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Allan Collins — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:51:48 +0000

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SmartPhones continue to flood the market even during recession?

prachimehta87 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:00:07 +0000

Did you ever wonder about the fact that there has been a sudden upsurge in the market of smartphones this year? Indeed, it all started with Samsung announcing the latest TouchScreen powered Samsung Star and Star 3G phones, followed by a flurry of Blackberry phones including the Tour, Storm 2 and others (I wonder if they’re really coming this year), Sony-Ericsson’s announcement to unleash the 12 mega pixel powered smartphone, and then everybody joined the party.

Even those who had never manufactured cell phones decided to try their luck. Acer announced the F1 and L1, while Garmin announced the Garmin- Asus Nuvifone G60 in collaboration with Asus. Google’s Android G2 and SideKick LX came as unexpected surprises, Palm came out with the innovative Palm Pre with an impressive Linux based OS, and Apple made the big move to launch the iPhone 3GS. After all, you don’t expect Nokia to keep quite and they played their cards too – announcing the most powerful N-series phone – the Nokia N97.

Probably, things would have been different had there not been such a tough competition. Each brand is going neck-to-neck to establish supremacy in the market, and they’re willing to launch new handsets in the market just to retain the stronghold in the market share.

On the other hand, if 2009 had also been similar to 2006 or 2007 where only few handsets dominated the smartphone arena and the others were not willing to compete, then possibly we would have hardly seen 8-10 odd handsets in the market.

Furthermore, it is surprising to see a whole lotta’ folks willing to shell out hundreds of dollars on buying these hefty smartphone during the peak days of recession, which has in turn promoted the smartphone makers to invest more in bringing out bigger and better products.

If this trend continues for few more months or probably until the mid of next year, there could be a whole lotta’ improvement in the cash flow in the market, and this will in turn reduce the level of recession in the economy.

The biggest motivation behind blogging?

prachimehta87 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:00:25 +0000

Sure thing, everyone loves to share a word with friends and others by means of a personal blog, but there’s more to it. Have you been wondering what really motivates the full time bloggers to keep blogging all day all night and still never get tired of blogging?

Well, in reality – the biggest motivation behind any commercial activity is of course money! And, hell yeah what can be better than minting money by means of a simple blog?

Yeah, now you must be saying – “You gotta’ be kidding me”, blogging and making money? Indeed, this question was very obvious about a decade back, but with the advent of so many advertising programs, online marketing and affiliate marketing campaigns, blogging has become a full time commercial activity that can not only help somebody earn his/her livelihood but also help in generating 5 to 6 figure income levels as well.

What’s more, apart from running your personal blogs, you may also become guest writer or contributor is online writing communities such as BrightHub, wherein you get paid well enough to earn your bread and butter just in few hours (probably 2-3hours/day as a part-time activity).

On the other hand, those who already make 5 or 6 digit revenues in other field start blogging to establish their online identity, rather than generating extra revenues.

Many a time, this passion towards writing brings out the best out of many entrepreneurs and helps them in establishing their images as an accomplished knowledgeable blogger.

Lastly, people often resort to blogging as a part time activity just to understand others’ opinions and mingle with other community members and to express their views on the most happening issues in the world.

So, the bottom-line is that blogging can be extremely rewarding, no matter what your motivation might be. However, if making money is what drives you to the blogging arena, you can be rest assured that your hard work will definitely pay off well, but it might take a while before your blog becomes famous. Until then it may be difficult to monetize on it, so you may think about working as a guest writer on online writing/blogging communities like ProBlogger, HubPages, BrightHub and the likes of them!

Why is WordPress the Most Preferred Blogging Platform?

prachimehta87 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:00:15 +0000

Indeed, this is a very common question that comes into the mind of thousands of people, who’re unaware of what Wordpress has got to offer. First of all, if you’re new to the blogging arena, you may not be aware of the other options, so let us take a look at them and compare Wordpress with each one of them.

Basically, Wordpress is an open source Content Management System (called CMS in short) that makes a great blogging platform. It manages everything right from creating and publishing new content on the website, edit the existing, restrict the user access to the site/blog, and do a lot more.

Now, looking at the other options, there are hundreds of Open Source Content Management Systems available in the market, and some of the good ones include Joomla, CushyCMS, Drupal, RailFrog, and the likes of them.

Joomla happens to be an extremely robust CMS, but it lacks the much needed support to plug-ins and widgets that Wordpress offers. Basically, in Wordpress you can get hundreds of free plug-ins and issues like integrating Twitter, Facebook or any other social networking platform with Wordpress is just matter of few moments, thanks to numerous freely available plug-ins!

RailFrog is yet another handy option and Twitter.com is based on the RailFrog CMS, but then it loses out on the additional goodies that WP supports, right from support to new plug-ins, widgets and the latest themes.

However, the best part about the Wordpress is that the Wordpress developer community is so massive that you get literally tonnes of free goodies and the supply never tends to stop. Everyday you can find new themes, widgets, plug-ins and add-ons made available by these active developers.

Lastly, should you encounter any problems during development of any Wordpress related stuff there are WP forums and WP developer communities, where you can find solution to literally every tech problem.

On account of all these reasons, Wordpress has emerged out to be the supreme CMS out of the lot, and at the moment Wordpress is undeniably the very best in business!

Politics: The Untapped Niche

Allan Collins — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:00:01 +0000

Photo By Mr. Wright

It’s getting close to local elections here in my area, mainly because there are many political ads flooding the local newspaper each slandering the candidate’s opponent. These ads in my area run for $500 per week. With that kind of advertising budget, why aren’t you cashing in on these local politicians?

It’s no surprise that a voter will visit a candidate’s website to find more information. The voter needs to be informed on the issues and the solutions that each candidate is providing. So by having a website, the candidate can have the key advantage of providing information to their respective voters. It even allows them to accept donations easier, from there website.

Going back to how Barack Obama utilized web 2.0 to fund his presidential campaign makes it almost certain that many other politicians will soon follow this strategy. A visually appealing website that is user-friendly and provides easy to read information is what these campaigners need. Why not get started?