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Have you thought about buying a computer but couldn’t find your Computer-Salesperson-to-English translation book? Or did anyone ask you to pick up a pack of “DVD-RW’s from the store and it doesn’t matter if they’re + or -,” and you just stared at them as though they didn’t even exist?

Well, for those of us who don’t quite understand what those “thingys” on computers are actually for, like RAM, Hard Drive, Gigabytes, etc., here’s a three minute crash course:

Let’s compare a computer to a kitchen, and you as a chef, are going to make apple pie. Yum.

You grab your basket and walk to the pantry for your ingredients. The basket is the RAM (Random Access Memory) or “memory” of the computer, measured in Megabytes (Mb), which is sometimes referred to as just “megs” or “gigs” – gigs being short for “gigabytes”. And, for those of us who are math challenged, Giga is higher than Mega. The bigger the basket, meaning the larger the memory (more RAM), means the more you can actually put in it, resulting in fewer trips to the pantry.

The pantry is the Hard Drive of the computer, measured in Megabytes or Gigabytes (Mb or Gb), where everything is stored. Today’s computers are so large they are frequently in the Gigabyte range. The increased capacity of your pantry, or hard drive, means more storage space. Some people have a second hard drive, which would be like having another room in your house to store extra things. Some of the latest computer programs require a lot of hard drive space.

You, the one holding the basket and actually doing the running and the baking, are the Processing Speed of the computer, measured in Mega or Gigahertz. The faster you move, the faster things get done and the more Olympic gold medals you win.

The table in the kitchen, along with all the cooking utensils, makes up the CPU – the central processing unit – of the computer, where everything gets done. This is sometimes referred to as the core.

Today’s computers tend to come with a “dual core”, which is like having a second table and another person helping you. They can either help you make another pie at the same time as you, or they can make the pies while you actually make the supper. Dual core allows you to play a complex computer game while also doing an “in-the-background” search of your hard drive for the apple pie recipe you thought was on your computer and can’t seem to find!

The brain you use to perform all these tasks is the software of the computer. Without the software telling the computer what to do, your computer would rapidly become a doorstop, keeping the front door open for you while you brought your groceries in.

So, essentially, the bigger the hard drive, the faster the processing speed, the larger the RAM, the latest the CPU technology the more enjoyable your computer experience will be. Your computer will be faster, more efficient, and will allow you to do more important things in life, like surfing and watching videos on the ‘net, or playing intense computer games.

Enjoy your apple pie!

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(c) William Sinclair

About the author: William Sinclair is the author of the digital book “The Quick and Easy Guide to Building Your Very Own Internet Business” that has now been converted into a free membership web site. If you’ve ever though about making money online, this step by step information goldmine will lead you to action in your onine business. It includes videos, audios, free software, over 220 powerful resource links that would’ve take you over a year to find, and a ton of bonuses. So, if you’re serious about making money online but don’t know how, and you want to save yourself money and years of searching around the Internet for the right information, then go there now and get onboard the site because it’s sailing today!

Click this link: http://www.TheQuickAndEasyGuide.com/  It is updated regularly.

P.S. - You are allowed to reproduce this article as long as you use it unedited and in its entirety, including this resource box.
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I had to run to the corner store really early this morning. Before my teenage kids woke up and just after my wife proclaimed, “The kid’s don’t have any buns to make lunch for school!”

After an Olympic speed shower and a five-block drive I arrived at the store. Down the aisle, just past the canned peas and before the milk, I grabbed the buns, went to the checkout, dropped the buns on the counter and proclaimed, “I’d like to buy this Save-My-Morning-And-Get-My-Kids-Lunch for $2.40 please!”

The clerk laughed. As a working mother, she understood what I was saying.

To the storeowner and the cash register it was just a pack of one dozen buns. To me it was the ‘Salvation’ of the day.

A customer doesn’t buy a car. They buy a way for them to get somewhere without having to walk or use a non-convenient way of getting there. After that, they’re buying comfort, efficiency, image, safety, and just about anything else you can think of.

Electric windows save you bodily energy and make it easy to get a window down.

Having the controls for all the windows at the driver’s door gives the feeling of control and convenience. Plus, how else are you meant to roll down your passenger window to funnel more air into the car or talk to your buddy in the other lane while you’re parked at the lights?

If you offer a service, you may be saving your customer time, frustration, money, or a better end result than if your customers did it themselves.

A customer only buys on a “what’s in it for me” basis.

Take your product or service, or a category of them, and map out on a large piece of paper what benefits your customer enjoys from that product or service.

Some things are just necessity, like fuel or food. But, even mapping out those may help you discover a more efficient way of doing something, or a new marketing strategy, or the way you package something, or even help you add a new service that puts you ahead of your competition.

Even mapping out the benefits of changing a tire could lead you to an idea that unfolds a marketing plan for another product or service you provide.

So, don’t sell what you have, sell what your customer sees.

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(c) William Sinclair

About the author: William Sinclair is the author of the digital book “The Quick and Easy Guide to Building Your Very Own Internet Business” that has now been converted into a free membership web site. This step by step information goldmine will lead you to action in your onine business and includes videos, audios, free software, over 220 powerful resource links that would’ve take you over a year to find, and a ton of bonuses. So, if you’re serious about making money online but don’t know how, and you want to save yourself money and years of searching around the Internet for the right information, then go there now and get onboard the site because it’s sailing today!

Click this link: http://www.TheQuickAndEasyGuide.com/  It is updated regularly.

P.S. - You are allowed to reproduce this article as long as you use it unedited and in its entirety, including this resource box.
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Remember back in school when you learned how to spell? It almost went hand in hand with the “Don’t color outside of the lines!” attitude. It was something you were expected to do - color within the lines and spell correctly.

You lost points for bad grammar, incorrect spelling, and oh yes, coloring outside the line.

If you consider words as a business commodity, correct spelling is usually put up for sale and purchased by those of us who are eager to devour it through magazines, novels, books, newspapers, membership sites, and all kinds of downloadable online content. To name but a few outlets.

So, what happens to all the incorrect spelling? Where does it go?

You would think that most of it gets stomped upon and eradicated in the classroom, or by the magazine or book editor, or even the newspaper editor. And, for the most part this ib, oops, is true.

Yet, with the dawn of text messaging, instant chat rooms, email, and a host of other “who cares how I spell” applications, incurrect speling is becuming the informal norm.

So, who cares if you spell incorrectly?

Well, despite what your teacher told you, there are people who actually want you to misspell - in fact, they’re counting on it!

Entrepreneurs like Kevin Ham from Vancouver get excited when you absent-mindedly type in prpsi.com instead of pepsi.com. Try it.  The ‘r’ key is so close to the ‘e’ key on the keyboard that people mistakenly type the ‘r’ key instead.

So, how much money can you make from spelling errors?

According to the June 2007 issue of Business 2.0 magazine, Ham’s business is worth over $300million, with much of it coming from owning misspelled domain names that people type directly into their Internet browser address windows.

In 2004, Yun Ye sold his portfolio of 100,000 domain names for $164million.

Mark Schilling owns over 320,000 domain names and still works out of his home in the Cayman Islands.

In 2006 Ham hashed out a deal with the government of Cameroon in Africa - who have the ‘.cm’ country code (U.S.A. has .us, Canada has .ca, and the U.K. has .uk). Why? Many people who intend to type “.com” as part of a web address end up missing the ‘o’ of com and type .cm instead.

Surfers who make this mistake end up on the Cameroon servers where the name is checked to see if it is registered there. If not, the surfer is redirected to agoga.com, which Ham claims to have upwards of 8 million unique hits per month.

So, how is the money made?

For the most part, these sites contain simple “park” pages containing money-generating pay-per-click ad links that relate somewhat to the keywords used by the searcher. Each time the visitor to the page clicks on a link, the site owner makes money from that click (pay per click).

Other ways these “domainers” make money is from buying popular names like greeting.com and adding a park page to it.

Other than joining this bandwagon, one way you can profit from this with your site is to consider different, or even incorrect spellings people would use to access your site. Then figure what the most common mistakes would be and register those sites, and have those sites redirect to you main site.

So, next time someone corrects your spelling you can tell them about Kevin Ham.

Happy domain naming!

William Sinclair
http://www.TheQuickAndEasyGuide.com/
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Whether you run a business totally online, or you operate a brick-and-mortar business and have a supplemental website, you need to implement article marketing. If you aren’t marketing your business with articles, you’re missing a huge chunk of the marketing pie. Let me give you a few reasons why.

Reason #1: Article marketing is free. Every business owner knows that advertising isn’t cheap. Every newspaper or magazine ad you run costs you dearly. By spending just a little extra time writing and submitting several articles each month, you’ll save quite a bit of money. Best yet, article marketing doesn’t cost you a dime–just a few hours every week.

Reason #2: Article marketing brands your business. Have you ever wondered how some businesses seem to become so well known in such a short amount of time? They’re getting their name out there. They’re giving away something of value for free to their potential customers. Your articles will brand your business and make it a well-known name.

Reason #3: Article marketing makes you an expert. If you write articles about the subjects you know well, you’ll quickly become known as an expert in your field. Do you run a website on bird watching? Writing and submitting fifty articles on bird watching will show people that you know what you’re talking about.

Reason #4: Article marketing teaches you how to relate to people. You can’t write a bunch of articles without learning how to communicate effectively. The more you write, the more you’ll learn how to get your message across in a friendly, personal tone.

Reason #5: Article marketing creates back links to your website. Without getting into the technical details of this, back links to your website are good and you’ll want lots of them. Back links help boost your rankings in the search engines, thus gaining more exposure for your website.

Remember that article marketing isn’t the cure-all answer to advertising your business; it’s one piece of the pie. You also can’t submit a handful of articles one time and expect to see results.

Article marketing requires persistence and patience. You should plan to spend a certain number of hours each week writing and submitting articles to promote your business. Pencil in this time faithfully and stick to it. Within a few months (maybe even a few short weeks!), you’ll begin to see the results of your hard work pay off.

To Your Success!

William Sinclair
http://www.TheQuickAndEasyGuide.com/

There are many different ways to generate revenue online and some are more difficult than others.

Let’s face it, many people that first come online and find out they could make a few bucks realize really quickly that it’s not all that easy.

They start searching for information about making money online and find out all too soon that there are a lot of sites out there that will let them purchase information they can use to learn how to make tons of cash for themselves and shortly thereafter they realize that the next step is to go purchase even more tools, info and study material at an even higher cost.

The other problem many people run into is that they find the many different newsletters that are online and each one is promoting a different way of making money online. Some may talk about affiliate marketing, others are discussing how to use their blogs or the power of Web 2.0 and yet others review how to use AdSense and PPC (pay per click) to boost their business.

In both cases, the new and aspiring Internet marketer is confused, lost and all too quickly fed up and frustrated after just a short time and most likely a ton of money they feel was thrown out the window.

And yet, making money online doesn’t have to be difficult, you don’t even have to have a website, your own products are not needed and you don’t have to run a massive affiliate program of your own to at least make some money to help you get started and you can quickly plug that hole in your wallet where all those precious dollars have been falling out of.

One of the simplest and quickest ways to get started generating some revenue online is to use articles coupled with affiliate marketing.

Here’s a simple guide to help you get started:

1. Head over to Clickbank and take a look at the many products waiting for you to promote them.

There are a few things you might want to look at while you are browsing around the Marketplace. Clickbank has a pretty good guide that will tell you how to tell the difference between products that are performing well and those that are bombing, but here’s one simple tip to keep in mind as well. As you look through the Pitch Pages, think to yourself for just a moment, if I was interested in this product, does this page even grab my attention? Would you be likely to purchase what you saw?

Once you have picked out a couple of products you really like, consider purchasing them so you can provide high-quality reviews of them, but if the budget is tight, that sometimes isn’t an option, so you will have to make note of the features, benefits and any other important information you got from the sales page.

2. Write one article.

Yes, that’s it. Write one simple article that features some of the key benefits of the product you will be promoting. Keep it simple and don’t make it look like a sales page. For example, if the product you plan to promote is about Planning Your Wedding you could write your article based on “The Top 10 Things To Keep In Mind When Planning Your Wedding” and then list the 10 things (or however many you got) from the sales page that are related, such as Choosing The Location For Your Reception, How To Avoid Relatives Embarrassing You, How To Keep Your Bridesmaids From Looking Like Clowns. Whatever the information you found, write it out in a bullet point list and then add a few short sentences to each bullet point. It doesn’t have to be fancy, short and sweet works better. For example, if you are working on Choosing The Location For Your Reception, you could add a sentence or two about the things to keep in mind if you are planning an outdoor reception.

3. The Resource Box or About The Author

If you go look at some of the popular article directories, such as eZineArticles.com online you will find at the bottom of each article a section known as the Resource Box, or also called About The Author.

This is your place to shine. Your article was to the point, without any sales pitches, but now in this last part you are free to tell a little about yourself (and if you have a website you can add a link there too) and you can also suggest a helpful solution (the product you are promoting) that could further assist the reader with the challenges of planning their own wedding.

Keep in mind that you only have a few lines for the resource box, so you will definitely have to rewrite it a few times just so you can tweak it and get it just the way you want it, but ultimately, the goal is to have the reader click the link at the end of your article and purchase the product you are promoting, so make it straight to the point. A simple and yet effective example might be: “For more helpful information as well as awesome ways to save hundreds if not thousands on your wedding visit youraffiliatelink.com today”.

Again, you don’t want it to be fancy, but your call to action has to make sure the reader has no choice but to click the link and hopefully the sales page you are referring them to is good enough to close the deal and earn you some referral commissions.

4. Last but definitely not least.

If you go to your favorite search engine and type in “Article Directory” you will find hundreds of different websites where you can submit your article for inclusion. There are other ways to spread the word about your new article, but directories are a quick and easy way to get the word out there and they are all quite easy to use. Just search for the article directories and then submit your new article to as many as you can. If possible, try to submit it to at least 20 or 30, but the more the better.

What will happen is that webmasters, bloggers and newsletter publishers that search through these directories will come across your article and if it’s a good match for their readers and visitors they will be inclined to post your article on their website, or publish it in their newsletter and they will include your Resource Box, along with the link to the product you are promoting.

Bottom line this has the potential to get your article very quickly on thousands of websites, in front of tons of newsletter readers and ultimately you didn’t have to spend a single penny for all this exposure and advertising, you didn’t have to have your own fancy website or subscriber optin list and you didn’t have to create your own product.

This same method has been used for quite some time very successfully and has in many cases returned more than just a few hundred bucks within a couple of weeks, in some cases, 1 single article has returned over a thousand dollars in a month and the best part is that your article will continue to be out there, week after week for others to see, click your link and order the product, making you more commissions.

The final thing to help you get started is when you’ve gotten this far congratulate yourself. You have done more than many of the people “day-dreaming” of making it online; you’ve actually done something about it. Now get back over to Clickbank and find yourself another product to promote, start back at step 1 and have fun making money.

To Your Success!

William Sinclair
P.S. - Avoid the confusion…
http://www.TheQuickAndEasyGuide.com/

I got an email asking how to sign up for a web hosting account to put your web site onto.

I use 1and1 almost exclusively because of the amazing amount of tools, bandwidth, and storage space they give you for such an extremely low price.  (If you’re from the U.K., France, Germany, or Austria then click on your country link at the bottom of the page and you’ll be taken to the site for your country).

This blog was actually created easily using 1and1.

Anyone from total non-techie beginner to advanced pro will be able to build a website in no-time flat using the point-and-click tools they provide.

You can even make chat rooms or forums or set up your blog with point-and-click ease. Plus they automatically give you an affiliate link so that you can get paid by them if your friends sign up for an account.

Many of my friends have either converted or are in the process of doing so. If you want to check out what just one of their templates are then go to my friend, published author and playwright Maureen Ulrich from Canada, has done using the tools: www.maureenulrich.com for her website and www.maureenulrich.net for her blog.

For step by step instructions, you can either read below OR watch this video I made:

http://www.thequickandeasyguide.com/video301259/webhosthowtosignup/websitehosting1and1tutorial.html It may take a few moments to load.

Here’s the simple steps: (It’s WAY EASIER than it sounds. I just made up these steps for a friend, so I thought I’d post them here) 

1. At the page you land on after clicking the link in the email, type your domain name:  maureenulrich , or whatever you want to call yourself - use something that people will recognize, into the “DOMAIN CHECK” box on the very right hand column. It should already be set to “.com”. Click “Go”.

2. On the next page, if available, click checkmarks into the boxes of the .com, .net, and .org names. Click “Continue” near the bottom of the page.

3. The next page is for picking your package. Go to the section on the page marked “Hosting”, NOT “MS Hosting” just “Hosting”. Click on the “Select” link to the right of the “1&1 Business” package.

4. Don’t bother with the upsells on the next “Special Gift” page, unless you want them - they require a 1 year hosting commitment, but click the “continue” link near the bottom.

5. Check over your “cart” on the next “Your Cart” page. If you’re satisfied with everything (they bill in 3 month cycles), then click “continue”.

6. The rest is all credit card information etc. Follow the prompts & fill in where needed. They will automatically bill your credit card every 3 months until you cancel, and send you a receipt.

7. Once you get out the other side, it will be about 24 hours before your domain name is fully registered and you can start using it.

8. Take note of any information they give you once completed, on screen, and via email confirmation.
To Your Success!

William Sinclair
http://www.TheQuickAndEasyGuide.com/

Are You Being Accused of Sending Spam And Don’t Even Know It?

Recently, I sent an email to my friend in England. I waited and waited for a reply, only to find one week later that his reply to my email had ended up trapped in the Spam filter of my Internet Service Provider (ISP)!

This was a personal email with regular “friends-stuff” content, coming from a personal - not a commercial - email address.

I have another friend in another part of the country that I correspond with on a regular basis. Recently we both realized that none of my emails were reaching him anymore. For some reason, my personal email address got blacklisted by his ISP. We’re not sure quite why but I have an inkling.

With the prolific amount of Spam on the internet these days ISP’s are working overtime to protect their members from becoming victims of this malicious abuse of email privacy. As a result, even personal emails that contain certain words or phrases, or are a certain length are getting mistaken as spam, and therefore halted at the gate, so to speak.

WHAT IS SPAM?

Spam is basically any commercial email correspondence that is unsolicited - not requested by you and you’re not given the opportunity to stop receiving them.

You’ve probably seen the emails in your email box promoting the best watch in the world for only $19.99 or how to get your prescription filled cheap and just about anything else you can imagine.

Even worse, they have a subject line that appeals to you but the actual email has nothing to do with that and you know you’re being sold something.

Now, if this is how hard it’s getting for personal email to “get through”, just imagine how much harder it’s getting for Commercial Email. The horses are being shot before the stagecoach even gets close to town!

SO WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW?

My prediction is that commercial email only has about a year or so left before another communication alternative will become the norm.

Until then, what can you do to help get your commercial email through?

In 2003 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which is the U.S. consumer protection agency, filed a “new” act that spelled out severe penalties for companies and individuals using commercial emails promoting products and services, where the emails are basically violating the privacy of the recipients. In a nutshell, the recipient must have requested the emails and must be able to opt-out of receiving them.

The act, called the CAN-SPAM act - which stands for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing - and which became effective January 1, 2004, laid out strict guidelines for commercial emailers, even those just promoting content on a website.

Here, in a desert-sized bowl, is basically what the CAN-SPAM act is telling you that you must and must not do:

Your “from” address must accurately display who the email is coming from. It cannot be misleading.

No deceptive subject lines. Don’t send an email promising to show about “Boat handling in rough water” when you’re really selling information on how to build a business that could help someone eventually buy a boat.

You must include a way for the recipient to stop receiving your emails if they choose. This is called an “Opt-Out.” It could be as you giving them an email address and they send you an email telling you to stop, or it could be a link at the bottom of the email - generated by an autoresponder - that they click on and are automatically removed from your system. (If you’re not sure what an “Autoresponder” is, then go to ” www.thequickandeasyguide.com ” to find out.

You must clearly identify that the email is a commercial email and you must include your valid Physical Postal Address.

So, are YOU “CAN-SPAM” compliant in your commercial email correspondence?

It only takes those few steps to become CAN-SPAM compliant.

HOW TO I “AUTOMATE” THAT PROCESS?

Well, I wouldn’t call this process “automated” but here’s a simple system that I use to simplify the entire process:

I write up all my “CAN-SPAM” information into a text editor like Windows Notepad ( I actually use a program called “Notetab Lite” - it’s free and does amazing things. www.notetab.com ) and call it something like “emailmaster.txt” (By the way, the nice thing about Notetab Lite is that it can make your text wrap at whatever column width you want, so that it looks more like an article format and doesn’t go right across the page).

Then, when I need to make an email, I open the file, add the new text message into the middle part and save it as something else. Then I copy and paste that text into my autoresponder.

Here’s the format I use; feel free to copy the style of it (change the information to yours though).

 A SAMPLE EMAIL:

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We believe in and UPHOLD the CAN-SPAM Anti-Spam Act of 2003
that protects you from unsolicited emails, and we respect
your privacy! You authorized receipt of this email (check below).
You can UNsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link at
the bottom of this email.
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Hi {FIRSTNAME},

(PLACE YOUR MESSAGE TEXT HERE!)

To Your Success!

William Sinclair
www.thequickandeasyguide.com
www.williamstoolbox.com
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© William Sinclair of MarmidanicGlobal.com
2017 Mayfair Bay, Estevan, Sk,
Canada, S4A 1X7
Contact and Tech Support: support@marmidanicglobal.com
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This email is never sent without permission.

You are receiving this email because you (or someone using
your email address) requested to download the free ebook
“How To Write Your Own Killer Sales Letter”.

If you wish to cancel your subscription, simply click once
on the link below.

{UNSUBSCRIBE_LINK}

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Just as a side note: the text enclosed in the {} curly brackets, such as “{FIRSTNAME}” are called dynamic content and it’s the code that an autoresponder gives you where it will automatically fill in personal information wherever it encounters that dynamic tag.

For example, if the first name of the email recipient is “John”, then the autoresponder, which has John’s name stored in it’s database - because John gave it to us willingly when he asked to subscribe to our newsletter, will replace {FIRSTNAME} with “John”. So the email will start “Hi John”. Neat eh?

Hope this helps you in becoming SPAM COMPLIANT.

The consequences of not becoming compliant in ALL of your emails could be catastrophic for your business!

You can get the actual CAN-SPAM document at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.htm

To Your Success!

William Sinclair
http://www.TheQuickAndEasyGuide.com/

If anyone has been thinking about blogging, here are some interesting U.S. stats:

Source: http://www.blogworldexpo.com

To Your Success! 

William Sinclair
http://www.TheQuickAndEasyGuide.com/

Hi all,

I got an email from Karen asking about linking an autoresponder (smart email program - www.thequickandeasyguide.com ) to her website so that visitors can subscribe and receive her newsletter automatically. Here’s how:

Good morning Karen ((7:19am).

With regards to your autoresponder and linking it to your landing page: If you’re talking about people being able to “sign up” for something using the usual sign-up type of form (name and email), then it’s simply a matter of creating the autoresponder you want (You would go to your autoresponder and basically “Create a new autoresponder (or “autoresponder series”) “ ), which is how people who sign up get your message or series of messages, such as a mini-course by email, newsletter, etc.

Once you’ve created the autoresponder, you go to the section on “Create Forms” or however they word it. You tell it what you want to collect (first name, email address etc.) and then click on the “create form” button. It will generate html code for you that you then copy into say Windows Notepad and save for future use.

When you’re designing your site you need to be able to go to the html code itself (which means you do need a tiny bit of knowledge of at least how to identify where the code is for the section of the page you want your form to sit on). Then you copy and paste the form code you saved in Windows Notepad into the code for your website page. MS FrontPage actually allows you to highlight something on your page, then go to the code view and it highlights the area of code that pertains to that section – so that it’s much easier to see where you are. You then place your cursor below that area, hit the key on your keyboard to make a space, place your cursor in the space and past the new form code into the space.

Your form should now show up on your design and preview views. You can then highlight the form in your design view and center it or move it to the left etc. Once it’s on your design page, you should be able to just highlight the form (by dragging your mouse over it and selecting it) and copy and paste it to any point in your page and the form’s html code should just do it’s own thing – you shouldn’t have to go back into code view and adjust or move the code also – it should be done automatically for you.

Now that form is the one that is linked directly to the autoresponder you just created.

Hope this helps. It’s actually easier than it sounds.

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If you’re just starting out in an online business, check out www.thequickandeasyguide.com . You’ll be glad you did.

To Your Success!

William Sinclair
http://www.TheQuickAndEasyGuide.com/

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

This quote by Helen Keller essentially sums up life in the fast lane - although the “fast lane” is not about speed. It’s about stepping out of the normal lane of everyday life and making changes in your life by doing things you would not normally think of doing. Or that even present a challenge for you.

The word “adventure”, depending on where you live or the life you have already lived, will roll out a different movie of imagination in everyone’s mind.

For some, adventure would be an Indiana Jones or Pirates of the Caribbean type of life - cheating and tempting death while seeking a treasure never before uncovered. Yet, for others, it could be deciding to wear a different color outfit, or try a different meal on the menu instead of the same old standby that can always be trusted.

Take an inventory of your life, a snapshot of where you were last year and where you are today.

Many of us tend to stay in our comfort zone. We don’t speak in front of crowds, even when asked. We don’t get involved in different volunteer organizations because it may mean that we need to come out of our shell. We don’t speak up at a meeting because we don’t want to attract attention, or we’re not sure what others will think.

So, why change? Why should we come out of our comfort zone and stretch a little at least?

Simply because it is good for us and it is good for those around us.

People who exercise after a long sabbatical from any strenuous activity usually experience aches and pains at first. Their body goes into an allergic state, breaking out in sweat and shortness of breath. Before long though, after a regular diet of healthy movement, their threshold becomes greater and higher as their body becomes fit and healthy.

The same can be said when we stretch out of our daily mundane lifestyle. We become capable of handling more, of giving more, of being a better person than we ever thought we could be. We develop goals and dreams we never thought possible. That lifestyle we always wanted but never thought possible suddenly comes within reach.

Even when things don’t go as planned; an energizing person who has become a positive thinker will learn from the experience and grow from it.

So, how can you turn your life into a daring adventure?

First, leave the Indian Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean stuff to the movie makers - unless you want to be a movie maker - then off you go!

But for now, let’s concentrate on today and your day-to-day life. Where can you turn life into a adventure? Here are some suggestions:

If you can, how about leaving the car at home and walking to where you want to go - or even more daring - ride a bicycle.
How about trying a new meal every time you go to a restaurant?
Say hello to that new person at work.
Start a conversation instead of waiting to join in. Think of a list of question or statements that you could use to start that conversation.
Buy the bright-colored, stand-out-from-the-crowd shirt, instead of the low key blend-in type that says, “I’m practical”.
Get up twenty minutes early and read a book.
Go see a movie you thought would be boring - you may be pleasantly surprised.
Stay up and watch a movie with your kids.
Get involved in a sport.
Take course from Toastmasters.
Learn to belly dance or any kind of dance you like.
Say yes to doing something you fear, especially when others believe in you and are already encouraging you.
Learn how to text message on a cellular phone.
Learn Karate or some kind of self-defense.
Fly in a small airplane if you never have.
Meet one new person a week - that’s fifty-two in a year. You’re bound to become friends with at least one or two of them.
Go to church.
Start your own home-based online business on the internet and free yourself from your day job - or even add an awesome second income to your life!

Take a short look at your day and note where you could be more adventurous. Over time, you’ll notice a change for the better - maybe even a new you.

Happy adventures!

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© 2007, William Sinclair.

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