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Jenifer WhitmireBy Jack Canfield

The big secret about success is that there is no secret. The fundamentals of success have been known for centuries. However, there is a fail-safe formula that always works. I have been studying and teaching about success for more than forty years, and there is a tried and true formula that has produced financial abundance, breakthrough results, and deep fulfillment in my life as well as the lives of hundreds of thousands of my students.

This system always works, as long as you consistently work the system. So here it is-a success system that never fails, in eight simple steps.

Step 1. Decide Exactly What You Want

Most people never take the time to sit down and design the life they want to live. They live by default instead of by choice. They live a life determined by past conditioning and habit rather than consciously creating the life of their dreams. So the first step is to sit down and spend several hours asking yourself where you would like to be one year from now, five years from now, and ten years from now.

Clarify your vision of your ideal life in all the areas that matter to you. The ones I identified for myself are financial, job and career, relationships, health and fitness, fun and recreation, possessions, personal and spiritual growth, and contribution to the world. I want my life to be outrageous in all eight of those areas.

I want to encourage you to think big when you do this. General Wesley Clark, the former Commander of the Allied Forces under NATO, once said, “It doesn’t take any more effort to dream a big dream than it does to dream a small dream.” Think about that. Why not dream big? You might be telling yourself, I can’t dream that big of a dream, because I don’t know how to make such a dream come true. In step one you don’t need to know “the how.”

You just need to decide what you really want. So many of my students get stuck here, so it is really important that you be honest with yourself about what you want. Don’t let the HOW get in the way of your dreams. Trust me, the how will become clear in the process. Right now all you have to do is believe that anything is possible. It’s true that in order to reach your goals you may need to learn new skills, make new friends, build new networks, let go of old habits and develop new disciplines, and replace your limiting beliefs with new more empowering ones, but all of that will become clear as you proceed.

What you may not know is you have a built-in GPS system (like the one in your car) that will figure out the route to your chosen destination. This internal GPS system is your subconscious creative mind which is connected to everything in the universe through your intuition. All you have to do is to properly put in the destination. (We’ll discuss how to do that in Step 3.) The GPS system will then provide a set of directions from where you currently are to where you want to go. Of course, you will have to follow the directions by taking action.

Step 2: Turn Your Vision into Specific and Measurable Goals

The second step, and this is critical, is that you have to turn each part of the vision of your ideal life into specific and measurable goals. The key questions in this step are “how much?” and “by when?”

Until you turn each part of your vision into a specific and measurable goal, you just have a wish or a dream. “I’d like to live in a big house on the ocean someday” is a very different statement than “I will live in a 5,000-squarefoot house on the west coast of Maui, Hawaii, by December 31st, 2016 at 5 p. M.”

You want to state each of your goals in such a measurable way that an outside observer could come in at any designated time to observe and know that you had achieved it. “I want to lose 30 pounds” would become “I will weigh 135 pounds or less by June 30th, 2013 at 5 p. M.” That way someone could show up at 5 p. M. On June 30 and watch you stand on a scale and know whether or not you had achieved your goal.

This is a critical step in properly programming the GPS system in your brain for success.

Step 3: Supercharge Your Goals with Affirmations and Visualization

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This next step is one often given lip service, but rarely implemented correctly. And it is one of the most important steps in this system. Skipping this step is like trying to open a combination lock when you are missing one of the numbers in the combination. You must create an affirmation for each of your goals and a visual picture of what it would look like if you had already achieved the goal. This is how you lock the destination (your goals) into your internal GPS system.

Here is a simple formula for creating affirmations that work. Just start each affirmation with the words “I am so happy and grateful that I now _______.” Then fill in the blank with a description of what you would be experiencing if the goal was already achieved. For example, “I am so happy and grateful that I now am driving my new BMW 750i down the Pacific Coast Highway.” Or “I am so happy and grateful that I now have built three new elementary schools for girls in Nigeria.”

Once you have an affirmation for each of your goals, take the time to read the affirmation and then close your eyes and create an internal picture of what you would be seeing if you had already achieved the goal. It might be the image of a sunset from the patio of your 5,000-square-foot home in Maui, your hands on the steering wheel of your new BMW, or the image of your 135-pound body in the mirror.

The last step is to engage in the following daily practice. Read one of your affirmations, then close your eyes and visualize the picture you created in your mind for that affirmation. And here is the most important part-actually feel the feeling you would feel if you had already achieved that goal. Generate that feeling in your body and bathe in it for at least 30 seconds.

Then open your eyes, read your next affirmation, close your eyes and visualize that goal as complete, and feel the feeling you would feel if that goal were complete. Repeat the process until you have gone through all of your affirmations. I usually am working on about 20 affirmations so the process takes me about 10 minutes in the morning.

If you want to accelerate your success, do it once again in the evening before going to bed-ideally right before you get into bed. This is a much better use of your time than watching TV right before you fall asleep. Recent research tells us two very important things. First, what you read about, listen to on the radio, watch on television and talk about during the last 45 minutes before you fall asleep gets processed more deeply during the sleep state than everything else that you experienced during the day.

Second, we now know that to get the greatest value from affirmations and visualization, you must first do them for thirty days in a row without interruption. If you skip them on Day 15, you’re on Day One again on Day 16. This piece of research tells us one of the main reasons people do not get the results they want when engaging in personal development programs or practices. They fail to utilize this “30-day principle” when visualizing, creating a new habit, committing to an exercise program, implementing a new management program at work, or developing a new attitude or belief.

Step 4: Create an Action Plan

The next step is to create an action plan (as best you can at this stage) for how you will get from where you are to where you want to be. Often the challenge is that you don’t know what to do to make it happen. That is okay. One solution is to ask someone who has already done it. Almost anything you want to do-from becoming a millionaire or a bestselling author to filling your practice with high-paying clients or reaching the top level in your network marketing company-has been done by somebody else. Locate someone who has done what you want to do and ask them to spend a half-hour mentoring you on the necessary steps you’ll need to take.

When Mark Victor Hansen and I wrote our first Chicken Soup for the Soul book, we asked 10 bestselling authors like Ken Blanchard (The One Minute Manager), John Gray (Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus) and Scott Peck (The Road Less Traveled, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for 12 years!) what we needed to do to get on the bestseller lists. We followed their advice, and it worked.

Another way to learn what to do is to take advantage of all the “how-to” resources that exist in the world. There are books written by experts who have already accomplished it in every field-from songwriting and relationship building to investing and business building. You can also learn from multimedia home study courses, coaching programs, seminars, trainings, webinars and boot camps. And of course, there is also a ton of information on the Internet.

Once you have the information you need, create a plan with action steps and timelines and then work your plan. Know that not everything you plan will work out exactly as you plan it, but it will get you into action, and then you can make corrections along the way. And remember, even if you can’t see all of the steps when you start, as you take each step, the next steps will appear.

And remember this: After 30 days of doing your affirmation and visualization process, you will start to get creative and inspired ideas for actions you can take from your subconscious GPS system. They may come in the shower, while you’re meditating, as you’re driving to work or when you are taking a walk. But whenever they come, write them down and then act on them. The main thing is to get in the game and start.

Step 5: Take Action to Create It

In life, the thing that most separates winners from losers is that winners take action. Most people wait around for the perfect conditions before they act. They spend their whole life getting ready. Don’t wait. Get started now. As the Nike ads say-Just Do It! I love the fact that the last six letters in the word satisfaction are a-c-t-i-o-n. Here are a couple of tips to get you started.

My friend Lee Brower taught me this simple technique that has got me off the dime numerous times with meditation, reading, exercise and writing. It’s the “One-Minute Technique.” A friend of Lee’s asked him if he had ever read The Bible all the way through. Lee replied he hadn’t because he didn’t have the time. His friend asked him if he’d be willing to commit to reading it for just one minute a day. Lee agreed. What he found is that once he started reading for that minute, he would often get hooked and read for 15 minutes or longer. Eventually he got through the entire Bible.

Another valuable technique Mark and I developed is called “The Rule of Five.” When the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book was published we decided to do five things every day to promote the sale of the book. We would send out five review copies to reviewers or celebrities who might promote our book, do five radio interviews by phone, make five sales calls to network sales organizations that might purchase our book to motivate their down lines, or call five churches to see if they would have us come speak to their congregations and let us sell our books afterwards-five specific action steps every single day no matter what.

As a result of this commitment, which we maintained for more than two years, Chicken Soup for the Soul went on to sell more than 10 million copies in the United States and was eventually translated into more than 40 languages around the world.

One of the most important actions you can take is asking-asking people to buy, to enroll, to support, to invest, to lend, to endorse, to advise, to participate, to volunteer, or to contribute. Often, the only thing that separates the successful from the unsuccessful is their willingness to ask for what they need and want. Unfortunately, many people are uncomfortable asking. Some are even paralyzed. They are afraid of rejection. They are afraid of hearing the word NO.

What got me over this fear of rejection was a formula that was taught to me by the girl who has the Guinness World Record for selling the most boxes of Girl Scout cookies in a single year-3526 boxes! Her formula was SWSWSWSW, which stands for Some Will, Some Won’t, So What, Someone’s Waiting. Don’t let the fear of NO stop you. In fact, you can make a game out of it. Get excited about the NOs. See how many you can get in one day… Because what you’ll learn is that the more NOs you get, the more YES’s you’ll eventually get. Remember, someone is waiting to say YES!

And think about this: There really is no such thing as rejection. If I get a NO, I am no worse off than I was before I asked. If I ask someone to lend me one thousand dollars and they say no, I didn’t have a thousand dollars before I asked, and I don’t have a thousand dollars after I asked. My life didn’t get worse. It stayed the same. When we were trying to find a publisher for Chicken Soup for the Soul, we were rejected by 144 publishers over the course of a year. If we had given up after 100 rejections, I wouldn’t be writing this chapter right now. No one would care. A rejection is just a step along the way to success.

Step 6: Solicit and Respond to Feedback

It is a fact of life that not all the actions you take are going to work out exactly the way you want. However, every action you take will produce some sort of result, and that result is feedback. All feedback is valuable. Pay attention to the external feedback (lack of results, no sales, complaints, criticism, discord, loss) and the internal feedback (illness, physical pain, boredom, stress) that says you are off course. Just keep making the necessary corrections until you get the results that you want. Sometimes you have to keep experimenting until you get it right.

Here’s one of the most important things I ever learned. It’s a series of two questions for soliciting valuable feedback from others in both your professional and personal life.

1. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the quality of [our relationship, this product, our service, this meeting, me as a manager/employee/spouse/father/teacher] during this past [week, month, quarter]?

Anything less than a 10 as an answer gets this follow up question:

2. What would it take to make it a 10?

This is where the valuable information comes from. Have the courage to ask this question, listen to the answers without defensiveness, and act on the feedback.

Step 7 Practice Perseverance

In order to be successful you have to persevere in the face of resistance, disappointment, obstacles, setbacks and failures. There may be many times when you want to give in and quit, but the one quality more than any other that guarantees success is the willingness to stick with it, to see it through to the end, to refuse to settle for anything less than your dream. And remember, adversity and challenge is what gives you the opportunity to develop qualities such as courage, patience, tenacity, and compassion. And here’s an encouraging statistic: the average millionaire in America has gone bankrupt or out of business 3.5 times on their way to becoming a millionaire.

Step 8: Practice Gratitude

The first and last step of achieving your goals is to have an attitude of gratitude-to be grateful for and appreciate all that you have. Most people starting out tend to focus on what they don’t have rather than what they do have. What we have learned from movies and books like The Secret, which focus on the law of attraction, is that we get more of what we focus on. If we focus on our lack of money, friends, health or opportunities, we get more of that-lack. If we focus on all that we do have, and express gratitude for that, we get more to be grateful for.

Take a few moments every day to express appreciation for the many blessings in your life. Whether you write it down in your journal or simply make note of it in your mind, refocus your attention on those things you already have. Express that gratitude to God/Source/the Universe through prayer, meditation or the simple act of appreciation.

Also express your appreciation to those people who contribute to your life and your happiness-from your family members, friends and coworkers to the waiters, mechanics and others who serve you. You’ll be amazed at the miracles that will begin to occur when you come from an attitude of gratitude and express appreciation.

Well, that completes the eight fundamental steps of a success system that never fails. All you have to do is to dedicate yourself to putting it into action along with all of the other insights, principles and strategies you will learn in this book. I invite you to live your life as if everything I have written here is true for a minimum of ninety days and see what happens. I know you will be astounded at the results!

About the Author

As the beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Jack Canfield fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre-and watched it grow to a billion dollar market. As the driving force behind the development and delivery of more than 123 million books sold through the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise (and over 500 million copies in print worldwide), Jack Canfield is uniquely qualified to talk about success.

Behind the empire Time Magazine called the “publishing phenomenon of the decade” is America’s leading expert in creating peak performance for entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, managers, sales professionals, corporate employees, and educators. Over the last 30 years, his compelling message, empowering energy and personable coaching style has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals achieve their dreams.

Affectionately known as “America’s #1 Success Coach, ” Jack has studied and reported on what makes successful people different. He knows what motivates them, what drives them, and what inspires them. He brings this critical insight to countless audiences internationally—sharing his success strategies in the media, with companies, universities and professional associations.

Jack is a Harvard graduate with a Master’s Degree in psychological education and one of the earliest champions of peak-performance, developing specific methodologies and results-oriented activities to help people take on greater challenges and produce breakthrough results.

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Debt Advice &Amp; The Pre Budget Report

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Debt advice played an important part in the Chancellors Pre-Budget report, revealing just how important the Government thinks it is for people with debt problems to seek debt advice earlier, rather than later.

On direct.gov.uk, the section Debt advice services is one of only three sections on the helping people in financial difficulty page. The section states that: The government is committed to ensuring that any family facing debts which they cant manage can access free impartial debt advice to help them get back on track.

It also says that The Pre-Budget Report announced additional government funding of 5.85 million for an extension of telephone advice services, and 10 million to extend face-to-face advice services, to ensure everyone has access to free debt advice when they need it.

Whatever the economic climate, debts can always be a problem if the borrower cant keep up with the repayments. In other words, debt advice always has an important role to play, helping people learn to budget, negotiate with their lenders, plan ahead and one day get out of debt altogether.

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At a time like this, however, with the threat of deflation hanging over the economy and the threat of unemployment hanging over many individuals debt advice is more vital than ever. Already, borrowers everywhere are finding their budgets stretched to the limit: any decrease in their income could easily push them over the limit.

In other words, now is for many people the time to start really working on paying off their debts. Some people, like bankers and estate agents, were hit by the economic troubles last year. Others are worried about their job security in the near future. Still others are working in industries which so far dont seem to have been hit by the countrys economic problems, but which could be eventually. But whether theyre worried about coping with a lower income in six months or in two years, their debt could be much easier to deal with if they can pay off as much as possible in the meantime!

Which explains why the Government is spending over 15 million extra to ensure people can access the debt advice they need. However, the Government-funded services are by no means the only ones providing debt advice. Various companies also provide free debt advice and debt help.

Many of those companies also provide websites that contain all kinds of debt advice. This kind of online debt advice can be helpful, providing people in debt with anything from do-it-yourself guides and budget forms to useful addresses and phone numbers.

Even so, its no substitute for the personalised, back-and-forth debt advice that can only come over the phone or face-to-face. Basically, everyones debt problems are different, and the best way of tackling them is to talk to someone who knows what questions to ask so they can build up a complete picture of their debt situation and advise them on the best course of action, whether that means a professional debt solution or just a few lifestyle changes.

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Hong Kong Corporate Interior Design: The Cradle Of Creativity

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By Michael Bustamante

Hong Kong is one of the most developed and economically thriving locations on earth. Numerous corporations operating in various economical sectors have opened Hong Kong offices, triggering the development of a flourishing concept and business around the Hong Kong corporate interior design.

Technological progress has taken interior design to a whole new era where concepts are turned into reality no matter how impossible they might seem. The growth of corporations with their complex offices has also encouraged the Hong corporate interior design firms to elaborate new ideas and concepts to suit most requirements and expectations. From the simplest shapes to the most sophisticated designs and from the classic concepts to the complexity of futuristic ideas, they are all the products of corporate interior design in general and executive interior design in particular.

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Hong Kong executive interior design is a special division of the Hong Kong corporate interior design and deals with the solutions which are originated in order to serve the needs of senior level management at the workplace. Executives are probably the most valuable assets of any corporation and their comfort and well-being is considered one of the corporate priorities. Also, executive interior design involves personalization depending on the specific needs and preferences of the individual. And it is probably the aspect which makes the difference between corporate design and executive design. Whereas the corporate interior design implies that the company culture is somehow introduced in the design creating a unique and yet common corporate trend, executive interior design is quite different allowing the concepts and solutions to render the personality of the executive in question.

Hong Kong corporate interior design is approached from different perspectives which depend on many variables. Any corporate design is influenced by a country’s culture, by international trends, by the corporate culture and of course by the location and business profile. However, Hong Kong is a unique place in the world where the western and oriental cultures meet to form a one of kind environment. Executive interior design is especially influenced by this exclusive approach and there are clear examples where the Chinese trends surrender to western tendencies. On the other hand, it happens very often that the western fashion can barely be discerned underneath the oriental lines.

In a place where space is a rarity, creativity is challenged to a large extent in all respects. Hong Kong corporate interior design companies struggle to provide the adequate solution for the right client respecting all of the imposed parameters of time, space, budget, culture, and preferences. Still, quality remains their primordial concern while originality of creation is the only way to conquer a client. Whether it is about a new setting or about the transformation of an existing location, the battles take place mainly on the field of executive interior design. This is the sector which is both restricted to the preferences of the clients and unlimited by the imagination of the designer and the pursuit of innovation. Hong Kong corporate interior design is therefore a most challenging and competitive environment where some of the most extraordinary ideas are born revolutionizing the world.

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Cpa Newfoundland One Solution For Account Related Problems

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They are the pillar of success of any successful organization. They are the symbol of honesty and loyalty .They achieves the same by maintaining the ethical standards which are set by the governing bodies and the institutes providing the courses. They also maintain a very high level of professionalism. There are some institutes that provide the courses on CA and are self governing.

They provide the public not only with accounting but also managing the issues strategically by incorporating both financial as well as non financial information for decision making very carefully. The issues they deal with are making strategies, management of accounts, corporate finance, managing operations and all the internal controls, statistical data and economics. And the most important part of it is all the work done by them is dealt very ethically.

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Advantages Of Buying Used Boats In Oshkosh

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Being able to enjoy the water is one of the key advantages to living in an area such as Oshkosh. Whether you enjoy boating, fishing or simply enjoying the warm rays of the sun, living a life in close proximity to the water gives you a convenient and built in way to relax on those days when you have some down time. Having the freedom that comes from owning your own boat is why so many people aspire to do so. Owning your own boat will allow you to enjoy all your favorite activities but from the comfort and luxury of your gently rocking boat. It gives you a great amount of flexibility in order to do so.

One of the issues that often holds a person back from owning their very own boat is the cost. Of course, you have the cost of the boat itself, but then you also have all the other underlying costs as well. This includes the cost of maintenance as well as the cost of insurance. Many people find that these costs really add up, making it difficult for them to own their own boat.

A good way for people on a budget to realize their dreams without going broke in the process is to look at Used boats in Oshkosh By concentrating on boats that are used, they are more likely to find the ideal one for their needs at a price they can more easily afford. It is important to remember than a used boat is far different than a used car.

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Final launch of Space Shuttle Discovery delayed until at least Thursday

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Insignia of the STS-133 mission, the final flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. Image: NASA.

Space Shuttle Discovery’s final launch on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station has been delayed at least an additional day. Launch is now targeted for 3:29 PM EDT on Thursday.

The launch was originally scheduled for this past Monday, but was delayed two days because of helium and nitrogen leaks on board the shuttle.

Technicians are now working to repair technical glitches discovered yesterday on a main engine control computer.

The weather outlook, however, appears to be unfavorable for the new targeted launch day; there is an 80 percent chance of undesirable weather, according to the NASA space shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters.

The mission management team (MMT) is meeting today to discuss and troubleshoot Discovery’s newfound electrical problems.

STS-133 is scheduled to be an 11-day mission to the International Space Station to ship supplies to the crew, as well as additional components for the orbital outpost’s construction, including the Permanent Multipurpose Module and the third of four ExPRESS Logistics Carriers. The mission is the 133rd of the Space Shuttle Program and the 39th of Discovery.

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ANZAC Day marked throughout NZ, AU

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

An overview of the Gallipoli Peninsula. The dotted lines approximately mark the furthest advance of Allied Forces.

Australians and New Zealanders throughout the world stood still and turned out in huge numbers for their national war memorial days in remembrance of the failed Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) — attack on Gallipoli, Turkey that began on 25 April 1915. The fateful attack was designed to end the First World War quicker by creating a supply line to Russia. A hundred thousand died in the battle, remembered every year as ANZAC Day by both nations. The British-directed battle of Gallipoli is often seen as a defining moment in the ‘birth’ of Australia and New Zealand. The battlefields of Gallipoli, where so much blood was shed, has become near-sacred soil.

This is the 91st anniversary of the attack. This is the first ANZAC day where there have been no survivors left from World War I.

Around 10,000 people are turned out at the dawn service at Gallipoli.

Poppies are used as a symbol of remembrance to all fallen soldiers at war.

Meanwhile dawn services have been held throughout New Zealand. The numbers of veterans may be dwindling, but the numbers of those who come to pay their respects is not. In Auckland nearly 20,000 people attended the dawn service at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. During the service, a 62-year-old veteran of the Malayan campaign died of a heart attack, falling face forward on to the concrete as the Last Post was sounded.

In Wellington, about 5000 people gathered at the Cenotaph near the Parliament buildings.

Speaking at the service Royal New Zealand Returned and Services’ Association president John Campbell said, “We are honouring the Anzacs. We are not here to glorify war, but to remember that we value who we are and the freedoms we possess…They did not die in vain. They fought for peace, freedom and democracy.”

Her Excellency the Governor-General

The Governor-General of New Zealand, Dame Silvia Cartwright, addressed the crowd, at the Wellington service saying “Soldiers, veterans, all New Zealanders who are gathered here, around New Zealand and around the world to commemorate ANZAC Day. Today is the day we grieve for our fellow New Zealanders killed in war. It is the day we honour them, and remember their sacrifice”. This is her last ANZAC Day as Governor-General.

2006 is the New Zealand Year of the Veteran, and the 90th anniversary of the organisation founded by those who did return from Gallipoli – the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services’ Association.

Australia and New Zealand commemorate the ANZAC Day public holiday on the 25th of April every year to honour the bravery and sacrifice of the members of the ANZAC’s and of all those who served their country —

Lest we Forget.

Anzac cove shortly after the landing on 25 April 1915

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BBC spends £3.4m on sell-off

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Friday, June 27, 2008

Newspaper The Guardian reports today that the sale of the BBC subsidiary BBC Resources Ltd., has cost £3.4m in consultancy fees — over £1m more than the £2.3m trading profit the commercial division is estimated to have made for the last financial year. Details of the failed privatisation were released by the BBC following a freedom of information request, and prior to publication of its annual report on July 8.

Fourteen months after advisers were appointed to try to sell BBC Resources Ltd., only one of the three main business units has been sold — its Outside Broadcast division to Satellite Information Services Limited (SIS), for an estimated £20m. On March 7, 2008 it was also announced that the studios operation would remain in BBC ownership and in early June, the fate of the third business was put on hold with the BBC stating that “like Studios, Post Production will remain within BBC Resources, which will continue to operate as a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC.”

BBC Resources Ltd. made an operating profit of £6.1m for 2005-06, down from £7.4m the year before, with the BBC accounting for 83.3% of its turnover, down from 87.4% for 2004-05. Last year’s published figure for 2006-07 was £5.2 million — with BBC business at 80% of turnover.

BECTU Assistant General Secretary Luke Crawley is quoted as saying: “It’s fairly outrageous that around half the profit of the company [announced last year] has been spent trying to sell it. It’s an inordinate amount of money. The BBC was promised big returns if it sold BBC Resources but it’s only managed to sell outside broadcasts and we do not know how much it made out of that. We think the £3.4m is a poor investment.”

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Making Search Engine Friendly E Commerce Websites

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By Paul Roberts

Just imagine you had a birthday party, you cleaned up your house, put your best clothes on, got the cake out, put up your decorations and got all that food and drink out. Prior to this you sent out your coloured invitations on glossy paper, but at the last minute, there, under a pile of papers and a rather dozy sleeping cat. Shock! Horror! You realise you forgot to send out your invitations!

And as the big night comes, only a handful of guests came. The rest just verbally were aware you were having a party, but couldnt work out how to get there and gave up sitting at home or made other plans instead.

Its a bit like that when it comes to e-commerce, we sometimes just assume our visitors are coming to our site, after all we submitted our website to all the search engines and got numerous backlinks. Yet we havent gone the extra mile to tell our friendly search engine spider where we live.

This is especially true also for e-commerce websites, as these are generally dynamically generated webpages, it seems that most are not particularly search engine friendly or search engine optimized, that the masses may not be getting through. Its not like the masses are not there, theyve just made alternative plans.

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Tips for getting your e-commerce search engine friendly & search engine optimized:

The search engine spider needs to crawl through the site to index all the webpages. These webpages need to be presented to the search engines without a session ID and a query string. Also the product title should be in the filename for greater search engine success. A webpage address of http://www.mysite.com/productid=12456&search=t&PHPSESSID=da7946bbcd7673b5706d412da79bbfeb is not likely to be picked up in all the search engines, as the session ID will change with each individual visitor (and could end up with 100s of variations of that webpage). But http://www.mysite.com/coffee_table_1234.php will. This can be achieved through direct hyperlinks through to the webpages or by using a dynamically created sitemap.

The title tags are one of the biggest factors in determining search engine success. Yet as most e-commerce sites are dynamically generated, there are many sites where the title tag is the same of all the product pages. Between the

should be the product title, with the most important details followed by typically the model no. The same relevant details should be added for both category and static webpages within the site.

Each product, category & static webpage should individual Meta tags. Your e-commerce should allow you to enter individual meta tags for each product, or automatically create them from the product title & description. Though the majority of search engines grab information from the webpage, rather than the meta tags, the reality is that some engines still do use this information.

With these enhancements built into your e-commerce software, your e-commerce website has a much better chance of exposure in the search engines, have all your webpages indexed and accordingly will push up sales.

About the Author: Paul Roberts – I run a software development company specialising in E-Commerce, Search Engine Optimization, and Print Estimation software at

robodesignsolutions.com

. I also develop E-Commerce Solutions locally for New Zealand businesses under at

robodesign.co.nz

.

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