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I contemplated about started this Business Motivational from Jnairb Design. First, I thought what does this have to do with design. And, then I said a lot because every website that I have created for a person or business was through some form of inspiration for both them and I. “Nothing Great Was Ever Accomplished Without Inspiration!”

Do you believe in self help books? Are they effective or just a bunch of bull? Have you ever been called closed minded because you will only take from the Bible or Koran? Do you constantly work on improving yourself? Well, whatever you believe, believe in belief itself because “Life Principles” never change.

No matter where you are in your life, we all can stand some improvement in every aspect. Would you affirm that our life is a constant work in progress! Can you relate that a human life born into this world is one significant treasure that doesn’t come with instructions? So, how do we become who we are? We are who we are literally through our inspired thoughts first then creating our feelings indigenous of our hearts. (In Beach Chair—Jay-Z said it best “Books can guide you, but your heart defines you” Ha, Ha, Ha!) So I said to chica, Is it really our corazon that bring us on? It is said that everything you come in contact with or see on a daily started either in the Universal Mind (i.e. God) or in the mind of a human (in which is a derivative of the Universal Mind).

With that said; practice these five steps for improvement:

• Stay Focus: Permit your mind to think about only what you want it to think about (stop letting your mind drift and wonder) this causes you to lose control. Remember the old saw, “An idle mind is the devils workshop”. More of a three part series on focus.
• Get in tune with the universe: Mind, Body, and Soul. Read more on Mind, Body, and Soul
• Set Goals: Setting and accomplishing goals builds self esteem and confidence. A person who practices goal setting will run circles around the average person that’s considered to be smart.
• Practice Daily Affirmations: Constantly tell yourself, I can…, I will…, I am going to do…
• Pray and ask God for Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding of life. Knowledge which is the 1st step. Knowledge is knowing what you want and want to accomplish. Pray and ask God for Wisdom, which is the 2nd step. Being wise enough to learn from life’s experiences. Wisdom is accumulated knowledge and the ability to utilize and apply prudent and sensible knowledge. Understanding is the 3rd step and considered the most powerful of all. And I say that because, once you understand something and how it works. This thing can be turned inside out, right side up, upside down, or around and round. It doesn’t matter what something, someone or what predicament you’re faced with, you will always have the knowledge, wisdom, and understanding to pick up the pieces, put them back together and get on with your life, in ANY situations.

Is it possible to get a full understanding of life. THAT WOULD BE POWERFUL! Go ahead, ask for it! Nothing is impossible.

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During Blogworld Expo in Los Angeles, I was given the opportunity to interview Jim Farley, Ford’s Group Vice President, Global Marketing, Sales and Service live on stage. The discussion was focused on a powerful theme, putting your brand in the hands of customers. Certainly for any business, large and small, the idea of empowering customers to shape and steer your brand can be perceived as both frightening and dangerous. But here, Farley brings a refreshing perspective on why businesses, including Ford, need to engage customers in a more human and genuine manner. He looks beyond marketing to bring executives, employees and customers together in building a stronger brand, more relevant products and services, and investing in meaningful relationships to ultimately create a remarkable business…a business that matters beyond its goods.

“My responsibility is to teach the organization something they’re not willing to learn. If I get fired because of it or if I don’t fit, I should not have been there any way. We live in a new paradigm…with a new opportunity.” – Jim Farley

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Category : Advertising &Blog &Business &Internet &Marketing &Video

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Sometimes a company or brand logo is more than it first appears. For example, take a look at the hidden meanings or messages embedded in these 12 popular logos below. You won’t look at these designs the same way again.

Fed Ex

FedEx
Can you spot something in this logo? The FedEx logo, designed in 1994 by Linden Leader & Landor Associates, at first appears simple and straightforward. However, if you look at the white space between the “E” and “x” you can see a right-facing arrow. This “hidden” arrow was intended to be a subliminal symbol for speed and precision.

Amazon.com

Amazon.com
That yellow arrow is more than just a decorative swoosh. The Amazon logo was created to represent the message that it sells everything from A to Z (the arrow connects the two letters) and also represents the smile that customers would experience by shopping on the Amazon.com Web site (the arrow becomes a smile).

Baskin Robbins

Baskin-Robbins
In 2005, as part of its 60th anniversary celebration, Baskin-Robbins launched a new brand identity. The new logo was intended to “capture the fun and energy of Baskin-Robbins.” In the old logo, the number “31″ appeared within a simple arc, suggestive of a scoop of ice cream, and next to the name. In the new logo, you can see that the “31″ still exists. It is now formed by the pink portion of the ice cream store’s two initials: “B” and “R.”

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For those of you who are beginners, the first question you mights want to consider is, what is SEO? According to the dictionary definition, SEO refers to “The process of maximizing the number of visitors to a Web site by ensuring that the site remains high on the list of results returned by a search engine”.

How to get your website indexed by search engines?

In other words, SEO is just a fancy word for bunch of things that can make a website more or less important in a Search Engine’s (such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc) eyes and as a web master, you want your website to be the most important.

However, the first step in SEO requires you to actually get your website indexed or submitted into the search engines; because you can’t have rankings in something you are not a part of and that is what this article is going to be about.

Category : Advertising &Blog &Business &Networking &Newsletter &search engine optimization &Search Engine Ranking &SEO

Because there are fewer competitors, local search engine optimization is not nearly as challenging as broader categories — but it still has its challenges. Many of the same core SEO rules still apply, but thanks in part to improvements on the part of search engines and the intersection of search and social, it is far simpler than at any time in the Web’s short but rich history to optimize for local search.

Be Everywhere That Matters: From Google Places to local directories, local links and user citations are the primary influencers of high rankings for geo-specific terms. Local users go deep for information, so even small, seemingly low-volume destinations can result in quality links. They may not receive a lot of traffic individually, but a few links from relevant blogs can go a long way – on the search result pages and even in your local community.

Ask for Reviews: If you’re a local business and are not collecting reviews, you won’t be in business long. Search engines rely on content, and in the eyes of search engines today there is no more reliable signal of businesses’ authority and relevance to an individual query than the presence of reviews. You don’t just need to ask for reviews here and there, you should consider making it part of either your business processes or marketing campaigns. If you run a dry cleaning business, what’s 25 percent off your patron’s next visit for a review? You don’t need hundreds, but in order to remain fresh and relevant, your review assets do need to be constantly appended.

Set Up a Schedule: It sounds basic (perhaps overly so), but ask the next local business owner you encounter when was the last time they checked their position on the search results pages for keywords and phrases relevant to their business. The answer will likely be “it’s been a while”. Setting up a schedule to monitor position and the impact of individual promotions, just like spending time delivering paychecks to your employees, is a neccessary function of business.

Category : Advertising &Business &Internet &low cost advertising &Marketing &search engine optimization &Search Engine Ranking &SEO &Websites

According to the Chief Marketing Officer Council’s 2010 State of Marketing Report, nearly 50 percent of U.S. companies will be enhancing or overhauling their digital marketing and advertising infrastructures this year. Fifty-eight percent of the companies surveyed said they would be training and developing existing staff members in different areas of digital marketing, while 36 percent were planning to hire new talent specifically suited for social media, SEO, display advertising and mobile marketing.

Lost in this outpouring of love is potentially the most valuable marketing channel for any Web business — affiliate publishers. Most affiliate marketers will continue to go it alone in 2011, deprived of many of the advantages that other marketing channels receive such as the continuous exchange of important product information and analytical data, not to mention additional opportunities for training, education and financial reward.

This Internet-age-old phenomenon makes it considerably harder for affiliates to successfully market, promote and sell a merchant’s products or a company’s services, yet countless business owners attribute lackluster performances to a lack of motivation on the part of the affiliate. That is why the most successful online business owners learn how to get inside the minds of their often misunderstood partners, which allows them to give their affiliates the same consideration afforded to members of their own staffs.

That may include anything from sending a weekly email to say hello to a generous holiday bonus given out annually. The important point is that — like anyone else you encounter in the business world — the more you can do for your affiliates, the more they will do for you. Following are the four steps required for building prosperous and productive relationships with your affiliate marketing partners:

1. Set them up to succeed
Affiliates are often doomed to fail before they can promote their first offer. If your company hires a new director of social media marketing and invests a salary and benefits into the success of this new employee, how much of that success are you — the business owner — responsible for? Would you outfit this new hire with an old rotary telephone and an outdated computer in an oversized broom closet, and then check on their progress every three months? Your new employee would never succeed if you did, but this is the equivalent to how many affiliates get started on a new campaign.

You are doing your company, your customers and your affiliates a grave disservice if you do not give the affiliates every chance to flourish. That requires providing each affiliate partner with quality products they can sell; engaging creative content that will appeal to the most qualified customer base; highly targeted promotional campaigns and the proper technology to effectively deploy them, and thoroughly researched sales leads. Most important of all are compelling offers that your affiliates can sell.

“Probably the most important thing for merchants to provide for their affiliates, the thing that the affiliates are most interested in, is a real compelling offer that’s going to stand out to consumers,” says Greg Bayer of performance-based marketing solutions provider Adknowledge’s affiliate division. “That, more than anything else, motivates an affiliate to say, ‘I’m going to do everything I can to promote that offer
more than any other.’ ”

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Category : Business &Internet

 
New Mint.com Feature Offers User-Friendly Options That Help Savers Set Up Budget Objectives and Stick to Them

BY KATHERINE BOEHRET
When most people hear the word “budget,” they groan about all the numbers and spreadsheets involved in setting financial goals. Instead they procrastinate and continue spending without any specific savings goals. Case in point: I recently postponed a meeting with my financial planner because I didn’t have the energy after a long business trip to work through my finances. Read More Here!

Category : Business &Management

Oprah Winfrey – $315M
Tyler Perry – $125M
Tiger Woods – $105M
Beyonce – $87M
Floyd Mayweather – $65M
Jay-Z – $63M
Michael Jordan – $55M
Kobe Bryant – $48M
Lebron James – $43M
Shaquille O’Neal – $31M
Diddy -$30M
Akon – $21M
Lil Wayne – $20M
Serena Williams – $20M
Venus Williams – $15.5M

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