Thinking About Changing to a New Web Hosting Company 5 Steps to Plan Ahead for the Move – Domain Name
Thinking About Changing to a New Web Hosting Company 5 Steps to Plan Ahead for the Move
Stacy Tabb
Perhaps your web hosting company has a technical support group that never answers their email, or their control panel is difficult to use. Maybe your website has been having more downtime than uptime. Whatever the reason you are thinking of switching hosts, make sure you have your ducks in a row before making the move.
Here are five things to think about as you transition your website:
1. Make sure you have all of your website
Busy Fish: Tips for Changing Your Day from Chaos to Calm – Stress Management
Busy Fish: Tips for Changing Your Day from Chaos to Calm
Dr. Robert Eubanks
Syndicated columnist Dale Dauten recently wrote, One of lifes great joys that weve lost is that of the empty day, a day given over to quiet, to reading and contemplation. Our planners and PDAs give the illusion of importance and of being in control. A beautiful statement but what Dale doesnt acknowledge is that weve become such slaves to busyness and mental stimulation that spending a day given over to quite would drive most of us mad! It would be nothing short of a drug detox.
Any book on brain research will tell you that the brain will eventually create a tolerance to an increase in stimuli. Looking at the stimuli in our lives we find work, relationships, TV/media, music, kids, the list is almost endless. These are all good things and very important to our daily lives but the high level of stimuli has become status quo and the thought of quiet contemplation has been drowned in the mire of pure busyness.
Recently, I called my wife on my cell phone while driving in rush hour traffic with the radio blaring in the background. What was I thinking I recently had high-speed DSL installed in my house because the three second wait between web pages was killing me!
Heres another fine example, last weekend I had some free time around the house and thought I was going to loose it! I had plenty of things I could do but had no interest in doing them and the necessities of the day were all taken care of. The nothingness nearly drove me to scrub the bathroom tiles!
Like an addict hitting bottom, I took the first step of recognizing and admitting that I had a problem. Then I thought back to my grad school training and began using some stress management techniques to ease my anxiety and slow down my mind.
Sitting comfortably I closed my eyes and began taking a few deep breaths. I progressively relaxed my body starting with my feet and working my way to the top of my head. This took all of five minutes and when I opened my eyes I felt a world of difference. This was the starting point of realizing the sacredness of silence, the importance of a calm spirit and they joy of a quite mind. Many great thinkers have had their most profound moments in times of silence and solitude. Ever hear of the bathroom break epiphany
Unlike many of the great minds of years past, we live in an information age that moves at a different pace but we do have a choice as to the pace that we will live our lives. By creating time to give over to quiet, to contemplation and to a calm mind we can not only begin reaping the numerous benefits touted by all the health and medical journals about reducing stress, but we will also be creating time to truly be in control of our lives so that the rest of our time we can give ourselves to our day rather than be swept away in the current of busyness.
Heres a few links for additional information on stress management techniques: http://www.wholeperson.com/wpa/tr/gig/imagery.htm, http://www.holistic-online.com/stress/stress_imagery.htm.
© 2004 by Dr. Robert A. Eubanks
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About The Author
Dr. Robert A. Eubanks is the founder of Bridge to Solutions Coaching. He coaches people around the country via telephone to improve organization, time management, goal setting and to create the best darn life possible! For a free 30 minute coaching session, e-mail bridgetosolutions@yahoo.com or visit www.bridgetosolutions.com.
Internet Marketing is Changing Right Before Your Eyes! – Affiliate Programs
Internet Marketing is Changing Right Before Your Eyes!
Ken Nadreau
Theres no doubt about it . . .
Big changes are in the air!
In the midst of all the usual scams and rip offs, theres a New Wave of Marketing techniques that are beginning to immerge that will forever alter what you do, or will take you out of the game.
The choice is yours!
You see, what most marketers have been spending their time on might be called "peer marketing", that is selling to their fellow marketers. Hundreds and hundreds of programs and ebooks have been written designed to draw in affiliates to do the bidding and "leg work" for those producing them.
So now we have tons of "how tos" and just as many affiliate programs that have, over time, gotten real old.
Then, on top of all that, you have thousands of traffic exchanges and paid to read email advertising sites to make us think that were actually marketing to someone.
But in reality, all were really doing is perpetuating this "peer marketing" phenomenon thats frankly spinning our wheels and getting us nowhere.
We all know its not working. We all know that, in spite of all the hype and hoopla, 95% of all online businesses are still failing miserably.
Lets face it, Internet Marketing is in a rut thats got us all running around in circles!
But all is not lost!
Lately, new tools and methods to infuse new life into online marketing have been hitting the scene . . .
Things like Niche Marketing are beginning to draw many away from "peer marketing", and teaching them to spend their time finding out what other people want and connecting them to those products.
Whats being discovered, actually, is that the average online marketer, whos been bogged down with trying to sell useless information to their peers, is generally well conditioned to slip right into Niche Marketing.
You see, there are tons of marketable, every day products available on the web, and there are just as many marketers whove learned, due to immense competition,to be extremely convincing.
Putting the two together is creating a remarkable edge over the product producers who, most often, have minimal skills in advertising.
Most of these products, easily accessible through reseller programs, can be marketed alone or in combination with other product via quickly set up websites.
And, because theres no production costs, in either time or money, most advertising campaigns can be generated in a very short period of time.
So you might say, Internet Marketing is finally evolving in a much more constructive direction!
Yes, online sales people from all over the world are now learning how to do what a sales person is supposed to be doing . . .
Finding people who are really looking for what they sell, and selling it to them!
Do you hear someone knocking
Oh . . . Its Opportunity!
About The Author
Ken Nadreau is the author of "Get Niche Quick", and one of the pioneers of the New Wave of Internet Marketing. He is dedicated to ending the stagnation and lowering the 95% failure rate for online businesses.
http://get-niche-quick.com
krnadreau@taoenterprises.com