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How to Avoid Being a Victim of a Liar

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Although honesty is generally taught as the best policy, I would propose that it is the only policy to follow in 99% of cases. The other 1% could be called “white lies.” How are you to know the difference, that is, when someone is telling the whole truth as opposed to a white lie? Here are some tips that will help you spot a liar.

There was an old Hollywood movie starring Charles Bronson as a buffalo hunter and Will Sampson as an Indian Chief. They are in a cave together, hunting the same killer white buffalo, when they engage in a conversation about truth. Bronson, known to the Indians as “the shooter” because he is a skilled hunter, has his version of the truth and the Chief has his. The Chief asks – “Tell me Shooter, what is the true truth?” I ask you the same question. For me, the true truth is the whole truth, no shading. What is it for you?

As we go about our interaction with each other, the white lie is employed more than any other form of communication with those closest to us. We are more apt to shade the truth in order to avoid hurt feelings or, when we know a person really well, we tell a white lie because we know they really don’t want the true truth. They have their version of the true truth and that’s the version they want to hear.

When we deal with strangers, telling a lie is easy because we likely will never see them again but what about that stranger we may see again? You need to decide if what you are lying about is worth what you will gain as opposed to the potential consequences if your lie is discovered. It is a personal decision. You need to be realistic with yourself. It is easy to become a compulsive liar and ruin your life. Under what circumstances are you willing to risk damaging relationships, reputation, and future opportunities. Ask yourself. Do the benefits of telling the lie outweigh the risks?

For example: A teen boy tells his parents he’s going to the movies with a friend but he’s really going to a concert with his girlfriend. Logically, the parents are going to ask what the movie was about and if he enjoyed it. Now, beforehand, the teen could Google a summary of what was in the movie; along with the climax so he can be ready for the questions. Such a young man may not consider the consequences if he is caught in the lie. He does not realize that his parents will be emotionally hurt by his lie and will take a long time before ever trusting him again. His lie has destroyed the parent-child relationship for a long time to come.

Telemarketing has taught us that it’s relatively easy to lie to someone over the phone because the sense of personal connection is very small. You can’t see them; they can’t see you. As a result, you are less likely to feel guilty and, therefore, give visual clues that you may be deviating from your normal behavior. If you were closer to the person physically, you would have a greater personal connection. Consequently, you would be more likely to reveal, in some way, that you are engaging in deceptive behavior.

The same reasoning applies to being close to a person psychologically. If you try to lie to your girlfriend or boyfriend, there are numerous psychological pressures. For example, you’ll think about what happens if you get caught, feel guilty about lying to someone you care about and it will be more difficult to focus on mimicking your normal behavior. This phenomenon is often called “liars’ remorse,” and it’s usually what people are talking about when they say a liar “wants to get caught.” Those closest to us know when we are lying and when we are shading the truth a bit.

Most strangers will not have a clue if you are an accomplished liar. It takes years, by the way, to develop a liar’s mentality. An amateur liar will not look you right in the eye when lying. They may touch their head with their hand, or hold their palms up as they spin the lie. These are both giveaways. An accomplished liar does the opposite. They look you in the eye, their hands at their side. An amateur liar will use the strongest adjectives and a voice level that are above normal pitch and speed. A friend of mine says – “I can tell when someone’s lying. They talk faster than I can listen.”

Most professionals employ specific tactics to catch liars. The cops will make small talk with you to establish what your “normal” behaviors are. When they get down to the serious subject matter, they look for cracks in that normal behavior. Polygraph machines work the same way. There are mental and physical drives that can be detected by skilled interviewers, as well as machines.

There are many more subliminal messages people send when lying. Do some research and learn what they are and how to avoid them.

Jim DeSantis

Jim DeSantis is a retired investigative journalist who is now a full time blogger. Grab Jim’s Free Report “How To Spot A Liar” (click here). No email is required. Visit Jim’s blog about the Workplace (click here) for more free information.

The Forex Game – Trading Currency With No Risk

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Currency trading has gained much popularity in recent years. Once thought to be the playground of the rich investor, it has become apparent lately that the currency trading market is accessible by investors of all levels.

Forex has now become an often-used term as opposed to just a few years ago when most people had never heard it. Now, the advantages of Forex trading are readily appreciated as more and more investors devote the major portion of their investing activity to the Forex market. The trading of currency involves simultaneous purchasing of one currency and selling of another.

It is the world’s largest market, with trades every day totaling over three trillion dollars, a staggering amount. It’s no wonder then that investors have flocked to it given the enormous amount of money changing hands and the opportunities presented by that volume.

One of the best things about this arena is that one can practice at will and play games online to improve skills and knowledge. Pretend, or phantom trading is referred to as ‘the game’ in the Forex field. This, of course, allows you to risk no funds while you thoroughly learn techniques through constructive practice.

To locate sites that supply practice training simply do a Google search for ‘Forex Trading’ and many sites will be presented. By the way, the term ‘Forex’ is derived from the formal name of the trading type, Foreign Exchange. The trading practice is also sometimes referred to as just ‘FX’.

For a complete overview of the Forex market, visit my web site through the link in my resource box below.

A major difference in this market, as opposed to the stock market, is that trading is not accomplished through a central point, such as the New York Stock Exchange. Trading in the Forex market is done on a direct basis, that is, between the two parties who are making the trade. Another major difference is that trading takes place twenty-four hours a day, through trading centers all over the world. The market trades continuously from Sunday night at 20:00 GMT to Friday night at 22:00 GMT. That gives investors a chance to make trades based on financial developments in the news without having to wait for a market to open the next day.

Many times, trades are done without commissions coming into play, a distinct advantage over the stock market. Still another advantage is the liquidity of the market, which translates into a constant supply of sellers and buyers, so there’s always a trade in the making around the clock. The market is constantly in flux and presents trade opportunities no matter whether a particular currency is moving up or down. The Forex market also offers the investor great leverage. An investor can control a position that is as much as one hundred to one more than his margin deposit.

Currency trading is a fascinating field and one that should be looked into if you are searching for an opportunity to invest and a chance to seriously increase your net worth. Check it out carefully and do practice investing before you make the plunge. And, of course, never risk money you can’t afford to lose. Visit my site listed below for much more information.

Good luck.

About the author:

Jim Nettleton is a radio and TV professional with wide-ranging interests. Visit his thorough Forex site for information in depth and real time quotes on currency pairs.

http://www.jaynetinc.com/ForexMaster

Global Warming – Is The Bush II Government Pursuing A Policy Of Genocide By Proxy

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The legendary Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) once said: “The earth has enough for the needs of all but not the greed of a few.” His words have since proved to be quite prophetic!

The world today is in chaos and by that I’m not merely referring to the tumult taking place in the Middle East; what I’m talking about is the imminent extinction of hundreds of millions of people as a result of global warming. In both scenarios the United States plays a central role!

I have already pretty much detailed out how and why global warming is happening and which nations are most responsible for its acceleration, as well as who’s doing what and who is not to rectify the situation in my article entitled: Global Warming–How It Could Spark World War III.

That said, I’ve included a list of figures below to illustrate to what extent each nation/region is responsible for greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere (greenhouse gases are widely held to be the engine behind the accelerated global warming seen today):

USA: 30.3%

Europe: 27.7%

Russia: 13.7%

South East Asia: 12.2%

South/Central America: 3.8%

Japan: 3.7%

Middle East: 2.6%

Africa: 2.5%

Australia: 1.1%

The Truth Behind The Lie

To many in marketing circles the concept of manipulation of social evidence is nothing new. Basically what it entails is manipulating tools of evidence to further one’s goals.

Thus for example, until fairly recently in internet marketing circles, the practice of manufacturing bogus testimonials was fairly widespread. The objective being to convince visitors to one’s website to purchase products on the strength of those manufactured testimonials.

In the arena of global warming much the same has been happening. In the same manner that a defense counsel in a court case will produce its own expert witness to discredit that of the prosecution (or vice versa) so has the Bush II administration paraded a string of bogus experts to decry global warming as just a myth!

In 2007 a good number of environmental scientists and climatologists publicly stated that they’d been pressurized by various Bush II factions to manipulate data to downplay the seriousness of global warming!

Which simply begs the question: why is the Bush II administration going to such lengths to hide the truth about global warming?

Snatch ‘n’ Grab Operation Gone Awry

It is now widely accepted that the invasion of Iraq had little to do with terrorism, less to do with democracy but everything to do with oil! The question still remains however, why did the US go to such lengths (which included manufacturing evidence) to illegally invade a sovereign state under what at best can be described as a thinly disguised pretext for war?

Was it merely a question of the then single remaining superpower claiming its right to wield that might as it saw fit irrespective of international law, just as Nazi Germany once did?

Or was it a case of a few vain men hoping to claim their slice of immortality through a legacy festooned with the glory of having secured new oil reserves for a nation with a quenchless thirst for the stuff?

Or perhaps the U.S. oil reserves were so desperately low that Bush II and his New World Order buddies were prepared to force a snatch and grab operation that could easily have escalated into third world war, so as to shore up those dwindled oil reserves?

Or maybe, just maybe, the U.S. desperately needed to stockpile a vast amount of oil for something far, far more sinister.

To keep at bay a monster it helped so much to create!

Threads Weaving A Disturbing Tapestry Of Events

These days more often than not fact is stranger than fiction. When we look at the Bush II Administration’s policy on global warming it is beyond perplexing why they have gone to such lengths to deny its existence.

For sure, his Have-More buddies in oil and other environmental-damaging industries have plenty to gain by muddying the waters, but what if there’s really more to this repudiation of global warming than that!

What if this is a carefully concocted plot that has been kept under wraps for years?

Here’s what we know thus far about global warming. The data has been around for well over a decade and has been readily available to government officials. Since the turn of the 21st century scientists across the globe have been warning of the extent of global warming; warnings that apparently fell on deaf ears! (Well at least as far as the Bush II administration was concerned.)

But supposing this was not actually the case.

What if the Bush II administration did listen, but only to those scientists who’d concluded that the world had reached the point of no return? And that global warming could not be reversed anytime in the foreseeable future and thus by proxy neither could its ensuing effects!

Fuelling Up For A Global Catastrophe

In other words there was no point implementing measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions (thereby slowing down global warming) and that in fact the best policy was to forge powerfully ahead and ensure that America was readied for the ensuing catastrophe no matter the cost!

If it meant manufacturing a war, so be it! If it meant causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of people to achieve that aim, so be it! After all this wouldn’t be the first time in history that the few had been sacrificed for the many! Oh! Except in this case it is the many sacrificing for the few, or more specifically, The Have-Mores!

When looked at from this perspective, that the U.S. is fuelling up for a long term global catastrophe, it all begins to make some sense! Especially considering that Saudi Arabia still has the greatest oil reserves in the world and has never said no to U.S. oil demands!

Bottom line, it is quite conceivable that the U.S. under Bush II has been insuring against (or at least trying to) a global catastrophe predominantly of its own making! But alas even the best laid plans go badly awry. Iraq didn’t turn out to be the pushover they’d expected and the oil is not gushing the way they had envisioned.

Think that such a scenario is way over the top? Think again! Remember Iraq? Remember Hurricane Katrina?

The way the Bush II government handled Katrina was so shameful that Google for some reason best known to it was compelled to replace post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery with pre-hurricane images on its map portal (Damage control? Trying to hide America’s shame from the rest of the world? At whose behest one wonders?).

As you can well imagine, when it came to light, the whole sordid affair was an extreme embarrassment to Google (And certainly not good for business! The search engine business thrives on the premise that results are accurate and impartial and not manipulated!).

But the point I wish to emphasize here is that if the Bush II government could shun its very own citizens (albeit mainly citizens of color) in such a cavalier fashion why would they give a damn if their actions resulted in the deaths of hundreds of millions of Africans or peoples from other parts of the globe who are going to be worst hit by global warming?

In World War II the Nazi’s genocide weapon-of-choice was hydrogen cyanide gas, what irony that in the upcoming global warming related genocide, gas too is the weapon of choice; carbon dioxide gas!

Stop Global Warming

Ba Kiwanuka is the webmaster of http://www.internetbusinessmart.com

The Secret of Liberty League International From an Insider – What To Know Before Investing

Friday, October 31st, 2008

When I first found out about Liberty League International, I thought I’d stepped right into partnership movie “The Secret”, you know, the movie about the Law partnership Attraction. I had watched the movie a couple of times partnership realized the significance of what it was all about. I was online looking for a home business opportunity and an impression (landing or splash page) came up with a picture of a couple who were retired. According to them, Liberty League was a wonderful home business opportunity, they were only working the business a few hours a day and were able to spend time on their catamaran in the Gulf of Mexico and really take the business anywhere in the world.

“Wow! I’ve found it! The home business I’ve been looking for is right in front of me, the Law of Attraction at work” I’m thinking. So I filled out the contact information and waited.

A short time later I received a call from a very nice woman who explained that it was her website which I landed on and she would answer any questions I might have. My first question was “what is this all about?” and she explained that I would have all of my questions answered on a “business overview call”, when would be a good time for me to go to a call? The next call was at 3:00 p.m. so I jumped right on that call.

On the call one of the members of the Executive Marketing Council reads from a script and tells you that you can actually start your own home business which has the potential to generate a multiple six figure income for only $1,495.00, and they explain how, once you have passed up your two “training sales” to your adviser you are now in a position to earn a “profit” on all of your sales at this level for life. Then they carefully explain that now that you are “qualified”, everyone who you sponsor will in turn be passing up their first two sales to you, and those two people will in turn pass up their first sales, and those four people will in turn pass up their first two sales, and those eight people will in turn pass up…well I guess you get the picture.

Next, they start explaining the historical numbers. Seems that one out of every three people who signs up at the first level – which is called the “Beyond Freedom” level – will purchase a Liberty Conference ticket for $7,995.00 and here’s the great news, you’ll be earning $5,000.00 for each of those purchases.

And it just keeps getting better. About half of those people who purchase the Liberty Conference ticket will purchase a Summit Conference ticket and, are you ready for this? you’ll be earning $8,000.00 for each of those purchases. Well I was mildly excited about all of the potential to say the least.

Then, after the call was over, something very interesting happened. I received a call from the very nice woman who asked if I had any questions and I said “yes, I have several”. Her response was “OK the next step will be to do a three-way call with another leader in the company so that they can answer all of your questions. And she made the arrangements for a call back in about a half hour to get my questions answered.

One of my questions was “I heard somewhere in the “business overview call that I can get started for $49.95, is that true?” “Well yes, but then you’ll have to pass your first five “Beyond Freedom” sales up, that would mean passing up $5,000.00 in “profit” why would you want to do that?” How true. I had much to think about so I told my prospective sponsor that I”d have to give this whole thing some thought and I’d get back to her.

That night – actually about 2:00 in the morning – I woke from a sound sleep and thought about the numbers. All I have to do is pass up my first two sales and then I’ll be “qualified”. After that everyone who I sponsor will be passing up their first two sales to me, at $1,000.00 profit each and then there are those profits of $5,000.00 and $8,000.00. Now I see how people are making fortunes in home based businesses. But I’m still holding back for some reason. Then I receive an email from the very nice woman inviting me to a a special Friday morning call which will give me a “peek behind the curtain” into the lives and successes of many of the Liberty Leaguers. Wow! this sounds like its too important to miss, and besides I have an extra half hour on Friday morning, think I’ll go to the call.

This is where “The Secret” went to work on me. I dialed in to the Friday morning call and lo and behold the stories which I was hearing were just incredible. One in particular grabbed me. Seems there was a young man who had been a security guard in a wealthy community out west, perhaps Colorado. He kept getting calls to this beautiful mansion because of a faulty alarm, and remembers just a few short years ago how one day while in the mansion he made the comment that he would never earn enough to be able to afford such luxury. Well guess what? Since joining the “League” a few short years ago, are you ready, he now owns that very same mansion. Pretty cool, right?

Well I’m sold! And let this be a lesson to you, do some due diligence before you invest in a home based business. Because not only did I invest the $1,495.00 plus shipping, I wound up investing more than $20,000.00 to “capitalize” my business. Want to know why?

Shortly after joining Liberty League and receiving my “Beyond Freedom” package I went right to work on the business as well as the personal development program. I was placing ads on the free internet sites and getting some responses and was so eager to be able to pass up a sale and then another sale to my adviser and be “qualified”. Then I received a call from the very nice woman who explained that I should go on the Tuesday night call that explains the conferences and how to really make the BIG money. Well I was shocked and dismayed. Now and only now I find out that you have to purchase one of the Liberty Conference tickets for $7,995.00 in order to qualify to earn a “profit” of $5,000.00 on tickets that you sell. Oh, and as for the Summit Conference? Same thing you have to purchase a Summit Conference ticket for $12,995.00 in order to qualify to earn a “profit” of $8,000.00 on tickets that you sell. As its explained, “this is the way to properly capitalize your business”. I was upset but what the heck, I’ve got the $20,900.00 so once I make a couple of these “Beyond Freedom” sales, I’ll go ahead and get myself “properly capitalized”.

Well a few months go by and I’m following the program and nothing’s happening. I’m generating plenty of leads and placing a lot of people on the business overview calls, I’m doing my personal development and journaling, and still no sales. Good thing for me there’s a Super Saturday event coming up and its close to home, all I have to do is buy two tickets, one for me and one for my wife, at $299.00 each, and we can go and talk to all of the leaders and find out what they are doing to be so successful. I’m certain that they will reveal all of the inside secrets and it won’t be long and we’ll be earning a fortune, just like they are.

We went to the Super Saturday and I’ll be darned if I learned anything new. Oh I realized that these people who were making five figures in a week or six figures in a month were just ordinary people, just like you and me, but about the best advice seemed to be “I was just like you, my business wasn’t going anywhere until I made the commitment and decided that this was it and I was going to go “full boat” (which means I’m going to buy my Liberty and Summit Conference tickets) and then my business, as if by magic, just took off.

So that’s the secret! You just have to have faith and take the big leap and invest another $20,990 to capitalize your business and then it will happen for you. Well there must have been something in the air or water at Super Saturday because against all reason and logic, I did it. I purchased both the Liberty Conference and Summit Conference tickets. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t wait to do it. I actually went online and placed the order for them on Sunday following the event. And again, I did it “no questions asked”, and again the most important information was withheld until the tickets were paid in full.

Here’s the real kicker! I found out shortly after I “qualified” at the “Beyond Freedom” level that it would take an incredible effort to become qualified at the other levels. Here’s why. Seems that your adviser has a register for each level. After I purchased my Liberty Conference ticket their register had to have four ticket sales after mine in order for me to be released. You want the most interesting aspect of this entire adventure? My advisers weren’t even actively marketing Liberty League anymore. What did that mean for me? It meant that I would have to pass up four ticket sales at the Liberty Conference level in order to qualify to earn profits at that level, and four ticket sales at the Summit Conference level in order to qualify to earn profits at that level. Can you believe it? That’s $52,000.00 more in profits that the very nice woman, my adviser, would earn before I earned a DIME!

Is Liberty League international for you? Only you can decide however, if you want some more information you might want to Google Liberty League International and do a thorough investigation of the first couple of pages. Then, when you’re finished there, Google Australian 2 up. Read Michael Dlouhy ezine and also scroll down and you’ll see Liberty League International has had a class action lawsuit filed against them. I’m certainly not telling anyone not to go with Liberty League, just do your due diligence – something I didn’t do.

Hi, I’m George L. Kenney

I’ve been in direct marketing for over twenty years and have built some substantial businesses with low end products and a lot of hard work. Now I’ve found a much better way, and I’ll teach you as well. If you’re someone who would like to have all of your questions answered before you invest in a home business opportunity and want to join a team that works together to assist everyone in succeeding, then please visit my website http://www.prosperityprescription.biz

A Top Secret Way You Can Get Google AdWords Pay-Per-Clicks FREE

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

A new breakthrough secret is all you now need in order to get your Google AdWords pay-per-clicks FREE!

A gentleman from New York discovered what he calls an “oversight” partnership the part of 99.9% of all marketers that allows him to get otherwise paid-for advertising at Google as well as all other search engines that allow sponsored ads.

And no, nothing about his “secret” is illegal – nor does it require that you know someone on the “inside” at Google, Yahoo, MSN, Overture and others.

Instead, the New Yorker boasts proudly “…this is something that I caught onto just before 2000 when there was so much search engine craze running around, and started doing small just to test things at first … but which I later expanded on after getting the hang of it.”

This same fellow went on to start and operate sixteen separate online companies selling everything from pet food, DVDs, children’s toys & games, books, software, and sold not only his own manufactured products but became an affiliate for other web businesses – all the while applying his mastermind secret.

Over the course of nearly eight years the New Englander confesses “I’ve actually gotten over $87 million in advertising that using my secret I never had to pay for … and the largest share of which was more recently in Google pay-per-clicks as well as other forms of pad advertising at search engines … all of which I got for free …”

So powerful is his secret that he’s able to monopolize any niche online, and can always secure the top premium spots just above the usual organic results featured at most search engines.

He still has to set up an account with the search engines – but after applying his secret he is removed from having to pay for all the costs otherwise involved.
Again, nothing about his secret is either illegal or robs from the search engines.
One spokesperson from one of the most popular search engines said chuckling after being made privy to this amazing secret “Wow! Ha! This is really unique … and in my expert opinion it would only serve to enhance and bring more business to us at partnership of search engine withheld for legal & confidentiality reasons] and not cause us to lose business in the slightest. Amazing!”

The northerner revealed that in this nearly eight years’ period of time since applying his secret he’s done well over $300 million in sales revenue with a most diverse line of products, and most recently in the last two years netted nearly $166 million after really “buckling down and pressing my secret to its fullest potential.”

Now to everyone else’s fortune, the city slicker is releasing his secret for getting an unlimited amount of pay-per-click ads to the general public. But he’s not promising any of us for how long.

A bit of an eccentric, the gentleman says “We’ll see just how long I can make it available before it saturates things.”

One famous public web guru pointed out that although this man may gain economically more so as a result of the publication of his secret “he’s already so amazingly rich that whether he continues or discontinues its sale will neither make nor break the man, but not grabbing it for yourself while it’s still available could prove disastrous for you as you may only have one chance, and a very limited one at that, to get this.” It is currently available at http://www.get-google-ads-for-free.com …so you may want to head on over there now and get it.

It’s in a very easily readable format and is quickly and readily understood and mastered by anyone with even a 4th grade reading level.

While you’re there, why not scroll down and review for yourself the huge successes others are now having with this incredible breakthrough in targeted advertising now made freely available to the rest of us?

Find further details info of Google ads for tax at:
http://www.get-google-ads-for-free.com

Are You Using Video In Your Marketing Efforts?

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Video has been gaining popularity in all aspects of marketing, almost all of the successful marketers online are using video in some form or another. It is being used in many different ways and the possibilities are ever expanding in any type of business. Whether you are selling shoes, dog food, dream vacations, or even a car, videos are being used to market most if not all of these products. We as a society have become used to or expecting to see something visual to relate to. The concept of using videos in any type of marketing has become a necessity in order to sell goods or service.

Video marketing is now being introduced and used instead of the more conventional sales letter. The whole concept of a video sales letter can be incorporated rather easily. From the opening statement, calls to action, features and benefits, to a strong closing statement, hard sale and scarcity tactics can all be used with greater and more effective ease using the power of video marketing. It seems as if a whole new type of marketing has started, and is beginning to take the place of conventional sales letters. This type of selling can take much less time and resources to develop than writing a lengthy sales letter or even paying some copy writer thousands of dollars to write a killer sales letter for you.

Another form of video marketing is being used to provide quality free content for subscribers. Video just seems to get stronger as more and more new product launches come out involving video as their prime mode of selling and promoting new products. Building anticipation by showing a new video each day for two or even three weeks prior to a new product being introduced. Video has really become the focal point to a new era of marketing online.

The viral effect of videos can have a phenomenal effect in creating new customers. As other marketers promote a new idea that is soon to be released, it provides content for their customers and all marketers involved profit by just suggesting to check out a simple video.

It is becoming more evident each and every day that if you are not using some type of video in your marketing efforts you are leaving money on the table and your marketing efforts are in the stone ages. With YouTube, Google Video, and all the other video submission sites, the possibilities are endless. With millions of visitors each and every day to each of these sites marketing online has become the “Video Marketing Age”.

Tim Amlong, blogging is fun and I really enjoy it. I have started a new blog that I am reviewing select Internet Marketing products that are released. My goal is to provide sound information for my readers that will help them to increase there ranking in the search engines and possibly put a little fuel in their pockets. Also to provide quality content that will influence them to join in on the fun.

Tim Amlong
http://www.productreviewlive.com/blog

Start a Home Business and Make Your Business Opportunity Money Fly Through the Roof

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

How would you like your bank account partnership take off? Well it can with the right determination and focus. You can when you start a home business and have the business opportunity money take off. Many people daily get involved with the internet and joining business opportunities. It has been the thing to do lately especially with times getting harder. Not only is it a business chance to make massive amounts of money, it is a complete learning curve to achieving success.

Internet home businesses have been evolving each and every day. It has many more benefits that running and owning a traditional store front business. You don’t have to worry about inventory issues, employment, a mortgage, insurance and many other factors. You work for yourself when you want to work, no longer having to answer to a boss. The best part is being paid what you think you deserve, work harder and your income can grow quicker

So how do you start your business opportunity money making days? The first and most obvious aspect is finding a legitimate home business. With there being so many different opportunities on the web it’s hard to find the perfect one. When searching, make sure you do a thorough search and view all aspects of the opportunity you want to join. If need be contact your representative or the company and ask all possible questions needed.

Depending on the business opportunity money making company you join you will need to take action for your business to grow. Set up a website and drive traffic to your site. To do so you must learn the proper techniques of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Free methods of SEO involve setting up your website with the proper keywords that help in search engines. You can also start blogging, getting involved with social bookmarking sites, submitting to website directories and many more options. Your main objective with you site is to get as many back links pointing back to your site. This can take longer than paid marketing but it can save you a lot of money when starting off.

Most popular paid form is Pay Per Click (PPC).PPC is bidding on keyword or keyword phrases so your ad can be viewed within Google searches when that keyword is searched. Anytime you search anything on Google you will see ads that run along the right side of Google which are known as PPC (Google AdWords on Google). There are other search engines that do follow the same rules.

So there are many things that you must consider when looking for your business opportunity money making ventures. But it is a wise decision to start make money on the internet with your home business. There are many helpful websites on the world that can go more into detail about SEO and you should definitely grow your knowledge to the online world. It is time for you to add to your bank account and create wealth.

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EBook Marketing – Clickbank Pitch Pages

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

So you’ve been to Clickbank and browsed around. You’ve seen the pitch or sales pages for a number of products. In this article we will take a little more in depth analysis of what goes into creating a powerful pitch page for a Clickbank sales page and give you some tips on how to create one yourself.

The first thing you notice is that every pitch page for a Clickbank product is one single page. There are no sites with links to other pages featuring other products by the publisher. The reason for this is simple. To understand that reason one must realize that there are two ways a visitor might make it to a Clickbank sales page. First, they may have done a search for a product on-line and found the site in the organic listings on YaHoo!, MSN, Google or some other search engine. Let’s call these people “fresh visitors.”

There are also visitors coming to Clickbank sales pages who clicked on a link from an affiliate for that product and that click resulted in them being taken to the Clickbank site. In such a case the visitor clicked on what is called a “hoplink” to the sales page. The affiliate created that hoplink which Clickbank will monitor and place a cookie on the visitor’s computer when they reach the pitch page. If the visitor ends up buying the product on that page, Clickbank will read the cookie and award the affiliate his or her commission for referring the customer to the sales page in question.

If a publisher were to sell more than one product from their Clickbank site, it would interfere with Clickbank’s tracking and make it nearly impossible for Clickbank to award commissions to affiliates properly. THis is why all Clickbank sales pages are only one page long and never promote more than one product.

Now, what about the content of the page? Most Clickbank pitch pages start with either an attention getting header graphic, or a big bold heading in 18 or 24 point text. Often Tahoma or Impact fonts are used, but sometimes something like Times or Times Roman are used. The headline needs to grab the reader’s attention. You only have a few seconds to pull the visitor in to want more information.

Some Clickbank publishers will tell exactly what their product is all about in the headline, others will create a sub-header to do that task–but however it’s done, the reader must become locked into the site within the first 10 seconds.

About one-third of the way through the pitch page most of the power seller’s pitch page will begin with a, “From The Desk Of…” message to the reader. The purpose of this is to establish a relationship with the reader. This part of the page is more personal–they try to make it sound as if they were right across the table talking to you. This is important, the seller must infer some degree of trust to the reader before they can ask for credit card information.

Virtually every Clickbank ebook seller will also have an opt-in form on their pitch page as well. Some use static, in-line forms–but most use a pop-up or “hover-over” type form. Collecting name and email info is a top priority because the publishers will work their lists aggressively to harvest more sales.

And one more key feature: The vast majority of power sellers will have some kind of exit-capture strategy for visitors clicking to leave their site without ordering. The two most common exit-capture systems are provided by IntelliChat and VirtualSmartAgent. You’ve see this used. You go to click to leave the site and a pop-up appears with a chat box and a virtual sales agent. The agent will offer you a $10 or $20 discount you order through them. These companies collect a commission on every sale they capture through this technology. Before you purchase any Clickbank product, I would recommend closing the pitch page to see if you are offered a discount rather than ordering directly. You can often save a few bucks.

My last ket point involves the testimonials. Here’s a little secret: A great number of testimonials on Clickbank pitch pages come from affiliates who are promoting the product on which their testimonial appears. I’m not suggesting this is wrong, but you should know that many of these are not testimonials from the average “Joe on the street.” There are a handful of affiliates who have their testimonials appear on dozens and dozens of Clickbank sales pages.

This is partially because they are affiliates for these products, and also because the big guys always include the URL for the web site of the person giving the testimonial. This is sort of a “pay-back” for the comment as some visitors will then click on the affiliate’s web site.

Mike McMillan is a former inner-city teacher who left teaching in 1989 to devote full time to writing over 40 nonfiction books and ebooks. He has been interviewed on over 80 radio stations and televisions programs including ABC World News on the topic of self publishing. Mike’s on-line self publishing course is offered through over 1,400 colleges and universities across the U.S.

His newest ebooks include Big Money Writing Little Books, and Cleaning Out The Vault: Secrets of the eBook Power Sellers Exposed.

Download Mike’s newest eBook, Creating An Affiliate Army To Promote Your eBook, for free at http://www.extreme-self-publishing.com

Google Chrome – Review

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Anyone that uses Google, (the qualifier for this is the fact you are human) will have noticed that beneath that iconic search bar is a new link, directing you to Google Chrome, a Google web browser that as with all things Google, comes with a hype that could perhaps be hugely unmerited.

Before we get to the ins and outs of its functionality, appearance etc, let’s just take a look at the history of the web browser, and why Google would take this route.

The web browser was really born in the late 1980′s, when a variety of technologies, most famous of course the WorldWideWeb, laid the foundation for the first web browser, which brought together a variety of existing and new software and hardware technologies. Web browsers communicate with Web servers primarily using HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) to fetch webpages, which are located by means of a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). In simple terms, they interpret the information that webmasters want you to see, and present it to you in the form of a webpage.

Historically, Microsofts’ Internet Explorer has dominated the market, and currently still holds approximately 75% market share, Mozillas’ Firefox pulls an impressive 20%, and the rest divided between the likes of Safari, K-Meleon, Flock, Konqueror, and Opera.

The market is packed with perfectly capable alternatives…ok, perhaps perfect capable is stretching their achievements, but there are many variations out there that offer you slightly different takes on the idea, and personally Firefox is my browser of choice, but thats largely due to the fact it is not IE.

So why a browser? Well, Google have a suite of Applications, Programs and Indentures (API’s), most notably Google Maps, Android, Google Earth, and Gears, in addition of course to their search services. Could Google be aiming to unify their API’s with Chrome? This is an opinion I’ve seen and heard touted about the internet, but I feel there is a far bigger picture here.

Google Chrome may appear to have its teeth cut for a battle with Internet Explorer, but the Microsoft product that Google is ultimately setting its itself up to destroy is the Windows operating system. In reality, the search titan hopes that its browser, in the short term, will simply make it easier for businesses to deploy their online applications.

Anyway, that’s one for the future, right now we have the issue of where Google Chrome fits in to the current landscape, and my suggestion is that we tuck it discreetly behind a bush and forget about it for the foreseeable future. With it being Google, that may prove to be more difficult than it should be, but in the core elements of its functionality it offers nothing new, nothing exciting, and certainly nothing to challenge Firefox for my attention.

Google’s first major publicity of Chrome came in the form of a 38-page comic that resembled the in-flight instructions of a plane more than it did the release of a major weapon in Google’s considerable armoury. Suffice to say Marvel will sleep easy. The sedate nature of its release suggests Google really aren’t all that bothered about the success of this project, at least not in the near future, and were really just hoping for a little bit of the limelight following Yahoo’s protracted kissing and cuddling with Microsoft before their acrimonious fall-out and subsequent fisticuffs and chest-pumping. Google love a headline, if they were a film star they’d surely become Scientologists and marry some failed actress from Dawsons Creek, but where they normally maneuver that attention well, here I feel they fail on the basic principle of the product letting them down.

They have introduced something called an Omnibox, which is just the search bar wearing a tutu, and fails miserably as a nonpartisan addition to the browser. People have the option with most other browsers of selecting home page etc, but this bar doubles as a search engine on … you’ve guessed it, Google. The merging of the address bar and search bar gives Google too much control over navigation. It separates companies and website operators from their website addresses and brands. Companies spend heavily to establish and maintain brands. Google has just imposed itself between consumers and businesses. Direct navigation has now become proprietary search, whereby Google uses its discretion to filter out web addresses and domains that it deems less relevant. I object heavily to this and see it as no less than bullying, so for this alone I have boycotted the browser, but more poignantly, they have thus far failed to release a Beta version for the Mac. As a Mac user i find this rather insulting, and as an opponent of Microsoft and every filthy moral they stand for I am infuriated.

I shall leave it at this: as a writer/consumer this story is fun, it sometimes even shakes hands with endearment, but as an employee of a web development company, and having test-driven it on a PC, I am more excited by the recession thats’ somewhat fallaciously drowning the spirit of a perpetually melancholic UK. Chrome will not affect things for my employers within the next 3 years at least, and I predict that it probably never will.

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Reasons to Have a Good Savings Account

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

When you have a job and you don’t earn much then it can be hard to manage if you tend to spend a lot also. When you spend alot on entertainment, foods, and bills you might not have much left at the end of the month. By having a savings account and putting money into it each week then you benefit in the long run and will have money for those rainy days.

Many people use the first bank account that they come across without looking at the interest rate and fees and this is a mistake because fees will eat away at your hard earned savings and you may not be maximizing your income with a low interest rate, so make sure you check your current interest rate and look for a better deal, it’s best to look every few months as banks are always changing their rates some go up some go down.

As many people tend not to have a good savings habit another way is to have your employer put part of your wage directly into a savings account you can’t access so easily (one without a key card perhaps) and the rest into your normal account, this way it’s easy to make a habit of not spending it and will benefit your greatly when you need the money. It will become such a habit that you won’t even miss the extra money because you will learn to live without it.

A lot of banks have employees who are trained to help you choose the best savings account for your situation, they should be able to help you understand what is going on and how you can benefit from their services. If you feel like you cannot benefit or cannot understand then try some other banks.

So your aim is to try to save on consistent weekly or monthly basis, make it a habit and you will soon see that it becomes easier over term and will benefit you greatly in the long term.

If you want to find a high interest bank account in Australia, then there are many comparison sites around. Just try a search in Google or Yahoo.

Another good source of finance articles related to banking can be found at compare savings accounts Australia.