October 13th, 2008
Promotional items are a must if you want your business to succeed. Why? Everybody wants promotional items. You can ask your friends, co-workers and neighbors and they can frankly tell you how much they appreciate receiving free items. These are like sacred gifts. One can easily have them and you don’t have to wait for birthday, Christmas, or any holiday to have them.
The giving of promotional items is a very popular marketing and business strategy. If you have a brand, a business or a product to promote, one of the best ways to do it is through the release of promotional products.
Promotional products can only do one thing – that is to promote your product. The effectiveness of this technique is comparable to popular forms of advertising like TV, radio, print and even new media. As long as the promotional product carries your brand it will do wonders.
Now, are you wondering where to get promotional products? Since it is free, it is okay to distribute poor quality promotional products? The first question is easy. You can always hire a company that manufactures items that can be used as promotion. Try a ballpen maker, a keychain crafter, a bad decorator, or a gift specialist in your area. They may have packages or bulk rates that can answer your need. The second question is a little rhetoric. Since this article already explained the importance and impact that promotional items have, it is logical to understand that promotional items, even they are cheap should be of good quality. You don’t want to give away something that people will not really use. People will only keep the item if they find it useful. Otherwise they will just throw it. If you distribute a giveaway product that has low quality, then that would be like bringing down your business ten times faster.
Tags: business strategy, corporate gifts, gift specialist, keychain, marketing, promotional items, promotional product, promotional products, srednarb
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October 4th, 2008
The latest version of Drupal is 6.4 The version 6.x has many advantage like security fix and many new features. So, its recommended to upgrade your Drupal site to latest Drupal version, currently 6.4 Upgrading to Drupal 6.x is must easier than previous version upgrade. Here is the step by step guide to upgrade your Drupal 5.x web site to Drupal 6.x
Before you start upgrade process from Drupal 5.x to Drupal 6.x version, read this carefully:
- Make sure you meet minimum requirement for Drupal 6.x.
Web Server:
Apache 1.3 or Apache 2.x hosted on Unix/Linux or Windows.
IIS5 or IIS6, IIS7 if PHP is configured correctly.
PHP:
Recommended: PHP 5.2 or higher.
Required: PHP version 4.3.5 or higher.
Database Server:
MySQL 4.1 or MySQL 5.0
PostgreSQL 7.4 or higher
- Make a backup of all files and database. If anything goes wrong during upgrade process, than you can restore your Drupal 5.x web site. Must make a copy “Files” and “Site” Folder from the Drupal installation directory on your local system.
- If your site needs some particular module, ensure that those modules are available because few Drupal 5.x modules are still not available.
- Disable all contributed modules and set your Drupal site to default theme such as Garland or Bluemarine. You should upgrade modules and themes after you have completed core Drupal upgradation.
- Login in Drupal 5.x web site administrator panel. Navigate to modules setting page. Disable update_status module and uninstall this modul
- Again in Drupal 5.x admin panel, navigate to Logs -> Status report
If there is any problem fix it before upgrade.
- Upgrade all installed modules to its latest version available for Drupal 5.x
- Set your Drupal site to off-line mode. This can be done as follow. In Drupal admin panel Navigate to : Administrator -> Site Configuration -> Site maintenance -> select site status as off-line -> Save Configuration.
- Now using any FTP delete all files and folder from the Drupal installation directory.
- Download the latest version of Drupal 6.x from drupal.org. Unpack the files and upload it to the Drupal installation directory.
- Copy and paste “Files” and “Site” Folder from your backup to Drupal installation directory.
- If other system files such as .htaccess or robots.txt were customized, re-create the modifications in the new versions of the files using the backups.
- Run update.php by visiting http://www.example.com/update.php (replace www.example.com with your Drupal installation's domain name and path).
- Replace all custom old modules to their latest version compatible with version 6.x
- Re-enable custom and contributed modules and re-run update.php to update custom and contributed database tables.
- Upload any new theme for your site and enable it.
- Now you have updated your Drupal 5.x website to Drupal 6.x . Now login to admin panel and set your website status to online mode.
Tags: Drupal, drupal installation, drupal upgrade, version upgrade
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October 3rd, 2008
Birthdays are never complete until you’ve said ‘Happy Birthday’ to a friends or loved ones on their birthdays. So go ahead and make this day all the more special for ‘em. Copy/paste the code to their myspace, friendster profile or site and make them smile .
For more Happy Birthday Glitters visit www.glitters8.com
Tags: friendster code, happy birthday, happy birthday glitter. myspace code
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October 2nd, 2008
Finally finished reading the ebook Guerilla Blogger’s Strategy and Tactics on how to make money online by Marghil Macuha and Zigfred Diaz, it’s a good ebook that discusses different method on how to established site, getting traffic and make money online the Guerilla’s way!
The foundation of the book revolves around a very basic [...]
Tags: guerilla, guerilla marketing, how to make money online, strategy and tactics
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September 16th, 2008
For not responding to my support ticket for a month and suspending my hosting every month!!!
Found Hagio Host on Digitalpoint giving a special promotion for proxy owner. I tried the hosting for a month and it seems good, few downtime because of large traffic (still bearable, since i’m using basic package). That month also I [...]
Tags: digitalpoint, headache, hosting, nightmare, Proxy, proxy hosting, support ticket
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September 16th, 2008
I just notice today that Friendster is now using Wordpress as blog platform, now blogging is much easier! I leave my friendster blog because of the difficulties on the platform, actually it sucks and that’s the main reason :). So now that friendster has switched to Worpress powered, it’s a good news for us who [...]
Tags: friendster
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September 14th, 2008
Marquez has since moved up to 135 pounds himself, defeating the linear lightweight title holder Cuban Joel Casamayor on September 13, 2008 at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas. He defeated Casamayor by stopping him in the 11th round after two knockdowns. Marquez (49-4-1, 36 KOs) floored Casamayor (36-4-1), 37, with a right hand that smashed [...]
Tags: casamayor vs marquez, joel casamayor, juan manuel marquez, replay, replay videos, sopcast, tvu
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