Once upon a time, for the hip kids, lighting up a cigarette was a cool thing to do. There were a lot of people who took up smoking, first to experiment and then once hooked, found out it would also elevate their mood. So in the short term, that may actually be true. But its pretty evident now that with the long term damaging health effects smoking causes on our lungs, smokers also eventually feel hopeless and at times terribly sad when not smoking or directly after quitting. That’s because the latest studies seem to indicate that there may be a direct link between puffing tobacco and depression.

Other than the previously known deadly effects of nicotine, this study raises the hazards of cigarette smoking exponentially. Smoking has now been identified as a substance disorder illness which leads to other medical issues such as the direct cause for psychiatric illness and chronic pain symptoms.

The short term effects of inhaling nicotine acts as an quick antidepressant stimulant. That’s why people who has or had dealt with forms of depression are likely to be smokers because of the self-medicating effects. When they try to quite smoking, the most common side effect is depression. If their depression happens to be chronic, then the result is a tougher time to kick the habit. Then unfortunately the depression gets even worse, and thus creates the urge to have another cigarette.

So the entire ‘Stop Smoking’ recovery process has to be looked at in whole. Recently the World Health Organization (WHO) recently released long term results from a study that involved over 2,000 men and women. The study proved that the highest depression rate (over 25%) was found in people that smoked, while non-smokers had the lowest rate, (around 7 percent). Also, around 17 percent of the participants who had recently quit smoking were depressed as well.

The WHO report is just a sample of the latest of many who support the link between depression and smoking. Other researchers from various Universities who studied over 9,000 university graduates who were smokers over a seven year or longer period, found that there was an extremely large number of smokers (over 40%), who suffered from depression, compared to people who didn’t smoke.

Another study in an University in Finland conducted a large scale study of over 50,000 people between the ages 22 to 69 years old, found that depression along with anxiety were commonly found in current smokers, then followed by people who had recently quit and then those who never smoked. The study concluded that there is a strong link between smoking cigarettes and depression as well as anxiety.

Did you know that in as little as 9 seconds, a smoker inhaling nicotine calms a smokers brain, like other substances that are highly addictive, nicotine attaches to the brains core neuron which controls the minds reward system. That’s the same area of the brain where certain beneficial behaviors (like drinking some water when you are thirsty) reinforces and rewards the brain. The neurons releases a chemical called dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter, which enters the brain, and produces pleasure and encourages a repeat of the same behaviors that originally caused the same sense of well-being. That pleasure derived, and the brains need for it, drives the process that is addiction.

This link between smoking and depression is also prominent in teens who smoke. Once addicted, the need for nicotine dependence is directly correlated with those that smoke for more than nonsmokers.

So smoking, once a cool thing to do is proving to produce additional deadly consequences. So what is required are some valid tips for those who want to stop smoking, and help for those who also find themselves depressed, and are aware that possibly giving up smoking would plunge them further into feeling melancholy.

When you first quit smoking, you will feel grumpy, extremely irritable, or even dysphoria. These drastic mood symptoms such as dysphoria…are time sensitive and will usually pass with ongoing abstinence of nicotine. If you feel that you may have chronic depression, its best you see your doctor or other health or even mental health professionals.

Some of the telltale signs of depression may include: feelings of hopelessness, persistent feeling of sadness, feelings of failure and guilt, disappointment in others and more importantly yourself, chronic crying or the inability to cry, serious changes in your appearance, constant fatigue, difficulty sleeping, changes in appetite.

The physical benefits once you quit smoking doesn’t take very long to kick in. Studies show that even after eight hours, the carbon monoxide present in the body drastically drops. After around 3 days, lung capacity significantly increases. After two weeks, the body’s entire circulation improves. Within six to nine months of stop smoking, smokers experience less fatigue, coughing, and shortness of breath.

So I recently told someone that Bush and his admin had single highhandedly shred the US economy. His argument was, no it wasn’t him, it was the US banking fraternity responsible and he had nothing to do with it… What?. What he failed to understand is Bush is the top dog, he has advisers in place to moderate any major fluctuations in the straw foundation that is the economy and he should put in protective measures to counteract the fluctuations. This continued carnage in the U.S. investment banking sector obviously provides mounting evidence that an entire overhaul is needed. The question is, why did he allow it to decline to this level? Ok, maybe its not entirely his fault.

The U.S. economy is now operating more like a ‘centrally planned’ economy such China or Russia. The United State government’s Treasury Department as well as the Federal Reserve are using the taxpayers money to stabilize the failing once gigantic institutions which were deemed too big to collapse. Setting up the doorway to easily trigger a global financial catastrophe.

So going way back to 1931, the uncertain volatility of the US stock markets had the media showing photos and slides of then President Herbert Hoover saying, there’s no fear… “our economy is fundamentally sound,” as the Great Depression raged on and on. Today, President George Bush said just last week eerily almost the exact same thing… “our economic fundamentals are sound”. Bush is the first president of the United States to preside over 2 recessions since Richard Nixon did so in the early 1970s. Nothing to be proud of.

The U.S. and the Bush administration allowed this mess to escalate through poorly regulated banking and credit regulations going back to the 1980s. This situation rapidly deteriorated further when Alan Greenspan, the now former Federal Reserve chairman decided to keep interest rates far too low for much too long. This in a plan to hopefully get people to buy houses in an attempt to inject an already failing economy in recession when the unfortunate 2001, 911 terror attacks occurred.

So traditional banking practices dictates that all financial institutions usually loaned assets they actually owned, and thus assuring them that they are ‘backed’ if the loans can’t be repaid. But during the 1980s, the trend began, spearheaded by the big U.S.banks and huge blue chip corporations to adopt a “mark to market” system of accounting practices that would assigned current market values to assets, whose real actual values would not be determined until some time yet undetermined in the future.

These large institutions also began packaging these ever growing borrower debts and passed them on as securities and started selling them off to other lenders.

Also what contributed to the current economic volatility was an increase in selling of shares (selling short), of failing companies, all in the name of profit for insiders.

While banks in other G7 countries such as Japan and Canada usually practice stronger more stringently regulated lending practices, a lot of these countries however purchased various amounts of the US housing debt securities themselves.

One of the few options a failing asset and cash strapped corporation has is:
- issue and sell more shares
- borrow yet more money
- decide to be overtaken over by someone else
- receive debt relief from the federal government
- file for bankruptcy

Then the credit eventually dried up and the various banks just put a stop to lending to each other. This forced the U.S. Federal Reserve and other government facets as well as the central banks to step in and rescue many of the large firms in trouble.

The U.S. is now forced to completely overhaul and revamp its entire financial system by forcing the central banks, the brokerages as well as the insurance companies to restructure their lending and credit practices, so that they have enough assets and collateral to fully cover outstanding loans. Debt and investment vehicles must be completely transparent to the buyer. Rating agencies has to be monitored for accuracy. Large financial managers and executives has to be held accountable for poor business practices.

Every single day there are millions of people just like you that let their inner fears and demons literally rule their lives and it stops them from creating and moving forward towards living the life of their dreams, the life they deserve, the life they’ve built their education towards. There is no doubt denying that it’s a scary proposition to step out of ones comfort zone and start think out of the ‘box’. But once you step up and challenge your fears and then take action on them, you can then attain the great things you’re destined to be.

Here Are 8 Tips To Make That Happen:

1. Make Your Greatest Dreams Come True
Imagine for once that you can be, can do, and can have absolutely everything that you’ve ever wanted in your life. You can vision how you can transform your life to achieve all that you’ve ever wanted in the very near future and see how is it different from the life that you live today. Once you have identified and pinpointed your exact dreams and goals, then you can take the final steps to make them come true, you can set your life up to play the ultimate end game.

2. But You Have To Make A Decision And Take Action
For each and every decision and action that you take, whether good or bad, you exert a force of power that will shape and change your life. It’s unfortunate that at times instead of you pursuing to create a path to your own empowerment, that you will often blame the choices you make in your life on things that have absolutely nothing to do with you. You have to understand you have the full absolute power and control over your own personal actions. Notice that your life changes, at times ever so subtlety, with every decision that you make, no matter how small the move. Take full responsibility for your decisions so that you can shape and take control of your ultimate path. Don’t let anyone persuade you based on their values which may not always be true.

3. Exercise Your Right And Power To Choose
Simply just sitting there and dreaming big dreams will not immediately change your life; but rather, it is what you choose to do with these dreams that is vitally important. The right side of your brain, the creative side is the dream maker, it is the thinker, so maintain and nourish these dreams and transfer them to be useful by using the logical side of the equation that is your left brain. The most successful people in the world has learned how to effectively use both sides of the brain to create and then take action on them. So in order for you to take action on your dreams, the left hemisphere of the brain has to fully believe that the dream is logically and sanely within the realm of possibility. Only then can your subconscious mind solve the mystery of taking action and help you make the dream happen.

4. Form Your Own Support Team
Enroll people that you admire in your dreams, people, anyone you admire and respect who can help you attain your goals. A lot of people often find it difficult to accept this type of help. They feel and think they are smart enough so they should be able to do everything that has to be done themselves, or they simply feel obligated to someone for their assistance. Always remember, no person is or should be an island. No one, how educated or smart they may be, can come up with or has all the answers. And if you receive help, there are numerous ways to pay them back, start with a simple ‘Thank You’. If you discover this support system early in the your process, then your life journey will be a lot more fun, profitable and rewarding!

5. Don’t Forget To Keep Score
It is crucial you keep track of the progress you are making and decide whether where you presently are is where you projected where you should be. Learn and grow from your successes as well as failures and determine what type of additional work you need to achieve your goals.

6. Establish Some Type Of Baseline Or Starting Point
The baseline or starting point is where you are now at this present moment; it is ground zero, where you begin. With all that you have thought of and have built and planned, it is now the time to move forward. If something happens to interrupt your forward progress, you will then need to take inventory and evaluate what went wrong, make some new adjustments, and then start moving forward again.

7. Know Your End Game Where The Final Goal Line Is
The goal line, the end game to all of this is your final desired outcome. As you set your focus on a long-term goal, do not forget the short-term goals or bridges that you will have to create to get you there. Setting and attaining these small goals will help in giving your self confidence a bit of a boost and will also keeps you motivated to continue towards reaching your long-term goals.

8. Always Reward Yourself
Kudos and congratulations from others are always great, but it is also important to pay attention to yourself by reward yourself. Write down on paper what type of reward you will give yourself when you reach that certain goal and achieve it… and don’t feel guilty about it. Take that long planned exotic vacation in the sun that you’ve dreamed about for so long, or go buy something special just to remind you of your success.

The absolute thrill of this game we call life is charting and planning a course, a plan, then facing the challenges that are due to occur, head on, and carrying them through to the end regardless. Sometimes you will win, sometimes you won’t. Either way, when you focus your life on the big picture and absolutely refuse to let the mistakes you are bound to make let you down, then you will create a future that will be filled with possibility. So live your life to the fullest, all in the present moment, and take advantage of everything thrown your way to finally achieve your vision.

If you are out growing your current virtual space and have recently been checking out dedicated servers, then you may have noticed that there are a lot of choices, pricing, bandwidth, etc… You can choose either from budget low cost dedicated servers or higher end dedicated servers that come with a lot more bandwidth.

There Are Several Type Of Dedicated Servers To Suit Your Needs:
1. How much traffic per day do you get or expect to get on your website or websites? If you get substantial traffic, or you plan to get a lot directed to your websites, you will need to make sure the server comes with unlimited bandwidth. Bandwidth acts like a freeway funneling traffic and visitors seamlessly and with speed to your websites.

2. Determine how much server hard drive space do you need? Virtual space is cheap, so get adequate amounts. If you plan on say having some type of dedicated database on your websites, such as to operate a forum, or some type of ecommerce shopping cart, these types of sites with databases take chew up a lot of hard drive space.

3. How much security do you need? If you gather dedicated private information from your visitors, such as credit card information, or names and addresses, you will want to and need to protect that type of private information by making sure that your private dedicated server is secure. Also if you operate say a business website that contains confidential information on your employees, and only your employees can access the site, it has to be totally secure so the stored confidential information will not be leaked out to the public.

These are just some of the reasons why a lot of business or corporate website owners choose to get a private dedicated server. Unlike shared servers or a VPS server, a dedicated server will only host your website and information and no one else. This cost tends to be a bit more expensive than say sharing a server with other websites you don’t know, but it can prove to be quite beneficial based on speed and security alone.

As stated, if you get a lot of website traffic to your website or soon expect to, you will want to make sure that the server can handle the required bandwidth to effectively handle each and every visitor. This is the funnel that allows the traffic to flow uninterrupted to your website. One of the most annoying experiences is a slow loading website. If you happen to be sharing say a reseller server with other unknown websites, they are obviously taking some of the allowable bandwidth from that server. This can interfere and slow down your websites performance and traffic without you even knowing.

So if you operate a corporate business, or a growing business that depends on dedicated security and fast speed, such as a law firm or an online retail store, it is crucial you have a dedicated server and you’re not sharing the space with other unknown businesses throughout the internet.

How To Get A Dedicated Server
It is not really that difficult to get your website a dedicated server. There are a lot of available options available which are safe, secure and reliable. You need to decide the of type and level of service that you require and then take a look at forums and review directories online.

A lot of businesses website owners will begin their internet business by using a shared server, which is fine to start with. A shared or reseller server can be the ideal host for a small business or personal website. In addition to being not very expensive, a shared server is also user friendly. For these servers, there is usually a small setup fee and a monthly rental or maintenance fee that runs around $8.00 per month. These fees for a shared or reseller server is the best practical way for any small business owner.

In the increasingly ‘open border’ world of international commerce and world trade that we live in, there has been fortunes made by the early entrepreneurs who learned and utilized the concepts of buying low and selling high. As in buying goods at dirt cheap wholesale prices and reselling the same item at retail prices. This most often entailed importing them from a different country and realizing a substantial profit after reselling that product in another. There has been however substantial risk of buying and selling products across international borders, as payment for container loads of goods often had to be paid up front or by Letter Of Credit. Also at times, the quality of goods which were originally promised did not always live up to expectations.

It Is One Of The Oldest Business Practices Around, ‘Import and Export’. There is a secret in the international trade circles, and that secret is, its not always about “selling high”. The real profit when buying and selling goods, whether stocks or tangible goods, is realized when you purchase the goods (at rock bottom low costs), and not when you sell them.

If you do not get the lowest wholesale prices when you purchase a product, then the odds are you are not going to make much of a profit as there usually is a ceiling resell price for that product. When the purchase price is low, your profit most often is almost always guaranteed.

So the secret then is how do you find ‘Hot’ in demand products at low prices allowing you to resell them for bigger profits!

Using Google and Searching For ‘Wholesale Sites’ Is NOT The Answer
So lets say that you want to buy to eventually resell new kitchen appliances, or new HDTV’s, or even brand name products such as an Ipod or Iphone, or genuine designer label clothes.

Here’s a technique on how you can get whatever you want for little or no money…
…or at times even get “Paid” to get that product.

For Example… You are looking for that latest greatest electronic gadget of some sort.
Say this item retails for $70.

Because due to your ‘rock bottom costs’ wholesale buying sources, you have instant access to 100’s of ‘real’ wholesale sources, and you can locate them in just a few minutes. So a genuine supplier will sell that electronic product to you for say… $35 or less.

So instead of buying just 1, you decide to buy 4.

You keep one for yourself and then list the other 3 on Ebay, where they sell for an average price of $70 apiece.

So you’ve spent a total of $140 for 4 of these electronic gadgets, and now you have 1 for yourself to keep and earn $210 for the other 3, less the Ebay listing fees.

So Did You Profit? Heck Yes.

You got that electronic gadget that you wanted for absolutely free, plus you made approximately $40 in cash… profit!

So if you had purchased say 10 of the same item, you would have made more money when they eventually sold on Ebay.

Pretty Simple, Right?
Well it is. And its the very same concepts the successful big time Import/Exporters have used for decades. The only catch is, WHERE do you find the legitimate scam-free wholesalers that will offer you these great prices on big or small quantities of in demand products?

SaleHoo - Wholesale Product Database

The Answer Is SaleHoo
Recently SaleHoo has been that reliable site that sorts through the hundreds of thousands of wholesaler sources to find only the LEGITIMATE ones who will sell you exactly what you want at REAL wholesale prices, and deliver these goods at the exact price on time.

SaleHoo - is the site that can do this for you!

Whether you are reselling goods for a profit, or you just simply wanting to buy your own stuff at wholesale prices, congratulations, Salehoo is the site.

SaleHoo is constantly updating their website with the best current overseas wholesale suppliers on the Internet. They will also protect you as a ‘Member of SaleHoo’ from the shady ’scam’ type of so called middle men who’s only objective is to rip you off. They take your money on false products and false promises and run.

Some Questions and Answer About SaleHoo
Q. “How exactly does SaleHoo work?”
A. On their website, you simply enter the name of the product that you’re interested in, into their directory database. SaleHoo will then give you a list of ‘real’ legitimate reliable suppliers offering that product, including their best prices, which are often low.

Q. “What if SaleHoo doesn’t have a supplier for the product I’m looking for?”
A. SaleHoo has qualified hundreds of wholesale suppliers supplying thousands of items. If they still don’t have the exact hard to find item that you’re looking for, just send them an email, and they will do their best to hunt down that product and a legitimate supplier for you.

Q. “How do I know I can trust a supplier from SaleHoo?”
A. SaleHoo has an exclusive rating system, each and every one of their suppliers in their database are ‘rated’ by SaleHoo’s staff, and also by independent eBay Powersellers and other fellow SaleHoo members, so you know exactly what you’re getting.

Q. “I want to Dropship. Does SaleHoo also list valid drop-shippers as well? I do not want the hassle of buying and then shipping out the items I sell.
A. Yes, absolutely. SaleHoo constantly updates their databases of wholesalers and indicates if they drop ship as well. All these services are included in the SaleHoo membership.

Q. “Is the SaleHoo membership fee just a one-time fee? Or is it monthly or annual?
A. Yes, SaleHoo just has a one-time fee and it is a LIFETIME membership. This also includes all training, the exclusive forum, and the wholesale supplier directory database. There is absolutely nothing else to buy, guaranteed.

Q. “What is the guarantee? What if it’s not quite everything you say?”
A. If you are not satisfied, you are fully covered by an 8 week ‘third party’, no questions asked guarantee, so there’s absolutely nothing to risk or lose.

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The Apple iPhone is the latest, greatest piece of technology thats been developed in the past few years. It has blown the doors off virtually any tech gadget out there due to its versatility of providing any function imaginable, and all this crammed in to a compact 3″ x 5″ inch piece of hardware. Everything you’ve ever wanted to make your life easier in a phone is now compressed into this one phone. There is no need any longer to carry a cell phone, a GPS navigation system, a mp3 player or laptop computer… it’s all there in the iphone.

So What Are iPhone Applications
IPhone applications are programs you can download directly into your iphone operating system. These are similar to software programs you can download onto your computer to provide for different functions. Although there are similar hand held devices on the market, the iphone’s ability to use 3rd party applications separates it from the other so called ’smart phones’.

There are some iPhone apps that come standard with the device… such as: a camera, calender, Google maps, calculator, iTunes, etc. The majority of 3rd party apps you can use are free. However, there is a huge market developing for paid applications you can purchase and instantly download for a small fee.

The Huge Demand For Additional iPhone Applications
Eventually, you as an iPhone owner will want to add additional apps to your phone. This is where the new market is. There is a demand for developers to come up with new and exciting sexy applications that users can download and use. Most will still be free, but there is a large market developing for applications that are sold for a fee.

Some Specific iPhone Application Categories Include:
Online Games, Entertainment - movie, music reviews, news sites, business and productivity, instant search tools, social media, sports scores etc.

The majority of these applications can be featured on Apple iPhones Official App Store. Just navigate and select what type of app you want on the list and download.

For example, if you are interested in downloading a game, click on the Games category and view the current available games that can be instantly downloaded
onto your iPhone. It will notify you if there is a fee, and once paid, will redirect you to the 3rd party developers site for further download instructions. Downloading takes mere seconds.

Did You Know About The iPhone?
- That there are now over 10 million people worldwide who own the iPhone
- There are over 100 million iPhone applications that has been downloaded since June 2008
- Most of these apps were paid for…
- The early developers selling these iPhone apps are getting rich…

iPhone Applications
The iphone due to its versatility and expansion features is the must have tech gadget of the year. The new 3rd party applications that are being developed on a daily basis are all designed to make your life easier and a lot more convenient.

Choosing An iPhone Apps Download Service
If you’re looking to download free iPhone apps, and/or “widgets”, the best place is Apples iPhone App Store. Here you will be able to download a variety of tools and applications safely and securely. They also feature paid specialized apps such as: exclusive music, business, current movies and online games that you can immediately download.

If you have Apple’s iTunes service, you can download both movies and music on a pay-per download basis. For downloading music, the charge is usually around .99/track. If a buck a song may be too much, they also have a lifetime membership for less than $50.

Why Should You Pay For Apps If They Are Free
The first and only reason to pay for apps is service and reliability. When transferring these files from the internet to your iPhone can at times be a bit tricky, especially if you are a new user. If you are not using iTunes, there is usually some type of conversion that has to be made to the app files before it being able to transfer and work on an iPhone.

Make sure to read the terms and conditions of any app download website and find out what type of support they offer. Usually its email support or a ticket system as that’s the current industry standard.

Software To Transfer Apps From Computer To iPhone
Transferring app files from the internet to your iPhone can at times be a bit tricky. A download service that provides the proper software that converts and transfers your apps to iphone is a good investment. Currently, many of the download services offer the software as a bonus to their members along with information on how to install.

As this industry is still in its infancy, it is paramount that you find and use a reputable download service that is safe and hassle free.

The internet, once known as the ‘Information Super Highway’, has suddenly become a vast dark, deep and murky body of ocean water highly infested with sharks and piranhas. And it’s very likely that you’re finding yourself to be just another small fish cautiously swimming in it’s currents. Wherever and whenever you turn, you find yourself battling face to face with the much bigger dominant fish. You must realize by now that too many of these land sharks are hiding amongst the fibers.

So, if you are standing stagnant in one place for too long my little munchkin friend, you will inevitably be eaten up… sooner than later. That is the very nature of doing business, and that’s especially so on the internet. If you are not constantly moving forward, paddling furiously upstream, if you are not constantly and continually growing and expanding yourself, then it’s just only a matter of time until your business ventures faces its own similar demise. You become cat food.

So You’re Wondering… How Do You Survive In These Waters?
How do you grow yourself or your business so you can at least swim and play with the big fish? Well, part of the answer is leverage. Plan to use leverage properly and then you can profit with or off the big fishes “brand name” products. You can then exponentially catapult yourself fiercely into the big leagues, while at the same time building yourself a much bigger, stable business.

Take a look around you and notice the millions of dollars that the bigger fish are spending on a daily basis, just to develop and put a stamp on their brands.

These big boys are spending tons of money in building their brands into household names. This is done all in part to mark their territory in the marketplace and feeding their hungry egos. On the surface, it appears you are very much at a competitive disadvantage, gee, you think?. But once you learn and understand how you can position yourself and use their assets and the ground work that they laid out for you, you are then going to be in a stronger position.

You see, taking advantage of the ‘Power of Leverage’ is probably one of the the biggest guerrilla business building tactics that can be utilized by anyone big and bold enough to step up and take advantage of it. Before the internet existed, in that real world, it meant making those ugly cold calls and asking, no begging for deals. But today, in this connected world, it is a heck of a lot easier. How? Well, almost every website, every brand name product, selling any intangible or tangible goods or services, has its own Joint Venture Partnership or Affiliate program that anyone can join.

And it’s wide open and available to you, even if your working out of your basement, so take advantage of it and go take the full ride. In fact, they are inviting, almost begging you right now to dine with them in building wealth just like all those other insignificant smaller fish are dutifully bringing in profit for them.

If you are completely new to internet marketing or your cash flow is a little tight, and is not quite flowing right now, then read this at your own risk. This has proven it can be a very quick express route to making substantial income, but it’s not an overnight solution to quick riches. Also, if you are not yet quite familiar with all the nuances, the ‘dips and valleys’ of internet marketing, then you’ll find that when trying to swim with these big fish, they aren’t going to be overly excited or interested in helping you learn through the curve.

But without a doubt - this is certainly a sure path to building your business empire into a bigger and better concern and at your first opportunity, you should jump into the water and begin the journey.

So you’re saying, OK, what the heck, tell me what I have to do, what’s involved?
The gist of it… You market the big boys brand name products via affiliate marketing and you seal the deal by using ‘value added’ services by selling or giving away your own products which add to or benefit the original brand name product. So you are riding the coattails of their already established brand name, you are just simply positioning you and your business to increase your sales by leveraging your service or products into the hands of the affiliate customers, that have not otherwise been exposed to doing business with them.

You create ‘value added’ products to compliment the brand name products of the big fish and then you offer to give them away as a gift or a bonus, to anyone that buys the ‘big fishes’ products via your affiliate link.

OK so you’re not quite seeing the whole picture yet?
Apple has just introduced their latest and greatest, their biggest and best new iPhone 3G (July 2008), and the small fish all over the virtual planet has instantly began to develop add on products such as: how to guides, applications, manuals and software etc., to support the big fishes new venture. For the millions who bought the new iPhone across the world, the majority will spend money in this ancillary niche.

So a bit closer to home, Google, or ‘Big Daddy’, has been operating their Adwords advertising platform for years. What the smart marketers are doing is lining up with their credit cards and buying ‘how to’ guides which will give them the fast track information that will show them how to utilize Adwords, the best and in the most profitable way.

So What’s The Big Picture?
There is no denying that there is great power and advantage in brand name leverage marketing and you have the inside track to rapidly build your own brand by associating with a pre-established one. Your goal is to leverage off
their brand name that they spent millions on, to connect with your customers and break down and refine the brand.

Brands are the big boys biggest allies. Brands are developed and thus exist
in the real world for real people to consume. The most successful brand names are the ones that touch their customers in several different levels. Their ultimate goal in brand recognition is to discover and find out what connects them to their brand and the role its plays in their lives.

Your goal should be to find several related ‘brand name’ products that appeal to that masses. Promote and improve the established products that are in demand and they will appreciate it and you will be successful!

The internet provides a great medium if you are or wanting to become a freelance writer. Equates to freedom. If you are interested in marketing your self for a great home based writing gig, then look no further, the web is waiting for your talented services. There are literally 100s of thousands of websites who are eager to pay top notch writers to write material for them. So finding buyers for your writing just got a lot easier.

Writer Beware
While there are countless opportunities for getting and securing excellent paying jobs on the net for writers, and incidentally that’s where you should be focusing your services, there are also numerous websites that will ask you to write material for “exposure”, or to display samples of your work. As this method may work in some circumstances, especially if you’re promoting a blog or website or an ebook that you’ve written or are promoting. In this case publishing your ’samples’ may prove beneficial as the particular site may offer great links back to you or references. Otherwise don’t waste your time.

Generally, if you are interested in getting paid for your written material on the net, ignore the majority of those who want you to write for them or anyone else for free. There are easy ways to find paid freelance writing gigs instead. The first step is to just type “pay” into a search engine like Google, with the kind of writing that you want to provide. For example, if you’re wanting to be paid for say… writing tech reviews, enter “paid tech reviews” with quotes in the search engines.

Here Are The Top 9 Ways That You Can Get Paid Writing On The Web:

1.) Get Paid Writing Essays and Articles
Whatever your niche topic or interests may be, there are a lot of people who will pay you to write essays and/or articles regarding those ‘interests’ online. Just remember that when you are write articles for online readers, you’re writing for the general public that is the web, so your written material should be a little less dense than if you would write for print.

2.) Write Unbiased Reviews
There is always a market that will pay you for your reviews on: books, goods and services, DVDs or CDs., tech and electronics, travel and vacations etc., whatever your interests may be. There are sites which will hire you for your fair honest reviews.

3.) Write For Blogs or Your Own Blog
Blogs opens the doors and windows to the world of instant publishing and opinions. There are some blogging jobs that pay very well for your services. These are known as freelance bloggers or pro bloggers. These writers just navigate their way through cyberspace making great money writing for blogs on a variety of sites and subjects, blogs that they don’t even own. There are some pro-bloggers who freelance themselves for dozens of blogs at a time. And their income is excellent.

4.) Write Ebooks and Reports
Ebooks are a virtual invention which had its start in the early 2000’s and now these PDF written works of art has become an internet commodity. Well written niche specific books are in high demand due to their ease of publishing and their viral spreading nature. The majority of ebooks that are written are quite short, averaging around 30 to 40 pages in length, although some intensive in depth ebooks can be up to 200 or so pages. The word length on these ebooks can be from 500 words up to around 30,000 words.

There is a very high demand for well written ebooks - private companies, internet marketers, website owners and marketers etc. will pay you to write them. If you enjoy researching and writing longer than average projects, then get into writing ebooks for a living, you will be in demand.

Reports are the baby brothers of ebooks. They are shorter and generally the subject matter can be a lot more technical or prompt in nature describing a process or a set of directions. They usually run around two to four thousand words in length, and the titles are easy specific. Like ebooks, writing reports for freelancers are in high demand.

6.) Write Short Stories (Fiction)
There are a variety of specialized site sites that routinely publish short stories for their website visitors. If you like or are interested in writing fiction, you can then write stories which will be published in full, or you can stories which run as segments or episodes, which will be sent out to their readers or published on their websites.

7.) Write Tutorials Technical Writing
Do you know how to do anything on a technical or mechanical basis? Whatever your exact skills may be, if you can precisely write instructions in a clear concise manner, you can then teach them to other interested parties by creating tutorials. For this market, the virtual sky’s the limit, so let your inspiration guide you. An example of this would be to write a step by step guide on how to use a specific piece of software.

8.) Write And Get Paid For Your Tips and Opinions
There are some sites on the internet who publish thousands of ‘how to’ tips, while other websites send out tips or short answers as email or text messages. Similar to writing tutorials, whatever your particular skills may be, you can package them as ‘tips’ and there are eager buyers who will buy them. So if you have an opinion about something? Anything… and who doesn’t. You can get paid for simply expressing them.

9.) Write Affiliate Sales Materials
Affiliate marketing is absolutely huge online and is probably the biggest segment of online marketing. Because it is one of the premier industries on the internet, online marketers will hire and outsource freelance writers to write marketing materials for them. These may include ebooks or quick reports for them to sell.

Just Get Started
So there you go, listed are the Top 9 ways where you can easily start down the road to freelance freedom by writing for the web and getting paid for it. These are only a few examples and we just scratched the surface. There are also intensive writing jobs that require top notch copywriting skills for example. These include writing website content or website sales pages. These are all jobs that are out there that any writer or writer wanna be can scoop up and make a living from home.

So who else is or wanting to run Windows on their Apple Mac computers? If you didn’t know, not only is it possible to do so, it’s getting a lot more popular as well as easier. So as soon as Apple in 2005 announced they were planning to use Intel chips in their Mac computers, that’s when differentiating the original exclusive Mac and the generic PC’s became blurry and vague.

Being long time rivals from the very beginning of the creation of home based personal computers, the biggest difference from the start was the significantly different software operating systems and platforms they were using. Microsoft and their operating system along with their software programs they were using were designed specifically for Intel chips, and not the Power-PC chips from Motorola and IBM that Apple had been originally using. When Mac computers began the transformation and thus started shipping out their units with Intel chips, it was just a matter of time before the Windows software made the jump.

So Why Would You Want To Run Windows on a Mac In The First Place?
The devoted Apple users, the so called purists still laugh at the thought of using anything Windows. But what using Windows software does is it makes Macs a lot more appealing to the general public users who need to access Windows based applications. There are also a lot of Mac business users and students, for example, who need to run proprietary software programs that only work with the Windows operating system.

So if you’re interested in running Windows on your delicate Apple computer, then you should know this:
1.) Only the Macs equipped with the Intel-based chips can run Windows, so if you own an ancient Mac that’s been bought pre-2006, then so sorry, you stop here.
2.) You will be required to set aside a portion of your hard drive space to allow for the Windows software to reside and run properly. Fortunately, in this age of cheap massive hard drives, you can always get an upgrade replacement or just purchase an add on hard drive for around $100.
3.) Getting your Mac up to speed and ready to install to be able to run Windows isn’t really as simple as just inserting a disk and then clicking the Install button. It requires configuration, so it’s not really suited for the casual computer user to attempt. Your have to bring out the tech geekiness buried deep inside you. Instructions are however available online from Apple, but if you are not really that comfortable with terms like partitioning your drives, you may want to get some help.

Two Ways To Run Windows On Your Mac:
1.) The first is by just booting directly into the Macs operating system and the second, by using a virtual machine. If you have a fairly new Mac, and thus Apple’s latest and greatest operating system, the Mac OS X Leopard, it is equipped with whats called the ‘Boot Camp’. This is the software that’s required to perform the ‘boot’ operation. Boot Camp allows setting up of multiple operating systems on your Big Mac. So if you want to switch from the Apple’s Leopard OS and back to Vista, or vise versa, you will be required to reboot your computer every time.

2.) Running the Windows operating system on a virtual machine… Means that your using either Windows or Linux, located on your Apple’s Leopard desktop. That allows you to shift from one operating system to another just by simply moving your mouse. The best software applications for running the Windows operating system on a virtual machine are: VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop. They both work great by the way, but the VMware is recommended due to its friendlier interface.

The most recent releases of both VMware Fusion and Parallels makes it easy for these programs to use the partition that was created by Boot Camp. Meaning you can run Apple’s Boot Camp in conjunction with either Fusion or Parallels without giving up any hard-drive space.

This route is advantageous as not all the programs run fully optimized on virtual machines. You having both of these options means when your wanting to play say, a Windows based game that is graphically intensive, you can just boot up the system. This allows you to even multitask. If you want to open and use an Excel spreadsheet, you can simply click on the Fusion or Parallels frame which is running Vista.

Yet Another Option For Using Windows Programs On A Mac
Here’s another option, if you want to keep your Apple clean and don’t want to use Windows, but still need access to certain Windows only programs. There is a program called CrossOver Mac by CodeWeavers. This application allows Mac computers to run Windows software. CrossOver Mac allows you to open and operate Windows files without you not having a virtual machine or rebooting. You can do so, without needing to purchase a license for Windows.

The only setback is CrossOver does not support every Windows application out there. It does however work with a lot of the major software releases. This list includes: MS Office, Visio and Outlook etc., as well as design programs such as Photoshop or Illustrator.

As you can see, running Windows on your Mac isn’t quite that easy or completely hassle free. If you decide to install a copy of Microsoft Vista on your MacBook Pro, and most likely will get it up and working well, although it make take some minor tweaking.

You may for example may have to manually install say… a couple of additional drivers to get the wireless or graphics cards working. Or there are some specific Apple features, such as the feature allowing you to use the trackpad much like an iPod Touch, this may not work in the Windows mode. Despite those minor imperfections and limitations, Windows Vista should run just fine on your MacBook Pro if you use Boot Camp, the Parallels Desktop, or VMware Fusion.

So yes, you can run Windows Vista, Windows Software and Apps on your precious Apple computer. A Mac obviously isn’t the most affordable option for a computer out there, so if you’re interested in running Windows, it’s nice to have the option.

Well so there I was, standing and stranded in front of Grand Central Station in New York City and suddenly realized that I had no idea in which direction I was supposed to go. So rapidly being in danger of being awfully late for a meeting, and also discovering I didn’t have the persons phone number handy, I decided to post a message which included my cellphone number on Twitter (www.twitter.com), asking for directions.

It was just a shot in the dark, but suddenly after 5 minutes my cellphone rang and a complete stranger who read my twitter post, kindly guided me back on track and towards my destination.

My story is certainly not that rare for users of Twitter, as increasingly this great micro blogging service is being used in incredibly inventive useful means.

The Twitter website, which was launched in 2006, is a phenom that has exponentially grown in the jargon laden internet arena with terms bandied about such as: Web 2.0, social media, ‘peer to peer’ communication services etc. Probably one of the best ways to describe what Twitter does, is that it’s similar to the ’status-update’ feature that comes with the ever popular Facebook, but just without the Facebook part.

Users of Twitter can text post messages of up to 140 or so characters long, which happens to be around the same limit for text messages sent from a cellphone. These text posts, which are also known as tweets (or are they twits?), can then be instantly read by all of Twitter’s members or users or by those Tweets who have chosen to follow a given poster’s updates.

These tweets can be easily sent using Twitter’s Web site. Messaging can also be sent by using third party applications such as Twitterific (www.iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/), a desktop application designed for use by smart phones such as the iPhone or the BlackBerry, as well as cellular text messaging.

There is also an additional option for Twitters to follow other specific Twitter users posts. This is probably Twitter’s most popular feature. While the majority of users focus on its social ‘peer to peer’ communication functions, such as sending Tweets to keep their friends, business associates or family up to date on their exact and immediate activities. Twitter is now being seen as a powerful interactive tool that can be used in numerous different ways.

How Viral Is Twitter
So a local blogger friend of mine who is a self proclaimed expert in social media issues has found another useful way to use Twitter. She originally started using Twitter way back in early 2007, and since, it has become a valuable way for her to keep in touch with her friends but also uses it to promote her blog which drives drives Internet traffic in droves to her latest posts.

Whenever she decides to publish an article post on her WP blog, the installed plug-in application ‘WordTwit’ (www.bravenewcode.com/wordtwit/) instantly notifies the 1,200+ Twitter fans who have chosen to follow her posting tweets.

This is a great method to have instant visitors to her site from using Twitter. So within literally the first 60 minutes of her blog post being posted, there is direct traffic funneled from her automated tweets, which links to the new article.

While Twitter helps her to keep in touch with her followers reading her blog, Twitter also sends new visitors to her as well, this happens when other Tweeters mentioned her or her blog in their tweets.

Others who have found this micro blogging service extremely useful for more than just promoting themselves. There are some that use the viral abilities of Twitter to get information or opinions and unbiased feedback from other users.

If you say you need some articles or emails translated into French, you can post that message request on Twitter and within a short period of time, you should have several replies for offers on their translation service, all from bilingual ‘peer to peer’ readers, most who just want to help.

Twitter for some has now taken the place of posting links which was once occupied by Delicous, another popular social-bookmarking site, or using a service like Skype to converse with friends and readers. It is quickly becoming the preferred method of sending quick messages and keeping in touch across the net.

New ways to use Twitter continues to expand by its millions of users. For example, during the presidential primaries in the United States, several of the candidates used the power of Twitter to update their supporters ASAP. Democratic nominee Barack Obama has as of now, the most followers on Twitter, which is around 75,000 subscribers and growing.