Top Ten Creative Strategies for Inspiring Creativity Where You Work and Play – Diet
Top Ten Creative Strategies for Inspiring Creativity Where You Work and Play
Bea Fields
Websites, automobiles, milk cartons, living spaces. Design saturates every aspect of our lives and the difference between success and failure could be the color purple, could be the person that you talk to every morning when you wake up, or could be the amount of light that streams into your office every day.
These ten steps will support you in revitalizing your environments and will foster an amazing sense of innovation. With these strategies, creativity will become much more than a goal
Where to Post and Read Articles Online – Site
Where to Post and Read Articles Online
Abdallah Khamis Abdallah
The internet is one of the best depositories of informative articles especially on business, marketing and writing. These articles can be a very invaluable source of knowledge and information for starting and growing your business. If you are a writer and wish to see your articles published or read what others have written then the internet provides good forums for you to satisfy your needs.
For webmasters and online marketers, publication of free articles on article databases, ezines and other websites is a highly effective and long-term traffic generator. It is in an inexpensive and targeted marketing method for attracting visitors to your website. However, you need to write a substantial number of articles or regularly write and post the articles in relevant high traffic article databases and ezines to be more effective.
There are very few lists of article databases or websites which accept articles submissions for publication and in this article I attempt to list a few prime websites which accept articles for free publication. New websites come up every day while others are pulled down after some time so to get maximum exposure, post your articles to as many sites as possible, save the articles on disk and print the articles and file them for your own reference and record.
Before posting any of your articles, read the submission guidelines on every website you wish to post and follow them if you are satisfied with them.
Here are some of the websites that will publish your articles for free without payment to or by you:
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/submission_guidelines.htm
http://www.marketing-seek.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://clearviewpublications.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.freelancewriting.com
http://www.businessknowhow.com
http://www.powehomebiz.com
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.theallineed.com
http://www.digital-women.com/submitarticle.htm
http://www.connectionteam.com/submit.html
http://store.bellyandbeyond.com/yhst-4403591833340/submitarticle.html
http://www.makingprofit.com
http://www.boconline.com/sub-art.shtml
http://www.addme.com
http://www.articlesubmit.com
http://www.theezine.net
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://virtual-professionals.com/articles.shtml
http://www.web-source.net/articlesub.htm
http://www.tigrafix.com/articles/submission.htm
http://ebusinesshelpsite.com/Articles/submit-article.htm
http://www.businesstoolchest.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.writerswrite.com
http://salessuccessmagazine.com
http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/submit-business-article.html
http://www.toupin.com
http://www.worldwidefreelance.com
http://www.business-opportunity.biz/addarticle.php
http://www.selling-it.com/Add_article.htm
http://www.homebiztools.com
http://www.marketingwords.com
http://www.amrithallan.com
http://www.workoninternet.com
http://www.executivecoachingstudio.com
http://www.home-based-business-opportunities.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/articles_archive
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Free_eContent/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freezinecontent/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/articles4you2use4promotion/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/netwrite-publish-announce/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Reprint-Articles
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/free-content
http://www.freesticky.com
http://amazines.com/
http://www.mbnet.com/article_add_form.asp
http://www.family-content.com
http://www.clickforcontent.com
http://sbinformation.about.com/library/blsubmission.htm
http://www.optimizemag.com/mediakit/contribute.jhtml
While some websites will publish your articles without reviewing them some will check them for suitability and conformance to their requirements.
To enable people to visit your website, include your full url in your bio/resource box below each of your articles so that readers can click on it to go straight to you website. Now, visiting your website is one thing and buying what you provide on your website is another. You can have over one hundred thousand people visit your website in a month but none buying anything from you.
This brings us to the issue of what you sell on your website. Do you offer a unique item or service you have created Uniqueness need not be absolute but do you offer something new, refreshing or useful Does it solve a common problem or satisfy a common need This and many other questions need to be answered by you and acted on. Provide gifts, feebies, special offers and free content such as free articles and ebooks to attract readers to your website and to make them buy from you.
The above listed websites can also provide you with useful articles written by others, news and forums to assist you with information to enhance your personal and business productivity and possibly enable you to place advertisements for high visibility and attention.
Some of the listed websites are part of large networks of websites and posting your articles may lead to the articles to be syndicated in a few other websites and ezines. Others are visited regularly by ezine editors , publishers and webmasters looking for new and useful articles to publish and they may pick and publish your articles. All these serve to increase the exposure of your articles and by extension your name and website url.
To know where your articles have been published, go to www.google.com and type the title of your article in quotation marks “ ” in the search box and search. To know where all your articles have been published go to the same search engine and type your name as written in your articles in quotation marks and search. Do this at least every two weeks and you will find that your articles have been published on many ezines and websites. However, the results could be at times disappointing. If your articles do not contain useful, fresh, how to, problem-solving ideas or are not interesting to editors and webmasters, they might be spurned and will not be syndicated.
Do not confine yourself to the above websites or article databases only but also approach ezine editors. Ezines are online newsletters usually sent daily and weekly to opt-in subscribers. These ezines are in need of content and if your articles meet their requirements they will publish them for free. This might give you high exposure as some of the ezines are read by thousands of voluntary subscribers who are hungry for fresh ideas and information. You can find most of these ezines by searching for “ezine directories” at www.google.com or at:
http://www.koolemail.com
http://www.ezinelocator.com
http://zinos.com
So start today to write and post articles to the above websites and ezines to receive high exposure and traffic to your website.
About The Author
Abdallah Khamis Abdallah is a freelance writer.Find articles,money-making special reports,ebooks,etc at his website at: http://www.qualitywritingsolutions.com. Send feedback about this article to: abdallahkhamis@hotmail.com
Customers Dont Always Connect Where They Live – Web
Customers Dont Always Connect Where They Live
David Leonhardt
Pop Quiz: You have an international website and you want to do business in Canada. But you want to make sure your website delivers top performance to your Canadian customers: speed, accessibility, as well as proper functioning of digital certificates, forms, password protections, shopping carts and more. In which of the following cities would want a website monitoring station
Toronto, Canadas metropolis
Montreal, Canadas second largest city
Vancouver, Canadas third largest city.
Ottawa, Canadas capital and fourth largest city
Calgary, Canadas fifth largest city.
According to one of the worlds top remote website monitoring firms, Calgary is the best choice.
"Based on our research of major Internet backbones in Canada and our existing client locations, we see Calgary as a major point for Internet connectivity in Canada," said Mr. Mazo of Dotcom-Monitor Website Monitoring http://www.dotcom-monitor.com Dotcom-Monitor website and network monitoring . "Calgary is not less important for Internet traffic than, lets say, Toronto or Vancouver."
What makes this announcement special is that almost half of Canadas population lives in the Windsor-Quebec City corridor, including Montreal and Toronto...some 2,000 miles from Calgary.
Dotcom-Monitors new monitoring station in Calgary is the second Canadian station by a major international monitoring company. The other station is located, more predictably, in Toronto.
"A Toronto monitoring station might be the best marketing choice to sell monitoring to US or European client who know Toronto better, but we believe we can cover more Canadian backbones in Calgary than if we had chosen Toronto, and that means we can deliver better service to webmasters seeking Canadian customers," Mr. Mazo added.
Of course, Canadian webmasters will benefit most from the Calgary monitoring station, since it will help them ensure their website performance in their home market.
But how important is remote website monitoring to a websites performance and credibility, when there are many software options, including free downloads, available
The answer is, "That depends". Software can monitor from only one server in one location. A local business, such as a hairdresser or a dry cleaner, might not need monitoring from across the Atlantic, since its entire clientele operates in the same region, but it still needs "remote" monitoring, from a different server than its own website.
A business with international clients needs to know that the website is functioning 24/7 around the globe. "Functioning" does not refer just to uptime and downtime, which is what many software packages monitor. A website is not functioning if clients cannot access their passwords, or trans-Atlantic blockages create time-outs or leave would-be customers deserting slow shopping carts in frustration.
Mr. Mazo points out that in competitive sectors, even content needs to be monitored to ensure it has not been tampered with. He offers his list of recommended website monitoring features at http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/website-monitoring.asp and the list of his company service at http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/web-site-monitoring.asp.
But he stresses that what is most important is that each item be monitored from multiple locations, and that those locations should be where website visitors connect, not necessarily where they live.
About The Author
David Leonhardt is a freelance writer and SEO specialist. Contact him at
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