Nobody likes e-mail SPAM except the spammers who hope to convert .01 % into sales. Unfortunately, the cost to send out an email is very low and thus any ratio is decent even in some cases .001% and that’s the problem. Okay so, let’s talk shall we?

Much of the nonsensical SPAM we get comes from smaller operators who do not have the convenience of Artificial Intelligent software or high-probability algorithms. How do we know this is a fact? Simple, if you are a woman and you get Viagra or Anti-Baldness SPAM or if you are a man and get breast enlargement or Sports Bra SPAM. These smaller companies use scrapers and buy old email lists with little regard to your buying habits. Larger companies use targeted SPAM which to us often doesn’t seem like SPAM because we are actually interested.

What if the smaller companies that sent out SPAM had better access to targeted algorithms to help them find the best customers? Then they’d use that software and we’d eliminate a good chunk of all SPAM and thus, save bandwidth for all and clear out most of our junk email boxes.

After all, if your salesy emails are apropos to your needs, wants, desires and purchasing choices then all of a sudden it doesn’t seem like SPAM anymore does it? Now then, a company that is only getting.001% conversion rates on a mass e-mail campaign probably doesn’t have enough money to use Big Data or get a sophisticated computer nerd to write them the ultimate Spamming Algorithm.

So, what if someone licensed these tools to the littlest of home-based businesses, and if they abuse them, they can no longer use them? You see, we need a real world solution and we need to rethink the problem, because we still have a challenge with spamming and even though there are laws against it, enforcing those laws is nearly impossible. Bill Gates had suggested long ago that “micro-payments” for emails sent would solve the problem, because even if the cost was low per e-mail sent, operators couldn’t afford to randomly send the SPAM, instead they’ve have to be selective.

Being selective means, having a decent e-mail list and checking it twice, updating it, and making sure anything sent was properly targeted otherwise you’d go broke trying to send out mass e-mails. My solution above also has a free-market cost-benefit theme to it. Maybe it is a nice business model for Big Data to capture new small business clients in bulk and if so, that could eliminate 50% of the SPAM. Think on this.

In my opinion the Federal Trade Commission is a complete waste of money. For them to say that there little bureaucratic effort reduced SPAM is a silly notion indeed. That little pathetic agency could not sue their way out of a paper box filled with their own press releases to the media to save their next year’s budget.

Indeed it appears their press releases are written on toilet paper these days as they spew their crap across the Internet? That worthless and disgusting agency must need an arm brace every year from injury, as they are so busy patting them selves on the back. I can see the circle jerks now lined up in a circle of law school low performing lawyers who could not make it in the real world, patting each other on the back for their great work in the CAN SPAM Act. When the facts are it was free enterprise and people like Bill Gates and the other great companies who helped figure out how to curb the growth of SPAM. Free Enterprise? Ever heard of it at the FTC? Apparently not!

The Federal Trade Commission is a complete waste of taxpayer’s money and a bizarre excuse for an agency associated with the Justice Department. They make the DOJ looks stupid and incompetent. In my opinion some needs to put forth a bill to reduce the FTC’s budget by half this year and half next year and then another half of what’s left the year after and close that ridiculous façade of an agency before they do any more misrepresentation on consumers. Think on it, this is your government at work?

Today we are free to grow. Free to become our highest potential in many places in the world. If you know about King Solomon, he was rich, in fact richer than rich. He was in today’s money worth over $1 Trillion dollars. In this article we will look at King Solomon and some wisdom that makes people rich.

King Solomon when asked what he wants, asked for wisdom not wealth and he got it, and with it he became the most richest person in history with a worth of over $1 trillion dollars. This is a huge number and you need to have some form of wisdom to get that rich!

King Solomon was a king, and we have to understand he must have started out with some form of wealth in the beginning. For many people today, they are starting out from middle class families or lower class families by income and not virtue.

Everyone today has the ability to grow rich. The opportunities and freedoms you have available to you today is much higher than what you would have found a century ago, but even then opportunity could be grasped to bring about that moving from a state of poverty to a state of wealth.

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller are both testaments to this fact. Starting from humble beginnings they managed to rise and ride the wave of opportunity to create an amazing amount of wealth.

A wealth so high that even Bill Gates didn’t come close when he reached his peak of $100 billion dollars when he sat on the top of the Forbes list.

Success comes from action, but action alone does not cut it. To get wealthy and get rich, smart goals are needed.

Often people work blindly. Seeing a meme put up by a friend on Facebook, someone replied in a negative way about the meme that showed a lavish lifestyle. He said he was self employed and after 30 years could not live that life.

Living the life that the top 1% is not about working or working hard, but by learning and earning more.

The top 1% today worked for it. Often building up from scratch but over a course of decades growing.

There is one thing that does that and it is called hunger. Having the shear will to build something amazing.

If you want to achieve success in life, remember that you live in the greatest time now to make it happen.

Time is an essential part of business management. It is one of the most important resources for you and the people within your team or organization. Together, time management can help propel an organization to success while providing business management a tool to also improve in this essential skill to have.

For most people time management is as great as having an alarm clock to get up. Zig Ziglar says that it should be called an opportunity clock, as it gives us an opportunity to get up! An alarm clock is as far as time management goes for most people, even in business management.

With 24 hours in a day, we have a large amount of time and it is easy to look at that and not see the essentials for managing time. You see even with an hour gone by, so much more could have been accomplished.

While waiting the whole week to complete so a project could be completed, correct time skills could have helped complete the project in the day or even the hour! And how is that for business management!

Time management is a vital skill for both business management to run the organization and for themselves personally as knowing effective skills in time management enables you to become a very valuable person.

Bill Gates has as much time as you have, so there is so much more that can be done. Though not many people strive to reach such a lofty place or goal, in business management, time is a resource that is essential for any kind of success.

We have skills in management, and more we add to those skills, the more effective we become and so do the results we produce.

Is it feasible to say that your range of skills, enhanced, can enable you to be twice as effective, five times as effective or even 10 times as effective? You bet you, and this is the benefits of learning good time management strategies and skills.

To learn time skills, there are books, training programs, seminars and DVD’s as well as other training material options that can enable you to increase your time skills. If you are in business management and studied business, you likely did not learn these skills and the learning is something that has to be done by you.

Once you learn effective time management skills, you will find that business management and time go hand in hand, after all – time is money!

No it isn’t Bill Gates. It isn’t the diamond merchants of South Africa or the oil barons of Saudi Arabia either. The world’s highest paid job is crab fishing in Alaska. The frigid waters off the Alaskan shoreline house a veritable fishing goldmine and crab fishing in Alaska has been aptly dubbed the last great gold rushes on earth.

Crab fishing is the most significant of the Alaskan commercial shellfish industries. The waters of Alaska, notably the Bering Sea, Bristol Bay, Dutch Harbor and the Kodiak and Aleutian Islands are home to rich bounties of crabs: tanner, Dungeness and the famed Alaskan King crab.

The different varieties of the Alaskan crabs possess immense commercial value and the Alaskan King crab in particular is a prized dish in the culinary world, valued as highly as caviar or vintage French wine. US and Japanese restaurants are the primary importers of Alaskan King crab in the world.

An idea of the valuation of crab fishing in Alaska can be garnered from the fact that a seasoned fisherman can hope to rope in US$50000 worth of catch in an eight-week period.

The commercial crab fishing industry in Alaska had its beginning way back in 1950. The returns were promising from the very start and the region quickly attracted hundreds of US fishing boats. The 1980s were the heydays of crab fishing in Alaska. During this period of king crab boom, the fishing boat captains regularly earned US$150000 in a season and the crab fishing boats boasted of saunas, music systems and microwaves.

But by 1983, the Alaskan King crab industry crashed for no apparent reason. The worst slump in fishing history, it forced fishermen to look into alternative fishing sources. Thus Alaskan commercial fishing branched out either to salmon and halibut or bairdi and opilio, two types of tanner crabs.

Since then the Alaskan crab fishing trade has looked up a little with the year 2001 bringing in 23.2-million pounds of fishing stock worth US$36-million. But crab fishing in Alaska still continues to command the highest pay packet in the world.

But this is only the rosy side to the job. Crab fishing in Alaska is one of the most perilous of all jobs in the world. To fish for crabs in the glacial waters of the Arctic Ocean in sub-zero temperatures, with pounding waves thrashing on the deck and tossing the fishing boat treacherously and icy winds howling continuously, needs a stout heart and an able body. Furthermore, your work will involve negotiating the enormous crab pots and coils of line along the slippery deck.

Each and every muscle and sinew of the body is stretched to the hilt and exhaustion to the point of breakdown is common. Crippled limbs, crushed fingers and ribs, broken legs are the staple fare in the grueling 20-21 hour daily schedules, while men toppling overboard are not uncommon incidents either. In fact, every year there are some casualties in these fishing trips.

However, in spite of all the hardships, there is no dearth of men seeking employment in this fishing trade. Crab fishing in Alaska remains a haloed job to land.

For many people, the dream of working online is financial freedom, time with the family, the ability to take lots of holidays and relax on the beach.

The reality for most is very different.

Working on the Internet is sold to most people as being easy, taking up very little time and making massive amounts of money really easily without any effort. The reality here is again, very different.

However, if you set your business up correctly and create a business strategy then you can live the dream. It is possible and there are people doing it, just not the vast majority.

Firstly, you need to ensure that you do not swap your current job for a job on the Internet. Most new Internet Marketers spend their time creating products and websites, doing SEO work and basically working as an employee of the business instead of the CEO.

Does Bill Gates sit down and write the latest Windows operating system himself? Nope, he’s the boss, he defines the strategies and sets the direction of the company whilst his TEAM does the actual programming work. I know, when you first start out, you may not have the money to outsource all this work to other people so you have to do it, which is fair enough. But, and this is a big but, as soon as you do have the money, you need to be outsourcing the mundane, hum drum work to someone else whilst you are working on the strategies, direction and new products.

You may be thinking this is a waste of money, but you need to think about how you value your time. If someone will do the work you are doing, e.g. web design, for $7 an hour, then you are saying that your time is worth $7 an hour. However, as the CEO of your business, your time is worth a lot more than this.

Think about it. Is it better for you to be saving $7 an hour by doing the work yourself or potentially earning an awful lot more than this by creating new products and working on your strategy whilst you pay someone the $7 an hour to do the work for you? If you do not outsource your work then you will never really own a business but instead will be caught in another job. Admittedly, you’ll be your boss, but you still have a job.

You need to also understand how to run a business, and this is everything from creating and marketing products to the financials to customer relationship building and more. Without this knowledge, you will struggle to get a real business off the ground and make a full time living online.

If you want to be able to quit your job and live the “Internet dream” then you have to start a business and not get yourself another job. People are living the dream and you could be one of them too.

“Roses are red

Violets are green

I’m really sorry I hit my brother

But he was being mean.”

Kids not only say the darndest things, they write them, too. Whether this poetry springs out of creative writing exercises in the schools, or in HEARTSONGS, HOPE THROUGH HEARTSONGS and JOURNEY THROUGH HEARTSONGS 13-year-old now-deceased-but-never-forgotten writer Mattie J.T. Stepanek’s case, out of special circumstances, degenerative muscular dystrophy, that bring forth a remarkable gift, the rhymes can easily be lost through time, moving, throwing away of school papers, or just simply forgotten.

While our children’s poetry may not become best-selling books and CDs (Stepanek teamed up with young country star Billy Gilman to produce a CD), those sweet or questioning verses of childhood and angry, angsty teenage songs bring pleasure, joy and comfort. They are as much a part of history as official family records. How many of us wish we had saved our poems form clutter, neglect, forgetfulness, or the (we hope) well-intentioned suggestions of parents that “You just aren’t a poet”—or even a parent throwing away our written longings? You can bet Mattie Stepanek’s mom would never throw away his first poems!

Whether we have the gift to become a poet or not, whether or not our children are Emily Dickinsons, those scribblings and typings are part of our life, our thoughts, our feelings. They are gifts in themselves, and loving children everywhere have the creativity to give them as presents. Mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, are moved beyond words when they receive a card on construction paper, or even computer-created by a junior Bill Gates or Charles Schulz. That card may contain a poem about “The Greatest Dad in the World.” Do you want to throw it away and keep all the store-bought greetings you take for granted? It may even move your spouse to wrestle with love poems, and you want to save those too.

The answer is scrapbooking. Poetry on paper is perfect for preserving in the pages of scrapbooks. You may want to create a scrapbook for family poems and created cards, or several scrapbooks if you have more than one poet in the family. You can organize the family scrapbooks by writer, poem subject (Dad, mom, the family dog or cat) or by occasions: birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, new homes, weddings, births, and so forth. Or you can include poems in scrapbooks you’ve created to record these occasions, scrapbooks that contain decorations, invitations, announcements, pressed flowers, and so forth.

Some tips for successful poem preserving:

* While it’s tempting to include the yellowing paper your son wrote his first poem on, consider recopying it on pretty paper and include it. You can include the original paper if you wish, but do so beside the typed or handwritten version.

Do the same if a poem has smudges or spills.

* If you haven’t dated a poem by your child, look at the writing and compare it to different ages. Always list your child’s age.

* Always date family poems, either on paper or by making a note on a printed label or in handwriting.

* If you can’t guess when a family poem was written, look at the occasion. If it was your 50th birthday or a particular wedding anniversary, you know the date (unless your memory is like a man’s!)

* When you’ve started scrapbooking family poems, always choose heavy paper for future poems, or paper that holds up well.

* If the poem goes with a photo, include the original even if the image of the photo is on the paper the poem is printed on. Or include a photo from the event or a photo of the family member the poem is about for an illustrated poem!

* Consider typing up a page that includes sample quotes from family poems, a kind of “Best Of the Jones Family” list.

* Finally, if anyone in your family doesn’t mind hearing their recorded voice, record a CD or cassette of the poems and include it with the scrapbook.

You may never get your poems read nationwide, but you and your family will treasure the memories they bring. So start writing, and happy scrapbooking!

Making money with autoblogs is simple if you know how, but really difficult if you don’t know what you are doing. Here we’re going to look at one of the best uses for autoblogging plugins: bringing the dead back to life!

1) The “Undead”

The internet is littered, packed, absolutely STUFFED with dead blogs.

These are projects that folks started, and then abandoned. Maybe they got distracted. May be it just seemed too hard, or too boring to keep at. Like everything else, blogging takes effort, and like everything else, people leave their blogs to die in the cold all the time.

But do you realize the sheer potential in all those dead, dying, abandoned and shelterless blogs? Even a little AdSense love might resuscitate some of these orphaned sites!

Why not use a little automation to ease the process?

2) Autoblogging is like jumper cables for your dead blog

Ever use jumper cables to start a stalled car? Well, this is the same thing. Even a free autoblog plugin, like Multipress free version, can help to bring energy, life and, most of all, visitors to your sad, abandoned blog.

Provided you use one of the standard blogging platforms, like WordPress, Blogger, or even Joomla, you can find an autoblog plugin to suit your budget. So, set it up and let it rip.

3) What you can expect

You can expect to make thousands of dollars in a week!

Actually, that’s not true.

But I got your attention, no? Really, most blogs were never destined to make a lot of money, and that’s because of the nature of blogging. Blogs tend to be personal in nature, and express our ideas and thoughts in a way that is unique to us. And let’s face it, unless you are Barack Obama or Bill Gates, most people are not beating a path to your blog.

But you CAN get a steady stream of folks to your site if you will only take the trouble to update it on a regular basis. Why is this?

Simple: the search engines like blogs which get updated regularly. Fresh blog content gives Google et al. something to give their users. So, by updating your blog on a regular basis, you are working with the search engines, and not just praying someone will find you by accident. (Unless, of course, you really ARE Barack Obama or Bill Gates, in which case, this is not your problem!)

4) The kiss of life

So, by updating on a weekly or fortnightly basis, you can render your dead blog the kiss of life, get some traffic, and maybe make a few dollars in the process. And you do this with a judicious combination of good, personal content that expresses YOU, and good quality syndicated content brought to you by your autoblog software add-on.

Making money with autoblogs is simple if you know how– and the secret is to know what blogging is in the first place. Use your autoblog software as an adjunct to your blog, and you will not go wrong. Always, always keep your reader in mind, and you will add to the world, and bring new life to your dead blogs.

Looking for improve small business tips? So here you are browsing on the Internet for the most easy to implement business tips, and looking how to utilise them profitably in your business. You are going to get plenty of “improve small business” tips on a number of websites, but you need to know whether they fit your vision of your small-business adequately and properly.

Now, looking at the importance of a vision for the entrepreneur. Let us take Bill Gates as an example. He definitely did not need to complete college, because since childhood, he had a vision. He knew what he wanted to do, and as a teenager, he spent most of his time trying to achieve that particular goal. So by that time, he was ready to start on Microsoft in 1978, he had already reached the stage of superior understanding of the IT field. So, one of the most important “improve small business” tips is to have a vision of an achievable goal.

Improve small business tips — Know What You Are Doing

Once you have a blueprint in your mind about what you want to achieve, and how long are you are going to take to reach that final goal, there you are, on your away to small-business success. So, tips like “be realistic” and “use your common sense” are naturally one of the important and most logical aphorisms, and cliches used. You are definitely not going to decide to start up a new business in a field where there is already a glut in the market.

That means that if there are 20 publishers in your city, publishing books, you are definitely not going to be the 21st. On the other hand, if you see that there is a great demand for people who can supply catering services, and home-made food, and your city does not have such a service, naturally, you are going to start it up immediately, would not you.

That is where your vision comes in. You intend to start small, among your family and friends. By the end of 5 years, you are going to get more and more clients through word of mouth. This is why a vision definitely needs to be on a long-term basis and not hoping to break even at the end of the year.

Important improve small business tips are definitely going to include proper market-research into the traffic targeted, and how to get them to know about your services, as well as making sure that your clients know that you are the best in the field. Go on the Internet and look for more easy to implement improve small business tips right away!

History

Microsoft Office is described as an office suite of several applications, services and servers which was developed by Microsoft. The Office product was first announced back in 1988 by no other than Bill Gates at the COMDEX (Computer Dealer’s Exhibition) held in Las Vegas. The office suite was originally a marketing term for the bundled set of applications. The original version of the Microsoft Office included Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Through the years, the Microsoft Office application has gradually changed to better fit the needs of users. The changes include shared features such as OLE data integration, spell checker and also Visual Basic (VB) for applications with scripting language. Because of the popularity as well as the efficacy of MS Office application, the number of users have steadily increased and Softpedia announced on July 2012 that there are now over a billion users all over the world.

Versions of Microsoft Office

The desktop version of MS Office is available for all Windows based platforms and as well as for MAC OS X. MS has also introduced a touch-optimized version which is pre-installed on Windows RT tablets to enable mobile users to avail of Microsoft services through the Office Mobile which is accessible for free on iOS, Android and of course Windows Phone. Office Online is the web-based version and Microsoft has already stated its plans to create more versions for other well-known platforms.

The MS Office application is quite easy to use and understand. However, newbies may find it hard to maneuver through the application so here are a few tips on how to easily utilize the applications.

Microsoft Word

MS Word is basically a word processor and was initially considered as the chief program in the Office application. There are over 10 MS Word versions now and more than half is considered either obsolete or irrelevant. The most widely used MS Word versions are Word 2003, Word 2007, Word 2010 and Word 2013. The following are helpful tips on how to easily navigate MS Word and its different versions.

Word 2003

This version of MS Word is a perfect tool to create awesome looking documents; from formatting, page numbering, indexes and even more options to choose from. This version of MS Word has a few tricks up its sleeve which can help anyone master the creation of documents. One of the best features of the MS Word 2003 is that it will automatically save your work every few minutes. This means that you will still have your document even if you experience a computer shutdown. You can also automatically save your documents by following these steps:

Go to Tools, then Options and click the Save tab. Make sure that the Save Auto Recover check box is ticked and then type your preferred backup interval inside the Minutes box and then click OK.

Word 2007

MS Word 2007 is basically the same as the other versions but has added a few features which can help you create better documents with ease. Word 2007 offers editing and formatting keyboard shortcuts that are already well known by countless Windows users. It also features common and not so common keyboard commands such as pressing Ctrl+Shift+G to display the Word Count.

Word 2010

There are a few new changes in Word 2010 but the basic keyboard shortcuts are still the same. Formatting and other shortcut keys are basically the same as the previous versions. One cheat sheet we’d like to share is lining up your texts using Word 2010 to make it a lot easier when you use tabs instead of the space bar.

Word 2013

Word 2013 may have a complex ribbon which has tabs and other useful icons. However, the complexity is only temporary since the keyboard shortcuts and basic commands are the same as the other MS Word versions. One good tip when using Word 2013 is to press Shift + Enter to embed a soft return which can be very practical when you need to break a line of text like in an address or in a document title.

Microsoft Excel

There are over 10 versions of Microsoft Excel but the more popular versions are Excel 2007, Excel 2010 and Excel 2013. Some of the Excel functions apply to several subject areas while most functions are actually general and can be used for all needs. The Excel functions are basically the same regardless of the versions such as SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, INT and ROUND just to name a few. The order of operations when using Excel starts with Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division and Addition and Subtraction.

Microsoft PowerPoint

MS PowerPoint is a slide show presentation program which was launched back in 1990. There are over 10 versions for MS PowerPoint and the more commonly used are versions 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. The commands and functions of different versions are actually the same. However, users must learn basic formatting shortcuts to ensure that their presentation will be outstanding.