite television program
* Relish in the aroma of a cup of your favorite tea

The idea is to take time out for yourself, and come back with renewed vigor. It’s crucial for your business growth.

Couple of things that helped me to create 5-figure business from scratch

2009-03-21T18:54:00.001+08:00

I've been doing business online for some time. I have a gaming company I run, and I generate income via the web. While I'm in the gaming biz, the principles I've used are valid in other areas as well.

Here's couple of things that have helped to bring me that decent 5-figure (per year) income. There's nothing shocking here... all this stuff is basic, but I believe it's something you guys might want to know.

So, here we go:

#1 - Learn from Digital point
Okay, that's pretty obvious - but I really must admit that before I started learning stuff via DP, I wasn't that interested in generating income. I read & helped others & learned stuff. I asked, wrote and learned. Basically, I found a secret that's so obvious that many people miss it. If you want to know how to get more traffic or sales, you can use the secret.

I presume you want to know what the secret is?

It's behind this link: the magic that reveals all the secrets <= just use this to learn "how to get traffic" or "how to get sales" etc.

#2 - Read books
I love reading. I love writing. I love collecting books and putting them on my book shelf. There's couple of things I keep in mind when getting books:
- I get books written by successful people, the kind of people I'm going to be
- What you read affects how you think (more on this in the next point)
- New or old... they cost just $10-20 per book and can help you make loads

Get books. Read & learn from the pros.

#3 - What you THINK is what you get
The more $$$ I've seen in my bank account, the more convinced I am that the phrase "What you think is what you get".

If you aim to get $100 per month... that's pretty much where you will end. On the other hand... if you price your products higher (like... sell blog reviews for $300, you only need to do one review per 3 months). If you sell $1000 products (or $977 or whatever), you will simply earn more than when you are selling $10 (or $7) products.

The market is filled with people who sell $7 (or $27 products). By raising the price, you raise the perceived quality as well.

To get more... you actually need to change your thinking.

#4 - What you want is what you get
Another important point. At one point I wrote a lengthy post about how I got traffic - part 2. I wanted to bring this post to John Chow's site. I approached him and voilá, I got the post appear on his site (I modified it a little).

Was it difficult?

I don't think so... I wanted it, I gave John a good offer (and provided value) and things went on.

Stuff happens. You can decide what you want to happen.

#5 - The number one rule
Even when I list this as the 5th point, this is actually the rule number #1. You gotta provide value. If you have a humor site, your job is to entertain the visitors. Your job is not to "think about how to get as much as money as possible". Your job is to provide value - provide FUN.

If you have a political site, your job is to provide political discussion, ideas, news - something people want to read.

If you sell games, you gotta make great games that people want to buy.

If you sell golf ebooks, you gotta make such golf ebooks that people find useful.

You gotta provide more value than anybody expects.

#6 - Understanding rule number 5 will make you unique
About 89 out of 100 "internet marketers" try to "make the one sale". They want to sell to one customer once. They want to sell $7 affiliate ebooks that explain how they made lots of money using "the secret" in these books (the secret is: they get people to sell the $7 as affiliate).

So many people look for one sale.

You can look to provide value. That gets you in the top 11% who actually earn good $$$.

#7 - Trying new stuff
You gotta try new stuff. You gotta try, try, try. Many people do it like this:
- they get excited
- they try something and fail
- they stop
- they go whining
- they get excited and try again
- they fail again
- they go to boards to whine "why nothing works and everything sucks"

If you read the principles 3 & 4, you should understand that these guys are doomed to get "more failure", "nothing works" and "everything sucks".

Do you know what successful people do?
- they try
- they fail
- they try again
- they fail
- they try, try, try
- they fail, fail, fail
- they try as long as it takes
- and they succeed

Then they repeat. And as they go further, they fail lots of times again - but that doesn't stop them. They are so focused on success that they know it's just a matter of time before they succeed. They simply do what it takes.

Bottom line
Hopefully these tips helped you. They certainly helped me to get thousands of visitors to my site, and nice 5-fig biz so far.

And I'm going forward.

Social Nets and Blogs More Popular Than E-Mail

2009-03-20T13:20:00.001+08:00

Outlook not so good?

Aside from searching for information, e-mail has long been the most popular activity online. But no more.

According to Nielsen Online, more people in the US and other leading digital countries worldwide are using social networks and blogs than e-mail.

While search and destination sites remain the most popular online activities, social network and blog use exceeded that of e-mail, increasing their reach by 5.4 percentage points.

In addition, time spent on social networks and blogging sites is growing at over three times the rate of overall Internet growth.

Regardless, marketers should use caution before abandoning simpler media such as e-mail or search for social network advertising.

A 2008 study performed by IDC found that 43% of social network users never clicked on ads, and only 11% of those who did actually purchased anything. Compare that to nonusers, 80% of whom clicked on ads at least once per year; 23% of those who did click bought something.

Online retailers surveyed in an Econsultancy and R.O.EYE study found e-mail marketing to be very cost-effective in terms of customer acquisition, with affiliate marketing and paid search not far behind.

There is a lot of untapped potential in the social media space. But in a recession, when expenditures are shrinking, e-mail budgets are relatively safe. Shrewd marketers will not stop doing the things that are proven to make their clients money.

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2009-03-18T04:42:00.002+08:00

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2009-03-17T16:05:00.002+08:00

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t=v1+v2, How to Increase Visitor Traffic and Web Popularity with Quick and Easy Way

2009-03-17T15:44:00.001+08:00

The more you understand about any subject, the more interesting it becomes. As you read this article you'll find that the subject of is certainly no exception.

When you read the title of this post you may be confused, what is the formula t = vi + v2, and what is the relationship with traffic link, this is also happening with me when I first read one of my friend’s post, but when I read it I understand his posting finally and I found that the formula t = V1 + v2 is also make sense, please read this post up so that you will be more understanding.

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Please read carefully then apply correctly ....

A philosophy says "Honesty is the Best Policy (Honesty is the political / best strategy)," is what we will prove .... whether honesty concept we can use to generate traffic and more intense popularity beyond the concept of complex expert webmaster or SEO expert ..?... I believe we will achieve that goal if this concept is running properly ..., and if this concept is applying in your web according to the rules, by then:

-Your Web will be swamped with huge traffic visitors day by day, without fuss or tired of the SEO campaign to a lot of web in the internet world.

-Your Web will be flooded huge backlink day by day, without fuss hunt link to a lot of web in the internet world.

If Albert Einstein use the equation E = mc2 to combine mass potential and speed of light to create extreme nuclear energy , then we will use equation = V1 + V2 to combine my web potential and your web potential to generate extreme web traffic and popularity also .

If Einstein use atom plutonium and uranium to make nuclear bombs, then we use the Honesty and accuracy to make a bomb of this traffic and popularity concept.

What do you need to do is follow these steps:

1. Create a post articles as I post this, or copy-paste this post from Copy start here until Copy Finish, and also be entitled: t = V1 + v2, How to increase traffic and popularity quickly and naturally.

2. Copy or make the next powerful sentence existing under the number 3 plug at this website on your part to section that most easily seen by visitor, for example at the top of the sidebar

3. Move or change a link or the url address post (here-1) with your url address, and (here-2) with my URL address post,to find out url address of the post that I make and that you make is to click the title / post title than we make this copy of the address bar.

The more authentic information about you know, the more likely people are to consider you a expert. Read on for even more facts that you can share.

Next is the post of "powerful sentence" you need to install in your web part (after the change in the url link to its corresponding provisions of the above)

"Want to increase visitor traffic and your web popularity quickly and unlimited ...? Let me ..., I'll do it for you FREE ...!.. Click here-1 and here-2"

-So after the powerful sentence is put on the your web then : if a visitor click the link here-1 he will directly to your link post, and if he click here-2 will directly link to my post ... and this is just keep going unbreakable chain link.

4. Finish, prepare tracker counter and link checker for example sitemeter and Technorati to see a flood of traffic and your web backlink

What is t = V1 + t2 ...?

t: Number of traffic that will be you get on your web in a day

V1: The number of visitors to your web in a day

v2: Number of visitors of the V1 (a visitor from your web visitors) in a day.

Traffic:For example, my web or your website in one day have an average of 50 visitors .., and all of this we apply the concept (powerful sentences) correctly, and that 50 people from each of 50 people also have visitors from his blog , then the web we will visit in a 50 plus 50 x 50 people on that day = 2550, and will also likely continue to increase day by day, because every day there are always new visitors in the internet world, each day also have a new blogger, or web internet in the world ... PROVE IT!

Popularity:For example, our web visitors have 50 people in a day, and everyone implement this concept, then in the web that day you will get 100 linkback to your website, a link on Powerful sentence and a link on the link in my multiply 50. and will likely continue to increase day by day ....

Why the need to create links and link your link on my post ...?... this is to maintain our link eternity, because as we get more links in the post less likely erased ....

Can we do not fair or not fair sabotage this concept, for example, "remove all links of origin" and fill in the web / blogs we own ...? .... Yes, and this concept will not prove to be a maximum of Honesty is a strategy / political answer ..... But I believe that we all want to throw themselves credibility by making such action cheap ...

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Well, what do you think about this formula? Go ahead and practice on your blog and hope that this strategy is successful

Now might be a good time to write down the main points covered above. The act of putting it down on paper will help you remember what's important about .

Internet Gambling Back on the Table?

2009-03-17T15:20:00.001+08:00

Rolling the virtual dice…
Smart money is betting that Congress will repeal the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) this year, or at least soon.
Barney Frank (D-MA), chairman of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, plans to bring back legislation to repeal the UIGEA this month. Rep. Frank maintains that online gambling is a fundamental freedom, and that attempts to make it illegal smack of Prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s.
In addition, much of the political momentum for repeal of the act is coming from online poker players who are fighting back.
“There is a dramatic need to have a regulated system that protects American consumers,” Jeffrey Sandman, a spokesman for the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, told Reuters. “Right now, it's the Wild West.”
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) estimates that the amount the US could raise from regulating and taxing Internet gambling is about 22% higher than it was in 2007—because US online gambling has grown despite the ban.
In fact, comScore Media Metrix found that as of last November, online gambling was the ninth-fastest-growing category online.
Making it illegal for businesses to knowingly transfer payments to Internet gambling operations, including payments by credit card, wire transfer or check, the 2006 ban was approved when Republicans still controlled both houses of Congress and President Bush was in the White House—and before the economy collapsed.
There is a lot at stake.
“A Better Hand,” an article in the Financial Times, reported that Global Betting and Gaming Consultants estimated that worldwide gambling generated $370 billion in annual gross win—the amount retained by operators after paying out winnings—and online gambling accounted for $17 billion of that total.
According to the “Mobile Gambling: Casinos, Lotteries and Betting” report, from Juniper Research, the gross win from worldwide mobile betting services alone will exceed $1 billion annually by 2012.
Furthermore, Juniper estimates that total wagers placed on mobile phones will more than double this year.
“Gambling is essentially a recession-proof industry,” said the report’s author, Windsor Holden. “While there may be marginal reductions in the level of stakes amongst casual users, the overall appetite for gambling per se will be unaffected.”
If the Congress does not act, a number of European online gambling firms are looking toward Canada to break into the North American market.
According to the Alberta-based gambling news site, Gambling911.com, $13.6 billion was lost by gamblers in Canada in 2007, and two-to-one that take is growing.

Canadian Mobile Advertising Upside

2009-03-15T23:08:00.000+08:00

High growth, but low market share.
Mobile advertising in Canada is emerging.
According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB), mobile ad spending grew by 143% in 2007 with revenues reaching C$2.66 million ($2.06 million). 2008 revenues increased a projected 96% to C$5.21 million ($4.04 million).
As impressive as the growth is, perspective is needed. eMarketer estimated that $648 million was spent on US mobile ads in 2008.
The majority of mobile ad revenues came though standard SMS text message vehicles, followed by mobile content, mobile Internet display ads and mobile applications. Like any emerging medium, mobile advertising faces hurdles that prevent wider adoption. According to an IAB survey of mobile marketers, the three most formidable challenges were low levels of advertiser understanding, small audience size and difficulty demonstrating ROI to potential advertisers.
Many of those concerns, however, lessen with more experience with the medium. Right now, mobile advertising is a very small piece of the Canadian advertising market. It has room to grow.

Market Researchers in Your Facebook?

2009-02-23T14:03:00.000+08:00

Rumor about new product highlights Facebook’s struggle for ad model

After a Facebook demonstration of a real-time targeted polling system at the World Economic Forum earlier this year, the Telegraph reported that the social network would start selling user data to market researchers this spring.

Facebook quickly tried to hush the buzz and denied that polling would be part of a commercially available product or its existing Engagement Ads. However, the social network is currently testing a new type of Engagement Ad that would allow advertisers to pose questions to users.

“For many years, Facebook has allowed the targeting of advertising in a non-personally-identifiable way, based on profile attributes,” Facebook spokesman Matt Hicks told eMarketer. “However, the advertiser does not receive any data about individual users, and only knows that their ad was shown to a certain number of users who fit the category. Further, Facebook is not selling any user’s information for market research purposes.”

With the record set straight, at least for now, an underlying fact remains. Facebook has the herds—some 150 million users around the world, with 450,000 added daily—and now it’s time to bring in the cash cow.

Facebook is a promising, yet hardly realized, place for advertisers. eMarketer predicted in December 2008 that social network advertising spending will grow from under $1.2 billion in 2008 to $1.3 billion in 2009, with the category making up a steady 5% of total online ad spending.

According to Compete’s blog, Facebook is now the No. 1 social network in the US, with 68.8 million unique visitors and nearly 1.2 billion visits in January 2009. Slipping to second place, MySpace had 58.6 million unique visitors and 810.2 million visits the same month.

Other researchers, such as comScore Media Metrix, still rank MySpace higher.

Polls on Facebook would be a boon to marketers looking for real-time feedback on products and authentic consumer opinions.

Both LinkedIn and MySpace Music have taken advantage of their rich user data. In January, LinkedIn introduced polls that allow members to gather insight from targeted groups, starting at $50—and for free within the member’s own network.

In February 2009, MySpace Music president Courtney Holt told PaidContent.org that artists who partner with the music service get access to data on fan activity and preferences.

“Facebook’s Engagement Ad polling feature may be a precursor to a more full-blown market research program—one that Facebook isn’t quite ready to talk about yet,” said eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson. “Social network profiles are a treasure trove of information about consumer preferences, and people talk about brands and products frequently. The key will be making sure consumers know how the information is used.”

Push Button Marketer——Automating your work

2009-02-17T14:45:00.004+08:00

When I heard for the first time "Push Button Marketer" I said, Eric is really a gutsy marketer. How he can chose a name for his software that sound so Hype and even Spamy, it is like "I am telling you what you like to hear"!

But I know him as a serious and gifted marketer, I learn so much from his lessons, videos, I use his Monthly Templates with great success, and because of the trust I have on him:

I start reading the page,
Have a good laugh with his video and
He convinces me to wait with great anticipation his product launch day.

Now Push Button Marketer is live and well, and I tell you with delight that really is Push Button Marketer software which can save you hours and hours of your work time, automate a lot of tasks and procedures and make your life as a marketer easier. It really does more then I expected, and I haven't used anywhere near all the options.

I bought the package, installed and I am so thankful I did. I am playing with the package and I think that becoming a "push button marketer" is a very achievable goal and you will like the freedom that it brings to your life.

Push Button Marketer can be yours.

The package has a tone of bonuses and an extra package with even more functionality. I'll lay out in the next module what the package can do for your.

What you can expect from the package

The package contain really

Everything you need to know if you are a beginner
Everything you need to know to run pre-build macros (they produce instant automation)
Document all macros which are part of the automation

You will get:

The Software
An incredible 338 pages Macro Marketer User Manual
Training Videos
Automation Videos
Automation Blueprint ebook
The instant automators

The software itself is very intuitive and easy to use. You must start watching the videos and immediately you can start using some of pre-build macros.

To use all of them, it is a learning curve, it will take time to use it to its fullest but... this is a skill that will help you for MANY years to come. It is WELL WORTH the time you invest to learn how to use macros to automate your tasks.
Once you have taken the time to become proficient with the software, and comfortable with using macros; it is THEN that you will fully understand how this program is truly "push button easy."
You will then be able to give yourself more FREE TIME on demand

It is impossible to write down all benefits, I'll show you a couple:
Computer maintenance which will keep your computer in peak performance
Instant product review macro - you don't need to spend more money on www.rentacoder.com
Keyword research
Language Translation
Internet Bookmarks
Social Bookmarking
Submit URLs for engines
Password Protected macros
Webdesign, Websource, Templates
and many more

I really encourage you to get Push Button Marketer, click on this link.

As soon as you get the package, you have to sign in and you will be on their list for future updates, versions. This is great, NO monthly fee for membership, you just sign in and you will be part of a list which will receive updates in future.
This is Eric as his best!

Can User-Generated Content Change Your World?

2009-02-17T08:13:00.000+08:00

“There’s somethin’ happenin’ here
What it is ain’t exactly clear…”
For What It’s Worth
Stephen Stills

Every day, user-generated content (UGC) is part of the online experience of millions of US Internet users. From entertainment to communications to e-commerce, consumers are taking charge of the creation, distribution and consumption of digital content.

And it’s growing.

Up from 83 million in 2008, eMarketer estimates the number of UGC creators will grow to 115 million in 2013.

Even more important, rising from 116 million in 2008, in 2013 the number of US Internet users consuming some form of UGC will reach 155 million.

For consumers, UGC creates opportunities that were inconceivable 10 years ago, when self-expression consisted of letters to the editor, town hall meetings and call-in shows.

Today, whenever people get fired up about anything, they take to the Web—to create, read, listen to or view what other people have to say.

“Unfortunately, if things stay as they are, this frenzy of content generation and attention is not likely to produce commensurate rewards for marketers or site publishers,” says Paul Verna, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, User-Generated Content: More Popular than Profitable.

The prevailing wisdom used to be that user-generated content would attract advertising volume commensurate with its audience.

“The pinnacle of giddy optimism was Google’s November 2006 purchase of YouTube for a jaw-dropping $1.65 billion,” Mr. Verna says.

A number of factors have dampened expectations since then:

The inherent unpredictability of UGC and the risks it represents for marketers
The absence of advertising standards for UGC and the difficulty in measuring ad effectiveness
The expansion of major UGC sites, led by YouTube, into licensed professional media and the resulting flow of dollars toward this newer type of content, which is considered safer by advertisers
The global recession, which has led many analysts and research firms, including eMarketer, to reduce online ad spending forecasts, including in areas that directly affect estimates of UGC ad spending, such as online video and social networking

“As these realities set in, content owners, marketers, site publishers, entrepreneurs and everyday opportunists are realizing that there is no easy road to riches in user-generated content,” Mr. Verna says. “Even finding lucrative niches will require patience, risk-taking, creativity and a long-term commitment.”

Of course, at the same time revenue models elude UGC sites, they are still pulling attention away from traditional media, such as newspapers, magazines, television and radio—and putting increased financial pressure on them at a time when they can least afford it.

Social Network User Demographics

2009-02-05T11:05:00.000+08:00

Adults constitute the bulk of social networkers, but use still skews young.

The share of adult Internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled since 2005, from 8% to 35%, according to a November–December 2008 Pew Internet & American Life Project survey.

Pew said adults still make up the bulk of social networking site users. But younger online adults were much more likely than their older counterparts to use social networks, with three-quarters of those ages 18 to 24 using the sites, compared with just 7% of Internet users ages 65 and older.

While Pew measured adult Internet users who had created a profile on a social networking site, the potential audience for social networking is much larger if occasional visitors are included. In September 2008, 70.2% of US Internet users ages 15 and older visited an online social network, according to comScore World Metrix.

Retailers Take Note: Video Sells!

2009-02-01T15:24:00.006+08:00

The best thing since TV ads?

I Love TV Ads

Every retailer knows the importance of moving product, but online the idea may be taking on a whole new meaning.

According to comScore, the number of online shoppers who watched retail videos grew 40% in a single year.

Granted, the numbers come from a small base and most retailers have only just begun experimenting with online product videos, but early indications point to product videos becoming a powerful sales tool.

“Among the benefits of videos touted by Web retailers are a lower number of abandoned shopping carts, reduced return rates and higher sales,” says Jeffrey Grau, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, Video Usage in E-Commerce: The Best Is Yet to Come. “And those are just some of the benefits.”

It is not surprising that Internet Retailer found that adding video topped online retailers’ to-do lists.

One of the biggest obstacles to retail video development, particularly in this economy, is high costs.

“Nevertheless, seeing the sales lift from videos, retailers are exerting pressure on their suppliers to create video content,” says Mr. Grau. “This may be the year the logjam breaks.”

Even with tight budgets, SLI Systems found retailers reluctant to cut online video monies.

Only site search, e-mail marketing, user-generated content and search engine marketing were considered less dispensable than video.

“Once retailers build up the video content on their sites, they will focus on turning their video assets into customer acquisition tools by pushing video to other sites, such as affiliates, social networks and video-sharing destinations,” says Mr. Grau. “Retailers will also place community elements around their videos to make it easy for consumers to upload them to social networks, blogs, bookmarking services or e-mails.”

Remember Online Dating?

2009-01-30T09:40:00.002+08:00

Usage is down, but revenues are up. Some consumers are still in love with Internet matchmaking.

Online dating seems like one of those things everyone did when the Web was new, then dropped after a while. In fact, the percentage of Internet users in the US who visit online dating sites is down, but online dating revenues are up.

Piper Jaffray estimated that online dating revenues will reach $1.65 billion in 2012, up from $1.18 billion in 2008. The company said growth would be steady, if not massive.

Only 5% of US Internet users surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project said they used online dating sites in 2008—less than one-half the percentage who said so in 2002. The percentage of 18-to-29-year-olds who visited online dating sites in 2002 was generally double that of any other age group. Yet by 2008, usage had leveled out among adults ages 18 to 64. Only 1% of adults ages 65 and over use the sites.

So if usage is down, why are revenues up? Because online dating site marketers got smart about pricing and targeting. Monthly fees can be $30 or more, depending on the service. Dating sites are counting on the fact that a small percentage of Internet users are serious enough about dating to pay for services of this sort instead of meeting through social networks (or, you know, life).

Niche dating sites specialize in targeting specific types of daters, and the range of these services is now as diverse as Internet users themselves. As ConsumerSearch noted in July 2008:

“There are now hundreds of niche sites and the categories are endless, [including] JDate.com for Jewish singles and MuslimDating.net for Muslims. There’s also ChristianSingles.com. Seniors can try SeniorFriendFinder.com, and African-Americans can check out BlackSingles.com. Those with chronic diseases can try Prescription4Love.com. There is also AgeMatch.com for intergenerational dating. Richkiss.com only allows those who make more than $150,000 a year to join.”

African-American Internet Use Climbs

2009-01-23T10:23:00.004+08:00

The numbers are likely to grow for decades.
The percentage of African-Americans who use the Internet increased to 64% as of December 2008, up from 56% in December 2007, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In comparison, Internet users represented 74% of the total US population in December 2008, dipping slightly from 75% in December 2007.

The proportion of African-Americans who use the Internet increased by 22 percentage points from December 2000 to December 2008, compared with 21 percentage points for the total US population.

African-Americans accounted for 11% of all US Internet users as of November 2008, according to Harris Interactive. That compares with the 12% of US Internet users who were Hispanic and 74% who were non-Hispanic whites.

The absolute numbers behind those percentages are set to change. The US Census Bureau projects that non-Hispanic whites will account for 46% of the population in 2050, while Hispanics will constitute 30% and African-Americans will make up 15%.

Based on these projections, and on the Census Bureau’s estimate of 439 million total Americans in 2050, there will be 65.7 million African-Americans, 132.8 million Hispanics, 40.6 million Asian-Americans and 203.3 million non-Hispanic whites.

If the 2050 Internet penetration rate is estimated at 75% (probably quite low), this means there will be more than 49 million African-Americans online that year, nearly double the estimated 26 million in 2008.

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2009-01-20T05:13:00.004+08:00

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Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore：Music and Lyrics

2009-01-19T18:09:00.005+08:00

The movie Music and Lyrics is a feel good love story starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore about a washed up pop star and a frustrated writer who find each other.

Music and Lyrics, a 2007 film starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore is a feel good romance with appealing lead actors and music that puts a song in the heart.

Hugh Grant portrays a washed up 1980’s pop star named Alex Fletcher, reduced to singing on the state fair and carnival circuit. He is so washed up that he is asked to appear in a reality TV series about 1980’s has beens, an opportunity that stings his ego and he refuses.

Fletcher is offered an opportunity to write a song for a Britney Spears type pop tartlet, named Cora Corman (Haley Bennet) . It turns out that the teen star admires him because she listened to him when she was a child.

Fletcher is thrilled with the opportunity, but has to find a lyricist to match lyrics to his music. while he is arguing with a lyricist in his apartment, Drew Barrymore stumbles into his life as his temporary plant lady. It turns out that Barrymore has a way with words and a collaboration is born.

Alex and Sophie are two lost people who find each other and they are both better off for the union. Predictable, yes, but fun to watch nevertheless. The love story runs amuck over creative differences. When Alex seems to sell out and Sophie is disappointed in him.

Sophie’s older sister, Rhonda (Kristen Johnston) has the remnants of the teenage of Fletcher Haley Bennet sparkles as pop tartlet Cora Corman

Music and Lyrics is fairly light entertainment that is fun to watch. Music and lyrics have a bouncy, cheerful beat that may just leave the listener humming along.
Soundtrack of Music and Lyrics

Pop! Goes My Heart – Hugh Grant
Buddha’s Delight – Haley Bennet
Meaningless Kiss – Hugh Grant
Entering Booytown – Haley Bennet
Way Back Into Love (Demo version) – Hugh Grant & Drew Barrymore
Tony the Beat – The Sounds
Dance With Me Tonight – Hugh Grant
Way Back Into Love – Hugh Grant and Haley Bennet
Different Sound – Teddybears Feat, Malte
Love Autopsy – Hugh Grant
Cast of Music and Lyrics

Hugh Grant (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, About a Boy) as Alex Fletcher
Drew Barrymore (Never Been Kised, Charlie’s Angels, 50 First Dates) as Sophie Fisher
Brad Garret (Everybody Loves Raymond) as Chris Riley – Fletchers agent
Kristen Johnston (3rd Rock from the Sun) as Rhonda – Sophie’s sister
Campbell Scott (Roger Dodger) as Sloan Cates – Sophie’s ex-lover
Haley Bennet as Cora Corman the Pop Star
Music and Lyrics is now available on DVD.

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2009-01-18T16:40:00.008+08:00

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Keith Moon of The Who——Best Rock Drum

2009-01-18T15:37:00.004+08:00

Keith Moon, drummer for The Who in their heyday, is considered one the best rock drummers in history. His offstage antics are as well-known as his explosive drumming.

Keith Moon of The Who remains near the top of the list of rock's greatest drummers. A madman on and off the stage, "Moonie" or "Moon the Loon" was as renowned for his booze-fueled, offstage antics as his frenzied style of drumming. His star burned overly-bright for a brief but marvelous time, during The Who's heyday. He died on September 7, 1978, three weeks after the release of the band's Who Are You album, having just turned 32.
Born in Wembley, Northwest London, on August 23rd, 1946, young Keith John Moon did poorly throughout school, excelling only in music. Today he would be diagnosed with any number of attention deficit "diseases" and perhaps more serious psychological issues. Keith left school at age 15.
Moon's mastery of the drum kit led to early, qualified success with a local London band, the Beachcombers, a Beach Boys copy band. In 1964, while taking in a gig by the popular Detours, Keith approached the stage and told guitarist Pete Townshend he could play better than their drummer. Moon pounded the skins off the drumkit, just what Townshend was looking for, and by the end of the evening was their new drummer.
Moon & Entwistle Were Rock's Most Powerful Rhythm Section
The Detours soon became The Who, a band that would go down in rock music history as one of the greatest. With Townshend and Roger Daltrey out front, Moon and bassist extraordinaire John Entwistle made up the most powerful and unique rhythm section in Rock n Roll. Unique in that the bass and drums, normally the rhythm-keepers, were just as often the lead to Townshend's rhythm, a stylistic approach that helped define the band's sound.
Keith Moon's drumming style was like no other, a wild and explosive whirling-dervish that favored tom-tom heavy, cymbal smashing madness over solid beat-keeping. He often appeared barely in control, if at all, but he always was, and it worked very well. Proof of Moon's innate ability is the fact that, try as they may, nobody has been able to emulate him since.
"Moon the Loon" Stories Are Legend and Legion
"Moonie" madman stories are legendary, typifying the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, and Keith seemed to relish his role as rock's craziest lunatic. Hotels were his favorite victim and The Who were banned for life from many of them. Keith once paid 10 cab drivers $100 each to block the street below so he could toss all the hotel room contents onto the street far below. He loved to "dress up", be it as a stripper of Hitler.
He was fond of flushing powerful M80 fireworks down the toilet just before they blew. The most infamous story involves Moon and a Lincoln Continental ending up in a swimming pool in Flint, Michigan. It was the drummer's 21st birthday, and it was the last time the band played Flint.
As The Who reached the heighth of their popularity in the mid 1970's, Keith sunk to the depths of his alcohoism. His behavior was clearly affecting the band and his drumming. His death, sometimes mistakenly referred to as a suicide, was actually due to an accidental overdose of the medication he was using to fight alcoholism.
Some of Keith Moon's Best
For a sampling of Keith Moon at his best, check out these tracks:
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy)
Happy Jack (Happy Jack)
Won't Get Fooled Again (Who's Next)
I've Had Enough (Quadrophenia)
I Can See For Miles (Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy)
Cobwebs & Strange (A Quick One )
A Quick One While He's Away (Sell Out)
Baby Don't You Do It (Who's Next/Deluxe Edition)
Bandmate Roger Daltrey, who is producing a Keith Moon biopic slated for a late 2009 release, has said "Keith Moon at his worst was still amazing."

The 4 Step Web-Branding Plan

2009-01-16T21:26:00.000+08:00

1 - The Slogan

Your slogan, you know the thing that sits underneath your logo, that simple little phrase somebody in your office came up with that makes you sound important, stuff like "the cool air conditioning company." Most small and medium size companies don't think too hard about this little marketing gem, and as a result they either have something really cheesy, or some meaningless platitude that has no memorable meaning at all, like "the best people for the best job."

Just because you're small and don't have millions of dollars to spend on television ads promoting your pithy little motto, doesn't mean you shouldn't have one. That catchphrase is who you are, and how you want people to remember you, short, memorable, and to the point. I remember my sons arguing over some complicated bit of business when one of them in frustration finally said, "Enough already. Give it to me in one word or less!" a demand to articulate what was important without all the peripheral issues; a lesson all businesses should pay attention to.

2 - The Story Line (Logline)

To my mind, mission statements are a totally dysfunctional marketing element, misused and abused by a bean-counter attitude, born out of trying to squeeze every last drop of information into a statement that won't offend anybody. A wise man once said, "If what you're saying doesn't offend somebody, maybe you're not saying anything" and most mission statements that are full of meaningless platitudes and toned-down amendments, fall into the category of not saying anything, at least, anything worth hearing.

Okay so let's forget about mission statements, after all this isn't the military, and we're not planning the next Desert Storm. Instead let's think loglines, or what you can think of as your brand story line.

You know those short statements you find in TV Guide, or your weekend television insert, prompting you to watch the next episode of 'House,' or 'Desperate Bimbos.' They are a short form text version of a trailer, intended to get you to watch the movie or television show. For our purposes, we want people to go to our website, and stay-tuned long enough to get our core marketing message, and not walk out half way through the presentation. So, how do we do that?

The Six Elements of Effective Web Trailers

In order for us to come up with a compelling statement that prompts people to view our website presentation, we need to refer back to our old pal Don LaFontaine. What if Don LaFontaine wrote our website trailer. How would he do it?

Don had a very distinctive style that you've heard a thousand times for a thousand different movies, but they all followed a similar format. Each trailer needs to cover six distinct elements, who, what, where, how, why, and when. All the things businesses should be presenting in their elevator pitch, but with one extra ingredient, personality.

Here's the format used in many movie trailers: "In a place (where), one man (who) brings stability to chaos (what), in an epic tale that will both amaze and inspire (why)! Coming soon (when) to a theatre near you." Sound familiar?

Let's take our air conditioning example, you remember, "the cool air conditioning company." Let's say our fictitious company is called Kool Air Conditioning, their website trailer might sound something like this:

"In a town where summer heat melts the cool of the coolest homeowners, one air conditioning company comes to the rescue. When the mercury rises to eye-popping, mind numbing numbers, the men from Kool spring into action, bringing relief to the sweltering masses. The Kool Guys will amaze you with their prompt service and installation know-how. The heat is on. It's coming sooner than you think; it's coming this summer to your town, your neighborhood; your house. Kool, the cool air conditioning company."

Over-the-top? Maybe, but we've covered all the bases, we know who (Kool), what (air conditioning), when (this summer), where (your house), why (the heat) and how (prompt service and installation know-how). Now that's a mission statement; one with a little style, panache, and personality; one that will get you remembered and prompt your audience to action.

3 - The Personality

Movies like businesses all fall into certain genres or categories. There's the action movie format that's suitable for sports related businesses, the chick flick style that's ideal for cosmetic or fashion industry businesses, and the family comedy format suitable for entertainment and recreation based companies, and of course the kids movie version perfect for any business selling things for children. The point is that every company and website has to have a personality.

Many hardnosed business executives scoff at the idea of spending money on such seemingly trivial marketing concepts as company personality, but ignoring your website persona, is a big mistake. You can either invest a little in developing, creating, managing, and promoting this personality or you can let the marketplace decide for itself, or worse, find you completely redundant and irrelevant.

4 - The Delivery

You may be asking yourself, this sounds good on paper, but can it really be done, and can it be done for my business, on my website? The answer is damn straight it can. Like most things in life, and in business, it's not grasping the concept that so hard, it's implementing it.

With a little investment and a willingness to take some chances, you can be the market leader. But if you thought you could simply take your newly created movie trailer style website elevator pitch and slap it onto your website in text form, you would be mistaken. How you deliver the message is as important, and in many cases more important, than what you say.

Whether you sell lipstick, licorice, or lingerie, you probably have lots of competition, so how you deliver your message is what's going to make the difference.

You want your website presentation to motivate people to email or phone. You want to deliver a compelling performance that is more than a sales pitch, a presentation that uses voice, visuals, words, and music to create a website personality, a lasting impression; one that is going to allow you to stand out from the crowd and give you a competitive advantage.

How Do Online Buyers Pay?

2009-01-16T04:25:00.000+08:00

Mostly by credit card, but other payment methods are gaining ground.

Most online buyers pay with credit cards. But the online credit card retail purchase volume growth rate is falling, and not just because of the recession.

Data from a January 2009 Javelin Strategy and Research study reveals that credit card purchase volume will continue to grow online and command the largest market share among payment types, reaching $107 billion by 2013, up from $81 billion in 2008.

Yet that is less than a 6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), and the percentage of online purchases made with credit cards is set to fall to 40% in 2013, down from 59% in 2007. Javelin said that the share of online purchases made with private-label and prepaid cards would increase during that time.

The increased usage of other payment types is not an outright rejection of cards; Javelin estimated that e-mail payments such as PayPal would still account for only 10% of online purchases in 2013, up from 7% in 2007.

Rather, prepaid and debit cards may be viewed as ways to avoid interest charges, and private-label cards frequently have loyalty or rewards programs that give users cash or products back.

Some online buyers are still concerned about credit card fraud as well. In 2007, JupiterResearch and Ipsos Insight asked users of alternative payment methods including PayPal why they did not use credit cards, and the findings are worth remembering.

More security was the top reason given by online buyers for using payment services instead of credit cards. Respondents also said they used such services because of restricted options on credit cards, and greater flexibility, more convenience and easier dispute resolution than when they used credit cards.

How to Pitch Media Members for Free Publicity

2009-01-14T19:03:00.000+08:00

After optimizing your site for search engines and pursuing other marketing efforts, it's time to use the power of the press to boost sales, awareness and credibility cost-effectively. But how do you pitch your story to a reporter?

Here are some quick tips to help you through the media process:

1. Know Your Targeted Media Members.

Before you even reach out to a reporter, you should know what that person writes about and what he or she will be interested in discussing. Do your homework before contacting a specific reporter, and you'll have a much better understanding of what you should say (and the topics to avoid).

2. Have Talking Points Ready.

With point #1 in mind above, write down all of the benefits your business has to offer. Know why a reporter will be interested in what you have to say, and practice giving your unique story angle. Then, when the time is right, you'll be ready. (You may even want to have your talking points written on an index card by your phone.)

3. Be Newsworthy.

Try to think of a way that your business fits in with current news and industry events. Develop a story angle related to something newsworthy and current. Then, approach a reporter with your idea.

4. Be Unique.

Media members want fresh, interesting stories. Try to stand out from the crowd and provide your opinion about a current topic, unique statistic or story angle that no one else can offer. By conducting some research and offering something different, you'll get much farther with your publicity efforts.

5. Be Succinct.

Reporters are on deadline. Get to the point fast. Practice what you are going to say in advance. Then, speak clearly and succinctly. Mention the most important benefits of your story-angle first. Reporters will appreciate your sense of urgency and respect for their time.

6. Know Your Industry.

Become an expert in your field and know the most current news, events and activities within your industry. Share your news with reporters. And soon, they will come to you for the latest industry updates.

7. Offer Expert Advice.

Without pitching your own products and services, introduce yourself as an expert to targeted media members. Comment on a current news item, provide a special report and offer your help with a future article. Reporters will appreciate the fact that you are willing to provide assistance and may add you to their list of resources.

8. Follow-up Accordingly.

Media members are busy people, and you will probably need to make an effort to stay in touch with them. If you are waiting for a pending story or a call back and haven't heard anything for a few days, feel free to contact the media member directly. Try not to be a pest, but conduct the appropriate follow-up when necessary. This is essential to obtaining clips and maintaining professional, media relationships.

Hopefully, these tips will help you pitch your story to media members and get results. By "thinking like a reporter" and offering beneficial information in a timely fashion, you'll definitely increase your chances of obtaining some good media coverage that will make a difference on the bottom line.

Small Businesses' Online Plans

2009-01-13T02:40:00.002+08:00

For many, the question is when they will start using digital.

Small businesses in the US will not cut spending on most forms of online advertising in 2009, judging by a survey conducted in December 2008 by Ad-ology Research. A higher percentage of respondents said they planned to spend “about the same” in 2009 than planned to change their spending.

More small businesses said they would increase their spending on social networking than on any other format. And respondents were more likely to say they would increase spending in 2009 on e-mail and their company Websites than make cuts on those formats.

The percentage of small businesses who said they did not use various online marketing tactics was high. Well over one-third of respondents said they did not market using social networks, their own Website or even e-mail. Less than one-quarter used more tech-reliant tactics such as online video and mobile marketing.

A lot of small businesses’ marketing efforts this year will focus on lead generation, according to a study conducted in December 2008 by Issues and Answers for the Yellow Pages Association (YPA). More than one-half of responding small-business owners named lead generation as their greatest challenge. Nearly one out of five said lack of ad dollars was the toughest marketing problem they faced.

Many respondents said that ROI was the main way they measured success for their marketing tactics. The YPA took this as an opportunity to note its online search results and print ad ROI.

“Yellow Pages print and online listings received more than 17 billion searches in 2007 from consumers ready to make purchases,” said Neg Norton, president of the YPA, in a statement.

THAILAND MEDICAL TIPS

2009-01-12T20:03:00.004+08:00

It is advisable when traveling to any foreign destination that you check with your local hospital as to what inoculations or medications you may need for your trip. This applies even more so when traveling to tropical areas. If there's a Tropical Diseases hospital nearby, contact it before departure for Thailand. If not, then chat to your local doctor.

Some areas of Thailand do occasionally have malaria so it's a good idea to check on this before you visit. Mosquitoes generally throughout Thailand can at times be bothersome so it is advised that you come prepared, especially if you go plan on going outside at night. Many western hospitals will advise taking precautionary medical measures against the possibility of contracting the disease but those that live in malaria infested areas, around the world, not just in Thailand, advise against this. The reason for this is that if you are on medication and still contract malaria, it is harder to detect than if you are on no medication at all. Some travelers prefer to carry the cure with them rather than taking preventative measures all the time. The choice therefore is yours entirely but do speak to your local doctor before visiting.

Dengue fever is another mosquito born illness that is prevalent in most parts of south-east Asia. Complications with the disease, which can lead to death, usually only occur on a second infection and although causing severe headaches and body pains and general weakness, there is no preventative medicine. The only way to avoid contracting the disease is to protect yourself against mosquito bites as best possible.

Hospital care is possibly not exactly what you might be used to unless you happen to be in one of the main centres. It is generally a good idea to take out some form of travel insurance that includes medical cover and if suffering from some complaint, bring a supply of any medication you may require during your stay.

Medicines can be bought directly over the counter, though your particular brand may not be available.

Rabies is endemic in many south-east Asian countries and if you do happen to be bitten by any domestic or wild animal, seek medical assistance at once. Also try to capture the animal or at least determine its ownership where possible. Even if you have already been vaccinated against the disease, further doses will be required.

Bruce and Barack: The Rising in Cleveland

2009-01-11T18:54:00.007+08:00

Bruce Springsteen sang "The Rising" at a Rally in Cleveland, OH before introducing Barack Obama and his family to the stage. November 2, 2008.

The Rising is the 12th studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 2002. In addition to being Springsteen's first studio album in seven years, it was also his first with the E Street Band in 18 years. It was released as Springsteen's reflections on the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Upon its release, The Rising was a critical and commercial success, and hailed as the triumphant return of "The Boss". It garnered a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 2003; although nominated for, and widely favored to take, the Album of the Year award as well, it was bested by Norah Jones' debut album Come Away with Me. Title song "The Rising" was also a Grammy nominee and recipient.

In 2002, The Rising was one of only two albums to receive Rolling Stone magazine's highest rating - five stars

Reezaa MP3 Converter Converts Anything to MP3

2009-01-11T16:17:00.003+08:00

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Marketers Eye Online Video for 2009

2009-01-10T18:03:00.004+08:00

Increasing spending to reach viewers
Marketers in the US will take a closer look at online video in 2009, according to a survey conducted in December 2008 by PermissionTV. More than two-thirds of respondents said they would focus their budgets on online video this year.

More than one-half of respondents also expected to be implementing or extending an online video project in Q2 2009. Less than one-third said they were doing so currently.

Notably, e-mail was missing from the ad tactics respondents were asked about. Matt Kaplan, vice president at PermissionTV, told eMarketer that survey participants were not asked specifically about their e-mail budget plans. Although the tactic is a staple of nearly all digital marketing campaigns, spending on e-mail is far lower than for many other formats.

eMarketer estimates that spending on online video advertising will grow to $4.6 billion in 2013, representing a more than sevenfold increase from the $587 million spent on the format in 2008.
More than four out of five Internet users will watch online video ads in 2012, eMarketer projects, up from the two-thirds who did so in 2008.

Online video ads are expected to change the nature of online video inventory as well. As ad-supported video grows, the balance of the inventory will tilt toward longer-form content, according to a Diffusion Group study.

This supports the view that more full-length TV content will be viewed online with ad support. The study projected that in 2013, long-form video will represent 69.4% of ad revenues, up from 41.6% in 2008. In the same timeframe, the share of short-form video will decline to 28.7% from 54.8%.

The Shrinking World of Newspapers

2009-01-09T14:17:00.001+08:00

Read? Less. Red ink? More.
There is no sugarcoating it. The outlook for newspaper publishers in the US is dismal.
eMarketer estimates that newspaper advertising revenues declined 16.4% in 2008 to $37.9 billion. By 2012, spending will slide to $28.4 billion.

“The current economic situation is making things tough across all media, but newspaper revenues are falling more than in any other major medium,” says Carol Krol, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, Newspapers in Crisis: Migrating Online. “Even the former bulwark of newspaper revenues, classified advertising, is plummeting due to craigslist and other online alternatives.”

The financial pressure on newspapers is enormous.
“To attract both readers and advertisers, newspaper publishers are beefing up their Websites,” says Ms. Krol. “But even online ad revenues—which offered a glimmer of hope—are now falling.”
The Newspaper Association of America tracked two consecutive quarters of declining revenues for newspapers online for Q2 and Q3 of 2008, the first time that has occurred since it began tracking online figures in 2003.

For 2008, eMarketer estimates online newspaper ad revenues declined by 0.4% overall compared with 2007, to $3.2 billion, and forecasts they will drop further into negative territory in 2009, down 4.7% to $3 billion.

“The challenge for newspapers is continuing to make money while they transition to online,” says Ms. Krol. “But they face the same transition problems that plague other traditional media, such as TV, and so far they have not been able to crack the code.”
The “State of the News Media 2008” report, published by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, described the dilemma as a decoupling of news and advertising: “More and more it appears the biggest problem facing traditional media has less to do with where people get information than how to pay for it—the emerging reality is that advertising isn’t migrating online with the consumer.”

“It’s like changing the oil in your car while you’re driving down the freeway,” Howard Weaver of McClatchy told Pew researchers.

“New business models beyond advertising may be required,” says Ms. Krol.

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How to Get Started as an Affiliate

2009-01-08T18:13:00.001+08:00

Here’s a few basic steps to take to get started :
1. First a relatively obscure niche in clickbank, a highly competitive niche will be difficult to break into with direct linking. Obscure little niches work great with direct linking though, as long as they has a decent sales page and a viable market.
2. Use a tool like Keycompete.com or Keywordspy.com to dig up a nice broad keyword list
3. Clean up junk keywords out of your keyword list
4. Use EfficientPPC to setup a ONE keyword per adgroups campaign, with two unique ads per adgroup
5. While you’re setting up your campaign with EfficientPPC, Setup clickbank tids for each keyword. There’s a number of ways of doing this, the easier way is to simply assign a number to each keyword and use that number as your tid (since clickbank severely limits of the tid to 8 characters you can’t use the keyword itself). This is critical to your success, you need to be able to track which keywords are actually making sales.
6. Launch your campaign on Adwords with a starting bid of 0.20. Closely monitor your campaign.
(1) if you’re getting virtually zero traffic, up your bids.
(2) If your getting lots of traffic ( > 500 clicks) and zero sales, you’ve probably got a dud, move on
(3) If your getting traffic and consistent sales, you’ve got a winner, now you need to optimize and make it profitable!
I don’t have time to go into more detail in this post, but I’m planning a simple direct linking case study where I pick a clickbank niche and show you what I do, step by step, and how to make it profitable.
So stay tuned!

Secrets to Success - YES YOU CAN

2009-01-08T01:11:00.010+08:00

Everyone has secrets to their success. It’s what makes them tick and it’s what makes them get things done. I’d love to share with you the secrets to success that I have found and would love to hear about yours.

I think that regardless of what we do in business, be it blogging, administration, bookkeeping, etc., we still need to have that secret in order to push forward.

1. The Speed of Implementation.

I can’t take full credit for this. I mean, I’ve always done it but I didn’t come up with that line. I don’t really know who originally said it but I saw it on an Eben Pagan video and it resonated so well with me. To be successful, you must take your ideas and implement them - FAST. Don’t hold back and don’t dilly-dally with details and with trying to be perfect. Get it up there and out there and tweak as you go.

2. Using Your Strengths & Delegating the Rest.

Don’t try to do everything yourself. Let’s face it - we all know you’re brilliant but to be successful, you need to learn that you aren’t the best person to do everything in your business. Read the E-Myth Revisited for a great take on what it means to wear many hats as an entrepreneur. It’ll make you realize that you should focus on what you’re good at and then delegate out the rest. Find the right people and they’ll pay for themselves.

3. Surround Yourself with a Good Support System.

This is essential. I’ve always been blessed with a great support system. My family has always supported my dreams and has never held me back (even if some of them - like wanting to be a millionaire before I turn 30 - seems far-fetched) and my husband is numero uno in terms of providing me with space and time to grow and build my business. Learn to surround yourself with positive people and rid yourself of the toxic people.

4. Only Do What You Love to Do.

I try to implement this daily. I don’t do anything I don’t love to do. Why? If I do things I don’t like to do, I run the risk (the high risk) of doing a poor job at or taking light years to turn it around to my client. We’re not meant to do everything. We’re just not. It’s the same with clients - we’re not meant to work with everyone. We’re meant to do the work where our passion lies and where our heart is because THAT makes us successful.

5. Only Work With People Who Energize & Inspire You.

This is really important. While it sounds similar to the support system, this refers more directly to your clients and/or customers. I’ve had an interesting entrepreneurial life thus far and I’ve met both really amazing clients and other clients whose styles did not mesh well with mine. I’ve come to learn that I’ve got certain characteristics that not everyone can get used to - for example, I only do scheduled calls due to my busy work schedule - and if the people I work with can’t come to terms with that, we won’t work over the long-term. So, find people that you are inspired and energized by and who embrace your talents and understand the way you work.

6. Limit Your Overhead.

Don’t do things in a complicated way. I swear to you, for everything you want to do in your business, you can usually do it on the cheap AND get a really professional result. I’ve hardly spent any money on marketing or advertising for my business. Aside from my website, I have very little marketing overhead. My websites are done inexpensively too because I do them myself. I understand that not everyone has that talent but do your research, stay in the green and you’ll become more successful. Think of how much less stress you’ll have when money is not an issue!

7. Be Aware of Your Human-ness.

I love this one. I often find that in the land of the entrepreneur, too many people forget that they are human (or that those they are talking to are also human). What I mean is that often times, things are done or said that would never be done or said if both parties were standing in the same room. Treat your fellow entrepreneurs with respect and you’ll go a lot farther. This too is something I’ve learned as I’ve grown as a business owner and moved out of that ‘corporate’ mindset.

8. Be Generous.

Don’t be afraid to give away information or help out your fellow business person for nothing in return. I don’t mean start giving away your services for free but sometimes, provide advice or give away an ebook and do it for free. Don’t ask for a favor in return and don’t ask for payment. Just do it. It feels great and people will remember you. Michael Porl, a past client of mine, used to quote often “Long after you’re gone, people won’t remember what you said but how you made them feel.”

What are your keys to success?

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2009-01-08T00:30:00.006+08:00

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Thailand Budget Hotels

2009-01-07T13:31:00.004+08:00

We list much more for you than just the hotels and resorts. In fact, we have taken every effort to research and include many small, inexpensive,cheap, but clean and comfortable hotels and resorts, which would be impossible to find otherwise.

Thailand Travel Guide

2009-01-07T13:01:00.015+08:00

Thailand is a huge tourist destination. As tourism plays one of the largest roles in the Thai economy, every effort has been made to make every guest to this country comfortable and safe. Do not take the following tips as warnings, only advice, remember being a knowledgeable traveller is a big step to a successful vacation.

CUSTOMS AND RULES
Thailand's culture is vastly different to the west and it is much appreciated when foreigners respect both its laws and heritage. There are certain Do's and Don'ts that should ALWAYS be adhered to and then there are other rules that, though generally frowned upon are at times accepted.
One of these 'accepted' rules is that topless-ness on the beaches is in fact banned by law. Though it is generally advised, especially in Muslim areas, to abstain from this practice, some beaches do turn a blind eye to it. Be prepared for onlookers.
Other than that, rules that are custom to the Thai culture should always be followed. One of the foremost of these is NEVER SHOW ANGER OR RUDENESS in public. If you do, you will find that all it achieves is to be ignored completely. Thai people are extremely polite and rudeness is not tolerated in any form.
When visiting a Buddhist Monastery, please remember the grounds are holy so appropriate attire must be worn. Shirts with sleeves for women is recommended and it is preferred that women wear either a skirt or neat shorts (not high cut ones). For men a neat shirt and shorts will do fine. Women should be careful as no monk may come into physical contact with any women.
Two customs considered impolite are sitting with your feet pointing towards another person. Where possible tuck them out of the way. The other is touching another person's head in public.
The road accident rate in Thailand is one of the highest to be found and despite motorbike rental being both cheap and readily available, it is not recommended that the visitor hire one. Helmets have to be worn by the drivers of any motorbikes within the country. A helmet for the pillion passenger is optional but again it is advised that if carrying a passenger, you ask for a second one.

Recipe Websites Get Fat in Lean Times

2009-01-07T12:01:00.000+08:00

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In tough economic times, consumers are standing the heat by getting into the kitchen. According to comScore, food sites attracted 45.6 million unique visitors in September 2008, up 10% from 2007—more than double the rate of total Internet growth in the US.
Allrecipes.com led the pack with over 8 million unique visitors in October 2008. The site has had increased traffic since early 2008 and plans to maintain its lead with features and content that cater to consumers with tight budgets and schedules.
Allrecipes.com has grown to include 296,000 recipes from millions of users who run the gamut from foodies to beginning cooks to time-strapped moms. Site users can search across all the recipes, articles and editorial content by dish or by ingredient. Each month, Allrecipes staff review top searches and solicit recipes from the community to fulfill user needs, which they cull from polls and surveys.
When the economy began to falter earlier in 2008, metrics showed a jump in the number of site visitors and recipe searches, as well as a trend in the types of ingredients being searched.
“We saw an 8% increase in searches for lower-priced ingredients like ground beef and less-expensive cuts of meat,” Lisa Sharples, president of Allrecipes.com, told eMarketer.
“We also noticed that more people overall were searching the site by ingredients instead of by recipe,” she added. “Rather than searching a recipe and then buying those ingredients, users are buying ingredients that are on sale and then finding a recipe that uses them.”
The site responded to this trend by launching a budget cooking section, a collection of articles, videos and money-saving tips written by the editorial staff. Users are invited to submit wallet-friendly recipes that can be added to the recipe database and linked. Staffers review user-submitted recipes for relevance to the growing need for affordable cooking options.
Recipes are a steady draw for Internet users in the US. Among US Internet users who visited blogs, online communities or social networks in August 2008, 22% said they went there to share recipes or book reviews, according to a survey by MarketTools.

Seven Predictions for 2009

2009-01-06T18:49:00.002+08:00

As we step tentatively into the new year, prospects look pretty grim. With unemployment predicted to top 9%, industry bailouts looming, a massive retrenchment in the stock market and a generally accepted view that things aren’t likely to get better any time soon, it will be all too easy to slide into a state of cynicism, or even despair.

Uncertainty and pessimism color attitudes toward predictions, too, particularly those that dare to suggest resumed growth ahead. Some will have a tendency to regard such forecasts as wishful thinking, or, worse, woefully out of touch.

Shall we throw all predictions out the window?
Certainly visibility is low right now, and it’s probably better to err on the side of stone-cold sobriety than blithe optimism, but I think we can count on several things in 2009. Not all of them are positive, mind you, but there can be some comfort in quantifying the pain we all know is coming.

1. No doubt about it, marketers will be cutting back on advertising spending this year. All the industry pundits, media firms, Wall Street analysts and bloggers are predicting slashed budgets across the board. A look at the latest projections for total US ad spending growth in 2009 reveals a consistently downward trend, and that’s after negative growth in both 2007 and 2008.

It’s worth noting in the chart below that the lowest number, the -10% growth rate from Barclays Capital, is also the most recent prediction. Previously, Barclays had forecast a decline of only 5.5%.

2. Among traditional media, newspapers, radio and magazines will see the worst declines. There is a double whammy in effect here, too. The economic recession, while severe, is only exacerbating an existing trend. The ad buying, measurement and reporting systems of traditional media are being systematically rewired for the digital age. As I wrote in Digital Marketing Now (my recent white paper about the strength of digital in a downturn), even before the financial meltdown started, analog media was undergoing wrenching changes. Reasons included audience fragmentation, the fundamental shift in power from marketers to consumers and a slew of digital technologies enabled by the Internet.

Consider the plight of newspapers, whose collective revenues will plummet nearly 16% in 2009, after an even more brutal 16.4% decline in 2008, according to eMarketer.

While advertising on television has held up remarkably well so far, the cracks will begin to appear in 2009, with most researchers predicting a 5% or greater decline in spending.

Similarly, radio is expected to see an ad revenue dip of between 5% and 8%, depending which source you look at.
3. Advertisers’ pull-back in overall marketing spending, coupled with a serious re-examination of traditional media, will set in motion a series of permanent changes that will affect how media is planned and measured, as well as the media mix itself. In short, things will not revert back to “normal” in 2009, 2010 or whenever the economy pulls out of its current malaise.
Look at the recent layoffs taking place at large media firms such as Viacom, Gannett and NBC Universal. Under the smoke screen of an obviously troubled economy, many traditional media companies have pre-emptively slashed their head counts—even while profits are still coming in. While the press releases point to the economy and the need to downsize in preparation for worse times to come, I can’t help but wonder whether some selective pruning is going on to remove the digital laggards, thereby making room for new talent with digital chops.
There is also a relentless fixation on accountability and measurement. As an old colleague of mine, Steve Lanzano, chief operating officer at MPG, recently said in an interview with Jack Myers, “The best we can do is deal with reality...and not put our heads in the sand and just do what we have in the past. We need to see what is driving the most return-on-investment and identify where we think the communications business is going.”
4. Throughout all this economic shrinkage, the Internet will continue to grow, though at a far more constrained pace. eMarketer projects online ad spending will rise 8.9% in 2009, after an already ratcheted-down rate of 11.3% in 2008. That’s considerably lower than 25.6% growth in 2007.
eMarketer’s 2009 growth estimate of nearly 9% is relatively conservative; projections from many researchers, analysts and media shops are far more bullish.

With the online advertising growth rate dipping below 10%, many will declare 2009 the end of the Internet’s glory days. That would be a mistake. Compared with the double- or single-digit declines seen with newspapers, radio, magazines and broadcast television, the Internet will continue to outperform. As they say, “Flat is the new up.”
With online, some ad formats will fare better than others. Marketers will continue to use search and e-mail heavily this year, because of both their familiarity and ease of measurement. eMarketer estimates growth of nearly 15% for search and 3.5% for e-mail. Growth for online video, a nascent but hot area, will be even steeper, though it will slow from 81% in 2008 to 45% in 2009.

5. Despite the general consensus that online will ride out the storm, expect to see a growing contingent of bearish forecasters disparaging its prospects. Ironically, many of these doom-mongers will hail from the Internet space.
By November 2008, we had already begun to hear scary, almost apocalyptic predictions from the fringes of the blogosphere, which were soon echoed by more-mainstream analysts such as Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget and ThinkEquity’s William Morrison. They argue that not only is traditional media tanking (due to the aforementioned double-whammy effect), but the Internet is doomed to see a free fall as well. These naysayers almost seem to be trying to outdo each other with negative predictions—“I’ll see your number, and lower it by 5 percentage points.”
Of course, if enough of us in marketing departments and ad agencies listen to these downbeat forecasts, and take heed through our own actions (or rather lack of action), we will end up fulfilling their prophecy. We must try to resist the siren’s call.
“How bad will the online display ad market fare over the next couple of years? At this point, we would estimate at least a 10% drop next year and probably more.”—Henry Blodget, CEO, Silicon Alley Insider, October 20, 2008
6. Growth in online display advertising will languish—but only in terms of absolute-dollar spending, and the effects will be temporary. While eMarketer predicts display ad dollars will grow by a relatively anemic 6.6% in 2009, behind the scenes there will be much innovation as the industry figures out how to creatively deploy, integrate and measure the value of display ads for branding purposes. New data is providing solid evidence for what we already intuitively knew, but couldn’t before measure: When display ads are combined with search, marketers can expect a significant increase in sales conversions, whether those take place online or offline. And beyond conversions, display advertising can boost brand awareness, purchase intent and the likelihood of a person to visit a Website or take other actions that indicate engagement with a brand.
comScore, for one, has released study results showing conclusively that the combination of search and display ads leads to a greater sales lift. Specifically, search and display ads together produced a 119% sales conversion increase, versus 82% for search alone and 16% for display alone.
“The only reason we have the focus on clicks is that they can be measured.”—Gian Fulgoni, chairman, comScore, speaking at the University of South Australia, December 2008
7. E-commerce, already hammered in 2008, will see growth slip even further, from 7.2% in 2008 to a measly 4.1% in 2009. There likely won’t be a decline in the number of online buyers, but rather a pronounced decrease in their average annual spend as consumers cling ever tighter to their purse strings. Look for retailers, as a result, to whack prices, push deals and flood the Internet with digital coupons.
According to comScore, coupons were the fastest-growing Website category in November 2008. Unique visitors to coupon sites were up 32% over October 2008, way ahead of the next-fastest category, jewelry and luxury goods, which grew only 25%, and toys, which grew 24%.
A study by Packaged Facts found that 87% of consumers now prefer to shop at retailers that offer coupons, and 89% said they’re more likely to use coupons in a recession. Expect mobile to get in on the digital coupon craze, too, as consumers seek deals on their phone right at the point of purchase.
Beyond the seven predictions discussed above, the most important theme to keep in mind is that things will get better, eventually. Whether the curtain lifts in late 2009 or some time after, the economy will most assuredly come out of hibernation. And when it does, it will be the stronger for it.
Many companies will emerge stronger, too. As Penn State research professor Gary Lilien put it, those that have “the skill, the will and the till” will be able to market their way through these tough times and end up on the other side with a stronger market share and a more powerful brand position.
“‘The skill’ means they have the marketing expertise. ‘The will’ means they have a culture to go against what seems to be a tough trend. And ‘the till’ means that they have some resources to be able to invest.”

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2009-01-06T15:23:00.002+08:00

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2009-01-06T01:49:00.009+08:00

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Listen to Audio from Your Favorite Music Videos

Have a concert of Madonna on a DVD disk or love your music videos with Beyonce? Now, you can use MP3 Converter to convert any kind of video to MP3, upload the music to your MP3 player, iPod, or cell phone and listen to it as you do a bit of jogging in the morning, stand in the line, take an overseas flight, or a bus trip. Cool, isn't it?

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Create a CD with the music and present it as a gift

Custom-made CD disks with music make nice gifts that you can present to your friends, colleagues, or business partners. Making a disk involves a conversion of music video and audio in other formats to one unified MP3 format. This is where MP3 Converter will help you. You can easily convert media files to MP3. If they are too many, simply use the batch conversion mode and have them processed automatically while unattended. Then burn MP3 records to a disk.

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10 Best Gift Ideas for Bloggers

2009-01-05T21:40:00.001+08:00

Its the holiday season and you might want to send a gift to your favorite blogger to let them know you care. As I sat around wondering what gifts might a blogger like… it was not a box of chocolates, a pen drive, or an ipod - bloggers seek different gifts.

1. Donate Money - Many bloggers have a paypal donate button on their site to reward them for the useful articles you read daily, to support web hosting costs or maybe pay for code development of that powerful wordpress plugin that runs your site. Send in an Amazon gift certificate. Or buy a product through their affiliate links (anonymous gift). Some bloggers do not prefer such donate buttons, may want you to buy them beer or a coffee maybe. You can also buy advertising on their site.

2. Buy What They Wish - Instead of gifting cash, you can locate their Amazon wish list and buy them a gift item from there. Gift them something they truly want and like. Are they looking for free conference tickets, blogging books, a Flickr Pro account, or a Mybloglog Pro upgrade?

3. Sponsor a Professional Web Design - Your favorite blog may require a professional web redesign job to make it more SEO optimized, professional looking and get in more traffic. Remember professional web designers are not cheap, but they can create a unique web presence. Or gift them a custom unique professional wordpress template.

4. Sponsor a Professional Logo - Short of gifting an expensive web design service, you can present them a cool new logo via a professional logo designer. That will bring up a new professional branding for them at cheap logo designing costs.

5. Offer Limited Invites / Coupons - You can send them a Google Adwords Promotion code and help them get free advertising across the blogosphere. Or gift them a Blogads invite and open up a new revenue source for them. Offer them that cheap discount coupon you kept for yourself and never used.

6. Bookmark on Social Networks - Share some great recent content from your favorite blogger on social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and send in some extra traffic their way. If your story makes it to the front page, since you were the first to bookmark the site, they know you gifted them the traffic. Do not spam. (e.g. Will I forget who sent us to the del.icio.us frontpage)

7. Link to Them, Send Free Traffic - Add your favorite blog to your sidebar blogroll, offer a free advertising button for a month or link to some recent interesting article they wrote. The pingback lets them know you like them. The free traffic and publicity is always welcome.

8. Write a Free review article - So you write paid reviews (like with Reviewme) as an alternate blogging income source to get rich. Write a great review about your favorite blog for free. Make your blogger friend more famous. It never goes unnoticed.

9. Invite to Guest Blog / Interview - Another way to indirectly gift free traffic to bloggers is by inviting them to guest blog on your blog, or conduct a nice interview with them. Gift them some limelight.

10. Offer Your Product / Service for Free - If you offer a professional service like blog consulting, SEO seminars, internet marketing package, paid software etc… offer them for free. It will be well appreciated, and if they like it might generate more sales for you.

Ok… I said there were 10 ideas, but this one is the best …

11. Say Thank You - Thank a blogger by email or posting a comment on their site and let them know how much you have learned from their advice and how it made a difference to your blogging habits and income. Or how about sending an e-greeting card. A few kind words can mean bigger than any material gift. Be genuine. It shows.

What did you gift your Blogger friend?

Obama victory speech

2009-01-05T18:17:00.003+08:00

　　Hello，Chicago!　　

　　If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.　　

　　It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.　　

　　It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America.　　

　　It’s the answer that led those who’ve been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.　　

　　It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.　　

　　A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Sen. McCain.　　Sen. McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he’s fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I congratulate him; I congratulate Gov. Palin for all that they’ve achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation’s promise in the months ahead.　　

　　I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.　　

　　And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation’s next first lady Michelle Obama.　　

　　Sasha and Malia I love you both more than you can imagine. And you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us to the new White House.　　

　　And while she’s no longer with us, I know my grandmother’s watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight. I know that my debt to them is beyond measure.　　

　　To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you’ve given me. I am grateful to them.　　

　　And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe, the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best — the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America.To my chief strategist David Axelrod who’s been a partner with me every step of the way.To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you’ve sacrificed to get it done.　　

　　But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.　　

　　I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn’t start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.　　　

　It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation’s apathy who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.　　It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.　　

　　This is your victory.　　

　　And I know you didn’t do this just to win an election. And I know you didn’t do it for me.You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.　　

　　Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they’ll make the mortgage or pay their doctors’ bills or save enough for their child’s college education. There’s new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.　　

　　The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there.　　

　　There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it’s been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.　　

　　What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can’t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.　　

　　So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other. Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers. In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people.　　

　　Let’s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let’s remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.Those are values that we all share.　　

　　And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.　　

　And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.　　

　　And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.　　

　　To those — to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.　　

　　That’s the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we’ve already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.　　

　　This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that’s on my mind tonight’s about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She’s a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.　　

　　She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn’t vote for two reasons — because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.　　

　　And tonight, I think about all that she’s seen throughout her century in America — the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can’t, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.　　

　　At a time when women’s voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.　　

　　When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.　　

　　When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.　　

　　She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that “We Shall Overcome.” Yes we can.　　

　　A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.　　

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves — if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?　　

　　This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.　　

　　Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.

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B2B Marketers Plow Ahead in 2009

2009-01-04T15:20:00.000+08:00

Counting on digital marketing for leads and future sales

More than six out of 10 business-to-business (B2B) marketers surveyed in December 2008 by BtoB Magazine said they planned to launch new ad campaigns next year.

Considering the state of the economy, it could be worse. Nearly seven out of 10 marketers surveyed at the end of 2007 planned to launch new ad campaigns this year. Given the study’s sample size (211 B2B marketers), the difference of 9 percentage points is not huge.

One-quarter of respondents said they planned to reduce their marketing budgets in 2009.

Budgets for digital campaigns should fare better than those for traditional media, judging by a study fielded in August and September 2008 by Hearst Electronics Group and Goldstein Group Communications. More respondents to that survey said Websites and search engines were their best sources of leads than any other means, including trade shows, long a favorite of B2B marketers.

Although the sample size of the Hearst/Goldstein study was limited to 99 B2B marketers, the results are useful in a directional sense.

Online was the only sales channel more respondents said they would use in 2011 than in 2008.

Fuel Trakker 2.0 (PPC)

2009-01-03T16:02:00.005+08:00

Fuel Trakker is a PDA program that has the ability to track fuel records for an unlimited number of vehicles. You have the capability to monitor records using the units of your choice. That is, liters versus gallons or Mpg versus km/L and many more.

Fuel records can be entered in any order. For example, more recent entries must have higher odometer readings and vice versa. Unlike other programs that have you calculate the distance you traveled from the previous fuel purchase then enter the value into the program, Fuel Trakker handles all of the operations for you.

Summary reports for each vehicle can be generated based on the selection of a start and end date. The summary will provide results that are then be exported as a TXT document that can be synced to your PC for backup. As an added convenience, the start date is automatically set to date of the very first entry. Therefore, you will never need to remember your first entry to capture a complete report.

Key features:

Monitor fuel usage
Track fuel economy trends
Create comma-delimited (.csv) reports that can be viewed on a PC
Create reports for each vehicle over a specific time span
User friendly Graphical User Interface
Track an unlimited number of vehicles
Monitor distance/volume (mpg) and price/volume ($/gal)
Multi Language: English, Spanish, and German

Boomers Online: Attitude Is Everything

2009-01-02T23:53:00.000+08:00

At 56.7 million, boomers make up the largest group of users in the US Internet population. They view the Internet as a tool, a way to get things done—but not as a lifestyle or source of entertainment the way their younger counterparts do.

The Boomers Online report examines the impact this huge generation of users is having on all elements of Internet usage, commerce and development.

Boomers offer a huge target for marketers in almost all categories. But marketers would be mistaken to treat them all alike.

Older boomers (ages 54 to 62) use media more like the “matures” who precede them. They get most of their news offline and go online for further information, but their kids are teaching them to send text messages.

Younger boomers (ages 44 to 53) act more like Gen X online. They watch more video online than older boomers and are avid texters. They participate in social networks—though not with the fervor of their children. All boomers, however, prefer e-mail to instant messaging.

The Boomers Online report aggregates the latest data from marketing and communications researchers with eMarketer analysis to provide the information you need to make smart, timely business decisions.

UK Online Ad Spending

2009-01-02T00:38:00.000+08:00

The UK Internet has been almost immune to budget cuts by advertisers and marketers. In 2008, it outpaced all other media channels in its rate of spending growth, and that pattern will continue. But 2009 will be a tough year, and even online advertising will take a hit.

The UK Online Ad Spending report looks at the factors that will impact, both positively and negatively, the future of Internet media in the UK as marketers tighten their belts.

Earlier this year, eMarketer estimated that spending on UK online advertising would reach £3.36 billion ($6.41 billion) in 2008—a rise of 27.1%.

Then the economic crisis hit.

Several factors—including sky-high levels of consumer debt and a housing market in near-collapse after years of wildly inflated values—tipped the UK into its worst recession in decades.
The problems have spread to the Internet. eMarketer now projects that online advertising spending growth will drop to just 7.2% in 2009, less than one-half the May 2008 estimate.

French Carmakers Sell on the Web

2009-01-01T14:46:00.000+08:00

No showroom required.
While US carmakers are dealing with an abysmal market for auto sales and doing their best to move cars out of retail showrooms, it is interesting to note that a growing number of French Internet users are buying their cars online.
According to a study by Groupe Xerfi, sales of new vehicles on the Internet are booming. In fact, online new-car sales in France grew 25% in 2007 and 31% in 2008. The research company projected only 20% growth in 2009 due to the economic slowdown, before accelerating again with 36% in 2010 and 40% in 2011.

Those huge growth numbers represent change from a small base. Xerfi said Web sales would represent 5% of all car sales in 2011. Even if Detroit followed suit, that’s not enough to move the needle as much as automakers need in 2009.
Still, the prospect of reducing costs through online sales is worth US carmakers’ attention.
While Xerfi said that online car sales in France would reach 5% of the total market in 2011, the automotive goods category as a whole represented 5% of all online spending in the first half of 2008, according to TNS Media Intelligence data cited by LeJournalduNet.

Based on a January 2008 estimate of French business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce for 2008 by the Federation des Enterprises de Vente a Distance (FEVAD), that means about $770 million in cars and automotive goods were sold online during the first half of the year.

Targeting Canadian Online Shoppers

2009-01-01T00:24:00.000+08:00

More than four out of 10 Canadian dollars spent on e-commerce go abroad.

Seeing an opportunity to offset slowing online sales at home, some US online retailers have targeted the Canadian e-commerce market. One approach is to launch a Canadian Website. Another is to allow cross-border purchases. Either way, several retailers executed in time for the holiday season.

Pure-play e-tailer NewEgg, an information technology and consumer electronics retailer, launched a Canadian Website in October 2008. It uses its US facilities for both fulfillment and customer service, and later may opt to enter distribution partnerships and launch a Canadian fulfillment center.

Internet Retailer reported in October 2008 that Saks Direct, the e-commerce division of Saks Inc., would fulfill orders placed by customers in Canada from its US Website. Shoppers in Canada at Saks’ main site automatically see local featured merchandise, promotions, pricing, customer service and delivery options.

In September 2008, Overstock.com, a pure-play online discount retailer, announced it would start serving international consumers in 34 countries, including Canada. International shoppers can purchase any of 600,000 products on the site priced in local currency.

“Many international markets are underserved by online retail,” said Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, in a press release. “With the weakness of the [US] dollar, the time has never been better for international customers to purchase American goods, creating a great opportunity for us.”

Other US-based retailers that already sell to consumers in Canada are beefing up their offerings. In October 2008, Amazon launched a new electronics store on its Canadian Website. Until that time, Amazon had sold mostly books and music on its Canadian site and did not allow products to ship across the border from its US site.

Statistics Canada data revealed the extent of cross-border spending. In 2007, 44% of B2C e-commerce spending in Canada went to foreign retail Websites, up from 37% in 2005. A weakening US dollar caused a surge in Canadian spending on US Websites during 2007’s holiday season.

Of course, money from Canada isn’t a cure-all for US online retailers. Since the US dollar has regained much of its strength over the past year in relation to the Canadian dollar, price is less of an incentive for online consumers in Canada to shop across the border. In spite of US retailers’ marketing across the border, some analysts say there may be a drop this year in the percentage of Canadian online spending on foreign Websites.

“Compared to last year, when the Canadian dollar was at—or above—par leading up to the holiday season, we expect to see a significantly lower number of Canadians spending their holiday budget south of the border this year, which will help out our Canadian retailers,” said Brent Houlden of Deloitte, in a press release.

Blogs Can Ease Customer Communication

2008-12-31T16:23:00.000+08:00

Readership has grown and so has consumer trust.
Blogs have long had an avid following, but corporations are finding that blogs can be a secret sauce to building solid relationships with their customers.
For one thing, blogs are popular with consumers. According to an August 2008 study by BuzzLogic and JupiterResearch, there has been 300% growth in monthly blog readership over the past four years. In fact, nearly one-half of the online population reported reading blogs.

The study also found that blogs have more impact on purchasing decisions than social networks. One-quarter of readers said they trust ads on a blog, as opposed to 19% who trust ads on social networks.

In addition, 40% of blog readers—and 50% of frequent blog readers—have taken an action after viewing an ad on a blog. Aside from technology-related purchases, for which 31% of readers said blogs are helpful, other categories for which respondents say blogs are influential included media and entertainment (15%); games, toys and sporting goods (14%); travel (12%); automotive (11%); and health (10%).

Marketers increasingly view blogs as a key part of their marketing plans. An October 2008 study by the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) found that more than 66% of executives employ blogs in their marketing efforts.

Online Travel Companies Choose Their Targets

2008-12-31T00:21:00.002+08:00

Booking methods depend on travelers' needs

Suppliers seem to have won the battle for online leisure and unmanaged business travel market share in the US, according to December 2008 PhoCusWright data.

Fully 61% of online travel sales are now made directly at supplier sites, compared with 39% for online travel agencies (OTAs) in 2008. This balance is projected to hold steady through 2010.

Online travelers have learned to book their reservations on travel suppliers’ Websites to avoid intermediaries’ service fees and collect loyalty points. Suppliers save money from direct bookings and thus encourage this behavior with aggressive, lowest-price guarantees.

Yet market share does not tell the whole online travel story, PhoCusWright said.

OTAs and travel service suppliers appeal to different types of travelers. Infrequent leisure travelers, who may take just a few trips a year and are more price-sensitive, prefer OTAs. Those companies are therefore concentrating on unconverted lookers.

Frequent, loyal leisure and unmanaged business travelers, who focus on schedules, convenience and specific suppliers head straight to those sites. Suppliers are catering to this audience with more personalization, loyalty and community.

Jeffrey Grau, senior analyst at eMarketer, said that fewer travelers are booking their trips online overall.

“This is not due to personal financial concerns—online travel bookers are an affluent demographic,” Mr. Grau said. “Rather, it is caused by frustrations related to the planning and booking capabilities of OTAs. This, in turn, is spurring a renewed appreciation for the expertise and personalized services offered by traditional travel agents.”

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2008-12-30T16:04:00.000+08:00

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Display advertising grows - despite rumors to the contrary

2008-12-30T01:02:00.000+08:00

Making sense out of today's industry news has become a Jekyll and Hyde experience. One minute we're up, the next we're down. Headlines often speak of doom, when the content is actually good news. For instance, a recent eMarketer article titled "Economy Deals Online Ad Spending a Hit" sounds dismal when, in fact, it predicts the growth of online ad spend in 2009 and beyond. Sure the growth percentages have slowed, but who'd expect double digits in the current economic climate? Display advertising is predicted to grow by 6.6% in 2009, and online as a whole growing 8.9%. Compared to the predicted decline by 4% to 7.8% in US TV ad spending, online display looks downright rosy, so let's not drive nails into her coffin just yet.

Most articles on the death of display seem to focus on one of three culprits -

1. Lack of solid measurement standards
2. Outdated buying and pricing methods (CPM)
3. Irrelevant and bland ads

Many use the term display media synonymously with branding campaigns. Yet banner ads are utilized in every imaginable online scenario except search – CPM, CPC, or CPA. And with the exception of keyword data in Search, most online measurement is dictated by the same three metrics – impressions, clicks, and conversions. Metrics that are admittedly ten years old. What if we come up with some new criteria?

1. Engagement Advertising – This is a way of targeting and measuring media based upon the relationship between the consumer and the brand. What if an advertiser had insight into who was actually seeing their ad, and whether that person was a prospect or existing customer. Online technology is capable of this granularity, and many companies are working to harness it in various ways. Networks use targeting that's based predominantly on aggregated data derived from within their own technologies. The only problem is, you only get it when you buy on their Network. TruEffect's DirectServe™ technology allows advertisers to use the information they already have to find their customers anywhere they buy media on the web.

2. Media evaluation and purchasing based upon the buyer's needs – The traditional way media has been sold hasn't provided advertisers a lot of choice or negotiating power. But what if an advertisers could tell what percentage of eyeballs within a specific media buy were already customers? Could he negotiate a better rate for his acquisition campaign? Or what if that same advertiser could gauge the effectiveness of multiple buys by seeing how much customer overlap there was between them? The possibilities are limitless when an impressions is served based upon an actual relationship, or lack of, between an advertiser and an individual consumer.

3. Relevant messaging – Banner ads are accused of being bland and irrelevant. A recent AdAge article says the current burn out rate for a TV ad is down to only eight showings. If we extrapolate this to the web, my guess is it would be even less. It's safe to say today's consumers, inundated with sensory input, are somewhat desensitized to banner ads. Is it bland creative, or simply an irrelevant message? Search advertising shows us it's the relevance that counts, because nothing's more bland than a three line text ad. If we can hone in on one to one targeting, the technology already exists to micro-target on the fly with custom messages, without the expense of creating hundreds of actual ad variations.

Hard times require innovation and persistence, and yes, advertisers are going to demand better ROI and measurement solutions. At least we can rest assured that technological advances, and smart marketers are already leading the way. And it doesn't appear that display is going away any time soon.

Cloud Computing Drives Global Trade Site

2008-12-29T13:03:00.000+08:00

Online since 1997, NuDeal has evolved through a number of technology upgrades. Our latest update takes advantage of leading edge virtualization technology. We are now leveraging the latest revolution in technology infrastructure: cloud computing.

Up until now NuDeal has been based on Microsoft technology and Intel hardware. With the move to cloud computing we have left the confines of Microsoft and bravely jumped into the open source world. Using Amazon's flexible EC2 cloud computing infrastructure combined with Linux we are now fully powered by open source technology on scalable services based infrastructure.

NuDeal is a high traffic website with hundreds of thousands of members. Leveraging cloud computing gives us the ability to scale up and scale down quickly as demand changes. We only pay for the computing we use.

We believe that the scalable, low cost solutions offered today by Amazon (EC2) and in the pipeline at Google, IBM and other large companies, will turn the technology and business world upside down. Our thousands of members have huge infrastructure costs that we believe can be significantly reduced using this approach. Expect us to write about this more in the coming weeks and months in our site blog.

The cloud computing wave is picking up speed.

Only time will tell if being an early adopter of cloud computing is the right decision, but for now we are thrilled with the results.

Top 5 Technology Game Changers

2008-12-29T02:30:00.002+08:00

One of the things we are able to do here at NuDeal is analyze global business and technology trends. The following list highlights what we believe are the five major technologies that have truly changed the world of business and global trade since the year 2000.

#5. Cloud Computing - Although it is just beginning to pick up steam, we believe that cloud computing is going to be a major game changing technology. Essentially it means infrastructure is a service you buy rather than owning expensive and depreciating hardware. We use it here at NuDeal and we are firm believers in the potential cloud computing has to change the way IT business is done.

#4. Apple's iPhone - We almost considered just listing Apple here but the company has been around since before 2000 so that would not fit with our theme. However, the iPhone is definitely a game changing technology with its intuitive user interface and its myriad of features. Not since the iPod have we seen friends and family so excited about a new gadget (oh yeah, Apple created that product as well). Other mobile phone companies are terrified of the iPhone. They just won't admit it.

#3. HDTV - You cannot go into an electronics store today without seeing a wall of flat panel high definition televisions. With high definition signals paired with these LCD/Plasma televisions, the picture quality is nothing short of amazing. Add personal video recorders like Tivo to the mix and you have a trifecta of technological change.

#2. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) - Really simple what? What is that you might ask? Well Wikipedia defines it as a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format. Sounds pretty dry but the ability to share everything from news to videos relies on this. A major game changer for sure.

#1. Social Networking - Where was the world before MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites? Now every site is building social network capabilities in and "being connected" means so much more than just having an Internet connection. The communication revolution that social networking has created reminds us of the impact of email which similarly went from a novelty to a necessity in short order.

What is the new technology around the corner that will be the next big thing? We have no idea but it will not be nano-anything, jet packs, or the flying cars we were promised. Technologies that catch on are simple, spread organically, and have a real world usefulness to people in their daily lives.

Trade Between China and Africa Steadily Growing

2008-12-28T19:22:00.003+08:00

It is clear that US economy is suffering from the housing crisis and credit markets meltdown, but in other parts of the world the global economy continues to grow at rapid pace. Trade between Asia and Africa is one particular area worth highlighting.

In 2007, trade between Africa and all of Asia exceeded $120 billion. In particular, trade between Africa and China exceeded $75 billion in 2007 having increased by 40% per year on a compound basis for the last 5 years. That kind of growth is nothing less than staggering. When you consider that trade between China and India was roughly 38 billion in 2007, much less than with Africa, it shows clearly the strength of the China/Africa trade connection.

The question is: Why is there such a positive trade relationship between China and Africa?
The answer is that China, more than any other country, recognizes an opportunity for growth in Africa and is creating solid trade relationships there. The perception of Africa as an unstable economic region where investment is too risky has not deterred China. China was itself a risky place to invest not too long ago and perhaps they understand the risks and opportunities better than anyone else.

So in effect, China, and Chinese trade with Africa, has helped to correct the undervaluation of African assets. In turn, a revision of the historical undervaluation is generating new investment opportunities. A positive investment cycle is being created. It will not be long before other countries recognize what China has been doing in Africa and start their own trade connections there.

Pursuing the Chinese Dream

2008-12-28T18:29:00.001+08:00

A global recession led by a downturn in the US economy will be a challenge for China, but only in the short term. At NuDeal we regularly speak with our business members from China about the impact of macro economics. It is clear that they fear the global economic slowdown being led by the U.S. will stifle their employment boom which has moved hundreds of millions out of poverty and facilitated the Chinese equivalent of the American dream.

It is difficult enough to run a Chinese business without the negative macro economic issues like a global recession. Competition is fierce, and standing out in a business crowd that is growing exponentially is becoming increasingly difficult. Saying you are a low cost manufacturer or provider of goods is not enough, you need to clearly differentiate yourself in China to grow your business.

To exacerbate the situation there is the threat of a trade war with the West. Politicians working to get elected are spilling rhetoric about keeping jobs local and calling for the renegotiation of trade agreements. These may or may not have a negative impact, but those who believe firmly in the free market system are concerned.

At NuDeal, we are optimistic about the global economy. This current downtrend is a blip in the grand scale of things. Everyday we see the relationships being fostered by our thousands of members located all over the world. Their innovation, ingenuity, and tenacity with running their businesses on the global stage is impressive and humbling.

These short term slowdowns demonstrate to countries like China and India that they can be too reliant on one target market. However, countries like China are well on their way to lowering their dependency on the US market. If steps are taken now they can perhaps preserve the opportunity for their citizens to pursue the Chinese dream.

Illicit Trade is a Growing Percentage of Global Commerce

2008-12-28T11:27:00.001+08:00

The sale of everything from knock-off hand bags and reverse engineered Nike shoes to fake pharmaceuticals is helping drive the growing global trade in illicit goods. It is estimated that around ten percent of global trade is in illegal goods and it is growing seven times faster than legal trade. When you consider that the total value of global trade was estimated in 2007 at $25 trillion dollars, that means 2.5 trillion dollars was in illicit trade; a staggering figure.

Recently, PBS aired a special focused on the growing problem of illegal goods called "Illicit: The Dark Trade". In it they showed how easy it was for individuals and businesses to acquire illegal goods and have them shipped to any location in the world. All this despite the ever present efforts of customs and law enforcement to disrupt these trade networks.

Unfortunately, China has been labeled a main location for the trade of illicit goods. This is in part due to the large scale manufacturing capabilities and volume of exports there. It is simply impossible for Chinese customs officials to keep track of all goods leaving the country. Worse still, bribery and corruption make it difficult to prevent it from happening.

Wearing fake Nike shoes or holding a fake Gucci handbag is one thing, but ingesting a potentially life threatening pharmaceutical is another. The most frightening aspect of illegal trade has to be the growing trade in illicit drugs. Untold thousands of people may be harmed or killed by taking these fake pills. Large drug companies like Pfizer claim that they lose billions of dollars in sales to counterfeiters of popular drugs like Viagra. While it is a challenge to fully measure the value of the global counterfeit drug market, what is clear is that it is a significant health issue.

At NuDeal we are on the lookout for illegal goods being listed on our site. Our fraud detection system flags potential listings and we remove those that do not respond to requests for authentication. However, it is simply impossible for any trade information site like ours to monitor everything and because of this we encourage members to read our safe trading guide to help protect themselves.

It is clear that illicit trade is here to stay and unless major changes take place in how goods are manufactured, shipped and sold, we will likely see the trade in illegal goods increase. Moisés Naím, the acclaimed editor of Foreign Policy magazine believes illicit trade could be a threat to our way of life that is as large as or larger than terrorism.

Global Recession: Why We Remain Optimistic

2008-12-27T10:23:00.003+08:00

There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a major slowdown in the global economy. We have experienced a noticeable reduction in trade agreements being negotiated through our services. Companies are being very cautious with spending and the two cornerstones of business; freely available credit, and trustworthy insurance are now MIA.

The rapidly changing value of world currencies is going to have an incredible impact on the global economy also. The US dollar has surged against the Euro, Yen and Canadian dollar in the past month. It remains to be seen what impact this will have, but already manufacturers in the US are scaling back as they recognize the impact this will have on US exporters.

On the flip side the US consumer suddenly has a lot more power in terms of purchasing and importing goods. This is why we are cautiously optimistic. Factor in a lower oil price (essentially an energy tax cut) and it is not hard to see that US imports will grow soon. Once the panic and out of control fear subsides we expect the US consumer to come surging back in a big way.

The Global slowdown will force companies to clean their books, ensure their business is solid and it will weed out those poorly managed companies that have weak balance-sheets. In general, this is a healthy cycle that will strengthen the overall world economy.

The Obama Effect: A Positive For Global Trade

2008-12-27T10:15:00.000+08:00

The last eight years has seen the worldwide reputation of the United States diminish as President Bush became recognized as a leader who would often take unilateral action rather than work together with leaders of other countries. He defined his presidency as one where he was "the decider" and many questioned whether he did enough to seek effective council and reach out to the international community for cooperation and collaboration on complex areas like global trade.

Enter Barack Obama. If the reaction in the international community to the announcement of his historical election win is any indication, he will be flooded with offers of cooperation from the leaders of other countries. Many foreign governments found it almost impossible to do business with the Bush administration due to the negative impact that perception would have for them in their own countries. With Obama, the way is clear for them to start fresh and rebuild alliances with the US.

For Obama to address the US economic woes he will need the support of the international community. If the global credit crisis has proved anything, it is that the world economies are inextricably linked and by working only within the borders of the US, he will make little headway in improving the state of the economy.

The good news is that Obama has shown that he is willing to reach out and has spoken numerous times about working together with the leaders of other countries. He has made some statements that could be viewed as protectionist, but many argue that he will not take a protectionist agenda, realizing that isolating the US and putting up trade barriers will only exacerbate the problem.

The next four years will be very interesting as Obama tackles major issues both within and outside the borders of the US. We expect to see an "Obama Effect" very early into his presidency and will be on the lookout for it.

China Stimulates Growth

2008-12-27T00:58:00.000+08:00

News of China's multibillion dollar stimulus package was welcomed globally as Beijing took decisive action to attempt to improve the domestic economy. Asian stock markets soared following the announcement of a 4 trillion yuan, or $586 billion USD, package but US markets were little impacted. China now joins moves by governments around the world to attempt to soften the blow of the global slowdown.

The stimulus package calls for higher government spending on infrastructure and bigger subsidies to the poor and farmers. It promises more lending for rural projects, smaller companies and consumers but provides no details.

Clearly concerned by falling growth, the government switched its official goal earlier this year from a single focus on fighting inflation to a dual approach of ensuring fast economic growth while also containing price increases. It has cut interest rates three times in recent weeks and lifted limits on how much Chinese banks can lend.

Many analysts feel that China along with other Asian economies will lead the way out of the economic slowdown. There is a strong likelihood that China's economy will turn the corner first followed by India and other eastern economies with the US and Europe lagging a few quarters behind.

Emerging Nations May Lead Global Economy out of Recession

2008-12-26T18:09:00.000+08:00

The credit crisis and global recession may have started in the United States but it will be the combined efforts of China and other emerging world economies like India and Brazil that could lead the way out. The demand for goods from the growing middle class in these countries has started a flame that, with nurturing, could grow into an economic furnace.

China accounts for around 6 percent of the world economy, but when you factor in Brazil, India and other large emerging nations, they represent around 1/3 of global GDP.

The financial crisis and global recession has created an opportunity for these countries to look inward to a growing domestic market instead of having a myopic focus on exports. There is real demand within their own borders and finding new and innovative ways to foster and meet that demand is critical.

If these emerging economies can fan the flames of their own domestic markets they can not only weather the current economic storm, but perhaps emerge as leaders in the next iteration of the global economy.

Obama's All Star Economic Team

2008-12-26T18:03:00.001+08:00

President-elect Obama has unveiled his economic team and it is clear he is serious about tacking the financial crisis with the all star team he named. He has chosen a team deeply experienced in addressing financial crises both at home in the USA and abroad with all members having strong international experience.

Obama has pledged that his economic team would start work immediately on recommendations to help middle-income families as well as the financial markets. It is clear that he intends his administration to "hit the ground running" even before his inauguration on January 20th.

The president-elect announced today that he had chosen Christina D. Romer to head his Council of Economic Advisers and Melody Barnes as director of his White House Domestic Policy Council. Ms. Romer is an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, while Ms. Barnes is a longtime aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Both have extensive experience with macro economics and dealing with economic crises.

Earlier it was rumored that he would name Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary and and former Harvard President Lawrence Summers as the director of the National Economic Council. Obama confirmed those appointments. Both were welcomed by the financial and investment communities.

“While we can’t underestimate the challenges we face,” he said, “we also can’t underestimate our capacity to overcome them to summon that spirit of determination and optimism that has always defined us, and move forward in a new direction to create new jobs, reform our financial system, and fuel long-term economic growth.”

In our opinion, Obama continues to demonstrate the kind of leadership needed to help pull the US and global economy out of the current downward spiral. During the election we were actually somewhat concerned about his economic policies but now that he is the president-elect we are cautiously optimistic based on his decisions and actions to date.

Recession Solution: Invest In Infrastructure

2008-12-26T18:02:00.000+08:00

In Mexico, for example, the government will spend $12 billion on ports, roads, railroads and other projects in the first quarter of next year after delays on infrastructure outlays in 2008. Officials are also studying new programs to prevent layoffs in the manufacturing industry and to create temporary jobs.

Another example is South Africa which appears to be ahead of the game and started investing in infrastructure a few years ago. They have already made significant progress towards building stadiums and transport infrastructure for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. There is investment in rail, port and electricity generation and distribution.

The cornerstone of Obama's infrastructure plans is the creation of a bipartisan supported National Infrastructure Bank funded by the federal government to the tune of $60 billion over 10 years. The bank is likely to require any project seeking more than $75 million in federal support to submit a proposal to the bank - a proposal that would include the contribution to be made by state and local governments, user fees and a plan for maintenance.

China, Canada, the UK and many other European countries are also planning to invest in infrastructure. For many cities and rural areas the economic downturn may actually turn into a boon for improving local infrastructure.

E-commerce to grow by 10% in United Kingdom

2008-12-25T17:33:00.001+08:00

Estimated activity relates to the Christmas period and foresees British shoppers spending €5.66 billion on Internet purchases.

A study by Deloitte forecasts that British consumers will spend ₤4.7 billion (around €5.66 billion) on online purchases, meaning a 10% increase in Internet purchases compared with 2007 figures.

The report reveals that those consumers making the majority of their purchases online will spend an average of ₤773 (€930) on Christmas gifts, compared with expenditure of ₤665 (€788) for the public at large.

This reflects the strength of electronic commerce, at least in the United Kingdom, even at a time when the economy seems to be on the point of collapse. Meanwhile, the rise in online sales also serves to pressurize small companies to take to the Internet.

However, the Deloitte study also points out that online sales represent only a small proportion of small companies' income, with 56 per cent of those reporting online sales saying they accounted for less than 10 per cent of their total income, according to Reuters.

Recession Solution: Invest In Infrastructure

2008-12-25T16:57:00.002+08:00

Countries around world are planning on running massive budget deficits to help stimulate their economies during the current financial crisis. Where are they going to invest that money besides bailing out failing banks? The answer: infrastructure projects

In Mexico, for example, the government will spend $12 billion on ports, roads, railroads and other projects in the first quarter of next year after delays on infrastructure outlays in 2008. Officials are also studying new programs to prevent layoffs in the manufacturing industry and to create temporary jobs.

Another example is South Africa which appears to be ahead of the game and started investing in infrastructure a few years ago. They have already made significant progress towards building stadiums and transport infrastructure for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. There is investment in rail, port and electricity generation and distribution.

The cornerstone of Obama's infrastructure plans is the creation of a bipartisan supported National Infrastructure Bank funded by the federal government to the tune of $60 billion over 10 years. The bank is likely to require any project seeking more than $75 million in federal support to submit a proposal to the bank - a proposal that would include the contribution to be made by state and local governments, user fees and a plan for maintenance.

China, Canada, the UK and many other European countries are also planning to invest in infrastructure. For many cities and rural areas the economic downturn may actually turn into a boon for improving local infrastructure.

Why is there a small evergreen tree in the living room?

2008-12-25T12:12:00.001+08:00

This is a German tradition, started as early as 700 A.D. In the 1800s the tradition of a Christmas tree was widespread in Germany, then moved to England and then to America through Pennsylvanian German immigrants.

Is December 25 really the day Jesus was born?

2008-12-25T12:11:00.001+08:00

No one really knows. What is known is that Christian leaders in 336 A.D. set the date to December 25 in an attempt to eclipse a popular pagan holiday in Rome (Saturnalia) that celebrated the winter solstice. Originally, the celebration of Christmas involved a simple mass, but over time Christmas has replaced a number of other holidays in many other countries, and a large number of traditions have been absorbed into the celebration in the process (as we will see in later sections).

Why do people give each other presents on Christmas day?

2008-12-25T12:05:00.001+08:00

The tradition of gifts seems to have started with the gifts that the wise men (the Magi) brought to Jesus. As recounted in the Bible's book of Matthew, "On coming to the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh."
As mentioned in the previous question, however, no one was really in the habit of exchanging elaborate gifts until late in the 1800s. The Santa Claus story (described later), combined with an amazing retailing phenomenon that has grown since the turn of the century, has made gift giving a central focus of the Christmas tradition.

Why is Christmas such a big deal?

2008-12-24T20:00:00.003+08:00

There are two reasons why Christmas is such a big deal: According to the 1994 "Britannica Book of the Year," there are 1.8 billion Christians in a total world population of 5.5 billion, making it the largest religion worldwide. In America, 241 million out of a total population of 281 million people are Christians -- that's 85 percent. Because Christians follow Jesus, the birth of Jesus is important to them. In America, the weeks leading up to Christmas are the biggest shopping weeks of the year. Many retailers make up to 70 percent of their annual revenue in the month preceding Christmas. Therefore, retailers hype the event beyond belief.
The image of Santa is a familiar Christmas sight.

According to Daniel Boorstin in his book "The Americans," Christmas was largely a non-event in America until the 1860s. 1867 was the first year that Macy's department store in New York City remained open until midnight on Christmas Eve. 1874 was the year of the first window displays with a Christmas theme at Macy's. It has snowballed from there.

What is Christmas?

2008-12-24T19:10:00.007+08:00

If Gorg can assimilate all of that and make sense of it in a week, then obviously he is a member of a highly advanced species! You may find that you yourself don't know the answers to half of these questions. Where DID Rudolf come from? And why DO we deck the halls with boughs of holly?

Holly is a common Christmas symbol -- but why?

In this article, we will answer all of these questions so that you can understand how Christmas works and where all of these Christmas traditions come from!

What is Christmas?
The word Christmas comes from the words Cristes maesse, or "Christ's Mass." Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus for members of the Christian religion. Most historians peg the first celebration of Christmas to Rome in 336 A.D.

Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day. In America it is one of the biggest event of the year (especially for kids), and for members of the Christian religions it is an important day on the religious calendar.

During the Christmas season in America, many people take their children to a mall where they can "meet Santa."

The federal government, all state governments, all schools/colleges/universities and the vast majority of businesses in America give employees one or two days off at Christmas, making it an important holiday (other federal holidays are: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving). In the Roman Catholic calendar, Christmas is one of six holy feast days celebrated in America, the others being: Circumcision (New Year's Day), Ascension, Assumption (Mary's assumption into heaven, August 15), All Saints (November 1), and the Immaculate Conception (December 8).

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2008-12-24T17:15:00.001+08:00

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