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A Simple Solution to Keeping Up with the Experts and Growing Your Business

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

As a business owner you know it’s important to spend a good chunk of your time planning and growing your business. Much of that time is also spent collecting and reviewing information from various industry experts.

In fact, each particular aspect of internet marketing and entrepreneurship has experts whom we turn to for advice. This expert advice and information is valuable and is used to help you plan and grow your business. And when you find a reputable, successful, credible and easy to understand expert it just makes good sense to learn from them.

Think about your own business and your own collection of expert advice. You probably have specific experts or websites you turn to for:

Copywriting

List builing & email marketing

Resell rights & private label right products

Product creation

Mindset

Technology & software

Content writing

Teleseminars and webinars

Marketing blueprints and templates

Traffic generation

Affiliate marketing

And more.

Trying to keep up with all this content poses a problem, actually it poses several problems.

The first and maybe the biggest problem is that you have to keep track of all of this content. Most of the time this means organizing the PDFs, audio and video files you download into labeled files on your desktop. This of course is bulky and by the time you get around to reading it, the information is outdated. You’ve wasted your time and potentially your money.

If you actually took the time to read all of the content you download from your chosen experts you’d spend weeks just reading and not really getting much else done. While there’s a lot to say for getting an education online, you’re a business person and your time is money.

You need faster, easier access to all of the most recent information.

The Simpler Solution Is a Membership Site.

A membership site makes it significantly easier to stay on top of the most recent changes, trends, and information in your industry and in the world of internet marketing. Internet marketing changes quickly as technology changes, customers’ needs change and marketing techniques and strategies change.

A membership site beats a static e-book or even a multi-media course, because it is a living entity, which grows as you do. Membership site owners, if it’s a quality site, are always adding fresh material, as better ways and new techniques evolve.

And when it comes to buying resell products, to sell, giveaway and/or promote for affiliate income, it makes much more sense to belong to a membership site where you know the content isn’t being distributed to thousands of people and you know the products are quality products.

So this makes the content overload problem a bit simpler, right?

Now, instead of downloading tons and tons of content to put in the “To read soon” file on your computer, all you have to do is schedule time during your week to visit your membership site and see what’s new. Many membership sites also have an RSS feed and are great about keeping you up to date on all the new information being added to the site.

Or better yet, if you’re planning your business, as you should be on a regular basis, and you’re working on say your product launch plan for the next couple of months, you can simply go to the membership site that focuses on product launching techniques and strategies and use the most recent and up to date information to help you plan.

But there’s still a potential problem.

Too many membership sites can also be overwhelming not just because you have to remember all of your membership sites and log-on information but perhaps more importantly all those membership fees really add up.

It’s like belonging to ten different gyms. One for weight lifting, one for swimming, one for yoga, one for cycling and so on. Sure you’re getting the best of the best information but you’re also spending a ton of cash on all of those memberships.

A Simple Solution

A simple solution has been found. It’s a single entry point that accesses the best of all the membership sites online and groups them into one single membership. The benefits, beyond not having to keep track of all of the membership sites you belong to and their corresponding log-in information is the fact that it’s just plain cost effective.

This simple solution means you can access copywriting experts, product creation experts, access resell rights products, utilize cutting edge software, find blueprints, templates and everything else you need to build a successful internet business all on one membership site.

To learn more about how you can grow your business with this simple solution to expert content overload and how you can access the best membership sites from one single privileged membership, Visit PrivlegedMemberships.com

To Your Success!

Warm Regards,
Jeremy & Simon

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What is Apache? How it Affects Your Websites

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Apache Defined -  What It Is, What It Does, And How It Affects Your Business…

What is Apache?

Apache, is an HTTP web server that is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the Apache Software Foundation.  “The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.”

Apache is noted for having had an integral role in the initial growth and development of the World Wide Web and was the first practical alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server.  Today, Apache rivals the biggest Unix based servers in functionality and performance. 

Uses

Apache used to serve both static content and dynamic Web pages on the World Wide Web.   The quick and dirty definition of a server is a Software that sends web site pages back to browsers.  The benefit of Apache is that it is

Apache is used for many other tasks where content needs to be made available in a secure and reliable way. One example is sharing files from a personal computer over the Internet. A user who has Apache installed on their desktop can put arbitrary files in the Apache’s document root which can then be shared.

Additionally, some programmers test their web application code on a local server, installed with Apache.  Programmers developing web applications often use a locally installed version of Apache in order to preview and test code as it is being developed.

What does it mean to you?

If you host your own website, or plan to, then you will need a server.  Apache has many benefits that are discussed in the next section.  Among them is the fact that it is free and it is extremely stable and widely acceptable.  But what if you don’t host your own website?  Why should you care about Apache?  Maybe you won’t, however if you’re doing any kind of programming, say you’re going to add some scripts or applications to your website, you will want to make sure the language you use is compatible with Apache. 

Benefits
 
Quite simply, Apache is free. 

It is available for a wide variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare, Linux and Mac OS X.

Apache supports a variety of common language interfaces including mod_perl, mod_python, Tcl, and PHP.

Virtual hosting allows one Apache installation to serve many different websites.

Apache features configurable error messages, which will help guide your visitors to the right area of your website rather than lose them all together.

Apache can run on virtually any hardware platform, which means you don’t have to go out and buy new hardware.

Apache is extremely secure, partially because it has such a long history and is so widely used.  The open source nature of it also means that there are a committed group of people working on making Apache the best server software available.

Apache interfaces with just about any database including commercial products like Oracle, Sybase, DB2, and Informix and open source databases like MySQL. This is important if you want to access statistics about your website traffic and usage, if you want to track customer information, orders, accounting numbers and reports, create forms, forums, and other various database uses.

Apache is generally safe from the variety of viruses that commonly attach Microsoft Web servers.

Because of its size and success, Apache has attracted numerous developers from around the world. These wonderful developers have created modules, or blocks of code designed to do things like letting you run CGI scripts whenever a file of a certain type is requested. Many of these modules can be found at http://modules.apache.org/.  And Apache is intuitive enough that it is easy to create a module if you can’t find what you need and there are many books written on the subject.

While tech support is not what you might get from a commercial software product, a product you’ve paid tons of money for, Apache does offer bug reporting services, forums to discuss how to solve problems and they are quick to find solutions to bugs and security issues.  Additionally, any security issues or bugs reported are posted on the organization’s website along with updates to resolve them and users can subscribe to a mailing list to receive bug reports and updates in your email box.

Drawbacks

Apache has of late, since 2006, lost some of its market share.  Most of this share has been lost to Microsoft Internet Information Services and the .NET platform.

No real technical support.  Here is the quote you will find on the Apache website, “With millions of users and fewer than sixty volunteer developers, we cannot provide personal support for Apache. For free support, we suggest participating in a user forum.”  That being said, there are numerous commercial support companies available. 

Bottom Line

Even if you never decide to host your own website, plan to set up a web server, or even want to test code before you integrate it into your website, it is helpful, and beneficial to educate yourself about the uses and benefits of Apache simply because it affects your business.  As your company grows you will likely want your website to be more than a static page.  Apache, and all of its flexibility, enables your business website to not only become more interactive but to provide you a number of resources to research and connect with your customers.  Apache is sponsored by Google, Yahoo, and HP just to name a few which means it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.  Plus…it’s free!

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