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Working from home has become more and more popular and there are businesses starting up everywhere, as a lot of people are getting tired of waking up early only to realize that they have to make a long commute to a job they hate, working for a person or a company they do not want to work for.

There are so many great benefits to working from home, you can wake up whenever you want or need to and there is basically no commuting, all you do is walk to your home office. There are a few things to keep in mind however when working from home, you need to take all of your aspects of your home business seriously.

The home business you are involved in should be something you truly love and are dedicated to doing,if it is something you are truly interested in, taking it seriously and the hard work it takes to make the business successful should not be a problem, if it is something you are not passionate about, it could get easy to get lazy and slack off and make it harder for your business to succeed.

Doing some research and exploration can be a good thing for a home business as well, since you are on your own, you have nobody telling you to do it one way or another.

Why not try multiple ways to become successful until you find the one that works the best for you, the world moves very quickly and people are coming up with better and better ideas.

Why not become informed about those ideas and even develop your own, the Internet is the most powerful tool a person with a home business has, you can not do anything without the Internet now, especially when trying to operate a business, it is a tool that lets you communicate with people all around the world.

You can also use it as a powerful marketing tool and draw people to a home business website that gives people information about your business and what you are trying to sell, these are just a few things you should be aware of when working from home, working from home is great because you are your own boss and you are on your own time, you have to realize, though that this is not a vacation, hard work is necessary to make money and become successful, and that is the ultimate goal in the end.

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Make money online is what many many people dream. The idea of working online gives us a lot of benefits such as the freedom of working at your own pace, working in your underwear, no need to wake up early, escape the morning traffic rush & so on. The benefits is just too many to say it here.

There are many ways to make money online but there are one important tool you need to master to be able to generate an income online. This important tool is the Internet. You need to understand how it works to be able to tap on this great resources. With this, Internet marketing plays an important role in helping you to make money online. You will be lost without any knowledge in internet marketing.

There are many marketing techniques in Internet Marketing but I won't go into much detail into it. So now how do you really make money online with Internet Marketing? There are many ways to do that.

Many people blog for a living. They blog about anything that interest them & the readers. Blogging is one medium people use to get traffic & it turn convert that traffic into income. Bloggers sell advertising ads space to advertisers. There are also many programs in the internet such as PayPerPost, Text Link Ads, Paid Reviews for them to monetize their blog. As such, blogging is a popular way to make money online.

Another popular way is doing internet network marketing to make money online. There many popular network marketing or MLM programs out there. A good example is the Success University. Most network marketing programs do offer recruiting by using the internet without having to face the person. However, you need to be very good in internet marketing.

Now the most easiest way to make money online is none other than affiliate marketing. You don't have to have a product, a website, no need to keep track on inventory, no need to handle credit cards transaction, don't bother about customer enquiries & many more.

This means that you promote other people products in exchange for a commission. It is the most easiest proven business model to make money online. You will be given a affiliate link plus a few marketing tips or tolls from the product owner. However not all product owners provide you marketing tools.

All you need to do now is to promote your chosen affiliate program link & if someone click on your link & decided to buy it, you make a commission from the transaction.

I would suggest to you if you are just starting out on your quest in achieving your financial freedom online, becoming a affiliate marketer is best & easiest way in making money online. Just go here to get access & get started to become a super affiliate marketer immediately.

In summary, in order to make money online, you need to be knowledgeable in internet marketing. The success depend on your understanding of the internet skills. The internet is so huge that the potential of making money online can never end.



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Lately, my family and friends visited our hometown, the City of Gentle People, Dumaguete City, Philippines.

Though it was only a 3-day stay there but everybody had lots of fun. And I myself was very much happy seeing my mother and my siblings, relatives and friends as well. I traveled with my motorcycle and the rest took a 5-6 hours trip through Ceres Bus Liner.

We left home early of April 4, 2011 past 3am and arrived in Dumaguete City past 10am. Though the trip going there was tiresome but the thrill and excitement to be once again with my family overcame it all. My mother was surprised when I arrived because we intended not to inform them of our visit. We all had a healthy lunch and everyone was full and took time resting while I looked for some cold beer to cool me off :).

Before the sun sets that very day, we all decided to stroll around at the famous Boulevard, just a walk away from our home. We ordered delicacies that were offered there and after that we roamed the length of the boulevard and took pictures as keepsake especially for some of our friends who were first timers in Dumaguete City. We all went home and took a full dinner with the family. Beers and hard drinks were visible that night and I slept well after a round of drinks as everyone also did for the next day's activities.

The cocks from the neighborhoods woke me up at around 5am and as usual I did my early morning rituals before I took a cup of hot coffee while the rest of the group were still asleep. The sun was so bright that very day and we all took breakfast and planned what's the next activity to do and where to go to. We all decided to have beach party. So the whole morning was so busy preparing for foods to bring to the beach. The group arrived at the beach before lunchtime and we all took our lunch there while the kids took time swimming at the clear blue seas that quietly rushes to the shores.

The sun was atop of us and the heat was so inviting. We took time spending at the beach taking pictures and swimming at the depths while the kids were left at the shorelines. The day ended with us all full of smiles and enjoyments.... with traces of tan among our skins... and of course the rest of us were bit drunk when we decided to go home.

The next day being the last day of our short stay was planned to visit the grave of my father at Valencia, Negros Oriental, the origin of the known Palimpinon Geothermal Plant.


We all set to go as early as possible because after our visit to my father we will all be proceeding to a mountain resort to spend the rest of the day dipping at the cold waters in the pool. The following scenes were taken inside the mountain resort.

It is best recommended to have your affiliate program links posted on your website rather than giving them openly.

Why is it so? Simply because you are promoting products or services and by doing so will not likely invite visitors to click that link if it is posted openly like in open forums or  social networking sites. 


Here are some reasons to consider: 

• your website will describe better the products or services that you promote
• you can provide links to other products or services in your site that would enable your visitor to choose
• you can place testimonies in your site or your own personal experience 
• reviews of the benefits that the product or services extend
• you can submit your site to Search Engine Optimization sites (SEO)
• having an affiliate link posted in the open forum or social networking sites will not guarantee your registration if the viewer removes the affiliate code

Take note of this:

Some affiliate programs normally placed your user name at the site's link for you to promote online. Be aware of the code that looks something like this http://www.affiliateprogram.com/?r=myusername. That is precisely your affiliate code and by posting that to open forum or social networking sites will enable the advanced viewer to remove your user name and visit the site to sign up, thus you lose referral commission.


How to make the referral code looks like a site's URL?

You can either join programs that shrinks URLs but the links don't work well in promoting affiliate programs because most are hard to remember and looks like not a trusted site anymore.

Check these sites and how they shrink your long URLs into a compact and short one:

• Adf.ly
• Ity.im

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Wikipedia defines Internet fraud as:

Internet fraud refers to the use of Internet services to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to others connected with the scheme. Internet fraud can occur in chat rooms, email, message boards or on websites.

Who really are the perpetrators? 

Usually these computer attacks are done by people called crackers who break into computer systems illegally. Cracking a computer system lately became more of an activity with criminal intent.

Fraud nowadays is everywhere primarily because of the internet. Aside from crackers, there are other malicious individuals who steal money and information. They are the ones responsible for acts such as phishing, spamming, identity theft, and the so called intellectual property theft. They normally enlist the services of crackers when engaging in such activities.

Other criminals simply prey on anyone looking for a way to make money online, disguising themselves offering employment or any form of small online business.




Is your credit card information safe?

The most noted modes of committing fraud on the Internet are phishing and identity theft. The later is the systematic attempt to gain some personal information. These perpetrators copy the information from another person's credit card and use it in purchasing items from the Internet. Phishing is obtaining sensitive information like passwords, credit card details, PINs through deception. You can found it usually in your emails or instant messages. They normally fool you to submit sensitive personal information. 

At times they pose as legal officers of an institution, bank employee or even a private person asking favor from you to transfer their big sum of bank accounts to your end. These form of emails are called spam or unsolicited messages. Avoid such email notification that suggests any kind of financial benefits. Recently, spams do not happen only in emails. You may heard of newsgroup spam, instant message spam and even blog comment spam? Spam messages may also be used for phishing. It contains some form of promoting products and services. These emails normally clogged up inboxes beside getting other people's e-mail addresses purposely for their mailing lists.

How to protect yourself?

The keys to avoid being hit by these malicious attacks are user awareness and due negligence. 

• Avoid e-mail attachments that came from unknown sources
• Do not send your personal information to unknown senders, especially your credit card information
• Be aware of certain viruses like Trojan horse that can be obtained through files from peer-to-peer file-sharing services because these viruses can be used to hijack your computer later on
• Regularly update your anti-virus definition files
• A MUST to install a firewall if your PC is hooked online
• Use file encryption to protect your sensitive files
• Do not share your passwords to anyone
• When purchasing or paying bills online, close your web browser and log off your computer to prevent others from retrieving your information
• Do not input your credit card information if you cannot find a VeriSign trust seal normally found below any web pages

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What is Google Adsense?

Google AdSense is a free, simple way for website publishers of all sizes to earn money by displaying targeted Google ads on their websites. AdSense also lets you provide Google search to your site users, while earning money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.
Source: http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=29574&from=29574&rd=2

Why Adsense?
There are many ways to earn money online and Adsense is the best among them because it's totally maintenance free leaving any worries for you and of course as many other internet savvy say that it is very consistent and has a very low risk. You only need to pay for your own domain name and hosting fees to establish a very good website for you to post Adsense ads.

Your might think that it is a waste of time creating and promoting a website or even writing articles just to earn a few penny from it? Think otherwise. This topic is a must to read for everyone.

What attracts people to click Google Adsense ads?
It simply because the ads displayed are related to the interest of the visitors. Lets put it this way, you might have blog site and your topic is simply about how to create a free website and you have Google Adsense ads in your site, your visitors would likely get interested to click the the ads because these are related about websites.

• a MUST to read first Adsense TOC after signing up
• be sure that your site has no extreme links to paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, or other incentives programs that pays users for viewing ads
• get rid of other ads widgets that competes with Google Adsense
• maximize your website design by having lots of good articles to read and get rid of broken links to another site
• a poorly designed site will not surely be accepted
• apply only for Adsense account if your website is ready 

The easiest way to apply for Google Adsense account is to open a Blogger.com account. Follow this simple steps:

• post a new blog about yourself, your interest, what you want to, and any interest will do
• post another one this time some tips about your interests
• post for the 3rd time tip about your interests
• lastly, post another tip about your interests

Simple? Yes it is indeed. But be sure what you posted are useful topics not just by merely typing few words about your interests or about you.

Apply now for Google Adsense account
In your Blogger dashboard, click Monetize and follow the steps in applying for Google Adsense account. Save everything when prompted and wait for the confirmation from Google Adsense within 1 or 2 days.

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Microsoft Access 2007 has finally resolved the issues regarding image linking through the data type Attachment. The new feature is capable of adding one or more pieces of data or images to the records in your database. Several files can now be stored in a single field. These new data type saves the file in their native formats freeing you from installing additional software to view the attachments.

The older versions only support data type as Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) to store images and documents to the table but is quite not advisable as it may enlarge your database file size.

With attachments data type in MS Access 2007 you can now be able to link images  from different locations or folders to the records of your table.

How to create a table with attachment data type?

• create a new MS Access 2007 file.
• create a new table with the following fields and field types:
  
  • id - Autonumber
  • product - Text
  • image - Attachment
• save your table as Products
• create Multiple Items form and save it as Products
• double-click the form and start entering data
  
  • skip the ID field and type Toy Story 3 in the Title field
  • double-click the Image field and add the image from your folder
• continue adding more records

This how would your work look like after.


Now you can be able to create inventory of files with outrageous images as attachments. Click the attachment field anytime if you want to change the image.

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You would somehow ask yourself the following questions:

• What is a free website? 
• Where to find sites that allow you to create a free website?
• Why should I create one and for what?
• What is that particular site?

What is a free website?
A free website is a site that is created online from a very reliable site that requires less programming/HTML knowledge. Normally these sites have administrative panels for the users to create or modify pages, upload images and anything that pertains in web page creation. For the beginners, find a site that is totally free of charges including the provision of your own sub-domain.

Where to find sites that allow you to create a free website?
If you try to Google search a phrase like "free website", there are over 1 billion search results in less than a second that will be displayed.

Why should I create one and for what?
There are lots of reasons as to why you will create a free website of your own. You might want to have a website for your hobby, for your organization, family, or even to advertise your products or services online and a lot more.

What is that particular site?
I highly recommend the following since I'm making my own free websites from them:

• Webs.com - helps you make your own free website. Personal, group, and small business websites complete with photos, videos, and ecommerce.
• Weebly.com - named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites, Weebly has an easy, drag & drop interface to create your own website. It's free, powerful, and professional.

So try it now and enjoy viewing your own website.


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I had been a computer programmer by profession since the late 80's and lately indulged in web development. What impressed me most is when I had my projects implemented and got high ratings among the peers and the administrators in my work place. That was the time I need to improved my web development skills and it took me sometime to fully design a very simple inquiry system website done in PHP/mySQL but nevertheless though it was not published but still it got good ratings from our administrators for the job well done.

As I do searches for better templates I came across templates for blog sites. I thought at first that they work the same as with the websites, but they weren't. I asked myself as to what precisely is a blog and the purpose of writing a blog? I tried to read blogs of others but didn't find much interest in the content maybe I'm looking for a much better topic that suits my needs.

As I go along reading blogs and started to dig with it every time I'm online, I found out that blogging is the best way to express yourself and let others know all about you, your interest, what you love to do, what you want, and everything else under the sun. This is also one way of interacting with other people globally. Some blogs have links to other sites purposedly to promote a site, a product, services or to another blog site. And what made it more interesting is that you have eventually created a conversation with others by posting comments.

There are lots of reference materials or articles to post to your own blog and if you are creative enough and love to write then it is much better than copying the works of others and besides you will gain more respect and trust from others if it is really you who write an article in your blog.

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