We had to put out a fair amount of cash to get these secrets from some experienced gas attendants. This is vital information to all that drive. I’ll give you a few tricks that some gas attendants use to make extra money while at work. A few dollars here and there can pay for their lunch or gas money for day. These guys don’t make very much so skimming is an option some dishonest workers use to supplement their income. It’s important to remember, most of these guys are just hardworking guys who want nothing more than an honest days work. Most look forward to helping customer in any way they can, but then there are others.

Scenario 1- A guy comes into gas station and fills a gas can for his lawn mower. Typical cans hold a gallon of gas, but most of time a person will simply ask for a dollar, it’s a nice round figure. The gas attendant fills can, collects money, then either places nozzle on ground or hangs it on pump in an improper manner (If you’re looking it’s easy to spot). The dollar already pumped doesn’t reset until nozzle is properly hung up. When next car comes in they simply put pump in car and begin filling. Instead of amount starting from $0.00 it begins from $1.00, and you lose a dollar worth of gas. The best way to combat this is to get out of car and watch. If you can’t; make sure attendant knows you’re looking at what he’s doing. I guarantee you, he will reset pump.

Those of us who work in IT industry know that key to success is knowledge. Knowledge of your chosen market, of your competitors, new software, new hardware and a million other things that you need to know.

Granted, it’s not an easy task. It often takes dedicated ‘geeks’ continually surfing Net for necessary information day in, day out, to filter through masses of information overload that is commonplace on Net today. But there are certain ‘methods’ that might make it a bit easier and more efficient.

Most users of Internet are familiar with ‘Search Engines’ but few understand how they actually work and although it isn’t necessary to understand actual algorithms used for individual engines it’s important to have an idea of type and quality of results that get shown.

The main types of engines are generic search engines such as Google and All The Web, next are Directories such as Yahoo and finally there are Meta Search engines such as IXQuick and Metor. Although there are others such as PPC’s and Mete-meta search engines (All in one) I won’t list them all as it may confuse issue.

These engines provide results in different ways and, if you can understand them, will enable you to find more information on any particular topic than would normally be available to you if you were to use only one or two engines.

Firstly, generic search engines use an automated searching program (spider) to try and locate any site that matches query that you entered into its search box. It then lists them according to its own idea of what it believes is most relevant to you. The directories, however, have humans to sort out different sites into different sections and hopefully weed out sites that would not be appropriate to your request. These are a bit more limiting but often give quality information. Lastly we have Meta search engines, these utilise services of a multitude of different search engines to search simultaneously for sites that match your query. Again, they then sort out sites according to what they believe might be most relevant to you. The biggest use of these is to find leads for a subject you are not familiar with.

Ok, that’s basics sorted out.

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