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Alex asked:


In a current economy domain name investing might be one of few opportunities that save your property from foreclosure.

According to a recent Verisign report, over 162 million Top Level Domain Names (TLDs) have been registered this year up until the end of the first quarter of 2008.

This represents growth of 26% percent year over year and 6% growth as a quarterly comparison.

The Verisign June Domain Name Industry Brief states the company processed peak loads of more than 50 billion Domain Name System (DNS) queries a day during the first quarter of 2008.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

In a current economy when hundreds of thousands people loose their jobs, and investing in neither real estate nor public stock pays off, investing in a web name, domain is a fantastic opportunity.

The .com domain extension is still the most popular, but it’s extremely hard nowadays to locate premium domains directly from domain registrar (a company accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and/or by a national ccTLD authority to register Internet domain names).

But even buying a domain from wholesalers and playing aftermarket trading can pay off few folds.

DO YOUR MATH:

If you ever tried to start tech venture and raise venture capital, you might know that VCs expect the highest return on their investment. 500% is considered great return even by players of high risk investment games that bet millions dollars on each horse that potentially can exist on public market or via acquisition.

You can easily invest in internet domain names very modest amount of money and expect 500% ROI.

Let’s say you buy 1-10 premium brandable domains from a wholesaler for $5000 each.

Even by only holding the domain for few years without developing them, you can easily sell your premium domains for $25,000 each and have $20,000-200,000 net profit (depending on the size of your portfolio) while doing nothing.

Why? Because in 2-3 years Internet will grow beyond ones imagination, more and more laid-off professionals will become self-employed and start registering their businesses and build web sites. But there are only so many premium domains that consist of 1-2 words are available. Doubt it? Try to locate quality brandable domains and see for yourself.

Here are some premium domains, potentially very profitable, that you can buy from aftermarket for a reasonable price and sell few years later with great profit without lifting a finger:

http://www.DomainsThatScream.com

IDEA on how you can make money from the domain above:

The domain is great for affiliates of hosting and related services.

http://www.Adsensetion.com

http://www.SmashingAd.com

IDEA on how you can make money from the domains above:

These premium domains can be sold to advertising agencies, marketing, graphic and web design companies.

http://www.Salecstasy.com

http://www.SalesEcstasy.com

http://www.BuyersJam.com

http://www.BuyerJam.com

http://www.SmashingStore.com

http://www.SmashingShop.com

IDEA on how you can make money from these domains:

Those are top domains that are suitable for those for e-commerce, on-line retailers and their affiliate partners.

http://www.CRMdesigner.com

http://www.CRMjam.com

http://www.ProfitCRM.com

http://www.ChangeCRM.com

http://www.DynamicsCRMdemo.com

IDEA on how you can make money from these domains:

Those are fantastic URLs and soon will be in tremendous demand by customer relationship management (CRM) software companies, their resellers, referral partners and on-line affiliates.

http://www.LawyerJam.com

http://www.LawyersJam.com

http://www.LegalTribute.com

http://www.LawyerRocks.com

http://www.YourLegalAction.com

http://www.LegallyChallenged.com

IDEA on how you can make money from these domains:

Those are very profitable domains that you can sell to legal firms, individual lawyers, their referral partners and on-line affiliates.

http://www.AccountingJam.com

http://www.AccountantJam.com

http://www.AccountantsJam.com

IDEA on how you can make money from these domains:

Those are very profitable domains for legal firms, individual lawyers, their referral partners and on-line affiliates.

http://www.VoteOrganic.com

http://www.ProceedOrganic.com

http://www.AimOrganic.com

http://www.TargetOrganic.com

IDEA on how you can make money from these domains:

Those domains are great investments and can be sold to green, sustainable companies.

http://www.SmashingLoan.com

http://www.SmashingLoans.com

http://www.LoansMystery.com

http://www.Loanier.com

IDEA on how you can make money from these domains:

Those are domains with profitable keywords – great opportunity for accounting firms, individual accountants, their referral partners and on-line affiliates.

http://www.SolarGiver.com

http://www.SolarSpeaks.com

http://www.SolarToBe.com

http://www.SolarJunkies.com

http://www.SolarMastery.com

http://www.SolarItIs.com

http://www.SmashingSolar.com

http://www.ProceedSolar.com

http://www.DoingSolar.com

http://www.SolarDo.com

http://www.SolarTribute.com

http://www.AnnounceSolar.com

http://www.SolarEcstasy.com

IDEA on how you can make money from these domains:

Those domains are great investments and can be sold to alternative energy, green, sustainable companies, solar product manufacturers and resellers.

http://www.RestateBuddies.com

IDEA on how you can make money from these domains:

Great investment. Can be sold to real estate listings, developers and marketers.

http://www.tantra-girls.com

IDEA on how you can make money from these domains:

Fabulous domain that can generate a lot of traffic to tantra lovers and spiritual development fans.

http://www.VirginEthiopia.com

http://www.VirginPhilippines.com

http://www.VirginBangladesh.com

http://www.VirginUkraine.com

IDEA on how you can make money from these domains:

Those domains are great investments for photographers. Can be sold to travel agencies, resort developers etc.

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You even can develop your domains in simple informative web sites and monetize them by placing Google AdSense and affiliate links. It can bring you steady passive income before your big sale day comes.

Still not convinced? Then watch your bank account shrinking during next 5 years while global economy is in the dust.

Jim Zorn asked:


Distance learning and academic libraries have a symbiotic relationship, and the steady support of library resources is vital in making any off-campus courses a success. Academic libraries have continuously supported various forms of teaching on campus, such as regular courses and distance learning in its traditional form as well as its new online avatar. Libraries need to aid the educational process in any higher education institution, and cater to a variety of publics, including students, administration staff, and faculty, regardless of the location. In this day and age, it is important that library personnel are up to date with the mediums of technology being employed for delivering online courses, so that they can provide undeterred assistance to their patrons.

How do Virtual Academic Libraries Work?

Most of the virtual libraries linked to universities offering distance learning programs work in a fashion similar to a physical library. Every student enrolled in any course with any particular college is given a Personal Identification Number, which the student needs to provide to the library manager along with the course details he/she is enrolled in for accessing library resources through email. Most of the colleges give students a unique username and password thereafter, which can be used to browse library catalogs and locate specific articles.

A lot of universities have mutual information sharing, wherein if certain information requested by a student is not available in the library resources of the college he is enrolled in, he can request it from a library resource of a partner college. The University of Houston for example, has a program called ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan internet accessible database) for requesting delivery of books and articles. Any student enrolled with the University of Houston can make a one time registery with this particular delivery format to receive books and articles in the future. Distance Learning and Academic Libraries supporting this form of education have changed the way a traditional library works.

Requirements for Virtual Library Personnel

Virtual library personnel need to have an indepth knowledge of changing technologies and especially of the mediums that a distance education course employs. Understanding the workings of distance learning and academic libraries’ role in making it a success is hugely dependent on how the library personnel implement their knowledge. Library staff today are well versed with technology, and have been long time internet users. Moreover they are familiar with inter-library loans and document delivery and are masters at organizing information.

It is essential to realise that distance learning and academic libraries are partners, where the library staff can work together with the faculty to design online courses. Moreover, due to their prociency with computers, librarians can work as technology advisers for most of the faculty and students of a distance education course. And that is the shape of things to come.

Vikram kuamr asked:


Not too many people are aware of the short run digital printing services being offered in the marketplace nowadays. For many years the advances of printing technology constantly improved the quality of the printed image. However, all that printing technology did not result in reducing the cost of the printing process. Whether you ordered a few hundred or a few thousands, printing cost remained expensive. But today, digital printing has been completely revolutionized the printing process. Short run digital printing makes it possible for small quantities to be ordered at reduced printing costs and can even result in a much faster turnaround for the printed materials.

Short run digital printing is the greatest innovation in the printing business today. The technology answers the needs of both big and small businesses in terms of providing quality custom printing while at the same time controlling their printing costs. Now printing projects are easier, faster and more economical. This printing revolution illustrates that there is a continuous, ongoing effort to finding ways to produce high quality and affordable printing at a cheap price. This is what consumers are responding to; a completely hassle and worry free method of printing.

Short run printing is very advantageous to businesses and companies. There is no need for bulk orders to get cost savings in printing services. The modern technology used in short run digital printing makes it possible to produce even small quantities of 4 color printed products that are affordable for consumers. To completely appreciate the advantages of short run digital printing in these difficult economic times the following points should be thoroughly understood.



Quality printing: There are two printing processes that a consumer can choose from—digital printing and offset printing. Although offset printing has proven to be very high quality and very cost effect on extremely large print, digital printing now offers the same quality printing at a more economical price point. You do not have to worry that quality is being sacrificed because cost is not a factor here.





Fast printing: In our fast moving global economy, speed is of the essence.  With short run digital printing you can have your brochures, flyers, booklets and business cards printed very fast….may times overnight.





Green printing. We are all looking to protect the environment.  Digital printing results in much less waste then traditional offset printing.  With short run printing no plate is required resulting in less waste product.  The digital printing process also does not require many sheets of paper to be run through the press to “make ready” or get the quality just right.  Only one or two sheets need to be printed to check the quality and then the job is run.





Small Order Printing: It is estimated that 31% of all printed materials are thrown out because they have become outdated.  With short run digital printing you can choose to only print the quantities of brochures, booklets, flyers, catalogs, business cards or post cards that you need for the immediate future.  Then if business or economic conditions dictate that you make changes to your documents you do not have to throw away your printed materials.  This concept will help us to contribute less waste to landfills.         





Variable Data printing. Since digital printing does not use a static plate in it’s printing process you can incorporate variable data printing into your documents.  Each brochure, flyer, post card or direct mail piece can be individually personalized with your customer’s name or account information.  Variable data printing can result in much higher response rates which leads to higher profits.





Cost effective printing: Because of the new digital printing technologies it is now economical to print small batches of documents.  You no longer have to print more materials than you actually need just to reach a “price break”.



For fast and high quality digital printing with the best customer service, you do not have to look far because Influence Graphics in New York is the only print shop that guarantees all three. Influence Graphics offer quality services with economical printing costs. It is a completely digital printing shop and that distinction allows them to offer high quality printing with fast turnaround at cheap prices.

Gen Wright asked:


If you are given the task of writing an academic essay, you want to know the best approach to adopt so that you get the best possible grades. On the surface, this sounds easy enough but there is more than meets the eye, as you shall soon see.

Most students think that just by submitting a well researched paper that is written with perfect grammar means that they have a chance for scoring well. Unfortunately, this approach will most likely get them an average score. Let’s take a look at why this is on.

An academic essay is often used as a tool by educational institutions to assess the students in various areas. Different educational systems may have different grading systems. But in general, most will want to grade students according to: amount of research (or the equivalent of effort), understanding of topic, originality of ideas, and expression of ideas. These are the four key areas.

As you can see, it is easy to assess a student’s ability to write and to conduct research. It is also easy to see whether a student has a good grasp of the subject at hand just by reading the paper. For instance, if a student has good command of English, he has a good command of English. There is no two way about it.

The problem is, it’s not so easy when it comes to assessing originality of ideas. What if all the students start coming up with original ideas? Does that mean all of them should get distinctions for their papers? In theory, they should. But in reality, we all know that this is not the case. That is because educational institutions sometimes set thresholds as to how many students can score As, how many can score Bs, and so on. That means even if you have a whole cohort of geniuses, not everyone will get As. Only a handful will be able to get the top grade.

So what does that mean for the student?It means that in order to have a higher chance of scoring top grades, you need to know what your fellow classmates are writing about. Often, you can get a good feel of what the other students are writing just by talking to them.

But note that this does not mean seeing your classmates as the competition. In fact, all of you have the same goal - to score good grades. The challenge, therefore, should be to elevate everyone’s standards by having open discussions about the ideas that you are going to write about. That way, everyone shares and the writing process becomes more fun. As students, the common “enemy” is whoever will be grading the papers. So make the job of the graders as tough as possible by submitting top notch academic essays.

This is the secret that very few students know about. Usually, in any given cohort, only a few students know this. And guess what? They are the ones who score top grades. And they continue to do so on a consistent basis. Know that you know the secret as well, maybe you can score better than them!