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Why Windows?

Buying a new PC on a low budget can be a nightmare! You want to buy at a low price but you do not want to lose out on the vital additions like an extra 1GB of memory or Vista Business or XP Pro instead of Vista Home Premium. How can you reduce the cost and still have a fully functioning PC?

Have you considered using Linux instead of Windows as it is free? I can hear many of you cringing as you read that but if you decided to use Linux you would only have to pay for the components and not any ...

Wall Planner? What Wall Planner??

Towards the end of October 2008 I receive a phone call from an advertising agency regarding a wall planner they were producing for a charity and being polite I listened to all their sales pitch. I listened to what they intended to do, to how my company could help with their goals by taking out an advertisement in their planner and to how this would cost me mere £495.

As I had already taken up such advertisements with 2 other advertising agencies I advised the sales representative that ...

Is Self-Employment really for me?

There are plenty of advertisements on TV, radio and the internet for becoming self-employed and all seem to highlight the same ideas

- More money
- Less & more flexible hours
- Do the projects that you want to do
- Be your own boss

Is this really for you? From the lines above I bet almost everyone is saying yes but there will be a few of you who are slightly more sceptical.

Like the majority of you I said "yes" too, however I found that there were a number of pitfalls and ...

Affiliate Marketing - What is it and what can it do for me?

If you're considering starting a home based business then you've probably spent a good few hours on Google searching for idea about what your new business could sell or services it could provide and I'm sure you've seen plenty of scam sites (see article: Working From Home - Avoiding the Scams). One thing you've probably come across a few times is "Affiliate Marketing" but what is this and what can it do for you?

Affiliate Marketing is basically referring someone to a product or servic ...

Boosting your Traffic

If there's one question that I get asked by my clients more than any other it's "How do I get more traffic to my website?" and unfortunately there's no clear cut answer to it.

An additional problem to this is ensuring that the traffic generated is "quality" traffic and many clients fail to distinguish between general, incentivized and quality traffic, although I believe each have their own uses.

Quality traffic is essentially visitors that are interested in your product ...

The Dreaded Free Email

I'm sure we've all seen this... an impressive brand new looking car or van drives by with their branding and advertising on the side... details of what they do, contact details and that awful hotmail.com email address (or any other free one for that matter).

Within a split second any professional image you had built up in your mind about their company is destroyed and now all you can picture of some guy invoicing you for 6 hours work for a job that should have taken just 1 and being overcharged ...

Energy Savers

It now seems to be every day we hear about further fuel price rises or expected increases in energy bills and with a lot of people (including myself) struggling to make ends meet we are having to re-evaluate our lifestyles to ensure we can make the payments.

My gut reaction, like a lot of people I imagine, is "how on earth am I going to afford that?" but after sitting down and thinking about things I'm a little calmer.

First off I didn't think "How can I get more money in?" ...

Working From Home - Avoiding the Scams

There are literally thousands of websites out there (like Millionaire Dude) which supposedly tell you how to make "thousands of dollars" in a matter of days or weeks with little or no effort but could this be you?

I my honest and blunt opinion... no! While I'm sure someone along the line is earning that income from the programme I'm also sure that 99% of people who use these programs end up of out pocket rather than rolling in money.

If you've been using the internet for a while you've ...

The National Lottery

How many of you play the national lottery? How many of you buy more than one ticket for a draw? How many of you have actually beaten the odds and won the jackpot?

If you're here then I'm guessing that you've not been one of those lucky one and I would recommend you to stop throwing your money away on something you are quite possibly not going to win on even if you buy a ticket for every draw for the rest of your life!

Why waste your money when there are so many free lottery sites available ...

Social Networking - Yuwie

Everyone has heard of social networking these days, whether it's Bebo, FaceBook or MySpace and they are fantastic sites.

There are plenty of reasons why people want to use these types of site, possibly to keep up to date with your high school friends when you disappear off to University, or to show you're folks back home what you're up to on your trip around the world on your year. Regardless of the reason, millions of people use these sites and a factor you've probably overlooked is how much ...