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When Apple Talks: Steve Jobs in His Own Words by by George Beahm

2011-06-28T20:38:00.001+07:00

The book’s author/compiler, George Beahm, is a successful pop culture companion book author, with titles on Stephenie Meyer, Stephen King, Ann Rice, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, and others, at various houses big and small.

The market for this book is clear from the plenty of other “in His Own Words” books—including our author Lisa Rogak’s recent New York Times bestselling Barack Obama in His Own Words and Michelle Obama in Her Own Words.

As I’ve done several of these quote books, I can tell you various lawyers at other houses have answered the obvious copyright/permissions question for me on other books.

George is going to be within the Fair Use guidelines whenever he is quoting from published statements copyrighted by Jobs or Apple, and there are no restrictions on excerpting and reproducing quotes from interviews with third parties (Jobs) in other media outlets.

There’s no copyright/usage/permissions issue here. When it comes to quote books, less is more. So George looked at several hundred quotes by Jobs and narrowed them down to 200 that he felt cover his range of thinking on virtually every topic of interest.

Because these are impulse buys and gift book, George understands the most important elements are the right price point, these days about US$10.95, a small trim size (e.g., squarebound at 5”-6”), and the US publisher plans to use a design that highlights one and sometimes two quotations per page. This gives the quotations room to breathe, instead of crowding them all on one page. In designing the book, they plan to take a design cue from the recent bestseller Obama’s Blackberry, and have each page of this book look like a screen of an iPad or iPhone.

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George Beahm popularized the reader-friendly literary companion with the publication of The Stephen King Companion in 1989. Since then, he has published companion books on Stephenie Meyer, Michael Jordan, Pirates of the Caribbean, Patricia Cornwell, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, and Philip Pullman.

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The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs

2011-06-23T19:51:00.002+07:00

What kind of genius creates a product and brand that is so strong and so powerful that:

* People will wait outside the handful of retail outlets that distribute the product, even though…
* The product has some technical features which are less desirable than the alternative?
* It has basic functions that actually cause developers and design firms to design around them?
* Hackers break into the device so that desperate customers from certain wireless providers can use it?
* It has an audience that’s so loyal they will beg and plead with their cell phone carriers for access to the exclusive device?

Yeah – I want to be that brand. If you hadn’t guessed what brand I’m talking about, then you must have been under a rock for the last decade or so. It’s Apple. And the brains and vision behind the brand belongto Steve Jobs. Jobs’ unique way of looking at the world and presenting his ideas has earned him a reputation that’s nothing short of guru status.

Wanna Be Like Steve? There’s a Book for That

When I received a review copy of The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success, I didn’t know what to expect. It was written by Carmine Gallo (@carminegallo), author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, so I thought it might have some useful insights about how to innovate or think innovatively.

It did. The book is rooted in the Seven Principles inspired by Steve Jobs:

1. Do What You Love: Think differently about your career.
2. Put a Dent in the Universe: Think differently about your vision.
3. Kick Start Your Brain: Think differently about how you think.
4. Sell Dreams, Not Products: Think differently about your customers.
5. Say No to 1,000 Things: Think differently about design.
6. Create Insanely Great Experiences: Think differently about your brand experience.
7. Master the Message. Think differently about your story.

Overall, it’s business motherhood and apple pie, filtered through the uniquely creative mind of Steve Jobs. It’s important to recognize, however, that each of us is our own unique person, and the only person who can think or be like Steve Jobs is …. Steve Jobs.

As I was reading the book, I really got a sense of Jobs’ unique life experiences and the way he has gone about the business of living and working. When he dropped out of college, he didn’t create Apple – in fact, he didn’t know what to do, so he took a calligraphy class. In fact, Jobs has lived his life following his passion in all things.

The book puts a lot of emphasis on how he followed his heart and that left me thinking that if I had “followed my heart” as much as he followed his, I’d be couch surfing and maybe working at a minimum wage job.

There is no doubt that Steve Jobs has something special. He lives his life in a certain way; in fact, it seems that his focus was never to build an empire, but to be and do what his heart led him to be and do. I don’t mean to sound metaphysical about this, but had he not met Steve Wozniak or had he gone to an accounting class instead of calligraphy, things could have turned out differently. Apple wouldn’t be Apple. Yet, I believe Jobs would still have the same philosophy of life. Maybe he would have opened a restaurant instead of launching Apple, but his core wouldn’t change.

Don’t Be Steve Jobs – Be YOU

I started my journey through this book thinking that it was a “How to be Steve Jobs” manual and learned that it was a “How to be your best self” manual. In between, I got confirmation on the basics of creating great customer experiences, selling dreams instead of products and all those things that pull at our heartstrings.

I’m not sure exactly what my version of Jobs’ list would be. But I’m pretty clear that this book is calling all small business owners to take a serious look at our core principles. We are all so much more than the businesses that we run.

If you’re remotely interested in CEO biographies and want additional perspective on how to transform your business, your product and how you are in the world, this is a great read. You can expect to have some lightbulb moments in the process. Maybe you’ll grab an insight about a new way to do things. Maybe you’ll decide that what you really need to do is take a dance class or go hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Regardless, you’ll come out of this book with your mind a little more open to thinking innovatively. [source]

Google Banned Autoblog and Auto Generate Content

2011-06-21T23:32:00.002+07:00

If you think you have a blog that generate automatic content for you and you have to make adsence income on auto pilot….. I just say the one word LOL……

The fact is google search engine does not give weightage to such autoblogs.

Such as autoblog are made for adsence you will be find that ads are placed all around the content for more CTR and more focus are given to ads not on the content.

Now Google Adsence team made it official they do not allowed Adsence ads on autoblog and it’s a violation of Adsence policies to use Adsence on autoblog.

This is the official statement from Google Adsence :

Fact: We don’t allow sites with auto-generated or otherwise unoriginal content to participate in the AdSense program. This is to ensure that our users are benefiting from a unique online experience and that our advertisers are partnering with useful and relevant sites.

So if you use a autoblog and use Adsence on it remove adsence on it before you are gating banned from adsence for “violation of Adsence policies” or use some Adsence alternative.

John Wood: Left Microsoft to Change the World

2011-06-21T15:13:00.002+07:00

This book presents John Wood’s account of how he founded Room to Read, a non-profit organization that provides books, classrooms and computer rooms in developing countries, particularly Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and South Africa among others. John Wood showed amazing transformational leadership in the realm of social entrepreneurship!

The life-changing 3-week vacation

It all started with a three-week trek in Nepal. John Wood was enjoying a great career at Microsoft’s Australia office. Nice house. Nice car. Demanding but rewarding career! What more could he ask for? Yet, after years of working, he had to take a three-week break to recapture his energies. He spent those three weeks trekking in Nepal.

John Wood met a headmaster named Pasupathi who told him about Nepal’s very high illiteracy rate. Pasupathi then offered to tour John Wood to the schools that he was supervising. It took several hours of walking and climbing.

Along the way, John Wood saw the dismal plight of the educational system in Nepal—the lack of desks, the dismal lack of libraries and books that students could use. He wondered how he can help them.

After that, some students and teachers asked him to come back with books!

As he went through his three-week vacation, he kept thinking about how to come back with books. He simply could not imagine a childhood without books!

Pursue your passion! Act on your dream right away!

Throughout the book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, Wood keeps saying that if you want to change the world, don’t wait until you have it all figured out! By the time your plan is perfect, the world shall have moved and passed you by.

Right before leaving Kathmandu to return to his job, he sent an email to his friends asking for books or for donations that could be used to purchase books or cover the cost of shipping the books to Nepal.

With his initial project, he got a total of 37 books! The next year, he and his father Woody went to Nepal together to bring the books there. By this time, John Wood felt that he could do infinitely more for the cause of education in the country.
A conviction was forming in his heart that this is what he wants to do for the rest of his life!

Say goodbye to your previous life.

A series of events led John Wood to rethink his present relationship with Microsoft. He was moved to China. Some of his plans for Microsoft in China didn’t achieve the results he wanted. His live-in girlfriend did not share his passion for helping the developing world and his parents told him of the continued support for his efforts in getting books for Nepal.

Eventually, he decided to leave Microsoft for good and pursue the path of his passion! He said:

“I knew that I had to free myself from any constraints that would prevent the pursuit of these dreams.”

Those dreams were no longer for himself but for the eradication of illiteracy in the developing world. In essence, it was a bold move for him to change the world!

It was a painful decision for him to make. His immediate supervisor in China and his girlfriend felt betrayed because of his decision. But John Wood knew that the path of dreams is not easy and would require a little sacrifice from him.

Calculate the cost of pursuing your passion.

Before he left Microsoft though, he made an important calculation. He looked at the level of his savings. At the Microsoft stocks he owned and listed the adjustments he had to make.

If you want to be a transformational leader or a leader who wants to change the world, you need to calculate the cost of pursuing your passion. You don’t want to start now and then quit after six months because you realize it is a difficult road to take!

Establish the Foundation!

This means two things: you lay the foundation in which you will be working and secondly, you need to put up a non-profit organization that would be the vehicle of the change you want to accomplish.

John Wood established Books for Nepal, which was eventually renamed to Room to Read right after he realized he didn’t only want to help Nepal but other developing countries as well.

He did some research about how to put up his organization. What kind of tax classification he needed to attain and how he can raise funds for his operations. It was a one-man show at first but he eventually found a strong second-in-command and eventually, Room to Read grew to over fifty staff people in several countries.

Dream boldly. Set high goals!

Right at the start of his foray into the non-profit world, John Wood aimed for the stars. He proclaimed bold targets and, in a sense, world domination!

He said that if you proclaim bold goals and work towards them, you attract the best people and the best supporters who will help you achieve those goals.

The people who contacted John Wood to help in launching Room to Read in Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Cambodia were passionate people who saw what he was doing! They simply wanted to be part of something great and something big! They then contributed to making Room to Read expand beyond Nepal.

Get the right people.

If you get the right people, you will not have to worry about motivating them or coercing them to work! You simply define the results and let them go! In this case, you maximize their creativity while focusing on the things that need your attention.

Room to Read attracted bold people and ambitious people who truly wanted to change the world.

Give others the chance to change the world.

Not everyone can quit their jobs to follow their dreams. John Wood recognized that. Which is why, he decided to give them a chance to help in his advocacy by donating for his cause.

A lot of business people, employees and even pre-teen kids contributed their help for Room to Read! His account showed that if you do pursue your dream and let other people know, they will help you out.

A lot of times, John Wood said that the universe conspires to make your dreams come true if you only pursue them wholeheartedly!

Aim for low overhead costs.

John Wood did not take a salary for his work as CEO of Room to Read. Instead, he opted for low overhead cost so as to maximize the provision of programs and books to the countries where Room to Read operates.

This meant using his rental house as the first office. He did not hire staff as quickly as he wanted. Yet, he did not sacrifice the quality of the services delivered by Room to Read. A low overhead cost would mean that more money would go to books, classrooms and libraries.

Be transparent. Show the direct correlation between money given and results.

If there’s one thing that non-profit organizations should learn from John Wood and Room to Read, it is to be transparent and show the direct correlation between the money given and the results.

Room to Read’s model was that donors were sponsoring for one school or one library. This way, they can easily see the results through pictures and the number of children benefiting from those classrooms, libraries and computer rooms!

This principle would also attract more people to give to the cause of the organization.

Change the world one school and one library at a time.

To date, Room to Read has put up 1,129 schools and 9,196 libraries. They have published 433 books in the local languages of countries where they operate; they have distributed 7.4 million books! Sponsored 8,725 scholarships for girls and all in all, they have benefited 4.1 million children all over the world.

Who would have thought that Room to Read could grow this big! Right at the first steps of building this non-profit organization, John Wood was dead serious about reaching the world and growing big to combat illiteracy around the world!

Your turn to pursue your dream!

John Wood’s story is very touching! He let go of his personal comfort—his high paying job at Microsoft and even a romantic relationship—just to pursue his passion of helping put books in the hands of children all over the world!

I suggest you get a copy of Leaving Microsoft to Change the World. It can inspire and challenge you to do something out of the ordinary.

You may not be able to afford to leave your job for some social entrepreneurship but there are numerous opportunities for people to help in making the world a better place.

Please do check out the Room to Read website and the book of John Wood for more information and more inspiration!

Innovation Lessons from Steve Jobs

2011-06-15T18:48:00.000+07:00

Lead, Don’t Follow
Steve Jobs has always been much more of a leader than a manager, and some might say that under him Apple has become a cult of personality. But I believe that his greatest strength is as a builder—we all know about Apple’s amazingly great products and services, but I think his most lasting legacy will be his success with building Apple into an incredible engine of innovation and profitable growth. Jim Collins of Good to Great fame would call this “clock building vs. time telling,” in other words, to build an enduring organization that will sustain itself long into the future beyond the tenure of the people that made it successful.

Leading the consumer is one of Steve Jobs’ great strengths and should be a key lesson in innovation for any company. In an interview shortly after the iPad was released in spring 2010, Jobs was asked what consumer and market research Apple did to guide the development of the iPad. He answered, “None, it’s not the job of the consumer to know what they want.”

The lesson for the rest of us mortals is “to find products, services, or new value that customers don’t know they need yet.” Some might call this the ability to see around the corner, which many people think is Steve Jobs’ real strength. Creating new offerings on the basis of emerging trends, insight into customer needs, and an instinctive understanding about what people want is at the heart of this approach to innovation. It creates the opportunity for “blue oceans” of markets without competitors and significant profitability. Just look at what Apple has accomplished in the last 10 years.

No One Size Fits All Solutions
Another thing we’ve learned from Steve Jobs about innovation is the need to build an approach to innovation that’s specific to each company. There is no “one size fits all” approach to innovation, clearly there are plenty of innovation models available to guide the way, but beware of using someone else’s approach.

The case in point at Apple relates to “Open Innovation.” Lots of academics and management writers have been enamored with open innovation since it was popularized by Henry Chesbrough in his book on the subject and the success A. G. Lafley had using it to reinvent Procter & Gamble. Open innovation holds that companies can and should use external ideas and external sources for intellectual property as well as internal ones to find new ways to grow. It makes perfect sense for many companies, but not for Steve Jobs and Apple, which are notoriously closed in their approach to innovation. But it sure works for Apple.

The Means Justify the Ends
Most of us have been led to believe the opposite. However, it’s been my experience that when companies follow their own paths to innovation that emphasize their values and strengths when designing, manufacturing, and selling innovative products, in many cases, positive results follow. This is the innovation engine approach to profitable growth and Apple is a perfect example. Most of us understand the rather nontraditional approach to innovation that Apple has taken over the years, which clearly follows the viewpoint of Steve Jobs. So here’s a quick take on the results at Apple for 2010:

* 71% revenue growth in 2010 and 60% more predicted for Q1 2011—totally amazing for a company the size of Apple
* 50% growth in markets in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan
* iTunes now generates $4B in annual sales
* iPhone sales increased 86% in Q4 2010—Apple can’t make enough, and now Verizon will begin selling iPhones in February
* Apple’s gross margin is 38.5% and has $60B in cash-on-hand
* Apple has no real competition in most of the markets it serves

Say what you will about Steve Jobs and Apple, but we can all learn a few things about innovation from them.

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Charlie Alter owns Bentbrook Advisors LLC based in Sylvania, Ohio. He specializes in Growth Strategy, Innovation, and Coaching and can be reached at calter@me.com. Visit http://bentbrookadvisors.com for more information on his business advisory practice.

Three Life Lessons From Steve Jobs

2011-06-15T17:41:00.003+07:00

Much has already been written about Steve Jobs, and yet here comes another book, The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation, by Jay Elliot, former SVP of Apple. I’m a Microsoft user myself, but as a business book junkie, I’ll take a chance on the latest management text.

If you’re an Apple fan, you’ll love the insider stories. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ll get valuable business strategies. But if you’re neither an Apple groupie nor business owner, here are three life lessons to take away:

Prune ruthlessly. There are a lot of examples in book about how Jobs said No far more often than Yes and how he prioritized simplicity over bells and whistles. From a career perspective, this pruning could mean trimming your priorities to the critical few you can realistically manage. From a life perspective, this means pruning commitments, relationships and activities to only those that really matter. Are you running yourself ragged adding bells and whistles, rather than perfecting the things that really add value?

Stay the course. One of the most fascinating examples Elliot shared was Jobs’ investment in Pixar. It involved much more time and money than initially expected. The outcome looked grim. Yet the payoff was huge for Jobs who stayed the course long enough to reap the reward. The career corollary is obvious – it takes time to build expertise, a reputation, a network. The life corollary is in the other goals we set for ourselves – to save more, to get healthier, to improve a relationship. Often times you may be plugging away with little obvious reward. Then one day the savings account hits a milestone or the scale finally moves, and if you had given up during the lean years, you would have missed the big payoff. Do you sometimes give up too soon on a stubborn goal?

Don’t be afraid to be different. The Apple retail stores seem obvious in hindsight but were a huge risk at first. Elliot tells many stories of how Jobs saw things differently and capitalized on these differences to great success. Many jobseekers try to camouflage their career detours or non-traditional experiences, even though embracing these is often more effective. In life, we sometimes get pigeonholed by tradition or culture or the ways things have always been done. In what areas of life or career can you be different, do something differently, take that idiosyncrasy that you feel is a disadvantage and turn it around? [source: blog.forbes.com]

Steve Job's Life into Comic

2011-06-14T18:12:00.004+07:00

Steve Jobs is nearly as iconic as his company logo. He's been called an innovator, risk-taker, a visionary and a genius. He's also been called unscrupulous, an egomaniac and a corporate pirate. Both sides of this complex personality are examined in an upcoming Bluewater Productions biography comic book tracing Jobs' life and career.

Scheduled for an August 2011 release, "Steve Jobs: Co-Founder of Apple" offers readers a unique insight into the Apple CEOs legendary drive to the top and his continuing fight to stay there.

"Admire him or hate him, Jobs' vision and business acumen revolutionized the world," said writer CW Cooke "Between he and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, you would be hard pressed to find someone with greater influence over how we communicate, interact and do business over the last 30 years."

The 32-page issue, penciled by Chris Schmidt (with cover art supplied by DC artist Joe Phillips), will be available in comic shops, bookstores and various online venues including Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders, for the cover price of $3.99. To make sure you get your copy, contact your local comic book store. To find a comic book store near you go to www.comicshoplocator.com or to pre-order it on Amazon click here: http://amzn.to/ieP4Nm

"His innovations command front page news, speculation of his health affects the stock market. Not bad for a college dropout," said Bluewater president Darren Davis. "His story, and that of Apple, is epic. I'm surprised it took us this long to publish a proper, balanced biography of him."

According to Bluewater, the impetus to publish the Jobs biography was based on the demand and success of Bluewater's biography comic featuring Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. A graphic novel of the sold out Zuckerberg comic book will be in stores in September and retail for $10.99. To pre-order it on Amazon click here: http://amzn.to/kHobXS

"There are definitely some similarities between Zuckerberg and Jobs. It takes a certain kind of drive and a certain kind of genius to move society the way they have, added Cooke. "The idea behind both efforts is to show the person behind the personality and that it is never what you'd expect."

Such mainstream media outlets as the Washington Post, The Today Show, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Forbes Magazine have covered Bluewater's biography comics. By covering such celebrities and political leaders as Lady Gaga, Angelina Jolie, Sarah Palin

source: http://www.bluewaterprod.com/news/stevejobs_announce.php

Self-published novelist Amanda Hocking makes millions from eBook sales

2011-06-10T03:40:00.002+07:00

The monstrous success of 26-year-old self-published novelist Amanda Hocking challenges the economics of traditional book publishing.

Common knowledge says that, in order for an author to be successful, he or she needs a major book deal from a big-time publisher. But if the story of 26-year-old novelist Amanda Hocking is any indication, that could all be changing with the modern magic of e-books and self-publishing.

Hocking is the best-selling “indie” novelist on the Kindle store, reports Novelr, with around 100,000 copies of her 10 e-books selling each month. Unlike traditional book deals, however, Hocking keeps a whopping 70 percent of revenue earned from her books, which sell for $0.99 to $2.99 apiece. (Amazon keeps the other 30 percent.)

If you do the math, this means Hocking is earning somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 million per year — a staggering amount. In fact, according to Novelr, “there is no traditional publisher in the world right now that can offer Amanda Hocking terms that are better than what she’s currently getting, right now on the Kindle store, all on her own.”

The theory goes: If one author can earn major cash without the help of a traditional publisher, then it’s possible for others to do so. (As Business Insider points out, other authors, like J.A. Konrath, have done well selling e-books, but it was previously assumed that this was because those authors had already made a name for themselves through their old-timey printed works.) And if others can do so, then it changes the entire landscape of the book publishing world.

So what kind of books does Hocking write to have gained such an avid following? “Young adult urban fantasy and paranormal romance,” according to her Amazon biography. And by that she means books about vampires and zombies, with “a hint of romance.” That might sound a bit too much like Twilight for some of you. But something tells us Amanda Hocking isn’t too worried about that.

Zac Johnson: How I Made $860,538.38 in 4 Months!

2011-06-09T06:06:00.002+07:00

First off, I would like to make it clear that this post is NOT to impress you, but to impress upon you what’s possible! This is a quick review on how Zac Johnson went from one of his worst years of making money online to his best year, and all it took was one big idea, one web site and several hundred hours of effort along with many sleepless nights.

Twitter Vs Facebook Vs Linkedin

2011-06-08T19:33:00.005+07:00

This infographic designed by Ad Age shows a complete breakdown of who uses the most popular social networks. Unsurprisingly Facebook came out on top with the most users male or female. Worldwide, the U.S. held the top position for most Facebook and LinkedIn users by an overwhelming number. Aside from LinkedIn, most users across all the social networks were between the ages of 18-24 and 35-54. The 18-24 age range is one of the largest groups of social media users; however, they’re also one of the smallest populations in the country. In a more surprising number, less than 10 percent of the population uses Twitter.

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2011-04-28T18:18:00.000+07:00

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Steven Levy: What Google Knows About You

2011-04-24T17:35:00.001+07:00

How much does Google know about you? As author Steven Levy examines, a lot more than you think.

What Kind Of Content Does Google Like?

2011-04-24T16:40:00.000+07:00

We all want a high search placement within Google so this begs the question what kind of content does Google like and how can we produce content like that to produce more traffic to our articles? If you are currently receiving about 1000 page views daily then if you can rise within Google’s searches consistently I really believe that you can turn that 1000 views in to 2000 over a period of time, this is like writing the same amount of articles again.

Content Rich

Make sure that your content is really something people are searching for and there is a demand for it, try and write the article so that people find it useful and beneficial to them, the better the quality of the article the more people will read and create natural links to your article, it is like free promotion because you took the care and attention at the beginning. Just imagine you wrote a really inspiring article and this was so useful you were able receiving about 30 natural backlinks per day, this would certainly increase your views and placement within Google’s searches.

Backlinking

If you are trying to do some of the backlinking yourself you really should attempt it as though it was a natural process, if you start backlinking like there’s no tomorrow then Google will really frown upon this and you will probably receive a really low page ranking, it is all about making the process look as natural as possible. My plan is to write about 150 articles to begin with and then pick out the best performing ones, the ones people are reading and valuing, I will then take the best ones and then promote them by creating natural links to them, if I have a strong internal linking system then I will really reap the benefits of the additional traffic.

Discussion, Comments & Thumbs Up

I don’t really know whether this can make your content go higher, however I have read in many places that receiving a high number of positive comments and having your articles posted on forums is something Google really values, it is like getting a vote of confidence and the thumbs up is also a marker of how useful your articles has become. It is really important to follow up on your articles and respond to comments and whip up discussion, this will get you additional views and make you really popular amongst the Infobarrel crowd.

The first thing you really have to do is create quality content, this goes without saying, the more useful the article the more value you will get from it, try backlinking naturally and then have a strong internal linking system. By Taking all these factors into consideration you will consistently receive a high ranking from Google.[www.infobarrel.com]

How to Take Benefit from Autoblog

2011-04-23T23:24:00.003+07:00

Autoblog is not going to work for you if you use it like everyone else. The normal approach is to use an autoblog site as your actual affiliate website. You build a bunch of sites, each of which has an affiliate link directly embedded into it.

There’s two major issues with this approach:

1) Your content is automatically generated, so your conversions will always be weak.

2) It’s tough to get large volumes of organic traffic to your autoblogging sites because of low search engine quality scores.

Here’s what I suggest you do:

Instead of using them as standalone sites, use your autoblogging sites as a lead gen for your REAL website.

Say you have an affiliate site that you manually created on the topic of golf. You would go and create 10 auto-blog sites and link them to your REAL website on golf. Craft it so any traffic that lands on your auto-blogging sites is directed to your real website where you can then land the sale by providing real content.

This benefits your real website in two ways:

1) Your real website will be sent trickles of traffic from your auto blog sites. Don’t expect hundreds of hits per day – each autoblog site will send you about 1 visitor per day. Doesn’t sound like a lot, but imagine if you had 100 auto-blog sites each sending you 1 visitor per day.

2) You get tons of targeted back links. Since you are linking your autoblog sites to your real one, your real website will benefit from
a major ranking boost for having a ton of related incoming links.

Think of it as casting a net around your entire niche. Your net of auto blog sites capture obscure search engine keywords which in turn filters the traffic down to your real website.

Your real website does the dirty work of converting the traffic into an affiliate sale <- means more money for you!

Facebook Advertisement is effective or not?

2011-04-20T21:38:00.003+07:00

Pro

# Facebook advertising is very effective. People believe those ads. But now-a-days I see alot of unwanted ads are posted at facebook which embarrasses me and I believe that other people also faces embarrassment watching those fuckin ads.

# Facebook marketing is good .But we cant blindly sell all products or wait for customers to reach our brand/product even of mass users

Neutral
# It depends what your advertising. Conversion and CTR vary so much from industry to industry that you should really have your own bench marks. Facebook advertising is also a very different concept from Google AdWords and similar, as your hitting people when they are not acutally searching for such a product. That said, it allows you to target people based on their 'likes' incredibly accurately, allowing you to really segment your market and very your advertising. If this is something you need to do then you should committ a small amount of money to Facebook advertising and ensure you measure the stats closely to see if it's worth your money, don't rely on what someone tells you, as no one knows your business and your benchmarks for success but you.

# Depends what market you are advertising in. If it's very competitive and you are targetin a wide number of people it may be expensive. I found it to be a fair bit cheaper than Google adwords but again, I think this was due t the competitiveness of the market. It may take a bit more than 10 euros to be able to really measure the results though

# I have been using Facebook Ads for a very long time and it can be tricky with getting the impressions and the clicks that you would want for your specific campaigns that you would want to have. But, one thing I have been doing is increasing my per click amount higher than the suggested amount that even Facebook is asking for. That way I am able to get the specific impressions that I am looking for with a specific affiliate program I am apart of.

If you are not seeing the results that you would like within 9 days then what you need to be doing is changing up the title,body, and also the interests and demographic that you have set with that specific ad. A lot of people just fail to really optimize the ad it self and feel if you just change one thing your going to get more success where it is the entire Ad itself that would needed to be changed. If you are not getting the CTR that you want make sure that you are running multiple campaigns at one time instead of just running one ad and hoping for success. That is where you can track what is working and what is not and where you should be increasing or decreasing your pay per day amount you had set out.

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those arguments taken from many sources.

Cheats, Hints and Tips for Facebook Games

2011-04-20T07:48:00.001+07:00

Facebook is full of interesting things to do, one of which is play games. Facebook games can be really entertaining, extremely addictive, and sometimes frustrating. Here you will find cheats, hints, tips, tricks, strategies and glitches for various Facebook games.

Farmville Seed Cheat Sheet for Facebook
A cheat sheet for players of Facebook's Farmville game. Use it to help you figure out which type of seeds to plant depending on your current goal–whether to make gold or to get XP to level up.

Zoo World Cheats, Hints and Tips for Facebook
Zoo World Cheats, Hints and Tips for Facebook

(fluff)Friends Cheats, Hints and Tips for Facebook
(fluff)Friends is a game that is available to play for free on social networking sites, including Facebook. The game has about 595,392 monthly active users on Facebook alone. This purpose of this page is for gamers to have the opportunity to discuss different cheats, hints, tips, tricks and strategies for (fluff)Friends.

(Lil) Farm Life Cheats, Hints and Tips for Facebook
(Lil) Farm Life is a game that is available to play for free on social networking sites, including Facebook. The game has about 5,519,663 monthly active users on Facebook alone. This purpose of this page is for gamers to have the opportunity to discuss different cheats, hints, tips, tricks and strategies for (Lil) Farm Life.

101 Eggs and More Cheats and Hints for Facebook
101 Eggs and More is a game that is available to play for free on social networking sites, including Facebook. The game has about 204,656 monthly active users on Facebook alone. This purpose of this page is for gamers to have the opportunity to discuss different cheats, hints, tips, tricks and strategies for 101 Eggs and More.

?ete Sava?lar? Cheats, Hints and Tips for Facebook
?ete Sava?lar? is a game that is available to play for free on social networking sites, including Facebook. The game has about 774,023 monthly active users on Facebook alone. This purpose of this page is for gamers to have the opportunity to discuss different cheats, hints, tips, tricks and strategies for ?ete Sava?lar?.

Steve Jobs' official biography will be launched next year

2011-04-17T19:26:00.001+07:00

There have been biographies about Apple founder Steve Jobs before, but this is the first time he has agreed to participate in the writing. We're assuming the biblical reference in the title (The Book of Job) is a pun, but considering the level of innovation from iSteve one never knows.

The book will be out early next year, from Simon & Schuster publishers. Walter Isaacson is the author, and he ahs been working on the book since 2009, interviewing Jobs' friends, family, colleagues and competitors. Isaacson has previously written about Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.

Jonathan Karp, publisher of Simon & Schuster, said in a statement:

"This is the perfect match of subject and author, and it is certain to be a landmark book about one of the world's greatest innovators. Just as he did with Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson is telling a unique story of revolutionary genius."

In the past, Jobs has at times reacted strongly to unauthorised biographies; in 2005 he banned works by John Wiley & Sons from Apple's stores because the publisher was responsible for the book "iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business".

Make Money with Facebook Games: Ninja Saga Gold Coins Cheat

2011-04-07T19:36:00.004+07:00

Prepare all the weapons needed: Cheat Engine 6.5 (Download here). Then follow the steps below:

1. Log In FB and Ninja Saga.

2. Open Cheat Engine push Select a process to Open -> plugin-plugin-container.exe if sought container.exe no, use the Open -> Process List (Long) -> plugin-container.exe. (Plugin-container.exe select one)

3. Enter the amount of money Ninja Sagamu. (Value type 4 bytes)

4. Once scanned usually will come out some addresses (approximately 1 or 2 even more than 2 addresses and if the exit is more than 8 Address please you guys play the first mission to change your money then scan again)

5. Now write down all the code address.

6. If you have noted we now New Scan again.

7. Scan Level Ninja Sagamu.

8. Address will come out in large numbers? need not confused, that's why in our initial scan Ninja Saga our money. Because of the scan address Ninja Saga our money will be useful for nyari Address and other level. hopefully you're not confused until here.

9. Your job here is to find the address that is similar to one address that you noted earlier.

10. Having met a similar code Address click to berbackground blue code and click the red arrows.

11. Once the code is moved to the bottom CEngine column, then check the code then right click Change Record -> Value then change your level of your liking. (Do not get altitude level)

12. Now back to your Ninja Saga, please select it and play pa enemy. 100% klo bener follow friends like my tutorial, then Level Ninja saga of friends will change and when to play will not die even though blood is reduced but will be back again and all Misión Special Event will be open in accordance with the level of the new Ninja with your Saga so can you guys use to speed up Exp and money Ninja Saga.

Making Money with Facebook Games

2011-04-07T19:26:00.005+07:00

We should admit that facebook has become the most popular social networking sites which used for business communication, promotion, chat and friendship. But, do you know if facebook also can be made as a means of playing a fun game and earning money? Here are a few games you can play:

Texas Holdem Poker (Zynga Poker)

Texas Holdem Poker a.ka Zynga Poker is a game based pesbuk poker game. In this poker game, you're not dealing with computers as opposed to you, but dealing with the users of this game from all over the world. This game you can get by visiting the link http://zyn.ga/5g

* Level Zynga Poker, the lowest level ie Fish, this level when you first played poker zynga. Worth 2000 chips will be given as capital play.
* Bet Bet Tables Table ato, there are several types of table stakes that you can follow depending on size of chip you have.
* One important trick for you that playing games Zynga Poker, hold the emotions as well as possible, because if not then abis dech all your chips.
* Chip you won from Zynga Poker can be sold.

to be continued

10 Best Internet Marketing Blogs

2011-03-30T20:24:00.004+07:00

#1 http://viperchill.com
I am not going to put in huge blogs like ProBlogger or Dailyblogtips because I wanna try to expand your blog horizons. Hope you will enjoy and leave a comment on this post.

#2 http://theinfopreneur.net
This blog has so much great information. Glen Allsopp, running this blog and he update his blog onces or twice in a week with such a useful and awesome information. I love his writing style. He makes 5 Figure Income online each month, and shares how he does it on his blog. His blog isn’t even monetized. He makes most of the money from other niche sites and by selling his own products.

#3 http://incomediary.com
James Richmond had created an awesome blog in less than 6months. James is a really smart guy, read a few of his posts and you will be hooked. TheInfopreneur has a great team of writers (Karen, Mo, Kiesha, Mathew, Phil, Mars, Eric) who really inspire me to do entrepreneurial stuff every time I read a post

#4 http://blogussion.com
Michael Dunlop, an incredibly successful young, online entrepreneur created this blog. He earn a full time income from the internet on barely half time hours. He living the Internet Lifestyle which means he make money while he sleep and get to do what he want, when he want

#5 http://marsdorian.com
Mars Dorian is a child of the internet and in mad love with creative branding. If you want to create a kick-ass brand, make your blog stand out and simply rock the online galaxy with your essence, go check out his website marsdorian.com

#6 http://famousbloggers.net
This blog is started by Hesham Zebdia and it’ s just 7months old. Hesham had done so many good things on his blog in short period of time. Famousbloggers is one of the awesome multi-author blog. He also runs a great social bookmarking site MMOSocialNetwork.

#7. http://hotblogtips.com
Keith Bloemendaal is a professional blogger and writes about his experiences on Hotblogtips. He makes a full time income from internet marketing through blogging and hopes he can help others do the same through this site. It is all about blogging, by blogger, and for bloggers. He also runs a great social bookmarking site and social Media blog

#8 http://youngprepro.com
Onibalusi is a really nice guy who really does like helping people. His site has great content on everything blogging and business. I encourage you guys to check out this site, it has tons of great information.

#9 http://makemoneyonlinework.biz
The first time I came across Jonathan’s blog was when I saw his guest post on blogussion. He is an awesome young blogger who always tries to write about something new rather than just putting same articles on How to make money online! He also possesses good written language skills. Recently Jonathan Interviewed by Murlu.

#10 http://ben-lang.com
Benj Lang, a 16 year old entrepreneur living in New York. He have ran many businesses, been interviewed in many places and continue to gain more knowledge online. His goal in his business life is to become a successful entrepreneur on a large scale.

source: http://www.technshare.com

The Highest Paid Female CEO in USA

2011-03-30T18:53:00.001+07:00

E-commerce trends 2011

2011-03-28T18:53:00.002+07:00

E-commerce trends 2011 have changed dramatically since last year. Since the technology is constantly changing, the trends are also changing. While the internet is still the focus for advertising, the tools that should be used in the coming year are different that what they were last year.

The first major change has been the use of Twitter. While it was just becoming a useful tool in the past, this year will see it as a must have for online marketers. E-commerce website will be able to use it as a major part of their advertising campaign.

Using the social media has never been as useful as it is this year. By integrating some useful software, it is now helpful to save time and also to use many social networks at one time. Social media is quickly playing a much larger role in the overall strategy of most online marketer campaigns.

The best part of using these networks is the price. They are cheap to use and maintain. With the consumer market at an all time low, this appeals to most companies. You can still sell like crazy while spending a small amount on advertising. Reaching your web shop consumer has never been faster or cheaper.

One thing to note is that this year online consumers will be almost solely focused on price. By using social networks to advertise cheap process you will be able to sell more and also make more. In this weak economy, you need to reach out to the one thing that everyone is focused on their pocket book. Let them know that you have rock bottom prices and are willing to meet competitor's prices.

Your particular e-commerce niche should also use videos to reach the public. Using sites such as YouTube is a great way to get to your target audience. Using this technology is not only easy but it works. It actually works well. You will be able to keep track of who is watching your videos and give them a chance to comment on our videos. This is invaluable feedback that can only help your e-commerce business.

While SEO is still a valuable resource, technical SEO is quickly replacing it. Changing to three word queries instead of one or two is now becoming the standard in SEO optimizing. It can be useful for many new websites as well as older ones.

Reinvigorating your email marketing can also be helpful. Just sending out the normal email just does not cut it anymore. You need to personalize emails of your web shop. The consumer is just demanding more this year. Some eye catching graphics can quickly help any email campaign.

By using more social media marketing and online marketing personalization, you will be surprised at how much it can affect your business. E-commerce trends 2011 actually help making more money easier. Using the latest online tools help to reach potential customers of your web shop easier and allows for them to develop a better relationship with your company. Make more money in 2011 just by using a few simple online tools.

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Sindhuja Rajamaran: The Youngest CEO in the World

2011-03-24T18:25:00.002+07:00

At her age, teens spend time playing up or gossiping about boys, while Sindhuja Rajamaran just 14 years old career as the youngest CEO and animator 2D (two dimensional). These activities earned him the Guinness World Record as the youngest CEO in the world.

Sindhuja born of the family loved the cartoon world. Her father was a caricature maker who first introduced the digital caricature Sindhuja. Meanwhile, her brother is a writer of haiku (short poems), the youngest in India.

Now Sindhuja running animation company called Seppan. From making a short animated film by raising the issue of global warming and tuberculosis to make a greeting card designs to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, Sindhuja sure has achieved many things. In the early years, she has mastered many computer softwares, such as Flash, Photoshop, Corel Painter, After Effects and Maya.

Currently, she heads the company that its employees are aged 18 to 25 years to create animated digital advertisements.

All the advantages at this girl in the can from her father, Tamil Nadu. Her father is an ambassador of CorelDRAW, image processing software, was visited by the Indian Territory Manager of Corel's. At that time, he knows that Sindhuja can draw with Corel since 11 years.

"I was invited on several occasions Corel products and feel very proud as a maker of digital caricatures and cartoons youngest," she says, as quoted by the Times of India pages.

Currently, Sindhuja very eager to have his own production house and making quality films that are recognized globally. He made himself as the creator of the field workers for experts and beginners.

Online porn industry to boycott .XXX domain plans

2011-03-23T19:16:00.002+07:00

Adult industry lobbying group, The Free Speech Coalition, is to hold protests at an upcoming Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting over the proposed plans to introduce a .XXX domain.

Announcing the plans via the group’s blog Free Speech Coalition Executive Director, Diane Duke, said, in slightly suggestive terms considering the nature of the protests, “There are two ways to defeat .XXX. One, with a BANG, and the other, with a trickle.”

With the ICANN meeting due to take place next week on March 17th, with a public forum to be held ahead of a suspected .XXX domain suffix decision the following day, Duke’s bang would see the .XXX domain never reach launch stages whilst the trickle would see the adult suffix boycotted following launch in an attempt to make it fail to reach the 500,000 domain uptake needed to make the plans viable.

Adding intensity to the upcoming protests Duke’s comments go on to conclude: “Remember, more of these domain names have failed than succeeded, and without the support of the industry it is purported to serve .XXX is history!”

Do you approve or shun the potential introduction of a .XXX adult domain suffix? Let us know your thoughts on the plans via the T3 Twitter and Facebook feeds.

How the Internet Porn Business Works

2011-03-23T13:50:00.000+07:00

A first-of-its-kind analysis of the online porn industry reveals the economics, and the vulnerabilities, of the shady world of online adult media.

If you want to know how the online adult industry works, you must become a part of that industry. That's what five security researchers from The Technical University of Vienna, Eurecom and UC Santa Barbara did in an attempt to get a handle on how the adult industry makes money online. And they found that it's exposing everyone who consumes its wares to previously unsuspected levels of malware.

Peddling Porn in the Name of Science

By setting up their own adult websites, the researchers, who will present their paper on June 7, 2010 at The Ninth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at Harvard University, discovered that 43% of the clicks that arrived at their own adult website belonged to users whose browsers were vulnerable to a known exploit in either Adobe Flash or handling of the Microsoft Office or Adobe PDF document types.

Lead researcher Gilbert Wondracek and his colleagues spent a total of $160 to acquire 47,000 clicks from sellers of adult traffic, known in the industry as traffic brokers, of which 20,000 could have been exploited to build a botnet, according to the researchers. The researchers discovered that they easily could have leveraged their investment for a hefty profit by serving as the vector for a Pay-Per Install affiliate program, which in one instance offered $130 per 1,000 installs to drop malicious code (malware, adware etc.) onto exploited machines.

To assess how much malicious code is being injected into users' browsers by adult websites, Wondracek et al. custom-built an automated web crawler to download the content of almost a half million URLs spread across thousands of adult websites. Incredibly, 3.23% of those pages "were found to trigger malicious behavior such as code execution, registry changes, or executable downloads," five times the prevalence of malware discovered by previous research on the subject.

In a back of the envelope calculation, multiplying 3.23% by the percentage of internet users who view porn (42.7%) or even just the percentage of men who view porn while at work (20%), by the frequency with which porn is accessed, suggests that internet porn is a major vector for infection of vulnerable machines.

The Peculiar Economics of Online Porn

A likely explanation for the high rates of malware on adult websites is the almost total lack of policing or enforcement by the brokers who move traffic between adult websites. According to Wondracek et al.'s analysis of the economy of online porn sites, 9 out of 10 are "free" sites that host image or video galleries and make money by directing traffic to pay sites or even to one another. This traffic is monetized through traffic brokers - the majority of which do not even visit the sites in their affiliate networks, according to experiments conducted by the researchers.

Unlike online ad placements by Google and affiliate marketing schemes by Amazon, adult sites do not rely on code that resides on the sites sending them traffic that could help verify that traffic is generated by humans and not click bots. As a result, the researchers found that it would potentially be quite easy to defraud not only users, but the traffic brokers and for-pay porn sites that enable the vast ecosystem of free adult media sites. (No users or brokers were actually harmed in the course of this research, which was vetted by the legal department of the Technical University of Vienna.)

The intricacies of the elaborate system of traffic arbitrage that have grown up around the world of porn traffic direction on the web are way beyond the scope of this blog post, but it's possible that the rest of the media world could learn a thing or two from the way that for-pay adult sites have created a seething ecosystem of traffic affiliates constantly skimming clicks and pennies off of one another.

On the other hand, it's just as likely that these techniques wouldn't work for traditional media, because users don't appear to be as motivated to read news as to find porn. How else can we explain the fact that in the course of the experiment, users clicked many times on single links that were randomly directing them to anything but the media they were apparently after - a practice widespread among free porn sites? [source: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25192/]