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<title>Tips for Job Hunting in Today’s Market</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Employment/Tips-for-Job-Hunting-in-Todays-Market.229573</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>&amp;ldquo;One of the most controversial adversities of job hunting in today's market is the impact of off shore trade.&amp;rdquo;  Higher education is needed for the more secure job position.</p>
<p>For example, United States factory and telecommunication jobs are sold to foreign countries where labor monies are less expensive.  Thus, the labor market is unstable at this time and the United State's economy has been affected.</p>
<p>People seeking employment with higher education have a better chance of surviving the off shore dilemma.   Better job availability and diversity of such make the job market more amiable for the job seeker.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FEmployment%2FTips-for-Job-Hunting-in-Todays-Market.229573"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FEmployment%2FTips-for-Job-Hunting-in-Todays-Market.229573" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:38:58 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>247 Online Marketing Words You Must Know Now 2</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Marketing-and-Advertising/247-Online-Marketing-Words-You-Must-Know-Now-2.228163</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>Here's part 2 of the minicourse 247 online marketing words you must know now!</p>
<p>You may have noticed that the world of internet marketing has a language of its own.</p>
<p>You may be familiar with the terms but you don't really know how important they are or how to use them in the proper way for your best interest.</p>
<p>You even might not be familiar with them at all.</p>
<p>It's a shame! Marketing nowadays is a necessity in every field.</p>
<p>These marketing words are used a lot all over the internet and it is every important that you have some understanding of what they mean.</p>
<p>And since I know all about these words and language, I am going to help you understand the reality and nature of these top used marketing words.</p>
<p>Today I am going to list the next 22 words of the top 247 marketing words you have to know about now!</p>
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<li> Back end: it is a system designed to generate an additional income after the sale is made. For most marketers this is where the most of there is made. </li>
<li> Banner Ad: an online ad that links to the website you want to promote or send traffic to. It is a popular method of advertising because the banner is small in size and easily created. It uses images and animation which are more appealing to click on. </li>
<li> Banner Exchange: these are websites that display advertisers' ad banners for credit points. When you see the banner of another advertiser and click it, you gain credit points which allow you to put your banner ad as well to be seen. Other advertisers click on your banner ad to get more credit points and so on. </li>
<li> Blog: it is a website where entries are made like a journal. Any one can have a blog. You can go to blogger.com and start creating your own blog right now. You can link all your sites there for more traffic and recognition. </li>
<li> Bloggers: the ones who use and create blogs</li>
<li> Bmp: it is a Microsoft image format called bitmap. Bmp is the extension of bitmap image files. </li>
<li> Bookmark: it is a utility in any web browser to save the websites you find interesting for revisiting and later viewing</li>
<li> Branding: it is a very important utility to all online marketers. It establishes the company identity. The brand is the symbol of the company, product or service you are promoting. </li>
<li> Butterfly marketing: a term that became widely spread and is also known as viral marketing. It uses affiliate marketing with list building to provide ultimate results to marketing. </li>
<li> Cache: it is the stored websites by your browser after you viewed them for easy returning to these websites if you choose to visit them again without bookmarking</li>
<li> Sometimes you have to delete this cache to be able to view the new things happened on these websites! </li>
<li> Camtasia: great utility software that captures screen images. It is used mainly in how to pages to teach people how to do something that can be illustrated in pictures or even videos with voice recording at the same time. </li>
<li> Clickbank: company that distributes digital products and runs an affiliate program. Anyone can join and get paid by selling their products like e-books or by referring people to become clickbank affiliates. </li>
<li> Content: this is anything found on the website like text, pictures, videos, audios, etc. for bloggers, content is very important because the words used in it are their gate to be viewed and found on search engines. </li>
<li> Contextual advertising: ads that are related to the content of the site or blog. If your content is about houses the ad will be about house buying. </li>
<li> Conversion rate: it is the percentage of visitors that become potential buyers or sales</li>
<li> If 1 out of 20 visitors to your selling site bought the product then your conversion rate is 5%</li>
<li> Cookies: small harmless files that websites put in your browser to track their visitors</li>
<li> Cpanel: it is web hosting control panel. It allows webmasters to add scripts and pages to their websites easily. </li>
<li> CPC: cost per click </li>
<li> CPA: cost per action </li>
<li> CPM: cost per thousand impressions. If you paid $1000 to buy 20000 banner impression then your CPM is $50. </li>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:32:14 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>247 Online Marketing Words You Must Know Now!</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Marketing-and-Advertising/247-Online-Marketing-Words-You-Must-Know-Now.225977</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>You may have noticed that the world of internet marketing has a language of its own.</p>
<p>You may be familiar with the terms but you don't really know how important they are or how to use them in the proper way for your best interest.</p>
<p>You even might not be familiar with them at all.</p>
<p>It's a shame! Marketing nowadays is a necessity in every field.</p>
<p>These marketing words are used a lot all over the internet and it is every important that you have some understanding of what they mean.</p>
<p>And since I know all about these words and language, I am going to help you understand the reality and nature of these top used marketing words.</p>
<p>Today I am going to list for you the top 247 marketing words you have to know about now!</p>
<ol>
<li> Ad Copy: it is a form written to persuade the potential client to do some certain action and usually uses phrases like &amp;ldquo;click the ad&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;buy now&amp;rdquo;</li>
<li> Ad tracker: a software or script designed to track the amount of traffic to your ad</li>
<li> Adsense: Google ad service that allows websites and blogs owners to gain revenue by placing these ads in their sites. Though it sounds promising, Google regulations are very tricky and they can close your account for no reasons! </li>
<li> Adwords: another Google ad service but for advertisers. When you choose to advertise with Google adwords, your ads will appear next to search engine results on the right.</li>
<li> It is expensive since the rate of pay-per-click on these ads is from $0.10 to several dollars! </li>
<li> Affiliate: it is the same as &amp;ldquo;associate&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;partner&amp;rdquo;. When you become an affiliate to a program you are awarded by cash or advertising depending on your agreement with that program every time you bring a visitor to that program. </li>
<li> Affiliate Link: When you sig up with any program like that you are given a url to your link which you promote and every one that signs under you becomes your referral and you are then awarded by the program</li>
<li> AIM: AOL instant messenger which is free to download</li>
<li> Alexa: this is a website that ranks any website popularity based of course on the number of visitors to the website</li>
<li> Anchor Text: it is the text of the hyperlink. When you see a link that you should click, the text written on the link is the anchor text. For example, &amp;ldquo;click here&amp;rdquo; text is found on a link that you should click. The words &amp;ldquo;click here&amp;rdquo; are the anchor text. </li>
<li> Applet: a small application that is written in java and displayed on your web browser. It usually contains animation, audio or video. </li>
<li> Attachment: file(s) you can attach to e-mails like pictures, doc. Files, excel files, etc. </li>
<li> Article Marketing: it is the process of writing articles in order to send traffic to certain websites as a sort of a promotion. These websites of course sell something in which you need to get people to see what you are selling. </li>
<li> Autoresponder: it is an automated e-mail sender. It sends pre-entered e-mails to a list of e-mails you put in the autoresponder. </li>
<li> Avatar: a graphic icon that represents you on chat rooms, message boards and instant messaging (IM) programs</li>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:22:25 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Corporate Greed</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Business-and-Society/Corporate-Greed.219289</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>Corporate greed is almost exceeding their profits in America today.</p>
<p>We Americans can no longer tolerate our major corporations and businesses exploiting all of us each and every day as they are currently doing. Look at the prices we pay for all products we consume. Then look at the record profits being reaped by the major companies in America. Next, look at the income levels of the lowest workers in comparison to the top executives in the companies. The disparity is so vast that we as a people need to regulate how the corporations pay the executives and make the picture more in the light of day.</p>
<p>The astounding part of this picture is that most of us rarely find out until the reports of one of these executives being given millions upon millions of dollars when they fail or are forced to leave the company or companies. Why they do this in such a way is beyond me especially when the person being forced to leave has done a lousy job. Greed is the biggest factor here because if you look at the structure of most corporations they tend to put these "golden parachutes" together in back rooms where the light of day rarely touches these documents.</p>
<p>If greed was not the biggest factor, our corporations could spread the pay across the entire pay scale instead of holding the majority at the top levels within the corporations and companies. More assets could be acquired as needed for expansion and more employees would have more stable work settings to enhance and enlighten their careers. Most of these corporations and companies have boards of directors and shareholders alike who could set policy to make the pay scale more open and managed closer at the top to make the disparity less than it currently is.</p>
<p>We Americans can do this if we all got involved and started writing to our elected officials in Washington, DC to build a set of rules that makes these large corporations and companies bring the executive pay scales within reasonable range from the bottom pay grades. Our elected officials in Washington, DC have the authority to design legislation that will do just this should they choose to.</p>
<p>Unless we all participate in this vital struggle, we all may see the greed so abundant that we will get into an inflationary spin that none of us would be prepared for. Times are rough enough now but if this happens we could find ourselves so steeped with inflationary prices that most of us would find it difficult to survive.</p>
<p>Today, we all spend much more than we should be paying to purchase food, gas, electricity and all other products we use every day. We need for the executives in these major corporations and companies to see how we feel about their less than stellar approach to income.</p>
<p><strong>I challenge all CEOs and Executives and all of our congressional population to live for one full year on $15,000.00 and/or less.</strong></p>
<p>Chuck S</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FBusiness-and-Society%2FCorporate-Greed.219289"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FBusiness-and-Society%2FCorporate-Greed.219289" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:16:40 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Operations Management</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Management/Operations-Management.207425</link>
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<li>The three factors which need to be balanced when planning a project are quality, cost and time. The quality of a product or service must meet a minimum standard, whilst the cost to produce and the selling price must be feasible and the time to produce the product must be reasonable as well. All of theses factors must be co-ordinated by a project management team to produce a successful and profitable product.</li>
<li>Projects are increasingly being handled using network planning techniques. The reason for this is that projects are becoming more complex as time goes by. Network planning allows a project manager to indentify the Critical Path activities. These activities must be meticulously controlled to enable a project to be completed by an agreed set date. The reason for this is to avoid penalty clauses being used against the maker thus reducing the price to the buyer. Some contracts carry such a clause these days. Network planning allows a goal to be set, a pathway to be identified and milestone review points to be established for regular monitoring to be followed. It can also provide a forecast plan whereby rescue measures can be employed should any unforeseen problems occur. Network planning can also be used for in depth cost analysis. This can ensure resources are being operated to their full potential at different phases of the project and revenue can be calculated and allotted better. Man power levels and planning can also be deduced through network planning hopefully resulting in low overtime levels, low idle times and getting skilled staff on the right jobs. This in turn should limit undue expenditure.</li>
<li>The three basic steps discernible in project planning are planning, controlling and scheduling. In other words a method for identifying all the activities that are needed to complete the project must be employed, information about the sequencing of these activities whether normal or not must be acquired and last of all a WBS or work breakdown structure must be set out.</li>
<li>There are three symbols used in a critical path method. The first of these symbols is an activities symbol .This symbol is an arrow which runs from right to left and is called activity on arrow it depicts time and resources. The second symbol is a broken arrow. This symbol is called dummy activities and takes up no time or resources but is essential to the project in hand. The last symbol is a circle. This symbol denotes events otherwise known as nodes. This identifies a point between two or more activities and normally should not take up any time or resources.</li>
<li>Activity times are determined by a lot of factors. First of all there needs to be a confirmation of all the activities needed to be included in the project. Next the activities need to be grouped or sole depending on whether any activities can be amalgamated which then would lead onto sequencing these activities and noting any possible variances. Next a method of work needs to be defined as well as the duration of the activity within the network. These answers are all gained by using a method called the PERT approach or to give it its full title Program Evaluation and Research Technique. This method involves using three activity duration times which are most optomistic, most likely and most pessimistic. A weighted average of these possible outcomes is then determined by using these three estimates by way of a mathematical equation.</li>
<li>There are three measures of float. These are called total float, free float and independent float. The total float is calculated by considering the latest time finish for the activity, the earliest start time for the activity and the duration of the activity. The free float is calculated by considering the earliest finish time for the activity and the earliest start time for the activity and the duration. The independent float is calculated concerning earliest finish time for the activity, the latest start time for the activity and the duration. The total float is the maximum time available to complete an activity. The free float is scheduled on the project being completed at the earliest time possible. The independent float indicates lost production days that need to regained or pulled back due to unforeseen happenings.</li>
<li>A Gantt chart is a simple but very effective tool used by project planners. An example of its worth is for things like highlighting slippage on agreed stage dates to be used for a project progress meeting. The Gantt chart is a way of calculating what is attainable concerning things like absentee rates, holidays and maintenance data and breakdowns. These factors enable the project manager to moderate a technically feasible target. Resourcing is very important in project management and the Gantt chart allows the manager to see where corners can be cut or outage improved in various areas. Monitoring of time schedules and cost budgets can easily be recorded and set out to see exactly what critical path activities are at what stage and how the floats are performing and whether they need tweaking. Progress can be recorded daily by the use of planning boards.Management reports can be taken from the evidence that a Gantt chart sets out. It can also be used for plotting milestones which are simply pre-designated points in the life of the project. These milestones can be pre-determined and agreed with the customer at the initial negotiation part of the contract also by using a Gantt chart. This shows that a Gantt chart should give a project manager a very good idea of where his overall project is at any progress meeting because he will have all the relevant data to hand.</li>
<li>Precedence diagrams are models showing activities and times on the node or event thus the saying activity on node. The network symbols are used as part of the diagram but arrows identify relationships between activities in logical sequences whereas the circle denotes the events. Precedence diagrams are normally used for things such as solving efficiency problems on assembly lines. To create a model methodology must be used in considering things such as the number of activities in the project, looking at skills and resources at hand which could be employed elsewhere, defining outage patterns or restraints and determining accepted loss of output and standard times and of course balancing loss. They are basically set up to try and find solutions to outage problems through analytical processing of calculations gained by using the float and critical path data. Your starting and finishing point should always be included in this calculation.</li>
<li>There are a number of reasons why projects fail whether totally or just in parts. The project might just reach its finale but, normally it has failed for reasons such as, poor communications, lack of support from the management, rushed decision making and general lack of planning .Although this is not an exhaustive list it should give a good idea as to why a business has failed.</li>
<li>When purchasing a computer network planning package certain things should be included in this package to suit your business needs. First of all it should be a suitable size to accommodate most if not all of the projects you are likely to embark on. It should be able to handle AOA and AON types of network. It should be able to identify activities on the critical path and its duration using minutes,hours,days,weeks and months and should enable the user to insert leap years using a clear and concise manual for user friendly usage. Data entry and correction should be gained with ease. The package should also be able to handle all floats,gantt charts and histograms, Pert  when using three time estimates to determine the weighted average activity time, must have the ability to draw network diagrams by plotting mathematical calculations and giving out as much data as possible, should be able to compare planned progress reports, able to interface with a spreadsheet for financial work, to provide information to non specialists, should be cost relative to the facilities provided, should be able to handle both projected and crash costs and last but not least should have windows which permit different functions in different screens.<br /></li>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:36:16 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>What is Life Insurance?</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Investing/What-is-Life-Insurance.156847</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>In addition to serving as a protective cover, life insurance acts as a flexible money-saving scheme, which empowers you to accumulate wealth-to buy a new car, get your children married and even retire comfortably.</p>
<h3>Need for Life Insurance</h3>
<p>Today, there is plenty of investment options for a person to choose from. Modern day investments include gold, property, fixed income instruments, mutual funds and of course, life insurance. Life insurance is a unique investment that helps you to meet your dual needs - saving for life's important goals, and protecting your assets.</p>
<p>Let us look at these unique benefits of life insurance in detail.</p>
<h3>Asset Protection</h3>
<p>From an investor's point of view, an investment can play two roles - asset appreciation or asset protection. While most financial instruments have the underlying benefit of asset appreciation, life insurance is unique in that it gives the customer the reassurance of asset protection, along with a strong element of asset appreciation.</p>
<p>The core benefit of life insurance is that the financial interests of one's family remain protected from circumstances such as loss of income due to critical illness or death of the policyholder. Simultaneously, insurance products also have a strong inbuilt wealth creation proposition. The customer therefore benefits on two counts and life insurance occupies a unique space in the landscape of investment options available to a customer.</p>
<h3>Goal Based Savings</h3>
<p>Every human has some goals in life for which they need to save. Suppose for a young, newly married couple, it could be buying a house. Once, they decide to have children, the goal changes to saving for the education or in later days marriage of their children. As one grows older, planning for one's retirement and how to maintain same lifestyle after retirement will begin to take precedence.</p>
<p>Clearly, in your different life stage and therefore your financial goals change, the instrument in which you invest should offer corresponding benefits pertinent to the new life stage. And for that life insurance is very good investment. Life insurance is the only investment option that offers specific plans for different life stages. It thus ensures that the benefits offered to a customer reflect the needs of the customer at that particular life stage, and hence ensures that the financial goals of that life stage are met.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FInvesting%2FWhat-is-Life-Insurance.156847"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FInvesting%2FWhat-is-Life-Insurance.156847" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:31:25 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Accounting Impacts to Your Career and Everyday Life</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Accounting/Accounting-Impacts-to-Your-Career-and-Everyday-Life.151931</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>Since the beginning of humankind, accounting is known as the language of business and business is something that cannot be torn away from people for as long as we could remember. Therefore, literally this kind of attachment indicates the importance of accounting in our lives. The concept and terms of accounting are used to describe and measure the events of daily business activities. An accountant measures, aggregates and reports financial information necessary for the sake of decision making by organizational managers, owners, investors, government agencies and other users. From the previous statement, we can see the indication that shows how accounting is important in careers. Everything needs accounting. Whether you are a doctor, or an ordinary office worker, you would still need to play with numbers and take into account the cost of things that you used or used by someone else. Timely and accurate information on operations is crucial to success in the recent days of rapidly changing business environment, and the accountant is the one responsible for the critical business function that mostly though indirectly affects our career and everyday life.</p>
<p>Looking at it from the career wise point of view, accounting has been, through its' importance and the sort of information that it brings opens many career opportunities for people. These opportunities generally are in the public accounting field where many accountants are needed. The ever growing of business environment opens a wide road for many people to become an accountant. A critical function they perform is the preparation and certification for accuracy of financial reports used by individuals outside of the firm such as in investors or government agencies.</p>
<p>In the private accounting field, private accountants are employed by businesses of all types and sizes. They develop accounting reports used by the firms' management for internal decision making as well as prepare reports for external users. Because of the importance of accurate information to decision makers, the internal accountants of many firms are often important members of the management team.</p>
<p>Accounting is needed too in the government sectors. Accounting for many government agencies and other not-for-profit organizations requires special methods and reporting procedures not used in profit-oriented firms. Governmental accountants perform similar functions as do private accountants for local, state and federal agencies and charitable organizations. However, the significant effects of accounting should not only be seen as restricted to accountants only. Other professions require the needs of accounting substantially. For example, a pilot needs to know the cost of fuel and how to minimize the usage of fuel and maximize their flight performance at the same time. A lawyer must take into account the cost of their services that suits the amount of work needed to be done for a case. All of this is because of either one of the two main factors; to survive and maintain in the industry or to be profitable. But of course, many are mainly because of the latter. If people realized the extent and value of the average, domestic cash turnover in the course of a lifetime, it seems amazing that serious, financial management is not already demanded. If an equivalent, small business with similar turnover was not effectively managed, the owners would probably have shareholders, accountants and others, knocking on their doors.</p>
<p>Can accounting promote for a better lifestyle? The answer is a big "YES" and this statement is mere than enough to show how important accounting is in our everyday life. The management and control of personal finance is a subject of immense importance today to people.  With a minimum of investment in time and resources it is now becoming possible for any household to properly manage and control its domestic finances. But how and why is it so important? The answers lie in the current lifestyle of people. In the world that we lived in today, there is barely a single person who lives without a single debt in their life. From credit cards to car loans and housing loans, the chain of debts could go on and on. Furthermore, there are some cases that debts have destroyed many lives and this has become the wake-up call for people. They start to open up their eyes and see how a well-developed accounting and financial management could be a control measure and risk management system in their lives.</p>
<p>Wouldn't it be nice to know exactly where the increases and decreases are coming from and going to, respectively, to whatever degree of detail you need? Of course it would be. Many of us spent without much thought on the impact of the action but some may say that is the beauty of spending but not everyone is a millionaire. It is essential on knowing the proportions being spent on the basic necessities and responsibilities of life, compared to the discretionary, nice-to-haves' of holidays, hobbies, leisure etc. or luxuries; and how well do these represents a fair and proper balance across our expenditure. Life is not as easy as driving on the road with traffic lights and signs along the way, but we still need financial signals in our life whether we are in a comfortable phase or in the danger phase that requires help. Accounting can help people detect these dangers. It can if not much, the least to ensure that your debt is under control and manageable.</p>
<p>Calculating the debits and credits of our everyday life may seem tedious and troublesome to maintain but accounting do not only responsible for that. Accounting can help to measure the outgoings in respect of a variety of different aspect of provision for the long-term future, of which represent a reasonable proportion of the total expenditure. It caters the financial needs of our lives in the short as well as in the long run. To see how accounting have effected and shows importance in our lives can be seen alongside the development in the information technology. Today, increasing numbers of families own or have access to a computer. Software packages for home and personal accounting have been around for a long time. Normal people like us can use the software to maintain their financial stability. The existence of many financial consultant companies also signifies the importance of accounting for the normal people.</p>
<p>It can be concluded that in the era that we are living in today, Families, and retirees depend on the credibility of financial reporting for their futures and livelihoods. With financial pressure amounting in many peoples' lives, accounting is seen as important in so many ways that it is almost impossible to live without it.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FAccounting%2FAccounting-Impacts-to-Your-Career-and-Everyday-Life.151931"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FAccounting%2FAccounting-Impacts-to-Your-Career-and-Everyday-Life.151931" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
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<title>Second Life Land Industry 1: Land Sales</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/E-Commerce/Second-Life-Land-Industry-1-Land-Sales.135937</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>This is the first article of what will be a small series on the economics of the virtual land industry in Second Life by Turbine Mountain, known in Second Life as MouzurX Wise, an experienced Second Life business executive.</p>
 
<h3>Land Sales</h3>
 
<p>The land industry heavily relies on real-life payments, in combination with real-life currency being converted into virtual currency. When the  real-world economic situation is bearish, the land industry will inevitably need to cope with lower demand and lower land prices, as was the case during the real-life global credit crunch during 2007/2008, when land prices dropped from a peak of L$ 12 per square meter in the second quarter of 2007 to around L$ 4.40 per square meter as of May 2008. The land industry is an industry that is currently experiencing consolidation; there are more medium-sized land businesses created then ever before. This is not true for the larger land businesses, that number doesn't increase greatly, with the amount of time required to run a large land business by management being cited as one of the primary reasons for not growing a medium-sized land business into a large one.</p>
 
<h3>Market Overview</h3>
 
<p>In 2007, the price of land was extremely volatile, with prices between L$ 6 and L$ 12. Between 5-10% of all land was on sale on average. More virtual companies in Second Life are in the land industry than any other industry: there's very much competition, including competition from real-world companies. However, because of the drop in land prices and higher operating costs with profit margins dropping from 30-40% to 10-20%, the land business isn't as attractive to start in for new avatars as it once was. Profit margins are suffering from oversupply, volatile economic conditions and the implementation of a new rule by Linden Lab, Second Life's creator, resulting in European residents having to pay VAT when conducting business with Linden Lab.</p>
<p>As European VAT can be as high as 15-20%, virtual land businesses whose owner is based in Europe now have much lower profit margins than the owners of land businesses based elsewhere. When this tax policy was first implemented, the value of land declined rapidly due to European land owners going out of business who put their land on sale. Smaller land businesses disappear, merge with other land businesses or are bought by (larger) players, who are able to survive better in the long run due to their pricing power and resources.</p>
 
<h3>Business Models</h3>
 
<p>There are several business models in this sector of the land industry: Clean areas, with no objects provided by the sim owner. This is the oldest model in virtual worlds, and, while still popular, proves to be too old for new areas (sims) more and more. The profit margin for avatars can be high, but selling clean areas is much more difficult than selling land via other business models if there is oversupply. Instead of clean sims without objects provided by the sim owner, sims with objects provided by the sim owner, such as roads, subways, trams, buses and ATMs are providing very popular at the moment. This model is especially very attractive for businesses and people with an above-average virtual income who'd like a more realistic neighbourhood  or a premium location for their home or business. Another, newer, business model in land sales are private islands.</p>
<p>This business model consists of a sim essentially being a water sim with small islands. These small islands prove to be popular with more affluent   avatars wanting a bit more privacy. This seems to be a large market with a lot of opportunities, but without the competition of real-world companies, since most cannot afford to custom-design a small island for a customer at the moment. Smaller and medium-sized virtual companies can do this, and it seems to be a good and sustaining  business model, with profit possibilities of 25-30%, mostly dependent on the size of the islands and the look of the island and the environment near the island. It also depends on the objects provided by the land lord - if any objects are provided at all.</p>
 
<h3>More Info</h3>
 
<p>The land business. You can begin small and eventually buy a sim from Linden Lab for thousands of real-world US dollars, but be aware of the competition before starting in this industry. Also, watch the average land price very, very carefully. Sometimes, renting out land is a better option. Lots of people lost a lot of money in the virtual land business lately, but if you use a unique, innovative or one of the newer business models and are willing to invest money and time into a land business, it certainly is still possible to take advantage of the current growth of virtual worlds.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FE-Commerce%2FSecond-Life-Land-Industry-1-Land-Sales.135937"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FE-Commerce%2FSecond-Life-Land-Industry-1-Land-Sales.135937" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
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<![CDATA[<p>One great way to market your online writing is to tell everyone that you know about what you are doing and hand them a business card that contains your pen name and website address where your writing can be located and read. The business card should be kept as simple as possible, only containing your name and the address of the website(s) that you have published your work(s) to.Anything more would defeat your overall marketing purpose - to attract an audience and to make an income to that which you love doing.</p>
 
<p>If you are employed and you are able to invite your fellow co-workers to visit your website and read your writings is an excellent marketing opportunity. However, always make sure that you have permission from your employer, before you ever start marketing your writing at your workplace. Some employers do not allow these kinds of self-promotions, but some still do and may allow you to do so on your own time, just as long as you have asked your boss in advance.</p>
 
<p>School and college students have an excellent opportunity to reach hundreds or thousands of potential readers by networking to the student masses that are attending their school(s). Passing out business card or posting flyers on public bulletin boards are great places to start, but attracting the attention of the student newspaper staff would be an even better place to get your name out there in a very big way. If handled correctly, then you might be news enough to get interviewed by the school's newspaper and have your website address published, so that the entire student body will have easy access to the information.</p>
<p>Church is another great place to meet great people and kindly introduce yourself and your writings to those people that you fellowship with each week. Do not go to church only to promote your work to other Christians, but wait until the service is over and maybe in the parking lot or out in the hallway you can pass the business card that you should always have on hand to pass out.</p>
 
<p>Pass out your business cards and/or flyers when visiting your bank or credit union, as these places will usually have a bulletin board, so bank or credit union members can post a flyer or business card for other member's to see. When visiting a local coffee caf&amp;eacute; or eatery, then another good idea would be to leave a couple of your business cards laying near any computer bays or pay phones. Leaving a couple of business cards on the table or counter that you were sitting at is an excellent way to introduce yourself to strangers and you never know, some of them may actually become curious enough to visit your website and stay long enough to read your writings.</p>
<p>Word of mouth is the best form of advertising and these ideas are where it usually starts.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FMarketing-and-Advertising%2FMarketing-for-Beginners-Using-Existing-Offline-Networks.128496"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FMarketing-and-Advertising%2FMarketing-for-Beginners-Using-Existing-Offline-Networks.128496" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
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<![CDATA[<p>The race is over, the rats won. Are you living paycheck-to-paycheck? Another day older and deeper in debt?  Want out? Read on.</p>
 
<p>There are more than seven million millionaires in the USA. What do they have that you do not? They have a plan. They know exactly how much they have today and they have a plan for how much they will have tomorrow, next year, and the next ten years.</p>
 
<p>Your plan needs to include the following:</p>
 
<p>Get out of debt.  Start by making a commitment to yourself not to take on any new debt. Make a list of your debts. In one column show the total amount owed. In the next column show the monthly payment. Order the list by the lowest debt first. Take every extra penny every month and pay it to the first debt while making the minimum payments to the rest. When the first debt is paid off take all the money you were paying the first debt add it to the minimum payment for the second debt and send it in until the second debt is paid off. Keep going until you are out of debt. This snowball effect will get you out a lot faster than you think.</p>
 
<p>Get a higher paying job or take a second job. (I did not say that this would be easy.)</p>
 
<p>Cut out unnecessary expenses like premium channels, fastest broadband, expensive trips, eating out all the time, etc.</p>
 
<p>Once you are out of debt set up an automatic deposit for the amount you were paying to creditors to go directly into an investment account. Invest in solid, large, no load mutual funds. The growth rate of making a large deposit every month into an account that will average 12% over the long run will amaze you.</p>
 
<p>Now that your nest egg is growing, and growing fast, decide how much you need to live on. Do not guess. Do not even use fancy calculators. Look at what you have to pay each month. Include an amount for health insurance, (and do not guess at this either, do the research), include an amount for entertainment. Try living on this amount, minus the insurance payment, for six months and see what adjustments you may need.</p>
 
<p>Once you have a good number, determine the size of the nest egg you will need to generate that much money each month at a low return. Use the Prime interest rate here. This is incredibly low true, but you want to start to shift your money into guaranteed return accounts as you get closer to leaving the rat race. You should also consider the advantage of going over your goal by 10% so that you can continue to grow your nest egg.</p>
 
<p>Hard work? Yes. Takes a long time? Not as long as you think. Worth it? Only you can answer that.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FInvesting%2FEscape-the-Rat-Race-and-Retire-Rich.81451"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FInvesting%2FEscape-the-Rat-Race-and-Retire-Rich.81451" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
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