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Why submit articles (and ignore Google)
Getting your articles read is the most important step. For years submitting articles was all about getting a website to rank higher in Google. Now that Google has reduced the importance of such articles in website rankings, an opportunity has opened up for savvy marketers.
Visitors not links
Getting your article read is important as it is about getting people interested in what you are selling, your ideas or encouraging them to seek you out for more. A great article will leave the reader wanting more. Even without a link, they will notice your name or business name at the bottom of the article and seek you out.
Hidden effect
The issue with this is that it is hard to track with analytics tools like Google Analytics. If visitors see your brand name or personal name, but not a link, they might Google for your site. You will not be able to tell that they looked for your site after reading one of your articles.
Brand name
Writing such articles will definitely help establish your brand name. Even if people do not visit your site, they will remember the name. If they visit your site later, they may not remember where they heard your name, but they will be more confident that your site is legitimate and a good site to buy from.
Site fit
Sometimes articles do not fit well with your site. It is not a good idea to be seen making bad comments about the competitor’s site. If you know of issues with the competitors’ products or services, make this known by publishing an article about it on another site under another name. Just make sure the issues are legitimate as you do not want to be recognised by the competition.
Where to submit articles
This site is accepting articles now. Just head over to the submission form, and submit your article. Be careful when submitting your article to other sites as some sites will remove your brand or by-line.
Improve Your Selling by Thinking Ahead
For most salespeople, selling is all about getting customers to walk out with a product. If the customer buys one item, it is a successful sale. For advanced salespeople, just getting the customer to walk out with one item is not enough. Instead, a customer buying one item is only a sign that there is more than one sale to be made.
To make an additional sale, some forethought is required. You need to think about what your customer is buying and what they are going to use it for. For example, if a unshaven man comes in to buy a razor, you can assume that he is wanting to shave.
Making a second sale is easy once you have an idea of what the people is wanting to do. What could an unshaven man buying a razor also be sold? Think shaving cream. We know that the man will want to shave straight away, so checking that he has shaving cream might result in an additional sale.
A similar idea can be used to sell more of the same product. If you recognise that a regular customer is buying shaving cream for the 4th time we can assume that they are going to want more later. This action of thinking ahead means that we can now sell the customer a larger container of shaving cream. If there are no larger containers, we can always reduce the price for the customer if they by more.
Thinking ahead can also be used to compete with your competition. If you know that a customer is going to check the price of the competitors product, you can save them time and also make a sale. First you need to check out the prices of the competitors products in the morning. Later on when a customer is looking to buy one of your products, you can say what the competitors price is and then offer a price that is lower.
10 Principles To Apply In Building Your Online Business
In the years I've invested myself in dedication to the business of Internet Marketing, I've observed that though technologies and different fields of expertise appear and recede overtime like any other ever-changing business outlook, only timeless, universal principles remain.
The first and foremost characteristic of Internet Marketing is automation. Alex Mandossian once said that "Internet Marketing is meant to train us as lazy workers but high thinkers." We are constantly thinking of better ways to attain 100% automation, which is near impossible, for thinking itself is already hard work.
Despite this, Internet Marketing may not be simple, but it is definitely very systematic in nature, such that it is really an easy business to do due to the availability of metrics software for performance measurement. By knowing and understanding results-by-the-numbers, Internet marketers can tweak and re-launch sales and marketing campaigns for better returns. This is not something that brick-and-mortar businesses are capable of and ready to embrace as part of their daily business handling activities.
Coming back to principles, here are 10 things you can always bear in mind as you go about doing your business online. Even if you are attempting one niche after another (and that's what some self-employed do these days), following a certain entrepreneurial pattern based on principles can help you get into the thick of action easily and systematically.
1) Provide lots of quality content on your website. The litmus test is: Would you freely publish something that you would otherwise sell?
2) Be tight, comprehensive and cohesive about your site theme. For example, your site may be about dogs rather than dog collars, which is a smaller, more focused niche. Nonetheless, you can design and implement a clear structure with different sections covering dog training, dog hygiene, dog naming, dog psychology, doggy habits, etc. You can aim for a portal or library of information and it can still not be confusing.
3) Setup a blog. You heard this many time: "Search engines love blogs." Well, go and create one, link it up to your main site, publish snippets of information and send out RSS feeds. Search engines will find you fast!
4) Create a plan of using traffic exchanges, safelists, FFA lists etc. to draw traffic to your site. I, like many people, did not believe that you can funnel targeted traffic from these places, until I came across a few experts in this area.
5) Build a lead capture page offering a powerful freebie, an e-course or a reason visitors can't refuse...on condition they must subscribe to you.
6) Create free materials like viral e-books to give away. Write articles and e-courses and submit everywhere you can. Reuse your articles to suit every possible form of online and offline media. Just keep your eyes open. What goes around always comes around. You are bound to be famous on the Internet in 6 months if not a year. Or start an article/free e-book directory service yourself! You can attract more writers and material seekers with the most minimal of effort.
7) Get your visitors and subscribers involved with YOU. Give them a role, a stake or control over the content of your site, forum, chat room, online survey or newsletter etc. You can sustain their interest and effectively build up not only traffic volume but also the quality of customer relationships overtime. The noblest yet most challenging thing to do is finding ways to build up their own monetary value. That's what Jay Abraham, Bob Proctor and many other experts do.
8) Create an affiliate program for your products and services to encourage affiliates bring new referrals to you! It's a great way to get targeted newcomers to your site.
9) Create postcards with your e-zine information and business cards to hand out at events. Also print out articles and hand them around at events (which must be appropriate in context). Your signature at the articles' end leads them to your site. Show them you are the expert here!
10) One great way to multiply subscriber addresses in your list is invite fellow online marketers to swap e-zine ads with you. Many marketers know the benefit of this, and it's free and easy to implement. All it takes is mutual agreement on how often and how many times to publish each other's ads!
Yes, there is a lot of work involved, these 10 points are only general and the devil is in the details. But you see, even though I'm no SEO or link exchange techie, I am carrying out all 10 points in my daily work and with continuous measurement of my results my income has nowhere else to go but up as I optimize the monetary value of my effort. Ultimately I am doing what these 10 points say because they can sustain online longevity.
When you seriously put them into practice, turning your actions into regular habits is only a matter of time. In one year, your situation will be much better than where you are today, and all you need to do is create a system of productive action based on these 10 points. This is my encouragement to you.
Nelson Tan is the webmaster behind Internet Mastery Center. Download $347 worth of FREE Internet Marketing gifts at http://www.internetmasterycenter.com
Many Reasons behind of Setting up a Company in Singapore
People want to settle in their respective lives as per their own terms and conditions. Many people love to settle down as an employee and many people love to be an employer after a certain point of their career. Career perspective varies person to person. There are various and different steps one needs to follow while they are in the process of setting up a company in any country. There are numerous acts and rules and regulations that the person should understand at the very initial level so that he or she can have a trouble free future. The person must know all about the terms and conditions first to set up a company. The company will be your dream venture. There are numerous dreams and wishes and expectations from your friends and families that are attached with such a venture and you need to be responsible to carry on with their hope.
Singapore is an ideal place of setting up a business. Geographically it is an ideal location having the infrastructure of the first world type to start a business. Numerous company owners feel very attracted with this land and forward in setting up a company in the Singapore. This can be defined as the very launching pad for the entire Asia. This can be treated as the most beautiful location to start a business as well. Numerous people select this place to fulfill their dreams and they just try to set up a company in the Singapore. Moreover the country really provides a lot of facilities while you are on the process of opening a company here. That encourages people more and more to be related in this country professionally. Singapore has its own status and reputation while the topic of economy and facilities are concerned. The place really facilitated people and allures many people with various opportunities to set up their own companies in this land. It can be defined as a growing and developed place among the many industrialized countries of this world. Businessmen and company owners prefer to be settling in some countries that are competitive trading nations just because they can be within the flow of added sales and reliability.
According to a specific survey there are various reasons for which people prefer Singapore as their business and center and people also show interest in setting up new establishment in this country as well. The most promising factor behind this country is that the country is situated very near to the ASEAN manufacturing countries in a very strategically way. Just because of this astonishing location the country is defined as the hub of various commodity trading in this planet as far as the business is concerned. This country really fills the gap in various commodity-trading world while giving various efficient and significant facilities. No other countries have such a wonderful air and seaports in this world that can raise the level of communication like Singapore. This smooth communication is really something that paves the path of business in various terms and people prefer such a location. You can find various business establishments as well to start with you’re planning. Comfortable living and various nice recreations for business guests are the other preferable factors for this location for business. There are various other reasons attached with this country that inspires people from all over the world settle up in land professionally.
Even the World Bank has declared this place as the cheapest land to start you journey with a new business and this announcement really enriches and as well as enhances the demand of this place more than the previous years.
Financing Your Daycare Center
A daycare center, like any business should have a starting money or capital. In starting any business, you should have sufficient funds to be able to finance your starting needs such as getting a location for your business, buying the needed appliances and equipments in your office, getting people to work for you and of course money for your promotions and advertisements.
Most people who have just tried entering the business industry do not really know what to do when it comes to finances. Sometimes, these fresh businessmen fail and their first businesses go bankrupt. Thus, it is important to know the most important things about financing your daycare center by researching online, buying books about businesses and of course asking experts.
To be able to help to you in easing your problems when it comes to business money, you need to include a financial analysis on your business plan. The financial analysis will help you budget by having a preview of your possible expenses and of your projected income for your first year in the business. Most financial analysis include projections until the fifth year of operation and you can see from this part of your business plan if you will be successful and the amount of money that you need in starting.
If however, you do not have the enough money that you need, you need not worry since there are other possible ways that you can secure a capital for you daycare center. For one, the government of the United States of America offer several grants to help small businesses that are just starting. The government allocates enough budget for business to encourage more entrepreneurs to start making business investments. Since daycare centers are considered businesses at a small scale, you as a daycare provider are qualified to apply for these grants. There are also other local government and private agencies and organizations which offer various financial aids for businesses that you can apply for. These groups are all ready to give you help especially if they see the potential of your business.
Being able to get a grant is not that easy, you have to provide the government or the organization a business plan which will show them your main mission and vision in the industry. You should be able to convince them that you deserve to be part of the business industry over the other aspiring businessmen.
Another option is applying for loans. Although, grants are more beneficial than loans since you need not pay the government for the grants that you may avail. Loans are easier to get. You can usually apply loans from banks by submitting a business proposal and other requirements which they need.
There are other ways of financing a business, you may need to put a lot of effort into it, but it will be all worth it if you become successful in the field.
Loren Yadeski, author of this article is also interested in day care and recommends you to please check out own a day care if you liked reading this information.
How to read people: Diet
When people think about nonverbal communication, they think body language. There is more to nonverbal communication than just body language. One often missed form of nonverbal communication is diet.
A person’s diet can say a lot about who they are, where they are from as well as providing clues to some of their personality traits.
Culture
Culture can be shown in two ways:
- How someone is eating
- What someone is eating
People often believe that how someone eats only tells you where they are from. That someone who grew up in Asia may be more likely to eat with chopsticks than a knife and fork. In this modern age it is not that simple with most people using what is provided.
What you can tell instead is what general culture someone has been exposed to. Proficient use of chopsticks at an Asian restaurant for example tells you that the person has been exposed to Asian food before. This may mean that the person has:
- Travelled
- Eaten at Asian food a lot
- Been taught by an Asian friend
This all tells you that the person is open to new cultures.
How someone uses a knife and fork also tells you a lot. This goes beyond their ability to use a knife and fork in the manner a queen would. Take for instance what someone is placing on their fork each time. When presented with two separate elements on the same plate, some people will eat each element separately, while others will mix things together.
This could be assumed as follows:
- Eating one thing at a time - They like to approach things in a methodical fashion.
- Different combinations on fork each time - They like to explore different flavour combinations.
- Eating favourite element first - Often seen in larger families where you might not get any if you are not in quick.
- Eating favourite element last - They like to be rewarded at the end.
Food personalities
There are two main personalities people have when it comes to food:
- Live to eat
- Eat to live
Someone who has a live to eat mentality will tend to frequent new eating establishments, try new food and be willing to pay for something a bit more. This may (but not always) indicate that a person is more social, adventurous or becomes bored easily when eating the same thing. When meeting one of these people, it would be best to go to somewhere new and give them a new experience.
When someone has an eat to live mentality they are less focused on enjoying food experiences. This does not mean they they are poor. It just means that they have something else they would rather focus their attention. It could be anything from the conversation that occurs over food, or some task they would rather get back to. It may simply be that they are not very adventurous when it comes to food. When meeting people who eat to live, it is best to meet them somewhere with familiar food. They will most likely go for something simple and familiar, with new and foreign food causing an unwanted decision.
Beliefs
Although this post will not go in-depth into food and beliefs, it is possible to work out some peoples beliefs given enough time. This can be identifying what food people eat, what food they do not or in some cases, when they eat certain foods. This may help you ensure you cater for someone’s beliefs, without having to ask them what their beliefs are.
What are your experiences?
Do you have something interesting to add, or do you disagree? Add your view below.
Terms related to syncratic
Syncratic decision making
- One of the types of purchase decision-making in the family with respect to various products and services. In this type of decision-making, both spouses are equally involved and take decisions jointly. Therefore, such decisions are also called joint decisions.
- Where the spouses jointly decide about the purchase.
Idiosyncratic
- A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
- A physiological or temperamental peculiarity.
- An unusual individual reaction to food or a drug.
Socratic Seminar
The goal of a Socratic seminar is for students to help one another understand the ideas, issues, and values reflected in a specific text. Students are responsible for facilitating a discussion around ideas in the text rather than asserting opinions. Through a process of listening, making meaning, and finding common ground students work toward shared understanding rather than trying to prove a particular argument.
Socratic method
Socratic method , also known as method of elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate, is named after the classical Greek philosopher Socrates. It is a form of inquiry and discussion between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas. It is a dialectical method, often involving a discussion in which the defense of one point of view is questioned; one participant may lead another to contradict themselves in some way, thus strengthening the inquirer's own point.
Syncretic religion
- Reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief, as in philosophy or religion, especially when success is partial or the result is heterogeneous.
- Linguistics - The merging of two or more originally different inflectional forms.
Syncretic thinking
A stage in the development of the cognitive thought processes of the child during which thought is based purely on what is perceived and experienced. The child is incapable of reasoning beyond the observable or of making deductions or generalizations. Through imaginative play, questioning, interaction with others, and the increasing use of language and symbols to represent objects, the child begins to learn to make associations between ideas and to elaborate concepts. In Piaget's classification, this stage occurs between 2 and 7 years of age and is preceded by the sensorimotor stage of development, when the child progresses from reflex activity to repetitive and imitative behaviour.
Idiosyncratic Risk
- Risk that is specific to an asset or a small group of assets.
- Idiosyncratic risk has little or no correlation with market risk, and can therefore be substantially mitigated or eliminated from a portfolio by using adequate diversification.
Defining Syncracy
Syncracy is not a word and for quite sometime it had no mentions in Google. In 2002 only two pages in Google's search result even contained it. Then for some reason people tried to create a definition. There are now definitions such as:
A system of governance which adopts two or more systems such as communism and capitalism.
This is just one such definition. You are not likely to find two definitions that agree with each other. Another definition is:
Syncracy is a social psych term that describes families who make decisions by consensus. Wikis themselves seems a very syncratic mechanism, don't you think? I meant government by mutually Constructive Interference. Now don't go asking me to define constructive interference.
Syncratic
As you notice the two definitions do not agree with each other. One of the causes of this is that some people have tried to adapt the definition of the word syncratic. Even then, syncratic is not a word used in English.
Idiosyncrasy
The most like source of the words Syncracy and Syncratic is the words idiosyncrasy and idiosyncratic. The word idiosyncrasy is defined as:
Idiosyncrasy
noun, plural idiosyncrasies.
- a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like that is peculiar to an individual.
- the physical constitution peculiar to an individual.
- a peculiarity of the physical or the mental constitution, especially susceptibility toward drugs, food, etc.
The word idiosyncrasy originated in c.1600, from French idiosyncrasie, from Greek idiosynkrasia "a peculiar temperament," from idios "one's own" + synkrasis "temperament, mixture of personal characteristics," from syn "together" + krasis "mixture". Originally in English a medical term meaning "physical constitution of an individual." Mental sense first attested 1660s.
The real definition
If Syncratic was to be coined as a term, it would be defined as:
Syncratic
adjective
- created in a style similar to Syncrat.com
Creativity and Culture
Creativity is not just about having good ideas. Creativity is part of our culture and the most important factor in all human advances to date.
Creativity is not just about having good ideas. Creativity is part of our culture and the most important factor in all human advances to date.
There are many factors that make up a culture ranging from brand names and fashion to movies and technology. Each of these factors is directly influenced by creativity.
Brand names are a great example of our culture that is effected by creativity. Without a lot of creativity, it would be hard to distinguish between the many brands. Brand names strive to be more creative than their competitors so that they get more recognition and ultimately sales. There is a lot of creativity that goes into making a brand what it is. A brands logo is a focal point for brand recognition is based on a creative way to express the brands image. Even the brands image required a creative spark for it to be created.
The fashion world is heavily influenced by creativity. All the followers of the cult that is fashion want to show that they are up with the latest trend. As a new style is created, the cult followers eagerly part with their money in order to be one of the first to embrace a trend.
Movies have a high aspect of creativeness to them. The story lines, dialogue, clothes and props have all been spawned from someone's creative streak. The creativeness in these movies have a large impact on our culture through our dreams, inspiration and from people comparing situations in movies to their own situations.
Creativity is the corner stone of all human societies and makes us human. It has allows us to take great steps forward and affects every aspect of our culture.
Jazz Piano and Style
The piano or keyboard is an instrument that can be played in a solo performance or it can be part of a band. Jazz bands make heavy use of pianos since jazz began. The reason for this is that pianos along with guitars are some of the few instruments in a jazz band that can play chords in addition to a melody or counter melody.
In the past, a jazz pianists main role was to keep tempo with a combination of repetitive chords, but in recent years this has changed. Jazz pianists now days are able to select from a multitude of styles and techniques that they will use to accompany a band or singer. Short and sustained chordal or melodic fragments are used.
Experienced jazz pianists are not only great at sight-reading, but can also improvise chord symbols and adapt to the various playing styles of jazz bands. A jazz pianist must balance this improvisation and interpretation with the music style of the band.
The extended range that the piano provides also helps a jazz pianist with creating unique sounds that other instruments in the jazz band can not create.
Jazz pianists have 3 goals that they aim to achieve while they are playing. The first is to provide a clear rhythm and swing. The second is to play a melody or improvised solo with the right hand. Jazz pianists are also expected to help guide the band into chord changes with the help of notes leading up to the chord change.
It is quite a challenge for pianists to meet these 3 demands at the same time. Most jazz pianists are quite skilled in this art and are able to maintain this while planning unique improvisations.
If the intend to be great at playing the piano in a jazz band, you need to master these styles and techniques.
Baroque Music
The Baroque period of music is an era that existed from 1600 to 1750. A Baroque style is a set of styles from European classical music. The music of the Baroque period ranges from a style similar to that of the previous Romantic period, to the style found in the following Classical musical period.
“Misshapen pearl” is the phrase that the original meaning of “baroque” was derived from. This fits into the characterisations on the architecture of this period.
Many famous composers have risen to fame during the Baroque period of music. Well known composers such as the likes of Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach can attribute some or all of their musical style to the Baroque period.
During the Baroque period, the style of music changed. Composers and performers started to used more elaborate musical ornamentation, made changes to the way music was written and created new ways to play the existing musical instruments. All these changes allowed for the rise of opera as a musical genre, and many of the concepts from this period are still in use today.
The term “Baroque” was not conceived until after the Baroque period was over. There is still some disagreement to this day about what the Baroque period encompasses. A few rogue musicologists have argued that the Baroque period should be split into a Baroque period and a Mannerist period so that the periods come in to align with those assigned to the visual arts.
Famous Guitarists: Eric Clapton
American blues made the transition to the UK largely because of black American soldiers who were stationed in the UK during the second World War. In 1958 Muddy Waters played electric blues for the first time in Britain to shocked audiences, unaccustomed to the amplified electric sound and heavy beat. Many were captivated and while the cultural differences could not have been greater, British Blues was born. The Rolling Stones even took their name from a Muddy Waters song, 'Rollin Stone'.
Co-incidentally 1958 was the year Eric Clapton got his first guitar. Born in Ripley in Surrey and brought up my his grandmother, Clapton found the guitar difficult and nearly gave up, but he enjoyed listening to blues music on his tape recorder and spent a lot of time practicing to get the chords right. He left school in 1961 and went to art college, but only lasted a year. In 1962 he asked his grandparents help to buy an electric guitar, (a Gibson ES-335 clone) Already it was clear that music, not art was his major interest. He began busking and performing in pubs with a friend, then when he was 17 he joined a band called 'The Roosters' while supporting himself by working as a bricklayer.
In 1963 he joined another group called the Yardbirds and began to create an original sound and style, heavily influenced by blues music. Although the Yardbirds were successful their first major hit was not a blues song and in protest Clapton left to join John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and then in 1966 he formed Cream. Cream disbanded in 1968.
Throughout this time, he was searching for a distinctive, 'bluesie' sound. In the early 60's Eric Clapton played a Fender telecaster but he changed this for a 1960 Gibson Les Paul and a Marshall amplifier. When he left the Bluesbreakers to form Cream, his Les Paul was stolen, but he continued to play guitars of that type until 1967 when he obtained a 1964 Gibson SG which he later had painted in psychedelic colors for a tour. The Gibson SG was one of the major components of the distinctive sound Clapton created during those mid to late 60's. The 'woman tone' as other musicians have called it, is a distorted sound partially created by turning the guitars amplifier up full and the tone down to one or zero.
By 1970 Eric Clapton was a superstar. He formed Derek and the Dominos and went on to record the album 'Layla and other assorted rock songs'. The inspiration was Clapton's attraction to George Harrison's wife, Patti Boyd, who was also the inspiration for Harrison's beautiful song 'Something'. To say this relationship was complicated is something of an understatement. Patti Boyd was a model and had married George Harrison in 1966. Eric worked on several projects with George and apparently fell in love not only with Patti but with Paula her sister. So much so that in 1970 Paula moved in to his home, but she wasn't alone. Eric had another girlfriend, Alice Ormsby Gore, daughter of Lord Harlech, the former British Ambassador to Washington. She and Eric had announced their engagement in 1969.
When Eric wrote Layla, Paula immediately knew who it was about and walked out, but Patti would still not leave her husband. This together with the albums lack of success sent Clapton into a depressive spiral fuelled mainly by heroin. He sank and became a recluse, rarely leaving his house and took Alice, who was 17, with him. Alice and Eric stayed together for five years, but when, with the help of Alices family, Eric managed to break his heroin habit, he ended their relationship. Alice died in poverty from a heroin overdose in 1995.
With the help of Pete Townshend (of 'The Who') he picked himself up and made a come back. Heroin was replaced by alchohol. Patti left George and by 1974 Eric had a new sound and was a composer as well as a guitarist. In 1979 he married Patti Boyd and in the 1980's he began another career, music for film and TV, such as 'The Hit' (1984) and the score for BBC's mini-series Edge of Darkness. In 1982 he ws admitted to Hazelden Treatment Enter in Center City Minnesota for treatment for alcoholism.
After this he produced two albums with Phil Collins, but perhaps because Patti Boyd was unable to have children, Clapton had a number of affairs and at least two children, Ruth (in 1985) and Connor in 1986. Eric and Patti Boyd were divorced in 1988. In 1991 Connor fell from a 53rd floor window and was killed. Eric poured his grief into a song called 'Tears in Heaven' and that year received six Grammy awards for the song and his album 'unplugged' where he played acoustic guitar.
Clapton made more albums throughout the 90's and in 1999 worked on an Album with the legendary BB King. In 2000 he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the third time. To date he is the only person to have been inducted three times. In 2002 he married Melia McEnery with whom he already had a daughter, Julie. Ella followed in 2003 and Sophie in 2005. This was the inspiration for the song 'Three Little Girls' on his 2006 album The Road to Escondido.
In 2004 Clapton returned to the blues with a vengeance with two albums of music by Robert Johnson. In 2005 a reunited Cream played concerts in the Royal Albert Hall and in 2007 the rights to his official memoirs were sold at the Frankfurt Book Fair for four million dollars.
These days Eric Clapton plays a custom made 000-ECHF Martin from CF Martin and Company and is regarded as one of the most influential guitarists of all time. His song 'Layla' is viewed as one of rock music's great love songs and his solo on 'Crossroad Blues' one of the greatest live rock solos ever. Yet in 1958 when he got that first, steel stringed guitar, he found it hard to play. He had to persevere, to practice, and he did. How about you?
John Blackwood Rock Guitar Lesson Blues Lesson
Beware of the curse of free blog hosts
Although free blog hosts may be a good way to try out blogging, they come with danger. Make sure that you are not hosting on a free blog host if you are getting serious about blogging.
As blogging becomes more popular than people expected, more and more individuals and businesses are setting up blogs for many reasons. A vast majority of these new blogs are hosted on free blog hosting sites. This can bring more expected problems than it is worth.
For a beginner, free blog hosting can be a brilliant starting point. Without having to spend anything a blog can be setup to try blogging. The problem is that free hosts bring unexpected problems.
The first problem that a many free hosts in the past have faced is that the host is out to make money. If the free blog hosting is not making them money, they will just stop it and leave you out in the cold. This has happened before and it will happen again.
The second problem is uptime. Many of the free blog hosts also run paid services. When they have a problem, they will work on getting the paid service back running before they care about the free hosting. This means that your blog will have more down time and may lose visitors.
Once your blog starts to grow, you might look into making a bit of money with advertisements. If you are lucky enough to be on a host that allows you to place advertisements on your site, you still may run into problems. Free blog hosts always want something and in most cases they want to use the best advertising space at the top of your blog. How is your advertisement going to be seen when people are seeing your hosts advertisement first.
If your blog does become large enough that it prompts your to move hosts, you may find that this too will be a minefield of problems. Moving hosts means changing the URL that your blog is found at. If your free host does not allow this to be redirected, you may have to start your blog all over again, losing your regular visitors.
By all means, use free blog hosts to try out blogging, but if you are serious do not expect that you can get away without paying for a more professional blog host.
Strange Urls
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This one appears to be an attempt at finding a url that a spam url can be injected into. The resulting web page will usually display the spam url or redirect the user to the spam url.
Why is Website Wireframe so important?
If you are planning to have a website and want to make your web designer understand the proper scope of the project then wireframe is the most suitable technique you should apply.
Wireframes are nothing but hand drawn blocks of the site giving an idea of various placeholders for the website.
These placeholder can in turn be then explained by the client in order to make a web designer understand how the website will function overall.
There are a few things that should be remembered when you create a wireframe:
1. Boxes should be clean and very basic (not very fancy to confuse)
2. Simple layouts to be used even though the actual design may be complex.
3. Various call to actions for the website to be noted.
4. Various levels or pages to be explained in separate wireframes.
5. After each wireframe explain in points the working of various blocks.
In engineering as a block diagram explains the working of a circuit similarly in web designing a wireframe explains the flow and working of a website in a very basic way.
What do you need to create your first wireframe?
1. A nice pen or pencil (i prefer pencil since you can erase as well)
2. A white paper (not the old ones which look yellow)
3. A eraser
4. A nice coffee for company (this one i use normally)
Now all you need to do is draw by hand or use some fancy things like VISIO and draw your first site wireframe.
I bet these wireframes will make the scope of the project much clearer to any website designer.
How to Compliment a Woman
Don’t Say Something Generic
It is totally boring to tell a woman that she is beautiful or pretty or attractive. They’ve heard it a million times before. If you truly want to compliment a woman, think of something unique to say. Don’t tell her she has pretty eyes or nice hair or a great smile. Sure, sometimes this works, but it really doesn’t do a bit of good in setting you apart from every other guy she has ever met. Think of something a little more original to say.
One way to do this is to make your compliment about something that she has invested time or energy in. For instance, when you compliment a woman on the color of her eyes, you can bet she’s heard it a million times before. By saying something like this, you just blend in with the crowd and the dozens of other men who have said the exact same thing.
However, if you compliment her on the way her scarf really brings out the blue in her eyes, then you are already differentiating yourself from other men. You are noticing how she has done something to make herself look more attractive. You are noticing something about what she has done purposefully, not what already exists.
Make it sincere
Women can see through baloney with laser-like accuracy. If you are just saying something to say it in the hopes of flattering her and you don’t really mean it or worse, don’t think that way at all, you are doomed. For instance, don’t tell a woman you like her orange handbag just to say something, especially if you think it is hideous.
Instead, find something that you genuinely do like and compliment her on that.
I truly believe that you can find something to appreciate about every single person you ever meet in your life. Even people you don’t get along with. There is always some quality or trait that you can like about them.
The same goes with meeting women. It might be her quick wit or her infectious laugh or her energy level. There are so many things that make each of us unique, it just takes a bit to recognize them and appreciate them.
If you truly want to compliment a woman, start noticing unique and desirable traits in everyone you encounter. Once you learn to recognize what makes someone special, you will be able to give a genuine, meaningful compliment to a woman. She will recognize your sincerity and your observational powers and this will make you stand out from the crowd.
Bill has been studying How to Pick Up Women for the last 5 years in NYC and is a pick up artist who can help you learn to do the same. The original article can be found here: How to Compliment a Woman.
Flirting Signs You Need to Know
Before we even open our mouths, we are communicating with one another.
There are so many ways our bodies talk to each other and one of the most important things you can do is learn as much as you can about it.
Even when we are trying to play hard to get, there are actions and gestures that reveal our interest. It is a nonverbal way to flirt that we may not even be aware we are doing.
Here are some ways we flirt with people, even if we don’t realize we are doing it:
When we are attracted to a woman we might:
• Make our glance at her linger
• Lift our eyebrows, slightly part our lips and flare our nostrils a tiny bit
• Blush or flush a bit
• Become more rigid in our stance, adopting an alpha male type stature
• Adjust our clothes or “preen” smoothing down our hair, etc.
• Start to mirror her sitting position
• Adopt her vocal tone
• Lean in toward the woman
• Keep our legs or feet pointed toward her, showing our interest
• Touch her, say her arm or hand
• Stare at her mouth
• Looking at her with “wide eyes”
• Getting caught looking at her when she isn’t looking at you
• Acting a bit nervous around her
• Showing a hint of jealousy when other men talk to her
• You laugh a little too hard at her jokes
• You find ways to start your own conversation with her
These are all basics you learn about when you study body language and relationships, but there is much, much more you can learn. Not only should you know the signals you may be unconsciously giving to women, you need to learn what signals she is sending your way.
But first, learn ways that you might be showing your interest without realizing it because you can use this in many ways. You can use them to convey nonverbally that you are interested in another woman. Then, based on her responses, you can tell if she wants you to approach her or ask her out.
So it is helpful to not only realize what signals your body is sending out to a woman, it is also crucial to know what signals women send out when they are interested in you.
This can save you a lot of grief, money and heartache.
For instance, a woman who keeps catching you eye and then shyly looking away wants you to approach her. A woman, who brushes past you and smiles at you, probably wants you to talk to her. These are all ways for a woman to say she is interested in getting to know you better.
It is not rocket science. There are some basic ways our bodies biologically respond to people we are attracted to and it helps to learn them as early on as you can.
Bill has been studying How to Approach Women for the last 5 years in NYC and is a pick up artist who can help you learn to do the same. The original article can be found here: Flirting Signs You Need to Know.
How To Beat Artist Block For Painters
My solution is to have many paintings going on at once, and I mean a lot of them. I usually have about 20 paintings going at once, but 6-10 should also work. All of these paintings need to be different from each other in their planned look and even different sizes. The more different they are from each other the better.
It’s really simple. When you’re stuck with one, take it down and put a different painting on the easel. Having all these paintings going at once gives you many options to choose from. I can almost guarantee that you will gravitate to a certain one and be able to start painting on it right away without going through any frustrations. You will know when your ready to go back to the other one, it just happens and it’s a cool feeling.
Having this type of painting regiment will maximize your painting time and make it more enjoyable, and artist block will just never appear. You will also enjoy the constant feeling of creative energy flow as all your paintings steadily come to fruition with the greatest of ease.
Allow the creative energy to flow from you like water with this regiment and you can say goodbye to blocks forever. This also helps you build up a large catalog of a variety of paintings in a relatively short time. Also, if you notice that you are starting to slow down a bit on a painting, then its time for a break from that one and move onto another one. The goal is to keep the flow streaming.
Another important and useful tool is to look at other peoples art. Not to get ideas, but it’s a way to loosen up your block or resistance. This works because looking at other people’s art will get your imagination going again, and once that happens you will be able to turn your focus back to your painting.
Oddly enough, another way to get through a block is to start another painting in a completely different subject. Sometimes you can get so much tunnel vision on a particular painting that its what actually creates the block. By starting something completely different, it takes the focus off the problem painting.
If that is not working for you, then its time to play and experiment with pigments and brushes with the goal of making nothing you would sell. What I mean is that its time to put up a canvas, and just play. Yes, just play. Do not over think anything. It starts buy looking at your brushes and picking your favorite one on impulse. Then look at your colors, what colors do you like? Take the first one and just start making whatever brush stroke comes natural. Play and enjoy that for a bit, when you find yourself getting a little bored, then pick up another color and repeat the process.
Play with blending colors and different dabs and brush strokes. Think of this process as a form of visual meditation. It does work and you will have fun, and your blocks will go away.
Michael Orlando is a veteran motion picture visual effects artist, and most recently has been concentrating on his oil painting career and building his art business. His original fine art oil painting can be seen at http://www.etsy.com/shop/orlandoart
Buying Fine Apilco French Porcelain?
It is a known fact that Apilco French porcelain is one of the favored choice in most bistros and elegant restaurants in Europe and now it has made a mark in United States. Crafted from the finest grade glazed porcelain, you would be surprised by the high grade of Apilco French porcelain which is not only larger and heavier and can withstand both the heat of the oven and the microwave. The unique quality and elegance is second to none.
With a long history that can be traced back to the Chinese who were pioneers in porcelain ware, the delicate porcelain was also popular in the 14th century Europe. During the late 16th century as the European demand for fine porcelain grew, France became an epicenter of high quality soft paste porcelain ware.
However, today Apilco porcelain is manufactured in France by Apilco, the well known suppliers of restaurant and culinary professional grade fine porcelain ware since the year 1906 A.D.
Apilco is known for its magnificent sheen, while the restaurant quality dishware adds charm to any linen, glassware and flatware. The high durability and strength allows it be used for formal and casual dining and can be easily maintained as it is dishwasher safe.
The development of Apilco porcelain ware is interesting. With intense research and French chefs’ recommendations, Apilco developed the versatile line of porcelain ware for cooking and serving while maintaining its durability. All porcelain manufactured under the Apilco brand is fired at high intensity which gives it higher durability and makes it resistant against cracking and chipping. For ease of use, this durable yet delicate looking porcelain has the unique feature of being stain resistant and the surface can be easily cleaned with the sponge scrub. Completely safe, it is devoid of any chemicals such as cadmium, arsenic and lead making it the perfect dishware for your family.
Bistro and restaurant grade French porcelain such as Apilco has been favored by top chefs all over the world and due to its elegance, demand in households have risen. With the result that there are numerous designs available. But though there are a variety of dishware and tableware by numerous manufacturers and designers, when you buy Apilco French porcelain, you know that you will not go wrong on quality, durability and style.
You might be surprised to see that purchasing French Porcelain has never been simpler. Apart from brick and mortar stores and supermarkets, there are numerous virtual dishware and tableware online stores such as Bridge Kitchenware (www.BridgeKitchenware.com)that stock some of the best porcelain in the world. So research well online to know more about the variety of French porcelain ware available and check out the selection at online stores.
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Do You Need Money And Good Looks To Attract Girls?
However, the good news is that guys with these positive assets can only go so far because if you know and master the correct seduction skills, even if you are not half as handsome or as wealthy, you can still make girls swoon over you and leave those guys behind, coming out as a clear winner as a chick magnet.
Why is this so? It is because there are many male attributes that most women admire and adore more than just good looks and money. The problem is that money and good looks are usually the root of shyness and lack of confidence in most men. They think that they are not wealthy or good looking enough to date beautiful women. Popular media seems to support this misconceived notion and it is the reason why so many men are misled into thinking that unless you have Tom Cruise's handsome features or Bill Gates' fortune, then supermodels and beautiful movie stars are out of their dating game.
Guys, now simply take a step back and have a good look at the people around you and you will see gorgeous women dating men who are both good looking and not so handsome ones, men who drive BMWs and Mercedes and the average guys who can't even afford a car who take public transportation. So what does that tells you? What makes these men so successful with gorgeous women regardless of their wealth and looks?
Well, like I said earlier, you stand as good a chance or even better than guys who have a little bit of edge because of their wealth and good looks. In this article, I will show you 3 techniques amongst many that all women find desirable and irresistible in men. Of course, if that wealthy and good looking chap have these techniques and display them to women, then you will have a very formidable opponent. Then again, how many of these wealthy and handsome guys bother to learn the techniques when they already think they are on top of the dating game?
a) Establishing Confident Eye Contact - Holding her gaze in a confident eye contact is a sure sign of self confidence being flamboyantly displayed. It is also a way to communicate attitude, desire and emotion without saying a word. This is a very effective tool for flattering, teasing, flirting, showing your alpha male dominance, establishing your sincerity and credibility with women.
Looking at a girl from a distance intently and not looking away even when she sees you can be very sexy and thrilling to her. It tells her that you desire her and that you are so confident that you will prevail. Keeping a steady gaze during a conversation tells her that you are interested in what she is saying and that you are listening to her. Because of this, you will be perceived by her to be honest and sincere.
The breaking of eye contact if executed in perfect timing during a conversation can be a sign of confidence and dominance too. It tells the woman that you are not afraid of offending her and in fact, she should be trying even harder to impress you so that you can reward her again with your attention(holding eye contact).
Confidence - If there is anything a woman admires more in a man is his self confidence. Confidence have a very positive effect on your adventures with women. You see, it is not the money or the good looks that make rich and handsome guys attractive to women but their confidence in themselves. Wouldn't you be more confident if you are flushed with cash and is a gorgeous guy?
You need to believe in your ability to attract beautiful drop dead gorgeous women. So do relax and enjoy yourself when you are in the company of beautifully attractive women and do not be cowed by their presence. Feel as if the women need your acknowledgement and approval more than you need theirs. Confidence is a very potent weapon that guys can use in attracting girls. This begs the question of how do you show confidence when you are not? Simple, just like anything else, fake it until it is real
Social Skills - Your social skills is a way of establishing dominance to let her see that you are dominant in most of your other social relationships. If she sees that you are comfortable, well-liked and even admired by your peers, then she is more likely to be attracted to you. This is why in the early stages of getting to know a woman, you must not hang out with her the entire time because this will make it seem as if you are clingy and desperate for her affection which is a big turn off to women. That is what wussies(losers)do.
Now, when you have mastered the above techniques, you can be sure most of the time that when it comes to the game of attracting gorgeous women, the guys who have the money and good looks may not be your match after all.
Chris Chew is a fitness, health and relationship consultant. Read his free articles at How To Get Better Orgasm and How To Become Handsome And Attractive
Win Back Her With These Critical Steps When You Approaching Her
You can approach her when seems to be willing to talk to you. When she is willing to talk to you this means she is open to whatever you might have to say to her during the time. There are certain times when a girl is more willing to talk to you then other times, it is very important that you understand when these times are. Of course you will not want to railroad her thinking that you are tricking her into talking to you. You simply want her to be open to the idea of discussing your relationship, and then you can proceed.
You can try to win back her when the two of you are doing something casual together, assuming she is not already in a relationship with somebody else. If the two of you have been together for a long time then you will probably still spend time together. If you spend time together you can win back her by showing her that you can be the man she wants you to be, or the man that she originally fell in love with. Casual dating and spending time together can be a great pill to ease problematic relationships.
You can approach the subject of your relationship when you see that she wants to talk to you. This means she has probably been thinking about you and wants to talk to you. If a girl calls you in the middle of the night, or is she is calling you at all, then this is a sign that she is willing to talk to you about your relationship. This could be a good chance to try and win back her. You will want to be patient and listen to her before you speak, you can then gently and delicately guide it into a conversation about your relationship.
You can win her back by saying all the right things to her when you know she wants to hear them. You must make sure you are serious about what you say though otherwise she will know. A girl is going to be vulnerable at certain times, and it is during these times you can win back her. All you have to do is say all the things that she wants to hear, but you must also mean them. If you do not mean what you say then she will know it, but if you are truly serious about getting her back then meaning it should not be a problem.
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