Efficient Blogging
by: Jim Estill
One of the challenges of blogging is to come up with good posts that interest readers and keep them coming back. Sometimes I do not feel like I have good original wisdom. It is presumptuous to think I can have top quality original material all the time.
A second challenge is the time to blog. I run a $1 Billion dollar company so when I decided to blog I knew I needed to figure out how to do it efficiently. My blog is mostly about efficiency and time management; these are topics I study.
These two challenges can be solved with a simple concept. Copy.
Ideas to use when copying are:
1 ? attribution. Give the credit together with the link to the original author.
2 ? look for something you can add to. Blogs can be synergistic. Take a concept or part of a blog post and expend on it and give your opinions, insights or views. In many cases, this can start a flow of ideas that are enriched from the original post.
3 ? You can use either the whole post or most usually just part of it and point people to the original.
4 ? I usually ask for permission which has never been denied. After all copying helps the original author and garners them some readership. And of course never copy copy written material without permission (and most blogs are not copy written).
5 ? The simplest place to find material to use to copy is by blog surfing although this can mean a lot of irrelevant material to filter. One source of free articles sorted by topic is www.isnare.com.
6 ? In many cases the person you copy from will point a link back to you since it is flattering to them. Charles Caleb Colton said ?Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? (one trick on quotes is to look them up on www.brainyquote.com). These links to you can increase your traffic.
In summary, copying saves time and increases the quality of material on your site. It can even lead to traffic since in many cases you will get link backs from the original site.
About The Author
Jim Estill is CEO of SYNNEX Canada a $1 Billion distributor of computer products. He is also a regular blogger at http://jimestill.blogspot.com/.
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LCD TV Checklist: Are you Prepared?
LCD TV Checklist: Are you Prepared?
by: Tim Jeffries
LCD flat screen TVs provide a superior picture as compared to a traditional television - and they can come in more attractive styles to boot.
A flat screen LCD TV can be mounted on a wall, under a cabinet, on the ceiling? or can sit on a stand or on top of furniture.
LCD TVs are versatile, flexible, and provide a better entertainment experience? but how do they work?
LCD flat screen TVs, and LCD technology itself, is based on the properties of polarized light.
LCD TVs consist of two, perpendicularly arranged panes of polarized glass "stuck together" by a liquid-crystal-filled polymer solution. When they are exposed to electrical currents, the crystals untwist to varying degrees, permitting specific amounts and colors of light to pass though them.
Flat screen LCD TVs are, in effect, projection TVs that depend on an extremely bright lamp as their light source,...
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Plasma TVs And Your Home Entertainment Center
Plasma TVs And Your Home Entertainment Center
by: John Rivers
It seems as if everyone these days is showing off their expensive flashy new home entertainment centers. They?re linked wirelessly to computers, have more speakers than a Rolling Stone?s concert, and cost more than a midsize luxury sedan. They feature DVD players, DVR or Tivo, CD players, MP3 players, and anything else you can imagine. The centerpiece, though, still remains the same: the television.
Plasma TVs have recently been introduced to the market. They are extremely flat television panels which make them very easy to mount on either a wall, in a cabinet or on other specially designed furniture. Plasma TVs are known for their wonderful quality and almost all plasma TVs come already equipped with an HDTV (high definition television) tuner which will allow you to watch all the HDTV channels that have been so widely discussed lately. The quality is amazingly realistic.
As...
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Your Web Page Check List
Your Web Page Check List
by: Dan Brown
1. Easy To Read- You want to make it easy for your visitors to read your text. You don't want to use a light colored text like yellow on a white background and you don't want to use dark blue text on a black back- ground.
2. Create A Mood- You want to use the color of your text to create a mood for the reader. If you want to create excitement, use some red text. If you want to create greed, use a some green text. Use colors that would put you in a mood to buy your product.
3. Grab Their Attention- You can grab your readers attention by using headlines. Make the headline more noticeable by using a different colored headline than your ad copy. This offsets the headline and pulls the reader into the rest of your ad copy.
4. Highlight Keywords- You can emphasize phrases and keywords that are important to your readers. For instance, use super, deluxe, fast, low price, free, new, etc. You could...
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Where Can I Get VoIP Training?
Where Can I Get VoIP Training?
by: Laura Rupert
VoIP (www.tech-faq.com/voip.shtml) is definitely the wave of the future and there is much to learn about it so that when advances are made you aren?t left in the dark.
Whether you want to receive training or professional reasons, you can get great VoIP training to help you understand all of the variables that make up voice over internet protocol.
Luckily, there is VoIP training that can be done in the comfort of your own home on your own time.
If you are interested in learning more about VoIP for any reason all you need to do is find a place online to order some training DVD?s.
A lot of these DVD?s offer the best advice and training you can get aside from the manufacturers of VoIP devices.
These training videos will walk you step by step through the fundamentals of VoIP, the buzzwords associated with it,...
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Five Ways to Improve Your Marketing Material with Fewer Words
Five Ways to Improve Your Marketing Material with Fewer Words
by: Jeremy Cohen
You can sell more by writing less.
If you are like many small business owners you may
unwittingly suffer from ?too many words? syndrome.
It
occurs when your marketing material features extra words
that don?t contribute to creating new business.
When your marketing material is too wordy you blur the
clarity of your marketing message.
The less clearly your
prospects understand how you can help them the less likely
they are to buy from you.
You want your marketing message
to come through without interference.
Too many words syndrome can rear its ugly head in just about
any copy.
It?s been known to lurk in web sites, brochures,
direct mail and newspaper ads, to name just a few places
it?s been found.
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How To Choose The Right Home Theater Seating
How To Choose The Right Home Theater Seating
by: Flor Buenaventura
Have you just bought a wonderful surround-sound home entertainment system but no decent home theater seating to sit on to watch the latest rented DVD?
Do you always have to squeeze next to the cat and your daughter who likes to hog the old sofa like it was her bed whenever she watches anything on the screen?
Do you have to constantly pause the DVD to get your tomato juice from the kitchen benchtop because there is no place to put your drink without fear of spilling it on your white carpet?
And does your back suffer terribly even only after 30 minutes of watching your favorite sitcom?
Home theater systems and home theater seating - the suburban preoccupation of the decade
If you've answered yes to any of the questions above, then despair no more.
In the past five years or so, home theater seats have surpassed the comfort and support...
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Are You Content With Your Content?
Are You Content With Your Content?
by: Dina Giolitto
Following are Five Immediate Changes You Can Make to Drive Traffic and Sales Through the Roof
1. Put More Oomph in Your Articles.
Don't tell the reader what he "could" do; tell him what he MUST do! Which of these sounds more dynamic to you: great copy, or brilliant copy? Speak in an authoritative tone, and you will be regarded as an authority. Go bookmark http://thesaurus.com in your favorites folder right now. You NEED power words to make your copy pop!
2. Tell the Reader Exactly What to Do.
Ever read someone else's web page and find yourself going into "the zone?" That happens to your reader, too. Snap him into action while he's caught in the trance. Click Here. Buy Now. Pop Your Email Address in the Subscriber Box Below. Seems almost silly, right? But call to actions are everywhere because they really WORK.
3. For the...
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Four Simple Steps to Improve Your Sales Copy
Four Simple Steps to Improve Your Sales Copy
by: David Bell
You know what its like, you're reading the sales material about a product you're considering buying, but, as you read, all these questions seem to pop into your mind, but there's no-one there to answer them, so you shelve your plans to purchase.
If it happens to you, you can guarantee it also happens to your customers when they read your sales copy. So, what's the answer?
You don't have to practise mind-reading, just good-old fashioned common sense - here's a four-step format to help you reassure your customers by answering those unasked questions:
1. "What's in it for me?"
Paint a picture You already know it's important to promote the major benefits of using your product in your opening copy, but don't just list the benefits. Paint a picture so your readers can visualise themselves enjoying these benefits.
Not: "Save time and money with Acme widgets," but,...
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Strategic Planning ? Software design scenario
Strategic Planning ? Software design scenario
by: Santanu Ghosh
The most basic and pervasive management function is planning. All managers at all levels plan, and the success of the performance of the other management functions depends upon this activity. Planning is deciding in advance what has to be done, who has to do it, when it has to be done, and how it is to be done. It bridges the gap from where we are to go to where we want to go. Managers plan for the...
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