Talk is cheating. At my gym, there are members who spend most of their time swapping war stories and giving updates on current sport matches. Instead of working out, they talk. And then, they'll ALSO talk about how hard they worked out. I call that cheating. Stick to task at hand. Action ALWAYS is louder than words

Get a trainer. We can't see our postures with free weights. We don't know what different exercise might improve a specific problem area. And we don't always stick to a regimen unless we're accountable to someone besides ourselves. Call it a coach, an advisor, a mentor-whatever. But all of us can benefit from advise and new eyes of someone outside of ourselves.

Celebrate your success. I admit: I despised exercise when I started. But I KNEW that I had to begin. I set a goal of 3 exercise times per week-30 minutes to start. Every time I exercised, I put a sticker in my appointment book. Yes-a fun sticker: animal, cartoon face, flower, you name it. Amazing but my appointment book began to blossom with crazy kid stickers. I could literally see progress every week. When beginning any new behavior, we all know that rewards are important. Stickers are cheap and visual. Whatever reward, it's consistency of giving that matters.

Workplace workouts, in context of learning, can promise growth, stamina, productivity, AND ultimately profitable performance.

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I think I'll make up blandest ad I can find, but make sure words "Digital Women" are in it because I just want people to remember name. I don't care if they click or not because I am just after brand recognition at moment. Then I won't have to pay anything to poor sap that showed my ad 500,000 times but I can still get brand recognition that I need to succeed at my present goal, which is just making sure my "name" is seen around world on lots of people's web sites.

This article is not meant to sound bitter. It is meant to open your eyes to what is being handed to you like it's something special. It's not special and they couldn't pass this off in a real newspaper or a real magazine or a real business development mall or shopping mall.

Stop being a victim to these guys. If they offer a CPA or CTR send them out same door they came through. Wise up! That is your prime advertising space. Stop "giving" it away.

What are your best options if:

-You accept advertising -You buy advertising

-If you "accept" advertising, make sure you offer a flat rate for your prime space. You can offer a CPM which is a cost per thousand impressions, or you can offer a flat monthly rate based on how many impressions they can get in 30 days.

Your rates should be in line with what your site offers as content. Adres has a chart but I think it is a couple of years old. You can check out CPM rates there. When you hit site, look to right for a link to "sample rates": http://adres.internet.com/adrates/article/0,1401,,00.html

Have a clear ad rates page set up. We suggest using an advertising agency to sell ads for you. They know all ad terms and communicate better with those who buy ads. One great place we know that specializes in advertising for women is Queen of Pizzazz. You can find that advertising agency here: http://www.thequeenofpizzazz.com

-If you "buy" advertising, make sure you have a budget in place before you start looking. Also you will need to have several different ads to try at different places. If you don't do some sort of ad tracking or some sort of program in place where you can see which of your ads did best then you will be wasting valuable ad dollars.

Again we suggest using an ad agency that will do all that for you. The above site also offers service of buying ad space for you. Try them out.

To sum up...

-Educate yourself to ad terms being used today. -Don't accept every offer that comes along. Check to see if it right for you. -Target your ad space. Don't sell space to a tire manufacturer if you sell diapers on your web site. -Target your own ads to sites who compliment what you are selling. -Remember that if you choose to go with someone like Google's adsense, that MINUTE someone clicks on their ad, you just made a few cents and ALSO just lost your web site visitor as they don't let ad open up in a new window for you.