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The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.12 [Wojmamni Ama Woi]. This release contains a number of bug fixes and three moderate-level security fixes. It has been less than a month since Joomla 1.5.11 was released on June 3, 2009.
This release marks an important milestone for the Joomla Project due to the upgrade of the PEAR library to the new BSD licensed version, which brings the codebase into full compliance with the GPL. In addition, this release contains an important upgrade to TinyMCE v 3.2.4.1.
The Production Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.We all use them, we all use them on a daily basis and who has had success getting engaged loves them: social networks. Now, Deloitte comes up with some interesting insight in the view CEO’s use social networking for their companies reputation. According to the third annual Deloitte LLP Ethics & Workplace survey, 60% of business executives believe they have a right to know how employees portray themselves and their organizations in online social networks. Yes, a lot of us know the importance of social networks on our business, … and for our personal branding today. But not all…
What strikes about the results is that only 17% of executives surveyed say they have programs in place to monitor. 55% of executives admitted that their companies do not have an official policy for social networks. 22% would like to use social networks, but don’t know how. Seems unbelievable but we all have to understand that the use and benefit of social networks might differ from industry sector to industry sector.
Having heard this in some conversations with companies in the last months, I tweeted the Intel social media guidelines for companies that have not yet seen an example of how to handle employees that engage in social media or social networking. It’s for those who ‘participate in social media on behalf of Intel to be trained, to understand and to follow these guidelines.’ And yes, this is a short and easy to read and understand version. The IBM guidelines read a bit more complex but should be understandable for every executive.
On the other hand the study shows that nearly half of the surveyed employees (49%) indicate concrete guidelines will not have any influence on their behavior online. And they disagree that the company should be looking in their social networking activities intensely (53%). Especially the young employees in companies between 18–34 years think employers should not be monitoring their online activity (63%).
Deloitte’s Sharon Allen, chairman of the board, makes clear that using social networks bears also a risk for employees and employers
have noticed that most people invest in stocks because they want to make quick money. They see their relatives and friends investing in stocks and getting rich over time and want to follow suit.
But then there are other ways of making money too. Ways that seem much safer than investing in the stock market. Like bonds, gold, real estate, Public Provident Fund, monthly savings scheme, etc. So why run the risk of losing money by investing in stocks where the risk is higher? Well, read on.
Gold is a good hedge against inflation. Today, 100 gm of gold can purchase the same amount of goods and services as it could purchase 400 years ago. By investing in gold, one can preserve one's purchasing power, but one cannot increase it. But what else can you expect from the safest investment instrument?
In India, bonds have given annual return of about 10%-11% in the last 30 years. This return marginally beats inflation and investors could preserve all of their money if they invested in government securities or bonds floated by fundamentally sound companies.
By investing in bonds, investor can improve their purchasing power over a period of time.
Real estate investments have given a compounded annual return of about 12-15% over the last 30 years. But actual returns could vary depending upon the location of the property and the timing of the purchase.
For example, land or a flat purchased in Mumbai about 30 years ago would have given much higher returns compared to land/flat bought in smaller cities. But a flat or land purchased in smaller cities about four years ago would have given much higher return compared to Mumbai!
Tired of working same old job? Ready to give up that nasty commute and work from home? Want to be your own boss? Need extra income? Well, fret no more because now you can make big money selling fake art on eBay. (It's OK; eBay doesn't care.)
You say you know nothing about art? Not a problem. The morons who'll be bidding on your fakes don't know anything either. But unlike you, they think they do, which makes bilking them out of hundreds, thousands, and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars per fake, virtually effortless. Yes, committing felonies and misdemeanors has never been easier. Fake Chagall, Picasso, Warhol, Dali, Miro, Haring, Basquiat-- take your pick. They say crime doesn't pay? Well, crime is OK on eBay.
But nobody's that stupid, you're thinking. Well, guess again. In the old days, experts on stupidity used to believe that a sucker was born every minute. That was before eBay. Now researchers into imbecilic behavior can go onto eBay, watch real bozos get ripped off all day long, count them up, and easily verify that far more than one sucker is born every minute. So are you ready to flaunt the law and ascend to the next tax bracket? Of course you are. Let's get started!
Dish Network Corporation is a direct broadcast satellite service provider that offers satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services to households and businesses in the United States. Services were launched in March 1996. Currently, Dish Network serves approximately 13.78 million subscribers. Industry experts say 3 million people will sign up for Dish Network in the next three years. In the long-term, thirty million more will join the ranks.
Do you want to cash in on these thirty million? Now you can because Max Satellite TV, an authorised reseller of Dish Network, has started an affiliate program. If you can drive relevant US traffic, English-speaking or Spanish-speaking, do sign up for this affiliate program. You will get $75 per each referred customer who purchases the system installation. The program also offer a second tier option and you get $10 for each customer referred by your downline. There are also cash bonuses available if you refer multiple sales: $250 for 25 sales, $500 for 50 sales and $1,000 for 100 sales. The affiliate commissions are paid twice a month.
If you are looking to get your site naturally listed on Google, Yahoo, MSN or any other search engine then you need to make sure your targeting the right keywords.
Every merchant provides you with what they believe are the top converting keywords for their niche.
You will also get access to a file which details the competitiveness, average click prices and best converting keywords for PPC traffic.You will receive several fully designed websites, which include a logo, header and footer. The websites could be shop fronts, review sites or price comparison templates. Click here for an example affiliate website, that we give you for free.
Usual cost for free websites like this can range from $50.00-$500.00 but with MoreNiche™ you get them for free. This will allow you to instantly own a website.
When you combine this with our guides on traffic generation, you will be in the position to start to generate those huge commissions.
Affiliate marketing is simple; you receive large commissions for referring customers to good quality, unique products or services - see how it works.
If you’re completely new to affiliate marketing then we can provide you with a website, articles and all the advice you need - for free. $45.00 bonus when you join the MoreNiche Affilite Program for free.
If you’re an experienced marketer than you will love our patent pending tracking technology.JoeBucks has plenty of products ranging from weight loss to men’s health products and I do need to pay more attention to it as there’s a lot of money to be made there. Many of their sites have multiple language versions. So far, I’ve only been using one product (penis enhancement pills) on one of my Spanish language PE sites. The site has been getting some traffic but most of it seemed to go to another product featured on that site, one from a different affiliate program. Really nice to know that JoeBucks producs on my site sell as well.
The payment system JoeBucks uses has an option of getting paid through Payoneer, an online payment system similar to ePassporte, which is very convenient as you get your payment in a matter of hours since the payout date. I certainly have opted for it, and what’s even nicer is with JoeBucks, it’s not gonna cost me a cent to create an account with Payoneer and get their card - infact I have the card already as they made me one as soon as I registered with JoeBucks. With ePassporte, it cost me $35.
Anyway, the month has just started so I have almost 2 more weeks to increase the amount of my first payment from JoeBucks - their payout periods are twice a month.
Well, they lived up to my expectations! It was only a few days after my feedback was sent to them that Gary of MarketHealth has contacted me asking to provide my opinion on the new version of their offers page. Wow - that was impressive! So I had a look and provided my feedback again. While the new version was better in regards of choosing the offers in different language, I still thought it lacked the clarity and ease of navigation and told Gary about it. A few more days later, he wrote back to me and asked me to look again at the version they tweaked based on my feedback. Lo and behold - this new one is perfect! Thanks MarketHealth for listening to your affiliates. Now we can clearly see that you have affiliate offers in:
and they are all clearly sorted by product category! An international affiliate dream come true.
Hence, my dear fellow affiliates, if you are in health and beauty niche and looking for international offers, you should check out the new offers page over at MarketHealth.com.
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Generally speaking, a conversion rate is the corelation between the overall number of clicks on your affiliate link and the number of sales that happen. Some affiliate programs will provide you with the overall conversion rate for your account on your home page as you log into your affiliate control panel - but this one is just good for satisfying your curiosity and maybe for the affiliate program itself to estimate the overall performance of all their affiliates.
What’s wrong with this overall conversion rate for you as an affiliate promoting particular products on particular sites is that it doesn’t give you any idea of how well each of your sites performs and what and where needs to be improved.
I promiced to post about running an affiliate business in an international market so here goes.
First of all:
Why would you want to do it?
1. English is one of the most popular languages among the Internet users but it surely isn’t the only one. There is also a huge Spanish, French, Italian, German-speaking audience and so on.
2. With many affiliate programs translating their sites to target these audiences, it makes sense from the point of view of monetizing that international traffic.
3. As a rule, the competition in these international markets is much lower - resulting in much lower costs per click in PPC and much lower compatition in organic SERPs.
What do you need to do it?
1. Ideally, you should know at least a bit of the language of the market you’re targeting - doesn’t mean you need to be a fluent speaker, but knowing just enough to select the most targeted keywords surely helps.
2. If you don’t speak the language but feel it’s still worth it, you might want to hire a native speaker to help you with creating your site and selecting the keywords.
3. Also, have this native speaker check the quality of the translated site of the affiliate program you’re promoting - sometimes their translation quality is rather low which might hurt your conversion rates and then it’s a lot of effort wasted on your part. You might want to have a couple of words with the affiliate managers in such case and ask them to improve the quality of their translation.
4. And NO, Google language tools just don’t cut it! As a person with some linguistic background, I can tell you that machine translation will never be quite the quality we expect from human translation.
Possible Drawbacks of Targeting International Markets
1. You might be unaware of some cultural specifics of the market you are targeting - which may render your campaign ineffective.
2. What seems like an affordable price for the US audience might not be that affordable for people in some other countries - again, this bearing negative impact on your conversions.
3. What has been a familiar product for the English speaking market migth be a totally new product for the international market - so it might take some time before people get to trust your offer and those conversions start rolling in.
4. While for the English speaking markets, affiliate programs typically provide plenty of advertising materials such as banners, buttons, articles and so on, these may be scarse in other languages - so you will have to do most of the work yourself.
All in all, international market is a totally new experience, with its positive and negative sides, but let it not stop you from trying to conquer it - it is really worth the try. Currently, several affiliate programs I am using provide translated web sites:
Go ahead and give them a try and let’s compare our notes later on.
I’m in a testing mood tonight, and put together a list of tests that you can run your blog or web site through if you feel up to learning more about your pages…
1. See what grade level your blog is at with a Readability Test. (The original link has been replaced with a more informative one. The older one kept on becoming unavailable, and there were some issues involving possible web spam associated with it.)
2. Find out if the Gender Genie can predict the gender of your blog’s author.
3. Gauge how well the HTML or XHTML of your blog validates with the W3C Markup Validation Service.
4. Discover whether your site is available behind the Great Firewall of China.
5. Check out how accessible your website might be with the Wave Accessibility Tool.
6. Take a peek at how your site might appear on an iphone.
7. Explore your site to see if you have broken links.
8. Let Microsoft Adcenter determine how much commercial intent your site seems to have.
9. Make your site render in grayscale.
10. Get an estimate of how many visitors your site gets a day.
11. See how your site looks in different browsers.
12. Extract the Colors and their names from your site.
13. Catch people who might be plagiarizing your words on the Web.
14. Convert your site to text only to make it easier to read on a phone or other handheld device.
15. Translate your page into another language (I liked how mine looked in Traditional Chinese).
Posting By William Slawski, Money Insiders thanx