7 AVENUES

Seeing the Overall Picture

2007-07-22T08:55:00.000-07:00

Over the years, I had began to notice that by seeing the overall picture of how this world works, praise to God, my life seems to be "easier".

I began to realize the fact that has always been true.

So, here I list down some of the Facts that govern our lives.

FACT 1 - God Governs all of His creations including all of us Human Beings, based on His Wills. His Wills upon us and upon everything else, has and will absolutely happen. This is what we called Destiny or Pre-destination.

FACT 2 - God Tests all of us His servants by letting us all live in this world according to His Universally Applied Sets of Law that works for this world. He also creates "Time" that works for this world.

Fact 3 - Each one of us is GIVEN by God the followings in order to live in this world:-
A Set Of Strengths, A Set Of Weaknesses, A Universally Applied Set Of Rules and His Universally Applied Set Of Prescriptions. Given all this, Next we are given EVENTS after EVENTS after EVENTS until the last breath that we take. This is what we called life in this world.

A Universally Applied Set Of Rules is the Norms or Orders that seem to govern our lives. Example would be:-
When there's action, there is a reaction.
When we eat, we'll feel full.
When we fall, we will hit the ground. Law of gravity.
The Earth, Sun, Moon, Stars, Galaxies, all moving in orbits that has been determined
for each one of them.

A Universally Applied Set Of Prescription is the Basic Principles of Shariah or Laws that God wants us to follow for our own benefit, so that all of us His servants would live in this world to the best of our ability as Mankinds.

Fact 4 - Eventhough God made us live in this world according to the Norms or Orders that He has made for this world, He want us to Never Put Our Trust in this Norms that seem to govern our lives in this world. Instead, He want all of us to put a complete trust and faith in Him and His Wills every single waking moment.

So, when we realize these Facts of Life in this World, we know that God is managing all of us His creations, all the time. He is "with" us all the time. He is fulfilling our needs all the time. He is answering our supplications all the time on the conditions that we are sincere and put the Complete and Absolute Trust in Him in our hearts that He would answer our supplications. And as I had discuss in the earlier posts, this life is the One Complete Test. The Test to accept Him as the One and Only God, to be His servant and to do whatever He want us to do.

If we continue to put our trust and have faith in the Norms of this world that He has created, we will continue to live in the "dark" without really realizing it.

But, by seeing the overall picture of How This World or Universe is Working which is being Created, Managed and Sustained by an Absolute and Master Creator, we would know that everything is living or moving in harmoniuos order and perfect coordination, including ourselves.

Therefore, by "Backing-off" - seeing the overall picture and "Letting-go" - put a complete trust in Him, our lives will be much easier.

The Secret, Law of Attraction and Manifestation

2007-06-29T06:52:00.000-07:00

In 2006, there was the release of a film called The Secret. It is sort of a self-help film that try to explain the so-called Secret - the "Law of Attraction".

The summary are like the followings:- "You attract what you think about", "Thoughts become things or reality" or "You are what you think".

It got huge coverage all over the media. If you look at its forum, people have been talking about how they had been able to "change" their lives by applying the Secret.

But there is something that had not been talk about a lot. And that is the "Affirmation in the Heart". This is what that actually will shape or affect our life or our so-called "reality".

Thoughts is in the mind. The mind itself is the soldier of the heart. Thought by itself can never create reality. It is the affirmation of the heart on what the mind think about that will actually affect the "reality". If we are not affirmative on anything, it will affect the outcome. If we are very affirmative of a thing, it will affect the outcome as well. Affirmation on wanting something is actually a supplication. God has always inform us this; "Supplicate to Me! (with all affirmation and sincerity). For sure I will answer you!".

Above all, God create, manage, control and sustain everything and every event. He judge us based on what we decide in the heart. As long as we cannot differentiate what is in our mind and what is actually in our heart, we would continue to think that manifestation is the result of the thinking of the mind. But the truth is, it is not. It is what we believe and affirm in the heart - the decision maker.

Another thing is, what we affirm in our heart and act upon, will not only have the effect in this life but the next life as well.

So the real Secret actually is to try to do the best out of our ability for the following 3 things - we need to do whatever God want us to do in this life, avoid whatever God want us to avoid and surrender or agree with whatever He had pre-destined to happen to us. All of this done with sincerity. Hopefully, with all of this we will be granted inner peace with Him all the time. Remember, there's no event in our lives, unless He create it.

Improve Insomnia and Sleeping Disorders Tips

2007-05-29T03:09:00.000-07:00

There are many ways to help overcome insomnia and sleep disorders. Among others a combination of dietary and lifestyle changes has been able to help some people to improve their sleeping problem.

However, for many others dietary and lifestyle changes alone do not help very much to overcome insomnia. This is because sleep disorders relate back to our mind. A restless mind would be very difficult to fall asleep. Only by achieving peace of mind by taming the wild and restless mind of ours can we have greater chances of undisrupted and peaceful sleep.

The are many reasons for us to have restless mind. This include tension, anxiety, upset, fear, anger, stress, frustration and depression.

Relaxation techniques such as meditation can help to lower the mind and body's stress levels.

But more importantly, to achieve relaxation and peace of mind we need to have inner peace. And this start with having peace with our Creator. Here is an article that provide some helpful tips to achieve peace of mind and of course overcome insomnia.

The Best Way To React To Things Happening In Our Life

2007-04-21T22:43:00.000-07:00

In the last couple of post I had talk about how this life is a One Complete Test. The best human being is the one who submit to the wills of God every waking moment, obedient to His Laws, with complete sincerity and will achieve peace by doing so. Yes it is a very difficult thing to achieve in this life, but that is the main objective we should target to achieve.

To start with, we can try our best to resist the temptation of making negative comments in our mind (secretly) and with our mouth or writings (publicly). Try to avoid any negative thoughts on anything that happen to us or our surroundings. Being able to do this is really a good start since we begin to affirm ourself that God is Perfect.

It's quite easy not to make a stand on things that do not concern us. But if the things we consider "bad" happen to us personally, our family or someone we know, or something that really concern us, then our mind may begin to feed us thoughts for us to react.

Steve Pavlina had written an article on the recent shooting at Virginia Tech by a 19-year old student and how we react to this kind of event. One of the point he made is it's easy to start pointing fingers at others, but if we could change from within ourself for the better, things should be better.

I think another way to try to remove all the negative thoughts and start thinking positive as much as possible is by seeing everything as a reflection or mirror of ourself. God is the Perfect Creator, Organizer, Manager and Sustainer of this world and everything else. Everything that we encounter in our lives is His signs for us to realize our shortcomings and try to improve ourself. Not commenting or worse lamenting on how He "Create Events" in our lives.

The Heart and The Mind

2007-03-28T02:59:00.000-07:00

Together with this Live or the One Complete Test, God give us 2 extremely precious things. Our Hearts and Our Minds.

Many of us do not realize it that all the decisions we make in our lives every single day and every single time is in the heart and not from our minds.

The mind is use to think about every single thing that our hearts want it to do. But it is not the decision maker. It never has and it never will be the Decision Maker for anyone of us because that is not the mind's job. It's job is very clear - to compile and analyze information, variables, points, argumentations and reasonings (what we called Thinking) and present them to the heart for it to make the Decision.

And the heart makes every single decision in our lives, big and small. It's just that we seldom realize it. The most common things we do everyday like going to the toilet is like automatic (and many believe its already built-in into our "Sub-Concious Minds"), but the fact is there's the presenter of the case - the mind (with all the signs and points it brings to the heart that we need to go to the toilet) and the decision maker - the heart. And yes many of these presentation of the cases and decision making processes happen extremely fast - within a fraction of a second, but there are also things that happen over a long span of time especially many big decisions in our lives.

God Judge us based on all the decisions that we make in our lives and all the actions we take accompanying those decisions. That's why even if we decide to go to the toilet and release the waste, and we thank Him for this ability to release the waste in our body system, He will accept it as a good deed on our part.

He does not judge us with any of the problems we face or any of the results happen to us because he knows about them already as He is the One that make all these things happen to us.

He will only judge us on:-

How do we accept the problem he has given to us? Submit or Agree to His Will on us.
How we deal with all of these problems, pleasure and gains every single moment we are awake?
What are our decisions and actions we take to go through this life with every single problems, situations and advantages (in whatever form it may be) he has given to us?
Do we still accept His Wills including the difficulties and hardship that He had want us to go through and still follow His Commandments?
When faced with difficulties, are we going to refer back to Him for help, guidance and ways out of the situations he had given to us, feel His Closeness to us every moment and still obey His Commandments.
Are we going to sincerely refer to His Book for absolute guidance?
Or is it time for us to curse Him and everyone else involved for the hardships we faced?
Is it time for us to disobey His Commandments and change His words in His Book that He has made as a Perfect Guidance for us to go through every single moment of this life. It is time to change His Book to suit our needs and the current needs of our society since we seems to know the hardship and difficulties our society faced now better than anyone else. May be even better than God Himself? Had he not create the difficulties and hardship situations in our society as well? Is it not a part of the One Complete Test that we must go through?
When gifted with any form of gains and pleasures, are we going to thank Him and feel His Closeness and Generousity to us and still obey His Commandments.
Or is it time to feel that we are the one in charge of our wealth and all the worldly gains that are due to us and we don't need Him anymore? Is it also not a part of the One Complete Test that we must go through?

When we realize these facts of life, we will also began to understand that the Heart is "The One Absolute Entity" God really assess us. This is because it is the decision maker. Every action (when we are awake) that we take follow the "Decision Maker". Our minds and our every other body parts has never disobey the heart's decision. This is another amazing facts God has made about us Human Beings that we seldom realize as well. The heart is the De Facto of Oneself and God asses us from it.

Therefore God want us to purify our hearts for Him.

True Meaning Of This Life

2007-03-26T18:29:00.000-07:00

What is the True Meaning of Life in this world.

Life is One Complete Test. Yes it is the most unacceptable thing for many of us until we finally realize it. It is the greatest "Paradox" of our lives that many of us still do not understand. There are also many of us that are still not convince about this very Fact Of Life.

Let put it in a clear statement once again:-

True Meaning Of Life = Life is One Complete Test from The One and Only God for each and everyone of Human Beings to go through until the last breath he or she takes in this world.

The more hardship and difficulties our life is = the greater the test we face in our lives = it shows how much more our Creator Love us and how much attention He give to this particular servant.

When we die = We leave this world and come back to our Creator and He will tell us with complete details how we have gone through "the Test" that was specifically and perfectly design for each one of us. Our fate in the next world totally depend on how sincere our submission to Him and obedient to His comandments in this world.

All the pleasures and worldly gains we receive in this world does not mean that He love us just yet. In fact all these are also just part of the One Complete Test. He want to know how thankful we are to Him and how close we want to be with Him and follow His Commandments.

And what is this whole Test all about? In other words, what is the purpose of our lives? It is to accept it in our hearts that He is the One and Only God and we are all His servants, and he want us to Submit to His Wills and Commandments because He is our Creator and He knows absolutely what is the best for us to go through in this life.

He does not give us "Free Will". Because "Free Will" means that we have the Will to make everything that we want to happen. But God is the One that makes everything happen not us. Therefore, what He really give us is "Free Choice". The Choice to decide and choose our way of life. The Choice to do whatever we want in this life. The Choice to submit to His Will and Commandments and the way of life that God has prescribed for us or to follow our "lower self".

Therefore, the true meaning of success in this life is not how much material gains or various rankings in societies or accomplishments we have achieved in our lives. But how much have we been able to submit our whole life to His Will and following His Commandments given all the strengths and weaknesss, advantages and shortcomings that He personally has Crafted for us individually.

He doesn't Judge us based on how much worldly accomplishment we have achieved, but based on all the strengths and weaknesss, advantages and shortcomings that he personally give us as an individual, how have we been able to use them to live through this life by following His Commands and accepting to His Will that He has Perfectly Narrated about us.

2007 And New Hopes For Everyone

2007-02-05T02:42:00.000-08:00

Well, it's already 2007. It seems that 2006 come and go very, very fast. We are one year older and hopefully much more wiser as well. Now that the new year resolution month is over, we all can concentrate on what we want to achieve in 2007.

For me, I am looking forward to good year ahead. Apart from my target of being a better person and continuously improve myself, I am also planning for a few Joint Ventures with my friends in my quest to be financially free as well. I wish everyone the best of success in 2007 and beyond. And always remember, God is always with us.

How To Really Optimize Your Websites

2006-12-01T19:25:00.000-08:00

I have always like to optimize my websites for better ranking on the search engines. Just now I had read a very good article on how to properly optimize your site written by Todd Malicoat, from Stuntdubl.com . Todd is one of the respected search engine optimization or SEO consultant around. It is quite an extensive article covering many aspects of search engine optimization.

As Todd mentioned, we cannot just focus on things like onpage optimizations such as keywords and metatags, though every bit does help. Instead we should look at the overall picture of marketing and the site's infrastructure. These are the real components of SEO that many of us tend to ignore.

In short, he list down 18 keypoints that we need to take into consideration when planning for a good overall optimized site. Here they are:-

1. Do we have a brandable domain?
2. Who should we host with that will be reliable?
3. Do we need pretty urls and will you use subdomains?
4. What is our website’s business model and how are we unique?
5. Who is our target demographic and what will they search for?
6. What will the information architecture be like? What are the important top level keywords?
7. Which platform should we use?
8. How do we create a professional design?
9. How do we prove high credibility?
10. What ideas can we use for linkbait?
11. If we can’t create great bait, how do we buy, barter, and beg for links?
12. Where else can we advertise?
13. What will we use for tracking and analysis?
14. What will help increase conversions and/or actions and how can we provide users incentives to stay or return?
15. How will we keep administration simple for the entire staff to use?
16. How can we manage our reputation?
17. How do we make the site “cluetrain friendly” and build a strong community environment?
18. How do we scale and specialize for effective use of time?

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For myself, I had to say that I had done some of the keypoints here, but many of them I had tend to overlook or didn't really care because of the amount of work involved. Well, time to change that mentality and take these points more seriously. Bottom line, we really need a really good plan for each website that we build.

You can studied the article in depth at Todd's site, titled 18 Questions Your CEO Forgot to Ask When Building Your Website.

All the best to your SEO efforts. And please come back here to share any result you accomplish.

The Basic Of FICO Credit Score

2006-11-29T17:54:00.000-08:00

It is worth to know about FICO Credit Score since it can affect the interest level that we need to pay when we apply for a new loan. FICO Credit Score is one of the most widely used individual Credit Score System currently in the US. Other Credit Score Systems include NextGen and Vantage Score. It's developed by a Minneapolis based consulting firm Fair Isaac Corporation.

FICO scores place a value on the types of accounts you hold and your credit history. The FICO scoring scale ranges from 300 to 850, with the majority of people in the US falling around the 600 level.

There are 5 factors that determine a person’s FICO credit score:-

1. Our payment history — this accounts for about 35% of the factor - the most of any other factor. Obviously, paying your bills on time is scored as great, while paying them late on a consistent basis is scored as bad. Being referred to a collection agency is worse, and declaring bankruptcy is the worst.

2. The second factor is exactly how much money we owe, as well as the amount of credit that is currently available to us. These factors are worth 30%. They will add up all of our outstanding loans, such as car loans, mortgages, and any other loans that we have and then compare that numbers to our annual salary.

Then, they will add up the amount of credit available to us, and compare it to what we are currently using. People that use all of their available credit (for example, if all of our credit cards are maxed out) will rate lower than those who don’t.

3. Third factor is the length of our credit history. The longer we have had credit, the higher the FICO score will be for this section. In addition, if we have had a long-standing credit agreement with one party, we should gain more points on this aspect of the scoring process. This third factor counts as 15% toward you final score.

4. The fourth factor is the type of credit mix that we have. For example, do we have only unsecured credit loans (high risk), or do we also have some solid secured loans such as mortgages and automobile loans? Consumers with a mix of credit have higher FICO scores. This fourth factor counts only 10%.

5. The fifth factor in the rating is the amount of new applications that we fill out. If we have applieed for too many loans or credits recently, this will hurt our score because it puts lenders “on alert” that something may be wrong. This part of the score is worth 10%.

Although, lenders typically look at employment, income, length at current residence, and marital status, our FICO score will not be affected by these factors. The prospect of having a bad FICO score should scare anyone who plans on borrowing money for the future. If your FICO score is low, this could mean high interest rates, extra mortgage insurance when buying a home, or in some cases denial of the loan.

It’s not a bad idea to get a copy of your credit report 6 months prior to seeking a large loan, and then look over your history to make sure that there are no discrepancies. If inaccuracies are found, contact the Credit Reporting Agency in writing; they have 30 days to investigate it, and then correct it if they find truth to your claims.

You may also want to ask for a revised credit report; they are required by law to supply you with one if an inaccuracy is found and corrected.
Hopefully this short explanation can help you understand what FICO is all about. To learn more about credit score, you can go to http://thismatter.com/money/Credit/Credit-Scores.htm . And of course you can always watch the Suze Orman Show aired on CNBC every week to learn more on FICO as well.

How To Better Organize Your Budget

2006-11-10T08:31:00.000-08:00

Many of us have experienced creating our own budgets but never really have a good "chance" of following them accordingly. And this can lead to a lot of frustration as we cannot even follow our own planning. The truth is, a majority of working adults throughout the world live week to week and don’t really have savings in their accounts.

It shouldn’t be that way!

Instead, if you make a true commitment to yourself that you will create a workable budget, and then stick to it, you could find yourself living with a lot less financial stress.

Here are four workable steps to better organize your budget:-

1) Write It Down!

You have to write down your budget. Many people believe that they know approximately how much they have coming in, and more or less what their monthly expenses are, so they’ve got a budget. Well, not really!

A more realistic definition of a personal or a family budget is a complete plan that includes spending records for the past three months, estimated income (in the case of the self-employed for commissions worker), actual income, and projected spending and out-of-the ordinary expenses. All of these need to be written down in an easy to refer to manner that will allow you to know where you are financially at a glance.

It would quite simply be impossible to keep all of these in your head. Buy a notebook (or, for budget purposes use one that you already have) and start to keep a record of your expenses, and then once you have created a plan — write it down.

2) Have A Monthly Or Twice Monthly Meeting With All Your Family Members

Even if you are the only person in the household who is in charge of the money, if everyone isn’t privy to the budget and doesn’t know what to expect, it will make the process much more difficult.

A great way to get everyone on board is to call a family meeting. If you are married, then the budget should be a joint effort and you should work together as partners. If your children are of school age, then you should explain what it will mean to them.

For example, if your daughter is used to going to a movie with her friends every Friday, and you intend to cut it down to every other week, then explain it to her so that she will know what to expect.

3) Do It In Advance

Don’t wait to create your budget until you are in crisis mode. Instead, sit down at the beginning of every month and write down exactly what your incoming money will be, and then plan for your expenses. Don’t worry about creating a budget for the next year — those are never realistic and will only add to your frustration! Do it month by month, and always look at the past month as not only a guideline, but also for ways that you may improve your budget.

4) Don’t Make It Too Complicated!

One reason that many budgets fail is because they are simply too complicated! By keeping it simple, you’ll not only have a better chance of success, but you’ll also be able to create your budget in no time every month. Try to use just 2 columns - one incoming and another one outgoing — it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that!

So, start with applying these few simple advices. Hopefully they can make a big different to a more workable monthly budget for you.

Necessary Steps To Start Re-Building Your Credit

2006-10-31T05:45:00.000-08:00

Many of us suffer from bad credit reports. For one reason or another, we seem to get behind on our payments monthly. But don't be despaired. It is not that difficult to rebuild your credit report.

Here are some tips that can help us to rebuild good credit report.

First, you should expect to spend about a year rebuilding your credit. Well you wonder after all it took a few years to get out of debt? Yes, but you must understand things from a lender’s point of view — they need to see proof that you are serious about keeping up your credit history.

You will need to establish some sort of credit, so that you can show your future creditors that you can be trusted. If you’ve had serious credit mistakes in your past, that may mean getting a secured credit card. These types of credit cards are secured by a bank balance, which will equal the spending limit on the card. The point of them is to build credit when no one else will issue you a card.

If you can apply for a low interest rate card, you should get one and use it for the sole purpose of rebuilding your credit.

Another credit reporting building method is to apply for a personal loan, and then pay it according to the terms I’ve outlined below.

The biggest thing you can do to rebuild you credit is to pay your payments on time. That means that you can’t be late — not even once. If you are mailing in your payments, be sure to give it plenty of time to not only reach the destination, but also clear the proper processing channels. If you think that you’ve cut it too short, overnight it. Nothing should stop you from getting those payments in on time. Remember that even one late payment can make a difference of whether or not you get that car or home loan.

You should also shoot to pay more than your minimum payments every month. Ideally, you would pay off your credit card every month, but if you can’t do that, then do pay more than the minimum amount required.

For example, if your minimum payment was $25 per month, try to pay at least $35. This will accomplish two things. First, it will make you look better in future lender’s eyes, and secondly, because by doing so, you will paying more toward your principle balance every month, (as opposed to interest), and that will reduce the overall amount that you’ll have to pay.

Do all of these things with patience and determination, and you’ll soon find yourself with a credit rating that you can be proud of. And yes we all can do this.

Public Speaking Tips: Steps To Improve Public Speaking

2006-09-29T09:38:00.000-07:00

Many of us are not comfortable with speaking in public especially if we don't give presentations or talk to a group of people regular enough. But excellent public speaking can be learned.

Some people are considered 'natural speakers'. But there are many people who are not really 'natural speaker' that can give better presentations than the so called 'natural speakers'. They learn or acquire the skills to give very good presentation as they continue to talk in front of public.

So, all of us can be good speakers once we learn the skill to do so. Here are some of the important steps to improve public speaking and be a good speaker:-

1. Breath your way to calmness. Whether you take a deep or shallow breath, make sure that you breath out slowly. Then hold your breath for a while (don't breath-in). Repeat this breathing tecnique a few times until we feel comfortably calm.

2. Always think that whatever you are going to talk about is very important. They are here to listen to it. Regardless of their knowledge on the subject, remember that you are the one delivering the information. Think of yourself as the conductor to their orchestra. You are in control.

3. Tell them what they are going to get or learn up front. By having a clear 'end result' pictured in their mind early on will increase their interest on what you are going to say.

4. Whenever possible try to relate to them by giving stories. People always love stories. Once you start narrating, they would begin to create mental image in their minds of the situations your are talking about. Try to make the stories interesting as possible. Once they get indulge with your narration, they'd become more and more interested into what you are saying.

5. Continue captivating attention by using words that stir-up all the senses. Describe how things look, sound, feel, smell and taste. Paint pictures and sensations in their minds with your words.

6. Vary your voice tonality and speed of delivery. Keep them alert and engaged. Maintain eye contact with them.

7. Always rehearse in front of the mirror until you develop a comfortable, compelling and relaxed way of speaking.

You can also watch and learn from other great speakers whenever you are attending any talks.

Try out this simple public speaking tips. You can call it nervous speaker tips 101 - but it works. Over time you'd develop a natural way to speak in public with more confidence.

God bless you.

Source Of Supplement Income Online - Google Adsense

2006-09-21T10:50:00.000-07:00

People have been talking about Google Adsense all over the internet lately. It's a good way to earn some supplement income online.

Here's a good summary about how to earn money with Adsense Advertising program that I get from http://dfasdy.livejournal.com .

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How the program works is quite simple. You apply for an adsense
account. Once approve, you just login into your adsense account control panel,
follow the step given and make yourself the adsense script and paste it into
your webpages.

Google would place contextual ads automatically on this
places where you paste their script. When people visit your sites or blogs, read
the articles and then see related or targeted ads to what they are looking for,
certain percentage of them would click on these ad links to go to the merchants'
sites. And Google will share certain percentage of these ads revenue with you
the publisher.

So, in general the process is rather straight forward. But
bare in mind it's not easy to earn a decent income from it. Of course you could
buy yourself those monster crappy site generators to crank out sites after sites
within minutes. And there's a name for these kind of sites - MFA or Made For
Adsense sites.

Typically it's nothing much other than a bunch of links to
other sites that are nicely mixed together with the adsense ads. But Google and
the other search engines are getting smarter to detect these MFAs. According to
them, they want to show "Good and Relevant Search Results" to the searchers. And
in their opinions MFAs are crappy site with nothing much of value to the
searchers. So they want to get rid of them from their search results.

In the early days - 2003 and first half of 2004, this MFA
sites are really producing huge amount of money to the owners. But once the
search engines able to detect and ban these sites from showing in their results,
it became less effective. But some of these MFA sites are still working well for
the owners especially those sites that were customized by the owners and left
very minimal footprints for the search engines to detect them.

For the average folks out there though (who have limited
"skills" to customize their sites) , the MFA sites are generally not a good
investment anymore.

So what works now to make a decent living with adsense.
Pick a niche, then choose a sub-niche. Then choose various topics within the
sub-niche. Build sites for each of the topics chosen within the sub-niche.

In other words, dominate the sub-niche with multiple sites
- all sort of related to one another. In a way, its just like any other
businesses. You'd be the authority or expert in a specific areas of a sub-niche.
That should be your best bet to survive the adsense arena. At least for now.

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As mentioned earlier in the post, this is a rather short article but it is enough for you to get the general picture on Adsense Advertising program. To learn more on Google Adsense, of course you can get it from the source itself here .

Positive Interaction In Daily Life

2006-08-28T03:18:00.000-07:00

Positive interaction with other people is very important. Sometimes we may not realize how important it is to be honest in our interaction with everyone else. It does affect the outcome of what will happen to us.

What I really mean is, sometimes we may look down on someone we just meet for the first time. There may be certain things about this person that we do not like. May be it's his character, his outfit, the way he speak or it can be anythings else about this person. As a result we would develop certain negative perception about this person.

In most cases we may tend to associate, relate or compare with ourself such as - "I am better than this person". Finally, we feel that we need to disassociate ourself from this person. In my opinion, it is ok to disassociate ourself from someone if we know for a fact that our association would bring more harm than goodness to everybody including this particular person. But it should not be an end to a relationship at least at the human level.

And the most important thing is for us to avoid from thinking negatively or having bad faith about this person. We must remember that everybody have their own weaknesses. Instead we should focus on thinking positively about this person. Surely there must be a good thing about this person. Yes it is very difficult to think positively about someone who appear to have all the bad thing associated with him. But the more we try to be objective about the person, the more opened our minds would be, thus our receptions to positive thing in our lives.

So trying to think positively about everyone and everything that we encounter in our live will undoubtly have positive impact on our lives moving forward.

Better Image And Self Confidence For Women

2006-07-21T21:40:00.000-07:00

A lot of women still find it difficult to act naturally in certain situation. Women might feel uncomfortable to an unfamiliar situation, meeting new people for the first time, attending formal occasions or they just feel a little "inferior" for certain reasons that they themselves know.

Anyway all of these "feeling" are "acquired" due to particular reasons that we might had gone through in our lifes. These may affect our self esteem and our level of self confidence. The good news is we can get rid of these uncomfortable feelings or unconcious inferior feelings that lead to innaturally act in certain situations.

We just need to train our mind that we are as good as anybody else. If we have weaknesses, so does everybody else in this world. We also need to adjust our mindset to remove all negative thought as much as possible when they enter our minds. Accept everyones as they are, they in turn will accept us for who we are.

This mind exercise may seem harder the first few times and even the first few days, but we should continue looking at everything positively. Continue shutting down all the negative thoughts as they enter our minds. Everyone have their positive side regardless of how bad they may appear to be. Try to focus on the positive aspect of everyone and everything we encounter.

Suddenly we may begin to see the goodness in a lot of people that we encounter everyday. By being open minded and receptive of other people's views, we might also notice that many are comfortable and receptive of our own opinions. This will help a lot in building our self confidence.

There is also a technique on building self-confidence specifically for women that was develop by UDefineU . You can learn more about the technique of building better image and self confidence for women by visiting their site.

Online Multi-Level Marketing - Why You Should Avoid It

2006-06-27T07:47:00.000-07:00

Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) or Network Marketing online is the evolution and innovations of traditional offline Multi-Level Marketing. Although some of the major traditional offline Network Marketing companies began to capitalize on the internet technology for their system's recruitment during the early days, most had abandoned their online recruitment system due to various complications later on.

Those that are available on the internet currently with full blown recruitment systems mostly are 100 percent online-based MLM companies. In short, Online MLM Business Model does not really benefit you if you plan to seriously marketing the products on the internet.

This is because, unlike the offline world, internet has no boundary. As such everyone would be targeting the same target audience and competing against each other.

Here is a very interesting article on Online Multi-Level Marketing just published at I-Income.blogspot.com. It explained why Online MLM will only benefit the program owners. While everybody else participating in the system simply is helping the program owner getting richer and richer before he takes off with everybody else money.

It is really an eye opening article for those who plan to get involved with Online Multi-Level Marketing.

Online Business Guide

2006-06-19T16:54:00.000-07:00

There are many tips, methods and strategies you can use to build and grow your online business. It really depends on what you want to achieve by having an online present. Whether you want to gain business leads, or to increase the sales conversion rate, you do need to have a clear focus on what you really want to achieve with your site.

Of course there are many books and ebooks to teach you that. You can look at Amazon or Clickbank and certainly you can find one that may interest you.

However, if you want to have a very clear picture of what really works online for small business then you can get this ebook by Ken Evoy. If you had read earlier of mine in this blog, you know that I highly recommend all the works by Ken Evoy. The book is called "Make Your Site Sell". Although the ebook can downloaded for free at the site, the information presented are extremely valuable and easily beat many of the Intenet Marketing ebook and Home Study Course that are in the price range of $97 to $297 or more. Just amazing how a free ebook is so popular and more demanded becouse of the information it consist than many of the paid courses.

Another great ebook is "How to Create a Fortune on the Internet in Just Four Simple Steps" by Corey Rudl. This one is not a huge ebook like "Make Your Site Sell" but it is enough to guide you get started the right way.

Top Home Base Business

2006-06-12T06:08:00.000-07:00

In the ealier post we'd discuss about the important of having a positive cashflow before taking a serious journey to find the right home base business. It's easy to get influenced by the many business opportunities or make money at home ideas that are almost everywhere on the internet.

Here are some of the most common headlines that you might have come across, if you ever try to search for any online business opportunities.

Unique ways to earn money
Latest ideas achieve financial freedom
Legitimate work from home job
Affiliate business online opportunity
Reputable Affiliate Programs
Part time home jobs
Work part time online

Unless you have a really good and unique product or service, there's not much of a "unique ways to earn money" from the internet. I am really saddened by the fact that many people out there still fell for all these so called "top home base businesses".

For example, the advertisement for "Affiliate business online opportunity" and "Latest ideas to achieve financial freedom", normally involved some Online MLM Companies. It has been proven time and time again that Online Multi-Level Business did not really work. But because of the very convincing promises laid down in the copywritings, people easily believe every single word they put-up.

That's why they continued recruiting thousands and thousands of individual from almost every part of the world. "Part time home jobs" and "work part time online" and a series of other regular phrases continued to be the favorite taglines to attract online newbies and rookies into the "envelope stuffing jobs" and "assembling products from home" opportunities.

The truth is the real top home base business that everyone who is serious about earning a decent income online should get involve are Legitimate Afiliate Marketing Programs and Contextual Advertising such as Google Adsense. Once you stop chasing for those empty promise opportunities and focus on these two business models, you have made the best step into realizing a decent income that goes hand-in-hand with a decent effort.

Look for Jobs Online

2006-06-06T04:07:00.000-07:00

I know most of us dream to have financial freedom. Some have specific plan on how to do it. While for many of us it shall remain a dream because we do not have any sort of plan to make it happen or we just do not know where to start.

One thing for sure is we are stuck with a lot of monthly bills that we have accumulated over the years since we moved out of our parents' house. Gee, that was really a long time ago.

So, its time to make some sort of plan to start with. The best is to calculate all our monthly expenses and that includes everything. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, utility bills, credit card bills, groceries, and everything else. Then compare it with our current monthly take home. If you haven't, you should start collecting and save every single bill you get from Dennis, Taco Bell, Safeway, Walmart, all of them. How much is the different. For many of us the figure should be negative which is normal. And that is OK. But its time to do something about it.

Now, try to find out a high paying and better jobs to replace your current one. Or if you are comfortable with your current work, you should get another high paying part time jobs, evening jobs or part time home jobs. Of course it is not difficult to find jobs nowadays as internet has make it very convenient for us. You can look at Monster.com or Yahoo Jobs. You can also look for jobs online from this site.

The most important step here is to try to make our personal cashflow positive so that we can stop digging ourself deeper into debt. With a positive personal monthly cashflow only can we start focusing on the next step that is - find a top home base business ideas that is suitable for us to start with. With all the hypes about best new online business opportunity, it is not easy to find a real home based business that works. I hope to discuss more on legitimate home businesses next time.

How Do I Create A Web Page

2006-05-21T06:42:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, more and more people realized that internet is a very special tool to do so many things. Not only it is an effective communication tool, we can also share our knowledge, expertise as well as selling product using a website. Thus at many forums and discussion board, we can find a lot of questions such as "How do I create a website or a webpage?"

Of course it is not that difficult to build a website anymore. There are so many website builders available in the market. Some are free and for others we need to paid for.

The Free WYSIWYG HTML Editors include:-

1. NVU HTML Editor and

2. Evrsoft free web site builder software.

Then if you are familiar with Myspace there's also My Space Editor.

For online graphics editor here's two of the popular choice.

1. Myimager

2. Creatingonline

The most popular website design builder includes:-

1. Macromedia Dreamweaver and

2. Microsoft Frontpage.

They are not free but they are like the Grand Daddy of all online website design builders.They have been used by many since the early years of internet.

While the more user friendly custom web site builder include:-

1. SiteBuildIt and

2. XSitePro.

These two in particular have been the favorites of many first time webmasters and individuals who want to build their business online. Because of the very good systems already put in place by these two popular online web site design builder, it is much easier for small business owners to concentrate on building their business rather than spending huge amount of time and money learning to build their first website perfectly.

So after all, it boils down to what you really want to achieve by having your first online present. I hope this short article can help you choose the most suitable custom web site builder for your need.

Chinese Self-Meditation Techniques

2006-05-15T06:28:00.000-07:00

There are a lot of ways to relax your mind and body. Chinese self-meditation techniques like Chi Kung, Tai Chi or Tui Na are certainly some of the best methods out there.

When I first encountered this kind of technique I did wondered how could this slow movement of the body part have such a tremendous positive effects on a human being. Then only I realize that when our minds are free from all the problems that we have and from everything else then its like magic, our body begin to react positively to any movement.

More and more people throughout the world are practicing these Chinese self relaxation and meditation arts on a regular basis. Some even do these execises in the office before starting their work in the morning. It just shows how these techniques have positive influences on people not just in the far east region, but everywhere else.

How To Live Your Dream

2006-05-08T07:42:00.000-07:00

All of us have dreams that we may want to achieve in our lives. Some are quite realistic. While many others are just dreams and most probably will remain as it is. Of course it is good to have dreams that can be achieved.

But if we think about a lot of things too much, we ended up having too many dreams on just about anything we ever ponder upon. This of course might not only be an unproductive way to use our minds, but also can become a disturbing factor in our lives if we cannot control it.

We might want this thing and that thing, then we begin to realize some of our own limitations. So we might feel bad because we could not have those dreams. Then we continue dreaming about other things we ponder upon, and again realize our limitations.

This unproductive trend will repeat itself and can lead to a lowered self-esteem.

So if you dream too much, I suggest that you stop this habit. Just look back at all of those dreams you ever had in your live. Find the one that you really want, and see whether it is realistic enough.

Here is a good technique to realize your dreams. I hope that this technique can effectively help you to achieve those very realistic dream of yours. Please share your success at this blog.

And please share the method with others if you'd really benefitted from using this technique. All the best to you.

Entrepreneurs Journey

2006-05-01T03:33:00.000-07:00

People talk about getting rich all the time. Is it that easy to get rich. Actually, rich and poor is only a state of mind. Since most of us associate being rich with money, materials or things that we have, we tend to look up to people who have lot of those things.

There are a lot of books that talk about getting rich. One of the most famous one nowadays is Robert Kiyosaki. But for me I try to build a stable income streams from the internet. For example, here is a site that talks a lot about how to become an entrepreneur especially on the internet. It's called Entrepreneur's Journey. I hope it can open up new thoughts for you to fullfil your dreams.

Hair Style For Men

2006-04-28T02:42:00.000-07:00

People talk about almost everything online. Of course the favorite topics have always been about health, beauty, fashion, relationship problems, personal problems and not to be left out make money online.

Except for making money, most of things discussed or shared by the millions of internet users (whom by the way are very happy to share their expertise) are dominated by women. But I have also notice that men are starting to follow this trends as well. They are beginning to open up.

For example, nowadays there are men's tips on beauty as well, like hair styles for men. This kind of things is almost unthinkable say 10 to 15 years ago. Sharing personal problems especially about manhood or beauty tips is certainly not a norm for men.

They are also sites that discuss men's problem and men's issue like this site www.lelakionline.com. I know there are lot more sites out there that discuss personal things related to men.

It just show how internet in some ways have change the way we think. Men are catching up on women on their soft side I guess.

Making Money Online Is Not Easy

2006-04-05T22:12:00.000-07:00

People talk about making maney online all the time. From my personal experience it is not really easy. It does require full commitment and dedication. I certainly don't blame others who would say otherwise, as they may want to picture an almost perfect scenario where newbies and pros alike can make money.

Unfortunately, the truth is certainly not like that. Here is an article from a blog of an individual who had tried to make money online. It is not pretty, but it is more accurately describe a normal person starting on his own and figuring out how to earn a living on the internet.

Divorce May Not Be The Best Solution

2006-04-04T23:29:00.000-07:00

Everyday thousands of couples file for divorce in the US alone. This figure continue to rise at alarming rate throughout the world. But is divorce the best solution for you? Is it the only way out?

Of course, the obvious answer is, no. But for many of us, it seems like the only solution as many have given up to find a way out of a very stressful relationship. However, there's always a good thing for anything that happen in our life. And it does happen for a cause.

There are many couples who walk out of a crisis between them positively and their relationship become stronger than ever. This just shows how things that are not good to us as the way we see it, certainly can turn out to be a blessing.

There's a book called "The Marriage Medics" , co-authored by Cynthia Cooper PhD and Scott Lorenz that shares the reasons why some couples fall head-first into divorce and others walk away restored and emotionally healthy. There are several complex and varied issues couples must resolve when deciding whether to divorce or rebuild a marriage. And dealing with different kinds of problems requires different kinds of expertise.

Small Business Start-Up

2006-04-03T03:31:00.000-07:00

I had problem with the domain name of one of my first site that I had built few years back. Because of that I had to build up another site and then transfer the original content to the new domain.

It is about small business online start-up guide. This early site of mine means a lot to me since it has help a lot of people and I certainly hope it can help thousands of others who have interest to start a business online.

If you haven't visit the site make sure you go there and I certainly hope you can gain some new tips on online business. If you are a newbie on internet marketing, I really hope the information and knowledge shared on this site can help you start on the right footing and avoit all the common pitfalls. And here the link to small business online start-up guide once again.

Happily Ever After

2006-03-28T21:10:00.000-08:00

A close friend of mine had just finished writing an excellent book on marriage and relationship. He had asked me to provide my opinion on his book.

The book quite compact and easy reading. He has a background in metaphysics and certainly he touch a quite bit on those matter with regards to relationship. It looks at the marriage an relationship from a different perspective.

To me it is an eye opener. It certainly can help those that are in a relationship. I highly recommend it whether for new and seasoned couple alike. It is a good read.

Here is a link to this "Happily Ever After" - a book about marriage and relationship.

Better Ways To Improve Our Lives

2006-03-27T23:26:00.000-08:00

I had built a new website about self-improvements. Over the years I had read quite a number of books on self-help. Since I had planned to develop a new website, I figure why not make one about improving our own lives.

I hope to be able to share some of the knowledge on various subject of managing oneself. It will not really be specific to personal improvement but it will be about a lot of other aspects as well that does influence our lives. I had managed to put up a few pages already and look forward to adding a few more articles in the next couple of days.

So, make sure you visit self-improvements and I certainly hope all the articles I had put up there can help you in any way it possibly can. Have a nice day ahead everyone and don't forget to enjoy life!

Misconceptions

2006-03-07T05:07:00.000-08:00

Today I read an article by a person by the name of Moiz Amjad about the misconception of terorism issues. This article was written back in 2001. So it is quite long ago that he wrote about this topic, but I know everything he said is still true until now. He actually was replying to a question by Tom Barber on the relevancy of terrorism and religion.

It certainly can make someone understand better on the issue of religion misconceptions, misunderstanding, unnecessary conflicts, and a lot more issues we face today, if we simply try to understand each other better. So here is the link to the misconception article.

A Good Yet Simple Explanation On How Blog Works

2006-02-28T06:13:00.000-08:00

Here I would like to share a simple explanation on how blogs really work by Roland Tanglao from www.streamlinewebco.com . It was first published in Mar 2004 but it is still very much applicable to this day. All the savvy and techie bloggers certainly understand all this very well. But for majority others and newbies, this guide should help to make all of us better bloggers.

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Summary of How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces

Joe Blogger writes something and publishes it to his blog.
Joe's Blog system updates his site's HTML, updates his RSS file and sends a 'ping' message to the 'Aggregation Ping Server' indicating that his site has updated.
Search engines like Google and RSS specific services like Feedster, Technorati and PubSub periodically ask the Aggregation Ping Server, "Which sites have updated?".
Since Joe's site sends pings and has an RSS file and is easy to update frequently, Joe's search engine rank is higher than a 'normal site'.
Techie Teresa uses a program called an RSS reader to subscribe to Joe's site. The RSS reader checks Joe's RSS file for updates periodically (usually once/hour or once per day) and notifies her of Joe's updates. Teresa no longer wastes time manually surfing Joe's site. She just checks her RSS reader.
As a result, Teresa's information flow is more efficient and she can monitor more sites in less time.
Joe Surfer (who is not related to Joe Blogger) still can access blogs the old fashioned, slow and less efficient way using his web browser and search engines.

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And here he continued for those who would like to know more the ins and outs of it.

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Notes (for those who care about details):

This is typically done today using a web browser and clicking on a button I have generically labeled "Publish".

It will vary depending on the system used. e.g. Blogware and MovableType uses the word "Save" instead of Publish, Radio uses "Post to Home Page", etc. Most blog systems also allow you to update your blog via email.

Blog systems automate the creation of web pages, linking together pages and archiving old pages and creating and updating the RSS file. So bloggers don't think in terms of 'pages' or HTML, they think in terms of posts (short chunks of writing such as 'once upon a time...' because the blog system takes care of creating HTML pages out of multiple posts. This allows bloggers to concentrate on writing rather than technical site creation. There are other syndication formats. RSS is just the most successful. Atom is a syndication format that is new and gaining momentum.RSS was popularized by blogging but there is no reason why non blog sites can't have RSS files. In fact a lot of non blog sites like the New York Times, the BBC, etc. have RSS files as well.The first aggregation ping server was weblogs.com. Now there are many more such as blo.gs

It's more complicated than this. I have glossed over the technical details but that's what happens from a high level.
Rather than waiting weeks or days, to re-index a site, search engines re-index blog sites much more often (sometimes within minutes for Feedster, Technorati and PubSub) since they know right away when the site has updated. This leads to a more accurate search results and a higher search engine rank. So Joe's search engine rank is higher simply because he sends the 'ping' message and updates an RSS file without Joe having to manually register his site on search engines or hire an overpriced search engine optimization firm.

We recommend Bloglines (free hosted solution like Hotmail for RSS), NetNewsWire (Mac) and FeedDemon (Windows) for your RSS reading needs but there are plenty more!
If you want to make more money or care about getting the latest knowledge first, then an RSS reader (despite their crudeness; RSS readers and blog systems are at about the 'Visicalc stage' of evolution to use a spreadsheet analogy, the Excel of blogs and RSS readers will emerge in the future!) is an essential tool in your toolbox.

Blogs are normal websites. The only 'magic sauce' is the RSS file and the pings and the fact that blog systems automate the tedium of archiving, constructing HTML pages and linking them together. Otherwise they are identical to any other website so even people who don't know about RSS can access them and use them.

Don't forget to mention what happens when Teresa blogs Joe's story! ...

The story of the blog post now continues in a most important direction, picking up from when either Theresa or Joe make use of what they had found:

8. Theresa, on reading Joe's post, wants to make her own point, agreeing, disagreeing or just extending the original. She highlights some salient quote and clicks a 'bookmarklet' in her browser.

9. A window opens with the message area already filled in with the quoted excerpt and a link to Joe's post; Theresa edits this to make her point about what she's quoting from Joe.

10. When she clicks POST, Theresa's blog contacts the ping server as did Joe's, and that process continues as above.

11. Theresa's blog software /also/ pings _Joe's_ blog software, leaving a note attached to Joe's original post that now shows a short summary and links back to Theresa, and usually sends an email to Joe to tell him someone has continued his posting.

12. Visitors to Joe's site now see the posting, any comments left by visitors to his site, /and/ any 'TrackBack' pings leading to other blogs commenting on this post of Joe's

13. Google, on finding Joe's page, finds links to Theresa, and finding Theresa's page, finds links to Joe, thereby increasing the PageRank score for both authors as related to the current topic.

In the /future/, Internet searching will become more sensitive to frame and context, so if Theresa and Joe Surfer both comment, whether by TrackBack or by old-fashioned comments, the semantically sensitive search indexing robot may conclude that Theresa, Joe Blogger and Joe Surfer are all somehow related by this topic, and they are. The search engines will find all such clusters of commentary and will build implicit birds of a feather relationships, strengthening the relationships the more these connections are repeated.

These items 8-14 are what I whimsically call the "semantic mycellia", the invisible interconnections _between_ weblogs, connections hidden beneath the surface that provide a very rich information resource out of the relationships between the visible websites.

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Happy blogging everybody.

Parents Should Find Time To Be Alone

2006-02-21T23:59:00.000-08:00

Whether as parents, we realize it or not, sometimes we feel so stressful and everything seems to be irritable. We cannot focus on anything specific, because our minds keep wondering about something that really affect us inside.

As a result, we may not give our full attentions to our love ones especially our children. We know that they deserve the best and our full support, but if our mind thinking of something else, their needs would not be fully attented to by us.

There's an interesting article by Margaret Paul, Ph.D., author of many interesting books including this one "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By My Kids?". Basically, she explain why as parent we need time for ourselves and doing something we like or creative, so that we can give our full attention to our children's needs when we are with them. The article "Parenting Yourself When You Have Small Children" is very interesting to read.

There so much we can do, if we channel our focus and energy to doing it and start enjoying it.

Internet And Pro-Active Minds.

2006-02-06T23:52:00.000-08:00

In the Offline World

-We always have limited knowledge of what we want to know.

-We always remain passive population.

-We always have limited ways to voice or express our thoughts and opinions.

-when we need something, we have to go out, drive a car, choose a shop, then pick-up anyone of the items displayed on the shelves. We may have limited knowledge of which one is the best or most suits our needs.

-when we watch TV even with cable network, we remain passive users. For example, when we disagree with an opinion at a TV Talk Show, most of the time we can only disagree with it in our minds. What are the chances of your call getting thru to give your views on Larry King Live!. Very, very slim.

Of course, for cable TV there might be over a hundred channels to choose from, but we are still not in control. If we need instant information like "I think I need to buy a new camcorder. Hmmm, which one is the best out there right now - a Sony, Panasonic or whatever?". Then if your 48 inch TV right in front of you does not have internet access, it can't help you very much.

Now,

Enter the Internet. Information At Your Fingertips.

Looking for a new camcorder or digital camera? No problem.
Just Key-In "Latest Camcorder" "Digital Camera Review" and then Google-it.
And you have a result of a whole bunch of brand new model of camcorders/digital cameras from different brandnames with a whole enchilada of features, gadgets and accessories available in the market right this very moment.

Then how can we be active population of the world that contribute our part for the goodness of mankind? How the can you benefit from the internet?

In the "Good Old Days" or shall I say the "Bad Old Days", if you have a bad day at the office, or at the DMV/Immigration Department, you couldn't help it but drop by your favorite bar or coffee shop to meet your regular buddies. You just need to share you bad day with them. After cursing your boss or everybody in the whole system for causing you your bad day, you feel a little relief especially if your buddies are with you and say something like "Yeah we know, been there, done that".
Actually, apart from feeling a little bit of relief you achieve nothing much out of this especially when you are expressing yourself to your buddies, you would be releasing a lot of "negative energies".

How can the internet help you in this situation?

Returning home from you bad day, you can go straight to your PC or just drop by a
cybercafe.

Open your free blog account and start writing. Share you bad experience with the
whole world.

You start to think "Hey I could make money out of this".

So, instead of blaming everybody and releasing those "negative energies", you begin to share your experience and write more objectively.

You can put-up article like "How to go through, survive and remain in one piece, when its time for you to spend your day at the Immigration Department".

Blog it and ping it.

With this kind of good information shared by you, you could attract huge amount of traffic to your blog.

Not only are you sharing good information, you can also earn from those
Adsense Click-thrus from your visitors who will begin to fall in love with "The man who survive his day at the Immigration Department".

The Good Side Of Human Beings

2006-02-02T00:25:00.000-08:00

Yesterday a long time close friend of mine (since my college years about 18 years ago) contacted me about his hope of building a decent home or safe haven for stray cats. He was my roommate back then and I knew he loved cats so much.

Whenever we went for drinks together, and he saw cat wondering around the cafeteria, he would do anything to get the attention of the cat. Or more accurate I should say, cats always found their way to come over to my friend and sit on his lap. He seemed like a magnet to cats. And yes, he was and still is absolutely irresistable to cats.

Now, when contacted me and informed me of his "mission" of building this mini park for stray cats, I know this is for real. Maybe I cannot do much to help him with his pursuant of this good cause, but the least I can do is spread the news around about it.

I quote from his blog "SIMPLE IDEA - simple execution, my target is just USD 200,000.00 to jump start this park or small ZOO which shall grow based upon visitor and donation once it is launch. I hope this is not that hard to acheivedComponent involved , 1. Land, 2. Food, 3. Time and Gas money to pick up the stray cats. 4. Shelter and your Name for ever embedded in the wooden plak across this zoo.I hope this can be accomplished".

He certainly welcome any suggestions, feedbacks and helps including monetary wise. I also hope you can spread around this message to all of us who love animals that are left strayed. And I certainly hope his blog can inspire others to start this kind of noble mission in your own community.

2006 And Online Video

2006-01-30T00:01:00.000-08:00

Its been awhile since I update my blog here. I had been quite busy with a few projects at the moment. I had also been busy updating the stocks of products that I sell at one of my sites.

However, as many of you may be aware in 2006 a lot of people begin to incorporate website video onto their sites. As Jim Edwards from www.Igottatellya.com put it "full-motion online video as the "killer app" to revolutionize website communications and ecommerce" in 2006. It's not a surprise.

From a plain salespage, many commercial websites evolved by having audio recording the message from the site owners as well as testimonial from satisfied customers. Now, its online video's turn. Well, what can we talk about in this video. Anything that can build credibility and trust in the eyes of our target audiences. It just need a little bit of creativity on your part though. Jim Edwards and Mike Steward had conducted the www.websitevideosecrets.com course late last year.

The response for their course is huge. And they will be releasing the home study course version of it very soon. It looks like we can expect to see more video marketing course in the very near future. Anyway, if you have the money or opportunity grab any of this course and start applying it to your sites. Or we can just lay back a bit and see how things go. Maybe there's too much hype on this website video being the next big thing. For the moment, it is anybody's guess.

Some Of The Best Affiliate Program

2005-12-18T23:38:00.000-08:00

Apart from Sitesell.com's 5 Pillars affiliate program, which I had discussed at length in previous post, I had been successful with quite a handful of other merchants affiliate program.

If you are looking for affiliate programs to start promoting that really take care or communicate with their affiliates here are some of the best out there.

1) NitroMarketing.com It sells a wide range of Internet Marketing products from various top internet marketers with a very good affiliate program.

2) Aweber.com A highly regarded Autoresponder service with excellent affiliate program by Tom Kulzer. In fact Aweber Autoresponder service is the most widely used Mailing List Manager for small and medium size business owners.

3) ScamFreeZone.com An outstanding affiliate program on internet marketing range of products.

4) NewbieClub.com The best learning resources on how to use your personal computers and Internet for beginners and those just start-up online. Great affiliate program.

5) Implix.com Affiliate Program An excellent arsenal of online business start-up products and services that include Getresponse Autoresponder, Website Wizard – website hosting and development, Hypertracker – versatile ad tracking software etc

6) WorldwideBrands.com The best Dropship Business affiliate program for the last 6 years certified by ebay.

Now here's a longer list of some of the best affiliate program that I've known of. I certainly hope this can you help to start with. And save you some precious time searching for legitimate affiliate programs to promote.

The Knowlegde Center Of Affiliate Programs

2005-12-03T22:42:00.000-08:00

There are quite a number of affiliate programs that certainly worth your "Online Business Efforts" to promote them other than Sitesell.com's 5 Pillars affiliate program. But you do not want to get overwhelmed by not being focus.

Now, why do I say "Business Efforts"? Because every minute you spend online counts. If you treat it as a hobby, then personal satisfaction and enjoyment will be your end result. You may not gain any "worthy" monetary gains, if any.

But, if you treat it like your own business of promoting and recommending specific products and services (that must be very good) and really want to earn some money from these efforts, then your commitment level suddenly shift to a different gear. You start analyzing every minute you spend online. You begin to realize how precious time really is.

That's why you need a solid strategy in starting your online affiliate program business of promoting other people's products. Again, I cannot recommend more on the value of Sitesell.com comprehensive affiliate guide including the extremely valuable but Free Affiliate Masters Course.

Another comprehensive affiliate marketers guide is the Affiliate Classroom Private Training Center. This is a paid membership training center for those who want to cut through all the unnecessary and overwhelming learning curves of affiliate marketings. If you can allocate a small monthly budget for this highly regarded affiliate training center, then you certainly have the advantage over the millions and millions of "Super Affiliate Wannabe" who simply never understand and take the necessary steps to get both of their feet wet into the world of Affiliate Marketing.

However, if you currently are on a tight budget, then the Sitesell.com's 5 Pillars Affiliate Program should be more than enough to make you enter the world of affiliate marketings on the right and real firm footing.

The Best Affiliate Program

2005-11-27T01:10:00.000-08:00

As you may be aware , there are hundreds of thousand of affiliate programs on the internet currently. Most of them claim to be the best out there. From my personal experience one company really stand apart from others. Sitesell.com 5 Pillar affiliate program.

They have very high quality products, the best affiliate support, a very resourceful affiliate resource center, and constantly communicate with their affiliate throughout the year. It is almost impossible not to succeed at making at least a sale or two even right from the beginning if you follow the guideline set-up by the 5 Pillar affiliate program properly and commit yourself to doing it.

In fact you could use these highly valuable affiliate knowledge to promote other affiliate programs as well. If anybody just want to take that first step on affiliate marketing and internet marketing in general, than this is the place to take those small fews but important steps. You will become knowledgable almost right after carefully studying the free materials available at the affiliate resource center.

And you'll know what works and what doesn't work in affiliate marketing. But the most important thing is you do not have to waste time, money and effort in order to learn how to start and what to do as an affiliate marketer. To start with you can download an extremely valuable Affiliate Master Course here and you may also be able to join the Sitesell.com 5 Pillar Affiliate Program. It is simply too valuable to miss out.

In the last article I had adviced you to download Make Your Site Sell which is also written by Ken Evoy. And as I had mentioned is one of the best online marketing book or ebook ever written. And the best part is it that Ken Evoy has been kind enough to give it for free. So, make sure you download it, read it, understand the real concept of what really works online in starting a business (as well as in the real world) and start applying it.

Finding The Right Affiliate Program To Promote

2005-11-20T05:10:00.000-08:00

As promise, today I would like to discuss a little bit more on affiliate marketing - finding the right kind of products to promote. People sell all sort of things on the internet. You are easily tempted to promote a majority of them especially if they promise big money for you in return for your promotions and referral of their products.

But seriously, can we really count on all these earn big money promises. The short answer is, not really. As merchants, of course they would love to have a huge army of affiliates to promote their products that cost them almost nothing, in term of marketing budget.

But from your perspective, as an affiliate, if you are not focus, then you will not earn much from affiliate marketing generally.

So, what's the best way to promote a product or service?

Be Focused. Be in Niche. Become an "Expert" on something specific.

It doesn't really matter if other people are yet to believe that you are an "expert". They will. As long as you believe that you are or will be an expert in your specific field that you choose and you are really committed to being an "expert" in that field, success will follows. One more thing, make sure that the field that you choose to be an "expert" in does have some commercial value.

1) Ask yourself these questions.
What are my interests?
Am I good at something?
What do I know a lot about?

2) For example, if you like cellphones and you know a lot about them. You can't wait to checkout the latest models from being releaseed. You know the features from the current available models very well and can directly compare with the new model just come out. In short, you know cellphones and cellphone industry like the back of your hands.

Then, you could build a website or a blog specifically discussing cellphones and the cellphone industry. You could review each available models from each brand names - what you like or do not like about each of them. You should also discuss about the batteries, gadget and accessories that come together with each models. You could review the latest models just being release.

If you provide original, helpful and honest reviews it will not be long before your site or blog become somewhat of a respected or "authority" entity about cellphones on the internet. If you are using a blog and you actively provide very informative reviews (in your case - specifically on cellphones and cellphone industry) , with the current internet technology, it is almost inevitable that your blog would become "famous".

3) You join affiliate program for merchants selling cellphones and cellphone accessories as well as cell phone call plans for your country, if applicable.

4) Then whenever appropriate, you could recommend any of the above merchants that you had sign-up with. Just make sure that these merchants are providing quality products and services. Never ever recommend a product or service that pays you very well but you know for a fact that they have lousy products or bad customer supports.

Remember that with every single post, writing or recommendation you make, your reputation and your website reputation is on-the-line. The stake is simply too high - to lose your credibility and trust by recommendating even one lousy merchant after your effort in building high quality informative theme based site or blog that you really love about.

5) However, with real honest recommendations at your site or blog, you will note that your referral incomes or income from promoting these good products and merchants will grow healthily in direct proportion with the traffics building up to your site or blog.

There is a very good guide on becoming really good affiliate marketer called Make Your Site Sell
. This ebook provides very detail and comprehensive guide to succeed in affiliate marketing. Recently, Ken Evoy the writer of Make Your Site Sell
had decided to give it away for free. You can download the ebook from the link above.

Affiliate Sales Programs

2005-11-17T06:03:00.000-08:00

One of the best thing that internet bring with it is the opportunity to earn a living using the internet technology itself. I've tried quite a number of methods provided by the many internet based companies. Affiliate sales programs definitely works like a charm.

But not all affiliate program are the same. It really depends on the merchants themselves. Some merchants do provide excellent affiliate sales program. While a lot of others are just a waste of your time. I had personally joined hundreds of afiliate programs in the past three years alone.

I hope to be able to share more on some of them soon. But for now I just would like to mention that, yes you can make money online with affiliate sales program but it does require efforts on your part. If someone says you can make make money with affiliate program online without much effort from you then you better be careful. They might be some catch.

You may need to buy something through their systems and buy some more and then buy some more again and again. The results normally are extremely less encouraging. You may lose more than gain anything out of it. So my advice to you is just ingnore those kinds of automated downline affiliate systems.

Carpet and Rug

2005-11-09T22:19:00.000-08:00

The festive season is near. Some people have began to make a long list of what they plan to buy. This include buying things for themselves, their spouses, children, for the house or even buying new cars. I look around for what kind of products that people are looking for and I found out that house decorations and flooring also are top on their list, I believe.

And here's and good site on a wide variety of carpets and rugs . Here is some of the item listed on the site - custom made area rugs, oriental carpet and rug, modern area rugs and carpet, antique oriental carpet, karastan area rugs, floor mats for cars, entry mat, playground safety mats, outdoor rubber mat, and other custom rugs and carpet, to name a few.

Hope this can help people to choose the right kind of flooring material for your homes for this coming holiday season.

A Better Online Marketplace

2005-11-08T01:14:00.000-08:00

I had just came back from a rather long holiday - for about two weeks. And I just updated my site on online marketplace. Lately, people have been complaining that they cannot really make a decent profit from big auction sites like ebay.com.

The competition on ebay is getting extremely stiff in most categories and it is really hard to make a profit especially for newbies. In fact a lot of sellers had made a lost. With higher and higher listing fees, just made a lot of sellers tried to find ebay alternatives marketplace.

Well newer marketplace like Pricester offer quite a promising venue for new as well as seasoned sellers. It is still free to setup a store and start accepting payment - make it very attractive for most sellers who have start selling there. You can check out my review on Pricester on my site at the link above.

For A Good Cause

2005-10-25T21:49:00.000-07:00

It is good to see that even we are living in this fast pace tech era where everybody doesn't seem to have enough time to glimpse at what's happening around us, we do pause for a moment and help to contribute to a good cause when somthing unfortunate happen.

Take for example the extremely unexpected Tsunami disaster that swipe by the South East Asia Region at the end of last year. People pause their daily activities and start contributing and giving for the various organizations being setup almost instantly. Then recently the earthquake that happened in Pakistan and India and of course several hurricanes that hit America - Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Katrina and the more recent one Hurricane Wilma.

Eventhough people are very busy with their own hectic schedule everyday, the caring part of human being is still very much alive. Of course, if we could relate and be more close to God, it's just the best.

I recently found an interesting on a lady who contribute to a good cause by helping the Cancer Recovery Foundation of Canada where she created the Brides for Cancer. Even a newlywed like Helen Sweet can stand-up for a good cause.

Marketing an Online Business

2005-10-20T23:46:00.000-07:00

I have updated my website today and I reupload a page title marketing an online business. It is about how to market our business online more effectively.

Among other things, I discussed email marketing which is a very important aspect of any business. We can constantly communicate and build business relationship with our customers and mailing list subscribers at a cost next to nothing. We can have a very huge mailing list, but still it cost us very minimal to send all of them email.

Another marketing strategy that I discussed is affiliate marketing. At first it may sound that it will require a subtantial investment to set-up our own affiliate marketing program. Actually, nowadays for about $300 we can have our own affiliate program such as through a very reliable affiliate network - Shareasale.com.

Or if we prefer to manage our affiliate program in-house we can buy one of the affiliate program software. Post Affiliate Pro is one of a very good affiliate program software that cost less than $150.

So, as you can see to improve our marketing avenues via two very good strategies require around $300 to $500 but with this in place you can have a more establish and hopefully productive marketing channel. Visit my site to learn more about the article on online marketing tactics that I wrote.

Water Softener

2005-10-20T00:35:00.000-07:00

Quality drinking water is very important to our life. From toddlers to adults all need to drink quality plain drinking water. I do not really understand people who just drink sodas all day from morning till night. It certainly is not good for you. What's more if you take beers and other heavy stuff. All will affect your health negatively in the long run.

By 40, you began to encounter a lot of those common disease such diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney related problems and many other diseases that we think we never get. A lot have to do with the water we drinks throughout our life as it is the most basic needs apart from air. And nothing replace good plain tap or filtered drinking water.

Luckily our tap water is among the safest to drink compared to most of other countries tap water where chlorine level are rather high. Of course they do need to do a lot of water filtering because of the quality of their tap water. But our drinking water, not like many other parts of the world remain hard water. There a lot of water treatment products or water softeners in the market . You can learn more on water softener here.

Try to drink enough water that the body needs. Too much water can help you to lose weight. So, remember to take the old plain drinking water the next time you feel thirsty instead of your favorite drinks.

Parenting in the 21th Century

2005-10-17T08:47:00.000-07:00

It's a fact that nowaday it's getting very challenging to build and maintain a really good and harmonious family unit together. I've seen too many couples even after years of marriage end up in divorce. And the children suffer. Well we can say that it's a fact of life that something are never meant to be. It's true. But we can only say that when we really understand and already "done" our parts.

Anyway, I really hope that everyone in a family unit in every parts of the world, would try to communicate more. Communication and continuous communication is extremely important. Through communication a lot of stress and strain can be mended, broken ties can be fixed.

There are many sites that focus on parenting issues that affect all of us. Here are two prominent sites on parenting development and current issues - Parenting.com and Ivillage.com parenting section.

Small Business Online Solutions

2005-10-16T06:28:00.000-07:00

I have always tried to find ways to earn a living other than the normal 9 to 5 jobs. When I discovered that you could make a living or even build a business online, I began my quest. I began to learn about website building, online marketing and even search engine optimization.

Then I realized that this internet thing is a very dynamic phenomena.

If you just would like to learn or read about some techniques or strategies, well that is the only thing you'll get. That's why I tried to apply as much as possible of what I have come to learn.

One thing let to another and finally I was able to put up my own site. It's a very basic site, nothing fancy. I do hope the information that I share here will really benefit those who want to start a business on the internet.
I called it Small Business Online Solutions.

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2005-10-01T08:28:00.000-07:00

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