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Grow a Million Dollar Business Virtual Summit

Announcing the Grow a Million Dollar Business Virtual Summit
September 18-20, 2008

The WECAI NETWORK is excited to present this three + day webinar/teleconference Event to "Help you transform your business from a small business endeavor to a multi-million dollar enterprise."

Here is your chance to attend the Virtual event that is both educational and inspirational. Bringing together experts in marketing, media, wealth building and more ~ women and men who have built their own EMPIRES, the Grow a Million Dollar Business Summit offers business owners and rofessionals the opportunity to meet the people who've been there, done it and are going to show you how to do it too!

Do you want to achieve financial freedom and peace of mind? Do you want to build your own EMPIRE locally or globally?  Did you know there are common elements that most millionaire business owners share?

The reason for the phenomenal success of many firms hinges on common elements that reveal the secrets of business growth.  These businesses "made it" because they had 3 things in common.  The right product offerings, impressive marketing savvy and solid management skills.

When you join us for the Grow a Million Dollar Business Summit you have the chance to meet and learn from some of the leading experts on wealth creation and management to get YOUR BUSINESS on the path to building a million-dollar enterprise.

Here is the lineup of Star-studded Speakers who want to help you reach (and even exceed) your financial goals:

Tom Antion, President of Great Internet Marketing ~ From Small Town Kid to Internet Multi-Millionaire

Loral Langemeier, The Millionaire Maker ~ Building Leading & Protecting Your Business

Andrea Nierenberg, President The Nierenberg Group ~ Million Dollar Networking: The Sure Way to Find, Grow and Keep Your Business

Kim Lavine, Inventor and Author of Mommy Millionaire ~ How to Build an Empire from Your Kitchen Table

Margaret May Damen, Founder of Institute for Women and Wealth ~ Be the ECO of your Philanthropic Plan: Give Meaning to your Money

Nicola Cairncross, President - The Money Gym ~ How to GROW a Million Dollar Business with a Wealth Mentor

Annie Jennings of Annie Jennings PR ~ The Mindset, Making & Marketing Of The Million Dollar Expert

Heather Juma of Wealth, Success and Women ~ How to Become a Millionaire Diva: Helping Women Create Riches in all Aspects of Their Lives

Elizabeth Gordon, Author of The Chic Entrepreneur ~ How to Grow a Million Dollar Business, The Chic Entrepreneur Way

Joyce Bone, Founder of Millionaire Moms ~ How Millionaire Moms Achieved Financial Independence ~ and You Can Too!

Melanie Benson Strick, Entrepreneur Success Coach ~ How to Build a 6- and 7 Figure Business Using the Power of Virtual Teams

Chris Ramey President, Affluent Insights ~ How to Market to the Affluent

Diane Keohohou, CEO - Direct Selling Women's Alliance ~ How to Grow a Million Dollar Direct Sales Organization

Marilyn Jenett of Feel Free to Prosper ~  How I Attract Million Dollar Clients Using Prosperity Principles - and You Can Too!

Sheri McConnell, CEO of Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc. ~ Why Creating a Membership Based-Business Is So Smart - The Millionaire's Business Model

Read about the Speakers, learn more about the Program Topics and register to Attend the Grow a Million Dollar Business Summit Sept. 18-20, 2008 .

If you want to feel Empowered, Inspired and Enlightened, join us September 18-20, 2008!

Your investment for this 3+ day event is only $77 when you register before September 7th! 

Not to worry, if you miss even one session, an entire day or ANY of the program, all sessions will be recorded and everyone who registers will receive full-access to the recordings when the event is over. 

AND you will also receive a 50+ page workbook filled with each guests interview questions, handouts and resources. 

And that's not all! After the event, we will put together a comprehensive list of ALL resources mentioned during the sessions and send to you along with the links to the recordings.

We have a 100% money-back guarantee!  So you have absolutely no RISK when you sign up.  The first 60 people to register will receive a copy of Live Rich & Stay Wealthy for Women ~ by Kenneth Himmler, Sr AND A Copy of Smart Women Create Membership-Based Business. These are NOT ebooks, they are paperback books that will be sent to you upon registration confirmation. 

Turn the tides on the slump in our economy by investing in your business! Register to Attend the Grow a Million Dollar Business Summit Sept. 18-20, 2008 today! Our Mission is to "Empower You to Achieve and Exceed Your Financial Goals"

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6 Awesome Reasons Affiliate Programs and Online Business is Fantastic!

Author: Kym Robinson

You wont make millions overnight, but working an online business or affiliate marketing is a great idea!  Here's 6 reasons why........
 
Here are six reasons why having an online business is a great idea.
 
1.Most online businesses can be started for very little money out of your own pocket.When you compare this to a traditional business it's kind of a no-brainer if you can come up with something you want to do online. In many instances you can even start an online business for free with nothing more than a computer and Internet access.
 
2. If you have got your own offering or product the web has a lot of potential customers and is a good way to do it.If you don't, you can come up with many products to sell in various ways including affiliate marketing. The nice thing about affiliate programs, as an online business is all of your products are provided for you.
 
3. One of the benefits of using an affiliate program for your online business is that you do not have the inventory in the product. Whether the affiliate merchant is shipping them for you, or you are using drop shipping from another source. You do not have to store the product anywhere. So there is no money wasted on storage or office space.
 
4. Another big bonus in affiliate marketing or with an online business is you don't have to ship actual products. Again using the affiliate marketing business model we see that the merchant handles all the shipping for you.
 
5. There is no back end customer followup either. This is all taken care of for you and if there's any returns those are handled too.
 
6.One of the reasons that people make so much money with online businesses, is they are always open. Having your own online business means you are open 24/7. Even when you're off on holidays or its the weekend - you are still open for business.
 
People are able to make purchases from you during the day or during the night. Even when you are sleeping your business is working for you. This could be one of the very best bonuses to having your own online business.
 
There are heaps of good reasons why an online business is a great idea - these were my top 6.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/6-awesome-reasons-affiliate-programs-and-online-business-is-fantastic-535302.html

About the Author:
Kym Robinson is the owner and producer of  WeMakeMoneyOnline.com  and enjoys writing articles and reviews on Internet Business related topics. Learn about Internet Business by visiting my site and get your very own  FREE Website  set-up and ready to Make YOU Money within 24hrs!

Easy ways to Follow Your Friends and Clients Online

Are you overwhelmed by the proliferation of social networking sites?  Do you find yourself toggling back and forth between Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites?  Well, you are not alone.  You can spend enormous amounts of time checking everything and when you think you're just about done, you get another email saying someone just left you a message.

Now there are free applications that enable users to monitor multiple social-networking sites from a single place:

Yoono.com
Aggregates content from YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and also connects to online chat programs.

FriendFeed.com
Lets users share web pages, photos, videos and music.

Chirp.com
Grabs photos from Facebook or Flickr accounts and displays them in a screensaver.

Flock.com
A browser that connects with YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter as well as email services.

Minngl.com
A downloadable toolbar that connects with multiple social-networking sites

Finally, easy ways to connect the dot coms.

BizTechDay: Technology Day for Entrepreneurs

First business technology conference that makes technology easy for entrepreneurs.

BiztechDay is a business technology conference slated for October 25 at the Hilton San Francisco. The conference targets not-so-tech-savvy business owners who want to fully embrace and take advantage of what technology and the internet have to offer, but are not 100 percent sure where to begin.

An intensive day of educational seminars, workshops and panel discussions, BiztechDay is produced by San Francisco-based Clue Market Inc. and a group of local major corporate sponsors.

“YouTube, Facebook, Linkedin, Ning and many other Web 2.0 tools can really help business owners to promote and grow their businesses. It’s not as complex as it may seem, but there are just way too many choices for business owners to stay on top of it. We want to address this issue and use BiztechDay to empower and support the business community.” said Edith Yeung, an online marketing strategist and blogger and who has worked with more than 50 small, medium and Fortune 500 businesses.

Yeung created BiztechDay after realizing how many business owners want to leverage technology advantages, but were too intimidated and embarrassed to ask for help.

“The web is changing much too fast for us to stay abreast of new ideas and technologies on our own. I am not a “techie”. I just need someone to slow down and explain how these technologies work so I can focus on running my business, ” said Terry Hird, owner of Negotiation-International.

“Small business owners will definitely benefit from an event like this. I hear from businesses all the time looking specifically for this kind of help,” said Gary Marshall, public information officer for the San Francisco SBA district office.

BizTechDay will gather together experts and resources that speak the language of entrepreneurs, not buzz words. The event will give business owners access to different technologies they can apply for immediate results. Some of the topics that attendees will learn that day:

• Setup a High Traffic Business Website
• Google Secrets - the Basic of Search Engine Optimization for Business
• Using Facebook and Linkedin to Promote Your Business
• Marketing your business with Youtube
• Successful Email Marketing Campaigns
• Promote Your Business Event Online
• How to Build Your Customer List by Creating Your Own Social Network
• Collect Money Online

Tickets and more information are available online.

Blog Action Day: One Issue, Thousands of Voices

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. The aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.

The purpose of Blog Action Day, October 15th, 2008, is to create a discussion.  Bloggers are asked to take a single day out of their schedule and focus it on an important issue. By doing so on the same day, the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue.

Out of this discussion naturally flow actions, advice, ideas, plans, and empowerment. In 2007 on the theme of the Environment, bloggers ran environmental experiments, detailed innovative ideas on creating sustainable practices and focused attentions on organizations and companies promoting green agendas. In 2008 the aim is to again focus the blogging community’s energies and passions, this time on the mammoth issue of global poverty.

Register your blog for Blog Action Day and help spread the word.  

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

My Essential Guide To Downloading a Free Podcast

Author: Uchenna Ani-Okoye

It's easy to find and download a free podcast. The best way to find free ones is probably to check a podcast directory. The directory is a listing of many, sometimes thousands of different podcasts. The directory will usually organize the podcasts by topic and genre, making it easy to find the type of podcast that is sought. 
 
In addition, podcast directories often allow the visitors to comment on the listed, and provide a list of the favorite podcasts on the site, making it easy for users to find the best available. These podcast directories can be used to browse through, introducing users to many different ones that otherwise would not have found.
 
Once a podcast has been found that interests the user, it is necessary to download it free. The vast majority of podcasts will be free, but there will be a few that may cost a small amount of money. The process to subscribe to and download them is the same in either case. First, a podcast client needs to be found and installed. There are many free podcast clients available, all providing a slightly different user interface and range of options. They come with many different names, such as Podscape, or Nimiq, and searching for 'free podcast client' or something like it will turn up many possibilities. 
 
When the podcast client has been installed, inputting the feed address will allow the podcast to be downloaded. The client software will check the address given for a small, machine readable file called an RSS file. This file will contain information about the podcasts, perhaps some text about the individual episodes, as well as the location of the episode file. Once the client software has been located the file referred to in the RSS feed, it will be downloaded and stored on the users computer until the want to view it.
 
Sometimes, of course, access to a personal computer is not available, but it is still necessary to check a certain podcast. Fortunately, many of these directories offer built in podcast readers in the site. Not only do they often show each recent episode that is available, they may also offer a way to view or listen to those episodes from within the site. 
 
By using the viewer contained within the site, it is no longer necessary to even download the podcast episodes. However, the ability to move and share the episodes after downloading is one of the wonderful things about podcasting. The files can be placed on almost and media player, ranging from iPods to the new Playstation Portable. This flexibility is one of the reasons they have succeeded, despite other technologies like streaming music and video. The desire of consumers to have control over technology cannot be over estimated.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/audio-articles/my-essential-guide-to-downloading-a-free-podcast-522388.html

About the Author:
Uchenna Ani-Okoye is an internet marketing advisor and co founder of  Free Affiliate Programs

For more information and resource links on podcasts visit:  Free Podcasts

Does Shopping Online Really Save Money ?

Author: Jenny How

Shopping online and looking for bargains are certainly not new phenomenon.

Ever since the introduction of sales, bargain hunters are everywhere seeking out the best available prices on product, be it groceries, clothings or electronics items. Thrifty consumers are always seeking out ways to save money while shopping and reduce their shopping bills as much as possible.

Well, online shopping offers shoppers many new ways to save money.

You can find heaps of best deals online. Besides, there are many ways you can find more deals online for further reduce costs. That is why more people are turning into online shopper everyday.

This article will discuss some of the ways you can save money and will also discuss how you can ensure the authenticity of an item when you buy online.

One of the best thing I found shopping online is that I can compare shops easily. Back then shopping traditionally, it could take me hours, days or even weeks traveling from one store to another to determine which one is offering the best prices. Have you experience that before?

By shopping online, I can accomplish this very same task with just a click of a button and I’m sitting comfortably in at my own home, in front of the PC!

Shopping online is as easy as going to a particular website and finding the best deals by looking at the list of retailers for a particular item. Then click to produce a comparison chart which provides you information about costs of items from each retailer. Easy, isn’t it?

This is an extremely easy method of comparison shopping and finding the best deal. However, even when this option is not available finding the best deal on a product online is typically not difficult.

Usually, you can find the best deal online by simply visiting websites of several online retailers and noting the price at which they are selling the item in question.

Then, open a new web browser window for each online retailer the shopper is comparing. This way, you can simply browse through the open windows all at once and then only keep open the browser windows from online retailers offering the item at the best prices.

Once you narrow the search down to a few online retailers who are offering the item at a favorable price, you can then use other factors to make your buying decision. For example, shipping prices and incentives offered to buyers for future discounts.

Comparison shopping is one way you can find the best deals online but you can find additional ways to save money while online shopping.

One of the most popular ways is to seek out promotional codes offered by online retailers.

You can accomplish this by doing an Internet search including the name of the online retailer as well as phrases such as, “coupon,” or “promotional code.”

This type of search may return a number of different websites which compile coupons and promotional codes for a variety of different online retailers.

These coupons and promotional codes may offer you savings such as a discount off the final price of an item or free shipping. However, it is important to note that not all of these codes will be valid.

You should verify whether the promotional code is and also carefully review the restrictions involved with using the promotional code to be sure that you are eligible to use the promotional code to obtain a discount.

As much as getting a discount is important for your shopping bills, verifying the authenticity of the item is too. As scams and fraud are rampant nowadays, it is really vital for you to at least know whether the item you are buying is authentic, especially if you are buying antiques or branded goods.

You don’t want to end up buying replicas, do you?

To be sure you are buying original items, you can purchase from online retailer who is licensed to sell the item. Or when in doubt, check with the Better Business Bureau for the seller’s reputation.

But you won’t be buying online from these authentic online retailers only as a shopper is always on the lookout for other deals, designs or collections. So, the real problem is when you purchase an item from an auction site or through the individual sellers.

In these cases the items may be misrepresented either intentionally or unintentionally.

Regardless whether or not the online retailer is attempting to deceive the buyers or simply makes a mistake, you should know how to determine the authenticity of an item. You should know your products well, or do a research on them. Take note on special markings, their original retail prices, colors and features.

Remember this golden rule - if an item is priced too low and look to good to be true, chances are it is fake.

Copyright @ www.couponcodescash.com

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/ecommerce-articles/does-shopping-online-really-save-money--514271.html

About the Author:

Jenny How is an online seller and avid online shopper. Her latest book, “Online Shopping 101”, shares how you can cut your shopping bills by half by online shopping. Visit her at
http://www.couponcodescash.com

Online Data Backup Secrets

The world is made up of data that is used by people to make money. Internet business companies would hardly make any money without data security. The Internet is used by people from all around the world and there are companies that can provide security for your business information from anywhere in the world. These online data backup services provide a safe and reliable way to store all types of data. These are among the many secrets of online data storage services.

Many people believe that data is stored on the Internet mostly because it involves the use of the cyberspace. This makes them a bit reluctant in entrusting their vital information to the online storage backup site. The truth is that online data storage companies store data in servers and hard drives. However, to reach the back up storage service, the data has to travel through the Internet but there are ways of making sure that the data is secure. The files sent through the Internet for storage in the online storage providers’ servers and hard disks undergo encryption.

Encryption
Encryption is a method of securing the data by turning the information into an unreadable format. This system of protecting files is quite advanced.  It is highly sophisticated that even computer systems cannot break the code, therefore ensuring company data is safe from theft or usage by people other than those intended by the company.

Other companies may wonder why they should let online storage companies store data for them if they can store it in their own hard drives. The hard drives of the online storage companies are not located within the same premises as the business, therefore in the event of a disaster such as a fire, the files would remain safe and untouched. In addition, data storage companies use more than one server or hard disk to store data, therefore assurance that there is a double back up of all stored data. The company would spend a lot of money, labor and time to recover destroyed data.

Extensive Portability
Another secret of data storage is that it has an extensive portability. If one were to run the business from anywhere in the world, they would need many servers and hard disks to be able to contain all the information. With online data backup services, one can access data from anywhere in the world. It is just a click away. This reduces the worry of theft while traveling.  

Effectiveness
The final secret of online data storage is that it is effective. Online data storage present a method of backing up files in a, safe, unreadable, quick, secure, and portable manner. The use of online data storage services provide a peace of mind to the company with the knowledge that all their information is in a secure place.