To most people, the Internet is the place to which everyone plugs in their computer and views webpages and sends e-mail. That’s a very human-centric viewpoint, but if we’re to truly understand the Internet, we need to be more exact:

The Internet is THE large global computer network that people connect to by-default, by virtue of the fact that it’s the largest. And, like any computer network, there are conventions that allow it to work.

This is all it is really – a very big computer network. However, this article will go beyond explaining just the Internet, as it will also explain the ‘World Wide Web’. Most people don’t know the difference between the Internet and Web, but really it’s quite simple: the Internet is a computer network, and the Web is a system of publishing (of websites) for it.

Computer networks

And, what’s a computer network? A computer network is just two or more of computers connected together such that they may send messages between each other. On larger networks computers are connected together in complex arrangements, where some intermediary computers have more than one connection to other computers, such that every computer can reach any other computer in the network via paths through some of those intermediary computers.

Computers aren’t the only things that use networks – the rail network is very similar to computer networks, just that transports people instead of information.

Trains operate on a certain kind of track – such a convention is needed, because otherwise the network could not effectively work. Computers in a network have conventions too, and we usually call these conventions ‘protocols’.

There are many kinds of popular computer network today. The most conventional by far is the so-called ‘Ethernet’ network that physically connects computers together in homes, schools and offices. However, WiFi is becoming increasingly popular for connecting together devices so that cables aren’t required at all.

Connecting to the Internet

When you connect to the Internet, you’re using networking technology, but things are usually a lot muddier. There’s an apt phrase, “Rome wasn’t built in a day” because neither was the Internet. The only reason the Internet could spring up so quickly and cheaply for people was because another kind of network already existed throughout the world – the phone network!

The pre-existence of the phone network provided a medium for ordinary computers in ordinary people’s homes to be connected onto the great high-tech military and research network that had been developed in years before. It just required some technological mastery in the form of ‘modems’. Modems allow phone lines to be turned into a mini-network connection between a home and a special company (an ‘ISP’) that already is connected up to the Internet. It’s like a bridge joining up the road networks on an island and the mainland – the road networks become one, due to a special kind of connection between them.

The Internet

The really amazing about the Internet isn’t the technology. We’ve actually had big Internet-like computer networks before, and ‘The Internet’ existed long before normal people knew the term. The amazing thing is that such a massive computer network could exist without being built or governed in any kind of seriously organised way. The only organisation that really has a grip on the core computer network of the Internet is a US-government-backed non-profit company called ‘ICANN’, but nobody could claim they ‘controlled’ the Internet, as their mandate and activities are extremely limited.

What I have described so far is probably not the Internet as you or most would see it. It’s unlikely you see the Internet as a democratic and uniform computer network, and to an extent, it isn’t. The reason for this is that I have only explained the foundations of the system so far, and this foundation operates below the level you’d normally be aware of. On the lowest level you would be aware of, the Internet is actually more like a situation between a getter and a giver – there’s something you want from the Internet, so you connect up and get it. Even when you send an e-mail, you’re getting the service of e-mail delivery.

Being a computer network, the Internet consists of computers – however, not all computers on the Internet are created equal. Some computers are there to provide services, and some are there to consume those services. We call the providing computers ’servers’ and the consuming computers ‘clients’. At the theoretical level, the computers have equal status on the network, but servers are much better connected than clients and are generally put in place by companies providing some kind of commercial service. You don’t pay to view a web site, but somebody pays for the server the website is located on – usually the owner of the web site pays a ‘web host’ (a commercial company who owns the server).

Making contact

I’ve established how the Internet is a computer network: now I will explain how two computers that could be on other sides of the world can send messages to each other.

Imagine you were writing a letter and needed to send it to someone. If you just wrote a name on the front, it would never arrive, unless perhaps you lived in a small village. A name is rarely specific enough. Therefore, as we all know, we use addresses to contact someone, often using: the name, the house number, the road name, the town name, the county name, and sometimes, the country name. This allows sending of messages on another kind of network – the postal network. When you send a letter, typically it will be passed between postal sorting offices starting from the sorting office nearest to the origin, then up to increasingly large sorting offices until it’s handled by a sorting office covering regions for both the origin and the destination, then down to increasingly small sorting offices until it’s at the sorting office nearest the destination – and then it’s delivered.

In our postal situation, there are two key factors at work – a form of addressing that ‘homes in’ on the destination location, and a form of message delivery that ‘broadens out’ then ‘narrows in’. Computers are more organised, but they actually effectively do exactly the same thing.

Each computer on the Internet is given an address (‘IP address’), and this ‘homes in’ on their location. The ‘homing in’ isn’t done strictly geographically, rather in terms of the connection-relationship between the smaller computer networks within the Internet. For the real world, being a neighbour is geographical, but on a computer network, being a neighbour is having a direct network connection.

Like the postal network with its sorting offices, computer networks usually have connections to a few other computer networks. A computer network will send the message to a larger network (a network that is more likely to recognise at least some part of the address). This process of ‘broadening out’ continues until the message is being handled by a network that is ‘over’ the destination, and then the ‘narrowing in’ process will occur.

An example ‘IP address’ is ‘69.60.115.116′. They are just series of digit groups where the digit groups towards the right are increasingly local. Each digit group is a number between 0 and 255. This is just an approximation, but you could think of this address meaning: A computer 116 in a small neighbourhood 115 in a larger neighbourhood 60 controlled by an ISP 69 (on the Internet) The neighbourhoods, the ISP, and the Internet, could all be consider computer networks in their own right. Therefore, for a message to the same ‘larger neighbourhood’, the message would be passed up towards one of those intermediary computers in the larger neighbourhood and then back down to the correct smaller neighbourhood, and then to the correct computer.

Getting the message across

Now that we are able to deliver messages the hard part is over. All we need to do is to put stuff in our messages in a certain way such that it makes sense at the other end.

Letters we send in the real world always have stuff in common – they are written on paper and in a language understood by both sender and receiver. I’ve discussed before how conventions are important for networks to operate, and this important concept remains true for our messages.

All parts of the Internet transfer messages written in things called ‘Packets’, and the layout and contents of those ‘packets’ are done according to the ‘Internet Protocol’ (IP). You don’t need to know these terms, but you do need to know that these simple messages are error prone and simplistic.

You can think of ‘packets’ as the Internet equivalence of a sentence – for an ongoing conversation, there would be many of them sent in both directions of communication.

Reliable message transfer on the Internet is done via ‘TCP’. IP is fundamental to the Internet, but TCP is not – there are in fact other ‘protocols’ that may be used that I won’t be covering.

Names, not numbers

When most people think of an ‘Internet Address’ they think of something like ‘www.ocportal.com’ rather than ‘69.60.115.116′. People relate to names with greater ease than numbers, so special computers that humans need to access are typically assigned names (‘domain names’) using a system known as ‘DNS’ (the ‘domain name system’).

All Internet communication is still done using IP addresses (recall ‘69.60.115.116′ is an IP address). The ‘domain names’ are therefore translated to IP addresses behind the scenes, before the main communication starts.

At the core, the process of looking up a domain name is quite simple – it’s a process of ‘homing in’ by moving leftwards through the name, following an interrogation path. This is best shown by example – ‘www.ocportal.com’ would be looked up as follows:

Every computer on the Internet knows how to contact the computers (the ‘root’ ‘DNS servers’) responsible for things like ‘com’, ‘org’, ‘net’ and ‘uk’. There are a few such computers and one is contacted at random. The DNS server computer is asked if they know ‘www.ocportal.com’ and will respond saying they know which server computer is responsible for ‘com’. The ‘com’ server computer is asked it knows ‘www.ocportal.com’ and will respond saying they know which server computer is responsible for ‘ocportal.com’. ‘The ‘ocportal.com’ server computer is asked if it knows ‘www.ocportal.com’ and will respond saying that it knows the corresponding server computer to be ‘69.60.115.116′.

Note that there is a difference between a server computer being ‘responsible’ for a domain name and the domain name actually corresponding to that computer. For example, the ‘ocportal.com’ responsible DNS server might not necessarily be the same server as ‘ocportal.com’ itself.

Meaningful dialogue

I’ve fully covered the essence of how messages are delivered over the Internet, but so far these messages are completely raw and meaningless. Before meaningful communication can occur we need to layer on yet another protocol (recall IP and TCP protocols are already layered over our physical network).

There are many protocols that work on the communications already established, including:

HTTP – for web pages, typically read in web browser software POP3 – for reading e-mail SMTP – for sending e-mail

I’m not going to go into the details of any of these protocols because it’s not really relevant unless you actually need to know it.

The information transferred via a protocol is usually a request for something, or a response for something requested. For example, with HTTP, a client computer requests a certain web page from a server via HTTP and then the web server, basically, responds with the file embedded within HTTP.

Each of these protocols operates on more or more so-called ‘ports’, and it is these ‘ports’ that allow the computers to know which protocol to use. For example, a web server (special computer software running on a server computer that serves out web pages) uses a port of number ‘80′, and hence when the server receives messages on that port it passes them to the web server software which naturally knows that they’ll be written in HTTP.

The World Wide Web

I’ve explained how the Internet works, but not yet how the web works. The web is the publishing system that most people don’t realise is distinguishable from the Internet itself.

The Internet uses IP addresses (often found via domain names) to identify resources, but the web has to have something more sophisticated as it would be silly if every single page on the Internet had to have it’s own ‘domain name’. The web uses ‘URLs’ (uniform resource locators), and I’m sure you know about these as nowadays they are printed all over the place in the real world.

A typical URL looks like this: :///

For example: http://www.ocportal.com/index.php

HTTP is the core protocol for the web. This is why URLs usually start ‘http://’.

Typically the ‘resource identifier’ is simply a file on the server computer. For example, ‘mywebsite/index.html’ would be a file on the server computer of the same path, stored underneath a special directory.

We now have three kinds of ‘Internet Address’, in order of increasing sophistication: IP addresses Domain names URLs If a URL were put into web browser software by a prospective reader then the web browser would send out an appropriate request (usually, with the HTTP protocol being appropriate) to the server computer identified by the URL. The server computer would then respond and typically the web browser would end up with a file. The web browser would then interpret the file for display, much like any software running on a computer would interpret the files it understands.

An ‘HTML’ file is the kind of file that defines a web page. It’s written in plain text, and basically mixes information showing show to display a document along with the document itself.

I’ve explained how typical web pages are just files on the disk of a server computer. Increasingly, things are slightly less direct. When you visit something like eBay you aren’t just reading files. You’re actually interacting with computer software, and the web pages you receive are generated anew by that software every time a request is made. These kinds of systems are known as ‘web applications’ and are becoming increasingly prevalent.

By: Chris Graham

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While some home business owners hire family to help their business succeed, some do it for tax benefits. No matter the reason, employing family to help your business has many advantages. If you do hire your family, there are some aspects to consider. Your family can also help the future of your business without hiring them. Either way, some home-based business owners need a little extra support from family.

1. Spread the Word

One of the most obvious ways to help your business grow is to get the word out about your products or ideas. In order to do this effectively, the word of mouth is the best way. Your family can help you by telling other people about your business. They can also hang fliers up for you at their local grocery stores, the gym, or shopping centers.

2. Avoid Disturbances

If you are working at home instead of an in office setting, it is very important that your other family members know that you need space. While you do not want to seclude yourself entirely, any distractions or disturbances could hurt your work responsibilities. This is also true if you have to make phone calls with customers in order to help your business grow.

If you have young children at home, make sure that the other adult in the house helps you watch them. Set certain times that you will need quiet time. Your other family might be able to watch your children as well, so do not be afraid to ask for help.

3. Job Description

If you decide to hire a family member do any number of tasks, be sure that they know the clear description of their job. This will prevent them from interfering in areas where they should not be, and it will help them understand exactly what they are supposed to be doing.

4. Establish Hours

While having family work for you probably seems like a very lenient and easy going aspect, you should still treat them as employees to make it feel professional. Establish specific hours for each family member. More than likely, they will all want to help at the same time, but this could hurt your finances in the long run. By establishing certain times for each person to work, you can manage it into your budget correctly.

5. Keep a Professional Atmosphere

Employing family members can be very beneficial to your business, but it can hurt your overall family relationship. Make sure that you do not get too comfortable with the fact that they are family. Treat them as a respected employee so that they will feel like they are appreciated and not being used. Do not reward them more than your employees who are not family either. Keeping a good management position with each employee will help your business and your personal relationships as well.

6. Make Professional Standards

It is easy to slack off with family members and try to make their work atmosphere very simple, but you should treat them as any employee. Set standards for what you expect their work ethic and job performance to be like. This will prevent any harsh feelings and any ungrateful attitudes to occur.

7. Separate Home from Work

If your spouse is your business partner or even you’re Mom, you need to keep all conversations relating to personal lives out of the business area. If your husband or wife is working for you, bringing an argument to work that was never resolved the night before could end in disaster and will not profit your business.

8. Phone Duties

Running a successful business includes all things, such as phone calls and receiving phone calls. If your family does not want to work for you, they can still do simple tasks that will help you. This includes phone duties. They can take incoming phone calls during the busiest hours of the day and make phone calls for you.

9. Newsletters and Copies

The same with phone duties applies to other simple tasks. Having a family member create newsletters for you if they have time or making copies of paperwork can still help your business in small ways. It will cut down work time for you.

10. Recruitment

If you have a network marketing business where you can profit from recruiting members, then your family can help your business grow by signing up underneath you. Not only will they be helping your recruiting statistics, but they can also benefit by getting involved in the network business.

By: Chris Simpson

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If Business is to profit, then Marketing is to business. Since, without marketing, business is not possible whether it is done in any form. Even traditional business had some marketing tactics, be it delivery unto buyer place or flexibility in payment terms. Ultimately, what can turn on more business is often considered as marketing and its implementation after analysis of the situations from time to time can be termed as strategy. I often found, when you say strategy, people nod their head but when it comes to know what is strategy they loose the color of their face.

Strategy is a factor which construes marketing and marketing runs on strategy. What RCC beams are to a building  in the same manner strategy is for marketing .if one claims to be doing marketing without strategy then he may be fooling himself and more to others as without strategy in any manner , marketing is not possible.

The very next thing which comes is how to make strategies for marketing the product?

Before that, let us take some pain to understand what exactly is strategy. Strategy is nothing but understanding the basics of positioning a product, features and potential of product, strength and weakness of products, timely review of planning’s etc and then analyzing it to conclude with some parameters for selling the same product with respect to different zones and geographical areas, this result into strategy. Isn’t it very simple. If one makes simple strategy, he makes simple way to success in business.

After Strategy, What Next?

Then comes the real marketing play. Again, it is followed by another question how to and what can be the modes of marketing.

Lets us see which mode is required, when marketing modes option comes to be chosen for business:

Whether Online Marketing?

Whether Offline Marketing?

Before, discussing about advantages and dis-advantages as well as requirement of online marketing, let’s see the modes and strategies of offline marketing.

a. Direct Marketing

b. Telemarketing

c. Advertisement in TV

d. Campaign based advertisement in Radio.

e. Advertisement in public places, public transportation

f. Participation in Exhibitions & Trade Shows

g. Door to Door Marketing

h. Promotional campaigns

i. Discounts and offers

j. Referral Marketing

k. Public Relations

l. Print Media

M. sponsoring some events, sports etc.

The list can have much more to it, but the aforesaid are considered to be the prominent amongst any other options possible or available for any person.

So, after doing, still one requires any other mode of marketing, before we make a hasty decision, what if some online marketing options are just explored:

a. Contacting and Responding through Mail

B. Advertisement in Google, Yahoo

C. Advertisement through Ad brite

D. Advertisement in Blogs

E. Advertisement in most popular sites and portals

f. Article Marketing

g. Affiliate Marketing

h. Online Viral Marketing

i. Email Marketing

j. Activities in Forum & Social bookmarking

K. Linking with quality sites

l. Banner Exchange

m. Search Engine Optimization via Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Many more to be added, even in this sphere alone.

After referring to all, do you feel one is required and sufficient and if one is, then which one .Then I must answer that absolutely NOT, one cannot be a substitute for other, but both are required.

Because, Offline, marketing is very well known potential mode of marketing and will always be required but at the same only offline marketing will not do justice to your marketing, still don’t believe, then just check the truth as stated below:

a) Round the globe more than 50% business is carried out and communicated through mails which is online mode.

b) Corporates, SMEs, MNC all are dependant upon mail for communication.

c) Young generation is net savvy.

d) People are dependant upon websites to fulfill their basic necessities be it

1) jobs, 

2) accommodation,

3) buying and  selling

4) marriage

5) chatting

6) communication

7) outsourcing work

filing tax returns

9) gathering any information etc

10) on an average more than 50% business man and involved in international trade use B2b Portals to effect the business .

If this is the some eye opening facts , can still one keep away from online marketing ………….Now You Decide !

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Starting Up Owning a Business

Having a business and be the boss is always everybody’s dream. Yet only a few who can get through it and make it to the top. One of the main reason why people want to have their own business, is to hold their own time. But in the real world of business it is totally the opposite. Owning a business is not very easy, especially starting it. It takes a great responsibility, a well planned strategy and a great mind to make it work perfectly.

One of the hardest thing to do in Starting Up Owning a Business is taking the first step. Nobody has even gone to a business without any careful planning, even how small the business was. So many questions, so many plans, so many things to be considered before you begin to operate. But a good planning usually end up to a success otherwise it will be totally disaster.

 

How to Start my Own Business? There are several question to consider in Starting Up Owning a Business. WHAT, WHY, WHERE, and WHEN, these are the common question you need to ask yourself.

 

What kind of Business do I want?

There are thousand of choices on the kind of business you can have. A restaurant, Beauty Parlor, a Flower Shop, Pharmacy, Developing Center, Arts and Crafts, Real Estate and more of choices. Usually you end up answering this in the field of your interest. It would be more easier for you to do business that you have enough knowledge on the “What kind of Business” you want to have. It will also depend on what the need of the people in the community. You could not expect a successful business of Developing Center when you know that the people in the community doesn’t even own camera. It should be something practical, easy to deal to the people and goal oriented. Goal oriented? In every business, your main goal is to meet the needs of the people, consumer or client. These people has a direct effect on the success of the business and that is what you should always put in mind. Without this goal, business is impossible.

 

Why I want to have business?

Why is it you want to have a business? In order to answer this, you need to have the goals and objectives. Nobody will start a business that doesn’t have any goals at all. So, if you are going to see yourself five years from now, you try to imagine what you should be doing during that time. Are you doing well with the business that you started? Are you growing and productive? Did your business expand? Are you enjoying the life of success? Or you failed because you did not plan it well. For every business that was planned, there is always a reason behind it. And most of the reasons why people want to have a business to earn without limit and be the boss of their own business.

Where would you want to have a business?

Where? It was a good question. One thing to consider a good business is to find a good location. A location where it is very easy access for the people. A place where there are less competitors. Most important is, a place where most of the people has a need.

Where? Another question you have to think about. Where is your business heading. Is it moving, improving and growing or is it stagnant, not productive losing.

In every business there is always a place of improvement that leads to fast growth. If that is where you want to lead your business

If you are aiming for a fast growing Business,

here are the things you need to consider:

Know the kind of business you have

Meeting the needs of the people

Affordable and reasonable prices of products or services

Aim for quality, quantity will just follow

Always make an update and consider opinions and suggestions of others

Be flexible, always look at the possibility of extending your services or branching out

Don’t ignore failure, that is where you learn and do better

Have a good interpersonal relationship with co-workers, competitors and people

Upgrade yourself on new technology that can be applied to your business

 

 

When will be the best time to start the Business?

When will be the best time to start a business? Tomorrow? Next Year? Ten years from now? When you retire? This is what you have to decide if you want to have a business. Having a business takes a time of planning and a decision. It is like taking a risk to reach a certain goal. Some people would decide to go into business after a long year work as an employee then use their retirement money in business. Some would make an investment and little by little they start building up their own business. Starting up is a little bit difficult most of the time because you need to adjust, little income, catching up on the payments, and still learning how to run the business. But once you are there, and getting oriented with the kind of business you have, you will see more challenges to come at the same time enjoying the fruit of your success.

What are the things you need to consider in

“Starting Up Owning a Business”

Permit to operate a business. Get the necessary documents needed to operate the business legally.

Finance. Does your budget enough for the payment of the location or site, materials, employee, construction needed.if not, look for financial assistance that is enough for you to begin with. Start at a minimum cost.

Employee. How many employee needed to start the business, what kind of work they need to do. Qualification of the employee, the work experience and the skills that they will be able to contribute in the business.

Site/Location. Look for a Place that is accessible to the people and easy to locate. People would love to come to a place that is easy access and a place where people usually go.

Knowledge about the business. It takes a great risk of getting into the business that you don’t know or at least an idea about it. Always look at the advantages and disadvantages. The strength and weaknesses of the business. Ask opinions from the people who are into it. And always update yourself with the new issues in the business world.

 

In every business, there is always a strategy to take. A successful business do not depend on the techniques alone but also on good planning and decision making.

By: Carmel Dolendo

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Maybe you are reading this and have been thinking about owning your own business. Or, you have a small business running either that is doing well or where you wish it could be more. Regardless, to have a successful small business and to have the freedom and abundance you seek, the first step to business success is it must be about you.

You may say, now wait a minute where is this heading? Over 30 years of self-employment and working with hundreds of self-employed individuals I can assure you that most successful small businesses and the ones that experience small business growth have one thing in common. The first step to business success is that they are built around the founder or owner.

At first you may think this is a selfish approach. But, if you look at the original definition of selfishness, it is about self-preservation. I think you would agree that building a business that preserves and enhances you is a huge plus. After all, without you, where is the business?

Now, this doesn’t mean that the business is all about you. It means that you either deliver and exceptional product or service for your customers but with an organization, routine or performance strategy that enhances you. After all, if you are not at your best, where will your business be?

For the entrepreneur successful in his business, the first step is to have something he or she is passionate about. The second step is to be able to build the business around who they are. Let’s take three attributes that all people have to different degrees. They are create, execute and finalize.

Most people are good at one or two of these. Know what you are good at and build your business around your strengths. For example, maybe you are strong at creating and finalizing the process. Yet, the execute part, which is in the middle, is not where you really enjoy spending your time. If you are spending most of your time in this area you and your business will be at peril. In the beginning you will probably have to do all three.

Yet, if you continue to do all three you and your business will not experience the small business growth you desire. Take a look at yourself. If executing is the least enjoyable aspect, either create systems to insure that the execution takes place or have someone help you with it. If it continues to be a challenge you can look at hiring a small business coach or reading a small business book or small business ebook.

To grow small business and to have a successful performance strategy you must be in alignment with who you are. Pursue your passion and build your small business growth plan around your strengths. When you do you will get off the treadmill of deadening uniformity and be moving to the success you desire.

By: Steve Scott

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Although the movie “The Secret” was a huge success, it was more or less just another money maker for those involved. For many viewers it is just too good to be true. It is full of hype and promises that are unrealistic for our current stage of human development. It is a loaded gun placed in the hands of infants. Most are not mentally ready for it.

The movie represents a process that can and does work, but only when it has been fully understood, developed, and refined. It is millennia ahead of our current abilities as a species. The Law of Attraction is at work every day in our lives and as the movie points out, we create what we think and that can be dangerous on a conscious level.

The reason it will not work for most people on a conscious level is because humanity has disempowered itself for centuries. Humanity was and is born with the knowledge of the “law” but from birth the power is systematically taken away from us. The power always remains with us, but it is never developed or talked about. Infants are taught not to use it and to be ********** and obedient. Religion is the greatest distracter for The Law of Attraction. Those who would have power over us to not want us to use our power because in doing so, we disempower them. I further explain this in my book “Led Down The Garden Path” due to be published in early spring of 2008.

The movie does not go far enough; it presents the end results of a system of creation, but does not educate the viewer or take them to it. It is a slick Ferrari with too much power and no training. It is an idea that gives too little for too many without explanation of why it won’t work for most. More or less it gives you a glossy picture of a finished computer and no schematics or instructions on how to build or use it – a box full of parts. It is just too overwhelming for most.

I am living proof that the law of attraction works, and for almost sixty years it has been working in the background, in the subconscious. It has only been in the last eight years that I have started to learn about how it works and why it does not work consciously for some. In hindsight most of us can see how it has worked for us in our personal lives. My own story about bringing Perthes disease into my life and curing myself a year later is a dramatic story of how the “law” works. It is chronicled in my book “Your Life Was Never Meant to be a Struggle”.

What has triggered this article was a book I received recently from an author for review. The author failed over several years to control the process and has written an angry and embittered book about how it does not work. The first few chapters are filled with emotion; hurt, anger, disappointment and bitterness. But it becomes very apparent in the early parts of the book why the author was unable to consciously work the law. There are huge gaps in her education about who she is and her true nature. It is like a bird that can’t fly because it doesn’t know it is a bird. Likewise the law will not work for most because most people don’t know who they naturally are. Without the understanding of who we are and our own capabilities; we will not be able to fly either. The movie should have come with a warning; not suitable for all audiences viewer discretion is advised.

Most people would not know themselves as creating miracles because they do not know themselves as God and they believe that only God can create miracles. It is the same with the “Law of Attraction;” it does not work until you know that you are the creator of the end result – what it is you want!

The secret to “The Secret” is that you can not have what you want while you are wanting it nor you can not have what you want while you are trying to create it. The law requires complete acceptance that you have what you desire. This aspect of the law is too simple for a race that requires complicated explanations. It is important to repeat it here again. “You cannot have what you want, nor can you have what you want while you are trying to create it”

“You can do this and more” is a line that Christianity should recognize. Although religion is not an aspect of “The Law of Attraction” Christianity does support the “law” in the line from the Bible that was spoken by Jesus. “The faith of a mustard seed” is the fundamental secret of the “law”. A mustard seed has no faith; it has knowing. The evolution of the mustard seed is programmed into it – it is all about knowing. Knowing is absolute, and if you know a thing it becomes your new truth. And to know a thing, you must know that you are the creator of that knowing. Know this to be true and you will have the secret for success and the only thing that makes the “Law of Attraction” work.

In the natural universe there is only knowing; laws are created by man because that is what he does, because he is a creative being. The only purpose to physical life is the desire to experience. The law of attraction gives humanity a tool that can create on demand and consciously when it is understood and accepted. Distracters of the law simply are not there yet – they are not ready. More over, they do not want anyone else to be able to use it either.

It is very obvious in this world that there are many areas of enlightenment. Some are more advanced than others. That is neither good nor bad, it simply is a truth, it is observable, and it is appropriate. All things have the ability to evolve and they do in turn, when they are ready. I don’t believe there are levels of enlightenment, just areas of enlightenment. Each run on the ladder is a step, a place that each of us experiences one way or the other until we get to where we want to be.

By: Roy E. Klienwachter

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If you have a business with a website or you just simply have a website you want to drive traffic to there is a lot of things you can do for free that can drive large amounts of traffic to your website. If you have a business website of any kind getting more people to your website is usually beneficial to you but it is only beneficial if you are making money from getting more visitors to your website. It would be a good idea to focus on monetizing your website before getting traffic to your website. Monetizing your website is essentially just turning your website into cash, literally. If you have traffic or you don’t have traffic you want to have a plan of how you are going to make money from a website and then you can put forward the effort and the work into getting the traffic to your website. After having a plan to monetize your site you are going to execute your marketing plan to get free traffic to your website. There are two ways to get free traffic to your website; free advertising and/or from search engines. I am going to discuss how you can monetize and optimize your website for search engines for free and then how you can drive large amounts of free traffic to your website.

Monetizing and Optimizing Your Website For Search Engines For Free

So you have a website with some content and you want to find out how you can make money from the little traffic you already have? Great, well I want to talk to you about getting more traffic and making more money from that traffic. There are two ways you can make money from your website; selling products and services or generating advertising revenue. When thinking about making money from your website you have a couple choices to make; if you are going to be selling products are you going to sell physical products or are you going to sell affiliate products and make a commission? If you are focusing on generating advertising revenue are you going to actually sell each space or are you going to publish pay-per-click ads and get paid for every click?

If you want to start making money today then I would suggest you do affiliate marketing when selling products on your website because you don’t have to worry about making the product, packaging the product and shipping the product, let somebody else worry about that so that you can focus on marketing the product. I personally think that there is a success model in utilizing affiliate marketing to sell products, publishing pay-per-click ads and selling advertising space to generate a passive residual income from your website. Securing how you plan to make money from your website and then optimizing it for the search engines is a great way to market your website. Where do people go when they are looking for information on the internet? People go to search engines to look for information and if your website is listed within the top ten for the relevant information that they are searching for then that is more than likely going to end up in free traffic to your website. It is and can be extremely profitable to optimize your website for the search engines. What I am about to talk about is my blueprint to taking advantage 100% free traffic to your website.

Utilizing Affiliate Marketing To Sell Products From Your Website

When choosing affiliates to sell products from your website it would make sense to stick to affiliates within your niche. Your niche is the main category your website would fall under and using affiliates that are relevant to that niche is an important factor in targeting your traffic to your affiliate products. So knowing what niche is important and this will also help you greatly when you optimize your website for search engines.

When you join affiliate programs they give you your own affiliate website and access to all their promotional tools you can use to promote this business. You can take their banners and their text ads and utilize them to get traffic to your affiliates. By placing your banner ads within your content so that it merely looks like an ad and you will generate clicks going through those banners to your affiliate pages. The affiliate program has already tried and tested these pages they are already set up with the best sales copy made to convert their visitors into sales. Because these affiliate programs have already done this then it is our job to market these affiliates to targeted visitors who would be looking to buy these products and services our affiliates are offering. When the visitors are targeted it means that they are already interested in information relative to the affiliates and it is safe to assume that once they are on your website and they are interested in the information on your website then they are targeted enough for our affiliates. Using this method correctly will drive lots of targeted traffic to your affiliates that way you can earn a lot of money in commissions when you make sales.

Generating Advertising Revenue From Your Website

You have a website and now you want to earn money from generating advertising revenue? It really isn’t that hard to do that, infact you can almost automate the entire process. First I am going to start by telling you about publishing pay-per-click ads on your website and then I will tell you how you can sell ad space aswell and even ahead of time. Google is one of the leaders in PPC ad publishing and PPC advertising with the use of their AdSense program and their Adwords program. Advertisers interested in advertising with Google’s Adwords program have the option of bidding on keywords and running ads on Google’s search engine or running ads for content, which is advertising within the Google AdSense progam. People like us are the ones with the website now who publish ads from Google’s Adsense and generate money from a percentage of what advertisers with Google are bidding for their keywords. Google isn’t the only company that does this; you also have Yahoo who has now started publishing ads and Bivertiser as well. When you publish these network ads and get clicks from them you can really earn a decent pay check every month from the clicks you generate if you place the ad strips within your content. This allows you to get paid for every click to your ads and you don’t have to worry about them buying anything or not, so this allows you to generate a sizeable revenue.

You can also sell advertising space on your website and you don’t even have to be responsible for actually selling each space. Many internet marketers don’t speak about this and it truly is a great way to generate revenue from your website. You can join networks such as AdBrite and Adster that will sell your ads for you and all you have to do is publish their ad strips and they will track your traffic to your website and the ad strips impressions and display this to their network of advertisers. Advertisers can choose to purchase this space at the price that you set and then your earnings are set directly to you when space is sold. You can even sell space ahead of time and collect cash in hand from today. Imagine advertisers fighting for space on your website at the price you set. This is an incredible way to earn money online. It is also a great utility because even before you have sold the space the networks usually run PPC ads until the space is sold so you can start off by earning money per click on these ads.

Search Engine Optimization Tactics

You already know the niche that your website is catering to so it is now time for you to focus on optimizing you website for the best keywords in that niche. You find out what the best keywords are by doing keyword research with some form of keyword tool. You can get access to keyword tools from many different places but I suggest using Google’s keyword tool. Google gives you information about their search engine’s findings and ever since July 2008 they have been giving detailed information about each keyword searched within their search engine by displaying their figures instead of an approximation. You want to find keywords that are high in demand, meaning that they have been searched for a lot every month on average and you also want to find keywords that are low in supply, meaning that the websites going for those keywords aren’t too competitive. When you find keywords like these they are extremely useful to building your awareness on the search engines. You want to take note of about 5 main category keywords and 25 sub-category keyword phrases. When you have those keywords at hand you are going to always use those keywords when writing content for your website and optimizing your website. There are two types of search engine optimization; one-site optimization and off-site optimization. When optimizing your website you need to know focus on both of them so that you ensure your website is optimized properly.

On-site optimization refers to optimizing everything that is actually on your website. You want to use some of your main keywords within your website’s titles and description. You want to utilize all your keywords, your main keywords and your sub-category keyword phrases within all your content, like articles, videos and posts. Search engines are going to know your website is relevant for the keywords you chose because those keywords are spread out throughout your content.

Off-site optimization pertains to everything that is done away from your website that goes towards optimizing your website. Off-site optimization refers to building link popularity. Link popularity is important because search engines like Google use your link popularity to define how relative your website is to your niche and which websites you are linked to within that niche. The more relative the website is that is linking to your website means the more power your website will have within that niche. There are two kinds of links you can have between websites; one-way links and two-way reciprocal links. One-way links are when you a website is linking to your website without you having to link back to theirs and two-way links are when both websites are linking to each other. It is said that one-way links are way more powerful to search engines so it is encouraged to try and get as many relative one-way links as possible.

Now that you have monetized your website and optimized it for the search engines your only challenge is to continue to add relevant content to your website filled with your keywords and keyword phrases. You will soon start to see tremendous amounts of free traffic coming into your website from the search engines. This free traffic will be coming in while you sleep, while you are at school and just as you go about your day people will be finding your website on the search engines for free. Now that you have finished monetizing and optimizing your website, its time to drive tons of traffic to your website through free internet advertising resources.

Drive Large Amounts Of Traffic To Your Website Through Free Internet Advertising

There are many resources you can find online that you can use to drive free traffic to your website. Most of these resources offer affiliate programs and give you the opportunity to earn money from them but for now we are just going to focus on generating traffic from them. These advertising resources usually work on a credit system, which you earn credits that are exchanged for visitors to your website. Different advertising resources offer different ways for you to earn credits, either by visiting other member’s websites through clicking on text ads or from surfing. Some resources even allow you to advertise without having to visit anybody else’s websites, it is just completely free. I want to discuss some of these resources and the benefits they can bring in providing traffic to your website.

Free Advertising with Free Classifieds

Free classifieds are a great way of driving traffic to your website. You have the opportunity to write your own add copy and usually you can add text and pictures to your ads and you can also optimize these ads with the same keywords for your website. When you optimize your free classified ads search engines crawl it and see that a page with relevant content is linking to your website. This is a nice way to always build one-way links to your website and advertise your website at the same time.

Free Advertising with Free Traffic Exchanges

Free traffic exchanges are great utility to provide immediate traffic to your website. You join their network and add your websites to their traffic exchange and you surf other members websites for credits and then exchange those credits for visitors to your website. You can build a large amount of credits in no time and start generating traffic right away and believe me they click around and do things while they are on your website. Usually you can also advertise your banner ads and your text ads on their network and this is also a great way to generate traffic to your website. Now while members are surfing other member’s websites they also see your banner ads or your text ads. This can drive targeted traffic to your website because when a person clicks on a banner ad or text ad they only click on it based on their own interest so you are guaranteed to get targeted visitors to whatever you’re advertising.

Through these two methods of free advertising you can drive extremely large amounts of traffic to your website and it won’t cost you a dime. Sending free traffic to your website that is already monetized and set up to earn you money from all walks of life is a great way to add to your income earned from your website. This is truly utilizing the power of free internet advertising. Also the traffic you generate to your website through free advertising also counts towards your regular website visitors which will be displayed when those networks are selling your advertising space and the more visitors you have to your website is the more the space is valued and you can charge a higher price if your desire.

This is my blueprint to internet marketing success with free traffic as your best friend. You can really earn a living on the internet with these types of techniques and the best part is that it doesn’t have to stop here because you can just repeat this process with a new website and do it over and over until you achieve your desired income. I truly hope that I was able to help you understand how you can drive tons of free traffic to your website and earn an amazing residual income at the same time.

By: Alexander Day

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One of the very common mistakes made by many job seekers is getting into easily and quickly available jobs irrelevant to their educational backgrounds or interests. Several reasons could be attributed for such an erroneous conclusion.

·         Some may not be matured enough to choose an apt path

·         Some may fail or find difficult to get a job in their chosen field owing to heavy competition

·         Some may be desperate to get into any sort of job to make instant money

·         Some may simply get allured by such jobs

·         Some others may be simply in need of a job

People engaged in such jobs may lose interest in a short period, and by the time they realize they often lose most valuable time during which they should have laid a strong foundation for their targeted jobs and at the same time remain inexperienced as their work experience might not help in their chosen field. This makes a huge difference in building their targeted career. Added to these, the most distressing factor could be comparison with their friends settled in better positions in chosen fields well ahead of them both in earnings and hierarchy.

In such a context, one may feel frustrated, and if they wish to get back to their targeted jobs, they might have to begin from the entry-level position. Hence taking a right step is a key and decisive factor in building up career.

As a fresher one may feel difficult in making his way towards targeted destination. This is not uncommon and usually experienced by almost all job seekers. But with strategic planning, discipline and good homework one can easily reach his passionate destination. Don’t look for initial unripened fruits or fruits that are short lived.

Your chosen field relevant to your educational background or interest or passion will provide you all – thrilling and challenging work environment, love and interest towards work, passion for growth, and ultimate satisfaction; you will strive for excellence in such a targeted job.

Secondly, part time jobs also play a key role in achieving success in your aspired field. Jobs done during the course of your studies, or any point of time add a lot to your profile and help in easy and quick entry into a job. This experience counts a lot. On the other hand part time jobs irrelevant to your educational background or interests may provide you instant money but do not add to you profile, and hence may not help you further. So be selective even in part time jobs, no matter even if they bring you small amount of money initially.

Finally, keep yourself updated of the job news that appears in news papers, web or any other source. Job portals help you a lot in this regard. In addition to providing most updated information, they offer you many other services. Do a lot of home work before attending any interview. Form a group with your friends or job seekers. Conducting mock interviews and mutual exchange of ideas help you a lot in achieving success.

By: pagadalla naveen

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A computer user sitting at home can access freely as he/she wishes through internet connection. Day by day people are bound to use internet facility either at home, office, business or industry. Users of internet feel as incomplete if not being able to use even for a day or some couple of hours. And so it is highly recommended to have internet security in your PC for the safety purpose.

People use internet for varied purposes like say for shopping, to gather statistical information, for payment of bills, it provides tutorial for students, to download or upload pictures, videos and songs, to build sites and blogs etc. Every industries, companies, web master and many other professional as well as non-professional are being club in this world of internet because of its uses, benefits or advantages it offers to a person. Of course, now it’s all depend on the minds on people as how they put into use of it.

Internet security is an essential element to run any computer if you want to keep you computer safe. This security feature maintains your PC by not allowing the online threats to let in. Internet security can be done in your computer by any way as you wish. If you don’t know much about the source to get internet security feature in your PC then there are several ways out to solve your problem like to refer books serving internet knowledge and to follow the simple rules to download it. Now, it’s on you whether to get it free or as payable. Internet security by not allowing other elements to enter stops the harm or damage caused to your computer.

Internet security saves your PC through different ways. Firewall protection, Antivirus and AntiSpyware are sufficient enough to take lead on your computer. Obviously, then there are very minute chance for any threat to be detected. But your responsibility does not end here as it becomes your prime duty to keep upgrading your software. The importance of upgraded software is that your software contains all latest feature which helps to fight against the attack of any virus or spyware. It is of equal significance to know the time period of your software and it is advisable to update all your internet security software before the expiry date comes. Many people approach for latest version like internet security 2008 and others just need to upgrade or update till the date.

Hence, to maintain a compatible relation between a computer and user it is highly preferable to keep internet security software for the long life of computer. Now, you can feel free to breathe and relax keeping aside all worries and tension for your PC. Internet is boon as well as bane and to overcome bane keep internet security applications in your computer.

By: Bella Mclaine

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Every family does have conflicts. This is a normal issue as a family comprises of many different individuals and the fact that they are different individuals entitles them to different behavior patterns and opinions which may not agree with everybody else and can result in conflicts. The problem arises only when these issues blow out of proportion.

A family is an important institution and the relationships must not be allowed to weaken therefore it is advisable to seek help from a family counselor to rectify the problems right at the onset. Qualified professional counselors are available today who help families in resolving the issues.

These family counselors are able to seal the cracks that have emerged in the relationships. They help the family to deal with the issues, discuss their problems and find a solution that is acceptable to all . In this way with family counseling it is possible to bring back those bygone happy days once again.

Family counseling is important to find a solution to the issue before the family itself disintegrates. When relationships begin to turn sour and people in a family become selfish and are not bothered about the other members feelings the matter is indeed serious and requires someone to step in or else the situation may soon become so bad that nobody would be in a position to help.

Problems do exist everywhere and a family is no exception. Problems can exist in any family but the members of the family have to be the first ones to realize the existence of a problem. In case they are not able to solve the problems they must seek professional help from a family counselor.

A family counselor should have the following characteristics to be able to make a difference.

· Should be professionally qualified to be a family counselor

· Should be a patient listener and be able to give a good ear to the problems of the members of the family.

· He should be capable of getting the family members together to discuss their issues.

· Should be able to counsel the members as per the requirements either individually or together and be able to provide sound advice

· Should have an analytical mind so that he is in a position to look at the situation analytically and in an unbiased manner.

· He should be able to spot the problems , bridge the gap and find the right solution and would treat the problem from its root.

A family counselor is an expert in relationships and should be able to unite the family and bring back their happiness. Family counseling thus, plays an important role by not only resolving the issue but also restoring the happy days that the family at one time shared and enjoyed together.

Family counseling is your professional friend who has the qualification and experience to make a difference in your life. He is your friend indeed and can be the friend, philosopher and guide you need to hold your hand and see you through the crisis.

The initiative must first be taken from your side and once you detect the problems and see that you are not in a position to remedy it, seek immediate help from a family counselor before its too late.

By: Sig Yanosway

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