Archive for February, 2009

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) – How to use it to Fight Email Forgery

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Spam is a real problem today. Forged email is a big part of the spam problem. Have you ever received a spam email from yourself? How many times have you received an email you know to be spam from someone only to find out it came from an invalid email address? When you try to block the email by choosing block sender, the spammer simply changes the email address to another variation and gets through the block. Until recently, there wasn’t much you could do about it. Now there is.

What is Sender Policy Framework (SPF)?

SPF makes it easy for a domain, whether it’s an ISP, a business, or a school to say that they only send mail from certain machines. If any other machine is claiming to send mail, they are lying. SPF aims to prevent spammers from ruining other people’s reputation. When your machine receives an email from another server that has implemented SPF, your machine can easily tell if the incoming email really comes from the server it says it belongs to. More information about SPF can be found at http://spf.pobox.com/

By implementing SPF in your favorite application or on your server, you can be sure that a spammer will never be able to impersonate you when spamming others. Most well known domains and email applications have already implemented SPF on their servers and products. Some examples of vendors that are already implementing SPF into their products include Sophos, Symantec, Declude Junkmail, Brightmail, IronPort, Ciphertrust, MailArmory, MailFrontier, Roaring Penguin Software, Communigate Pro, and others.

Ready to fight email forgery? Install applications that support SPF today and get protected from email forgery!

EzineArticles Expert Author Joe Duchesne

This article was written by Joe Duchesne, president of http://www.yowling.com/, a web hosting company that specializes in helping online business owners increase their website traffic. Copyright 2004 Yowling. Reprint Freely as long as you link back to my website from this resource box.

How to Convince Your Visitors to Return Often

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

One visit does not make a sale. Be sure to make your Web site attractive to your visitors so that they want to come back. You don’t win their trust right away. It may take 4-7 visits before they buy.

Here’s Five Ways:

1. Check and Correct What’s Not Working

First, be sure you don’t have long passages of bio or information about yourself on your home page. People don’t care about you and they want information short and sweet. They want solutions to their challenges and they want free information.

Second, test all of your links often to make sure they work. Nothing discourages buyers more than disorganized copy, links that don’t work, and difficulty getting to where they want to go.

2. Upload New, Original, and Useful Content Often

On every Web site page put a notice “Bookmark our Web Site. We update material weekly.”

Follow up by uploading new “free articles,” book excerpts, ezines, and tips as promised. Blatant ads such as banners turn visitors off. Give them original information they can’t find anywhere else, and make it free. Giving freely is a proven online marketing philosophy.

3. Publish Your Own Ezine

Without an original ezine, you can’t stay in touch with your potential buyers easily. They want regular, ongoing information to develop the trust it takes to buy. You need to prove you are the industry expert and a savvy friend. If you don’t stay in touch, your readers will forget you and your products.

Start with a monthly ezine then see if bi-weekly works for you. Start writing short tips and articles to include. You can later recycle these to the opt-in ezines and other Web sites that want free, new information. If you think you lack content, start subscribing to ezines in your targeted market. Other authors gladly allow you to use their information when you include a signature file.

If visitors like your ezine they will recommend it to others.

4. Offer a Questions and Answers Page

To get visitors to return offer them answers to typical questions they may have. Freely given, you not only establish yourself as the expert, you gain their trust and support.

5. Offer a Navigation Bar of “Useful Links”

Your visitors will appreciate the ability to contact others in your field. These links add value to your site because people like the convenience of checking out products and services–all on one Web site–yours! This method also may raise your standing with the search engines. An added benefit–you meet others to network with, to support as they will you.

Web visitors appreciate new content and contacts to make their quest for information, service or products easier. You’ll reap many rewards when you accommodate them.

Judy Cullins ©2004 All Rights Reserved.

Judy Cullins, 20-year Book and Internet Marketing Coach works with small business people who want to make a difference in people’s lives, build their credibility and clients, and make a consistent life-long income. Judy is author of 10 eBooks including Write your eBook or Other Short Book Fast, Ten Non-Techie Ways to Market Your Book Online, The Fast and Cheap Way to Explode Your Targeted Web Traffic, and Power Writing for Web Sites That Sell. She offers free help through her 2 monthly ezines, “The BookCoach Says…,” “Business Tip of the Month,” blog Q & A at http://www.bookcoaching.com and over 185 free articles.

Email her at Judy@bookcoaching.com or Cullinsbks@aol.com
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Overseas Gambling Keeps Gamers Playing

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Memphis G Douglas-Roberts heading to NBA

Some risk takers have encountered the expression “offshore sports betting”, but a few maybe aren’t entirely in the know what it really means. A foreign betting website fundamentally works extraneous to the scope of a given land alternatively it could be a networked gambling web site which has all of its computer servers in a country where machine-accessible gaming is not illicit. Briefly therefore, it’s a sports gambling establishment running extraneous to the area of the patron. Internet based sports wagering web sites are currently governed with the help of three assemblies. These are designated OSGA (the Offshore Gaming Association), IGC (Interactive Gaming Council) and the Fidelity Trust Gaming Association (the FTGA).

The Offshore Gaming Association is an independent authority that currently watches the thriving overseas betting trade with the objective of to also afford the populace a simple way to to quickly find reputable internet enterprises to play games with. The OSGA labors to defend sports betting buff’s rights, and in addition they do not demand any enrollment charges. The Offshore Gaming Association are a professional not to mention neutral third party company who give impartial conclusions, established around customer feedback, unprejudiced research, telephone chats, industry insider tips and additionally offers inside gossip.

The IGC is a non commercially driven organisation. The organisation has been set up to furnish an arena for interested participants to address problems also to communal worries in the global online gaming profession, in an effort to establish equitable and dependable business protocols and procedures that aim to improve buyer trust in online gaming products and functions, also to function as the gambling trade’s general policy defender and in addition the Interactive Gaming Council supplies an info base.

The IGC has established a reputation for dependability, equity and believability due to the principles it presents, also its appeal for honest commercial enterprises. The IGC influences offshore sports betting by means of utilising an extraordinary ten step code of conduct and also charges sports betting business concerns a fee to display the council’s logo. Dissatisfied clients may furthermore report any of their arguments to the Interactive Gaming Council.

The FTGA was established in a venture to generate a standard which will upgrade the criteria of on-line sports gaming commercial enterprises. The authority believe that by carrying on trade with websites of honorable standing, they can put together an alliance of the most sportsmanlike and most efficient overseas betting companies world-wide.

So, these are establishments which supervise the procedures of web based gaming and which should in time assist to take the sting out of any insecurities held by detractors. Live sports gambling web sites are completely trustworthy, beacuse personal data are not a necessity also the compensation not to mention the odds are equivalent to a normal Vegas-style bet. They reduce the traveling expenditure, but keep the underlying atmosphere, but nowadays you can gamble in the comfort of your own home.

The Myth Of 101 Ways To Market Your Website

Friday, February 13th, 2009

“101 Ways To Market Your Website” is the title of a book found at a cheap publisher’s outlet in town for about three quid and purchased out of interest.

So, we sat down with a cup of coffee and worked our way through the index, see what these people thought was useful, and if there was something new there.

Extraordinarily enough, in my past 10 years on the net, I’ve done EVERY SINGLE ONE of those!

EVERY single one. And some of them, I could have added another 12 chapters on top of what was in the book.

Question. If I actually really do know how to do that web thing so very thoroughly (and it appears that I actually really and practically do!), then why don’t I have 9 billion visitors per second?

The answer is simple.

EVERY ONE of these 101 ways TAKES IMMENSE INVESTMENT IN TIME – IF you’re going to do it right and get it to a point where it actually works well enough to really start generating that mysteriously elusive web traffic for your site.

Let’s just take a single one for example, the autoresponder, in all its glory.

Even if we leave out the time spent learning the software, soliciting ads, writing the content, if you really, REALLY did that thoroughly, with a number of multiple chained autoresponders with thousands or tens of thousands of subscribers on each one, the sign up pages, advertising the sign up pages, keeping the whole thing up to date and dealing with the correspondence this generates, the trouble shooting, unsubscriptions, and everything else, you would end up doing NOTHING ELSE ALL DAY – and have a full working week.

And that is just ONE item on a “101″ item list.

The same holds true for EVERYTHING.

To really build, use, police, update, enlarge and maintain a top class directory, a 40 hour working week by ONE SINGLE PERSON with their computer is taken up, just with that and ONLY that.

To run, police, advertise and expand a popular forum is yet the same again.

To produce an exciting, content rich, constantly up to date blog that brings in followers and sales, yup, it’s a full time task.

To produce, maintain, advertise and run a really good ezine does exactly the same again.

So does “article marketing” with its multiple submissions, updates, multiple directory listings, authors bios, and so forth.

And so does “newsgroup marketing” once again.

Want to try your hand at running a good affiliate programme?

How about keyword optimising each and every page of your website with content alignment, meta tags, robot instructions, and maintaining this with feedback on your listings in various search engines to keep in the top ten as the fashions change radically overnight?

Perhaps a multiple placement dedicated banner advertising campaign with feedback statistic adjustments?

Really get into Google adwords and maintain, track, fine tune and keep it perfectly up to date in response to your competitors and customers?

Same story, all over …

And so it goes on.

Here’s the deal.

All these things, I only did in order to support the business I’m actually SUPPOSED TO BE IN!

My 40 hour working week (well don’t make me laugh! but anyway, just for argument’s sake and to have a figure there) SHOULD theoretically be taken up by research and writing, as I’m a writer.

So what we have here is 101 ways to spend a full 40 hour week, plus your own job’s 40 hour week.

Shame we don’t live on Pluto, isn’t it. They have weeks that last centuries …

So what is ONE SINGLE PERSON trying to do web marketing supposed to do?

Well, and after ten years of beating myself up for not doing all those things “properly”, I think the following is of the essence.

No.1 is to understand that unless you have dedicated staff, there is no way on Earth you can do all of that yourself.

There simply isn’t enough time, even if we leave the steep learning curves and time spent trying to understand software and such quite out of it.

So what one has to do is to pick and choose from these 101 strategies the ones that are:

a) the easiest and fastest; b) the ones that last the longest on autopilot; c) the most natural to what you’re supposed to be doing in the first place (yeah that’s the original job/product/mission, remember that even still?)

If you like databases but abhor article writing, concentrate on building a good directory and forget about article submissions, for example.

We need to prune, prioritise and perfect only a very few of these 101 options, and stick to those.

That’s the only way to survive this.

It is to understand that you PHYSICALLY CANNOT do all that; that if you try, you can’t help but fail at everything (as then, NOTHING gets the attention it needs to actually bring results eventually!); and that you have to PICK AND CHOOSE which battles you’re going to fight.

Lastly, all that 101 traffic stuff has to be subjugated to the real reason we’re here, whatever that is, and must NEVER be allowed to get to a point where it is taking up more than 50% of your time.

So.

Go look at a list of these internet marketing devices.

Pick just those you are naturally attracted to, and just FORGET about all the rest.

Try and make those as good as you can, and build up your business to a point like that until you can hire staff and manpower to expand into some of the other traffic generating devices.

And in the meantime, take a deep breath, relax, and know that NO-ONE, not even someone with 8 tentacles instead of arms and who never sleeps, can actually do that myth and successfully implement “101 Ways To Advertise Your Website”.

Wisdom is a fine thing …

SFX :-)

Silvia Hartmann http://SilviaHartmann.com

New York Mayor Supports E-Waste Drive

Friday, February 13th, 2009

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who took the helm of running the city after Rudolph Guiliani left the post in late 2001, loudly voiced out his support for the recycling of accumulated e-wastes. Electronic wastes, or e-wastes, refer to old television sets, cellular phones, laptops, cameras, radios, telephones, and other electronic equipment and gadgets that have seen better days.

Michael Bloomberg acknowledges that electronic junk constitutes a large fraction of the total amount of wastes produced, which is why recycling them is a critical option if the number of wastes generated is to be reduced. It is also important to note that e-wastes are dangerous to the environment as they contain hazardous metals and elements like cadmium, mercury, and lead.

The New York City mayor also stressed the importance of developing and employing strategies that will increase the efficiency of collecting electronic wastes. One of Michael Bloomberg’s ambitious moves with regard to e-waste issues is the passing of Intro. 104, which puts the recycling responsibilities of e-wastes on the electronic product manufacturer’s shoulders.

Intro. 104, which was passed by the New York City Government in 2006, states that manufacturers are mandated to take back and recycle discarded electronics devices. Fines will be imposed on both the residents for improper disposal of their electronic garbage, and on manufacturers should they fail to meet recycling standards.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the first government official to pass and implement an e-waste bill signed in the United States.

Jamie Gorelick was the Commissioner of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States.

Jamie Gorelick published an article entitled “A New Agenda For Justice” for the Washington Post.

Jamie Gorelick is an advisor for President Barack Obama.

Harvard Professors and TV Producers – Do They Really Know Much About the Second Coming of Christ

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

In a world bent on acquiring ever more knowledge being referred to as being intelligent has supplanted the idea of a moral and decent life. I attended a funeral where the deceased was known for having been a cranky, ungodly, unloving man throughout his entire life. I thank God I wasn’t asked to give the eulogy. The person that had to deliver the eulogy was hard put to find a decent word to say about the deceased. I will never forget the single word he was able to find in praise for decedent. He said “he was as we all know, a very intelligent man.”

While being intelligent has never been a requirement for entering the kingdom of God it is also not required for interpreting the scriptures or the exposition of biblical prophecies. That does not mean that it is left to the ignorant to tell what is in the scripture. It is the believing and faithful alone that are allowed to see what the word of God is saying. Jesus said the Pharisees heard what he was saying but because they chose not to believe it, its truth was concealed from them regardless of their intelligence. Both the Pharisees and today’s scholars and scoffers are still making true the adage that “The worldly say let me see and then I’ll believe while the Godly say I believe and thus they see”

That revelation and understanding is kept from certain people has nothing to do with their intelligence or the lack of it. In fact it is God himself who promises to keep them in the dark because of their unbelief.

He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. Matthew 13:11

And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. Luke 8:10

In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. Luke 10:21

The Apostle Paul scoffed at the scoffers especially those who fancied themselves men of letters and of science. O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. 1 Timothy 6:20,21

The learned have never understood the principle of revelation. It is not what we learn that shows what God is saying but it is what God reveals to us about what he has said that matters. This principle is seen in Christ’s answer to Peter when Peter told him that he knew Jesus was the Son of the Living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. Matthew 16:17

When the history channel aired its review of the Christian view of the apocalypse they called on several prominent university professors to comment on the renewed interest in the doctrines of the second coming of Christ. Many allusions were also drawn from movies like “Left Behind and the Omen. After presenting what is commonly believed in the church today about the second coming, the remainder of the program was used to de-bunk or cast doubt on those views. Calling on the views and comments of unbelieving doctors of divinity and TV and Hollywood puppets, they managed to raise more questions than they answered. Although not a laughing matter it seemed as if they were getting their best answers from Dr. Twiddle D.D. and Rufus T. Firefly. I think it’s safe to say that the apostles, prophets and certified bible preachers in any generation are far more believable than those the history channel chose to speak for them.

Before Christ was born in Bethlehem King Herod wanted to know where he was to be born. He asked his scribes and priests who after checking the writings of the prophets they informed Herod that he would be born in Bethlehem of Ephrata. Two amazing things can be learned from this little bit of scripture. First, what could be known about Christ’s first coming was readily available through prophecies contained in scripture. The second was that this knowledge was used to perform one of the bloodiest child massacres in the history of the world.

Nothing much has changed over the years. All that can be known about Christ’s second coming can still be found in the scriptures. And for those who are unbelieving and evil that knowledge will be scoffed at or misused to conduct themselves and others to their own inevitable judgment.

Michael Bresciani - EzineArticles Expert Author

Rev Bresciani has written many articles over the past thirty years in such periodicals as Guideposts and Catholic Digest. He is the author of two books available on Amazon.com, Alibris, Barnes and Noble and many other places. Rev Bresciani wrote “Hook Line and Sinker or what has Your Church Been Teaching You,” publisher, PublishAmerica of Baltimore MD. He also wrote a book published by Xulon Press entitled “An American Prophet and His Message, Questions and Answers on the Second Coming of Christ.” His book is now being heralded as the clearest book on the subject of the second coming of Christ since Hal Lindsey’s “Late Great Planet Earth” Rev Bresciani’s website is,

http://americanprophet.org

10 High-Level Tactics For Increasing Your Sales!

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

1. Spend money on targeted advertising instead of mass media advertising. You don’t want to waste your ad dollars on people who aren’t interested.

2. Increase your profits by concentrating on small details. Improving small things like text size, color, or graphics can really make a positive difference.

3. Keep your offers flexible. If you offer a set price for your product, you could offer the people that can’t afford it an optional payment plan.

4. Offer your knowledge or consulting as a bonus product. You could offer a free 15 or 30 minute consultation. This will add value to your product.

5. Personalize all your e-mail messages so they get read. Include the recipient’s name in the subject line. This will grab people’s attention quickly.

6. Keep your web site consistent. You don’t want to keep things on your web site that are unrelated to the theme of your web site.

7. Attract more subscribers to your free e-zine by giving them free bonuses like e-books, software, online services and other incentives.

8. Sell advertising space in your e-zine and on your web site. This will create an extra income stream for your business.

9. Make your web site ready for the public. Have an “About Us” page and clear descriptions of what actions you want your visitors to take.

10. Don’t just start advertising everywhere, plan out your marketing. Locate places and publications that your target audience would congregate around.

Online Rake Back Deals: so What’s the Latest?

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Many a gamer has asked “Why would I need any rakeback deal? I just play in internet poker web sites when I have an incentive.” What will happen if one of these days you decide to take poker up professionally? There are too many betters who regret dismissing Full Tilt Poker rakeback however now all of them have opted in for all the leading poker web sites. Do not become one of them.

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If you are a bettor that bets less than a couple of dollars and only bets when clearing bonus payments, you are getting usually around a hundred percent rake back considering the bonus payment on the wager. A certain major poker web site lately shut down poker players who logged into their gambling web site just to gamble this way. It’s anyone’s guess if this might inspire a new trend. If it happens then instantly a poker rake back will be an essential. Someday you may hit top form and grow very prosperous, if it has not occurred by now. I was injured in an on the job accident and came upon online poker while I was recovering and I never regretted it. That occured more than 2 years back now and believe me I have not even once required a job since thanks to online gambling and naturally rakeback. It is great plan to look ahead. Consider it as an investment for the future, even if you don’t consider rakeback is suitable for you today it certainly could be an outstanding strategy in the future, there is no way you can miss. Should you be thinking about signing up for any different web sites you really should sign up for rake back.

The Rakeback Professionals organization is delighted to be associated with so many respectable partners. It is as easy as surfing to any Rakeback Professionals affiliate internet site or as accessible as e-mailing. The partner can easily set anyone up at once. You can begin playing straight away. Sign up with an affiliate through Rakeback Professionals you can always be confident as every single affiliate has been screened and also agrees to allow The Rakeback Professionals site to mediate whatever dispute you may experience. Since we evaluate all our associates, issues have been few and futhermore we will invariably move swiftly to rectify every complaint to protect the card players.

Find out about the Common Condition that Is Baldness in Guys

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

The most widespread sort of hair loss is a regular hair diminishing state called androgenic alopecia more frequently known as male pattern baldness that happens in grown-up male individuals and many other wild life.

Furthermore, pattern hair loss is also inherited, and the genetic material is passed to a baby from either mum or dad, and not just the mum, as had been earlier considered. Pattern hair loss in gentlemen is the most common variety of hair loss, and generally entails a declining hairline & hair loss on the peak of the skull. The major cause of baldness in guys is dihydrotestosterone, or abbreviated to DHT, a by-product of the male hormone testosterone. An added explanation of hair loss in gentlemen is hairstyle.

Baldness is not only a human facet. Baldness is a state of play where there is no hair present in the area where it grows, by and large this is on the skull and happens in either human beings & wildlife. Baldness in gentlemen is prominent as each & bloke has a baldness causing factor in his body’s makeup.

Baldness is truly a terrifying condition to endure, particularly for bloke, in which this is much more particular. Blokes who are not happy with their physical appearance might well elect on medicine that can stimulate the regrowth of hair strands and aid to stop extra hair loss.

What leads to male-pattern hair loss is when the hair cells begins to get smaller due to a accumulation of the hormone testosterone and various natural body chemicals. What most people don’t recognise is that the result of hair loss are interrelated to numerous things that regularly have little or anything to do with hair development or baldness. Male hair loss, male pattern baldness or androgenic alopecia, is an hereditary condition which leads to male baldness or extensive male hair loss in more or less 66% of all gentlemen. Advanced Hair and Scalp Fitness Program offers the chance to restore your confidence of looking good again.

Get Tough

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

You deal with rejections, frustrations, disappointment, and possibly disrespect on a daily basis. You probably experience more emotional ups and downs than most other professionals. And, no matter how successful you are, your income is less predictable than that of salaried employees. As a salesperson, your level of mental and emotional toughness affects you everyday, both on and off the job.

Being mentally and emotionally tough is less about what you say and do than it is about how you feel about what you say and do. For example, if your feelings about asking a prospect to make a decision keep you from asking, then you start a downward spiral to nowhere. First, you’re uncomfortable asking, so you don’t ask and end up wasting time with a non-qualified prospect. You get angry with yourself and/or the prospect for wasting time. All these negative feelings and actions only serve to tear down your emotional and mental well-being.

Here’s a Sandler rule: “Never become emotionally involved in a sales call, especially a cold call.” Being emotionally tough doesn’t mean that you have no emotions or that you are a cold person. It means that you have learned how to control your emotions so they don’t keep you from doing what you have to do.

Excerpted from the President’s Club Professional Development Program (trainer edition) © 2000 Sandler Systems, Inc. All rights reserved

Dan Hudock is an owner of the Sandler Sales Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. He can be reached at (724) 940-2388 or dan@sandler.com. His web site is: http://www.dan.sandler.com