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  <updated>2008-04-24T21:31:11Z</updated>
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    <title>The 3 Things To Avoid When Emailing Your List</title>
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    <updated>2008-04-24T21:31:11Z</updated>
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 When you decide to have an opt-in list, it is not just a matter of sending your subscribers your promotional newsletters or catalogs. There are many things to consider in avoiding many complications. While there are so many ways you can make people subscribe to your list, there are also some things you must do to avoid subscribers from wanting to get off from your list. &lt;p&gt;Aside from that, you also want to avoid any problems with the law and your internet service provider or ISP. There are now many laws and rules that are applied to help protect the privacy of the internet users from spamming and unwanted mails. With the popularity of the electronic mail as a medium for marketing because of the low cost, many company&amp;rsquo;s have seized the opportunity and have flooded many people&amp;rsquo;s e-mail accounts with promotional mail.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But, with an opt-in list, you avoid this annoyance because people subscribe to the list; they want to receive the newsletters and promotional materials. They have consented to being on the list by subscribing themselves, just don&amp;rsquo;t forget to put an unsubscribe feature everytime in your opt-in list so that you avoid any confusion. There may be times when an email account was provided when the real owner didn&amp;rsquo;t want to subscribe.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It is essential that you keep your list clean and manageable. Arrange it by using the many tools and technologies available for your opt-in list. Do not worry; your investment in this marketing strategy is well worth it with all the coverage you will get which will likely be converted into sales then to profit.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Keep yourself and your business out of trouble and potential run-ins with the law and the internet service providers. Keep your operation legit and clean. Your reputation as a legitimate businessman and a legitimate site depends on your being a straight and true marketing strategist. As a tip, here are three things to avoid when emailing your list.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;1) Take notice of your unsuccessful sends. These are the e-mails that bounce. Bounced emails, also known as undeliverable messages, are those messages that, for whatever reason, were not successfully received by the intended recipient.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;There are bounces that happen or occur because the server was busy at that time but can still be delivered in another time. There are also bounces because the inbox of the recipient is full at that time. There are those bounce messages that are simply undeliverable ever. The reason for this is that it may be an invalid email address, a misspelled email address, or an email address that was abandoned and erased already.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Manage your list by putting markings on those that bounce. Erase an email account from your list so that you have an accurate statistics and records as to how many are actually receiving your mail. You may also want to check the spellings of your email addresses in your list. One common mistake is when an N instead of an M is placed in the .com area.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;2) Always provide an unsubscribe feature in your site and an unsubscribe link in your mails. When someone in your list files a request to be unsubscribed, always take that request seriously. If you don&amp;rsquo;t take them off your list and keep sending them your e-mails, you are now sending them spam mail.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;When you are reported as a spammer, you and your business can get into a lot of trouble. You can be reported to the authorities and maybe blacklisted by many internet service providers. You will lose a lot of subscribers this way and many more in potential subscribers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;3) Do not provide pornographic or shocking and disturbing content in your newsletters. It is hard to decipher the age of the recipient and many complaints may stem from these. Controversial issues also are to be avoided to not be branded by your subscribers. Stick to the nature of your site and business.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Always remember these tips in this article so that you can have a healthy relationship with your subscribers as well as be kept within the boundaries of what is allowed in sending mails to an opt-in list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika Sari&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;   &amp;lt;!--[if !IE]&gt; if you want to used your own google tracking code. just replace the code inside the p tag&amp;lt;![endif]--&gt;&amp;lt;!--[if !IE]&gt; end if 3 loop in post &amp;lt;![endif]--&gt;&amp;nbsp;    </content>
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    <title>Rating eBook Compilers</title>
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    <updated>2008-04-14T04:42:23Z</updated>
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&lt;p&gt;Now that you&amp;#39;ve finished writing your eBook and have a&lt;br /&gt;basic understanding of what an eBook compiler does,&lt;br /&gt;you may be feeling overwhelmed by the number of&lt;br /&gt;compilers on the market. To help you make your&lt;br /&gt;decision, I have tested and reviewed the best-rated&lt;br /&gt;eBook compilers currently available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* E-ditor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This software has a demo version that you can download&lt;br /&gt;to try out before purchasing. You can&amp;#39;t actually use&lt;br /&gt;the demo to create an eBook, but you can run the&lt;br /&gt;software and test it out thoroughly to see if it does&lt;br /&gt;what you need it to do for your particular eBook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This eBook compiler is one of the easiest to use. The&lt;br /&gt;software has a very user-friendly help menu that&lt;br /&gt;provides instructions for and explanations of every&lt;br /&gt;field on every screen. The program also includes video&lt;br /&gt;tutorials demonstrating every step of this compiler&lt;br /&gt;with clear explanations of all fields that need to be&lt;br /&gt;filled out. There are 7 screens that you use to choose&lt;br /&gt;your eBook options.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This compiler requires your files to be in HTML&lt;br /&gt;format. You follow simple directions, and the compiler&lt;br /&gt;loads your files. If you decide to edit your eBook&lt;br /&gt;after it has been compiled, make any changes in your&lt;br /&gt;original files and click on &amp;quot;Compile you eBook&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;your changes will appear in your compiled eBook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E-editor allows for some customization of your eBook.&lt;br /&gt;You can create a special page that appears when the&lt;br /&gt;eBook is opened; create customized icons that appear&lt;br /&gt;on the desktop after downloading; use your own logo on&lt;br /&gt;the task bar of your eBook; customize the task bar&amp;#39;s&lt;br /&gt;buttons, where the task bar appears in your eBook, and&lt;br /&gt;choose the task bar&amp;#39;s colors. Additionally, you can&lt;br /&gt;choose to have the eBook open to the last page read,&lt;br /&gt;which many of your buyers will appreciate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An excellent and unique feature of E-ditor is the&lt;br /&gt;capability to choose a standard Microsoft window or to&lt;br /&gt;create your own design for a window to personalize&lt;br /&gt;your eBook. The program provides some sample window&lt;br /&gt;designs, but you can use any .bmp (bit map skin)&lt;br /&gt;graphic you have stored on your hard drive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E-ditor is a good choice if you are new at producing&lt;br /&gt;eBooks because it is easy to use and allows you to&lt;br /&gt;customize the appearance of your eBook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Desktop Author&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This compiler does not require a browser, nor do you&lt;br /&gt;have to download software or plug-ins. The program&lt;br /&gt;converts exe. files into pages that look like a&lt;br /&gt;standard book. You can create and produce eBook pages&lt;br /&gt;scaled to fit on your computer screen without any&lt;br /&gt;scrolling. Additional features include WYSIWGY (what&lt;br /&gt;you see is what you get) page editing and creation,&lt;br /&gt;the ability to manipulate internal images, cut and&lt;br /&gt;paste functions, hotlinks to pages, email, website, or&lt;br /&gt;other files. It is an excellent compiler to use for a&lt;br /&gt;marketing tools, such as creating brochures and&lt;br /&gt;manuals in addition to eBooks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* EBook Edit Pro&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This compiler provides a demo version, which allows&lt;br /&gt;you to test out its features. The software uses a&lt;br /&gt;Wizard that leads you step-by-step through the set-up&lt;br /&gt;and creation of your eBook. Customization includes&lt;br /&gt;text editing that appears on the pop-up starting&lt;br /&gt;message window; the ability to allow or prevent&lt;br /&gt;resizing of your book and the mouse-click pop-up menu;&lt;br /&gt;enabling or disabling the navigation bar and choosing&lt;br /&gt;the buttons you want to appear; and customizing the&lt;br /&gt;eBook&amp;#39;s desktop icon and the logo that appears on the&lt;br /&gt;navigation bar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebook Edit Pro is loaded with excellent features that&lt;br /&gt;allow you to create multi-media Ebooks, and includes a&lt;br /&gt;Wizard that is customized for beginners and for&lt;br /&gt;advanced users. The software uses HTML files,&lt;br /&gt;downloading them from the directory where they are&lt;br /&gt;saved. Edit and resave your files in the original&lt;br /&gt;software used to create those files, and then with a&lt;br /&gt;single click you can re-compile your Ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Features include customization of icons, toolbars, and&lt;br /&gt;the &amp;quot;about box.&amp;quot; This compiler has a particularly&lt;br /&gt;useful feature called the Rebrander feature. This&lt;br /&gt;permits you to enter customized code into your Ebook&lt;br /&gt;pages and distribute the Rebrander software to your&lt;br /&gt;affiliates or distributors. They can then customize&lt;br /&gt;the links included in the Ebook, but they can not&lt;br /&gt;alter any link or information that you have not&lt;br /&gt;entered a customized code for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The software includes &amp;quot;eBrand-It&amp;quot; software that allows&lt;br /&gt;custom fields for your customer&amp;#39;s name, affiliate ID&lt;br /&gt;or URL. This feature is a powerful marketing tool&lt;br /&gt;because affiliates are much happier giving away your&lt;br /&gt;Ebook from their own site when they can customize it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Ebook Compiler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This compiler offers a demo version that allows you to&lt;br /&gt;compile 10 files. If you don&amp;#39;t include graphics, you&lt;br /&gt;can create a 10 page Ebook that allows printing and&lt;br /&gt;copying of the Ebook. The catch is that you can&amp;#39;t sell&lt;br /&gt;any Ebook you create in the demo version.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purchased software is user-friendly with&lt;br /&gt;easy-to-follow help files that not only guide you&lt;br /&gt;through the steps of compiling your Ebook, but also&lt;br /&gt;explains what an Ebook compiler does. The software&lt;br /&gt;provides detailed instructions on how to create source&lt;br /&gt;files from Microsoft Word 2000 and 1997, PowerPoint&lt;br /&gt;2000 and 1997, and HTML documents. It contains less&lt;br /&gt;detailed instructions for creating source files from&lt;br /&gt;other programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This compiler allows for password protection of your&lt;br /&gt;entire Ebook or for selected pages. Additionally, you&lt;br /&gt;can set a time limit on your Ebook. When the runs out,&lt;br /&gt;the customer no longer has access unless they pay for&lt;br /&gt;it. In other words, it allows you to create a demo&lt;br /&gt;version of your Ebook for marketing purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can set a single password or multiple passwords.&lt;br /&gt;Using multiple passwords assigns each user their own&lt;br /&gt;specific password. Online help files guide you through&lt;br /&gt;setting up your passwords. You can also create a Sales&lt;br /&gt;and Thank-you page for selling a password protected&lt;br /&gt;Ebook. This is a good choice for the novice,&lt;br /&gt;particularly since it includes basic features for&lt;br /&gt;password protection and distribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Activ Ebook Compiler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an easy to use compiler that provides&lt;br /&gt;excellent features. This software can support HTML,&lt;br /&gt;JPEG, GIF, and all active plug-ins. Features includes&lt;br /&gt;password protection, branding, internet linking, icon&lt;br /&gt;customization, assigning unique serial numbers, splash&lt;br /&gt;screen, file compression, and start-up messages. It&lt;br /&gt;also provides free lifetime upgrades. Additionally, it&lt;br /&gt;includes a preprocessor, re-brander, active script,&lt;br /&gt;and detailed instructions for using HTML, Power Point,&lt;br /&gt;and Microsoft Word files.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are several other excellent Ebook compilers on&lt;br /&gt;the market that are worth looking into.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebook Generator features splash screens, password&lt;br /&gt;protection, branding, icon customization, and&lt;br /&gt;compression control. Additionally, it includes virus&lt;br /&gt;prevention that alerts the user to any modifications&lt;br /&gt;made to your Ebook and offers usage statistics so you&lt;br /&gt;can track your Ebook&amp;#39;s use. With all these advanced&lt;br /&gt;features, this is an excellent compiler for the&lt;br /&gt;beginner because it is exceptionally easy to run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebook Creator is another excellent compiler,&lt;br /&gt;supporting HTML, JPEG, GIF, and PNG graphics, and&lt;br /&gt;Javascript, VB script, and Java applets. It also&lt;br /&gt;supports all Internet Explorer plug-ins. Standard&lt;br /&gt;features include unique serial numbers, direct linking&lt;br /&gt;to a form or a page on your website, disabled right&lt;br /&gt;clicking, and search functions. The software allows&lt;br /&gt;for expiration after a set number of days or usages,&lt;br /&gt;which allows you to create demo versions. You can&lt;br /&gt;create up to 1000 different passwords; every time the&lt;br /&gt;Ebook is downloaded, a unique password is required to&lt;br /&gt;access protected pages. The software provides&lt;br /&gt;user-friendly menus and buttons that allow the&lt;br /&gt;beginner to the advanced user to easily create their&lt;br /&gt;Ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously, there are some excellent compilers out&lt;br /&gt;there. So figure out EVERYTHING you need in terms of&lt;br /&gt;features, and then compare prices and options. Do take&lt;br /&gt;advantage of demo versions if they are offered before&lt;br /&gt;purchasing. And then, have fun creating your Ebook!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Rating eBook Compilers</title>
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    <updated>2008-04-13T23:01:08Z</updated>
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&lt;p&gt;Now that you&amp;#39;ve finished writing your eBook and have a&lt;br /&gt;basic understanding of what an eBook compiler does,&lt;br /&gt;you may be feeling overwhelmed by the number of&lt;br /&gt;compilers on the market. To help you make your&lt;br /&gt;decision, I have tested and reviewed the best-rated&lt;br /&gt;eBook compilers currently available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* E-ditor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This software has a demo version that you can download&lt;br /&gt;to try out before purchasing. You can&amp;#39;t actually use&lt;br /&gt;the demo to create an eBook, but you can run the&lt;br /&gt;software and test it out thoroughly to see if it does&lt;br /&gt;what you need it to do for your particular eBook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This eBook compiler is one of the easiest to use. The&lt;br /&gt;software has a very user-friendly help menu that&lt;br /&gt;provides instructions for and explanations of every&lt;br /&gt;field on every screen. The program also includes video&lt;br /&gt;tutorials demonstrating every step of this compiler&lt;br /&gt;with clear explanations of all fields that need to be&lt;br /&gt;filled out. There are 7 screens that you use to choose&lt;br /&gt;your eBook options.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This compiler requires your files to be in HTML&lt;br /&gt;format. You follow simple directions, and the compiler&lt;br /&gt;loads your files. If you decide to edit your eBook&lt;br /&gt;after it has been compiled, make any changes in your&lt;br /&gt;original files and click on &amp;quot;Compile you eBook&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;your changes will appear in your compiled eBook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E-editor allows for some customization of your eBook.&lt;br /&gt;You can create a special page that appears when the&lt;br /&gt;eBook is opened; create customized icons that appear&lt;br /&gt;on the desktop after downloading; use your own logo on&lt;br /&gt;the task bar of your eBook; customize the task bar&amp;#39;s&lt;br /&gt;buttons, where the task bar appears in your eBook, and&lt;br /&gt;choose the task bar&amp;#39;s colors. Additionally, you can&lt;br /&gt;choose to have the eBook open to the last page read,&lt;br /&gt;which many of your buyers will appreciate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An excellent and unique feature of E-ditor is the&lt;br /&gt;capability to choose a standard Microsoft window or to&lt;br /&gt;create your own design for a window to personalize&lt;br /&gt;your eBook. The program provides some sample window&lt;br /&gt;designs, but you can use any .bmp (bit map skin)&lt;br /&gt;graphic you have stored on your hard drive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E-ditor is a good choice if you are new at producing&lt;br /&gt;eBooks because it is easy to use and allows you to&lt;br /&gt;customize the appearance of your eBook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Desktop Author&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This compiler does not require a browser, nor do you&lt;br /&gt;have to download software or plug-ins. The program&lt;br /&gt;converts exe. files into pages that look like a&lt;br /&gt;standard book. You can create and produce eBook pages&lt;br /&gt;scaled to fit on your computer screen without any&lt;br /&gt;scrolling. Additional features include WYSIWGY (what&lt;br /&gt;you see is what you get) page editing and creation,&lt;br /&gt;the ability to manipulate internal images, cut and&lt;br /&gt;paste functions, hotlinks to pages, email, website, or&lt;br /&gt;other files. It is an excellent compiler to use for a&lt;br /&gt;marketing tools, such as creating brochures and&lt;br /&gt;manuals in addition to eBooks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* EBook Edit Pro&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This compiler provides a demo version, which allows&lt;br /&gt;you to test out its features. The software uses a&lt;br /&gt;Wizard that leads you step-by-step through the set-up&lt;br /&gt;and creation of your eBook. Customization includes&lt;br /&gt;text editing that appears on the pop-up starting&lt;br /&gt;message window; the ability to allow or prevent&lt;br /&gt;resizing of your book and the mouse-click pop-up menu;&lt;br /&gt;enabling or disabling the navigation bar and choosing&lt;br /&gt;the buttons you want to appear; and customizing the&lt;br /&gt;eBook&amp;#39;s desktop icon and the logo that appears on the&lt;br /&gt;navigation bar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebook Edit Pro is loaded with excellent features that&lt;br /&gt;allow you to create multi-media Ebooks, and includes a&lt;br /&gt;Wizard that is customized for beginners and for&lt;br /&gt;advanced users. The software uses HTML files,&lt;br /&gt;downloading them from the directory where they are&lt;br /&gt;saved. Edit and resave your files in the original&lt;br /&gt;software used to create those files, and then with a&lt;br /&gt;single click you can re-compile your Ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Features include customization of icons, toolbars, and&lt;br /&gt;the &amp;quot;about box.&amp;quot; This compiler has a particularly&lt;br /&gt;useful feature called the Rebrander feature. This&lt;br /&gt;permits you to enter customized code into your Ebook&lt;br /&gt;pages and distribute the Rebrander software to your&lt;br /&gt;affiliates or distributors. They can then customize&lt;br /&gt;the links included in the Ebook, but they can not&lt;br /&gt;alter any link or information that you have not&lt;br /&gt;entered a customized code for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The software includes &amp;quot;eBrand-It&amp;quot; software that allows&lt;br /&gt;custom fields for your customer&amp;#39;s name, affiliate ID&lt;br /&gt;or URL. This feature is a powerful marketing tool&lt;br /&gt;because affiliates are much happier giving away your&lt;br /&gt;Ebook from their own site when they can customize it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Ebook Compiler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This compiler offers a demo version that allows you to&lt;br /&gt;compile 10 files. If you don&amp;#39;t include graphics, you&lt;br /&gt;can create a 10 page Ebook that allows printing and&lt;br /&gt;copying of the Ebook. The catch is that you can&amp;#39;t sell&lt;br /&gt;any Ebook you create in the demo version.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purchased software is user-friendly with&lt;br /&gt;easy-to-follow help files that not only guide you&lt;br /&gt;through the steps of compiling your Ebook, but also&lt;br /&gt;explains what an Ebook compiler does. The software&lt;br /&gt;provides detailed instructions on how to create source&lt;br /&gt;files from Microsoft Word 2000 and 1997, PowerPoint&lt;br /&gt;2000 and 1997, and HTML documents. It contains less&lt;br /&gt;detailed instructions for creating source files from&lt;br /&gt;other programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This compiler allows for password protection of your&lt;br /&gt;entire Ebook or for selected pages. Additionally, you&lt;br /&gt;can set a time limit on your Ebook. When the runs out,&lt;br /&gt;the customer no longer has access unless they pay for&lt;br /&gt;it. In other words, it allows you to create a demo&lt;br /&gt;version of your Ebook for marketing purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can set a single password or multiple passwords.&lt;br /&gt;Using multiple passwords assigns each user their own&lt;br /&gt;specific password. Online help files guide you through&lt;br /&gt;setting up your passwords. You can also create a Sales&lt;br /&gt;and Thank-you page for selling a password protected&lt;br /&gt;Ebook. This is a good choice for the novice,&lt;br /&gt;particularly since it includes basic features for&lt;br /&gt;password protection and distribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Activ Ebook Compiler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an easy to use compiler that provides&lt;br /&gt;excellent features. This software can support HTML,&lt;br /&gt;JPEG, GIF, and all active plug-ins. Features includes&lt;br /&gt;password protection, branding, internet linking, icon&lt;br /&gt;customization, assigning unique serial numbers, splash&lt;br /&gt;screen, file compression, and start-up messages. It&lt;br /&gt;also provides free lifetime upgrades. Additionally, it&lt;br /&gt;includes a preprocessor, re-brander, active script,&lt;br /&gt;and detailed instructions for using HTML, Power Point,&lt;br /&gt;and Microsoft Word files.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are several other excellent Ebook compilers on&lt;br /&gt;the market that are worth looking into.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebook Generator features splash screens, password&lt;br /&gt;protection, branding, icon customization, and&lt;br /&gt;compression control. Additionally, it includes virus&lt;br /&gt;prevention that alerts the user to any modifications&lt;br /&gt;made to your Ebook and offers usage statistics so you&lt;br /&gt;can track your Ebook&amp;#39;s use. With all these advanced&lt;br /&gt;features, this is an excellent compiler for the&lt;br /&gt;beginner because it is exceptionally easy to run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebook Creator is another excellent compiler,&lt;br /&gt;supporting HTML, JPEG, GIF, and PNG graphics, and&lt;br /&gt;Javascript, VB script, and Java applets. It also&lt;br /&gt;supports all Internet Explorer plug-ins. Standard&lt;br /&gt;features include unique serial numbers, direct linking&lt;br /&gt;to a form or a page on your website, disabled right&lt;br /&gt;clicking, and search functions. The software allows&lt;br /&gt;for expiration after a set number of days or usages,&lt;br /&gt;which allows you to create demo versions. You can&lt;br /&gt;create up to 1000 different passwords; every time the&lt;br /&gt;Ebook is downloaded, a unique password is required to&lt;br /&gt;access protected pages. The software provides&lt;br /&gt;user-friendly menus and buttons that allow the&lt;br /&gt;beginner to the advanced user to easily create their&lt;br /&gt;Ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously, there are some excellent compilers out&lt;br /&gt;there. So figure out EVERYTHING you need in terms of&lt;br /&gt;features, and then compare prices and options. Do take&lt;br /&gt;advantage of demo versions if they are offered before&lt;br /&gt;purchasing. And then, have fun creating your Ebook!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ali mustika sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Choosing an eBook Compiler</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/466657/Choosing-an-eBook-Compiler" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/466657/Choosing-an-eBook-Compiler</id>
    <updated>2008-04-13T07:39:48Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
    </author>
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&lt;p&gt;What is an eBook compiler?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&amp;#39;ve written and revised your ebook, hired an artist&lt;br /&gt;who has produced outstanding graphics, and now you&amp;#39;re&lt;br /&gt;ready to actually put together your ebook. What you&lt;br /&gt;need to make an ebook is software called an ebook&lt;br /&gt;Compiler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many different compilers to chose from, but&lt;br /&gt;first, you need to know exactly what an ebook Compiler&lt;br /&gt;does. Here is the simple explanation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An ebook compiler is a software program that converts&lt;br /&gt;either text pages or HTML text into a single&lt;br /&gt;executable file or an ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you or someone you hired has created a file with&lt;br /&gt;graphics in HTML, you will need an HTML ebook&lt;br /&gt;Compiler. This type of compiler requires a working&lt;br /&gt;knowledge of the HTML tag language. You can also use&lt;br /&gt;software to do this for you, such as Microsoft&lt;br /&gt;FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do you choose an eBook Compiler?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a large number of ebook Compilers available&lt;br /&gt;on the market, all with glowing sales copy and tekkie&lt;br /&gt;language. It can get very confusing and overwhelming&lt;br /&gt;very fast without some simple guidelines to help you&lt;br /&gt;figure out which compiler is right for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Choosing an ebook Compiler depends on a number of&lt;br /&gt;factors:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. How did you create your pages? Did you use HTML or&lt;br /&gt;PDF format? There are many more compilers available&lt;br /&gt;for HTML, but you can find some very good compilers&lt;br /&gt;that will covert your PDF files into an ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Consider how easy the program is to use and the&lt;br /&gt;thoroughness of the software&amp;#39;s instruction manual. It&lt;br /&gt;is absolutely necessary that the compiler you buy have&lt;br /&gt;an instructional manual, documentation, or online&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;wizards.&amp;quot; If it doesn&amp;#39;t, your chances of figuring out&lt;br /&gt;how to correctly use the program are compromised, and&lt;br /&gt;the time required doing so is going to be significant.&lt;br /&gt;Many manufacturers of compilers offer a free trial&lt;br /&gt;version so you can play around with it and see if it&lt;br /&gt;suits your needs. Download the trial version and&lt;br /&gt;ascertain that it actually does what it claims to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Security features. If you plan to sell your ebook,&lt;br /&gt;check out the security features of the compiler&lt;br /&gt;software carefully. Security features should include:&lt;br /&gt;prevention of the reader from modifying text, access&lt;br /&gt;only to the pages you assign or by entering a&lt;br /&gt;password, different ways of generating passwords such&lt;br /&gt;as secure passwords, user-friendly, and open&lt;br /&gt;passwords.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Supported scripting. Find out what scripts the&lt;br /&gt;software supports. Scripting allows you to create&lt;br /&gt;special effects, customize menus, and create and&lt;br /&gt;modify other user interactivity. Choose a compiler&lt;br /&gt;that permits you to include graphics, search windows,&lt;br /&gt;hyperlinks, forms, surveys, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Pricing. This is a factor that is not always easy&lt;br /&gt;to gauge. The highest priced compilers are not&lt;br /&gt;automatically your best choice. Choose your compiler&lt;br /&gt;based on the necessary requirements for your Ebook.&lt;br /&gt;That means you need to know exactly how you plan to&lt;br /&gt;use your Ebook and what functions you require.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let&amp;#39;s look at some of these factors in more detail.&lt;br /&gt;First of all, make sure you have the correct browser&lt;br /&gt;to run the compiler. The majority of HTML compilers&lt;br /&gt;use Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape. Check out&lt;br /&gt;the version that the compiler supports. Compilers that&lt;br /&gt;require a browser will not run on a computer that does&lt;br /&gt;not have the required browser installed. However,&lt;br /&gt;there are ebook HTML compilers that don&amp;#39;t require you&lt;br /&gt;to have any browser installed on your computer. These&lt;br /&gt;compilers run on any Windows system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you choose a compiler that requires a browser,&lt;br /&gt;check to ascertain that the browser is installed&lt;br /&gt;correctly and that it is properly configured to the&lt;br /&gt;specifications of the compiler. Check to see if&lt;br /&gt;certain functions are turned off or on, and make any&lt;br /&gt;adjustments according to the compiler instructions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Security is an essential element of any compiler,&lt;br /&gt;regardless of whether you plan to sell or give away&lt;br /&gt;your ebook. One of the main reasons for using a&lt;br /&gt;compiler is to prevent the reader from modifying the&lt;br /&gt;contents. A secure compiler allows access only to the&lt;br /&gt;pages you want the user to access unless they enter a&lt;br /&gt;correct password.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To find out how secure an ebook HTML compiler is, open&lt;br /&gt;an ebook on it. While it is open, check the temporary&lt;br /&gt;directory of your computer. This can usually be&lt;br /&gt;accessed by typing in C:\Windows\temp. If you see a&lt;br /&gt;bunch of files when your ebook is open or running, it&lt;br /&gt;means that your computer is decompressing the secure&lt;br /&gt;data from your ebook before showing the ebook to the&lt;br /&gt;viewer. This method is not secure! It means that&lt;br /&gt;anyone with the knowledge of how to access these&lt;br /&gt;temporary files can steal the secure data and then&lt;br /&gt;they can fiddle with your ebook to their evil heart&amp;#39;s&lt;br /&gt;desire. Remember, one of the main purposes of buying&lt;br /&gt;and using an HTML compiler is to protect your&lt;br /&gt;property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, let&amp;#39;s discuss passwords. When trying to choose&lt;br /&gt;an ebook Compiler, check out the type of passwords&lt;br /&gt;that the compiler supports. Almost all compilers offer&lt;br /&gt;some kind of password protection that insures that the&lt;br /&gt;user can only access the contents they have purchased&lt;br /&gt;from you. However, the best compilers offer varied&lt;br /&gt;ways to generate different types of passwords. Choose&lt;br /&gt;a compiler that gives you the options of secure,&lt;br /&gt;user-friendly, and open password generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another important factor when it comes to passwords is&lt;br /&gt;how the compiler generates them. A compiler that has&lt;br /&gt;internal password protection generation built into the&lt;br /&gt;software is more secure than compilers that link to&lt;br /&gt;live Internet password control systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find out if the compiler generates passwords online.&lt;br /&gt;If it has this option, it allows you to choose any&lt;br /&gt;payment processing system you want or to do the&lt;br /&gt;payment processing yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, look into the size of ebook the compiler&lt;br /&gt;supports. The best compilers can create ebooks up to 2&lt;br /&gt;GB in size without decompressing the HTML pages or&lt;br /&gt;images to your hard disk. Usually, ebooks that are 2&lt;br /&gt;GB in size can easily support 6 GB of compressed data.&lt;br /&gt;The catch here is that only text files will generally&lt;br /&gt;be compressible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You do not want a compiler that decompresses this&lt;br /&gt;amount of data when the user attempts to open your&lt;br /&gt;ebook. This would mean that anyone who purchases your&lt;br /&gt;ebook will have to wait for all the data to decompress&lt;br /&gt;before they can access your ebook right after&lt;br /&gt;downloading it. So look for compilers that only&lt;br /&gt;decompress temporarily files that are NOT HTML to the&lt;br /&gt;local hardisk. Non-HTML files include Flash, Word, and&lt;br /&gt;Acrobat files. This type of compiler is more secure&lt;br /&gt;and certainly faster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make sure the compiler you choose is compatible with&lt;br /&gt;your system software. Check out what version of&lt;br /&gt;Windows it requires, and make sure you have that&lt;br /&gt;version before buying your compiler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Support issues are extremely important. Choose a&lt;br /&gt;compiler that includes an installation program. This&lt;br /&gt;program allows your user to choose a number of&lt;br /&gt;different places on their computer to install the&lt;br /&gt;ebook, to place a shortcut on their desktop, and to&lt;br /&gt;add the ebook, if they choose, to the Start Programs&lt;br /&gt;menu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You also want excellent and accessible vendor support.&lt;br /&gt;Make sure you can access quick technical support! At&lt;br /&gt;three o&amp;#39;clock in the morning, this factor will be VERY&lt;br /&gt;important. Also, check to see the terms of free&lt;br /&gt;technical support offered. Unlimited technical support&lt;br /&gt;is obviously the best option.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check to see if the company that puts out the compiler&lt;br /&gt;software offers a service level agreement. This&lt;br /&gt;agreement is to assure you of their quality response&lt;br /&gt;to your questions or problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A good thing to consider is how long the compiler has&lt;br /&gt;been on the market. Usually, the version number will&lt;br /&gt;give you an idea. The longer the program is on the&lt;br /&gt;market, the higher the version number, the more bugs&lt;br /&gt;have been worked out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When choosing an ebook compiler, do not be swayed by&lt;br /&gt;incredible promises and dazzling sales copy. Do your&lt;br /&gt;homework first, and then consider all the above issues&lt;br /&gt;and factors before choosing an ebook compiler.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ilmumatematika.net&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://manshurin.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.manshurin.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Ovecoming Writer's Block</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/466644/Ovecoming-Writers-Block" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/466644/Ovecoming-Writers-Block</id>
    <updated>2008-04-13T07:21:06Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
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&lt;p&gt;What is writer&amp;#39;s block?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I just can&amp;#39;t think of a single darn thing to&lt;br /&gt;say. Oh well, I&amp;#39;m outta here!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sound familiar? No! Oh, get real! We&amp;#39;ve all&lt;br /&gt;experienced this phenomenon when we absolutely have to&lt;br /&gt;write something, particularly on deadline. I&amp;#39;m talking&lt;br /&gt;about. . . . .uh, I can&amp;#39;t think of what the word is .&lt;br /&gt;. . oh, yes, it&amp;#39;s on the tip of my tongue . . . it&amp;#39;s:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRITER&amp;#39;S BLOCK!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whew! I feel better just getting that out of my head&lt;br /&gt;and onto the page!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Writer&amp;#39;s block is the patron demon of the blank page.&lt;br /&gt;You may think you know EXACTLY what you&amp;#39;re going to&lt;br /&gt;write, but as soon as that evil white screen appears&lt;br /&gt;before you, your mind suddenly goes completely blank.&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m not talking about Zen meditation&lt;br /&gt;stare-at-the-wall-until-enlightenment-hits kind of&lt;br /&gt;blank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m talking about sweat trickling down the back of&lt;br /&gt;your neck, anguish and panic and suffering kind of&lt;br /&gt;blank. The tighter the deadline, the worse the anguish&lt;br /&gt;of writer&amp;#39;s block gets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having said that, let me say it again. &amp;quot;The tighter&lt;br /&gt;the deadline, the worse the anguish of writer&amp;#39;s block&lt;br /&gt;gets.&amp;quot; Now, can you figure out what might possibly be&lt;br /&gt;causing this horrible plunge into speechlessness?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answer is obvious: FEAR! You are terrified of that&lt;br /&gt;blank page. You are terrified you have absolutely&lt;br /&gt;nothing of value to say. You are afraid of the fear of&lt;br /&gt;writer&amp;#39;s block itself!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesn?t necessarily matter if you&amp;#39;ve done a decade&lt;br /&gt;of research and all you have to do is string sentences&lt;br /&gt;you can repeat in your sleep together into coherent&lt;br /&gt;paragraphs. Writer&amp;#39;s block can strike anyone at any&lt;br /&gt;time. Based in fear, it raises our doubts about our&lt;br /&gt;own self-worth, but it&amp;#39;s sneaky. It&amp;#39;s writer&amp;#39;s block,&lt;br /&gt;after all, so it doesn&amp;#39;t just come and let you know&lt;br /&gt;that. No, it makes you feel like an idiot who just had&lt;br /&gt;your frontal lobes removed through your sinuses. If&lt;br /&gt;you dared to put forth words into the greater world,&lt;br /&gt;they would surely come out as gibberish!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let&amp;#39;s try and be rational with this irrational demon.&lt;br /&gt;Let&amp;#39;s make a list of what might possibly be beneath&lt;br /&gt;this terrible and terrifying condition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Perfectionism. You must absolutely produce a&lt;br /&gt;masterpiece of literature straight off in the first&lt;br /&gt;draft. Otherwise, you qualify as a complete failure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Editing instead of composing. There&amp;#39;s your&lt;br /&gt;monkey-mind sitting on your shoulder, yelling as soon&lt;br /&gt;as you type &amp;quot;I was born?,&amp;quot; no, not that, that&amp;#39;s wrong!&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#39;s stupid! Correct correct correct correct?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Self-consciousness. How can you think, let alone&lt;br /&gt;write, when all you can manage to do is pry the&lt;br /&gt;fingers of writer&amp;#39;s block away from your throat enough&lt;br /&gt;so you can gasp in a few shallow breaths? You&amp;#39;re not&lt;br /&gt;focusing on what you&amp;#39;re trying to write, your focusing&lt;br /&gt;on those gnarly fingers around your windpipe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Can&amp;#39;t get started. It&amp;#39;s always the first sentence&lt;br /&gt;that&amp;#39;s the hardest. As writers, we all know how&lt;br /&gt;EXTREMELY important the first sentence is. It must be&lt;br /&gt;brilliant! It must be unique! It must hook your&lt;br /&gt;reader&amp;#39;s from the start! There&amp;#39;s no way we can get&lt;br /&gt;into writing the piece until we get past this&lt;br /&gt;impossible first sentence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Shattered concentration. You&amp;#39;re cat is sick. You&lt;br /&gt;suspect your mate is cheating on you. Your electricity&lt;br /&gt;might be turned off any second. You have a crush on&lt;br /&gt;the local UPS deliveryman. You have a dinner party&lt;br /&gt;planned for your in-laws. You . . . Need I say more.&lt;br /&gt;How can you possibly concentrate with all this mental&lt;br /&gt;clutter?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Procrastination. It&amp;#39;s your favorite hobby. It&amp;#39;s&lt;br /&gt;your soul mate. It?s the reason you&amp;#39;ve knitted 60&lt;br /&gt;argyle sweaters or made 300 bookcases in your garage&lt;br /&gt;workshop. It&amp;#39;s the reason you never run out of Brie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACE IT ? IT?S ONE OF THE REASONS YOU HAVE WRITER&amp;#39;S&lt;br /&gt;BLOCK!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to Overcome Writer&amp;#39;s Block&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay. I can hear that herd of you running away from&lt;br /&gt;this article as fast as you can. Absurd! you huff.&lt;br /&gt;Never in a million years, you fume. Writer&amp;#39;s block is&lt;br /&gt;absolutely, undeniably, scientifically proven to be&lt;br /&gt;impossible to overcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, just get over it! Well, I guess it&amp;#39;s not that&lt;br /&gt;easy. So try to sit down for just a few minutes and&lt;br /&gt;listen. All you have to do is listen ? you don&amp;#39;t have&lt;br /&gt;to actually write a single word.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah, there you all are again. I am beginning to make&lt;br /&gt;you out now that the cloud of dust is settling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am here to tell you that WRITER&amp;#39;S BLOCK CAN BE&lt;br /&gt;OVERCOME.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please, remain seated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are ways to trick this nasty demon. Pick one,&lt;br /&gt;pick several, and give them a try. Soon, before you&lt;br /&gt;even have a chance for your heartbeat to accelerate,&lt;br /&gt;guess what? You&amp;#39;re writing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some tried and true methods of overcoming&lt;br /&gt;writer&amp;#39;s block:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Be prepared. The only thing to fear is fear itself.&lt;br /&gt;(I know, that&amp;#39;s a clich?but as soon as you start&lt;br /&gt;writing, feel free to improve on it.) If you spend&lt;br /&gt;some time mulling over your project before you&lt;br /&gt;actually sit down to write, you may be able to&lt;br /&gt;circumvent the worst of the crippling panic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Forget perfectionism. No one ever writes a&lt;br /&gt;masterpiece in the first draft. Don&amp;#39;t put any&lt;br /&gt;expectations on your writing at all! In fact, tell&lt;br /&gt;yourself you&amp;#39;re going to write absolute garbage, and&lt;br /&gt;then give yourself permission to happily stink up your&lt;br /&gt;writing room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Compose instead of editing. Never, never write your&lt;br /&gt;first draft with your monkey-mind sitting on your&lt;br /&gt;shoulder making snide editorial comments. Composing is&lt;br /&gt;a magical process. It surpasses the conscious mind by&lt;br /&gt;galaxies. It&amp;#39;s even incomprehensible to the conscious,&lt;br /&gt;editorial, monkey-mind. So prepare an ambush. Sit down&lt;br /&gt;at your computer or your desk. Take a deep breath and&lt;br /&gt;blow out all your thoughts. Let your finger hover over&lt;br /&gt;your keyboard or pick up your pen. And then pull a&lt;br /&gt;fake: appear to be about to begin to write, but&lt;br /&gt;instead, using your thumb and index finger of your&lt;br /&gt;dominant hand, flick that little annoying ugly monkey&lt;br /&gt;back into the barrel of laughs it came from. Then jump&lt;br /&gt;in ? quickly! Write, scribble, scream, howl, let&lt;br /&gt;everything loose, as long as you do it with a pen or&lt;br /&gt;your computer keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Forget the first sentence. You can sweat over that&lt;br /&gt;all-important one-liner when you&amp;#39;ve finished your&lt;br /&gt;piece. Skip it! Go for the middle or even the end.&lt;br /&gt;Start wherever you can. Chances are, when you read it&lt;br /&gt;over, the first line will be blinking its little neon&lt;br /&gt;lights right at you from the depths of your&lt;br /&gt;composition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Concentration. This is a hard one. Life throws us&lt;br /&gt;so many curve balls. How about thinking about your&lt;br /&gt;writing time as a little vacation from all those&lt;br /&gt;annoying worries. Banish them! Create a space, perhaps&lt;br /&gt;even a physical one, where nothing exists except the&lt;br /&gt;single present moment. If one of those irritating&lt;br /&gt;worries gets by you, stomp on it like you would an&lt;br /&gt;ugly bug!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Stop procrastinating. Write an outline. Keep your&lt;br /&gt;research notes within sight. Use someone else&amp;#39;s&lt;br /&gt;writing to get going. Babble incoherently on paper or&lt;br /&gt;on the computer if you have to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just do it! (I know, I stole that line from&lt;br /&gt;somewhere?). Tack up anything that could possibly help&lt;br /&gt;you to get going: notes, outlines, pictures of your&lt;br /&gt;grandmother. Put the cookie you will be allowed to eat&lt;br /&gt;when you finish your first draft within sight ? but&lt;br /&gt;out of reach. Then pick up the same type of writing&lt;br /&gt;that you need to write, and read it. Then read it&lt;br /&gt;again. Soon, trust me, the fear will slowly fade away.&lt;br /&gt;As soon as it does, grab your keyboard ? and get&lt;br /&gt;writing!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How to Write an Ebook</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/466604/How-to-Write-an-Ebook" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/466604/How-to-Write-an-Ebook</id>
    <updated>2008-04-13T03:50:38Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
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&lt;p&gt;The hardest part of writing is the first sentence.&lt;br /&gt;When you look at the whole project, it seems like an&lt;br /&gt;impossible task. That&amp;#39;s why you have to break it down&lt;br /&gt;into manageable tasks. Think of climbing a mountain.&lt;br /&gt;You are standing at the foot of it and looking up at&lt;br /&gt;its summit vanishing into the clouds. How can you&lt;br /&gt;possibly scale such an immense and dangerous mountain?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is only one way to climb a mountain ? step by&lt;br /&gt;step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now think of writing your ebook in the same light. You&lt;br /&gt;must create it step by step, and one day, you will&lt;br /&gt;take that last step and find yourself standing on the&lt;br /&gt;summit with your head in the clouds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing you have to do, as if you actually&lt;br /&gt;were a mountain climber, is to get organized. Instead&lt;br /&gt;of climbing gear, however, you must organize your&lt;br /&gt;thoughts. There are some steps you should take before&lt;br /&gt;you begin. Once you&amp;#39;ve gone through the following&lt;br /&gt;list, you will be ready to actually begin writing your&lt;br /&gt;ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beginning Steps to Writing an ebook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, figure out your ebook&amp;#39;s working title. Jot down&lt;br /&gt;a few different titles, and eventually, you&amp;#39;ll find&lt;br /&gt;that one that will grow on you. Titles help you to&lt;br /&gt;focus your writing on your topic; they guide you in&lt;br /&gt;anticipating and answering your reader&amp;#39;s queries. Many&lt;br /&gt;non-fiction books also have subtitles. Aim for clarity&lt;br /&gt;in your titles, but cleverness always helps to sell&lt;br /&gt;books ? as long as it&amp;#39;s not too cute. For example,&lt;br /&gt;Remedies for Insomnia: twenty different ways to count&lt;br /&gt;sheep. Or: Get off that couch: fifteen exercise plans&lt;br /&gt;to whip you into shape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, write out a thesis statement. Your thesis is a&lt;br /&gt;sentence or two stating exactly what problem you are&lt;br /&gt;addressing and how your book will solve that problem.&lt;br /&gt;All chapters spring forth from your thesis statement.&lt;br /&gt;Once you&amp;#39;ve got your thesis statement fine-tuned,&lt;br /&gt;you&amp;#39;ve built your foundation. From that foundation,&lt;br /&gt;your book will grow, chapter by chapter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your thesis will keep you focused while you write your&lt;br /&gt;ebook. Remember: all chapters must support your thesis&lt;br /&gt;statement. If they don&amp;#39;t, they don&amp;#39;t belong in your&lt;br /&gt;book. For example, your thesis statement could read:&lt;br /&gt;We&amp;#39;ve all experienced insomnia at times in our lives,&lt;br /&gt;but there are twenty proven techniques and methods to&lt;br /&gt;give you back a good night&amp;#39;s sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you have your thesis, before you start to write,&lt;br /&gt;make sure there is a good reason to write your book.&lt;br /&gt;Ask yourself some questions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Does your book present useful information and is&lt;br /&gt;that information currently relevant?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Will you book positively affect the lives of your&lt;br /&gt;readers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Is your book dynamic and will it keep the reader&amp;#39;s&lt;br /&gt;attention?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Does you book answer questions that are meaningful&lt;br /&gt;and significant?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you can answer yes to these questions, you can feel&lt;br /&gt;confident about the potential of your ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another important step is to figure out who your&lt;br /&gt;target audience is. It is this group of people you&lt;br /&gt;will be writing to, and this group will dictate many&lt;br /&gt;elements of your book, such as style, tone, diction,&lt;br /&gt;and even length. Figure out the age range of your&lt;br /&gt;readers, their general gender, what they are most&lt;br /&gt;interested in, and even the socio-economic group they&lt;br /&gt;primarily come from. Are they people who read fashion&lt;br /&gt;magazines or book reviews? Do they write letters in&lt;br /&gt;longhand or spend hours every day online. The more you&lt;br /&gt;can pin down your target audience, the easier it will&lt;br /&gt;be to write your book for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, make a list of the reasons you are writing your&lt;br /&gt;ebook. Do you want to promote your business? Do you&lt;br /&gt;want to bring quality traffic to your website? Do you&lt;br /&gt;want to enhance your reputation?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then write down your goals in terms of publishing. Do&lt;br /&gt;you want to sell it as a product on your website, or&lt;br /&gt;do you want to offer it as a free gift for filling out&lt;br /&gt;a survey or for ordering a product? Do you want to use&lt;br /&gt;the chapters to create an e-course, or use your ebook&lt;br /&gt;to attract affiliates around the world? The more you&lt;br /&gt;know upfront, the easier the actual writing will be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decide on the format of your chapters. In non-fiction,&lt;br /&gt;keep the format from chapter to chapter fairly&lt;br /&gt;consistent. Perhaps you plan to use an introduction to&lt;br /&gt;your chapter topic, and then divide it into four&lt;br /&gt;subhead topics. Or you may plan to divide it into five&lt;br /&gt;parts, each one beginning with a relevant anecdote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to make your ebook &amp;quot;user friendly&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You must figure out how to keep your writing engaging.&lt;br /&gt;Often anecdotes, testimonials, little stories, photos,&lt;br /&gt;graphs, advice, and tips will keep the reader turning&lt;br /&gt;the pages. Sidebars are useful for quick, accessible&lt;br /&gt;information, and they break up the density of the&lt;br /&gt;page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Write with a casual, conversational tone rather than a&lt;br /&gt;formal tone such as textbook diction. Reader&amp;#39;s respond&lt;br /&gt;to the feeling that you are having a conversation with&lt;br /&gt;them. Break up the length and structure of your&lt;br /&gt;sentences so you don?t hypnotize your readers into&lt;br /&gt;sleep. Sentences that are all the same length and&lt;br /&gt;structure tend to be a good aid for insomnia!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good writing takes practice. It takes lots and lots of&lt;br /&gt;practice. Make a schedule to write at least a page a&lt;br /&gt;day. Read books and magazines about the process of&lt;br /&gt;writing, and jot down tips that jump out at you. The&lt;br /&gt;art of writing is a lifetime process; the more you&lt;br /&gt;write (and read), the better your writing will become.&lt;br /&gt;The better your writing becomes, the bigger your sales&lt;br /&gt;figures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an ebook that is read on the screen, be aware that&lt;br /&gt;you must give your reader&amp;#39;s eye a break. You can do&lt;br /&gt;this by utilizing white space. In art classes, white&lt;br /&gt;space is usually referred to as &amp;quot;negative space.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;Reader&amp;#39;s eyes need to rest in the cool white oasises&lt;br /&gt;you create on your page. If your page is too dense,&lt;br /&gt;your reader will quit out of it as soon as their eyes&lt;br /&gt;begin to tear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make use of lists, both bulleted and numbered. This&lt;br /&gt;makes your information easy to absorb, and gives the&lt;br /&gt;reader a mental break from dissecting your paragraphs&lt;br /&gt;one after the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, decide on an easy-to-read design. Find a font&lt;br /&gt;that&amp;#39;s easy on the eyes, and stick to that font&lt;br /&gt;family. Using dozens of fonts will only tire your&lt;br /&gt;readers out before they&amp;#39;ve gotten past your&lt;br /&gt;introduction. Use at least one and a half line&lt;br /&gt;spacing, and text large enough to be read easily on&lt;br /&gt;the screen, but small enough so that the whole page&lt;br /&gt;can be seen on a computer screen. You will have to&lt;br /&gt;experiment with this to find the right combination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, don&amp;#39;t forget to run a spell and grammar&lt;br /&gt;check. You are judged by something as minor as correct&lt;br /&gt;punctuation, so don?t mess up a great book by tossing&lt;br /&gt;out semicolons randomly, or stringing sentences&lt;br /&gt;together with commas. (By the way, that&amp;#39;s called a&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;comma splice.&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last of all, create an index and a bibliography.&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#39;s it! You&amp;#39;ve written a book! Now all you have to&lt;br /&gt;do is publish your ebook online, and wait for download&lt;br /&gt;request from your website visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ilmumatematika.net&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Ebooks are Promotional Powerhouses</title>
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    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/466603/Ebooks-are-Promotional-Powerhouses</id>
    <updated>2008-04-13T03:40:56Z</updated>
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      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
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&lt;p&gt;Ebooks are part of the new frontier of cyberspace. They are an entirely new medium for sharing marketing information, ideas, techniques, and expert knowledge. Each day the number of people accessing the Internet grows, causing the exposure of your ebook to increase incrementally. It&amp;#39;s obvious why electronic self-publishing has become so popular so quickly.  The publishing industry, I hope, does not intend to forever banish the printed word to the dustbin of history. Books in print have their own special qualities and merits, and the world would be diminished by their disappearance.  Having said that, let&amp;#39;s look at what makes ebooks so important and so unique. Ebooks have certain abilities and qualities that other mediums do not possess.  For example, ebooks are fairly easy to produce, and their production cost is inexpensive. Just think about it: you don&amp;#39;t need a publisher, an agent, a printing press, offset film, ink, paper, or even a distributor. You just need a great concept, the ability to write it or to hire a writer, and the right software.  Additionally, ebooks are easily and rapidly distributed online. They are also easily updated; they do not require a second print run. All you need is to go into your original creation and modify the text or graphics. Because of this flexibility, ebooks can change and grow as fast as you can type.  Ebooks are also immediately obtainable. You don&amp;#39;t have to go to a bookstore or search through endless titles at an online bookstore. All you have to do is download it from a website, and presto! It&amp;#39;s on your computer, ready to be read.  Ebooks are interactive. This is one of the most unique and specific qualities that ebooks offer. You can add surveys that need to be filled out, order forms for customers to purchase your products or goods, sound and video that draw your reader into the virtual world of your ebook, even direct links to relevant sites that will expand your ebook outward. The potential is virtually limitless.  Ebooks have a particular kind of permanence that other mediums do not possess. Television shows and radio shows air once, and then may rerun a few times. Ebooks remain on your computer for as long as your choose, and they can be read and reread whenever you choose to. They can even be printed out and stored on the shelves of your traditional home library.  Another wonderful quality is that ebooks have no barriers in terms of publishing. You don&amp;#39;t need to go through the endless process of submitting your manuscript over and over again, and then once you land an agent, having the agent submit your manuscript over and over again. Nor do you have to shell out thousands of dollars for printing a self-published book. All ebooks require is a writer and appropriate software. Figure out your market, write your book, post it on your website, and with the right business savvy, your audience will come to you.  Finally, you have creative control over your ebook. You don?t have to compromise with an editor or the publishing trends of the time. You don&amp;#39;t have to haggle with a designer or wait for copyedited galleys to arrive by snail mail. You are in complete control of the design and the text.  How to Use ebooks for Marketing and Promotion  There are innumerable ways to use ebooks to promote your business and drive quality traffic to your website. Once posted on your site, you can turn them into a daily course, which brings your customer back to read the next chapter. You can use them as a free gift for making a purchase or for filling out a survey. Put your ebook on a disc, and you will have an innovative brochure. Blow your competition away by inserting the disc into your sales packages.  The most effective marketing products are those that are unique. Copyright your ebook, and immediately, you have a powerful tool that you, and you alone, can offer to the public. People will have to visit your site to acquire your ebook, which increases the flow of quality traffic and the potential of sales and affiliate contacts.  Make sure that you keep your ebook current. Update it frequently as the market and trends change. Add new advice and techniques to show your prospects how your goods or services can enrich their lives. By constantly keeping abreast of new trends and techniques, you can continue to see profits from your ebook for years after your original creation.  Another phenomenal advantage of ebooks is that you can test their marketing potential without putting out hardly any cash at all. You can even produce an ebook one copy at a time, each time you receive an order, eliminating the need for storage and inventory. By this method, you can gauge the saleablity of your ebook, and make adjustments as necessary until the orders start pouring in. Ebooks allow you to learn about your market and customer habits and motivation over a period of time, without risking your precious financial resources. They also provide you with an invaluable way to gather marketing information, which you can use in many different facets of your business.  Use your ebook to discover what the specific goals and problems are in your specific industry. Then figure out how to solve these problems, and publish an ebook with this invaluable information. This will increase the value of your business, upgrade your reputation, and get you known as an expert in your field.  You can extend the value of single ebook by breaking the book down into chapters for a serial course, into special reports available on your website, or into audio or visual tapes. Ebooks can be broken down into several different promotional materials by excepting some of the articles and using them to promote your product. You can include a catalog in your ebook to promote all the products or services you sell. You can include a thank-you note for reading your book and an invitation to download a trial version of your product. Or you can include a form for your audience to contact you for further information or with questions, thereby building your business relationships and your mailing list.  Using ebooks in this manner helps to cut the cost of individually producing separate promotional materials. You can use a single ebook to entice new prospects and to sell new products to your current customers.  No other medium has this kind of flexibility and ability for expansion. Think of your ebook like a spider spinning a beautiful and intricate web. Now go and create that web, and see how many customers and prospects you can catch!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ilmumatematika.net&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>PPC Advertising for Maximum Web Promotion</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/465623/PPC-Advertising-for-Maximum-Web-Promotion" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/465623/PPC-Advertising-for-Maximum-Web-Promotion</id>
    <updated>2008-04-12T10:32:40Z</updated>
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      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
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&lt;p&gt;Engaging in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising has its own benefits and drawbacks. But what exactly is PPC advertising and what it can do to your business?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Business nowadays is doing different kinds of austerity measures when it comes to advertising their products and services. This is because of high rates of placing ads on print and on television. But there is a fast growing approach that businessmen can utilize to bring their services closer to the people and that is through Internet Marketing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One tool that is causing internet marketing popularity is PPC advertising. This is a technique used in search engine marketing that requires one to pay a fee every time someone clicks an ad on your website. Usually this placement is done through a bidding process. If you are a top bidder for your keywords/phrases, you are sure to be on the number one spot on all search engines. Just be sure of the effectiveness of your ad copy to get the most number of clicks you need for your business. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are the benefits of PPC advertising are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; You need not be a genius in computer and technology to be able to run this ad campaign. &lt;br /&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Immediate results are seen after a few days.&lt;br /&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; No need to make a website conform to the SEO rules.&lt;br /&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Nothing to lose even if you do not top the pages of different search engines. You can still always choose PPC advertising.&lt;br /&gt;5.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; You can make use any search engine available.&lt;br /&gt;6.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; You can type in any keyword you like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cons of PPC advertising includes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Fixed payments every month to the search engine you choose.&lt;br /&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Pay for each click received by your website. At times, visitors are just competitors or people playing pranks on search engines. This hassle wastes money you put in to this advertising.&lt;br /&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Inability to pay for the fees next month would mean removal of your website on the paid listings.&lt;br /&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This advertising can only be used temporarily because it is difficult to handle in the long run.&lt;br /&gt;5.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Pay-per-click pricing can be costly for long periods of time, therefore, this should be stopped after an ad campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But how exactly PPC advertising can increase traffic, leads and sales?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PRE-QUALIFIED TRAFFIC. All visitors of your website are already considered as a qualified consumer or buyer of your product. PPC advertising leads your customers to you for a lesser cost.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INSTANT EXPOSURE, IMMEDIATE PROFITS. PPC search engines enable you to get your desired results fast. They will have your website live within just a few hours which means immediate increase in sale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONSISTENT TOP LISTINGS. This is to get your website on top of the sponsored search results for free. You just have to choose the keywords related to your site and business and place them within your web pages. After this, you are done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC advertising enables advertisers to control their advertising campaigns. Advertisers have effectively targeted their audience and set their own price per click. PPC advertising networks provide the platform to identify the desired audience by geographic setting, topic and industry.&amp;nbsp; These networks have a list of websites of the publishers where the ads will be placed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tools are provided by the networks to check how the pay per click limit is working for a certain advertiser. If its still competitive, would it be even listed among the paid search lists or does it generate sales? Of course, if the advertiser made the highest bid, the better chances the ad will be seen in the search engine. These networks too provide protection for the advertisers against click fraud. This advertising set-up allows advertisers to set a daily budget for his ads, thus, less spending for unnecessary clicks. Advertiser will never go over his budget.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In PPC advertising, what are important are the keywords and phrases. You have to select at least ten &amp;quot;very specific&amp;quot; keywords that would give you the best traffic in the search. Then, write the ad creatively but straightforward. Tell the truth about your product or service and do not lie. Good thing if your product or service will not disappoint those that are relying on your ad&amp;#39;s promise - but what if it did otherwise? Important too is the clarity of the ad. Do not use very vague languages. Include important details like the price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should also remember to budget your bids. Do not go overbidding because you will only lose your money and do not go so low that your ads will never get the chance to show up. Check your profit against your spending. If you see no progress then most likely you have to drop your ad campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;More and more advertisers have been using PPC advertising and it will continue to grow faster than any online advertising techniques. From revenues of $2.6 billion in 2004 to $5.5 billion in 2009, cost per click will dramatically go up as well from $0.29 to $0.36. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC advertising is new in online marketing and it is going to continue in the years to come. For advertisers, this means increase revenues with fewer advertising expenses, savings, more sales, good return of investment (ROI) and effective ad campaigns in the days to come.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika Sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>All You Need To Know About Blog Hosts</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/465601/All-You-Need-To-Know-About-Blog-Hosts" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/465601/All-You-Need-To-Know-About-Blog-Hosts</id>
    <updated>2008-04-12T10:22:14Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
    </author>
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&lt;p&gt;Apart from the chat rooms, instant messengers and electronic mails created for communication and dialogue beyond turf are the emerging innovations that help man build opportunities for interaction.&amp;nbsp; The need for a personalized and human face aspect of building online communities is slowly changing the technological landscape of the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogs / &amp;ldquo;weblogs&amp;rdquo; or blogging are the newest gift of Internet technology to people all over the world. These are updated posts, crop up entries or personalized life snippets, of mundane or bizarre in nature. For most, a &amp;ldquo;blog&amp;rdquo; is a personal, unedited, and authentic journal meant to be shared in an online community. Blog site is a place where bloggers can publish anything; his thoughts, feelings, photos, special events, experiences, comments on issues and so on. It is more of an online diary with videos, links, documents, newsletters and opinions on just about any topics you are interested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogs are made to welcome the insights and opinions of all and therefore, should not be written to sound intimidating and too formal. This kind of blog is a sure way to put off the readers. In the basics of blogging, conversational tone would be more appropriate to reach the desired audience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogging is all about individuals reaching out to other individuals. Having a blog has its own set of advantages:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Freedom of Expression. If you want people to hear you out and give their own opinion, this is the best way to create a line of communication;&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Networking is at its best. Having a blog is a good platform for exchanging genuine ideas from consumers to you as marketer of a certain product. Sound opinion and point of view is better than just showing the price quote;&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Excellent advertising platform. Blogging is a new way to advertise products, a refreshing change from the traditional advertising outlets and it is cost-effective.&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Gauging public opinion on products and services. The key is nice and catchy titles with new ideas presented in your content. This is an assurance of quick and repeated responses from your readers.&amp;nbsp; Blogs is an excellent spot for the exchange of ideas between the seller and the consumer. Good for measuring public opinion regarding services and products, even political and business matters alike.&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Useful tool for internal communication. This will help your company to build a knowledge-based community of employees. Also good for harnessing employee relations and identifying human resource issues in advance.&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Other benefits like search engine optimization (SEO) will help your blogs to be seen often by as many people as you wish. This is very good exposure for your products and services. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many blog hosting services are available on the Internet. But the basic question is which one of the services will be the best to start off your business blog program? Business people are usually clueless to recent technological innovations which would help them maximize their marketing potentials. For these beginners, it is best to study first the services offered by blog hosts. An ineffective business blogging program may damage marketing opportunities instead of enriching them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A company may decide to do the following depending on its capacity and needs: 1) Host their own blog service, 2) Pay someone else to host the service, or 3) Setup a &amp;ldquo;blog aggregator page&amp;rdquo; and ask the employees to select their blog hosting services individually. There are paid and free services available for individuals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For business blogs, they are required to have the latest blogging features; if not, this will prevent them from maximizing their marketing, public relations and SEO potentials. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep in mind that blogs should have the following basic essentials: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COMMENTS.&amp;nbsp; Welcoming comments provide opportunity for dialogue. In business blogs, they are a good customer feedback mechanism. This helps develop better customer relations based from loyalty and trust. Blogging is an innovative way to converse with your customers.&lt;br /&gt;TRACKBACK. This helps in maximizing company and product exposure. Through this service, consumers can get back to you for more posts and updates without the difficulty of locating you. If your blog is popular in a specific online community chances are links going back to your blog site are everywhere online, other blog sites or even websites.&lt;br /&gt;CATEGORIES AND TAGS. These both help in classifying blog searches for ease of navigation and on site search. Categories act as libraries because it classifies posts by subject matter such as business, distance learning, e-commerce, online auctions, etc. Tags, help in the classification, especially in the blog search engine Technorati. Possible customers and new clients locate blogs about certain topics of interest by just clicking the tags.&lt;br /&gt;RSS FEED. Really Simple Syndication is the feed from your blog that is sent out over the internet, and collected through the various newsreaders and aggregators. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your company is to establish a business blogging program, considerable options should be made available by the hosting companies shortlisted for the services. Free blog hosting services are popular but they are much appropriate for individual online journals. Paid blog hosting services offer unlimited packages best for your company&amp;rsquo;s needs. You may want to suggest checking out some blogs that use the host first, read and examine their layout and design. Another important thing to consider is a reliable technical support the host has. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After, choosing the blog host, a team should be ready to plan the design and structure of the blog: The team should:&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; create a style that meets the needs of the audience;&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; establish an open, credible tone;&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; schedule weekly updating of blog - ideally, a few times a week;&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; include weblinks of other website and blogs;&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; blog post should be in the &amp;ldquo;first person;&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; focus on the business blog objective; and,&lt;br /&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; maintain an honest, engaging conversational quality. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, whatever the look, style and content found on your blog is a reflection of you and your company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika Sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ilmumatematika.net&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.ilmumatematematika.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>5 Reasons Why Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool </title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/465584/5-Reasons-Why-Blogging-is-the-New-Internet-Marketing-Tool" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/465584/5-Reasons-Why-Blogging-is-the-New-Internet-Marketing-Tool</id>
    <updated>2008-04-12T10:11:55Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
    </author>
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&lt;p&gt;5 Reasons Why Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s.&amp;nbsp; It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one&amp;rsquo;s opinion on the said page.&amp;nbsp; What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and everything under the sun.&amp;nbsp; As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blog&amp;rsquo;s potential.&amp;nbsp; Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet marketing tool.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.Blogging is simple.&amp;nbsp; The simplest way to get your piece on the net is through blogging.&amp;nbsp; No skills are necessary&amp;hellip; an average adult can read and type, or at least click a mouse.&amp;nbsp; It&amp;rsquo;s like having a virtual piece of paper and you just write your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the truth behind your articles comes out and entice your reader to also try your product.&amp;nbsp; If you have a PC and an Internet connection (who doesn&amp;rsquo;t?) then you can blog and advertise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Blogging is authentic.&amp;nbsp; In this day and age where advertising saturate our lives, we question the credibility of promoters&amp;rsquo; claims.&amp;nbsp; However, in blogs, real people share their real-life experiences, unscathed by paid advertising.&amp;nbsp; Reading blogs about first-hand product use is like talking to people about their first-hand experience.&amp;nbsp; You definitely want to buy a tried and tested product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Blogging is free.&amp;nbsp; Because blogging is yet to be proven as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see it as something to augment current marketing tools and thus offer it for free.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Any opportunity for free webtime is definitely a bonus especially to businesses that are starting up.&amp;nbsp; Needless to say, paid blog pages can generate more income for your seriously growing business. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Blogging builds credibility.&amp;nbsp; As you get more and more into writing your experiences on a particular product or industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend on your posts for their own information needs.&amp;nbsp; As such, you become an expert on it; as a consequence, more readers visit your site and more bloggers link to your blogs.&amp;nbsp; As companies and professional organizations notice the growth of your readership base, they may soon get in touch with you for advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate, which pays for every referral generated from your blog site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Blogging builds your market.&amp;nbsp; Unless you are a Hollywood star, chances are, only your Mom reads your posts.&amp;nbsp; Mom has a lot of friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your blog site is.&amp;nbsp; But you need not depend on Mom to increase your readership base.&amp;nbsp; Look into the following ways to build your market through blogging:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-By using your e-mail.&amp;nbsp; Today, blogging is overcoming the e-mail&amp;rsquo;s popularity in quickly and effectively reaching and expanding a market.&amp;nbsp; In this age of speed and quick access, logging in and downloading e-mail is simply taking longer than clicking into a blog site.&amp;nbsp; Let them explore your site by using a short e-mail message as teaser to your blog site.&amp;nbsp; If your e-mail is on an entirely different subject, use your e-mail signature to give a link to the site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-By using subscription.&amp;nbsp; An easy way to get your readers e-mail is to give them an opportunity to subscribe to your blogsite.&amp;nbsp; Keep some exclusive information for your subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their e-mail address.&amp;nbsp; Just be responsible in using their e-mail address, as the last thing you want is a comment on your blog that you are a spammer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-By understanding your readers.&amp;nbsp; Conduct a simple survey for your readers to understand their profile and advertising preferences.&amp;nbsp; Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared.&amp;nbsp; In this way, it is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-By joining a blog network &amp;ndash;A network of blogs maybe a collection of blog sites that share the same industry, interest, readership base, payment mode, etc.&amp;nbsp; Consumers find credibility and convenience in clicking one link to several real bloggers about a single subject.&amp;nbsp; Clearly, more bloggers are better than one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-By using RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today.&amp;nbsp; As such, having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely another means of generating awareness for your readership base.&amp;nbsp; Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give your business a boost by effectively using blogging as an Internet marketing tool.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika Sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>PPC ADVERTISING: HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS &quot;CLICK&quot;</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/465578/PPC-ADVERTISING-HOW-TO-MAKE-YOUR-BUSINESS-CLICK" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/465578/PPC-ADVERTISING-HOW-TO-MAKE-YOUR-BUSINESS-CLICK</id>
    <updated>2008-04-12T10:08:30Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
    </author>
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&lt;p&gt;PPC stands for Pay Per Click - a popular advertising technique on the Internet. Found on websites, advertising networks, and especially on search engines, PPC advertising involves sponsored links that are typically in the form of text ads. These are usually placed close to search results, where an advertiser pays a particular amount to visitors who click on these links or banners and land on the advertiser&amp;#39;s web page. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In essence, PPC advertising is all about bidding for the top or leading position on search engine results and listings. Advertisers do this by buying or bidding on keyword phrases that are relevant to their products or services - the higher the bid, the higher the spot on the search results, the more the people will find the ad (and click on it) to go to their websites (this is why some people call it &amp;quot;keyword auctioning&amp;quot;). Advertisers would then pay the bidding price every time a visitor clicks through the website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC advertising is also known under the following names/variations:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Pay per placement&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Pay per performance&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Pay per ranking&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Pay per position&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Cost per click (CPC)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC advertising is usually done with the following standard procedures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Setting up an account and/or deposit funds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Creating a keyword list. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Choosing (and setting up) an account with a PPC search engine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Bidding on the ad placement, including the search result words or phrases. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Writing out an ad copy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Setting up the &amp;#39;landing pages&amp;#39; for your ads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Placing the advertisement in the search engine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many benefits to Pay Per Click advertising, making it an effective way of promoting a business &amp;#39;online&amp;#39;. Some of them are listed below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Get launched immediately. PPC advertisements are implemented very quickly - they can go &amp;#39;online&amp;#39; within an hour after winning the bid and paying for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Obtain specific, pre-qualified, and quality traffic. PPC provides you with a quality or a well-targeted traffic. Visitors are narrowed down into &amp;#39;qualified&amp;#39; people who are actually looking for specific products and/or services that you offer - those who are more likely to become a &amp;#39;lead&amp;#39; (a convert) and complete a transaction (either by buying your product or subscribing to the service that you are offering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Widen your reach. PPC advertising provides additional traffic to your site, aside from the natural or &amp;quot;organic&amp;quot; search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Track your investment. PPC advertising makes use of a tracking system that will determine exactly who comes to the website and what they do once they arrive - the length of their stay on the site and the number of pages (including the actual pages) that they view. These are valuable tools in determining statistics such as return on investment (ROI), acquisition cost-per-visitor, and conversion rates (the percentage of visitors who are converted into customers or leads).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below are some important things to consider when planning on a pay per click campaign:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Know your product. Take an inventory of the product and/or services that you have to offer (before anything else).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Stay within the budget. Determine your daily or monthly budget; and stay with it. This means keeping your budget in mind, avoiding bidding wars if possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Bid just right. Know how to bid right - a bid that is too high can exhaust all of your money, while a bid that is too low can make you lose that spot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Watch the bottom line. Measure your profit margin against your spending or expenses. Know when to stop and terminate your PPC program - if you spend more on advertising but have little or no sales at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Find the right keywords. Decide which keyword phrases to opt and bid for. Do some keyword research, either by actually looking at existing search terms or with the use of online keyword suggestion tools, to know which terms are mostly used when searching for items that are related to your business. Focus on specific keywords, not on general ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Write effective ads. A good PPC ad is that which can persuade and move a searcher. There are several approaches to this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Discount offers&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Testimonials&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Celebrity/famous endorsers&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Money-back guarantees&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Free trials or sample offers&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Freebies&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Reverse psychology&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Major benefits (&amp;quot;Lose weight&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Direct instructions (&amp;quot;Click here&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Maintain a professional-looking site. Your web content should be regularly updated and checked for spelling and grammatical errors. There should be no broken links or images. The website should be simple - designed in such a way that it will be easy for visitors to navigate and load. Include contact details to create a good impression among potential customers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Done properly, PPC advertising can be an effective marketing tool that will maximize the return on your investment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika Sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Blogging</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/465574/Blogging" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/465574/Blogging</id>
    <updated>2008-04-12T10:06:13Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
    </author>
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&lt;p&gt;If writing is an art, then, blogging is one way of using words to come up with an art. This is because people who are into blogging are the ones who are artistic on their own sense, carefully choosing words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically, blogs were first introduced as weblogs that refer to a &amp;ldquo;server&amp;rsquo;s log file.&amp;rdquo; It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, web logging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a viable source of greater information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, with web logging, you still need a web site and domain names, but with blogging, you do not need anything just an account with blog providers. In most cases, these kinds of blogs are free of charge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journaling had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. However, not literally famous as this is not a case on being popular or well-known personality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, sentiments, and whatever ideas they want to express online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, with the advent of the online businesses, blogs had gradually taken the limelight in providing businesses a chance to boost their productivity online. This is where the business blogs have taken the limelight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Business blogs are, basically, created to advertise the services or products of a certain web site or online business in order to increase online sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, business blogs are also one way of promoting the company so that the other readers will know that a certain company exists online. With blogs, entrepreneurs are able to establish a name in the virtual market through articles that can be very useful in the reader&amp;rsquo;s life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From there, you can make money out of blogs by simply syndicating it to your business&amp;rsquo; web site. This can be done through the RSS technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if you are thinking to create a blog, whether for business or for pleasure, you need to know some tips that could help you get through and make your blog one of the interesting blogs online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s how:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Consider your audience&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even if your blog is generally personal, still, it would be better to consider the minds of your readers. You have to think of something that would interest them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, most of the reasons of people who write blogs are not at all confined to their own personal motives. Most of them would love to be &amp;ldquo;heard&amp;rdquo; (or read) and would love to be known, in some way or another, even for just a minute. Hence, it is very important to come with a write up that everybody can understand, not necessarily that these people can relate to it but they can understand it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Pictures speaks a thousand words&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make your blogging worth the browsing effort of your readers, it would be extremely nice if you will put some pictures in it. It does not necessarily mean you have to place a picture of yourself. Any photographs will do as long as it does not pose danger or insult to anyone who will be reading your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Make constructive and beneficial blogs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even if you are free to write anything you wan to say to the world, still, it would be better to create some write-ups that would be beneficial to your readers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, its information technology that you have there so better be inclined to provide information rather than sheer quirky entertainment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Avoid making multifaceted and complicated blogs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to have an interesting blogs, try not to use some highly technical and highfalutin words. After all, it is not a science discourse or a debate that you are making, so better stick to simple facts and short blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bear in mind that most people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than scrutinizing each site word for word. Therefore, it would be better to come with blogs that will not bore your readers just because you have these lengthy articles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Make it interactive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As much as possible and if your capacity will allow it, make your blog interactive. Yu can do this by placing some video or audio clips in your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can even place an area for comments or for some feedbacks. In this way, you can get some impressions or reactions of other people. Who knows, you might even gain some friends just by making them feel at home in your blog site. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, blogs are not created just for the mere fun of it. It also has its own purpose in the world of the Internet. &lt;br /&gt;Therefore, for people who wish to harness their craft, as far as writing is concerned, blogs are the best way to do it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As they say, blogging is the contemporary term of creative and commercial writing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika Sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Why Write an eBook?</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/465570/Why-Write-an-eBook" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/465570/Why-Write-an-eBook</id>
    <updated>2008-04-12T10:03:14Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
    </author>
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&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s not true that everything that has been said has&lt;br /&gt;already been written. Since that unfortunate axiom&lt;br /&gt;came into use, the whole universe has changed.&lt;br /&gt;Technology has changed, ideas have changed, and the&lt;br /&gt;mindsets of entire nations have changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact is that this is the perfect time to write an&lt;br /&gt;ebook. What the publishing industry needs are people&lt;br /&gt;who can tap into the world as it is today - innovative&lt;br /&gt;thinkers who can make the leap into the new millennium&lt;br /&gt;and figure out how to solve old problems in a new way.&lt;br /&gt;Ebooks are a new and powerful tool for original&lt;br /&gt;thinkers with fresh ideas to disseminate information&lt;br /&gt;to the millions of people who are struggling to figure&lt;br /&gt;out how to do a plethora of different things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let&amp;#39;s say you already have a brilliant idea, and the&lt;br /&gt;knowledge to back it up that will enable you to write&lt;br /&gt;an exceptional ebook. You may be sitting at your&lt;br /&gt;computer staring at a blank screen wondering, &amp;quot;Why?&lt;br /&gt;Why should I go through all the trouble of writing my&lt;br /&gt;ebook when it&amp;#39;s so impossible to get anything&lt;br /&gt;published these days?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, let me assure you that publishing an ebook is&lt;br /&gt;entirely different than publishing a book in print.&lt;br /&gt;Let&amp;#39;s look at the specifics of how the print and cyber&lt;br /&gt;publishing industry differ, and the many reasons why&lt;br /&gt;you should take the plunge and get your fingers&lt;br /&gt;tapping across those keyboards!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Submitting a print book to conventional publishing&lt;br /&gt;houses or to agents is similar to wearing a hair shirt&lt;br /&gt;24/7. No matter how good your book actually is, or how&lt;br /&gt;many critique services and mentor writers have told&lt;br /&gt;you that &amp;quot;you&amp;#39;ve got what it takes,&amp;quot; your submitted&lt;br /&gt;manuscript keeps coming back to you as if it is a&lt;br /&gt;boomerang instead of a valuable mine of information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps, in desperation, you&amp;#39;ve checked out&lt;br /&gt;self-publishing and found out just how expensive a&lt;br /&gt;venture it can be. Most &amp;quot;vanity presses&amp;quot; require&lt;br /&gt;minimal print runs of at least 500 copies, and even&lt;br /&gt;that amount will cost you thousands of dollars. Some&lt;br /&gt;presses&amp;#39; minimal run starts at 1,000 to 2,000 copies.&lt;br /&gt;And that&amp;#39;s just for the printing and binding. Add in&lt;br /&gt;distribution, shipping, and promotional costs and -&lt;br /&gt;well, you do the math. Even if you wanted to go this&lt;br /&gt;route, you may not have that kind of money to risk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let&amp;#39;s say you already have an Internet business with a&lt;br /&gt;quality website and a quality product. An ebook is one&lt;br /&gt;of the most powerful ways to promote your business&lt;br /&gt;while educating people with the knowledge you already&lt;br /&gt;possess as a business owner of a specific product or&lt;br /&gt;service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, let&amp;#39;s say that you&amp;#39;ve spent the last&lt;br /&gt;twenty-five years growing and training bonsai trees,&lt;br /&gt;and now you&amp;#39;re ready to share your knowledge and&lt;br /&gt;experience. An ebook is the perfect way to reach the&lt;br /&gt;largest audience of bonsai enthusiasts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebooks will not only promote your business - they will&lt;br /&gt;help you make a name for yourself and your company,&lt;br /&gt;and establish you as an expert in your field. You may&lt;br /&gt;even find that you have enough to say to warrant a&lt;br /&gt;series of ebooks. Specific businesses are complicated&lt;br /&gt;and often require the different aspects to be divided&lt;br /&gt;in order for the reader to get the full story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps your goals are more finely tuned in terms of&lt;br /&gt;the ebook scene. You may want to build a whole&lt;br /&gt;business around writing and publishing ebooks.&lt;br /&gt;Essentially, you want to start an e-business. You are&lt;br /&gt;thinking of setting up a website to promote and market&lt;br /&gt;your ebooks. Maybe you&amp;#39;re even thinking of producing&lt;br /&gt;an ezine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the most prevalent reasons people read ebooks&lt;br /&gt;is to find information about how to turn their&lt;br /&gt;Internet businesses into a profit-making machine. And&lt;br /&gt;these people are looking to the writers of ebooks to&lt;br /&gt;provide them with new ideas and strategies because&lt;br /&gt;writers of ebooks are usually people who understand&lt;br /&gt;the new cyberspace world we now live in. Ebook writers&lt;br /&gt;are experts in Internet marketing campaigns and the&lt;br /&gt;strategies of promoting and distributing ebooks. The&lt;br /&gt;cyberspace community needs its ebooks to be successful&lt;br /&gt;so that more and more ebooks will be written.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may want to create affiliate programs that will&lt;br /&gt;also market your ebook. Affiliates can be people or&lt;br /&gt;businesses worldwide that will all be working to sell&lt;br /&gt;your ebooks. Think about this? Do you see a formula&lt;br /&gt;for success here?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Figure out what your subject matter is, and then&lt;br /&gt;narrow it down. Your goal is to aim for specificity.&lt;br /&gt;Research what&amp;#39;s out there already, and try to find a&lt;br /&gt;void that your ebook might fill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about an ebook about a wedding cake business? Or&lt;br /&gt;an ebook about caring for elderly pets? How about the&lt;br /&gt;fine points of collecting ancient pottery?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don&amp;#39;t have to have three masters degrees to write&lt;br /&gt;about your subject. People need advice that is easy to&lt;br /&gt;read and easily understood. Parents need advice for&lt;br /&gt;dealing with their teenagers. College students need to&lt;br /&gt;learn good study skills - quickly. The possibilities&lt;br /&gt;are endless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After you&amp;#39;ve writtten your ebook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting your ebook out is going to be your focus once&lt;br /&gt;you&amp;#39;ve finished writing it, just as it is with print&lt;br /&gt;books. People will hesitate to buy any book from an&lt;br /&gt;author they&amp;#39;ve never heard of. Wouldn&amp;#39;t you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answer is simple: give it away! You will see&lt;br /&gt;profits in the form of promoting your own business and&lt;br /&gt;getting your name out. You will find affiliates who&lt;br /&gt;will ask you to place their links within your ebook,&lt;br /&gt;and these affiliates will in turn go out and make your&lt;br /&gt;name known. Almost every single famous ebook author&lt;br /&gt;has started out this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another powerful tool to attract people to your ebook&lt;br /&gt;is to make it interactive. Invent something for them&lt;br /&gt;to do within the book rather than just producing pages&lt;br /&gt;that contain static text. Let your readers fill out&lt;br /&gt;questionnaires, forms, even crossword puzzles geared&lt;br /&gt;to testing their knowledge on a particular subject.&lt;br /&gt;Have your readers hit a link that will allow them to&lt;br /&gt;recommend your book to their friends and associates.&lt;br /&gt;Or include an actual order form so at the end of their&lt;br /&gt;reading journey, they can eagerly buy your product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When people interact with books, they become a part of&lt;br /&gt;the world of that book. The fact is just as true for&lt;br /&gt;books in print as it is for ebooks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#39;s why ebooks are so essential. Not only do they&lt;br /&gt;provide a forum for people to learn and make sense of&lt;br /&gt;their own thoughts, but they can also serve to promote&lt;br /&gt;your business at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika Sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ilmumatematika.net&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Easy Financing Options</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/462016/Easy-Financing-Options" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/462016/Easy-Financing-Options</id>
    <updated>2008-04-09T23:20:20Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
    </author>
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&lt;p&gt;Unless the budget shows the company&amp;#39;s financial situation, including capital flows and investment, and the spread and parked in the inventory investment funds in the short term of office, he does not consider the health of the practice. For the performance of the company in the world to compete globally, and funding must be clean, but important factors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All businesses require investments for primary-day foreign-day. This is what is called Working Capital. Capital Group is working on the production of material and the purchase of raw materials and the conservation of the entire supply chain. It also emphasizes the wages of workers of the future and of the inventory. The funding should not be a burden on a company&amp;#39;s performance. If the company nearly finance, has become one of the classes of debt and long-term. Finally, the debt exceeds capital companies, significant losses and growing businesses. To avoid this situation, companies must be very careful with loan guarantees for working capital.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are a multitude of possibilities for financing for the various categories of simple businesses. Both banks and non-banks and financial institutions, corporate financing depending on the category. In an effort to fund the loan, as a company, the borrower has the guarantee of the bank. Security can, in all aspects of society. The loan guarantee may be inventory of the firm or company, a part of the fixed assets, such as land or machinery. But if there is no refund in a timely manner, and may participate in providers of investment funds. This could also mean that the poor condition of the company. Therefore, the total profit and loss in the quarter, a separate account must be maintained for vro&lt;br /&gt;itev of the company&amp;#39;s debt. This ensures that the payment of the loan in due course by the bank.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many companies are also in long-term debt, interest earned, at least since the amortization period is stressful. At long-term debt and the company had the option of the loan, even before the entire duration of validity. The loan will be put into direct contact with the nature of the business and its products. It is always best, a legal expert within the company to offer advice on matters related to money borrowed by external agencies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It has been hailed by private companies to invest in the share of funding for projects already underway. But if a company with a good performance and a target of private equity, companies, of course. Back to the list of private equity companies are guaranteed if investing their money in the good performance of the company. If firms are in fear of losing their identity, as the investment, private equity firms, and enables them to seek investments available to the public in the form of shares. The company may file an initial public offering of man, in order to ensure the necessary financing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika Sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ilmumatematika.net&quot;&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Why You Should Start an Internet Business</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/462015/Why-You-Should-Start-an-Internet-Business" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/462015/Why-You-Should-Start-an-Internet-Business</id>
    <updated>2008-04-09T23:17:26Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
    </author>
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&lt;p&gt;Lots of companies that have been around for sometime are now not only selling their products in stores and malls, but they also have taken their business and products online. Actually over 95% of them have taken their stores and moved it online.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today, you are going to read about why it is a good idea to start your own internet business by selling other people&amp;#39;s products or even selling your own.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shall we start?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. The need to make more money.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many people who start an internet business are doing it to make more money. Everywhere you go, no one wants to make more money for the fun of it. They want more because money is like oxygen. It is always a good idea to have extra money coming in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Set your own hours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An internet business is no different from any other businesses that are in this world. You have to work and devote some time each day to your online business. The nice thing that you can do is to work at anytime that you choose to. Some internet entrepreneurs that work from home, like to work in the morning. Some like to wake up late and work in the afternoon hours. It is such a great feeling to know that you control your own hours and your life&amp;#39;s destiny.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. The power to create multiple streams of income.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When starting an online business, you always have the option to earn more then one check. As you build your website and email list, you can have many programs promoted on both of them. Imagine getting different checks in the mail each month from different companies that you have on your website. The average person, who has a job, only gets ONE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4. The sky is the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When you work at your day job, you pretty much know how much you are going to earn. If you work 40 hours a week, you get paid for that time. If you are sick and work less, you get paid less. With an internet business, you can make more money everyday and the nice thing is that even if you are sick for one or two days, you still have the option to make the same amount of money and you don&amp;#39;t have to get out of your house.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;5. The need to be your own boss.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Working for yourself is much better then working for someone else. When you work for a boss, you have to come in everyday at a certain time. Take a morning break when they allow you to. Take lunch when your boss tells you to. Basically your life is being controlled like a robotic machine. When you work for yourself, you do what ever, whenever, and with whom ever you want to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;6. Creating security for your family.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When people think about starting an online business, they fear that it is way too risky for them. The good thing about starting and running an internet business is that it gives you the peace of mind that should something happen and you are injured and can&amp;#39;t go to work any longer, how is that going to make you and your family feel? When you have an income coming in from your business, it makes you feel more secure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;7. It is so much fun.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Waking up every morning to an alarm clock is not much fun. Many people get so depressed feeling that they will be going to a job for the rest of their life. A job is not much fun. Working for yourself gives you the opportunity to really enjoy life and do what ever you want to do. Once you learn how to make money online automatically, the fun part is that you can choose to do any activity that you absolutely love.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Think of your own reasons as to why you should start your own internet business. Grab a piece of paper and start writing what ever comes to your mind. Get excited, be like a kid, and what ever you do, HAVE FUN.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ilmumatematika.net/?p=16&quot; title=&quot;Why You Should Start an Internet Business&quot; rel=&quot;bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ali Mustika Sari&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ilmumatematika.net&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>How To Get A Mortgage Loan With Bad Credit?</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/460449/How-To-Get-A-Mortgage-Loan-With-Bad-Credit" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/460449/How-To-Get-A-Mortgage-Loan-With-Bad-Credit</id>
    <updated>2008-04-08T20:44:39Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
    </author>
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&lt;p&gt;How to get a loan mortgage excellent with bad credit? Hear this query asked repeatedly. Usually, we get the response is not the answer we want to hear. Yes, and we recognize that poor credit you give us access to the best prices, but there are ways it can work and we are on our way to the house of the loan package, in the long run, is not bad at all. Unprecedented options - money-down home loans, home equity loan or second mortgage home equity, together with a few other countries are among the choices available wonderful.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The main thing you have to do is to know more about alternatives to these loans and bad credit, which see which would be ideal for your situation. When you think you are ready, get yourself better ill mortgage broker you can find to help you. Professional home loan lenders for bad credit very difficult to know. You have to be careful with who you are dealing with and make sure that reliable. If the money in advance to the demands of the mortgage, as well as study. He said it might be one of those self-proclaimed lenders who are out to con you not.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;One must understand the bad credit mortgage generally higher interest rates have closure costs, and others even need a prepayment penalty. This can still be tricky. As far as possible, be avoided. If you can not, you want to settle for the shortest possible time, or six months to one year. A bad credit loan mortgage rate is not needed to be something that would put you in the sink.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you know your way around, and you are likely to find what you are looking for. You may not find lower rates there with poor credit, but you will definitely find something appropriate for the circumstances yourself.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Rates vary mortgage lender: various lenders, and the various States, different laws, different consitions customers. In the share capital and home mortgage fee, for example, can vary on a case-by-case basis. You want to settle for a fixed charge if you think you can afford. In this way, you will not see many surprises as the years go especially since this type of loan can put you at a disadvantage. Study of the various types of loans from the house and this house mortgage fees until you an overview of what you enter. It is better to be always ready.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The concept is not aggressive. Whatever horribly ask the mortgage and how to resume presentations, despite the presence of obstruction credit result, you have enough patience to regulate things that you are supposed to be informed. To achieve excellent bargain mortgage loan, you have to be careful.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You can search the Web site to provide loan and mortgage loans that can be simply because you work and study. Who knows? You can just detect the excellent refinance mortgage interest charges in the course of navigation through the Internet. The virtue of patience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ilmumatematika.net&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Cash Loans - Serve You Quickly</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/460443/Cash-Loans-Serve-You-Quickly" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/460443/Cash-Loans-Serve-You-Quickly</id>
    <updated>2008-04-08T20:39:35Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>ali mustika sari (N/A)</name>
    </author>
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&lt;p&gt;You can always find that your usual budget takes the entire Fund, leaving nothing for you as surplus. Moreover, you also come with some expenses suddenly worsen your pace from day to day in the economy. Most of us are not ready for any kind of emergency that might arise in the middle of the month. At that time only external financial assistance up to you solution. Cash loans can be well suited to your requirement at the time, can also be obtained immediately.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cash basis loans are designed to help you a little financial Crunches. Since, as you seek the help quickly; cash loans processed on the Internet around the clock to serve your urgency. You can use the amount on the same day or the day after your request directly to your account or in cash.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cash loans to benefit you must have verifiable source of income should be supported by the examination of the account. Check your account is required to assess your net flow of regular income. Besides, you can also asked for personal information consisting of your age, address and contact number, etc..&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;With the amount of cash loans generally in a range from 100 pounds to 1500 pounds sterling, which can be exploited for a period of one year from 7 - 15 days. This period of payment can also be extended up to 30 days to take some additional charges.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Interest rates on loans with cash is usually the highest, which are these loans in the short term. These loans are generally taken for expenses dispense with the little day-to-day needs such as utility bills, car repairs, school fees for children, medical fees, etc.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Credit analysis generally absent while cash loans approved. Without any concern of the Centre for your credit and you can apply for this loan.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It is cash loans to help you even a little amount arrangement through external sources. These loans erase myths harsh when obtaining a loan benefit, and it avoids many of the formalities to provide quick service, which usually delay purchase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.ilmumatematika.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
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