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Why Is That Only A Small Percentage of Network Markerters Earn Big Money?

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:10:36 +0000

The reason why most people have problems with their network marketing business is because they don’t truly understand how the industry works. Often, this is because they were sold a pack of lies from some company that reeled them in on false hopes and promises. Some simply joined because they were sold on the idea that they could quit their job and work from home if they just buy a distributorship and call some leads.

It’s a classic scam; you are told a lot of promises in the beginning about what a great opportunity it is, how you don’t need any experience to begin with and you will be have a residual income working hard for the first few years. However, once you are inside, you will face many challenges and realise that there is no truth in it.

Mind you this business is fun and simple if you let it be, but it will take the tenacity, dedication, and professionalism to earn six figures incomes.

Did you know that 95% of people who get into network marketing have no prior sales experience?

The majority of the people who join this industry do so without the intention of becoming a professional network marketer, yet that is exactly what is asked of you if you wish to make a full-time/six-figure income.

This leads to serious difficulties as networking marketing does involve selling and marketing, regardless of what some mlm distributors may have said to you to get you to sign up.

This is one of the biggest mistakes that people make in network marketing. They think the product will sell itself while they just share the company and products information. Yes, mlm is indeed a simple business but it does take the tenacity and professionalism to make it a 6 figure income.

Your Business Has Nothing To Do With Your Company.

Your Job/Business is Marketing

Yes, you heard me right. Your business is marketing.

He, who markets and promotes best, wins.

Success has got nothing to do with the best company, best product and the best compensation plan.

Another common mistake is to think you will be able to sell to your friends and family. Many networking marketing or mlm programs encourage you to share these great opportunities with your friends and family first when in reality, your friends and family may not even want or like the product. If you do make sales, it may be from people that feel obligated or are just giving it a try to get you off their backs. Don’t depend on your family and friends to make you rich from an mlm program. Even if they are kind enough to buy from you, chances are you won’t become a millionaire in this way.

You see, this is an industry of marketing and promotion pursued by people who have no idea how to market or promote.

The fact is true mlm success comes from training, experience, expertise and even practice. Can you make a good living from it? Sure, you can. Can you be highly rich and successful? In time, yes you can. But don’t expect it to be an overnight miracle success. And don’t think that you can achieve this without some work involved. If network marketing is so simple that anyone could do it and products sold themselves, wouldn’t we all be millionaires?

As I mentioned earlier on, your business is marketing. This is why you must align yourself with a group of marketers that is really going to show you the common denominators of their success and leverage on their experiences. This will eliminate 90% of your learning curve that typically causes most people to fail and give up on their initial dreams.

I just want you to understand that if you are not creating a constant flow of leads day in and day out or if you are not putting your business in front of 5 to 10 people a day, your dream will remain just a dream.

What about all the success stories you hear in your company? One way or another, they found a way to be in front of lots of prospects EVERY day passively. How? They either leveraged other people on their teams or from their systems.

Simply put, traditional marketing is an ineffective ‘shotgun’ marketing strategy because a scatter shot won’t get you very far and it has become more expensive. The public is bombarded with commercial ads and making matters worse for businesses is that today’s technology have literally enabled people to put up a firewall around their lives.

Note that, I am not against the traditional form of network marketing. They have their place and importance. In fact, word of mouth has the best conversion rate. Nevertheless, you are pretty blind as to whom you are addressing with traditional marketing. You have no idea of their interests, their tendencies, and more importantly, if they are at all likely to be interested in what you have to offer. You simply cannot sell steaks to a vegetarian!

You probably already know this basic stuff. Get to know your prospects by building a relationship with them. However, this is one skill newbie find it hard to grasp all at once which make them reluctant to go out to talk with people.

But, there is a solution which is still not known to most business owners.

What Does Online marketing Mean To You?

Bottom line: With today’s advancements in technology, if you own a home business and you are NOT marketing online, you won’t be a business owner for much longer.

Online marketing changes that and gives your marketing ‘sniper’ like accuracy. With online marketing, you aren’t interested in marketing to everybody. You are only interested in those who have an interest in what you have to offer and you will only market (spend money) on those who have an interest in what you have got.

How do you do that?

The quickest way is to use Google to tell you who are interested in what you have got because over 90% of internet users are using Google for searching. This number is growing at a phenomenal rate each year. You bet Google can also tell you what a particular group of people is interested in. This is the key!

In short, building a business online is so much more effective. You can be in front of thousands of people in a short period of time. That means your customer list keeps growing, every minute without you. Yes, to begin it will take great effort and time in creating your capture page, sales letters, follow-up emails but you only do this once.

Now that’s leverage.

Are you envious of all those people who make a living using the internet? Please don’t. You can have what they have achieved if you are willing to give it a go. Building online business is not rocket science although it has a bit of art and science to it.

You have to look at marketing as a funnel. You start with a wide top that captures people who are interested in the product you have to offer and you qualify those people more and more at each level down of the funnel.

As you proceed with your marketing, your prospects proceed further and further down that funnel, qualifying themselves more and more.

Ultimately, you end up with only the hardcore who are attracted to join your business and those whom cannot wait to purchase your product.

And all of this can be done automatically and cheaply once you setup your attraction marketing system.

If you do this correctly, your marketing costs are self-funded which induces your potential customers to pay for your marketing, regardless of whether they buy your product or not.

Jackie Khor is a leader in Network Marketing. She is best known for her down-to-earth, no-nonsense training. Get your FREE 10-Day email Boot Camp on at WorkAtHomeBusiness

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Introduction to Network Time Protocol (ntp)

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:13:47 +0000

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is one of the Internet’s oldest protocols still utilised today. Developed by Dr David Mills from the University of Delaware, it has been in constant use and continually updated since 1985. NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks on computers and networks across the Internet or Local Area Networks (LANs).

NTP uses an algorithm (Marzullo’s algorithm) to synchronise time on a network using time scales like UTC (Coordinated Universal Time or Temps Universel Coordonné) and can support such features as leap seconds – added to compensate for the slowing of the Earth’s rotation.

NTP (version 4 being the latest) can maintain time over the public Internet to within 10 milliseconds (1/100th of a second) and can perform even better over LANs with accuracies of 200 microseconds (1/5000th of a second) under ideal conditions.

NTP time servers work within the TCP/IP suite and rely on UDP (User Datagram Protocol). A less complex form of NTP called Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) that does not require the storing of information about previous communications, needed by NTP, is used in some devices and applications where high accuracy timing is not as important and is also included as standard in Windows software (although more recent versions of Microsoft Windows have the full NTP installed and the source code is free and readily available on the Internet).

Time synchronisation with NTP is relatively simple, it synchronises time with reference to a reliable clock source. This source could be relative (a computer’s internal clock or the time on a wrist-watch) or absolute (A UTC clock source, like an atomic clock, that is accurate as is humanely possible).

Atomic clocks are the most absolute time-keeping devices. They work on the principle that the atom, caesium-133, has an exact number of cycles of radiation every second (9,192,631,770). This has proved so accurate the International System of Units (SI) has now defined the second as the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation of the caesium-133 atom.

However, atomic clocks are extremely expensive and are generally only to be found in large-scale physics laboratories. However, NTP can synchronise networks to an atomic clock by using either the Global Positioning system (GPS) network or specialist radio transmission.

The most widely used is the GPS system which consists of a number of satellites providing accurate positioning and location information. Each GPS satellite can only do this by utilising an atomic clock which in turn can be can be used as a timing reference.

A typical GPS receiver can provide timing information to within a few nanoseconds of UTC as long as there is an antenna situated with a good view of the sky.

There are also a number of national time and frequency radio transmissions that can be used to synchronise a NTP server. In Britain the signal (called MSF) is broadcast by the National Physics Laboratory in Cumbria which serves as the United Kingdom’s national time reference, there are also similar systems in Colorado, US (WWVB) and in Frankfurt, Germany (DCF-77). These signals provides UTC time to an accuracy of 100 microseconds, however, the radio signal has a finite range and is vulnerable to interference.

The distance from the reference clock is known as the stratum levels and they exist to prevent cycles in the NTP and confirm accuracy. Stratum 0 are devices such as atomic clocks connected directly to a computer. Stratum 1 are computers attached to stratum 0 devices (like via a GPS receiver), while Stratum 2 are computers that send NTP requests to Stratum 1 servers. NTP can support up to 256 strata.

All Microsoft Windows versions since 2000 include the Windows Time Service (w32time.exe) which has the ability to synchronise the computer clock to an NTP server.

It should be noted that Microsoft recommend that external time references are used rather than Internet based ones as these can’t be authenticated. Specialist NTP servers are available that can synchronise time on networks using either the MSF (or equivalent) or GPS signal.

Do You Have an Attitude Problem in Your Network Marketing Business?

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:17:01 +0000

Do you have an attitude problem in your network marketing business? If so, read on.

Many times I have observed network marketers getting down on themselves and the industry as a whole. What usually happens is these frustrated networkers give the entire network marketing industry a bad reputation.

They are usually the people you see displaying ads all over the Internet saying “MLM Scam”, “MLM Lies”, or “MLM Sucks”.

These people are the first to blame others rather than blame themselves for their failure. It is unfortunate, but this is human nature. It’s incredibly hard to admit that we’ve made mistakes.

However, taking full responsibility for our failures is incredibly powerful. It liberates us and keeps us on the upward curve to massive success. You might have heard of the phrase “fail forward”. This is so true.

For example, let’s say you join a network marketing company and start your business. Let’s also say that you have no prior business experience or have never worked for yourself outside of a job.

What do you think your odds of achieving massive success in 60 days will be? For the average person the answer would be not great. Usually the people who achieve massive success within months in network marketing have a story. I can tell you they did not just start with no skills whatsoever. Because success does not happen that way. We grow into success, you first have to have the proper mental attitude for success. Next, you need to learn the proper skills.

What if it takes you a year just to develop a proper attitude?

In my life I finally started profiting in business when I developed a strong mental attitude. I have found that a good positive attitude comes across to your prospects when you are talking with them. They can pick up on your positive energy and are attracted to you and your ideas.

When I first started in business I was a major introvert and I had a bad attitude. I blamed others for my failures and I didn’t think I could accomplish great things.

What happened to me was a blessing in disguise, my mentor started me down a life changing journey. He encouraged me to read personal development books.

I remember like it was yesterday the first personal development book I read, “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki. This was the first time I was taught the difference between an asset and a liability. I then read books like The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Multiple streams of Income by Robert Allen, and the Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy.

I cannot begin to describe how my reading and studying of these great entrepreneurs changed my thinking and my self concept. My journey in personal development changed my attitude from a negative one to a positive one.

My advice to you if you are struggling is to get over it and do away with your bad attitude.

I agree with the great Jim Rohn when he says, “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” You have to begin working on yourself now! Working on yourself is the only way you will be able to achieve massive success. You need to grow into a leader not a whiner.

I hope I don’t sound too harsh, but I’m very serious about attitude. You have to become valuable if you want to create value in others. Creating value in others will explode your bank account. Trust me.

If your company let you down, find another one, if your sponsor let you down, find another one. Never stop growing or give up on your dreams. Just like me you can come out of your slump and achieve success.

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Social Networking ? the Next Big Marketing Media Shake-up!

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:20:18 +0000

Are New Age Media shaking up Old Values? The internet is creating cyber shockwaves in all facets of our lives. Including your 2nd lives…. so to speak. Look to Youtube, Facebook, MySpace, SecondLife to name a few, and in fact you could already be members of one or more of them. Below is a synopsis of each with statistics which hopefully will convince you the efficiency of such channels.

Facebook. This is a free-access website allows users to join one or more networks, such as a school, place of employment, or geographic region to easily connect and interact with other people. Users can post messages for their friends to see, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The website has more than 69 million active users worldwide and ranked 7th in Sept 07. It is the most popular website for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily.

MySpace.This is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. The 100 millionth account was created on August 6, 2006 in the Netherlands and a news story claimed 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006, and the site reportedly attracts 230,000 new registrations per day.

YouTube. This is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. It uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video-blogging and short original videos. In November 2006, Google Inc acquired the company for US$1.65 billion in Google stock. In July 2006, the company revealed that more than 100 million videos were being watched every day, and 2.5 billion videos were watched in June 2006. 50,000 videos were being added per day in May 2006, and this increased to 65,000 by July In January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users watched over 3 billion videos on YouTube.

Second Life (abbreviated as SL) is an Internet-based virtual world launched in 2003. A downloadable client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called “Residents”, to interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a meta verse. Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, have virtual sex, and create and trade items (virtual property) and services from one another. At the end of March 2008, approximately 13 million accounts were registered, although a large percentage of these are inactive & some Residents have multiple accounts. In January 2008, residents spent 28,274,505 hours, so on average about 38,000 residents were logged on at any particular moment.

What actually do you see in common? You see social-centric sites which attempt to create communities via word of mouth. Each site offers unique and compelling reasons for you to become members of their respective communities with each site sharing different values and beliefs.

It uses what we might call a viral marketing approach which taps on the social networks to increase brand awareness of the site with the eventual goal to market or sell a product. Viral marketing is in essence, the power of word-of-mouth approach exemplified by the networking effects of the internet.

The most compelling reason of all, that as true marketers you should note in the above information, is the massive amount of traffic generated within these sites which serve as great business opportunities which you can’t afford to ignore.

Here is a parting note to all marketers. At the end of 1st quarter 2008, simply by count of the above major social networking platforms, there is a massive 270 million users (but assuming duplicate accounts in various site) giving rise to viral marketing potentials.

Food for thought to you, imagine being able to capture simply 0.1% of that count for your business.

Yoshiko Choy is an entrepreneur and a management consultant in business & marketing with 17 years of experience in Locals & MNCs as well as an avid online marketer. She holds an Executive MBA from the California State University. Read about business & marketing management trends at http://www.businessfast4ward.com. Get the latest reviews and updates on niche marketing, visit http://www.onlinenichemarketing.org.

Exploring the Online Marketing Network

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:23:33 +0000

Since its appearance, the internet and worldwide web has attracted a lot of attention. One of the main benefits is that no matter what the size of the business, whether large or small, the same amount of exposure can be gained by both. It can be an inexpensive and cost effective medium to use in today’s high tech business world. Essentially the internet can be considered a huge sales channel aimed at the consumer.

An incredible amount of exposure can be gained through the internet, with a business owner reaching millions of potential customers. Compared to other, more conventional forms of advertising, the internet is far less expensive. For the cost of one days classified ads in the local newspaper, the online network marketer can get a website built and up and running for a whole year. This has the benefits of not only reaching the local market, as in the case of the newspaper, but also the region, country or even worldwide market. Because of the personal interaction an online prospect has, the online marketing networker will get far more attention than through other forms of media.

Due to the high tech view of the internet, many people feel very uneasy about using it. However, the technological side of the internet is not the main issue here. For online marketing networkers the main issue is that it provides a personalised atmosphere for your prospects, allowing you to build close one-on-one relationships with many people.

To do online marketing effectively, the internet requires a unique set of rules and regulations. Online consumers actively seek out information, unlike conventional advertising where a message is sent to a target market and the recipient of this information then chooses to act or ignore the information. It must be understood though that internet marketing is not a get rich quick scheme. Success is reliant on gaining a full understanding of the concept as well as the hard work involved the need for attention to detail and the constant promotional activity required to make it work. You do not need to worry about fancy graphics to be successful; it is about providing valuable, quality information specific to the industry, presenting a professional marketing image and having a reliable hosting service so that the information you provide is fast and easy to download.

A different approach is required by the online marketing networker in the development of their website. Here a re 4 tips to help in this process:

1:- Including quality, active copy when building your website. The only aim of this is to obtain mare leads, make more sales and to increase profitability. The use of good, fine graphics and scripts, although not essential, will make your site richer and more appealing to your visitors.

2:- The use of powerful and proven marketing strategies and techniques will allow your website to recognise excellent results and also at the same time cutting your online marketing costs.

3:- Transform your online marketing network website into a lucrative money making vehicle by constantly improving and adjusting it.

4:- Online marketing exposure can be increased by using customised and up to date marketing campaigns. This will help secure consistently high results from your sales and marketing efforts.

The online marketing networker needs to be constantly looking at what they are doing and tweaking their campaigns in an effort to remain visible and be seen to be a market expert.

Mark Watson of MarkWatson2008.com is a successful internet marketer working form home with some for the top marketers and leaders. For more information visit http://wwwMarkWatson2008.com

Mike Dillard Ace Network Marketer? or a Fool?

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:26:46 +0000

Hey face it, some people hate Mike Dillard. Others would follow him to the end of the earth. Who is Mike Dillard? Well for those of you not in network marketing yet, he was the first to come up with a system for effective network marketing.

For 20 years mlm companies have been selling people a bill of goods. They tell all the members of their organizations to buy business cards and make a list of friends and family. And to start
telling them all about the opportunity. Selling to people who never were even interested is a waste of time and it wont be long before they will avoid you like a plague.

Mlm companies will tell you just send people to your replicated company site and let their
million dollar design sell for you. But what do people see when they get there, the same exact
website that everyone else sends them to.

Nothing unique here, nothing personal about you. Network marketing is not like standard marketing. This is personal, people are not buying your opportunity. They are buying into you as a leader who can help them and show them how to make money in this business. So you need your own custom pages that sell you before the mlm program.

All you want them to do is see you know what you are talking about, see you can help them, show them the benefits of mlm and residual wealth.

You just want them to opt in and give you their contact info. Or even better call you for more
information. This is networking. It requires personal contact with people in your downline and
your prospects. If you are not calling people daily, you are not going to be as effective in
this business.

Mike Dillard may not have been the first to come up with this type of network marketing approach but he has mastered it and offers a complete system that will run for you 24 hours a day, pulling leads to you and putting them in your list.

It is simple and the best part is, people get what they want free information that will help any
network marketer. Even better everyone you send through this system including the 90% who don’t opt in will see an excellent low priced product just for them. If only a few of 100 visitors buy this product, guess what, your ad costs are now paid for.

This is a generic system that Mike Dillard has put together so it appeals to anyone in network
marketing. It gets them into a marketing funnel for you and does all the work for you. You get
commissions for sales AND fresh leads in your own list.

Mike Dillard’s system will work no matter what kind of mlm opportunity you are currently in or
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Get the Most Out of Online Networking During Your Executive Job Search

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:29:59 +0000

By now, you may have heard of-and even utilized-online social networking through the various sites available to the technically savvy, including Plaxo, LinkedIn, Naymz, Twitter, FaceBook, Ryze, and a host of others. However, you may not have realized the intensity that using these powerhouses can have on your job search.

To spell it out most succinctly, preserving job mobility, whether you’re merely maintaining your professional value or actively seeking your next leadership role, is core to stayed employed in one form or another. And, as you’ll find, the robust qualities and rapidly growing population of leading online networking sites make them a gold mine of opportunities for doing precisely that.

Most executives who have accessed these sites simply log in, create a profile, wander around a bit, and place a few connections. This, according to many social networking experts, means you may be missing out on the true value.

After all, executive recruiters WILL be looking for information about you on the Web. Maintaining a fresh, well-connected profile ensures that YOU will be in charge of what the world reads about your background.

Here are 5 tips that will bring your online networking knowledge up to speed and allow you to maximize your efforts during a career transition:

1 – Build your profile information carefully. After creating a profile, typically a simple process that allows you to edit key pieces of information, you’ll notice that most sites allow you to add a professional summary. This is where I’d advise against simply using the classic summary information on your executive resume.

Instead, create a bullet-point list of career highlights that includes some of your skills, your leadership expertise in particular areas, and your top achievements.

Remember that what you add is searchable by others who might be looking for you. This means that executive recruiters can search for you by occupation and location, so be sure to add a title such as “Chief Technology Officer” or “Operations Director” to generate hits on your profile.

My recommendation? Log in, and take a look around at others’ profiles to gain some ideas.

2 – Maintain visibility. When you first sign up, most networking sites will remind you to add connections through email addresses. Don’t limit this activity to your first sign-in! Keep on adding connections, rather than merely dumping the contents of your email address book in once and then forgetting about it.

Frequently finding others with which to connect serves two purposes: it keeps your profile on top of Web searches for your name (since search engines love fresh content), and it maintains a business presence for those who read your profile.

3 – Use the site search functions to aid your job hunt. One of the best-kept strategies for approaching contacts is this: after identifying a target company where you want to work, analyze a networking site to find company insiders, especially HR resources or, better yet, C-suite executives interested in your leadership skills.

Send your resume by the method requested on the company’s website, and then send an additional note to the contacts you find. Be sure to indicate that you have already sent a resume, and wanted to use the networking site to forward another letter of interest to them.

4 – Avail yourself of the extra functions. Some sites, such as LinkedIn, contain engines that allow you to have additional job search capability at your fingertips through access to major job boards.

In addition, LinkedIn and other sites contain forums where you can view and participate in question-and-answer activity with other membersfurther establishing your reputation as an expert and thought leader in your field.

5 – Regularly educate yourself on the optimum usage of each site. There are numerous ways to promote yourself as a leadership candidate using social networking sites-and someone is constantly coming up with more methods.

You can easily access training curriculums, blogs, and other resources that will bring you up to speed. In fact, enhancing your online presence has never been easier!

For example, Jason Alba’s book, “I’m On LinkedIn, Now What???” (check it out at http://happyabout.info/linkedinhelp.php), offers an in-depth look at the power of this popular site for professionals and executives in career transition.

In short, it pays to be aware of the impact your online presence can have on your job search. Accelerate your efforts by maintaining a profile that may prove to be instrumental to your success.

Resume authority and job search coach Laura Smith-Proulx, CCMC, CPRW, CIC, is the Executive Director of An Expert Resume and Executive Resume Expert, career services firms that cater to organizational leaders. She is a former corporate recruiter who works with executives and managers to present a powerful and compelling leadership brand.

Social Networking and Gaming Collide

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:33:18 +0000

Casual games are making connections with social networks to make a play for even bigger audiences.

The reach of online casual games is already impressive: One-third of people ages 6 to 44 have played them, according to market tracker The NPD Group. Globally, casual games on PCs, game systems and handhelds, played online and off, generate about $2.25 billion annually, according to the Casual Games Association.

In the past two months, two new online gaming hubs, Cafe and Mytopia, have launched with features that let players connect with friends on the Web and through various social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, as well as Bebo and Hi5.

The website Cafe features drawing game Sketch-It!, along with the more traditional Concentration and Sudoku; players can buy game “boosts” and outfit “Mini-Me” avatars. Mytopia focuses on traditional games such as backgammon and dominoes, and also has virtual currency for prizes and upgrades.

Two popular existing networks, Zynga and Social Gaming Network, have begun adding their games as applications on social networks. More such combinations are on the way, because the revenue potential from advertising, subscriptions and virtual items is enormous. It’s a huge audience, and there are a lot of different experiments on the Web taking on elements of gaming and the traditional social network.

Social Gaming Network, which opened in August, has seen its WarBook game attract more than 33,600 daily users on Facebook since becoming an application last fall. You have free access to all these users looking for fun and engaging experiences with their friends. We’re connecting them in ways that wasn’t really possible before.

Over the past two months, since gaming hub Zynga made its games such as Texas Hold’em and Scramble available on Facebook, its audience has grown from 1 million to 2.3 million players daily.

Historically, games such as Popcap Games’ Bejeweled helped fuel casual games’ growth in versions for the Web, cellphones, handhelds and game systems. Electronic Arts’ Pogo rose as a dominant casual games hub that began offering subscriptions (currently 1.62 million) as well as downloadable games.

New social communities specifically geared for gaming like Zowned have risen. Zowned allows members to mingle, create profiles, learn about the latest and greatest information on upcoming and current games. Members can view and share pictures, videos and music. Zowned has a very large arcade where members can play their favorite Java games. Although in its infant stages the Zowned website and community may very well set the standard for social gaming communities in the future.

Bryan Braning is an internet marketer and team member of the Ultimate Gaming Community Zowned.com

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Using an Ip Network Camera to Monitor Your Home

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:36:25 +0000

With security being a topic on most peoples’ minds, many wonder what the best way is to monitor their home and belongings. Various security systems exist and using a combined home security system with surveillance cameras can add extra protection against intruders.

IP Network Camera Placement

Choosing the location to install your IP surveillance cameras should be researched and tested. The location should have a broad viewing angle of the area you are looking to monitor. If multiple IP cameras are required to view the whole room, be sure to place them where they don’t overlap, however, to catch every aspect of the room.

Lighting is also a concern. The room should have sufficient lighting allowing the IP camera to have a clear vision of what is happening and who is intruding. When purchasing an IP camera for low lit rooms, be sure to check the lux rating. The lower the lux rating of the IP camera, the better picture it will give in low light. If the room is completely dark, purchasing an infrared (IR) sensitive IP camera would be wise as these can work in zero lighting conditions.

Wireless Connectivity

One of the main benefits of IP network cameras, is the ability to have a wireless connection to your home network. Considering wireless networks are very popular nowadays as many people use laptops, it will be easy to also install your wireless IP camera to your existing network. This will also limit the amount of wires running to the camera as it will only require a power cable.

Remote Viewing

Using IP cameras for home security offers the ability to view the cameras remotely from any location using a standard web browser. By configuring your home network to allow remote access to the IP cameras, you can login securely to each camera to view live video and access PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom) controls if supported by your camera. This gives you peace of mind knowing everything is safe back home.

Most IP cameras also support motion detection with alerts via email, SMS text messaging or other means. Having this configured on your camera, will give you the added bonus of being alerted when motion is detected. You can then login to the cameras remotely to view what is happening.

Remote Recording

With traditional CCTV (Closed Circuit Television Cameras), video recordings would be taped to a local VCR or DVR (Digital Video Recorder). If the intruder wanted to find the video recording, it would be possible for him to destroy any video evidence if it was located on the premises. Remote recording is possible for IP cameras. There are a few ways of doing this.

Remote PC – By setting up a remote PC at another location with Internet access, you could install IP camera recording software to monitor and record from each IP camera simultaneously. You could do straight 24/7 recording or on motion detection.

IP Camera Hosting Services – Remote Recording services can also be purchased from professional companies that securely record from your IP cameras to a remote secure location. An example of a company that offers these services is Network Webcams.

Outdoor Monitoring

IP surveillance cameras can also be placed outdoors using enclosures. Like indoor cameras, you will want to place them where they can view the entire monitoring area and have access to power and ethernet if required. Outdoor lighting will also be an issue as the camera will require proper lighting. Only certain outdoor IP surveillance cameras support infrared (IR) as most infrared IP cameras will reflect off the glass of the enclosure and give a white image. If infrared is required, purchase an outdoor infrared IP camera that comes with the enclosure attached as this will give the best image considering the enclosure is built for infrared. Another option is to use external IR illuminators which attach to the outside of the enclosure.

Using an IP camera to monitor your home will give you many benefits and the peace of mind knowing your home and belongings are safe.

http://www.networkwebcams.com specializes in IP Cameras, Network Cameras, Internet Cameras, Video Servers and Networked CCTV Recording Software and solutions. The directors of Network Webcams have been in the network video industry since it first appeared around 1996/97. Their knowledgeable staff can help you find the right IP surveillance product or platform to meet your needs.

Why Network Marketing Has A Natural Affinity with Internet Marketing

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When you mention the words network marketing or multi level marketing, you can sometimes feel a shield of steel rise the moment you mention the phrase as it conjures up fear in people that they are about to be subjected to a prolonged half an hour of hard selling tactics, miracle cure vitamins and an offer to seek out a hotel conference room next Thursday at 8.00pm when all will become clear about the amazing opportunity that leads to financial freedom.

The funny thing about being part of the network marketing industry is that it has an image problem. It has a history of being full of pit-bull type salespeople who seem to have no fear of anyone or anything, let alone rejection, which is the number one fear for most people. Do not forget the leaders in this business spend hours simply being rejected just to count down the numbers to their known conversion rate of 2 or 3 yes replies from the 200 or more previous no responses.

Objection handling is an art-form and a necessary part of the sales process, but you have to question the sometimes over zealous tactics of the pit-bulls in the context of the well informed consumers of today. They can now research extensively about any company, some individuals if they choose, products and benefits all by themselves. If the consumer wishes to make a purchase, they usually will as a matter of their own free choice, and if they are looking for a business opportunity, they will use the same sort of research the Internet and media provides to find something that would suit their pockets, passions and goals. Personal recommendation is always still a number one priority, as is social proof; however in both cases these should be genuine and trustworthy.

Having discovered that by using the power of the Internet combined with a powerful network marketing business a new wave and refreshing change has swept through the industry with the increased use of WEB 2.0 marketing strategies in particular.

The real success in network marketing is in duplicating what the successful people in your business have done. By learning to duplicate their methods and strategies over a period of time you will receive the same successes. The major flaw in this theory is exposed when you begin to realise there is a massive 95% failure rate within most new people joining their businesses within the first few months. Quite clearly, based on those statistics you would conclude that the methods of duplicating the high levels of success of the leaders is either not fully explained or demonstrated clearly enough or is not actually duplicable at all.

Thankfully one or two of the new wave network marketing companies have made this problem their focus and have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars investing in fully duplicable marketing systems,videos and manuals, together with extensive audio and visual training calls on a daily basis in the best opportunities which means that anyone wishing to once again utter the phrase that they are in network marketing can do so by not only holding their head up high, but with added confidence that the training and support that they were promised is being delivered one hundred percent through the strong marketing system.

Whatever network marketing business you are in, put the emphasis on the word business and shout it out loud. The internet just levelled the playing field and the opportunity is wide open right now for anyone to use internet marketing to build their business, all you have to do is to start.

Diane Cossie has decided to stop waiting for her ship to come in and decided to swim out to meet it. She has continues her passive income march to financial freedom with her primary business Carbon Copy Pro. For more information about the opportunity visit: http://www.dianecossie-carboncopypro.com