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The key difference between an (old-fashioned) Intranet and a Portal

What typifies a modern intranet portal is that there is a standardised user interface (”UI”) with a built in system for user authentication. In other words, the user signs in to the portal rather than simply accessing it. This brings us to the key difference; an intranet portal knows who you are, whilst with an old-fashioned intranet, the user is anonymous.

If the user authentication is properly linked to your employee data, then the portal will know things like (a) what grade the person is, (b) which department they work in, (c) what location they work at and (d) what job they do.

If the portal authentication is also liked to a metadirectory (along with the authentication for all the other systems the user needs to use in their job) then the portal will additionally know (e) which applications the user needs to do their job and (f) the rights the user has (from their security profile) to access different application functionality.

Finally, if an infocube-based web statistics package has been installed, the portal will know (a) which areas of the portal are accessed by the user and (b) the frequency and depth of that access.

The opportunity to personalise the portal experience

Clearly, given the knowledge above, it is possible to personalise the UI for each individual user. For example, if the user works in the sales function, then the homepage that greets them upon logon could be the Sales team homepage. If they work in Leeds, the facilities link on their homepage could be to maps, traffic, fire orders, etc. about the Leeds office (rather than anywhere else). If their specific job is as a field sales manager, then field sales performance graphs and management dashboard could be displayed on the homepage.

If the user is of a grade that places them on the company insider dealing list, then additional (price sensitive) real-time data might be displayed on the screen (which other users would not see). If statistics tell us that they are not reading important communications, then messages could be served to them that draw their attention to what they are missing. Finally, if they use functionality from three different (legacy) systems to do their job, then these could be brought together and surfaced via a portlet application on the portal page.

The prize is clearly a smoother and more integrated user experience, with key information “pushed” at the user in a way they can’t ignore and always no more than a single click away.

The depressing truth about personalisation today

Many portal vendors have undertaken research with their existing customer base to explore (a) how many customers have made extensive use of personalisation and (b) how many surface key business applications via their portal. The results do not make encouraging reading (with less than 20% achieving much beyond what Plumtree call “the empty portal”).

This prompts an obvious question. If the benefits to the user of personalisation are so obvious, why have companies not taken advantage of them? In fact, based on my experience, there are multiple reasons not to personalise, which I group into “bad” and “good” reasons.

Bad reasons not to personalise

There are a number of typical failings that tend to stem from a lack of courage, poor understanding or personal prejudice:

1) Failure to link through to employee data and/or a metadirectory
This can be due to a number of factors, including (a) the costs of software seen as too expensive, (b) a perception that implementation will be too difficult or prone to failure, (c) a lack of confidence in the quality of employee data and (d) realising too late that this work is important and having failed therefore to include in project scope or business case costs

2) Failure of vision and/or lack of confidence in personalisation benefits
Typical problems include (a) a lack of experience of using portals and thus a lack of awareness of the possibilities, (b) a nostalgia for the old-fashioned style of intranet navigation, (c) an unhealthy focus on the intranet simply as a communication channel, rather than as a business tool and – perhaps most interestingly – (d) a perception that personalisation is synonymous with (or otherwise encourages) individuals failing to observe and comply with single, enterprise-wide processes and policy.

Good reasons not to personalise

There are actually several valid objections to personalisation, which you would ignore at your peril. The two most notable are:

3) The whole is more than the sum of the parts
Many portal projects are built on the concepts of (a) increased knowledge sharing between teams, (b) better awareness of the “big picture” of what is happening in the company and (c) a sense of belonging to a single, enterprise-wide community. By personalising teams and individuals into “ghettos” where they only see information and applications directly relevant to them, the opportunity is lost to have them explore the intranet presence of other colleagues.

4) Log-in as a barrier to user adoption
A (valid) concern that requiring people to log-in each time they access the portal will act as a deterrent to them doing so, thereby reducing the portal benefits through a reduction in intranet usage. This has lead to some customers disabling the log-in feature! Of course, such problems can be overcome through the implementation of a single sign-on application, where rights to access the portal (without a separate log-on procedure) are granted when the user logs onto the network. However, companies often fail to plan or budget for such changes.

So is personalisation the right thing to do? If so, how can I make it happen?

On balance, of course, the benefits of personalisation, for most organisations, far outweigh the risks and costs. After all, why buy a Ferrari, then only use it to do the school run? If you were never going to use the portal for these advanced functions, why did you buy one? It would have been much cheaper to invest in your traditional intranet!

If you are looking to make it happen, however, you must recognise the organisational, financial and technical challenges inherent in the work. Firstly, you should ensure that your business case contains the full costs of integrating the portal with employee data and metadirectory capabilities. Ideally, you should also extend this to a single-sign-on solution if you can afford it. Secondly, you should showcase to sponsors what personalisation looks like, so that they can improve their understanding of the opportunity. Finally, you should not underestimate the technical grunt work involved in cleaning up your employee data and systems rights.

Do not neglect customisation

I define customisation as the ability for users to customise their own portal settings and appearance (as distinct from how I am defining personalisation, where the portal provisions information and applications authomatically, based on the user’s profile). By letting users “do it themselves” you allow for the possibility that they may wish to share knowledge and collaborate with people outside their immediate role. You can also learn (by observing their behaviour in customisation) where you could improve upon your personalisation.

Some final thoughts

Personlisation should be a key element of your early visioning work with sponsors and drive costs and benefits in your business case. If you find at that stage that the return on investment (ROI) is not there, then you should perhaps question whether a portal investment is really for you! A mini is adequate, after all, for the school run!

About the author:

David Viney (david@viney.com) is the author of the Intranet Portal Guide; 31 pages of advice, tools and downloads covering the period before, during and after an Intranet Portal implementation.

Read the guide at http://www.viney.com/DFV/intranet_portal_guide or the Intranet Watch Blog at http://www.viney.com/intranet_watch.

Blown glass, a very ancient technique, is the oldest among the handicrafts. It is said by some, that ancient Egyptians were the original inventors of glass making techniques. Production of metallurgy and faience helped a great deal in the manufacture of glass afterwards. The earliest Egyptian glass known to us was in the form of small beads and pendants found in sites dating back to the 3rd millennium B.C. At that time glass was made by melting a combination of silica-sand, lime, and soda. The interaction of the heated soda and the hot sand formed a transparent flowing liquid, which was then permitted to cool forming glass.

The first glass vessels appeared in Egypt in the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C. These were made by the technique of molding on a core made of mud and sand to form the shape of the vessel’s interior. Then the core was submerged into viscous molten glass. Once the vessel was cold, the core had to be scraped out.

At that time, glass was regarded, as an artificial semi-precious stone and it was a costly novelty material, most likely the aristocracy owned no glass workshops since it was a royal monopoly.

The decline of royal power after the end of the New Kingdom put a stop to glass production for a time. Not till the Greco-Roman Period did new Egyptian glass centers arise in the Hellenistic cities of Alexandria and Naucratis.

The revolutionary invention of glass-blowing took place, probably in Syria, during the 1st century BC, though the technique did not reach Alexandria until the latter half of the following century when it was introduced by the Romans. The new discovery widely increased production and glass then ceased to be either a rarity or an upper-class prerogative.

Blown glass vessels were created by sticking a piece of molten glass onto one end of a blowpipe and through the other end introducing pressurized air into the pipe. This was done by mouth blowing. At that stage, the art of transformation into attractive shapes began. It was then cut with a copper wheel and ground with emery powder. After the vessel took its shape, decorations were added by pinching the hot glass, adding handles or other features to it, changing simple straight patterns into more intricate ones. After the coloring and hand painting process was completed, the bottles were put into a furnace with a very high temperature to set the color on the glass so that it is permanent. Afterwards, the bottles needed to be left out to cool. Then they were ready.

Nowadays, blown glass products are still made the same way our ancient ancestors used to make them. No extras are used but the very primitive tools used 7000 years ago and the golden fingers of the Egyptian craftsmen.

A. Basel
http://WWW.bazaarway.com

Most builders and renovators will say a large percentage of their business comes from referrals (and, for some, virtually all their business comes from referrals).

Of course, backing up your reputation and the quality of your work are your testimonials (you do collect testimonials…don’t you?).

In fact, testimonials are essentially mini-referrals. They allow a past client, who’s never met your prospect, to provide a referral ‘after-the-fact’ by saying “this is why I did business with this builder.”

Where Most Builders Fail with Testimonials

Most builders will ask for a testimonial and leave it at that. Some may follow-up once or twice, but even that can get annoying for the client, especially if it’s just not that high on their to-do list.

(A company I once worked for continued to follow-up for *three months* to get one testimonial. This, in my mind, is overkill, and not a positive experience all around.)

The problem is two-fold:

1) Clients, as well intentioned as they are, may be too busy with their everyday life to remember, or get to, your testimonial

2) Most testimonials, left solely to the client, aren’t as powerful as they could be.

The Road to Better Testimonials

Instead of simply asking your client “Can you write me a testimonial?”, use these strategies to capture not only more testimonials, but more powerful testimonials, quicker.

Ask you client:

a) what their fears and concerns were when considering taking on a build / renovation, and how your company helped overcome those fears.

b) what their hopes and dreams were when imagining their new home or renovation, and how your company helped create that vision.

c) what services were performed by your company that simply went over and beyond their expectations.

also,

d) Ask if your clients received any help or service that they wouldn’t normally attribute to working with a builder / renovator.

e) Hopefully by now they’re remembering some great things you did…which is a perfect time to ask for a referral. Do they know anyone considering a build / renovation that you could help with?

Finally, make it easy for them to give you a testimonial. You can ask for it not only in writing (the old stand-by, but definitely not the easiest method), but also:

. on voice mail (some businesses set up a number or extension solely for this purpose)

. via a questionnaire form (print out the questions above with spaces beneath for them to fill out

. in a conversation with you (if you do it via phone, you can record the testimonial…just simply ask their permission first.)

Final Tip

You don’t have to wait until you’ve completed a project to get a testimonial. Ask your clients to comment on the progress so far, whether it be the design phase, or how you helped them choose the right contractor (you!), or any other phase. This reminds the client how they feel about your work (hopefully positive!), gives you great feedback, and captures the testimonial before it’s forgotten.

Brett Martinson is a professional coach and consultant to the home building and renovation industry. Builders and renovators can sign up for a FREE subscription to his Successful Home Builders’ Newsletter AND receive his free, bonus 5-Part eBook, “5 Profit-Draining Mistakes Builders and Renovators Make…and How to Fix Them” at http://www.SuccessfulHomeBuilders.com.

You are clearing all the junk on your hard disk. Shift+Del. Shift+Del. Shift+Del. Oops you just deleted that most important file.
Now if you have google desktop search installed you may get back your data. Search for the file name, say “veryimportant.doc” and sort by relevence. Your file must be visble. Next to the description you will find a link called cache. If you click, you will be taken to a webpage which will contain the content of that file.
Google keeps a cache of files on your desktop so that they may be easily searched. You are using that cache to get back your file.

How to get your website back without a backup.
Imagine this.You create a website. Burn the midnight lamp on all that CSS, HTML and what not. And just after you upload your website your server crashes. No backups. Are you doomed? Google to the rescue.
This is based on the fact that google keeps a cache of all websites they crawl. And you can view that cache.

Suppose your site is xyz.net

In google search box type site:xyz.net
Google will show all the pages of your site. But if you want to visit them, obviously you can’t. Your webhost has just lost them. Google to rescue. Next to your website address, there is a link called cached. If you click this link you will be taken to a page which will contain text of your webpage. So if you have some time to waste and data to recover, You can get all your pages back. (Sans the css and images.)

Shabda Raaj is a freelance webdesigner and programmer. Tutorials from him can be found at http://free-tutorials.blogspot.com/

This is the second article after an Introduction on Split Personality using Shamen to illustrate the concept as well as a few works in the Psychological sphere.

Later I hope to complete the work in the concept of Dissociation, Multiple personalities, Causes of Dissociative Identity Disorder and The Soul Personality.

This is a description of Multiple Personalities, DID + MPD as the cause of all suffering in the world, how to spot them and the neccessity for their cure through EE meditation.

Most people are split personalities. However the symptoms of this splitness differ depending upon the severity of the painful traumatic experiences which split the person and the degree of evolution of the person which increasingly helps the person to manage more trauma and more splits without giving the game away to others.

Splitness, DID and MPD as a cause of the selfish competitive ego is an explanation for the world as it is and the suffering of everyone in society. Integration of the splitness is the cure for the world as it is and the end of suffering of everyone in society.

However, severely damaged people and evolved people on the verge of integration have been studied by psychologists…

The splits are sometimes called alter personalities which have types which are common across Split people. Putnam has created a set of such types from many years of experience of therapy (Putnam 1986)

The Host Personality– Usually defined as the alter who has executive control of the body most of the time. This personality is typically depressed, compulsively good, conscience-stricken, and feels overwhelmed by circumstances.

A normal person in other words, however the strength of the symptoms of splitness differ so that only those with strong symptoms get caught, anaesthetised with drugs by psychiatrists or put into therapy by psychologists.

The normal person exhibits symptoms of splitness which can be spotted in others and then in ourselves.

Quite often, the host personality is completely unaware of the existence of other alters until presented with them during meditation. Hosts may sometimes be facades put up by a group of cooperating alters.

Inner Children Personalities– These are found in every Split person. They are frozen in time and do not age. Such personalities often serve the function of holding traumatic memories of childhood abuse or other painful memories; they are frequently counterbalanced by other child alters who embody pure childhood innocence.

Inner children always want and compete for attention, sympathy, love, energy from everyone around them. They develop talents, personalities, alters and strategies to get this. This is the selfish competitive ego, red in tooth and claw, the cause of all suffering in the world.

The Star Personality – Symptoms.. these develop talents in order to compete for power, money, attention and love from everyone around them. Typically they try to destroy the livelihoods and reputations of every competing star. They surround themselves with “yes men” who provide no competition to them, are extremely loyal and thus will do anything they are told to do, who confirm the star in their place by massaging their egos, and to whom they are extremely generous in wages and bonuses.

Persecutor Personalities The Self Destructor. These personalities will try to sabotage the person’s life and even inflict bodily harm on the host. They are sometimes responsible for “suicide” attempts which are really cases of “internal homicide”, where a persecutor personality attempts to kill the host, like “cutting off the nose to spite the face”.

The Violator Personality is professionally angry with everyone around them as a means of gaining attention and energy from them.

Suicidal Personalities — As distinct from above, these are personalities driven to kill themselves, as opposed to other alters. They may be unaware of the existence of the host, or other alters.

The Poor Me Personality moans complains and even hurts itself through accidents, substance abuse and suicide attempts simply to gain sympathy and energy from everyone around them. They tend to flip into Violators when the Poor Me ceases to work.

Protector and Helper Personalities– These personalities serve as a counterbalance to the destructive and suicidal alters. They come in a number of forms, depending on what the multiple requires protection from. In female multiples, they are often male alters of great physical strength.

The Internal Self-HelperA relatively emotionless personality, who provides information about the internal workings of the personality system. Very useful allies for therapy as you can talk sensibly to them.

Memory Trace Personality– A passive personality who usually has a more or less complete memory of the Split person’s life. Most alters have access to only a severely limited range of memories.

Cross-Gender Personalities– It is very common for multiples to have alters of opposite sex. In females, male alters tend to serve in such masculine roles as physical protection and operation of machinery. In some male Split persons, female personalities are older “good-mother” figures who provide counsel, and tend to be active in the person’s internal dynamics more than manifesting outwardly.

Promiscuous PersonalitiesThe Don Juan strategy. These alters exist to express forbidden impulses, often sexual in nature and to gain attention and love from others.

Administrators and Obsessive-Compulsive Personalities– These personalities frequently emerge in the workplace, where they may be quite competent professionally, although seen by fellow workers as distant and authoritarian. They may also function to manage the internal organization of the Split person’s fragmented personality.

Substance Abusers– Drug abuse in Split persons is frequently limited to one alter, and this alter may be the only one to suffer withdrawal symptoms as a means of gaining sympathy.

Autistic and Handicapped Personalities– Autistic personalities are often sent “out” during periods when no other alter is interested in executive control, or especially during situations of confinement or control.

Personalities with Special Talents or Skills– Alters displaying great skill in work-related, artistic or athletic fields are common, and often tend to be more like fragments than complete alter personalities.

Anesthetic or Analgesic Personalities– These alters seem to be formed during initial episodes of abuse, and deny feelings of pain. They are activated when the body is injured by self or others.

Imitators and Impostors– Some multiples have alters who imitate the functions of other alters. In some instances, the impostor will handle situations the personality they are mimicking cannot.

Demons and Spirits– These alters sometimes manifest, especially in persons from rural areas or with fundamentalist religious beliefs. Spirit alters are the same as Internal Self-Helpers and demon alters are the same as Persecutors.

The Original Core Personality– Many multiples have a “core” personality from which the others are derived. Typically this alter is not active, and is described by others in the system of alters as having been “put to sleep” to protect it from remembering traumatic experiences. The negative karmic mass created by such experiences is that which creates and sustains the split alters. Only by grounding that pain, can the person become integrated.

The Soul Infused Personality – This personality only starts to appear when there has been a period of grounding of negative energies and integration of the alters. We say that the normal person is split and in in various stages and states of splitness. Gurdjieff said that normal people only had the possibility of a Soul Infused Personality, which could only be accessed through meditative work. It is typically pure, strong, solid and integrated. It contains no splits. It is the personality of the trained Shaman and Guru, Chiron, the Wounded Healer who through healing himself has the ability to integrate the split personalities of others.

As can be seen from the above list, alter personalities tend to help a traumatized person assume some sort of functional role, either in the external life of the multiple, or in the complex internal dynamics of the system of alters. Such diversification according to functionality will be very useful in developing a model of distributed agency in the cyberspace domain for the average, unintegrated “normal” person.

The discussion of the ubiquity of the Split Personality or Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID as related to non-pathological functioning is important, as it will serve to ground our perceptions of this phenomenon while we tread the increasingly exotic terrain covered by the manifestation of Splits usually called Multiple Personalities. The DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition, of the American Psychiatric Association) category of Splitting or DID was in fact called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) in the DSM-III, and so quotes from some materials will refer to the syndrome by that name.

According to Putnam, “The core feature of MPD (Splitting – auth) is the existence of alter personalities who exchange control over an individual’s behavior. it is important to state from the outset that whatever an alter personality is, it is not a separate person.” (Putnam, 1986, p 103, italics the author’s).

Putnam goes on to quote the definition of an alter personality given by Braun and Kluft as “an entity with a firm, persistent, and well-founded sense of self and a characteristic and consistent pattern of behavior and feelings in response to given stimuli. It must have a range of functions, a range of emotional responses, and a significant life history (of its own existence).” (Kluft 1984, p 23).

Usually these alters seamlessly takeover the outer personality as external circumstances need their different talents. As Gurdjieff said, “The alter who says he will get up at 5 in the morning to meditate, is not the same alter who throws the alarm clock out of the window. Or shall we say that he just, “Changed his mind.”

The sense of a seamless self maintained by alter personalities is solid enough that even though they are very different, physically, emotionally and psychologically, they often claim vociferously to be the same independent person, in the face of all evidence to the contrary. This is the normal and average person.

But as the degree trauma increases and the degree of splitness pathologically increases, one alter might insist that another’s clothes are not just in bad taste, but are of the wrong size, or even appropriate for the wrong sex. Sometimes alters even see other alters as being differently located physically, as sitting in a different chair or being in a different room. In really extreme cases, one alter might wish to kill another, adamantly denying any connection whatsoever with that alter.

In addition to such well formed alter personalities, it is typical to find a number of personality fragments– smaller units of personality of limited scope and ability. Typically a personality fragment will be limited to one symptom of splitness, such as anger, depression or manicism, or one functionality, such as driving a car or absorbing pain. This sort of fracturing can yield fragments so specific that it is ultimately useless to consider them as personalities, just talents.

Alter personalities can be thought of as units of functionality which enable the Split person to function in the external world, or cope with the complex demands of the inner world such people inhabit. External duties include holding a job, managing relationships with other people, taking care of bodily needs, etc. Internal duties include such activities as managing which alter is “out” (in control of the physical body) at any time, holding and managing traumatic memories, and settling internal squabbles between alters. A complicated set of personalities often arises to accomplish these tasks, frequently numbering a few tens or scores of distinct alters.

However, the cure to all the above is integration of the splits by grounding all the negative energy created by traumatic experiences which sustains the splits. As we ground all the negative energy through meditation, so the splits disappear..

Start your integrative Process by learning how to meditate and then speed it up with the advanced techniques of Energy Enhancement based upon the thousands of years old ancient effective techniques of Taoism, The Kundalini Kriyas, The five elemental circulations of the Qi of Chinese Alchemical Taoism, The Guided Meditation of the Emerald tablet of Hermes Trismegistus encapsulated in VITRIOL and The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Satchidanand,
Director of Energy Enhancement, is one of the leading teachers of Meditation.!

He helps people worldwide reach further than they EVER thought possible,
FASTER!!!

http://www.energyenhancement.org

When you turn on your computer, does it act like it needs a coffee to wake up? When you surf around the Internet, are you bombarded with pop-up windows? Does your computer freeze up or turn off for no apparent reason?

Before you decide to throw your monitor out of the nearest window, there may be a number of solutions to fix these problems that won’t require you having a degree in computer technology.

There are two primary ways to maintain your computer’s performance, and the maintenance should be done once a week or more. First, acquire and use software that will help you clean and protect your computer, and second, know how to use the programs already in your computer to keep it’s engines running smooth.

SOFTWARE

The software solutions below will not cost you any money, nor will they take you much of your time to download, understand, and implement:

1) Virus Protection – Avast AntiVirus is an excellent free program to guard yourself against Trojans, Worms, and Hacks.

2) Spyware – AdAware and Spybot are terrific free programs for eliminating pop-ups and other wares from your computer. It is recommended that you use them both, as one may find problems that the other may not … a great one-two punch to protect yourself.

3) Registry Cleaners – WinASO Registry Optimizer is a great program for repairing your computer registry. The free version allows you to clean or repair ten items at a time, so you will have to re-run it numerous times if you have many problems.

4) Internet Speed – If you use dial-up, or have a computer the size of a calculator, you may wish to use RamBooster to help give you the best speed possible for the limitations you have.

Go to http://www.download.com for these and other great resources.

PROGRAMS

Now that you’ve taken out the garbage, you should keep the place neat and tidy by using the programs already existing in your computer. Once again, you should do this once a week:

1) Clear your Internet History

2) Defrag your Computer

3) Use a Firewall

You can find the programs that will do this for you by looking in the System Tools or Security Center sections of your computer.

Another option for those of you who’ve got smoke billowing out of the back of your computer, with no seemingly useful solution in sight; you may wish to look at the System Restore feature that your computer may have. This allows you to revert back to a state when your computer actually worked well. It doesn’t work all the time, by it is an option … and not an end all be all … use it only when absolutely necessary.

Austin Culley is the Chief Operating Officer for Oil-Net.Com Inc.
http://www.oil-net.com

If you’re traveling there for the first time, we can assume you’re aware that it won’t be simple to find the best of the Chicago vacation packages. But you needn’t do it that way – we’ll tell you ways of finding what you need from locals, unearthing the perfect price immediately. There is, naturally, a difference in price between no-frills hotel rooms and accommodation with luxury fixtures. Between these two extremes, of course, you’ll find rooms with different features, each of which costs a different amount. Your very first move is going to be to decide on what your room needs. When you start this way a list of all local lodgings can be rapidly cut to a smaller list of the hotels supplying what you want. Would you use an Internet connection, for example, or could you also go along with with a warm bed and a shower? Take a look at a map for your optimal Chicago vacation packages. With a good idea of places you’d like to go and what you plan to get up to while traveling, it’s easy to check these locations and pinpoint the handiest accommodation. So if what you’re visiting for is the nightlife and the shopping found in the metropolitan area, you should plan on staying somewhere close by, but not on clubland to guarantee undisturbed sleep. Naturally, if you want to spend your vacation sightseeing in the local wilderness or getting close to nature you will save travel time if the chosen lodgings are in the boondocks.

Make sure you read what others have said about the assorted area lodgings. Plenty of reviews can be found online, and if you read a decent selection you’ll come away with an unbiased understanding of the benefits and disadvantages of each place.

Customer reviews and testimonials are also very useful, offering as they do a picture of what you’ll experience while staying in the various lodgings. Some of the details you ought to pay careful attention to include cleanliness, how well the hotel lived up to the features promised, and if it was comfortable.

Using the tips provided, it’s straightforward to pick out a deal that will ensure you excellent accommodation once you’ve taken a look at the leading Chicago vacation packages. What you need to do is identify an offer which strikes a balance between what you want and your wallet. Therefore, by following the system laid out above, the process will prove to be a whole lot simpler.

It’s really easy to spend a great deal of time getting a low-priced car insurance policy, nevertheless it’s really important, particularly when you are budgeting. A hurried decision may be a disaster for your finances. If you’ll be renewing an insurance policy, there are a few frequent mistakes you should avoid.

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It is fine to buy extremely cheap motorcar insurance, yet settling for less than you require could end up costing you much more if an accident happens than you save on payments. So then, make it a point to be familiar with all the terminology before you start looking for a policy.

In the cheapest price-range, the coverage is called ‘third-party’, this policy will solely cover the damage and injury endured by another person should you be unfortunate enough to have an accident. It’s usually simple to add insurance coverage for fire and theft, which will cover the repairs or even a new automobile if there is a fire, anyone causes damage, or if someone steals your auto.

Last but not least, you can buy comprehensive insurance. This insures your vehicle for accidental damage as well as fire, theft and any damage that occurs to someone else’s auto. Finally, you can choose extra cover for instance: windshield replacement, wildlife, international insurance coverage, breakdown recovery, courtesy cars, any legal fees, and coverage which includes your personal effects while they are in your car. Generally you receive what you pay for. Sometimes, an affordable auto insurance quote won’t inform you about hidden fees. These may include: charges for monthly payment plans, the costs of bringing your insurance policy up-to-date before it expires, and extra costs for each driver that you put on your policy. Likewise, extremely cheap motor insurance will frequently end up costing you much more if something happens.

Putting in an alarm in your vehicle and using any rebates may bring down your premiums a great deal. Sometimes you can reduce a low-cost your quote even further if you keep the mileage down on your vehicle. Don’t fork out more for a policy than you must, but be sure you do not leave yourself compromised either. So by remembering the most frequent errors, and are conscious of all the types of coverage, it is always simple to find the best insurance coverage and pay less too.

The Bible tells the tale of the fishermen who were just not catching a thing. Jesus came along and told them to cast their nets on the other side of the boat, which they did. Surprise! They caught so many fish their nets began to tear.

Jesus had a strategy. He thought outside the box. And he knew where to go. Of course, when you’re God, you tend to know a lot of things.

What about fishing for ezine subscribers? Don’t expect Jesus to tell you where to cast your subscription net. You will have to build some other strategy. In the meantime, here are the six steps I sued to grow my free online Happy Class ( http://thehappyguy.com/self-actualization-happy-class.html ) list by 27 last night, and my Daily Dose of Happiness (http://thehappyguy.com/daily-happiness-free-ezine.html) by 10.

Step # 1: Sign up for Subscription Rocket ( http://thehappyguy.com/SR.html ) and install the code on every page of your web site. SR is a small pop-under offering your visitors free subscriptions to newsletters. Unlike some pop-ups, this pop-under is unobtrusive and nobody has ever complained. Every time the screen pops under your site, your ezine pops under four other similar sites. Most of my ezine subscribers had never even heard of me or visited my site before they signed up.

Step # 2: Get lots of traffic to your site. The Internet traffic gurus will tell you to attract only TARGETED traffic. But, with SR, any traffic will do. 1000 non-targeted visitors might be useless to you, but they will trigger 4000 appearances of your ezine notice to targeted visitors of other sites. Get the most targeted traffic possible, yes, but whatever you do, get traffic. More on this later.

Step # 3: Get sub-affiliates, and get lots of them. Every time web sites you referred get visitors to their sites, you earn three credits. So 1000 visitors to www.Looky-who-I-referred.com means YOUR ezine gets seen by 3000 targeted visitors at other sites.

Step # 4: Replace some of the SR codes with Subscriber Drive codes. What’s the difference? Not much. They are almost identical. You can see how SD works at www.TheHappyGuy.com/self-actualization-articles.html . Why use both? Two reasons.

First, you don’t want to run out of targeted subscribers. For instance, if you run an Internet marketing newsletter, you don’t want one service to run out of similar sites on which to display your ezine and start showing it to visitors of vampire-slaying sites.

Second, if you can get multiple credits for each visitor to your site … if you stagger the two services along the well-worn surfing routes. I have SR code on my home page, and SD code on my Self-actualization Resource Center, where the largest number of home page visitors tend to gravitate.

Let’s start thinking way outside the box.

5. How do you get big traffic to your site? Suppose, for instance, your ezine and web site are about Internet marketing, competing with 4.5 million savvy entries on Google. Slim chance getting a top ten ranking, or even a top 100 ranking.

Consider your hobbies. Suppose you like horseback riding. Why not have a page on horseback riding, optimized for a couple juicy equestrian keywords, where you compete with just 700,000 not so savvy web sites? What does horseback riding have to do with Internet marketing? Everything, if it is about the publisher (you!). You might also post a page on Italian cuisine, where your keyword optimization competes with only 200,000 other Google entries. These could both be under “About the publisher”.

In addition to the untargeted traffic who will bring you targeted subscribers from other sites by tripping the SR and SD codes, your visitors will get to know you better as a human being, a key factor in building trust with them. You can also add affiliate links for related products (want to sell a horse?) and actually make some money from these extra pages. (If you like happiness, why not use one of my happiness articles and sell my two happiness ebooks through affiliate links from http://thehappyguy.com/earn-money.html?)

6. Another way to boost traffic to your site is to keep sending your subscribers to your site. If there is a free ebook download (or software or puzzle or graphic or recipe) or a contest to enter, you can have subscribers visiting your web site each week. I set up a Daily Fun page http://thehappyguy.com/l/daily-happiness-fun-page.php for subscribers to Your Daily Dose of Happiness. Every time one of them visits, she earns me four views of my ezine notice to targeted traffic on other web sites. This page is getting an average of 100 hits a day, and that will increase as my ezine readership grows.

Jesus could help you catch way more subscribers than I can. But until he offers some alternatives, these are the steps you can take to turbo boost your subscriber catch.

About The Author

David Leonhardt publishes Your Daily Dose of Happiness http://thehappyguy.com/daily-happiness-free-ezine.html. Learn more about ezine publishing at: http://thehappyguy.com/ezines.html

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If you’re in the market for a new car, be sure to ask about having a XM Radio installed. XM-equipped audio systems are offered in over 100 new cars for the 2005 model year.

There is no doubt that satellite radio is the future of the music and audio entertainment industry. Satellite radio is doing to radio what cable television did to television years ago. An explosion of information is ready for your ears! Founded in 1992, as the American Mobile Radio Corporation, XM offers receivers from the price range of $30 – $300. For the budget-friendly consumer, XM also offers these receivers at a month-to-month plan, with service fees at about $12.95 for the first receiver. Subscribers may purchase packages from 1-5 years, in which the average cost is under $10 per month. XM also offers internet only packages and mobile (i.e. Ipod) services for satellite radio.

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