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bikram | September 9, 2011
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3 Common Loopholes Often Seen in Formal Presentations

Undoubtedly, a formal presentation before the board members, fellow team members, clients, and trainees is a daily affair of any corporate house. Yet many are unaware of big loopholes they create in formal presentations and fail to comprehend how the audience can carefully notice the same and build an opinion on basis of the same. So, learn the common mistakes people do in a formal presentation and make sure you do not repeat them.

Overstuffed slides

It is the most common mistake ever seen in a presentation. People often have the tendency to communicate a lot through PowerPoint slides. It is an absolute no. You need to put as less information as you can on each slide and explain the rest verbally. No one wants to read paragraphs and bombarding information. Neat slides with lot of blank space are not only pleasing to eyes, but also more arresting. If you over-stuff your slides with words, you also have chances of losing your audience’s attention as they will be busier in reading slides than listening to what you are saying.

Too much of animations

At times the presenter is too obsessed with animations and its effects. In sheer obsession with animation one ends up incorporating too much animation effects in slides, where words and images zoom in, zoom out, tilt, rotate, sparkle, make whooping sounds and many more distracting actions. Such animations may not only take away attention of the audience towards irrelevant things, but also cause serious damage to your reputation and credibility as the audience may find such inputs immature, unprofessional and stupid. You can incorporate animation effects, but as less as possible.

Too many colors

Often presenter thinks striking colors and abundant usage of colors can make slides appear attractive and appealing. But profuse use of colors can cause serious damage instead. Thus, use colors sensibly and aesthetically. Do not use more than two colors in a slide and keep all slides coherent in terms of design, color of typefaces, background color, layout and the like. Any disparity can cause major damage to your presentation and make it appear extremely juvenile.  Use formal colors, you may use corporate colors effectively in your presentation and do not fall for flashy informal colors.

These are the common mistakes people often commit unknowingly and fail to comprehend what went wrong with their presentation despite bringing good content, great knowledge and rock solid preparation on the table. Well, since you know it now, don’t make the mistake again.

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bikram | June 17, 2011
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Common Web Designing Mistakes to be Avoided

Many times website designs display serious blunders. Designers may unconsciously commit some mistakes, which they don’t even know how harmful can be for the website. Here are some commonly made mistakes by web designers.

Confusing at a look

An ideal website should grab attention of the viewer and immediately tell him what it is all about.  If at a glance the visitor fails to understand what a site is all about, he may leave immediately and never come back. In few seconds it should send the message across, else the visitor may soon leave and never come back to it. So the site has to bring essence of its content and intention everywhere – in its look and feel.

Long continued paragraphs of text

Often websites look exactly like novels bearing long paragraphs of text without any break. Never do this mistake. On Internet people do not read, they filter and scan. So break the content with bullets, headers, lists, sub headers, tables etc. It will make the content readable and interesting.

Fancy calligraphic fonts

Don’t fall in love with fonts that you readily mess up your website. Calligraphic and fancy fonts may look very nice, but not effective for a website. Font should always be legible, graceful and effective. If the reader is unable to read, will soon leave the website and may never come back.

Tiny fonts

At times, to accommodate more and more text, we end up choosing tiny fonts which are not legible. Make sure readers are comfortable in reading the text and need not zoom.

No new browser window

Often web designers think links landing up in new browser window is a good idea, as the viewer will not easily leave the website as multiple windows of the same site will remain open. But it’s an outdated and wrong practice. Don’t dictate the viewer. It may annoy him. Let him control his viewing pattern as per his own wishes. ‘Back’ button is effective enough to go back to the earlier page.

Unnecessary registration

Don’t force the viewer to register first for full viewing of the website. Many viewers may soon close the tab and never come back. Ask for registration only when needed with mail address.

Annoying music

Many websites play music which is highly annoying.

Overuse of Flash

Over usage of Flash not only look distracting, but also increases loading time. Limit its usage, only when needed use Flash.

Don’t subscribe without consent

Forced subscription of visitor is highly annoying. Don’t annoy him with newsletters when he registers with the site. Ask him if he wants offers and newsletters to be sent or not.

Don’t make these mistakes while designing a website.

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bikram | May 9, 2011
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What to Look For In a Web Host?

A lot depends upon the quality of web hosting company that you choose to host your website. If you have a host with a network of sluggish server then no matter how hard you try, your website will not perform well. And sluggish server is not the only issue that plagues your website; downtime, speed and effectiveness of support are other things.

This brings us to the question posed in the title: what to look for in a web host before you give it the responsibility of hosting your website. The answer to that question lies in the following paragraphs.

Check various quality indicators

Quality of a webhost is the first thing that you need to notice when thinking of buying any hosting plan. There are some essential indicators of quality of a webhost which you should look for:

  1. Does it offer money-back guarantee? A webhosting company that does not allow return is not worth considering.
  2. What is the learning curve? The host is good enough if it offers cPanel for Linux hosting and Parallels Plesk for Windows hosting.
  3. Down time
  4. How quickly can service resume when server gets offline?
  5. Price
  6. Does it offer free e-mails with hosting? This will save you some money.
  7. What free tools are available for web installation?
  8. Quality and availability of support.

How swift is support

This is another thing that you need to keep in mind when buying a web hosting plan. No matter how hard a web host tries, there are times when things go wrong, and those are the times when you need someone to come to you and fix it up for you.

If support person takes 24 hours to answer then how effective will it be? Support will equally be ineffective when a support person comes on board quickly, but fail to answer your concern. Support needs to be agile and knowledgeable.

Do you get personal touch

The biggest problem with going with a very big web hosting company is this: they have too many customers because of which they cannot pay attention to problems faced by each customer. And they do not care to do so, as they have a lot of customers.

A web hosting company that cannot give you personal care is not good for your website or business. You need someone who can understand you and who can walk an extra mile to help you sort your problem. This could only be done, if the support team has fewer customers to handle.

When contacting support we often tend to forget that support people are mere human and they can do only so many things in a day, which unfortunately for them also comprise of 24 hours. And like all of us they too break down under the pressure of a lot of work, which bound to happen in a giant web hosting company. Simply put: too many customers means too many problems, which essentially means too much workload on support staff. How will you get personal care in such situation?

Go with a webhost who has support staff comparably less workload.

Do not go with a new web host

I will also warn you against going with a very small web hosting or a new one because you never know when they go out of business. They do not have critical mass to sustain.

These are essential things that you need to keep in mind when buying a web hosting account. Do not go with too big or too small web host.

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bikram | May 5, 2011
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How to Promote your Website?

If building traffic to your website is on your mind, you have hit the right article. When every website is fighting hard to seduce its audience, the job of web promotion is indeed crucial. Here are some essential web promotion tips for your help.

Search engine

Most widely and effectively used technique of drawing traffic to the website is through search engine optimization (SEO). Look for longer keywords, in-depth keywords. Get your website listed in the top most search list as per the search engines. High ranking is the only way to reach all.

Keyword rich content

Don’t forget to write keyword rich descriptive titles for each page of your site. Search engine easily respond to keyword containing headlines and subheads. Make sure your desired keywords are right there. Make your paragraphs filled with keywords, but don’t suffocate the introduction only with keywords and make it appear pathetic. Let the keywords breathe easily.

Hyperlink some keywords

Search engines consider hyperlinks as really important, thus a wise strategy of getting seen is hyperlinking important keywords and keyphrases.

Article marketing

Articles are a great way to promote your website. Article directories draw in huge traffic and backlinks to websites. There are many renowned article directories. Publish articles there with link to your site at the bottom. People refer to articles for different reasons and often follow the link at bottom.

Business directories and classifieds

Business directory listing also helps in drawing backlinks and traffic. Get listed in a related business directory. In classifieds make posts and address huge audience without any cost. If you are a service provider this is an excellent strategy for you.

Social networking sites

Register in popular social networking sites. Build long friend list and access to groups. It will broaden your network. Publicize your site here. You may create a page for your site, build fan page, run contests, ask questions, and post interesting things.

Forum marketing

Start participating actively in forums related to your site. Don’t spam forum with links. Start participating with questions, answers, suggestions, comments. By generously participating you will soon become popular there, then you can use your web link as your signature. So sign up today and start posting.

Use social bookmarking sites

You may also use social bookmarking sites to make people read your article. Write a good article and post there.

Email marketing

Send regular emails to subscribers. You may send free eBooks or tips. Ask people to sign up for it. Don’t send randomly to all and get marked as spam.

 

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Markus Friedberg | August 27, 2010
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How Many Beans Would A Beanthrow Throw If A Beanthrow Could Throw Beans?

This is a generally acceptable article. Let me tell you why.

Firstly , this essay has more than three hundred words in each of its spins. That’s significant for one crucial reason: publishing to blog networks will need your article has at least three hundred words. Hence if you'd like to submit to blog networks, you'll need to pass that hurdle.

Another feature of this piece is that it has 5 paragraphs. This time it's the article networks that are to be held to account : they require at least five paragraphs (if not more) because their spinning works on a paragraph by paragraph basis. If you don't have even 5 paragraphs, then there begins to exist a limitation on just how “unique” the distribution network can make the individually seeded copies of your article.

therefore the rest of this article will feature padding, designed to bring the piece to both the word and paragraph counts. I was considering just using lorem ipsum, but this seems like it'll generate a natural look. And that’s what’s critical. That is part of my Plan for Australia’s future.

I've got 120 words left and one paragraph to fill out. Cue fascinating info: hello, my name is Jack. I like to eat asparagus and infrequently string beans. They are full of anti-oxidants (citation requried), and for a short time, are ninety-nine p.c fat free. You'll also find that they have absolutely no antioxidants. What’s more, there is a 200% moneyback guarantee from now till July 31, 2009! Isn’t that just great? Yet another reason explaining why shopping at Coles is great. If you couldn't tell already, I'm running seriously low on inspiration. Nintendo, based mostly on those elements, if you'd do all 50 submissions a month, no more, no less, and got 3 hundreds links off each, and I believe that is about a wrap. Ladies and gentleman (there's only one), thank you! Yours sincerely, Break.

Bill Bailey is a well-known singer, who also loves to cook.

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Markus Friedberg | August 27, 2010
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How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?

This is a typically sufficient article. Let me tell you why.

First off this document has more than 300 words in each of its spins. That is important for one significant reason: publishing to blog networks will require your article has at least 300 words. Therefore if you would like to submit to blog networks, you’ll have to pass that hurdle.

Another feature of this piece is that it has 5 paragraphs. This time it's the article networks that are to be held to account : they require at least five paragraphs (if not more) because their spinning works on a paragraph by paragraph basis. If you don't have even 5 paragraphs, then there begins to exist a limitation on just how “unique” the distribution network can make the individually seeded copies of your article.

So, the remainder of this paper will feature padding, engineered to bring the text to both the word and paragraph counts. I was considering just using lorem ipsum, but this appears like it will generate a rather more natural feel and look. And that is what’s important. That’s part of my Plan for Australia’s future.

I've got 120 words left and one paragraph to fill out. Cue fascinating info: hello, my name is Jack. I like to eat asparagus and infrequently string beans. They are full of anti-oxidants (citation requried), and for a short time, are ninety-nine p.c fat free. You'll also find that they have absolutely no antioxidants. What’s more, there is a 200% moneyback guarantee from now till July 31, 2009! Isn’t that just great? Yet another reason explaining why shopping at Coles is great. If you couldn't tell already, I'm running seriously low on inspiration. Nintendo, based mostly on those elements, if you'd do all 50 submissions a month, no more, no less, and got 3 hundreds links off each, and I believe that is about a wrap. Ladies and gentleman (there's only one), thank you! Yours sincerely, Break.

Bill Bailey is a well-known singer, who also loves to cook.

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Morten Elm | August 23, 2010
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The 4 Secrets To Article Marketing

If you have started a new business you need to promote it. You can choose to use a lot of money for advertising; or you can use article marketing and do it for free. Here are 4 great tips to get you started.

1. Without doubt the most important part of all articles is the title. It must be exciting and create a curiosity in the mind of the reader. The article title must make the reader want to read more. Do also include relevant keywords when deciding for a title. The right keywords will make you article to be shown when searching. An extra bonus would be if you could also include the payback for them by reading the rest of the article.

2. You must also make sure that the article is well organized. Use a lot of numbers and bullets to stress important messages instead of just writing a lot of paragraphs. This will make it easier for the reader to remember the most important points; the result is a more memorable article.

3. Your article shall not just impress the reader. It must also be informative. So write and article that the average person can understand instead of using all the big words. Make it simple. If not it will be the same experience as when the doctor at the hospital use medical terms to explain to you that you have a stomach ache

4. Lastly, each article has an article summary. Most websites require this so in just 3 or 5 sentences, get down to it and say what your article is all about and why should they spend their time reading the entire thing. If you don’t put any effort here, you may have already lost the opportunity to make it look interesting for the reader to find out more.

Promoting your site thought article marketing is very easy. You just have to follow the 4 secrets mentioned and then use this to your advantage. Again, you need to have a catchy title, make sure it is well organized and informative so people will be encouraged to visit your site.

By doing it the right way, you will get a lot of traffic to your website. And that is the purpose of your advertising.

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Sharon Dawkins | August 18, 2010
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Propel Your Website With Article Marketing

There are many different strategies that must be applied for successful article marketing. The most brilliantly composed prose in the world may become entirely useless in SEO terms in the event the article fails to make use of keywords and links properly. Your success with techniques for backlink building using articles will depend on whether or not you follow the recommendations given below in terms of article writing and article submission.

The first and most crucial suggestion for publishing to article directories with regard to SEO purposes is to get your keywords right. Use Google’s keyword tool in order to find keywords which are relevant to your site, while not too competitive to use in your article. This helps to ensure that search engines class your article’s link to your website as ‘relevant’ and therefore it is going towards giving you better ranking. When you are distributing articles you then should insert this term or phrase directly into your article so that it appears at about a 2-5% density. This means that somewhere between 2 and 5% of your words should be your designated keyword when you are conducting article marketing.

Why that percentage and not more or less? The explanation for this is by using more the search engines may in fact classify your content as spam, and any less they will not designate it as relevant. This is why link building making use of articles can be a fine art, necessitating a careful balancing of keywords to content. We would suggest to all writers that they use the following method which is actually the fastest way to get it right; simply separate the written content up into paragraphs of roughly 100 words. Using density of 2% would necessarily mean that for 100 words you would require two keywords, and if the density is appropriate in every paragraph, you will be safe when submitting your articles.

Finally, and above all, when marketing your site by means of article submissions ensure that you incorporate your link and to place it in the right place. The majority of article directories should have something referred to as a resource box for you to place a link, a photo and some information about yourself in. Include your link here instead of any place else in your article, and ensure that the keywords you are concentrating on are used in the “anchor text” of your link. If you don’t know how this works, it is a fairly basic bit of html that should be very straightforward to research online; or in most instances, the article directory site will have a tutorial on how this procedure is done. You may also find that several article directories will allow for in-content hyper-linking. This can be quite simple; you simply add your link to up to three of your keywords or key phrases. Be sure you have at one link within the opening paragraph.

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Article marketing submission services is by far the best way to boost your site to the number one position. Use our professional article writing services to write and submit your article to hundreds of article submission sites.

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bikram | August 15, 2010
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E-mail Hosting Selection – 3 Deciding Factors

E-mail has long been stripped of its novelty factor. Nowadays it is as important for an individual as is the need to dress up, or may be the analogy I chose was not appropriate, but what the heck…you got the idea, isn’t it?

The point is e-mail is important, and for businesses doubly so. But do you know how to shop for an e-mail hosting provider? In the paragraphs following this one, you will read about three things you need to look for when shopping for an e-mail host

Protection

This is important. This is very important. Do you want me to write the “important” phrase one more time before you will believe how much important protection feature is in your e-mail host, or will you believe me in just one reiteration?

Make sure the e-mail host you are going to use provide, virus (including malware, spyware, trojan, spyware, etc.) identity theft, privacy, and SPAM protections. Each one of them is must-have for an e-mail host, or else you will risk losing your important data.

Disk space

There are two sides to disk space. One is how much disk space you are getting per e-mail ID — go with the one that offers at least 1 or 2 GBs of space, and another side of disk space asks you to find out how many e-mail addresses you can open in one hosting account.

You should go for the one that gives you option to open unlimited e-mail accounts, each with 1 or 2 GBs of space. This will help you have different IDs for different employees, organization, function. Because of this feature you will not have to provide one email id (info@yourbusiness.com) for sales enquiry, support enquiry, price enquiry, and technical enquiry.

Price

If you thought this is not important than think over this twice. Price is very important, and more so is opportunity cost. If you can get all these features in $1/ month than why would you waste $5/ month? It does not need an Einstein to understand that the $4/ month saving could be used for better thing.

There are e-mail hosts that give you all the above features at as little as $1/ month. Don’t believe it? Check out: Gossimer’s e-mail hosting product and you will come to believe it.

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