5 Benefits Of Using Feeds - How Feeds Can Help Your E-Business

 Feeds are a way of sharing content. When you make material from your website available for publishing on other sites, you provide them with a feed. Basically, it’s a code that lets them post your articles and blogs. There are different kinds of code—XML, RSS, Atom, etc.—but essentially they’re all just different ways of accessing a feed.

According to internet expert Sydney Johnston, “The great thing about a feed is everybody wins.” The article writer gain...

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What’s a Feed?

Feeds are a way of sharing content. When you make material from your website available for publishing on other sites, you provide them with a feed. Basically, it’s a code that lets them post your articles and blogs. There are different kinds of code—XML, RSS, Atom, etc.—but essentially they’re all just different ways of accessing a feed.

According to internet expert Sydney Johnston, “The great thing about a feed is everybody wins.” The article writer gains exposure, the reader learns about something of interest to them, and the online seller gets an endless source of pertinent content.

What Can a Feed Do for My Online Business?

Feeds are useful in a number of different ways:

• They Eliminate Spam-filters. They’re 100% opt-in, so readers can subscribe and unsubscribe at will. Feeds are delivered directly to your subscribers, so you don’t contend with filters knocking you out of their inboxes.

• They Provide Free Content. One of the best ways to differentiate your site is to supply readers with interesting material—educate them on topics relating to the product you’re selling.

 If you sell preschool toys, chances are you don’t want to study child development and write numerous articles on the subject—so find someone else who’s already done that and make their feed available to your customers. The constantly updating, applicable subject matter gives your visitors a reason to keep coming back.

• They Can Improve Yur Search Engine Rankings. In the past, search engines were unable to read feeds, but the software is now available to translate them into live links the engines can see (check out http://CyberWS.com). Search engines love fresh, dynamic content, so feeds are ideal. They provide relevant information that updates automatically. Not only do your customers get the facts they’re looking for, but the search engines like your site and give it a better position.

• For Affiliate Marketers, They’re an Alternative to Banners. You not only give your customer valuable knowledge but if they click through and purchase something, you get credit. And unlike with banners, you don’t look like you’re putting up junk ads or spam.

• They Can Increase Your Traffic. Anything you write, you should make available as a feed. When other sites pick it up, it’s free advertising for you—all their traffic is able to click through the feed to your site. So you gain new potential customers you wouldn’t have otherwise.

Feeds on any subject are easy to find. There’s a whole collection of search engines just for feeds, like http://Plazoo.com and http://Feedster.com. Says Johnston, “The future of the internet for entrepreneurs is fed. If people don’t master them, they’re going to get left behind, period.”

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"Life With Woody" 10 inspirational quotes than can improve yourself

 It might take a little coffee or probably a few rounds of beer or any other booze you could get your hands-on when it comes to relaxing after a hard day's work. 

Well, yeah I'm guilty about that one as well unless I'm caught dead wearing a lampshade over my head after a few rounds of vodka… half-naked! Okay, bad example and I apologize to everyone reading this after getting nightmares about me in that state of drunken stupor.

Just don't ask how it happened, please.

But what's really interesting is that how do people go through the usual part of life when faced with vein-popping stress? 

I mean, the new age thing like Zen or yoga is one of the good things and it actually works. Is there room for the intellectual side of people who can actually smell the roses-in-a-can while on the move? It kind of had me thinking that there really must be something in this 'mind-over-matter' thing.

Humor is indeed the best medicine there is whenever you are. I mean anyone can pay good money to listen to a comedian just to make you wet your pants after laughing so hard. 

Regardless of what's been happening, and to those who have gone through the ordeal, it's better to just laugh while facing the troubles with a clear mind than anger with a clouded vision. One of my favorite celebrities of all time may have to be Woody Allen.

 Now, this is one guy who gives you the in-your-face bluntness that he pulls out with gusto, even without even trying. You can talk just about anything with a man, and he's bound to mock the subject and you'll end up laughing rather than being upset about it.

Woody Allen has this to say:

1. "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." It sounds good to me, I mean the practicality of all things does involve money but it doesn't have to take an arm and a leg to get it.

2. "I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government." 'Nuff said.

3. "There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" This happens to be one of the classic ones. I mean the issue about life's little problems isn't all that bad, until 'he' shows up.

Sure, relationships can get complicated or do have the complications that probably any author about relationships is bound to discover it soon. 

We follow what our heart desires unless you're talking about the heart as in the heart that pumps blood throughout your body.

4. "Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions." And if you want more, just keep on asking!

5. "A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'." It sounds, 'practical', I think.

And when it comes to everyday life, he really knows how to make the best out of every possible scenario, and it doesn't involve a lawsuit if he strikes a nerve.

6. "Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats." I never had a boat in my bathtub before. Just staring at it while soaking in hot water makes me seasick already.

7. "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." If it rains, it pours.

8. "I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." It could get worse when you're guzzling on beer… or mouthwash, and it happened to me once!

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"Relaxing with a Mental PDA" Your 5 minutes daily program to Stress management

 We all have this favorite expression when it comes to being stressed out, and I wouldn't bother naming all of them since it may also vary in different languages. But when it comes down to it, 

I think that it is how we work or even relax, for that matter that triggers stress.

 Ever been stressed even when you're well relaxed and bored? I know I have.

Since Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. is unavoidable in life, it is important to find ways to decrease and prevent stressful incidents and decrease negative reactions to stress. 

Here are some of the things that can be done by just remembering it, since life is basically a routine to follow like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. You can do a few of them in a longer span of time, but as they say-- every minute counts.

Managing time

Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress.

To improve your time management:

• · Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself. 
• · Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family, and leisure time. 
• · Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful to you. 
• · Manage your commitments by not over- or under committing.
• -  Don't commit to what is not important to you. 
• · Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines. 
• · Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like. 
• Build healthy coping strategies

It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction, and how you cope in a stress journal. 

With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.

Lifestyle

Some behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your stress level. They may not cause stress directly, but they can interfere with the ways your body seeks relief from stress. 

Try to:

• · Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations. 
• · Have a sense of purpose in life. 
• · Get enough sleep since your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping. 
• · Eat a balanced diet for a nutritional defense against stress. 
• · Get moderate exercise throughout the week. 
• · Limit your consumption of alcohol. 
• · Don't smoke. 

Social support

Social support is a major factor in how we experience stress. Social support is the positive support you receive from family, friends, and the community.

 It is the knowledge that you are cared for, loved, esteemed, and valued. More and more research indicates a strong relationship between social support and better mental and physical health.

Changing thinking

When an event triggers negative thoughts, you may experience fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions trigger the body's stress, just as an actual threat does. 

Dealing with your negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce stress.

• · Thought-stopping helps you stop a negative thought to help eliminate stress. 
• · Disproving irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating the negative thought, anticipating the worst, and interpreting an event incorrectly. 
• · Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it. 
• · Changing your communication style helps you communicate in a way that makes your views known without making others feel put down, hostile, or intimidated. 
• This reduces the stress that comes from poor communication. 
• Use the assertiveness ladder to improve your communication style. 

Even writers like me can get stressed even though we're just using our hands to do the talking, but having to sit for 7 or 8 hours is already stressful enough, and have our own way to relieve stress. 

Whether you're the mail guy, the CEO, or probably the average working parent, stress is one unwanted visitor you would love to boot out of your homes, especially your life.

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Why not Watch an Anger Management Movie? + Why Children may Benefit from Anger Management

 Since anger management seems to be a huge problem in society today, there have been many programs developed, books are written, Internet websites created and anger management movies filmed. Although all of this help is in place and available for anyone, not all people with anger issues benefit from the same source.

 For some people attending an anger management program may be effective and cause major changes in their behavior. Being able to steal away alone with a book may be helpful to a person with anger issues. Seeing their problems in print and being able to sort through it in their mind might be a great anger management tool. 

The Internet is a great source regarding anger management and some may find it helpful to view the different sites and read stories about individuals with anger management issues. However for many people who have difficulties controlling their anger, watching an anger management movie might be what it takes to break them out of their pattern of angry outbursts.

Watching an anger management movie would make the individual actually see, with their own eyes and hear with their own ears, just what anger does to a person and those around them.

 An anger management movie would likely provide illustrations and situations where individuals act on their anger.

 The movie may apply exactly to an individual's current circumstance. It may hit home - so to speak. Watching the actors play out their lives and their behavior may be an eye-opener. 

It may take watching a husband abuse a child or wife, a mother attacking her kid, a child bullying another child, to realize that anger is a significant problem. 

When an angry person is in their situation, they are likely blaming it on whoever gets in the way.

 Being in the picture they are incapable of watching their performance. 

If given the chance to see it on the big screen, they might be surprised and even devastated by their actions. 

Watching an anger management movie would probably be like watching yourself in a similar situation. This may be the tool that works best for some individuals. 

An anger management movie will not only give illustrations of the actual situations involving anger. The movie will likely provide information regarding anger management techniques. 

Using these techniques and the characters in the movie, likely there would be illustrations of people being introduced to anger management techniques and programs. 

The movie would explain the steps to dealing with anger issues.

 This type of anger management movie might be the answer to many people's problems.

 It would be fitting if the anger management movie showed the person in the same situation as the first scene, as a changed individual. Showing how the individual was able to receive help through anger management and turn their lives around, may just be the incentive needed. 

No doubt there are all sorts of anger management movies available. 

The Internet is a great source of information regarding anger management and anger management resources such as books and anger management movies. 

If you think you or someone you know would benefit from watching an anger management movie, it would be a wise idea to get your hands on one.

Why Children may Benefit from Anger Management

Dealing with children who have anger problems may be challenging and require thought and imagination. A child's mind is normally not developed enough to deal with intense feelings of anger. They cope with these emotions in their own childlike manner which usually involves acting out or throwing a tantrum. 

Unaware of the specifics which cause these behavioral actions, children are not prepared to explain or share their feelings. 

Finding programs and resources for effective anger management in children will likely require planning and well thought out programs. 

A person who is developing an anger management program for children needs to consider activities and exercises that may interest children. Sticking a child in a support group setting or arranging an appointment with a psychiatrist will not likely produce positive results.

 Since the child doesn't understand their feelings of anger themselves, it would be difficult to share or talk about them with others.

 Children would benefit from anger management activities designed specifically to address their problems. 

Children are familiar with worksheets, coloring pages, and puzzles. These sorts of activities are used daily in the school setting. Incorporating anger management lessons into these activities would make sense. Anger management worksheets could be disguised as fun and interesting. 

These anger management worksheets could teach techniques and strategies for controlling anger in such a way that children would understand and respond to it. 

Using familiar situations in coloring pages or related words in puzzles may help a child to deal with anger issues without making the situation complicated. 

Children love to play games and have fun. 

Besides using anger management worksheets, it might be beneficial to incorporate games into a children's anger management program. 

Many issues regarding anger in children arise from jealousy and competition.

 Playing games that teach children healthy interaction with other children as well as a fair play would make a difference in their behavior. Teaching children that it's alright to play games and not always be the winner would be beneficial to a child's behavioral development. 

Designing activities that include role-playing might help children to realize that they can't always be the center of attention. 

Anger management for children can be taught in all sorts of ways which will be both productive as well as enjoyable.

When children display signs of anger and upset, anger management worksheets could be used to uncover the underlying problem. 

Listing different possibilities for their anger and having them read over them to see which statements apply to them might be beneficial in treating kids with anger issues. Simple sentences, using everyday dilemmas that a child might encounter could be used in these anger management worksheets. 

Children may not even realize the reason for these worksheets yet they may be providing relevant information that could help in the treatment of their problem. In order to create an anger management worksheet that will benefit children, the individual needs to understand how a child's mind works, as well as what interests them and use this knowledge to develop an effective anger management program for children.

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Looking at the Entire Picture (2nd article)

 To improve your personal life you have to consider the whole pie.

 You have to review your liability, behaviors, actions, emotional responses, and overall standard of living. Once you review the details, you will find it easier to move ahead and make the necessary changes.

 To get started begin with a checklist. 

How are your behaviors?

What are your behaviors? 

Do you engage in activities that lead to negative consequences? 

Do you drink heavily? 

Do you drug? 

Do you smoke? 

Do you associate with the wrong crowd? 

 If you engage in activities that lead toward negative consequences, likely you are not looking at the whole pie. Rather you may act before you speak or do something. 

What you need to do is to consider consequences before you speak or act.

 If you drink heavily, perhaps you have an alcohol problem. 

There is nothing wrong with admitting you have a problem. 

You will need to seek help. 

There is nothing wrong with seeking help. 

If you have a drug problem, you will need to apply the same rules mentioned when handling alcoholism.

 If you smoke, you want to consider ways to stop. You will need willpower and the goal of quite.

 If you associate with the wrong crowd, you will need to evaluate your situation. 

What do these people bring to your table? Do they give or take from you? 

How do you handle problems?

Every day there is some kind of a problem that has to be thought out and decided what to do about the issue. What are some things that you can go to help? You should always think about the problem before you make a decision on the issue. You will make healthier decisions by looking at the entire picture. If the problem is too big for you to handle alone, ask for help. Talk with friends, family, or experts. 

How about paying your bills: 

DO you pay bills on time? Paying bills is a major problem that leads to many hassles. If you pay your bills on time, however, you can reduce some of these hassles.

 Failing to pay bills only builds stress.

 You will need to set a budget that works within your means to pay your bills on time. Maybe you can get a better paying job, so you make more money.  

There might be some times that you are late but you should try to keep up as best as you can this will help take off some stress.

Do you visit your doctor regularly?

Keeping your doctor visits and exercising will help relieve stress. Visiting your doctor regularly will help you keep an eye on your health. Healthy people live a productive life. 

What actions do you take to improve your life?

As long as you think things out before you make a decision you will work to improve your personal life. You will also need to take steps to reduce stress, by avoiding harmful actions, such as smoking, drugs, or alcoholism. 

You can benefit by paying bills on time, visiting your doctor, exercise the mind and body daily, and so on, constantly improving yourself, till you see the wanted results.

If you have problems quitting on your own, remember help is available. You have many options, including inpatient services, outpatient services, group support, one-on-one services, and more. To learn more about these services go online. You will also find help at local government agencies in your area. 

To improve your life you can also volunteer to help someone. You can wrap a gift this year for a homeless or deprived child. Many things you can do to improve your personal life. 

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