Leadership Communication And How To Engage Employees

By Marcia Xenitelis

Leadership communication is so much more than letting employees know what is happening in the organization and the reasons why. And whilst information tools such as the corporate intranet, town hall meetings, CEO emails and blogs are important they are only part of the communication mix. Transformational leadership is about engaging employees on the journey of change to ensure that the business objectives are met. The only way to successfully achieve this is by designing employee engagement strategies to compliment information on the change process.

Employee engagement should always result in some positive change of behaviour which will then lead to the achievement of organizational goals. Just distributing information by any of the above methods will not achieve the change in employee behaviour and organizational outcomes you are looking for.

Here are 5 tips that will ensure that your leadership communication methods do achieve those outcomes.

1. The first step is to review the current ways you are communicating with employees and determine whether your leadership communication methods are engagement tools or simply information tools. So this first tip is to gather up all the ways you communicate with employees and decide whether they are one way or two way communication vehicles and whether the messages are information or could be enhanced with an engagement strategy.

2. Step two is very important for transformational leadership because you want to create an "Aha!" moment for employees. This means you convey information in such a way that creates a paradigm shift in their thinking about a topic. The focus for employees needs to be that they finally understand what the change will mean to them, how they can contribute and why it is important.

3. This third step is about conducting focus group research to find out what employees actually think about a particular topic and then what information you have to counter their views and to create a change in how they think. The objective is to find out what information will make employees stop and say, "Aha! now I get it". Once you have the answer to this it is easy to design engagement strategies that will focus employees on the change to the organization and the work that they do.

Benefits of focus group research are that they are a good format for allowing topics to be explored further and frequently will uncover issues or ideas which hadn't been considered prior to the session. Focus groups generally are held for one and a half hours duration and in groups of 8 - 10 participants. The facilitator should lead the discussion but leave the actual dialogue to the participants, and steer them around to the main issue if they have gone off topic and to ensure that all the topics that you wanted to cover within the timeframe allocated are. Well facilitated focus groups identify the key messages to focus your leadership communication strategies on as they relate to specific business objectives.

4. In this fourth step you gather the information sourced from the focus group feedback. The key data you are looking for is what the opinions are of employees about a particular topic or issue that directly relates to the business issue at hand. Then if it is based on false information or assumptions you find the factual data to refute this and then present it in such a way that employees are engaged and understand the basis for change.

5. The fifth tip is that you take the key information from the focus groups, identify a business issue that you feel certain your leadership communication strategies can impact. By using that information you then implement a personalized leadership communication strategy that can be measured by business outcomes.

Once you have gathered all this information you then need to design leadership communication strategies that engage employees around the one central message. Many of these employee communication strategies will actively involve employees in some aspect of change by designing communication methods that will require employees to participate. These engagement strategies are then supplemented by communication information tools. - 16890

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Cotton Candy Machine For Sale

By Paul Hamilton

For most adults this might be a blast out of the past. Every time I consider carnivals I remember of cotton candy, or candy floss if you are British, Fairy Floss if you happen to be Australian.

You might be considering purchasing one and are at present looking for a cotton candy machine for sale. There are plenty available, certainly online and I should picture if you were to contact franchise dealers of this type of pieces of equipment that they might even have some used ones for sale, plus of course, the latest ones.

There is rather a diverse choice of these pieces of equipment, both for profit-making or domestic use. Rather a lot of the industrial ones I have observed promoted are of 950W power, obviously the home ones would be lower.

It's rather captivating seeing the strings become visible ostensibly from nowhere and watching it collected onto a stick or into a cone. I believe children take pleasure in that practically as much as eating it.

The sugar content has to be taken into consideration though I do not imagine it is enormously high. According to Wikipedia an regular helping is roughly an ounce, and an ounce of sugar equals to between 105 and 115 calories. So you choose whether it is too much.

Perhaps you have a desire for fixing yourself up to market cotton candy at your local fairs, this is a good idea and I am confident you should recover any outlay incurred with the acquisition very soon.

It would appear that cotton candy businesses include profit margins of 85% and even larger. Your setting up overheads are extremely low.

Most townships have a lot of locations where you could set up your venture, sporting events, public markets, flea markets, fairs, parks, beach locations, any neighborhood occasion or parade.

It is quite achievable to produce $2 or $3 sales from 5 cents worth of sugar, and if you were to merely rent the gear at about $125 per night this would include supplies to turn out around 100 cones. This constitutes serious profits would you not suppose?

A number of people are obtaining a household type for employment in their games room or if they are blessed sufficient to have one, their home movies room.

I understand that the machines are considered not dangerous for children to use on their own the single limitation needed would be the number of times they made use of it and just how much cotton candy they were eating.

They could certainly be the most well-liked childrens on the block if their residence had a cotton candy machine. - 16890

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Champion Stress In The Workplace Before It Consumes You

By Kristaria Gubler

Times are tough- with the economy suffering as it is, more and more people are finding that they are becoming more stressed than ever before in their lives. Of course one expects people who aren't working to stress over finding full time work and trying to make ends meet- naturally because they are worried about hoe to make ends meet without working full time. What some don't see, however, is that those who are employed can suffer the same amount of tension, in the form of stress in the workplace.

We seem to believe that if one has a job with decent compensation, they have no reason to be stressed out by their employment. This is very untrue. Just as there is pressure involved with being unemployed, those who are gainfully employed experience a lot of strain, too. In fact, stress in the workplace is very common, much more so today than in years past. Companies are doing more with less people involved in getting the work done, and undue tension is felt amongst the ranks as a result.

Stress in the workplace can come from many different things. It can be directly from a micromanaging boss, high levels of responsibility, too large of a workload or even from something as simple or common as gossipy coworkers. While many argue that their job is "just a paycheck", the sheer amount of time spent earning that paycheck suggests that work is more than just a ways to a means. In fact, each year we work full time, we spend at least 25% of the year at work. As such, our mood is bound to be influenced by the atmosphere and conditions within the workplace.

Unfortunately the way business is done by major corporations isn't going to change any time soon, if at all. Economic conditions have forced budget cuts and reduced staffing, and the decrease in profits means that there won't be any more people added in to the mix. Despite this, stress in the workplace doesn't have to be ignored. Just because the people who work with you, the building in which you work and the physical duties you have each day aren't changing, it doesn't mean that the way you handle this stress in the workplace can't change.

Before you find yourself caving in to or cracking from stress in the workplace, seek out ways to cope. If you search for stress management activities via the web, you will find different exercises and techniques that will help you relieve the tension. Even if you have already become a victim to the strain, it's not too late to start figuring out ways to effectively manage through it now, and have a good idea of how to avoid it in the future. You may find that the individual stress management activities aren't enough for your situation- in this case, the next step would be to consult an expert in stress relief therapy who can help you pull through. - 16890

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Learn How to be a Speed Reader

By Dr. Jay Polmar

PACING:

Various hand movements can cause acceleration of reading speed. We are about to introduce you to several hand movements that will accelerate your reading ability. Try each one and see which suits you best.

BASIC METHOD:

The basic pacing movement utilizes the index finger of your dominant hand, i.e. right handed use right hand, to scan a line by running your finger under the type you are reading. Turn the page with the unused, non-dominant hand. Never move your head when reading, keep it still.

The process is simple. You'll replace all your bad habits with one easily learned one: You'll use your pacing hand. Here's how it breaks each of these habits automatically while it increases your reading speed.

You'll read without sub-vocalizing. You already know the basics: Pace your eyes so swiftly over a line that you don't have time to form the sounds of the words or syllables in your throat.

Now the method to begin pacing across a line faster than you can form the sounds in your throat:

Here's the method to begin pacing across a line faster than you can form the sounds in your throat:

Through the DYNAMIC SPEED READING program you'll learn to develop these skills which will enhance your reading ability and speed simply by reading.

DYNAMIC SPEED READING program will teach you how to develop these skills to enhance your reading ability and speed through practice and exercises. Soon, you could soon be reading twice as fast as you ever have and retaining valuable information to increase your comprehension and improve your grades.

Dr. Jay Polmar is the founder of www.speedread.org, a research organization that's developed speed reading courses for people worldwide and has taught over 100,000 students throughout the world. - 16890

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Do You think You're Ready To Raise Capital for Your Business? Most Likely . . . You're Not!

By James Scott

Whether you're trying to raise debt or equity capital there are still certain unwritten rules that apply that cater to the mentality of today's investor and funding community. Certainly there are scores of private placement memorandum and business plan chop shops that wouldn't know how to properly consult with your company or write a fundable document even if they wanted to but they will gladly take your money to throw together a template and try to pass it off as custom work.

The issue is this, it's not necessarily the consultant, though these fly-by-nights shoulder a large portion of the blame, but the client usually doesn't even have the proper structure in place to attract a funding source even if they had the most incredible PPM and business ever to hit the venture capital marketplace. Here is a simple (very basic) way to evaluate your company to find out if you are properly structured to attract capital. Have a corporate meeting and ask yourselves the following questions: What type of corporate structure do you have and why did you choose that particular structure? Break down your executive infrastructure, where do your individual executives stand in your industry, do the unthinkable, Google everyone's names; are the people running your company real industry players? Are all the basic positions accounted for (president, CFO, controller etc)? Next, look at your advisory board and board of directors. If by some miraculous act of God you actually have these two groups represented in your company, how did you qualify them? Sorry but if you have an attorney on your board because he's, um...well, an attorney, that's not good enough.

You need an industry specific legal guru who not only spells out the intricacies of your business genre's regulation but they must also be actively qualifying potential strategic partnerships as alliances for your company. He should be reaching into his client base and actively picking companies that could enhance your company in distribution or in any other way that will have a profitable outcome for all involved. Each of the members must be serving a similar purpose.

Next, on what criteria are you basing your share price or loan amount? If you don't have a clear cut 'use of proceeds' model, you need one. This and many, many other questions need to be asked before you are actually ready to raise capital and in all reality, until your corporate structure is in place you shouldn't even attempt to write a business plan or a private placement memorandum. If you are serious about setting up your company to attract investors you need a turnaround consultant, you can't do this on your own. There is an entire industry that centers around structuring companies for their first and ongoing capital raise.

Before you blackball your company by prematurely attempting to raise capital, the critical concepts you need to keep in mind are (precisely in this order): corporate structure, infrastructure, advisory board, board of directors, use of proceeds, business plan, private placement memorandum, investor finder, funding. Look at each aspect listed here as its own item, break it down and analyze every minute aspect of each element and look at everything objectively and eventually your company will evolve into a structure that is fundable and stabilized for years to come. - 16890

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Corporate Fund Raisingl: PIPE, DPO, PPM, OTCBB, Pink Sheets or Reverse Mergers

By James Scott

There are many ways to use capital without using bank loans, lines of credit and other shady methods like shelf corps and bogus platform scams. If you are truly trying to raise capital for your company here are some simple breakdowns of your options with a quick definition for each one:

 PIPE: Private Investment In Public Equity this is used primarily by mutual funds and private investment firms where they buy discount stock in order to raise capital, there are two types of PIPEs traditional where common and preferred stock is issued at a set cap to raise money for the issuer and a structured pipe issues convertible debt.

 DPO: Direct Public Offering is when you sell equity shares directly to customers, suppliers and employees.

 PPM: Private Placement Memorandum is also known as an offering memorandum takes advantage of Regulation D rule exemptions 504, 505 and 506. This process came into existence with the'33 securities act and popularized in the late'80s, companies can raise money from the public via private placement; there is virtually zero interaction with the SEC after you file form d as long as you stay legal. (most popular form of fund raising).

 IPO: Initial Public Offering: extremely expensive, need SOX 404 audits, must have board of directors, quarterly financial reports to shareholders, report heavily to the SEC and 1 out of every 1000 companies that want an IPO actually qualify. I love participating in these but most companies just can't qualify for one reason or the other.

 OTCBB: Over the Counter Bulletin Board is an electronic quote system that is the next best thing if you can't go public via ipo, there is minimal red tape to startups and small businesses and is legitimized by the stringent ongoing reports to the SEC which keeps investor confidence high (these are extremely solid and I suggest this structure to companies when I am hired by their company or legal team as a consultant as a fast, easy way to raise big capital from the public otc)

 Pink Sheet: you can look at pink sheets as the Burger King, while the OTCBB is McDonalds, they are competing otc mechanisms. Pinks sheets are commonly referred to as penny stock and notorious for 'pump em' and dump em' controversies and a lot of crooked people are involved with this platform. This is not a long term process that will allow one's company to grow, pink sheets companies are typically short lived but it is cheap to set up but not a professional structure that could be upgraded in time to an IPO.

 Reverse Merger: a group funds the filing and creation of a public shell, they then sell that shell to a company that wants to go public, the established company merges it's entity into the public shell. The sellers retain around 30% equity after they charge an upfront fee of 300k to 1m. 99% of reverse mergers are successful with the merger, but unsuccessful to bring them to trade and the entity basically just fizzles out.

Taking your company public is actually quite simple and inexpensive when you have the right consultant putting the structure together for you. There are countless ways to raise capital quickly and easily. It's important that you understand your options before you waste time entering into the red tape infested banking system for a loan. - 16890

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Real Estate Investors: Here Is The Exact Process To Get All The Capital and Inventory You Will Ever Need!

By James Scott

For real estate investors, there are two things that are always in short supply regardless of the ups and downs in the economy: capital and quality inventory. Most investors that I have worked with not only need capital but strategies to go after capital that is not issued based solely on a credit score. Even if a real estate investor has good credit they still have the obstacle of too many inquires and too many open loans on their credit report and funding sources are spooked by these distractions and turn the applicant down even though all of their loans are current and they have a solid FICO.

If the above describes you or if you have limited or poor credit and you're a serious real estate investor, here is how to get all the capital you'll ever need. First put a solid strategy together. Start with your company infrastructure. Organize your company with a CEO, CFO, Board of Directors etc. After you've done this you want to set up your inter-industry strategic alliances which should be composed of other investors, bird dogs, electricians, roofers, general contractors etc. You want each of these alliances to have a purpose. They should be a portal for industry niche knowledge and consultation and also referral hubs. Let each of your alliances know exactly what type of investments you're looking for and as they are sending you referrals, reciprocate by issuing them work in whatever specialty they are in.

Next you want to have a solid business plan written for your company (don't write this yourself, have a professional do it for you) that spells out the intricacies of your company, your alliances, your accomplishments and goals. Paint a picture of success and strength.

Next you need a mechanism for accepting investment capital so you'll need a Private Placement Memorandum. This document package gives a technical breakdown of your investment opportunity and spells out the risks and advantages in detail to keep you from getting sued by investors down the road. This memorandum takes advantage of SEC Regulation D Rule Exemptions 504, 505 or 506. A PPM is the minimum requirement dictated by the SEC for accepting capital from accredited and non accredited investment sources. Real investors will demand an PPM anyway so it's good to have it done beforehand.

Now that your company is properly structured, you have a solid board of directors and alliances; your business plan is well written and to the point, you have a solid outlet for accepting capital from investors, you are now ready for capital. Your best bet is to go back to the company who wrote your business plan and private placement memorandum and use their 'investor finder' service. Legitimate corporate consultants who write technical documents will also stand behind their work by assisting their clients in finding investors. One solid strategy for getting access to capital quickly and easily is to have your Investor Finder forward go through their database and email individual and institutional funding sources.

When you are contacted by these investment sources, give them the option to invest in your company using the PPM (which will give you a fund in which you will be able to rehab real estate, buy at auctions etc). You will also want to give them the option of investing in a 'per deal' scenario. Allow them the option to also (or only) invest in particular transactions with you so when you get a deal, with a solid investor finder service, you'll eventually have 100+ solid investors to go to for quick capital on particular transactions that go above what your PPM fund can handle.

There you have it, a strategy that works 100% of the time for real estate investors globally. Your best bet, to make sure that you do this properly, is to hire a consultant that can set up this process for you. Cheers to your success! - 16890

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Make Money Online Sending Articles Out To Hundreds Of Article Submission Sites

By Paul Cherry

Articles are a great way to make money online. If you are new to the internet, or a pro articles can be a great source of income.

There are actually several different ways that writing articles can make you money from home. By submitting your articles to article directorie sites, your articles can be used by webmasters who are looking for new fresh content to place on their web pages.

The articles that you have submitted to article directories may also be read by people who find them while searching online. This could give your writing quite a lot more exposure than ever!

You can use the articles that you write to generate free traffic to your website so you generate more money. You can do this by placing a link directly to your website in your article or in your author box.

You could also use your articles to create a website. If you create a website that consists of informative articles on a specific topic you can sell advertising on your website to related businesses. If you decide to create a website using your articles, you could also place Google Adsense ads on your website and get paid each time a visitor clicks on one of your Adsense ads.

You could turn your informative articles into your own ebook and sell them for a profit, or you could even turn your articles into an email course.

Some internet marketers write informative articles on topics related to making money online or working from home. They will include a special affiliate link in their articles to the affiliate company they are promoting. When a reader clicks on the link and joins the company the author makes a commission.

When writing articles to make money, an important point to remember is that you will be more successful if your articles are informative and give the reader valuable information. It's important to build trust with the reader actually offer the reader something of value in the article.

If you give the reader valuable content then you will be building a trusting relationship with that reader. This way when you recommend an affiliate company to make money online with to your reader, they will be much more likely to follow your advice because you have given them value building a trusting relationship with them through internet relations.

One other point to remember when writing articles is to keep them short. People are bombarded with information every day. Very few people have the time or the interest in reading lengthy articles. If you can give your reader interesting and valuable information in 500 to 700 words, you will find your articles getting read and getting results. - 16890

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Take Your Company Public: SEC and FINRA Approval and Turn-key Solutions Are A Must

By James Scott

Take Your Company Public: A Must Read Before You Do Anything! As a consultant in the business of structuring companies, setting up strategic alliances for clients, writing business plans and PPM's and taking companies public on the OTCBB, I must admit I've seen my share of scams and swindling of uninformed clients. One sad issue that permeates the industry is clients who believe that their only option is to give up substantial equity while paying hefty fees to consultants who take your company public.

Here is the reality. When you are investigating the industry to find a consulting firm to work with to facilitate your 'go public' process, the first thing you need to do is make sure you are hiring a 'turn-key' solutions consulting group; meaning they need to offer everything soup to nuts in house because the second your consultant outsources anything, accountability is lost.

Next, on the issue of paying fees and also giving up equity, it should be either or, not both. If a company tells you that they want you to pay them in both upfront fees and in equity, you should laugh and walk away. In actuality the best deals for the client are those that are simply fee based, not equity based.

It's better to pay 100k in a few easy installments than to pay millions in stock that will only be liquidated after the IPO which will completely obliterate your stock price and almost certainly ruin your company's chances of success. It baffles me to see the scenarios that uninformed company owners accept. Currently there is a company that is promoting all over Google Adwords that they will take your company public for $25k and after a month of talking to the company, when you finally agree to use them they break the bad news that they are not going to charge you $25k or anything even close to that, they are, in fact, going to charge you $125k upfront, plus $10k to $20k for your initial SEC audit and on top of all of that they are going to take 30% of your company! It's shocking but this group of consultants, because of their extensive advertising, has no problem bringing in clients and turning the tables on them at the last minute and sadly, because the client is uninformed, they accept the contract and pay the fees.

If you are going to give up any amount of equity in exchange for the process of going public, it should be with a licensed broker dealer and there should be zero out of pocket expenses from you. Your broker dealer should pay for the SEC audit, S-1 filing, SEC approval, FINRA approval, Symbol achievement and ongoing investor relations to keep your stock price solid. Unless your broker dealer is doing all of this, you need to find a new, full service broker.

Keep in mind, each consulting firm you talk to will give you a million reasons as to why their fee structure and process is the best but here are some comparable facts so that you can make the right decision on how to proceed. First of all, if you get an emotional consultant that acts like he is excited about your project and 'can't wait to get started' this is bogus and you should walk away. The best consultants keep clients at arm's length and never get emotional because it clouds the process and makes them ineffective. Besides, if they are acting so excited about your company it's probably because they are trying to convince you of their legitimacy that won't stand on its own merit.

Next you want to make sure that you are getting a quote on your specific company type which includes at a minimum: corporate structuring, strategic alliance facilitation, board of directors evaluation, business plan authoring built for IPO, investor finder service, SEC audit (the should be able to give you a general idea of the cost of the audit and have a company that you can use as most consultants don't employ an auditor on staff), S-1 filing, SEC approval, FINRA approval, symbol achievement, market maker or broker dealer relationship/contract setup and investor relations for long term success. - 16890

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Take Your Business Public: Find A Consultant That Will Streamline The Process

By James Scott

Going public, the ultimate in the evolution of companies who are seeking access to powerful global finance options for rapid expansion, deepening corporate roots and gaining industry prominence as a true powerhouse and player. The process of going public is technical yet pretty straight forward: business plan, Private Placement Memorandum, Direct Public Offering, Financial Audit, S-1 filing, SEC comments phase, SEC approval, FINRA approval, symbol and then you're public.

Never price shop for consultants that take companies public and be weary of consultants that will start off a conversation by answering questions geared toward price and giving you quotes without understanding your business first; without the proper information a realistic quote can't be given anyway.

When you've found a consultant that you're comfortable with you'll need to get a solid understanding of their full range of services. Of course you'll want a consulting firm that will handle all of the above for your company but you'll also need to consider the post IPO services. What happens after you're public? The reality is, selling off stock in a rapid fashion to raise capital is the last thing you want to do, instead you need to approach your consultant and market maker on how to cross collateralize your securities to raise equity loan capital.

This can be done easily and quickly if you've brought on the right group of advisers to expand your company to the global public. When considering the idea of taking your company public it's important to note that there are many ways to raise capital after you are public without selling off chunks of your company (consult your financial advisers for more information).

Next, when deciding on a consultant they should also have solid investor relationships to assist your company in raising the capital necessary to go public. A true turn-key consultant will have a database of investors seasoned in the process of pre-IPO finance and will often times jump at the chance of investing in the PPM and DPO phase at a discount for companies that are in the process of going public as this almost guarantees that the investor will double or triple their initial investment when the company achieves public status.

Out of the hundreds of consulting firms that offer the 'take your company public' service, there are only a dozen or so that actually offer the complete full range of services needed to successfully accomplish public status in a way that maintains investor confidence and corporate longevity. Do your research and find a firm that is well seasoned in the turbulent waters of this industry. - 16890

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Lake Ronkonkoma

By LJ James

Ronky The Monster Of Lake Ronkonkoma New York



It was a Sunday in Summer of 2009 went I first saw Ronky with my own eyes. I had heard stories of Ronky here and there, They had come to me in Whispers really.The History of Ronky has been a well kept secret for Hundreds maybe Thousands of years. I had spent weeks watching this lake in Lake Ronkonkoma on Long Island in New York State. This day I was driving around going past one of the many Parks and Beaches around the lake. While I was going North on Lake Shore Road I saw something in the water out of the corner of my eye, but after weeks of watching this lake I thought it was just someone out on another blow up raft and didn't really think much of it !

As I was passing the Dinning Hall "Windows on the Lake" there is an opening where Guests can get a good look at the lake. I looked over and I saw what I had though to be a raft a few seconds before was the creature. I though to myself this could just be another hoax! After years of searches and hunts leading to nothing but dead ends I was not going to get my hopes up to fast. I slowed down and watched as the Creature swam around the lake enjoying itself! I was a little scared but at the same time I could not stop myself from smiling thinking this was really it!

I drove around the lake following along with "Ronky" at some point I pulled into a parking lot and walked onto one of the beaches. I slowly got my Camera out fearing as soon as I went to take the picture the creature would disappear. I snapped a shot, checked it in the review mode of the Camera and I could not believe I had captured a perfect shot of the Creature that no one could dispute the authenticity of ! When I looked back at the Lake Ronky was gone.

Over the next few days I carefully started asking the locals in the area if they had ever seen something weird in the Lake? It seems that to everyone in Lake Ronkonkoma Ronky is well known. He is not a myth or urban legend here. He is just another Member of the Village! I have been told there are two Differences between Nessie in Scotland's Loch ness and Ronky in New York's Lake Ronkonkoma. One Ronky is real and Two Ronky is protected by the Locals and his name is not defiled for tourist money.

There are many stories of Ronky that go back Hundreds of years. The one I found most interesting was a story that happened about 15 years ago. It seems there was an expedition sent to look into and map the depths and some underwater streams under Lake Ronkonkoma. This expedition never happened. The Official Story given was the expedition ran out of Money and was going to come back when they got more funds. I was told by an old time resident that wishes her Identity to remain a secret that the real story is a group called the "Keepers of the Lake" told the expiation in no uncertain terms it would be in their best interested for them to leave and not come back!!!

The people of Lake Ronkonkoma have kept this Monster Ronky loved and Protected for many years! I respect and sympathize with them,but I have spent my adult life and most of my families fortune searching for a creature like Ronky.This is my job and I must share this with the world. I have received many threats not to print this story! I have posted it here to go out to these newsgroups if I do not reset the settings at least once a week. If you are reading this there is a good chance something has happen to me. Please do not let what I have spent my life hunting for go unheard of ! Ronky is there in that Lake!

By Lawrence Jamison http://www.lakeronkonkomacivic.org - 16890

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The Perfect Solution To All Your Business Capital Needs: A Must Read For All Business Owners!

By James Scott

How To Find All The Angel Investors And Venture Capital Financing You'll Ever Need! The once definitive line that would separate hard money and private/angel financing has merged into a hybrid of sorts in the past few years. As the economy has taken a dive and structured private lending firms have felt the crunch we are finding many of these lending solutions closing its doors and re-opening as privately owned and managed funding options with an interest in both lending and seed investment.

Approval decisions that were once made by a group are not being made by an individual or duo with an eye toward optimal capitalization with both short term and long term agendas. As investors are, now more than ever, trying to get as much bang out of their buck, entrepreneurs are in the precarious position of accepting funding from virtually any and every enterprise that is making an offering. That said, it is more important now than ever to swing open your mind to the possibilities of mass exposure of your opportunity to the investment world.

The best way to do this is to simply put your business in constant and automated 'introduction' mode so that you can be found by the moneymen. The best way to do this is to heavily investigate the venture capital industry for executives who have created offshoot programs that have deviated their process from the traditional path of simply approving or declining a transaction.

There are many VC professionals who want to capitalize off of the projects that their firm cannot accept due to underwriting criteria and industrial genre specialization so they are starting these small but well managed financial source databases where members can place their transaction directly in front of thousands upon thousands of angel investors, private investors, hard money lenders, venture capital firms, private equity firms and other alternative finance solutions.

These websites are now the hottest thing in the capital markets and will continue to grow because of the high success rate of individual executives and entrepreneurs who are able to find multiple streams of financing options with the click of a button. - 16890

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Write Professional Plans With Business Planning Software

By Gregory Covey

Business planning software will help you to create a company plan that will turn out professional and strong. Where you would probably have to put a lot of time and effort into writing a marketing strategy software takes care of that so you have other time to spend on your business. Most software includes easy step by step processes.

Every professional company needs to have a plan that they can follow. If there is no plan, no blue print then the organization has nothing that they can show to potential investors. At the end of the day your marketing strategy is extremely important and probably one of the most essential plans that you will ever have to write for your business.

Although business planning can seem tedious and complicated at its most basic it is common sense. If you learn some basic business concepts then you can soon start to apply them to the marketing strategy. You will need to have a good grasp of what direction you want the organization to go in. Team building with potential employers or investors can help to drive your plan forward.

Organizing a new project will require a number of financial decisions as well as meeting some challenges and opportunities where technology is concerned. It can help to understand how the latest technology works so that you can utilize that when writing the plan. Most of the strategies of writing the marketing plan remain the same. Once you have written one plan then you should be able to write another for future business ventures.

You could buy a cd with business planning software on it, but you can also buy software without the need to have a separate disc. There are many areas of the business plan that you are going to have to write. You should never miss any section and each part is as important as the next.

The sales tactic of your planning is a massive section that you will have to write. You need to include ways and techniques of selling. You will need to answer questions like, who are your target customers? What makes them your target customer? What is your sales pitch? How much are you going to sell your products for? You will also need to work out profit margins and how you are going to advertise your business to people.

Software might be able to give you more information and explain certain aspects of the business plan you might have been unsure about. Once you have written the plan it can help you to organize your business in a systematic way so that you know what to do should anything go wrong. The plan gives you a strategy to follow should anything go wrong with your business.

The plan contains essential information that you, and prospective investors will need to know to help your business along. In certain cases, it can be the backbone of your company. Business planning software is extremely helpful and provides a more professionally looking plan. - 16890

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Simple And Easy Face 3d Modeling With Custom 3d Models

By Mark Powell

Face 3d modeling is done using stock or custom 3d models that are created with smooth meshes and a lot of details. They can also be done using high end capturing devices and software to get a model that is then further processed using 3d modeling software. Here we discuss the first approach.

You can cut down time and production costs if you purchase a 3d model from a 3d marketplace to use in your face 3d modeling and animation. Using a ready made 3d model will help you a lot during your face 3d modeling process. However, remember that when you use one that has already been made, you will have to add your own features and you will have to change it so it can be unique.

To start, lets look at the help you get when using this approach to start the process. Custom 3d models allow for an easier way to obtain the right proportions for the 3d face and also the necessary details that are needed to ultimately meet your needs for the face 3d modeling project.

Custom 3d models give an easier way to obtain the right proportions for the 3d face and also the level of quality and detail that are needed to satisfy the need.There are many advantages to using a custom 3d model to start the process including getting realistic location of the eyes, eyebrows, face, mouth and other proportions.

For instance, for a unique character, it is very likely that a custom 3d models is needed. Otherwise one that is already made that is also highly realistic and can even include facial movements can meet the need.

Keep in mind that to use this 3d face model character or change anything on it, you will need specialized rendering and 3d modeling skills in the course of the face 3d modeling in order for you to simply mesh it again, built it altogether or even display it so that it can be seen like a human face. The point is that regardless whether you start off with a stock or a custom 3d model, the reality is that a stock 3d model is not exclusive so you need to change it to suit your needs or the need to have an original face that nobody else is using in their projects.

In addition, most face 3d modeling almost always involves further work particularly adding facial movements and emotions. In other words, most custom 3d models that involve any part of body need lots of additional manipulation to look real.

There are many techniques you may use to create custom 3d models of human faces. To initiate this process quickly, try to get a starting model that will have the basic outline of the human shape, without all of the details. The referenced 3d model can be referenced from a photograph, video, or even a stock 3d model. Face 3d modeling involves using these already referenced points and then using them to build and customize it to include all the necessary details.

Often, the desired face is of an existing human, such as celebrity or political figure. When this is the case pictures or video can be used to aid in the creation of the basic shape and proportion of the face. Also these same picture or video can be analyzed to tweak the shapes and proportions of the face and to add the facial expressions. These facial expressions give any custom 3d model of the face a look that can be very realistic and almost as accurate as the existing human face. Then, the 3d modeler can use this realistic looking custom 3d model of the face and create stills or use it in animations, saving time and money during the 3d face modeling process.

For instance in the face 3d modeling process, one can use reference videos or photos. Then, you would use the placement of the eye corners, nose tip and mouth corners and 3d modeling software for face mapping and recognition to generate a highly realistic looking face 3d model. Then, you would use this output as the starting point of your face 3d modeling and then you would add the many poses, facial expressions and speaking. More facial dots or references translate to more accuracy.

Therefore, to realize that highly realistic look for any part of the human body, especially the face, it is best to get face 3d modeling services to manipulate custom 3d models until the face achieves the desired look. - 16890

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Website Design What To Do First

By Larry Edwards

In the matter of website design what to do first, a person who is contemplating starting a website or some sort of blog and who thinks that he or she might like to take a crack at designing it needs to keep a few things in mind. First of all, anyone interested in designing a website should sit down and come up with a plan or a concept for what it should look like.

This means, of course, that no small amount of research is going to need to be done beforehand. What is meant by research is the fact that a person will need to correctly identify the market or niche that the website is going to be targeted at. Eventually designing a site that gives the viewer or reader the impression that it is about bicycles when it is really about motorcycles is just one example of intelligent website design.

Along with deciding or determining the kind of niche that the website will be targeted at should be a realization that the site must, above all else, be usable and logical to any visitor or reader who happens to land there. This can create a bit of tension between the desire to make the website look space-age or really relevant, graphics wise, and the need to also be functional and easy to maneuver around.

Those who fail to realize this simple requirement (usability) tend to have websites designed that require multiple plug-ins or that end up taking a really long time to load on a user's computer because they are extremely heavy with graphics that cause images to load very slowly. Studies show that most viewers of a website will quickly move on if they have any sort of issue viewing that site.

This is why it is important to do the research, identify the market or niche, and then -- first of all -- design the site so that it is extremely usable. Most experts recommend that websites should try to make use of black text on white backgrounds if possible. If a background is desired, designers should also try to use a plain-color background or go with something that is very subtle.

This is why it will be vital to make sure that the text itself is in a printable color, meaning that while white text on a black background looks good, if it doesn't print in some other color other than white they're going to be many user complaints or visits to the website will quickly drop off.

In the end, the matters of website design what to do first come down to research and then usability. Conduct your research to make sure that you are coming up with a thoughtful and relevant website and then make that website extremely easy to use when visitors arrive there. - 16890

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Google Wants To Be Number One For PC And Mobile Searching

By Julie Johnson

When it comes to the internet, there is nobody bigger then Google in terms of searching, tools, advertising, just about everything. While Google is already the dominant search engine for individuals searching from home, they are now in the process of trying to become the dominant search engine for mobile searching as well.

Currently Google is going head to head with Apple for the internet searches done through phone web access, and Google recently purchased AdMob and Teracent in an attempt break into the mobile search arena. Spending almost $750 Million on AdMob alone they are attempting to increase this form of advertising for their company.

Apple is also fighting hard to gain this market with their acquisition of Quattro; they will attempt to make headway in the mobile marketing arena as well. The question is really, "how much ground can Apple gain from Google, who already has about 70% of the search traffic on the web?"

Google continues to be the target, however, and the major players in this industry are targeting them, but trying to unify against them. Apple is in the process of trying to strike a deal with Microsoft to make Bing the primary search resource in the iPhone, hoping that this unification will supply both companies with a larger foothold in the market. Is it realistic to believe that the unification of these two smaller players, could in fact take anything from Google? The answer is probably not.

And with all the hype about who will get to be the search engine for the smart phone applications, the bottom line is that although Google may want to be there, with their current strong hold on the web and with the major social media sites, even if they lose in the smart phone market they will still remain a strong and active force on the web for years to come. The little steps being taken by Microsoft and Apple, may be taking a few dollars out of their pockets, but will remain relatively insignificant to the overall market. - 16890

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Corporate Gifts - Move Your Business Forward

By Elmer Jones

Corporate gifts are critical for a company's image and its relationship with its customers. They are an effective method of marketing. Clever distribution of these gifts can boost a company's revenues significantly. They can be presented to invitees at a particular event or to guests at the official launch of a company's new product or service. As promotion tools, these gifts are very impactful because they serve a variety of purposes.

Corporate gifts are always cherished by employees. Receipt of such gifts at regular intervals satisfy employees and help them recognize their value to the company. This practice to a great extent ensures that the valued employees don't feel dissatisfied with the organization and don't seek opportunities outside. But gifts should be picked wisely. The gift must be of some use to or to liking of a person it is given to. A personally chosen gift always makes a good impression and is appreciated by the receiver.

Corporate gifts can also bring a smile on a customer's face. It's a way of showing gratitude to customers for selecting the company's products or services. Clients feel important when they are given such gifts. The gift item usually carry the name of the organization in the form of a logo or a company message. These gifts spread knowledge about the company's products and services and create strong customer recall.

Relationship with business partners and customers is strengthened when the business presents them with good quality promotional items as gifts. Clients create a sense of trust and loyalty towards the company when they are presented with corporate gifts.

As they are so important, a lot of forethought should go into the selection of corporate gifts. Metal name card holders with the company's name or slogan emblazoned on them, leather writing portfolios that also act as card holders and wine duffels are some of the smartest and most stylish gifts that one can think of presenting in corporate circles. - 16890

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Why Trophies And Plaques Are The Best Corporate Gifts For Staff

By Darren White

Every business knows the significance of a corporate gift. It lifts the morale of the employees and recognizes their contribution, and therefore helps in retaining the best talents, as they feel valued by the company. These presents also motivate others to work hard and display better performance so that they canmatch up with the best performing employees. As a corporate gift is of this immense value to the organization, it needs to be thoughtfully picked.

A corporate gift should be a lasting proof of achievement so that the recipient can fondly cherish it for time to come after it is presented. This is the reason why trophies and plaques have long been regarded as great gift items, which always remind people of their success. Trophies and plaques inhabit a place in the receiver's showcase and form a positive image on guests and other visitors.

Plaques are quite versatile and perhaps that is why they have stayed popular as a gift item for a long time. Various materials such as stone, plastic, metal etc. can be processed to make plaques. However, the most preferable and classy of all plaques is the wooden plaque. There is great range within wooden plaques too as the kind of wood used can differ and each one has it unique feel, but the most commonly used are oak and cedar.

An attractive, shiny trophy on which the person's name has been written is also seen as a great gift. Trophies come in several designs and there is a vast range of metals that you can pick from. The size of a trophy depends on your budget, but do not go for an extremely small or a too big one.

Among the different kinds of corporate gifts available, plaques and trophies are one of the best when it comes to creating a lifelong impression in the mind of the recipient and the people around him, and that is why they are such a safe choice for the purpose. - 16890

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Increase Your Revenues By Overhauling Your Brand Design

By Bless Tan

Most people confuse brand design with just developing a logo. However, this is not actually true. Brand designing plays a crucial part in the success of the business as it helps in developing a bond with the consumers, who identify the company by its brand. If you notice that your brand is unable to convey a positive image of your organization and offerings to the customers, it is time to get your brand redesigned.

A brand design not only has to be a representation of the company's brand identity but should also make sure that it has an influence on the communication strategy. Along with the logo, it must be apparent in the jingles that the business uses in its ads, the promotional materials, the website, and any other customer touch points.

Proper brand designing will ensure that the business gets a more positive reaction from the public. However, it is not all that simple to create a good brand identity It takes a significant amount of work, and requires the person creating it to know the customers and the competitors of the company, as well as the advantages of its products or services. This is why brand design consultants are so crucial when it comes to redesigning a brand.

Brand design consultants are experts in this discipline. Brand design consultants look at the existing brand and the client's reason for going for a change in it, the existing market trends, and the expected reaction of the rivals to it before taking redesign decisions. After this analysis is complete, the consultants focus on their main task - developing an appealing brand identity. The task of creating a new brand design involves creation of new logos and ads, as well as changing packaging and websites etc. to give them a new look.

Therefore, it is critical that you engage brand design consultants when you want to conduct a brand designing exercise for your business. The years of training and vast knowledge of these experts can ensure that you will have a successful brand. - 16890

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Self Storage Warehousing - Suggestions To Make Your Life Simpler

By Sammy Taylor

The idea of self storage warehousing is becoming rapidly well known with companies and households adopting it as both a long term and short term answer to fulfill their storage needs.

Self storage warehousing scores over all other forms of commercial warehousing facilities in terms of the exclusive range and standard of highly safe services they provide at a reasonable cost. But before selecting the self-storage firm, one needs to do some planning and focus on some crucial issues to get a pleasant warehousing experience.

Your first emphasis as a customer should be on the exact area you need for housing your items and the rates that different self storage firms charge for providing their services. Additional services like climate-control facilities to control the temperature and moisture level inside the unit for storage of electronic goods, fragile artwork etc can sometimes be vital for your valuable items.

high-tech security systems and fire alarms must also be in place to avoid any theft or harm to your valuables. Choose to ignore these safety issues only at your own risk, because if you end up availing the services of a suspicious firm, it could place your valuables in danger through poor warehousing.

Some suggestions can also be useful while preparing your items for a self-storage unit. Make a detailed list of items and ensure proper packaging. Particular precautions taken for cumbersome items, brittle objects, and electronic goods would accomplish half your objective. A self-storage unit is no place for storing perishable or hazardous items so never pack them with your other stuff. Finally, all the personal belongings placed in the self-storage facility must be covered by insurance.

Thus, making the correct selection of a self storage facility and thereafter following these basic rules to store your items can resolve most of your storage issues and ensure total safety of your belongings. - 16890

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Leadership Interview Questions And Answers

By John Smith

If you are in a leadership role and have a modus operandi like "Oh my gosh, I forgot about x, y, and z and this deadline is up - can you bail me out?" then it can deflate your oraganization. Alternatively think whether this signify other problems like poor time management or an inability to multi-task, plan ahead and stay organized? The following basic steps can help you stay on top of your game.

Delegate the right way: If you're trying to do everything without any delegation, that's probably the root of your problem. , delegation is a key of all effective leadership. You can't do everything, nor should you want to. Also be careful and maintain an active role in the organization to bolster your credibility and relevancy with your team. It also presents opportunities to prove you will do what you say you'll do. There is also a thing as too much delegation.

Another key aspect is delegating the right way. Never delegate at the last moment. It's also important that you're not approaching team members only when you need something. Develop relationships and talk to them even when you don't have to. Lastly, spread the delegated tasks around so you're not monopolizing any one person's time.

Always plan ahead: Keep a planner and keep cell phone reminders, make lists. Always remember that just as there are different ways of managing people there are different ways of managing information. What works for your colleague might not work for you, but find a system that does work and stick with it. Whatever it takes to get the job done and remember all your commitments, that's what you should do.

Stop and think: Do you have any standing commitments on that day of the week? Make it a habit each evening or each morning to think about the next 24 hours you're about to face. Everybody needs a little assistance sometimes, but you must balance that with self-sufficiency. If you don't, you may look around one day and see nobody to help you out. They'll be too busy dodging your phone calls. - 16890

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Competent Business cards Can Bring In Business

By Hema Mahesh

You can suitably use your business cards to fetch business for you if you abide with some guidelines. It is a common knowledge that every business vendor has a business card for customers, business associates and other private social contacts. The business card carries the name and addresses of the business, the contact numbers and the logo of the particular industry or trading house.

Your business card is there all right, but you have to attain a standing for your business card. It must be able to fetch extra amount of business for you and you have to make a competent business card to bring in extra business. You make a reputation with the help of the business card and create a brand image of your business in the society to earn business.

You should formulate a planning before you create a business card so that your customer chooses your business card first leaving other competitive brands behind you. There must be something to provoke interest in the customers to choose your card out of so many in the market. You can make your business cards potentially valuable for your customers.

There are several ways and means to infuse excitement and interest in a business card. You can announce an attractive rebate on your products if the customer submits the business card along with the order or at the time of purchase of a product.

You can use the business card as a means of survey with a small form to be filled in by your customers and submitted within a fixed period at the particular counters to get a prize or a rebate on the purchase of your products.

You must have a tag line in your business card explaining the overall utility value of your product or service over other competitive brands. You can use your business cards as a gift to the buyers of your products to enjoy a concession in the next purchase. In this way, you can expect some repeat purchase of your products. You will be certainly able to increase your sales turnover with proper management of business cards. - 16890

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A Review Of Hostgator Shared Web Hosting-Baby Croc Package

By Mike Gates

You may not be familiar with Hostgator. But if you are truly concerned about the environment and are looking for a web hosting service that embraces the green movement, then you should consider studying a review of Hostgator shared web hosting-Baby Croc package before you buy.

Hostgator is an innovative and successful business that is passionate about excellent website services for the thousands of clients that use them. If you are just starting out in business, and you are interested in having a website, you should learn about the Baby Croc package and its many benefits.

The Baby Croc plan comes with everything offered in the other service plans. These things include a Cpanel control panel, a lot of options, twenty-four hours a day service that is available every day, tech support that you can access with your phone, live chat, or your email, and the promise of never letting any problem go unsolved. This middle level plan has unlimited bandwidth and disk space. It includes unlimited domains, and you get all of this for only $9.95 per month. This is a lot of service for a good price.

The company has been in business for over five years. During that time, it has won many awards for its innovative technology and excellent customer service. Business people new to web hosting can be comforted by knowing that this company has served its customers well, and has thousands of customers to prove it.

Anyone who is concerned about the global environment will be happy that Hostgator makes use of an alternative, renewable energy source to generate its electrical power. One hundred and thirty percent of the business is wind powered in partnership with Texas Wind Power. The environmental footprint of the business is significantly lowered and its carbon emissions as well.

Hostgator is located in downtown Houston, Texas. Although it right in the middle of a busy city, it has taken steps to create a wind powered business that is responsible for improving climate change through its energy efforts. This is an important and admirable feature of this organization, and might just be an excellent reason to choose a Baby Croc package when just starting out with an online business website.

Brent Oxley is the founder and President of Hostgator. He started the business when he was just a university student in Florida. He started out with just a few servers right from his own room. But, now his booming company has grown to hundreds of servers all running on wind powered electricity. He is passionate about his business, and he is passionate about customer service.

Quality goals usually mean quality service in business. President Oxley is emphatic that his company will take care of every customer service issue or problem until it is completely solved. This is a huge goal when you consider that this is an organization that has two million domains and over 225,000 customers that need quality service. But when you promise quality and deliver it, then you know that the business means what is says. In this case, you can be fairly positive that a baby just starting out with Hostgator will get as much attention as a big crocodile that has been there for a long time. That is because Brent Oxley is determined to make it so. - 16890

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5 Techniques To Quickly Get Paid To Fill Out Surveys

By Ken Wavers

Lots of people would enjoy it if they could get paid to fill out surveys. There are lots and lots of different ways of doing so, allowing people to be their own boss and earn a living from the comfort of their own home. The benefits of this are many and there are ways through which you can become really really rich.

These different methods of making money online are used by all sorts of different people. Whilst some will manage to build proper businesses through the online marketplace and become rich, others will merely try to make a little bit of extra pocket money. If you find a good way to make money on the internet then this is one good option.

Now you probably won't be getting filthy rich doing surveys and getting paid to do so and quite likely no-one would actually consider it a full time career . In fact many surveys are aimed at groups such as students who will be looking to make a little bit of extra money, or housewives who find that they have a lot of extra time during the day. Here is yet more ways you might go about handling this.

It is a good idea to look at all the different internet sites that will pay you for doing surveys. There are surveys that are free and there are even those that you will have to pay a fee for. You will have to think about which of these offers is best for you.

Once you have found some suitable sites that offer everything that you need you will want to put some time and effort into considering whether it is right for you. You should review the site and pay close attention to the terms of use section. You need to take in all the information to make sure its for you.

And don't forget that you will need to then jot down all of the really important info that you find such as how you will be compensated and when. Many sites will compensate you directly into a special account while some pay you a check by mail. In order to get paid you might need to have a certain amount of money built up in your account.

When you are finished with all of this research on the actual company website then you should open up a new browser and do some separate research into it. You should particularly pay attention to different forums and reviews that will let you know whether the site has a good reputation.

Then when you have finished your research and made sure that the site that you are interested in is reputable then you should immediately go ahead and sign up to it. You will be required to fill in certain pieces of personal information for the company to put on their database. You will then be able to be approved for surveys and start making some money.

These are the steps that you need to take in order to start making some money from online surveys. - 16890

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How SEO Began?

By July Utley

Web masters which are usually the website owners, as well as content providers began optimizing sites for search engines in the mid-1990s, at first this simply intended you create a website, checked it for spelling errors and then submit it to search engines to be cataloged. It is much like a self service library might be run. This was the beginning of the World Wide Web.

When a webmaster or the owner of the website had submitted a page, or URL, to the a variety of engines they would send a spider to "crawl" that page, take out links to other pages from it, and return information found on the page to be indexed.

The process has now evolved so that a Search Engine Spider downloads a target page and keeps it on the Search Engine's own server, where a second program, known as an indexer, breaks down the information, extracts a range of elements that compose the page, such as the words it contains, the coding information, META tags, description, title, keywords, link text, and where these are located, and any weight or added significance for specific words as well and all links the page contains, which are then placed into a scheduler for crawling at a later date. The Indexer then provide every element a value according to the search engine algorithm, the mathematical formula used to verify the overall importance of the website in regard to definite search terms.

As site owners started to recognize the value of having their sites highly ranked and visible in search engine results webmasters began to try ways to influence the Search Engines. This was the birth of SEO, Search Engine Optimization. As more users began to search for goods and services online, it was possible to track how the search results were used. It became evident that searchers would not often go through many pages of results to find what they wanted. The competition for those high search results became more intense and SEO became and remains vital to website promotion.

While they were graduate students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed "backrub", a search engine that relied on a mathematical algorithm to rate the prominence of web pages. The number calculated by the algorithm, PageRank, is a function of the quantity and strength of inbound links. This means that some links are stronger than others, or give more weight to the PageRank because the contents of the page are more likely to be relevant to the searcher.

It was in 1998 that the grad students founded Google. Among internet users, Google attracted loyal followers who liked the outcome their produced system. And PageRank and hyper link analysis which are Off-page factors are considered, in order to permit Google to keep away from the kind of manipulation seen in search engines that only on-page factors for their rankings. Web masters went to work using link building schemes to manipulate search results to their favor although PageRank was more complex. Web masters are really focused on exchanging, buying, and selling links, often on a massive scale. However, some of these methods, or link farms, involved the creation of thousands of sites for the lone purpose of link spamming.

In order to counter the unfavorable impact of link schemes, as of 2007, search engines again had to evolve to consider a wider range of undisclosed factors for their ranking algorithms. Google has since disclosed that it now uses more than 200 different elements to rank pages. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Live Search, are the three leading search engines that closely guard the algorithms they use to rank pages. - 16890

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Don't Give Up On Your New Year's Resolutions Just Yet!

By Mark Walters

There are 3 main types of New Year's resolutions...

Firstly, there are at the last minute resolutions that are typically made whilst slightly drunk on December 31st. These are, inevitably, the ones that are broken a day or two into January, as they were not really meant in the first place.

The second type of resolutions are those which are made in good faith, with a clear mind, and which are thoroughly meant, but which are not appropriately planned for. These types of resolutions tend to last a few weeks, maybe even a few months, but that lack of preparation and planning soon catches up with you.

The only resolutions that have the potential to last a lifetime are those which we take the time to prepare and plan for. That preparation and planning, along with a real, significant benefit to be gained, are absolutely essential.

The question is then, into which category do the resolutions that you made last December fall within? Another would be, how successful have you been in sticking to them?

Whether you are still going strong with your resolutions, or whether you have broken them already (in which case you can get it right next time around), the following is worth taking note of...

A New Year's resolution is essentially a goal, and to achieve that goal you need to perform, and in order to perform you need to think both positive and smart. Those who think positive and smart tend to use systems, and the one set out here is perfect for New Year's resolutions...

1: Establish what exactly it is that you want to achieve. You can not do everything at once, so choose just one or two things to focus on.

2: Decide when you want it. To measure your progress, and to ensure that you are moving in the right direction, a realistic timescale, and accompanying milestones need to be in place.

3: List the pay value. Always keeping the benefits in mind is the best form of motivation.

4: Consider what you will lose. Know that for progress to be made, sacrifices will have to be made.

5: Prepare for probable obstacles. Any worthwhile goal will require you to overcome obstacles, so you need to know both what they are and how you will overcome them.

6: Create a plan of action. Without a plan you will soon find yourself deviating from your original intentions.

7: Know what is required on a daily basis. Your overall plan should be broken down into daily expectations, which you can review at the start of each day..

8: Never give up. Achieving is not easy, and there will be times when you want to give up, but you will never be successful if you do so. - 16890

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How To Make Online Revenue

By Chris Hansen

Whether you're a multinational company or one that operates in a small local area, you probably have a website that gives your customers the information they might be looking for such as the scope of your services, your physical address as well as your contact details. Regardless, you've probably already realized how important it is to have a website online. The main objective is for you to be able to reach out to new customers beyond those you're capable of reaching. That's the way a business grows - when it continues to make new customers.

One of the main advantages of creating a website for your business is that it suddenly makes your business more visible, as more and more people can easily get to know your business. Customer then can easily reach you or find your contact information on your website. In addition, many business websites have an FAQ page that solves a big chunk of customer queries at any time. However, the most important factor is that your website allows you to break free of geographic limitations and takes your business to every corner of the world.

So, your website is definitely an important part of your plan to go about building a profitable business, however, there are certain characteristics which when possessed by a website are can do a lot for your business. These are things you absolutely must keep in mind to enhance the possibilities of increasing your clientele.

The first thing is that you should be ready to spend some money in designing your website. Many people try to save this money by creating their website on their own, but only end up making a drab and unresponsive site that drives their customers away. A number of web designing experts know what the customers like and don't like, they also understand your business needs and create something that helps promote your business and attract more new customers.

The second thing is to put a lot of thought into your homepage. This is the first page any customer will see, so be informative and let the customer know what you do and how you do it but don't run into too many details as web users like concise information. Not many people read website information, they just scan through it.

Keep your customers interested once they decide to check out your page. Provide them with all the information they might require about your product or service, such as product details, delivery etc. Putting up pictures of your products taken from various angles also has a positive impact. Just follow through on these simple guidelines and your website will begin to generate business round the clock. - 16890

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Designing Your e-Commerce Website

By Ethan O. Tanner

With more and more consumers utilizing the web to shop and execute business dealings, e-commerce has become the future of the online community. Profiting completely from the e-commerce boom can be accomplishable. To keep consumers returning to your site, you must make a unique e-commerce site, one that surpasses all levels of excellence. When designing your e-commerce website, you should have a welcome or introduction on your main page. This statement should lay down the advantages of your site, and reassure those visiting that they should be at ease performing business transactions with you. Tell your intent, express your beliefs, and help the consumer understand why business done at your e-commerce outlet is always secure.

A quality website has smooth navigation. Categories to scan through and obvious search boxes on the site are a must. Design a simple site with large, easy to read fonts and images that will load quickly. Be sure to have a page with specific questions regarding some of your common business policies such as shipping and returns. You may also want to have a link on your home page that leads visitors to a privacy policy. This policy will ensure customers that you will never supply a third party with information they have entrusted with you. It is nearly essential for all e-commerce shops to display this declaration somewhere on their site.

Just like regular shopping, when going to your online store, customers wish for speedy and effortless checkout. If your online store is equipped with a secure server, make your customers informed of this fact. This will put them at rest and make them want to come back. Your checkout or "shopping cart" should be simply one click away so the purchaser can be in and out without a too many steps. Nowadays, it is best to have diverse payment choices available, such as PayPal and other internet payment sources, credit and debit cards, online checks, and money orders. Put up a contact phone number for customer support so the customer knows that they will have help if there are any troubles with the order.

Organize a special section of your e-commerce website dedicated completely to special discounts and current sales. If you have an extraordinary amount of sales items, create a separate webpage devoted to the ones that are most preferred, and have another page with a complete listing of all discounts. During the holiday season, have a certain portion of your website set aside for customers to purchase gift certificates.

Producing a profitable, reputable e-commerce website can be a simple task with a well constructed site plan, some time, and patience. Take your time and design your e-commerce site to be user friendly, secure, and full of informative content. Taking full advantage of the e-commerce phenomenon, you can succeed in your business marketing dream. - 16890

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Author Ethan O. Tanner explains the steps to create an e-commerce website and the advantages of having your business online.

Quickest Psychology Degree Courses Online - Making it Possible to Complete Your Psychology Degree in Less Than Two Years

By John B Maxted

If you have an online psychology degree you have so many options for the kinds of careers you could pursue. Psychology has been popular with students for the last fifty years or so. This is generally because studying psychology gives you insights into everyday behaviors and personal life. It's also popular because there are great advanced degrees (such as masters degrees and PhDs) available and a vast array of different career paths on offer. Now, with the power of the internet and an expansion in online education, there are now even more selections and outlets than there used to be.

So what exactly is psychology? Psychology is actually the study of human behavior, in terms of what causes it and how it develops. If you've ever thought about why somebody acted the in a certain way or what from their earlier experiences led somebody to say or do something, then you were thinking about psychology.

When you study psychology you will learn plenty about yourself. You'll learn how to to decode your own behavioral patterns and examine your own relationships. Using these tools you will be equipped to progress your personal life.

Despite this, most people study psychology in order to improve their careers first and foremost. One direction you could take would be to become a corporate or company psychologist. This isn't providing therapy for the rest of the staff, this is evaluating a company through the view of organizational behavior. This means that you assist the company to enhance conditions and modify the work environment to create improved results and interoffice cooperation and job satisfaction.

Psychology offers itself to a huge range of applications and interesting research studies and experiments are always being performed to learn more. Of course there are also independent psychologists, therapists and counselors who meet with clients and patients to discuss their life and to help them solve a range of personal problems.

Careers in criminal psychology, law enforcement and the social services are also popular and common. Another career option is research and continued study. These are only a few of the many different career opportunities available to those with a psychology degree.

The point is that there are a large number of different career prospects for anyone with a background in psychology. Combined with the added flexibility and benefits of bachelor degree programs online obtaining an education in psychology has never been easier.

A great feature of online programs is ability to speed up your education with an accelerated bachelors degree program. With this, it is possible to get your degree in less than two years, giving you the opportunity to keep your current job for security while you blitz through your education to improve your life and your career.

There are even more advanced degrees, including both masters programs and PhD programs in psychology. this higher level of qualification is typically needed if you would like to have your own practice or if you want to pursue therapy as the basis of your career. But generally, an online bachelor of psychology degree is the most popular.

Completing your psychology degree through an accredited online program can unlock a totally new range of opportunities for you and your career. Enrolling for and participating in an online education has never been easier than it is today, so there's no need to delay to get your great new career in the world of psychology underway. - 16890

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John Maxted is an expert in online psychology programs and can direct you to the best Accelerated Online Psychology Degree Programs from the top Online Schools. Why not take a step forward and explore your options right now.

The New Sanyo 8700 Massage Chair

By Dr. Alan Weidner

Sanyo has just released the Sanyo 8700, a Top of the Line Massage Chair. This chair, like the zero gravity massage chairs-the 6700/7700/8700 is a zero gravity chair with some great upgrades: The Sanyo 8700 has a stretch program that gently squeezes around the ankles and pulls down on the legs to create a great stretch through the low back, hips, and legs. This is a great addition to loosening and releasing the muscle tension. This amazing chair also has 3 incredible zero-gravity programs that vary from creating a full-body experience, to an Air-comfort massage. The Air-Comfort massage utilizes the air cell compression to work the back, leg, and foot, loosening and releasing the muscle tension throughout the body.

The Sanyo 8700 chairs has on the foot ottoman a longer lower leg extension. It extends out 8" to comfortably accommodate users up to 6'4". Providing a perfect massage with even more flexibility for a wide range of users. In this ottoman the leg and foot pieces are separate allowing for the foot part to rotate down so that if the user doesn't want the bottoms of their feet massaged they can rotate this down and have it focus on massaging more the backs of the calves and behind the thighs. This feature is also nice in that this rotation of massage may provide an even greater release of stressed muscles in the lower back.

There is another new feature to this ottoman and that is that the leg and foot pieces are separate. This allows for the foot part to rotate down so that if the user doesn't want the bottoms of their feet massaged they can rotate this down and have it focus on massaging more the backs of the calves and behind the thighs. This feature is also nice for taller users to where this rotation may provide even greater comfort.

There is also an an intensity adjuster that allows for deeper pressure or can be as gentle as you would like it to be! This chair also has a very sophisticated sensor system. It has a stress sensor that detects the mental fatigue that your body is going through. An exclusive stiffness detection system is available so that the chair can focus on those stiffest areas and release the tension. The Physical Shape Sensor is the last sensor which allows the massage rollers to automatically accommodate various body types and shifts in position during massage, adjusting accordingly.

It is easy to see that this chair is truly Sanyo's Top of the Line massage chair, and albeit the early interest in this massage chair has been quite high. If you have always loved the Sanyo massage chairs you'll want to try this one out as it seems they have taken all the best things about Sanyo chairs and sifted out the features that needed some fine tuning. The price tag on this model is $5999, which is $1000 more than the very popular 7700 zero gravity massage chair from Sanyo- well worth the extra cost for the best! - 16890

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You will want to try out the New Sanyo_8700! Visit Dr. Weidner at his website, www.massage-chair-relief.com, and start massaging away Chronic Pain and Stress.