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Casual Articles - Domain Name Registration-Do's and Dont's
Job Application Letters are simply cover letters to resumes. There is no standard format for these letters, however most contain similar information. Some Job Application Letters focus on the applicant's training credentials, while others concentrate on the applicants life and work experience. In all cases, they should stay one page in length and contain as much information as possible pertinent to the desired position.Format 1.) Use the Full Block format arrangement for Job Application Letters: a. to the left margin of the letter header place the return address b. make two carriage returns c. directly below the return address, place the date d. make two carriage returns e. directly below the date, place the reader’s address f. make three line feeds g. if necessary, include a reference line h. begin your letter i. begin eac
* Don't Use Numbers in Your Domain Name
People are also using a lot more numbers in their domain names lately. Believe it or not I've actually seen websites where the entire domain name is a number. In some parts of Mexico businesses register their domain names as their phone numbers under a cTLD. I don't know about you, but I have trouble memorizing my own phone number and with so many numbers already jogging in my mind there's no need to associate websites with digits.
Today people have more than one phone number. When I'm swapping business cards with others I almost always see a mobile or cell phone number plus their office number, fax number, and some times even a home phone number on the card. If I wanted to remember more numbers on the Internet all I have to do is resolve the IP addresses of all the domain names I already know and memorize that, which defies the purpose of the DNS in the first place. If you plan on regis
A Simple TruthDo you have the right stuff?Are you consistent in your business?Do you build relationships easily?Are you approachable?I'm writing this E-letter aboard American Airlines flight # 2005 from Atlanta to Miami, and then on to my final destination Tampa International Airport.For the last three days I've been attending the National Speakers Association annual convention.I had the opportunity to be a presenter at this year's meeting, but more importantly, I heard several great speakers talk on a variety of interesting subjects.I heard something very powerful and wanted to share it with you immediately. Andy Andrews was the speaker and he was fabulous.What he said, can have an immediate and dramatic impact on your business. That's no B.S.One of the ideas Andy shared was powerful and yet it wasn't complicated. In fact any
There is a method of elimination that you can use to reduce the amount of time you spend thinking up new domain names. This involves completely eliminating the excess word standard many have come to rely on lately. I've seen domain names like bobsawesometemplates.com or thenonstopviralmarketingformula.com. Now, domain names like these might be widely available and can easily be registered for dirt cheap prices, but what are the chances anyone will ever remember them or visit them frequently?
* Don't Use More Than Three Words in Your Domain Name
You need a domain name that's right for you, but also makes that short and sweet statement that the majority tends to memorize and spread like wildfire. Names like youtube, myspace, howstuffworks, istock, yahoo, and google all have one thing in common. They don't exceed the three word limit!
Many domain registration sites like godaddy and register offer alternative name suggestions when you search for your desired domain name. These are scripts that use English dictionaries to process synonyms or antonyms of words you used in your domain name search. If the domain name you searched for isn't available it would suggest other similar domain names that are available for registration. These can be great tools to help you brainstorm for a domain name.
However, nothing beats the human intellect in finding creative and suitable domain names. What you should do is begin by jotting down all the words that relate to your website, business, or product. Then start highlighting the most relevant words. For example, if you run a website about dating highlight the words dating, men, or women. Whatever your website is more focused on. Get into specifics. Instead of words you'll begin to form key phrases. Gather all of these phrases on separate flash cards. Write the most direct ones in red ink or using a magic marker. Then write the more indirect ones in green.
An indirect keyword or phrase would be one that does not tell anything about what your website or business offers, but rather what it is. For example, if your website is a dating portal or a personals site than those are your indirect phrases. Your direct phrases could be "free online profiles" or "find women in Boston". This is because people more closely relate to what you offer as opposed to who you are. What grabs people to niche sites is the specific and direct manner by which they present themselves.
Now you should sort through all your red and green phrases and pick the best ones. Remember you should not go above three word limit and try to keep each word short. Use synonym dictionaries or search related words through a word processing program or website and pick the shortest ones. There are lots of free online dictionaries that can help you do this and Merriam Webster’s online dictionary service has some great tools to give you extensive charts of related or rhyming words.
* Don't Hyphenate Your Domain Name
Also avoid using hyphens between words. People with domain names like real-life-advice.com are often forgotten, because the brain tends to ignore symbols and focus more on letters when associating your memories with names. There has been numerous times when I could remember the name of a website, but when I entered the URL into my browser I landed at a different site. I was puzzled. Then later I realized the name was correct, but I forgot a hyphen or two somewhere between the words. This can be confusing, but if you must use a hyphen try to limit the domain name to only two words and use only one hyphen between each word.
I understand sometimes a domain name can be too appealing to resist and the actual words are already registered so people tend to use hyphens to still keep the same name. This is not the biggest "don’t" of domain name registration, but it generally does degrade the effectiveness of your domain name.
* Don't Use Numbers in Your Domain Name
People are also using a lot more numbers in their domain names lately. Believe it or not I've actually seen websites where the entire domain name is a number. In some parts of Mexico businesses register their domain names as their phone numbers under a cTLD. I don't know about you, but I have trouble memorizing my own phone number and with so many numbers already jogging in my mind there's no need to associate websites with digits.
Today people have more than one phone number. When I'm swapping business cards with others I almost always see a mobile or cell phone number plus their office number, fax number, and some times even a home phone number on the card. If I wanted to remember more numbers on the Internet all I have to do is resolve the IP addresses of all the domain names I already know and memorize that, which defies the purpose of the DNS in the first place. If you plan on regis
If you don’t know what you’re raising funds for or how much you want to raise how will you ever know if your campaign was a success? Just knowing what organization you’re trying to help isn’t enough either. Knowing you’re fundraising for the drama club or soccer team is better than nothing I suppose, but far better to know you’re fundraising to build the set for this year’s play or to send the kids to a weekend tournament. We have a model in NLP for goal setting, and I think you’ll find using it effective to target your fundraising efforts:1. State what you want specifically in a positive way. It seems obvious, but saying that you don’t want your choir to have mismatching uniforms at a recital isn’t nearly as easy to achieve as saying you want to have the funds to order each choir member a matching uniform from the same distributor.2. State the goal in as much detail as possible. To
Many domain registration sites like godaddy and register offer alternative name suggestions when you search for your desired domain name. These are scripts that use English dictionaries to process synonyms or antonyms of words you used in your domain name search. If the domain name you searched for isn't available it would suggest other similar domain names that are available for registration. These can be great tools to help you brainstorm for a domain name.
However, nothing beats the human intellect in finding creative and suitable domain names. What you should do is begin by jotting down all the words that relate to your website, business, or product. Then start highlighting the most relevant words. For example, if you run a website about dating highlight the words dating, men, or women. Whatever your website is more focused on. Get into specifics. Instead of words you'll begin to form key phrases. Gather all of these phrases on separate flash cards. Write the most direct ones in red ink or using a magic marker. Then write the more indirect ones in green.
An indirect keyword or phrase would be one that does not tell anything about what your website or business offers, but rather what it is. For example, if your website is a dating portal or a personals site than those are your indirect phrases. Your direct phrases could be "free online profiles" or "find women in Boston". This is because people more closely relate to what you offer as opposed to who you are. What grabs people to niche sites is the specific and direct manner by which they present themselves.
Now you should sort through all your red and green phrases and pick the best ones. Remember you should not go above three word limit and try to keep each word short. Use synonym dictionaries or search related words through a word processing program or website and pick the shortest ones. There are lots of free online dictionaries that can help you do this and Merriam Webster’s online dictionary service has some great tools to give you extensive charts of related or rhyming words.
* Don't Hyphenate Your Domain Name
Also avoid using hyphens between words. People with domain names like real-life-advice.com are often forgotten, because the brain tends to ignore symbols and focus more on letters when associating your memories with names. There has been numerous times when I could remember the name of a website, but when I entered the URL into my browser I landed at a different site. I was puzzled. Then later I realized the name was correct, but I forgot a hyphen or two somewhere between the words. This can be confusing, but if you must use a hyphen try to limit the domain name to only two words and use only one hyphen between each word.
I understand sometimes a domain name can be too appealing to resist and the actual words are already registered so people tend to use hyphens to still keep the same name. This is not the biggest "don’t" of domain name registration, but it generally does degrade the effectiveness of your domain name.
* Don't Use Numbers in Your Domain Name
People are also using a lot more numbers in their domain names lately. Believe it or not I've actually seen websites where the entire domain name is a number. In some parts of Mexico businesses register their domain names as their phone numbers under a cTLD. I don't know about you, but I have trouble memorizing my own phone number and with so many numbers already jogging in my mind there's no need to associate websites with digits.
Today people have more than one phone number. When I'm swapping business cards with others I almost always see a mobile or cell phone number plus their office number, fax number, and some times even a home phone number on the card. If I wanted to remember more numbers on the Internet all I have to do is resolve the IP addresses of all the domain names I already know and memorize that, which defies the purpose of the DNS in the first place. If you plan on regis
Considering how fundamental they are to the publicist’s trade,it’s always amazed me how lousy almost all press kits truly are.Your typical press kit is a bloated folder filled with puffery,hype, irrelevant information and worse. The vast majority ofthese monstrosities do little besides kill trees and clognewsroom trash baskets. The good news is that creating a press kit that actually worksreally isn’t that hard. Let's look at the elements of a winningpress kit, and help you avoid some common pitfalls. The Psychology of a Press Kit There are two fundamental rules to creating a good press kit: 1. The press kit exists to make the journalist’s life easier, notfor you to present sales messages and hype. Good publicists arejournalist-centric -- that is, they think from the perspective ofthe recipient, not the sender. They take the
An indirect keyword or phrase would be one that does not tell anything about what your website or business offers, but rather what it is. For example, if your website is a dating portal or a personals site than those are your indirect phrases. Your direct phrases could be "free online profiles" or "find women in Boston". This is because people more closely relate to what you offer as opposed to who you are. What grabs people to niche sites is the specific and direct manner by which they present themselves.
Now you should sort through all your red and green phrases and pick the best ones. Remember you should not go above three word limit and try to keep each word short. Use synonym dictionaries or search related words through a word processing program or website and pick the shortest ones. There are lots of free online dictionaries that can help you do this and Merriam Webster’s online dictionary service has some great tools to give you extensive charts of related or rhyming words.
* Don't Hyphenate Your Domain Name
Also avoid using hyphens between words. People with domain names like real-life-advice.com are often forgotten, because the brain tends to ignore symbols and focus more on letters when associating your memories with names. There has been numerous times when I could remember the name of a website, but when I entered the URL into my browser I landed at a different site. I was puzzled. Then later I realized the name was correct, but I forgot a hyphen or two somewhere between the words. This can be confusing, but if you must use a hyphen try to limit the domain name to only two words and use only one hyphen between each word.
I understand sometimes a domain name can be too appealing to resist and the actual words are already registered so people tend to use hyphens to still keep the same name. This is not the biggest "don’t" of domain name registration, but it generally does degrade the effectiveness of your domain name.
* Don't Use Numbers in Your Domain Name
People are also using a lot more numbers in their domain names lately. Believe it or not I've actually seen websites where the entire domain name is a number. In some parts of Mexico businesses register their domain names as their phone numbers under a cTLD. I don't know about you, but I have trouble memorizing my own phone number and with so many numbers already jogging in my mind there's no need to associate websites with digits.
Today people have more than one phone number. When I'm swapping business cards with others I almost always see a mobile or cell phone number plus their office number, fax number, and some times even a home phone number on the card. If I wanted to remember more numbers on the Internet all I have to do is resolve the IP addresses of all the domain names I already know and memorize that, which defies the purpose of the DNS in the first place. If you plan on regis
If you are opening a dollar store there need to be business plans for the future. Those plans need to include plans for sales growth of the store. Plans to grow the business through opening new stores or through diversification of the business also need to be considered. If growth through diversification is being considered, examine becoming a wholesale distributor.Becoming a wholesale distributor offers many advantages to an existing retail business. Many of these advantages are achieved by adding extra quantities to purchases that are made with your existing suppliers.Larger purchases will often mean lower prices per item. Many of the wholesalers you buy from offer price breaks as the quantity of an item purchased increases. Those lower prices equate to a lower cost of goods sold for your retail store. If you are opening a dollar store you know that the cost of goods sold is generally
* Don't Hyphenate Your Domain Name
Also avoid using hyphens between words. People with domain names like real-life-advice.com are often forgotten, because the brain tends to ignore symbols and focus more on letters when associating your memories with names. There has been numerous times when I could remember the name of a website, but when I entered the URL into my browser I landed at a different site. I was puzzled. Then later I realized the name was correct, but I forgot a hyphen or two somewhere between the words. This can be confusing, but if you must use a hyphen try to limit the domain name to only two words and use only one hyphen between each word.
I understand sometimes a domain name can be too appealing to resist and the actual words are already registered so people tend to use hyphens to still keep the same name. This is not the biggest "don’t" of domain name registration, but it generally does degrade the effectiveness of your domain name.
* Don't Use Numbers in Your Domain Name
People are also using a lot more numbers in their domain names lately. Believe it or not I've actually seen websites where the entire domain name is a number. In some parts of Mexico businesses register their domain names as their phone numbers under a cTLD. I don't know about you, but I have trouble memorizing my own phone number and with so many numbers already jogging in my mind there's no need to associate websites with digits.
Today people have more than one phone number. When I'm swapping business cards with others I almost always see a mobile or cell phone number plus their office number, fax number, and some times even a home phone number on the card. If I wanted to remember more numbers on the Internet all I have to do is resolve the IP addresses of all the domain names I already know and memorize that, which defies the purpose of the DNS in the first place. If you plan on regis
The growth in use of teleseminars is astonishing but how do you ensure that yours will be a success? This article is the result of 13 years experience in running teleconferencing services.1 - Practice Everything You have one chance to get it right so do everything possible to ensure that your teleseminar goes smoothly. Practice everything you can in your control and prepare for the things you cannot control. The Presentation Most presentations are done this way – because it works. Tell them what you are going to tell them Tell them - this is the body of your presentationTell them what you just told them – summarize your presentationCall to action – what they should do about it, how to buy, sign up etc2 - Keep It Simple Keep it simple and to the point. The audience will remember only a few things from the presentation (no matter how brilli
* Don't Use Numbers in Your Domain Name
People are also using a lot more numbers in their domain names lately. Believe it or not I've actually seen websites where the entire domain name is a number. In some parts of Mexico businesses register their domain names as their phone numbers under a cTLD. I don't know about you, but I have trouble memorizing my own phone number and with so many numbers already jogging in my mind there's no need to associate websites with digits.
Today people have more than one phone number. When I'm swapping business cards with others I almost always see a mobile or cell phone number plus their office number, fax number, and some times even a home phone number on the card. If I wanted to remember more numbers on the Internet all I have to do is resolve the IP addresses of all the domain names I already know and memorize that, which defies the purpose of the DNS in the first place. If you plan on registering your domain name as a number you might as-well not register one and use a static IP address from your web provider instead.
So now let’s talk about the Do's of picking a domain name.
* Pick Domain Names That Are Similar to Other Popular Domain Names
While some of you might think this is a bad thing it actually might work out to your benefit. How many websites do you know of today that use the words myspace at the beginning or end of their domain name? Even if your websites aren't necessarily related the "hit and miss browsers" will give you the advantage of free traffic.
Hit and miss browsers are people who either accidentally or intentionally type in the domain name of popular websites using alternatives and misspellings. Sometimes people just want to see if the name has been registered or if a similar website exists. Other times they may mistakenly omit or add an additional letter or two. That's why many webmasters are subscribing for their own ENOM accounts and benefiting from lowered wholesale prices on domain names. More times than not a webmaster - and especially a business - will register other alternatives to their domain names in bulk, including the same domain name under other TLDs such as .biz, .info, .name, .ws, etc...
* Use the Common Web Words
One way to make your domain name more effective is by mixing and matching the "common web words" found in thousands of popular domains. Words like online, web, internet, and 'e' are constantly mixed and matched with the names of their websites to create more alternatives. For example say you want to use the name TomsBlog.com, but that domain name is already taken, you could use the mixing of common web words that people usually associate with websites to come up with alternatives. For example, consider TomsBlogOnline.com, TomsInternetBlog.com, eBlogTom.com, or TomsWebBlog.com.
The important thing is to avoid redundancy and capitalize on short and to-the-point words and phrases that are popular, when choosing a good domain name.
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