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AP - Seeking to recapture its innovative streak in mobile computing, Palm Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a laptop-like gadget with a full-size keyboard and 10-inch display to serve as a companion for smartphones.
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Fixing spreadsheet errors. Admit it: when you look at a spreadsheet, you trust the results. You don't question the totals or the percentages you see. But data, and formulas used to compute what appear in the spreadsheet cells, are both prone to errors. According to computer scientists from Oregon State University (OSU), 90% of the 100 million spreadsheets produced each year in the U.S. alone, contain non-trivial errors. This is why they've developed a semi-automatic debugger for spreadsheet systems. They say that this new approach could save billions of dollars annually. As they've licensed their software to a new company in Oregon, this technology might be one day included in the spreadsheet tools we use. [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends]
Not
to be rude or anything, let me introduce myself first. My name is Jason
Tan from Damansara Perdana, Malaysia. For your information, I am not
one of the Gurus that turn up during WIC forums from time to time nor
do I have a blog telling you crap that would keep you coming and coming
for absolutely nothing!
I was exactly in the same shoes as you are now just last year. Yup, I
am 100% Malaysian born and bred in Kepong. In case you're not from
Malaysia, English is our second language, so I can speak-speak English
a bit lah!
Back to my life. Just about 6 months ago, I was wondering from one
opportunity to another. I was looking for a way out of my miserable
life working as a low level executive in a multinational firm making
others rich while I myself linger miserably in my very poor pathetic
life. I was earning just RM1,500 a month while the rest came from
bonuses which may go at most to another RM500 a month! Just imagine my
life at that time! I had to borrow money from my father just to cover
my monthly expenses.
This pathetic life of mine has finally forced me to find a way out... I
started spending a couple of hundreds, in fact in the thousands on
seminars, e-books and a whole lot of other get rich quick schemes. All
of them pushed me into bigger and bigger debt by the day. In fact, one
of the Ah-Long I owed money to was just about to come after me already!
My entire life changed with just one email. On the morning of 8/8/2006,
a curious but very life changing email suddenly appeared in my inbox.
Angmoh always say "curiosity killed the cat". However, this email was
the opposite, it allowed me to grow money out of nothing while I was
sleeping! This sounds too good to be true but it is absolutely 100%
truly amazing and mind blowing here in Malaysia.
This is no MAGIC.... money is not going to fall from the sky into your
lap.. BUT I'll show you a way to make it fall to your lap right after
you do exactly as what I've done to make my MILLIONS!
Having
a healthy sexual experience is a vital part of ANY relationship. If you
can make things fun and exciting, then it'll be easy to please your
woman
Unfortunately, there are many times when the sexual chemistry has gone
out of a relationship. Even if you're with an incredible beautiful
woman, you'll face some moments when you need to make things more
exciting.
That's why playing sex games is a great way to spice things up. In this
article, you'll learn about 3 fun sex games you can try with your woman.
The major goal of any sexual experience is to have an orgasm. This is
especially true when it comes to pleasing your woman. If you can rock
her world and give her mind-blowing orgasms, then she'll really look
forward to your love making sessions.
So what's the best way to give a woman incredible orgasms?
You have to concentrate on her pleasure instead of your own.
The first sex game is easy. You and your woman take turns being each
other's love slave. When it's time to be her slave, you follow all her
orders, and serve her needs. During this time you follow all her
requests and focus on giving her pleasure.
Then when it's your turn, you become the master and order her around. She has to focus on giving you pleasure.
This sex game is great because you have fun with swapping roles and taking turns being a dominant person.
Another great sex game is to slowly build towards orgasm. Now as I
mentioned in the last sex tip, it's important to focus on giving your
woman an orgasm. In reality, most people are in a quick hurry to
achieve their orgasm. Now instead of doing this, you'll take time and
make things delightfully slow.
A great way to play this sex game is to concentrate on NOT giving each
other an orgasm. Instead you should slowly build up towards the orgasm
and then stop. The object of the game is to come really close and then
keep back off.
Then continue doing this for a number of times. The game goes on till
both of you can't control yourself any more. Trust me, this will really
provide you both with explosive orgasms.
3- Two Steps Forward One Step Back
This sex game involves building things towards sex and then pulling back. It works like this...
When you're with your woman, it's important to slowly build towards an
orgasm. You give her pleasure, then completely back up and cease what
you're doing. By doing this, you're teasing her and making her really
want sex.
Teasing and not giving her ultimate pleasure is a great way to build up
intensity. When you hold back from a woman, you'll drive her crazy with
pleasure.
Sex games are a great way to increase the chemistry in the bedroom. If
you're able to implement these three sex games in your lives, you'll
create a great amount of sexual intensity.
Reuters - Palm Inc. on Wednesday introduced a
compact portable computer to accompany its Treo smartphone,
seeking to regain its competitive edge in the crowded high-end
handheld device market.
1.
Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped
by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to
show when it was last updated.
2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners
you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the
same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these
products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your
own product.
3. You can allow customers to 'opt in' to get discounts and special
offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to 'opt in' to
get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.
4. Add a link to your primary page with a script 'Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites'.
5. Add a link 'Recommend this site to a Friend' so that the visitor can
email your website link, with a prewritten title, "Thought you might be
interested in this", just by clicking on it.
6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your
site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a
'Contact Us' link on each page.
7. Create a 'Our Policies' page that clearly defines your philosophy
and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy
policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit
your site.
8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and
clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be
asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their
first visit to your site.
8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and
keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if
they lose the book mark.
9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited
emails. Later if they decide they want to 'opt out' of the mailings, be
sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They
may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly
not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they
no longer wish to receive.
Would
you like to find out what those-in-the-know have to say about Adsense?
The information in the article below comes straight from well-informed
experts with special knowledge about making money with Adsense.
Fact number 2: Housewives, retirees, mom and dads, who are just staying
at home and have never made a dime on the internet have created
full-time incomes by simply placing Adsense ads on their web site or
blog.
These are just some of the "super Adsense earners". You may have
already heard about their story for they are among the few who are on
their way to making millions worth of cash just by promoting Adsense
sites.
Anyone, any age and gender can become money generating Adsense
publishers as long as they what it takes. How does one go about this
Internet advertising?
Writing articles for Adsense is the way to do it. Using the right
keywords in your articles and having Google ads on a certain site has
become the most profitable way of marketing that anybody can get into.
No experience and level of education needed. If you are not using this
strategy, or may not be aware of it in the first place, chances are you
may be losing thousands of dollars worth of extra income and still do
not know it yet.
Those of you not familiar with the latest on making money with Adsense
now have at least a basic understanding. But there's more to come.
This is one of the many reasons why writing original quality content
articles is now the latest in marketing buzz. Content and links. When
combined together becomes a really powerful tool to a successful web
site and richer individuals. Many internet marketing professionals are
already aware of the value of an original quality content and how using
keywords can drive targeted traffic into their sites from the search
engines.
So who else wants to start earning money with Adsense & would like
to become rich or he or she wants answer of his/her question How to
Become rich or how to become rich online or one more question how to
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Better not be left behind the many making millions already.
Richard Weblog
3 Reasons Why Adsense Is Essential For Content Sites
To know why Adsense is essential for your content sites is to know first how this works.
The concept is really simple, if you think about it. The publisher or
the webmaster inserts a java script into a certain website. Each time
the page is accessed, the java script will pull advertisements from the
Adsense program. The ads that are targeted should therefore be related
to the content that is contained on the web page serving the ad. If a
visitor clicks on an advertisement, the webmaster serving the ad earns
a portion of the money that the advertiser is paying the search engine
for the click.
The search engine is the one handling all the tracking and payments,
providing an easy way for webmasters to display content-sensitive and
targeted ads without having the hassle to solicit advertisers, collect
funds, monitor the clicks and statistics which could be a
time-consuming task in itself. It seems that there is never a shortage
of advertisers in the program from which the search engine pulls the
Adsense ads. Also webmasters are less concerned by the lack of
information search engines are providing and are more focused in making
cash from these search engines.
The first reason why Adsense is essential for content sites is because
it already has come a long way in understanding the needs of publishers
and webmasters. Together with its continuous progression is the
appearance of more advanced system that allows full ad customization.
Webmasters are given the chance to choose from many different types of
text ad formats to better complement their website and fit their
webpage layout.
The different formatting enables the site owners the possibility of
more click through from visitors who may or may not be aware of what
they are clicking on. It can also appeal to the people visiting thus
make them take that next step of looking up what it is all about. This
way the people behind the Adsense will get their content read and
making profit in the process.
The second reason is the ability of the Adsense publishers to track not
only how their sites are progressing but also the earnings based on the
webmaster-defined channels. The recent improvements in the search
engines gives webmasters the capability to monitor how their ads are
performing using customizable reports that has the capacity to detail
page impressions, clicks and click-through rates. Webmasters and
publishers can now track specific ad formats, colors and pages within a
website. Trends are also easily spotted.
With the real-time reporting at hand, the effectiveness of the changes
made will be assessed quickly. There would be time to sort out the
contents that people are making the most clicks on. The ever-changing
demands would be met while generating cash for the webmasters and
publishers. The more flexible tools are also allowing webmasters to
group web pages by URL, domain, ad type or category, which will provide
them some accurate insight on which pages, ads and domains are
performing best.
The last and final reason is that the advertisers have realized the
benefits associated having their ads served on targeted websites. Thus
increasing the possibility that a prospective web surfer will have an
interest in their product and services. All because of the content and
its constant maintenance. As opposed to those who are no using Adsense
in their sites, they are given the option of having other people do
their content for them, giving them the benefit of having successful
and money-generating web sites.
Adsense is all about targeted content, the more targeted your content
is, the more target the search engines' ads will be. There are some web
masters and publishers who are focused more on their site contents and
how best to maintain them rather than the cash that the ads will
generate for them. This is the part where the effectiveness is working
its best.
There was a time when people were not yet aware of the money to be
achieved from advertisements. The cash generated only came into
existence when the webmasters and publishers realized how they can make
Adsense be that generator. In those days, the content were the most
important factors that is taken quite seriously. It still is. With the
allure of money, of course.
Brought to from make money online
I have only one myspace page and it does well for me in driving traffic
to my other site. But I've noticed that several people have tried to
join the "viral marketing" game and are going about it all wrong. So I
am putting up some rules and tips [ seven to be exact].
1. Make friends: here is a given, people who go on myspace for
business will not buy or even think about what you want to sell or
promote. So your goal is to make friends [ I use the word friends
loosely - I would say: myspace acquaintance ] You have to build a sort
of trust and social friendship.
2. Keep your myspace page load friendly: it's fun to add all
these cool interactive tools to your page. People spend hours on the
net trying to find the right background. But what people forget is load
time. Just like any website - people don't spend more than 27 seconds
waiting for a page to load. Lets be honest - I don't even visit my own
families myspace page because the loading time takes forever.
3. Nice, clean, crisp look: I have this friend who loves her
nationality. So like most people on myspace she plastered her page with
all these graphics showing her national pride. But after taking way to
long to load - I was blinded by all the strong bright colors and
confused by all the moving text on the screen. Make your site nice, but
keep it simple, clean, so people will stay and don't run away in
confusion.
4. Readable text: this goes hand in hand with number three. I've
noticed that people are driven to use all these cool add ons and tools
to make their site look nice. But they forget that some people want to
read whats on your site. Some people even like reading the comments in
your site. When picking a background or a layout, even if you want to
use scrolling text - consider this: "if I can't read your sales picth -
I will never buy from you".
5. Have a message: Myspace is known for confusion. You open a
page up and there's music, pictures, floating text, or worst - no
personal text on the page. The goal is to sell a product - and you need
to build trust [ with new myspace friends] with those who visit your
site. If your visitor is overwhelmed by all these distractions they
will lose site of your sales picth. Also, place personal content in the
know me spaces. Real information so you can build that trust.
6. You had me at hello: how do you build traffic on myspace -
well, by visiting other sites and asking to be one. Some sites allow
you to place a comment even if your not a friend. But what many are
doing is using the comment space to put cheap ads. I say cheap ads
because no one wants to hear a sales pitch when they really only want
to hear you say "hello". ** here's a tip - if you spam people, they
will drop you as a friend. Plus - the more myspace people see these
cheap spam ads, the more their driven to leave having an open comment
box and opt for the "approve" comment deal.
7. Drive off site: you should use any "viral marketing" site as
a means to drive traffic to your site [ be it a affiliate site,
monetize site, or other ]. If you try to build a myspace site that has
a bunch of banner ads, links, and so forth - people will see that your
their for one thing - yourself. let's be honest -We all know that
people are self absorb and want to believe that your their for them.
When
most people start exploring the world of affiliate marketing, they
think that they might run a site that will link to sites like Amazon or
eBay where people will need to buy a book or a CD or start or win an
auction for them to get paid.
But there is another kind of affiliate marketing that can earn you money without lifting a finger. Don't believe me? It's true!
If you link to a site that requires a customer to buy a membership in
something, say a gym membership or maybe an adult site that requires a
monthly fee, you don't just get paid once when that person signs up.
Every time that customer pays their monthly membership fee, you get
paid. Honest! It's called residual affiliate marketing and it can be an
amazing way to make money from home on your website.
Everyone dreams of sitting at home and making money without doing
anything. Well, this is a legitimate way to do just that. Different
kinds of membership sites tend to keep customers for different amounts
of time. If someone remains a member of a site or a program that you
linked them to, you could get residual commissions for years to come.
If they cancel after one month, then you would only get one commission.
This is why it's extremely important to link to quality websites.
You're maximizing your effort. A good rule of thumb to follow is if you
wouldn't use that site, don't expect the people you're linking it to to
use it either.
How can you maximize this profit stream? The best way to do it is to
choose who you link to carefully. Try to go with sites that offer high
quality products that get used up. Things like vitamins are a great
choice. They tend to be expensive and people develop a good brand
awareness with things like medicine and vitamins so if a customer is
happy buying them from a site you linked them to, they will become
regular customers. A happy customer for the company you link to ends up
being a constant revenue stream for you!
Residual marketing can be an absolute gold mine for some web users. It
doesn't happen automatically though, you'll need to make sure you link
to quality products and services if you expect people to use them again
and again. Make your choices wisely and you'll be shocked at how much
money you can make!
Spyware is one such form
of software that gathers information about your Internet activity and
other user information and sends it to someone else. Spyware enters
your computer through freeware or shareware programs, which we download
and install on our computers. Spyware can be dangerous since it can
transfer credit card number and passwords to its mentor thus creating a
security hazard. This is the reason why spyware removal is necessary
for your computer. These are the programs created specifically to
remove all the spyware from your computer so that your sensitive
information is not passed on to others.
Spyware is influential enough that it will monitor practically
everything you do on your computer. It has the ability to monitor web
pages you visit or scan the hard disk drives, this is certainly a
breach of privacy and you would not want that to happen. Spyware
removal therefore happens to be the only effective tool against
increasing spyware; this software detects the presence of spyware and
removes it all together from your computer.
Spyware removal is important because all your personal information is
transferred to the owner of spyware, who will use the information in a
way he/she sees fit. He/she might sell the information to any third
party for marketing purposes, or he can commit frauds, if he is in
possession with highly private information like the credit card
information and passwords.
There are several spyware removal programs available on the Internet;
however, you need to see which ones are the most effective. If your
computer is infected with spyware and malware, you will require a
powerful program that identifies all the computer spyware and deletes
it permanently.
Why is spyware removal so difficult? Spyware removal is difficult
because spyware is an installed program and not a simple file. This
program is something we have downloaded from the Internet along with
some other free programs, and you installed it without knowing the
consequences or effects of such programs on your computer. The program
starts working instantly, the moment it is installed. Therefore, it
might take you some time to notice about spyware on the computer.
Spyware removal should be done the very instant you suspect that your
computer is doing something in the background even when you are not
using it to that capacity. In case of spyware, prevention is better
than cure, you can try and avoid downloads from suspicious websites and
carry out spyware checks from time to time.
Affiliate marketing is all about getting paid for selling products you don't own
and not going to jail for it. Someone else goes through all of the trouble to
develop software programs, service, or digital content products. They'll do all
the work then you collect the money!
Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing arrangement between the product
developer, known as the affiliate merchant, and the affiliate marketer who is
anyone that's willing to promote the sale of product by advertising the
product using any type of legal means available.
The relationship will allow the affiliate merchant to grow their revenue by
paying only for the advertising that results in a sale. The affiliate marketer will
profit by making a percentage on a sale that he does not have to manage
after the sale.
Getting paid
Getting paid all depends upon how the affiliate program is set up. Some
merchants will run their own affiliate program. They'll have special types of
software that assigns each affiliate marketer a special link that's used in
promoting the product.
The software will track sales of every marketer and the merchant will pay the
commission on a periodic basis using either PayPal or another method of
payment.
Selecting products or services Your income is directly tied to how well your
selected product or service sells, and the size of the commission you earn,
which makes it very important that you choose carefully when it comes to
choosing the affiliate merchant you'll be partnering with.
Choose programs that you aren't embarrassed to promote and programs that
you'll feel comfortable recommending to your family and friends if they were
to ask you about it. Affiliate marketing is not such a secret everyone is
making it out to be. Let Honest Riches show you why at
http://www.trustedreviews.info/money/hr/index.html
You'll do much better if you promote products that you fully understand and
are already familiar with. This way, you'll be able to write better ads without
having to strain yourself coming up with the right things to say.
You should only promote products and services for companies who have
gone through the trouble to provide you with training programs and sales
aids such as banners and other marketing materials that you can either use
directly or model the one you own after. When starting out, you'll need to
be willing to keep your eyes and ears open, so, I will suggest that you go
check out Honest Riches by Holly.
Be on the lookout for programs with commission rates no less than 50%.
You should give preference to programs that pay commission on multiple
levels, which means you'll also have to earn commissions on sales made by
people who buy the products through your link then go on and become
affiliates themselves later on.
Personal
computers and the internet have revolutionized how people see a home
based business. There are many options today in computer home based
business that allow for almost anyone to begin making money from the
comfort of their own home.
To begin with, a person needs a home computer and internet access. It
is important to choose a computer that is running a new operating
system and that is not too old. The internet service should, ideally,
be a high speed service. If a person wants to start out with a dial up
connection it is a good idea to take advantage of those free trial
offers as each service's speed varies. By trying free trials a person
can find the fastest dial up connection possible.
After getting connected to the internet, a person should start
searching for information on computer home based business. It is very
important to understand, though, that there are scams out there that
can be costly and very time consuming. That is why, before signing up
for any opportunity, a person should carefully check it out. Doing a
search with a business name and the word 'scam' will usually do the
trick.
There are plenty of legitimate computer home based business choices
though. It is important not to get discouraged by scams, which is easy
to do when starting out. Through some careful research a person should
be able to easily find a good computer home based business.
Some of the perks of a computer home based business are that they allow
a person to work completely online. In many cases this means that they
will not have any inventory or any other responsibilities such as
shipping to handle. Additionally, a computer home based business means
a person can sell even when they are not at their computer or even at
home.
A computer home based business is something that can allow a person to
start making a living right from their home. They can begin to build up
a business that could possibly allow them to leave behind their full
time job outside the home and reap the rewards of working at home
forever.
The biggest mistake I see first time entrepreneurs make is that they spend too much money.
They rent an office or retail location, pay big incorporation fees,
hire employees, and build an expensive website (just to name a few).
And all before they’ve earned their first dollar!
Each month their cash reserves get lower and lower while they
struggle to make sales to cover their expenses. Eventually the
fledgling business dies with no cash flow, leaving the owner hurt
emotionally and financially.
Luckily, it is possible (and actually quite simple) to start up a
business without spending a dime. The beauty of using this method is
that you can test out a new business idea
quickly and with zero risk. And instead of spending time negotiating
leases or dealing with employees, you can spend 100% of your time on
the most important thing: making that first sale!
The first thing you’ve got to do is get past the idea of spending.
Work out of your home or Starbucks on nights and weekends. Instead of
hiring employees just get started with what you can do yourself, or ask
friends for help. Don’t incorporate just yet, be a sole proprietorship. Don’t hire an expensive graphic artist to make your logo, stick with something simple…you get the idea.
You can spend money on all that stuff once you are bringing in revenue!
Now to actually get started, here are 10 steps you can use to launch a new business, without spending a dime. The first five are logistical. The last five are all free ways to market your business (after all, the most important step is bringing in that first sale!)
Get an EIN at the IRS website This one is specific to the USA, but all companies need an
Employer Identification Number (EIN). You can apply for one online at
the irs.gov in about 5 minutes by re. List yourself as a sole proprietor for now.
Setup Your Business Financials Get a free business checking account. This will allow you to
keep your business’s money separate and track it (vitally important!).
I like Washington Mutual’s free business checking. They will also give
you a debit card to track your expenses (never use a credit card) which
are currently zero! Then get a Paypal account and link it to your business account so you can accept payments.
Choose a domain name The fastest ways to get eyeballs on your new business is the internet these days. Choose a domain name that is a keyword phrase your potential customers might type into a search engine.
So if you are offering salsa lessons in Boston, you might choose
“SalsaLessonsBoston.com”. The benefit of doing this is that you will
most likely end up on the first page of Google results for that keyword
phrase within a month or two. This will bring your customesr, and is
much better than showing up on the first page for “John Smith’s Salsa
Company” or something that no one ever searches for.
Make a simple website The fastest way I know of to launch a website is using
WordPress (wordpress.com or wordpress.org). If you don’t mind using a
subdomain like “mydomain.wordpress.com” it’s free. But even if you want
your own domain
you can get one with WordPress pre-installed for about $70/year.
Wordpress comes with over 2500 “themes” to change the look and a great
back end interface to edit the pages just like you’re in Microsoft word. LifeHack.org uses WordpPress as do many other popular sites.
Set Your Prices Most first time entrepreneurs set their prices too low. People
assume low prices mean low quality, and you are worth more. Give away
your product or service to the first five customers free if you’d like
(it will help built buzz and you can ask them for testimonials), but
after that set your price in the top 1/3 of your industry. It’s always
easier to lower them than to raise them.
Start Marketing on CraigsList.com The next five steps are all free marketing. Start by making regular posts on Craigslist.com.
This is a free classified website that attracts millions of viewers.
You can get some traffic to your website instantly by making some posts
here, and you should continue to repost them every few days.
Start a Meetup.com Group Meetup.comhelps people
with similar interests get together. If a group exists in your area
with potential customers, join it. Try to be invited as a guest speaker
and offer value to members of the group (don’t pitch them). Just by
making friends and helping out you will start to bring in business. If
a MeetUp group for your topic doesn’t exist yet, that’s even better.
Start one up! You’ll be viewed as the authority in the area.
Post a Video to YouTube.com YouTube is a video sharing website, and it gets ridiculous
amounts of traffic. It’s actually easier to make a video than you
think, and it doesn’t have to be professional at all. You can record
one with your digital camera, make a screen recording of your computer
(even a powerpoint presentation)
with software like Camtasia, or purchase a $20 webcam. Teach or show
something useful, and include a link to your site at the end of the
video. You will get traffic!
Network Send an email to all your friends and family (and really
everyone on your contact list) telling them about the business you just
started. Put a note at the end asking them to forward the note to
anyone they know who might be interested (and tell them about the free
offer for the first five customers). You’ll not only reach your network, but you’ll reach your network’s network (an exponential difference). You should also get people’s business cards that you meet (far more effective than giving them since few people will write you back) and offer to help them.
Write an Article and Give it Away! Even if you aren’t a writer, you can put together a great
article. Think of something your potential customers might want to
know. Then write a “top ten” list (e.g. the top ten beginner salsa
moves) or a “ten step” format (e.g. the then steps to learning salsa
basics). Contact the owners of a dozen different websites that your
potential customers might visit, and see if they’d like to use your
article for free. Include a link to your website at the bottom in the
“About the Author” section.
