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Online Sound Technology
Training and Career
Options
Pursuing an accredited sound technology
education will help to prepare you for the career of your dreams. Online
schools and colleges are available to provide you with training you need
to obtain the skills and knowledge needed to enter into the industry.
You have the opportunity to gain the accredited training needed to seek
the employment you desire in a number of areas. Career preparation can
be attained by completing an online degree program in this exciting
field. There are numerous online sound technology training and career
options you should be aware of prior to enrolling in a learning program.
1. Training through an accredited online
school or college will allow you to choose from a number of degree
programs. You will have the opportunity to pursue an associate,
bachelor, or master level degree. Associate degree programs can require
two years of training and will help prepare you for a bachelor degree.
Bachelor degrees take fours years to obtain through online studies. You
can also choose to earn a master degree by completing an additional two
years of training. Online schooling at these levels can be done from the
comfort of your own home and will cover all necessary topics.
2. Coursework will vary by level of
education obtained and the career you wish to pursue. Training can allow
you to gain the skills you need to have a successful career in sound
technology. Courses may consist of learning electronics systems, audio
techniques, audio repair, music theory, studio introduction, recording
techniques, post-production sound, and much more. The specific subject
studied will depend on the level of degree you choose to earn, and the
career you wish to pursue. Specialized courses may include sound
effects, dialogue, music, dubbing, mixing, editing, and many other
relevant topics. By gaining an accredited online education in these
areas you can seek the career you desire.
3. Possible careers can include working
in a variety of areas where you can put your learned skills to work.
Online career preparation will prepare you to enter the workforce in
television, radio, movies, records, and much more. You can choose to
seek employment as a broadcast technician, assistant recording engineer,
producer, sound studio assistant, radio operator, scenes audio
specialist, video game music specialist, and many other professions.
Enrolling in an accredited online program for a career in sound
technology can help you to obtain the successful career you long for.
When you
choose to pursue a career in sound technology you should make sure to
enroll in an accredited school or college. Accreditation is offer to
qualifying programs by agencies like the Accrediting Council for
Continuing Education and Training (
http://www.accet.org/
). Full accreditation is an educational training program's proof that
they can provide you with the best quality education available to you.
Online sound technology schools and colleges that meet certain
qualifications are given full accreditation. You can research programs
to find the one that meets your individual educational goals and needs
and enroll in a program today.
DISCLAIMER: Above is a GENERIC OUTLINE
and may or may not depict precise methods, courses and/or focuses
related to ANY ONE specific school(s) that may or may not be advertised
at PETAP.org.
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Education
Versus Training
Many people don't understand the
difference between education and training. Education is giving out
information and communicating to your trainees. Training is about
practice and building skills. Today's younger generation of employees
wants to be trained, not educated.
Problem is, if we don't educate them
before we train them, it could lead to problems. Think about how you
learned to drive. You need knowledge of the laws and then the actual
training of getting behind the wheel. Same can be said for learning
about the birds and the bees--if the education part isn't done
effectively, the training could lead to undesirable results!
Mark Flores, director of ops for Chuck
E. Cheese's, uses the macaroni-and-cheese example to demonstrate the
difference. We've all made mac & cheese plenty of times in our lives,
but if we don't follow the instructions exactly, we might get macaroni
soup, crunchy macaroni, or something else other than what we intended.
So how do we deliver education and training to ensure consistency?
Manuals. Boooooooooring! We do
need documentation, but make it fun! Include tons of photos and minimal
text so it's more of a comic strip look. People are more likely to
remember what they see versus what they read, so retention of
information is better. Additionally, it's easier to translate into other
languages.
Videos. Better than reading for
most employees, but they need to be short segments (3--5 minutes
maximum) with tons of visual image changes. Our employees today are used
to watching CNN with talking video, a crawler message along the bottom,
and the weather forecast on the side--all while having four online chats
with their friends. Long, drawn-out videos lose their attention quickly.
Watch a segment and go practice what you learn. You can watch the next
segment after that.
Online. Golden Corral, White
Castle, Sea Island Shrimp House, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Chuck E.
Cheese's are all using or testing e-learning. Since it is self-paced, it
goes at the speed of the learner. Be careful: As we've seen with
e-books, it's not too comfortable to read a book on a PC, so keep the
text to a minimum. Review questions can be built in as a checkpoint for
the learner to advance to the next section. Great way to replace video
and print, but it's still not "training."
Tests. We all hate tests! To
ensure consistency in tests, keep them simple and visual (use as many
pictures as possible), and use multiple-choice, ordering, or true-false
format to ensure consistency in grading. Most of our employees no longer
take fill-in-the-blank or essay tests. Ensure they have the basics down.
Do all your trainers actually grade tests the same way?
All the above forms of "training" are
really just education, yet most managers think it's training. We didn't
get our driver's license after reading the book, watching the video, and
passing a test--we had to demonstrate our skills to the authorities
before we received permission to drive. Education is the necessary evil
that must come first, though.
Do we follow the same format with our
employees? Many companies do not--we just memorize a bunch of useless
information the guest cares little about and then we're ready. You need
to be validated on the skills it takes to do the job and re-validated
periodically in the future. Knowing the job and doing the job are two
entirely different things--and the guest notices.
Skill Validation
Having the new employee demonstrate
skills for a manager shows you two things: how good the trainer was, and
that the employee can do the functions of the job. We all might think we
have the same definition of "greet the guest" or "suggestive sell," but
when we see our employees in action, we find it's all across the board.
If we don't coach them through the skill, they will simply do what they
see at other restaurants (which often isn't good). Conduct these
validations every 90--180 days to keep standards top of mind.
People train people. Just because
someone is a good employee doesn't mean they will be a good trainer. The
proper tools to educate will help, but the payoff is in the trainer
demonstrating, coaching, and validating the skill of a new employee. To
illustrate this point to your team, ask your trainers to train you on
how to tie your shoes or put on a shirt. Act like you know nothing about
it. Point being, it's a simple task we can all do in our sleep--like
ringing up orders or making burgers--but it's incredibly hard to train
someone else how to do it.
Macaroni and cheese anyone?
T.J. Schier is service professional, consultant and speaker with
over 20 years experience in operations and training. Founder and
president of Incentivize Solutions and podTraining, T.J. has
helped numerous clients enhance their service and training
programs and spoken to tens of thousands of managers,
franchisees and operators in various fields. Visit
http://IncentivizeSolutions.com/
for more info motivating today's employees, training today's
generation and delivering outstanding guest service; or
http://podTraining.us/,
a unique new system and the foundation of 'i-learning' - using
the device of today's generation, the iPod - to train your
workforce.
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Computer Forensics Education and Training
Computer forensics professionals are
increasingly in demand. Computer crimes have increased dramatically over
the past decade and have become one of the most targeted ways to commit
crime. Tens of millions of dollars are lost each year from information
stolen from a computer. This has lead to growth in the field of the
forensic study of computersTo
get a career in the field of forensic study of computers, you typically
need a Bachelor's degree in computer forensics or related degree such as
computer engineering or information systems security with additional
training. Master's degrees, Ph.D.s, and certificate programs are also
available for this field.
Forensic computer investigators need a
broad range of technical skills and knowledge including computer
software, network security, protocols, routing, computer file formats,
cryptology, reverse software engineering, diagnostic techniques, and
password cracking. In addition to technical skills, experts in the
forensic study of computers must have good oral and written
communication skills, work under tight deadlines, be detail oriented,
and understand and comply with investigation procedures. Professionals
in this field have to write detailed reports and may provide testimony
in court in criminal cases.
Aspiring computer forensics
professionals may specialize in a particular area. For example, if a
person specializes in financial crimes, additional coursework in finance
and accounting may be required. Some employers are willing to accept
industry related experience and equivalent knowledge in place of a
forensic study degree.
Aspiring computer forensics
professionals can obtain a lot of good information about available jobs
on a career website such as indeed.com. By having the stated skills and
qualifications employers are looking for, you can be much better
prepared to start a career in this field.
Effective Business Management Unites Education and Training
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Business management spends billions of
dollars in corporate training and education. According to a report
released in early 2006, the U.S. corporate education and training market
exceeded $46 billion. Additionally, business management and leadership
training captured the largest percentage of program dollars with
developing new and existing management along with succession planning.
(Source: Bersin & Associates)
With training budgets increasing and the additional focus on leadership
and management development because people do not leave organizations
they leave managers, achieving higher levels of positive return on
investment (ROI) makes sense. Research supports that to increase
training ROI begins by including coaching as an effective tactic.
In a 2001 study completed by Dr.
Merrill Anderson, of MetrixGlobal, for a Fortune 500 company coaching
can produce a 529 per cent ROI. Additional studies since that time
confirm the positive affect of coaching. Business management executives
are now employing a new learning strategy that combines education and
training with coaching. This is initiative is corporate coaching.
So what is corporate coaching?
Simply
speaking,
corporate coaching
extends existing learning or what some call training by infusing one on
one executive coaching within the education, training and development
sessions to achieve performance improvement that generates a positive
ROI. Corporate coaching is always aligned with the strategic plan and
the organization's current goals and provides a vehicle to reinforce
current learning as well as a way to make necessary course corrections
through both individual and team perspectives. Corporate objectives are
achieved much quicker allowing for a better competitive advantage.
NOTE:What corporate coaching is
not - any program that cannot be aligned to the strategic plan and lacks
a structured process that does not focus on pre-determined measurable
results.
How does corporate coaching work? The
answer to that question is "that depends." Corporate coaching is
flexible and may be included within the training schedules or upon
completion of the training. The real issue is to find a corporate
coaching process that is results focused and uses proven tools that
build the What's in it for me (WIIFM) leading to the What's in it for us
(WIIFU). Effective corporate coaching works to further internalize the
identified learning objectives and quantifies those efforts on a regular
basis through consistent goal achievement.
How do I find
a corporate coach? That is a very good question since many coaches
whether a
certified coach
or not are now offering corporate coaching services. Possibly, the best
way is to find a coach who:
- Is results focused
- Has a demonstrated record of success
that is quantifiably measurable
- Has both proven developmental
processes and tools that work with the strengths of your organization.
Remember, companies win because of
their strengths not their weaknesses. Corporate coaching allows you to
further capitalize on those very strengths that made your company what
it is.
Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S. works
with individuals and organizations to double personal or
business performance results by closing the gap between where
they are now and where they want to be.
One quick question,if you could
secure one new client or breakthrough that one roadbloack
holding you back from success, what would that mean to you?
Then, take a risk and give Leanne Hoagland-Smith a call at
219.759.5601 to experience incredible results.
Visit
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Education and Training
Are Key Resume Builders - Make it Count!
Millions of job seekers looking for great
career opportunities pound the pavement and troll the on-line job boards
monthly with resumes in hand. Unfortunately many of those resumes will
be less than perfect. Frankly, most will be bad.
Despite the volume of FREE resume writing
advice on line, in college career centers and libraries stocked with
FREE job search resources, most job seekers still do a last minute rush
job with their resumes and hope for the best.
If you are an upcoming college grad
trying to write a targeted resume here are some pointers to focus
attention on the Education section of your resume.
1. Move Education close to the top
of the resume - The EDUCATION section on the college resume
immediately follows the RESUME OBJECTIVE, if you choose to have one. It
should not go to the bottom of the resume or after your EXPERIENCE. The
fact that you are completing your college degree is the single most
marketable thing that employers are interested in right now. It needs to
be in the top 30% of your resume.
2. High School Activities - As a
rule, do not mention High School beyond your college Sophomore year
unless you had a significant and outstanding accomplishments there. For
example if you held leadership roles, set academic or athletic records
and you can add them without exceeding a page - go ahead and include
them. If you are in college and beyond your Sophomore year, you should
have had enough activities in college to replace the ones from high
school. If you do not, make that your goal. If you are a skilled worker
without a college degree, try to focus on any on-the-job training or
apprenticeships you have done.
3. Can You Name Your Degree or
certificate? Visit the Registrar's office on campus to find out the
correct name of your program. Did you receive a Bachelor of Science in
Business Administration, a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
or a Bachelor in Business Administration? Is it a BS, BA or BBA? You
should know this and state it correctly on your college resume.
4. Major - What was your area of
emphasis within your degree? Was there an emphasis? Did you double
major? Did you have a Minor?
5. Coursework and Projects -
When listing relevant coursework on the college resume, avoid repeating
the subject names. Listing both English "I" & English "II" really means
nothing to the recruiter. Eliminate "I" & "II" and try "English, 2
years" instead. It saves space and gives a sense of advanced studies.
Include non-trivial projects and coursework that demonstrate your
ability to work with teams or practically apply your knowledge.
6. Graduation Date - Many
college students, grads and anew alumni will add the date they started
college, but omit the date they will actually graduate. Do not leave the
recruiter guessing about your graduation date. This is important
especially if you are not on the 4-year or 5-year college track anymore.
7. Status - If you are a college
student are you a Freshman, Sophomore, Junior or Senior? If you started
college, but did not finish your program, state the number of credits
accumulated. This really gives recruiters a sense of how much knowledge
you might have already acquired and therefore what internship roles
within the company might be best for you.
8. GPA - Is it a requirement for
the college students' resume? NO it is not. Will it work against you if
you omit it from your resume? It very well could. The fact is that
recruiters want to know what your college GPA is. If low, it is better
to let them know up front but have an explanation for why it is low,
rather than try to hide it. Without an explanation, the recruiter might
second guess your qualifications or think that you have a poor work
ethic. State both Overall GPA and a Major GPA if it tells a better
story.
9. Certifications, Honors and Awards
- Did you gain any certifications throughout your college experience?
Food Safety, CPR or technical certifications like Cisco Certification
are a great way to showcase a commitment to go above and beyond.
Highlighting academic honors and awards you received will go a long way
to set you apart from other candidates as well.
10. Language and Technical
Proficiencies - Do NOT claim technical or language proficiencies
that you do not possess. It only takes a simple conversation for a
recruiter to spot a fake quickly. It is so much more powerful to leave
it off the college resume, but mention knowledge of a language or
technical skill in the interview.
Once your resume is complete, have it
proof read by a career professional. Many online services are available
to help you with FREE resume critiques and can offer feedback to help
you increase positive response to your resume.
Marcia Robinson writes and trains
on career, workplace and employment related issues. She is a
Principal at The RayeMartin Group, a HR consulting firm in
Philadelphia, that owns BullsEyeResumes, publishes the
Norristown-At-Work monthly and maintains career advice blogs.
Robinson has a BS in Human Resources Management and a Masters in
Business Administration.
Bullseye Career Blogs
BullsEyeResumes.com [http://www.bullseyeresumes.com/]
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10 Tips to Find a Great Domain Name
Having the right domain name is crucial
for your site. Looking for a domain name can be a very time consuming
task and sometimes you may end up with a name that you wish you never
purchased. I believe it is worth to spend a little bit of time on
finding the correct domain name.
When you have a good domain name they go viral very easily hence
reducing the customer acquisition cost.
Are you struggling to come up
with a domain name for your site or blog?
Have you got a mental block where you
cannot think of any names and all the names you come up with have taken
already?
The following 10 tips will help you to
find a good domain name for your site.
1. Readable and Pronounceable
- People should be able to read it easily and if it is not a common
English word they should be able to spell it from hearing.
2. Can memorize -
Important because this will help with going your site viral.
3. Keep it short -
this will help with memorizing and less misspellings.
4. Letters only - if
you have numbers it will get confusing. Especially if you have to tell
the domain name to someone over the phone.
5. .com domains only -
people are so used to.com and they will type.com by habit
6. Relevant to your niche
- this will help you to attract a target audience.
7. Describe your site
- for example, if your site is about tips on MLM lead generation, then
it is best to get a domain name MLMLeadGenerationTips.com or similar.
You get the idea.
8. Keyword rich - this
may help with your search engine ranking. Create a list of keywords that
relates to your site and check them on Google Trends, so that you can
get an idea about the search traffic for the chosen keywords. Then you
can use the bulk upload feature on Godaddy to find a domain name.
9. Brainstorm - Just
write everything that comes to your mind and get help from your family
and friends.
10. Use tools - like
Reference.com to find relevant and similar words.
Finding a good domain name will not be
easy, but if you use the tips above and willing to put in the time you
will come up with a winning combination.
Damayanthi ia an online marketing guide specializing in
education that helps entrepreneurs to attract more prospects and
clients to their chosen businesses. Now that you know how to
find a great domain name, you can learn
how to forward
it to the site of your choice.
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Online training can be considered
a virtual education and can be the most practical type of
education for you. Practical because it is not done in a
classroom, it is done through the internet. The reasons that
online training is becoming more popular are, first of all, a
person does not have to travel to a school, college or any place
of studies. The convenience that provides to a potential student
is enormous. Another reason that online courses are popular is
the fact that there are online training courses offered on the
internet for almost anything that you want to study. One other
obvious reason is that online courses can be less expensive than
the tuition that traditional higher learning institutes charge.
eLearning courses, for the most
part, can be considered online courses also. They are courses
that are taught using methods that are based on technology. The
most popular method would be by using a computer and the
internet. University and colleges use e-learning courses as well
as companies who want their employees to continue learning while
on the job. The fact that universities use e-learning courses as
a way of teaching, practically eliminates the face to face
contact that a traditional classroom has. Communication between
the teacher and the student is done through the internet by
using text based applications such as PDF, HTML and PowerPoint.
There are video based courses that are presented through
internet video streaming or applications like Windows Media
Player or real Player.
Online computer training is a
subject that you can find offered via the internet. What better
subject to learn about because of the fact that you are using a
computer to read this on the internet? Subjects such as Office,
PowerPoint, PhotoShop, Outlook, Windows and many, many more are
offered as courses for online computer training. Have you ever
thought of creating your own website but have no experience at
all? If so, there is an online course that will teach you
everything you need to know about the subject. In most cases,
online computer training courses allow you to train at your pace
which makes it a very practical source of education. Especially
for the student who may have limited time on their hands.
If you are a person who is
wanting to learn another job skill, brush up on their computer
skills or wants to higher their education, online training
courses or elearning courses might be the way to do just that.
Caitlina Fuller is a freelance writer.
Another reason that online courses are popular is the
fact that there are
online training
courses offered on the internet for almost anything that
you want to study.
Elearning courses,
for the most part, can be considered online courses
also. They are courses that are taught using methods
that are based on technology.
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With the increasing pace of life,
growing ambitions and prospects of self-reliance, it is very
common to find young people engaged in regular profile jobs. But
side by side even education is an important aspect of life which
ensures better money and lifestyle, moreover there are people
who have a willful affinity for knowledge and for these people
learning never stops. But how can one juggle his or her career
simultaneously with regular education wherein neither can be
compromised? Well this is possible with the advent of the
virtual world where even your education is just a click away.
With the easy and affordable access to internet online schooling
is getting more and more popular particularly for people who
have other obligations in their way to regular education.
Online schools render you with the
flexibility to work at your own pace and according to your own
convenience. It allows you to manage your education according to
your schedule. The online schools provide you with a range of
subjects according to your interest and when you decide to
settle down and study there would be absolutely no distraction
like the general classrooms but instead it would just be you and
your online study only. Nowadays, the internet is proliferated
by online colleges and universities that award associate
degrees, bachelor degrees, masters degrees, and doctoral degrees
at extremely affordable price. These accredited online degrees
are available for different courses in the field of education,
business, technology, information systems and even in nursing.
The online schools provide easy
access to online research libraries, lectures, assignments and
questions. Adding to its benefit is the fact that there are no
fixed timeliness for tutorial, lessons and examination. So this
means that you have everything lined according to your
convenience. The standards of online courses are effectively set
according to the common educational standards this means that
you do not need to compromise on the quality of education that
you gain through these online schools.
Accredited online degrees can
help you to work forward in your life and career. This can give
you the flexible schedule that you need to get through your
classes and get your degree and usually faster. You can take
your classes and do your work at any time you want, which means
you can work around your current schedule comfortably.
With the advent of computers and
extremely fast internet service, it is no longer required that
you be in the same office or even the same country as your boss.
If telecommuting appeals to you, you may be wondering how to
become a virtual assistant. Some tips are discussed below.
First and foremost, decide what
types of services you are going to offer. Determine your strong
points and skills. Also, choose a niche for your business. If
you have experience working for lawyers or real estate agents
that is who you should market to.
Marketing your business is
vital. After you have decided on a business name and done the
appropriate checks, find a domain name for your website. Since
you will be virtual, this is the best form of marketing. You can
also make postcards, flyers and business cards to send to
potential clients in your niche.
While you are looking for a
job, start perusing the freelance sites. Many employers will
place their advertisement on one of those sites to get their job
listening to the most people in the most countries.
If you accept multiple jobs,
make sure you devote enough time to each one. These can be a
single task or a long term project. When you are done with the
job, be sure to get feedback. Do not be afraid to ask for a
referral as well.
It may take you a little bit of
time to generate a good clientele, but once there you will
likely be so busy you will have to turn away work!
People who holds a graduate or
master's degree of education can expect a higher salary compared
to the ones who only finished high school. A graduate degree
holder can increase its income each year. That is why there are
many people who strive to pursue their education as a solid
investment. Online education enables busy working adults to
achieve a higher education while maintaining employment to earn
a living.There are many
options for you to begin a career that suits your interests from
many online degrees. Education factor grows intensely as the
world wide web expands. Each year more and more accredited and
well known universities and colleges develops online programs as
they join the craze of Internet education. With the vast number
of Internet education sources, learning is can easily be
attained.
Online education degrees can be
the best option in acquiring higher education than enrolling to
traditional universities that are hard to get accepted to. Most
of the instructors online have unlimited students all around the
world so you have a lower chance of being turned away. You can
achieve your goals in life without obstacles such as acceptance
by considering yourself being enrolled in an online education.
Pursuing an online education
degree have essential requirements. Students need to be
well-organized who can manage their time efficiently. Reviewing
course material independently and effectively is also needed.
Students should have a full access to computers with an Internet
service and virus protection for the online classes. With the
advancement of technologies used, students must be computer
literate for them to be able to use email and basic Internet
functions. Those technologies are essential because they are
used to communicate with instructors and taking or online exams
and assigned tasks. For the convenience of students, online
education degree programs are transferred or delivered in a
web-based format that is available 24/7.
Online courses were developed
to cater the needs of people with hectic schedules who wants to
continue their education while taking responsibilities at home,
workplace and community. Online education was designed with the
same rigor as the traditional way of teaching. It follows the
same criteria at those achieved at traditional university
campus.
This mode of education is more
affordable than attending a physical university campus because
there are no cost fro traveling or housing. You can choose the
most convenient place and time of your learning experience.
Pursuing a virtual education a clear view of a wise decision.
You will have all the ease of achieving a higher degree online
that eventually improved your financial status.
I was sent to a nice
school and at that time, after university, a woman was
expected to become a teacher or a nurse - prior to
marriage. I am currently employed, but I decided to get
online education
program to further my education. I never get tired of
learning new things. I am enjoying my work and at the
same time having an
online degrees
with no conflict on my schedule.
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Virtual meetings in the web
provide an effective and economically viable platform for
modern-day global communication that occurs in clinical trials.
With the advancement witnessed by the technology many adopt the
virtual web meeting for general purposes, while companies like
Investigators Meeting Planner employ the latest web technology
to meet the specific requirements in a Clinical Investigators
Meeting..As the
timelines for conducting large phase III trials become shorter
couple with larger and more complex design and patient
population, most studies are conducted around the world. Many
implement the virtual web meetings as it puts rein over the
over-stretched budgets and as an effective tool to communicate
and bring all the investigators and study team together. . It is
typically held when the person initiating the meeting creates a
new agenda in the tool adopted and then sends the invitation to
the participants that state the date and time of the conference,
and the login instructions. This gives the participants ample
warning to install the software to enable their participation.
Virtual meeting in the web
include a myriad of web technology such as the transfer of text
messages, teleconferencing, VoIP and video conferencing,
o Text-chat
Most of the web-conferencing service tools come with an in-built
text-chat tool that can be used to communicate with limited
participants or the entire group according to their discretion.
o Teleconferencing
The integration of the teleconferencing option to the online
meeting tools create a platform for speaking to the participants
while the meeting is in progress.
o VoIP
VoIP is a technology that aids to make calls over the Web and is
typically cheaper than the teleconferencing services.
o Videoconferencing
This can produce a 'face-to-face' interaction through the
employment of a web cam or a studio-based system in which a room
comes with the overhead cameras, document viewers, slide
viewers, etc. for enhanced quality.
A virtual meeting in the web
comes with tools that permit the exchange of documents,
desktops, whiteboards where the pictures, files, etc. can be
downloaded. With the screen sharing tools giving access to the
desktop or restricted access to a part of the screen, it has
become easier to share resources between the participants in the
meeting. The "whiteboards" offer the ideal solution for
conceptualizing ideas of various participants. The drawing and
annotation tools like the pencils, pens and virtual sticky notes
are handy for graphic-design applications.
Even though the net meeting
tools are made affordable today, making a mistake in its usage
can result in a huge financial loss to the company. The success
of the virtual web meeting lies in the type of tools employed
and the speed of the Internet. The initiator has to conduct
constant follow-ups to evaluate the success of the meeting,
attain feedback, and solicit opinions if it is to generate the
desired action.
In this day and age, more and more
people of opting out of the daily commute to work from home.
With the wireless age at hand it is simple to connect to your
office while you work from home.
Imagine the possibilities if you
could turn your "home office" into a Virtual Office where you
could see and hear your visitors, communicate with video, audio
and text, share files, share your desktop, share a browser, show
a power point presentation or a Live Show!
Let's face it, the most
powerful way to sell is face to face. When you are 'face to
face', you can get instant feedback and your prospect can ask
questions and get their answers immediately.
Since our market is a Global
one and we can't actually meet all our prospects in person,
using Video Web Conferencing is the next best thing.
Imagine sitting in the comfort
of your own home, presenting to people all over the world. What
would your business look like if you were able to easily offer
product demonstrations and video overviews as well as offer the
ability for your visitors to ask questions and get answers -
live and in real time!
This is all possible
with Video Web Conferencing.
The fact is, if you are not
using Video Web Conferencing in your business, you are missing
out on thousands of dollars of sales. This is a fact.
Communication is the backbone
for the success of any business. Do you have a need to meet with
your team leaders or members for things like training,
coordinating product launches, doing product demonstrations or
perhaps you need to meet to discuss the general budget.
With the new reality of a
Global Business, this can prove to be quite difficult. Your
partners, team leaders or business members likely live hundreds
if not thousands of miles away and quite likely in another
country all together.
Now, more than ever,
you need to use the services of Video Web Conferencing.
Let's outline the advantages of
Video Web Conferencing.
1. International
communication - If you have customers or business
partners from all over the world you want to be able to get in
touch with them in real time. With Video Web Conferencing, you
can stay up to date while having a virtual "face to face"
meeting.
2. Online training and
support - If you offer training for your members of
your organization or provide personalized support for clients
and customers then a live Video Web Conference room can be the
perfect solution.
3. Product
demonstrations - Would you like to offer a product
demonstration to your prospects? Video Web Conferencing offers
you the ability to do a live in-home presentation with your
virtual Office.
Any online business that relies
heavily on communication between sales personnel or team members
to coordinate and plan future events needs to be using Video Web
Conferencing solutions. It can be easy to spend hundreds of
dollars in obtaining the software and capability to do this.
You want to find a web hosting
company that can provide you with everything you need to do live
web meetings without any outrageous expenses. You also want to
have the support you need at hand. Always look for more when
choosing a web host - there are some wonderful business hosts
out there that provide so much more than just a space for your
website.
Adding Video Web Conferencing
and a Virtual Office to your business is going to increase sales
and give you a definite edge over your competition. Video Web
Conferencing is becoming easier to use and definitely more
affordable.
Working in a "virtual world"
should be no less professional than showing up at a brick and
mortar building. It can seem fun to try on an avatar alter ego,
but when your avatar represents you in the business arena the
need for a professional persona remains. This is particularly
true when an avatar is used as a representative of your
employer.With the ever
increasing need to cut costs, virtual meetings are becoming more
popular to address rising travel expenses. Popular Web
conferencing tools include: WebEx Meeting Center, PlaceWare
Conference Center, Raindance Web Conferencing Pro 5.0, Genesys
Meeting Center, and Centra Conference 5.0.
Then there are the 3D virtual
worlds like Second Life which represent the next generation of
virtual conferencing tools; it is a free 3D virtual world where
users can socialize, connect and create using free voice and
text chat.
Many other casual and business-focussed
virtual meeting platforms are being developed to meet the
growing need and most seem to be free for users. Outerworlds
offers its user the opportunity to drop in for a chat or explore
its many community and privately owned worlds with themes that
are limited only by the imagination. ActiveWorlds professes to
be "the web's most powerful virtual world's experience, letting
you visit and chat in incredible 3D worlds that are built by
other users."
Whether meeting in the virtual
world to facilitate business conferences or just for fun,
careful thought should be put into how your avatar represents
who you are and/or who you are representing.
What's your favourite 3D
Virtual World?
At West Coast Way
Consulting Inc., we help companies seamlessly integrate
virtual workers into a traditional corporate structure.
Our experience spans the business, government and
industry sectors, and we know about the benefits of
using a virtual workforce, because we have run our
company that way for years. West Coast Way's management
team offers a good mix of common sense, business acumen
and unparalleled customer service. We collaborate with
you to develop a workable plan by listening to your
needs and problems, gathering data, and then analysing
the information in order to produce a step-by-step plan
for successful virtual workforce integration.
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If you are a small business
considering web conferencing, then you may be wondering how to
best use it to benefit your business and help you move to the
next level. Small businesses are using web conferencing a bit
differently than large corporations.
If you would like to use web
conferencing to help your small business, then consider these
web conferencing tips.
First contact
Rather than thinking of web
conferencing as a means to eliminate all travel
permanently-which may not be an option for a small business that
relies on its ability to make and maintain relationships-use it
to eliminate needless trips.
How many times have you turned
everything on its head and shelled out hundreds to fly across
two times zones to conduct a sales trip, only to have people
cancel at the last minute? How many times has an initial meeting
been a complete waste of time because the person sent to meet
with you has no authority to make purchasing decisions?
Unfortunately, this happens a lot when you're meeting with new
customers. But everyone needs to pursue new customers because
that is how we grow our business.
However, if you use web
conferencing to vet new clients, you can save those useless
flights out of state. You can get a read on a potential client's
seriousness and commitment to actually doing business prior to
stepping on an aircraft, before you ever lay out money for a
ticket.
That is time and money saved.
In fact, other small businesses
just like you are cutting their travel costs while growing their
new business.
Slash meeting costs
Gathering everyone in the same
place to brainstorm is the old way of doing business. But that
is not the most cost-effective way to do business in today's
market.
You can get all your employees
together online and work through a problem without having to
shell out to have them travel to your office. If you have
salesmen spread out in a variety of territories, you want to
minimize the amount of time you pull them off territory to be in
a meeting. Web conferencing helps you accomplish that.
You can all view the same
document. Anyone in the meeting can have the floor and show
their desktop or a document on their computer. Everyone can see
and hear the same thing-just as though you were in the same
room.
Cut training expenses
Training is an important part
of running your business. After all, you need to keep everyone
abreast of any changes or new protocols and knowledge. How do
you do that without incurring massive travel and accommodation
expenses? With web conferencing, of course. Another benefit for
training is that it limits the time your sales force is off
their territory. That helps increase revenue and limit lost
profits.
These web conferencing tips can
help you take your business to the next level of efficiency and
productivity. Start using the newest and most convenient
technology to better run your business today.
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Virtual meetings in the web provide an effective and
economically viable platform for modern-day global
communication that occurs in clinical trials. With the
advancement witnessed by the technology many adopt the
virtual web meeting for general purposes, while
companies like Investigators Meeting Planner employ
the latest web technology to meet the specific
requirements in a Clinical Investigators Meeting..
As the timelines for conducting large phase III trials
become shorter couple with larger and more complex
design and patient population, most studies are
conducted around the world. Many implement the virtual
web meetings as it puts rein over the over-stretched
budgets and as an effective tool to communicate and
bring all the investigators and study team together. .
It is typically held when the person initiating the
meeting creates a new agenda in the tool adopted and
then sends the invitation to the participants that
state the date and time of the conference, and the
login instructions. This gives the participants ample
warning to install the software to enable their
participation.
Virtual meeting in the web include a myriad of web
technology such as the transfer of text messages,
teleconferencing, VoIP and video conferencing,
o Text-chat
Most of the web-conferencing service tools come with
an in-built text-chat tool that can be used to
communicate with limited participants or the entire
group according to their discretion.
o Teleconferencing
The integration of the teleconferencing option to the
online meeting tools create a platform for speaking to
the participants while the meeting is in progress.
o VoIP
VoIP is a technology that aids to make calls over the
Web and is typically cheaper than the teleconferencing
services.
o Videoconferencing
This can produce a 'face-to-face' interaction through
the employment of a web cam or a studio-based system
in which a room comes with the overhead cameras,
document viewers, slide viewers, etc. for enhanced
quality.
A virtual meeting in the web comes with tools that
permit the exchange of documents, desktops,
whiteboards where the pictures, files, etc. can be
downloaded. With the screen sharing tools giving
access to the desktop or restricted access to a part
of the screen, it has become easier to share resources
between the participants in the meeting. The
"whiteboards" offer the ideal solution for
conceptualizing ideas of various participants. The
drawing and annotation tools like the pencils, pens
and virtual sticky notes are handy for graphic-design
applications.
Even though the net meeting tools are made
affordable today, making a mistake in its usage can
result in a huge financial loss to the company. The
success of the virtual web meeting lies in the type of
tools employed and the speed of the Internet. The
initiator has to conduct constant follow-ups to
evaluate the success of the meeting, attain feedback,
and solicit opinions if it is to generate the desired
action.
The Internet has revolutionized our lives in many
ways. It has taken communication to a new virtual
collaborative environment where people sitting at
different geographical locations of the world can
communicate with each other in real time. Here are
some of the amazing ways to have a virtual meeting
with multiple participants: Skype
Skype is a software application that enables the
clients to make voice calls over the Internet. This
software is extensively used for instant messaging,
file transfer and video conferencing. Skype offers
free service with other Skype users.
Video Conferencing
Video Conferencing also known as video
teleconference is a set of interactive
telecommunication technologies between two or more
locations to relate and connect through two-way
video and audio transmissions simultaneously. It is
a type of groupware that is intended to serve and
assist a conference rather than individuals.
Web Conferencing
This is another powerful tool that is greatly used
for virtual meetings. It is utilized to perform live
meetings, instructing and giving seminar and
lectures through the Internet. In a web conference,
all participants sit at their own computers and are
connected to all the other participants by means of
the internet.
Webinars
A webinar, as name suggests is a term where the
speaker can communicate with a limited audience
interface. It includes question & answer sessions
and offers complete participation between the
audience and the presenter.
Event Messaging Systems
Messaging System, another powerful medium to conduct
virtual meetings allows individual and independent
applications to consistently communicate with each
other. There are a number of advantages like a great
scalability, easy incorporation into varied
networks, and dependability due to lack of a single
point of failure.
Go to Meeting
Go-To-Meeting is a Web-hosted service formed and
fashioned by Citrix Systems. It is a distant
conference and desktop sharing Software that allows
the user to meet other computer users, customers,
clients or colleagues by means of internet in
real-time.
Online Presentations
These are totally Web-based presentations, releasing
the clients from the restriction of desktop
presentation software. They are more interactive and
compelling for the readers. There are facilities of
slide design, content compilation, review and
approvals and a host of other choices included in
this option.
Meeting Planning Solutions
Meeting Planning Solutions is a service provided by
"The Solution Centre." It takes care of the
personalized meeting management facility - and all
the events. It makes sure that all the needs of the
meeting are looked after. Right from employee and
board retreats to training programs, product
introductions, incentive travel and analyst or
investor meetings, this service researches location
options, books the right venue and handle all the
details and logistics.
RTZ Software
This is another interesting option for virtual
meetings. It is a low bandwidth, media-rich,
multi-user conferencing system in a groupware
development environment. It comprises of a suite of
applications which create an interactive Multimedia
communications environment. This can be used to
conduct presentations, meetings, lectures and
classes between participants in various
geographically dispersed locations.
Being in an ever changing world directed on the
intricacies of technology and innovation of virtual
media, bare distances amongst teams, firms and
institutions have been ably linked through current
ways of communication that to include the widely
chosen advantages of a conference call. The
necessity for recurrent conferences and constant
keeping in touch remains to be true for several
global businesses and for this to be carried out,
profitable solutions have to be placed. Not like
before where it is somewhat impractical to have
meetings needing the presence of associates that are
from the furthermost topographical corners, today,
business campaigns need not be hampered through
physical distances and worldwide boundaries. As
companies grow to an international range, mergers
and shares gain has been remarkably improved even in
the large-scale environment. As businesses require
continual passion and regularity in management, the
advent of an online workplace has been more
advantageous than that of the regular ones. Though
physical meetings are no longer as essential as
virtual conferences, teleconferences would still
need human labor and need a team leader to
effectively manage teleconferencing operations. For
optimum results, the following rules have to be
made.
· Frequently set online conferences and video
conference calls. Presence of both the managers and
junior colleagues in regular assemblies would not
only foster congenial affairs but also allow
forthcoming planning and review of current business
standing.
· Firms would only be able to carry out efficient
amendments if they aptly assess and evaluate their
operation's progress. Hear what team members have to
say and give value to the comments that they give.
· Drawn-out virtual business meetings can turn
out to be dull, that is why time must be used well
and everyone's emphasis must be centered to the
meeting. While the conference is taking place,
associates must not multitask so that they can
effectively participate.
· If there is a need to deliberate issues that
are classified in nature, arrange for individual
teleconferencing to keep the interaction more
personal. Delicate issues must be taken care of
accordingly but the right for privacy of the people
concerned must likewise be dealt with highest
respect.
· Striving over piles of reports and running
after deadlines in a strained environment could be
unavoidable for various firms. Stopping the monotony
of busy working days and annually holding organized
international conference calls for in-person
meetings would definitely give great benefits for
the business and most importantly the staff who have
been laboring round-the-clock to provide their
proficiency and skills for the business's growth.
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Conferences have long been a staple of the
professional calendar. Now, after a recession
that has slashed travel expenditure, the
landscape for events is changing.
Sophisticated digital platforms are enabling
virtual environments that simulate the
benefits of real events, and attendees are
beginning to shift to accessing subject matter
experts and industry networking online. But
can the digital environment really displace
brick and mortar events, where eye to eye
meetings and chance connections can justify
the often costly registration fees and travel
costs? In organizations where hundreds of
executives and professionals attend several
conferences a year at $1,000 or more each in
total cost, a virtual conference at $500 can be
attractive.
Making virtual connections at an online
conference may not be an adequate substitute
for meeting a key client face to face, but it
seems likely that virtual events will
complement traditional conferences as
organizations need to balance time and
resources. Increasingly, virtual platforms are
offering value that has never existed in this
market. It is less obvious thinking that a
virtual environment could be conducive to
trade in luxury goods, cars or food, but
industries where virtual conferences make
sense include:
- Knowledge industries such as medicine,
pharmaceuticals, and high technology
- Nascent industries where innovation
clusters are globally dispersed, such as in
brain fitness and cognitive health innovation
- Digital industries where the product can
be delivered via a multimedia format
- Higher education
Here are 20 reasons why you might
consider attending a virtual conference:
- Less travel time means more time for you at
work or with your family
- Dip in and out of events without being
noticed
- No flight delays, passport control or
security checks
- Juggle work demands with conference
attendance
- No packing and unpacking and wondering
whether your luggage will make it through to
the other side
- Access all conference materials and
audio online for 3 months after the event
- Show your boss demonstrable cost savings
in straightened times
- Connect with a larger and more global
audience, many of whom may have not attended
due to cost and travel constraints
- Preview and review speaker presentations
on your PC while listening to other material
- Easily locate conference attendees and
arrange a conference call, rather than
searching hotel lobbies for your clients
- No waste of paper on conference
brochures/fliers that only go in the bin once
home
- Save hundreds of thousands of gallons of
air fuel because of the aggregate efforts of
attendees
- Catch up on missed events in the evening or
your free time
- Learn new skills in managing virtual
technologies and online tools
- Access the whole event from the comfort of
your own home or office
- No big hole in your bank balance while you
wait for the expenses claim to clear
- Use the time you would be travelling to
report back to colleagues on the key lessons
- Consider the efficient the transfer of
information and how that will translate
directly to your bottom line
- Registration Fees are as much as four
times less than a "bricks and mortar" event
- No expenditure on hotels and sundries
We hope that your next virtual conference
experience is a great one!
Alvaro
Fernandez is the CEO and Co-Founder of
SharpBrains.com, and Dr. Jamie Wilson is
the Platform Director for the SharpBrains
Council for Brain Fitness Innovation.
SharpBrains.com provides the latest
science-based information for Brain Health
and Cognitive Fitness, and organizes the
leading global and virtual conferences
focused on health & wellness
applications from emerging brain
science such as lifelong neuroplasticity.
You can learn more at
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I joined the UK Electronics Group at LinkedIn a
little while back. Unlike most of the LinkedIn
groups I've come across this one is nice and
small with what seems a good membership of
professional types. A discussion came up where
the idea was floated about whether maybe a
conference should be organised somewhere and
what it should contain. I made what I thought
might well be an unpopular comment, saying that
I think it would be great idea to look at
organising some form of online conference using
webinars. For me this concept solves all the
problems of conferences - having to travel
across the country to some town that is hugely
inconvenient for 99% of the attendees, the day
or more out of the office and that I'd be able
to pick and choose what I participated in. It
would also mean that a well organised online
event could potentially attract lots of visitors
and make it all very worthwhile to do in the
first place. To my surprise the only other
comments on the discussion seemed to agree with
me - I thought I might get lambasted for
suggesting that doing a conference online could
in any way be better that face to face human
contact! This got me thinking about this area
and about the exhibitions conferences are often
organised around. It seems obvious to me that
online conferences are very much in their
infancy right now, but have a huge potential.
Speaking as a company that that's just exhibited
at Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2010 I
have recent firsthand experience of the woes of
being an exhibitor at an exhibition event. I was
very surprised to discover that many exhibitors
are actually pleased with a just a handful of
decent enquires after spending large sums of
money and a lots of staff time to be there. For
the big companies I guess brand promotion
justifies anything, but for many others I spoke
to (and us) it seems quite hit and miss as to
whether they get anywhere close to properly
justifying the time and money invested to be
there.
So take all of the problems of current day
specialist conferences and exhibitions:- the
location, the cost to exhibit, the time and
inconvenience to attend, the number of
exhibitors, the number of visitors and the
number of seminars, speakers or sessions that
are actually of interest to visitors (whatever
line-up you put on only certain sessions are of
interest to different people). These problems
are all now solvable if you we're to place the
event online. Now to anyone that's not
participated in a webinar this may sound like
techie geek nonsense. But if you have attended a
webinar that was hosted properly and had content
that you we're interested in then you'll know
that actually attending a webinar can be a very
rewarding experience. This is still a very
techie dominated field, but as is always the way
the fact that the techies are starting to get
really into it means that its probably only a
couple of years before it hits the mainstream.
Firstly just the fact that a webinar is an event
at a particular time and if you want it then you
need to be there at that time is a surprisingly
compelling thing. Even though you're going to be
watching something online, and maybe not even
participating (asking questions, interacting
etc) there is something about the event itself
and the knowledge that you and many others will
be there at that virtual place all together.
So then the event itself. Well it's possible
to totally cock it up as an organiser of course,
but it's also not really that hard to create an
event which everyone comes away from impressed,
educated, informed, or whatever the aims are.
Its no different to getting people to stand up
in a room full of people and speak - if they are
interesting, present reasonably well and have
good content for their audience then it works
just as well online.
However the thing that really got me thinking
about all this is a webinar I attended today and
a virtual conference I've received invites to
attend next week. Both are doing it completely
wrong in my opinion and I find it interesting
how obvious it seems to do it right and why
these companies have it so wrong. Its really
very simple - if you apply real world rules to
what you are doing then it can work just as well
(and actually could easily be better in many
ways), but if you use technology to cheat then
it doesn't. What niggles me is that I can see
the perfect way of approaching it all and wish I
had the time and resources to create the perfect
system, but there aren't enough hours in the day
to do my current job so instead I'll just
comment from the sidelines.
Firstly the not so great webinar. I've
attended quite a few webinars and have generally
been really impressed about how well they
technically just work these days. This one was
laid on by a big worldwide company in the
electronics design sector, with an impressive
product I already use. They have a really
progressive program of regular emailed short
videos about their product that are incredibly
effective in a way that fits into my silly busy
working life (a 2 minute video sent regularly
showing often really useful tips is an amazingly
effective marketing tool). So I was looking
forward to the webinar to learn yet more about
the system, and also just because it's an event
that I knew lots of other engineers just like me
would be attending. It was hosted using a system
from a company called UP Media Group, whoever
the hell they are. Their system was basically
rubbish. The experience signing up and getting
into the webinar was unfriendly, made me jump
through hoops to use the specific software and
settings they wanted me to use, and then when I
got there looked like it had been designed 15
years ago. So we wait for the webinar to start,
having been tipped that we could attend early
before it starts if we wanted 'to start the
experience early'.
This experience involved a single scrolling
chat window, also designed 15 years ago. It was
nice in the sense that it was sort of fun to see
all the people posting silly comments and to get
a real feel of being there with all these other
people, but when you have more than 5 people on
such a system its basically pointless as all the
messages randomly appear in quick succession.
I've not seen anyone do this bit right yet, but
there are some really obvious innovations to
make this experience great and turn a webinar
into a rewarding semi networking type event
also. The idea of turning up early and being
'part' of it is appealing when the event is very
niche and will attract people who specialise in
a particular field - lots of us did. So give us
an experience to utilise all these like minded
people coming together. Show us maps of the
attendees there who are geographically near to
us (I don't care about people in Spain, but I'm
interested to see who's there from the UK or
down the road from me). Let us easily enter some
info, upload a photo, provide our LinkedIn page,
Facebook page, etc, etc. We're all there to
interact and see who else is there so make that
experience work in a really fulfilling way for
everyone. Finally make the chat experience work
properly.
It's not hard. When someone responds to
someone else show it like that, let us join
specific discussions, show us all the things
people are talking about so we can find like
minded folk to join in with, not just a stupid
list of random comments. With the speed of
connections these days giving us audio and
webcam functionality so we can speak and see
others in smaller groups, or just listen in is
not at all far fetched. You do it while you hang
around outside a real world conference, so why
not online? Actually online could be better for
meeting new contacts as its a lot easier to try
a quick hello online behind the safety of your
PC rather face to face if your not the confident
sort. I could go on, but this stuff is all so
solvable these days, really wouldn't be hard to
implement and could transform the experience
into something very cool indeed.
So then the webinar starts. Well for me at
least it falls over, disconnects several times,
shows me error messages before finally it
starts. Its fine, but its only a PowerPoint &
audio type experience which is frustrating when
you know that it's all technically very feasible
to show a bit of low res video of the speaker
alongside, other info about stuff, other
visitors, promotion material etc I can scan
during the boring bits I'm not into. About 30
minutes in my connection goes down for whatever
reason so I reconnect. The webinar starts again
from the beginning. Not only is there no way for
me to skip through to the point I left or to the
live feed (I'm not about to re-watch the 30
minutes I've already seen), it also becomes
completely obvious that the webinar is not live
at all. It's pre-recorded. You can just see the
big corporate company bosses deciding to do
this. Pre-record it, make sure it's perfect and
ensure there are no hiccups. What they don't get
is that in doing this they've violated the one
rule of providing a live webinar - it must be
live. When you realise it isn't all of the
reasons to attend vanish in an instant and
you'll never bother with that companies webinars
again. It's just a bloody video with someone
there to answer a few questions live at the end.
So on to the virtual conference. The event is
called Virtual PCB and I really like this idea.
Its not happened yet but it looks like it could
be an interesting experience with seminars and a
virtual hall of exhibitors to go around and
interact with. Again it's the live thing that I
think is really compelling. If you want to visit
you have to go there while it's on and if you do
then the exhibitors will be on hand to meet you,
albeit virtually via your PC. However it's
already broken for me before its even started
for two reasons. Firstly I had a quick look at
the costs the exhibitors have to pay and its
really expensive. I'm all for there being a
decent cost barrier to entry for exhibitors - it
ensures you get a good quality of relevant
exhibitors for the visitors. But this is a
virtual exhibition with only a fraction of the
costs to put on compared to a real world event.
The prices they are charging seem ridiculous to
me and will no doubt put off many companies
exhibiting that I'd actually like to find.
However the main reason it's broken is the
visitor registration.
To sign up you have to give your email
address of course, and answer all the questions
about what you're into. Nothing strange there -
all conferences want this in the hope you'll
forget to tick the box saying you can't use my
details for marketing. However this form has no
such box and you can't sign-up without answering
every category. I complain to the organisers
that this is a violation of people's right to
privacy and it's also illegal in many countries
around the world including the UK. I've not even
had a reply. On the form it states that you give
them permission to give these details to their
sponsors.
Sorry but I don't walk around a real world
exhibition with all of my contact details and
preferences emblazoned on my T-shirt, so why on
earth would I accept this for the online
equivalent? I choose who I give my details to.
No doubt they'll also be tracking all of your
movements through the exhibition and will they
be sharing this with the exhibitors for a fee -
this guy looked through these bits of your stuff
for 5 minutes and here's all his details so you
can bombard him with spam. There's something
horribly eerie about knowing people will be told
you've been looking just by daring to look at a
page (it's the thing about LinkedIn I really
wish they'd change). In this day and age I think
it's a terrible attitude for an event organiser
to have and demonstrates a complete lack of
regard for their visitors and also their
exhibitors in that many people like me will
simply not attend because of it.
So that's my wee rant over. It felt good, but
really it's a rant wishing someone would fix all
these things and give me the great online
conference and exhibition experiences I want. I
really want to be able to attend these things,
learn new things, meet new people and companies.
The realities of the real world conferences and
exhibitions mean that I can rarely actually
justify it though. Once someone out there gets
it right in the online space this market is
going to be massive.
The words web conferencing encompass so many
functions these days that
sometimes people aren't sure what really falls
under the umbrella of the term
and what doesn't. Is web conferencing an
activity, a type of software, or a set
of features? In the simplest terms, the answer
is "yes" to all three questions
-- it can be all of these things in one form
or another. To understand how that
can be, you need to understand the basics of
how web conferencing works.
Web conferencing is basically any kind of
collaborative conference that takes
place via the World Wide Web between two or
more participants in different
locations. It doesn't matter if they are in
different rooms or halfway around
the world from each other, so long as the
meeting is being conducted over the
Internet. Audio, text or video can be utilized
for communicating, sometimes in
real time, sometimes in an asynchronous
environment, depending upon the type of
web conferencing system being used.
Add-ons make all the difference
The key to web conferencing, however, is that
it always includes additional
components that take it beyond simply
communicating back and forth as though
using a video phone system. Web conferencing
enhances communication with the
addition of several other collaborative
technologies to enhance meeting
functionality. Some of these may include:
- Co-browsing of the Internet
- Text messaging
- Applications and file sharing
- Desktop sharing
- PowerPoint presentations
- White boards
- Surveying
- Meeting rooms or private URLs
- Store, record and replay capabilities
- Scheduling programs
Web conferencing works by combining one of
more of these additional elements
with the audio/video elements of conferencing
so that participants can have what
seems to be literally an "in the room" meeting
with visual aids, shared papers
and files and exchanges of information in real
time.
Co-browsing
This is the ability for two or more remote
members of a web conference to
simultaneously browse the same sites on the
Internet. It can be a very effective
customer service tool -- walking an important
client through information on a
corporate website as you are conferencing is
an effective and personal touch. It
can also be used to walk customers through
specs or product descriptions during
a sale while you are on the line with them.
Text messaging
The traditional instant messaging option,
which is great for sending
questions around during a presentation or when
you want a hard copy of a
response. It can also be used in lieu of audio
when audible conferencing isn't
practical.
Applications and file sharing
This isn't just zapping a file back and forth
via email. This means actually
sharing a file or files and applications
because you have a shared workspace to
be used and accessed by all members of your
conference group.
You can tailor file sharing so that documents
you show may be simply viewed
by everyone in your conference group, with all
of your ongoing edits being
visible, or so that others may also do
real-time edits of the document from
their remote location.
In fact, you may grant access to your own
desktop during the conference if
you wish to allow access to your applications.
This is the desktop sharing
feature, and is quite a common feature for
technical conferencing with computer
systems specialists who need to be able to
network into your computer to see
what's up if there is a problem.
Other web conferencing functions
PowerPoint presentations, the dearly loved
presentation tool, can be
simultaneously presented to all participants
in your web conference for visual
impact. With file sharing, everyone can
download and keep the presentation for
future reference.
White boards are just like the marker boards
in a real office, but
done online. You may set them for broadcast
only so that everyone can see your
mark-ups and additions in real time, or make
them interactive so that all
participants can make their own changes and
revisions to the board.
If your conferences rely on feedback from
participants, automatic
surveying features can be built in to make it
easy to tabulate and record
responses. Store, record and reply
capabilities also make it easy to
record entire conferences for later playback.
If someone misses a conference,
they can replay it at a later date and reply
at their leisure to individual or
group participants.
Scheduling programs make web conferencing
quick and easy by sending
alerts to participants and updating and
synchronizing group web conference
calendars. A variety of security features
include encryption to prevent
tampering by those outside the conference
administrative team.
There's a web conference solution for every
size business
Ten years ago web conferencing was the domain
of enterprise size businesses
because it was a costly, high-end investment.
It only made sense if a company
was going to use it on a very large scale to
defray the hefty price tag.
However, with Internet costs going down and
broadband connections making web
conferencing more practical, more web
conferencing options have become
available. And, as always happens, with
competition comes competitive pricing.
Today there are web conferencing packages from
enterprise solutions to small
business packages.
Enterprise Solutions
The leaders in enterprise level web
conferencing have always been WebEx and
Raindance. Both of these providers offer a
choice of bundled options that
provide everything you could think of in the
way of web conferencing bells and
whistles.
WebEx offers a variety of options, including
Meeting Center, Training Center,
and Support Center, all web conferencing
applications designed with specific
corporate needs in mind. One of their
stand-out offerings is Presentation
Studio, an on-demand web conferencing
application that can be used to offer
training tips, sales presentations and
follow-ups to whole teams or entire
companies at the convenience of each staff
member.
WebEx's SMARTTech is a web based technical
support application that enables
access to thousands of centrally linked
computers. It uses web conferencing for
applications only access to do routine
maintenance, software upgrades and
troubleshooting remotely, even without the
remote operator present.
Raindance excels at client service, providing
support personnel for those
enterprise level clients who may need support
in the event they only
occasionally use web conferencing. You can
contact Raindance and have a personal
assistant aid you with your Web Conferencing
Pro conference for up to 2,500
participants, from pre-polling participants to
wrap-up and maintaining a
participant list for your corporate records.
Raindance Meeting Edition is for smaller
groups and provides greater
interactivity. Moderator features like muting,
chat and participant disconnect
mean precise control of all meetings for the
leader of any group.
SMEs and SOHOs can choose leaner versions of
web conferencing
Small and medium enterprise businesses have a
wide range of choices right now
because the market is filled with web
conferencing companies that provide
mid-range services in a buffet-style so that
they can pick a range of features
to fit their needs. Some of the better known
web conferencing companies in this
mid range include IMConferencing, Communicast
and GoToMeeting.
Small office and home office users have less
choice simply because they don't
have the available cash flow (in most cases)
to spend on a regular web
conferencing solution that would tie them to
multiple users on a regular basis.
Fortunately, in most cases they also don't
need to be networking via the web
with 2,000 people simultaneously, so they
won't necessarily be missing the
features that aren't available in the more
streamlined offerings for SOHOs. Two
leaders for small business web conferencing
that do provide reliable service are
GRCLive and Voxwire, although their approaches
are quite different.
GRCLive caters to the small business owner who
will grow into a medium-sized
business owner, or the medium business owner
who is just starting out with web
conferencing. The company offers three levels:
GRC Lite, which can link 5-10
users for text chat and document sharing with
a few other features, but no audio
or video (a good start for those not yet
comfortable with broadcast style
meetings), GRC Business Edition, which adds
audio and video, and GRC Pro, which
significantly increases the users capability.
The costs range from $30 to $500
per month, with options and price differences
within each group.
Voxwire is a "strictly basics" web
conferencing service. Yes, you can post
documents for viewing. Yes, you can do
audio/video conferencing and text
messaging. No, you can't have a white board or
document interactivity. The
beauty of Voxwire is the price; you can
have ten people in a virtual conference
room for unlimited use for only $29.95 a month
-- much less than your long
distance bills would be. If you have a home
office and one person you regularly
need to contact, get a personal meeting room
for only $9.95 a month for the two
of you and talk all you want.
Web conferencing will continue to grow and
expand, with new features and more
interactive features every year. As the global
community and Internet
connectivity continues to explode, it's only
natural that more and more
companies will take advantage of how easy it
is to bring their far-flung teams
together with web conferencing.
This article on the "How Web Conferencing
Works" reprinted with
permission.
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Getting a virtual domain name to promote
your affiliate website is a wise marketing
formula. The reason is that it can be
maintained and directed to any website,
regardless of where it is hosted. The
basic concept of a virtual domain is that it
is hosted by a third party and essentially
serves as a redirect, redirecting all
traffic to that particular address to the
website of your choice. Since web hosting
sites frequently change their rates or their
services, maintaining the ability to move
from one host to another, without losing
traffic going through your virtual domain is
vital. In this way, your online brand
remains constant regardless of where your
actual website is hosted.
Most virtual domain hosts provide the
client with a control panel that can be
accessed online. This control panel allows
you to redirect the domain address to any
static location online, usually just by
entering the destination URL in a box.
Similarly, most domain hosts all have a
"gripper" feature that you can enable as
desired. This feature keeps the domain
address in the browser bar even once the
person has been redirected to the separate
website. This creates the impression that
the virtual domain is in fact a normal
domain. Control panels often allow their
users to enter in a domain level series of
meta tags that are separate from the meta
tags used on the actual website itself.
Shopping around online for "virtual
domain hosting" or "virtual hosting" will
pull up many different companies offering
these services. Most also include a domain
search tool, that can be used to identify
domains that are currently available. Even
if your ideal domain is already taken, some
minor modification can usually result in
locating one that you can use.
In that virtual domains tend to be
inexpensive and can be managed and
maintained separate from your actual
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How would you define the term domain name?
What is a domain? Webopedia states that
a domain name "...identifies one or more
IPL addresses...".
Wikipedia gives this domain name
definition: "...an identification label
that defines a realm of administrative
autonomy, authority or control in the
internet...".
Namesecure says a domain name is a
"...meaningful, easy-to-remember
'handle'...".
If I can make so bold, I would venture
to define a domain name as a tag that
identifies one certain online entity such
as a website or a blog... in other words,
virtual real estate. A domain name is not
the perpetual property of the user; it is
"leased" for the exclusive use of the
lessee.
Let's see if we can find a comparison
that will further enlighten you.
I don't know if you know where "the
White House" is. I mean, do you really
know where the White House is in terms of
its location on this planet of ours?
While there probably are many "White
Houses" around, the White House recognized
by a substantial part of the world is (by
way of formal postal address) 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington D.C.
20500, The United States of America.
Just for those who may need a little
prodding: the White House under discussion
here is the official residence of the
President of the United States.
Consider "White House" to be the
real-life domain name for 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington D.C.
20500, The Unites States of America.
"White House" is less lengthy and
therefore less clumsy and easier to
remember.
Similarly, your website or blog could
go by its formal nomenclature (its "IP
address"), which would involve a serious
of numbers and periods in the format
123.456.789.012, or you could give it a
handle that people would remember without
having to write it down.
Speaking in terms of the world wide
web, your domain is your easily remembered
virtual real estate address. It enables
people to reach your site easily, like
typing in "The White House" instead of
"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington
D.C. 20500, The United States of America".
You procure a domain name for your site
or blog from a domain name registrar, and
the domain is yours as long as you
continue to pay for the renewal of its
registration in your favor.
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Your domain name is virtual real estate.
A relevant domain name will boost your
Google quality score. Plus, using
keywords in the destination URL will
also boost your quality score. There
is an old saying that the three most
important things in selling real estate
are location, location and location.
This drives home the point that the one
major concern of real estate is the
location of the property. It's the
number one rule of real estate.
On the internet, real estate is the
domain name. If you want to receive
traffic for a particular keyword or
market, you must choose the proper real
estate and location. That means you want
a domain name related to your keywords
and market. Ideally, your main keyword
or phrase should be the domain name or
part of it. This will put you in the
right location for your market.
Both search engines and human
consumers will respond to the proper
domain name. Google AdWords will reward
you with higher quality scores if it can
match your domain name to the keywords.
Plus, Google will also boost your
organic search results for your keywords
if the domain is relevant.
Human visitors will assume you are
more of an authority with a relevant
domain. Imagine an AdWords ad where the
search term is part of the domain name.
The consumer will recognize your domain
as targeted for their search. That will
increase the likelihood of a consumer
clicking your ad.
One question with domain names is
should you use dashes or underscores in
your domain name. One school of thought
is that the dashes or underscores will
help search engines recognize individual
keywords, and hopefully boost organic
rankings and quality scores. The other
argument is the human visitors are
likely to forget dashes and underscores
when typing a domain name in the browser
address bar. The safest play is for you
to buy both domain names, one with
dashes and one without. You promote only
the dashed domain name but you have the
second doain in case someone types it
without dashes. Domain names are less
than $10 a year, so it's well worth the
price.
In Google AdWords, the destination
URL and display URL are important as
well. A domain name cannot cover every
keyword for your market. You must
ultimately select one keyword or phrase
as you domain name. But your destination
URL can include the keyword as part of
the path. That way you have a relevant
domain name plus a path that contains
the keyword. If you give each keyword
and separate destination page, then each
keyword can be part of the path.
Similarly the you can put the keyword
in the display URL. The display URL is
not used for anything other than
display. It has no effect on the
destination URL. But, since it is
displayed the consumer will see it. So,
using the keyword as part of the display
URL will make your ad more appealing.
The consumer will notice your URL is
targeted for their search term.
Dynamic keyword insertion can be used
to place the search term in the display
URL. It can also be used in the
destination URL, but it should not be
used there. AdWords will not give any
benefit to a URL that is using dynamic
keyword insertion. It is not treated as
the keyword itself when determining the
quality score.
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- Poor quality score
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- Low Click Through Rate for
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- Minimum bid for your
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- Landing pages that don't
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If your domain name is associated with
a virtual property, than it stands to
reason that the value of the property
depends on the neighborhood and what
the property offers. Just like you
won't want to spend half a million
dollars on a run-down one-room shack
in Nowhere, Alabama, you don't want to
buy domain names that have very little
potential to resell or are worthless.
You want names that attract buyers and
represent a virtual property that
appreciates over time. Just like in
real estate there are multiple ways to
make money from a house transaction,
there are also multiple ways to make
money off a domain name. In real
estate, if you are looking for a home
to call your own then you buy it with
the hopes of staying with it for more
than five years.
Appreciation in the neighborhood and
the home eventually end up making your
investment worthwhile. However, there
are real estate investors that either
buy property to flip them or to rent
out to others. The same thing can be
done to domain names, in a manner of
speaking.
THREE WAYS TO MAKE MONEY
Going back to our real estate
analogy, the three most common ways to
make money with housing is to flip it,
rent it out, or live in it while you
build it up. These three ways are
exactly how you make money with domain
names.
Flipping
Flipping real estate is likely to
get you in big trouble these days, but
flipping a domain name is much easier.
Flipping is that you buy a domain name
for the expressed purpose of turning
around and selling it very quickly.
You don't intend to hold it to develop
it, nor do you intend to park it and
use it to see how much traffic it
generates.
You can taste the domain for a
period of five day and during that
time you can evaluate whether it's
worth flipping or not. If you buy a
domain name thinking it's going to be
a quick sale, there's no guarantee you
will attract a buyer at any time.
There are expenses for putting up
on auction and for tasting it now. So,
you will make a very small investment
on each domain name when you decide to
flip it. You can recoup it many fold
by selling it, but you actually have
to do some work first online to flip
it.
Now, if you've done some research
you can still think up your own. Or,
maybe you have the inside scoop on
some very new trend that has something
to do with your interests. This can be
a line of investigation that is quite
profitable.
The more you are familiar with a
specific industry, the more likelihood
you will be able to create some domain
names that appeal to somebody who
wants to buy it.
Most people have some degree of
familiarity with commercial ventures.
If you work in a bank, you probably
know what the popular finance terms
are and what products people are most
interested in buying at particular
time periods. This is also important.
You want to create the domain name
when it has the strength and
fascination to sell. For instance,
right now many people might be more
interested in reverse mortgages as the
baby boomers retire.
If you were a mortgage loan
officer, you probably know all the
lingo and what products can appeal to
these customers. By default, they will
also be the same terms that appeal to
the buyer of a domain name.
So, it doesn't even matter if you
are having trouble making ends meet
because of the housing collapse story,
that reservoir of knowledge you built
up can be very valuable in helping you
restructure your knowledge base so it
still makes you money.
Use what you know and follow the
trends. That's really all there is to
it. Some weeks some types of domains
are hot and others are not. Not every
domain name will sell when you auction
it, so you have to be persistent.
It's a volume game and you can't
get emotionally attached to finding
the "perfect" name or trying to make a
big kill in one area. The safest way
to make money in domain names is to
treat it like a business. The domain
names are not your babies; they are a
product used to generate revenue.
So, don't waste too much time
trying to be clever and find that big
scoring domain name. Odds are, if it
happens, it will hit you like a
tripped wire as you innocently make
toast or something.
What's in a domain name? The
answer is money! How you might ask?
With a tool like the Internet, every
business that wants to market online
will need a domain name and a hosted
web site. However, with sites like
ebay.com, you may not need a web
site but it would wise to have one
to sell all your products and
services in one location. In
addition, you can prove more
interactivity at your registered
domain name web site than you can
from an auction web site.
Having a
domain name is just the beginning. A
business cannot sell its products
online with just a domain name
alone. Businesses and anyone for
that matter who wants to sell online
will need a web site that hosted by
a reliable hosting company. A domain
name simply gives you an easier way
to remember a numerical address for
a particular web site. In short, it
is much easier to remember
http://www.microsoft.com rather
than 123.34.175.13 as your web site
address. The key here is to have a
domain name that is related to the
products or services you sell.
Extracting Money from Your Domain
Name?
One way to do this is to use an
affiliate program unlike the ones
like linkshare.com and Commission
Junction, etc. This is an affiliate
program that is hosted along with
your web site domain name and
hosting company. It should never
cost you extra to set up your own
affiliate program. The process is
not difficult to do yourself and
should you need assistance simply
send a request to tech support
without additional charges. Anyone
can get started for just $24.95 a
month with tons of useful scripts
and programs to set up a full
ecommerce website along with
products to sell.
In addition, you can get a super
cheap domain name, web-hosting
package for little as $10 per month,
and offer your customers their own
web site package for the same price.
This can act as your affiliate
program bringing in $1,000's of
back-end commissions. You can even
offer sale incentives to affiliates
who purchase other products from
your main online store. With this
affiliate program model, the earning
potential here is limitless. Think
outside the box. Watch this online
video to learn how your domain name
can be a virtual source of income
and you will be helping others to
take advantage of owning their own
successful domain name and web site.
Watch the online video to learn the
power of this web hosting company.
Summary
Any business marketing online
should be hosting their website with
a company that pays them every month
for referring new customers to them
who sign up for a web-hosting page.
This creates a win-win situation for
everyone since the referring
merchant gets and additional income
revenue stream that will come in
every month whether he sells his
main products or not.
If the merchant doesn't offer an
affiliate program, his web hosting
referrals can act as his affiliate
program. This can greatly benefit
web designers who charge so much for
their web designs. Yet, they are
missing this additional revenue
stream by not suggesting to their
client to host with their hosting
company. The web designer can earn
the front-end sales plus pick up
additional monthly revenue from
their client's web hosting. If the
web designer gives a substantial
discount to the client for hosting
with the suggested company, I do
feel that their client may very well
sign up to the hosting company.
For example, the idea, design
several great looking web site
templates and give them away to
members who sign up with your
hosting company to use as their own.
However, make sure you have sections
on the template that the user cannot
remove like designed by and have
your contact information on it. Make
sure you state that new hosting
members can chose from 5 designs to
use with your xyz hosting company or
you will design a special website
template at reduced price when they
sign up in our hosting affiliate
program.
A domain name is an important
factor in creating a web presence.
Your domain is a very important
decision you make with regards to
building a website. It will make
your website unique and make it
easier to be found online. There
are a few considerations to keep
in mind should you choose to
purchase a domain name. You want
to make your domain relate to your
product if at all possible. There
are several extensions that you
can use to complete the name of
your domain. I’m going to suggest
that you stick with the .com
extension even though they are
several to choose from.
People are used to typing in
dot com. You don’t want to try to
have to retrain the way people are
used to thinking. Dot com is
already established and as a new
website, you want to have as much
credibility as possible.
A word of warning. Be sure to
stay away from trademarked names.
Unless you want to end up in a
lawsuit, don’t try to copy or
mimic a popular brand or website.
What Is A URL
What exactly is a URL? Well, it
stands for uniform resource
locator and is pretty much an
electronic web address. Every URL
is unique to each page you visit
on the web and provides a fast
efficient way to access websites.
What Is A Domain
A
domain is a part of a web address.
For example,
http://www.gettingstartedbuildingwebsites.com
is a domain that is part of the
url
http://www.
gettingstartedbuildingwebsites.com
What Is A Subdomain
A subdomain is basically a
subdivision of a larger domain.
For example, "mail.yahoo.com" is a
subdomain of "yahoo.com." A
subdomain can be anything that
appears before your master domain
in the URL, i.e. [http://yourchoice.masterdomain.com].
It’s also a cost effective way
of splitting a primary domain into
specific sections and creating
separate sites. Note that in a
subdomain, the www is usually not
present.
There are significant benefits
that you can gain by having your
own domain name. You can change
hosts without losing all the
traffic you've built to your site.
Plus, your site looks more
professional and you can have your
email branded with your new domain
name.
If you’re interested in buying
a domain name, head on over to
your favorite search engine or hop
over to Godaddy.com or
namecheap.com They are both great
online domain registrars and offer
fast and inexpensive domain
registration.
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Article Source:
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November 2010 witnessed
a piece of news that was
both astonishing and
shocking to some people.
The news was about
selling a virtual
property called "Club
NeverDie" for $635,000
in real cash. The
property is a mall,
stadium, night club and
other stuff and is
bringing in more than
$200,000 in revenue
every year. The location
of this property is
within a GAME! To add
more shocking
information, the owner
took a mortgage on his
real house in 2005 to
buy this property for
$100,000. Obviously it
was a huge investment
with 1600% return.
The story ends, and
leaves the reader with
two questions:
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What in the world is a
virtual property
worth? After all it
doesn't really exist!
-
Could this be a new
way to make quick cash
on the Internet?
Believe it or not, there
is a huge market for
virtual property. Not in
games in particular, but
also in websites, domain
names... etc. This
industry started long
ago with the beginning
of the Internet. Smart
movers purchased all of
the dot com domains they
could think of, then
they started selling
them for 2-3 digit
return on their
investment. Actually,
Marc Ostrofsky, the
author of "Get Rick
Click", sold
Business.com
for a Guinness world
record $7.5 million.
That's a 7 digit return
on the initial
investment if he was the
first buyer of the
domain.
If that answers the
first questions, the
second is self answered.
Yes, flipping virtual
real estate is a good
way to make quick cash.
Like in the real world
real estate, where
location is the most
important factor about a
property, on the
Internet the domain name
represents the location.
A short, easy to
remember.com domain is
higher in value, the
higher the page rank for
the domain the better,
and the older they get
the more value they
acquire.
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= premium domain name. 
