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A marketing plan is essential for a business home Internet marketing opportunity. To succeed in any business, whether a home business or not, you need a marketing plan that sets out your Internet marketing opportunity campaign. If your firm were a large corporation you’d put several hundred pages of marketing tasks together in one plan. As a small home business noting your organized Internet marketing opportunity plan will probably take fewer than ten pages. But it must be done, and early.

The simplest and easiest way to work with your marketing plan is to place the pages in a three ring binder and refer to it monthly. This lets you keep track of what you should be doing in your home business Internet marketing opportunity schedule and if you’re on schedule or not. Leave plenty of room for notes on your performance in regard to your written marketing plan.

A plan for taking advantage of the marketing opportunities for a home business should cover a one year period. A business home Internet marketing opportunity plan should not extend any further out because so many things can affect such a small business. If someone leaves the firm, if the market changes, or if customers leave or others come on board, the marketing plan must be altered. A few years down the home business road is the time to rewrite the plan to encompass the next two to five years.

A marketing plan for a home business Internet opportunity will take you at least two months to write, especially if you’re a novice at marketing plan writing.

Everyone that has a management or executive say in any aspect of the home Internet business should have an opportunity to contribute to the marketing plan. While the tendency is to hold the information in the plan close to the vest, it won’t work without asking for the guidance and input of those involved in the planning, building, marketing and growing, both Internet and otherwise, of your home business. Feedback must come from anyone involved in your Internet home business financing, manufacturing, staffing, equipping, and managing. Of course, as in many home Internet opportunity business ventures, the sole proprietor is the only administrator and as such completes the bulk of the marketing plan with some input of paid consultants.

Your marketing plan for your home Internet business must be consistent with your firm’s business plan or the opportunity for the two documents to help you succeed is lost. The business plan lays out the company vision for the next five years. The marketing plan dictates how you get to the achievement of that vision and the completion of the various goals along the way. A business plan will talk about the financing needed to start and grow the business, one of which will be the expense of advertising and marketing. The marketing plan will spell out the marketing opportunities you will take advantage of, and the cost of each, to get your home Internet business started and making a profit.

Larry Bregman
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-opportunities-articles/marketing-plan-a-must-for-home-based-business-70052.html

Submitting RSS feeds to RSS directories can be a real pain for webmasters or business owners who use RSS feeds to make regular product announcements or promotional offers. When RSS technology first appeared on the internet in the late 90s, the usage is pretty limited. As time passes, RSS feeds have gained much momentum as content syndication becomes a widely accepted means to update web content. Let’s explore the use of RSS feeds and why you should be using RSS submission software to submit RSS feeds.

RSS is the abbreviation or acronym of Really Simple Syndication. RSS feeds are in XML file format which are not readable in its raw form. In order for you to view the content of the RSS feeds, you would need a reader or aggregator to do so. There are many online readers such as My Yahoo, Bloglines, NewsGator etc.

RSS feeds are primarily created to offer dynamic content, ie content that is fresh and updated. As you can see, many news press are using RSS feeds to provide their readers with the latest news in the stock market, sports and world news. Commercial companies offer feeds to subscribers as a means to announce new products, company news, or as an advertising channel. Webmasters use RSS feeds on their websites so that visitors can always read about the latest developments in the web topic or niche such as medical, internet marketing or even stock movements.

Webmasters can build RSS feeds from their web pages and submit RSS feeds to specific niche RSS directories for distribution. This is an excellent way to reach targeted audiences and gain significant traffic. Search engines are not the only places to grab free traffic. When webmasters list their RSS feeds in the RSS feed directories, visitors to these directories may like what they are reading and visit the parent websites. On another note, interesting feeds may be syndicated by fellow webmasters in the same niche. This is invaluable since you would be getting traffic from their websites as well as get some one-way links. We all know that this would have a positive impact on your search engine ranking.

If you are not using RSS feeds to promote your website, you are really losing out to your competitors. That said, it can be a lengthy process to submit RSS feeds for inclusion in the news or RSS feeds directories. Increasingly more webmasters are turning to RSS submission software as a solution to submit RSS feeds.

Let’s use a simple example to illustrate the benefits. Imagine that your income is 30 dollars per hour, and you need to spend about 3-5 hours to manually submit RSS feeds to about 50 – 60 feed directories. The time you lost is worth more than 100 dollars to you each time you submit a RSS feed. Multiply that by the number of websites you have and it is easy to understand why it is more economical to use RSS submission software to submit RSS feeds. Visit my blog to read more about RSS feed submission and popular and affordable RSS submission software webmasters have in their toolkit.

This article may be freely reprinted or distributed in its entirety in any ezine, newsletter, blog or website. The author’s name, bio and website links must remain intact and be included with every reproduction.

Davion W
http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/submit-rss-feeds-dump-tedious-feed-submission-103052.html

I am being offered an opportunity to buy a percentage of a business. I would be required to sign a promisory note with seven equal annual payments. The money to make the payments will come from my share of the annual net profits of the business over the seven years. My question is, will I incur an income tax liability on my annual share of the profits when that money is used as the payment of the promisory note.

Look at it this way: Pretend you got a bank loan to buy a percentage of the business. You then used your share of the profits to pay the bank. Would you be taxed on the profits? In reality, the only difference between my example and yours is who provided the loan. My not so educated guess is, yes, you will owe taxes on the money.

The Cult of the Amateur
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By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: June 29, 2007
Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 — distinguished by a new generation of participatory sites like MySpace.com and YouTube.com, which emphasize user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing — ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it without filters or fees. Yet as the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Keen points out in his provocative new book, “The Cult of the Amateur,” Web 2.0 has a dark side as well.

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Catherine Betts
Andrew Keen

THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR
How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture
By Andrew Keen
228 pages. Doubleday. $22.95.

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
Mr. Keen argues that “what the Web 2.0 revolution is really delivering is superficial observations of the world around us rather than deep analysis, shrill opinion rather than considered judgment.” In his view Web 2.0 is changing the cultural landscape and not for the better. By undermining mainstream media and intellectual property rights, he says, it is creating a world in which we will “live to see the bulk of our music coming from amateur garage bands, our movies and television from glorified YouTubes, and our news made up of hyperactive celebrity gossip, served up as mere dressing for advertising.” This is what happens, he suggests, “when ignorance meets egoism meets bad taste meets mob rule.”

This book, which grew out of a controversial essay published last year by The Weekly Standard, is a shrewdly argued jeremiad against the digerati effort to dethrone cultural and political gatekeepers and replace experts with the “wisdom of the crowd.” Although Mr. Keen wanders off his subject in the later chapters of the book — to deliver some generic, moralistic rants against Internet evils like online gambling and online pornography — he writes with acuity and passion about the consequences of a world in which the lines between fact and opinion, informed expertise and amateurish speculation are willfully blurred.

For one thing, Mr. Keen says, “history has proven that the crowd is not often very wise,” embracing unwise ideas like “slavery, infanticide, George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, Britney Spears.” The crowd created the tech bubble of the 1990s, just as it created the disastrous Tulipmania that swept the Netherlands in the 17th century.

Mr. Keen also points out that Google search results — which answer “search queries not with what is most true or most reliable, but merely what is most popular” — can be manipulated by “Google bombing” (which “involves simply linking a large number of sites to a certain page” to “raise the ranking of any given site in Google’s search results”). And he cites a recent Wall Street Journal article reporting that hot lists on social networking Web sites are often shaped by a small number of users: that at Digg.com, which has 900,000 registered users, 30 people were responsible at one point for submitting one-third of the postings on the home page; and at Netscape.com, a single user was behind 217 stories over a two-week period, or 13 percent of all stories that reached the most popular list in that period.

Because Web 2.0 celebrates the “noble amateur” over the expert, and because many search engines and Web sites tout popularity rather than reliability, Mr. Keen notes, it’s easy for misinformation and rumors to proliferate in cyberspace. For instance, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (which relies upon volunteer editors and contributors) gets way more traffic than the Web site run by Encyclopedia Britannica (which relies upon experts and scholars), even though the interactive format employed by Wikipedia opens it to postings that are inaccurate, unverified, even downright fraudulent. This year it was revealed that a contributor using the name Essjay, who had edited thousands of Wikipedia articles and was once one of the few people given the authority to arbitrate disputes between writers, was a 24-year-old named Ryan Jordan, not the tenured professor he claimed to be.

Since contributors to Wikipedia and YouTube are frequently anonymous, it’s hard for users to be certain of their identity — or their agendas. Postings about political candidates, for instance, can be made by opponents disguising their motives; and propaganda can be passed off as news or information. For that matter, as Mr. Keen points out, the idea of objectivity is becoming increasingly passé in the relativistic realm of the Web, where bloggers cherry-pick information and promote speculation and spin as fact. Whereas historians and journalists traditionally strived to deliver the best available truth possible, many bloggers revel in their own subjectivity, and many Web 2.0 users simply use the Net, in Mr. Keen’s words, to confirm their “own partisan views and link to others with the same ideologies.” What’s more, as mutually agreed upon facts become more elusive, informed debate about important social and political issues of the day becomes more difficult as well.

Although Mr. Keen’s objections to the publishing and distribution tools the Web provides to aspiring artists and writers sound churlish and elitist — he calls publish-on-demand services “just cheaper, more accessible versions of vanity presses where the untalented go to purchase the veneer of publication” — he is eloquent on the fallout that free, user-generated materials is having on traditional media.

Mr. Keen argues that the democratized Web’s penchant for mash-ups, remixes and cut-and-paste jobs threaten not just copyright laws but also the very ideas of authorship and intellectual property. He observes that as advertising dollars migrate from newspapers, magazines and television news to the Web, organizations with the expertise and resources to finance investigative and foreign reporting face more and more business challenges. And he suggests that as CD sales fall (in the face of digital piracy and single-song downloads) and the music business becomes increasingly embattled, new artists will discover that Internet fame does not translate into the sort of sales or worldwide recognition enjoyed by earlier generations of musicians.

“What you may not realize is that what is free is actually costing us a fortune,” Mr. Keen writes. “The new winners — Google, YouTube, MySpace, Craigslist, and the hundreds of start-ups hungry for a piece of the Web 2.0 pie — are unlikely to fill the shoes of the industries they are helping to undermine, in terms of products produced, jobs created, revenue generated or benefits conferred. By stealing away our eyeballs, the blogs and wikis are decimating the publishing, music and news-gathering industries that created the original content those Web sites ‘aggregate.’ Our culture is essentially cannibalizing its young, destroying the very sources of the content they crave.”

Sorry, but I am unable to provide you with rebuttals. This piece is very engaging and worthy of dissimination. I will pass it along to help shine light on the problem of the new web generations.

I made money in the note business, You Can too! Go to my website www.Cash4PromissoryNotes.com

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Learn the process that is involved from turning your note into a fortune.

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A synopsis of the business management book ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’.

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Build eForms with workflow on Lotus Notes Domino without the need for programming or development. Simply download the template and use this tutorial to build your first workflow application in minutes. You will find many other business processes that can be supported electronically with this easy-to-use and extremely flexible software solution. Competitive pricing – ask us for a deal!

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It was originally pulled from youtube when wb and google had fallout, but now that that is resolved, here it is again! YAY! It was gaining 1K hits per day when it was pulled:( oh well.

This is chapter 13 from:

“Suscitatio” (PAL) FINALE

All A/V mixed by: fr3qnast3, except for Tiësto & Sneaky Sound System’s “I will be here”

Disc compilation and mastering by: NYP

Working title “r3sync 5.5 – What ever happened to MTV?”

r3sync is djing and vjing while remixing. It has become my technique, my passion.

The audio mixing style is MAXIMAL. That’s many trax mixed many ways…

This piece tells many stories from my life. The movements will take you through different forms of electronic music: House, Techno, Trance, Progressive, Electro-House, and even an a cappella. Some of the tracks are layered on top of each other (mashup or mixing?), and others stand solo.

Well I have used this video backdrop while I perform for over a year now. This mix is now formally retired, and I hope you enjoy it.- fr3qnast3

The original torrent is still circulating on Mininova and The Pirate bay. It has been over a year and it is still alive. Mininova counts over 12,000 downloads, and I wonder how many were completed on TPB? There were a few bugs in there I wanted to fix, so here we go…

The original version was created using DV for an (intermediate) editing codec. This resulted in color shifts, and a lot of jagged edges, especially with HOT colors. The resolution was 720×480i with a 29.97 frame rate. When I converted the video to pal, it was looking pretty bad.

For this remastered version, I used uncompressed 8bit video at 1280 x 720P, with 29.97 frames per second. Working in a larger intermediate format helps retain as much of the original format as possible, and allows for the creation of a higher quality master.

Most footage was SD, some was HD, and a small fraction was web resolution. It’s hard to find good HD footage….

This version of the audio mix was from a gig last year. Most of the trax were from .wav files, except for a few which were not released in wav format, as those were .m4a. The output was 24bit 96khz (I use 24/96 audio when I play out:), but the final output was compressed to 16bit ac3.

This is the *PAL* edition. I preserved the video at a high rate and compressed the sound so that this will look crisp on projectors. There are no menus besides the opening screen. I think VJ’s will like this one better because the video is progressive, and there are no menus other than the opening.

Instead of running a quick recode to PAL which involves lopping off frames, I chose a HI-Q render method that blends frames together. It took over 2 days on HI-Q render mode to get rid of the judder.

Finale output for main movie:
4.5mbps VBR (7.7 MAX)
720×576 25 FPS Progressive Video
126 BPM 448 kbps Dolby Digital Professional
French, English, and Mandarin Subtitles are BURNED IN.
An additional subtitle track has been added to the top of the screen to note the chapter names.

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A tagline is a sentence that artistically sums up the solution that your company can provide.

A tagline is the key message for your business and it may be the most important part of your promotional writing.

Getting it right, however, can be difficult. The shorter a description is, the more challenging it is to write.

If your tagline is clever enough, people will remember it and forever associate it with your business. You can craft an effective tagline by following theses steps:

1) Make a note of what captures YOUR attention. When you see an advertisement on a billboard, TV commercial, or in a magazine or newspaper that catches your attention, write down what it is that makes it memorable. You already know it works because it affected you, so you know that you’re taking notes from the best of the business.

2) Write down everything you can think of that relates to your business. Start big and end small. List everything important and worth mentioning pertaining to your business, then narrow it down by eliminating anything too general or that is not a central point. Keep phrases like ‘helping people’ and ‘total business solutions’ out, since they are so generic. Read everything over and strategically decide what should be eliminated until you are left with 3-4 main points and take it from there.

3) Keep it short. Taglines should be no more than 8-10 impactful words. Use words that are positive in nature and spark interest. For example, if you were writing a tagline for the word ‘tagline,’ you might come up with “Tagline… simple and memorable.”

4) Develop several taglines before deciding on one. With those 3-4 points, develop several taglines. Read them out loud to make sure that they are easily repeated. Gather opinions by asking friends and even strangers what the tagline is telling them about your business and make sure that it’s the message you want to send. The key here is NOT to tell people what your business does, but let them try to figure it out by the tagline.

5) Use your tagline everywhere. After selecting a tagline, put it everywhere! Make sure it’s on your business card, your website, located on your logo, etc. You need to publicize it so that people will know it and remember it.

6) Let it change. Although many taglines are timeless (”A diamond is forever,” “Unleash a jaguar,” “It’s the best part of waking up.”), don’t be afraid to let your tagline change and evolve as your business evolves and you change focus.

Shannon Cherry
http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising-articles/are-you-tagging-create-a-successful-tagline-for-your-business-50356.html