Thought I would pass along some of the Import Export Business
resources that we have found useful to our business. I am
sure you will find them as helpful to you and your
international business as we have.
Below are the first of many such useful web sites that you
will find here in the next few posts:
BusyTrade.com is a world Top 3 international trade portal
and leading online B2B marketplace, covering Chinese
Products, China suppliers, company directory, trade
directory, importers and exporters' directory, China
manufacturers!
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Trade-Show-Advisor.com is a
educational resource with information to help exhibitors
maximize visibility, international sales leads and revenue at
international trade shows. Topics include successful tradeshow
planning, marketing, exhibit booth displays, giveaways, banners
taffing, promotions, and more.
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SICCODE.com - The World Wide International Business Directory
with FREE Company and Product Listings FREE company listing,
10 FREE Product or Service listings, all displayed on a business
profile sheet, e-quote and advanced search capabilities,
FREE legal forms, look-ups for Area/Zip codes, SIC descriptions
and a SIC to NAICS conversion aid.
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Global Importers and Exporters Network
Traders Business.com is where you can find sellers, buyers,
business partners, trade leads or service providers
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Export-Japan.com - provides comprehensive Japanese
international business information all searchable in English
keywords. You can get the information of trade fairs, market
reports, purchasing information of Japanese companies and much
more valuable B2B marketing resources.
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TradeIndia.com - offers comprehensive, well researched
Import and Export trade directories of global exporters,
importers & service providers. It also offers a host of value
added international trade services such as daily and weekly
"Exim news", "Forex Watch", "Discussion Forum", "Online
Catalogs", "Trade Leads" and "Gateway to India".
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Informed Trade International is an import/export compliance
community devoted to US Customs import and export practices.
Our goal is to facilitate international trade with the
United States by providing importers and exporters with a
thorough understanding of the international trade process.
Sunday, September 3, 2006
What are The 5 Magic Keys to Skyrocket A Home-Based Business?
What are The 5 Magic Keys to Skyrocket A Home-Based Business?
Copyright © Monique Hawkins
http://moniquerh.payitforward4profits.com
You are interested in working from home by running your own home-based business. However, you are not sure what business opportunity to become involved with. The good news is that now you can relax! You are about to discover the 5 magic keys that you need to find a proven home-based business opportunity that can make you wealthy! Let’s discover what these 5 magic keys are.
Why do we need these 5 keys? It’s simple! Because using them together, they can make you rich! Remember that nobody gets rich out of nowhere or by accident. There always is a reason why average folks get wealthy, and it’s not by chance. Believe it or not, most of these folks don’t even know how they got rich! The reason is that many have stumbled onto an opportunity that is smoking hot and has at least four of these magic keys. Use them and you will have a smoking home business!
Magic Key #1: There has to be an established and growing market for the home-based business you are looking at. This is the most important step. Pick your work at home opportunity right, and you will have the power to make all of the money you will ever want. Choose the wrong market, and you will end up frustrated and have lots of hassles and headaches.
Most folks focus only on the product or service they want to sell without checking first to see if there is even a market for it. The ingredients for the perfect home based business are:
1. It must be established.
2. There has to be lots of average folks who are already getting rich.
3. The market must be easy to reach, huge, but still growing!
4. It must have average folks who are getting rich with the opportunity.
5. You have to discover what they are doing to earn their wealth and check what they are doing right or wrong.
6. You have to duplicate their actions by doing what you see them doing right and correcting mistakes they make.
Magic Key #2: You have to offer something new or different that will cause your home-based business product or service to stand out from all of the other competitors in the booming market you choose. How can this be done? Simply by finding new and exciting items or services that fill some sort of serious problem in the market place. Do this, and you will be years ahead of your competitors.
Magic Key #3: You have to have a strong answer for all the skeptical people out there in the market you are targeting. Let’s face it; we all are bombarded by tons of advertisements for business opportunities. The newer something is, the more skeptical people will be. People who are scared will not buy! So, it’s important to ask yourself, what can I say or do that will erase people’s fears and make them want to give their money to me? Since skepticism is a growing problem everyone in business will face, one MUST answer this question! There has to be a solid answer.
Magic Key #4: Residual income HAS to be built into your entire home-based business plan. Residual income is money that you make automatically on an on-going basis. Set up things right once, and you money can be made easily for months or even years! Think if this as your greatest insurance policy; one where you will always have plenty of money no matter what happens to your business. This gives you tremendous freedom.
Magic Key #5: Your home-based business must ALWAYS have at least one high cost item in its mix of products and services. What happens is that the sale of this high cost item will help you cover your expenses plus give you a very nice paycheck! The sad fact is that many businesses are not set up to have this important key since they sell low-ticket items for very slim profits. Worse, their chosen markets are small or highly competitive! So, it’s important to avoid this trap.
The fact is, if you do things right to begin with by choosing a fast-growing market that produces huge and insatiable demands, it will be really easy to find or develop the right high ticket products and services that will make you plenty of money.
So, there you have it! You now know about the five magic keys that all billion-dollar ideas have in common! Use these keys right, and you can become quite wealthy.
About the Author:
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To find the best home based business ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home visit:
http://moniquerh.payitforward4profits.com
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Copyright © Monique Hawkins
http://moniquerh.payitforward4profits.com
You are interested in working from home by running your own home-based business. However, you are not sure what business opportunity to become involved with. The good news is that now you can relax! You are about to discover the 5 magic keys that you need to find a proven home-based business opportunity that can make you wealthy! Let’s discover what these 5 magic keys are.
Why do we need these 5 keys? It’s simple! Because using them together, they can make you rich! Remember that nobody gets rich out of nowhere or by accident. There always is a reason why average folks get wealthy, and it’s not by chance. Believe it or not, most of these folks don’t even know how they got rich! The reason is that many have stumbled onto an opportunity that is smoking hot and has at least four of these magic keys. Use them and you will have a smoking home business!
Magic Key #1: There has to be an established and growing market for the home-based business you are looking at. This is the most important step. Pick your work at home opportunity right, and you will have the power to make all of the money you will ever want. Choose the wrong market, and you will end up frustrated and have lots of hassles and headaches.
Most folks focus only on the product or service they want to sell without checking first to see if there is even a market for it. The ingredients for the perfect home based business are:
1. It must be established.
2. There has to be lots of average folks who are already getting rich.
3. The market must be easy to reach, huge, but still growing!
4. It must have average folks who are getting rich with the opportunity.
5. You have to discover what they are doing to earn their wealth and check what they are doing right or wrong.
6. You have to duplicate their actions by doing what you see them doing right and correcting mistakes they make.
Magic Key #2: You have to offer something new or different that will cause your home-based business product or service to stand out from all of the other competitors in the booming market you choose. How can this be done? Simply by finding new and exciting items or services that fill some sort of serious problem in the market place. Do this, and you will be years ahead of your competitors.
Magic Key #3: You have to have a strong answer for all the skeptical people out there in the market you are targeting. Let’s face it; we all are bombarded by tons of advertisements for business opportunities. The newer something is, the more skeptical people will be. People who are scared will not buy! So, it’s important to ask yourself, what can I say or do that will erase people’s fears and make them want to give their money to me? Since skepticism is a growing problem everyone in business will face, one MUST answer this question! There has to be a solid answer.
Magic Key #4: Residual income HAS to be built into your entire home-based business plan. Residual income is money that you make automatically on an on-going basis. Set up things right once, and you money can be made easily for months or even years! Think if this as your greatest insurance policy; one where you will always have plenty of money no matter what happens to your business. This gives you tremendous freedom.
Magic Key #5: Your home-based business must ALWAYS have at least one high cost item in its mix of products and services. What happens is that the sale of this high cost item will help you cover your expenses plus give you a very nice paycheck! The sad fact is that many businesses are not set up to have this important key since they sell low-ticket items for very slim profits. Worse, their chosen markets are small or highly competitive! So, it’s important to avoid this trap.
The fact is, if you do things right to begin with by choosing a fast-growing market that produces huge and insatiable demands, it will be really easy to find or develop the right high ticket products and services that will make you plenty of money.
So, there you have it! You now know about the five magic keys that all billion-dollar ideas have in common! Use these keys right, and you can become quite wealthy.
About the Author:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
To find the best home based business ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home visit:
http://moniquerh.payitforward4profits.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Open software pragmatism - Free (as in beer) isn't the point
Back in the mid-90's I was working on the user interface for a Windows desktop application that included a fairly sophisticated cross between a table and a tree component. We wanted to display a multi-column table of assets where each row was actually a summary of information; for example one column was the total value of the asset. Each row of the table could be "expanded" to list the details of all the transactions that were "rolled up" into the summary. You see similar components all over the place today.
Fortunately, even in the 90's we did not have to write this component from scratch. A commercial table/tree component was available (for a reasonable price), and we were able to purchase a source-code version that allowed us to modify the code to our hearts content. One huge advantage to having the source code of the table/tree component was our abilitiy to debug problems, and if the problem turned out to be in the table/tree component itself, we could actually fix the bug instead of having to work-around it.
The downside to having the source code came whenever an updated version of the table/tree was released. If there was a feature in the new version that we wanted to use, we'd have to reapply all of the enhancements that we'd made to the previouse version, and more annoyingly we would have to figure out if the bugs that we'd found in the older versions had been fixed (if not, we'd have to hope that our old fixes could be applied to the newer code base).
As I mentioned before, this was in the mid-90's. The Free Software Foundation was alive and well, but very focused on Gnu's Not Unix. I was working in the Wonderful World of Windows, where Open Source was yet to gain a foothold, and everything cost money: You paid for development tools, you paid for libraries and components, and you certainly paid for source code. Perhaps because of my youth and enthusiasm, paying for stuff didn't bother me very much. I remember that I would often buy a development tool*** that I wanted to use ... usually from Borland because they had great tools for a reasonable price... and then talk my boss into letting me use these tools at work. If I was lucky, I would get reimbursed, but that didn't very happen often, and I usually didn't mind. (*** Note that free development tools such as the Gnu C++ compiler and Emacs were available on Window at the time, but they just didn't have the polish of the tools that you paid for)
Paying For Stuff wasn't annoying; Persistently Unfixed Bugs were annoying. I remember being really pissed with the vendor of the commercial table/tree component because there was not an effective process for submitting bug fixes to the vendor (It was understandable that a reported bug might not make it into the next release... but not when you had sent them the fix). My colleagues and I became very intimate with the internal details of this component, because we were stressing its functionality a bit farther than it could go... and we often found (and fixed) bugs in the component long before the vendor knew they existed. Applying these patches over and over again to subsequent releases of the code base really "chapped my hide".
Life here in the 21st Century has certainly changed with respect to Paying For Stuff, especially with respect to source code. I've done no real survey, but I would be willing to bet that the source code for most of the frameworks, libraries and components that developers rely on today are readily available. We simply don't tolerate hidden code anymore: If I can't see your code, I'll use somebody else's code that I can see (whether or not I have any intention at all of actually looking at the code).
As the last bastions of "closed code" fall, such as Sun ovecoming its earlier reluctance to "Open Source" Java, I want to shout out a reminder:
Go back with me to the mid-90's and revisit the issues that we had with that table/tree code that we'd purchased: We were pissed that bugs that we had fixed ourselves never made it back into the official code base, and that we'd sometimes have to significantly mangle the code to add in our own enhancements. If there had been an effective process for getting bug fixes back into the code base, and if there had been an effective process for refactoring the code base to enable end-user enhancements, we'd have been tickled pink.
The same is true today. Allow us to get our fixes back into the code base, and pay attention to our requests for refactoring and API changes, or it's not going to make much difference that the code is now "Open Source".
(cross-posted at my java.net blog)
Fortunately, even in the 90's we did not have to write this component from scratch. A commercial table/tree component was available (for a reasonable price), and we were able to purchase a source-code version that allowed us to modify the code to our hearts content. One huge advantage to having the source code of the table/tree component was our abilitiy to debug problems, and if the problem turned out to be in the table/tree component itself, we could actually fix the bug instead of having to work-around it.
The downside to having the source code came whenever an updated version of the table/tree was released. If there was a feature in the new version that we wanted to use, we'd have to reapply all of the enhancements that we'd made to the previouse version, and more annoyingly we would have to figure out if the bugs that we'd found in the older versions had been fixed (if not, we'd have to hope that our old fixes could be applied to the newer code base).
As I mentioned before, this was in the mid-90's. The Free Software Foundation was alive and well, but very focused on Gnu's Not Unix. I was working in the Wonderful World of Windows, where Open Source was yet to gain a foothold, and everything cost money: You paid for development tools, you paid for libraries and components, and you certainly paid for source code. Perhaps because of my youth and enthusiasm, paying for stuff didn't bother me very much. I remember that I would often buy a development tool*** that I wanted to use ... usually from Borland because they had great tools for a reasonable price... and then talk my boss into letting me use these tools at work. If I was lucky, I would get reimbursed, but that didn't very happen often, and I usually didn't mind. (*** Note that free development tools such as the Gnu C++ compiler and Emacs were available on Window at the time, but they just didn't have the polish of the tools that you paid for)
Paying For Stuff wasn't annoying; Persistently Unfixed Bugs were annoying. I remember being really pissed with the vendor of the commercial table/tree component because there was not an effective process for submitting bug fixes to the vendor (It was understandable that a reported bug might not make it into the next release... but not when you had sent them the fix). My colleagues and I became very intimate with the internal details of this component, because we were stressing its functionality a bit farther than it could go... and we often found (and fixed) bugs in the component long before the vendor knew they existed. Applying these patches over and over again to subsequent releases of the code base really "chapped my hide".
Life here in the 21st Century has certainly changed with respect to Paying For Stuff, especially with respect to source code. I've done no real survey, but I would be willing to bet that the source code for most of the frameworks, libraries and components that developers rely on today are readily available. We simply don't tolerate hidden code anymore: If I can't see your code, I'll use somebody else's code that I can see (whether or not I have any intention at all of actually looking at the code).
As the last bastions of "closed code" fall, such as Sun ovecoming its earlier reluctance to "Open Source" Java, I want to shout out a reminder:
Free (as in beer) isn't the pointOf course that is an overstatement: We never liked paying more for something than it was worth, and we always liked getting a bargain. I'm just saying that for most of us money was never the biggest issue. The biggest issue was (and still is) Persistent Unfixed Bugs, and the second biggest issue was The Right Interfaces To Build On.
Go back with me to the mid-90's and revisit the issues that we had with that table/tree code that we'd purchased: We were pissed that bugs that we had fixed ourselves never made it back into the official code base, and that we'd sometimes have to significantly mangle the code to add in our own enhancements. If there had been an effective process for getting bug fixes back into the code base, and if there had been an effective process for refactoring the code base to enable end-user enhancements, we'd have been tickled pink.
The same is true today. Allow us to get our fixes back into the code base, and pay attention to our requests for refactoring and API changes, or it's not going to make much difference that the code is now "Open Source".
(cross-posted at my java.net blog)
Friday, September 1, 2006
Been laboring away?
Then take a rest this holiday! After working hard to optimize your site during the past month, it's time to take a break and enjoy the fruits of your efforts. Our U.S. offices will be taking a break this weekend as well, so you can expect that our responses to any messages you send us will take slightly longer to arrive. We'll be back, relaxed and rejuvenated, on Tuesday. If you're too excited about all the optimizations you've made to take it easy, then take some time to browse our Help Center or Help Discussion Forum over the long weekend.
Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support
Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support
A Map of Whole Foods
You won’t find any unhealthy food at Whole Foods and from now on finding a Whole Foods near you is easier than hitting the fast food joint on the corner – using the new store finder powered by Google Maps for Enterprise. Type in your zip code (or select your city) and you’ll see a Google Map showing the Whole Foods locations near you including address, hours and store website. Now you have no excuse when your mother complains that you are not eating well!
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