Your eBook, Your Viral Salesman

Written by Albin Dittli


Ebooks arerepparttar wave ofrepparttar 108415 future, andrepparttar 108416 wave is here now.

It used to be that paper books were king. They were real. You could hold them in your hands, take them anywhere with you, and put them on bookshelves. They have nice covers that (Sometimes) tell you aboutrepparttar 108417 books in exciting terms.

When Gutenberg invented printing he brought an entire civilization out ofrepparttar 108418 dark ages.

I love paper books and use them allrepparttar 108419 time. My wife is a teacher and paper books help her tremendously. Especially useful are picture books with big beautiful informative pictures. I hope these paper books never go away.

Ray Bradbury’s futuristic novel “Fahrenheit 451” is spooky. Inrepparttar 108420 storyrepparttar 108421 government hires firefighters to burn books. That is scary, burning books so that people cannot have access to them.

Yet burning books has happened historically. An invader burnedrepparttar 108422 great library in Alexandria. And there have been others. They have all been great losses.

In recent years we have been seeing a new form of book,repparttar 108423 ebook.

My introduction torepparttar 108424 ebook was a few years ago when a discoveredrepparttar 108425 Project Gutenberg web site. Here I found stories that I had read and loved years ago as a boy. Many have been out of print for years.

I also found books by some of my favorite authors that I had not read or even known of. It was a “treasure” web site for me.

Andrepparttar 108426 ebooks could be copied and pasted into Microsoft Word and then printed out. I printed out many of my favorites and read them. I still visitrepparttar 108427 Project Gutenberg site, and others like it, regularly looking for new treasures.

Here arerepparttar 108428 web address for Project Gutenberg and five other sites that I like from which you can read or download stories, fiction, and non-fiction.

http://gutenberg.net

http://www.bibliomania.com/

http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/

http://www.web-books.com/cool/ebooks/Library.htm

http://www.classicreader.com

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/dl/all.asp

The Marketing ebook

A couple of years ago I started marketing onrepparttar 108429 Internet. It wasn’t soon before I discoveredrepparttar 108430 marketing ebook.

The marketing ebooks differed considerably fromrepparttar 108431 Project Gutenberg ebooks.

The Project Gutenberg books were generally all text with not pictures, images, or links. You could read them onrepparttar 108432 screen or copy them to an edit for reading there or for printing.

The marketing ebooks contained text, images, links to web pages, and navigation controls. And all ofrepparttar 108433 marketing ebooks were new to me.

At first most ofrepparttar 108434 marketing ebooks came in an EXE format. This format deliversrepparttar 108435 ebook torepparttar 108436 reader in one EXE file, which can be opened from windows like a program.

Lately more and more Ebooks are being published in PDF format. To readrepparttar 108437 PDF format you must have an Adobe reader. Adobe readers can be downloaded free.

The advantages ofrepparttar 108438 EXE format are that you can take HTML code and compile it into an EXE format ebook. It can an offline website. Just about any feature that you can put into a web site can be put into an EXE format ebook. This includes sounds, animated graphics, hyperlinks to other parts ofrepparttar 108439 eBook, and hyperlinks to web pages. There is a tremendous amount of flexibility here.

The advantage ofrepparttar 108440 PDF format is that you can take a text document and very speedily convert it to PDF format. You do not have to createrepparttar 108441 document in HTML format first. You can have images and hyperlinks to web pages in your PDF ebook. One ofrepparttar 108442 biggest advantages is that PDF format can be read by both windows users and MAC users.

HOW TO CREATE THE RIGHT RESUME

Written by Brenda Koritko


Do you continue to generate interest and secure interviews for jobs that you do not want?

The interview process can be time consuming and very unproductive when you are preparing to discuss a job that you really don’t want. When you write resumes that are historical in nature (listing your work history and responsibilities), you communicate that you are looking forrepparttar same type of position. The only way to attractrepparttar 108414 right attention is to highlight information that is relevant torepparttar 108415 job you really want.

Take an objective look at your resume. Does it sell you forrepparttar 108416 job you really want? Have you highlighted any items that you DO NOT WANT TO SEE in your next job description? It may help to remove your name fromrepparttar 108417 top of your resume before you ask someone you respect to reviewrepparttar 108418 document and give his or her opinion on what job this person is targeting.

Focused resumes are powerful job search tools!

Focused and organized resumes draw attention to your key skills and unique accomplishments rather thanrepparttar 108419 tasks and responsibilities you have performed in past positions. By promoting relevant skills and achievements, you guide your reader torepparttar 108420 information they are seeking andrepparttar 108421 details that you want to promote. The key to success is to userepparttar 108422 top third of resume to highlight and supportrepparttar 108423 skills that respond torepparttar 108424 specific requirements outlined by your target company in their advertisement or position description.

Reviewrepparttar 108425 position you are targeting and highlightrepparttar 108426 three key qualitiesrepparttar 108427 employer is looking for in a potential hire. Then, match your key skills and accomplishments to these three qualities. Finally, highlightrepparttar 108428 information you have selected atrepparttar 108429 top of your resume using an appropriate category title, for example, key accomplishments or related skills and accomplishments below your profile section.

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