It is tempting. Very tempting. You work for the Man and dream about being on your own, working flexible hours, choosing projects you like, calling yourself a full-time webdesign freelancer. Before you make your decision to “jump”, living your current employer, find out what professionals have to say about realities of being a freelancer. Maybe it is not the right moment for you? Maybe you are not good enough yet? Or maybe you don’t see great advantages of your current workplace? Good research is the key point so you can base your decision on facts not feelings and expectations.
One of the biggest areas next to gambling. In this category the most successful Affiliate Marketers make money online from people looking for:
debit cards,
credit cards,
loans,
mortgages,
debt consolidation,
insurance packages.
Hotels & Holidays
Contrary to porn and drugs (medicines), hotels and holiday packages is a legal category without any ethical issues. It is a very competitive industry, like personal finance, but it is worth to grab a chunk of such a big market. Cheap hotels and luxury hotels are one of the most popular phrases. When it comes to holidays, holiday deals and cheap holidays is what people are very often searching for.
“A lot of productivity advice offers great hints for speeding up particular tasks: perhaps by concentrating better, by eliminating distractions and interruptions, or by learning to use Firefox, Gmail and other common programs more efficiently.But what can you do if simply saving five minutes here and ten minutes there isn’t enough? What if you want hours more space in your life, or if you feel constantly overloaded and busy?” http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/5-big-ways-to-add-time-to-you-days.html
Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein: Part Deux
“Given the great response to the article “10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein” I’ve decided to publish the other seven lessons that I originally intended to include in that article. These were cut out because I feared the article was too long. However, I now believe that these seven lessons are even more profound than the original ten.For those who didn’t get a chance to read the earlier article, let me begin by…” http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/amazing-life-lessons-you-can-learn-from.html
5 Ways To Slay The Un-Motivation Demon
“Are you having a hard time getting motivated? Know what you want to do, but it’s a challenge kicking yourself in the butt to get up and do it? You’re being haunted by the un-motivation demon. Fortunately, there are 5 ways to slay it. You could be making attempts to get out there and do what you’re setting out to do. And even begin to get results here or there. But your surroundings, circumstances, and negative or lazy forces…” http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/5-ways-to-slay-the-un-motivation-demon/
How to Cure the Love/Hate Email Relationship
“For most of us, email is our bipolar friend. Sometimes we love it and other times it’s our worst enemy. It’s there for us when we’re bored. It’s there when we’re trying to avoid work that makes us uncomfortable. It provides a delightful kind of anticipation every time we open it. Maybe there’s something new and important there. Maybe something exciting and wonderful. But other times it creates a whole lot of… http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2010/03/18/stop-email-overwhelm/
Compounding Time: Create More Free Time by Investing it Wisely
“Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that compound interest is the foundation of investing. But what does compounding have to do with the other 8 hours? A great deal. How you invest your other 8 hours determines your happiness and financial success. If you squander this critical time, it’s like putting $50 under your mattress. It won’t provide you with any return. For that $50 to grow, it must be invested. For your…” http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/compounding-time-create-more-free-time-by-investing-it-wisely/
In this video, Jeff Han and Phil Davidson demonstrate how a multi-touch driven computer screen will change the way we work and play. This looks like a perfect experience with PC -more natural and efficient. But is it really the way you would like to work for 10 hourse a day? After an hour your hands can become tired.
Remapping the Universe
Of course, you can change an orientation of the presented screen to horizontal but still I think the future is in the devices where a small move of your fingers, or even your thought, simulates movement presented in the video. Like a trackball – little effort and a pointer goes from left to right.
It looks ordinary on the first glance but when you scroll down to the bottom you realise it is not so casual. Being creative sometimes means to show simple things in a different way. Have a look: http://www.recycledhuman.com/vitae.php
For my projects I use Google Analytics because it answers all the questions I have about the traffic on my websites. Although I realised it is worth to have a deeper look into the available stats solutions when I found Crazyegg on the Internet. It allows you to “Get a clearer picture of where your visitors are clicking and enhance your site’s results”.
I haven’t tested it yet but it is worth attention.
One of the reasons I have started sharingmatters.com was to collect links of ‘must-read’ articles found on the internet.
Does Your Copy Hold Up To A Quick Glance? is one of such editorials. It is a professionally written article, based on eyetracking researches, aimed on explaining how to keep the visitors on your website and let them read your content insted of just scanning it. If you have anything to do with webdesigning, you’ve got to read it!
This post is also a great occasion to recommend you the website where the above article is published: www.digital-web.com
We Are What We Do is a new movement inspiring people to use their everyday actions to change the world.
They say the average Briton uses 167 plastic bags every year – 10 billion in total. The answer is the creation by Anya Hindmarch bears the slogan “I’m not a plastic bag”, and is aimed at encouraging people to reuse bags when they go shopping.
A designer bag due to go on sale for charity for ???5 is being touted on the auction website eBay for up to ???175.
The reusable cotton bag was launched at London Fashion Week and handed out to a limited number of celebrities and fashion insiders.
If you live in the UK you can claim back your bank account, credit card and store card penalty charges. BBC publish a step-by-step guide how to do that: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6170209.stm.
Banks are making billions of pounds each year from penalty charges. But now the legality of these charges – which cost their customers an average of ???30 a time – is being called into question and thousands of customers want their money back.
Wikipedia is a free encyklopedia where people all over the world manage the content of it. You can find the answers to many questions very quickly and without paying a penny. But you need to be careful because this is not as reliable source of knowledge as Britannica.
It came out that one of the promintent editoris and administrators of Wikipedia, Essjay, was found to have posted false information on his Wikipedia userpage. “He had claimed to hold doctoral degrees in theology and canon law as a tenured professor at a private university he was in fact a community college dropout from the U.S. state of Kentucky and had relied on sources such as Catholicism for Dummies when editing articles”. He had edited over 20,000 phrases on the Wikipedia.
Paul Montwill specializes in Digital and E-commerce Strategies, Online Marketing and industry analysis. He is an E-commerce Sales Director in one of the European IT companies, a blogger and he offers consultancy.
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For my projects I use Google Analytics because it answers all the questions I have about the traffic on my websites. Although I realised it is worth to have a deeper look into the available stats solutions when I found 
