Personal success with development

Personal success with development

Getting a direction is a critical part of being a success, and has to be studied in any personal development journey. Moving from an unconscious universe to conscious living calls for passion, direction, and goals. So let us look at acquiring direction for personal development and success.

These factors are a major characteristic in the life of every eminent leader. They all have dreams and passions. But, you may think, does not everybody have them

Most individuals do not. What they do have are undefined ambitions - vaguely desiring to travel, desiring a big house, wanting to work at something they love, whatever it is. These wants are universal. But it is not a direction if you do not go after it - it is not a passion if you do not live it.

One problem is fear. Too many individuals bog themselves down with their frights, which can come out as procrastination or laziness.

They dread losing the security of their job, even if it makes them woeful. They are afraid of hard work. Or they will get around to it later.

There are a lot of individuals sounding off about how paltry their job is. How distressed their life makes them. And all the same they do not do anything about it. They spend more time sounding off about it then fixing it. They discuss desiring a better job, then spend their spare time viewing TV.

Discover your passion. What makes you happy What makes time zip by Put it down on paper. Establish a list of what you'd do if there were no boundaries. Then go after it.

Do you have financial obligations Yes. And yes, there are others you have to think about when you make your decisions. But you are able to begin small. You do not have to alter your total life straightaway; that is gratuitous and frightening.

Rather, spend 60 minutes a day going after what you wish to do. If it is another career, for instance, learn it part-time; begin placing money aside for it. If it is a fresh skill, get a book or a mentor and practice. The opening move is the hardest - and a lot of individuals do not want to take it.

Go after your cloud nine, and everything else will click! It is not hard work if you are doing what you love.

Remember You won't fail if you forfeit 60 minutes of TV. However - you will fail inside if you do not go after your passion. Let nothing discourage you from your path. Yes, take some time off to pause once in a while. But forever remember that to drop off your direction is to lose yourself. You are on your way to success!

Create online shopp

Create online shopp

I have been researching some of the free options people have for shopping carts used in web stores over the last few months. I also have done some research on PayPal and Google checkout transaction services for sellers and buyers. Here are some of the good things and some of the problems I have found using this free open source software and services. PayPal and Google are the transaction services I used for two stores I tested using zencart and opencart.

By now everyone has heard of PayPal. PayPal became well known by it's use on eBay.com and has transformed into a very popular free & paid service. Google is newer to the game and has some great features the free PayPal doesn't. They both are very good and easy to use. In my new store I am using both. I think giving the people options can be a good thing.

The two store websites I tested I used PayPal for one and Google checkout for the other. Then I swapped them and tested each on the opposite site. I also tested a shopping cart for WordPress If you have a WordPress blog then here is a great plug-in that handles shipping and digital goods. You can also use Google with this plug-in. The only problem with Google checkout being used with any of these shopping carts is that you need a secure address in order to work with third party carts. If your hosting allows it I suggest openSSl. WordPress Plug-in

Here is a list of free open source software I have found for creating an online store. The first 2 I have installed and created stores with.
- opencart
- zencart
- cubecart
- oscommerce

to Find What to Sell on eBay in 2 step

to Find What to Sell on eBay in 2 step

I used to ask this question to myself quite regularly: What should I sell on eBay? How can I get those popular consumer electronics, such as Xbox, PS3s, etc, cheap so I can make huge profit? Then I decided to take some action. Once I heard, you can sell anything on eBay, as long as it doesn't breach their terms of services.

The first thing I did was, spending some time to survey, what is selling on eBay. By doing this, I identified, I don't have to sell popular game consoles or HD TVs to make money. I research into each category on eBay. The way I look at it, if the categories are there, then there are people who are buying from those categories (niches). So, I find out what are the top selling items in those categories.

After I list the popular products within those categories, by the why it was a really long list; I took my pen and identified those, which I wouldn't have difficulties to find them. I ended up with 28 products. This means I need to go out or go online to find those products cheap so, I can sell them for a profit.

One thing you need to know is, before you go hunting for those items, you need to have clear picture about the price they would sell on eBay. Also, you need to add the shipping costs as well.

For me, success on eBay totally relies on continual research. Because, you always get new customers with new demands. That is why, you must never stop researching.

There are many ways to make money on eBay. Selling Manager eBay explains, how to generate good income from eBay. Learn and unleash the power of eBay, by using our free resources.

Credit Card Processor Solutions and Services for Processing Merchant Accounts

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Simple tip to increase your Comment Feeds Subscribers

Everton has mentioned a simple yet effective tip that helped him to get from 5 to 200+ subscribers to his comment feed! The number of subscribers to his comment feed jumped to 80 overnight after making this change.

The tip he gave was to add the Comments Feed to the list of feeds that are displayed when a user clicks on the RSS link in the browser.

All you have to do to make this change is to find the following line in your header.php file

RSS Feed" href="" />

and add the following code below it

RSS Comments Feed" href="" />

Once you have done this, your Comments Feed will be listed alongside your main feed making it easy for your visitors to subscribe to your comments feed.

I have just made this change and wish to see the same increase Everton had with his comment feed

How To Increase Alexa Rank

Alexa Rank is measured by the level of traffic your web site receives from the number of people who visit with the Alexa toolbar installed. It is important for you to increase your Alexa rank because advertisers and advertising services like Text Link Ads and ReviewMe use your site’s Alexa rank as a way to determine the worth of a link on your web site.

You can sell links on your site at a high price if you have a high Alexa Rank, so it is important to increase your Alexa Rank.

Dosh Dosh has suggested 20 quick ways to increase Alexa Ranking, out of which I tried only two and my Alexa Rank has already improved!

Around June last year I placed the Alexa Traffic Rank Button on this site and my Alexa Rank continually increased from around 90,000 to 20,000 until I removed the Alexa Traffic Rank Button after a redesign.

Only recently I noticed that my Alexa rank was decreasing slowly (around 26,000) and I decided to try out some of the tips suggested on Dosh Dosh.

I just tried two out of the 20 tips provided and my Alexa Rank has improved slowly from around 26,000 to 25,576 in about 2 weeks.

The two things I tried to improve my Alexa Ranking were:

• Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension
• Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website

What have you done to increase your Alexa Ranking?

Make money and traffic with Hubpages.com

Hubpages.com can be used as a good alternate to Squidoo when we search for a website where we can publish our thoughts, ideas and articles about any topic for free on the internet. On free content sharing websites like, Squidoo, Hubpages etc we don’t need to worry about the layout or design of our webpage, we just need to focus on content part.

Every page that we create on Hubpages.com is known as a Hub like we have lens on Squidoo. On a Squidoo lens, we can add as many articles we like but each Hub that is created on Hubpages.com contains single article only. We don’t need any technical skill to create our hubs here and we will be able to publish our content including pictures and videos easily with easy to use tools available on Hubpages.com.

Before start creating our first Hub on Hubpages, we need to sign up with our working email which will take few seconds only. Once we have signed up, we are ready to create our first hub by entering the title, address and tags of our choice for our first hub. After filling this information, we have to add content in our hub by clicking the ‘Edit’ link in the text module available. Once we have added the content and images, we are ready to publish our first hub.

And when we go to Hubpages.com, we can browse hubs by:

Hot Hubs - includes those hubs that got high amount of traffic recently.

Best Hubs - includes best Hubs according to their Scores

Latest Hubs - include those hubs that are recently created

With this we can also find hubs by making search for Hubbers (Hub Author) or tags of our choice. And when we open a Hub, we can rate, share or flag that Hub. We can also contact the Hubber or join its fan’s club.

Now let’s talk about how to build traffic and make money using our Hubs. We should include links to our websites and blogs within Hubs content and Author Bio section that we create. And then submit our favorite hubs on top social media sites. One should make comments on other hubs and include links to their hubs in their signature section on discussion forums they actively work. This way they will be able to bring lots of traffic to their Hubs and main websites.

Easiest way of making money through a Hub is via Google Adsense which is available on every Hub that we create. We are going to make some money every time a Google Adsense Ad on our Hub get clicked. If we already have a Google Adsense Account, we can link that to our Hubs and if we don’t have an Adsense Account, can apply for that via our Hubs. When we share our Google Adsense Account here on our Hubs, will be displayed on 60 percent of impressions that our Hubs generate and for the rest of 40 percent impressions, Hubpages.com uses its own Google Adsense Account.

To use affiliate programs offered by eBay and Amazon, you need to create an account on them before you go on to edit your Affiliate settings. With these there are hundreds of other popular affiliate programs you can use on your hubs and make money from them. I himself created a Hub on Hubpages.com and one can check my Hub to get simple and easy ways to make money from blogs here.