So what should you do to get rich ?

Save your money. Save as much money as you possibly can. Every penny you can. Instead of coffee, drink water. Instead of going to McDonalds, eat Mac and Cheese. Cut up your credit cards. If you use a credit card, you dont want to be rich. The first step to getting rich, requires discipline. If you really want to be rich, you need to find the discipline, can you ?

If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich. Yeah you have to give things up and that doesn’t work for everyone, particularly if you have a family. That is reality. But whatever you can save, save it. As much as you possibly can. Then put it in 6 month CDs in the bank.

The first step to getting rich is having cash available. You arent saving for retirement. You are saving for the moment you need cash. Buy and hold is a suckers game for you. This market is a perfect example. Right at the very moment when cash creates unbelievable opportunity, those who followed the buy and hold strategy have no cash. they cant or wont sell into markets this low, that kills the entire point of buy and hold. Those who have put their money in CDs sleep well at night and definitely have more money today than they did yesterday. And because they are smart, disciplined shoppers, their personal rate of inflation is within their means. Cash is king for those wanting to get rich

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Summary: Known as one of the best web development and web hosting companies across the globe, ‘Page Alive’ now offers high quality web design at all time low prices. The affordable smart design offered by the company perfectly matches the needs of all website owners. In addition, all the website designs made by the team of designers here, are web 2.0 savvy and smart.

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The mission of Page Alive is to provide effective and efficient web design to clients and find solutions for all your site needs at affordable prices. They have been providing quality designs to websites since the year 2006 and help businesses get the desired results.

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Summary: Well-known for providing the most advanced web hosting solutions, DWHS has now announced a basic reseller web hosting package for only $18.99 a month. This package also comes with a 45-day money back guarantee. You can upgrade or degrade the plan at anytime for no extra charge.

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As we know that reseller web hosting (http://www.dwhs.net/reseller-hosting.htm) offers one of the most cost-effective ways for hosting a website since it is nothing but reselling a hosting service by an intermediate user. Many people have started using this service to make a residual income. Hence the basic reseller web-hosting package offered by DWHS will help many to promote their services efficiently and make a very productive business out of reseller hosting.

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About DWHS:

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Online shopping is better for the inviroment

Fully 35% of respondents believed that online shopping is better for the environment than store shopping. Even better for online retailers, 60% of those who believed in the environmental merits of online shopping said they would shop online more as part of a greener lifestyle. This knowledge is pooping up new trends like green shopping.

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I’ve been working from home for three years. I started in 2005, when I left a cube-farm commuter job and joined a small company based about an hour’s drive from my house. The plan was to commute in as needed, perhaps once a week, but work from home most of the time.

I had no idea, absolutely no friggin’ clue, how much it was gonna suck. My typical day went like this:

* get up
* check company IRC, say good morning, make sure nothing’s on fire yet
* lunch, maybe some scrabble or a TV show
* meeting about something. with phone muted, can watch youtube videos
* work some more, but with more interruptions
* dinner, hopefully in proximity to another human
* hack on the side project du jour
* go to sleep

This post is half of a pair of posts on working from home. I’m giving you the bad news first. Here’s the most important thing you should know:

It’s not just a matter of feeling lonely: all kinds of emotions depend on regular, face-to-face human interaction, and you run a serious risk of becoming unproductive, uninspired, and even depressed without it.

Let me reiterate: feeling lonely at work isn’t the only–or even the primary–way that working from home screws you. Well before your soul starts to scream with loneliness — which might never happen if you have family or friends you see regularly — you will suffer from being alone.

The first thing to go is probably motivation. For this you can blame a massive cut in feedback. In an office you get feedback constantly. At the coffee pot in the morning, eye contact shows interest in your latest tasks, or nods express sympathy about difficult colleagues and bosses. When you have a question about something, your coworker’s eyes and facial expressions will tell you, consciously or subconsciously, if you’re sounding smart or stupid. Chances are, you depend on this feedback more than you realize. You need it both for work-specific communication, which is easy to see, and for maintaining your self-image, esteem, and motivation–which is harder to see because the mechanisms are subconscious.

You don’t get rich feedback when communicating over a phone, email, or text chat. No facial expressions; no idea whether a persons eyes are wandering or locked on; maybe some hint of tone of voice. All this feedback is distilled and distilled away when you’re not there to pick it up in person, and this will affect you quickly and constantly if you work remotely.

You might say, ah, the hell with it, I’ll learn to live without that feedback. After all, doesn’t Paul Graham say that people with “unlimited self-generated morale” are almost guaranteed to succeed? Don’t you want to be like that?

Chances are, you could be more determined. But there are very few people — perhaps mostly sociopaths and the autistic — who can pursue a goal indefinitely without feedback. Be aware of the feedback you need, and work on making it possible. And remember that when you’re considering working from home, you’re going to tear away a lot of that feedback.

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Logo design in today’s world is totally under rated.

People do not understand how important a good logo is and how valuable it is to their business.

In this article I am going to outline the ways in which you should NOT go about getting your logo designed… that is, if you are truly serious about business.

What is A Logo?

To understand what a logo is meant to do, we first must know what a logo is. A logo’s design is for immediate recognition, inspiring trust, admiration, loyalty and an implied superiority. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic entity, and its shapes, colours, fonts, and images usually are different from others in a similar market. Logos are also used to identify organizations and other non-commercial entities.

It makes me wonder why people have no logo or why they would even bother with a cheap logo design if a logo is meant to do all of these things?

Logo Design Contests

The worst deal you could probably go for is a logo design contest. Logo design contests are where you give a brief and then you have multiple designers come back to you with their designs. Although this sounds like a mighty good deal, the quality is usually far from anything you would want to represent your business.

You will be wasting your money and in the long term, in terms of damage done to your business, that amount could be quite considerable.

On another note, design contests & designers who design on a speculative basis are damaging the design industry as designers should not have to invest time and resources with no guarantee of payment.

If you want further proof, read these articles: Logo Design Contests Are Bad For Business or The Reality of Logo Design Contests.

Too Good To Be True Deals

If you do a search on ‘logo design’ on google you will find many businesses offering logo designs for very cheap and unbelievable prices. Such deals as “5 design concepts from 5 designers!” or “6 logos from 5 designers only $200″ – Stay away!

These deals are extremely deceiving and the quality is far from satisfactory. Have you ever wondered how much thought they actually put into your logo design? Professional logo designers have a strict logo design process that can take weeks or in some cases months to complete a logo. They may offer you a result within 24 hours or maybe even less meaning literally no thought was put into your logo design.

Stock Imagery

Some so called “designers” (usually the same people who enter design contests) steal images from stock sites to design your logo… or in some cases business owners download and use the stock images themselves. This is a huge no-no. Did you know that stock imagery gets downloaded by thousands of people? This should be reason enough not to use stock imagery as your logo.

If you do this, other people will have access to your logo design and can and will use it in places that will potentially devalue your business. Ensure your logo design is original.

Do It Yourself Logo Design

Closely linked to the stock imagery scenario above, business owners or those wanting a logo will try to do it themselves. I highly recommend against this and suggest you leave the design to a professional, much as you would leave your dental work to a dentist.

Free Logo Makers

You will find many free online logo makers on the web. Not only do these logos look unprofessional, hundreds of other people could have the same logo as you and what is the point of that? These logos have no thought, concept or memorability about them, they are merely symbols.

They say nothing about your business and do nothing that a logo is supposed to do… I repeat, stay away from free logo makers.

Getting A Design Without Feedback

Before approving and implementing a design, ensure you get feedback from your clients, peers, and stakeholders. Getting feedback on a design is a crucial part of the logo design process as it ensures that your logo is going to be successful.

Take these poor phallic logo designs above. I wonder if they realized their logos had such hidden meaning? Ensure you don’t turn out like this by getting a professionally designed logo.

What is the cost of a professional logo design?

The cost of a professional logo design is a question that cannot be easily answered as every company has different needs, however, the best way to approach this problem is to draw up a customized quote for each individual.

A number of factors have to be taken into consideration when designing a logo, such as how many logo concepts need to be presented, how many revisions are required, how much research is needed, the size of the business and so on.

To wrap up, I’d like to quote a comparison by David Airey: Comparing the design industry to any other is by no means exact, but the, “How much for a logo?” question is kind of like asking an estate agent, “How much for a house?”.

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SiteLab’s Top 10 Reasons to Redesign Your Company Website
If you haven’t taken a close look at your website lately or checked out competitors’ websites, you could be missing out! A new site redesign may become your competitive advantage to growing your business. It could be the answer to low sales conversions or an increase in new traffic to your website. Here are a few reasons as to why a website redesign is worth the time and effort.

1. Rookie or a Pro? – The site looks amateurish and parts of the site are broken.
Recent studies have shown that people form an opinion of a website within the first three seconds of viewing it. Make sure your customer’s first impression is of a professional business rather than someone who isn’t serious about what they’re selling.

2. Is this thing on? – The site doesn’t ask viewers to do something.
If you’re selling a product, you need to ask your visitors to click a link to buy the product. If you’re selling a service, you need to ask your viewers to submit a form and contact you to get a free quote. Give your customer an easy way to take action.

3. One and done – Viewers don’t have a reason to return to your site.
Give visitors a reason to return, whether it is a great article, or seasonal coupons, or a blog. Make your website an important part of your customers lives.

4. So last year – The information on the site is obviously dated.
It is an unfortunate fact for organizations that websites show their age if left unattended. Considerable damage can be done to your reputation if customers discover that information or products on your web site are out of date. Worse still, incorrect. If your website is out of date consider using some kind of content management system, appropriate for the job, to keep it fresh. If the design looks like it is from 1999, your customers will move on to a competitor.

5. This is taking forever to load!?!? – The pictures on the site aren’t “optimized.”
You may have photos on your site that you took yourself. This can cause major problems for viewers. If your site is full of huge pictures that take forever to download and look bad once they do, viewers will leave and never come back.

6. Quick Info – The body text is too long.
Reading text on a computer screen is harder on the eyes than reading from a piece of paper. The font shouldn’t be too small or too large, and the typeface should be one that’s easy to read on a screen. If you have a lot to say about your company then find unique ways to direct viewers to the information rather than one huge long block of text. You can also add headings and subheads which help optimize your site for search engines.

7. I found you – Get Better Search Engine Optimization For Your Website
Chances are that you probably have your website listed in search engine databases. However, what does it matter if you’re not listed on page 1 of search results?  The vast majority of searchers never go beyond page 1 of search results.  This makes it imperative that your website rank on page 1 for the most desirable search terms.  Identify your top search terms, then make sure these terms appear throughout your website in body copy, links, headlines, etc.  If you have a lot of target keywords, take a more strategic approach and target certain pages for certain keywords.  Make sure to stay on top of which keywords are the best as these will change over time.  For the best search engine optimization results, you should definitely consider having your website redesigned.

8. 404 Error – The site is down or can’t be found.
If your site can’t be found by anyone, what good is it doing you? If the problem is that your site is constantly down, consider a new hosting service.  If you can’t be found on the web it may be because your website was not designed with keywords, alt tags and the best title tags. Search engine optimization is the answer. You may also need links to your site from other sites or website marketing. Don’t forget ideas such as direct mail to get your website name out there.

9. If you can’t beat them join them? – Your website looks like all your competitors websites
How unique is your website? If someone is researching your product category will they be wowed over by your website? Does it have something your competitors don’t such as useful articles or an engaging design? Are you leveraging the lastest in Web 2.0?

10. Are you a luxury brand? – The design of your website doesn’t reflect your company image.
Sometimes it’s the use of color, typefaces or special artwork that makes your website reflect your image. If your customer buys your product because it is fun – do you come across as fun? Whether your company is conservative, elegant, innovative, kid-friendly or something els, make sure your website fits.

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Does this mean to throw out former marketing methods and join the masses? Social networking is part of marketing but you must communicate to your consumer no matter what means possible.

As major companies like Disney hire bloggers to spread the word about events, as said by the Vice President Mrs, Wiley says. “Focus on the consumer” ” Reach them where they are”

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