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2011-02-06T07:34:00.000-08:00

3 Easy Steps Avoiding Home Business Scams

2011-02-06T07:29:00.000-08:00

Over the past 10 years or so the home business industry has literally exploded. As the home business industry approaches the $500 billion mark scams are popping up everywhere. Unfortunately, more and more people are falling victim to these scam artists and as a result vowing never again to try and realize their dreams of working from home. People seem to be living by the old saying, "scam me once, shame on you. Scam me twice, shame on me." Once a person has been scammed there is a natural thought process that warns maybe all home business opportunities are scams. After all, almost everybody knows somebody that has lost money in an MLM scam.

If you were to do an online search for, "home business opportunities," it would take you a couple of days to read all the ads. Most of which are either misleading or just outright lies. It seems almost impossible to figure out which ones are legitimate and which ones are scams.

However, there is a way to sift through all the scams to find those little nuggets that can help you be well on your way to making money from home. Here are a few tips that can help you avoid scams and find the real winners.

1. Most scams are never "upfront" with explaining how you will actually make money. Most ads will say, "no selling, no phone calls, no work," as if they want you to think money is going to fall out of thin air. Always remember, no one is going to make a dime until some sort of product or service is sold.

2. Most scams do not offer any type of support either by phone or email. You will need help getting your business up and running on the right track. If someone has developed a really good business model they will be glad to help you to succeed.

3. Here is the biggest tip off that you are about to be scammed. Do they offer a no questions asked, money back guarantee? If not, stay as far away as you can get. Any good business developer knows that no business appeals to everyone. If they truly have confidence in their business model, they have nothing to lose by offering you a full guarantee.

Following these few simple steps can save you worlds of time and give you the confidence you need to move forward. Don't let a bad past experience keep you from accomplishing your dreams and goals.

How to add Instant Messaging to your Blogger blog?

2011-02-03T21:51:00.000-08:00

Plugoo Widget enables your website visitors (blog, social network profile, online shop…) to get in touch with you in real time, directly on your Instant Messenger (MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM, ICQ, Jabber…). If your messenger status is online, visitors can send you an instant message through the Plugoo Buddy in your messenger buddy list. You can thus chat with them, answer their questions or comments Live!

Your visitors need neither to download any software, nor to create an account before they can contact you. They never have access to your instant messaging information (username). And conversation between a visitor and you is strictly private – other simultaneous visitors on the website don’t see the conversation. You don’t have to change your habits, you keep using your favorite messenger on your desktop or from your mobile phone.

How does Plugoo work?

On your blog, personal website or online shop, you embed a Plugoo. Visitors on your website can see the Plugoo and write through it a message for you.

As this Plugoo is directly connected to your Instant Messenger, it forwards you in real time all the messages your website visitors can send to you. You reply to your visitors from your Messenger while they are currently browsing your website.

You can also use myPlugoo, a simple link http://www.myPlugoo.com/... to let your friends IM you from any web site, email or blog. For instance, you can add this link to your email signatures or to your blog/forum comments… This way, your emails recipients or other Net surfer have the opportunity to pop-up your Plugoo Widget with just one click and start a LIVE conversation with you!

Chatting with several visitors at a time

You can handle five simultaneous conversations with five different visitors. When you’re already chatting with one visitor and a second one wants to chat with you, you will receive an invitation in your Messenger conversation window to pop-up the multi-conversations Plugoo Module (if you activated the Plugoo Multichat Mode – to activate this option, sign in at www.Plugoo.com and click “My settings”, then choose the option “Multiple”).

Thus, you will be able to chat with five visitors at a time (visitors from any of your websites). The Plugoo’s name appears above the conversation window on the multi-conversations Plugoo Module so that you can identify the origin of the conversation.

Website: http://www.plugoo.com/

Linkwithin Related Post Widget Review

2011-01-27T23:52:00.000-08:00

As any other blogger, I have explored several ways to install random or relevant articles widgets on this blog, trying to attract the readers not just with the information, they came for through the search engine, but also offering them a chance to stumble on some of my older posts. Until recently, I could not find one, which really made impact on my stats…

Before I installed LinkWithin widget… I tried it on one of the blogs, then on other… The results of the investigation were quite positive. From a technical standpoint, the widgets are working flawlessly on all of blogs, I have embedded them to. And now I would definitely recommend them for anyone who has been blogging long enough to build a decent collection of articles.

LinkWithin is blog widget that creates 3-5 links to your related older posts from your blog, looking for appropriate titles, keywords, and text, which matches more or less your recent publication. It puts a thumbnail picture under your posts or just plain text links, if the adequate posts with images could not be located on your blog. So by putting LinkWithin in your blog, you encourage your reader to see some of your blog posts, they would most likely miss without this hint. This is the known SEO (Search Engine Optimization) approach of interlinking your posts.

The main features of the LinkWithin widget:

It's Free.
No Sign-up required.
No Advertisement Included.
Fast to install (less than 5 minutes)
Good SEO tactic.
Simple and Elegant Design.
Works fine, with no glitches.

The plugin is available for Wordpress, Typepad, and Blogger platforms. The instructions for installing the widget on Blogger were nice and clear. There are also instructions which tailor it to different types of platforms. Note that you are provided clear instructions only when you provide email address and blog web address. You have also options to mark if you have a dark text on light background, or light text on dark background, so that will help to match widget appearance to your blog theme.

Actually, you can see the possible output at the bottom of this and any other posts on this page.

Highly Recommended!

Website: http://www.linkwithin.com/learn

Freeware Google PageRank Checker

2011-01-18T20:48:00.000-08:00

Google is the most popular search engine, and there is a common consensus that Google PageRank is one of the most important characteristics of the website or blog in relation to the ability to drive quality traffic.

07 Google PageRank Checker is free software that will allow you to monitor Google PageRank on all your websites and on any other competitive websites, allowing you to make prompt adjustments to your strategy. The software allows to checks Google PageRank on multiple websites at the same time. It will automatically access Google Search engine datacenter to query PageRank. There is no need to install Google Toolbar to use the software.

Publisher: http://www.1-search-engine-marketing.net

Direct Download: http://www.1-search-engine-marketing.net/download/GPCSetup.zip

OS Requirements: Windows 98/2000/2003/XP or later.

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2011-01-12T20:22:00.000-08:00

In some cases, you may need to use large scale and high resolution images to explain better the material you are presenting in your post. However, you have certain limitation on the images size, resolution, and format, you may upload or embed. The new service Zoom.It will allow you to bypass any limitations, and you can present image of any size or complexity.

Zoom.it is a free service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery. You give us the link to any image on the web, and we give you a beautiful new way to experience it — along with a nice short URL.

How it works

Zoom.it converts your image to the Deep Zoom format, which lets you smoothly and efficiently explore the whole image, no matter how large is it. Zoom.it runs on Windows Azure and enhances the experience with Microsoft Silverlight when available.

How to use

Upload image you like to share on any online file storage site. Save the link to the image for future use. Note that you can actually provide also links to PDFs, SVGs and even regular webpages.
Paste the link into the textbox on the page http://zoom.it/pages/create and hit "Create" button.
Wait for rendering completion, and you can view instantly the resulting Zoom.it image, which you can share with anyone through short URL, or by embedding the viewer directly onto your own blog.

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2011-01-07T10:19:00.000-08:00

Many of you use third party twitter follow me buttons, well that's a matter of choice, just in case if you were wondering if twitter itself has some official buttons, then log in to your twitter account and check out the buttons, maybe you would be tempted to use one.

Tweet Button for Blogger

2011-01-07T09:56:00.000-08:00

Twitter's official tweet button is here, you can find the button on the page http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton ,
You can get a small button like the one below

First you can optionally customizable your twitter button :

Next Enter your twitter username account in the first textbox :

That will generate the code which needs to be added to blogger, Just go into the layouts and add the code to javascript/html plugin and you are done.

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2011-01-05T22:27:00.000-08:00

One of the ways to treat your readers is giving them an easy ability to download your posts as PDF files with a single click. The PDF outcome files are free of any advertising and you also can get full access to your stats so you know what articles downloaded most, etc.

The site, giving this nice option is Web2PDF Online.

Join the site through the following link: http://web2.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/web/signup.asp
The next step after you sign up is to set the Conversion Options for your "Save page as PDF" button.

Paper Orientation: Portrait or Landscape

Paper Margins (Top, Bottom, Left, Right): Specify the paper margins in inches

To see how the PDF is going to look like, simply type the URL of your web page and click on the "Convert to PDF" button.

Tip: You can always use this feature to convert any web page into PDF for any other purposes.

Next, click on the "Generate the JavaScript" button to generate the JavaScript necessary to embed the "Save page as PDF" button in your website.

The last step is to copy-and-paste the JavaScript within the body tags of your web page(s), exactly where you want the button to show up.

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2010-12-29T00:01:00.000-08:00

If you plan to bring more interactive communication to your blog, you may be interesting in embeddable free forum offered by Tal.ki , so your visitors can have discussions right in your site.

Main Advantages

No account registration needed. Your forum will be integrated with Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other services so members can skip registration.
Engage your website's visitors. Turn passive blog and content readers into participating members, contributing content.
Make your website stickier. Forums tend to keep people on a website longer and have them visit 50% more pages.
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Tal.ki is an application that lets users embed forums into their websites just like they would a YouTube video. If you can copy and paste, then you have the skills necessary to create a fully functional online forum where the readers of your blog or website can interact with each other and discuss the day’s latest events. Much more than just a souped-up commenting feature, Tal.ki forums put the control in your readers’ hands by letting them create new discussions centered around the topics that matter to them most.

Multiple Tal.ki pricing options let you select the plan that fits best; depending on the number of visitors you expect to have using the forums on your site. After signing up, Tal.ki will give you a line of HTML code to embed in your website just like you would embed a YouTube video clip. Paste the code wherever you like, and within an instant you’ve got a functioning forum where your readers can sound off. Individual Tal.ki forums can be run across multiple pages of your website, allowing people to check out the forums no matter what page they’re on. Even better, your readers don’t have to sign up for an account with Tal.ki before they get started posting. Instead, they just need to log in with a Google, Facebook, Yahoo, or Twitter account and they’re ready to go.

Like other online forums, Tal.ki forums feature multiple categories and sticky posts, and let users subscribe to certain threads to find out when new content has been added. And because the forum is located on your site, you’ll always remain the key administrator in charge of determining who is and isn’t allowed to post what types of content. For bloggers and developers who need a better way to increase the amount of time users spend on their sites, Tal.ki forums are an obvious solution that can ramp up user interaction on any website or blog.

Practical Uses:

Create a forum on your blog where readers can chat with each other
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Encourage your website readers to spend more time on your site

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Users can log in to post with a Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, or Open ID account
Forum users can change their display name to whatever they want
Hide your member list from the view of others at any time
Allow members to include photos with their forum posts

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