March 2009
Monthly Archive
The Webbing Way10 Mar 2009 11:15 pm
Resize Images Online - it Is so Easy!
For some time now I was searching for a way to resize images in an easy way. My mother is 77 years old and has no clue of computers. Software is too complicated for her.On the internet you can find quite some different services for that, just one site was wholly satisfyingIf you are in need for a smooth solution to resize images online, ResizeImagesOnline.com is for you. There you simply can resize your images and save them for further use. Optionally you can even rotate your pictures and picturesAs it is an web app you can use it anyplace you like, even at vacation in a foreign country. With ResizeImagesOnline.com you do not need software any more.
A) Pick Out image.
B) Choose new size :
Longest Side:
Extremely small ( 80 Pixel )
Small ( 200 Pixel )
Medium ( 400 Pixel )
Big ( 600 Pixel )
Longest Side:
Free Scale:
Height and breadth are selected freely.
The picture / image can possibly get an aspect ratio which is distorted horizontally or vertically.
C) Optional : Rotate.
D) Select “Resize!”. The picture is uploaded and resized.
Electronic Mail can be used to send the picture to your buddies.You have to input a valid e-mail address.
For resizing a good resampling algorithm is used.So you will get a high quality compared to industry strength programmes like photoshop.All image sizes are allowed, though the output is limited to 5000 times 5000 pixels.At the moment .jpg, .png and .gif images can be resized.
Universe Of Security09 Mar 2009 08:38 am
Building Security vs Information Security
Most companies hire highly paid computer security professionals who spend hours and hours a day configuring access policies and patching computers. Then they turn around and hire a minimum wage security guards to protect their millions of dollars worth of computer equipment. This isn’t even counting intellectual property and their database of customers and names. If a hacker has been hired to hack you which path do you think he will take to steal company secrets? Will he spend months trying to hack the companies’ network which has been locked down by the highly paid computer security consultant? Or will he spend a day trying to hack the poorly motivated security guard that is paid minimum wage? Hacking a human (Social Engineering) is the greatest threat to your company. If you don’t have someone who can combine computer security with physical security you have no informational security.
Informational security combines every aspect of access control and building management. Informational security ranges from how people access the building , how the janitors dispose of garbage, computer security, staff background checks, staff hiring, video surveillance ect.. A common lapse in physical security is that smokers usually leave one door unlocked during the day so they can take a smoke break. That completely cancels out your hundred thousand dollar key card system. All a information thief would have to do is watch your building for the day and find the smoker hang out.
Every major type of informational theft crime has used some type of social engineering attack. Untrained and poorly paid employees are the easiest targets because they are usually are unmotivated and easily influenced. The key is not paying people more; the key is to train them to know what to look for. A well trained staff member will enjoy their job and take ownership of their responsibilities. They will not want to let the company down if they are trained and feel needed.
Your employee hiring process should include a background check and credit check. If the candidates have ever declared bankruptcy do not hire them. If they are really strapped for cash they can be easily bribed or seduced into selling your companies secrets. The federal government does not give Secret security clearances to people who have declared bankruptcy. Why would you let someone like that near your company’s vital data?
Your company’s weakest link is your employee’s cars and homes. It’s easier for a hacker to follow someone home from work and then steal their laptop out of the car. Also, employees usually leave their access cards in their automobiles. Create company policies for storing company laptops, PDA’s and access cards in secure locations…not in cars.
Check your company websites!! Don’t have every employees name, position, phone number, email address and bios listed on the website. All this information just gives a information thief more tools to work with.
Train your in house security about your computer network. If you train them the very basics about technology and servers they will be more aware about what people should be doing. Train them to look for portal hard drives, key chain drives and writeable media like DVDs and cdroms. All of these items can be used to take vital company secretes off company grounds.
Finally here is the easiest way to protect your company’s network……log off your computer when you’re done using it. This sounds like a common sense but nobody logs of their computer when there done. The worst culprits are executives, who always want access to everything. If a hacker gets inside your company, it takes less than a minute to install a root kit. Once his root kit is installed your doomed.
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Forums - Discover How You Get Them To Create Wealth
Warning: your wealth creation program should start with you knowing forum use can be a great wealth waster. You’re about to discover how others have heeded this warning and used them to create wealth with two simple suggstions.
You can avoid wasting any more of your wealth by delay the purchase of any information products, on how to get started on the Internet, until you’ve put the following suggestions to work.
Cash In On The Triple Agreement Test
What is your biggest challenge on the Internet when it comes to getting started on your own online business? Reliable quality information is the answer. You use forums and see a product promising you a million dollars. You grab it. You soon realize it’s poor quality and you wonder if you should continue your forum use.
In no time at all you’ve got a hard drive full of products which have not earned a cent.
The solution? Look for posts from three people sharing their expriences with any product you want to purchase. In your forum use note the names of these posters. Only when three of them agree that it’s a good product should you consider its purchase.
With these reliable products, found through good forum use, to get you started, your wealth creation can now be successful.
Amazing P.U.P. Technology
Here’s another suggestion to save you thousands. Your savings begin when you decide not to purchase (it will be so nice to be able to tell your loved one of the money you both saved with the product you didn’t buy).
Instead you look for other options. A great one is to P.U.P -Pick Up Processes.
You select an expert with interesting products. Next, you get on forums and look for their posts. On forum posts and in their blog posts you’ll find gems as they share the processes they’ve used for wealth creation.
Always remember cash in the bank depends on an ability to apply the processes of the experts.
You get to use them and all it costs is your time. And lots of focused reading.
Of course when you come into financial blessings you will purchase the products. P.U.P Technology is not a subtitute for product purchasing. It’s a temporary measure to help you get your business launched when you’re starting out.
Keep in mind your two steps to get the forums to be wealth creation machines. Each will come produce as you Cash in on The Triple Agreement Test and, use the Amazing P.U.P. Technology.
Copyright 2005 Kenneth Little
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Uncategorized06 Mar 2009 11:26 am
The Email Marketer’s Three Best Friends
Whether you are an experienced ezine/newsletter editor or
a newbie trying to build a mailing list, there is one
thing you all must strive for. That one thing is a
professional looking end product.
How many emails have you received that have so many
spelling errors in them that you simply can’t take them
seriously and delete the
email.
How about the email that starts off Ok but you get to the
third line and it runs on to the right, seemingly to
infinity. BOOM…
Delete It
Even if you are care full about both of the above, you
still have to watch out for the dreaded SPAM filters.
Almost every email client has them and if you send an
email with one of thier filtered words, BAM…
there goes your email, right into the Bulk or Junk
folder, never to be read by anyone. Even if they have
subscribed to your list, unless they have whitelisted
your “from” address you can still wind up in the junkpile.
OK, you started out wanting to send a simple email to
your list about a new offer and now it would seem that it
will take over an hour just to be sure you don’t look
like an illiterate or have your email wind up in the junk
folder.
This is where your three best friends come to the rescue.
They are Spellcheck, SpamCheck and Formatit
I publish several newsletter and ezines, plus a few
thousand mailing lists, (yes, I said a few thousand) and
about 98% of my mailings get through to the recipients,
have correct spelling and they are formatted to the readers
email box.
After I write anything I plan to send by email I use three
simple, free online tools to insure this and it takes me
no more than than five minutes.
Here is how I accomplish this.
I write my email or article, such as this one, in notepad
and the first place I go is http://www.spellcheck.net/
Once there, I copy and paste my entire email into their
online spellchecker and I immediately get back a report
not only showing me the misspelled words but offering
suggestions for changes. Keep in mind that this program
doesn’t recognize certain words such as email, ezines,
spam, etc. But as long as you know this and ignore these
suggestions you will be OK.
I make the required changes using their online tool and,
voila!, my email has correct spelling and it only took a
couple of minutes, faster once you get used to it.
I can now copy this text back into my notepad and save
the changes.
My next step is to SpamCheck it so that it will get past
the filters. I go to http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/ and
use their online SpamChecker. I use the same procedure as
before. I copy my entire text and paste it into the
online tool and click submit.
This will return a TOTAL SPAM SCORE and explain how it
arrived at that score and what the scores mean. I can
then make any simple changes required and I’m done.
Time, about a minute and a half.
OK, I now have an email with correct spelling that should
get through all but the most stringent filters. The next
task is to format it to fit my readers email account.
While every email client is different, almost any one of
them should be able to read an email that is formatted to
58 characters per line, including spaces.
That is where my Mailing List Manager seems to work best.
So now I go to http://www.formatit.com/
Basically the same procedure. I copy and paste my entire
email copy into it and enter my desired column width.
Click submit and there you have it. A professional
quality email that is ready to promote my products.
At the last minute, after proofreading this article, I
decided to add one more item. That item is Proofreading.
While I am a big fan of using swipe files for blurbs and
bits of info and copying those into my work, I always
carefully proofread the finished product.
I have been seeing a lot of several common mistakes that I
would like to warn you about.
The most common is people using the word “loose” when
they mean “lose”
Example: “You won’t loose money on this deal”. While I
try not to lose any money the only money I have that is
loose is my loose change
The next would be the use of “aloud” when they mean
“allowed”.
Example: “You aren’t aloud to import any email addresses
into this mailer”.
Hmmm.. Is it allowed if I do it quietly?
Last, but not least, is the use of “coarse” instead of
“course”
Example: “Click here to get a Free Marketing Coarse”.
Sounds pretty rough and hairy to me.
While there is much more to writing professional email
copy, if you use these simple, free tools you will be
well on your way to becoming a successful email
marketer. I hope this information has been helpful to you.
And I didn’t even ask you to subscribe to my “Free Coarse”
© 2006 Barry G. Swenson
Barry G. Swenson has been making a living online since
1997. He is currently the editor of Email Solutionz
eZine http://www.email-solutionz.net/ He can be reached for comment or questions at editor@email-solutionz.net.
Uncategorized06 Mar 2009 10:15 am
Email’s Selling Power Is Limited
I courted a company for a considerable time in an effort to add it to my list of consulting clients.
After doing a short consultation at their Illinois headquarters, I was asked to send in a proposal.
On the return plane ride, I banged out the major part of the proposal, and with a little editing, I sent it off a day or two later, by email.
That was one heck of a mistake.
Email is great for lots of things, but it isn’t the best format for pitching a six or seven figure deal, for at least a few reasons:
(1) The prospect has to print it out, and it may look lousy. Few people in major companies make decisions by themselves. Approvals are required, so someone unfamiliar with you and your charisma is going to pass judgment on what he sees. If it looks pathetic, physically, or aesthetically, you’re toast.
(2) More ceremony is required for people to feel they’re getting their money’s worth. If you put together a handsome package, containing books, videos, brochures, testimonials, and the like, it’s simply going to make a better impression.
(3) Speed of transmission is less critical in selling big deals, and too much speed can connote haste. The big advantage of email is its speed; without that need, re-consider using it. Overnight delivery services are a bargain, and they’re everywhere.
(4) There was a joke told in graduate schools about how professors evaluate dissertations and publications. “They don’t read,” a fellow student confided. “They count and they weigh.” In other words, if something looks physically substantial, there is merit; if it seems too succinct, too thin, then it is thought to be lightweight, from a desirability standpoint.
(5) Attachments are always suspected to contain viruses. Unless your client is McAfee or Microsoft, which are in the virus scanning business, you breed paranoia with each attachment you transmit, and that isn’t a positive buying mood.
There is no reason NOT to impress prospects with your supporting documentation and stunning stationery, if you have them.
Trying to substitute email, unless it is specifically requested, can be the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.
Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone® and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: gary@customersatisfaction.com.
Uncategorized05 Mar 2009 02:17 am
Email Marketing: Still an Effective Internet Marketing Technique?
Email marketing is still one of the most effective forms of low-cost Internet marketing. It is one of the most widely-used internet marketing techniques and has an excellent reputation for capturing targeted prospects to your web site.
Using email as an internet marketing technique is virtually free! The only cost that can arise is the cost of an auto responder, some of them are free but I would not recommend them. Other than purchasing an auto responder your email marketing expenses are nil. That is why this internet marketing technique is one of the most viable on the internet.
The key is building a permission based list of email addresses that you can market to. When I refer to market I don’t mean sending them emails everyday asking them to send money. What I do mean is having an email marketing plan that builds a trusting relationship with your list so you can provide high quality and informative information to them.
With the increasing success of niche marketing on the internet email marketing still is an effective internet marketing technique. Niche marketing allows small, home based, entrepreneurs the opportunity to compete against the big boys! Find your niche, build your list, and be on the way to success. I am about to show you a way to drive your email marketing campaign into overdrive and create a never ending supply of cash with one press of a button.
1. Do Not Spam!!!.
Email marketing is not about spamming. It is about providing information to people that have requested you to send it to them. The information you send to them must be valuable to their interests.
2. It Starts with a Powerful Subject Line.
If you can’t get them to open it then your success rate will be zilch. The trust factor comes back into play here. When your name or company name appears in the subject line and you are recognized as sending them quality information your emails are more likely to get opened. Other effective tips to use include: using extra white space creatively, adding text symbols, starting each word with a capital letter, and ask questions. DO NOT make any outlandish or unbelievable claims, that just tends to turn people off and they think you are a scam artist.
3. Use the Power of Information and Your Subscriber’s Own Interests to Make the Sale.
You do not want to come off sounding like you are trying to sell them something. People want information so they can make informed decisions. By giving them information on topics they are interested in they are more likely to purchase from you at some point in time. Be genuine and have their interests at heart, believe me that this type of marketing will pay greater dividends in the long run.
4. Content is the Difference!
The content of the body of your email is critical to your success. Don’t make it too long and keep the fluff out by being concise. Tell them the information, describe the benefits of the product or service and let them decide. When you set up your email marketing campaign, remember that not every email you send has to have a potential sale in it. In fact it is best if it doesn’t because people get tired of being hassled and asked to spend money. Send them emails that include interesting articles about their interests, or simply a link referring them to a web site that they may like. The best way to reach out to your subscribers is to send them useful information. By doing this you will build trust and they will view you as a partner in their success.
Compiling a list of subscribers and sending them quality information is a very effective internet marketing technique. Remember to keep the information simple, the message honest, and build their trust with great content. Follow this easy outline and your email marketing campaign will produce a bountiful harvest.
Email marketing is a proven Internet Marketing Technique and is a great way to enhance your internet marketing efforts. Mark Williams has other terrific tips and Internet Marketing Strategies to help your marketing efforts.
Internet Conference Calls Present a Big Way to Cut Fatty Business Overhead
Gas rates are soaring and as a result, business cash holdings are pressed short worse than even in the 1970s. As the economy lumbers along slowly and capital stays hard to come by, smart executives know additional costs should reduced. Business people everywhere must make a few weighty priority judgments to shrink expenses. Perhaps the better option to slash business expenditures is to make slashes in unneeded travel allocations, and the easiest way is web conference calling.
Online conferencing grant you to communicate with clients wirelessly in a meeting in another metropolis, in another time zone or even more significantly in another continent. Typical web conferencing calls utilize state of the art networking technology. Since that they usually conducted on almost any computer, they merely better utilize sunk business overhead. By going to the web, may an executive lead a distant conference from just about any office offering an Internet connection. Not only is it everywhere, it can slash travel expenses by five digits or more in a year.
Advancements in communications technology make Internet conference calling possible for businesses to exchange briefings and proposals simultaneously. Web conference attendees can hear and see others as though they were really there, despite the fact that on the other side of the world. The detail of the audio, video and presentation is without flaw due to the best in network communications.
Clearly almost any business should save money by making use of Internet conference calling rather than wasting thousands dispatching an executive on a expensive trip. Your company shouldnt throw away money on meals, hotels and even transportation costs. These savings cannot be dismissed. Any dollar saved is increased efficiency for your business. It’s not surprising that the smart companies are deciding on online conference calling to save money on low-priority business trips.
Video Info02 Mar 2009 03:09 am
Videos Can Be Outstanding for a Company’s Proceeds
You probably already know how helpful distributing your organisations Web video clip is. For a firm’s online marketing manager, video is a commendable means that can easily capture your potential audiences’ attention & considerably increase the overall amount of visits to your firm’s website. Short format professional videos are exceedingly effective in holding the target customers’ rather short attention span. What’s more, if codes are used & online video sharing is endorsed, short format video commercials can be a fantastic way to get one-way incoming links & thereby positively affect your sites position on the search engines. For online video publishing solutions that best meet the needs of your business, visit the Vidify website today.
In fact, short format video commercials have turned out to be a good medium for business or self advertising. The following are a few tips to circulating your own Web videos.
Firstly, you can post your video commercials on your own company website; although this would involve you to find your own video hosting arrangements. Instead, ask your online hosting solutions business if video downloading or video streaming services are supported.
Video downloading is where your company visitors are required to download your short format video commercial to their PC’s hard disk. They need to save the promotional video to their own workstation before they can play it using their personal computers video player or a downloadable video player software. There are numerous video downloading service companies that are reasonably inexpensive. There’s also a progressive downloading mechanism where your viewers can play the short format videos at the same time as downloading them.
While video streaming on the other hand absolutely does away with the demand to download the professional videos and allows instantaneous playback so it gives the most value to your visitors. Of course, getting a video hosting business that supports video streaming can cost you a pretty penny.
And finally, the more fashionable way to distribute online videos is by posting your sites to video distribution web sites that have their very own video hosting infrastructure. These websites cost you nothing at all to become a member & will even sometimes give you money post video material. They also have a considerably large audience base & reach; for instance, YouTube obtains about 17 million Internet visits each and every month.
Uncategorized02 Mar 2009 01:06 am
Traditional Anniversary Gifts by Year
Traditional anniversary gifts include linens, china, and household appliances to the happy couple. Traditional wedding anniversary gift is a theme of excitement. There are so many anniversary gift packages are available of different years.
A traditional wedding anniversary gift is favorite gift which is traditionally given one each year of the wedding anniversary.
The traditional gift for the first anniversary is paper. The second anniversary traditional gift is cotton. Traditional gifts for the fourth anniversary are fruit and flowers or the things having made of fruits.
The fifth year traditional gift is wood and things which are made of wood like deck furniture, an artistic wooden sculpture and so on. Iron is the sixth anniversary gift. Iron skillets, golf clubs, wrought iron furniture are the important gifts of sixth year anniversary. Wool or copper are gifts for the seventh anniversary. Gifts of blankets, hats, coats and sweater are important gifts of these categories. The eighth anniversary’s traditional gift is bronze.
Eighth year is a year to make and impression with a bronze sculpture. Pottery is the traditional gift for the ninth anniversary. Live planters, bowls and coffee mugs come in this category of gifts.
Traditional gifts for the tenth anniversary are of tin or aluminum and so on. The thirteenth anniversary traditional gift is lace like lace doilies, tablecloths and lacy curtains work.
The fourteenth anniversary calls for the traditional gift of ivory. Crystal is the gift for the fifteenth through the nineteenth anniversaries. Crystal chandelier earrings or a crystal chess set are more up to date. Traditional gift is wonderful gift for each couple.
A complete list of anniversary gifts by year is at Anniversary Rock.
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