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How to brand your Business card
Everyone who owns a business, either brick and mortar or online, has a business card. So why then do we hand these out with the same bland titles. Business cards, should say something about your business and be memorable. This day and age with al the PDA’s the Rolodex of business cards are going by the way side. So then how do you create a leave behind that will get you remembered. You can search the internet for Free Business cards, and get back a ton of results. Free Business cards can be found everywhere on the internet, so why www.business-cards-free.com. As we researched this vendor they have the capabilities to create a CD business card. While a paper business card may not get you noticed, I know that one in the Shape and texture of a CD would. you can see their offers here at free business cards
Help your website make headlines
There are a number of companies that can help you increase web traffic.
ThinkBIGsites is a place you can go for search engine placement. These guys can do a check on your website and find the best ways to optimize it for the search engines.
As soon as you get your website optimization plan going, you will see a big difference on the search results for your website.
Take the time to learn some of the tricks to getting your website in more search engine results and find a company like thinkbigsites.com.com to help fine tune your website. So be like the grocery store that has the big sign and all the advertisements and get an SEO company on your side today!
Parking your domain for Free and making money
Using Domain parking services
We have recently tried a new service called Domain Parking through a vendor called Gold Key. The results so far have been very impressive. See the details, and if you wish to try them out they are free. Unlike some services, they do not charge to park your domainn, and they even provide loads of templates to use for sites.
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GoldKey.com’s Domain Parking service enables you earn money from your domain names without the need to develop your own website. Goldkey.com offers better branding of your names, real-time statistics, higher click thru rates, and a wide range of customization features to help you maximize your Portfolio!
VOIP Calling your parents
One of the newer and growing VOIP companies is called Packet 8. VOIP (Voice over IP) using your existing High Speed Internet connection. We recommend a Broadband connection, as sometimes you will notice some noise on a DSL line, especially if your are downloading any large files over the internet while talking on the phone. Most providers you will be able to use your existing phones, but some are will not. We have found the Packet 8 to be very reliable and have recently made the switch. You can see there information here Packet 8
A great technology resource to help compare and get questions answered is :
Packet8 is an affordable and easy-to-use broadband telephone and videophone service. Designed with both residential and business customers in mind, Packet8 allows anyone with broadband (high-speed) Internet access to use their regular phone to make UNLIMITED calls to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada for as little as $19.99 per month. Packet8 subscribers with videophones can make video calls for as little as $19.99 per month. All Packet8 subscribers get world wide UNLIMITED calling to other Packet8 subscribers at no extra charge.
Comparison shop for HealthCare
Vimovo is a new consumer health care site that allows you to search and locate health care providers and insurance in your local area. their belief is that the consumer should be more empowered to choose their providers and insurers that will benefit them and their families. Vimo will help to make buynig buying health care and insurance more transparent and more cost effective. Consumers can get objective and comprehensive shopping information for insurance, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), medical procedures, doctors and dentists.
They have made a very user friendly site to be able to search by Zip code for your healthcare provider. You can also compare Health Care Savings Accounts (HSA) in your area to help in your decisions. They also provide a great tool to research and review various Health Care Providers (HCPs) in your area. The Vimo database contains over 650,000 Dr.’s and over 13,000 disciplinary actions. Each report on the HCP will contain, among other things, Board certifications, hospital affiliations, and any disciplinary actions.
(formerly known as Healia)is in the news and here is what some of those reports had to say:
Vimo (which thankfully just changed its name from Healthia) is a search tool aiming at allowing consumers to access doctors and insurers, and eventually medical products and services. CEO Chini Krishnan says Vimo is “a comparison shopping site like Lending Tree.” Health IT.com Octrober 9,2006
Can any Blog Make Money?
The answer is Any Kind! So, the right question should be “what blog can make more money?”
The answer is Well Prepared Blog! 
What to prepare? Why not just posting? If you want to just blog and you don’t care things to prepare, maybe you’re not serious about making money from your blog. Otherwise, please read on.
First, I want to say this, “DON’T BLOG unless you know what you’re going to blog!”
By this, I don’t mean only conclusion of you blog. Before you blog, sit back from your keyboard and take a time to answer following 3 questions:
1. About what topic am I going to write? Are many people want to know about that topic?
2. With that topic, what product or link am I gonna introduce?
3. And how am I gonna do that?
Check out our resource for Adsense Alternatives: Click Here
InBlog Ads a new way to monetize your blog
Attention all WordPress bloggers: InBlogAds has recenetly launched allowing you to sell the ad space on your blogs. They offer benefits for both advertisers and publishers. If you are an advertiser you get direct html links, which can help drive targeted traffic,while increasing your link. With the context links, they are typically included within the blog, which search engines love and appreciate. You can have your site reviewed by the community of bloggers, and the posts will be up for a minimum of 30 days
For Publishers, the current technology works with WordPress and is currently being tested for free blog sites such as Blogger.com, and WordPress.com. You can control the types of ads and posts that are on your blog, as you approve or deny them to fit your blog content. Each publisher can earn as much as 60% of the ad revenue sold through their blog. Since these are ads are not contextually served, similar to Googles Adsense, the content can be run along side other ads.
Phishing Alert part 2
Well I guess you need to be careful what you write about. Just after I wrote about the Phishing vs Vishing, I received an email from the Ebay Account abuse team??? They wanted to inform that my account had been compromised, and unusual activity had been reported by bank. They instructed me to click on the link to verify my account within 48 hours, or my account would be closed. And they would have to close any PayPal accounts linked to my eBay account. It was even signed by the VP of eBay abuse report dept. WOW! Of course I did nothing, forwarded to the eBay fraud email address. I did click on the view source for the email, and you could see where the links led to and they were not ebay. Also, the email was cloaked under a gmail.com account. So I sent that over to Google.
Parents using tracking software
With the explosion of the social networking sites such as MySpace and others, parents need to have an option if they feel their children may be putting themselves in harms way without knowing it. I read an article the other day that talked about a software that is now available that will allow anyone on the web to see the location of any MySpace account. So any predators out there that access this software can now plug in a MySpace account, of a friendly kid they chat with online and use their MySpace account to find out their location.
Using tracking software such that is available from companies such as SpectorSoft
tracking software, parents can now be able to follow the actions of their kids while helping to block access to certain sites. Their software offers such features such as:
Records Emails
Chats, IMs
Web Sites
Programs Run
Keystrokes Typed
Peer to Peer File Sharing
Now to those who ask why should parents act like Big brother and is there a privacy concerns or the rights of the kids. As my Dad always said ” while you are in my house, you follow my rules” As our kids become more sophisticated and spend more time on the internet, parents needs to be able to have tools that will alert them to activities, that I believe are not meant to invade their privacy, but protect them from unknown strangers with bad intentions. Spector Soft even has a tracking software (called eBlaster) that will email all of the recordings directly to your email address. This is especially nice, since you can have all the tools and safeguards in place, but if you are unable to access the information in a timely fashion it is useless.
I look at those series that Dateline NBC has been running where these grown men are showing up at girls houses, expecting to meet an underage person. It is quite troubling knowing that these guys are out there in every part of the country.
The death of Adsense?
I started using Adsense about a year ago on one of our main traffic sites. It took about 6 months to start seeing an kind of CTR and actual dollars. Funny thing is that once we started getting closer to the $100 thresh hold, we got a nice letter from Google stating that our account was being monitored, and there could be possible account closures. We actually hit the $100 payout and were awaiting our check, when 2 days before the payment was to be made, Google closed our account with the standard email, that because of reasons that they cannot explain, they had to terminate our account. I understand this has happened to quite a few people.
So the model as it stands is not very lucrative for small website owners.. The new model challenges the Adsense model for bloggers, in that you actually get paid for your hared work, and you know rather quickly if you meet the advertisers needs. I am all in with Pay Per Post, and hope to see them expand and widen their advertiser list. The reponse has been awesome, and the future looks very bright.
So you have a website, now how to get visitors?
We actually own several websites that help provide free visitors to your new website. These are commonly referred to as traffic exchanges. This is where a person will be spend anywhere from 15-30 seconds viewing your sites, in exchange they receive credits for other to review their sites. Our major Exchange is www.traffexone.com. It is free to join, and we average about 230K page view per months. Check us out and let us know what you think.
We are going to use a new tool we just found called www.trailfire.com to create a trail of traffic exchanges for our viewers to check out.
Tips on starting a small business
1. Take the time out to explore and understand whether or not you are compatible with running our own business. Some people are just plain happier and better off financially on the other end of the paycheck.
2.Get your personal finances in order. Before you jump into the entrepreneurship world, get your own money matters squared away.
3. Pick your niche. Many small business owners succeed in businesses that are hardly unique or innovative. Take stock of your skills, interests, and employment history to select the business that is best suited for you.
To scrub or not to scrub
No office or hospital nurse would be complete without the scrubs. It used to be they came in a handful of colors. Now they come in a range of different patterns, and colors. This is especially great for the specialty nurse, in need of medical uniforms, as the some patients seem to respond better. There is a theory of what is commonly called ” White Coat Hypertension” This is when a patient visits a Dr., they come in their White Coat and the patients blood pressure, rises due the to the fact they are worried what the Dr. might tell them bad news. For those in the medical professional, different colored scrubs, especially in Pediatrics, it can be a great distraction for the child who is in the patient waiting room
Can click fraud be prevented?
I have read several articles lately on the rise of click fraud. This generally happens when people with no intent to purchase a product or service click on ads listed in a site. There have been reports that companies will click on their competitiors ads to drive up their marketing costs. Google, just settled a lawsuit in the South, pertaining to Click Fraud. As the internet continues to grow and reach more people, using PPC will become more competitve, and better systems will be need to be in place to protect the advertiser.