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Good Pageant Platforms: How to Choose One and Make a Difference

What is a pageant platform? How do I choose a good pageant platform? Can you give me some pageant platform ideas, examples or topics? A pageant platform is a cause that a contestant chooses to volunteer her time to either bring awareness to, raise money, or implement a program she has created that will help address the problem. There are so many needs in the world today that finding a cause you feel passionate about in your community is just a matter of looking around or talking with a few business leaders. In our society, the media and public are drawn to people who hold titles or have celebrity status. As a title holder, you can use this to your advantage to get your message out in a bigger way if you’re prepared. “Don’t ever question the value of volunteers. Noah’s Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by professionals”-Unknown. Occasionally I’ll encounter a person who has the attitude of ‘I’m only one person. I can’t...

Shockingly Good Support From a Hosting Company - Worth Shouting About

In 1998 I started a small (miserably so) online business and had my first experience with selecting a hosting company. Back then it was really no big deal because mine was way too small a business to have many hosting needs and in those early times there was less competition amongst hosting companies. About all I was concerned about was having adequate storage space. Traffic wasn’t even an issue. Still, I ran into unexpected difficulties and soon learned that even very small businesses have to be concerned with more than just disk space. Support was the detail I hadn’t considered. That first experience soured me somewhat because I learned that it can be like pulling teeth to get support from a company that doesn’t take this aspect of business seriously. The company I first hosted with turned out to be located in someone’s home — a fact that was never divulged in the advertising. The man was nice enough, and he tried very hard to accommodate me as lon...

Guiding Principles for Favoring a Good PHP Cloud Hosting Solution

PHP or personal homepage or hypertext preprocessor is a server-side scripting language. With the help of PHP, we can create dynamic, interactive and lively websites and web applications for clients and for personal use. It’s a very handy programming language and due to the versatility of PHP, we can use it with MySQL and other databases. It also owns the ability to use his libraries. While searching for a web hosting company to host your websites online, you should look for a PHP cloud hosting provider who will be capable of meeting your requirements and needs. Always look for the advantages and offers that come along with the hosting packages. In the meantime, try to figure out the hidden features and policies of the package. You should pay more attention to the database support with a PHP cloud server. It’s not at all a hard task to find a suitable and good PHP cloud hosting provider for your business. All you need to do is to follow some simple guiding principles to choos...

Is Amazon a Good Solution To Host Your WordPress Website?

After facing the fact that I need a faster hosting provider, I finally decided to try out some of Amazon’s hosting products. Amazon has so many web services that it can be a little daunting to get started with them, but I decided to give it a go. The first thing that I looked for was the ability to host WordPress websites. After a little research, I found that Amazon had just introduced a program for WordPress. Using their new “LightSail” product, I discovered that it was actually pretty straight forward to configure and load up WordPress. There are several other popular CMS apps as well, such as Drupal and Joomla. If you are interested in an e-Commerce solution, Magento is also supported. Lightsail is not for large deployments, but it’s pretty darn easy for smaller requirements. In a nutshell, you sign up, put in your domain name, set up WordPress, set up your DNS zones, map the static ip address that’s assigned to you, and it launches. When you go to laun...

How To Find Good Keywords

Good keywords are frequently searched for (high demand) but not being targeted by many other websites (low competition). There are a number of tools out there that can help you find them. Wordtracker The best tool out there, Wordtracker is one of the most essential seo tools . To use Wordtracker: – Go to the Wordtracker website ( http://www.wordtracker.com )and pay $7 for 24 hours’ access – Enter a keyword phrase you’re thinking about targeting – Wordtracker will suggest hundreds of related phrases – click on the ones you like – Once you’ve clicked on all the phrases you like, run them through the program – Wordtracker will compile a score for each phrase, based on the number of users searching for it and the number of websites targeting it – The higher the score, the better the keyword phrase! Wordtracker also offers a free service which works in the same way but only uses results generated from MSN. Overture Also useful, Ov...

Impact of Writing a Good Business Proposal for Your Business

A business proposal is a means by which an entrepreneur introduces his organization and business to the prospective clients. It allows a marketer to discover a variety of business opportunities. You can prepare an offer letter for proposing a business venture to a client. It is used for franchise, agreement, licensing or business development purposes. The challenge lies in your ability to pick and place appropriate ideas in an offer letter. A well-written offer letter enables you to trigger interest in the customer for your business venture. It also persuades the customer to choose you among your competitors. Another main aim fulfilled by an offer letter is to provide solution to the problems of the customers. How to write an effective offer letter to bring business? To make an effective offer letter you should be able to present the customers a background of your ideas. A marketer can present the main idea in the beginning to keep the mind of a reader focused. Then you can discuss the...

Good Planning Is Vital To Ensure Business Success

The majority of business owners and entrepreneurs struggle with their efforts to implement their unique ideas and eventually fail. There are a number of reasons for small business failures but poor planning is probably the most prominent one. Would you set off on a journey with no idea of how to get to your destination? Starting a business without proper planning is like starting a journey without a roadmap. A good business plan provides direction and serves as a guide for fulfilling business objectives. It also helps to clarify those objectives. If you are planning to start a new business or already have a business up and running, then here are a few simple steps to help you carry out an effective business plan: Setting goals and objectives The first step in business planning is identifying your goals and objectives. This will help you monitor your business progress and see if you are attaining what you have been aiming for. Your goals should be SMART – specific, measurable, acti...

Women & Business Partnership - The Good, the Bad and the Synergy

Team sports prepare boys for the corporate model of business. Girls, however, typically play closely with one or two friends. What great preparation for entrepreneurial partnership! So it is fitting, as women continue to start businesses in record numbers, that many are finding partnership is a comfortable format. In fact, business partnership works for women coming from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences including those tired of hitting the corporate glass ceiling, stay-at-home Moms, and women who want to turn their passions and their social connections into business ideas. Partnership brings a wide variety of benefits including a sense of connection and someone to cover when you go on vacation. On the other hand, many partnerships end in crisis and conflict. To avoid partnership failure, your partnership needs to possess the following seven components of positive partnership. Shared Values. Partners need a sense of shared standards regarding what is desirable, undesirable, ...

Five Characteristics of a Good Business Plan

A business plan like any other write – up can either be good or bad. And if you want to know the difference of a good business plan from something that can be mediocre or even bad, then read on. But first off, let us start with giving everybody an idea of what a business plan is. As implied, a business plan is a document that specifies and discusses the following: • The company’s nature and identity • Your objectives and the purpose of your existence in the world of consumers and entrepreneurs. • The products you sell and offer • Your marketing strategies • The goals that you plan to achieve • Your niche – the market that you plan to conquer • Your plans for the business’ future • And of course your financial standing prior to starting By having all those information, you can see that a business plan is very much like a blueprint that will help you or anyone start and manage a business regardless of its nature. Now that you...

6 Steps to Good Web Hosting

The web hosting market is flooded with tens of thousands of different web hosts all offering lots of choices, so how do you decide? The truth is 80% is these hosts all offer great hosting and to avoid the 20% that don’t you just need to follow the following 5 steps. 1. Type of hosting platform The first step when choosing a web host is to decide on the type of hosting platform, usually a choice between Unix/Linux and Windows. Your choice is largely determined by your website and the technologies used to create it, generally a website created with Microsoft technologies will run on Windows servers while most other sites using open source will run on Unix/Linux based systems, the standard is generally Linux, and due to the fact that you will not be charged licensing fees by Microsoft this is also the cheaper option. 2. Hosting Features Once you’ve chosen your type of hosting platform the next step is determining the hosting features you will require, for example blogging softw...

What Makes a Good Website

A good website is one that achieves the goals of the website owner as well as the goals of the user of the page. The goal of an E-commerce website is to have a user add products to a shopping cart and then complete the purchase. The goal of a construction company’s website is to have someone call, email, or message about project opportunities. The goal of a car dealership’s website is to have someone call, email, or message about a listed car or truck. In order for the goal of the website owner to be reached, the website needs to have clear navigation and purpose, relevant and original content, good trustworthiness/security features, responsiveness/ fast website load speed , and modern design. The article will describe what makes a good website by discussing what a user needs in order to have a good user experience. Sticking to the proven menu structure with the logo in the top left and the menu on the left side or in the middle of the page is generally the best option as t...