3 Services Your Online Business Can't Live WithoutWritten by Kristie Weddell
It doesn't make any difference if you're promoting your own product, affiliate programs or MLM programs, there are 3 services your business can't live without.Service #1: Web Hosting I'm not talking about one of those Free accounts where they throw their own ad in everytime someone visits your site. I'm talking about a premium, ad free web hosting package with your own domain name. Plenty of space and able to handle plenty of traffic. Free sites that ad their own banner are not very professional in most peoples eyes and turns them off real quick. Service #2: A minimum of one Sequential Autoresponder account Why autoresponders? First they allow you to follow up with your online visitors automatically. Most people won't order during their first visit to your website. You can set your autoresponder to send out follow up email messages. That makes your initial goal to capture name and email address or your visitor so you can send them more information about benefits of your offer. At same time you're building a list of people that you can keep in regular contact with and send special offers to. You will need to prompt our
| | Is it legal? - Indecent naming with traditionWritten by Wolfgang Nedobity
Is it legal? – Indecent naming with traditionWhen Mitsubishi launched a new car with name „Pajero“ on Spanish market, it became obvious very soon that name chosen was not optimal because it immediately was subject of jokes due to its homophony with a Spanish expression related to masturbation. The same happened to Ford’s model „Pinto“(Portuguese for male genital) in Brazil where it was quickly renamed into „Corcel“(horse). There is quite a long list of product names that give food to dirty mind be they chosen accidentaly or deliberately. Obviously there seems to be a kind of tradition for this in history of naming which originally started with place names. Some of our ancestors obviously were too innocent to realize what burden they place on their offspring when naming places like Pratts Bottom (Kent), Brown Willy (Cornwall), Lickey End (near Birmingham), Booby Dingle (Powys), Great Cockup (Cumbria). Even places such as Thong (Kent) seem to have revealed far too much for not being victim of lewd remarks. The European continent, however, is also challenging innocent mind of English speaking travellers. In Southern Bavaria they will come across a village with name of “Petting” and about eleven miles from there, in neighbouring Upper Austria, shock might be inevitable when they enter village of “Fucking”. Inspite of fact that inhabitants of Fucking have had enough with English-speaking tourists swiping their sign, they refuse to change their name. It goes back to ancient Bavarian settlement and although this area was christianized by Irish and Scottish monks in 9th and 10th century, an amendment of name has never been deemed necessary. No wonder that in many countries there are restrictions regarding choice of a place name as a trademark for goods and services. One way around these restrictions is to distort name so that it becomes indisputable but on
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