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Guest Post (2009, Buydomains.com)

As we are all aware, the global financial system has brought many world economies into a recession which is affecting many businesses small and medium businesses. Let BuyDomains share with you some tips intended to help you ride through these challenging economic and come out a stronger business than before.

• Think positive — "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier" — Colin Powell. If you believe that achieving your success goals is impossible due to the economy — then you will most likely make this happen. Let your positive thoughts be the guide to your actions and you will succeed.
• Keep your marketing wheels in motion — cutting costs is a necessity during a weak economy, but beware of where you cut them. Studies show that companies, who stick to their marketing plans, come out stronger when the economy turns.
• Leverage the power of the internet — Are you selling products or services from your website? Can you expand sales through other channels? Are you leveraging the power of email marketing to its fullest extent? Is your website fully optimized for the search engines? Do you have the right domain name to drive qualified traffic to your website? Have you considered a localized domain? It doesn't have to be costly to implement an online marketing and sales strategy. At a time when every dollar counts, defining an effective Internet strategy and acquiring the right web address the first time is more important to business success than ever before — especially for businesses with limited resources and budget.
• Reach Out to Your Customer Base — One of the most overlooked business opportunities comes from your existing and past clients. The fact that they have already done business with you makes it far more likely that they will do business with you in the future. Make sure you are not only marketing to them, but also asking for their feedback on how to serve them better. If you decide to survey your customers, make sure you share your findings with them and are implementing positive change.
• Make Improvements — This is an ideal time to evaluate all of your policies and procedures. Could your sales team benefit from some additional training? How can you help your company perform even better? What steps can you take to improve customer loyalty? Look at your business through a magnifying class and seize the opportunity to improve it across the board.
• Brainstorm — Tap you network and assemble a small group of people who understand your business and brainstorm opportunities. When several people get together with a blank slate and some good energy, you might be surprised by the results!
• Think outside the box — be on the lookout for new opportunities — stay on top of the market and your industry.
• Re-evaluate your priorities — Now is a great time to sharpen your own skills. Take classes, read books and network with others in your industry so you can learn from them. Get involved in your trade association and make sure you are on top of your game. Are you spending your energies in the right place? What can you do to make your company better and stronger? Leave the worrying to your competitors and instead seek out opportunities and stay positive. When you put the right energy and focus into your business — despite the economy — the results can extraordinary!

Name.com offers another layer of security to protect their customer using Verisign Identity Protection (VIP) Services. The two-factor authentication is something you know (username and password) and something you have (device) to access your information. This is an excellent move by Name.com management to help protect their customers domain portfolio.

The service is called NameSafe. Yes, it is a service that you need to pay Name.com for $19.95 per year. The security device will cost you $5 one time fee. Once you receive your security device (or credential as they call it), you need to register your device Serial ID and follow the instruction. You will be done in under 10 minutes.

What do you expect with this NameSafe service?

• Better security protecting your domain names.
• Self-learning fraud detection.
• You can use this device (credential) to any VIP Network members. Though you have to check the cost to use this service with other VIP Network. See here who's in VIP Network Members.
• And Security Security Security!

I think Name.com is pioneer in domain name industry to provide a two-factor authentication. I know some registrars that provides additional service where you need to call their support hotline for you to make changes of DNS, Contact Information or other domain-related changes you need. This will take some time to complete, depending on how quickly the customer service response to your call. What if you leave outside USA? Then you have to pay internaltional phone bills unless you have VOIP service in place. Definitely Namesafe service is your alternative ways to protect your domain name porfolio.

I used the same technology (two-factor authentication) managing my Paypal account but I don't have to spend $19.95 per year for using this service. I only pay for the device $5 one time fee.

I use NeedName.com Enom Technology Partner (ETP) and Moscom.com (GoDaddy) for my domains. I need to call them and find out if I can get additional layer of security for my domain portfolio. Wish me luck.

Enjoy the Video

World War - 3D Animation @ University Of Hertfordshire 2008 from Digital Animation Herts Uni UK on Vimeo.

• Host Name: mail.hardworking.com ; where mail.hardworking.com is my test exchange server.



• Username: hardworking/jdoe ; where hardworking is my Active Directory domain and jdoe is my test account.



• Password: your network password

Outgoing Mail Server:

• SMTP: cwmx.com ; where the cwmx.com is the outgoing mail server provided here in the USA, maybe a different mail server from other countries where iPhone service providers support.

In Advance, Incoming Settings

• Use SSL: ON



• Server Port: 993

If you're having problem configuration your iPhone, please post your comment here or join me at www.PCLiveSupport.com community.

Guest post by Elisabeth Buford of PacketTrap.com

In September 2008, PacketTrap Networks launched Perspective, providing network discovery, moni­toring, and alerting including traffic flow (NetFlow, Sflow / J-Flow), VoIP and wireless modules; application monitoring; policy-based remediation; and advanced visualization and reporting. Perspective is fully integrated with all the tools available in the pt360 product suite (i.e., Cisco configuration management, switch port mapping, traffic generator, scanning utilities, etc.). With a next-generation visual interface, Perspective provides drag-and-drop dashboard functionality and a single pane of glass for tasks which typically have network engineers flipping between multiple screens and applications. Perspective contains both a thin-client and a browser-based interface.

Key Benefits
The following are the key benefits of PacketTrap Perspective.

• It’s simple – load and go. Perspective’s “time to productivity” is very short. The solution takes roughly fifteen minutes to install, configure and customize so it can be in operation very quickly. Discovery is a simple three-step process with the average time for sub-net discovery being approximately two minutes. Smart Policies are automatically assigned and users can simply overwrite them using an intuitive straight-forward interface.
• Eliminate “false positive” problems. Once the exclusive purview of much more expensive solutions, Perspective allows for rolling baselines for alert thresholds, trending back up to four weeks. Checkboxes allow for grouping of baselines so that Monday morning log-on and e-mail rushes don’t create false positives, for example. Alerts are delivered as SMS or e-mail messages and provide in-depth information about the issue at-hand.
• Taking action is easy. Perspective allows for on-demand, scheduled and automated actions to be taken with the ability to restore services when a failure occurs, including restarting applications and windows services, or rebooting servers, automated reset of alerts as appropriate, or escalation of the issue. E-mail alerts are generated following policy rules, allowing for quick communication to impacted IT personnel.
• Everybody gets a peek. A read-only drag-and-drop dashboard allows all levels of the organization to get a context-appropriate view into the application and network activities. The dashboard allows for Top 10 lists (i.e., the top ten most active applications), and customized tabs allow for large amounts of disparate data to be managed from a single, clean interface. Perspective also includes built-in security measures to ensure only authorized users are allowed to access their assigned areas of the network.
• Flexible reporting. Reports can be generated graphically or by lists with real-time or historical views. The easy-to-use reporting interface allows for exporting to PDF formats or emailing links for executives to view the reports live from the Perspective.
  

No legacy baggage. Unlike most of its competitors, both large and small, Perspective is built on true next-generation platform without all the kludges and workarounds inherent in older products. For this reason, Perspective’s performance outpaces its rivals.

To download FREE Network Management Tools, please visit http://www.packettrap.com/download/index.aspx website.

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[Update]
I downloaded a copy of pt360 Tool Suite , registered and it will expire year 2029. This is really cool. Well, let's see how it easy to use this network management tool.

I've installed IPSwitch Whats Up Gold and pt360 Tool Suite, both for my first time use. I easily configured them without a problem. The amazing part is I can see my network activity (Dashboard) within 15 -20 minutes after installation.

Without looking further, I prefer to use pt360 Tool Suite to manage my network to save $ in my IT budget.

I'm not stopping here, I will continue to assess these tools and compare them for you.

Thank you,
EM @KING.NET

I'm looking for a cost-effective Network Management tools to check my local network to see who's slowing my network. So the business needs is to show the summary of my network traffic from network to network, pc to pc, and pc to server traffic.

I know I can use Cisco network management tools but the price is not gear for a small budget like my network. So I trim down my selection between Solarwinds (http://www.solarwinds.com/) and IPSwitch Whats Up Gold (http://www.ipswitch.com/) network products.

For this test, I will use the free real-time Network Traffic Analyzer from Solarwinds. Hoping this will be enough to manage my small network. Hey! we're small business, we need to keep our operating cost low to stay in the business.

[Update]
You need access to your Cisco router or switch to be able to run the Network Traffic Analyzer.

For more robust version of Network Traffic Analyzer, Solarwinds Orion Network tools fit the bill. You can get this tool for as low as $1,495 supporting 100 devices. While WhatsUp Gold Premium Network Management and Application Monitoring Software for a single network up to 100 devices will cost you $2,595. Though they can offer up to 25 devices for $995 as well.

I hope you enjoy reading my blog, post your comments or suggestions.

Thank you,
EM @KING.NET

I've posted comment in Sahar's blog about the "The Rich Neighbor" is using his domain name conceptualist.com just like this one today. I've received 2 or more already. Well, I've included the source email address in my spam list.

I don't remember

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Dear conceptualist.com,

I am the creator of the very popular domain investing course from
http://www.therichneighbor.com . At the present time I am browsing the
web trying to find good matches to help promote my new course and I
came across your website which I feel is a perfect match.

My course is designed to help any internet user create hundreds or
even thousands of residual income streams through domain name
investments. The course can help absolutely anyone create more traffic
to a current website or even make huge money simply parking and acquiring
new domains.

My affiliate program is quickly becoming recognized as one of the Internets
premier affiliate programs, as we have higher commission payouts that most
other websites you will find. Additionally, my course is extremely easy to
sell as there is a huge demand for this information on a worldwide scale.
I wanted to be the first to tell you about our affiliate program and invite
you personally to partner with us in promoting this new course. I'm sure
that if you give the program a try you will not be disappointed by the results.

I am currently offering a very generous 50% commission on all sales of my course
and our secure and reliable payment processor Clickbank will send your payments
out twice per month (quicker than almost any other affiliate program).

As an affiliate partner of our website you will benefit from our
extremely high visitor/sale conversion rates and be credited for every
purchase your visitors make within a 60 day period. We currently have
several affiliates earning in excess of $100 per day simply promoting our
course on a higher traffic area of their website, and even have a few
affiliates earning as much as $1000+ per day. Along with great commission
potential we offer real time stats tracking so you can see exactly how your
traffic is converting on a day-to-day basis.

If you would like to earn the most from your website traffic I definitely
think you should try out our program. It only takes a few minutes to sign
up and you can immediately be producing an extra income from your website.

For more detailed information about our program please visit the following
web page: http://www. the rich neighbor . com/affiliates.html

If your website participates in link exchanges we also welcome you to join
our program at: http://www. the rich neighbor . com/linkexchange.html . With over
10,000 unique daily visitors to our website getting listed on our links page
will dramatically increase your own website exposure.

If you have any questions or concerns about this email, our affiliate program,
or the domain investing course we offer please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

The Rich Neighbor
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Some of my friends had asked me about free anti-virus for their home or personal computer (a desktop or laptop). Well, they are in luck having friends like me working my entire life in Information Technology and know some anti-virus software freebies.

• http://free.avg.com/ from AVG
• http://www.avast.com/ from Avast
• http://www.free-av.com/ from Avira

You can use them freely for your personal or home use only. And if you knew some free anti-virus software, drop me a message em @ king.net.

Cheers.

I'm reading this article from Forbes.com, 57,732 layoffs in January 2009. This is really bad for everyone. Here's some companies that will let go some of their employees. (2009, Forbes.com)

Jan. 21: Eaton (nyse: ETN - news - people ) brings total workforce reduction since the beginning of last year to 10% with 5,200-worker cut.

Jan. 21: Warner Bros. Entertainment--a part of Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people )--cuts 10% (800) of its jobs.

Jan. 20: Clear Channel Communications (nyse: CCU - news - people ) reduces workforce across the entire company by 9% accounting for 1,850 job losses.

Jan. 20: Deere & Co. (nyse: DE - news - people ) dismisses 120 at Iowa plant.

Jan. 16: ConocoPhillips (nyse: COP - news - people ) trims capital spending by 18%, writes off $34 billion and reduces workforce by 4% (1,300 jobs).

Jan. 16: Hertz Global Holdings (nyse: HTZ - news - people ) sets out for worldwide restructuring in first quarter of 2009; cuts 4,000 jobs.

Jan. 16: WellPoint (nyse: WLP - news - people ) reduces workforce by 600 and removes 900 open positions.

Jan. 16: Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) reduces global workforce by 9% (1,100 jobs).
Jan. 15: Xerox (nyse: XRX - news - people ) cuts 275 jobs in New York region.

Jan. 15: MeadWestvaco (nyse: MWV - news - people ) fires 2,000 and plans closings or restructurings at up to 14 plants.

Jan. 15: Autodesk (nasdaq: ADSK - news - people ) expects loss from 2008 fourth quarter; pink-slips 750 (10% of workforce).

Jan. 15: Marshall & Ilsley (nyse: MI - news - people ) cuts 8% of staff (830) in ongoing cost-cutting.

Jan. 15: General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people )'s (nyse: GE - news - people ) jet-engine group cuts 1,000 white-collar jobs.

continue reading in Forbes.com website.

[Update]
As of January 27, 2009 layoffs is 131,442

One of my project DCweb.com portal is to cover Washington DC local businesses, events and news, is now using Content Management System (CMS) provided by CMSwebsite.com, so we can easily update the content of the website. The DCweb.com portal will provide the information for Hotels, Dining, Tourist Activities and introduce local businesses to the community. 

I've read this post today from SearchEngineLand.com, google ends their video services and concentrate on YouTube service. It makes sense anyway, Google own both video services.

I've got this from Michael Gilmour blog (http://www.whizzbangsblog.com). Enjoy.

TRAFFIC Down Under Updates
Video footage of the sessions and keynote speakers from TRAFFIC Down Under are now available for viewing.

Check out the Agenda for a full list of session descriptions and speakers.

Day 1 Sessions
Domain Strategy
Industry Development
Keynote Speaker: Paul Twomey - CEO of ICANN
Law & Regulation
Australian Domains

Day 2 Sessions
Acquiring Domains
Web Development
Keynote Speaker: Graeme Wood - Wotif.com Founder
Monetization Alternatives
Asset Sales
* For streaming video playback help and troubleshooting, please refer to the Media Player Requirements or use Internet Explorer.

Link: http://www.trafficdownunder.com/news.htm

I would like to share this message I've got from MessageLab today regarding their 2008 Annual Security Report. If you're not a customer, you will not be able to get the report but you may contact one of their Account Manager to provide you one.

Below are some key points from the 2008 Annual Security Report:

• 90% of spam was distributed by botnets; the IT community took action which resulted in the takedown of two major botnets.
  
• Spammers managed to defeat the CAPTCHA security techniques of large, reputable web-based mail services.
  
• Targeted trojan attacks rose in 2008. Messagelabs intercepted 53 attacks per day in 2008 compared to 10 per day in 2007.
  

We hope this report helps you better understand the threat landscape from 2008 and prepares you for the security hurdles that we will face in 2009.

Visit MessageLags.com (now owned by Symantec) website for details.

Have a safe networking environment.
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