How to Focus on Your Internet Business
If you’ve been in a home based Internet business even a short time, you’ve probably discovered that it’s not time to give up your day job just yet. You haven’t come into those millions you’ve heard others have so quickly amassed in cyber space.
Of course, you’d love nothing other than to be free of that 9 to 5 leg iron so you can work your business as much as you want. Well, knowing that’s not going to happen overnight, it’s time to learn how to live in both worlds without going bonkers in the process.
Lighting a Fire Under Your Marketing Materials!
In our changing economy it is more important than ever for a business to find cost-effective methods for increasing sales, launching products and attracting clientele. Consequently, the marketing materials you choose to present must be of the highest caliber. If you are planning on writing any type of marketing material your first and most important goal is making sure your material sparkles. In other words, it’s your job to light a fire under your material so that your readers or reviewers are inspired by its content. Whether you’re planning to write an article, construct a marketing strategy, prepare a press release or build a web site, your content must have impact.
Benefits of using Java Development for Embedded Computing
This is the first in a two-part series on the benefits of using the Java development and runtime environment for embedded computing. Java, with its “write once, run anywhere” paradigm, is ideal for embedded computing because of its portability, reliability, security, and Internet capabilities. However, Java can present some challenges for embedded-systems developers.
16 Reasons Why The Next Site I Visit Could Be Yours
You spend so much time promoting YOUR site, but why, exactly, do YOU VISIT someone else’s?
The other day, I re-visited all of the sites I had been to that week (using Internet Explorer’s History option). I asked myself the simple question: “Why did I visit that site?” I came up with 21, yes 21!, reasons why I visited a particular web site. Now if they are reasons why *I* visited a site, they could well be reasons why I (or someone else) would visit YOUR site!
Controlling your CRM
When looking to integrate CRM into your infrastructure, the first thing most do is run to vendors to see whose solution best fits your needs. However, this is the worst possible way to began the program. If you allow vendors to establish your needs, then your results will be dependent on their software and their ability to read your company.
Your company, however, is much more capable of developing a CRM plan, which can then be implemented by the vendor of your choice. Brenda Moncla, of ThinkFast Consulting, gives these five tips for developing a plan for your CRM.
Controlling Costs Key to Running a Business
With more and more small businesses and dot.coms going bankrupt these days, businesses are developing new strategies to stay in the game and obtain a profit at the same time. More than ever, not enough emphasis is being placed on controlling costs.
The 10 Laws for Writing Letters that Get Results
The following is a letter in response to a question about how to write sales letters. This is something you could model in layout, tone, and ideas, to write your own letters. By the way, this is where your letterhead should go.
Measuring Application Performance
When considering a benchmark to determine the overall performance of a Java application, bear in mind that bytecode execution, native code execution, and graphics each play a role. Their impact varies depending on the nature of the specific application: what the application does, how much of it is bytecode versus native code, and how much use it makes of graphics. How well a JVM will perform for a given application depends on how the unique mix of these three functional areas maps onto its capabilities. Given these variables, the best way to benchmark a JVM is against your own application. Since thats not possible before the application has been written, you must find those benchmarks that are most relevant to the application you intend to write.
Security Alert: New Vulnerabilities for Business This Year
One of the new weak spots – virtual private networks (VPN) – is a hot button security issue for most companies these days. A VPN lets companies use the Internet as a secure pathway into their existing network. If a VPN user has an always-on Internet connection like cable or DSL, it complicates things; this system is connected to the Internet as if it is unprotected (no firewall) and becomes an easy target. You can protect your network with a product such as CommandView Firewall from Elron, which rates supreme, thanks to its straightforward interface and high level of sophistication. For companies with larger networks, products such as Check Point Software Technologies Firewall-1 at Check Point may be the answer. Also check out Firewall Vendors under the Products/Firewalls area for a list of firewall vendors.
Trading Links – Any Real Value?
If you manage a website, then you know that trading links with other sites is said to be a valuable method of promoting your website, and getting more traffic. But the true value of it really depends on how you go about it.