After site Number
Two was built and ready for promotion, Yahoo! had started
charging an annual listing fee of $299 for commercial sites.
Thank goodness mine wasn't adult in nature - those were being
charged $600 per year. Not just a one-time fee, but per
year!

Thankfully, Yahoo! 'grandfathered' all its old listings and
my original listing still keeps sending traffic to my site
for fr*e.

Wow! Didn't that make me want to hit myself upside the head
for being slow to build my business?

Not hard enough, it seems.

Not long afterwards, another of my favorite traffic
generators, Overture, raised its minimum bid from a penny to
a nickel. My existing listings were grandfathered at a
penny, for which I was again grateful. However, again I
chastised myself for not having added thousands more
keywords and phrases that would also now be grandfathered.

I could see the writing on the wall, and cautioned myself to
put the past behind and take advantage of present
opportunities.

Did I take my own advice?

Barely. I added just a few more sites and relevant keywords,
and Overture's mimimum bid was again raised, this time to a
dime.

So I kicked myself, hard.

If Overture's tendency to increase their prices according to
U.S.

coin denominations is any indication, their next
mimimum bid may well be a quarter.

So, will I learn from the past, or will my bruises and
missed opportunities continue to mount?

That choice should be easy for any of us.

Learn from history to put time on your side. Start building
your Internet business now to take advantage of today's
lower prices and competition.

Don't put it off until tomorrow, because after all, tomorrow
never comes, and time IS money!.

You can get hundreds of possible keyword rich domain names in a short period of time.4.The best name generation software programs are usually connected to the Whois database so you can see which names are available for immediate purchase.5.Sometimes you can see registered domain names that are up for renewal. If the owner doesn't renew the name, you can backorder the name or buy it right away. This way you get an up and running domain name with built in traffic.6.If you search by topic, you can easily see specific words that are very popular in your category. If your competitors are working overtime to add the word ?guide,' ?directory,' or ?journal' to their domain name, it probably adds to their keyword rankings or appeal online. You don't' have to go along with the crowd, but you'll know what's working.7.Best name generation software programs are designed by marketing firms and marketing professionals.

You're getting a list of names with brand appeal based on working principles that are proven to increase visibility, readability or traffic.8.You're getting a mini market research and keyword generation application. Use the same application to generation names for your website, newsletters and lists of keywords for your marketing campaign.9.If you have access to registered names, check out what works for your competitors before you put up your website. Use this information to design a better website starting with the domain name.10.See if your preferred is available with hyphens or with another top level domain extension11.Find out if there are many sites with domain names that are variations of your chosen name. You can make a change immediately to keep your customers from going to one of a hundred possible competitor websites if they mistype your web address.12.Check link popularity of domains up for grabs. Save money and bring in lots of extra traffic for rock bottom price of an annual registration fee.A name generation software program is an excellent way to find alternative combinations for your chosen words.

Usually, at least one of the words you use in your initial domain name search will be used in creating a suggested name. Check the website of any major domain name registrar to see if they offer this type of service for free. Grab a dictionary and a thesaurus if you like and turn your software into a super name generator..

Most of them sacrifice style for substance, which is worse than not having a notebook bag in the first place. The best way to determine which notebook bag is the one for you is to bring along your notebook while shopping. Put it in the bag and ensure that it doesn't slip and slide around - generous spaces DO NOT mean better protection! You want it to be snug. Carry the bag with your notebook in it. Simulate a light jog.

Why? Experience tells me that's how you'll most likely travel through the gates of airport hell. If the straps start digging in those shoulders, start looking for alternatives. A good strap should cushion those shocks as the bag bounces off your shoulders while doing your airport jog. Note also how the notebook bag opens up for main access. Again, if you're a frequent traveler you'll want to have one that's easy to retrieve and store your notebook for security checkpoint purposes.

The best are usually top-loading ones secured by either a zipper or a flap. We recommend the flap versions because they usually have an additional layer of cushioning right around the top for the notebook, and secure well but open fast with magnetic snaps/buttons. The zipper types have none, and your poor notebook will get whacked full-force if the bag topples head-long off an airport luggage cart. Trust me on this bit: I've had enough times my notebook took a tumble that way, and seen many other helpless souls literally spill their notebooks' guts across airport gates ... Not a nice sight.

A good alternative to those shoulder-loading bags are the rolling pilot cases. They are typically bigger than any shoulder-bearing bags including backpacks, but offer solid protection with a padded hinge-top opening similar to actual pilot cases. Roller bags are also less taxing physically, and the generous compartments in the bag means less luggage pieces to carry while traveling. A Heat Dissipating Cooler Or Pad Heat is the number one notebook computer killer. Today's notebooks are little thermal generators, with internal temperatures that rise up to 150 degrees even with built-in cooling fans.

Those internal fans and heat-dissipating systems work full time more often than you think. That's why they are usually the first components in a notebook to die on you. When that happens, you'd better not fire up that notebook, as it'll fry even before you see the start screen. So help out your hardest working notebook component and extend its lifespan. Invest in a notebook cooler or a cooling pad.

Notebook coolers typically are low-rise, plastic or metal-faced pedestals on which your notebook sits. They are equipped with a fan or two inside, which serves to draw hot air away from under your notebook, and thus promote a cooler operating environment. Usually efficient enough to drop up to 15 degrees the operating temperature, notebook coolers however require power for its fans and would typically draw its power off your notebook's USB ports. This could somewhat decrease your notebook's battery operating time, but so far have proven to be negligible for many users. Cooling pads normally do not have the fans, and are constructed from some type of heat-dissipating material or designed a way that your notebook would have extra clearance at the bottom to promote natural air circulation.

Despite the lack of fans, these cooling pads do a surprisingly good job of cooling your notebook. They are also much easier to carry with your notebook because they are slimmer, lighter, and do not require power to do its job therefore highly recommended..

Press ReleasesOne of the most powerful promotion strategies is sending out press releases about your contest or sweepstakes. Ask entrants to your contest or sweepstakes if they would accept offers from your business in the future by e-mail.Chat Rooms or ForumsUse online chat rooms to promote your web site. Find the right chat room where your targeted audience or niche would gather. Announce to everyone in the chat room something interesting or free that's offered on your web site to attract visitors.Always be aware of chat room rules before engaging the visitors in a sales pitch that could be considered spam.Cross promotional enterprisingCross promote or joint venture your web site with other sites. I try to find other web sites that have the same target audience, but are not in direct competition with my business.

It's a sure fire method of increasing my exposure to qualified prospects.Cross promotional enterprising with other businesses will increases your online exposure, sales, and helps beat your competition to the top of the search engine results pages. It doesn't matter what your promoting you'll find businesses to cross promote and joint venture with all over the Internet.Traffic GeneratorsYou can easily promote your web site by using traffic generators. I'm not talking about magic bullets or hocus pocus schemes either. They could be free e-zines, a service, e-book or contest etc. Giving away traffic generators gives you the opportunity to get free advertising by including your ad on them.

Take it one step further and make it viral. Write a short ebook and give away the distribution rights. Other webmasters are generally receptive to promote quality contentI sweetened the deal for my subscribers by adding a viral ebook, PPC Cash Bonanza and an issue-by-issue contest for free advertising in my newsletter, the Ranking Report.There are literally hundreds of online directories that will also let you submit your freebie information. Remember; let other people give away your traffic generators.Email Discussion GroupsPosting messages to e-mail discussion lists is another great way to promote your web site.

An e-mail discussion list is a group of people connected together via e-mail that can communicate with one another. When you post a message to a list always make sure you include your signature file at the end. Include an attention getting sentence why they should visit your web site. Just like a headline. Make it provocative and compelling!There are many more ways to promote your website.

If one of these methods doesn't work for you find another, but whatever you do? do something.Once you've committed to taking action everything you do online from sending emails to blogging or even just surfing the web, should be motivated towards producing more visitors to your web site and referring prospects through promotional means.Do nothing? get nothing, do a little & get a lot!.

"Improv teaches you to think on your feet. Expose your employees to a Marketing Improv Skill Session and they will return as unstoppable idea generators who wreak profit on your business"What are the 4 steps to free your mind so that profit will follow?FOCUS/ ACCEPT/ BUILD/ LET GOFocus on the present tense. Don't let any past failures or attempts derail your improv-ing. Attempt to view your product or service as if you are seeing it for the first time. Consider that any path you discard here could have been the path to the future pot of gold.Accept every idea without judgment.

Richard Amadril from Marketing Improv warns "The quickest way to squash idea generation in a group is to have someone pass judgment on an idea, especially if that someone is the Boss" Build on the ideas presented. Using an Improv technique called "Yes, and..." one idea can sprout into 15 in minutes as Dina Amadril explains, "During the Yes, and ... phase of the Improv each participant builds on the others ideas. An idea, ?We can sell our product in sets' becomes ?Yes, and we can color code the sets', ?Yes, and we can let the customer choose the color on our website' Ideas fly when you have no boundaries" Let go when the time is right. You will notice when the ideas start to lag and people are ready to move on to the next topic.

Wrap up the topic with a quick idea review and start on your next topic.Using this simple four-step Improv technique will help build your business by revealing new paths to profit.For more information on how Improv can evolve your business visit http://www.marketingimprov.com. If you are in Southern California consider attend the Marketing Improv Skill Session on April 22, 2005 information about this event can be found on marketingimprov.com or by calling 562-215-4454..

The Fuel Cell in the Blackbox creates levels of CO2 no higher than 1500 ppm, the perfect level for increased plant growth, depending on the room size and Blackbox unit. The Blackbox is the easiest, safest and cheapest fuel burning system on the market and it eliminates grow room & House whole odors.Inside the fuel cell is fire proof wool that utilizes capillary action to draw the fuel through our patent pending regulator that is constantly burning Carbonaceous Fuels without the gas pressure. These are the gases most frequently used to produce CO2 that increase plant growth up to 35%:* Natural gas : The gas we use to warm our home and to cook.* Propane gas : The gas we use for outdoor B.B.Qs.* Alcohol, methyl & ethyl : The marine (boat) fuels used for stoves and heaters.* White gas : Unleaded fuel, the gas we use when we're camping. This fuel is better known as Coleman Fuel.The CO2 Blackbox uses Coleman Camping Fuel:The fuel can be found at any camping or sporting goods store, that carries camping equipment. The price ranges from $2.79 to $3.00 a gallon.

It's cheap and cost effective.Coleman fuel:* Especially blended for Coleman fueled & unleaded camping appliances.* Rust inhibitor added for rust & corrosion protection.* Quality checked to assure clean burning and long generator life.Flammable liquids can be dangerous, and this is why the safety of our products is top priority. We've built a safety device inside the cell to prevent fuel spillage if it were ever to tip over. Also the CO2 Blackbox offers the triple protection of an aluminum plated interior, three coats of flame retardant and an aluminum fuel cell shield.This Box won't burn!Fill It, Lite It and Forget It, The CO2 Cell does the rest.The CO2 Blackbox & Control System needs no propane or CO2 tanks, gas lines or gas regulators, tools, timers, pressure valves, CO2 monitor controls, photo sensors, emitter systems, pressure gauges, flow gauges, shut off valve, electricity & absolutely no confusion.and Guaranteed to grow Bigger plants, up to 35% Bigger and our 30 day money back policy, you can't go wrong.For More Info: Visit Us @ www.bey-tech.

1. You'll brand your web site, business and yourself by submitting articles to e-zines. You could include your name, business name, your credentials, web site address and e-mail address in your resource box.
2. You will become known as an expert on the topics you write about. This will give you and your business extra credibility which will help you compete against your competition.
3. Your article might also be placed on the publisher's home page.

   If they publish each issue on their home page this will give you some extra exposure.

4. You might get extra exposure if the e-zine publisher archives their e-zine on their site. People might want to read the back issues before they make the decision to subscribe.
5. You'll get free advertising. This will allow you to spend your profits on other forms of advertising.

   You could buy advertisements in other e-zines that don't publish your articles.

6. You might get extra income from people wanting to hire you to write other articles, books, or even ask to speak at seminars. This is a great way to multiply your income.
7. You could allow e-zine publishers to publish your articles in their free e-books. Since people give them away, your advertising could multiply all over the internet.

8. You'll get your article published all over the web when you submit it to an e-zine publisher that has a free content directory on their web site. They'll allow their visitors to republish your article.
9. You'll gain people's trust. If they read your article and like it, they won't be as hesitant to buy your product or service. You will then be able to increase your profits.

10. You could get your article guaranteed to run in an e-zine. You could agree to run one of their articles in your e-zine if, in exchange, they run yours in their e-zine. It's a win/win situation.

But many ADDers struggle with delegation. When coaching clients to delegate the details (projects, tasks, and chores) that overwhelm them, there are three common objections that I hear.Objection #1: CostA client has an online business that has a loyal customer base. He sells a lot of merchandise, and has been doing all the order processing by himself! This means taking care of the order fulfillment, the shipping, and the customer service - all on his own! He was reluctant to delegate order fulfillment to a company that supplies such services because he was afraid it would cost too much money.Delegating this type of ongoing task to a service company certainly will cost some money, but it's an investment in the client's piece of mind and the company's future. When the details of order fulfillment are taken care of, he is free to focus on what he does best - business development. The business then grows, more money comes in, and the cost of the fulfillment company is more than made up for in sales and growth.Objection #2: PerfectionismAnother client is a single mom who is a partner at a top-notch law firm.

She works a lot of hours, and does her best to spend quality time with her two teenagers. But she was also spending a lot of time stressing - and I mean stressing - about how clean her house was (or wasn't). She was reluctant to delegate house cleaning to a professional cleaning person or to her kids because she thought it would take too much time to explain how she likes it all done.This is perfectionism - she's not willing to let go of a task and let someone run with it. This client felt that if the house wasn't cleaned her way, it wouldn't be cleaned right. In order for her to delegate this, she had to trust in a professional cleaning service, and in her kids, and just let go of the responsibility altogether.

As a result, this client has found that her relationship with her kids has improved. They certainly did object when she first delegated certain daily responsibilities to them, but her stress level has decreased tremendously and that has had a very positive effect on her relationship with her kids. Objection #3: Taking Care of OthersAnother client is the president of a professional organization and is in charge of a big annual event. As the lead person on this event, she needs to delegate a lot of work, or it simply won't get done! But she had a lot of guilt about delegating projects without first "cleaning them up." Instead of handing over a file and saying "Here you go, this is what I need, please figure it out," she was spinning her wheels trying to clean up the file and make the project as simple as possible.In this example, the client is not really delegating, because she's too busy taking care of the people helping her. It's very considerate, but doesn't move her project forward.

Politely delegating projects, chores, and tasks is not mean, rude, or unreasonable - it's necessary, especially in the position that this client was in. Without delegation, nothing would get done.In order to lower stress and ensure success, adults with ADD should ask themselves on a regular basis "What would I really love to delegate, and how can I go about delegating it immediately?".

The key to developing any application is to have a solid database structure as the foundation. ASPNetNow uses this foundation to architect logical code modules and then formulates these modules into a complete working application. All you need to do is define the database and define where your application will be published, ASPNetNow does all the rest. Applications developed using ASPNetNow are efficient and use stored procedures to ensure optimal performances. ASPNetNow uses your defined queries to join related information.

ASPNetNow also works with MSDE providing you with all the tools you will need to define your databases quickly with even the most complex structures.ASPNetNow is very affordably priced at a list price of $995 complete. To compare this product to other generators priced at $1500US and higher would be unreasonable as these products fall short of ASPNetNow's feature set and capability..

Due largely to electronics, today's diesel engines are quieter, cleaner and more fuel-efficient and powerful than those Americans were introduced to during the 1970s gas crisis," says Klaus Peter, founder and president of Rypos, Inc., Medway, MA. Rypos (www.rypos.com) developed and markets the Rypos DPF, a proprietary "active" or self-cleaning filter that eliminates up to 90 percent of soot from diesel engines with more reliability and less power loss than filters now in use. Prior to Rypos, Peter co-founded Media Logic, Inc., a major force in the worldwide magnetic media tester market and played an active role in its becoming an American Stock Exchange listed company. Diesel Cars Present Growth Potential in USRypos is targeting the market for large diesel generators, marine engines, locomotives and big earth moving equipment. Many of these engines will have to be retrofit to meet US and Cal -EPA Regulations.

The original equipment market is growing. The number of diesel generators produced annually is about 94,500 and increasing at 11 percent annually says Diesel Progress. With mass production, the cost of the Rypos DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter) can be cut sufficiently to make it practical as original equipment on diesel passenger vehicles. The market potential is extraordinary. Peter points out, "In Europe one in every three new cars sold is diesel powered.

In Austria and Belgium diesel passenger vehicles are a substantial majority and, in France, 54 percent of passenger cars are diesel." According to Diesel Forum, advanced European diesel passenger vehicles get 20-40 percent better fuel economy than gasoline powered vehicles. A 30-percent market penetration of light-duty diesel cars and trucks would decrease US crude oil imports by 350,000 barrels a day. RYPOS Technology Presented at US-DOE SymposiaUS-EPA and often-tougher California-EPA regulations, together with voluntary compliance incentives, are driving demand for clean-diesel technology among engine makers such as Cummins, Detroit Diesel and Caterpillar. US Department of Energy (DOE) encourages clean diesel power; organizing an annual Diesel Engine Emission Reduction (DEER) conference that draws 520 top scientists and engineers. DOE also invites European carmakers to showcase their hottest diesel offerings at these symposia.

Rypos has been presented its technology at previous DEER conferences; next conference is slated for August 21-25 in Chicago.How this Active Filter WorksThe Rypos DPF is made of porous sintered metal mesh that looks like compressed steel wool and acts like a resistance heater. Electrical current, generated by the engine, passes through the mesh heating it to periodically burn off soot. Automated circuitry monitors the process by measuring backpressure and cleans the filter as needed. The Rypos DPF removes up to 90 percent of soot while using one percent of engine output. It works in concert with catalytic converters that eliminate nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide emissions and replaces the conventional muffler.Most diesel emission filters in use today are made of less-porous ceramic materials.

These filters need high exhaust temperatures to keep them clean. This is not always possible in cold climates or with engines that run intermittently. Other systems spray fuel on the filter and ignite it to burn off accumulated soot. The Rypos DPF is now installed on stationary generators including one at a large Caterpillar dealership in New Hampshire that is "off the grid." The US Navy has tested it for its 4,000 two-cycle marine engines. Rypos is soon expected to meet the requirements for California Air Resources Board Certification and the mining industry is evaluating the Rypos DPF to cut emissions from underground diesel equipment.Editorial Contact for Rypos, Inc: Dick Pirozzolo at 781-235-991, or e-mail protected from spam bots.