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The good folks at Google have a place where you can get a glimpse the most popular searches. Its called Google Zeitgeist.
Just recently they published the 2006 summary. These always make interesting reading. Be a little careful with this information. these aren’t the most popular searches. These are those that have gained the most on last years results.
The top results are:
If you want to make your website a success then read on……
I bet you haven’t heard of Randy Brown. I hadn’t until I stumbled across a short advertisement in the Digital Point forums. The advertisement was for an ebook called “What I did to make a successful website in only a few months”. Since the price was only $10, I decided to buy it.
The 16 page report arrived instantly. It was pretty simple. Sixteen pages of typed notes, no illustrations and no marketing hype. To drive home the point, the sub-heading on the first page reads as follows : “No promises, no guarantees, nothing to buy – just a simple list of things that I did that I think made my site successful”
Turns out Randy is a 39 year old It department manager who managed to take his start-up website from zero to $3500 per month. This in only 12 months. He decided to sell his story to make a little extra cash.
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When your looking for an idea for the next project or post its a good idea to look around at what others are searching for. Sometimes its just a fun an interseting way to fill in a few spare minutes (I should get out more :-) )
Most of the search engines provide an indication of popular search tems. The following pages provide popular search terms . They are listed in alphabetical order:
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Every business starts off small enough that the owners memory is all that is needed to recover from a computer failure.
As time goes on and the business grows, the size of the accounting system, the number of web pages, templates, passwords and intellectual property grows to a point where some sort of backup is essential.
You can adopt a system based on free disk space. Cd’s, external hard drives, IPODs even emailing your key documents to your Gmail address.
But there are serious drawbacks with these methods:
(a) You need to remember to make the backup – how many times to do get so busy you just forget?
(b) Some of these options don’t have geographic diversity. Meaning if the house burnt down so would your data store.
(c) None are guaranteed to work. Ipods have been known to fail and Google good as it is, can only provide an “all care, no responsibility service”
In the end if you want to be sure your key data is never lost you need to look at a purpose built solution with all the features of a professional data store at a realistic price.
Data Deposit Box is a remote online backup solution you should explore. Here is a brief description of the service.
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More than likely, the written material for your home based business is presented in one language only. If this is the case then there is an opportunity to increase your customer base by re-writing the material in another language.
If you look at the bottom left of this page there are some automatic language translation flags. These are an easy way out but there is a downside. Because the translation is “mechanical” the quality of the translation is a little variable.
A much higher quality of translation can be achieved using a human to undertake the translation.
Enter Language Trainers. They provide individually-tailored language training on a one-on-one or small group basis to busy people who need language skills for business, family and travel needs.
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