How To Launder Money Succesfully:
This video was inspired by Annetta Kapon’s installation “Laundry” (click on “Laundry” for more information).
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A week ago, I showed you how to save money buying great value presents. Because time is precious, instead of sending you back to my previous post, let me repeat these 3 rules for you:
Rule #1: Buy great value, don’t buy cheap.
Rule #2: Buy top quality brands at deep discount.
Rule #3: Buy 1 present for the whole family.
Last week, I presented you with some ideas such as photography (both Canon and Nikon); the ultimate games console, the new Xbox 360 with Kinect; and suitable Samsung LCD TV models including LED and Plasma TV models.
Here are a couple of great ideas especially for kids, your own kids and other kids including the ones that hide inside every grown-up. [click to continue…]
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Christmas is approaching, times are tough, and we want to make the family happy. But how can we reconcile these opposing forces and still save money buying great value presents?
The secret is not to go for the obvious but to be clever about it. Make intelligent choices.
Here are two simple rules that help you not just in the run up to Christmas but anytime: [click to continue…]
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Easy Video Player is a new program that makes lots of claims:
Supposedly, it allows you to upload a video to Amazon S3 or elsewhere at the touch of a button, it lets you embed links, images, opt-in pages, and, crucially, the publishers claim that it is very easy to use.
I decided to test these claims and do a live review of a first time use of Easy Video Player. Not only that, but the first time user is defnitely not a technical wizzard, quite the opposite. Here is Part 1 of the review:
If you want to go directly to Part 2 of this review, click here.
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In the not too distant future, in a galaxy close to home…
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Haven’t we heard it all before? “Realise Your Dreams!” – “Fulfil Your Potential” – “Get What You Want!” Starting with Napoleon Hill right up to “The Secret” and beyond, Self-Help books, records, tapes, CDs, DVDs, MP3s, MP4s, charts, cards and whatever media format you can think of have flooded our lives. With what result, though? Hands up all those who actually thought themselves rich!
“Think And Grow Rich” goes a long way towards dispelling the myths about success, wealth creation and achieving your dreams and goals. The problem with Mr Hill is that he wasn’t a practitioner of the art, or science, if you wish, that he propagated. He only reportered on it and stopped frustratingly short of revealing the final step all aspiring practitioners have to take. He told us what to do but not how to do it effectively. The same holds for most of his successors.
He’s on the right track but, sadly, he, too, told us only what it was but not how we, habitual left-brainers, who don’t even know what “Right Brain” means, would activate our Right Brain in order to get started down this route today.
As we’re all online, let’s talk computers. What we need to know to get this ‘Right Brain’ thing is how to crack the code, or algorithm, of success. What is the key to that will help us decipher, decrypt, unlock this secret?
Rather than just say “Think Right Brain,” let’s break the problem down into manageable bits. What precisely do really successful men and women do not only to be successful but to stay successful after they reached their goal?
- How did they crack the code that propelled them to success?
- What programs, if any, are they running, day in, day out to stay on track?
- What are the data that they have to feed into the algorithm to obtain the results they want?
- How do they generate the output that allows them to achieve their results?
- Is this the same for everyone, or does it vary from one person to another? If it varies, how can it be adapted to be of use to you and me?
- Is there a secret, a master key that will unlock the gate to the hall of champions for us? How do we activate this master key?
- Finally, what we’d really like is a detailed guide with plenty of examples taking us by the hand and guiding us step by step and, of course, at an affordable price.
Wishful thinking? The search for the holy grail of success? Quite on the contrary.
The answers to these questions give us the 7 keys to realise our dreams that neither Napoleon Hill nor ‘The Secret’ revealed. And these answers are here: “The Eureka! Enigma” by Ron G Holland is the guide that takes us beyond the point where all others stopped short.
The Eureka! Enigma
“The Eureka! Enigma” has been 30 years in the making. It builds on Ron’s first two books, “Talk & Grow Rich – How to Create Wealth Without Capital” and “Turbo Success.” What’s more, Ron writes as a practitioner, not a reporter. He uses these keys daily to help himself, his friends, colleagues and clients to unlock the passage to achieve goals and dreams.
In the “The Eureka! Enigma” Ron shows us how to activate our Right Brain, how to visualise, and why others have fallen short of their promises. It is a powerful user manual helping us to unlock parts of our brain others simply don’t reach. I must attach one warning, though. It is a USER manual, and that means you must USE it. It is not enough just to read this book. You must do what it tells you to do. Only action will achieve results.
You may well be sceptical. I was, too. Like me, you probably read lots of books full of promises and regrettably short of producing results. You probably would like to check it out first. Here is what I did: I took his earlier book, “Talk & Grow Rich – How to Create Wealth Without Capital,” for a free test drive (you can download it in MP3 or pdf format here). After that, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on “The Eureka! Enigma.” I hope that like me you’ll invest in his latest, state-of-the-art book in the knowledge that you’re doing the best you can for yourself.
Talk & Grow Rich
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How is your list of New Year’s resolution coming along? Growing? Planning to keep them all at once?
Here is a word from the wise: DON’T! When you’re overambitious, you’re planning to fail. Rather copy the methods of those who were successful:
“People who kept their resolutions tended to have broken their goal into smaller steps and rewarded themselves when they achieved one of these. They also told their friends about their goals, focused on the benefits of success and kept a diary of their progress.
“People who planned a series of smaller goals had an average success rate of 35%, while those who followed all five of the above strategies had a 50% chance of success.”
Read the full article here.
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Search engines are an Internet Marketer’s best friend and worst nightmare. Google, Bing and Yahoo allow us to find all the information we need right now. Yes, they may swamp us with “stuff” and make us occasionally scream at them for all the dross we have to put up with before we find what we were looking for. But some diligent searching usually gets us there pretty fast.
How about posting information on the Internet? This seems to be another game altogether. A game, where the search engines set the rules. And then change them.
What is a legitimate method of posting information one day may well be regarded as undesirable the next by those who set the rules. As a result your website disappears from page 1 of Google (or Bing or Yahoo) and simply cannot be found. Or at least not on the first few pages beyond which most search engine users don’t venture. Which, for the struggling Internet Marketer, amounts to the same as not being online.
Is there a way out? Can we set up our Internet business on more solid foundations than the caprices of the search engines?
This is immensely important, especially for those who are new to this game, who want to earn some money online and don’t ooze cash. Paying for the privilege to be on page 1 of Google can cost you dearly if you are not savvy around this whole Adwords thing. Of course, you can pay to have your website optimised for the search engines. Until they change the rules. Then you pay again.
Catch-22? More like building on shifting sand. If you play by their rules, that is.
How about saying Good-bye to Google, Bing and Yahoo? What about spreading the word yourself? Make your message go viral and for free!
What? I hear you ask. By-pass all that web wizardry and huge bills and D-I-Y? For free? Yes, You Can! You can even get the information on how to do it for free. You only have to know where to look. Or click here.
That’s right. Download your free, straight forward, easy to read guide and all will be revealed. It’s a simple, ingenious Internet marketing idea that leaves the search engines behind and spreads your message like wildfire.
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Author: Chip Cooper
Copyright © 2009 Chip Cooper
There’s been a lot of buzz in the blogosphere about the 81-page Guides for the use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Most of the debate and discussion has centered on the rules (and potential liability) facing bloggers who write testimonials and endorsements.
But what about the advertisers that recruit bloggers and other intermediaries to write testimonials and endorsements (think online marketers that recruit affiliates or resellers)? What are the rules affecting these advertisers, and what’s their liability if they don’t comply?
When Are Online Marketers Regulated By The Guides?
The threshold question for online marketers is “when do the Guides apply to my marketing practices”?
If all you do is market directly from your website with no involvement by intermediaries, the Guides do not apply.
However, if you recruit intermediaries – such as affiliates or resellers – to pitch your products or services, then the Guides apply, and with them, potential liability. Intermediaries would also include viral marketing programs with incentives and network marketing programs where endorsers periodically review your products or services and they receive a free product or service about which they write a review.
If the Guides do apply, you’re classified as an “advertiser”, and your intermediaries are classified as “endorsers”. As an advertiser, you’re required to:
* provide guidance and training to your endorsers to help them understand their legal obligations regarding advertising statements about your products or services; primarily, that their claims are truthful, not misleading, and substantiated, and
* monitor your endorsers and take steps to remedy advertising statements, practices, or procedures that are unlawful.
If the Guides do apply, and you fail regarding the two obligations listed above, you may be held liable for the actions of your endorser. This is the way the FTC put it: “It is foreseeable that an endorser may exaggerate the benefits of a free product or fail to disclose a material relationship where one exists. In employing this means of marketing, the advertiser has assumed the risk that an endorser may fail to disclose a material connection or misrepresent a product, and the potential liability that accompanies that risk”.
Suggestions For Advertisers
Your first priority should be to get a legal review of your affiliate and/or reseller agreements. Modify your agreements to comply with the Guides. Although the following list of suggested clauses is not exhaustive, it would be a good start:
* No-Spam Policy – at the least, strict compliance with the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 should be required; and you should consider prohibiting any and all bulk, unsolicited email, even though it is permitted under the CAN-SPAM Act subject to certain requirements; also consider requiring your endorser to indemnify you against claims based on their violation of the no-spam policy;
* Recruitment of Sub Affiliates – if sub affiliates are permitted, they should be subject to prior review and acceptance by you and be required to enter into your agreement;
* FTC Rules Regarding Endorsements and Testimonials – this clause addresses the guidance and training requirement discussed above; it focuses on the endorser’s requirements regarding endorsements and testimonials;
* FTC Rules Regarding Truthful and Non-Deceptive Advertising – this clause also addresses the guidance and training requirement discussed above; it focuses on the endorser’s requirements regarding truthful and non-deceptive advertising;
* Monitoring Rights – this clause addresses the monitoring requirement discussed above; it provides that you may require the endorser to modify or cease any marketing methods, procedures, or communications for purposes of compliance with applicable laws and regulations; and
* Consent to Release Information – this clause provides that you have the right to release information regarding the endorser to any governmental or regulatory agency, or to any private party or organization which you believe has a good faith claim based on the endorser’s marketing methods, procedures, or communications.
In addition to reviewing and revising your affiliate and/or reseller agreements, what actions should you take? Although the following list of suggested actions is not exhaustive, it would be a good start:
* familiarize yourself with the applicable rules and regulations; you won’t be able to perform your guidance, training, and monitoring obligations if you don’t;
* find a quick and easy way to continue to stay on top of all the latest legal developments in this area such as a frequent newsletter; again, you won’t be able to perform your guidance, training, and monitoring obligations if you don’t;
* exercise your monitoring rights and obligations, and document that you have done so; be careful to actually enforce your policies, and again, document, document, document. If the FTC ever comes calling, you’ll need to be able to document your compliance; and
* do a thorough job of screening your potential endorsers before you approve them; remember, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Conclusion
You need to be aware that legal scholars are currently debating whether the FTC may impose liability on advertisers for advertising claims made by their endorsers. A well-established federal statute (47 USC 230(c)(1)) may provide a defense to this liability. This will have to be resolved by judicial interpretation in the future. At present, advertisers can’t count on this defense to get them off the hook.
Time is growing short for advertisers that are covered by the Guides to begin a compliance program. The Guides go into effect on December 1, 2009.
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Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Cliffsnotes for Online Marketers To Avoid FTC Liability From Affiliates and Resellers
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The “Really Useful Twitter Tool Box“ has been updated:
- SocialToo has discontinued automated DMs to new followers
- A new mobile client for the Blackberry family is available – ÜberTwitter
- TweetGlide has been released – a PC/Mac desktop and mobile client for the iphone with a twist: it goes viral and makes its users money.
Read the full text of these updates here.
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If you already have “The Really Useful Twitter Tool Box” then you’ll be delighted to learn that Updates will now be regularly published at TwitterMastermindGuru.com . If you don’t have a copy yet, mosey over to “The Really Useful Twitter Tool Box,” grab a copy and while you’re at it, sign up for free notification of updates.
You’ll find a video introduction to “The Really Useful Twitter Tool Box” here. You’ll learn “Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Twitter – On One Pag:” All the Twitter Tools and Twitter Apps, the Twitter How-To’s and Why’s helping you to make the most of Twitter for yoeurself and for your business.
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When I visited Berlin recently, I walked through this memorial with my daughter and simply had to video it. There are 2711 stelae on an area covering 19,000 square meters. The numbers have no significance whatsoever. The memorial is right in the centre of Berlin, next to the Brandenburg Gate and parliament.
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Who hasn’t bought into this sort of hype when they first went into internet marketing? Get rich without any effort, follow the yellow brick road, retire to a millionaire lifestyle without breaking sweat.
“To live of earnings from investments is one thing. But to make a consistent living while working very little is another. Few exemplify this better than Markus Frind, the founder of PlentyofFish.com, one the world’s biggest dating websites.
Frind reckons he spends around 10 minutes a day working, to make £3 million a year from his service.”
Reported in the Evening Standard on the 19th of October 2009.
Here is what Markis Frind said in his blog post “How I started A Dating Empire” (2006):
“My short description leaves a lot out, but basically I spent every waking minute when I wasn’t at my day job reading, studying, and learning. I picked out “enemies” and did everything I could to defeat them which meant being bigger than them. I refused to accept defeat of any kind, and I constantly forced myself to test new things. I never tried to perfect anything it didn’t matter if things didn’t work 100% as long as it was good enough I would move onto the next thing. In 2003 the dating market was growing 80% a year unlike the -10% in 2006 so growth was a LOT easier. When 2004 rolled around and word of mouth REALLY kicked in and as they say the rest is history.
“I look back now at how ill prepared I was, I didn’t know anything about SEO, Advertising, community and I didn’t even know what Venture Capital was. Just goes to show you anyone can do anything.”
Tempted to give it a go? Download your free report on how to start an Internet Marketing business here.
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