Is That Your Check Book Driving Away
August 31, 2008
Is That Your Check Book Driving Away
by: Darren Miller
Is Your Check Book On The Curb
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This is an article about people throwing away their home computers with all their financial and banking information on them and easily accessible. A very simple first step to financial and identity theft and it happens all the time. Computer Disposal and Identity Theft go hand in hand.
Since Hurricane Wilma, our city has stepped up bulk trash pickup to every month. Bulk pickup is when you can put out pretty much anything; dressers, vacuum cleaners, and of course computers. Early in the morning on each bulk pickup day people come around with pickup trucks to see what they can grab prior to the city trucks showing up. Some are looking for throwaways that can be refurbished and re-soled, while others work for charities that are looking to provide less fortunate people with items that are useful.
Identity Theft & Home Computer Disposal
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Five Reasons You Have to Stop Your Web Site
August 30, 2008
That’s right. Your method, behavior and strategy you are now using to manage your website may be justifiable reasons to stop it as soon as possible.
Right now, there are millions of websites on the Internet, many of them are dead static pages with not or very few visitors. The owner of websites are paying lots of money and effort to make the website up and running and are giving service to visitors. From within these much of website owners, a little of them are earning money from their website or their website is beneficial for their business, most of the others are wasting their time and money.
However if you do not have a web site on the Internet, your business is under a very serious risk to be bypassed by your competitors, but if you are not running your website in a right way, then it would not only be a useless but also a threat to your whole business. If you ask why, just read just five more important reasons that you have to stop your website.
1-Your website is not well designed.
The Facts You Should Know About Internet Marketing
August 29, 2008
I wakeup this morning and see my lovely wife. She was sleeping and looking like angel. I thought probably I am the luckiest guy in the world. I have a gorgeous wife, a cute doll (my daughter). I have money and time to enjoy life, and I dont need to worry about my future. Suddenly I remember those days when I started Internet marketing.
I can’t forget those worst days when I used to work 16 hours a day. I come from my JOB (Just Over Broke) and started working on my computer till 4.00 o’clock in morning. I had dark circle under my eyes. I had no time for friends, family and even for my love. I did every thing I read and almost exhausted my Credit Card but I couldn’t make money.
It happens with almost every newbie’s. So the question here "what is the secret of Success in Internet marketing"? The answer is your own OPT-IN LIST and Targeted visitors on your website.
OPT-IN LIST:
Youve probably heard about "The List" many times. This is the only fact that there is nothing more valuable in your online business than your email list. EVERYTHING you do online should grow your list, even if it’s one person at a time.
XCACLS, SUNINACL, And Other Permissions Security Recovery Tools
August 28, 2008
XCACLS, SUNINACL, And Other Permissions Security Recovery Tools
by: Darren Miller
You Have 50GB Of Data To Move Along With Permissions Security
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This article is about several tools that can save a Windows administrators you know what in the event of a large scale permissions security problem.
Here is a fictional scenario we can use to illustrate the use of the XCACLS tool. We need to move or copy 50GB worth of data that is comprised of several thousand directories containing hundreds of thousands of small files from one storage system to another. These systems happen to part of a Windows 2000 Domain and permissions are quite granular in definition. We start the replication of that data using a favorite replication or synchronization tool and walk away for the evening. When we return the next day, everything has copied and all looks well. That is until you try to access the data.
The Data Is Copied, But I Cannot Access It: Permissions Security Problem
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Do Not Drop Your Web Site Off the Search Engine Cliff
August 27, 2008
If you’ve been feeling like Tom Cruise climbing up the side of some remote jagged mountain in the blazing hot sun and concerned you’re facing “mission impossible”, chances are you own a web site.
Adding to the intense thrill of web site ownership are keyword comparisons and bidding for good keyword positions in search engines. You might hire a search engine optimization specialist who can track elusive algorithm clues and is unfazed by page rank drama. Your programmers and designers insist they get along. The marketing department actually believes deadlines are met. The new bank account is waiting for fresh revenue. And oh yes, it’s assumed someone will come looking for your web site and wants to use it.
You did build it for them, right?
For every search result, there is the possibility that:
a. The engine will display a description that makes sense. Or not.
b. The page the search engine refers to does what the description said it would do and is about what the search engine said it would cover. Or not.
Your SEO/SEM, if you hired a good one, helped you write your title tag statement and Meta page description and structured it so it makes sense in SERPs (search engine results pages).
Profitable Target Marketing: 6 Lessons from Major League Baseball
August 27, 2008
Does your business struggle with profitable online marketing? If so, you are not alone. Attracting the right customers to a site and keeping them coming back — while also turning a profit — can be a challenge. Consequently, I’m always on the lookout for ways to demonstrate profitable online strategies.
Last night, as I watched the 2003 Baseball All Star Home Run Derby and visited Major League Baseball’s Web site, it struck me. The league is doing many things to effectively find and attract targeted Web customers, while simultaneously generating revenue.
In fact, I noticed several lessons from Major League Baseball you can use to profitably target your own customers. Here are six of them:
Think Through Your Business Models
Free information and activities are present, but well thought out, revenue generating business models are also evident.
Lesson 1: Make your profit generators stand out.
MLB.com has a separate, prominent navigation menu for profit producing activities — MLB Shop, Tickets, Auctions, Subscriptions — which appears in the upper right on all pages, where potential paying customers cannot miss it.
Orient Your First-time Web Site Visitor
August 26, 2008
Imagine spinning someone around so profoundly and for so long that when you finally tell them to open their eyes, they ask “Where am I?” not knowing if they are even on the same continent they started from. When someone comes to your web site from a search engine or through a link from another site, it’s like that for them. They may have little or no context within which to understand your home page - or another page deep within your site that they’ve landed on.
By imagining and engineering your site for that profoundly disoriented visitor, you can add subtle clues and explicit messages to your site that orient the person arriving at your site from who knows where. You can do this without “dumbing down” your presentation in any way, turning confused visitors into converted ones.
For instance, while judging sites for the Webby Awards, I’ve sometimes found myself at a home page about a city that appears justifiably proud of itself for all that it’s achieved, yet I haven’t a clue what state or province or even what country that city is located in. It’s easier to appreciate what you’re reading if you know that Kamloops is in British Columbia, Canada and not in Scotland or New Zealand.
Ten Major Tips to Develop a Multilingual Web Site to Work
August 25, 2008
If you are living in a country that its native language is something rather than English language, then you may like to develop your website to offer content in the language of your own country.
There are millions of websites on the Internet that are all in English language but there are billions of people on the earth that speak in a different language and are not familiar with English language.
However, most of the Internet users are basically familiar with English language and could use the Internet but there are many subjects that are hard to understand for those people whom their language is not English.
One example is websites related to pharmaceutics. There are tons of very difficult to understand phrases in the content. The other example is educational websites that basically should provide content in the local language not English language.
You may have many clients and business partners that wish to read your sales copy and product information in their own language.
The 9 WORST Internet Marketing Mistakes
August 24, 2008
Have you ever wondered how can you possibly figure out how to market your Internet business when you’re bombarded with so much conflicting information? Lots of "how to" advice applies to many online businesses.
But avoiding common marketing mistakes will work for EVERY business. If you make even ONE of these mistakes, you’re leaving money on the table:
Mistake #1: Believing, "You can make a fortune online while you sleep."
This mistake has a sidekick or two: "Make millions in just 2 hours a day!" or "Give us a month; never work another full day again!" and "Make a living working less than 2 hours a day!" These are tempting; they’re all dangerous.
But these promises aren’t the most amazing part - what’s outrageous is the number of people who buy into them ? with their time, their money and their hearts.
Avoid Mistake #1: Ignore pie-in-the-sky promises ? you’ll have to spend serious time on a serious Internet business.
Mistake #2: Believing, "You can support yourself online with just a small investment."
This headline captures attention, but that’s all it does.
Why Easy To Use Software Is Putting You At Risk
August 23, 2008
Why Easy To Use Software Is Putting You At Risk
by: Darren Miller
Can Easy To Use Software Also Be Secure
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Anyone who has been working with computers for a long time will have noticed that mainstream operating systems and applications have become easier to use over the years (supposedly). Tasks that use to be complex procedures and required experienced professional to do can now be done at the push of a button. For instance, setting up an Active Directory domain in Windows 2000 or higher can now be done by a wizard leading even the most novice technical person to believe they can “securely” setup the operating environment. This is actually quite far from the truth. Half the time this procedure fails because DNS does not configure properly or security permissions are relaxed because the end user cannot perform a specific function.
If It’s Easy To Develop, Is It Also Secure
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