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Finding the Best Online Business

The best online businesses are run by people who have a very high degree of self control. They also have long term goals and know what they need to know how to run a business with sometimes several employees. They also have to have a good sense of financial knowledge so they can continuously keep the company profitable and fund new projects.

Some of the best online businesses are run by people with degrees in business. They may have gone to school knowing they wanted to pursue business or they might have had another career field in mind that required a business background. However, many internet businesses have been started by people with no business background at all, which gives the general public a good chance of starting their own successful business online.

You can learn many lessons from the creators of these online businesses. By studying how they started their business and the steps they took to increase traffic to their websites we all can benefit, and use the knowledge to grow our own online businesses.

Some examples of successful businesses include Google, MySpace, and Youtube. Each of these websites was made with the idea of servicing people. Google provides millions of users worldwide the ability to find what they are looking for on the internet. Google has grown with the times since it started as well and has increased its user experience by constantly updating the agorithm of search and finding new sites. Additionally they have offered users other options for their internet needs such as Gmail, Google Docs, Gtalk, and Google News.

By watching Google grow they show a perfect example of constantly expanding to increase the happiness of their audience, with this of course comes more people who love to use Google and become loyal to it, this shows us why it is the biggest search engine available, with the best sense of growth.

MySpace was started by one person who wanted to network with friends and family and share their life online with them. By that one person sharing their idea and website with people his own idea he has been able to inspire millions to share their lives online as well. Everyone seems to be connected in their extended network, and people can share as much or as little of themselves with their friends and family online. From pictures to videos to their favorite songs, Myspace gives people individuality in the online world.

Another one of the best online businesses is Youtube. The founders created this site so that people all over the world could share their favorite videos. People could easily make a video and upload it to share with millions. You could show some of your individuality, you could teach others, or even promote your website. Many people all around the world loved the idea of being able to make and share their own videos. You can find entertaining videos, music videos, news videos and documentaries created by users on YouTube.

Everyone of these sites had a long term plan and invested time and money into their business to become successful. By studying their business styles and the time and money they invested we can all learn a bit more about starting our own business online.

Paybacks of Having an Online Ecommerce Drop Ship Business

The present economy has more and more people thinking about the future and how they will achieve their financial ambitions. People are so much concern about their capability to provide the needs of their family for tomorrow. A rigid answer to ensure a prospering financial future is to start an online business. Establishing an online drop ship business can deliver the solution that everyone is looking for. There are many paybacks to own and operate your own business store.

Establishing an online store with passion in it is very essential to one’s business. Any line of business created could not endure the competition in the business world if the owner himself doesn’t have the drive to succeed in whatever endeavors that may come along the way. Having the time to do the activities he enjoys the most can lead to a very successful online business.

Aside from that, managing an online business gives everyone the ability to work from home. This can give the owners the opportunity to be with their family at all times. He can spend a lot of time with kids while also working at his business. This is a great advantage since the work doesn’t necessarily need anyone to travel away from home just to fulfill the tasks given.

In order not to put this business on waste is they have to partner with reliable wholesale suppliers for their merchandises. Although every item sold only gives them a little profit but come to think of it, the products being delivered by the drop shippers are in huge volume. This business has the potential to earn a substantial income as time goes by. This will give the owners the satisfaction of witnessing the fruits of their labor.

To make sure anyone can achieve this dream is they have to locate this wholesale drop ship directory from the web. I know this is hard but I know one site which offers the most reliable source of wholesaler drop shipper lists. All you have to do is to source out the most reliable suppliers who have the potential to make your business successful. These companies have the power to take your future wherever you desire.

Could Celebrities Be Cutting-Edge Marketers – Leading Online Business Entrepreneurs?

“Where is The Future of Online Business –

Could Celebrities be showing mainstream business the way?”

Have Your Competitors ‘Caught On” and already Talking to Your Customers in this latest marketing evolution for Web Success? (And are they doing it Auto-matically and VERY Cheaply!) SO MANY Crucial Questions to answer… please read on.

The following Report is the Cover Story for “Australian Business Solutions” magazine“

YOU WILL DISCOVER HOW CELEBRITY MARKETING STYLES ONLINE LEAD ‘AUDIENCES’ TO WANT TO BUY RATHER THAN THE CONVENTIONAL BUSINESS APPROACH OF SELLING AND CLOSING. YOU WILL DISCOVER VALUABE, IN FACT ESSENTIAL INSIGHTS AND IDEAS THAT EVERY MARKETER, ENTREPRENEUR AND BUSINESS OWNER MUST NOW EMBRACE!”

(WARNING: THIS REPORT MAY FRIGHTEN YOU… IT WILL DEFINITELY ENLIGHTEN YOU!)

There is a buzz around on the television news, radio, in the print media, at business networking groups and meetings and especially on the internet right now. There seems to be a shift of focus for how people look for products and services and then decide how they spend their money.

In terms of influence and power, the new way people search for products and services and make their buying decisions online could even rival the search engines. And it’s been said that this buzz could be the single biggest thing to happen in business since the industrial revolution!

Sounds over the top, but is there enough evidence (for you) to be a part of it too? And is this buzz a fad or could it be here to stay?

If you’ve watched TV news or listened to radio or brought a newspaper in the past 2-3 years, you will have noticed references to websites in both stories and advertising, where you can find out more – including how to get more information about a product or service and/or how to buy instructions. In more recent times nearly every news presenter, TV show host, journalist and celebrity are also promoting how you can ‘follow’ their lives, interests and activities online too – and it all seems to be centred around websites such as Facebook.com, Twitter.com, YouTube.com, Digg.com and more, collectively known as Social Engines.

Celebrities are using these sites to raise their profile, build their brand and most importantly, solidify their popularity and [hopefully] longevity in their profession and industry. AND, these sites enable their audience (loyal army of fans) to talk directly back to them. And this is at the heart of the buzz and current shift – and why it’s so very important you read on and learn more.

On the Social Engine Twitter.com, Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more followers (fans) than the entire populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama. Their brand awareness and popularity building is personal, although as that increases, so too does their value to corporations looking for product endorsements to drive their market penetration and increase their market share.

Sporting stars like celebrities have broadened their talent base too, becoming more entrepreneurial and business savvy, seeing their name, brand and product value increase, in many cases, to a higher income level than the actual core sporting talent. In other words, acting, playing a sport, being a comedienne or whatever is their core talent is no longer their only talent. They have embraced the concept of brand building (and protection), marketplace communications and conversations – opting for direct contact via sources like online Social Engines. Here they can touch far more people quicker and easier than say a traditional autograph signing exercise.

A true business woman, leader and entrepreneur, celebrity Oprah Winfrey instantly connects and updates a loyal army of over 2 million+ people that follow her on Twitter. Her power and influence is no surprise or revolution in itself, but her army of followers are able to directly provide instant feedback and ideas to her too -and marketplace feedback is a life blood to your business growth and long term sustainability. (Try ignoring it and see where your business goes.) Everyone wants to be heard and Social Engines give you, your business and your customers a voice.

A loyal army of followers can also provide a viral effect to disseminate information quickly too, meaning they can ‘spread the word for you’ if you ask them to – this can be particularly useful if you want to spread good news and conversely if your brand comes under attack via other mainstream media mechanisms or on the Social Engines themself.

Although it might be hard to fathom, could celebrity entrepreneurs like these be showing more traditional businesses how to connect, behave, build our brand, increase our marketplace value and build our business too using these Social Engines?

Is this a valid idea and model for mainstream business or not?

Firstly, the power of Social Engines extends far beyond Twitter.com alone. Some of the other leading Social Engine sites sprout some pretty impressive visitor and member statistics, as well as services.

Facebook.com – If it was a country rather than a website, it would be the world’s 3rd largest after China and India.

On Facebook there are more than 250 million active users and more than 120 million of them log on to Facebook at least once each day and more than 5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide). The fastest growing demographic is 35 years old and older and within that, the fastest growing segment is 55-65 year-old females. Do people 35+ and women influence the buying decision for your products and services? This is worthy of your attention.

And there’s more… more than 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared each week on Facebook alone and more than 2.5 million events are created and advertised each month. More than 45 million active user groups exist on the site and more than 50 language translations of that content are available on the site. The people supplying all this content include business owners and professionals, some of whom are surely in your industry and probably your competitors. And if you think because you’re a localised business that this doesn’t count, you’ll find this statistic most enlightening- 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.

All of those statistics are just for Facebook alone (source Facebook.com/press/statistics).

You can also purchase Pay Per Click and Pay Per Impression advertising on Facebook (and other Social Engines). They take your spend to a whole new level of value and ROI with their member data allowing you to display your adverts for keywords AND additional, specific demographics of the member base. For example you can display your advertising message to women, 55+ in Melbourne who are single. You can even target people specifically on their birthday with a relevant offer.

YouTube.com – take a look at YouTube (which is owned by Google for good reason) – People are watching hundreds of millions of videos a day on YouTube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, every minute, ten hours of video is uploaded to YouTube -including promotional videos, education, product consumption/direction videos and client testimonials for business. Plus every video you add to YouTube includes a spot on the webpage where you can put a link back to your website. PLUS you can add these videos to your blog posts, making them more interesting to your blog readers on other Social Engines too (more about blogs in a moment).

YouTube’s user base is broad in age range, 18-55, evenly divided between males and females, and spanning all geographies. Fifty-one percent of users go to YouTube weekly or more often, and 52 percent of 18-34 year-olds share videos often with friends and colleagues.

And could this be the good reason Google brought YouTube? It’s the 2nd largest search engine in the world today, 2nd only to Google.com. If you want to connect with your marketplace on volume, this is worthy of your attention.

Twitter.com – let’s take a statistical look at that quickly too. Twitter’s footprint has expanded impressively in the first half of 2009, reaching 10.7 percent of all active Internet users in June with 83.1% of users over the age of 25. In July 2009, the Twitter website recorded 23,284,395 unique visitors – who else wants to be ‘front-of-mind’ to an audience of that size? Does your target market include people 25+? This is worthy of your attention.

Twitter has been described as the “Pulse of the Planet” given its instant, viral spread-the-word-to-the-world-instantly nature. It has boosted box office numbers and it’s killed them too, just ask the makers of the movie “Bruno” – overnight ticket sales dropped by more than half thanks to the frank and instant feedback from those that had just seen it. It was so quick too because 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime – imagine what that means for bad customer experiences and you!

Do you let your customers walk away with a bad experience, only to stand out the front of your store or hang up the phone and blast their frustration and disappointment to hundreds, thousands maybe millions of people -in the ‘heat of the moment’?

The true power of Social Engines is not to be feared, it is to be embraced and when done well, you can influence large numbers of people in the ways you want them to know and represent you. This is worthy of your attention.

Understanding the nature of Social Engine participation is important and the question to answer is – What are people doing on these Social Engines? They are looking for ideas, insights, invites, offers, information, inspiration and conversation.

Savvy business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals are providing it all to them and at the same time, in a more passive or softer way than conventional advertising, promoting their business, building their reputation and ultimately getting more leads and customers to their web sites. These business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals are using resources within services like Facebook that include a Personal Profile Page, Business and Product Pages, Fan Clubs, Groups, Time-sensitive Events/Promotions, Classified Advertising (PPC) and more… and the really smart ones are sharing content direct from their website blog feed too (more about that in a moment).

Then there are sites like LinkedIn, a professional social network and directory of business owners and professionals who can communicate quickly and easily with one another. In a 2009 survey, 80% of businesses and companies who are members were using LinkedIn as a primary recruitment tool to find new employees. This is worthy of your attention.

On these Social Engines, people can say what they want about you and it’s uncensored. What do you do about it? Ignore it and hope the customers and prospects that really matter to you don’t see it? Should you take a proactive approach and start by monitoring what’s been said about you and then start providing your brand of information, insights, ideas and inspiration to your marketplace and control the information flow you want through them?

We are living in an era now where what happens in Vegas goes ON and STAYS ON YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and more.

“Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, WORD of mouth has become WORLD of mouth.”

Love them or hate them, social engines are here to stay simply because ‘the people’ love them and trust others on them. Facebook and MySpace are among the most popular destinations on the web. And even though they can be extremely annoying, there is one inescapable fact: the most irritating thing about Facebook is the 200m-strong army of people who use it.

And here’s the final enlightening point- Social Engine participation has overtaken pornography as the #1 activity on the Web.

SO Do you get involved or not? And if so, how do you do it easily and cheaply but still ‘play the game’ like a Celebrity with a 2m+ loyal army of followers?

The reality is that even if you’re not involved, your customers and prospects AND competitors probably are – and they’re talking to one another, perhaps about you and without you so the sooner you start, the better chance you have to becoming both a part of the conversation and then lead it.

The answer for businesses, entrepreneurs and professionals is automation – this is the single biggest break-through strategy and tactic that very few people have worked out, including many larger corporations who are successfully using Social Engines but they are not leveraged with automation, also known as things happening ‘auto-magically‘.

In many cases, businesses are employing specialist online staff on top of web masters and advertising/SEO experts. With automation, you can do a whole lot for very little extra time and virtually no money.

HOW DOES IT ALL WORK?

At its essence or core are six words that will transform the way you generate leads and make repeat sales online – those words are YOUR WEBLOG FEED PLUS SOCIAL ENGINES.

A Weblog or blog as it’s more commonly known is a type of website or part of an existing website that allows you to add content as blog posts or articles and display them on your website – content like information, ideas, insights, offers, news, invites, images and more and you can create blog posts quickly and easily without ever needing to get a webmaster to do it for you.

There are over 200,000,000 Blogs online today and that number grows every day. Again, not all blogs and blog owners are equal, many are neglecting to include automation and leverage and integration with Social Engines so there are many nay-sayers about blogging, but that attitude is changing as more people are enlightened.

A Feed or RSS Feed as it’s more commonly known will distribute your blog posts well beyond just displaying them on your website. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates of your blog posts, delivered ‘auto-magically‘ via a web portal, news reader, or in some cases good old email. Feeds also make it possible for your content (information) to be packaged into “widgets,” “gadgets,” mobile devices, and other technologies as shortened or full length messages, which Social Engines happen to LOVE. Your Feed makes it possible to display blog posts just about anywhere on the web or web connected device and most importantly directly to the millions of people online every day.

That means a Blog with an RSS Feed can ‘auto-magically‘ distribute information you create about you, your business, your products and your services quickly and easily across thousands of sites on the web. And you only have to create your pieces of content once!

A blog is a powerful code (invisible to the human, non-techie eye) and every time you add content to an existing or new blog post, like you would add content to a word document, it is distributed around the web in seconds and is fed directly into the biggest marketplaces and communities of people online every day.

What makes a blog with a feed even more powerful is that it reaches the biggest sources of people (leads) online – who by the way are not just using Search Engines anymore to find out about products and services, they are also using the “Social Engines”. PLUS your Blog Feed can also ‘auto-magically‘ update Google and Yahoo about your site too, so you still stay connected with the Search Engines for no more extra work, or money.

Now if you’re anything like me, when I first heard about these Social Engines, I dismissed them as not being a viable business and marketing channel because they appeared to be for personal networking and friendship (and they are indeed used for those reasons). Whilst many businesses, entrepreneurs and professionals are using these engines and winning new business – only a handful are doing it easily and quickly, because most of them do not know about the power of connecting your Weblog RSS Feed and how it fits in with using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Digg and hundreds more Social Engines.

In my own experience, I was wrong to not get involved with Blogs and Social Engines sooner (like many business owners and professional managers still are) as my competitors began to build an edge I did not have with my marketplace, simply because I did not understand and connect these two key points about connecting your blog directly to Social Engines. If you want to find new customers quickly and easily and build better sales from existing customers:

Your website must be a Blog with a Feed and/or include one as part of your website
Your online marketing mix and strategy must include sharing your blog post information with people on Social Engines like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Digg etc.

And here’s why…

Your competitors have possibly already figured out that social engines are where they can connect with people who include your customers and potential customers because the Social Engines are where your customers and potential customers are going online – and they’re going to these Engines regularly and for long periods of time. And people are making buying decisions based on the conversation they are having and the feedback they are hearing.

Even if you [believe you] have no competition, you’re not connecting with your marketplace as directly and as easily as you can, if you are not using the true power of Social Engines. These online sources or marketplaces attract people 24/7/365, who stay for a while each time. How could you NOT promote you, your business and your products and services there?

Every time you add content to your blog, it is circulated out to many Social Engines, once you set up a FREE account with them… people at these Engines who have an interest in what your business offers then come to your website to find out more.

Here’s an example of how your website Blog, its Feed and these Social Engines work together. (Note this diagram also includes the two largest Search engines -let’s not forget them. Using your Blog and RSS Feed, you can ‘auto-magically’ update them too.)

At the centre of this relationship are your website blog and its RSS Feed. Every time you add content to your blog, the Feed distributes it out to the Social and Search Engines with a link back to your website. People on the Social Engines instantly see a summary of your blog post and a link back to your blog/website. If they are interested in you, they click on the link and follow it back to your website to find out more about you and move forward with you.

“Although we like to feed information to the Search Engines for free listings, the Social Engines outperform them in providing INSTANT, FREE traffic (people) to your website… meaning Social Engines host millions of people live online at any given time who are exposed to your blog post instantly… and not only will they follow your link back to your blog/website if they are interested, they also have the power to make your Feed ‘viral’ – voluntarily passing it on to their friends who in turn pass it on… and so on.

The Social Engines and the people on them help you grow your prospect and customer base quickly, easily and cheaply – you can’t get any cheaper than free!”

The Social Engines are places where people go to and stay at; whereas Search Engines are places people only pass through ‘in search of’ a final site destination. This is the major difference and the significant extra power you’re missing out on if you are not involving your business in the Social Engines. Remember though, the Blog Feed is vital to ensuring your participation is mostly ‘auto-magic’ otherwise participating in them could over run your day, your week and your life!

The Blog Feed allows you to ‘auto-magically‘ update the Social Engines, minimizing the ‘air time’ you personally allocate to this.

So, who’s already taking this seriously and using Social Engines as a powerful, quick, cheap and easy tool and media to generate free leads quickly too?

Firstly, no matter your business, products and services, you’ll find prospects and possibly existing clients already participating in these sites on a regular basis. You are bound to find your competitors there too, it makes good business sense to be present on an Engine where millions of people congregate, converse and seek out people with the products and services they require – someone in your industry is probably joining them and being ‘front-of-mind’ and it should be you.

Everyone that gets it commits to it. These world-wide companies, brands and industry leaders have dedicated resources to connect and cultivate relationships with prospects and clients on the Social Engines with reportable, measurable results:

Motor Vehicle Industry: Chevrolet, Ford, General Motors, Honda

Travel and Tourism Industry: JetBlue, Southwest Airlines, Luxor Las Vegas, Marriott International Hotels and Resorts, Carnival Cruise Lines, Hertz Car Hire

Sporting Teams: Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Portland Trail Blazers, San Diego Chargers

Entertainment: 92Y, The Travel Channel, ComCast, Marvel Entertainment, Direct TV, Pop Caps, TV Guide

Finance: Wachovia, H&R Block, Intuit

Retail: Best Buy, The Home Depot, American Apparel, Rubbermaid, Whole Foods, Zappos.com

Food and Beverage: Starbucks, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, Popeye’s Chicken, Tastidlite, Kraft Foods (see Vegemite Case Study below)

Other Global brands: Dell Computers, EMC and Kodak – all benefitting by directly connecting with their target marketplace – whether that’s existing customers and/or potential customers.

Case Study:

Kraft Foods have taken an interesting Corporation-Consumer collaborative approach to product promotion and development using Social Engines. Here’s what they say about their social engine strategy:

For many of our strong brands such as Vegemite – we acknowledged that we are simply (proud) brand custodians and that the brand is owned by ‘the people’. We focused our first two years of social engine participation on simply listening and asking questions.

Two of these questions were:

How do you individually like your Vegemite?
If there ever was to be a Vegemite variation what would this be?

Recently Kraft launched their latest product “Name me” a vegemite plus cream cheese experience. Here’s how they are using Social Engines to develop it.

“This is a work in progress; we spent two years listening and now with the product on shelves the Kraft Communications team is engaging with Vegemite loyalists and cynics alike on the 12 top social engines. They are engaging and getting samples out on and off line- and encouraging debate on the new products. There are a number of Facebook groups sitting in the following camps: pro original, pro new flavour and anti new flavour.”

This is just one way Social Engines are helping businesses already to grow brand, product and corporate awareness. There are many other ways to use it too that can and do lead to direct and immediate sales. No matter the size of your business and marketplace, Social Engines, like the internet at large give you a level playing field with industry leaders like Kraft Foods and the others mentioned here.

Your website with a blog and feed will provide regular content to the Social Engines ‘auto-magically’. You need to support that by also visiting the main Social Engines and engaging people on a weekly basis, as it forms part of your marketing, CRM and all the other pay-offs mentioned previously.

Adding content regularly to your Blog Feed, ‘auto-magically‘ keeps you in touch and front of mind to millions of people around the world, on the Social Engines (and Search Engines) so they can access your business, products and services quickly and easily.

The buzz appears to be more than a fad so for your business it becomes not a question of ‘if’ these Social Engines are going to be a valuable marketing tool for business. Rather, the question now is:

“How quickly will you get your business on the Social Engines

… to Capture Your Competitors Clients too?”

HOW TO GET STARTED

Here’s a checklist to help you get started with your new, exciting and FREE Social Engine Strategy:

1) Get a Blog website with a domain name of your choice OR if you already have a website, get a new sub domain or folder added called blog

2) Open an account with at Google, Feedburner, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Digg, and LinkedIn.

3) Install an RSS Blog Feed and set up a Pinging list on it then add your Blog feed to the Search and Social Engine accounts you created in the step above.

4) Create content-rich education videos that can be added to your YouTube account and your Blog – that is then ‘auto-magically‘ added to your Search and Social Engine accounts.

5) Actively participate in or create new Facebook Groups, Events and Pages.

6) Make promotional videos about you, your business, your products, how you help and support people and upload them to your YouTube Channel then add them to your blog posts.

To really make this all work well for you, you need to know there is a big secret in succeeding with growing your business using Social Engines. You’ve read this far, so here it is: Social Engine success rest largely with you getting to grips with:

Being a ‘face’ of your business and allowing people to connect with your ‘authenticity’ as a person ahead of a product, and
the need to ‘listen’ to your marketplace, innovate with change to meet their ever-changing needs and then share information that will help them, rather than push product.

Millions of dollars are spent monthly with pay per click advertising on these sites and more millions are paid to ‘search engine specialists’ who supposedly help you reach number 1 ranking on keywords relevant to your business. It’s a fierce fight between serious players for top spots on search engines, both free and paid listings. An entire industry is built on it and around it. But you now know how to become a leader in your industry on the most powerful Social (and Search) Engines online today and how to do it Quickly, Cheaply, Easily and Auto-Magically.

In some cases, target market demographics may not be using Social Engines; therefore it would not be worthwhile. Consider these statistics when making your evaluation:

78% of consumers trust peer recommendations. Do you rely on 3rd party endorsements to build buyer confidence? If this is not a necessary part of your marketing and sale process, you may be able to ignore Social Engine Marketing.

Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like David Ogilvy – Listening first, selling second. Would your competitors be prepared to connect and listen to your prospects and customers directly to discover what they want, and then give it to them? If not, then you may be able to ignore Social Engine Marketing… and least for a little while.

The worst part is the first part. When you start, your ‘following’ could be small but that is far better than not monitoring what’s been said about you at all! The only way to change that is to get in the game!

Get started right now, before your competitors do -it’s the future of marketing your business online, because that is where the people you want as your customers are going online. It’s only a matter of time before someone in your industry emerges as the leader on the Social Engines – get you and your business front-of-mind first. Enjoy the experience and I’ll ‘meet and tweet you’ on the Social Engines of the World!

The Perks of Watching Movies Online

Do you want to watch your favorite movie but it is not available on the cinema or video rental store? Or do you have no time to go to the cinema to watch recent releases of action and thriller movies? Never worry since there are some websites available online which offer links to movie database ready to be viewed online. Comparable to the cost of cinema tickets, this is a better choice to watch movies at the comfort of your home. You may even find high quality movies from the selection of movies available from these websites.

The website which offers access to new movie releases may also allow its visitor to watch television shows on the computer. There are several channels which are available on the Internet, which you may only find on your local cable network. In some cases, there are television shows you can view on the website which is not available on the provided cable or satellite TV channels.

There are numerous websites providing online users to watch movies online thus it is difficult to determine which of these sites are considered as reliable sources. There are some websites that contains a wide variety of movies and videos available on their video indexes. If there are children on the house and you want to spend some family time watching movies together, you may search for the suitable movie online. For example, a nursery rhyme such as Little Miss Buffet can be easily searched on the website’s index and can be viewed immediately by streaming the video online. If you have a decent Internet connection, it may appear as if you are watching a movie from a DVD player. These high quality videos are great finds, though accessing and viewing such movies require a registration procedure before the movies appear on the screen.

In order to watch movies online, there are some requirements that you should have:

o You should have a 56K modem or higher. Having a broadband connection is highly recommended for faster buffering of the streamed online movies.

o You should have a suitable media player to play the videos acquired from the website. This video player plug-in is often available for download from the Internet.

o The cookies on your web browser should be enabled. The setting to toggle the cookies of the Internet browser is accessible on the options Menu of the web browser. The web browser should be set to “always accept cookies”.

There are accessibility options to watch movies you want from a database. Most movie lists are grouped into genres and more often alphabetically arranged. You may watch the movie by simply clicking the play button provided on the web page.

The comfort of having to watch movies online is a relaxing way to spend your time. Yet, it is important to have the suitable equipment so that you may not encounter any buffering problems while watching your favorite movie.

Whether you are an old movie aficionado or just into viewing movies online, this is the best site for you. With just a simple click of a button, you may watch your favorite movies anytime you want.

Why Watch Movies Online?

One of the most popular pastimes is watching movies. Most people love to watch movies. Every person has specific preferences about the type of movies they would like to watch and there are a lot many genres to suit individual tastes. There is hardly any person who does not like to watch movies. The audio visual medium captures people’s attention far better than any other medium. People like the audio visual medium because they can quickly get immersed in it without too much effort. This lets users stay completely disconnected from the rest of the world for quite some time providing thorough entertainment and relaxation. For this reason movies have become hugely popular and perhaps the most popular form of entertainment. The movie industry is perhaps the most booming industry worldwide.

First there were the theatres. People could go there with friends, family and girlfriends and boyfriends to watch movies. A later version of such halls were the drive ins. One could take some time off to go to the theatres or drive-ins to watch movies and they became very popular and made big business. Slowly television came more and more to the forefront and took away much of the popularity and business of the theatres. They were able to offer people the option of watching movies from the comfort and privacy of their homes. Movies began to be available on compact disks and DVD that were playable in players attached to televisions or in computers. These options also gave the viewer a control over the time when he wanted to view a movie. But the viewer still did not have an extensive choice of what movies to watch as it is not possible to keep a huge collection of movie disks at home or many movie files stored in hard drives of computers. Here is where the watch movie online sites began to score.

Online movie databases that let you watch movies online have a huge collection of movies much more than what can be kept at home or an offline library. As a result a viewer has a choice of watching virtually any movie that has been produced and completely when he or she feels like. Sometimes the databases even let the viewer download a movie. The next things of course were sites that gave these services absolutely for free.

These sites often ask viewers to take surveys in order to watch movies online. That is how they put up with the costs. Alternatively they may host ads on their sites. However there are many sites which actually perform surreptitious activities under the cover of being movie sites. They may install harmful software like spywares and malwares on your computer in order to steal important information from your computer and generate spam. However there are certain sites that are free of such things. They have networks with tv shows and movie production houses as a result of which they are able to provide a huge number of TV shows and movies.

The advantage of these sites is that you can choose at will the time to view the shows or movies unlike in theatres and television and you also get a much greater choice of contents than a movie disk library at home or the local parlor can offer.

Online Learning is the Future

With the advancement of technology, more and more people are enjoying convenience in fulfilling their various goals in life including that of obtaining education. A growing number of schools are now offering online degree programs in response to the need of busy working professionals and homemakers who lack the time to pursue a college degree. The convenience and flexibility these online schools offer are what normally attracts people to get an education via the Internet.

Online learning is gaining ground in the different parts of the world but is more popular than ever in the United States. A 2005 report entitled “Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the U.S.” confirmed a very bright future for online education with an enrollment growth rate over ten times the prediction of the National Center for Education Statistics. It revealed that online enrollment in the U.S. rose from 1.98 million in 2003 to 2.35 million in 2004.

An officer of Career College Association (CCA) disclosed that more than one million students were enrolled in fully online programs in the U.S. in 2005 while at least 55 CCA member institutions have purely online colleges. Among the popular online programs at the undergraduate and professional levels are business, technology, education, psychology and human services, according to Bruce Leftwich, CCA’s vice president for government relations. He said that flexibility in the delivery of online education is the key factor considered by those who would not be able to attend a traditional school like single parents, persons with disabilities and working professionals. With online learning, these people are given a choice to meet their needs according to their specific situations in life. It is also affordable as most online schools offer scholarships and grants as well as other financial aid programs.

Since the inception of e-learning, the technology being utilized has also improved. Current technology has allowed many online universities to provide students with numerous ways to interact with their faculty and classmates such as through email, bulletin boards and discussion groups. Interaction has a more positive impact on a student’s motivation and performance than just sitting alone before a computer accomplishing his or her assigned work. In online education, students are usually given passwords for them to log on. Upon logging in, they must follow course requirements for a certain day hence, their attendance and participation are being monitored. They are also able to connect with course facilitators and interact with other students unique only in online learning. Compared to the brick and mortar setting, online learning provides one on one mentoring which really help some students to succeed.

Education authorities agree that public acceptance of online education will continue to grow and although it may not surpass the traditional university programs, it is more likely that most graduates who join the workforce will have obtained experience with an online learning format at some point of their educational pursuit. Leftwich added that a significant factor to the growth e-learning is that more business organizations are putting importance to online education. In fact, a study by the American Society for Training and Development revealed that an estimated 29 percent of corporate tuition reimbursements go to online or blended programs. This goes to show that some working professionals indeed find it easy to pursue an online education.

Online Freelance Writing – The Most in Demand Career As a Freelancer – A Great Income Builder

An Online Freelance writer is a self employed artist or journalist who sells services as an uncommitted independent writer. In the Freelance profession, writing skill is the most demanding opportunity. When it comes to the Internet, the introduction of websites and blogs to promote everything, and the need of fresh and relevant content has increased the freelance writer jobs to the top. Online freelance writing demand has more than doubled.

In fact online content writing is fast becoming one of the major source of freelance writing assignments. Other freelancers, such as freelance photographers, freelance web designer and graphic artists are also facing a great demand in their profession.

There are plenty of jobs for online freelance writing, this does not mean you will be getting a fair share of them, you still have to compete with a lot of freelance writers for jobs. You have to stay active smartly in writing competition. 80/20 rule applies in freelance writing. 20 % of all the freelancers get all outstanding good paying freelance writers jobs where as 80% of the freelance writers get average paying freelance writing job. But if you observe the market and pursue career properly with the current trends you can be in the 20% of the online freelance writers.

Do the following:

1. Do not accept low priced projects:

If you started following this pattern and started taking projects that are priced lower than the market rate, you will get a reputation of accepting cheaper price of your hard work. Do not fall in this trap. Be justified to yourself and charge a price that is acceptable to you happily. A price too high might at times end up losing the project to another low priced freelancer and therefore, stay in the norms.

2. Use advertising and marketing strategies to promote yourself:

Use both online and offline advertising and marketing campaigns to let everyone know that you are a freelance writer, is important. The more people will know you the more assignments you will get and you will be able to choose the reasonable priced ones. Off line, pass your card to everyone you know. Self marketing is essential as this will give you the contacts you need to start a freelance career.

3. Always write your best:

Provide latest relevant no fluff information. Your already written work is going to be the basis for the clients hiring you for future freelance work. Online freelance writing at its best is the primary goal to achieve best results.

4. Create a solid Reputation as a Writer:

And reputation is formed when you not only write good but also present a great reputation as a person, both online and off line. Use best work ethics and make sure to meet dead lines do not take the jobs that you can not finish before time.

5. Be active to find great jobs yourself:

Don’t completely depend on your ads, but look for new jobs everyday. Contact all happy clients and organizations that have used you as a writer before, and socialize with them. Make new relations everyday and let them know what you do? Spend sometime looking for more jobs every day.

6. Starting as a Freelance Writer, start as part-time:

When starting online freelance writing, begin writing as a part timer and continue your job. Eventually create clients and once you are very sure that you have become successful to create a full time income without problem then plunge into it full time.

7. As online freelance writer your opportunity is greater:

There are lots of people who need your services, everybody does not have the talent to write and every one does not have the time to write. But every one wants to make money online and that is where your business comes in.

So focus online freelance writing and you will achieve best results.

8. Create a network of people:

This will help you get recommendations for writing jobs. Editors of magazines business owners who need ad writing and sales copies so often, newspapers and news letter publishers, just get to know many of them so you are in good hands to find new jobs for freelance writing.

9. Referral and Recommendations:

This becomes easy once you have established yourself as a great writer. Although writing is a big business, but the writers community is pretty small. Ask for recommendation to another person who needs a writer. This is one of the great ways to get better assignments and is based on your writing standards and your networking.

10. Present yourself as a highly developed and ethical person:

Only a reputation full of good qualities can make you go around effortlessly in the community when there is a need of writer. People will accept your high rate and your demands. So create a reputation and a contract that has benefits for both.

These are some of the strategies to follow. You will experience new and unique ways to create a good position as an online freelance writer.

Introduction to C2C Ecommerce: Online Classifieds and Online Auctions

C2C (Consumer-to-consumer) electronic commerce is the type of business done online or via Internet, where both buyer and seller are individuals. Contrary to traditional business model whereby a customer needs to go to the brick and mortar store to purchase a product or service. C2C e-commerce has enabled individuals to open a web-store that incurs a relatively lower cost due to the absence of need for purchasing real estate to run the business. Furthermore, as online shop does not have physical presence for buyer to visit directly, it is capable of offering virtually countless number of products. Additional product information that cannot be seen from traditional business for instance product review and product comparison can be also beneficial to the consumers when making online purchase. There are two typical C2C e-commerce implementations: classifieds and auctions.

Internet Auctions

Online auctions work in such a way a buyer places a bid at an item he/she intends to purchase, other buyers (bidders) who look at the same item would have to place their bids as well, at a higher price. Online auction normally has a time limit, typically ranging from a few days to a few weeks, upon the ending of the time limit, the item will be sold to the highest bidder. It is not uncommon that a high demand item will result in competitive bids: as the number of simultaneous bidders increases, the final bid will be very close to, or sometimes higher than its real market value. Big online auction service provider such as eBay, charges a final value fee to a seller when an item has been sold successfully. A listing fee may or may not be imposed for an item to be listed or auction, depending on the service provider. An online auction site connects all the buyers and sellers around the world who are geographically far apart and international trade boosts the business of a domestic seller. The item is delivered to the buyer via shipping and it takes a few days or longer depending on the buyer’s location. A premium shipping services, typically shortens the delivery time at the expense of higher cost. For instance overnight shipping service guarantees that the item will arrive in the next day. Despite of the buyer-seller location in this business model, online auction offers a huge range of products, from homemade product to high-end electronic devices.

Internet Classifieds

If Internet auctions allow global users to do business, then Internet classifieds is another C2C e-commerce model where the buyers and sellers can meet locally. Evolved from newspaper classifieds, a seller posts classified to a classified ads site, interested buyers from the neighborhood finds the ad and contact the seller via email or phone. Both parties will discuss for the item price (so it is flexible), and they will meet at a specific place: park, shopping mall, etc. Once the buyer is satisfied with the item brought by the seller, cash will be given to the seller and the deal completes. As the Internet classifieds is getting matured, it is not only about items for sale, it is more like a community site where people can post about local upcoming events. “Lost and found” section in an Internet classifieds site is another great place for the local who loses something because someone else who found the item might post a news about it in that section too. Nowadays online classified sites gain popularity among employers and job seekers because it acts as an alternative way to employment agencies and thus satisfies both parties. Small companies and individuals also utilize online classifieds to advertise the services offered by them. Similarly, real estate classifieds is another great feature offered by the service provider. Property owners who have apartments for rent can attract more potential customers without the involve of agent or commission fee and thus yields in higher rental return.

Amazon Prime – The Benefits of Online Video Streaming

How good is Amazon Instant video Subscription? By most accounts, the $99 per year cost is more than worthwhile. First of all, they offer you an a la carte style of movie selection, where you can pick from a variety of genres in the onscreen interface. There’s a “Recently Watched” section, as well as Recommended Action & Adventure, Recommended Kids & Family, Your TV Shows and more sections tailored to popular user requests.

Amazon Instant vs. Amazon Prime Instant Video Streaming

Top movies that are just barely out of the movie theater can be viewed with an Amazon online video subscription for under a single dollar. You could also pay up to $15 to own it; but in most cases, this doesn’t seem reasonable unless you plan on watching said movie 15 times! Alternatively, you could also opt for the Amazon Prime Instant video option, which allows free streaming of videos without adding it to your Amazon account.

The unlimited streaming available with Prime also comes with access to the Kindle Unlimited library, where you can read a book for free every month, as well as free 2-day shipping on a host of items from Amazon’s incomparably large inventory. Amazon’s inventory of movies and TV shows is easily greater than 100,000 as of 2017 – and constantly growing due to its competition with HULU and Netflix.

Watch Movies Online with Amazon

The Amazon Prime interface varies depending on the device you use. On a Roku, for example, the layout isn’t all that easy to navigate; but on a PlayStation, it’s better. The Cloud Player is useful for video streamers who want to download a title for later viewing, and the search function is off to the left hand side and provides plenty of options that are close to your original search. The interface has improved quite a bit since 2014 – so if you’re getting your Amazon online streaming video subscription, be advised that it is now competitive with HULU and Netflix.

Get Amazon Prime for Free

The beauty of Amazon Instant Video and its entire online video streaming suite is that you can try it out for free for a month – in some cases, more. During this period, you can see how well the free 2-day shipping works for you, as well as how you like the watch movies online selection. Just head to the Amazon website and sign up for the Prime trial.

If, before the trial period comes to an end, you happen to buy many things, gauge how long it takes for your items to arrive to understand the type of service you can expect. If you don’t think what’s available justifies the price, then cancel your subscription trial at the end of the month so that you aren’t charged. The $99 cost (as of 2017) of Prime breaks down to about $8.25 per month – factor this into how often you watch movies, TV shows, and order items from the super-store to determine whether or not the subscription is worthwhile.

The Pantry Option with a Video Streaming Subscription

Lastly, along with your new spate of videos, movies, television programs and free 2-day shipping, you are invited to try Amazon Pantry. This helps keep your kitchen stocked with goodies that aren’t available to casual shoppers, all at competitive prices and with free shipping. Usually, you have to purchase $50 worth of goods in order to activate free shipping; furthermore, it might take a business week for your stuff to arrive.

With Prime Pantry, you’ll get your order within two days – guaranteed or your money back. There are chips available, assortments of cakes, candies, chocolate, detergent, coffee pads – anything you have now and desire in your kitchen, Amazon Prime Pantry almost certainly has it. So, check it out and subscribe for your free trial of Online Video Streaming with Amazon today.

Business Marketing Online: Secrets of Internet Millionaire Webmasters

One mistake that most website owners and businesses are currently making is that they depend on their traffic to come from search engines alone.

Some are even squandering hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly doing (Pay per click) PPC campaign.

This is fatal.

It is impossible for all websites to rank at #1 or among the top 10 all at once in any search engine.

So, once businesses realize this obvious fact, it should be common sense for them to know that the solution should be to diversify their marketing and promotion.

Stop depending on the uncertain search engine traffic otherwise you’ll go bankrupt soon.

You need to do different kinds of marketing and promotions both online and offline.

Some of them are newspaper and magazine advertising, TV, cable and radio advertising, direct mailing promotion, text-link campaign, link exchange campaign, events sponsorship promotion, press release, article promotions.

When you do all these promotions, you get a lot of exposures, traffic from many sources and will not be forced anymore to depend on search engines traffic and rankings alone.

I have also noticed that most businesses are still using the old tactics of copywriting that worked during pre-internet era.

Perhaps that is why many of them have problems in making their websites profitable.

In these internet times, a website content has to be short, direct, interesting and must have a unique selling proposition to be effective and to convert visitors to buyers.

Many people just don’t have the time to spend all day reading the content of one website when they are aware there are thousands and millions more they may have to read before they make up their minds to buy.

I see many website contents which are professionally written, organized and designed.

But all have one common mistake. They forget this fact that I am pointing out:

They are way too long, too desperate in their sales pitches, hype and most of them will not even allow you to read more than one word before their subscription pop-up forms come up and block the websites.

What a very rude and annoying way to welcome a prospect to your website.

In other words, they do so much to repel the customers, instead of doing so much to attract them.

May these insights into website promotion, work at home business income program, online income opportunity, website marketing, work from home business, affiliate programs, internet promotion help you improve your online marketing so as to achieve more success and happiness.

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Ikey Benney