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How to get Royalty Free Music and stay Legally compliant

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Love music?
So does everyone else, and if there’s one thing that can really get your audience onside, it’s setting great music behind your multi-media messages. Music can set the mood for any audio, video or even live event.
The copyright furore…
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ll have heard the uproar about copyright over the last couple of years. Artists need the protection of copyright to make their living, and now the internet is really doing something about it.
It happened to me!
Just recently I experienced this myself. Without thinking about it, I uploaded a video that I thought was simply wonderful in the uplifting message it carried. I particularly liked the music. Remember the song, “Dont Worry, Be Happy”? Hmmm. YouTube did too, and they promptly disabled the audio on the message! It was just a few seconds of music, but they took away the entire audio track, and wrote me a message saying that the music belonged to a well-known record company!

The copyright message is clear: if you use a song from your favourite CD or music group (especially for commercial/business purposes) without paying for it, then it is a violation of the rights of the copyright owners.

I’ll say that again: YouTube is actually disabling the audio of many uploaded Video files, using intelligent computers that have been programmed to “listen” to the audio and recognise licensed music. Wow!, this is really changing YouTube (and the internet), to make it a safer place for copyright holders.
So how does this affect you?
When this happened to me, I thought about everyone else. I wondered if you were one of the many people who might try to use a track by your favourite Jazz band, perhaps an Enya song or even some Techno music from the latest teen pop group on your videos, audio files or live events you might be planning. Because if you do, pretty soon you might get a little legal shock.
The solution is so simple…
So how do you prevent your audio and video tracks being stopped dead in their tracks by copyright violation? Easy peasy! Get your own Royalty Free music. Music you can pay just a little for and use anywhere and everywhere. You could even brand yourself with YOUR special music! How many times you have listened to motivational tapes? Notice the “special” intro music that is used to introduce the speaker and maybe separate topics?  It’s Royalty Free music. Now let me share a wonderful resource with you.

www.MusicBakery.com is where professionals purchase Royalty Free music very cheaply. Pay once and use the music again and again, as you see fit!

You can purchase a Royalty Free tune or song that you like for about US$47. Then you can use it in all your videos, all your voice recordings and at all of your events.

This is a great way for Consultants, NLP therapists, Meditation Teachers, Trainers and the like to access fantastic quality music without risking copyright violation.

Here’s a tip: before you go to www.MusicBakery.com, make sure you have about 2 hours to spare and a bit of room on your credit card, as buying music on this site can get quite addictive. Some of it is truly awesome music!!

Hope this helps you to look and sound professional in all your multi-media productions while staying on the legal side of the fence!

Cheers,
Vanya Markiewicz
Aqua Websites
www.aquawebsites.com

PS. In case you were wondering about how you could make money with Videos, then I look forward to sharing my new Ebook very soon that is all about just that! How to take videos and use them to generate traffic to your website and turn that traffic into leads and sales! Look forward to sending you the story soon!

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Professional Website Software for Business Ecommerce Websites

Monday, January 26th, 2009

It is common for many types of people to have websites today, from individuals to companies and business to schools and non profit organizations. An online presence can help you to network both personally and professionally which is why it is important to make your web presence as professional and well made as possible.

Website design can be complicated to do yourself depending on the type of site you are trying to develop, and hiring the services of a professional can be costly. If you need a website, you can develop one quickly and with little cost yourself if you use the right website software. Website software allows you to build a website easily without technical knowledge by using templates and drag and drop options.

Website software will assist you in building a website and make the task easy. Website software makes creating your own website possible for users with little or no design skills or html knowledge, usually with a what-you-see-is-what-you-get type editor. Website software with this type of editor allows you to create a webpage by adding text, graphics, and other elements directly to the page without using any code. The code is generated as you design your webpage in real time so that you can view the html code if you wish and it functions the same as a webpage that was hand coded.

There are many different types of easy website software, some will allow you to create a simple webpage and others will allow you to create professionally designed websites complete with flash intros, interactive forms, and many other state of the art features. Most website design software comes with templates that you can use quickly create a look for your site and allow you to input your own custom text and graphics for a seamless look without all the coding work.

If you need a website for your business or for personal use but do not have the technical knowledge to design one yourself, website software will make the task easy. You will be able to create a website that contains the information you need without spending tons of money hiring a designer or learning tedious html code.

www.aquawebsites.com/page/website-software/

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Looking For WebMaster Apprentices

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

I am looking for Website Apprentices to start a Part Time Program for 12 months next year in 2009 starting in February. This will mean people eventually become a private label reseller of my Website Software and set up a replica of Aqua Websites, so that they can start to profit from the growing demand for websites and website services. Are you interested? Do you know anyone who might be?

Please pass this email onto anyone you think might be interested. The program will be conducted over the Internet and so location is of no concern. Anywhere in the world is possible.
www.aquawebsites.com/page/apprentice2009/default.asp

The people I work with as my apprentices who are now fully qualified Web Masters, are earning very good money and are constantly thanking me for helping them get into the Website Industry as it has put money in their pocket and given them a Business that is constantly growing and getting referrals.

The Apprenticeship Program will be for people who are familiar with Computers such as Graphic Designers, Marketing/Media Consultants, Computer Shops, Professional Business Services Providers as well as existing Website Designers. There is no requirement to be technical for you to make this a success, as I will share with you how to easily have anything technical done for you if you cannot do this for yourself, as well as the fact that our Website Software eliminates the requirement for 99% of anything technical in putting together websites that do things automatically.

If you are interested in the Web Master Apprentice Program then click on the link here
www.aquawebsites.com/page/apprentice2009/default.asp and fill out the form to let me know and I will be sending you more information about how you can be part of this.

Thank you for reading this Blog. Please feel free to leave any comments.

Cheers,
Vanya Markiewicz
www.aquawebsites.com

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Best Reasons to Use Video in Your Website to Make More Money

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Video can add value to your site’s online presence. This dynamic form of media can display the right message and help you stand out even further in your niche industry. On the internet you are up against thousands of other marketing messages some of which may not even be in your niche area. People are bombarded with email ads as well as thousands of website that make promises that they can’t deliver. Video helps to develop the presence you want and need to become an online success!

Videos have proven themselves as being the most powerful form of communication. You see them everyday. Television ads are short “made for air” clips that inform, promote and heighten an interest in a business. Using that same platform, you can achieve similar results online using videos. Here are some reasons why you should be using video in your website

· Videos can present your message in such a way that written words can’t. Videos have the power to bring your message to life and add elements of emotion that are hard to evoke by words alone. Those emotions are the things that your potential customers connect with and you will find that you’ll have an easier time converting your potential customers into paying ones!

· Videos are easily transportable between sites. Once housed on a social video site like YouTube, other visitors can easily link to your video. They can also embed your video on their own site and as they spread their own message, they are essentially spreading yours!

· You don’t have to create a video to use videos on your site. There are so many clips being created by people who already have the equipment and infrastructure to create them. This means that you can enhance your message using someone else’s message! Did you know that almost all the Social Network Video Websites such as YouTube, Google Video, Revver and many others, provide embed code so that you can easily put the video that you want on YouTube IN YOUR OWN WEBSITE! WOW! So now you can make a website and use other people’s videos on your website legally! That is how it all works on Social Network Videos.

· You will need to be mindful of Social Network Video Websites though when it comes to proprietary intellectual property and not “Sales Copy” or “Advertisement” type Videos. As mentioned above, just like you can embed videos from other people’s uploaded video content, anything you upload, they can do the same. So you need additional to the Social Network Video Websites, a paid subscription service that will protect and host your Videos that you may for example, wish to sell to Clients as a Downloadable Product or you just do not want to provide other people the legal ability to use your Video Content and wish to use Video on your Website. (I hope that is not too confusing… but it is important to know and note the legal aspects of your intellectual property).Check out my Professional Website Software that includes Video Encoding & Hosting as well as protecting Digital Downloadable Files. http://aquawebsites.com/page/professional-website-software/default.asp

· If you decide that creating your own video is the route to go, you can still easily do this with simple equipment and good lighting. If you want to avoid the “home created” experience, you can also use digitised pictures (such as a Digital Photos and Microsoft PowerPoint) and turn that into a video with music using Windows Movie Maker which is on all XP and Vista Machines and Macs have iMovie. So these free programs on your computer can now be put to use. Most people do not realise they have Video Editing Software on their Windows and Mac computers. On a XP or Vista Windows machine, simply click on Start >All Programs > Windows Movie Maker. It even lets you record directly from your WebCam, Import Digital Photos and Music Files to use in your Video. With this software, you can Cut and Splice the Video files you have and make an incredible looking video in literally minutes! Most people astonish themselves actually as this program is far easier to use than PowerPoint or any Graphics program I know.

· Videos are more apt to be spread virally than any other form of media. It takes just minutes for an audience to see your message and respond to it. Since they can easy link to or embed your video on their site, you can wind up being promoted on websites quicker than you ever imagined.

· People like to be entertained. They like to see things visually rather than concoct an image in their mind. As a result, it’s easier for your audience to see your message and connect with it using humour or compassion than it is to be entertained by an informational written piece.

· Videos are going to increase in popularity even further. With the release of Apple’s iPhone and the iPod video, more people will have offline access to videos that they can share. Sharing means profitability for the business owner.

Still wondering if videos are the right way to go? They have become so easy to use within the context of your site and the best part is you don’t even have to produce them. This represents for you an increased opportunity to promote your business and connect with future audience members.

Ok, you can have some fun with Today’s task! Some people start playing with making videos on their own and pretty much well end up doing it all the time after that as it is an easy thing to do. You will certainly at the very least impress family members on your new found talent!

I once was at a Christmas Party and took about 50 photos on my Mobile Phone, which I then downloaded from my Mobile Phone to my Computer and started up Windows Movie Maker and created a Movie using just the Photos, no video footage at all and created a video fro photos!

You see Windows Movie Maker and Apple iMovie both provide the ability for you to have effects and transitions between your photos and make a Video look so professional. SO in this case, I made the Video in about 10 minutes and added a really cool song I had on my hard drive that I bought and downloaded from www.musicbakery.com and now have full legal rights to use the music again and again in many ways as I have purchased royalty-free music – basically meaning, I can use it commercially and completely legal with no copyright issues. Important to note this and not use commercially copyrighted material in your Website Videos.

And then I played the Video by burning it to DVD from my Computer and to the family and WOW, that video was played on loop for about 2 hours, even though the video went for just over 2 minutes! They loved it and the video became the number #1 favourite video of the family. It has even been played at several other family events afterwards. Can you imagine doing this for your family?

So, even if you only have Photos on your computer right now from a Digital Camera, then you can make a Movie and learn how to use Windows Movie Maker or iMovie.

Here is a website that has a great tutorial on using Windows Movie Maker.
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/moviemaker2

Here is the Apple website which shows you how to use the iMovie software on a Mac.
http://www.apple.com/support/ilife/tutorials/imovie/

If instead of just photos, you want to do the REAL Deal and use Video from your Video Camera, Webcam or Mobile Phone, then you can easily do this and again, the links above have some excellent “Video Tutorials” (meaning you get to see a video of the screen as someone teaches you how to use the software).

Now as far as making a Great Video and having a good eye for making the right type of video shots, angles, lighting, sound and all those kool effects for making the next hollywood block buster, then head on over to YouTube’s Video Help area, which is not only extensive, but way cool and simple to understand, hey it is just click to play! What is so hard about that? http://au.youtube.com/t/yt_handbook_produce
You will be impressed with the Videos and help in this area of YouTube and it might be a real eye opener for you.

Ok so, you have now made a Video and it is ready to Upload into all these Social Network Video websites where 100,000’s of people are searching for Videos to watch. But to be able to go and do this many many times over will take time to upload the video file to each one of the many websites avaialble.

So I have a solution for you. It is called – www.TubeMogul.com and it is pretty simple really. Once you have signed up to each of the 21 Major Video websites that Tube Mogul connects to, you can then simply Upload your Video File ONCE to Tube Mogul and then behind the scenes (most importantly not using your internet connection), TubeMogul uploads your video file to all the 21 major video websites for you. Like how much time does that one website save! Like HEAPS! This will allow you to go to the beach for the afternoon instead of sitting in front of your computer… literally this website will save you so much time in year come and yet with very little effort on your behalf, provide you with traffic possiblities that will lead to sales and income being generated from your website.

So be sure to go to www.TubeMogul.com and read over what it is all about, the extra features of Tube Mogul just get better and better and one great and very important feature is the viewing statistics and how well your videos perform in all the different websites. Without stats it is like being blind and not knowing what is really happening. Since we can on the Internet in most cases get stats and access to log files, we can see information and patterns to help us in our marketing efforts.

So pretty fun Task today… Make a Movie and join a whole heap of Video websites.
Mmmmm better not tell anyone that homework today was learning how to become a Movie Director, they might not believe you! But once you have learn how to use Windows Movie Maker or iMovie and joined Tube Mogul and all the websites it connects to, you will soon see you are now set to become a real Movie Director! So what are you waiting for? Get started!

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Discovering the Best Selling Information Products to sell On the Internet

Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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Discovering the Best Selling Information Products

Internet Marketing Secrets Revealed by Vanya Markiewicz from www.AquaWebsites.com
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There are so many people profiting from internet e-commerce through the sale of information products. At the same time, there are even more that fail. The single, most popular question that arises in nearly everyone’s mind is “Can I make money online?” The answer of course is, “Yes you can!” What many people fail to do is realise that internet e-commerce is still a business and the proper research still needs to happen.

Here is the main website to help you find an information product/s to sell.

  1. ClickBank (http://www.clickbank-now.com/)

This website is an affiliate site containing lots of information products (and other affiliate programs for you to sell). In the simplest form, Affiliate Marketing on the Internet is probably the fastest way to achieving sales fast on the Internet, so keep a close eye on today’s website and learn exactly what you are looking at.

ClickBank is one of the top info selling affiliate programs available. They offer a wide variety of e-books and reports that can easily be included in a wide variety of niche markets. ClickBank is free to join. On top of that, it’s easy to add any one of their products to your website or blog using a snippet of HTML code that they provide. Marketing materials are provided for you so there is very little effort on your part as far as set up goes. But that’s the idea. Your goal is to market; not stay in the set up stage.

ClickBank has made some people more money than most people earn in a life time. The why and how of the Affiliate Marketing world are often discussed and taught in various ways.

But the simplicity is this,
1. You Sign Up as an Affiliate.
2. You create links to different products which have a unique code on them.
3. You place these links in your Website, Blog, Emails, Newsletters… anywhere you want..
4. When people click on the link, the website registers you as the referrer and will pay you a commission should the person make a purchase.
5. You get paid monthly and it is all profits with very little costs except time if you do it right!

When you review the ClickBank website, here are some things you’ll want to look at.

· Make sure that the products or services you choose are in demand. This might seem obvious but for those who are new to affiliate marketing, it might be hard to tell which products are the best but more often than not if you look at the rating system that tells you the potential profitability of each product you will see what is better than others. The higher the rating the more in demand these products are. You can simply choose to search on Products by Popularity and this of course will help you a great deal.

· Review the commission structure of each product or service. The best case scenario is that you get paid the most for a one time sale. Sometimes these products will be once off sales and others monthly. Get paid at least monthly and more often if possible.This will ensure the longevity of your efforts.

· Promote multiple affiliate products. Look for complementing products and services. Can you include a book from an amazon.com site with your niche product or service? Create a list of Affiliate links for the Top 5 books for your niche and then also create a Worst 5. Then you have a page of 10 links that all will make money if the person purchases the items or not! Who knows, you might find people buy a book from your worst 5 list! More often than not, you will have people buy the Number 1 earning you maximum commissions!

· Review the types of promotional items each product has available. Marketing your product is essential and the type of advertisment or placement of the Affiliate Links you choose needs to fit nicely into your website’s design. Some Affiliate Programs offer banners, pre-typed emails that you can simply copy n paste and all sorts of helpful tools to get you started as quick as possible.

The good news is that ClickBank give you a report telling you how many people clicked through on your link to products you are promoting and even allow a tracking code that you can specify for advanced tracking. These reports show you clickthroughs and sales for easy results review. You can easily review these reports and re-tune your marketing strategy.  It is so essential to know what is working/selling and what is not! So you do not waste time and effort in the wrong direction.

ClickBank also offers an extensive range of Articles and Documents for training on using their system for performing affiliate marketing. This makes this website an absolute gold mine to get tons and tons of products to sell that you can make money off today. You do not even need a website, you could just send emails from your Gmail Account with links to these products, it really is that easy!

But you might not be interested in selling other people’s products, and that is OK, ClickBank is still a Gold Mine to you for Market Research reasons. You can see what other products are selling well, even buy them and read, view, listen to them for ideas and inspiration!

So if you are in the mindset that you still do not want to promote other people’s products’ then may I suggest you consider that could Double or Triple your Sales by using the Daisy Chain effect and linking on additional products to sell to people after they have purchased yours which may be complimentary. Complimentary meaning that the products work alongside of or enhance your product. This allows you to make more sales and with less effort in most cases!

Think about it, you make 1 sale, but what if on the “Thank You for Purchasing/Payment Page”, you placed a link to a product that is earning you commissions? What are the chances some people who have happily purchased your product, would not want to uptake the next offer made to them. (I know my wife is like that when she goes shopping – cannot resist a sale, goes to buy 1 thing but ends up with 10. Luckily she makes tonnes of cash on the Internet so she can afford it!!)

Do not consider that when people have finished shopping with you and that they want to stop! Do not consider that just becuase they spent $100 or $1000 with you that they will not do the same again if you put a link in front of them and recommend it for whatever reason. You can think of all sorts of reasons why people will not, but in truth, some people will and some people will not and you will be richer if you do, than if you do not!

The best selling information products are out there, but you first have to find your niche in order to find which product are the top sellers in your market. Start profiting today from selling top info products whether you created them or were created by others!

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TASK – Create a List of Top 10 Selling Info Products

Approximate time to complete is minimum 15 minutes and maximum 1 hour.
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Go through the search facility of

ClickBank and enter your list of keywords (one by one) you created in Day 2 and read over the Sales Pages for each products and get a list of the Top 10 Info Products for your niche/industry.

You might use these for Selling and making Commissions or for Competition Analysis. Regardless, this list will make it easier for you to see “How” Info Products are sold on the Internet having at least seen 10-20 websites if not a lot more in the time you spend going through

ClickBank. I like to visit other websites and get ideas as much as possible before even starting on my own and ClickBank is an excellent resource. It truly is a Google of Information Products!

When looking at all these websites

ClickBank shows you, look at these things which we discuss later in another Blog.


- Headlines (good captivating headline)
- Website Layout (many links or none and is single page)
- Graphics/Design (many graphics or little used – what kind of imagery)
- Sales Copy (what you got, what it will do, what to do to get it)
- Gurantees and Money Back Offers (Risk Reverals to make customer feel safe)
- Bonuses, Extras (Add on Value)
- What happens when you click on the Order Now link? (upsell or straight to checkout)

For now, just take a mental note of these things. We will go into depth later, but for now, the most important thing is to create your List of Top 10. This is going to help you!

You can spend a lot of time on ClickBank exploring and I encourage you to do this, it will truly open your mind a lot and I personally recommend that you start and come back to this Task on a regular basis, just like Keyword Research it will change the way you thought your website will work and ensure you have a better chance of making more money. Each step you take simply increases the chances and the more you make, the higher the rate of success will be. So keep up the great work!


Cheers,
Vanya Markiewicz
www.aquawebsites.com

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2 Free Books on Making Money and Free 21 Day Course worth over $500

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I just finished putting in place a special bonus for anyone that Subscribes to my Money Making Email Newsletter,

2 Books on Making Money
21 Day Course on Internet Marketing Secrets
ALL FOR FREE!

The Books and 21 Day Course are Perfect for Understanding ways to Create Money on the Internet even if you never passed at school, do not know anything about the internet, only good at talking to people or even really good at hiding behind a computer and not talking to anyone!

These Books and 21 Day Course are designed for anyone to use and start to Make Money from them. All in All, the cost of the Books and Course is worth over $500!

Free Money Making Books
and 21 Day Internet Marketing Course
http://www.aquawebsites.com/subscribe_to_newsletter.asp

If you take up this Offer and choose to receive the Books and 21 Day Course It is going to be a journey of knowing what to do on the Internet and learn How all these People Make Money while they Sleep.

Oh, by the way the 21 Day Course requires about 1 hour of your time per day over 21 Days to get really acquainted with the ins and outs of making a Website make you money rather than just being a good idea!

I am guessing you are going to ask me
“Why am I doing this and giving it away for Free?”

Simply, I have fantastic website software that offers you all the wiz bang features you need to facilitate the success of your online business, it is a complete and automated system, and whats even better is we have the package to suit your needs you just need to choose which one!  the Website software is ready for you to use in less then 24 hours of you ordering your Website…. So if you do like what you learn, then I hope you choose to use my website software that starts at $495 per year! No strings attached though, there is no requirements on your behalf, just being upfront about what is in it for me and why I am giving away a heck of a lot stuff that will make you money!

Just so you know! At some point though I look forward to charging money for the Books and 21 Day Course, so right now, before I choose to do that, you and all your friends and family have this Opportunity to learn from someone who has sat on their bum in front of a computer for 8 years working from home and creating a lifestyle that most people would dream to have! I have my dream life, dream wife, dream car, dream work (it is not work for me it is my passion).. all thanks to Google and the Internet……. Let me show you how it all happens and how it can happen for you too!

Thank you for reading this Blog,
Cheers,
Vanya Markiewicz
Aqua Websites
www.aquawebsites.com
Best Website Builder Software

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Money Making Website : Calling Overseas from your Mobile Phone for Free!

Friday, August 8th, 2008
It sure interested me enough to click on the Google Ad for this company!

Check it out! www.aussiecall.com

How it works is easy. You just…

1. Call an Australian Mobile Phone Number – 0424 215 122 from your mobile phone.

2. Listen to the prompts. It will ask you to enter 0011, then the International Phone Number. (Do not press dial at this point - it does this automatically)

3. Listen in as the phone rings at the other end and you have your connection.

So how does all this work to your benefit?

Well, for one thing you can make the call from your Mobile Phone. Many of us have these wonderful Caps and we don’t use all the available minutes every month. So, to use these extra minutes internationally, with incredible value, just follow the prompts I’ve listed above to call anyone in some 74 Countries! The International Call is FREE!

Let me clarify. The whole call isn’t totally free (as if!), but you’re able to cleverly use what you’ve already paid for to the Maximum!

You pay for the phone call from your mobile to the Australian Mobile Number 0424 215 122, but that is all! The rest of the call costs through to the International Numbers will be free from any charges to you! The www.AussieCall.com system has this covered!

So if you have credit left (time remaining in minutes or unused billing left in your month) then using this service makes it totally free to call up to 74 countries!

So what does this have to do with your
Website and Internet Marketing?

Here are a couple of things just off the top of my head that you will have no doubt, thought of too!

=> Call International clients with no concerns of a huge bill=> Never be bothered by your Internet Connection performance affecting your Skype and VOIP calls. As you are using your Mobile Phone, in fact you do not even need the Internet to make a call, just your mobile phone.

=> Hold Conference Calls through this USA Conference Call company
–> www.freeconferencecall.com and pay nothing at all! You can be anywhere while holding a Conference Call!

=> Impress your clients as they join your Conference Calls in the USA right from their own Mobile Phone. A good Tip is nothing to one’s self if not shared, so imagine your Client’s delight when they find they can use this same service!

=> Call Relatives and talk for as long as you want!!!! Right from your Mobile Phone.. WOW!

OK if you have no one to call overseas, but think this is a pretty cool idea and want to try it out, maybe you always wanted to let the USA President George Bush know what you think of him? Then follow these instructions…

1. Enter this phone number on your mobile: 0424 215 122 and press dial.

2. After this has connected and you hear a voice, simply enter 0011 1 202-456-1111
(DO NOT press DIAL after entering the number, you may call the international number from your phone otherwise!)
3. Listen in. If you call in Office Hours, you can then let the President know what you think of him.

True fact, I called the number after looking it up off this website:
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/call/phone.htm

But then I hung up, because my mum taught me never to say anything about anyone unless you got something nice to say! And well, I thought about everything on my pretty long list to say to George and it just didn’t seem to have any nice warm fuzzies in it. In fact, my list put me into a state of being that the “The Secret” movie would best explain as “…not very good for creating what I would like to see in the Universe!”

So instead, I called Google on 0011 1 310-460-4000 at their Santa Monica Office in California USA (the place I went past and took photos of when I was in the USA 2 years ago) and said to the receptionist, “Thanks for being such a great website company and listing my first website that has, since 2000, made me $100,000’s of dollars! And, by the way, is there anything you could do to help me get my website in the Top 10 search results for all my keywords?”

Even after my sweet talking, I could not get anywhere with her. I was pointed to my favourite usual place to go when I want to know how to make my websites better and get better rankings through Google (and, in effect, every search engine). Google’s Webmaster Guidelines
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769

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Secret Keyword Research Tool developed by Internet Millionaire :: MUST READ!

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Internet Millionaire is giving access to his
Super Powerful Keyword Research Tool

http://aquawebsites.com/webpage.asp?r=71686673

This Keyword Tool leaves anything else I’ve seen for dead! Here are just a couple of the things it does extremely well…

=> Find out Keywords for your Products and Services from many sources (Google, Yahoo & Ask)
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How to Bulk Resize Photos and How to Bulk Resize Images

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

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Original photos are almost never the right size for your web site. They usually take too long to show up on the page, because it takes time for a large file to download. They’re usually to big to fit on the page where they are supposed to. And when you resize the photo, whoever or whatever was in it becomes too small.

It’s hard enough learning to code the page. The last thing a budding webmaster wants to do is spend zillions of hours learning technical details of image processing. Luckily for you, today’s programs bundle the most important features into a single, very affordable program. We will feature Bulk Photo Resizer in this article (it’s free download to try out), and we’ll explain the key things. We’ll cover file sizes, compression, photo resizing, and cropping. Once we’re done, you’ll be able to put images into your web page.

No matter where you got your photos, you’ll need to make sure they are the right dimensions and file sizes for your web site. Dimensions means the size of the picture that you see on the screen. File size refers to how much data the picture contains. The bigger the file size, the longer it takes to download and appear in the visitor’s browser. Web surfers are a finicky lot, so you can’t afford to have a site that takes much time to bring up its images. And the more images there are, the longer it takes for them to appear.

The good news is that you can shrink the file size without giving up much photo quality, by using compression. Bulk Photo Resizer makes it easy to do.

But how big should your photo dimensions be? Start with the screen size of the average monitor. Some are larger or smaller, but many are 800 pixels across. If your picture is really important to the site, then you might want to fill the main column of your page. If it is less important, than you might fill half of your main column and have text flowing around it, or you might place it in a narrower side column. Once you decide on your page layout, you can turn that into real numbers. Let’s say you have a single side column of 200 pixels and a main column of 600 pixels. For the largest, most important picture, that would limit you to 600 pixels minus whatever margin you have (padding) around the picture, so it doesn’t sit flush against the sides of the column. Unless it is very important to your site, you don’t want to have more than one large picture. For a side column, you would limit the picture to 200 pixels, minus your padding around the picture.

Using Bulk Photo Resizer, you can click on Resize and then select custom size to get the exact width you desire. Just set the width, and Bulk Photo Resizer will make sure the height is exactly the right proportion to prevent any stretching of your image. Keeping everything the right shape is called preserving the “aspect ratio.”

If you have purchased stock photos or are able to create high-resolution photos, then you’ll have no problem making a good impression. If the resolution of a photo is not so good, then you might try making it a smaller size so that it is not so noticeable. If you are doing your own photography, be sure to get to know your camera. You can adjust the resolution to a higher level if you need to. This will take up more of the camera memory, but it will be worth it for the really important or detailed shots.

Once you have decided on the size of the photo, there is something you’ll want to do before you resize it. At least you’ll want to do this with most photos. It’s called cropping. When you crop your photo, you are trimming away the outer areas of the photo in order to feature the important objects or people in the photo. Our featured program, Bulk Photo Resizer, makes this very easy. If you don’t like the result, you can discard the change and try again. You can use Bulk Photo Resizer for one picture at a time, or you can use it on hundreds of photos all at once. Our testers told us that it was nearly impossible to make mistakes.

I can think of one mistake you don’t want to make. Be sure to save your photo with a different file name when you make a major change to it. This way, if you decide you don’t like it, you can start over with the original image. I like to add an underscore, and then the number one for the major version, then a letter for the smaller changes. My first change would end in “_1b.jpg,” for example. I might even add something to remind me what I did, if the project is likely to get complicated. For example, “_1b_crop.jpg.” The nice thing about 1b, 1c and so forth, is that it keeps the image versions in chronological order when they are sorted by name in Windows Explorer, the program you use to look at the directories and files on your hard drive and peripherals.

When you save the photo, you will need to know how much compression to use. At least you will want to compress it when you produce the image that will be going onto your website. If you are just saving the image but with plans to do more to it, then don’t add any compression. If it is a .jpg, then keep the compression setting at the highest (meaning highest resolution). If the image is a .bmp, then it will not compress until you save it as a .jpg.

A compressed photo takes up less space, and it downloads to your visitor’s browser faster. The problem with compression, though, is that you lose quality. If you do too much, then your photo can become pretty blotchy. Nearly all the images you see on the web are compressed. The .jpg files are best for images with shades of color or gradiants of light and dark. The .gif files are popular for solid color art such as typical clip art, especially if they use transparent areas to get a non-square shape. The .jpg images can’t do that. They can pretend to, though, by using the exact same background color as the spot they will be in. If you do it right, the background will blend in with the website.

If you are saving your photo in its final form, then you will want to use at least some compression. Bulk Photo Resizer makes compressing your photos quite easy. For compression that is not too obvious, use 80. The scale is zero to 100. 60 is a lot of compression, but the image starts to be noticeably blotchy. You probably won’t be able to tell there’s compression at a setting of 90 or higher, but it will still reduce the file size a good bit.

Remember that other web sites, such as picture posting sites, social networking sites, and dating sites all have rules as to how many kilobytes a photo can be. If they say it must be less than 100 KB, then check the size of your photo in a program such as Photo Resizer to see if your photo needs to be compressed or made smaller. Either action, resizing down or compressing, will give you a smaller file size.

Let me make sure you understand the difference between image size (dimensions) and file size (kilobytes. This confuses a lot of people. The image size is how big your photo looks, the file size is how much space it takes up on your hard drive. Bigger file sizes take longer to show up on a web page because the visitor is downloading them in their browser when they go to the page.

Now that you have cropped your photo, you are ready to resize. Be sure not to enlarge the photo. Bulk Photo Resizer will prevent this. The reason is that when people enlarge digital pictures, they start to get jagged edges, that we call the “jaggies.” I’m talking about the little squares that make up the image. When they get too big, they look like the effect used on TV to obscure someone’s face or license plate. That is called pixelation. You’ve seen pixelated images on the net, and it looks pretty amateurish.

As you might have guessed, cropping the photo gives you smaller dimensions. Bulk Image Resizer keep tabs on this for you. You will know the exact dimensions of the photo.

Of course, there’s plenty you can learn about digital photos and putting them on your web site, but we have covered the most important things: cropping, resizing, compression, and saving. I hope you enjoy creating your beautiful web pages!

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