Archive for February, 2010

What is the single most powerful marketing technique you can use to grow an existing business? Opinions vary on this point, for more detail go to: www.create-video-product.com but having produced and promoted more than 50 products online, my answer is resoundingly clear: Digital Products.

There tends to be a gap between a product with all the potential benefits it can provide, and the customer actual “getting” those benefits. And that gap typically involves the customer actually using the product. And using it properly. And using it fully.

If you only plan to sell one product one time to a customer, then maybe it’s not that critical that he get the full benefit of the product,  For more help visit to: www.product-launching.com. Desirable of course, but not critical.

But “smart marketing” dictates that often the first sale to a customer is not where you make most of your money. Why? Because the first sale has to pay for the marketing and advertising to attract the customer in the first place. In fact, if you just “break even” on that first sale, you may be doing pretty well.

The implications are that there must be additional sales to the customer in order to actually make any significant amount of money. But the trouble is that if the customer failed to get the benefit from his first purchase, what makes us think there will be any additional purchases?

Now, I’m going to tell you about a shocking statistic I pulled directly from my own business 3 or 4 years ago that almost knocked me over. I sent a survey out to a large number of customers for one of my consumer software product lines, asking them what they liked, disliked, wanted to see added etc.

I received quite a large number of replies, but the thing that absolutely blew me away was the fact that nearly half – nearly 50 percent – admitted that not only they used the software, they had never even installed it. Here I am looking for ways to add more value to the product in order to increase the benefit to the customer, and half of them hadn’t even bothered to look at it. They’d bought it. They’d received it. But they hadn’t ever gotten around to loading it.

Talk about an uphill battle. These folks clearly weren’t getting ANY of the benefit if they didn’t even install the software, much less use it. How on earth was I going to sell them a second product, or a third?  But, I went on to read the rest of the e-mail. It turns out that he already had a business which sold a physical product to the same market that I sold my Software to, and that my software provided the “missing link” between his product and the benefits he wanted his customers to receive.

I started with one of my higher-priced business to business products, and added a video training series showing not only how to use the product, but how to streamline the customer’s business in the context of using the product. This went well beyond just a “user guide” and could have stood on its own as a business improvement product.

Best of all, there was no way a customer could fail to get the benefit from my product. This video series covered everything from the time the customer paid me money until the time his business was running smoothly as a result of using my product properly. It was like having a “greased chute” between my product and the benefits my customer wanted.

If you sell a product or a service – whether online or offline – if there are any steps that your customer must take in order to use your product properly or get the full benefit of your offering, this digital product bundling technique is dynamite!

Jagmohan Singh Gusain
http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-tips-articles/product-creation-most-powerful-marketing-technique-701430.html

People die each year from beliefs related to non-Western medicine. This involves ridiculous and dogmatic beliefs like homeopathy, vaccine -denial, herbal/natural medicine, ancient chinese medicine, and many others. Will this ever stop? Or will alternative theories to actual science always undermine our advancement as a species?

As the saying goes, there’s a sucker born every minute. As long as some people continue to lack critical thinking skills, and as long as there are charlatans or sadly deluded alt med advocates, alt med will continue to hurt people directly or indirectly.

What you should do is try to warn people about the dangers of listening to miseducated "healers" or take unproven, untested alt med treatments. Even if you can convince or plant a seed of doubt and skepticism in just one person, you’ve done a great thing.

Medical science will continue to advance and has never been held back by alt med. On that you never have to worry.

What Software can i use to take the audio out of a video and make it an audio file? Please answer will return the favor.

use any video converter.It’s free & very multipurpose.
extract the wav file from the part of the video & then convert it to mp3 or whatever by a software called switch.

Most times, the only way to remove spyware from your computer is to install spyware software, or anti spyware software.  This software will take care of that nasty spyware quickly.

Anti spyware software works a few different ways.  They can either do a scan of your system to see if there is presently any spyware installed, or the anti spyware program will actively protect your system from spyware that is attacking your computer presently.

The first type of protection, the scan, is used for detecting and removing the current spyware that is installed on your computer.  This is usually how anti spyware Software works, and it is usually the most popular.  You can usually do a quick scan, or a smart scan, which will scan only some of the files in your computer which spyware is known to regularly infect and install.  The good thing about this is that the scan will find a lot of spyware, or most of the spyware fairly quickly.  The downside is that the scan is not going through all the files in your computer.  The other option is a full scan.  The full scan takes longer, but it will scan your entire computer and maximize its chances at finding all the spyware.  The anti virus software will run the scan in the background while you can still do work on your computer.

The other way the anti spyware software will protect your computer is through real time protection.  Now, some software may contain each type of protection, or a combination of the two.  Having both types is best.  This way you can have your computer actively protected against spyware attacks all the time.  A pop up window, a small one, will sometimes come up alerting you that a spyware attack has been blocked.  It happens maybe once a day with my program.

With the addition of new spyware, anti spyware programs have to become increasingly good at detecting and removing spyware to satisfy the user.  No one wants spyware on their machine, it steals your personal information and takes up bandwidth, ultimately slowing your connection and stealing your information.  Make sure your anti spyware software updates itself automatically to the latest spyware definitions so it can properly defend your computer against spyware.

Paul Abrams
http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/anti-spyware-software-714824.html

Most people, at one time or another, seriously think of starting their own business. They are lured by the promise of unbridled creativity, freedom from restrictions and the chance to make a lot of money. The reason most people don’t follow through with their dreams is primarily because they really have no idea of how or where to start.

One sure fire way to achieve success in any endeavor is to market something you absolutely love. When you are passionate about your business, your enthusiasm can be infectious. Unfortunately, all the passion in the world will not lead to success unless it is tempered with knowledge.

There are some benchmark conditions that must be met in order to garner sure-fire success in an online marketing business. Some of the modules that should be investigated when you are considering starting your own online marketing business are:

1) Market Research:

It is essential that you determine the marketability of your product/service prior to launching an Online Business. You must ensure that your product/service is one that others need or want. Salability must also be factored in to the equation: Is the market open enough to sustain your produce/service? Are there a lot of people who will be willing to spend money to get what you offer? How will you market and deliver your product/service? How much competition will you have? How do you determine your price?

2) Developing a Business Plan:

Every successful business owner knows that having a comprehensive, written business plan provides a well defined road map for success. Without knowing where you are going and how you plan to get there the chances of your business realizing a profit are fairly slim. Determining the cost of doing business and how you will obtain the funds to become operational can be attained by developing a financial forecast. Preparing a financial workbook will outline how long it will take to develop your business and define exactly how much income you can expect to make in a pre-determined time frame.

3) Increasing your knowledge Base:

Running a flourishing on line business takes a lot of work and dedication, but most importantly, the success of your online venture absolutely hinges on knowledge. As the owner of the Company you must have a working knowledge of many different facets of business operation. Be prepared to acquaint yourself with all the nuances of online marketing – from where and how to advertise, how to market and deliver your product and how to recognize and take advantage of other opportunities that will increase your profit base.

4) Developing the Proper Mindset:

Operating any business (either online or off) requires a great deal of dedication. As the owner you will ultimately be responsible for the success or failure of your venture. You must be willing to devote a lot of time and effort to establishing and maintaining your operations. In addition, once you have reached a certain level of success it may become necessary for you to hire others to assist you. Are you willing to learn the skills necessary for effective management and administration including where to get the required information and how to apply it to your particular business?

As you can see from the above, starting an online business is not as simple as developing a web page and waiting for the orders to roll in. In order become solidly established in your online business, it is essential that you obtain good, solid information – preferably from other successful marketers. In the past this could be quite a problem, however there is now a comprehensive, detailed and success-building program available that can show you how to develop your online business in as little as seven days.

“You Can Make Your Living Online” is a fully developed internet marketing course that has received full recommendation from some of the most successful online marketers on the web today.

This comprehensive course will unlock many of the secrets of internet marketing that are so elusive and have presented a major stumbling block to the newcomer. The information provided in this course will guide you step-by-step through the often confusing cyber market while providing proven techniques to assist you in enhancing and growing your online marketing venture.

With in depth instructions from how to build a website to unleashing the secrets of how to obtain high rankings on the most popular search engines, “You Can Make Your Living Online” offers a safe and proven method of fast-tracking your online business in order to attain the heights of success.

There are many other courses available online; however most of them take months of intensive learning and cost thousands of dollars. “You Can Make Your Living Online” can provide all the information you will need to institute, develop and attain success with your online marketing business in just seven weeks and at a fraction of the cost of other internet courses.

Do you want to get off on the right foot when embarking on your online experience? Do you want to learn the secrets of success from internet marketing gurus who have perfected online marketing? Are you willing to take a seven-week interactive course that virtually guarantees undreamed of financial freedom?

If so, you can obtain all the information you need to embark on a successful online business by visiting netincomeplace.com.

Micheal
http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/4-key-steps-to-online-business-success-123873.html

An ounce of prevention towards wellness -

Learn the simple steps to living a healthier and happier life!

Concern over health and how to improve your health has become a topic more and more of us think about and try to implement in our lives. Advances in medicine have helped us live longer lives and have allowed us to overcome some of the ills and infections that used to kill many people. Vaccines have helped prevent illness and death. They have eliminated diseases like smallpox and have helped against rabies, diphtheria and the plague.

However, we have started to incur a new host of health problems due to the length of our life, the processed foods we eat, the fast paced lives we live and the chemicals that pollute our world. Every day we see new commercials on TV about the next great drug that will make your life better or healthier. But do you actually listen to the list of possible side effects. Are these drugs really helping or just creating different problems. Remember, no pharmaceutical company ever made money by curing you quickly so you could stop taking their pills.

Why wait until you feel poorly before you see a doctor that will only work on alleviating your symptoms and not on fixing the underlying problem. Start achieving wellness and begin improving your health before you get to the point you need to see a doctor. Work on improving your overall wellness.

As the old adage says “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Of the leading causes of death in the United States, many can be prevented. The likelihood of contracting heart disease, diabetes, and other health issues can be directly impacted by the choices we make every day. The choices about what we put into our bodies and the choices we make that affect our personal environment.

Here are some things you can do to increase your wellness and start down the path to improve your health:

Diet and Nutrition – Your diet does a lot in determining your overall health and wellness. What you put into your body does make a difference. “It’s easy to buy into some pretty popular nutrition misconceptions — myths and half-truths that ultimately find us making far fewer healthier food choices than we realize,” says New York University nutritionist Samantha Heller, MS, RD.

Read labels, don’t trust all the advertising and always try to get whole foods and not processed substitutes.

The same goes for your supplements. Get those that are made from natural ingredients and aren’t over processed. Every vitamin and mineral and phytochemical in our body works in concert with one another, and it’s easy to knock that balance off. Be sure the supplements you are taking are balanced and introduced to your body in a way that they are usable and work together as nature intended.

Some of the things you want to make sure you get enough of in your diet are fiber, antioxidants, soy, and water. These things along with a well balanced nutritional intake of whole foods and supplements can go a long way in improving health and increasing wellness.

Weight – Maintaining a healthy weight is critical to improving health. You don’t have to be as thin as a rail – this is actually just as unhealthy as being overweight – you just need to keep the excess in check.

It all begins with attitude. Start by changing how you feel about yourself, your body and your eating habits. Change to a can do attitude where you start to do what’s right for you. Simple moderate exercise, eating a healthy breakfast (no skipping allowed), reducing your calorie intake by not taking just one more are all small things we can do to get in better health by being at a better weight.

Don’t go for the fad diets that don’t work or at best get you to lose weight for a while but then just put it back on later. A slow and steady change will help you lose the weight and keep it off and it will be much healthier for you.

Get plenty of whole foods, protein (quite often a good soy protein can give you what you need without adding fat to your diet) and drink lots of water. Water is critical to the health and wellness of your body. It helps rid you of toxic build up and it is needed for normal cell processes to work. Another side effect of water is that it can make you feel full without adding the calories so you will eat less.

Exercise – Aerobic exercise is very important to maintaining your wellness and improving your health. It has been linked to cancer prevention, reduction of osteoporosis, helping with depression, lowering the risk of heart disease and diabetes, and of course obesity and weight control. It can also help with cognitive functions – meaning you can think more clearly and work more efficiently.

Aerobic exercise makes most of us think of joining a gym or having to run several miles every day. This is just not the case. You can keep it very simple and still achieve benefits. Walking is one of the best exercises out there. It is simple, easy on the joints, doesn’t cost us a lot of money and it can be done pretty much anywhere. To get a benefit from walking, you just need to make sure that it is aerobic. That means you want to walk at a pace that leaves you feeling “warm and slightly out of breath”. One good way to start is the 5 out 5 back plan. Just walk 5 minutes away from the house and then you are force to walk 5 minutes back. Increase the time out as your health and fitness increase.

Stress Management – Most of us live with some type of stress every day. It has just become part of our lives. It has also become one reason we don’t always feel our best and why we are susceptible to feeling run down and ‘sick’.

Reducing stress can help now and our long term health. Stress keeps our bodies from functioning at their best and slowly wears on us. Find way to relax, to have that ‘me’ time where the pressures of the day can be pushed aside.

Try to simplify your life. Our world has become so fast paced and ‘in your face’ – ‘do it now’ that we just don’t have time to sit and watch the clouds or the rain or…. One simple way to gain a little sanity is to disconnect from the fast pace, try just turning off the cell phone. Just leave it behind for an hour.

But, no matter how much we work on getting rid of the stresses in our life there will always be something that causes us stress. Luckily, there are ways to help us overcome the stress nutritionally.

Avoiding Toxins – With all of our advances and science and technology, man has come up with many great things to improve our quality of life. However, we are learning that some of these things that are there to improve actually produce side effects that can hurt us and our health – now and in the future.

The EPA has warned that indoor air pollution is more of a concern than the pollution we find outside. Many cleaners as well as skin and beauty products actually contain harmful toxins.

There are companies out there that do produce green cleaners that are safe for people and for the environment. Read labels and know what your beauty and cleaning products contain.

One of the best ways to maintain your health is to wash your hands. We touch so many different things with our hands things that might have been cleaned with toxins or touched by something unhealthy that by just washing, you can cut down on many unwanted health effects.

Adequate Sleep – Giving your body the sleep it requires is a great way to keep it healthy. During sleep your body regenerates and rejuvenates. It is absolutely imperative to get enough sleep, but getting more doesn’t always mean you are getting better quality sleep.

Quit Smoking – Despite the many warnings and the known health risks smoking is still prevalent around the world. Quitting this habit can not only improve your health drastically and improve your chances of preventing future disease; it can relieve you of a financial burden. Just think if you applied all the money you spend on cigarettes on healthy nutritional supplements how much you could increase your health and wellness.

Its not always the difficult path that is required for change. Quite often making a few simple changes in our lives can make dramatic results.

Think about it!

Michael Tomberlin
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/improve-your-Health-716139.html

It is well-known that China is one of the biggest consumer electronics factories in the world. Here you can get quality electronic products at reasonable prices. Popular items include MP3, MP4, MP3 Watch, MP4 Watch, Digital Camera, Digital Photo Frame, Digital Camcorder, Car DVD Portable HDD Media Player, Digital Video Recorder and so on. Many made-in-China electronics are the bestsellers in global electronic market

Quality and price are the top two considerations of most consumers. Tradestead Corporation Limited, a leading consumer electronics wholesaler based in China, offers a wide range of superior electronics at competitive prices. Digital Video Camera is one of our bestsellers. Following is an introduction about DCR-008-2SV Digital Video Recorder (Color: Silver), the popular star sought after by many consumers.

If u can not see the picture, please visit our web and put in the number for product search, then you will see it!

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The DCR-008-2SV Digital Video Recorder is a full-color multifunctional device. Compact and fashionable, it provides high quality video and audio recording as well as super storage capacity for large files. With the built-in speaker and headphone, it can play like a MP3 player. It can also be connected with PC, so you can download pictures via the USB interface which supports file formats including JPEG, ASF, MP3 and WAV. Using the professional picture editing Software, you can beautify the picture with your brilliant ideas.

Features:
• A. 5-in-1 multifunctional design: It can function as a digital camera, a digital camcorder, a PC camera, a voice recorder and a MP3 player.
• B. View pictures or videos on the 1.7-inch TFT LCD screen
• C. Download videos or pictures through the USB cable provided
• D. 3.1 mega digital camera
• E. Portable mass storage device
• F. Video recording
• G. Support SD/MMC card
• H. Web camera for video conferencing
• I. Internal memory: 32MB Flash Memory
Package Content:

• 1 x Digital Video Camera
• 1 x USB Cable
• 1 x Installation CD
• 1 x AV Cable
• 1 x English User Guide
• 1 x Earphone
• 1 x Hand Strap
• 1 x  camera Bag

Tradestead is a Chinese based general trading and wholesale company located in the city of Shenzhen, the global manufacturing and sourcing center of electronic products. We are a leading exporter and wholesaler of consumer electronics, IT equipment, and accessories direct from China.

We take advantage of our unique geographical location and cutting-edge B2B E-commerce platform to provide timely product information, real-time price quotes, high-quality products, and value-added services to customers all over the world. To know more about us, please visit www.tradestead.com

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Discover the business model I use to create multiple passive income streams.

http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/passive-income-streams-101/

Also, there’s a bonus tip for adsense users at the tail end of the video that quadrupled my income.

Please comment, and subscribe to my YouTube channel if you’d like to see more detailed videos about exactly how to implement these strategies. Thanks, and Cheers!

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This is a demonstration of a universal FM transmitter compatible with all iPods, iPhone 3G/3Gs, and any other MP3 player that has a standard headphone jack. This FM transmitter features a user tunable frequency between 88.1 and 88.7 FM along with a LED power indicator.

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/01/Steve_Wozniak_Creativity_in_the_21st_Century

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak voices his frustration with Toyota for not acknowledging a software glitch he discovered in his 2010 Prius that causes the accelerator to go wild under certain conditions of cruise control. “It’s in the Software, it’s not a bad accelerator pedal,” he says. “It can be very scary, but luckily for me I can hit the brake.”

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Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and philanthropist in conversation at the Discovery Forum 2010 with Emmy-award winning journalist Dana King from CBS 5 Eyewitness News.

Renowned technology pioneer Steve Wozniak speaks to the importance of hands-on learning and encouraging creativity, and how the Bay Area Discovery Museum is a critical resource for preparing children for the challenges of the 21st century.

The Discovery Forum serves to increase awareness about the importance of childhood creativity, and raises support for the Museum’s educational exhibitions and programs. – Bay Area Discovery Forum

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America’s leading innovators.

In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for “single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.”

Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak “adopted” the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose.

Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless Internet platform.

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