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1. Can the power of the universe help Dysthymia
Dysthymia
Can the power of the universe help depression.
I was having an interesting discussion today with my partner about how the power of the universe can help to influence the life of somebody who suffers from depression. In my personal experience I am both a sufferer of depression and had been clinically diagnosed as suffering from Dysthymia is a chronic type of depression in which a person's moods are regularly low.
Dysthymia and its symptoms was up until 10 years ago a very prominent part of my life. In the depths of depression I was overcome by a deep sadness and a feeling of hopelessness. In an attempt to make my life better so I help from the doctor this took on the form of medication and psychotherapy along with support from a outpatient Centre that I had to visit on a daily basis. Nothing seemed to work for me, it was at this stage that I decided to start reading self-help books. One of these books think and Grow Rich gave me hope.
For the first time in many years I had started to have hope and a sense of determination to better myself and not let my Dysthymia get the better of me. Yes I still do suffer from depression, sometimes very severe bouts. But on the whole my outlook to life is very positive and I believe that it is because I am pro active in staying positive and allowing the universe and its power to better my life. I look for the positive within my depression and I use that to build and develop my positive attitude to life.
To suffer from depression are a victim of their depression. They do not want to be depressed but had no understanding of other ways to escape from it. I believe that if people were shown how the power of the universe can help them and that by developing their skills are homing in on the positives within their life and searching for the positive in all that they feel is bad within their life, they will in turn feel better within themselves and their depression will start to lift.
I am not advocating that anybody who suffers from depression of any kind stops their medication or therapy to rely solely on what the power of the universe has to offer them. But I do feel that it would be of benefit to people who suffer from depression or as in my case Dysthymia, allow themselves to include the power of the universe within their life as part of the therapy. By learning about how to find good out of everything that happens to us within our life, surely this was help to not make these decisions again. Life is a lesson, we need to learn from life and to develop the skills within life to make that life, the best we can do, for ourselves and for our families.
To Your Sucess
Dee Hudson
2. Gold is Not a Bubble Its Going to 10000
Karatbar Gold
Gold is Not a Bubble It’s Going to $10,000
The recent correction in gold has once again led, to financial commentators warning of a bubble—just as they have incessantly since it first passed $400 an ounce. A bubble usually ends with day after day of speculative higher highs, not corrections like we have just seen or as we saw in August where a $200 fall was followed by the resumption of its decade long rise That gold continues to climb a wall of worry, and that so many are even calling it a bubble, is actually an extremely bullish indicator since financial bubbles burst only after sustained periods of exuberance. We are far from the days when people lined up for blocks each day to buy gold, as they did in Toronto in 1980.
A simple rebuttal, however, is never enough when discussing gold. It will continue to be subjected to the most aggressive “perception management” assault of any asset class, because it is a direct challenge to all the world’s fiat currencies. Since no paper currency is convertible to gold at this time, this is some challenge. The warnings of bubbles and the many other reasons for not owning gold will continue unabated as gold persists to $10,000 an ounce, or higher.
Independent study of the underlying causes of gold’s rising price, in my opinion, is the best way to gain sufficient confidence to buy and hold gold long enough to protect one’s wealth through the turbulent years ahead.
In this article, we will look at three of the most significant reasons why gold is not in a bubble and will continue rising in value for years to come.
There are two ways of looking at gold. The first is the Western way, viewing gold through the lens of fiat currency training. This approach sees gold as a wealth-gaining asset that can be traded like any other asset class or commodity for currency gains. The second way is how the world’s major gold buyers at this time see gold. The Chinese, Indians and Middle Easterners see gold as a wealth-preserving asset that serves the purpose of money. The second group will ultimately be responsible for driving gold into the five-digit range. Many of these people have had direct experience of the damage to one’s wealth a currency crisis can cause. The most aggressive buyers, the Chinese, experienced 4,000 percent inflation per month between 1947 and 1949.
If gold were a commodity it would be in a bubble, but it is not. Gold has been money for over 3,000 years, and still is today. Although never officially recognized as such, gold trades on the currency desks of all the banks and brokerages, and is held by central banks. Since 2009, central banks have become net buyers of gold. Pension fund manager Shane McGuire makes the point in his book, Hard Money: Taking Gold to a Higher Investment Level , that gold and silver are really the newest asset class, not the oldest, since until 40 years ago they were money. Many readers will remember a time when silver dollars were exchanged in stores at face value.
To step outside a fiat mindset, we encourage our clients to think in terms of ounces of gold rather than dollars – a task that is much easier to do when one owns gold. We encourage them to ask questions like, “What is the risk in ounces of an investment?” and “How many ounces can I expect to gain in return?”
This perspective gives us the single most important insight into gold’s true behaviour, as it tells us that gold is not rising in value—currencies are losing value against gold. This means that gold, as money, can appear to rise in value as far as currencies can fall. In light of this, we can look at three features of gold’s rise that tell us it is not only not in a bubble, but unless current monetary policy is drastically changed, it will almost certainly rise to $10,000 an ounce and beyond.
These features are:
1. The loss of purchasing power of global currencies
2. The inflationary effects of money creation
3. Irreversible trends will continue to cause gold to rise
1. Loss of Purchasing Power
A basket of goods that cost $100 in 1800 would have cost $102 in 1900. During this time, the dollar was pegged to gold. Today that same basket would cost over $4,000. This is what we mean by loss of purchasing power. Over the past decade, the Canadian dollar, the euro and the Japanese yen have lost over 70 percent of their purchasing power against gold.
The US dollar and the British pound have lost over 80 percent.
Another way to understand this loss of purchasing power is by looking at the number of ounces it would have taken at different periods to buy a house, a car or the Dow. In 1971, an average car cost 66 ounces of gold; an average house cost 703 ounces of gold and the Dow cost 25 ounces of gold. Today, 66 ounces of gold would buy nearly four cars, 703 ounces of gold would buy two houses and only 6.5 ounces of gold would be needed to buy the Dow.
2. The inflationary effects of currency creation
In 1983 Webster’s Dictionary defined inflation as:
“Inflation is an increase in the amount of money, resulting in a fall in its value and a rise in prices of goods and services.”
Since the presidency of Bill Clinton, government Consumer Price Index (CPI) reports have moved from being a fixed measure of a standard of living to a flexible measure of a standard of living. Through a variety of machinations such as hedonic regression and substitution (if steak becomes too expensive, remove it and substitute with hamburger), these measures grossly understate true inflation. Currency debasement (a term derived from the Roman practice of hollowing out gold and silver coins and filling them with base metals), leads directly to inflation.
In the few dozen hyperinflations that have occurred throughout history, all have been the direct result of governments attempting to compensate for slowing growth through currency creation, which is exactly what we see happening today. This currency creation has already turned exponential.
Fortunately, one economist, John Williams of ShadowStats continues to track the original basket of goods governments used to track inflation prior to the early 1990s. His data shows inflation running at a much higher rate than is publicly acknowledged. His CPI is at 12 percent, over eight points higher than the “official” inflation reports.
Eventually, we will have to admit the truth about inflation, the truth that anyone who eats, drives or sends their children to college already knows.
Gold would have to trade @ $15,234 and Silver @ $348 an ounce.
3. Irreversible Trends Will Continue to Cause Gold to Rise
Finally, there are many independent trends that are having a direct impact on the price of gold. The most prominent are central bank buying, Chinese and Indian buying, the movement away from the US dollar, peak gold and under-investment in gold by pension funds.
Central banks were net sellers for nearly two decades until 2009, when they officially became net buyers. We can expect this trend to last two decades as well. During the gold “bull” market of the late 1970s, the Chinese public was not allowed to own gold. Today, their government encourages gold ownership, and has even made several significant innovations to facilitate this goal. The Chinese government has also led by example, with China’s central bank publicly stating it would like to increase its reserves from 1,100 to 6,000 tonnes. Unofficially, they have stated a target of 10,000 tonnes.
There can be little doubt that a race to exit the dollar is underway, as governments feel the US has no choice but to continue debasing their currency just to meet existing obligations. Peak gold, like peak oil, occurs when gold miners fail to increase production or discovery despite the rising price of the underlying commodity. Gold production has fallen since 2005, and is only slightly higher in 2010. To quote a recent exhaustive Standard Chartered Bank report:
“In our study of 375 global gold mines and projects, we note that after 10 years of a bull market, the gold mining industry has done little to bring on new supply. Our base-case scenario puts gold production growth at only 3.6 percent CAGR over the next five years .”
With pension funds holding less than 1.5 percent of their assets under management (AUM) in gold bullion, they will have little choice but to increase their position as gold continues to outperform all other asset classes.
These trends are significant, but they are all capable of being changed, however unlikely that may be. What cannot be changed are the “irreversible trends.” These have an indirect impact on the price of gold; they are causing growth to slow, and are therefore creating the need for governments to compensate through ever-increasing currency creation.
Three of the most significant “irreversible” trends are:
1. The aging population
2. Outsourcing
3. Peak oil
The largest population sector, the baby boomers, are starting to retire, and living longer than any previous generation. Their demands, which previously fuelled growth in the global economy, will reverse. They will downsize, reduce spending, liquidate investments and draw down on pension funds, social security and medical benefits. This will reduce GDP, increase unemployment, reduce government revenues, increase budget deficits and require even greater currency creation. This will reduce confidence, further debase currencies and result in increasing gold prices.
With the advent of globalization and outsourcing, politicians and multi-national corporations have let the genie out of the bottle; this has resulted in the decimation of the manufacturing base in Western economies. This will manifest as systemically high unemployment, reduced GDP, higher government deficits and further currency debasement. Again, this will lead to higher gold prices.
In September 2010, a German military think tank reported the German government was taking the threat of peak oil seriously and preparing accordingly. Numerous studies around the world have concluded that we are very close to peak oil production, which will be accelerated due to Gulf drilling bans. This will lead to higher price inflation for most goods, reduced GDP, higher trade deficits, and higher budget deficits. More monetization will result, thereby debasing currencies. Higher price inflation together with further currency debasement will again be a driver for higher gold prices.
Like a spinning top must continue spinning or fall, our modern economic debt-based fiat system depends on perpetual growth. It is disturbingly similar to a classic Ponzi scheme, which requires new borrowers to bring currency into existence that can be used to pay the interest on the previous loans. The greatest threat to its health is slowing growth or deflation. With interest rates near zero, central banks have only one tool left to combat slowing growth—currency creation, which means inflation. These irreversible trends, therefore, virtually ensure gold will continue rising in value for years to come.
In conclusion, I know many readers are hesitant to buy as they feel they have “missed the boat.” Perhaps this Chinese proverb will help:
The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago.
The second best time is today.
*Post courtesy of Nick Barisheff.
Nick Barisheff has been actively involved in the finance industry for more than 30 years. He is a respected international media commentator and speaker who has promoted the many advantages of using gold, silver and platinum bullion for portfolio protection and wealth preservation. In 2012 his new book, $10,000 Gold: It will happen sooner than you think, will make the case for dramatically higher bullion prices as sovereign, bank and private debt around the world causes increased printing of fiat currencies.
To Your Success
Dee Hudson
3. Business leads are the focus
Business leads are the focus.
Enter a new time now and discover what Dennis Roeder can show you and what he can do for your success in marketing your business.
Dennis Roeder can help you run a business on the Internet because the things that you hunt most are leads and traffic. You need to get a head start on this process right off the bat, because leads and traffic generation is one of the bigger problems all Internet marketeers face.
Right off the bat Dennis Roeder will show you a lead generation system which builds up more traffic for your business using special marketing portals. These portals submit your e-mail and web site out on the Internet and you receive many, many leads as they market back to you.
You can promote a business you now own or you can use this as a business opportunity to offer to other business owners. You can make the service available to them for their business leads as well as an opportunity for them to earn income, too.
Auto responders offered are at the top of Internet technology. The Internet can be rather impersonal if you don't follow-up up on a regular basis with your newly found contact and an auto responders is a fast way to accomplish this job.
Therefore you are not only supplied traffic and leads, but also given an auto responder as a way to follow-up with them.
Regardless of how experienced you are at marketing on the Internet there is something within this system that can benefit you.
For example, one benefit offered is online training and support. Several classes are offered every day on different ways to work with the system and how to market on the Internet. Many of these classes are recorded so they can be replayed when your time allows.
Another benefit is that all leads that you acquire through the system are verified and this eliminates the possibility of spam complaints and you do not run the risk of having your Internet business shut down.
New Internet marketeers will be able to get started quickly because of the VOIP software used in their conference rooms that allows live training right on your own computer.
All the tools and training offered is of more value than the cost of becoming a gold member. There is a Valued pay plan that helps you to build a down line group and earn income over and above the benefits it provides for a business you may already own. Many members are using Veretekk as their primary business as you read this article.
What you read here is just barely scratching the surface of the benefits offered. To get the rest of the story you can join at no cost to use the system on a limited basis. From there, if you want to investigate farther you can upgrade to a gold member right from your back office.
Dennis Roeder -- Internet Consultant, invites you to visit dennisroeder.com and discover the leading automated marketing web site on the Internet.
Dee Hudson
Validated Veretekk Trainer
Advice On Home Business Part of Dees Income Builder
4. New Veretekk V2
Over the last few weeks I have been getting used to the new veretekk marketing centre 2.0. There have been many changes throughout Veretekk at all for the better. Have you had a chance to look in yet? If you are having problems logging in and not sure how to find out how to do it, let me help you.
Up until the new launch of Veretekk 2.0 we all used to use a username and password to log in, things have changed now and we need to use the original e-mail address that we created our account is with. If you're not sure what that e-mail was because of the long time ago you can still find out what your login details are, go to Veretekk.com, click update and select forgot password, and then enter your username in the preferred box of username and hit enter, this will in turn bring up a message telling you what e-mail address your login details have been sent to, make note of this the e-mail address that you created the account with.
In some circumstances people have several different accounts of use the same e-mail address of each one of the accounts. If that is the case the system will automatically generated an _1 at the end of to firt part of the email. (Example name_1@domain.com) or number 2,3,4 depending on how many accounts were used on the same e-mail address. From now on you will need to have a separate e-mail address to each of your Veretekk accounts. I would suggest that you start with one and change the e-mail address to different login set the e-mail address and password as you wish and then note down these details, move onto the next account using the given e-mail addresses.
If in doubt go into the support and asked to help with finding your detail of your account.
So now you know how to login why not visit your Veretekk profile and start to get used to the changes that I'm about to explain.
Veretekk has been brought into the 21st century with the inclusion of a wall very similar to a social profiling sites like facebook and linkedin. Now you can keep your audience visitors of your Veretekk portals totally up to date with what's happening in your business by posting directly onto your own personal profile wall. Let them know any updates special promotions that you're running if you're going to be attending any events, either as a webinar or indeed to a live event in your local area such as seminars or exhibitions etc.
It's also a good place to post to helpful advice about how to market your business. This will give encouragement to any downline members that you have to follow suit. In
You also have the ability to share this information not only on your own wall but through any of the social groups that are appearing as part of the Veretekk upgrade from before. These groups are very similar to the groups that you find in facebook linkedin.
Also you can share to the main verewall at Veretekk, this is the wall that you will see on the main
Veretekk.com before you logging. This is not a posting place for advertising on, it is for information about relevant topics to do with marketing and the discussions about what is happening in and around Veretekk as a whole. Interact with people on these walls make comments on other peoples postings like something if you do of course. The whole idea of this new system is to start developing relationships with other marketers everybody within Veretekk is there to help each other to make this a team effort and more interaction the better it can help us all.
To your Success
Dee Hudson
Advice On Home Business
5. Social Networking Explained
Social Networking Explained
Social networking isn't a new phenomenon. It wasn't invented in the twenty-first century. Every Elks Lodge, Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce, Church, Sewing Circle, Book Club, etc. that ever existed afforded an opportunity for social networking. Some social networking groups are secretive.
They have passwords and secret signals that help one member identify another member. Others may be more open but they are aware of who is and who is not a member in good standing of the social networking group.
The members of any social networking group identify with and help other members of their group. They provide information to one another that is mutually beneficial.
They tell each other when something of interest or something of concern in happening that is interest to or a threat to their particular social network and the members collectively pursue the interest or ward off the threat.
These social networking groups can be either very close knit or very loosely organized or even have no apparent organizational structure at all. The organization is of a great deal less importance to the members than the benefits that each gains from it.
Many times social networking groups are work related.
For example: you have very likely heard of the way that law enforcement personnel stick together and 'watch each other's backs' so to speak.
This social networking group is often referred to as 'the long blue line'.
Another work related social networking group is long distance truck drivers. By using their CB radios, they stay in contact with one another and warn each other of road hazards. If one of them has a problem, others go to his or her aid.
No, social networking was not invented in the twenty-first century and it didn't come into being with the advent of the personal computer.
It has been around probably since the beginning of time in some form or another but the advent of the personal computer certainly put a new spin on social networking. Web 2.0 has really kicked social networking up several notches.
No longer is social networking limited to people who work at the same jobs or who live in the same communities. Social networking is now world wide and easily accessible to everyone who has access to a computer and an internet connection.
It all started with the advent of instant messaging technology but it has grown far beyond that limited ability. With instant messaging it was necessary to let others see your email address and so you lost much of your anonymity.
In today's Web 2.0 world, social networking and complete anonymity are both possible.
The online dating sites are a very good example of this compatibility. People can register and pay for memberships on online dating sites and conduct an entire relationship for many months without either party knowing the other party's real name, ISP email address or the name of the city in which they live.
All communication is conducted on the online dating website itself thus affording both social networking and anonymity.
There are Web 2.0 websites that are dedicated to nothing BUT social networking. One of the better known ones among the younger set is MySpace but there are at least a hundred different social networking sites on the internet and probably a lot more that that.
Web 2.0 social networking sites are divided in many different ways.
There are social networking sites that are dedicated to specific ethnicities; BlackPlanet.com is for African Americans, Babbello is for Australian teenagers, FaceBox is for European young adults, Gronco.net is for Poland, iWiW is for Hungary, Migente.com is for Latinos, Mixi is for Japan are just a few examples.
Social networking sites are also divided sometimes by interests. For example you can find such social networking sites as CarDomain for car enthusiasts, Flickr for photo sharing, Gaia for gamers, Gopets for virtual pets, Joga Bonita for football or soccer, or Last.fm for music.
These are only a very few example. There are a great many more.
Most social networking sites, however, are not dedicated to a specific group. They are general membership sites and the members themselves divide themselves into appropriate groups according to interests and compatibility.
Almost all of the social networking sites are free to join. There are just a few that have membership fees. The site owners make their money from advertisers rather than from users. A few sites are only open to those who have been invited to join by other members.
Most of these social networking sites provide you with your own blog when you join the site. You can make posts to your blog and you can invite others to post to your blog. The trick here is to also use the social bookmarking sites and upload links to your blog posts into them with the appropriate tags containing key words.
The blogs on social networking sites are in addition to and not a replacement for blogs on your own website if you are an internet marketer and the social bookmarking sites should be used to upload links to both blogs.
Social networking is easy and it is fun. It is a way that you can enhance your online business and have a lot of fun in the process. You can meet some of your very best potential customers on social networking sites. You can make friends and influence people as well.
It has long been a well established fact that more business is actually conducted in social settings than in offices.
More deals are made on golf courses than in board rooms in the real world and more sales are made through the use of social networking sites on the Internet than through all of the paid-for advertising combined.
People HATE commercials but they don't mind hearing their friends recommend a product or service. Not only do they not mind...they even go to a lot of trouble to seek out that information.
In addition to being a great way to advertise a business social networking sites are also a great research tool and one that should never be overlooked. Rather than having to conduct a lot of expensive and time-consuming surveys for example, you can simply look through a social networking site and find out exactly what people are thinking about.
You can find out what their problems are and what measures they are taking to solve those problems. You can find out what their interests are and how they go about pursuing those interests.
By using social networking sites as research tools, you can likely get more and better information in a single hour and for free than you could get by spending hours on sending out surveys and trying to decipher the results.
One very interesting social networking site is called 43 things. That is the name of the site. On this social networking site people list their goals and then other people with similar goals discuss how to best achieve those goals.
Some goals that have been listed are 'learn a foreign language, be a good parent, improve my memory, get in shape, lose weight, be a better gardener and the list just goes on and on.
As a research tool it would be hard to beat 43 things to find out what people are interested in and concerned about.
Web 2.0 is great! It is driven by those who actually USE the internet and not by people who are sitting behind desks at large companies and who are out of touch with the real world.
Social networking is simply a group of like-minded people exchanging information that is of mutual interest. That is all it is and all it has ever been.
It is important that when you are using social networking sites that you remember this and conduct yourself accordingly.
If you join a site and start just posting blatant advertisements, you are not going to be doing social networking.
You are simply doing advertising...which people hate. If you establish yourself as part of a group, then you are social networking and you will find that those who are members of your online social circle are the best help you can find anywhere.
Social networking is valuable in and of itself but it can be made doubly valuable by using social networking in conjunction with social bookmarking.
Join a social networking website. Find a group of people who are interested in the topic of your website but don't start out advertising that.
Make posts to your own blog on the social networking sites as well as to the blogs of others. Add those links to your social bookmarking account. Be certain that you use the appropriate key words in those tags otherwise they are worthless.
Altogether this is an excellent marketing strategy. It is a way to market your website and your products or services and have a lot of fun at the same time. You will meet people that you really do like and even admire and respect.
Friendships are not made for the purpose of profiting from them but they usually are profitable.
Dee Hudson
Validated Veretekk Trainer
Advice On Home Business
Part of Dees Income Builder
6. Social Networking Explained
Social Networking Explained
Social networking isn't a new phenomenon. It wasn't invented in the twenty-first century. Every Elks Lodge, Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce, Church, Sewing Circle, Book Club, etc. that ever existed afforded an opportunity for social networking. Some social networking groups are secretive.
They have passwords and secret signals that help one member identify another member. Others may be more open but they are aware of who is and who is not a member in good standing of the social networking group.
The members of any social networking group identify with and help other members of their group. They provide information to one another that is mutually beneficial.
They tell each other when something of interest or something of concern in happening that is interest to or a threat to their particular social network and the members collectively pursue the interest or ward off the threat.
These social networking groups can be either very close knit or very loosely organized or even have no apparent organizational structure at all. The organization is of a great deal less importance to the members than the benefits that each gains from it.
Many times social networking groups are work related.
For example: you have very likely heard of the way that law enforcement personnel stick together and 'watch each other's backs' so to speak.
This social networking group is often referred to as 'the long blue line'.
Another work related social networking group is long distance truck drivers. By using their CB radios, they stay in contact with one another and warn each other of road hazards. If one of them has a problem, others go to his or her aid.
No, social networking was not invented in the twenty-first century and it didn't come into being with the advent of the personal computer.
It has been around probably since the beginning of time in some form or another but the advent of the personal computer certainly put a new spin on social networking. Web 2.0 has really kicked social networking up several notches.
No longer is social networking limited to people who work at the same jobs or who live in the same communities. Social networking is now world wide and easily accessible to everyone who has access to a computer and an internet connection.
It all started with the advent of instant messaging technology but it has grown far beyond that limited ability. With instant messaging it was necessary to let others see your email address and so you lost much of your anonymity.
In today's Web 2.0 world, social networking and complete anonymity are both possible.
The online dating sites are a very good example of this compatibility. People can register and pay for memberships on online dating sites and conduct an entire relationship for many months without either party knowing the other party's real name, ISP email address or the name of the city in which they live.
All communication is conducted on the online dating website itself thus affording both social networking and anonymity.
There are Web 2.0 websites that are dedicated to nothing BUT social networking. One of the better known ones among the younger set is MySpace but there are at least a hundred different social networking sites on the internet and probably a lot more that that.
Web 2.0 social networking sites are divided in many different ways.
There are social networking sites that are dedicated to specific ethnicities; BlackPlanet.com is for African Americans, Babbello is for Australian teenagers, FaceBox is for European young adults, Gronco.net is for Poland, iWiW is for Hungary, Migente.com is for Latinos, Mixi is for Japan are just a few examples.
Social networking sites are also divided sometimes by interests. For example you can find such social networking sites as CarDomain for car enthusiasts, Flickr for photo sharing, Gaia for gamers, Gopets for virtual pets, Joga Bonita for football or soccer, or Last.fm for music.
These are only a very few example. There are a great many more.
Most social networking sites, however, are not dedicated to a specific group. They are general membership sites and the members themselves divide themselves into appropriate groups according to interests and compatibility.
Almost all of the social networking sites are free to join. There are just a few that have membership fees. The site owners make their money from advertisers rather than from users. A few sites are only open to those who have been invited to join by other members.
Most of these social networking sites provide you with your own blog when you join the site. You can make posts to your blog and you can invite others to post to your blog. The trick here is to also use the social bookmarking sites and upload links to your blog posts into them with the appropriate tags containing key words.
The blogs on social networking sites are in addition to and not a replacement for blogs on your own website if you are an internet marketer and the social bookmarking sites should be used to upload links to both blogs.
Social networking is easy and it is fun. It is a way that you can enhance your online business and have a lot of fun in the process. You can meet some of your very best potential customers on social networking sites. You can make friends and influence people as well.
It has long been a well established fact that more business is actually conducted in social settings than in offices.
More deals are made on golf courses than in board rooms in the real world and more sales are made through the use of social networking sites on the Internet than through all of the paid-for advertising combined.
People HATE commercials but they don't mind hearing their friends recommend a product or service. Not only do they not mind...they even go to a lot of trouble to seek out that information.
In addition to being a great way to advertise a business social networking sites are also a great research tool and one that should never be overlooked. Rather than having to conduct a lot of expensive and time-consuming surveys for example, you can simply look through a social networking site and find out exactly what people are thinking about.
You can find out what their problems are and what measures they are taking to solve those problems. You can find out what their interests are and how they go about pursuing those interests.
By using social networking sites as research tools, you can likely get more and better information in a single hour and for free than you could get by spending hours on sending out surveys and trying to decipher the results.
One very interesting social networking site is called 43 things. That is the name of the site. On this social networking site people list their goals and then other people with similar goals discuss how to best achieve those goals.
Some goals that have been listed are 'learn a foreign language, be a good parent, improve my memory, get in shape, lose weight, be a better gardener and the list just goes on and on.
As a research tool it would be hard to beat 43 things to find out what people are interested in and concerned about.
Web 2.0 is great! It is driven by those who actually USE the internet and not by people who are sitting behind desks at large companies and who are out of touch with the real world.
Social networking is simply a group of like-minded people exchanging information that is of mutual interest. That is all it is and all it has ever been.
It is important that when you are using social networking sites that you remember this and conduct yourself accordingly.
If you join a site and start just posting blatant advertisements, you are not going to be doing social networking.
You are simply doing advertising...which people hate. If you establish yourself as part of a group, then you are social networking and you will find that those who are members of your online social circle are the best help you can find anywhere.
Social networking is valuable in and of itself but it can be made doubly valuable by using social networking in conjunction with social bookmarking.
Join a social networking website. Find a group of people who are interested in the topic of your website but don't start out advertising that.
Make posts to your own blog on the social networking sites as well as to the blogs of others. Add those links to your social bookmarking account. Be certain that you use the appropriate key words in those tags otherwise they are worthless.
Altogether this is an excellent marketing strategy. It is a way to market your website and your products or services and have a lot of fun at the same time. You will meet people that you really do like and even admire and respect.
Friendships are not made for the purpose of profiting from them but they usually are profitable.
Dee Hudson
Validated Veretekk Trainer
Advice On Home Business
Part of Dees Income Builder
7. Networking Whats The Best Way
Networking – The What's The Best Way
Online vs Offline -
Networking is one of the most crucial elements of starting or expanding your business. Thanks to the many
instant communication methods available online today, it is no longer necessary to rely solely on seminars or
other live events to meet fellow marketers. It is now possible to make your contacts from home via your PC.
Of course live events are a great resource, but they do have their disadvantages. Here are 5 of the biggest
reasons I feel that networking online is a better choice:
• Cost – A live seminar can cost anywhere from $20 to $2995 (not including food, lodging, and
transportation costs), whereas
• Travel – While live events are hosted all over the world, there is sure to be at least some travel involved
to attend even the closest one. Networking online can of course be done anywhere your laptop takes
you.
• Time – When attending a live event, it is expected that a minimum of one entire day be devoted to it.
However, networking online can be accomplished as quickly as replying to a message in a forum.
• Convenience – While at a live event, all of the materials needed may not be easily accessible at the
time, but online, all of the needed materials will likely be located on the computer from which you’re
networking.
• Comfort – When I Worked as a crew member at the Business 2012 seminar in London in 2012, the attire ranged
from business-casual to suit-and-tie. Networking online can be done in any attire, even in the nude –
just make sure that your webcam isn’t turned on!
Networking – The What's The Best Way?
Conclusion? Use them Both
While networking online has many advantages, it should not take the place of attending live events and
meeting fellow marketers face-to-face. It should instead, be used in addition to live networking. Both methods
are beneficial individually, but they’re even more valuable when used together.
As I mentioned, I Worked as a crew member at the Business 2012 seminar in London in 2012 this year,
and it was incredible. I met so many people that I am either currently doing business with, or hope to do
business with in the future. I learned many new things, got some new ideas, and made a lots of new contacts.
I would highly recommend going to one of these events if you ever have the opportunity.
See you at the next Event on or off line 
Dee Hudson
Validated Veretekk Trainer
Advice On Home Business
Part of Dees Income Builder
8. Networking Whats The Best Way
Networking – What's The Best Way
Online vs Offline -
Networking is one of the most crucial elements of starting or expanding your business. Thanks to the many
instant communication methods available online today, it is no longer necessary to rely solely on seminars or
other live events to meet fellow marketers. It is now possible to make your contacts from home via your PC.
Of course live events are a great resource, but they do have their disadvantages. Here are 5 of the biggest
reasons I feel that networking online is a better choice:
• Cost – A live seminar can cost anywhere from $20 to $2995 (not including food, lodging, and
transportation costs), whereas
• Travel – While live events are hosted all over the world, there is sure to be at least some travel involved
to attend even the closest one. Networking online can of course be done anywhere your laptop takes
you.
• Time – When attending a live event, it is expected that a minimum of one entire day be devoted to it.
However, networking online can be accomplished as quickly as replying to a message in a forum.
• Convenience – While at a live event, all of the materials needed may not be easily accessible at the
time, but online, all of the needed materials will likely be located on the computer from which you’re
networking.
• Comfort – When I Worked as a crew member at the Business 2012 seminar in London in 2012, the attire ranged
from business-casual to suit-and-tie. Networking online can be done in any attire, even in the nude –
just make sure that your webcam isn’t turned on!
Networking – What's The Best Way?
Conclusion? Use them Both
While networking online has many advantages, it should not take the place of attending live events and
meeting fellow marketers face-to-face. It should instead, be used in addition to live networking. Both methods
are beneficial individually, but they’re even more valuable when used together.
As I mentioned, I Worked as a crew member at the Business 2012 seminar in London in 2012 this year,
and it was incredible. I met so many people that I am either currently doing business with, or hope to do
business with in the future. I learned many new things, got some new ideas, and made a lots of new contacts.
I would highly recommend going to one of these events if you ever have the opportunity.
See you at the next Event on or off line 
Dee Hudson
Validated Veretekk Trainer
Advice On Home Business
Part of Dees Income Builder
9. Are you ready to be a success in business?
Are you ready to become successful?
Before you will become successful in online marketing, you have to change your mindset, and you have to be positive about yourself and what you want to do in your business. You are set failure, if you go in half-heartedly. You need to change of mindset, you need to be able to think positively about everything to do you need to believe that you are going to do it.
First of all you need to set yourself some goals, you need to find out you reason WHY!!! Why do you want to do business online? What is your motivation, is it your family? Is it your friends? Is it for your enemies? Once you have decided what your motivation is why you are doing this. Then you will know exactly what is needed to become successful in online marketing.
Once You Have Your Reason WHY Then You Can Move on. You Can Start Setting Your Goals. It you have to decide what you want to achieve in your business. Do you want to buy a bigger house? Do you want to buy a better car? Do you want to own a car? Do you want to hold better standing in your community or amongst Your peers?
Setting aside a place on the WWW
Okay, now down to the hard work. You need to find out exactly what tools you need to set up your online business. First of all you’re going to need a website. There are several options here, If you have any sort of technical knowledge with internet it would be a good idea to get yourself a domain. If you feel that this is too complicated for you, then I would suggest that you get a Blog. That will give you the online presence that you require to start a business somewhere, where everybody can go to find out Information That You Are Selling to Them.
There are a lot of different avenues that you can explore to find the best domain or even blog, that you require for your business, I am not going to tell you about them right now, that will be for a latter post. Once you have got the site set up and into place, also you understand the basic procedures needed to set that up. The next step is starting to build some traffic to your site.
You Need to Build Your List.
Building your list is no easy task. There are millions of people online trying to devote their time setting up their own online business and who all think that they can Be making a million by the end of the week. You are no different. but a list is what you need, you need contacts people that believe in what you are saying, and are willing to come back time and time again to look at your products or your services that you are offering. These are what are known as reliable customers or Leeds.
Lead Capture
You will do this by setting up an area of your website domain or blog, with a lead capture, This will be a small section of a script that allows people to fill out a basic form with their name and e-mail address. How do you get them to put their details in to the small box? That’s simple; you need to create an interest or a product that they want. This could be in the form of a free giveaway such as an e-book.
Because you are giving away a product or service For free they don’t have to pay for anything. You are more likely to get their details into your system.
Okay, so what’s the reason from me writing this post? Simple I am going to put one of those little boxes here. I ask you to put your details in the capture, in return I will give you a free e-book! All I want you to do is to put in your details you name and your e-mail address from that you will be given information that is substantial to your business or your business plan that you have. Feel free to offer the same product and service to your potential list, after all.
I was where you are once!
Yes that’s right, I started at the bottom, just like you. I have spent many years building my list, and now I have many people follow me and are interested in the products and services that I have to offer what I am doing here is just a sideline to what I do. If you fill out your details on my contact information capture system.
I will let you in on bigger secrets about how I am making a living by working online as an Internet marketer.
10. Marketing Your Business
Original Article @ Veretekk Internet Marketing Asia
Marketing Your Business
New Marketing Centre
Veretekk took on a completely new look today, not only a new look but some new features which will be launched in the coming weeks to improve your business marketing and advertising.
The beta launch still has some bugs to be resolved, and its massive membership of over 9 million are logging in and getting busy updating their information which now can connect seamlessly to hundreds of social sites and business websites.
Veretekk is set to become one of the leading business/social sites on the Internet where you can interact with other business professions and entrepreneurs. You can now join and create public or private groups of like minded people to share videos, pictures and posts about your interests.
There is 24/7 support via Skype which will soon be integrated into the back office as well, so that if you have a technical issue you do not need to wait for days to get it resolved.
So watch this space for more news
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11. Search Engine Optimization And Why You Gotta Use It
Search Engine Optimization And Why You Gotta Use It
E-commerce is a cut throat business. You have to arm yourself with the proper know-how and the tools to make your site a cut above the rest. Each day, more and more sites are clambering to optimize their rankings in websites and if you lose your guard, you may just get trampled on and be left in the abyss filled with so many failed e-commerce sites.
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a term widely used today by many e-commerce sites. For the past few years and the next ten years or so, search engines would be the most widely used internet tool to find the sites that they need to go to or the product or information they need.
Most people that use search engines use only the ten top search results in the first page. Making it to the first page, more so to the top three is a barometer of a sites success in search engine optimization. You will get a higher ratio of probability in being clicked on when you rank high. The more traffic for your site, the more business you rake in.
But, it is essential to grab a hold of that spot or make your ranking even better. As I aforementioned, each day is a new day for all e-commerce sites to make them selves rank higher using search engine optimization. It is imperative to make your site better and better everyday.
So just what is search engine optimization and do you have to use it? The answer to why you have to use it is an easy one. You need search engine optimization to be number one, or maybe at least make your site income generating.
With search engine optimization you can get the benefit of generating a high traffic volume. Lets just say you get only a turn out of successful sales with 10 to 20 percent of your traffic. If you get a hundred hits or more a day, you get a good turn out of sales already. If you get only twenty to ten hits a day, you only get one or two if not any at all.
So once again, what is search engine optimization? Search engine optimization is utilizing tools and methods in making your site top ranking in the results of search engines. Getting yourself in the first page and better yet in the top half of the page will ensure that your site will generate public awareness of your sites existence and subsequently generate more traffic, traffic that could lead to potential income and business.
Search engine optimization requires a lot of work to be fully realized. There are many aspects you have to change in your site or add as well to get search engine optimization. These will include getting lots of information about the keyword phrases that are popular in regards to your sites niche or theme.
You may also need to rewrite your sites contents so that you could get the right keyword phrases in your site without making it too commercial but light and informative. There are certain rules and guidelines to be followed with making your sites content applicable and conducive to search engine optimization.
You will also need to collaborate with many other sites so that you could get link exchanges and page transfers. The more inbound and outbound traffics generated by sites among others are one of the components search engines uses to rank sites.
Try to search the internet for many useful help. Tips, guidelines and methods for search engine optimization are plenty to be found. Read many articles that can help you optimize your site in search engine results. The more knowledge and information you gather the better. This will all help you in getting those high rankings. This may require a little time and effort in your part but the benefits will be astounding.
If you can part with some money, there are many sites in the internet that can help you in search engine optimization. There are many sites that help in tracking keyword phrases that can help your site. There are also some content writers that have lots of experience in making good keyword laden content for your sites that have good quality.
Act now and see the benefits garner with search engine optimization. All of these will result to better traffic and more business for your site and company.
Dee Hudson
Automated Marketing for $54.95 Per Month!
Validated Trainer for Veretekk
Advice On Home Business
12. Marketing
Marketing
Also posted at Tomorrows Home Business Community
Is Procrastination Holding You Back?
Original article at About.com Market
From C.J. Hayden
When you look at your marketing to-do list, do many of the items on it look all too familiar? Have entries like call Donna Sanchez and follow up with Floyd Corp been copied from a previous week? Putting off unappealing tasks may be human nature, but for an entrepreneur, procrastination can be deadly.
Delays in contacting a prospect can lose the business to the competition. Failing to get the word out about an upcoming event may forfeit dozens of opportunities. Wasted marketing time can never be recovered. By the time you realize you might not make your goal for the month, quarter, or year, it may already be too late.
Finding tasks on your to-do list week after week is a clear sign you are procrastinating, but it is not always this obvious. Can you identify with any of these situations?
Feelings of overwhelm. You have a backlog of work that seems insurmountable. You wake up in the morning already thinking about everything you must accomplish that day. It seems impossible to get it all done. If you are routinely unable to complete what is on your list in the time available, you may be creating the problem yourself by putting tasks off week after week.
Making excuses. You find yourself constantly having to make excuses to your business buddies, referral partners, potential clients, or even your coach about why you never followed up on that great referral, that important sales call was not made, the marketing package was not sent, or the proposal was not written. After a while, the excuses begin to sound flimsy, even to you.
Trivial pursuits. You notice that you are doing unimportant chores, rearranging your desk drawers, filing old business cards, shopping for just the right desk, surfing the Net, while neglecting crucial marketing activities.
Overflowing pipeline. A form of procrastination unique to entrepreneurs and salespeople is continuing to develop new leads instead of contacting the prospects you already have. If you are spending more time attending networking events or reviewing lists of names than getting on the phone, putting your fingers to the keyboard, or driving to appointments, this problem may be yours.
If you ARE procrastinating, what then? Begin to change this habit by getting in touch with your motivation to do better. What rewards, tangible and intangible, do you get from your work? Remind yourself of that payoff on a daily basis. Post a picture or note that represents those rewards to you on your calendar, phone, or dashboard.
Break down each of the activities you are having trouble with into small steps. Pick what seems like the easiest place to start, and block out time on your calendar to make a beginning. You may find that once you are taking action, the rest seems much less difficult than you had feared.
If you find that you really do have too much on your plate to have enough time for marketing, it is essential that you cut back on some of your other activities immediately. A business without marketing is not a business; it is a hobby.
Create more accountability for yourself by telling a buddy, support group, or coach exactly what you plan to get done each week. Ask them not to accept any excuses from you, and to remind you why you said you were doing all this in the first place. You can partner in this way with a colleague by setting up a weekly check-in where each of you reports to the other.
It may take time to break the procrastination habit, so give yourself permission to fail a few times. Remember that even a small amount of progress may be allowing you to achieve more than you ever have before.
Community
And here is some community information for people who think outside the box. You will gain valuable information on marketing.
Marketing can happen for you, if you are motivated. Now, this marketing community that is where you can work and gather as much information that you need to succeed. The community name is Tomorrows Home Business Social Community and is located at this address http://tomorrowshomebusiness.ning.com.
In this marketing community, the business entrepreneur will be able to read blogs and watch videos for business, or just for pleasure. With a few RSS feeds coming to the main page, the entrepreneur can even stay informed of what is happening in marketing and around the world. There is something here in this community for everyone.
Groups like the Maniac Marketers come in and post their blogs in the community, giving valuable information for their Health and Wellness businesses. If you would rather watch videos of the TriVita videos, you can do that, too. Or if you just want to hang out and relax, you can do that, too! There are many music videos like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, and Seasick Steve! Or if you want to learn about handcrafts or see the equally oldest Ford antique car, a 1903 Model A Ford, you can do that, too! Or maybe you need an inspirational video clip! There are many choices of inspirational clips, such as Al Pacinos locker room speech in Any Given Sunday, or Mel Gibson as William Wallace motivating the Scottish men men before battle in Braveheart; or Sylvester Stalone as Rocky and how he motivates himself in the boxing ring, or even his inspirational conversation with his son, and who can forget those chants for Rudy in the movie Rudy!
When you become a member of Tomorrow's Home Business Social Community, there is a profile created just for you. You can use the standard set-up on your page. Or you can be as creative as you want to be. For an example check out my profile page at Terry Allisons Profile Page. I use my profile page as a dream-building tool. I have always wanted a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. I have learned to keep this dream in front of me.
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Marketing
Also posted at When you look at your marketing to-do list, do many of the items on it look all too familiar? Have entries like call Donna Sanchez and follow up with Floyd Corp been copied from a previous week? Putting off unappealing tasks may be human nature, but for an entrepreneur, procrastination can be deadly.
Delays in contacting a prospect can lose the business to the competition. Failing to get the word out about an upcoming event may forfeit dozens of opportunities. Wasted marketing time can never be recovered. By the time you realize you might not make your goal for the month, quarter, or year, it may already be too late.
Finding tasks on your to-do list week after week is a clear sign you are procrastinating, but it is not always this obvious. Can you identify with any of these situations?
Feelings of overwhelm. You have a backlog of work that seems insurmountable. You wake up in the morning already thinking about everything you must accomplish that day. It seems impossible to get it all done. If you are routinely unable to complete what is on your list in the time available, you may be creating the problem yourself by putting tasks off week after week.
Making excuses. You find yourself constantly having to make excuses to your business buddies, referral partners, potential clients, or even your coach about why you never followed up on that great referral, that important sales call was not made, the marketing package was not sent, or the proposal was not written. After a while, the excuses begin to sound flimsy, even to you.
Trivial pursuits. You notice that you are doing unimportant chores, rearranging your desk drawers, filing old business cards, shopping for just the right desk, surfing the Net, while neglecting crucial marketing activities.
Overflowing pipeline. A form of procrastination unique to entrepreneurs and salespeople is continuing to develop new leads instead of contacting the prospects you already have. If you are spending more time attending networking events or reviewing lists of names than getting on the phone, putting your fingers to the keyboard, or driving to appointments, this problem may be yours.
If you ARE procrastinating, what then? Begin to change this habit by getting in touch with your motivation to do better. What rewards, tangible and intangible, do you get from your work? Remind yourself of that payoff on a daily basis. Post a picture or note that represents those rewards to you on your calendar, phone, or dashboard.
Break down each of the activities you are having trouble with into small steps. Pick what seems like the easiest place to start, and block out time on your calendar to make a beginning. You may find that once you are taking action, the rest seems much less difficult than you had feared.
If you find that you really do have too much on your plate to have enough time for marketing, it is essential that you cut back on some of your other activities immediately. A business without marketing is not a business; it is a hobby.
Create more accountability for yourself by telling a buddy, support group, or coach exactly what you plan to get done each week. Ask them not to accept any excuses from you, and to remind you why you said you were doing all this in the first place. You can partner in this way with a colleague by setting up a weekly check-in where each of you reports to the other.
It may take time to break the procrastination habit, so give yourself permission to fail a few times. Remember that even a small amount of progress may be allowing you to achieve more than you ever have before.
Marketing can happen for you, if you are motivated. Now, this marketing community that is where you can work and gather as much information that you need to succeed. The community name is Tomorrows Home Business Social Community and is located at this address http://tomorrowshomebusiness.ning.com.
In this marketing community, the business entrepreneur will be able to read blogs and watch videos for business, or just for pleasure. With a few RSS feeds coming to the main page, the entrepreneur can even stay informed of what is happening in marketing and around the world. There is something here in this community for everyone.
Groups like the Maniac Marketers come in and post their blogs in the community, giving valuable information for their Health and Wellness businesses. If you would rather watch videos of the TriVita videos, you can do that, too. Or if you just want to hang out and relax, you can do that, too! There are many music videos like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, and Seasick Steve! Or if you want to learn about handcrafts or see the equally oldest Ford antique car, a 1903 Model A Ford, you can do that, too! Or maybe you need an inspirational video clip! There are many choices of inspirational clips, such as Al Pacinos locker room speech in Any Given Sunday, or Mel Gibson as William Wallace motivating the Scottish men men before battle in Braveheart; or Sylvester Stalone as Rocky and how he motivates himself in the boxing ring, or even his inspirational conversation with his son, and who can forget those chants for Rudy in the movie Rudy!
A marketing community for people wanting to find out more information on how to market their own work at home business.
