The following is the flowchart of website ownership

1. Buy a domain name

The domain name is yournamein.com. This is purchased from a registrar like the International Internet Authority and is annually renewable. If you let it expire someone else can buy it. In fact there’s a whole industry built around “expiring domain names.” If you search on any engine for “expiring domain names” you will see what I mean. Name registrations can be made for a minimum of 1 year and for a maximum of 10 years at a time.

2. Buy webhosting

Webhosting is the space on a server that processes your e-mail and makes your webpages visible to the public. Without it, all you have is a name. To continue with the analogy of a business name registration, when you walk out the door of the Registrar General’s Office all you have is a piece of paper called a Certificate of Registration. You need space from where to work. This in the tangible world would be called an office even if it’s a home office. In the online world this is your webhost. You ‘point’ your domain name to your webhost and the server at the webhost responds when somebody types in http://www.yourNAMEin.com as well as when somebody sends an e-mail addressed to you@yournamein.com. Webhosting is like an annual rent, very much in the same way you would pay a lease rent to your landlord for an office.

There are literally thousands of webhosts around so it’s not impossible to find all kinds of strange offers. The rule of thumb we suggest is that if it sounds too good to be true, it is. With cheap or worse ‘free’ solutions, you may find that you don’t get your e-mail, your website goes down for long periods or you’re getting spyware on your system. Somebody always pays in the end. Nothing is free. Having said that, you will also find that no webhost is perfect but some are less perfect than others. During over 10 years in this business, we have used 8 international webhosts and have found that they will all have downtime but the key is to find and stick to the one that has the least.

3. Design the website

This is fairly straightforward. This is when someone translates what you want your website to look like into HTML, the language in which webpages are written.

4. Update the website

Keeping your website up-to-date used to be a task reserved for technicians who write HTML. Now, we have user-friendly software known as Content Management Systems (CMS). These allow anyone with basic computer knowledge to add texts, pictures, links and more. Some training may be required but with CMS, you end up saving thousands of dollars. Previously, you would have had to pay a technician by the hour to update your website. Again, there are free CMS and paid-for CMS. The free ones are usually never free. You end up paying when your website goes down and no one is obliged to help you get it back up because you’re not paying for support.

5. Promote the website

This ball is very much in the court of the website owner. A website is like a telephone number. If you don’t give it out, no one will call you. Someone may call you by accident and you’ll find yourself saying very often, “Sorry, you have the wrong number.” To promote your website, you should use both online and offline methods. Go ahead and submit your website to the search engines but bearing in mind that you’re competing with millions of people around the world to get indexed in the search engines, you should also plaster your web address on every piece of stationery you print. Let it be seen wherever and whenever you display your logo. Also, never underestimate the power of word-of-mouth marketing and simple strategies like promotional products.

6. Evaluate and renew

Without a doubt, after your first year of website ownership, you would have learnt a lot. This is a good time to evaluate what you did right, what you did wrong and what you can do better. Implement some of the positive changes you think you can make to your website.

Aleem Khan is an accredited Internet Expert with the International Internet Authority, a safe and reliable place to getYourNAMEin.com

First, why would someone who writes and speaks predominately on business and economic trends write an article like this? Isn’t this somewhat out-of-character?

If you use the modern definition of economics, i.e., “the science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of commodities”, then you would have a valid point. But, by using the classical definition of economics —- “the study of human behavior in its historical setting” —- the article fits this definition. In addition, an understanding of the classic definition yields the interesting result that psychology is a branch of economics.

As both economic and political mortals, we live and work in an environment that is in constant motion or movement. This movement is, by its nature, turbulent. There are a few consequences of this.

The first is that turbulent motion has no predictability. In other words you do not know where it is going or what the results will be. A good example of this would be the stock market. How many “experts” eventually wind up with “egg on their face”. Therefore, in the business of life do not make any detailed plans. Plan only in broad strokes and even then your plans will shift and change. The old saying that when man plans, God laughs is still true. The second consequence is more oriented towards this article.

If both our economic environment and we are in constant motion (turbulent), how could you always maintain a positive attitude, or as the popular literature states, a PMA (positive mental attitude)? You simply can’t. Mortals are not designed that way. Your attitude, like our environment, is always in motion. Then, if attitude is not the most important criterion of success and advancement, what is?

The primary criterion that separates success from failure is action, namely positive action. Your attitude or state-of-mind can be in the gutter. So what! Nothing stays the same forever.

What do I mean by positive action? Or, to put it another way, what positive actions should you take.

In some of my business presentations I explore a few of the great business myths that dominate our thinking. One of the more interesting “myths” deals with the widely accepted belief that the purpose of any investment is to make money. NOT TRUE! The purpose of any investment is to increase your NET WORTH. There is a big difference between thinking in terms of making money and increasing your net worth. Thinking in terms of net worth forces you to think more rationally and gives you a long-term time horizon. The term “any investment” can include your business, your family, and even your community. By increasing the value of your investment, you increase its net worth.

Therefore, to restate the question, what positive actions should you take? You take the necessary actions today that will increase the net worth of your investment (business, etc.) tomorrow.

From a business perspective, though, there is an important point to consider. In this highly competitive and turbulent economy, building the value of your business can be achieved by focusing on increasing the free cash flow of your enterprise. Free cash flow is the real money after all expenses that can be returned to the owners of the business. The value of a business is a direct function of its free cash flow. By building the cash flow of the business, you now have the resources - the stuff– to take advantage of opportunities that will present themselves.

Famous Amos, the chocolate chip cookie king, had two words to express his business philosophy. These two words are “Do It”. Taking the necessary actions to build the value of your investment will always be of paramount importance. Good fortune favors the bold. Attitude follows action.

Sanford Kahn, Business Author/Speaker, has been a professional speaker for over 30 years to both the corporate and national trade and professional association markets. He was the host and producer of the popular Times mirror cable vision series “Ask the Economist”. Mr. Kahn has authored many articles on the business impact of future economic trends. His most recent publication is The Great Economic & Business Myths That Dominate Our Lives. For more information please visit his web page at http://www.businessspeaker.biz or email sanford16@yahoo.com.

The first thing that any successful animal trainer must do is
win the confidence and respect of the animal to be trained. This
important piece of advice definitely applies to the training of
dogs. As social pack animals, dogs have a natural need to follow
a strong leader. Setting yourself, the owner or handler, up as
this leadership figure is the basis of any successful dog
training program.

Until your dog has learned to trust and respect you, it will be
difficult for any training program to be successful. Trust and
respect are not things that can be forced, they must be earned
through positive interaction with your four legged companion.
After the dog has learned to trust and respect the owner, he or
she may be amazed at how quickly the training sessions progress.
Many new dog owners mistake love and affection for trust and
respect. While it is of course good to shower your new dog or
puppy with love and affection, it is also improtnat to gain its
confidence and respect. It is also important to not allow the
puppy or dog to get away with everything it wants to. It is easy
to let a dog take advantage of you, particularly when it is so
cute and adorable. It is important, however, to set boundaries,
and to establish acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.

Dogs actually appreciate these types of boundaries, since they
are similar to the rules that the pack leader establishes in
nature. Every dog in the pack knows what is expected of it, and
knows its plce in the pecking order. This kind of structured
hierarchy allows the pack to function, hunt and survive as a
single entity. Your dog is actually seeking this type of
leadership. If he or she does not get leadership from you, he or
she may be frightened or confused. In addition, failure to gain
the respect of the dog is very important to the well being of
both the human and the dog. A dog that lacks respect for its
human owner can be dangerous as well as hard to live with. It is
important to establish firm boundaries of good and bad behavior,
and to consistently, effectively enforce those boundaries.

When dealing with a puppy, it is important to start gaining his
respect and trust as soon as possible. Establishing an early
bond is the best way to move the treaining and socialization
process forward.

It is also important to make the initial training sessions
short. Puppies have a notoriously short attention span, and even
older untrained dogs may be unable to focus for more than 10 or
15 minutes at a time. It is best to make the lesson short and
positive than to stretch it out and create a negative
experience. It is also a good idea to start and end each session
with a period of play. Starting and ending the training sessions
on a high note is important. Dogs make quick associations, and
creating a positive association with obedience training will
help to create a happy, healthy and well adjusted dog. A happy
dog will be easier to train, and more willing to please.

It is also important to keep the dog from becoming bored during
the training sessions. Many dog owners make the mistake of
drilling the dog on things like basic obedience skills, heeling,
sitting, etc. While these obedience skills are important, and it
is true that they will form the basis of more advanced skills,
it is important to mix things up and make things fun for both
yourself and your dog. The more variety you provide the better
your dog, and you, will enjoy the training sessions.

You may misunderstand that hiring a personal chef will cost you a lot and it is not worth it to spend such huge money on this! This is a wrong idea. Personal chefs are now helping couples and families to present fabulous home cooked dinners to their guests. And it’s not as expensive as you think!

The reasons of hiring a personal chef: A personal chef will bring the food, create a nutritious and balanced meal, figure out the servings needed (so you don’t need to deal with leftovers) and most of all give you the freedom to focus on other aspects of entertaining while still providing the best food for your guests. Are you hosting a business lunch? An intimate wedding reception? Or even an intimate dinner for two that just has to be the best? A personal chef can handle any order. You can usually choose from a selection of courses they provide or arrange for a customized menu.

The cost: Prices will vary but you can expect a weeks worth of meals (containers, food and cooking included) to be about $350 for a family of 4 (20 meals of entrees and side dishes) or $175 for a couple (10 meals of entrees and side dishes). Some services will prepare all the meals at once while others will deliver or prepare the meal in your home throughout the week.

Place to hire a personal chef: Finding a chef is easy by using the USPCA (United States Personal Chef Association) or the CPCA (Canadian Personal Chef Alliance). Here you will find information on personal chefs as well as a directory of members in your area.

Don’t view a personal chef as a catering service. They are more professional. For busy professionals who are looking for quality meals and more time with their family, a personal chef will prepare several entrees and side dishes, store them and clean the kitchen. For the rest of the week all you have to do is take them out of the fridge or freezer and reheat to enjoy gourmet meals all week. For families who turn to fast foods and restaurants the cost may actually be less than what they are currently paying. Some personal chefs also can be booked for private or group cooking lessons. Invite a group of your friends to learn the art of creating delectable pasties or sumptuous seafood from an expert!

If you want to have a wonderful time at home, relax all day, no need to wake up in the morning to do a cookery, a personal chef is the best solution for you.

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The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team in the NBA. They are considered to be a basketball dynasty and, as a team, hold a number of notable records that explain their fame. As of the end of the 2004-05 season, they have more wins (2,621), a higher winning percentage (61.9%), more finals appearances (28), and more championships (with the exception of the Boston Celtics, who beat them by two with 16) than any other team. They also hold the record for most consecutive wins in a season (33).

The Lakers originate back to 1947, when the Detroit Gems were bought for a sum of $15,000 and moved to Minneapolis. As a member of the National Basketball League, they had the worst record by far and were given the first pick in the 1947 dispersal draft, which they used to recruit George Mikan, who is revered as the best center of his time. Between this pick and a new coach (John Kundla), the Lakers went on to win the NBL championship for the 1947-48 season and were bumped up to the Basketball Association of America (along with four other teams). Here, they won the 1948-49 championship, after which the NBL and BAA merged to form the NBA.

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Buy New Orleans real estate. No, I don’t necessarily mean to actually buy New Orleans real estate, although it might be a very good idea. The point is that it is a good example of how extremely successful investors think.

You see, most very successful investors are contrarians. A contrarian is an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors. Contrarians are not going to follow the crowd. In fact, they’re going to invest in whatever is being shunned by the majority of investors. That’s where they know they can find value. That’s where they know they can make huge profits.

Contrarians are the kind of investors that would be looking to buy New Orleans real estate and shares of New Orleans businesses when the post-Katrina conventional wisdom is that New Orleans is a disaster area that should be avoided at all costs and never to recover.

Contrarians were buying Google (GOOG) when it first went public in 2004 at $85. The conventional wisdom was that Google wasn’t worth more than $85 a share. Contrarians looked at Google’s pristine balance sheet, considered the fact that the company had a business model that was dominating the Internet, and bought. The rest is history. Google shares soared over 400% from the price of the original offering.

Contrarians were buying oil in 1999 when crude was less than $15 a barrel — there was supposed to be an oil glut, you know — and the crowd was buying ridiculously overpriced dot com stocks.

And now, I’m sure that there are some future billionaires looking seriously at investments like New Orleans real estate.

Michael Lewis, writing for Bloomberg, wrote a very interesting column about the wisdom of being a contrarian…

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_lewis&sid=arY5IrLH3a00#

The concluding paragraph is particularly noteworthy…

“But someone, somewhere is about to make a killing in New Orleans. Somewhere there is a hedge fund manager stealthily buying up New Orleans real estate, or a venture capitalist quietly creating a New Orleans fund, or a 26-year-old would-be entrepreneur who, having been rejected by Harvard and Stanford business schools, is deciding to make his empire in the ruins. And, as loathsome as he will seem in retrospect, I find him hard to dislike right now.”

Indeed.

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Website Design What They Don’t Tell You

Let me start off by saying that I am no web design expert but I have designed a few websites and the biggest challenge I found was choosing keywords. It seems like it would be easy but it is not.

Choosing keywords and keyword placement is the foundation of getting indexed properly in search engines, choosing the correct ones and placing them on your web page is not an easy task. First off your keywords or key phrases have to make sense so that a person visiting your website can understand what you are saying. All well and good, we can all do that. The problem comes when a machine is sent to look at your page all of the sudden it no longer looks the same. Take this page for example http://www.globalwebmonitor.com, after reading this page you would know the following things about this company:
•Global Web Monitor sells business services.
•The business services are designed for IT departments, website owners, web hosts and website developers.
•The primary service Global Web Monitor sells is called Global Up Time.
•Global Up Time is a monitoring service.
•Global Up Time monitors websites, servers, networks and ports.
•Global Up Time can do port security checks on servers and firewalls.
•Global Up Time emails, phones or pages customers if one of their monitored items goes down.
•Global Up Time can save its clients time, money, customers and business reputation.
•Website monitoring is priced as low as $4.95 per month.
•And finally you have the option of a 30 day free website monitoring trial.

Unfortunately the search engine robots and spiders are just machines and see this page completely different. If you run the keyword density program from Google for the web page http://www.globalwebmonitor.com you get keywords and key phrases that are completely useless to this particular website. A second problem that affects this web page is the stop word list that is used by many search engine spiders. The third problem with this page is words under 3 characters are filtered out. So what happened to the Global Web Monitor main page is that they ended up with key phrases like:
•Global time monitoring
•Servers network appliances
•Global monitor overview
•Status pages overview
•Time monitoring
•Services global
•Monitor overview
•Sign trial
•Account enter
•Check systems
•And my personal favorite - Eliminates human

This is by no means all of the keyword phrases that were generated from the Global Web Monitor home page but you can see that even these few would drastically alter the way this web page would be indexed. If I were to look at these key words and had nothing else to go on I would think this website was about some “Human eliminating global time monitoring network appliance”, not website monitoring services. As a result, most of this web page needs to be reworded in such a way that the key phrases that are important to this website are placed with different words before and after each key phrase. Also the name of the monitoring service needs to be removed a few times.

When you run into a problem like the one on this page the best thing to do is get out the thesaurus and alter the wording on the page until the keywords that you want to represent your page equal around 12%. Use the keyword density tool found on Google http://www.googlerankings.com/kdindex.php to determine the percentages. Oh and make sure that completely unsuitable key phrases like ‘eliminates human’ are not too prominent in the keyword list.

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Easter is such a special time of year. I can recall fond memories of Easters past when my mother and father would hide brightly colored eggs in the yard and send my sisters and I out to find them. What joy we had running around the yard, looking in every nook and cranny for the eggs we had hand decorated together as a family. As I recall, whoever found the most always received a special gift, usually a dollar or two. That was a lot of money to us kids in those days. After the hunt, we would eat dinner together and then my parents would give each of us an Easter basket.

They were smart to make sure we had dinner first, knowing full well that we would never touch our food if we were given the baskets beforehand. I can still recall the happiness we shared, eating our chocolates, jelly beans, marshmallow candies and other sweet treats. I think I always enjoyed digging through the plastic green “grass” the most. It was like discovering gold to dig through the basket and find one of the last few treats which had fallen to the bottom.

Today, I get just as much enjoyment from watching my children having the same fun I had as a child. It’s wonderful to view the next generation enjoying the traditions of the past that still remain so much part of our culture. Today, however, I give Easter gift baskets to my children, my siblings, and close friends every year at this time. They’re wonderful for the kids and the adults all appreciate them as well since, like me, they remember the joy of getting an Easter basket. Easter gift baskets are filled with delectable treats that both children and adults can enjoy.

I order enough for my friends and family and my extended family as well since Easter gift baskets can be shipped anywhere. I find that they make a great gift for kids or for the kid in all of us. This year, I may even order one for myself. I may be older, but I still have a sweet tooth!

To purchase a Easter gift basket visit www.giftbasketontheweb.com/

Titan Breast Lift Information

The Titan Breast Lift procedure refers to the utilization of the Titan Laser to perform a non surgical breast lift procedure. Many are finding that the Titan laser can also be used to perform a non surgical Breast Lift. This option could become popular amongst those who want to avoid both the costs of surgery and the physical aspects of surgery itself.

Length and details of the Titan Breast Lift procedure

The Titan Breast Lift procedure works by targeting the sagging upper chest areas for treatment via the Titan Laser. As with the typical behavior of other Titan Laser treated areas, the upper chest region’s weaker collagen is heated which causes it to immediately contract and thicken. The Titan Laser also creates micro injuries to the dermis layer of the skin which results in it producing new collagen over the next several months. The sessions utilizing the Titan Breast Lift Procedure takes from 20 minutes to one hour, based on your individual needs. A topical numbing cream is applied to most patients, but there is little in the way of pain during the procedure.

Risks and/or complications related to the Titan Laser procedure

Those having undergone treatment via a Titan Laser indicate the procedure is more or less pain free. There are few side effects experienced from treatment via the Titan Laser. Patients might experience a small amount of redness that typically will fade after an hour or so. Any swelling that occurs should subside within a day. Individuals receiving treatment may immediately return to work.

What could make the Titan Breast Lift procedure a popular option is its minimal impact to the patient and short recovery time. Furthermore the skin surface is not damaged as the procedure does not extend below the dermis region.

Long-term results of the Titan Breast Lift procedure

Since the Titan Laser works by stimulating the formation of new collagen, ideal results will take approximately three to eight months to materialize. While the Titan Breast Lift procedure is very effective it does have limitations. It is not intended to be a permanent solution but more as one that prolongs the need for breast lift surgery by two or more years.

How much does a Titan Breast Lift procedure cost?

Costs for the Titan Breast Lift procedure should be similar to other Titan Laser procedures. Currently a Titan Laser procedure averages between $1500 to $2500 per treatment session.

Will my insurance cover a Titan Breast Lift procedure?

Because a Titan Breast Lift procedure is considered an elective procedure, insurance typically will not cover the operation.

Read more about the Titan Breast Lift Procedure. Renee Billancourt is a contributing writer at Houston Medical Center

The secretat least most of itis in the rise. The most common mistake that we see in bread making is not letting the dough rise enough.

So how do we know when the bread has risen enough? The dough will double in size. It will be soft and look a bit airy. When you touch it with your finger, it will feel soft and an indention in the dough will remain. If it feels a bit springy and the dough bounces back from the indentation, it hasn’t risen enough.

To help you tell when your bread has risen enough, most recipes tell you how long to let the bread rise at normal kitchen temperatures. (The stated time is a guideline but it’s usually pretty accurate if you are using water at the recommended temperature. Set the timer and forget about the bread until you hear the timer.)

Can you let bread rise too much? Yesbut most of us are too impatient to let that happen often. If it does rise too much, it will be blistered, so soft it won’t hold its form, and may even collapse. No problem. Just gently knead some of the air from the dough, reshape the loaves, and let it rise again. It will rise more quickly the second time.

Sometimes, the bread dough is too dry or too wet. That won’t happen often if you carefully measure the water. Traditional bread dough will be soft and barely sticky but dry enough to handle with a little flour on your hands. Environmental conditions, such as humidity or water hardness, may affect the moisture in the dough. If you feel that your dough is too wet or dry, add another tablespoon or two of flour or dribble in a tablespoon of water.

One more thingwhen you put your loaves into the oven, allow as much space as possible between the loaves and between the loaves and oven walls. If air can’t circulate properly around the loaves, the loaves will be misshapen.

Baking bread is an art. With a little practice, anyone can have picture perfect bread. Even when it is not picture perfect, it is a treat to enjoy.

Dennis Weaver is the general manager at The Prepared Pantry (http://www.preparedpantry.com) with recipes, ideas, and the best selection of mixes and ingredients. Visit the free Bakers’ Library for more articles like this, free baking guides, and tested recipes.