The Pleasures Of a Luxury Watch

The Pleasures Of a Luxury Watch

by: Argentonio Vigilanza

Purchasing a luxury watch that is a good investment.

Many people consider luxury watches an extravagance. To them it makes little sense to spend thousands of dollars on a Rolex or a Cartier, when there are essential payments to be made. The same is true about cars. They say why spend 90,000 dollars on a brand new sports car when a sedan or a station wagon in 9,000 dollars would do just as well. After all, they both have four wheels, an engine, a steering wheel and a gas pedal and they take you where you have to go.

However, luxury watches are different! They serve many purposes. They are precision instruments that are finetuned for perfect accuracy, and give you the right time all the time. Thatกs their purpose, no doubt. But luxury watches adorn the stylish and fashionable wardrobe. Itกs a matter of style. Some people feel naked without a belt, others feel absolutely desolate and deserted without their luxury watches. And it is not about time only. Even if they are surrounded by scores of digital clocks, cell phones, microwaves and other timetelling devices they are ill at ease without their luxury watch.

Aside from their functionality and sharp looks, luxury watches also confer a sense of status on their wearers. A stunning Rolex or Breitling can denote great taste and class every bit as much as a Jaguar or Mercedes. In fact, with the premier foreign car manufacturers diluting their brands with 30,000dollar versions of their classic autos, one could argue that some luxury watches are a greater status symbol than some highend vehicles.

To buy a luxury watch you need a discerning eye. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, and only a true connoisseur can tell the difference. They have a flair for style and quality. They choose their watches with as much care as they would choose a home to live in. They compare brands, quality and prices. They consider various factors such as mechanisms, escapements, complications, dials and many more aesthetic factors like watch bands and bezels. They enjoy looking at various brands as much as they love buying the watch thatกs close to their heart.

So if you want to add some style to your life, think of buying a luxury watch. For one thing, itกs easier to carry around than a luxury car!

About The Author

Argentonio Vigilanza is the owner and webmaster of Fa Watch, a leading Internet directory for watch information. For more watch information and resources, please stop by: http://www.fawatch.com.

This article was posted on August 25

by Argentonio Vigilanza

Don’t Get Above Your Business

Don’t Get Above Your Business

by: Fernando Soave

Young men after they get through their business training, or apprenticeship, instead of pursuing their avocation and rising in their business, will often lie about doing nothing. They say, กI have learned my business, but I am not going to be a hireling; what is the object of learning my trade or profession, unless I establish myself?ก

กHave you capital to start with?ก

กNo, but I am going to have it.ก

กHow are you going to get it?ก

กI will tell you confidentially; I have a wealthy old aunt, and she will die pretty soon; but if she does not, I expect to find some rich old man who will lend me a few thousands to give me a start. If I only get the money to start with I will do well.ก

There is no greater mistake than when a young man believes he will succeed with borrowed money. Why? Because every manกs experience coincides with that of Mr. Astor, who said, กit was more difficult for him to accumulate his first thousand dollars, than all the succeeding millions that made up his colossal fortune.ก Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience. Give a boy twenty thousand dollars and put him in business, and the chances are that he will lose every dollar of it before he is a year older. Like buying a ticket in the lottery, and drawing a prize, it is กeasy come, easy go.ก He does not know the value of it; nothing is worth anything, unless it costs effort. Without selfdenial and economy, patience and perseverance, and commencing with capital which you have not earned, you are not sure to succeed in accumulating. Young men, instead of กwaiting for dead menกs shoes,ก should be up and doing, for there is no class of persons who are so unaccommodating in regard to dying as these rich old people, and it is fortunate for the expectant heirs that it is so. Nine out of ten of the rich men of our country today, started out in life as poor boys, with determined wills, industry, perseverance, economy and good habits. They went on gradually, made their own money and saved it; and this is the best way to acquire a fortune. Stephen Girard started life as a poor cabin boy, and died worth nine million dollars. A. T. Stewart was a poor Irish boy; and he paid taxes on a million and a half dollars of income, per year. John Jacob Astor was a poor farmer boy, and died worth twenty millions. Cornelius Vanderbilt began life rowing a boat from Staten Island to New York; he presented our government with a steamship worth a million of dollars, and died worth fifty millions. ‘there is no royal road to learning,ก says the proverb, and I may say it is equally true, ‘there is no royal road to wealth.ก But I think there is a royal road to both. The road to learning is a royal one; the road that enables the student to expand his intellect and add every day to his stock of knowledge, until, in the pleasant process of intellectual growth, he is able to solve the most profound problems, to count the stars, to analyze every atom of the globe, and to measure the firmamentthis is a regal highway, and it is the only road worth traveling.

So in regard to wealth. Go on in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature; for ‘the proper study of mankind is man,ก and you will find that while expanding the intellect and the muscles, your enlarged experience will enable you every day to accumulate more and more principal, which will increase itself by interest and otherwise, until you arrive at a state of independence. You will find, as a general thing, that the poor boys get rich and the rich boys get poor. For instance, a rich man at his decease, leaves a large estate to his family. His eldest sons, who have helped him earn his fortune, know by experience the value of money, and they take their inheritance and add to it. The separate portions of the young children are placed at interest, and the little fellows are patted on the head, and told a dozen times a day, กyou are rich; you will never have to work, you can always have whatever you wish, for you were born with a golden spoon in your mouth.ก The young heir soon finds out what that means; he has the finest dresses and playthings; he is crammed with sugar candies and almost กkilled with kindness,ก and he passes from school to school, petted and flattered. He becomes arrogant and selfconceited, abuses his teachers, and carries everything with a high hand. He knows nothing of the real value of money, having never earned any; but he knows all about the กgolden spoonก business. At college, he invites his poor fellowstudents to his room, where he กwines and dinesก them. He is cajoled and caressed, and called a glorious good fellow, because he is so lavish of his money. He gives his game suppers, drives his fast horses, invites his chums to fetes and parties, determined to have lots of กgood times.ก He spends the night in frolics and debauchery, and leads off his companions with the familiar song, กwe won’t go home till morning.ก He gets them to join him in pulling down signs, taking gates from their hinges and throwing them into back yards and horseponds. If the police arrest them, he knocks them down, is taken to the lockup, and joyfully foots the bills.

กAh! my boys,ก he cries, กwhat is the use of being rich, if you can’t enjoy yourself?ก

He might more truly say, กif you can’t make a fool of yourself;ก but he is กfast,ก hates slow things, and don’t กsee it.ก Young men loaded down with other peopleกs money are almost sure to lose all they inherit, and they acquire all sorts of bad habits which, in the majority of cases, ruin them in health, purse and character. In this country, one generation follows another, and the poor of today are rich in the next generation, or the third. Their experience leads them on, and they become rich, and they leave vast riches to their young children. These children, having been reared in luxury, are inexperienced and get poor; and after long experience another generation comes on and gathers up riches again in turn. And thus กhistory repeats itself,ก and happy is he who by listening to the experience of others avoids the rocks and shoals on which so many have been wrecked.

กIn England, the business makes the man.ก If a man in that country is a mechanic or workingman, he is not recognized as a gentleman. On the occasion of my first appearance before Queen Victoria, the Duke of Wellington asked me what sphere in life General Tom Thumbกs parents were in.

กHis father is a carpenter,ก I replied.

กOh! I had heard he was a gentleman,ก was the response of His Grace.

In this Republican country, the man makes the business. No matter whether he is a blacksmith, a shoemaker, a farmer, banker or lawyer, so long as his business is legitimate, he may be a gentleman. So any กlegitimateก business is a double blessingit helps the man engaged in it, and also helps others. The farmer supports his own family, but he also benefits the merchant or mechanic who needs the products of his farm. The tailor not only makes a living by his trade, but he also benefits the farmer, the clergyman and others who cannot make their own clothing. But all these classes of men may be gentlemen.

The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

The collegestudent who was about graduating, said to an old lawyer:

กI have not yet decided which profession I will follow. Is your profession full?ก

‘the basement is much crowded, but there is plenty of room upstairs,ก was the witty and truthful reply.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. Wherever you find the most honest and intelligent merchant or banker, or the best lawyer, the best doctor, the best clergyman, the best shoemaker, carpenter, or anything else, that man is most sought for, and has always enough to do. As a nation Americans are too superficialthey are striving to get rich quickly, and do not generally do their business as substantially and thoroughly as they should, but whoever excels all others in his own line, if his habits are good and his integrity undoubted, cannot fail to secure abundant patronage, and the wealth that naturally follows. Let your motto then always be กExcelsior,ก for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

Fernando Soave

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This article was posted on December 14, 2004

by Fernando Soave

The Shocking 100 Million Dollars Secret Marketing

The Shocking 100 Million Dollars Secret Marketing Book That Few People Know About

by: Ikey Benney, Ceo

Why Your Website Is Not Making Money And How To Turn It Around: Learn This Unique Nitty Gritty, High Octane Marketing ขSecretข From A Little Known Guy Who Made 100 Million Dollars In 2 Yrs By The Age Of 28….

Send a floodgate of traffics to your website and explode your sales.

Hundreds of millions of people have websites today that are not making any money for them.

They have tried many different types of promotions such as search engine optimization and promotion, banner ads, ffa ads, email marketing, linking, ezine ads but failed.

Are you one of these people?

Do you have a website? Are you promoting any product, program or service?

Have you tried various types of promotion and you’re yet to get rich from promoting your product or services?

If you answer yes, cheer up because at last, you may now have the ultimate solution to your marketing problem.

The one problem that all website owners or marketers have in common is the difficulty in locating the people who are interested in buying their products, programs and services.

By the time you finish reading this article, you’ll discover how I stumbled unto a powerful book that has a solution to this serious marketing problem.

5 years ago, I stumbled to a very powerful secret way to make money, known to only millionaires and billionaires.

After testing it, I created a program from it and called it ขMscsrrr: the millionaire secret cash system, generate $1500 weekly for lifeข.

You may have seen one of my websites on the internet.

I was so excited by this powerful money making ขsecretข that I decided to make it available to the public to help others.

But after setting up a website to promote it, I was hit by the harsh reality of internet promotion.

I was getting zero traffic! No traffic, no sales. I was not a huge success in all the internet promotions that I tried: search engine optimization and promotion, banner ads, ffa ads, email marketing, linking, ezine ads and others.

I was making sales but not enough to get rich from! What I mean by rich is generating $100,000$1,000,000 in sales.

For this reason, I embarked on a 1 yr research on internet marketing.

You may have seen any of the several hundreds of my articles on internet marketing, online promotion, website promotion, online marketing and website sales posted at hundreds of thousands of websites all over the internet.

A week a go, I had some free time, so I decided to continue to do this internet marketing, online promotion, website promotion, online marketing and website sales research.

That was when I stumbled unto the most powerful marketing ขsecretข I have ever known during the past 20 yrs.

I discovered a little known guy (VJ) who used this insiders’ ultimate marketing weapon to rake in 100 million dollars in 2yrs by the age of 28 yrs.

Not only has this guy (VJ) made 100 million dollars with this exciting powerful ขsecretข, but he is crazy enough to share this sizzling hot ขsecretข with the rest of the world.

After reading his letter, I could not eat or drink or sleep until I blasted my order out to him.

Within 3 days, he rushed this heavy package containing his book to me. It is as big as the telephone book, very neat, very impressive, very well written, concise, to the point and over flowing with fantastic secrets on how he used this ultimate marketing ขsecretข to create 100 million dollars fortune in 2 yrs.

Yes, you guessed right. I had to drop everything I was doing to devour this book.

Usually it takes me forever to read a small book.

But in 2 hrs, I surprised myself by how fast I devoured this 310 page book brimming with the most fantastic secret marketing information I have ever been lucky to find anywhere.

There are many people who claim to be internet marketing guru (sorry, I will not name names) or offline marketing gurus. They are full of talk. Talk, talk.

And little to show for it.

And they invite you to their seminars and try to charge you $1000, $2000 or even $5000. Most of them are full of fluff. Very cheesy. I know all of them and may be you do too.

I don’t know any of them who have personally made 100 million dollars with his/her marketing secrets by the age of 28! (Another Bill Gates in the making?)

I have never thought it wise to pay them $5000 no matter what internet marketing secret they may have. Perhaps I have been a fool. Or may be not.

However, what I can tell you is that, at last, I have found a guy who not only talks the talk, but has walked the walk and made 100 million dollars as proof that he knows what he is talking about.

What other proof do you need? (As for me, 100 million dollars proof is good enough for me.)

This is the kind of money that gets my juice flowing real fast.

What about you?

To illustrate to you the power and the genius of the writer, VJ, the creator of this ultimate marketing ขsecretข, here is an excerpt of his letter, in his own words:

ขNo matter how hard I tried, it always seemed like I wasn’t going to amount to anything real important in life. And this really sucked because I had a passion for the finer things. I wanted the gold Rolex, the sporty Mercedes, and the MillionDollar Mega Mansion!

But when I looked in the mirror, I didn’t like what I saw. I was convinced the good life I wanted was just a dream.

But that was all about to change. Seriously by the time I was 19, I had a brandnew Corvette. At 20, I had 2 brandnew Mercedes Benz automobiles. And at 21, I was the proud owner of a Rolls Royce Silver Spur!

By the time I turned 28… I made over $100 Million in gross sales. I profited over $50 Million. I owned two homes one of them was 14,000 square feet and had a sevencar garage, a billiards room and a resortstyle pool with an underwater bar! And I paid cash for the home!

In my garage, I had a red Lamborghini Diablo, a yellow Ferrari 360 Spider, a white Bentley Arnage Red Label, about 4 Mercedes, and a 12passenger Lincoln Town Car Limo!

My checking account had over $10 Million in it. I was earning $400,000 in pay each and every week. That breaks down to $80,000 a day… or $10,000 an hour! And those figures were if I worked 5 days a week for eight hours a day, which I didn’t!

In the year 2002, I made more money than the CEOs of Federal Express… eBay… Amazon.com… Time Warner… Apple Computer… McDonalds… Microsoft… Nike… Yahoo… Ford Motor Company… General Motors… and Goodyear Tire COMBINED!

YesCOMBINED.

In the May 12th, 2003 issue, Forbes Magazine listed their top paid 500 CEOs in America. Of their prominent and prestigious list of the 500 CEOs, I made more money than 483 of them.

$17,549,000 MORE than the CEO of Starbucks.

$13,030,000 MORE than the CEO of Target.

$17,225,000 MORE than the CEO of Motorola.

Now, this may all seem like Iกm some rich (&zxc$3@) bragging about how rich I am… and you’re partly correct. I am bragging! But more importantly, the reason why Iกm telling you about all this is that this course is about getting rich very quickly. If the talk of obscene money makes you feel uncomfortable, or even angers you, maybe you do not really want to be rich.

The reason why Iกm telling you about all the toys I had when I was just 28, is to prove to you that if a guy like me… with a learning disability… a bad childhood… and no formal education can get filthy rich by the time I was 28… you can absolutely follow in my footsteps and build yourself your very own empire of wealth!ข

Even Gary Halbert says, ก……believe it or not, much of this information is so electrifying; it was unknown even to me.ก

Gary Halbert is recognized all over the world as America’s numero uno marketing authority.

Can you imagine Gary admitting in writing that VJ’s book and marketing power secrets are electrifying to him? I need not say more.

So, if you’re tired of having websites that are not making any money or tired of making nickels and dimes and tired of all the lousy promotional secrets from the so called internet gurus (that don’t work), and you’re finally ready to turn over a new leaf and get serious about creating real wealth from whatever products, programs or services you currently promote, may be you should consider finding out more about VJ’s super secret marketing book, the ultimate sales generator and marketing engine.

In this unique powerful book, VJ has been very kind to reveal so many dynamic marketing secrets he used (never before revealed in one book) : the products he sold to make 100 million dollars in 2 yrs, how he promoted it, when he promoted it and how you can duplicate his success.

Do you have a website? Do you sell any product, program or service? Would you like to know the exact ขsecretsข on how to find hundreds of thousands and even millions of buyers for your products and services?

Would you like to get your paws on how to market any product to hundreds of thousands and even millions of people who really need them?

If you answer yes, rejoice because VJ’s book has the ultimate ขsecretข.

If you know the ขsecretข on how to locate hundreds of thousands and even millions of people who are hungry and thirsty for your products and services, you can generate millions of dollars easily and get rich, like VJ!

If after reading this revealing article you don’t hear about me again for the next 15 yrs, you should be able to guess why.

Excuse me, I have just decided to take VJ’s book and powerful ขsecretข and create a billion dollar empire.

So, I am going to be very busy!

Forbes 400 billionaire’s list 2010, here I come.

How about you?

Please feel free to copy and use this article at your website, ezine or email it to your friends and please retain the author’s resource box below.

Thank you.

Hasta la vista baby.

Warmly,

Ikey Benney, CEO

About The Author

Ikey is the creator of ขMscsrrr, Millionaire Secret Cash System, The Royal Road To Riches, Generate $1,500 Weekly For Lifeข (http://www.mscsrrr.com) and ขTMT: Transcendental Mental Technology, The 10,000 Yr Old ขSecretข Of Infinite Wealth, Infinite Success, Infinite Happiness, Revealed. (http://www.tmtworldwide.org )

To learn more about this powerful ultimate marketing secret book, by VJ, please go to: http://www.12monthmillionaire.com?a_aid=982e5bcf

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This article was posted on August 13, 2005

by Ikey Benney, Ceo

Online Security and Email Scams

Online Security and Email Scams

by: www.kaisilver.com

It does not matter whether you are a buyer or seller on the Internet. This article will be extremely useful to you. Even the casual web surfer would do good to be aware of the dangers of being online.

There are a few very rampant frauds being perpetuated on the Internet right now. Avoid being duped and ensure that you stay updated on the latest dangers on the net. Here is a list of the most popular frauds at this time:

(1) Your paypal or bank account needs to be updated fraud. You get an email saying that your paypal or bank account or credit card account needs to be updated online. A link on the email needs to be clicked or else your account will be suspended and cause you immense hardships. DO NOT do anything of the sort, the link in the email sends you to the webpage that the writer of the email wants you to go to. This page is a fake, though it appears like the genuine web page that you are used to seeing. Your username, password and other details are collected and misused by the writer of the email.

(2) The Nigerian million dollar fraud. In this email a person claims to be a Nigerian with super political connections or a person having access to millions of dollars left over and forgotten by a foreigner in Nigeria. He needs another foreigner to take this money out of Nigeria. All he needs is your bank account and other confidential details and he will pour 30% of the booty into your account. All you end up doing is paying a few thousand dollars for various กlegal formalitiesก to be gone through. Once he receives your money he promptly disappears and goes back to writing emails to more people like you. You will never see those million dollars as we has never seen them too.

(3) The big order to be shipped to Nigeria or Indonesia. The writer is in a big hurry to buy a lot of merchandise from your website. He may be in Nigeria or Indonesia or any other part of the globe, but the shipment is needed to Nigeria or Indonesia. He rarely orders less than a few thousand dollars. He wonders whether you accept credit cards or, would like you to ship and provide him the FEDEX tracking number before he makes payment. He either never pays or uses a fake or stolen credit card. You will get a charge back from a bank a few months down the line.

These are a few of the dangers online. It would be an over exaggeration to say that we need to stop transacting or browsing the net. A few precautions would make your ventures on the Internet more safe. You can read the complete report on this topic at: http://www.kaisilver.com/onlinesecurityandprivacy01.htm

The more aware we are of the dangers, the less likely we are to fall prey to them. Your friends and aquantainces would be grateful if you forwarded this link to them.

Rarely do online sellers reveal these dangers, as they fear that it would dampen online buyer morale and reduce sales.

Thanks and God Bless.

Ms.Nok

From http://www.kaisilver.com the worldกs leading online provider of high end custom jewelry.

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Ms.Nok

From http://www.kaisilver.com the worldกs leading online provider of high end custom jewelry. All jewelry is custom made in yellow or white gold with gemstones of your choice.

This article was posted on September 26, 2004

by www.kaisilver.com

2005 Enter the Laptop

2005 Enter the Laptop

by: Laptopical

Itกs a fact. Notebook computers have leapt into the global sales arena with the force and flexibility of Bruce Lee, effortlessly dispatching their desktop competitors with nothing more than a dynamic oneinch sonoma punch.

With wifi technology blossoming around us, the demand for laptops is only set to increase. The ability to play games, or casually surf the internet in wireless coffee shops and airports, will ensure that notebook computers remain incredibly popular.

Laptops, though, aren’t just utilized for leisure. Mobile technology is also beginning to dictate what happens in the classroom. This is especially true as notebooks are entering the educational arena in everincreasing numbers. Indeed, schools such as Framingham State College, and the Myron B. Thompson Academy have both decided to use laptops as teaching tools in class.

Thanks to the adaptability and portability of laptop computers, retailers enjoyed a bountiful sales year in 2004. Consequently, everyoneกs using notebooks these days, from sprightly seventh graders to zimmerwielding septegenarians.

But can this popularity and the incredible global sales figures be sustained?

Yes they can. Once you couldn’t find a notebook for under a thousand dollars, but now there are entry level selling for seven hundred dollars, and even lower with coupons and rebates. Recently, WalMart began to offer laptops with a linux operating systems, and 30GB hard drives for under 500 dollars.

So just how low can laptop prices go?

Can you say a hundred dollars?

If Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MITกs Media Lab gets his wish, wireless laptops for third world countries will soon be available for around 100 dollars.

2005 The Year of the Rooster?

Think again. This is most definitely the Year of the Laptop.

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This article was posted on March 04

by Laptopical

5 Ways To Super Saving Internet Shopping

5 Ways To Super Saving Internet Shopping

by: Prasad Kopanati

5 ways to super savings when shopping on the internet. Save at least 200 dollars for 1000 dollars of shopping– that is 20% of the total money spent. With common sense and little prudence you can save hundreds of dollars on your holiday shopping bills. From my past experiences, I have chosen the five best practices that will give you the maximum savings. Peruse them, put them into action and email me your numbers on savings.

Comparison Shopping:

Gone are the days when there was no easy way to compare the price of a product at different stores other than visiting the stores. In this new era of cybershopping, there are numerous options to compare the price of a product at different locations of the globe. With very little effort, internet would find the best and right price, at the right store for you to save big bucks.

A few days back, I was shopping for a Mini DV camcorder in the price range of $500 to $700. An ardent internet shopper, I researched on brands, their prices and decided to buy a JVC GRD200 Mini DV camcorder. It is (may be ขit wasข) my belief that Amazon.com delivers the best products at the lowest prices (It does sell the best products, but not at the cheapest prices – at least in this case). As always, I was poised to buy the product from Amazon.

The comparison on the price of this product (via www.shopping.com) revealed that the product was sold as low as $299.00. With further research I understood that the price was indeed 299 US dollars. Delaying no more, I bought the camcorder from this seller instead of my first option – to save only $400.

As I look back, it still perplexes me how I saved $400 on a single buy. Does it not surprise you when you cut down 400 dollars on a single item? Perhaps the most important thing I did was comparing the prices for this product on www.shopping.com. It paid!

Cognizant Shopping:

As a customer, your goal is to buy the best product at the cheapest price. Right?

You agree with me that it is not an intelligent idea to buy a product for 10 dollars when it is sold at 3 dollars less at the near by store. Neither do you accord it a savvyshopping, to buy a product for 50 dollars when its price can be reduced by 10 dollars via the special store discount/coupon for the product.

Many of us do not realize the power of coupons. They hold tremendous potential for huge savings. Depending on how you use them, a coupon for 10 dollars for every 50 dollars would save 40 dollars over a period of month, assuming shopping once a week. Extrapolating, it is a 200 dollars savings over a 1000 dollar shoppingmoney. A typical Christmas shopping would amount to these numbers easily.

Although the example seems to be ideal, it resonates the ideas of retails stores like JC Penny or Sears, whose holidayshoppingplacards read ข$10 off for every $50 shopping – JC Pennyข, ข$35 off for every $250 spent on electronics – Searsข. Get into the habit of using the coupons whenever possible to appreciate the savings accumulating into your pockets.

Selective Shopping:

Depending on which state you buy the product from and which store you buy it from, you may or may not be charged a sales tax. If the sale is exempted the sales tax, it is a savings of 6 percent to 9 percent of total sale amount. Each seller clearly indicates if a sales tax would be applied on the sale in the geographical location. Thus, a little cautiousness would translate to a savings as high as 9 percent.

On the downside, you may have to pay for the shipping for the product which in most cases would compare less to the total of sales tax. And, by the way, due to the immense competition among the internetsellers, you may end up making a bargain by not paying the taxes and not paying for the shipping either. Free shipping – as it is called, is common on many internet sites these days. For an item priced at $1000 you would save as much as $90 as sales tax savings – all you do is pick the right seller.

Early Shopping:

Planning on shopping near the beginning of the season will give you ample time to compare the prices on the product at various sellers. During this process, you will form a ballpark estimate of the item.

Let me remind you that the variation of the price can be any where from few dollars to few hundreds of dollars depending on the original price of the product, which makes it necessary for you to do this homework as to know the kindof best price before you finalize on buying the product.

In addition, sellers usually hike the prices as the holiday season approaches so that they can display higher discountnumbers on their saleadvertisements. The higher discounts not only attract more customers but also compensate and compete the prices for the similar items at other stores. The fact is, even when you see greater discounts, you would not realize tangible savings around the holiday season unless you end up getting an early bird discount. I am somewhat reluctant to say this is true all the times, but is the case in several occasions.

Team Shopping:

Like in a workplace, collaborative shopping produces amazing results. You are not mandated to go to a shopping mall as a team, but exchanging ideas and information as a team would be advantageous.

Talk to your friends about their experience buying a similar item in the past. Gather information about the quality of the product, prices at different stores, seller reputation, etc that play a vital role on your buyingdecision. Moreover, ask your friends and relatives if they could share any discount coupons. If preferred customer, they would share the coupons with you, which in turn would give you the opportunity to cut down on the final price. Beware that some sellers distribute nontransferable coupons in which cases you need to be creative to maximize your savings.

So finally:

These ideas only scratch the surface of the iceberg. You can get innovative and creative to find the best deals on the market. Websites like www.techbargains.com, www.ecoupons.com, etc are some of the few sites that gather information about the greatest deals of the day. Internet has many such great moneysaving ideas.

Armed with this information, I am sure you would be able to craft a good plan which would save you many dollars each shopping trip. If you are meticulous enough, you would save at least $200 for every $1000 dollars spent. I guarantee it. If you deny my proposition or have a different opinion write to me and I will help you see the potential of putting the above facts to work.

About The Author

Prasad Kopanati is the Vice President of XemanteX Inc. http://www.xemantex.com, an internet company offering language related services. You can reach him via email at [email protected].

This article was posted on January 02

by Prasad Kopanati

Laptop Computers and the PVP Effect!

Laptop Computers and the PVP Effect!

by: Tom Fox

Roll over lumbering desktop computers, the limber laptop is here, and itกs here to stay! For a while now notebooks have outstripped their ageing desktop PC siblings, easily winning the gold medal in the computer sales olympics. We will illustrate how the PVP effect has contributed greatly to the increase in popularity of notebook computers.

(P) Portability:

Firstly it may be stating the obvious, but people buy laptops because they can take them anywhere. Office workers need no more be confined to their claustrophophic cubicles. Instead those statistic charts and data reports can be compiled on a train, in the comfort of an arm chair, or even on the beach! Portability equals flexibility, but alas this hasn’t always been the case. Todays ultra portable laptop computers have a come along way since the bulky, sewing machine sized machines of the late seventies and early eighties. Indeed one of the first portable computers was built by IBM, and this machine (IBM 5100) weighed in at a hefty 50lbs! Todayกs corridor warriors would have trouble lugging that puppy from meeting to meeting, unless of course they subjected themselves to an intensive dose of steroids 🙂

(V) Value:

In the seventies the aforementioned IBM 5100 would have set you back a staggering 20,000 dollars. Today a top of the range IBM Thinkpad can be bought for around 3000 dollars. Cheaper Thinkpads can often be obtained for well under a thousand dollars, especially if you don’t mind purchasing a used or refurbished model.

(P) Performance:

Many laptops today come fitted with Centrino processors which offer superb performance and improved battery life. What is Centrino I hear you ask? Well this is Intelกs name for their new notebook technology that combines their Pentium M processor, 855 chipset and the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 WiFi 802.11 network interface. Laptops fitted with these processors are usually lighter because of the smaller components used.

Couple this attractive feature with wireless networking technology and you have a powerful technological package. WiFi is short for กWireless Fidelityก and itกs usage is growing quickly amongst home users, office workers, even coffee shops. If you enter WiFi areas with a properly equipped notebook, you can access the Internet at broadband speeds.

About The Author

Tom Fox writes for http://www.cheaplaptopsnotebooks.com, a web site providing information and articles related to notebook computers.

This article was posted on November 15, 2004

by Tom Fox

How to Use Foreign Currency Rate Fluctuations to Y

How to Use Foreign Currency Rate Fluctuations to Your Advantage as an Affiliate Marketer

by: Rosalind Gardner

When I started affiliate marketing back in early 1998, getting paid in U.S. Dollars was a huge bonus to me as a Canadian resident.

At that time, one US dollar was valued at $1.43 Canadian. By late 2001, the greenback translated into $1.60 Canadian.

Woohoo!

Even if my merchantsก product prices and commission rates remained the same, I got a raise simply by virtue of fluctuating foreign currency rates.

For example, letกs say that one month I sold 100 dating service memberships at $29.95 for a 50% commission and earned $1497.50 US. In January 1998 that $1497.50 was worth $2141.42 Canadian, and by November 2001, it was worth $2396.00 Canadian dollars, or almost $255.00 CAD more than in 1998!

Unfortunately, the U.S. greenback has been slipping steadily against other currencies since early 2002, and on January 14th, it was worth $1.20 CAD.

Using the example above, my $1497.50 USD commission check is only worth $1797.00 CAD in January 2005 a whopping $599.00 LESS than it was worth in late 2001.

Affiliate marketers in many other parts of the world faced the same scenario.

Here are some examples of how the US dollar has been performing against various currencies since early 2002.

British Pound

January 2002 0.698241 GBP

January 2003 0.618284 GBP

January 2004 0.547846 GBP

January 14 0.53124 British Pound

Australian Dollar

January 2002 1.93418 AUD

January 2003 1.71592 AUD

January 2004 1.29591 AUD

January 14 1.30581 Australian Dollar

Euro

January 2002 1.13226 EUR

January 2003 0.941605 EUR

January 2004 0.791328 EUR

January 14 0.75643 Euro

Those are fairly sizeable drops across the board… and a pretty depressing situation for nonU.S.based affiliates who earn their incomes in US dollars.

However, there are a couple of things affiliate marketers can do to protect their affiliate income from these disastrous declines.

The first option is to work about 2535% harder to bolster revenues to 2001 equivalent values.

However, because Iกm basically lazy, working harder is never my first choice.

The second option involves using foreign exchange rate changes to your advantage by selling products offered by merchants located in your own country, priced in your own currency.

For example, although Canadians are less resistant to purchasing in U.S. dollars now that the Canadian dollar is so strong, they still hate to see a $120.00 charge on their credit card for a $100.00 item. Logic aside, something tells you that a buck should be a buck, and anything more feels like a ripoff.

The primary benefit of promoting กlocal merchantsก is to help your visitors save money by reducing shipping costs and eliminating customs duties on goods imported from the U.S. Basically, most of us prefer to shop locally if we can get the same product at the same or lower price.

Your task then is to find merchants that price products and pay their affiliates in your own currency.

That unfortunately is still easier said than done.

The pickings were pretty slim when I searched Google for กCanadianก กaffiliate programsก.

A site that listed itself as a directory of Canadian affiliate programs wasn’t.

Furthermore, most of the Canadian merchants that set Canadian dollar prices on their sites, either pay their affiliates in U.S. dollars, or are affiliated with networks that pay affiliates in US dollars.

U.K. affiliates will have an easier time finding U.K.based merchants that pay in Pounds Sterling.

Hereกs something to watch for if you decide to affiliate with merchants who work in your own currency.

At Commission Junction I discovered that if you promote the Canadian Shopping Channel which sells and pays commission in Canadian dollars, your commissions are first converted to U.S. dollars for CJ?s purposes, then back into to Canadian dollars when they deposit the commissions in your Canadian dollar bank account.

You?d lose money each time the commission went through the exchange process.

To avoid being penalized by currency exchanges before the commission hits your bank, I suggest setting up a separate Commission Junction account just for affiliations with your กlocal merchantsก. Be sure to set the กfunctional currencyก on that account to your countryกs currency.

U.S. affiliates can also take advantage of drops in the U.S. dollar by selling for foreignbased merchants. When or if the U.S. dollar drops, you will actually get a raise on each of those promotions.

Expand your reach by taking advantage of any and all opportunities at home and abroad. It is the WORLDWIDE web after all.

© Copyright Rosalind Gardner, All Rights Reserved.

About The Author

Article by Rosalind Gardner, author of the bestselling กSuper Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other Peopleกs Stuff Onlineก. To learn how you too can suceed in Internet and affiliate marketing, go to: http://NetProfitsToday.com.

This article was posted on March 30

by Rosalind Gardner

Not Sure If Your Online Advertisement is Working?

Not Sure If Your Online Advertisement is Working?

by: Karen Fegarty

Without tracking, your online advertising is just a shot in the dark. Many new and seasoned marketing individuals spend significant dollars on banner advertisements, ezline ads, and other online media but do not know which ads have brought them the greatest success.

The following is a list of online advertising methods that you may or may not be using. It is important to track all of your online advertisement. This is the only way to determine which method works best for you and where you should spend your hard earned dollars.

Site links

Articles

Ezine advertisement

Banner ads

Signatures Tag

Forum postings

Email marketing promotions

FFA postings

Free Classified listings

Paid Classified listings

Surveys

Auto responder

Payperclick listing

Reciprocal link

How do you track your advertising? There are basically two ways of tracking your advertising; sign up for a service or purchase ad tracking software to install on your server.:

A service such as ezTrackZ http://www.eztrackz.com will manage all aspects of your tracking on their servers. This is a webbased tool that will allow you to quickly create your tracking links and report your results in realtime. Other examples of service based ad tracking are Hypertracker www.hypertracker.com and goToast www.gotoast.com Cost varies from $17 per month to $67 per year depending on which service you choose.

You can also purchase software such as AdTrackZ http://www.adtrackz.com to manage your own tracking. Software like AdTrackZ must be installed and managed on your server and is available for a onetime cost.

Which ever method you choose, start now and stop wasting valuable time and dollars on unsuccessful advertising.

About The Author

Karen Fegarty is a professional marketer working with both MailWorkZ and ezTrackZ. Check out the ezTrackZ ad tracker product at http://www.eztrackz.com. and MailWorkZ’s flagship email marketing tool., Broadc@st at http://www.mailworkz.com

This article was posted on January 28, 2004

by Karen Fegarty

Your Home Business: Turning Pennies into Dollars

Your Home Business: Turning Pennies into Dollars

by: Stone Evans

Henry Ford taught us that to simplify the manufacture of automobiles, that the best way to do so was to install the assembly line. That one change revolutionized the auto manufacturing industry permitting the industry to build cars at a cost whereas the average person could afford to buy one.

The lesson we should take from this is that having the ability to improve the process of getting the job quicker and cheaper, without compromising the quality of the job being done, will help catapult the person who simplified the process to the top of his/her field.

Pennies saved in your home business can turn into dollars at the end of the day, and dollars can quickly multiply into hundreds or thousands of dollars over time.

Doubt me if you will, but let me ask you a question. Do you think a saving of two fifths of a penny could make any real difference in the profit margin of a home business? Of course the right answer is กit depends on how many transactions are done in a year, utilizing the savings of the two fifths of one penny.ก

You only have to think back a couple of decades to really appreciate this question. Do you remember the nut that lived and died in a Las Vegas hotel room? You know the one who was a billionaire, and was so worried about germs that he died of starvation? If you guessed Howard Hughes (190576), pat yourself on the back.

Now Howard did not make all of his money on his two fifths of one penny. He did however make a ton of money from his two fifths of one penny. It seems Howard owned a can manufacturing company. And one day, Howardกs team figured out how they could make one minor change in the design of their food can to reduce the amount of tin necessary to make a single can.

As the story goes if my memory serves me correctly the reduction in tin usage equaled a saving of two fifths of one penny per can. Howard being the really smart businessman that he was decided that he would not be so greedy as to keep all of the savings for himself. What Mr. Hughes did do was to keep half of the savings for himself, and give the other half to his customers. The incredible thing about Mr. Hughes decision is that by saving his customers an extra one fifths of one cent per can, he managed to take more market share away from his competition netting his company an additional and substantial portion of the total market share in the canning industry.

Let us return our thoughts to your home business. Have you ever gotten the feeling of excitement when you read something or thought of something that you could not wait to implement this new idea? This could be one of those moments…

In every home business, there are certain processes that we do over and again. Sometimes it may be possible to trim the time or expense of a process which in turn will add pennies or dollars to your bottom line. If it is a process that you do hundreds or thousands of times per month, then your savings will multiply into hundreds or thousands of dollars in monthly savings.

Imagine what running a home business was like BEFORE the computer…

Before the personal computer, we had to hand type all letters and invoices. Now, we can setup a letter or invoice that we send out quite often, and we can save it in our word processor so that when we need to use it again, we can print it quickly and efficiently. There is no longer a need to type the document again from scratch.

The computer has simplified our business communications and has provided us the opportunity to reduce our costs of doing business.

Think about all of the other processes that the computer has enabled us to do for far less expense than what we could in the past.

In this case, the computer is a tool that permits us to save time and money.

So, my challenge to you is to begin examining the processes in your own home business and look for ways in which you can save yourself time and money. It is far better for you to contemplate on this matter than it is for me to do so for you. Simply put, you know your business better than anyone on the planet does. Therefore, you are in a better position than anyone to find those extra dollars that will decrease your costs and increase your profits.

The extra pennies and dollars you could extract from your business could spell the difference between success and failure for your home business enterprise.

About The Author

Stone Evans owns the Home Business Resource Directory where you can find everything youกll ever need to start, run and grow a home based business at: http://www.HomeBusiness.com

[email protected]

This article was posted on March 19, 2004

by Stone Evans

Top Seven Tips on how to keep you from Losing Hund

Top Seven Tips on how to keep you from Losing Hundreds of dollars on the Internet.

by: Douglas Young

Douglas Young © 2003 All Rights Reserved.
You Must read this if you have any aspirations of ever making money on the Internet. The only Promise or Guarantee You will get from me is that these seven tips could save you hundreds of dollars and possibly make you tens of thousands of dollars.
1. The TRUTH is YES, You can make a very comfortable living on the Internet from the comforts of your home. Matter of fact you can get filthy Rich but It is not easy and about 95% of those who try fail! There are Many reasons why they fail and we will touch on a few of them in this article. Here is the First Tip! 95% of the people who have web sites or web pages proclaiming to make you rich by buying into their program haven’t made a dime them selfs and won’t!!
2. Try this! when investigating a program to join, don’t just read the testimonials and try to make a decision on that alone but ask for email address of those people and personally send them a email asking what they think of the program now. You will be enlightened Iกm sure. I use this method always and 9 times out of 10 I get no response at all or if I do it is negative. If you find a program that people you email respond and respond favorably it is probably worth looking into!
3. Take Action, once you have decided upon working with a certain program after investigating it, go to work on it vigorously! And don’t be afraid to ask for help either. Work your program diligently until you have a income stream coming in before you try to start another program. You can get totally overwhelmed and frustrated if you try to start to many things at once. not to mention the fact that you won’t have the time and you will find yourself losing money instead of making it.
4. Do Nothing! then expect to Get Nothing. Don’t believe for a second that your going to pay anywhere form twenty dollars to two thousand dollars for a program, get your web site going then sit back and watch the moo la roll in. It just doesn’t work that way! No matter who tells you different.
5. Start now! don’t be afraid, find that niche program that appeals to you and go for it! Selling Your product on the Internet is not like going door to door or having to face the person and give your spiel to. With a little effort even the most timid can become super promoters on the Internet. Thereกs no limit to what you can do, itกs all up to you.
6. Eliminate all the learning curve and trial and error phase when your first starting out by promoting an already proven product. Thereกs Thousands of dollars each and every month to be had by promoting a product or affiliate program of someone elseกs. Stick with the programs that you can build residual income with. Something that you sell once and it keeps making you money month after month, year after year.
7. Have faith in your self! maintain a high degree of integrity, help others whenever you can and except help when it is offered. Every persons success begins with a dream, have big dreams and settle for nothing but big Success. Don’t procrastinate take action Now.
Keep these tips in mind, so that your Success is assured with your Web site, and your products.
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About The Author

Doug Young: 7year marketeer, publisher, developer Helps entrepreneurs manifest their Success and web dreams How to Develop, Market Your eBk Online_http://www.yourprofitplugin.com

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This article was posted on July 02, 2004

by Douglas Young

Did You Know That Coupons Help Track Your Advertis

Did You Know That Coupons Help Track Your Advertising Dollars?

by: Rhonda White

Itกs not just the cost of a product that is on the customerกs mind. Customers want to save money. They know that if they save a dollar, thatกs another dollar still hidden in their pocket. All though there are still a big percentage of shoppers who do not utilize coupons, it certainly brings attention to the customers eyes when they see the possibility of saving another dollar. Coupons help visualize this savings to the customer.

Not only do coupons help bring attention to your business, but it helps track the productivity of your advertising dollars. Many business use กpromotional codesก to help track their advertising dollars. If you are paying for advertising with various companies or websites, you should use a different promotional code with each advertiser so that you know which companies or websites are helping you produce the best results. This technique is particularly important for webbased businesses. If you have a brick and mortar business, customers will bring in their coupons, and you should be able to identify the source by either creating a promotional code or a distinct difference among the coupons that you create.

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About The Author

Rhonda White

Author of www.OklahomaCityShoppers.com local enzine and website

[email protected]

This article was posted on March 15, 2004

by Rhonda White