8/14/06

Want to be a marketing guru?

learn Tip - I was at the bookstore last night and notice a nice,informative marketing book - The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time According to Amazon: Marketing Gurus offers 17 summaries of marketing books published in the last 15 years. It's arguably a narrow range for the best "of all time". Featured books include:
  • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
  • Positioning by Jack Trout and Al Ries
  • Kotler on Marketing by Philip Kotler
  • The Popcorn Report by Faith Popcorn
  • The Anatomy of Buzz by Emanuel Rosen
  • Purple Cow by Seth Godin
  • Relationship Marketing by Regis McKenna
  • And more
Marketing Gurus essentially is a book that summarizes other marketing best-seller books with some updated comments and hints. So if you want to be a marketing expert and don't have time to read all the other books, grab this one.

8/13/06

Want a free advanced stock quote tracker/ticker tape?

Earn - Do you want to get started investing in stocks? Want to track a portfolio, chart some stocks, or have one of those nice stock ticker tapes running in your screen? Try Medved (www.quotetracker.com) quote tracker. Features:
  • Streaming Real-Time quotes
  • Live real-time intraday charts
  • 50 Techincal indicators
  • Streaming Level II Quotes
  • Integrated Trading Intraday & Historical Chart Trend Lines
  • Advanced Alert System with Email alerts
  • NEWS Monitoring
  • Multiple portfolios support
  • Scrolling Ticker Tape
  • Historical charts
  • Ability to connect to many data feeds
It is supported by ads and you can pay to remove them. It is a pretty need system similar to the ones advanced investors/brokers use - and is free.

8/12/06

You can always have money in the bank...

save - From Ben Franklin's Poor Richards Almanack to The Richest Man in Babylon they can't seem to stress enough the idea of paying yourself first. 10% at least but one can start with whatever; you just need to get the rhytm going. Go ahead, open a HSBC, ING, or Emigrant savings account and start automatically paying yourself first. You must open an account that is seperate from your regular checking account since this will make it harder for you to withdraw your saved money. Consider it as a bill that must be paid to yourself. Pay it before all other bills. Try it and you will be amazed that you will always have money left over at the end of the bank; I know I do.

8/11/06

Access,share and sync your files from anywhere - FREE

do TIP- Ever need to access your computer files from another computer or need to share them so that others can download a la ftp? Then say hello to Foldershare (www.foldershare.com) *. Foldershare also lets you sync files between computers. Free - courtesy of Microsoft. *Note: As always, I put the address of the website in parenthesis so that you can see there is no affiliate marketing. I don't get a cent from these products. I just use them everyday and find them very useful and makes me more productive and that is the whole point of this website - bringing out the best in people. Thanks

How to Win Friends and Influence People...

learn - Some quick pointers from the excellent classic book by Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • Never criticize, condemn, or complain
  • Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
  • "As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation"
  • When dealing with people let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic but we are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity
  • Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - so don't
  • Give honest and sincere appreciation - always.
  • "Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."
  • Become genuinely interested in other people
  • Smile
  • Remember people's first names and make them feel important
  • People have low self-esteem - so continuosly reinforce their levels of self esteem by making them feel important, needed, respected, etc.
  • Admire and respect sense of accomplishments which increases the value and self-esteem.
  • Specific, immediate praise i.e. "Excellent sale!" in intervals and not every time
  • Pay attention and listen attentively
And finally the most important pointer: The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be/feel important and needed

8/10/06

Save - Need to unzip or uncompress files for free?

Try 7-Zip (www.7-zip.org)
Main features of 7-Zip: High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip source: www.7-zip.org Why pay for other software? Free and useful.

Do - Need system info for your computer (gratis)?

I constantly troublshoot and help others out fix their computers. The first thing I need to know is what kind of computer it is, i.e. what does it have. I use SIW - System Information for Windows (www.gtopala.com) This program performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It was recently names to PC World's 101 fabulous freebies. SIW gives detail information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs for CPU, motherboard, chipset, etc. A standalone tool that does not require installation. Just double click to run and voila, instant info! You can even run the program directly from a USB flash drive. How neat is that? No strings attached and no ads. All free. Read a review.

Save - Learn a foreign language for free

I love learning new things and these include learning a foreign language or two. There are literally hundreds of ways of learning a new foreign language. I have tried many language software and audio programs. For me these are the ones that have helped with a price though:
  • Tell Me More
  • The Rosetta Stone
  • Pimsleur Levels 1-3
If you want to learn for free though, try these 2 sources: With these 2 sources you can be hablando espanol comme fou! Oui c'est vrai, senor WebPatron.

8/9/06

Save - Want a free MIT education?

Want to learn a foreign language or some history? Then take free courses via MIT's OpenCourseWare (ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm)
  • MIT OCW's goals are to: Provide free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the "opencourseware" concept.
I can actually do the same assigments as MIT students. Pretty neat stuff.

Earn - Need products to buy or sell?

I have never tried Alibaba (www.alibaba.com) but i have heard good things about it. I am contemplating on buying some products then reselling them via the web. Just wondering what products to sell. Then there is the issue of warehousing and excess inventory.

Do - Need to find out a value of a home fast?

Email z@labs.zillow.com with the address of the place you need in the subject line. You can do it from a phone or PDA. Fast and easy.

Do - Tired of Adobe? Need a fast PDF reader?

I use FoxItReader (www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php). No need for installation - fast and free.

Save - Need to save/print files as pdfs for free?

Need to save/print files as PDF files but don't have the cash to buy the full version of Adobe? Then try this: PdfCreator (sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/) . Nice

8/8/06

Save - Free antivirus software

With the decision to change the way they generate revenue, AOL is now giving away their premium content. Get their Active Virus Shield - free from AOL.

Do - Want to stay current?

Along with all those RSS feeds I subscribe, I use Digg Labs. Check it out. Do ZOOM in.

Do - Need another OS?

Need to install another OS on your computer but do not want to dual boot? Use VirtualPC - now free courtesy of Microsoft. I use it to test other OS's and to just play around since you can save (or not) virtual sessions. I could not get Ubuntu Linux to work so I had to use VmWare server - free too! Software virtualization is all the buzz right now and for good reason. Try them.

Save - Need to fly to Asia

Cathay Pacific has what they call Asia Pass where you can travel to 18 cities in a 21 day period all for around $1,300.

Do - Send quick SMS

Want to send a quick SMS/phone text message via email? Use this: AreaCodePhone#@teleflip.com Example: 9565551234@teleflip.com

8/7/06

Make - AOL query words

I went digging on that released (oops) file by AOL and noticed that many people were searching for unclaimed money.

Do - Use free remote control software

Need to connect to your computer remotely? Many times I need to connect to computers remotely to help other people. I used to use PCAnyWhere and VNC but they were a hassle to install. Now I use Logmein (www.logmein.com) and is free unlike other software. Why are others not recommending this? 'Cause there is no referral bonus? Hmmm. Maybe. In any case I am happy with this software and recommend it 100% because it is free and most of all it works. Try it. You won't regret it.

Save More - Want to start investing with ETFs?

I have been investing for quite a while. I started with Sharebuilder but now I use BuyAndHold.com. It is a lot cheaper to trade using "windows." I have had no problems with them. I buy ETFs and some single stocks. I would recommend ETFs as your core portfolio. Mix in some gold and enerygy stocks and voila - instant portfolio. Going back to my account of preference, BuyAndHold, I wonder why not too many financial bloggers recommend this site to start investing cheaply. Because it has no referrals bonus like Sharebuilder? Although the tools are not the best in some point non-existent, I have had no problems trading. I am happy though.
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