Top 7 Winter Exercise Tips for Busy People by Erin James
April 2, 2007
Flaxseed, called linseed in some countries, is a good source of dietary fiber, omega-3 fatty acids, and lignans.
Flax Seed Oil contains omega-6 and omega-9 essential fatty acids, B vitamins, potassium, lecithin, magnesium, fiber, protein, and zinc. You can either buy the seeds just like that, or you can buy the flax supplements in pill form. Whatever you fell more comfortable with.
One way to influence brain health through diet is to consume the right fats and oils. Studies of animals, too, suggest some anti-cancer benefit from flaxseed.
7 Winter Exercise Tips for Busy People
—Finding Time in Your Schedule—
Many people find summer exercise easy, because there are so many fun activities available when it¡¯s warm outside. But if you live in the North, you might find exercise during the winter much more difficult. I refuse to run outdoors when it¡¯s very cold, the road is icy, or the snow banks have narrowed the road significantly. But I also refuse to hibernate, since exercise helps improve your immune system to help you fight off winter colds and flu, and also gives you energy and a positive outlook. So, here are a few tips to get you thinking about staying active all year long! Find exercise videos you love, and carve out a space indoors with the equipment you need. I exercise in my basement all year long, and add outdoor activities when weather permits. The great thing about having an exercise video collection, and the right space, is that you have absolutely no excuses! Weather, time of day, long lines for equipment, etc. will not stop you from burning calories! My personal favorites come from The Firm, and my favorite place to shop is Collage Video. Visit my website, www.slimdale.com and click on Links to get there.
The new fall television lineup will be here soon. Use TV commercial breaks! Many people ignore strength training because they feel cardio burns more calories. But adding muscle to your body will raise your metabolism, allowing you to burn more calories all day long. Resistance training also strengthens your bones, and just getting stronger can help you with a multitude of daily activities. So find a book, magazine article, wall chart or other resource showing exercises to work all major muscle groups, and do a set of repetitions during each commercial. You¡¯ll get a 20-minute workout during one 60-minute show!
The fiber in flaxseeds may also help against cholesterol, since it is soluble (similar to that in oats).
The flax plant, an ancient crop, yields the fiber from which linen is woven, as well as seeds and oil. The oil, also called linseed oil, has many industrial uses, it is an important ingredient in paints, varnishes, and linoleum, for example. Lignan are molecules with anti-cancer, anti-viral, and anti- bacterial properties. Flax seeds are the richest source of lignans. Diets high in lignans can lead to a lower chance of getting colon, prostate, and breast cancer.
In large doses, or when taken with inadequate water, flaxseed may precipitate bowel obstruction via a mass effect. The effects of flaxseed on blood glucose levels are not clear, although hyperglycemic effects have been reported in one case series.
There are also many ways of consuming the seeds. You can simply just chew them. You can grind the seeds to make a power.
Join a walking club at a local school, or walk inside a shopping mall. You can window-shop before the stores open so you go right to the store that has the best sales or the styles you love when they are open. Park farther away from the door and walk. At work, at the grocery store, at the mall; any place where you¡¯re stuck walking outside anyway, just bundle up and get a few extra steps. When indoors, take the stairs instead of the elevator or escalator. You¡¯ll burn lots more calories. You can even try using restrooms, copy machines, etc. on a different floor just to get more exercise. Consider wearing a pedometer and challenging yourself to keep increasing your steps per day.
Use your lunch break if you work in an office. If your company has a gym, use it. Walk outside when the weather permits. If it¡¯s raining or snowing, walk laps around the parking garage or laps around each floor perimeter plus the steps between floors.
Be less efficient! If you live in a multi-story house, take as many trips up and down the stairs as you can instead of saving things to go up or down. At the office, take a walk to see your coworkers instead of always using email. Face-to-face conversation is often better anyway, as it avoids misunderstandings and leads to better bonding and teamwork.
Consider winter sports. Skiing (downhill or cross-country), ice skating, and snow-shoeing can all burn lots of calories. Also, just play in the snow! Go sledding or build a snowman, and make some snow angels! I hope these tips help you to stay active this winter! Remember, the key to weight loss is to burn more calories than you consume (and weight maintenance is balancing the intake and the burn equally over time.) If you don¡¯t burn calories with exercise, you¡¯ll need to cut your food intake, and that will be especially difficult during the holidays. I personally would rather exercise more and enjoy a few holiday cookies! So get in the habit of exercising consistently now!
The truth is that although the odds of surviving bypass surgery have improved since the operation was introduced, bypass surgery kills anywhere from 2% to 4% of the patients on the operating table, and more within a few months. Men who eat fish frequently have a lower risk of prostate cancer. Stomach and intestinal cancers also appear to be less common in fish eaters.
Flax seed oil is extracted from the seeds of the flax plant. Flax seed oil and flax seed contain substances that promote good health.
Does Omega 3 Lowers Cholesterol? Why is Flaxseed called the Miracle Food? Where to Get Omeaga 3 and Omega 6 Oil?
Whereas plant foods and vegetable oils lack EPA and DHA, some do contain varying amounts of the n-3 PUFA alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which has 18 carbon atoms and 3 double bonds.
Most of the nutrients are contains in the flax seed. So from a nutritional standpoint, flax seeds are the way to go. BUT, the flax seed oil gives you a concentrated source of the “good” fats we are looking for. Which would give the oil an edge!
Originally published at Guidelines to a Perfect Link Exchange Scam
Do you hate Link exchange spam as much as I do? All these link swap requests you get every day asking you to link to online casino or pharmacy websites in exchange for a link from some link farm? Link exchange scam is an interesting theme for a study per se and still awaits its researchers. But in the meanwhile the SEO community is being successful in summarizing the guidelines for the most perfect link exchange scam. (Please, don’t take them seriously:)
Filing an Exchange Request
- Send an automated e-mail request or use a bot to submit it via an online contact form. Combining the both methods is preferred whenever possible.
- Use a free e-mail account such as Gmail, or better yet, some foreign free e-mail service to send your message. Sending a duplicate request from your company account is also beneficial.
- Do send follow up e-mails. Sooner or later your victim will give up and read one of them.
- Send minimum 100-300 automated requests every day. Push your mail server’s spam detection to the limits.
- Make sure that the website you are trying to contact is absolutely unrelated to your field.
- Send your request to every e-mail address you can find on the target site. Let the sales or customer support guys forward them to the webmaster.
Writing Your Request
- Address properly. No names required. Best thing is to use the website’s title or at least the URL: “Dear Blue Cheap Online Widgets“, or “Hello www.bluewidgets.com“
- Kiss ass. Tell your victims how much you adore their websites. Do use superlatives.
- Inform. Let your recipients know how important PageRank and incoming links are. Go in depth with the mysteries and magnificence of the PageRank and how the high PageRank will ensure them the first positions in Google.
- Scare. Notify them that their link popularity is low, and their positions in search engines are threatened.
- Share a secret. Tell them that the three-way linking is more effective, since search engines detect and ignore two-way links.
- Threaten. Notify them that their link will be removed from your high quality directory if they do not provide a link back in the specified number of days.
- Show your scale. Make your message easily detectable as a bulk sending by setting a different font size and color for the recipient’s address and site name.
- Be unofficial. Use the Internet argot in your e-mail. Like ‘u r’ instead of ‘you are’. This is the Internet – formalism is unacceptable.
- Threaten them again. With hundreds of reminder e-mails.
- Use a girl’s name. Most webmasters are male and should not resist a lady asking for a favor.
Prepare a Sound Links Page
- Your link page must have at least 100 outgoing links, preferably uncategorized. Make sure that minimum 50% point to pharmacy and gambling websites.
- Your proposed links page has to be deeply buried in a keyword-rich URL like: http://www.yoursite.com/widgets/cheap-widgets/amazingly-cheap-widgets/widgets-links/
- Make sure the links page URL contains at least one poison keyword like ‘links‘, ‘partners‘, ‘directory‘, or ‘exchanges‘.
- Alternatively provide a dynamic URL with a minimum of 100 characters of meaningless parameter values.
- Choose links pages that are in Google’s supplementary index.
- The PageRank for your page has to be between 0 and 3 with 0 being the best.
- Make your page look more credible by putting AdSense ads on it. “Well, if Google approves this page, then it is worth having a link from it“.
- Disguise your low PR links pages by opening them in a high PR frame.
- Orphan pages are the best.
Use SEO Tricks
- Link to your partners using one of the following options:
- ‘nofollow’ attribute
- javascript links
- 302 ‘Found’ redirects
- Edit robots.txt to restrict spiders from indexing your links pages.
- Double protect your links pages from indexing by adding meta ‘noindex,nofollow‘ tags.
Get more useful info on SEO and Web Marketing here SEO Guide and Training Materials
Why Submitting Articles Is A Great Strategy To Drive Traffic To Your Sites. by Bruce Seah
April 2, 2007
Why submitting articles is a great strategy to drive traffic to your site. Have a Website is just like opening a shop, you must have customers visiting your shop if you want to generate some sales.
When you submit articles that offer good content and interesting information, your readers will read the resource box where you have information about your and your Website link, your readers will click on the link to find out more information!
What you want is targeted and qualified traffic to your sites and submitting great articles will help you to do just that. There are many article directories where you can join for free and submit your articles. You can also leverage on services that help you to submit articles to hundreds of article directories at one time because doing it manually will certainly take up a lot of your precious time.
You must leverage and make use of the latest technology to communicate and build relationship. When was the last time you send a video email or participate in a web conferences. When a new techology arrives it always take some time to adjust to it and you will find very soon everyone is using it! Remember the time when the mobile phone was introduced, some even have doubts of buying one but now everyone must have it!
I enjoy submitting articles because I love to write and share my knowledge and experience. If you have 5 to 10 years of experience or you are passionate about certain hobbies, you will find it is easy to write an article from 300 to 700 words on the things you love to do! Your articles will be shared widely by people who are interested in what you have to share.
The title of your article is very important, it is similar to the title of a book or a headline of an advertisement. If your title is not interesting, people are not going to read your article. Invest some time reading on how to write effective headlines for advertisement.
Jay Abraham, the well renowned marketing guru defines marketing as loving your clients and being good to them. What does that mean to you? When you submit an article are you offering information that will help your readers save time, save money, help them to achieve their goals and make life better?
Marketing is about delivering value and benefits and building lifetime relationship. You want to have a customer for life and how do you do that? You have to put yourself in their shoes and have their interest at heart and always think of ways to give them more value and benefits!
When your readers read your articles, they will also be able to get to know you, your character, personality and values will show through what you write. After some time you will be known in the market for your areas of expertise and what you are passionate about.
By submitting your articles you can build your own brand and attract people who share your core values and beliefs. Joe Girard said that people do not buy products or services, people buy people!
Submitting articles is not only a great way to drive traffic to your site, it is a great way to build relationship with people who share your interest and beliefs!
If you’re like most business owners and self employed professionals you started a business because you have a particular talent, skill, or ability; not because you like to sell. And although some sales people do start companies, most business owners have no experience or training in sales.
Let’s face it, no-one likes hearing the word “no”. The mere mention of the word “sales” conjures up all kinds of negative images like the ubiquitous “used car salesman” or the “bait and switch tactics” that television news shows are so fond of featuring. With all of these negative images around, it’s no wonder that so many people don’t like selling.
You may be naturally shy or lack self confidence. Or perhaps you never learned how to speak about your business in a way that compels people to buy from you. Regardless of the reason, if you run a business or work for yourself you’ll find it much easier to be successful if you sharpen your sales skills and get comfortable in this role.
If the situation I’m describing rings a bell, here are some steps you can take to turn your fears into success:
1. Get clear on your market positioning. What does your company stand for in the eyes of your prospects? What makes you different? Who’s your ideal client? What “pain” or problem do your customers have that your product or service solves? Once you’re clear about the benefits and results you get for your ideal customers, it will be easy for them to realize that they should buy from you rather than the other guy.
2. Pinpoint what it is that you’re really afraid of. Sometimes it’s not the “sale” per se that we’re afraid of. Look for the reasons behind the fear, and then come up with solutions for dealing with them.
For instance, sometimes a fear will develop when you know there’s a problem with the product or service. You may have had some recent complaints, or are having trouble meeting deliveries or deadlines. It’s hard to convince people to buy if you’re worried about what you’re selling. If this is the case, be proactive! Fix the problems. Make your product or service the best it can be.
Other times a fear can stem from an emotional issue, such as fear of success or fear of failure. Often, we get in our own way with negative self-talk or beliefs we have that sabotage our efforts. If so, get in touch with these feelings and implement strategies to deal with them.
3. Use the things you don’t like about sales to form a better approach. Once you’ve figured out what you don’t like, do the opposite! If you hate being pressured to buy, develop a strategy that doesn’t use any pressure. Make a list of all of the things salespeople do that you don’t like. From there, develop strategies that don’t use these tactics.
4. Examine the styles of those who do it effortlessly. We’ve all met them, people who don’t seem to be selling at all, but know just the right things to say to get people interested in their offering. They don’t employ any of the selling behaviors that turn people off. Study them. Analyze what they’re doing. Then adapt their style to suit you.
5. Develop an authentic selling style that you feel really good about. I believe that anyone can be successful in sales as long as they feel good about themselves while doing it. You may have to think differently. Look at what’s not working with your current approach, and why. Be creative – if the words “sales” or “selling” make you cringe, call it something else!
6. Understand that selling is a numbers game. No and that no-one closes every sale. Not every prospect is a “qualified buyer” and that’s OK! It’s just a normal part of the sales process. Try thinking of it as selecting the customers that would benefit most from your offering. Naturally, in order to select the best, you’ll have to reject those that don’t fit.
Keep track of how many qualified prospects you need to speak to before closing a deal. Then, set your sales goals, multiplying the number of sales you need to close by the number of qualified prospects you’ll need to speak to in order to close each deal.
Ie: If you close about ½ of the qualified prospects you speak to; and you need to make 4 sales a month, you’ll need to be speaking to about 8 qualified prospects a month in order to make your goal.
7. Learn to look at sales rejection as an opportunity for learning. Instead of letting yourself be discouraged by a “no” use the experience as an opportunity to learn from instead. What went right? What didn’t work that can be approached differently the next time?
8. Don’t take it personally! There are lots of reasons people say no. Many of these reasons have nothing to do with you. It may be that they don’t really need what you’re offering, the timing isn’t right, or they’re busy and preoccupied with other things.
9. Pinpoint common objections, and address them. You can turn more prospects into paying customers by thinking about logical comebacks to common objections. Is your prospect is focused on “price”? Then focus on value and return on investment. This way you meet their concerns head on, instead of avoiding them.
10. Boost your self-confidence and motivation. Think about all of the wonderful results your product or service has gotten for your customers. Don’t confuse your “selling” abilities with the value customers get from buying from you. Remind yourself often about the positive benefits your customers receive. If you’re not sure, ask them what they like best about doing business with you.
11. Think out of the box: You don’t have to use pressure or become the stereotypic “used car salesman” to get customers. You can learn to close deals without using pressure, in your own way and with integrity.
12. Set realistic goals. Although setting goals is important, be careful not to set the bar so high that you can’t reach it. This only leads to discouragement. Instead, start by setting a realistic goal. Then, break it down into all of the steps you’ll need to take to get there. Get real about the time, energy, money and any other resources you’ll need to have in place in order to achieve it. Next, add a timeline and benchmarks to measure progress.
13. Consider practicing on your “safe list” first. Practicing really helps. A great way to do this is try out your presentation in a comfortable setting first. A client of mine did this recently by compiling a “safe list” of people in his industry that he knew well and felt comfortable with. He contacted them and asked if they would listen to his presentation and give him constructive feedback. This allowed him to work out the kinks and gain the confidence he needed before going out in the real world.
Want a different approach? Practice on a group of prospects you don’t know who you’ll never see again. You’ll soon learn what works!
14. Celebrate your wins! Congratulate yourself whenever you make a good presentation or feel you’ve improved, even if you haven’t closed a deal yet. It doesn’t help to be hard on yourself if it doesn’t go as well. Those who keep focused on the positives find it easier to be successful.
15. Realize that often a “no” means “not yet” or “maybe”. Find out the reasons behind a “no” by learning to ask a lot of questions. Perhaps they need more info. or they’ve got a lot on their plate right now. If they see the value, and have a need for what you offer they may be interested in the future. Make sure to get to the bottom of the no and to follow-up with them later as necessary.
16. And finally, just allow yourself to do it! Be willing to step outside your comfort zone. Psyche yourself up to try it and get out there – it really does get easier each time you do.
© 2004-2007, Susan Martin, Business Sanity.
CULTURAL NATIONALISM IT’S HISTORIC TRADITIONS: PART TWO (1972 REVISITED)
Cultural Nationalism, as seen historically by Garvey, Delaney and the Nation of Islam has always contained the seed of separatism within its framework. (See David Hillard as quoted on “Face the Nation,” CBS News, December 28, 1969.) Better perceived, though, the concept of Black nationhood as it relates to Cultural Nationalism, at present has perhaps found its greatest expression in the program of the US organization. (The Nation of Islam must be excluded here. Though still advocating Black nationhood as a solution to the problems of Blacks, the Nation is at that the present time placing its primary emphasis is on Black business development rather than on the promulgation of Black aesthetic and cultural values as a basis for Black nationhood.) (See Henry E. Weinstein, “Conservation with Elijah,” The Nation, January 20, 1969, p. 74).
US was founded in the latter part of 1965 by Ron Karenga. The Cultural Nationalist spirit is openly evident in one of US organizations’ favorite expressions “Just trying to be Black.” US like many other Cultural Nationalist organizations has, instead of offering tangible programs of immediate significance to the Black community, contented itself with the celebration of African festivals, holidays, and the promotion of African fashion shows. US also places strong emphasis on the adoption of a new language for Black people. Swahili is the African language that has been chosen. (See Mulana Ron Karenga, The Black Community and the University, New Haven; Yale University Press, 1969, pp. 47-48).
As Karenga has explained it: “We need a new language to break the linguistic strait jacket of our masters.” The emphasis on language rather than programs have done a great deal to create confusion among many Black people. The study of a second language at this point in the struggle is at best a peripheral issue in so far as the immediate needs of Black people are concerned. Further, whether it is realized or not, English is the number one language in the world, and one of the major languages spoken in the Third World.
US, like other Cultural Nationalist groups which include the Yorubas and the Mau Maus of Harlem, feel that it is essential to relate to all the customs and traditions of Africa. Karenga has said: “To go back to tradition is the first step forward.” As opposed to this Huey P. Newton, who embodies the spirit of the Black Panther Party, the main force behind revolutionary Black Nationalism in America, takes a different and much more pragmatic view when he points out: “We have to realize our Black heritage in order to give us strength to move and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it’s unnecessary and it is not advantageous in many respects. We believe that culture by itself will not liberate us. We are going to need some stronger stuff.” Huey of course is referring to the correct political and economic discipline based strictly on the needs of the Black masses. (See Huey P. Newton, Functional Definition of Politics, The Black Panther, January 3, 1970.)
Going back to the concept of Black nationhood as it involves Cultural Nationalism, we can see just how weak the premise on which it rests is. But as a final note on this question, neither US nor any of the Cultural Nationalist organizations that are pushing the issue of Black nationhood have yet shown just how they are prepared to deal with the certain prospect of America economic subversion. Political independence doesn’t necessarily mean political or economic control of a national economy. It is an unquestioned fact that the independent nations in Africa all of whom have their on Black governments, legislatures, flags and presidents, none of them including Guinea and Tanzania, are totally self-supporting.
The same principle that is in operation regarding the 25 all Black towns, applies on an international level with African and other Third World countries. U.S. Imperialism is the major road block to the freedom and independence of every individual and country in the Third World bloc. Cultural Nationalism’s failure to comprehend adequately the scope of U.S. Imperialism stems mainly from the narrowness of its ideological framework. As a consequence, Cultural Nationalists, in the tradition of Garvey, have completely ruled out, for the most part, the class view of the struggle. And instead relying solely on the racial analysis, Karenga again interprets the feelings of most Cultural Nationalists on this point: “The international issue is racism not economics. Racism rules out economics. Therefore, we conceive of the problem today not as a class struggle but a global struggle against racism.” (See Mulana Ron Karenga, “Evils of Racism,” Washington Post, January 10, 1970.)
This view is of course based on an erroneous assumption. Race does not rule out economics. If anything, in America, racist oppression and division are to a great extent the outstanding outgrowth of White America’s four hundred year pursuit of capitalist economics. A pursuit that began with the wealth America derived from the African slave trade and the justification for its existence being the rationalized myth of Black inferiority. (See W.E.B. DuBois, the World and Africa, New York, International Publishers, 1965, Foreword.)
The corporate power structure today still depends on racism as a weapon to divide Black and White workers. This is not to say that White racism would be entirely eliminated if capitalism as a system was thoroughly transformed. For it is undeniably true that racism as a detreminantal component has completely permeated every institutional fiber in White American society. ( See Lerone Bennett Jr., Confrontation Black and White, Chicago, Johnson Publishing Co., 1965, pp. 18-20.)
As a result, White racism as a distinctly separate on-going process has in itself achieved the position of institutional status. Even so, it is inaccurate to attempt to separate White racism as a process from its base of origin, capitalism. On their basic levels, the two are inseparable. To deny the character of one is to deny the character of the other. In a proper perspective, the eradication of capitalism is a major requisite in any real effort to solve the problem of racism.
Finally no discussion of Cultural Nationalism could possibly be considered compete without an analysis or at least a clarification of what is meant by culture. Culture and its particular relationship to the Black liberation struggle, has promoted Cultural Nationalists, for the most part to believe that culture is the most important factor in the struggle. (See Mao Tse tung, Talks at the Yemen Forum of Literature and Art, May 2, 1942, pp. 69-70.) Many other theorists disagree and take issue with this position. Frantz Fanon defines culture: “It is first the expression of a nation, the expression of its preferences of its taboos and of its patterns.” Fanon further states: ” In the colonial situation, culture, which is duly deprived of the support of the nation and of the state, falls away and dies. The condition for its existence is therefore national liberation and the renaissance of the state.” Fanon then is saying that the emphasis on culture should be related but a secondary feature of any liberation struggle. (See Ernest Ranly, Frantz Fanon and the Radical Left, American, November 1, 1969, p. 384).
It is agreed by nearly all involved in the Black Cultural Nationalist movement that Black America is in fact a colonized nation. Since, Black people are a colonized people; Fanon’s assessment of the role of culture should apply to Black America as readily as it would to the colonial countries of the Third World. As Fanon views it “national liberation and the renaissance of the state are the prerequisites for the successful and permanent growth of genuine Black national cultural values and consciousness.” Cultural Nationalism, as it is presently defined ideologically, must be opposed. At this juncture in the Black liberation struggle, Black unity and active attempt at alliance with all other oppressed grouping in America are of paramount importance. Nationalism, as history has shown, can potentially be a progressive force in bringing about a society’s social transformation, provided, of course, that it is not exploited by the selfish, narrow ends of a few individuals. As Fanon has warned: “If Nationalism is not enriched and deepened by a very rapid transformation into a consciousness of social and political needs in other words into humanism, it leads us to a blind alley. (See Bobby Seal, Seize The Time, New York, Random House, 1970).
At this point it should be proper to note that the phenomenon known as Black Cultural Nationalism in the United States is not indicative of Black Cultural Nationalism over the world. As we see a distinct difference in the Black liberation struggle in the United States and other world liberation struggles, we also see few parallels in Black Cultural Nationalism in U.S. and African Cultural Nationalism. Thus, a historical analysis of the concepts of Cultural Nationalism must first be confined to specific geographic regions hence one is able to objectively and correctly conclude his findings. Other Sources: 1. Editors of Ebony, The White Problem in America, Chicago Johnson Publishing Co., 1969. 2. Kwame Nkrumah, Class Struggle In Africa, New York, International Publishers, 1970. DO POOR BLACK INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN WRITER’S HAVE A RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AND EQUAL ACESS TO THE PUBLISHING MARKETING PLACE?
ARE WE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BASED ON RELIGION ARE RACE?
Let it be written that many Black writers have come speaking of many things that are seen in radicalism and controversy. However many in the world support their right to the market place and constitutional guarantees regarding the 1st Amendment. Meanwhile those that come as REAL CHRISTIANS like the writer’s of Psyche Z Publishing/FreedomJournal are Censored by a vast assortment of people some as unbelievers and many as so-called Christians. These people also come from the left and the right. However we stand neither left nor right as Jesus Christ encompasses all.
Peace be unto you, Our prayers are for the few righteous and will forever be for the enemies of God Carl A. Patton a willing servant of God March 19, 2007 in the days and times of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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My dearly beloved Brethren,
Peace be unto you. Noah came crying and pleading that the world and its people were consumed with sin. However none sought repentance and looked upon Noah a man of righteousness as crazy.
We bear witness just as Noah came the FreedomJournal also comes crying, writing and teaching that the world is on a constant downward spiral as the multitudes embrace sin and death. Meanwhile Christ Jesus and the Father are forsaken and denied. Repentance is something the ungodly believe can be bought with a money price. Sadly the water will not be able to extinguish the coming Fire. www.psychezpublishing.com
As a website designer, developer and marketer, I get many requests for low-cost web site promotion techniques. Promoting a web site by writing and submitting articles is my number 1 answer. Here’s why:
1. It’s FREE! All it takes is your time to write the articles, and once you get accounts set up at the popular article directories, it only takes a few clicks to submit an article.
2. Writing articles is fairly painless. HOW to write articles is beyond the scope of this article, but just one hint: take the next conversation you have with a customer, make notes after you talk, and turn it into an article.
3. You will instantly gain incoming links to your web site from a relevant source. An article on Dog Care with a link to a web site on dogs and dog care is highly regarded by the search engines.
4. Giving your opinion and views, especially when backed up by facts and figures sets you up as an expert in your field.
5. Each article you write and submit should also be listed on your web site, giving you fresh quality content.
6. By creating, posting and submitting a podcast of the article, you can get your influence out to a broader market segment. You can use the content in an article to create email newsletters too, where appropriate.
7. Your articles in article directories has quite a long shelf life. Directories, good ones, will be around for a while with every articles they’ve ever posted. Your two-year-old article on housebreaking a puppy will still be driving traffic to your web site today.
8. Articles actually allow others to promote you and your web site by using your article, including the link to you, on their web site, blog, ezine or newsletter. Comments and discussion of your article, ideas and opinions will further your exposure.
9. It gives you or your business a “personality”, by showing a little of yourself in each article you write. People will get to know you through your writing. Any relationship you can build with an online customer or client is a qualified, targeted lead.
10. It’s FREE! How many times does it need to be said? You may not have an English degree, but you don’t have a massive marketing budget either. Writing and submitting articles is a technique anyone can use to get free promotion
Why Submitting Articles Is A Great Strategy To Drive Traffic To Your Sites. by Bruce Seah
April 2, 2007
Why submitting articles is a great strategy to drive traffic to your site. Have a Website is just like opening a shop, you must have customers visiting your shop if you want to generate some sales.
When you submit articles that offer good content and interesting information, your readers will read the resource box where you have information about your and your Website link, your readers will click on the link to find out more information!
What you want is targeted and qualified traffic to your sites and submitting great articles will help you to do just that. There are many article directories where you can join for free and submit your articles. You can also leverage on services that help you to submit articles to hundreds of article directories at one time because doing it manually will certainly take up a lot of your precious time.
You must leverage and make use of the latest technology to communicate and build relationship. When was the last time you send a video email or participate in a web conferences. When a new techology arrives it always take some time to adjust to it and you will find very soon everyone is using it! Remember the time when the mobile phone was introduced, some even have doubts of buying one but now everyone must have it!
I enjoy submitting articles because I love to write and share my knowledge and experience. If you have 5 to 10 years of experience or you are passionate about certain hobbies, you will find it is easy to write an article from 300 to 700 words on the things you love to do! Your articles will be shared widely by people who are interested in what you have to share.
The title of your article is very important, it is similar to the title of a book or a headline of an advertisement. If your title is not interesting, people are not going to read your article. Invest some time reading on how to write effective headlines for advertisement.
Jay Abraham, the well renowned marketing guru defines marketing as loving your clients and being good to them. What does that mean to you? When you submit an article are you offering information that will help your readers save time, save money, help them to achieve their goals and make life better?
Marketing is about delivering value and benefits and building lifetime relationship. You want to have a customer for life and how do you do that? You have to put yourself in their shoes and have their interest at heart and always think of ways to give them more value and benefits!
When your readers read your articles, they will also be able to get to know you, your character, personality and values will show through what you write. After some time you will be known in the market for your areas of expertise and what you are passionate about.
By submitting your articles you can build your own brand and attract people who share your core values and beliefs. Joe Girard said that people do not buy products or services, people buy people!
Submitting articles is not only a great way to drive traffic to your site, it is a great way to build relationship with people who share your interest and beliefs!
Always practice safe surfing! Here is a computer checklist to help keep you safe online. Print it out and stick it on the wall beside your computer. To begin with, I assume you have an anti-virus program, a firewall and 2 anti-spyware programs, at least.
Why 2 anti-spyware applications? Often one program will find what the other misses. You should also have a filter/blocker program, that keeps this stuff out of your computer in the first place.
Daily:
1. As soon as you turn on your computer for the day, and before you start surfing the Internet, update your anti-virus program, or check that it updates itself automatically.
2. When you have finished surfing for the day, or after installing new software, run one of your anti-spyware programs. The next day, run the other one. Alternate them, to catch all possible malware.
3. Carefully and fully read every End User License Agreement (EULA). If you see something like “The vendor/publisher may install third party software” hit the delete button (hard!) or cancel the download. Or at least run all your security scans after installation.
Weekly:
1. Once a week, update your anti-spyware programs, as well as Windows. If you have kids who surf the Net and play games online, do it more often.
2. Watch for updates to your firewall and HOSTS file (see below). These are infrequent, so check your email, or check in the programs to see if they are up to date.
3. Get a custom HOSTS file. Go to your favorite search engine to find one. Take the time to read and understand what it is and does. If you have never used one before, it may seem complicated at first. It really is not.
Viruses have gotten so sophisticated lately that they can use the HOSTS file to prevent your anti-virus software from updating itself. To avoid this, about once a month you should open your HOSTS file, and check to make sure your anti-virus program is NOT listed there.
If it is, your computer could be infected with a virus. Delete that line in the HOSTS file, and run all your security scans immediately.
Do not open unsolicited email or unexpected attachments, avoid phishing scams and public computers, try not to download anything from the web, change your passwords every couple of months, back up important files, do not ignore warnings and alerts from your security programs and use Guest and Limited accounts for other users on your computer.
Finally, stay alert and use common sense on the Web. Even the best security programs will not protect you unless you (and your kids!) think before you click!
I was deeply concerned this morning when I received my regular AFA (American Family Association) email newsletter that informs me of issues going on in the political and Christian world. AFA reported that a left wing group ran an ad in NY Times on 3/8/06 entitled “These Religious Leaders Have A Serious Gambling Problem.” reportedly accusing Dr. James Dobson of somehow being connected in Abramhoff scandal.
Now the Abramhoff scandal itself has made me wonder if “voting for the lesser of two evils” is the right approach as a Christian who is seeing more lack of integrity and honesty in both main parties in the U.S. Whether Dobson or other religious leaders are involved in Abramhoff scandal or not, is irrelevant in this issue. Power and money corrupts most men. Men can be corrupted, religious or not. The “Christian Right” is known for it’s social conservatism in politics, and they let it be known, but I urge Christians to be fiscally conservative first, before being socially conservative and fiscally liberal. Why?
As I believe Abramhoff scandal shows, the real problem is “Big Government”, and Christians need to war against it. In some cases “big government” has led to “big corruption.” Christians need to look to God instead of “the lesser evils” of both “big government” parties, in America. Time and time again, both parties can’t seem to solve or even get a hold of the problems in the U.S., despite all the money they spend and then some.
I believe there is a lack in traditional families values in America, not only from parent’s who lack certain skills in teaching their children, but from leaders in our government, who have gluttonous spending habits and a lack of respect for our founding principles. As government grows, certain responsibilities and rights guaranteed by our creator, become lost. People lose skills, (afforded by these rights) they once knew well and passed through the generations. In essence, “big government” is just as harmful and debilitating as many of the social problems we have today, if not more of a threat. The individual and family is far from being empowered with the cost of another social program that may not even necessarily provide any benefit. These abuses of power ultimately end up costing taxpayers billions, hampering production of strong families and individuals in our society. (People need to look at government waste as a plague to society with cost just as great or greater than lost production from drug use or tobacco smoking.)
Interferences, inefficiencies, and wasteful spending, resulting in big government, is probably the biggest threat that Americans face today. Yes a tax credit favored by one party may help families somewhat rather than nothing, but how empowering is it really for the average individual, when a government spends to deficits, and generations to come will be paying for debts accrued today.
Christians must soon realize that governments cannot , will not, be able to cure or even stabilize social ills, no matter how many dollars you throw at it. (Romans 13 isn’t giving right for government to take care of you from cradle to grave or your not so well off neighbor.)
Both parties grow further and further away from Christian principles, thus we hear the statement , ” I’m voting for the lesser of the two evils”. My appeal to Christians rather than get into the rhetoric of both parties with “left and right” labels, is to focus on one goal in politics and that is “make government smaller and family’s stronger.” If individual’s are not empowered first and foremost with certain God-given rights, in the laws of our land, then America will not survive. If we cut government by even a third will be empowering families by tenfold.
In this 60 plus year “era of addiction to big government” alot of us has grown up under, it seems impossible to handle life’s problems without it. I say, “All things are possible with God.”
It’s seems as if alot of government is “in the name of protecting children, or security,” all good intentioned. It seems like big government would make us stronger, but it only weakens society. Think about it, we spend money from future generations and problems today are rarely solved, and left lingering on. Nothing is new under the sun.
Our forefathers gave us the right to protect ourselves for a reason, some things will always be, we must not forfeit or give up those rights and responsibilities solely to government.
Christians will have to learn to be more vigilant in protecting their own children and themselves. Christians will have to learn to say “NO” to government, even when government means to do well. It may require you to pray a little longer. It may require living a life with a little less to help out a neighbor in need. It may require tough love with your children. It may require you to write your congressman endlessly, letting them know to make “spending limits and cuts” top priority.
Slowly, over time we will wean ourselves off of “big government”, people will be empowered, and government officials won’t grow and go crazy with power.
Ultimately, Christians need to set the example, I’m sure Dobson and other Christians realize this. I hope they can agree and begin to mold the parties to this action. If the two parties won’t give up their power, it maybe time to form a new party in America. If we can get politicians to adopt less government, I truly believe society will immediately prosper and be more self-sufficient. Social ills will eventually become less, as individuals become empowered and more opportunities arise. All this benefit, without 100,000 new social programs, new “raw” deals, or police officers, just cuts in spending.” Where society lacks, good Christians and citizens will and should pick up the slack as instructed by our heavenly father.
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Under the cloak and dagger of “diversity,” Selma Rankins now prowls the suburbs of Ohio and Michigan to pressure them to hire black teachers. That’s the bottom line of his spiel. Rankins is a retired teacher, originally from Louisiana.
How clever. How evil. Shine the spotlight on how white the suburbs are (hasn’t he ever heard of white flight or understood the legitimate reasons why?), how few if any black teachers they have, and initially gently demand a change, soft sell the package it’s in the “best interests” of the students. The biased Blade article – Suburban schools fall short on diversity – included a chart to show the percentages of White, Black, Hispanic and Other students and the same for their teachers. The prejudicial title above it was: “Racial Diversity in Teaching Staffs Lacking in Most Area Public Schools.”
Lacking? Falls short? It doesn’t appear those schools needed any minority teachers to succeed. It appears they’ve gotten along quite well all these years without the forced inclusion of minority teachers. Why would any intelligent person want to force themselves on a school district anyway? History proves how such “suggestions” for unwanted and unnecessary change (however camouflaged) quickly become demands coupled with charges of “racism.”
What white school district has the integrity to stand up to such an assault on their right to make their own decisions, to preserve their white heritage, their right for whites to stay in the majority without outside interference demanding otherwise and to courageously reject destructive criticism of them for their educated choices? How many times have we heard blacks say they need black teachers for black students? Who isn’t aware that black policemen are purposely sent to patrol black areas? What’s wrong with whites for whites? Why the double standard?
The sin of forced desegregation grows with affirmative action hires that don’t benefit the students or community but tears both down, as has been proven time and again. Oprah chose to wash her hands of the inner-city schools and went to South Africa to find blacks willing to stay in school and learn rather than disrupt the classroom, drop out of school, or care more about grades than gangs or sneakers.
White flight is to get away from the troubles of the city, to protect children from lowered standards and a harmful environment, knowing full well the threat that “diversity” poses. The suburbs should be left in peace, their unique schools respected for their right to be diverse as predominantly white rather than attacked for refusing to conform to the politically correct agenda some pimp.
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