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Respected Sir,
Sub:- Does Online Internet Home Base Jobs are real or not
Recently I was receiving so many mails as Work for Home through Internet and can earn Thousands of Dollars every month by just working 2 to 3 Hrs a day.
Some of the following web Sites List
www.googlenetcash.com
www.inetcashincome.com
www.googlecash.com
www.googlemint.com
www.mevinlife.com
www.netjobs4all.com
www.hindustanlinks.com
Does this type of works are real genuine, does we will receive 100% payment for our work done to them.
If it is genuine, so many people will do it, now a day’s network was very fast, as one person was getting some benefit by doing some work, in the next minute his neighbor or his friend will start that work he also will enjoy that benefit, this process will be continued as chain process, and that will be get popular in the market.
Till now I had seen so many works for Home through Internet web sites, E-Mails, Advertisements, but till now I had not seen single person was working this types of jobs. I had some friends who are working in IT Field since 4years I asked them, they told they are not genuine, they also did not seen any person working in this types of jobs.
Approach of One Company Email to me as follows
Let’s head straight towards the world of GoogleNetCash. But before Starting, let's make one thing very clear.
This is NO MLM – NO NET SURFING – NO RENEWALS – NO DOWNLINE Concept – NO TIME PERIOD – NO TARGET – NO BUYING – NO SELLING – NO DATA ENTRY Job, where either the payout is very less or you are depending on others for your income.
WORK DETAILS
We will tell you in very simple words, WHAT has to be done, HOW it has to be done, you will know once you get the Package (in CD format).
There are so many companies on Internet from time to time are running new Campaigns/ Publicity to promote their ‘Brands’ or to increase the ‘Popularity’ of their web sites. Those companies expect their Promotional Campaigns to get maximum exposure as quick as possible.
But unfortunately there is no Television or News paper on Internet through which these companies can get maximum exposure. Instead there are Billions of WebPages, and it is practically not possible for one company to run their Campaigns every where. This limitation gives PEOPLE like us, with basic knowledge of Internet, is a big ADVANTAGE.
Example:
Part 1: Screensavers.com is one such company with CJ.COM. CJ.COM will give us some Online Banners, Text links for their Campaigning/Publicity. It will look as an Ad for Screensavers.com website with our unique Identity CODE NO provided by CJ.COM in the background. The joining links are provided in GoogleNetCash pack to you). Currently Available for Rs.1550/-
Part 2:To get some work (as we are looking for some extra income through internet ON LINE/ OFF LINE/HOME BASED) now we have to place these links on Internet using various simple techniques provided in the GoogleNetCash Package. EX; EMAIL MARKETING= SELECT, COPY, PASTE, SEND. (This includes placing the same on Google for OFF LINE income).
Now any person, who is coming across the link placed by us and clicking on it, subsequently downloads a screensaver for free from ScreenSavers.com. Our CJ.com account balance will automatically increase by $ 0.60. CJ.COM will knows this via the unique code provided by CJ.COM in our link.
You must have seen some Income Cheques on our website on http://www.googlenetcash.com, sent from cj.com (Commission Junction). Cj.com is the Mediator between these companies and we people. In short, these companies are outsourcing their work via CJ.COM.
See the Advantage to Everybody:
Advantage to Screensaver.com:- its popularity gets increased. Today, if the popularity increases, tomorrow the business definitely will.
Advantage to CJ.COM: - It gets paid by Screensaver to maintain the account of various users like us, who are working for Screensaver program.
Advantage to You, you get more than 2000+ companies to work (via CJ) and get handsomely paid Commissions from those companies.
See the screenshot of income of a few of our existing clients.
Visit; http://www.googlenetcash.com/incomeproof.htm
More Examples
Like Screensaver.com, there are 2000+ companies with CJ like Yahoo.com, ICICI, Citi Bank, ebay.in, Monster.com, Dell, IBM, Sony, Discovery Channel, CNBC, Shaadi.com, POGO CHANNEL, to name a few only. Each company gives your different payout as high as US $100 or even more. Each have a different criteria, some company pays to you when somebody does a Free Registration, some company pays for Free Information Search, or Free Downloads is being made via the link placed by us. Some even pays for Clicks to our link, some pays if some Purchase (our commission in this case is very high). So it's up to us, as for which company we wish to work.
WHAT IS GoogleNetCash
I saw an ad on campus which offered a data entry position making $300+ weekly from the comfort of my home. I emailed the guy and he is requesting a $9 processing fee, which in my opinion sounds fishy. I read somewhere that you should never have to pay for a job....
I also included the email we exchanged,
What do you guys think?
---------------------The email he sent me-----------------------------------------------
Hey Ken,
Thank you for your interest in this position. This is a wonderful job opportunity working from home. It's an exciting and financially rewarding position working either P/T or F/T! If you are serious about making money while working from home, please read below and I will help you get started at this position. If you would like, you can even start working today. I look forward to working with you!
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Work P/T or F/T from home
Earn $300-$700+/wk
Personal online/email training and support provided.
This work from home opportunity is legitimate and how successful you are only depends on the time and effort you put in.
Work your own hours. Days, nights, weekends, it wont interrupt with your school work.
You can start/stop working at any time.
REQUIREMENTS:
Computer with Internet/Email access
Valid Email address
Good typing skills
Basic Internet knowledge
Self-Motivated
INFORMATION:
This home based position is a great opportunity for students who want to work in the comfort of their own home that need time for school work.
There are NO sales, cold calling, talking to strangers, click banks, or taking surveys!
There is always work available for you to do.
This home based position gives you the opportunity to earn $100 or more per day! I am seeking only self-motivated people with the desire to work in this field.
No experience necessary.
You will be processing orders from your own computer. Everything is sent to your email account.
There are no contracts to sign and the amount of work you choose to do is entirely up to you and your schedule.
As with any job, you must be willing to work hard!
COMPENSATION:
My average employee makes $500 per week.
The amount of money you earn is entirely up to you, the more hours you dedicate the more your profit will be.
You will be paid DAILY to your secure PayPal account. (From there, if you desire, you can transfer your money to your personal checking/savings accounts, etc.)
If you do not have a PayPal Account you can choose to get paid via mail by check or money order.
TRAINING:
The training materials you receive will give you STEP-BY-STEP instructions on how to get started.
When you receive your training materials you may begin working that very same day!
There is NO special software required for this position and NO huge pamphlet to read.
METHOD OF PAYMENT:
There is a ONE-TIME non-refundable fee of $9.00.
There are NO other fees after you start.
This cost will cover the training materials sent to you. Once you have processed your first order you will have already made this money back. You will easily gain back this fee in about 10 minutes of work. Please consider and understand that as much as I would like to not charge this small processing fee, we must protect ourselves from those who are not serious about this work and to pay for the cost of shipping marketing materials to you, pay those who answer your questions and emails, etc. Absolutely NO business can afford to cover administrative costs, wasted time, or provide costly materials to everyone who inquires about this position.
The payment must be submitted via Paypal.
PayPal:
If you would rather start working IMMEDIATELY, please send your payment through our secure PayPal account. The materials will be automatically sent to your e-mail within 24 hours after your payment is received and cleared through PayPal. You can then get started ASAP!
If you do not have a PayPal account, just click on the link below to create a FREE premier account, so that you can get paid for your work and purchase your materials.
Please notify us via email when you have made the payment of $9.00 through PayPal or sent the payment via mail, so we can guarantee your spot for this position will not be filled!
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Fill out all required information and create account
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Ken, I am a student as well and i am here to help you get started and answer any questions you might have. If you are serious, and are willing to put forth some time and effort, then I look fo
(sorry if i put this question in the wrong category)
Does anyone ever try http://www.onlinemarketing2you.com, to study marketing and making passive income from home based business using internet marketing knowledge?
Hello,
I would like to make a brief introduction about myself. I am the lead singer/vocalist in a rock/pop band, The Embezzles, (name have been changed quite a few times within the past few months)and we’re very similar to Paramore and Linkin Park. We’re sort of a big deal in East Texas with an increasing fan base which continues to grow expendably great but we have a big problem communicating and contacting fans. We’ve tried everything from Post Office boxes, Private Mailboxes and social networking sties. Unfortunately, the Postal Services are on shaky ground. Postal Services have rules and regulations to combat mail fraud and other crimes committed using postal and private mailboxes which sounds convincing but the postal services are on the wrong side here.
Rather than protecting privacy they are seeking to invade it and rather than allowing some consumer choice they are looking to stifle what little competition exists. Unfortunately, scam artists also utilize the convenience of private mailboxes to hide illegal activities, such as credit card fraud, identity theft and schemes to swindle the elderly. In other words or simple terms, P.O. boxes and Private Mailboxes are growing concerns of the postal services used in order to single out P.O. boxes and PMB(private mailboxes) who have personal accounts instead of business accounts.
We would like to have an address rather than using one of our own physical home address because you guys are aware of fans(groupies) can be a bit psychotic at times when bands are in the limelight destined for stardom. Instead of selling merchandise, passing out flyers, etc. from our tour van/hotel (lol) J, we decided that we want to be able to reach fans outside of our 100 mile radius giving fans the opportunity to write personal letters to one our band members, pics or whatever the fans want to give their favorite band (The Embezzles ) <<<<>>>>,in order to converse on numerous occasions, but we do not want to give the government or postal office or any carrier service speculations or any misleading ideas that we are subjecting to a scheme to earn money or somehow get personal information from individuals. All we want is to build a connection with our fans in order to solidify our relationships to remind them of upcoming tour dates, nearby performances, or any updates we might have in order to refresh the memories of our fans.
We were recommended on some international mail forwarding service sites but getting an international P.O. or Private box seems a little suspect, wouldn’t you agree? Although they offer great services they only require your personal information….sometimes to much information. I have scavenged many postal services sites and some websites seem a bit puzzling. Even though they have U.S. Postal Forms and identification requirements they false advertise and some sites even have numerous complaints from previous customers. If I were to come across one of these misleading websites how would I be able to recognize a true and faithful postal or forwarding service from any other website posing as a legit mail forwarding service? Are there any services that allows you to apply online if so this would be my first option to cut out the hassle and run around the postal services have been giving us.
Thanks for your all your time and help.
The TRUE Dark side of Internet Marketing is really not Exposed by the Actual people who have suffered losses of money,and personal disappointment. All of the hype is Always About How Easy And Attractive the Home Based Business Will Be , Soon As YOU Send The MONEY. If There is a large number of ' victims ' or Failed attempts to succeed in this indutry, i wonder if the impact has been SERIOUS such as emotional,financial,marital,and others.
ASD Cash Generator is a "profit/revenue- share" type internet advertising company that allows you to generate money by viewing websites. I'm using ASD to advertise 5 of my sites and have received real traffic and leads from it.
Each day a paid member views ads, they get a share in the profits of the company paid directly to their accounts until the member pockets 25% more than they spent. At the time of this writing, their current daily interest rate has been averaging about 0.50% - 2% per day, and is primarily based on the total the number of ad package sales for the previous day. The daily rebate rate will vary and is not fixed.
All you have to do is view 24 web sites each day for 15 seconds each to receive your daily rebate that equals to about 6 minutes.
Who's running the show?
The company was founded over a year ago by CEO, Andy Bowdoin. In doing my due diligence and searching over 9 pages of information on Google on him (all positive), I found that he has quite an extraordinary reputation, not only as a career Advertising man, but as a man of exceptional integrity.
He has over 40 years experience in sales and marketing, and has had success in everything he's done. He started his sales career working with the Dale Carnegie Courses in the early sixties and later worked with the Napoleon Hill Leadership Program. Andy has trained thousands of sales people during his career and started several companies.
He expanded a 60-minute dry cleaning franchise throughout the Southeast and Midwest. He developed a company that sold wireless communication franchises throughout the U.S. and then started a company to market credit card processing for merchants.
In 1999, Andy did research and discovered a need for GPS Tracking for fleet vehicles and GPS Tech was created. In 2006, Andy again saw a new opportunity - the need for a new way to deliver advertising to the masses and Ad Surf Daily, Inc. was born.
He modified his marketing strategies for the internet and attracted over 5,000 members in 120 days and sold over $1,200,000 in services. He now teaches his ASD members his strategies to help them build their internet businesses.
ASD has a physical office located in Quincy Florida, a state of the art online support ticketing system and real telephone support where customer service reps handle all support questions or inquiries.
One of the big perks with this program is they have an account with Bank of America where you can make direct deposits. They withstood a rigorous Verification Process (common sense will tell you Bank of America doesn't do business with scams).
* Sustainable Payout Structure, NO guarantee of earnings in a set time.
* Daily Payouts fluctuate with daily sales - true Profit Sharing, NOT a Ponzi.
* Daily sales posted each day with your exact payout percentage.
* Zero Cost Membership.
* Structured like a REAL business with CEO, Executive Officers, Chief Administrator
* Full information on CEO, not some 'anonymous' admin
How is the company revenue distributed?
The ASD Cash Generator business plan pays 50% of all daily ad buys back to the advertisers, 15% in referral commissions (on two levels) and 25% for expenses and corporate profits.
By never paying out more than they take in, ASD will never encounter the cash-flow problems that have plagued other paid-to-surf programs. You'll receive a variable percentage daily of that 50% revenue, for surfing 24 sites daily, until you reach 125% of your ad purchase (25% profit), and then you'll re-cycle.
Members in the US are sent 1099s for any net profits (not advertising purchases) earned each year from ASD, but you can write off anything you purchase in advertising packages, and in turn, save money on your taxes!
Note: ASD Cash Generator is actually the 3rd get-paid-to-surf type program Andy has created. The first two programs were discontinued last year due to programming script problems. All the previous members had their balances transferred over to the new restructured ASD Cash Generator program or were refunded. ASD Cash Generator launched in July 2007.
Speak Spanish?
ASD also has a Spanish version of the English ASD website for those wishing to either view Spanish-based websites or know people who would like to earn money surfing a Spanish site. It's set to be available for surfing and advertising in the beginning of February.
No sponsoring or recruiting is required, but for those that wish to refer others to ASD, they have a referral program that pays up to a 10% commission from the ad credits purchased that you personally refer, and up to a 5% commission from the ad credits of those referred by your direct referrals for a total of 15% total referral commission paid on 2 levels.
What's the maximum number of Ad Packages I can purchase?
Twelve thousand (12000). Ad Packages are $1.00 each, so the maximum you can own at any one time is $12,000 USD. ASD requires that you have a product, service, program or opportunity that includes a web site to advertise in order to be an advertiser.
Note: If you don't have a website to advertise, you can contact me for one to use.
3 Membership Levels: (Optional monthly subscription)
You can join ASD for FREE to advertise your site, or you can upgrade and advertise your business and earn cash-back rebates at the same time. The free membership will always be there and advertisers can get FREE advertising by viewing other web sites on the ASD Cash Generator Web Site.
An advertiser can pay a monthly membership fee and reduce cash out fees, increase referral commissions and decrease the number of sites to view on a daily basis. The amount of your monthly membership fee determines the number of times you can cash out each week, the amount of your referral commissions and the number of sites you must view each day to receive your rebates.
Monthly Memberships:
* $10 per mo. fee = Cashout on Mondays Only and 5% referral commission for 1st level and 3% on 2nd level,
* $25 per mo. fee = Cashout on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays and 7% referral commission for 1st level and 4% on 2nd level,
* $100 per mo. fee = Exec. VIP Plan, Cashout DAILY and 10% referral commission on 1st level and 5% on 2nd level.
Special Promotion through Tuesday, January 22, 2008.
If you purchase $500 - $999 in Ad Package purchases, you'll receive 3 month Exec. VIP membership level upgrade. For $1,000- $1,999 in Ad Package purchases, you'll receive 6 months Exec. VIP membership level, and for $2000 or more in Ad Package purchases, you'll receive 1 year Exec. VIP membership level upgrade.
Do I have to pay a membership fee?
No. If you just want to be a passive member in ASD and receive cash back rebates from your ad purchases, you don't need to pay a monthly membership fee. It's primarily for people who choose to refer other advertisers or want to increase the frequency that they can withdraw their profits. If you don't pay a membership fee and you decide to refer others (optional), you'll be paid a 3% referral commission on all of your personal referrals only.
What payment processors are available?
Currently Alert Pay, Solid Trust Pay ,direct deposit into Bank of America account, cashier checks and mail in money order. Soon to come will be an International Debit card
What happens if I'm unable to view and rate websites on any given day?
If you miss a day and you're unable to view and rate ads (for any reason) you don't lose anything, it just freezes and extends the time line until you come back.
Personal opinion: From everything I've researched, Andy Bowdoin is a man of integrity who does what he says he's going to do. He has a rock-solid business plan and experience based on verifiable and publicly available information. Everything is very transparent.
His business model is a win win for everyone and very lucrative for both passive and active members. Advertisers who simply want to be sure their website get seen, get exactly what they pay for.
Entrepreneurs who want a passive way of growing their money, get the ability of doing so for simply viewing ads daily. They get quality prospects visiting their websites which will ultimately turn into sign ups, sales, or more business partners.
You can get a 25% bonus on your advertising dollars spent for simply investing 10 minutes per day to view others sites. So if you purchase $1,000 in advertising from ASD, you'll get paid daily until you receive $1,250 back. It doesn't matter if you purchase an ad for $10 or $500... if you do nothing else but view ads, the results are the same and you'll eventually earn 125% of what you spend (25% net profit).
If you look at their Alexa traffic ranking in the chart below, you'll see that there's tremendous momentum with this program right now.
Here's how to sign up:
1. Click on this link: http://www.asdcashgenerator.com/?ref=20470, read the FAQ and Terms & Conditions, etc., then click on the link right under the top banner that says "Sign-up." To become an Upgraded (paid) advertiser, first click on Signup on the Home Page and become a Free Member.
2. When you join as a free member, you'll be sent a welcome email. Some email carriers such as AOL, Bellsouth, Yahoo and others will treat our emails as spam. Check your Spam folder to see if it ended up there. If you didn't get the email you may want to go to Google and get a free gmail account, otherwise you won't be getting any emails from ASD because they'll be blocked.
3. After you sign up, log in to your back office on the bottom left of the Home Page. Click Login and that will take you to your Account Overview Page. Look to the right of Account Level and you will see (upgrade level) in blue. Click on upgrade level and it'll take you to your Upgrade Account Page. Select your payment processor and insert the dollar amount of ad packages you want to purchase. Ad packages are $1.00 each. If you want $100 of ad packages put 100 in the window. Click upgrade. Your purchase should show up on your Account Overview Page to the right of Current Upgrade Purchase. You can pay by credit card by calling the home office at 850-627-2206.
4. Once your account is funded and you've purchased your ad packages, click on the START SURFING link on the left hand side and do your viewing each day
I am starting a business that will be ran out of my home in SC. It is primarily an internet marketing business which may include the following activities:
-Variety of Websites generating advertising revenue
-Some websites may sell a product
-Some selling on eBay
-May purchase wholesale items for resale
-Web Design Service
-Some websites may offer services locally (e.g. computer repair)
-Online marketing services offered to local clients
I expect to hire no employees in first twelve months.
I picture the business as an octopus. The head is my business (e.g. 123XYZ Marketing). Then the octopus of course has its 8 legs, which would be made up of the variety of things above. So if I had started marketing 123XYZ Web Design at a local level, 123XYZ Web Design is just a leg of 123XYZ Marketing... As the legs test the water, some will grow, some will change, some will die; as long as the head survives.
So, I need to figure out, how do I put my Octopus on paper, and be legit?
I was caught in so many internet scams online.
A few programs I heard as good are only available in US and UK. Is there any real home based business which
1. is not affiliate marketing
2. should not ask money (Once we earn, we can pay)
3. is not network marketing.
People who do scams, plz don't reply with your ads and do introspection.
I heard so many people made crores of rupees just by spending 2 hours a day.
Hello Webmasters, if you can't answer this, then everyone realizes that this is just fake.
http://www.workfromhomeorg.com
Have you ever heard about the products and services (programs, ads, e-commerce, domain names, software, marketing tools, etc., etc.) that you can buy at ebay, often for as low as $0.01 to run your own home based business, earn money at the Internet (by placing ads, etc.) or to be more effective with your own Internet Site?
http://www.workfromhomeorg.com
Have you ever heard about the products and services (programs, ads, e-commerce, domain names, software, marketing tools, etc., etc.) that you can buy at ebay, often for as low as $0.01 to run your own home based business, earn money at the Internet (by placing ads, etc.) or to be more effective with your own Internet Site?
http://www.workfromhomeorg.com
Have you ever heard about the products and services (programs, ads, e-commerce, domain names, software, marketing tools, etc., etc.) that you can buy at ebay, often for as low as $0.01 to run your own home based business, earn money at the Internet (by placing ads, etc.) or to be more effective with your own Internet Site?
I read a statistic that 97% of home based internet business fail within the first few months? Why? Is it lack of education, coaching, experience, marketing capital? Any insights?
Lackluster sales in this holiday season have retailers scrambling to wring a few last dollars from procrastinators by slashing prices, extending hours and wooing customers more persistently than last year.
The moves show that retailers' strategy during this final weekend before Christmas -- when about 10% of holiday sales are expected to take place -- has become increasingly reliant on the same promotions and marathon hours once unique to the "Black Friday" weekend following Thanksgiving. But the discounts also reveal the pinch stores are in this year as the credit crunch, rising gas prices and winter storms have taken a toll on companies dependent on end-of-year sales.
The tough economy has left aisles more empty this year. Total foot traffic at U.S. retail outlets took an 8.9% dive during the second full week of December, compared with the same period last year, according to an estimate from ShopperTrak RCT Corp., which bases its numbers on a formula that involves an electronic count of shoppers in malls and other retail outlets nationwide.
A bright spot, however, has been online, where aggressive discounting and cut-rate deals on fast shipping have contributed to a surge in spending. From Nov. 1 to Dec. 16, online shoppers spent $23.5 billion, 19% higher than the corresponding days last year, according to comScore Inc., a Reston, Va., market research firm that tracks Web spending and traffic. Videogames, consoles and accessories are the fastest-growing category, more than doubling from the comparable period last year. Furniture, appliances and equipment ranks second, up 63%, while event tickets and consumer electronics are up 29% and 24%, respectively.
Now, a final push is on, both online and in stores. Web retailers continued to hunt for business by cutting shipping charges to seal deals before the pre-Christmas shipping window closes. Shoebuy.com, a Boston-based unit of IAC/InterActive Corp. offered free express shipping until today. Online handbag merchant eBags upgraded purchases made by Wednesday from standard shipping to two-day air-shipping through UPS for no extra cost.
Brick-and-mortar stores, meanwhile, retooled their hours for the weekend, hoping to spark their own shopping flurry. J.C. Penney Co. stores are staying open until midnight tonight and Saturday. Select Macy's Inc. stores on the East Coast will stay open nonstop throughout the weekend -- 107 hours straight for one branch in Queens. And New York-based FAO Schwarz made discounts of 25% to 50% on certain toys. Ed Schmults, the chief executive officer at FAO Schwarz, said that while foot traffic was up, business had not been as booming throughout the season as he hoped.
The National Retail Federation, a trade group, is predicting just 4% in sales growth for 2007, the smallest growth rate in five years. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, paints an even grimmer picture: He lowered his forecast of 2% retail sales growth to 1.8%, his lowest forecast in nearly 10 years.
In the apparel category, men's clothing has showed modest single-digit growth through the first 20 days of the shopping season, according to MasterCard Spending Pulse, a unit of MasterCard Advisors, which tracks spending of all types. But women's apparel -- which last year constituted three times the sales of men's -- has been a major disappointment, as shoppers have avoided big purchases. Sales were down 5.7% from the same time last year.
Retailers have responded with a flurry of price cuts, but large inventory remains in some stores. One of Gap Inc.'s Old Navy stores in downtown Chicago on Wednesday had piles of festive sweaters marked down to $20 from $36.50. Women's coats still stuffed the racks, despite being already marked down 50%, and its signature "performance fleece," also half off, was stacked eight shelves high.
The bad tidings for apparel have left some retailers looking for other items to push. At Banana Republic, also owned by Gap, $64 gift sets of its perfumes, body creams and shower creams were marked down 30%. Gold-boxed gift sets of a new line of bath products at Ann Taylor Stores Corp. stores were discounted to $19.50 from $29. At Limited Brands Inc.'s Victoria's Secret, stores were piled with beauty gift sets, many 40% off.
Meanwhile luxury goods are expected to have a good season this year, and retail consultant Frederick Crawford of AlixPartners predicts "pockets of good news" for high-end retail. For brands like Prada and Gucci, he expects to see 5% to 7% growth.
According to retail surveys, electronics sales were down 0.5% in the three-week period between Nov. 18 and Dec. 9 compared to a year ago, according to Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis for market watcher NPD Group. He said consumers in recent years have been delaying purchases until closer to Christmas, which may account for the slowdown.
Indeed, Angela Smith has waited until the last week to make her purchases. A 39-year-old bank employee in Dallas, Ms. Smith said she is waiting for prices to drop further as well as trying to spend less. For her three nephews, ages 12, 8 and 7, she plans to buy remote-controlled cars, which Wal-Mart Stores Inc. initially priced at $59 and has since dropped to $49. "I am going to swing by this weekend and see if they are going to take it down one more time," says Ms. Smith, who was shopping for a co-worker's present at her local Wal-Mart midweek.
Home-furnishings retailers, fighting the weak housing market, are being particularly aggressive with their promotions this year. At Williams-Sonoma Inc.'s Pottery Barn store on Chicago's Michigan Avenue, Christmas-tree-shaped candles were discounted 50%, and holiday garlands of fake evergreen branches were 30% off. Wrapped gifts such as silver jewelry boxes, also marked down 30%, were stacked high Wednesday afternoon.
Home-improvement outfits like Lowe's Cos. Inc. and Home Depot Inc. are destined to be hardest hit, says AlixPartners' Mr. Crawford. "Consumers are absolutely showing us that they will be delaying discretionary purchases" like gear to remodel a kitchen, he said.
A boom-bust pattern is typical after Thanksgiving's Black Friday discounts, which encourages a flurry of purchases early but leads to a tapering off in early December, killing shopping momentum. This year the pattern was more pronounced: A double-digit sales surge on Black Friday exceeded retailers' expectations; but come December, throngs of shoppers didn't return.
There was one exception, however: online retail. Web merchants have discounted and promoted heavily this season, say industry analysts. Shipping promotions have been particularly popular. Sixty-eight percent of surveyed Web retailers said they are offering express shipping promotions this year, up from 49% last year, according to Scott Silverman, executive director of Shop.org, an online retail trade group and unit of National Retail Federation.
As the boom continues, these companies are becoming increasingly creative to draw customers. This year Ice.com, a Montreal-based Internet jeweler, has rolled out new videos to promote products and free overnight shipping. It has experimented with new marketing tricks such as buying front-page ads on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN and Yahoo Inc.'s Web sites this week. Ice.com even tried to tap influencers to drive word-of-mouth among blogs, magazine mentions and celebrities.
What are some ways over the Internet to safely receive payments that don't necessarily include "Paypal?"
Thank you all who answer and 10 points to the best response!
He did not think he violated community guidelines. He answered home based jobs questions? People would ask "are there any work at home jobs that make money?" or "How can I make money on the internet with little investment?"
He answered the question explaining his business and the opportunity that one has by joining his organization. He never gave a direct link to his site. He instead stated he did not want to violate the community guidelines so he gave his email address and asked if they wanted to know more or get the link info on how to get started they could email him.
Yes this is a Multi Level Marketing business where he builds a organization.
How could he have answered these questions without violating the community guidelines?
Can he answer by saying email me and I'll give you more info on a business opportunity that I have?
How can he help these people by sharing his successful business without violating the laws?
I have two home based businesses that rely on network marketing and I'm sorry, they just don't work for me where I am located. The locals here on the border next to Mexico like to deal mostly in cash and they send it mostly to Mexico, they don't trust U.S. banks, they don't use credit cards and if they do, they are paranoid about system charging their account. They don't use internet, they often don't have voice mail, they don't keep appointments and are habitually late if they even show up. As a "stupid Gringo" to them, they don't trust anything Gringo says so ANYTHING having to do with person-to-person sales just does not work for me in this market...and I'm a top salesperson in every other market I've lived in. I'm here for the time being, though, and am looking for a home-based business that does not rely on person-to-person sales or even sales at all. Something more consistent and predictable that pays for the time and work put into it in a way you can count on it. Any ideas?
I am trying to restart my home-based business and would like to put a professional picture of myself on my website. I have a couple of clients already, but I got them through advertising on Craigslist. I have a full-time job but work part-time as an independent contractor through my home-based business. I provide Clerical (Administrative/Secretarial) services and I market small to large businesses in my area. I think a picture is a good idea to show people who they are working with and to let people know that I am serious about my business, however, I could also see people discriminating and not giving me a chance based on the color of my skin.
Do you feel people would discriminate because I am african-american? If you were a business and you saw my ad on the internet or in the paper and you decided to view my website, would you refrain from using my services solely based on the color my skin? Serious and honest answers, please.
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Looking for a home based or internet based business built on solid marketing and financial concepts. The owners must provide realistic opportunities about the business and the payouts.
I am NOT looking for a get rich quick deal or a business where you ultimately pay for more additional items than advertised. I am also looking for a business that is not primarily based on getting others to buy the same home based business from you or your site.
The most importing item I am looking for in a home based business is honesty and not constant pressure to buy or upgrade to additional levels of the business.
Hello. I am in the works to starting my own online graphic arts and marketing consulting business which I hope to launch in January. It is going to be small for now and something I want to do while pursuing my masters degree.
I wanted some advice on if I need to get it registered where I life? I will be in a different country because my husband is in the military and will hopefully have clients in both the USA and Germany. I bought books on it but they say to speak to a lawyer when it comes to the legal parts. I called some here in the area but most of them say they dont handle online business launches. I heard that if I process orders and have income I can put it on my own tax return!?Do I have to py taxes while I am having my business. What if I dont have a lot of orders?
I am wondering if anyone can give me a great resource guide on my issues for starting a small internet home based business either on the web or a good book.
Thanks for the help.
Hi everyone,my mother & I opened a gift basket business, primarily home & internet based last year. While we have had some sales, it has not been enough to keep us going.Most of our supplies expired and we are out of money to try to keep going. While we bought enough supplies to make a nice variety of baskets, we didnt go completely overboard...or so we thought. We thought we were doing everything right but I guess not.We have talked to other owners on forums like this one and it seemed as if we were doing the same things.We marketed the business in local newspapers, attended a tradeshow (home tradeshow...maybe not the best type to attend?), did a couple radio ads, handed out promotional pieces at major events and walks, donated to other events, did presentations at real estate office, etc.We have even priced our baskets below what most business are asking for so I cant see the price being the problem.We took out about a $10,000 loan and its all gone and we barely made 1/4 back.
The cost of maintaining the website, paying for merchant accounts, marketing, etc without much income has depleted the entire fund over a year. I have heard others saying that they didnt see profit for the first two years but I am wondering how they get by and keep going. We havent been doing anything for the past few months due to not having the funds to replenish our supplies on top of paying the loan back. Does anyone have any advice or any similar experiences? I really want to be able to save our business and make it work well for us but I honestly dont know how to do so. We have taken business & marketing courses and I even used to work in promotional marketing but I just cant figure out how to swing this. Where do most of your sales come from? Should we try to attend gift tradeshows and if so, do baskets really sell at those shows? Should we focus on consignment? I just dont know what else to do. I hope someone can give us the advice to start us in the right direction.
Well we did do some counseling with SCORE early on and we have also read a few books on how to start a business. Im sure doing more cant hurt though. No, we havent done anything with the Chamber of Commerce, so I will look into that. Thanks
Wanting advice about starting a possible online, home-based business. Currently a 3rd shift, part-time college student and wanting to explore this possiblity. Skills include excellent typing skills (80+wpm), desktop publishing skills (can easily create professional brochures, memos, pamplets, banners, etc), data entry, basic accounting, and web design (with Microsoft FrontPage). I'm sure this market is over-loaded with other business, but I would still like to see if I could be successful. I have most, if not all, of the required software/equipment such as Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Package Suite, scanners, internet, digital camera, etc.. My question(s) include: How would I successfully run and advertise my business? How and what services should I list that I can perform? How would I know what to charge compared to other "online" businesses? What legalities/liabilities should I be aware of? I'm limiting my investment to $0-$100. Thanks.
I would want to do this business part-time, but at least 30-35 hours a week. I can devote about 2-3 hours per day (Monday - Thursday), but then work all day long on Friday, Saturday, and Sundays. I have always had a love of doing these types of jobs for friends, family, and organizations that I am affiliated with, but would like to be able to earn an income if I could be successful.
I am not wanting anyone to answer with their own advertisment of web sites to "make money" or any SPAM! I will report you if you answer in this manner. I want advice or suggestions, not spam. If I wanted SPAM I would do a search and find it myself.
I am trying this: http://www.vemmabuilder.com/316174805
A go or no go? Any Ideas on how to market it? Dump it and find some thing better? (I've been in it 2 months and made $4.00, with related expenses of over $400.00.)
I need HELP. I can't stand my job or my life.
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Just looking to make some extra money. I have tried Ebay, but it is too much of a buyer's market to make a lot of money. I'd like to do something over the web, and I don't want to have to market myself to family and friends to get started. Any suggestions??
I'm trying to market my product on the internet. Its a health and
wellness product. How do i get other peoples email address who might be interested? Also people interested in starting a
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FIBER KEEPS ITS PROMISE
BY
GEORGE GILDER
"Today, I await the death of television, telephony, VCRs,
and analog cameras with utter confidence as Moore's law
unfolds." Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, John Malone, are
you listening?"
Get ready. Bandwidth will triple each year for
the next 25, creating trillions in new wealth.
Editor's note: Four years ago, Forbes ASAP published its first issue with
a stunning prophecy by contributing editor George Gilder. Fiber optics,
said George, had the potential to carry 25 trillion bits per second down
a single strand. This represented a ten-thousandfold leap in carrying
capacity over the 2.5 billion bits "barrier" long assumed by most experts
in the field. What did George see that others had missed? One, a
little-recognized (at the time) breakthrough called an erbium-doped
amplifier, which keeps optical signals pure and strong over long distances.
The other was a deep technical shift, with roots in the 1940s-era work of
information theory pioneer Claude Shannon. If you believed Shannon, his
logic dictated a new messaging scheme called wave division multiplexing.
Though scorned by the experts four years ago, WDM now is emerging as the
winner George had prophesied.
The real winners will be all of us, as the coming world of cheap,
unlimited bandwidth unfolds and at last fulfills the true potential
of the information age. Here is George with an update.
IMAGINE THAT IN 1975 YOU KNEW that Moore's law--the Intel chairman's
projection of the doubling of the number of transistors on a microchip
every 18 months--would hold for the rest of your lifetime. What if you
knew that these transistors would run cooler, faster, better, and cheaper
as they got smaller and were crammed more closely together? Suppose you
knew the law of the microcosm: that the cost-effectiveness of any
number of "n" transistors on a single silicon sliver would rise by the
square of the increase in "n."
As an investor knowing this Moore's law trajectory, you would have
been able to predict and exploit a long series of developments: the
emergence of the PC; its dominance over all other computer form factors;
the success of companies making chips, disk drives, peripherals, and
software for this machine. With a slight effort of intellect, you
could have extended the insight and prophesied the digitization of
watches, records (CDs), cellular phones, cameras, TVs, broadcast
satellites, and other devices that can use miniaturized computer power.
If you did not know precisely when each of these benisons would flourish,
you would have known that each one was essentially inevitable. To
calculate approximate dates, you had only to guess the product's optimal
price of popularization and then match its need for mips (millions of
instructions per second) of computer power with the cost of those mips
as defined by Moore's law.
Merely by using this technique of Moore's law matching--and holding
to it with unshakable conviction for nearly 20 years--I became known as
a "futurist." Today I await the death of television, telephony, VCRs,
and analog cameras with utter confidence as Moore's law unfolds. You
can tell me about the 98% penetration of TVs in American homes, the
continuing popularity of couch-potato entertainments, the effectiveness
of broadcast advertising, and the profound and unbridgeable chasm
between the office appliance and the living-room tube. But I will pay
no attention. Just you wait--Jack Welch, Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch,
John Malone, and David Jennings--the TV will die and you may be too late
for the Net.
It is now 1997, and a stream of dramatic events certifies that
another law, as powerful and fateful and inexorable as Moore's, is
gaining a similar sway over the future of technology. It is what I have
termed the law of the telecosm.
Its physical base lies in the same quantum realm of eigenstates
and band gaps that governs the performance of transistors and also makes
photons leap and lase. But the telecosm reaches beyond components to
systems, combining the science of the electromagnetic spectrum with Claude
Shannon's information theory. In essence, as frequencies rise and
wavelengths drop, digital performance improves exponentially. Bandwidth
rises, power usage sinks, antenna size shrinks, interference collapses,
error rates plummet.
The law of the telecosm ordains that the total bandwidth of
communications systems will triple every year for the next 25 years. As
communicators move up-spectrum, they can use bandwidth as a substitute
for power, memory, and switching. This results in far cheaper and more
efficient systems. In 1996, the new fiber paradigm emerged in full force.
Parallel communications in all-optical networks became the dominant source
of new bandwidth in telecom. Like Moore's law, the law of the telecosm
will reshape the entire world of information technology. It defines the
direction of technological advance, the vectors of growth, the sweet spots
for finance.
AMERICA'S DARK SECRET
FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, American companies have been laying optical
fiber strands at a pace of some 4,000 miles a day, for a total of more
than 25 million strand miles. Five years ago, the top 10% of U.S. homes
and businesses were, on average, a thousand households away from a fiber
node; now they are a hundred households away.
However, the imperial advance of this technology conceals a dark
secret, which has led to a pervasive underestimation of the long-term
impact of photonics. Sixty percent of the fiber remains "dark" (unused
for communications) and even the leading-edge "lit" fiber is being used
at less than one ten-thousandth of its intrinsic capacity. This problem
has prompted leaders in the industry, from Bill Gates and Andy Grove to
Bob Metcalfe and Mitch Kapor, to underrate drastically the impact of fiber
optics.
Restricting the speed and cost-effectiveness of fiber has been an
electronic bottleneck and a regulatory noose. In order for the signal
to be amplified, regenerated, or switched, the light pulses had to be
transformed into electronic pulses by optoelectronic converters. For
all the talk of the speed of light, fiber-optic systems therefore could
pass bits no faster than the switching speed of transistors, which tops
out at a cycle time of between 2.5 and 10 gigahertz. Meanwhile, telecom
companies could not deploy new low-cost fiber products any faster than
the switching speed of politicians and regulators, which tops out roughly
at a cycle time of between 2.5 years and a rate of evolution measurable
only by means of carbon 14.
Nonetheless, the intrinsic capacity of every fiber line is not 2.5
gigahertz. Nor is it even 25 gigahertz, which is roughly the capacity
of all the frequencies commonly used in the air, from AM radio to kA
band satellite. The intrinsic capacity of every fiber thread, as thin
as a human hair, is at the least one thousand times the capacity of what
we call the "air." One thread could carry all the calls in America on
the peak moment of Mother's Day. One fiber thread could carry 25 times
more bits than last year's average traffic load of all the world's
communications networks put together: an estimated terabit (trillion
bits) a second.
Over the last five years, technological breakthroughs and
legislative loopholes have begun to open up this immense capacity to
possible use. Following concepts pioneered and patented by David Payne
at the University of Southampton in England, a Bell Laboratories group
led by Emmanuel Desurvire and Randy Giles developed a workable
all-optical device. They showed that a short stretch of fiber doped
with erbium, a rare earth mineral, and excited by a cheap laser diode
can function as a powerful amplifier over fully 4,500 gigahertz of the
25,000 gigahertz span. Introduced by Pirelli of Italy and popularized
by Ciena Corporation of Savage, Maryland, and by Lucent and Alcatel,
today such photonic amplifiers are a practical reality. Put in packages
between two and three cubic inches in size, the erbium-doped fiber
amplifiers (EDFAs) fit anywhere in an optical network for enhancing
signals without electronics.
This invention overcame the most fundamental disadvantage of
optical networks compared to electronic networks. You can tap into an
electronic network as often as desired without eroding the voltage
signal. Although resistance and capacitance will leach away the
current, there are no splitting losses in a voltage divider. Photonic
signals, by contrast, suffer splitting losses every time they are
tapped; they lose photons until eventually there are none left. The
cheap and compact all-optical amplifier solves this problem. It is an
invention comparable in importance to the integrated circuit.
Just as the integrated circuit made it possible to put an entire
computer system on a single sliver of silicon, the all-optical amplifier
makes it possible to put an entire system on a seamless seine of
silica--glass. Unleashing the law of the telecosm, it makes possible a
new global economy of bandwidth abundance.
Five years ago when I first celebrated the radical implications of
erbium-doped amplifiers, skepticism reigned. I was summoned to Bellcore,
where the first optical networks had been built and then abandoned, to
learn the acute limits of the technology from Charles Brackett and his
team. I had offered the vision of a broadband fibersphere--a worldwide
web of glass and light--where computer users could tune into favored
frequencies as readily as radios tune into frequencies in the atmosphere
today. But Brackett and other Bellcore experts told me that my basic
assumption was false. It was no simpler, they said, to tune into one of
scores of frequencies on a fiber than to select time slots in a
time-division-multiplexed (TDM) bitstream.
Indeed, electronic switching technology was moving faster than
optical technology. In the face of the momentum and installed base of
electronic switching and multiplexing, the fibersphere with hundreds of
tunable frequencies would remain a fantasy, like Ted Nelson's Xanadu.
In 1997 the fantasy is coming true around the world. Xanadu has
become the World Wide Web. The erbium-doped fiber amplifier is an
explosively growing $250 million business. Electronic TDM seems to
have topped out at 2.5 gigabits a second. TDM gear has suffered a
series of delays and nagging defects and so far has failed in the market.
Electronic TDM failed not only because it pushed the envelope of
electronics but also because it violated the new paradigm. In
single-mode fiber, the two key impediments are nonlinearities in the
glass and chromatic dispersion (the blurring of bit pulses because even
in a single band different frequencies move at different speeds).
Chromatic dispersion increases by the square of the bit rate, and the
impact of nonlinearities rises with the power of the signal.
High-powered, high-bit-rate TDM flunked both telecosm tests. By
contrast, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) follows the laws of
the telecosm; it succeeds by wasting bandwidth and stinting on power.
WDM takes some 33% more bandwidth per bit than TDM, but it reduces power
to combat nonlinearity and divides the bitstream into multiple
frequencies in order to combat dispersion. Thus it can extend the
distance or increase capacity by a factor of four or more today and can
lay the foundations for the fibersphere tomorrow.
In 1996 the new fiber paradigm emerged in full force. Parallel
communications in all-optical networks, long depicted as a broadband
pipe dream, crushed all competitors and became the dominant source of
new bandwidth in the world telecom network. The year began with a
trifold explosion at the Conference on Optical Fiber Communication in
San Jose when three companies--Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, NTT Labs,
and Fujitsu--all announced terabit-per-second WDM transmissions down a
single fiber. Sprint confirmed the significance of the laboratory
breakthroughs by announcing deployment of Ciena's MultiWave 1600 WDM
system, so called because it can increase the capacity of a single fiber
thread by 1,600%.
The revolution continues in 1997. At the beginning of January,
NEC declared that by increasing the number of bits per hertz from one to
three, it had raised the laboratory WDM record to three terabits per
second. During 1996, MCI had increased the speed of its Internet
backbone by a factor of 25, from 45 megabits a second to 1.2 gigabits.
On January 6, Fred Briggs, chief engineering officer at MCI, announced
that his company is in the process of installing new WDM equipment from
Hitachi and Pirelli that increases the speed of its phone network
backbone to 40 gigabits per second. Accelerating MCI's previous plans
by some two years, the new system will use a more limited form of
wavelength-division multiplexing to put four 10-gigabit in-cause
formation streams on a single fiber thread.
The first deployment will use existing facilities on a 275-mile
route between Chicago and St. Louis, but the technology will be extended
to the entire network. This move will consummate a nearly thousandfold
upgrade of the MCI backbone, from 45 megabits per second to 40 gigabits,
within some 36 months. Ciena, meanwhile, has announced technology that
allows transmission of 100 gigabits per second.
Its February IPO was the most important since Netscape (market
cap at the end of the first trading day: $3.4 billion). Why? Ciena is
the industry leader in open standard WDM gear. During the first six
months the MultiWave 1600 was available, through October 1996, the firm
achieved $54.8 million in sales and $15 million in net income. (Lucent
is believed to be the overall leader with more than $100 million of
mostly proprietary AT&T systems.) At the same time, the trans-Pacific
consortium announced that it would deploy 100-gigabit-per-second fiber
in its new link between the United States and Asia.
A powerful new player in these markets will be Tellabs, currently
the fastest-growing supplier of electronic digital cross-connect switches
and other optical switching gear. In a further coup, following its
purchase of broadband digital radio pioneer Steinbrecher, Tellabs has
signed up all 12 principals in IBM's all-optical team. Headed by Paul
Green, recent chairman of the IEEE Communications Society and author of
the leading text on fiber networks, and by Rajiv Ramaswami, coauthor of
a new 1997 text on the subject, the IBM group built the world's first
fully functioning all-optical networks (AONs), the Rainbow series.
Tellabs now owns the 11 AON patents and 100 listed technology disclosures
of the group.
The implications of the WDM paradigm go beyond simple data pipes.
The greatest impact of all-optical technology will likely come in
consumer markets. A portent is Artel Video Systems of Marlborough,
Massachusetts, which recently introduced a fiber-based WDM system that
can transmit 48 digital video channels, 288 CD-quality audio bitstreams,
and 64 data channels on one fiber line. Aggregating contributions from
a variety of content sources--each on different fiber wavelengths--and
delivering them to consumers who tune into favored frequencies on
conventional cable, the Artel system represents a key step into the
fibersphere. It can be used for new services by either cable TV
companies or telcos.
The deeper significance of the Artel product, however, is its use
of bandwidth as a replacement for transistors and switches. The Artel
system works on dark fiber without compression. The video uses
200-megabit-per-second bitstreams (compare MPEG2 at 4 to 6 megabytes
per second) that permit lossless transmissions suitable for medical
imaging, and obviate dedicated processing of compression codes at the
two ends.
A move to massively parallel communications analogous to the move
to parallel computers, all-optical networks promise nearly boundless
bandwidth in fiber. According to Ewart Lowe of British Telecom, whose
labs at Martlesham Heath in Ipswich have been a fount of all-optical
technology, the new paradigm will reduce the cost of transport by a
factor of 10. For example, the optoelectronic amplifiers previously
used in fiber networks entailed nine power-hungry bipolar microchips
for each wavelength, rather than a simple loop of doped silica that
covers scores of wavelengths.
As these systems move down through the network hierarchy, the
growth of network bandwidth and cost-effectiveness will not only
outpace Moore's law, it will also excel the rise in bandwidth within
computers--their internal "buses" connecting their microprocessors
to memory and input-output.
While MCI and Sprint move to deploy technology that functions at
40 gigabits a second, current computers and workstations command buses
that run at a rate of close to 1 gigabit a second. This change in the
relationship between the bandwidth of networks and the bandwidth of
computers will transform the architecture of information technology.
As Robert Lucky of Bellcore puts it, "Perhaps we should transmit signals
thousands of miles to avoid even the simplest processing function."
Lucky implies that the law of the telecosm eclipses the law of the
microcosm. Actually, the law of the microcosm makes distributed
computers (smart terminals) more efficient regardless of the cost of
linking them together. The law of the telecosm makes broadband networks
more efficient regardless of how numerous and smart are the terminals.
Working together, however, these two laws of wires and switches impel
ever more widely distributed information systems, with processing and
memory in the optimal locations.
WHAT SHOULD THE MAJOR PLAYERS DO NOW?
FOR THE TELEPHONE COMPANIES, the age of ever smarter terminals
mandates the emergence of ever dumber networks. Telephone companies
may complain of the large costs of the transformation of their system,
but they command capital budgets as large as the total revenues of the
cable industry. Telcos may recoil in horror at the idea of dark fiber,
but they command webs of the stuff 10 times larger than any other
industry. Dumb and dark networks may not fit the phone company
self-image or advertising posture. But they promise larger markets
than the current phone company plan to choke off their own future in the
labyrinthine nets of an "intelligent switching fabric" always behind
schedule and full of software bugs.
Telephone switches (now 80% software) are already too complex to
keep pace with the efflorescence of the Internet. While computers become
ever more lean and mean, turning to reduced instruction-set processors
and Java stations, networks need to adopt reduced instruction-set
architectures. The ultimate in dumb and dark is the fibersphere now
incubating in their magnificent laboratories.
The entrepreneurial folk in the computer industry may view this
wrenching phone company adjustment with some satisfaction. But computer
firms must also adjust. Now addicted to the use of transistors to solve
the problems of limited bandwidth, the computer industry must use
transistors to exploit the nearly unlimited bandwidth. When home-based
machines are optimized for manipulating high-resolution digital video at
high speeds, they will necessarily command what are now called
supercomputer powers. This will mean that the dominant computer
technology will first emerge not in the office market but in the
consumer market. The major challenge for the computer industry is to
change its focus from a few hundred million offices already full of
computer technology to a billion living rooms now nearly devoid of it.
Cable companies possess the advantage of already owning dumb
networks based on the essentials of the all-optical model of broadcast
and select--of customers seeking wavelengths or frequencies rather than
switching circuits. Cable companies already provide all the programs
to all the terminals and allow them to tune in to the desired messages.
But the cable industry cannot become a full-service supplier of
telecommunications unless the regulators give up their ridiculous
two-wire dream in which everyone competes with cable and no one makes
any money. Cash-poor and bandwidth-rich, cable companies need to
collaborate with telcos--which are cash-rich and bandwidth-poor--in a
joint effort to create broadband systems in their own regions.
In all eras, companies tend to prevail by maximizing the use of
the cheapest resources. In the age of the fibersphere, they will use
the huge intrinsic bandwidth of fiber, all 25,000 gigahertz or more, to
simplify everything else. This means replacing nearly all the hundreds
of billions of dollars' worth of switches, bridges, routers, converters,
codecs, compressors, error correctors, and other devices, together with
the trillions of lines of software code, that pervade the intelligent
switching fabric of both telephone and computer networks.
The makers of all this equipment will resist mightily. But there
is no chance that the old regime can prevail by fighting cheap and
simple optics with costly and complex electronics and software.
The all-optical network will triumph for the same reason that the
integrated circuit triumphed: It is incomparably cheaper than the
competition. Today, measured by the admittedly rough metric of mips per
dollar, a personal computer is more than 2,000 times more cost-effective
than a mainframe. Within 10 years, the all-optical network will be
thousands of times more cost-effective than electronic networks. Just
as the electron rules in computers, the photon will rule the waves of
communication.
I know people would not write it..But worth a try:)
Reason for my question is I just posted a question about how to get past the gatekeeper and someone said, "Telemarketers are the bane of all existance." And I was told that secretaries have to screen calls and that usually the product offered isnt worth the time, effort or savings involved. They said, If secretaries passed on all sales calls no one in the company would ever get anything done.
3 things I think:
1. If you were a single mother like me, and you were a telemarketer relying on sales, you would think differently.
2. Every company has something to sell, so how do they market their products?
3. I've worked many jobs in college, and now 2 companies career-based. I've seen more people on solitaire, internet surfing, email writing, etc.... not saying there's anything wrong with that, most of us do it, but I find it hard to believe the majority of people are too busy at their jobs to take a few extra calls.
I live on a small island and I have recently started a home based business with a company in the US. I have been doing promotions locally but now I need to do some internet marketing. I have a website that I got from the company and would like to get people to see it. I am not familiar with internet advertising but I did try a few free sites and got no hits. I would like to know where is the best place to advertise, whether free or paid, so I can get some hits.
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I am a manufacturer of jewelry and have my own small lapidary enough for my jewelry.
And locally I am doing all Business, I have a burning desire to change My current situation? Now when I browse internet I find that all Prices are very High on the jewelry webstores as Compared to what we are Producing Here all our Jewelry and Gemstones say 65% Less Price.
Now when I wanted to make my own Web store then I found, that “DHL” or “Fe dax” or any other courier services, in my country only shipping Documents and other things they ship from here not any Value able Like Jewelry or gemstone,
and also I contacted PAY PAL they also not open Account here – I contacted PAY PAL in this concern they told me that they are working on this soon they will open but Not know in how many days it will take
I was very regret on that Time.
But
Then I found Yahoo Answer Community – So it came in my mind that May be some one can help Me in How I find a Energetic Person in USA and EUROPE, who can handle
All about sale of my jewelry and gemstones in the market and in Ebay or any Place I only want sell. Moreover, I will provide all concern securities what he wants and I want securities from this person. Who often wish that he/she would find a home based business? May be this is the opportunity for some one
Can any one help me how I furnish all this and am there any site where I find my required Person? My Firm is government registered and registered with Association of gems and Jewelry all country. I can provide any document for satisfaction. May be it will change my Life as well as that Person.
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I have affiliated for free with two internet groups who said I will be earning by just inviting more people to the site. When these people buy or order products I will have commission. Later on they require me to upgrade in order to earn. Upgrading means I have pay a certain amount per month. Is this not a harms way?
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Chinks have been found in the armor of new Vista software that Microsoft has touted as the safest operating system it ever designed, a computer security firm said.
Determina Security Research, in Silicon Valley, said it notified Microsoft of half a dozen software vulnerabilities, including potential for hackers to take administrative control of computers.
"The vulnerable code is present in all versions of Windows up to and including Windows Vista," Determina warned in a security bulletin on its website.
A Russian programmer that also discovered the potential to exploit a Vista weakness to gain access to computer systems published the information on the Internet on December 15.
Microsoft is working to patch Vista, according to Determina. A business version of Vista was released in November and is to be available for the home computer market on January 30.
Hackers could invade Vista-based computers by sending booby trapped emails or tricking people into visiting websites that secretly plant malicious codes on their machines, according to Determina.
There were no reports of hackers taking advantage of the weakness in any Windows operating systems.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061226/tc_afp/usitinternetsoftware
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I would like to know what I need to start-up my homebase instruction art workshop, using Webcam tools and Software availible on the open market. And, is there a website out there that provides all the info on this subject without a fee. My point is: I want to teach and demonstrate how to paint fine art with Acrylic paints, for a fee, using the Webcam online/internet system. Can anyone outhere help me get started?
I want to start up an internet business that I can do. I am not interested in Network/Multi-level marketing. I have Sickle Cell Anemia and I need to do something at home. I am in the process of creating business cards to sell over the internet. These cards are Christian focused. I am also reaching royalty-free business clip-art to create business cards.
If there is anyone who could mentor me in any small-home based business, I would be very thankful. If you teach a man to fish, then he will never go hungry again. If there is anyone who can give me some advise on how to advertise on the internet. I do not have much money. If any one can give me some advice, I would be very appreciative.
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I have been researching the internet and all I seem to find is Multi level marketing companies that want my money and want me to find more people to scam for their money. I have the time and talent for sales, distribution, etc. I would like to know that someone is really making money working from home.
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