วันเสาร์ที่ 28 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2552

Refrigerator guide

By reklicom

People buy refrigerators without much research and then mourn over their decision of not waiting for a new model or not buying another brand or not researching enough about their current purchase. The first and foremost factor to be considered is your spending capacity over a refrigerator. Then comes your requirements followed by your style and energy saving capacity of the refrigerator.

Refrigerators below Rs. 10,000 are mostly direct cool refrigerators which are entry-level offerings. These refrigerators do not have bifurcating doors for freezing and cooling. They will have an internal incorporated door on top of the refrigerator for freezer. They are apt for a small family and for people who dont hoard much food.

Cost:Here are a couple of facts that you may not be aware of. A typical refrigerator uses between 600 and 900-kilowatt hours of electricity per year, which makes it the single most expensive appliance in many households, making up 20% or more of the total residential electricity consumption. Nearly all households have at least one refrigerator and about 30% own two. Nearly 60% of households own a separate freezer. So, it's not just the cost of the refrigerator that's important, it's also the cost of owning it.

Small refrigerators are typically 200 litres to 280 litres, medium 280 litres to 400 litres, large from 400 litres to 560 litres and extra large from 560 litres to 800 litres. Depending on the lifestyle you lead and how often you shop for fresh foods, two people need around 220 litres to 280 litres of refrigerator capacity. For each additional person, add another 30 litres. A family of four therefore, should consider a refrigerator/freezer capacity of something in the order of 300 litres to 360 litres. You can search Myshopping.com.au for refrigerators of different capacities.

Your Frigidaire refrigerator is on the blink and in need of servicing, so now you have to buy a replacement part for it. Should you buy a new part or a used part, because after all, what is your refrigerator in total now but a conglomeration of used parts anyway. Also, if you are going to go with the used part idea where can you buy one?

Summary:The following points are a quick summary of the things that will help you buy the right refrigerator/freezer for your situation. Use Myshopping.com.au to make comparisons between makes and models of specifications, energy ratings, price and vendors.

New Online Sources:Over the course of the past several years more choices and options have come available for people buying used and new parts to repair their appliances, including Frigidaire refrigerator parts. Its all the result of the Internet, because virtually all of these new sources are online suppliers.

Be Prepared:However; if you have never purchased new or used replacement parts for an appliance, there are several things that you are going to have to take in to account. The first thing that you will want to keep in mind, is that the onus is on you to have the information that you will need. The person on the other end of the line may be able to be somewhat helpful but don't expect an appliance repair genius.

Automatic ice-makers and through-the-door dispensers will increase both the energy use (typically 100 to 150 kilowatt hours/year) and the purchase price, but may add convenience and reduce energy wastage by not having the door opened as frequently.

Manual defrost models use less energy than frost-free models, but only if they are defrosted regularly enough to remain energy efficient.If two different sized refrigerators use the same amount of energy, the larger model can be considered more efficient because it keeps more space cold with same amount of electricity.

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Serious Entrepreneurs Avoid New Years Resolutions Like the Plague

By Art Barron

Serious Entrepreneurs always make New Year's resolutions, right?

New Year's resolutions are made in the heat of the moment, in the enthusiasm of ushering in something fresh. By the end of the week, New Year itself, and New Year's resolutions with it, become history.

Serious entrepreneurs are optimists who sit up till the clock strikes twelve, so that they can see that precious hour face to face and make New Year's resolutions.

However, I tried and tossed out some New Year's resolutions in 2009, just for the heck of it. Why don't I try to become a star baseball player? Better said than done! Why don't I start writing a book? But who will read it? Why don't I quit smoking? And redefine life itself? Definitely not! Maybe improve my business a bit? That may not be a bad idea!

After taking a 90-Day Challenge online marketing course for serious entrepreneurs early this year and saw the impact it made on my focus and mindset, I've decided to challenge myself. No one-week resolutions that by next year will be long forgotten. But 90 days to meet a list of goals I made for myself:

1. Leverage my time and money. After experiencing tremendous growth this year, of which I'm very grateful, there's no better time to hire some help than now. With the economy in the worst slump in decades, people are desperate for work. There are talented people waiting to be discovered. So I'm investing my money in people instead of "stuff."

2. Master social media. As you all know, the internet marketing industry is not for the faint of heart. It takes time, dedication, and perseverance. Building relationships and trust is crucial. Knowing how to use and leverage PPC is a huge part of the online game; but if visitors to your sites don't know or care who you are, you can kiss their business goodbye.

Using Web 2.0 and social media is a way to let potential customers that you're a real person, not just a name and email address. And Twitter is the breakout star! It's going to be an important way to market and stay in touch with customers in the future.

3. Evaluating the performance is the next important rule. Serious entrepreneurs should diligently monitor their rate of progress and whether they are really achieving the goals that they have set, within the time frame in which they were planned to be achieved. They should analyze the success strategies to effectively reuse them, and find out the gaps and weaknesses to either repair them or jettison the very idea where necessary. What is lacking has to be continuously fed into the system.

And serious entrepreneurs cannot afford to rest on their laurels. They have to move on, constantly moving the target further.

Don't let fear of the recession guide your goal setting plans for 2009. This is a BIG mistake!

Don't just blindly keep on running to escape from minor obstacles. Serious entrepreneurs can't afford to run blindly, for saving the situation pro tem. To chart steady progress, they have to proceed according to planned strategies, come hell or high water.

Recession or not, internet marketing is poised for big growth. The overall turnover is believed to reach a whooping $145.1 Billion in the next year.

The current evolutionary trend is gradually making a man a computer animal for he prefers to buy and sell and choose and learn things through the medium of internet. So, internet marketing profits is also continuously on the rising curve.

Recession is no juggernaut that is going to waylay people and destroy businesses. Serious entrepreneurs should have their vision relentlessly fixed on higher goals of making more money in 2009.

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Could Your Affiliate Marketing Use A Boost?

By George Wendtz

Hardly a week goes by that someone doesn't contact me to ask me about their website. They generally state that they have just started with affiliate marketing and they're wondering why they aren't seeing any sales. Usually after a brief glance at their website I can tell them exactly why they're not seeing any income from their affiliate programs.

I usually know without visiting their websites what the problem is. That's because I continue to see it time and time again. The reason is because many of these beginners are taking the advice of people who have never made a dime with affiliate programs. You see, there is a whole industry out there made up of people who couldn't hack it in affiliate marketing so they turned to selling crap to Noobs. Noobs don't know any better so they make excellent targets to be taken advantage of.

I jotted down a few thoughts that will help you make more money with your affiliate marketing.

First, take a long hard look at the affiliate program you're pushing. Is it really something that the masses will want? If you pushing a specialty item, you have to know that many people may not want to buy your new and improved Chia pet.

Another mistake I see is Newbies trying to out sell major companies. Sure, the Internet is a great equalizer, but you have to have the experience and resources if you plan on taking on a big corporation with a nearly unlimited advertising budget. You'll be better off targeted something that isn't being sold 24/7 over radio, TV, print media and Cable outlets.

One of the biggest mistakes I see Noobs make is that they give up too soon. Affiliate marketing is a long term project and you should never enter this business thinking you're going to strike it rich over night. When I start a website, I expect it to take at least 6 months to become productive if it's in a low competition market. 12 to 18 momths if it is in a very competitive market. Sure, you can take a shortcut and use pay per click ad programs like Google Adwords, but you'd better have deep pockets and know what you're doing!

Another common mistake I see beginners make is driving the wrong type of traffic to their affiliate offers. It doesn't matter if you have the best deal on the Internet, if you're driving people who have no use or who are not in the buying mode, then your efforts are going to fail. As the old saying goes, sell to people who are wanting to buy your product! If you're driving hordes of Social traffic to your site and wondering why you're not making the sales, it's because Social traffic does not convert well. These people are just surfing the Internet looking for something to read, they're not in the buying mode. Organic search engine traffic converts much better.

One last thing I see beginners fail to do is pre-sell their products and offers. What will make someone buy from you rather than them continue to shop for the best deals on the Internet? You have to convince the traffic that you get that they need to buy right then. If you're unsure of how to do this, read several books on copywriting or have it done for you.

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