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Tweaking Brausch' Munius Article Moderation Script
by Michael Umbra
Tweaking Brausch' Munius Article Moderation Script.
The Munius Article Directory Software PHP scripts from James D. Brausch help you get content from others for your e-commerce or other website. The scripts generally work pretty well, but there are few rough edges making necessary a few modifications to the PHP code.
Ome of them was implemented because of the following: When contributors submit articles, they are supposed to select an appropriate category from the drop-down "Article Category" select menu on the submission form. But generally, they just leave it as whatever the default is -- usually just "General".
Then, when you go to moderate, and you want to accept the article, and want to put it into a more appropriate category, you have to manually type something in. You have to remember all the category items and their exact spellings. If you type in a category incorrectly, it won't show in ANY category to users; it will show only to you when in moderation mode. This showed the need for a drop-down select menu in the moderating (article reviewing) page also.
You will find in the Munius script "submitarticle.php" the Category menu that contributors see and use. (Lines 21-37 of the original Brausch script.)
That code, when copied into "reviewarticle.php" with a few modifications, gets and displays the Category the contributor originally selected and then the rest of the Category items for the moderator. (The code referenced below replaces lines 42-45 of the original Brausch script in "reviewarticle.php".)
For the PHP script code, see http://www.e-commerce-biz.com/code/munius-select-menu.txt More related at http://www.e-commerce-biz.com/ Munius PHP
Michael Umbra wants quality content for his sites, not junk. If you do, also, the Munius traffic generator script is for you. Visitors can create articles for you which you can just accept and add to your site in an instant, or edit them first. Or, if not suitable, you can reject them in an instant. Check out Munius here: http://www.bean-d.com/ab/munius.htm Munius Article Directory S
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Worthwhile? Forget It? 5-Minute Marketing Research
by Mark Reserfol
This Internet market research method takes only about five minutes to do. Follow this 5-step plan:
1. Come up with a single word for your idea.
This gets pretty easy with practice. Almost any product or service can be boiled down to a single word. Yes, it will be too broad for what you actually want to sell, but give it a go anyway. Come on! Are you stuck at TWO words? Probably one is just an adjective and the other is a noun. Cut the adjective. The noun is your single word to work with. This probably has used up your first minute. On to the next step.
2. Determine a "demand number" for your word.
The goal of this five-minute exercise to come up with a number that expresses the supply/demand characteristics of the general market you are considering. This first number is going to express the amount of "demand" there is for the idea expressed by the word you picked. How do we assign this number? What if we can find out how many times a keyword has been searched on a major search engine in the prior month? Well; of course we can do just that. There are several PPC search engines that have keyword suggestion tools. These tools tell you how many times a particular word has been searched in the prior month. Pick your favorite PPC search engine and go enter the above word into the keyword suggestion tool. Write down the number of searches for your word. Do the same for the word you came up with to describe your successful site. We'll call this the "demand" number. Only three minutes to go... better hurry to the next step.
3. Determine a "supply/profitability" number for your word.
Say that in step 2, you picked "joke" as your word. ("Joke" has been the fifth most popular keyword search on the Internet at times.) You can assume that people looking for jokes aren't really interested in buying anything at the moment. "Joke" may or may not be a good word for supply/profitabilty. Probably not. But you need to see if it -- rather, your word -- is or not. You need another number to express keyword supply/profitability. Go back to your favorite PPC engine for this step. From their main page do a search on your word. Most of these PPC search engines show a "bid" price for each site next to each paid listing. Scroll down to about the #10 listing and write that number down. That will be the supply/profitability number for your word. The rationale for that is that at least ten of your potential competitors think this word is worth more than that amount. (If there is no #10 bid, you should probably pick another idea -- another word.) Don't pay much attention to the bids above the #10 bid, because every market deserves to have 5 or 10 idiots who are wasting money because they see 5 or 10 other idiots doing the same thing. 'Nuff said. Time's a wastin'; we have only two minutes left.
4. Multiply the number from step 2 with the number from step 3.
To get the "magic number" for your word, simply multiply the step 2 number by the step 3 number. That's so simple, even an IRS agent could probably understand it. Somehow the resulting number encompasses all the important marketing information for your word. Supply, demand and potential profitability indexes are all combined together into the one magic number. If you have a successful site, determine the word for it and go through the above steps for it and get its magic number also. Maybe this step took a whole minute? Never mind.
5. Compare the "magic numbers" and find meaning.
The numbers you came up with have no meaning by themselves, but you can use them to compare with other meaningless numbers derived in the same way. Now you can tell if "widgets" or "waggets" is a better market to tackle. Let's say your successful site makes $100 profit every day. Let's say it's magic number is 50. Let's say you just evaluated a word that has a magic number of 100. In general, you can expect that if you put the same kinds of marketing efforts and time into promoting the new site as you did the old site... that you may be making $200 profit every day after a similar amount of time.
The magic number does much more than you might think. A higher magic number means that it will be easier to find free content for your site, to generate link exchanges, to find topical discussion lists and e-zines, etc. You'll also find it easier to find complementary products, profitable affiliate relationships, and to sell advertising, etc. Give it a try. Put up a couple of sites based on words with comparatively high magic numbers and you'll become a believer.
This article by Mark Reserfol is based on one of the steps in the Information Product Creation course by James D. Brausch. More: http://www.bean-d.com/ab/createprod.htm Create Pr
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Father's Day Prestige and Luxury at Reasonable Pri
by Arthur Warnier
Forget the latest soon-to-be-obsolete electronic gee-gaw. How about something classy and classic for your Dad? How about something that will be both appreciated and useful for years? That would be a luxury mechanical wristwatch, making the perfect gift. Luxury wristwatches are available in all price ranges. Excellent varieties range from $100, more or less, to thousands of dollars. You can get superb value for $100 or so. And if you want to pay more, you can get a prestige brand, gold and tastefully jewelled cases, certified accuracy, and more features. An excellent value manufacturer is Stauer. http://www.bean-d.com/aj/stauer.htm Just a few of their many offerings are listed below. This particular listing has two selections at just under $100, two for under $200, and one for a little less than $2000.
Luxury built for value, not false status is what you receive with a "Stauer Magnificat Wristwatch". It has a striking case, fused in 14k gold, which compliments an etched ivory-colored dial exquisitely. The 27-jewel auto- matic movement powers three interior dials for day, date, and 24-hour moon phases as well as the beautiful azure hands. A detailed guilloche face provides an additional touch of understated class. Typically appraised at over $2500, the actual cost is less than a tenth that. See it for yourself on the Stauer wristwatch website.
You can see all the way through a skeleton watch. A crystal face and a see-through exhibition back allows you to observe the gold-fused mainspring, escapement, balance wheel, and many of the 17 rubies in operation. The "Stauer 1779 Skeleton Watch" recreation has breathed life back into a rare 1779 design heretofore usually seen only in museums. This museum quality watch is available for a surprisingly low price of only $99.
There are probably only about 2000 tourbillon wristwatches in private hands in the entire world. This, in spite of the fact that they have been made for over 200 years. The tourbillon is a unique movement invented and named for "whirlwind" by the pioneering French watchmaker, Louis Breguet, in 1800. For increased accuracy, Breguet enclosed the balance wheel and escapement in a rotating cage, countering the miniscule but important effects of gravity on the parts. Stauer took four years to create its tourbillon which it has made available for a startlingly low price of $1995. That price gives you superb design and workmanship in a watch comprising 420 parts viewable in operation through and exhibition crystal on the back.
Back in 1933, a fabulous wristwatch was engineered for the millionaire Henry Graves. It took over three years of painstaking work to create the multifunction masterpiece. It has now been duplicated, faithful to the original vintage design, with an antique enameled face and four interior complications displaying the month, day, date, and the 24-hour clock depicts the sun and moon. Inside a 27- jewel automatic movement with over 210 parts makes the "Graves '33 Wristwatch" at $99 on the Stauer Wristwatch website a coveted gift.
Arthur Warnier is not a wristwatch dealer or salesman. He just likes wristwatches - he's an aficionado of wristwatches. You can discover some great ones, yet reasonably priced, at the Stauer website. Click the link: http://www.bean-d.com/aj/stauer.htm S
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Cry-Baby Gun-Grabbers Deny Reality
by David Bean
First, some preliminary notes:
Due to your nature as an independent being, you have a "right" to protect your being (yourself). That means by any means necessary. The universe does not have a rule that you can use only lying down and squealing "please don't hurt me", as opposed to using a 9mm pistol, a shotgun, or an AK47 to protect yourself.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution recognizes that right. The Second Amendment does not GRANT the right; it ACKNOWLEDGES it, and puts the government on notice to "butt out". Of course, your governments routinely violate your rights in that instance as well as in myriad other ways.
Now, how and why do governments do that? Because of two types of wannabe gun-grabbers -- pussy-wuss liberals and a*hole power seekers.
The liberal pussies think (or at least say that they think) that only if guns were banned, we would be living in a violence-free utopia. Liberals engage in magical thinking on this subject no less than do conservatives on other subjects. "Cain't we all jes' git along?" "Kumbaya." "As Miss America, I will work for world peace and feeding starving children in Southwogland and Wogistan. Sniff, snuffle (wiping her tears)." They think that "programs" to "end poverty", provide school lunches and counselors, whatever, will end all problems. Or at least most of them. They are looking for what never was and never will be.
They seize upon every Prozac-induced mass rampage like Columbine or Virgina Tech to cry "See, see, see, see what guns do. Bad guns. Ban guns." Of course they don't really want to ban guns, they just want them banned for most, but not for those they specifically perceive as their friends -- those who are in actuality the power-grabbers.
The main problem with the liberal wannabee gun-grabbers is that they are simply stupid, and cannot follow out a chain of possibilities to the logical consequences. (Of course, that applies to most everyone, but that is another story.)
The liberal pussy gun-grabbers are the biggest enemy to your right of self-protection. That means your protection, period! Even more so than the power-seekers. That is because the crybaby "feelers" enable the power-seekers. If there weren't so many sniveling liberals, no power-seekers would dare to propose depriving you of your right of self-protection, much less implement those violations they have already accomplished.
The power seekers think that, "So what if people have a right to protect themselves?" They correctly see that if people are disarmed, that they (the power seekers) will have an easier time of controlling the populace and thus extracting the perks of power from the populace. Do you see any parallels in this country, not just in the pest holes of the "third world"?
A helpless and unarmed populace is fair game for the employees of the power-hungry, those employees being their police and armies. So what if the populace is also made helpless against a crazed dupe of the pharmaceutical and "child services" industries?
You think "it can't happen here" like it did in Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, or the pest holes of Africa and the Middle East? Well, it is already happening -- has happened. And liberal cry-babies are too stupid to recognize how and why.
When David Bean is not ranting, he provides MLM players with indispensible advice on what to look for and what to avoid in MLM companies and compensation plans. See more on his web site at: http://www.mlm-reality.com/ MLM Reality - Multi-Level Marketing / Network Mark
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Petite Modeling: is There a Career for You?
by Jennifer Parker
Petite modeling is a tough industry to break into. Especially since most modeling agencies won't represent models unless they're 5 feet and 9 inches tall or taller. Have you had people tell you're cute? Do you hear all the time "you should be a model"? But you just don't qualify for the strict standards that most modeling angencies have?
Rest assured there is a career out there for the petite model. There is work in the worlds of the fashion, commercial, editorial and many other industries for the less 5 feet 9 inch models. There is even work for models as short as 5 feet tall.
Most of the work in the petite modeling industry involoves close up pictures of the face, hands, feet or other body parts instead of the body as a whole. The fashion modeling industry, however is very body focused, that is why they have such stringent height requirements for their models.
As a petite or avearage size model you would probably not be working much in the fashion industry so bodily imperfections and height are not usually factors. Evan a fairly average looking person can be very successful in this industry if they are willing to work hard, get the job done and show clients they are easy to work with.
So how do you get in to this specialized segment of the modeling market? First, remember the focus in this market is very much on the face rather than the figure. To make it in this market you need to have nice skin, a good bone structure, good teeth, and be cute. Most of your success will also be based on the look that is "in" at the moment.
To find out if you have any chance of success as a petite model you need to get an evaluation from an agency or someone who has contact with clients within the industry. This will tell you if you have the look that their clients are hiring at the moment.
If you are told you just don't have the right look at the moment don't despair. The modeling industry moves at a fast pace, and what's not in now could be the rave in the next 6 months.
The models in this segment of the market are often paid very well because advertisers usually focus more on the look of the models face than her figure. Advertisers usually have more money to spend than many clients in the fashion industry and a good model could make as much as $125.00 per hour on her first job.
Not cute? Do you think you don't have that "glamourous" look that could get you high paying jobs as a model. Don't despair, even a normal person can get high paying jobs in this industry if they are easy to work with and sparkle on camera. A plain model who exhibits spark and vitality is more likely to get the job than a beautiful model who is lifeless.
Photographers and clients would rather work with a model who is vibrant and easy to work with than a beautiful one who is honery, does not take instructions well, and acts "snobby" or conceited on the job. Putting too high a price on yourself in this highly competative industry many times will cause clients to pass you on for a more pleasant model.
Rest assured there is plenty of work in this industry if you have the looks, talent, and are easy to work with.
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