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A Tale Of Two Countries: The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 08:46 AM PDT

Editor's note: Guest contributor Jon Bischke is a founder of RG Labs and an advisor to Altius EducationFatminds and Udemy. You can follow him @jonbischke.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. 

-Charles Dickens from A Tale of Two Cities

For people who spend most of their days within a few blocks of tech start-up epicenters such as South Park in San Francisco, University Avenue in Palo Alto or the Flatiron district in New York, last week's jobs report must have created some cognitive dissonance. After all, we're in a boom/bubble right? It's really hard to hire good people isn't it? But take a moment to step outside the world of high technology and a dramatically different picture emerges of what's going on in America.

The number of unemployed now eclipses 14 million nationwide. Underemployment is scary too with U-6, the government's official measure of under-utilization,rising to 16.2% in June from 15.8% in May. But the worst number of them all might be mean duration of employment (the length of time that the average unemployed person has been out of work) which has spiked to 40 weeks. As a Wall Street Journal article this week pointed out, if you factored in those who've dropped out of the labor market (and therefore aren't counted in unemployment numbers), the situation would appear even worse.

Which bring us to an important question: Should Silicon Valley (and other tech clusters throughout the country) care? After all, as long as people in Nebraska or the Central Valley of California have enough money to buy virtual tractors to tend their crops in Farmville, should the tech community be worried about whether those same people are getting paid to do work in the real world? Is what's best for Silicon Valley also good for America?

On one hand, a thriving tech sector is a beacon of hope for America and perhaps one of a shrinking number of things keeping the country from slipping from its perch as the world’s foremost economic superpower. Fast-growth companies like Facebook, Groupon and Twitter create jobs, attract foreign investment (see Sarah Lacy's article "How We All Missed Web 2.0′s "Netscape Moment") and generate tremendous amounts of wealth for employees and shareholders which circulates throughout the economy.

In addition, a host of technology companies enable people around the country to make money. Etsy empowers people anywhere to make money selling handmade goods. AirBnB allows anyone with a house or apartment to make money renting it out. And whether you’re talking about design communities like 99designs, crowdsourcing platforms like CrowdFlower, outsourcing sites like oDesk or an artisan food marketplace like Foodzie, tech-enabled marketplaces allow millions of dollars to flow from consumers to producers every year. (Check out Semil Shah's article "The P2P Evolution" for more great examples of this in action.)

Furthermore, tech companies are helping to reshape how people train for and ultimately find employment. It’s easier than ever to pick up new skills online with the explosion in blogs, tutorials, screencasts and online video. For a self-motivated individual of at least average intelligence there is a shrinking number of excuses for not possessing in-demand skills. And jobs and recruiting platforms like BranchoutJobvite, LinkedIn and Monster.com certainly help job seekers to smooth the path to employment.

But there’s a flip side to the argument that this technological innovation is good for the country. Books like A Whole New Mind,  The Great Stagnation and The Lights in the Tunnel make arguments that automation and outsourcing are increasingly pushing jobs outside the country and in many cases, doing away with them altogether (you did see that crazy video of the Diapers.com warehouses didn’t you?). The rate of increasing technological innovation certainly produces new jobs but does it produce jobs at a rate great enough to replace those it might be eliminating?

In a similar vein, many of the companies in Silicon Valley are succeeding precisely because they’re disrupting existing players in their industries. Amazon is doing really well right now (almost $10 billion in revenue in the last quarter alone). Borders…not so much. Go iTunes and Spotify. RIP Tower Records. Creative destruction is alive and well but how many people in Silicon Valley are thinking about what happens to that displaced worker at the record store or bookstore?

Maybe something is missing in the Valley and surrounding tech communities and that’s a stronger sense of responsibility to make sure that the vast majority of the country isn’t left behind by all this cool technology that we’re building. In Paul Graham’s essay Great Hackers he points out that the more sophisticated tools become, the greater variation there is in productivity. He writes:

In a low-tech society you don’t see much variation in productivity. If you have a tribe of nomads collecting sticks for a fire, how much more productive is the best stick gatherer going to be than the worst? A factor of two? Whereas when you hand people a complex tool like a computer, the variation in what they can do with it is enormous.

If accumulation of wealth correlates with productivity then, in Graham's view, increasing variation of wealth might actually be a sign of good things. But could this increase in variation lead to the creation of two almost completely distinct countries in America, one which continues to boom and create enormous wealth for those who reside in it and another for which long-term unemployment and underemployment and the corresponding frustration that accompanies those states becomes the norm?

Megan McArdle wrote a poignant article entitled "Why Unemployment Matters" in last week's Atlantic where she detailed some of the crushing residual effects of being out of work. It's worth reading and asking the questions: Can we be doing more about this? Should we even be doing anything about it? The answers to these questions matter a lot.  Please share your thoughts in comments.

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A Groupon For Solar? Solar@Work Offers Buildings Discounts For Going Green Together

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 06:21 AM PDT

Group buying is moving into the commercial clean energy space thanks to Solar@Work, a program designed by San Francisco’s Department of the Environment to make solar panels more affordable for business owners. Businesses have three options for acquiring solar panels through the program: Purchasing, leasing, and securing a loan. A federal grant covering 30% of installation costs is also on offer.

Solar@Work hopes to sign on at least 20 building owners in the San Francisco area by the end of the year, which could translate to as much as 2 megawatts of solar power.

While the program is innovative in simplifying solar for commercial buildings, it is not the first to harness group buying power for solar. 1Bog has a similar model for home-based solar installations, and SolarMosaic provides a crowdfunding platform for bringing solar to community buildings such as schools and churches.

The group buying model could discount the panels by 10-15% and reduce the cost of administrative fees by as much as 75%. That doesn’t sound like a steal by consumer group buying standards, but given the price tag on solar panels, it could add up to significant savings. The city says the high upfront cost of solar is the main barrier to entry into solar for most commercial property owners.

San Mateo’s SolarCity won the bid to provide the panels, and participating businesses are expected to pay less for solar than what they pay for power from the grid. Currently, commercial buildings fewer than four stories are eligible to participate in the program. If the pilot is successful, it could be expanded to other parts of the country, or even globally.

Photo by Living Off Grid



Applifier Hits 100 Million Installs, Brings Social Game Discovery Bar To Mobile

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:50 PM PDT

Applifier, the cross-promotional network of social game publishers, announced today that it has delivered over 100 million game installs for free on Facebook. Launched in 2010, Applifier set out on a mission to help game publishers find new users and get their games discovered on the social network, and has since grown like a weed. Now connecting over 800 games, Applifier gives publishers the tools to promote their games across their network of over 150 million monthly active users, via bookmarks and retargeting, and “featured spots”.

Of course, the best part about Applifier is that developers don’t pay anything to use the service, they can take advantage of the startup’s paid user acquisition campaigns simply by adding 5 lines of HTML to their Facebook pages or browser game.

Just as it is on the Web, the mobile game space is becoming crowded with games, and gamers are always looking for new games to whet their appetite, so today Applifier launched a cross-promotion solution for iOS. Android is set drop later this summer. Like its web version, Applifier Mobile is free. The mobile version will display recommended games on its bar, where users can click to get more information on the game or scroll to view other games.

It’s a great way for gamers to find new games and for publishers to have a way for their games to be discovered in the crowded sea of social games. It’s a similar model to the App Store’s “Featured Apps”, which is really one of the few options app developers have in the attempt to get their apps discovered on iOS, besides spending tons of cash on marketing and publicity. Smaller game makers don’t have access to those kinds of funds, and so Applifier’s free-to-use platform offers a great alternative.

As Apple recently banned the pay-per-install incentivized apps from the App Store, the fact that Applifier doesn’t pay its users to try out a new game is another leg up. While that may be disappointing for some gamers, it keeps things honest. After all, the company just wants gamers to have another way to find new games that they would enjoy playing. And help the people who make those games find them. “Our value proposition for the players is simple: Hey, you like games. How about some more?” said Applifier CEO Jussi Laakkonen.

Back in January, Applifier raised $2 million for its cross-promotional platform, which it has used to help launch its new mobile outfit and help independent game makers compete against Zynga and its cross-promotional tools. It’s been an uphill battle, but with over 150 monthly active users, 100 million installs, and 800 games, it seems to be working.

For more, check out Dean Takahashi’s early review of the service.



Google+ Ad On Facebook Is Banned

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:31 PM PDT

What happens on Google+, stays on Google+. At least that’s the way Facebook would like to see things. Web developer Michael Lee Johnson found that out the hard way. He was trolling for Google+ friends on Facebook by running a Facebook ad asking people to add him to their Circles on Google+. Facebook, apparently, did not like him using its site to build his own social network somewhere else. So it pulled his ads.

He writes on Google+:

I recently ran a Google+ advertisement on Facebook that got all of my campaigns suspended. – Great.

Yeah, Facebook frowns on people promoting competing products with Facebook ads. It’s even in its Terms of Service. But seriously, where else is he going to find friends for Google+?



Trimit Summarizes Emails, Blog Posts, And More With A Shake Of Your iPhone

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 07:46 PM PDT

Attention spans are short these days, and some might even say the Web isn’t helping this phenomenon. Regardless, time is money, and people are ever-looking for more useful ways to maximize what time they have. Many have little tolerance (or time) for long-form digital content, and we’re seeing the proliferation of the “tl;dr” (too long; didn’t read) mentality as it sweeps the Internet nation. And, for those addicted to Twitter, content that comes in 140 character chunks is the norm, if not the preferred way, to express something shorthand. (Other than emoticons, of course.)

Enter the Trimit time-saver. Trimit is a 0.99-cent app for iOS that allows you to condense content into 1,000, 500, or 140-character summaries. Essentially, Trimit is a text auto summarizer designed to fit all those things you’re reading on a mobile device into concise synopses and share those over SMS, email, Facebook, Twitter in .txt form — all with a few clicks.

And this is pretty nifty feature: Trimit can summarize your text just by shaking your device — like the opposite of mobile Boggle. No longer will your friends have to scan through your wordy Facebook status updates about your cats; just shake your phone to condense all those emotions into 140 characters. Apparently Apple likes the idea, too, as it just featured Trimit in the app store and mentioned it on Twitter.

Today, Trimit gave TechCrunch a little piece of exclusive news, announcing a bookmarklet for the Web, (which is currently in beta and will be available for download within the week) so that you can get all the benefits of the app on your browser, too. For both web and mobile, text can be directly imported from any URL right from within the app using Trimit’s HTML parsing secret sauce.

The bookmarklet has many of the same sharing features as mobile, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, as well as URL sharing with a shorter summary to Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and more. You can print and save as a .txt file, sync with your computer, and import files from other devices to get at that summarizin’.

Trimit Founder Nick D’Aloisio, a 15-year-old Australian transplanted to London, said that he, like me, can sometimes be a bit of a waffler, which is where the inspiration for Trimit comes from. And now, through his team’s app and bookmarklet, he’s bringing pithiness to articles and blogs, to email, text, and Tweet composition, and to the transferral of desktop documents to mobile. (Trimit would have been a huge help for those poor souls who had to read my thesis in college.)

In the spirit of text summarizing, I should cut it off here. But readers may be curious as to how the auto summary works, and to that end, whether it works well or not. D’Aloisio was willing to share some of the juice behind the app, so here’s a peek. If you’re a words dork like myself, you may just like this.

The algorithm uses a process of “extraction” to create a summary of the text to one of the three specified lengths. Without completely revealing the secret sauce, the algorithm scans the text using a precise keyword search to find prominent topics within its content. It disregards general words and fillers, like articles and linking words (“but”, “and”, “when”) and gives words and phrases that are signals of importance, like time and/or place adverbials (the where’s and when’s, like “in California”, for example) greater weight.

Trimit also uses what is called “verb stemming”, which allow particular verbs in different conjugations to still be counted by the algorithm, like “speak” versus “spoke”, for example. This makes sure that past conjugations stay that way and don’t somehow pop into the future tense. The algorithm counts the occurrence of key phrases as well, taking into account the position of those phrases in the passage, so that they remain in order when summarizing.

And though linking words are often dismissed, contradictory conjunctions like “however” are given more weight because they often are included in overviews, just as facts, figures and quotes are valued higher as well. As you may have guessed, it all works on a points-based ranking system, and the words and phrases that are ranked highest, show up in the summary.

I’ll leave it at that, but you can learn more about Trimit in the video below. The Trimit team is currently in the process of raising a seed round.



… On Twitter

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 05:53 PM PDT

Philosophically there is no more arbitrary milestone than the passage of time, each year we celebrate the passing of another year, see what I mean? That’s why Twitter's second five-year anniversary milestones of 350 billion tweets delivered and 600K users signing up daily fall a little flat (Twitter celebrated its first five year anniversary — commemorating when the first tweets were sent — back in March). The torrent of tech announcement posts about INSERT COMPANY HERE hitting 100K users or downloads or "shares" or tiddlywinks or badges is perpetual enough that all tech news sort of blends into a river of user numbers and APPLE VS. GOOGLE VS. TWITTER. Sigh.

It is amazing to think that Twitter launched publicly five years ago today. When Mike Arrington first wrote, “Odeo releases Twitter” in 2006 he had no idea that one day the TechCrunch Twitter account would be nearing a 2 million-follower distribution channel and that he himself would reach 82K. Very few would have predicted that the SMS notifications system with no vowel in its name would turn into a seven billion dollar company employing 500 people. "If this was a new startup, a one or two person shop, I'd give it a thumbs up for innovation and good execution on a simple but viral idea," Mike wrote at the time.

Mike's Twttr launch post is striking in its simplicity, at 327 words it’s sort of like the blogger version of the calm before the storm. The social network (?) microblogging platform(?) new form of mass media (?) has been the subject of incessant free press throughout its upward trajectory.

There was a period of time after its breakout at SXSW 2007 where everywhere you'd look you'd see an "… On Twitter" headline: “Man Proposes To Wife … On Twitter.” “Woman Gives Birth… On Twitter.” “Shaquille O’Neal … On Twitter” “Man Tweets From Space … On Twitter.” “Bronx Zoo Cobra … On Twitter.” At this point it's news if something doesn't happen "… On Twitter."

So why can’t we shut up about it? In a sense Twitter is a mirror for life and human connection. There is a unique feeling one gets watching the flood of tweets from strangers pour in for the #iranelection, #WorldCup, #WWDC or any microhashtag on Twitter. A crucial part of my morning ritual is catching up with news on Twitter watching the quips made by friends pour in on equal footing with commentary made by media luminaries.

Thus I've been asking people all morning (on Twitter) about what Twitter, a service built essentially to communicate spurts of human activity, means to them. I've gotten back so much information it is tough and kind of meta to process, kind of like Twitter itself.

A sampling of important Twitter moments I’ve heard so far, in more or less chronological order:

When Apple released iTunes podcasting (because it forced Odeo to pivot), March 2006: the first tweet, July 2006: we cover Twttr, Twttr becomes Twitter, March 2007: it’s the breakout hit of SXSW, the fail whale supplants the fail cat, the #hashtag is invented, a plane is Twitpic'd landing in the Hudson river, CNN and Ashton's race to a million followers, Oprah joins, the co-founders play musical chairs, Twitter buying mobile client Atebits (signaling the end of friendly developer ecosystem relations), #new Twitter, more downtime, the Iran riots, the time Twitter was hacked and so on and so forth.

The most striking thing is that most Twitter users have their own unique list of moments that cemented Twitter's importance (for those that can tolerate slideshows Business Insider has a really good one here).

If you suspend disbelief on what percentage are spambots, Twitter has 200 million users whose #1 Twitter milestone is “Just setting up my Twttr" or the day they set up and account.

The company hopes by the end of 2013 to have 1 billion users (more than Facebook) in addition to $1.5 billion in revenue and an over 5,000 person staff. Just typing out that sort of ambition is sort of painful when the service still shows me that I’m following people who I’m not and is all over the place with regards to a steady revenue stream. For what it’s worth I’d pay Twitter $10 bucks a month just to archive and thread my DMs.

In fact, I think there's many that would do the same and today we're all wishing Silicon Valley’s charismatic but sort of flakey friend a very happy second birthday; Because honestly we’re all rooting for them.



Google+: One Hell Of A Trojan Horse

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 03:42 PM PDT

There’s no shortage of Google+ in the air these days. Overeager pundits and soothsayers are hoping to be among the most visible voices on the net saying which service or company it’s going to topple, why it’s going to fail or succeed, and why it should or shouldn’t be more like this or that.

It all seems awfully premature, considering Google+ is just getting started, and I don’t mean in user numbers. We’re all familiar enough with Google products to know that practically everything they’ve ever done was launched early and incomplete, whether it went on to succeed (Gmail, Android) or not (Orkut, Wave). Most if not all of the big talk surrounding the network right now will have to be adjusted in a month, six months, and a year from now. It’s fun to speculate, but Google is always playing the long game. Google+ isn’t just half-baked; they haven’t even put it in the oven yet. Let’s not judge the cookie by the dough.

Is it an alternative to Facebook? Yes. To Twitter? Yes. To Yammer, to productivity suites, to Skype, to Office, to Microsoft, to Apple? If it isn’t now, you better believe it will be. Google is like a kind of Troll-Borg. You think they put out something that stands on its own, a “Facebook killer” or an “iPhone killer” — but it’s only later that you realize that the separation from the mothership was just an illusion, and the entire bulk of Google was right there the whole time. But it’s too late — you’ve been assimilated. Problem?

I wrote a long time ago about how all these little projects of theirs would be connected and unified, the way the Romans unified their empire by joining all the little roads to their big roads. I thought it was going to happen with Chrome OS, but a tumultuous mobile market meant a late start there; Google+ is more of a clear step in that direction now.

The thing is, as I wrote then, you can’t take the measure of Rome by looking at just one of their roads. And you can’t take the measure of Google+ right now, because it’s just the first mile. The best way to debut the connecting tissue of their web empire wasn’t to make an OS — the market wasn’t ready for that. So after an OS, what is the most popular and accessible platform? Mobile (check) then Facebook, around which there’s growing enmity, distrust, and boredom. Iron: hot. Pile all the Google services into that big wooden horse and say “here’s a nice, secure alternative for sharing things with your friends.” Don’t mention the fact that lurking inside it (waiting for a reveal a few months down the line) are a hundred ways of sucking users away from their existing services — in ways that neither Facebook, Microsoft, nor Apple can. Is it about social? Yeah, because that was the face Google needed to wear this week. Beware of geeks bearing gifts.

I suppose I’ve done what I cautioned everyone else not to do: speculate on a product that’s barely even there. 10 million users is great, but the meteoric rise and fall of countless web services can bear witness to the fact that the first month is probably the least important in a service’s lifetime. Around Thanksgiving we might be talking about how silly we all sounded talking up the ghost town that is Google+. Or maybe some of us will be calling an emergency meeting in the board room because Google just ate our business model alive.

Whatever the case, I feel confident in saying that Google’s long haul plan for + is subtle, sinister, and far-reaching. Not evil, exactly, but cunning and ruthless. Sure, right now it seems like it’s aimed at Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter, but when the stakes are this high, you better believe they’ve got guns pointed at everyone in the room. Comparing features with its immediate competitors misses the point, and at any rate the landscape shifts so frequently that such comparisons are fleeting to begin with. Think big, and think sneaky. Eric Schmidt seems like a nice guy, but I sure would rather have Zuckerberg or Ballmer for an enemy. I guess we can continue to talk about it, but personally, I’m getting some popcorn first.



Fighting Ticketmaster, The Edge Invests In Ticketing Startup

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Ticket Text, the makers of Ticket ABC, a white label mobile ticketing solution, announced today that they have raised $350,000 in seed funding from The Edge, a.k.a. David Evans, or the guy who plays guitar for U2. Several other Dublin and London-based angels participated in the round, with Ticket Text’s total investment now at just over $1 million. The Irish startup will use this infusion of capital to expanding its service in Europe and eventually to the U.S.

Ticketmaster has long been a source of grief for consumers, with its high fees and charges, especially considering the ticket company has long had a nearly monopolistic grip on music ticketing. Today, venues, promoters, and artists are looking to bring their ticketing solutions back in-house — out of the reach of the ticket agencies that control pricing, customer data, etc. But existing choices really just consist of outsourcing to an agency or using a licensed ticketing solution.

Ticket Text wants to change all that by providing a low cost white label ticketing and venue management solution that attempts to put the control over ticketing back in the hands of the little guy. For starters, there are no upfront, annual or customization costs, and all the data is owned by the client.

The solution also offers an automated refund process, and Ticket ABC users can reissue their tickets, both pain points for a number of ticket solutions. Ticket ABC also offers an integrated wireless solution that enables clients to scan mobile and eTickets at multiple places within a venue.

Founder and CEO of Ticket Text Mark McLaughlin said that the team has made a point to architect mobile into the core of the Ticket ABC solution, because they believe that ticketing will become commoditized, so the key for venues and ticketing companies in the future will be to know where their customers are at the venue when they scan their ticket, so that they can communicate with them there and up-sell.

Ticket ABC has also been optimized for mobile so that consumers can purchase tickets from mobile browsers and apps.

Other great features include the ability to create seat maps, set zone prices, seat statuses, and seat rankings — and for the consumer the ability to choose seats when buying tickets — all baked into the solution’s UI. And because Ticket ABC recently added support for another payment service provider, if there are outages or problems, the solution has the ability to switch providers. Always good to have a “Plan B”.

Lastly, Ticket ABC comes with social features that allow its clients to promote their events on Twitter and Facebook, so that users can share what events they’re attending and when they plan to purchase their tickets. The solution also adds a “Buy Tickets” button to a venue or business’ Facebook page, which is a nifty little feature.

And because venues may not want to create a whole new separate site for ticketing, the solution provides an embeddable widgets to that ticket providers can add the solution to their own site.

As to the cost of the solution, there is a flat fee of 5 percent, plus a 99-cents per transaction, which includes payment service provider costs, credit card and hosting fees. Ticket Tex hopes that by charging transactional fees rather than charging upfront, annual or customization fees, the pricing will allow client revenue to be generated proportionally to the costs of using the solution.

Ticket ABC’s current clients include fabric, Pacha, and Bird On The Wire.

For an example of a Ticket ABC solution, check one out here.



The Endless Bubble Debate: Kedrosky Vs. Wadhwa

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 02:03 PM PDT

With valuations for tech companies going through the roof from Facebook on down to Dropbox, the endless bubble debate sees no end. Paul Kedrosky and Vivek Wadhwa recently got into it on Bloomberg West TV.

Professor Wadhwa thinks it will all end badly with Grandma losing her piggy bank. Kedrosky points out that bubbles usually occur at the tail end of a market run-up, and he predicts we have at least a good 4 to 5 years left for this one. He compares Wadhwa to a central banker trying to take the punch away at a party before the party even begins. Wadhwa sticks to his guns and that “when this little bubble around social media bursts” it will take down all tech valuations.

It’s a spirited debate. Watch the video and tell us who you think is right in comments.



Just When You Thought It Was Safe: Skype Vulnerabilities Emerge

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 01:31 PM PDT

Silly hackers are always trying to ruin the Internet and they have found yet another target in the form of popular VOIP software Skype. According to the sweetest text security report ever, linked from h-online’s recap:

“Skype suffers from a persistent Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability due to a lack
of input validation and output sanitization of the ‘mobile phone’ profile entry.
Other input fields may also be affected.”

I love that—output sanitization. Basically what this means is that an attacker can embed JavaScript in the mobile phone field of his or her profile description. Skype doesn’t filter this field which means this JavaScript can be executed when a contact of the attacker logs in. From there, all kinds of bad things can happen like account access or even system level access. According to Levent Kayan, the current version of Skype is affected (ver. 5.3.0.120 ) and Skype is aware of the issue and should have a patch available next week. Skype is downplaying the issue a bit noting that “the attacker must appear in the victim’s list of frequent contacts” in order to take advantage of the security issue.

What is the moral of the story? Until next week, remember that your mother-in-law overseas (with whom you Skype on a regular basis) can now compromise your system and bring you down! Beware!

[via The H Security]



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How To Make Extra Money From Home – Work From Online To Make Extra Money

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 01:24 AM PDT

Are you looking for the work from online, try complete some surveys and don’t worry, it’s not so hard like it seems. Tons of website, who promise you amazing stuff and provide weak results, aren’t worth your time. Huge number of people are sick of such promises. There are others for whom the company online survey is great for start. Are you that kind of people who like to share your opinion on stuff ? Are your dream work from online and make extra easy money working only these programs, what you choose ? If one of these question applies to you, then take a closer look at online polls

Your opinion are important

Do you always wanted to take action of some products, what would be great or not for publishing ? Surveys are these processes, what pay you for work from online. Opinion, what you taken into your account, company will see the answer. Sure your answer is more likely different from thousands of others, but that part cannot hurt you to do so. Some people give gifts and awards in question, while others are paying in cash. There are so many of them.

Make your goal

Firstly you need to have clear your mind, before taking action in an online survey. Otherwise, just going to turn around and you make nothing from it.

Of course there are some survey website, that pay real money, but some of them are trading gift, points and prizes.

If your dream is work from online or want easy run home work, then you are in the right place. Working at real job isn’t a problem for making little more extra money into your pocket. It’s a great opportunity work from online and earn some cash.


How To Make Extra Money From Home – Online Profit Miracle: Make Easy Money At Home

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 01:24 AM PDT

PROFIT MIRACLE
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TO BE WORKING ONLINE
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Even if you are now gainfully employed, it is still better to plan another source of income. The “last in, first out” policy is usually what corporations and a lot of industries follow in dismissing or in retrenching their employees. Take a look at your computer? Are you aware that this simple and ordinary gadget where you play computer game or find friends in the Face Book is like the genie in Aladdin’s lamp? Your internet can be your gateway to a good source of income. By working online, you can benefit in many ways. when searching for work at home opportunities, try searching for the magic keywords “Work from the comfort of your home” and “work online”. Today, people talk a lot about the global crisis and its adverse effects in your economic life.

WHAT DOES WORKING ONLINE MEAN?
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Working online is a job or employment done at home on your computer. Your only requirements for working at home is being computer-literate, having a computer and having an internet connection.

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES IN ONLINE EMPLOYMENT?
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> No experience is required with most online jobs. In many instances, you will be provided with training or with easy step-by-step instructions on what your job will entail.
> For those coming from developing countries, working at home payments are tax-free since the dollars you earned are changed into the currency of your country.
> The online employment work can be easy and quick. If you are efficient and can keep deadlines in submitting your assignments, you are guaranteed continuous work from home.
> The advantages of online employment are, you are working from home and therefore there’s no need to commuting, you eliminate the ubiquitous hassle of dressing up and the preparation of leaving the house and now you can spend more quality time with your family.

WHICH ONLINE JOBS ARE AVAILABLE?
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> Online advertising – You will be posting the company’s ads, banners and short texts online. No prior skills are needed as you will be provided with a step-by-step video guide.
> Writing/copy writing – There are plenty of writing jobs on line. You can write eBooks, articles, resumes, for website contents, press releases and others. The requirement is good English and perfect grammar.
> Typing – You will be typing papers for professionals, especially for doctors (medical transcription) and lawyers (legal transcription). Transcriptionists are much on demand and able to earn high income. Professionals have always a bulk of papers to be typed which their office cannot do on time. A good grasp of legal or medical terms are essential.
> Tutorial online – You will be working for an inter based outlet. You will be tutoring students of all ages in several subject areas. Working hours are flexible depending upon the student’s schedule. Only requirements is a college education and teaching experience.

HOW CAN YOU TELL IF THIS HOME JOB IS A SCAM OR LEGITIMATE?
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It is legitimate if it states clearly the payment policies as the amount of the salary, commission, days of payment and others. Legitimate work from home job also maintain a permanent website. Testimonials and photos are not even reliable security of a legitimate any more when searching for online work. Avoid all work from home listing that offers wealth, instant financial success, get rich quick lines and promises a high income within a short period of time, these impossibilities cannot be for real.

AN ONLINE BUSINESS TO START
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Learning more information about starting a online business will guarantee your success. The best part about creating your own business is that you will be your own boss and you can determine your own working schedule. By starting your own business, you can create an additional stream of income which is completely automated.

FAST FACTS ABOUT RUNNING AN ONLINE BUSINESS:
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There is no perfect business and there will always be short comings, learn to live by them. This is not a quick-rich opportunity and does not promise an immediate large income. A detailed plan for execution and how to go about organizing your business are provided. These negative attitudes are your path towards failure. This type of livelihood is easy and risk free and its income potentials are great.

WHAT ARE THE DISADVANTAGES OF WORKING ONLINE?
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To remedy this problem, change your life style especially your sleeping habit. You will to an extent, forget your personal hygiene when working from home. Word of advice, before starting your work at home assignments look after your physical appearance first. You could then use your free time to go out and socialize with your friends and visit places.

MARKETING AS AN AFFILIATE
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For example, if you refer a traveler to a particular traveling agency, by being the affiliate marketer, you will get a commission. One of the best opportunities using your computer to build extra income is through affiliate marketing. With affiliate marketing, you will receive large commissions just by referring customers to some good quality products or services. Later, there are also secondary affiliate participants:the affiliate marketing agency, super affiliate and specialized 3rd parties.

HERE, YOU WILL REFER ONLINE SURFERS TO A SELECTION OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES AND IN RETURN, YOU ARE REWARDED WITH YOUR AFFILIATE COMMISSION. YOU WILL FOLLOW THIS PROCEDURE
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> A potential new customer looks at the affiliate’s website. An action, such as clicking, results in the viewer entering the website.
> The customer purchases the item which is tracked by the system.
> Resulting in a commission given to the affiliate.

TIPS:FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE GUIDELINES FOR SUCCESSFUL MARKETING ONLINE.
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The next step is putting up your site, keep it running successfully, make money and start to expand making more money in your new projects. Get a top-level domain (TLD), use a name and some cheap but reliable hosting. Data sites are limited in just giving pure product, data, prices, images and descriptions used to promote the products. Report them to the authorized website. There is no specific best network. Work at perfecting your system, be persistent and dedicated to make it work. Be wary of parasites or scums that try to redirect, overwrite and intercept your visitors. You can make your network the best by the tools provided to you.

1. FACTS ABOUT AFFILIATE MARKETING:
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Advertisements from Google and Yahoo are free, so you start earning without paying additional expenses. Google and Yahoo searches are 30 people searched related.

AFFILIATE MARKETING VERSUS INTERNET MARKETING.
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Internet marketing utilizes regular advertising methods such as optimization of organic search engine, paid search engine marketing, email marketing and display advertisement.

PROS AND CONS OF AFFILIATE MARKETING:
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Negatively, affiliate marketing is not easily scalable and you have the follow step-by-step procedures.

LEARN ABOUT PROFIT MIRACLE
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Profit Miracle is an internet traffic and an article making machine. Profit miracle is not a rehashed over used method that has been fully saturated. Profit Miracle is based on some successful niches, it is capable of creating extraordinary, original and unique articles. Profit Miracle contains a generator which provides unique articles from using your inputted keywords. Profit Miracle is the easiest way to make money that is automated.

BENEFITS IN USING THIS THE PROFIT MIRACLE SYSTEM. THERE ARE MANY ADVANTAGES YOU CAN GAIN, ONCE YOU ACTIVATE THE PROFIT MIRACLE SYSTEM:
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> You simply relax and watch the money come flowing in or you can go on vacation and still see the money in your account when you get back
> It requires no effort and you do not even need to lift one finger once the system is in place.
> It is a time saver and you have what is needed to put online to gather the traffic to make money.
> You only need to wait for the activity and the results will start instantly as you copy the articles.

WHERE DID THE SYSTEM GET ITS NAME, PROFIT MIRACLE?
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The creator of the machine shared his system with the members of his community because he wanted to help those who are affected by the recession. The more the Profit Miracle machine is used, the more traffic is generated from the search engines and big websites. the Profit Miracle automated campaign was able to produce 34 sales in one day. Profit Miracle is income generated by traffic resulting from one article. The creator discovered that many of them strive to improve the system so it gave better results. Now it is fully controllable in terms of generating profits and handling traffics, thus the codename Profit Miracle. The Profit Miracle system will then execute and set it for you.

THIS BRAND NEW TECHNOLOGY MAKES USE OF THREE STEPS:
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> Watch the money machine go and then sit down and wait for results.
> Choose a campaign to work with.

Using Profit Miracle, you just press a button and watch the cash pour into your bank account. The money comes into your bank account on autopilot verified proof. Profit Miracle helps people come out of their recession-mentality.

DAILY PROFIT MIRACLE SALES SNAPSHOTS:
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> Monday May 25 2,549.
> Wednesday June3 2,273.
> Wednesday May 27 2,533.
> Tuesday, June 2 3,289.
> Thursday May 28 1,467.
> Thursday June 4 2,534.
> Sunday May 24 2,158.
> Monday, June 1 4,289.

CREATE A GOOD NICHE.
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> Evaluate to determine if it is a good niche. If it fails in one of the criteria, scrape it off.
> Begin now, it is time to implement your ideas. For many, this is the most trying stage but do not be afraid because if you fulfilled your homework, you effort does not become a risk or gamble.
> Test whether niche matches with product, to test, market it. Do this by giving few incentives as offering free mini seminars or giving a copy of your newsletter,
> List all those you want to do business with, be specific, identify geographic location, range-type of business, customers you wish to target, and others.

HOW DOES PROFIT MIRACLE WORK.
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As to the question of where is the catch of the Profit Miracle system, there is always something you need to do and spend, in this case, you need to buy the Profit Miracle system in order to start working. Then you can proceed and find another niche that you think will make money and set it up with just a few steps and clicks. Profit Miracle further to explains how you can promote the products without any extra cost and using minimal efforts. Many internet marketers make money online by finding a niche which offers to show them some topics of interest that they can choose. As you log into the Profit Miracle system, you will be copying the campaign that you want to use and next, promote that product. Profit Miracle, the newly introduced money making system, insures a market with huge traffic, low competition and heavy profits.

TAKE NOTE OF THE DIFFERENCES IN ITS SALES EFFECTS:
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> What is happening to your business is not a dream but a reality. Your dreams have come with in modern day and age by combining technology and internet traffic and it’s made very simple for you.
> In the lightning rod effect, your niches start with low income for about a week, then the profits will blow up a week later. For example, week 1 income is low but on week 2, it will rise and rise.

WHAT DOES MIRACLE PROFIT GIVE YOU?
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> It economizes your time in making researches.
> It provides the most obscured niche lists, around 60 of them.
> It supplies you with a never-ending supply of campaigns that profit using artificial exciting techniques.
> It increases your bank account on demand with no recess.
> It hands you the resources needed to survive an invulnerable saturated competition.
> It gives you a unique article generator which performs research for you.

BENEFITS DERIVED FROM THE PROFIT MIRACLE SYSTEM:
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> You can easily manipulate the control panel.
> You are able to explore the faster and simpler way to make money online.
> When you become an expert, you will make money online the most.
> You are using all traffic methods that are totally automated.
> You are able to use 50 of their best Free Traffic Campaigns.

CODE NAME:A MIRACLE, IT CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING:
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> Beginner to Advanced Institute.
> Profit Miracle EBook.
> Article Creator.

GOOD PROFIT MIRACLE ASPECTS:
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The money back guarantee insures the quality of their system. Control panels are easy to use and nicely laid out. The Profit Miracle is beneficial for experienced internet marketers but a challenge for some newbies.

THE PROFIT MIRACLE VIDEO COLLECTION HAS:
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> Forum Marketing.
> Google adwords madness system.
> Affiliate Marketing Blueprint.
> SEO Vortex New.

The Profit Miracle system, is currently being offered at a one-time special price for the system is 77. Profit Miracle is the future of affiliate marketing wherein you are using all free and at no cost methods. The Profit Miracle system is not for people who do not believe in the idea of free traffic and automation. The Profit Miracle system is true to its name, it is a miracle, indeed, for aside from all its money making benefits, it reverses failure into success. If you are this type of person, then the Profit Miracle system is not for you.


How To Make Extra Money From Home – Want To Make Extra Money Working From Home?

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 06:24 AM PDT

Tired of living paycheck to paycheck?

People are very busy these days. It seems there isn’t enough time in the day or money at the end of the month. You wonder how you will ever get ahead. How will you ever save for your children’s college education or your own retirement? Financial worries can create a very stressful life.

Wouldn’t it be great to make extra income working from home and eventually replace your job? Just think of the freedom and flexibility. No more frustrating commutes to and from the office. No more deadlines and time clocks. You could be your own boss. There would be more time for family or your favorite hobby. Plus, you would be making money doing something enjoyable and fulfilling.

It is possible. More people than you think are creating an income from home. Today, large companies are marketing their products and services on the internet. It is predicted that by 2012 internet commerce for many companies may make up 80% of their total revenue. In order to do this, these companies need help with marketing and advertising. You are the help they need.

In looking for a work at home opportunity, do your research. There are a lot of scams out there. If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Look for a company that offers excellent training and support. Also, check to see if a 100% money back guarantee is offered if for some reason you are not satisfied. What do you have to lose?

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How To Make Extra Money From Home – 8 Easy Ways to Make Extra Money by Starting a Part-Time Business

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 06:24 AM PDT

Everyone wants to make a little extra money. Short of taking on a second job, most people are not sure how to do this. Starting a part-time business from your home is fairly easy. It takes some planning, money and a desire to make it work.

It also takes knowing what kind of business you want to start. The first thing you need to ask yourself is “what skills, hobbies or education do you possess that can be turned into a home-based part-time business”? Remember, your education, experience and skills can be very useful in a part-time job.

Finding your business nitch can be as easy as 1, 2, 3. Here are some part-time, money makers you can use your unique talents to start.

1. Teach

Many community centers and colleges are looking for qualified people to teach night classes in everything from cooking to accounting.

2. Hands-on workshops

Do you have extensive experience and education in your chosen field or hobby? Do you have a warm personality and the ability to talk in front of crowds? Then you could start offering seminars and hands-on workshops to teach others what you know.

3. Write

Do you like to write? Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge through print? Try contracting a local community paper and see if they would be interested in having a weekly or monthly column centered on a subject you are an expert in.

4. Tour guide

Do you live in a famous or historic location? Do you have a lot of knowledge of the events and people who have lived in your town? Walking tours are becoming more popular, especially ones that revolve around a well-known event or person.

5. Web page

designer Are you a computer guru? Do you enjoy making web sites for friends and family members? Small businesses and organizations need help building and maintaining their web sites. Having someone they can count on to keep their internet presence up and running opens up their time for more important business tasks.

6. Information

You have spent years learning about your chosen field. Your knowledge of it borders on expert. Why not use that knowledge to earn some extra cash? Writing an information e-book and selling it on your own web site is a great way to cash in on all that experience.

7. Researching

Do you love finding out about different things? Are you a wiz at researching at a library or on the internet? There are many people out there who need information but do not have the time to find it.

8. Personal shopper

Daily life is more hectic than ever. Corporate life means starting early and working late. So when can all those corporate raiders do their gift shopping? That is where you come in. Helping busy people keep on top of their gift purchases frees up more of their time to enjoy their free time, or get that big project finished at work.

Starting a part-time business to earn extra money is not hard to do; it just takes hard work, motivation and determina

 

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