Network Marketers today are coming to realize a growing reality.If you?re not marketing your business online, you?re at the rear of the pack. Virtually every type of business today is marketing online ? anything you want to identify can be found with a few simple keystrokes.
The economy is collapsing and people who are successful and creating assets today are doing it on the internet . They are learning the steps to personal branding, and there is no limit to the possibilities that are at their fingertips. You can do this as readily as the next person, if you have the inclination and the motivation to commit. You don?t have to know programming languages (unless you like that sort of thing) and you won?t have to go into hock to fund your startup. In fact, there are quite a number of great resources and cutting edge advertising tools that are totally free! You can develop the business design that you need to have in place if you?re looking to create endurable wealth in today?s internet economy by knowing some tricks and resources that have been proven over time by others who?ve come before you.
The first thing you must do is to create your personal brand and define your target market. 80 million names are Googled every day. Your distinction now extends to the internet. If you don?t exist online, you?re losing opportunities. Not only are people Googling you, they?re deciding on you based on your presence on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We are a branding generation ? brands direct our values, our decision making, judgements, and offer reliability. Personal branding creates a distinctive role for you in a market that you can be prominent in, build contacts, connections and strategies that you need to promote yourself as a valuable, trustworthy resource. Are you going to have to come up with a catchy title and a glossy logo? NO. In marketing your business online, YOU are actually your brand. A brand is an advantage that you want to last a lifetime ? to be used to prosperously leverage for decades to come, in any business or project that you may launch now and in the future.
As a pacesetter, a brand will give you advantage and will make you a well-known authority on the internet. People will begin to hear and pay attention to what you say, and will easily want to follow you and buy from you because of the trust and credibility you have earned. In becoming a brand, you want to share your character, your thoughts, knowledge, abilities, and skills.
Ask yourself these questions: What do I love learning about? What do I feel passionate about? What do I have a good deal of knowledge about already? What am I most excited about doing? If money was not an issue, what would I be happy doing for the rest of my life? What motiviates me in life? What do I enjoy most about my life and my business?
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For a couple that once tried to hide their relationship, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are very much out in the open now. Case in point:
During the Selena-hosted pre-show at this evening's MTV Video Music Awards, Gomez interviewed her boyfriend and tried to ask about his nomination in the category of Best Male Video. But all Justin wanted to talk about was his pet snake... named Johnson.
He then leaned in and gave Selena a long smooch, as she tried to remain professional and millions of girls around the country bowed their head in sadness. Watch now:
KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. ? From North Carolina to New Jersey, Hurricane Irene appeared to have fallen short of the doomsday predictions. But with rivers still rising, and roads impassable because of high water and fallen trees, it could be days before the full extent of the damage is known.
More than 4.5 million homes and businesses along the East Coast lost power, and at least 11 deaths were blamed on the storm. But as day broke Sunday, surprisingly light damage was reported in many places, with little more than downed trees and power lines.
"I think it's a little strong to say we dodged a bullet. However, it certainly could have turned out worse for the Hampton Roads area" in Virginia, said National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Montefusco.
At the same time, officials warned of the possibility of severe flooding over the next few days as runoff from the storm makes its way into creeks and rivers. In some parts of the Northeast, the ground was soggy even before the storm because of an extremely rainy August.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett cautioned: "The rivers may not crest until Tuesday or Wednesday. This isn't just a 24-hour event."
Irene brought rain of six inches to a foot to many places along the East Coast. The storm was still pummeling the New York City area on Sunday morning, dropping below hurricane strength but still dangerous with 65 mph winds and heavy downpours.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell had initially warned that Irene could be a "catastrophic" monster with record storm surges of up to 8 feet.
But in Virginia Beach, the city posted on Twitter late Saturday that initial reports were promising, with the resort area suffering minimal damage. And in Ocean City, Md., Mayor Rick Meehan reported: "Scattered power outages. No reports of major damage!"
In Lusby, Md., Constellation Energy Nuclear Group said one of two nuclear reactors at Calvert Cliffs went off-line automatically because of Irene's winds. Constellation said the plant was safe.
Floodwaters were rising across New Jersey, and more than 2,000 National Guardsmen were helping with search and rescue work as officials assessed the damage. The Raritan River, which caused disastrous flooding after it was swelled by rain from Hurricane Floyd 12 years ago, was not expected to crest until Sunday evening.
Still, with skies clearing Sunday morning, some of those living on the coast were cautiously optimistic.
After spending the night hunkered down in his Pleasantville, N.J., home overnight without electricity, Harry Webber went outside in a fruitless search for place to buy a cup of coffee.
"I was pleasantly surprised to see that most of my town is still in one piece," he said.
Late last week, Irene was a fearsome Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of around 115 mph as it barreled across open water toward the East Coast. Forecasters predicted it could grow to a scarier Category 4 before blowing ashore.
By Friday, though, the storm began losing steam. It came ashore the next day in North Carolina a mere Category 1 with winds of about 85 mph, and had weakened into a tropical storm by the time its eye hit New York City on Sunday.
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue said that Irene inflicted significant damage along her state's coast, but that the full extent was unclear because some areas were unreachable because of high water or downed power lines.
Perdue planned an aerial tour Sunday of the hardest-hit counties after TV coverage showed downed trees, toppled utility poles and power lines and mangled awnings.
Officials in North Carolina's Dare County said they were advised there was extensive flooding that needed to be checked out.
Elsewhere, authorities suggested Irene didn't create the kind of havoc that had been anticipated.
"We were prepared for a lot worse, but we got lucky on this one," said Bruce Shell, New Hanover County, N.C., manager.
He said many of the 70,000 homes that lost power Saturday were back online in the evening and a wastewater spill at Wrightsville Beach appeared to be minor.
Pinehurst dentist Harwell Palmer said his home in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., lost a few pieces of siding and there was some street flooding, but a pier that took a pounding from the waves was still standing. The storm did gobble up some of the sand.
"The main concern we will have going forward is the loss of beach," he said.
The question still facing the region was whether Irene's effects over the next few days would match the mess left behind by such storms as Floyd and Isabel.
In 1999, Floyd dropped at least 15 inches of rain on eastern North Carolina. The flooding was the most damaging in the state's history, topping $3 billion in North Carolina. Four years later, Isabel brought hurricane conditions to eastern North Carolina and southeast Virginia, causing about $1 billion in damage.
In the resort town of Ocean City, Md., damage appeared minimal. A few small trees along a major road had been uprooted. Scattered piles of sand about two feet high covered areas of the boardwalk. The end of a wooden pier was sagging and a wooden railing was askew.
At the Quietstorm surf shop on the boardwalk, part of a wall where the shop's name is advertised had been torn off, exposing wiring and scattering insulation. Locals, though, said they had seen worse during ordinary storms.
"I think we dodged a bullet," said LeAnn Price.
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Associated Press writers Jessica Gresko in Ocean City, Md., Randall Chase in Georgetown, Del., and Dena Potter in Richmond, Va., contributed to this report. Foreman reported from Raleigh, N.C.
[More from Mashable: Why Evernote Bet the Company on Mobile & Social Media]
Mix an edgy consumer NFC idea with $55,000 in prize winnings and the support of Evernote's fast-growing & well-financed platform, and you might have a soapbox stand tall enough to capture the world's attention.
This is the position that startup Touchanote finds itself in after winning Evernote's developer competition.
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Founder Hamid Zaidi wowed attendees and judges at the Evernote Trunk Conference with an Android application that stores links to Evernote content on physical NFC tags (see above). Create a link to an Evernote note and slap an NFC tag on any object you'd like. Then, simply touch your device to the tag to open your note.
Touchanote, says Zaidi, who spoke with Mashable in an exclusive post-win interview, proffers a right-here, right-now consumer use case for NFC technology.
Much ado is being made about NFC-enabled payments, but the infrastructure and business adoption required to support payments is likely still two years out, he says. "Meanwhile, millions of lonely NFC phone users out there are excited to use the technology now," says Zaidi. "We want to be the face for the consumer-driven NFC market."
Touchanote is like a backup disk for your brain: Evernote serves as the memory bank and NFC markers make for physical placeholders that route you back to important information. Instructions or passwords stored on tags stuck on associated objects make for practical use cases. Tags on photo frames, however, could call up more memories in digital photo form.
The application connects the digital and physical realms in a way that brings Evernote CEO Phil Libin's vision of a "trusted second brain for all your lifetime memories" to fruition.
Touchanote has received an encouraging post-victory reception. The application launched on the Android store last Thursday and users have already ordered 500 tags -- tags are sold in 1, 10 and 25 batches for $3, $10 and $20 respectively.
The startups biggest challenge, says Zaidi, will be to meet demand with enough tags, which are supplied by a third-party manufacturer. He doesn't seem to the think that the lack of NFC-enabled devices for sale will work against the company.
"This is a tangible market that people have disregarded," he says, citing a forecast that more than 40 million NFC phones will ship this year. "I think that is a huge and blank canvas."
In the past few years, real estate has seen an unprecedented level of foreclosures on both residential and commercial properties. Banks are desperate to be rid of these bank owned properties, and many commercial owners feel the same way. Making commercial short sales is a great way to fill these needs and make a bit of profit while you?re at it. Karen Hanover explains how.
Understanding Bank Short Sales
The first thing to understand is what exactly commercial short sales are, and why they happen. The common story of a short sale goes as follows: a property owner owns a debt on his property that he cannot repay, most likely because the property values have depreciated due to the sorry state of the real estate market. He?s missed a few payments on his mortgage and is facing imminent foreclosure. However, even the banks don?t like initiating foreclosures; they are a lot of work and still leave a stain on the bank?s records. So the lender may decide that it?s better to accept a loss on the property than to foreclose on it, and they let it go for a discount. Then an enterprising buyer (that?s you) can sweep it up and resell it for a profit.
Making the Most of Money Making Opportunities
That is the theory, of course?the real trick is choosing the right properties and pulling off the resale. To do this, you must possess several qualities. First, you must be a great networker and possess the commitment to sniff out any and all money making opportunities for both acquiring new bank owned properties, and profitably releasing the ones you own. Second, you must be serious and trainable. Real estate investing can be a tricky business with a lot of relevant laws. You must become an expert on foreclosures and foreclosure law in a fairly short time and apply that knowledge consistently. And last, but certainly not least, you must be determined. In the face of setbacks, it is not uncommon to feel discouraged. You must persevere, however. In every failure is the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.
A Review of Training Courses
One final note of caution?although free articles about short sales are a great place to start educating yourself about the whole process, you will eventually run out of information and have to turn to a paid real estate training course if you really want to learn enough to make money. These training courses from reported ?gurus? are unregulated and full of scams. A good way to test whether you?re signing up for the real deal or not is to pump them for free information. They should respond with a lot of what is listed here on real estate investing, and on various internet sources. If not, there?s a chance that you?ll blow thousands of dollars just to learn what anyone with an internet connection can learn!
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The up-and-coming California band will make sure you know who they are after Sunday night's show. By James Montgomery
Young the Giant's Francois Comtois and Sameer Gadhia Photo: MTV News
Young the Giant know you've probably got a few questions in the lead up to their performance on this Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards. Like, for example, who the heck are they?
"Yeah," frontman Sameer Gadhia laughed. "You might not know who we are, but we're in Hollywood already preparing [for the show], and we're very, very excited to play for you guys."
"We're definitely in the Florence slot," Gadhia said. "We consider it a real honor."
But that brings us to another question: Just what will that performance entail? Well, from the sound of things, it could be one for the ages ... the Mesozoic ages.
"For our VMA performance, [guitarist] Jacob [Tilley] is actually at work, breeding pterodactyls, and he's prepared for just this one event," Gadhia smiled. "We're going to be flying in on pterodactyls. They're going to do an air show; they're going to drop us in, fireworks, we're going to have Jimi Hendrix performing, it's going to be amazing."
Seriously. And while we suspect Gadhia was joking (especially since Tilley added "We're not really doing any gimmicks, it's just us doing what we do: playing live with lots of energy,") there's no debating the fact that their VMA performance is a very big deal for Young the Giant. And for proof, all you have to do is check their schedule, which, until very recently, included high-profile slots at the U.K.'s Reading and Leeds Festivals.
"We canceled Reading and Leeds because of the VMAs," Gadhia said. "I mean, we always watched them, ever since we were little ... and we're from Los Angeles, so we figured it would be a great opportunity. Hopefully people in the U.K. will forgive us. I know some people are already annoyed."
The 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards will air live Sunday, August 28, from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles at 9 p.m. ET/PT, following the Selena Gomez-hosted pre-show at 8. See the list of nominees, revisit last year's highlights and vote for Best New Artist by visiting VMA.MTV.com.
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Dollar gains ahead of Bernanke?s speech at Jackson Hole
The greenback rose against other major currencies on Thursday on renewed risk aversion together with the selloff in U.S. and European equities on speculation that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will not unveil further monetary easing at Fed?s annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Friday.
Versus the Japanese yen, although the greenback dropped briefly from Asian high of 77.15 to 76.85, the greenback rose strongly on renewed cross selling of jpy on speculation that Japan?s package may boost USD funding as Japan?s $100 billion credit line unveiled on Wednesday for companies investing overseas, tapping its foreign reserves despite being called ?measures to address JPY appreciation.? The pair eventually climbed to a 2-week high of 77.70 in NY afternoon on renewed risk aversion before retreating.
The single currency traded narrowly in Asia and then rose to its day high of 1.4475 in European morning on the initial gain in European stocks before retreating. Despite euro?s recovery to 1.4457 in NY morning, price then tumbled sharply to 1.4328 due to the selloff of U.S. and European equities together with comments from spokesmen for the IMF and German Finance Ministry before staging a recovery to 1.4389.
The IMF spokesman said ?global economic activity has weakened, become more uneven, outlook has deteriorated.? Later, the spokesman from German Finance Ministry said ?we are not planning a general short-selling ban.?
The British pound traded sideways in Asian session and briefly recovered to 1.6398 in European morning. However, cable tumbled in tandem with euro to 1.6260 before stabilising.
On the data front, U.S. initial jobless claims were worse-than-expected at 417K vs forecast of 405K, the prior figure was revised up to 412K. U.K. CBI retail sales balance for Aug. was weaker than expected at -14 vs forecast of -5.
The DJI fell by 170.89 points, or 1.51%, to 11149.82. FTSE-100, CAC-40, and DAX were down by 1.44%, 0.65%, and 1.71% respectively.
Data to be released on Friday include:
Japan national CPI, core CPI, Tokyo CPI, Swiss KOF indicator, U.S. GDP annualised, GDP deflator, PCE core, U. Michigan survey.
Technical Outlook by AceTrader on EUR/USD
EUR/USD ? 1.4388? Once again, there is no end to recent intra-day wide swings in the single currency as market participants positioned n then unwound their positions ahead of today?s key speech by Fed chief Bernanke. Despite intra -day bounce to 1.4475 in European morning, failure to re-test previous day?s 1.4482 high prompted st speculators to turn short on euro, price later tumbled to 1.4328 in NY morning but short-covering quickly lifted the pair to 1.4389. Looking at the daily & hourly charts, although y?day?s weakness suggests downside bias is seen, euro remains confined inside recent established broad range of 1.4259-1.4500 n below lower lvl needed to signal early fall fm 1.4518 has resumed n bring stronger correction of the erratic rise fm 1.4055 (Aug?s low) to 1.4191 (70.7% r), however, as the hourly oscillators? readings wud be in o/sold territory on such move, reckon minor sup at 1.4104 wud hold fm here. Today, as price is currently trading below both 21-hr n 55-hr emas, trad- ing euro fm short side is favoured. Only abv 1.4430 wud risk gain to 1.4475/82 but only break of 1.4537 signals upmove fm 1.3838 has resumed, 1.4580, then 1.4696.
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The Japanese yen briefly rallied to a new record high versus the dollar on Friday on comments from the Japanese Vice Finance Minister who said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that the Bank of Japan does not plan to intervene often.
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