The visual artists of our presents times normally tend to find jobs as web designers, layout designers or product/industrial designs. But much of these artists end up filling up boring office positions and in order to keep their jobs they have little or no room for expressing their talents or use their inspiration to create a work that mirrors their passions and feelings. The featured site today is deviantart.com, the largest art portal on the web, and top 100th of Alexa's most visited sites.
In deviantart.com, the artist-user has a wide variety of possibilities to promote their artwork, get in touch with the art community using the forums, buy and sell prints of their artwork, offer their services and also get freelance jobs thanks to the interactive environment of deviantart.com.
Many contractors use this tool to find new talents, and no matter what kind of artist you are, you will be able to show yourself to the world, from painters, to writers, from 3d modellers to photographers, deviantart.com
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Managing your online business - The Investment/Cost/Profit Relation
One of the biggest advantages the Internet offers for entrepreneurs is the fact that you can start your business with virtually no investment, yet it does not mean you don't have to manage your online budget carefully. People mostly start with AdSense or some affiliate campaign to get their first online paycheck, but reinvesting wisely is not a simple task. Nowadays, there are tons of options that can bring more traffic for your website, e-store, or blog. We will talk about some of them on this post:
AdWords: the immediate mirror for AdSense, you can start with a minimum investment to improve considerably your page hits, since your AdWord campaign will allow possible costumers to get to your site from a direct google research or visiting related sites.
Directories: some of them are completely free, while the price for others may range from attractive to unreal, the fact is: directories help your pagerank to climb considerably. Even if their traffic is not so high as google, when it comes to pageranks the existence of links to your sites on them will make a difference.
Here are some of them:
http://botw.org
http://www.prolinkdirectory.com/
http://www.webdirectory.cc/
Direct Advertising: if you know websites that may have the same audience you want in your own, you can offer them directly to put banners directly on their website to yours, may it be with recursive links, or offering a small amount of money for it, most of them will be interested in one way or another, since there is always more room for links in any site, and with a little bit a money you can see your Google Analytics charts jump high.
There are plenty more options for improving your traffic with little investment, with a bit of creativity and a click for business, you can create from nothing a successful web business in a matter of months.
AdWords: the immediate mirror for AdSense, you can start with a minimum investment to improve considerably your page hits, since your AdWord campaign will allow possible costumers to get to your site from a direct google research or visiting related sites.
Directories: some of them are completely free, while the price for others may range from attractive to unreal, the fact is: directories help your pagerank to climb considerably. Even if their traffic is not so high as google, when it comes to pageranks the existence of links to your sites on them will make a difference.
Here are some of them:
http://botw.org
http://www.prolinkdirectory.com/
http://www.webdirectory.cc/
Direct Advertising: if you know websites that may have the same audience you want in your own, you can offer them directly to put banners directly on their website to yours, may it be with recursive links, or offering a small amount of money for it, most of them will be interested in one way or another, since there is always more room for links in any site, and with a little bit a money you can see your Google Analytics charts jump high.
There are plenty more options for improving your traffic with little investment, with a bit of creativity and a click for business, you can create from nothing a successful web business in a matter of months.
Trading Online - Forex
The foreign exchange (currency or FX) market is where currency trading takes place. FX transactions typically involve one party purchasing a quantity of one currency in exchange for paying a quantity of another. The foreign exchange market that we see today started evolving during the 1970s when worldover countries gradually switched to floating exchange rate from their erstwhile exchange rate regime, which remained fixed as per the Bretton Woods system till 1971.
Today, the FX market is one of the largest and most liquid financial markets in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, corporations, governments, and other institutions. The average daily volume in the global foreign exchange and related markets is continuously growing. Traditional daily turnover was reported to be over US$3.2 trillion in April 2007 by the Bank for International Settlements.[1] Since then, the market has continued to grow. According to Euromoney's annual FX Poll, volumes grew a further 41% between 2007 and 2008.[2]
The purpose of FX market is to facilitate trade and investment. The need for a foreign exchange market arises because of the presence of multifarious international currencies such as US Dollar, Pound Sterling, etc., and the need for trading in such currencies.(via wiki)
The Rising of Forex is due the increase of world speculation merged with the availability of high speed internet world wide. Years ago the forex was only possible to those with high amounts of funds in their bank accounts and good relations with their bank managers. Nowadays with amounts as low as 1 dollar, you can already start trading your way to wealth. Dozens of forex brokers are available, and if you have an e-currency account (paypal, webmoney, etc) you can start trading in a matter of minutes, and it also makes cashwithdrawal very easy and reliable, the chances you will get scammed by a broker alleging problems with your bank transaction are nule.
Here is a website full of forex resources for beginners willing to trade, it is called All Forex Brokers, and it has plenty of information for beginners and also for those initiated in the trading markets.
Today, the FX market is one of the largest and most liquid financial markets in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, corporations, governments, and other institutions. The average daily volume in the global foreign exchange and related markets is continuously growing. Traditional daily turnover was reported to be over US$3.2 trillion in April 2007 by the Bank for International Settlements.[1] Since then, the market has continued to grow. According to Euromoney's annual FX Poll, volumes grew a further 41% between 2007 and 2008.[2]
The purpose of FX market is to facilitate trade and investment. The need for a foreign exchange market arises because of the presence of multifarious international currencies such as US Dollar, Pound Sterling, etc., and the need for trading in such currencies.(via wiki)
The Rising of Forex is due the increase of world speculation merged with the availability of high speed internet world wide. Years ago the forex was only possible to those with high amounts of funds in their bank accounts and good relations with their bank managers. Nowadays with amounts as low as 1 dollar, you can already start trading your way to wealth. Dozens of forex brokers are available, and if you have an e-currency account (paypal, webmoney, etc) you can start trading in a matter of minutes, and it also makes cashwithdrawal very easy and reliable, the chances you will get scammed by a broker alleging problems with your bank transaction are nule.
Here is a website full of forex resources for beginners willing to trade, it is called All Forex Brokers, and it has plenty of information for beginners and also for those initiated in the trading markets.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Minimizing your Losses - trading forex and stocks
There are certainly a number of strategies to be used if you want to minimize your losses while trading. May it be on forex, stocks, commodities, you are not there to lose. As any investment involving risk, one has to accept the fact that not everything will always go as nicely as he expects, once you start a trade there are a number of factors that might get you closer or farther from your target price or trend, and basically there are two things that will help you to get your share of any deal and avoid any kind of unexpected situation.
The first and perhaps most fundamental thing to be taken in account while doing any sort of trade is knowledge. It will shun any kind of unpleasant surprise, and drive you most often to the right direction. It is wise to look for each and every possible kind of information regarding your trade, may it be fundamental data, that can be checked each time an index is released by the financial authorities, watching financial news channels like bloomberg, keeping track of social and political situation of the countries which have the currencies you are trading, let alone a profound technical analysis from various charts with different time frames.
The second pillar for having an optimized trading structure is to follow a strategy during all the trade procedure. A well known saying claims that if you keep changing your strategy, then you have no strategy, so it gets much easier to make or repeat mistakes if you are not following a steady one. It doesn't mean you have to choose one lifetime strategy, you just have to decide how are you going to trade one pair, and then follow your strategic principles until you close the operation, it will also improve your knowledge about each of your strategies efficiency. The emotion factor plays a fundamental role in this trading aspect, if you do not have a solid strategy, as soon as the next candlestick points the opposite way as it should be, an emotionally unprepared trader will be more likely to close it too late or too soon than a stable experienced trader.
Considering these two main characteristics of trading, the chances of becoming a much more consistent trader with stable profits and controlled losses will be substantially increased.
The first and perhaps most fundamental thing to be taken in account while doing any sort of trade is knowledge. It will shun any kind of unpleasant surprise, and drive you most often to the right direction. It is wise to look for each and every possible kind of information regarding your trade, may it be fundamental data, that can be checked each time an index is released by the financial authorities, watching financial news channels like bloomberg, keeping track of social and political situation of the countries which have the currencies you are trading, let alone a profound technical analysis from various charts with different time frames.
The second pillar for having an optimized trading structure is to follow a strategy during all the trade procedure. A well known saying claims that if you keep changing your strategy, then you have no strategy, so it gets much easier to make or repeat mistakes if you are not following a steady one. It doesn't mean you have to choose one lifetime strategy, you just have to decide how are you going to trade one pair, and then follow your strategic principles until you close the operation, it will also improve your knowledge about each of your strategies efficiency. The emotion factor plays a fundamental role in this trading aspect, if you do not have a solid strategy, as soon as the next candlestick points the opposite way as it should be, an emotionally unprepared trader will be more likely to close it too late or too soon than a stable experienced trader.
Considering these two main characteristics of trading, the chances of becoming a much more consistent trader with stable profits and controlled losses will be substantially increased.
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