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You have probably heard the expression: “You can’t be too rich or too thin.” Well, now you can also add: “You can’t have too much memory.”

Actually, that last phrase is little misleading because when buying RAM (Random Access Memory) for your computer you can have too much if your computer doesn’t have the hardware to handle or utilize all of your RAM. But for the most part, as any computer user will quickly realize, when it comes to computers you can’t have too much memory.

Therefore, when buying a laptop or computer, memory should be one of your main considerations. Go for the highest amount you can afford simply because the more RAM you have, the faster your computer will run.

Besides, many of today’s software applications place ever increasing demands on your system’s memory. You have peripherals such as webcams, digital cameras, DVD players, USB hard drives… throw in extremely complicated webpages and PC based video games… all needing more and more RAM. Who knows what the immediate future will bring and what extra demands will be made upon your system’s memory. Read the rest of this entry »

Multi-level marketing, also known as MLM, is one of the most popular ways to set up a business model in an easy manner for you to operate as a business you can do during your free time. There are lots of companies now operating reselling businesses for their affiliates, and netMLM, otherwise known as internet MLM, is the most prevalent mode present nowadays. But how does it work exactly? And how can it generate enough income to actually help supplement the family budget?

How this system works

NetMLM can be used to your advantage if you want to sell items online and market them to your friends, and let them do the selling for and with you as well, so that you can earn off what they’re getting from their efforts. It’s really that simple. Not only do you get money from your own efforts at selling, you also get profit from what the members that have joined under you are selling. With enough people under you as members below your marketing level, you can exponentially increase your earning power with every new person added. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the mythbusters in the world of network marketing and sales is that you don’t have to have the ability to talk well. It’s not true that you have to have the ‘gift of the gab’ or be able to sell ’snow to Eskimos’.

As a young man I was a salesman for a while. I hated it.

I had topped my class in the art of salesmanship and needed to get away from accountancy. I had learned how to look for buying signals, overcome objections and make the best use of customer emotions.

Yet still I hated it. I hated calling on customers, new or old. I always felt that I was on the back foot, never in control.

Then one day I had to see some people who had a complaint about our service department. No way out of it - I had to go. Read the rest of this entry »

I know someone who is REALLY racking up the AdSense clicks by incorporating a CSE into his sites. CSE stands for Custom Search Engine.

If you don’t know how it works, keep reading.

A Google Custom Search Engine is a plain Google search box…on steroids. The sign-up page can be found by doing a search in Google for “Google CSE”. It costs nothing to sign up for the custom search engine.

Basically, what it allows you to do is to customize the search results of a Google search on your site. YOU have the power to make the results very relevant for your niche.

Let’s say you wish the niche you are targeting to be one of the keywords “eye problem”. You’d first create an optimized site just like normal. But then you would also go into your CSE account and create a custom search engine and populate it with the best possible links you could find for “eye problems”. Use all the WebMD type sites you could find. Read the rest of this entry »

Networking is obviously an essential part of network marketing. Every successful network marketer knows this to be true. Although networking is such an intricate part of network marketing, the two terms are not synonymous. However there are many similarities. Both rely heavily on people skills. Both require people to confront their fear of talking to other people. Both carry with them the risk of rejection. Both also carry with them enormous opportunity. And to some people, both are considered dirty words.

Of course people that consider networking as something that is ‘not done’ don’t understand what networking is really about. The same can be said of people that think network marketing is something that is beneath them. Too many people think that networking is a way to get connected solely for their own advancement in life. In that respect a person might feel that it is unethical or not noble to network. This line of thinking stems from the idea that advancement will always come at the expense of someone else, that success in life is a zero-sum game. These people often look at network marketing from the same perspective. They think of profiting from other people’s efforts as something that is negative and not fair to them. In reality, successful networkers will tell you that it doesn’t work that way at all. Networking doesn’t have to be at anybody’s expense and the business of network marketing doesn’t reward anyone for taking advantage of others. It actually rewards people for helping other people to succeed. In that respect it may very well be the most ethical business model in the world today. Read the rest of this entry »

PayDotCom is one of the simplest affiliate networks to use for both vendors and affiliates. There is of course no cost for affiliates to join and promote as many affiliate products as they wish. Although the selling fee for each product is technically split between the PayDotCom vendor and affiliate, the vendor pays 100% of the fee and then recoups 50% of that small fee by subtracting it from the affiliate’s commission. The PayDotCom system keeps track of these details.

For vendors there are fee credits which can be purchased through PayDotCom in advance which can dramatically reduce the vendor’s total fee costs. Affiliates are not eligible for any type of fee credits.

Vendors are allowed to join PayDotCom and list one product initially for free. PayDotCom vendors who wish to sell unlimited products can do so by upgrading with a small, one-time fee. Once one sale for a product is made it will be listed in the PayDotcom marketplace. There, affiliates may select to promote it for the commission which the vendor has established. Most commissions given are in the range of 50%. Read the rest of this entry »

As any teacher knows, saying something once is tantamount to not saying it at all. People may recognize an idea the first time it is presented, but they almost never assimilate it and make it their own until it is repeated.

Nevertheless, in expository (non-fiction) writing, repetition seems to be a no-no. The purpose of expository writing is generally to inform or instruct, yet young writers are often enjoined to avoid repetition at all costs.

I became aware of this bizarre and detrimental phenomenon by living in Europe and learning other languages. I have been a resident of Belgium since 1974. I fluently speak French, and have working knowledge of Dutch, German and Spanish.

Everyone I know who writes documents in these languages will do just about anything to avoid repeating a word. It seems that when they were in school, they were told that if they repeated a word, their hands would be cut off. Verbal variety was a prime virtue; word repetition a prime sin.

Growing up in California, I don’t recall this taboo being pounded into my head the way it seems to be here in Europe, but maybe I wasn’t paying attention. In any event, while the advice is sound, the way people have interpreted it is wrong. Read the rest of this entry »

There are many ways to communicate, but there are even more ways to fail to communicate. The most important of these I call, ‘The Curse of FaceBook’. It’s a mysterious thing, and, on the face of it, should never happen. After all, Social Networking sites are all about ‘communication’, in the widest sense. How could they lead to non-communication? Or worse, misunderstandings and antagonism?

The first problem is the very ease with which communications are possible on sites like FaceBook. While enjoying a session on your page, you can ‘nudge’ a friend; write a comment on their ‘Wall’; send them a message or comment on something they have up. In all, it may be that when you leave and log off, there are several ‘communications’ that have passed between you. When your friend logs on, which do they choose to reply to? That’s the first problem. It’s as though you’ve written your friend a letter; sent them an email; a text; left them a message on their answerphone; and passed on a message via a mutual friend. There are now five actual ‘communications’ that need a reply. If you fail to get one - even just one out of the five - there is an opportunity to feel slighted and undervalued. Same with FaceBook. Even if your pal has commented on your comment, and replied to your reply, then you will still be looking to see if they’ve noticed your note on their Photos page. No matter how detailed and precise the first of these replies might be, you’ve already set yourself up to fail. There’s a good chance, a very good chance, that your friend’s replies won’t match yours in terms of numbers or enthusiasm, in which case, you’re disappointed. But this is what happens; lots of people join FaceBook, but their enthusiasm varies. Some visit the site every day, some once a week. It’s not as though you’re working in the same office as these pals from your past and see them every day. It’s not as though they are still fellow students at your University any more. They have more in their lives now, other priorities. If you’re a keen FaceBooker, you’re bound to feel let down that everyone else is not as addicted as you. Read the rest of this entry »

 To take advantage of all the people looking for information online, you need a variety of ways to get traffic to your website or blog.  A web site traffic specialist recently gave me a list of more than 100 ways to drive traffic to a site!  Some of the tactics are a little complicated.  But there are many low tech and low or no cost tactics that are not terribly time consuming.  These tactics won’t generate tons of traffic overnight, but if you devote a couple of hours a week to a few tactics, over time you will see your traffic increase.  Here are 7 simple tactics to start gaining additional web site traffic. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve surely heard the term “social media news release” in all the buzz about the new, social Web, but what does it mean? A social media news release is just like a traditional news release, except that it is also social media and Web 2.0 optimized. In short, this kind of news release encourages interactivity, is easily shared in the social Web, and contains a number of other Web 2.0 elements.

Generally, these additional elements include:

* Multimedia items, such as downloadable images, PDF/DOC files, or audio/video files.
* A way for readers to comment directly on the news release content.
* An obvious and easy way for readers to bookmark the news release in social bookmarking sites, or to share it via email.
* Technorati tags and links to purpose-built del.icio.us pages.

If you or your business produce online or email press releases regularly, you should be utilizing social media news releases. Like everything else on the Internet today, there is an expectation that content will be interactive, easily shared, and will offer sources to similar information. If your news releases do not live up to these expectations, your chances for major media coverage may be hurt. It’s fairly simple to create your own social media releases, or you can use a service like PRWeb. And, since a social media news release is just a traditional release with added elements, you do not need to change your present format, just include some additional sections. These added elements include: Read the rest of this entry »