Online Marketing Degree

If you would like to obtain a marketing degree, but don't have the time to attend classes at a traditional college or university, you might want to consider the option of earning your degree through online courses. Students in search of graduate and undergraduate degrees are taking increased interest in this form of learning. Unlike students in traditional campus settings, these students pursue their higher-education goals online, without having to leave their jobs, families, and homes. One educational institution that offers accredited online learning opportunities is Capella University. Capella provides its 16,000 current students with undergraduate degrees in information technology and in business fields such as marketing. Students who already hold bachelor's degrees can pursue advanced degrees in business, information technology, education, human services, and psychology. Altogether, Capella offers 76 graduate and undergraduate specializations and 16 certificate specializations. The university is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. If you see the need for higher education in your future, you should consider Capella University. For more information, please visit www.capella.edu or call 1-888-CAPELLA (227-3552).

Business Planning Help

Growthink, which offers planning services to both small and large businesses, has just completed Business Planning Help.

The Help Center provides free reports, calculators, sample plans, directories and other tools to help entrepreneurs and businesses develop their business plans and/or raise capital.

Growthink’s Business Plan Guide is one of the company’s most popular reports. This report is downloaded from the Web over 50,000 times per years. Let me mention just one segment of this popular report.

The 2006 version of the Business Plan Guide begins with a compelling prologue, “Why Business Plans Fail.” That title is sure to catch the attention of any serious member of the business community.

After surveying a broad array of financial sources, Growthink lists ten reasons why businesses fail to acquire the monetary support they require in order to succeed.

Here’s only one of the reasons: “Focusing Too Much on the Future.”

l’ll say no more. The interested business person can read just as well as I.

Link Popularity

If you want to increase the link popularity of your website, you need to know what will help you the most. To begin, you need to attract search engines such as Google. If you do, these search engines will drive traffic to your site.

Google used to place greater importance on Page Rank than it does now. This change occurred because many clever people found ways to manipulate the Page Rank of their websites. Google still considers the Page Rank of a particular site, but it has also increased the importance it places on the total number of links received. It also considers the quality of the pages where links appear.

Google has recently begun using Latent Symantec Indexing (LSI). LSI determines how words are related to each other. Many website owners believe this refers to the words in their own sites. But Blogitive has analyzed these relationships and concluded that LSI focuses on the pages that links are coming from.

Given all these considerations, a website becomes more popular if it contains content not easily obtained elsewhere. And the best source of this content is blogs. Search engines go after this content like hungry children at a birthday party.

Blogitive was created to form a network of blogs containing unique content. It now has 2000 blogs in this network, and you're reading one of them. If you submit a web release (a short press release) to Blogitive, its bloggers will write about your web release and link to your website in any way you want, thereby increasing the link popularity of your site.

Literary Journals and Money

In over thirty years of submitting short stories and essays to literary journals, I first found it impossible to get my work accepted at all, regardless of the issue of payment. My work slowly improved over the years, and I now find that I’ve acquired a modest reputation and can get my stuff accepted about one time in every ten submissions. The odds have improved from zero to 10 percent.

Regarding the question of money, I’ve learned that even when I get my work accepted, I almost always receive nothing in payment except copies of the journals in which my submissions appear. Even prestigious literary journals pay very little. If you want to publish something of literary merit, submit to literary journals. If you want to make money, go into public relations.

Orlando Vacations

Why would anyone want to take a vacation in Orlando? Disney World is the first answer that comes to mind. If you've already taken the family to Disney World, you may wish to learn that Orlando has 52 theme parks altogether. And beautiful ocean beaches await you only 40 minutes away. To top all this off, consider the fact that Orlando vacation home rentals are lower than those for most other popular vacation destinations. With rent like that, you can stay even longer to enjoy Orlando's many attractions.

Still not convinced? Consider this. Because the theme park business is so competitive, most parks are continually adding new rides and new attractions. So if you haven't been to Orlando within the last 3 to 5 years, the whole family still has a lot to see.

Best Gadgets

Are you the sort of person who wants to own the latest technological product before anyone else? Do you ever buy the best gadgets available and then think of ways to improve them, only to find that no one wants to listen to you? May I introduce you to Ron Sharon, the owner of Zetta Global? At Zetta Global, Mr. Sharon has established ZTMax, a major professional importer in the high-tech industry. After I introduce you, he won't run away and hide. ZTMax is "constantly on the lookout for the latest technology to offer our growing clientele," Mr. Sharon says.

As one example, ZTMax has begun selling the Multifunctional Digital Mini Speaker. This sleek mini speaker is digitized to provide a superb listening experience with your favorite music. Priced at $49.95, with its built-in lithium battery, this speaker can deliver hi-fi music for up to 10 hours. Do you have any suggestions for improvement? May I again introduce you to Mr. Sharon? He wants to listen to you.

The Maltese Ingot

The Maltese Falcon is my favorite hard-boiled detective novel, and its film version is my favorite example of film noir. John Huston, who directed the film, had the good sense to remain faithful to Dashiell Hammett's book, in which a hapless collection of thieves travels the world in search of a life-size statue of a falcon, a falcon dating from the time of the crusades and made of solid gold.

For investors looking for gold bars of a safe and more conventional sort, the Monex Deposit Company (MDC) will not require you to follow the script of a Hollywood motion picture, regardless of its many excellent qualities.

MDC has been America’s precious metals investment leader for thirty years. The firm can obtain precious metals in coins or bullion. It can then arrange to have the metals delivered or deposited in a bank or any other secure depository of your choice.

Many authorities believe that we have entered a period that makes investment in silver bars and U.S. silver coins especially attractive. The world’s demand for silver has exceeded production every year since 1990. The U.S. government, which once held the world’s largest stockpile of silver, is now a silver buyer. MDC can help investors take advantage of this opportunity.

For individuals who prefer to protect their wealth and preserve their purchasing power by investing in gold, MDC can obtain it for you in either coins or bars. For gold falcons, you'll have to read a book or watch a movie.