Good Articles http://www.jvren.cn Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:41:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Diabetes: Cell Transplantation Could Be A Solution For Diabetes http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11285 http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11285#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:00:05 +0000 admin http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11285 A new cell transplantation technique is being used by researchers in order to repair the cells that produce insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes. The study, presented this week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, shows that the procedure is minimally invasive and with few complications.
One of the authors of the study explains that they used “ultrasound guidance to inject donor cells into the portal vein of diabetic patients, which is accessed through the skin. This is a safe method of cell transplantation that could potentially become a same-day procedure”.
The experts explain that the body does not produce insulin in type 1 diabetes, which results from the destruction of insulin-producing islet beta cells in the pancreas. Insulin is the basic fuel that all cells need to metabolize sugar.
The study shows that the used technique is minimally invasive, since donor islet cells are injected into diabetic patients so that the new healthy islet cells can restore insulin production, which is essential to stop disease advancement.
According to the study, fifteen islet cell transplantations were carried out to 13 patients with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes, two patients received two procedures to achieve correct needle placement.
The expert in chief told that they used a steroid-free protocol in order to suppress the immune system, so that the body accepted the transplanted cells. “We also developed a ’sandwich technique’ to close the access site through the skin, where the islet cells are injected. The sandwich technique is so-called because of the layered applications of gelfoam and coil used to close the access site”.

Article written by Hector Milla editor of http://www.mydiabetessupply.com, a website about diabetes testing supply, or you may read their last article :: Diet for Gestational Diabetes :: at http://www.mydiabetessupply.com/1/diet-for-gestational-diabetes.html. Thanks for using this diabetes article in your website or ezine keeping a live link.

Article written by Hector Milla editor of www.mydiabetessupply.com, a website about diabetes testing supply, or you may read their last article :: Diet for Gestational Diabetes :: at www.mydiabetessupply.com/1/diet-for-gestational-diabetes.html. Thanks for using this diabetes article in your website or ezine keeping a live link.

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Heart Diseases: UK Has the Highest Heart Disease Rates of the World http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11284 http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11284#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:00:02 +0000 admin http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11284 One of the highest rates of death due to heart disease in the world affects the United Kingdom (UK). According to statistics, one British adult dies from the disease every three minutes; meanwhile stroke ranks third as the country’s biggest killer, causing the death of 70,000 men and women each year.

Experts explain that heart attacks happen when blood flow is closed, often because a blood clot occurs, while strokes when a blood tube in your brain suddenly are caused by blocked or burst of blood vessels.

There exist various and different heart conditions, such as heart attack, heart failure, heart muscle disease, heart valve disease, congenital heart defects, angina, hardened arteries, high blood pressure and disturbed heart rhythm.

These conditions -such as heart failure, when blood is not pumped around the body in a proper way, along with congenital heart defects- can cause long term problems and death for sufferers.

The importance of heart is vital. This body organ pumps blood through the body carrying oxygen and other nutrients to the areas that need it. However, serious illness and even death can result when this process is interrupted or does not work correctly.

Although men are more likely to suffer from heart disease than women, people with poor diet, who smoke and do not exercise, are in greater risk for developing a heart related disease.

In order to alleviate symptoms or save the lives of sufferers there exist different tests and treatments, including drugs, heart bypass surgery and transplants.

Article written by Hector Milla, editor of http://www.heartdiseasesympton.com a website about heart disease symptoms .You may see a full list of 100 heart disease articles at http://www.heartdiseasesympton.com/xenu.html

Article written by Hector Milla, editor of www.heartdiseasesympton.com a website about heart disease symptoms .You may see a full list of 100 heart disease articles at www.heartdiseasesympton.com/xenu.html

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Antiaging skin care http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11283 http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11283#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:00:01 +0000 admin http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11283 ‘Antiaging skin care’ is a very poplar concept in today’s world. Today everyone wants to hide their age using antiaging skin care procedures (and a number of people are successful too). However antiaging skin care is not achieved by any magic potion. ‘Antiaging skin care’ is about discipline. It is about being proactive. Antiaging skin care is retarding the ageing process. Here are a few tips for proactive antiaging skin care:

1. Maintain healthy eating habits: A well balanced diet is the key to maintaining a proper body metabolism. Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables (raw), they are the best source of fibre and have a very refreshing effect on your body. Avoid oily and fatty food; not only do they lack in essential nutrients but also cause obesity and other diseases which aid the aging process

2. Beat stress: This is probably the most important antiaging skin care measure. Stress disturbs the body metabolism and accelerates the aging process. Sleep, exercise and a relaxing bath, are all good ways of beating stress. Aroma-therapy is also known to bust stress.

3. Drink a lot of water: Antiaging skin care can’t be any simpler than this. Water helps in flushing out the toxins from the body, hence keeping it clean and making it less prone to disease. Around 8 glasses of water (per day) is recommended by all doctors.

4. Regular exercise is a wonderful antiaging skin care procedure. Besides toning your muscles, it also helps in cleaning the skin by flushing out the toxins in the form of sweat. Exercise should be followed by a warm shower in order to completely remove the toxins.

5. Avoid the use of strong, chemical based products on your skin. Natural skin care products are a good option. Use of organic skin care products (home made or commercial) can be a very effective antiaging skin care measure.

6. Do not overuse skin care products. Excessive and harsh application, both are harmful.

7. Do not ignore skin disorders; it can lead to permanent skin damage. Try over the counter medication and if that doesn’t help, immediately visit your dermatologist and seek his/her advice.

8. Vitamin C based skin care products are very popular means of antiaging skin care. However, these seem to oxidise very quickly (which makes them harmful for the skin). So store them properly. If the product turns Yellowish brown, it means that vitamin c has oxidised and the prodct is no longer suitable for use.

9. Protect your skin against UV radiation ; UV rays are known to speed up the aging process. So, a good sunscreen lotion should be a part of your antiaging skin care routine.

Learn more about anti-aging skin care in your 30s, 40s and 50s.

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A RELIABLE PASSIVE RESIDUAL INCOME WITH PROSPERITY AUTOMATED SYSTEM http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11282 http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11282#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11282 A RELIABLE PASSIVE RESIDUAL INCOME WITH PROSPERITY AUTOMATED SYSTEM (PAS)

“I can promise you that PAS has finally got all the components of the world’s first 100% hands-free-you-do-absolutely nothing business” Charlie Golick, a leading Internet passive residual income authority”.

Many Internet companies blithely say their company is a “passive” “or “residual” with little or no understanding of what these words mean. Lets get it clear!

“Passive Income” means no action needed by you to earn income. “Residual Income” means income that is left over for you as surplus or extra.

While residual is not really relevant to the issue as whether or not it is residual depends on the individual not the product, passive is. The operative word with passive income is NO action. An this is where other companies fall apart as 95 per cent require at least some regular maintenance work which can amount to a few hours a week. This is not so with PAS, other than registering and paying your money you needn’t do any thing more. You don’t even have to go to the bank as PayPal looks after that for you.

This company is so subtle, so innovative and clever that at this it kind of goes by noticed. I think this is done intentionally. No one is in a hurry. The Owner and the Associates want the company to grow slowly and methodically so it can resolve any issues that there may be in its development, before the surge to join takes hold. Sure enough it will happen.

Be assured this company is not for the frenetic, Anthony Robbins, jump-up-and-down type. You want this? Join Liberty League International. I know. For three unhappy months I was an Associate of this outfit. Talk about pressure, 100s of phone calls a week, up-selling. This has got it all. Anyhow that was then, and now is now.

I have found all the people I have associated with in PAS to be, in a word, “mature”. It proves a point made many times. Employees or Associates assume the temperament of the Boss if he or she is a strong personality. If he or she is a mature, positive, confident, low-key type, somehow this rubs off on the others. In my experience this is certainly the case with PAS where the President Bill Osterhout, is just such a person. Associates respect him. Associates trust him. Call him, in the words of John Locke, the 17th Century political philosopher, a “benevolent dictator” if you will, but Bill will always listen to you regardless of how way out your idea is, looking for the possible gem of wisdom that may drop from your lips. You can reach him personally easily. He listens quietly, and dispenses his response wisely.

I have had 35 years in the labour market, and worked with everyone from shipyard union men to senior university professors. Both can be as nasty as each other. I have been around the block . I am not gullible. When I say someone can be trusted. Trust me, he can be. For many years I recruited for the corporate sector. The only duds were those appointed against my advice. I am a good judge of character. Bill is one of the few bosses in my long career that I am happy to work with. You will be happy too if you are the right kind of person.

So what is the product? Is it another “king with no clothes” like so many other “products”. A non-entity. No. It is a state-of-the-art automated Internet marketing software program that Bill and his research associates developed over a period of five years. . Bill hires the best talent in the country to advise him and help him develop it. The PAS software brings pre-qualified prospects right from the search engines to your website to view whatever product you are selling, in addition to the PAS itself for two or more streams of income. Yes, you have to market your own products, but you don’t have to beat the bushes to get prospects to you website now thanks to PAS. But for PAS you don’t have to do a thing, Bills’ Team Leaders do all that for you.

PAS is arguably the only company on the Internet which offers this degree of automation. Its future potential is massive for those who are patient and don’t expect to get rich overnight. Right now there are only a few hundred Associates in this young company so it is the best time to join. But take off it will when the Doubting Thomas’s and the skeptics make a mad scramble to get on board. But when the quotas are reached, that’s it.

Check out PAS on my websites. The first is my personal “landing” page http://www.ehomebiz.org. The second is my official PAS website. http://passiveincomeweb.com. If you are a mature, patient person and have some experience in life, you owe it to yourself to visit these sites. I know you will really like what you see. If you want Big Bucks in a hurry I have no advice for you.

Written by Michael Brooke, Ph.D

Michael Brooke, Ph.D is a retired university administrator last working at University of Victoria as Dean of Continuing Studies.
He is by professional adult educator, a corporate trainer and recruiter and a published author. He runs Internet businesses,
his mainstay being Prosperity Automated System, an automated marketing system, which you can see at
ehomebiz.org. Reach him at wmbrooke@telus.net if you wish.

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Nutrition – What are the Nutritional Needs? http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11281 http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11281#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11281 Nutrition as it applies to our daily lives means that we take in what we need to maintain our body’s healthy state. Nutrition has become an important word thanks to the involvement of the USDA in our daily food requirements, and the FDA’s involvement in determining what is and is not dangerous for us to consume.

But what is our responsibility in the nutrition game? Do we understand what our nutritional requirements are, how to fulfill those requirements, and how to look for real nutritional value in our foods?

I’m not sure that nutrition has been successfully addressed in its own right. We hear nutrition in relation to our vitamin intake, our fortified cereals and milk, and in the context that we need “nutritional value” from our food choices. But what really is nutrition when applied to our daily bodily functions?

Today, we must determine how much nourishment we need, how much physical exercise we need, and how best to accomplish those ends. Calorie needs, nutritional needs, physical needs, and education about those needs now is information we should all understand, at least as it applies to our individual self.

If you will visit your local doctor, library, or fitness center, there is massive amounts of information available to help educate and to help you make good health choices, no matter what the age group.

Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do. Our ability to provide the body with all it’s necessary food, vitamins, and minerals so that we continue to thrive in our daily life processes.

If you were to take a cross section of the population, and check for adequate levels of the most used and fortified vitamins and minerals, you would probably find that as high as 80% or the population is lacking in a least one of the vitamins and minerals.

Now, that doesn’t sound too bad, until you stop to think, what if it’s calcium? A calcium deficiency brings on osteoporosis, a deteriorating of the bone. This disease alone costs millions in medical expense to the population.

Can you see how a little more cooperation and open-minded participation on the part of our medical field could result in far fewer health problems? It would also have provided the general population with a viable way to discern their nutrition, vitamin and mineral needs, accurately.

So how do we determine that we are providing the essential nutritional needs? That knowledge comes by educating ourselves about what our individual needs are, the needs of our family, and then taking that knowledge and applying it to the foods we buy, that we prepare, and that our families consume.

Quite often, our vitamin and mineral needs outweigh our caloric needs. In those instances, we turn to manufactured vitamins and minerals to fill the gap. This is a part of our nutritional needs, also.

Nutrition is one of the most complex areas to gain useful knowledge about, because there are so many components, and because each person has their own individual needs.

Women needs differ from those of men, and older women’s needs differ from those of a young girl. As we age, our needs constantly change; therefore continual education about nutrition is a fact of life. The nutritional needs of a cardiac patient are different than those of a healthy, middle-aged hiker.

Can you see the complexity of the situation now? What we really need is to develop a scale that determines the nutritional needs of our bodies on a cellular level, so that as we age, as our physical condition changes, or our health changes, we can recalculate our needs, based on cellular changes and content in our body.

Individuality is the key to understanding each person’s nutritional needs, and then working to educate us is the key to fulfilling those nutritional needs. Good nutrition should be the ultimate goal of every person alive.

Nishanth Reddy, is an author and publisher of many health related websites. For more information on how to be fit and healthy visit his website at Fitness Wellness Guide

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How To Choose An Anti Wrinkle Solution? http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11280 http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11280#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11280 How To Choose A Anti Wrinkle Solution?

Finding an anti wrinkle solution that works for you is a long and tiring process. You’re faced with offerings from hundreds of companies using a variety of unproven components that promise to leave your face as smooth as it was in your youth. Most men and women want to erase the ravages of time, remove facial wrinkles, and restore their skin to its younger days. As a result a great deal of creams and various other skin treatments have been created to solve this ever-present problem but few of these treatments are effective and safe. Which combines the most effective anti aging skin care ingredients with a new revolutionary component in a blend that will really leave your skin feeling young and smooth.

There is no need to undergo expensive and painful surgery or shots which offers risky and far from permanent results. More importantly the continual use of wrinkle solutions that can gradually rejuvenate the tone and texture of your skin to leave you long lasting effects.

Why Choose the Right Anti Wrinkle Solution?

Wrinkle solution offers fast results targeting wrinkles, crows feet around the eyes, and other signs of aging and can help to remove 10 years or more from your complexion. The isolates in wrinkle solution can dramatically decrease the appearance of wrinkles and revitalize your skin in addition to increasing collagen and elastin for men and women.

Many customers report that it is more effective than Retinol , Vitamin C creams and Emu Oil in reducing the signs of aging and removing the appearance of wrinkles. When comparing your options for anti-wrinkle creams there are a number of creams on the market which can cost upwards of hundreds of dollars but few offer the effectiveness and value for money.

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Effectively Monitor The Progress of Your Email Communications With Mail Tracking Tools! http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11279 http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11279#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11279 The rise of Internet accessibility to the masses has revolutionized the way people work, play and communicate. Email communication has become the most popular means of information exchange in business and personal use. Personal computers, notebook, hand held devices and cellular telephones all allow you to communicate via email.

Email has rapidly grown to rival the telephone as the centerpiece of effective communication. Although email tends to be less personal than a voice conversation, it has become a preferred means of exchanging data such as quotations, invoices, literature, references, contact information, pictures, URLs, files and many other online resources. This phenomenon has given rise to the misuse and malicious use of email.

Many of us spend countless hours weeding through Spam messages. Those with tight email filters wake up in a cold sweat wondering if that one important message got sent to the Spam folder. Even though some governments have taken steps to curb Spam, most people spend about 20 minutes a day deleting messages offering better mortgage rates, free vacations or cheap Viagra. It is no wonder that many businesses are turning to email tracking services to ensure that their valuable information is being delivered to the right person and read.

I am sure you would not be surprised that not every email that you send is received or read by the intended recipient. There are many reasons for these lost communication nuggets including Spam filtering, overloaded inbox, forwarding rules or simple avoidance. The solution is email tracking!

What is email tracking?

Email tracking is a means of ensuring that your email is matched with its intended recipient. It utilizes secure, digitally time-stamped certificates to reveal the exact time and date that your e-mail was received – and read.

Additional notification options may include how long it was read for, who read it, the approximate physical location of the reader, whether or not your email was forwarded to someone else, what kind of computer was used to read it, what file formats the reader can accept (eg. PDF, MS Word, Excel), whether or not your email has been published on the Internet and countless other tracking mechanisms.

Why track your email?

Many businesses find it imperative to determine if prospective customers receive and read their messages from email promotions, request for quotations or product information. Email tracking is the most effective way of identifying whether the campaign was effective. Sales managers often wonder if their sales representatives are being thorough in their email communication. Email tracking provides a tool for accountability. Special reports can identify number of messages sent and amount of time spent by the recipient reading the message.

What if you sent a quotation with the wrong numbers? If the email has not been read, you may even be able to retract or delete the email. Some tracking services even allow you to create self-destruct or email that can be retracted after a period of time. If the email is never opened or assumed to be lost, you could retract the old message and/or send a new message.

Tagging messages and watching their progress adds to secure communications. Many medical, law enforcement and legal firms utilize this service to enhance security of sensitive information. Email tracking helps ensure information is read by the right person!

Some companies may opt to set up their own servers in order to keep control internally and others may use an online service. Both options are available from a number of providers. I recently visited www.mailtracking.com to take a test drive. It was very simple to use this service.

Do you want to try email tracking yourself?

Simply get a free account at www.mailtracking.com (or another free email tracking competitor) and start sending your emails with an added extension .mailtracking.com. Therefore, if you want to send a tracked message to jdoe@hotmail.com, you simply add the extension as follows jdoe@hotmail.com.mailtracking.com. As the email message travels across the world wide web, you will get notification of its various stages.

Rito Salomone is the president of Resource Software International Ltd. (RSI). He has 17 years experience in the field of communication management solutions.

For more information you can review: www.telecost.com or contact the author at rsalomone@telecost.com.

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Rediscover A Natural Source Of Happiness. http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11278 http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11278#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11278 Do you want to rediscover a natural source of happiness that many of us tend to overlook in this modern hectic world?

It’s available to all of us, twenty-four hours a day. It’s free. It’s as close as your own backyard. And best of all, it works.

I’ll reveal it to you in just a second, however first I need to point out one potential problem. Unfortunately this source of happiness is so obvious that many of us take it for granted. Many of you reading this article will dismiss the idea as too simple, and will just continue on with your search for happiness elsewhere. WRONG! Happiness is simple. I challenge you to try this approach and to see for yourself whether it works for you or not. Take action. You’ve got nothing to lose.

Ok, so what is this source of happiness?

Nature!

That’s right, the natural environment. It’s here right now for your own enjoyment. And personally, I find it to be one of the most effective ways to change your focus away from yourself and your problems, and direct it out to the world around you.

Depressed people tend to mope about the house complaining, worrying or stressing about their problems. Happy people will get out and enjoy life. So let’s pretend for a moment that we’re happy, and make a determined effort to get back to nature. I promise you won’t be pretending for long. Happiness waits outside.

Rediscover your own backyard, or your front porch. Sit and enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of nature. Watch the birds and insects busily go about their lives. Watch the trees sway in the breeze.

Pack a picnic lunch and head off by yourself or with some friends to a park with a nice view.

Take a trip to the mountains where you could sit for a lifetime and never get sick of the view.

Ride a motorbike on the open highway, or drive in your car with the windows down, and enjoy the countryside.

It doesn’t matter where you live. Nature is there right alongside you. And beauty can be found everywhere.

Even in the inner city. Find the local park areas and make use of them. Or sit on a bench and watch the pigeons. Or watch the clouds pass overhead.

What if you don’t like your surroundings? What if you live and work at an open-pit mine site, for example. Simple! Narrow your focus down to one single point. Perhaps one single stone or blade of grass? Look at it with amazement and wonder. Enjoy the experience. And when you’re ready expand your focus slightly and gradually to take in larger and larger areas. The truth you will discover is that nature is never ugly or disgusting. It’s just that YOU chose to perceive it that way. Now you know better.

Anywhere you can find nature, in any form, you’ve found a potential source of happiness.

The key is where you focus your thoughts. Don’t sit on the beach worrying about your financial problems or the latest drama with your friends. Whatever problem your mind is focussed on, just turn it off for a short while. Take your mental focus off yourself and direct it to your natural surroundings. Watch the waves roll in. Listen to the sounds of the waves crashing on the sand. Watch and listen to the children playing in the water. Feel the cool sea breeze on your skin.

Take your attention away from yourself, and focus it on your natural surroundings. Look at the world with love and gratitude. Say “thank you” to the life that exists all around you.

It’s impossible to be depressed while you’re expressing true love. It’s impossible to be sad while you’re expressing true gratitude.

So get out and enjoy nature. And be happy!

By Lance Beggs

Copyright 2005 Lance Beggs. All Rights Reserved.

Lance Beggs is the author of “How to be Happy Now”. His mission is to help others live a life of meaning, love and happiness! Subscribe to his FREE ezine at www.HowToBeHappyNow.com

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Step One To Your Perfect Golf Vacation http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11277 http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11277#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11277 It’s just like the hamburger commercial; Have it your own way! Your annual golf outing deserves to be the best possible vacation. Make it your own way. Forget “the package” and design your own special, personalized group get away.

In my last article, I gave an overview of how you can put together a terrific group golf vacation. In this article, I will go into much more detail concerning the organization and preparation. I have been setting up the ideal gathering for our group for 18 years. There are refinements every year and we think we have arrived at the optimum outing.

You will be driving this bus, so get the ball rolling. Do a little research and pick a location. This location should have plenty of vacation rental homes and a good selection of golf courses. You do not want to play the same course every day. You should be able to do most or all of your research online to find out about rental house and golf course specifics, including costs.

Get the word out to the troops. I like to send out a humorous email to introduce the event and then follow up with more emails and phone calls. I recommend you send out an email to everyone you think might be remotely interested about five months in advance. Some will not be able to make it due to family, work, interest, etc. You should hope to wind up with a group size around eight. Anywhere from six to twelve is great. Five people is the worst group size due to tee times. More than twelve is too hard to organize or find lodging in the same house.

Pick out a window of time. We usually grab the last week in February to get the northern gents out of the snow and still stay in the low rate season for the southern golf courses. As an example of an introductory email, you could send something like this:

“It has come to my attention via the minions who surround me and perform my every whim that there may be those among you desiring driving sleet, incomprehensible wind chill, unplayable lies, unreachable par 3’s, impossible odds, foot-wedging opponents, gross bending of the USGA rules, hairy greens, thick frost, lightening fast down-hillers, moguls, knee deep rough, more sand and water than water front property, Velcro removal during back swings, exploding coughs during precision chips, un-winnable stroke spreads complete with unyielding stroke givers and takers, 179-degree dog legs, and brutal rangers in leather and chains.

If this is the type of outing you’ve been dreaming about, keep dreaming. I can’t make it happen. But picture this:

-A luxurious house with a separate bed for everyone.
-18 to 36 holes of golf per day on pristine courses.
-A gourmet meal every night.
-All the comforts, food and drink of home.
-Evening entertainment.
-Sensational camaraderie.

I am looking at an arrival date of (date) and departure date of (date). We will be gathering in (city, state). For a group of eight of us, and assuming we average 27 holes per day, your cost should be around $XXX for the housing, food, drink, golf and rental cars. (Note: Our cost per man for food and drink for seven days was $160 in 2005.) Please reply before (date) by answering:

What is the percentage chance you can come for these dates?
What is the percentage chance you could make other dates?
What dates would you prefer?
Other recommendations:”

You have now set the stage. For those you don’t hear back from, get on the phone and hash it out. Through all of your responses, you will come up with the consensus of length of vacation and dates through give and take.

Over the next four months you will be:

-Getting firm commitments from your group members
-Arriving at a firmer consensus on golf venue
-Receiving food and drink orders to allow you to make the shopping list
-Reserving the vacation house and rental cars
-Getting tee times

I like to periodically whet everyone’s appetite and keep the excitement level up. Setting up a website especially for your group is a great way to do this. I stripped down the one I use and put an example up at http://www.eye-mind-tricks.com/golf for your review. It is just a little thing I whipped up using MS Publisher. An easier way for you to do this would be to get a free Blog set up for this purpose. I recommend blogger dot com.

Over the years, we have realized two key things about lodging. The first is that it makes a huge difference in camaraderie when the whole group stays under the same roof. The second is the value in everyone having a separate bed (you know how guys are). The only way to achieve this is to pick a location where there are a bunch of rental homes in order for you to pick one that allows this. (Plug for Isle of Palms, SC: you can find what you need there.)

It may not seem to you like time is of the essence, but work schedules, vacation allotments, spousal plans, ticket costs, and your preparation needs demand that you DO get this ball rolling. Once you have sent your introductory email and done your phone calling, several of your planned guests will have trouble pulling the trigger. Work with them as you can, but I have found that you will need your firm group established two months ahead of time (give or take one guy or so.) A fine point for you: Ask for a nominal deposit from each of the troops. Over time, I know that the cost of our vacation, outside of airfare, will be around $900. In one of my follow up emails, I simply ask the players to send around half of that to me. It emphasizes commitment.

In selecting the location of your rental home, consider the driving time to the golf courses you will be playing. We have found that twenty minutes travel time is great, thirty minutes is OK, but forty minutes is too long. The longer drives are certainly bearable, but if you are planning a winter vacation, you will have to have a fairly early tee time in the morning to allow lunch and another 18 in the afternoon. After telling tales late into the evening, beating the sun to the course, heading home and preparing the feast, it gets to be a long day.

This takes us to the minus-two-months time frame.

In Part Three of this series, we will get into getting great golf rates, shopping lists, and easy administration.

Randall Ulbricht is a retired Nuclear Submarine Officer. He currently works from home sharing information via several web sites, including: www.ezpromotes.com www.family-tree-templates.com www.eye-mind-tricks.com and www.hair-style-photo.info For notification on availability of his free Ebook, email: perfectgolf@aweber.com

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Pay Per Click Advertising And Marketing http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11276 http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11276#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:00:02 +0000 admin http://www.jvren.cn/?p=11276 When I think of Pay Per Click, I think of a marketing strategy that has two different sides - one where you pay for published ads and one where you get paid for publishing ads. Somebody is always paying for the click, whether it is you clicking on someone’s ad or another person clicking on your ad. Pay Per Click depends on how you look at who is paying.

If you use Google to search the internet then you may find that your search results include “Sponsored Links” (on the right hand side of the search results page). If you click on any of the Sponsored links, the advertiser that placed the ad you clicked must pay Google for that click. If the advertiser is you, you are the one that pays. The price that you would pay depends on how much you have bid on the keywords used to generate the ad. This marketing tactic is called Google Adwords.

In addition to the ads being displayed with the search results, Google allows owners of websites and Blogs to display the same ads as contextual ads. Contextual refers to content that relates to the subject of your web page. This system is called Google Adsense. Each time a visitor clicks on an ad Google pays the owner of the website for that click. If you have traffic going to your web site and you display the Google Adsense Ads on a page and someone clicks an ad, you make money.

Note that Google Adwords and Google Adsense compliment each other and are in fact, the inverse of each other.

Google Adwords Pay Per Click is a good way to get quick targeted traffic to your website. Because you are paying for an ad promoting your site or affiliate link, those that click your ad will be directed to your site. The efficiency of your ad (click through rate or CTR) will depend on the ad copy and the keywords. The keywords that you have in the ads that are searched for dictate when your ad is displayed. Read the article at URL http://www.theonlinebizplace.com/Make-Money-With-Adwords.html to get informed on how to make the most of a Google Adwords campaign as a tool to make money.

Google Adsense is a good way to make an “automatic” recurring income. Automatic assuming your ads are getting the clicks and generating the income you expect. Some tweaking of the ad placement, colors, etc. may be neccessary for optimization. When a Google Adsense ad on your site is clicked, both you and Google make a split percentage of the total of the bid price for the keyword that the ad was displayed and clicked for. Read the article at URL http://www.theonlinebizplace.com/Make-Money-With-Google-Adsense.html to get informed on how to make the most of having Adsense ads on your site for generating an automatic income.

Another type of ad that is gaining in popularity is the Chitika eMiniMall. Chitika eMiniMalls are advertisements that display a picture and a description of the product, the best deals where the product can be purchased and a search feature. If you want to display Google Adsense ads and Chitika ads on the same web page, Google requires specific modifications to the Chitika ads. Read the article at URL http://www.theonlinebizplace.com/Make-Money-With-Chitika-Ads.html to get all the tips you need to properly place your Chitika eMiniMall ad on your site for another great way towards an automatic income.

Both Yahoo and Microsoft are in beta right now with their own equivalent to Google Adsense. The Yahoo ad network is called Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) and Microsoft’s network is called Adcenter. I have not tried these networks out yet, but I may find myself doing that if I find that ad clicks yield a higher amount or percentage to the web site publisher.

There are several other pay per click networks available to try as well. Some of these would be RevenuePilot, Bidclix, CBclicks, Adsclick and Bidvertiser. I am sure there are even more than this. If you are interested, search them out and see if they fit for your own website’s use.

Greg Lietz is a freelance writer and businessman. His articles provide content about web site marketing strategies and PPC Strategies.

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