coding and marketing your website

If you are planning to start an online business, then you should be good at sales. Darn good that is.

There are mixed feelings for people when it comes to selling in general. Some people feel that the profession of selling and marketing is a very rewarding career. It is to be noted that for different people, rewards mean different things.

To you, a reward might be monetary and to some others, the rewards might be emotional benefits. For me, this is a very exciting profession to be in and rewards me both emotionally and financially.

There are people who find it very hectic also. They find the job of selling and marketing to be very depressing especially when they don’t meet their deadlines or targets.

These people find the job to be very frustrating as they can’t enjoy what they are doing. I do not condemn these people. Maybe selling is not their cup of tea. After all, not everyone can stick with their day job and not everyone can be entrepreneurs.

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“Last night, I stayed up until 6 o’clock figuring out how to do this,” says Riley “Caezar” Eller, a slender and bookish 27-year-old. Scribbling furiously on a dry-erase board covered with boxy diagrams representing a pair of networked computers, Eller maps out a novel cyberattack-a method of disabling a supposedly impregnable system with a few clever lines of code.

His listeners nod each step of the way, occasionally grunting their approval. When the presentation is over and the imaginary defenses have all been surmounted, they break into polite applause.

Such demonstrations are part of the standard curriculum at the major security consultancies. But Eller isn’t giving this lecture in a sterile conference room at PricewaterhouseCoopers or Deloitte & Touche.

The setting is a subterranean hideout that closely resembles a frat house, complete with lava lamps and a rickety bar that reeks of week-old spilled Smirnoff.

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Many Americans who troll the internet in search of health-related information are bored or simply frustrated with “just the facts”: They want the Web to help manage their health and that of their loved ones.

A new generation of “care sites” addresses those demands. These Websites offer sophisticated monitoring devices, tailored treatment plans, personalized web pages that store individuals’ healthcare data, and regular interaction with healthcare professionals who monitor and/or manage their health.

Internet-based devices that measure and monitor user health and vitals plug into these websites. The devices range in complexity from simple blood pressure cuffs to implantable pacemakers.

Web-based health devices can supplement–and, in some cases, replace–traditional monitoring equipment or routine medical exams. The benefits are multi-fold: Web health care is convenient; it encourages real-time patient feedback; it provides online tracking information to enhance treatment plans; and it facilitates cost-effective patient monitoring.

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