[Embedded_C_VC] PPC Basics For Small Businesses

2009-03-27 Thread Lexie Lee
PPC Basics For Small Businesses Pay per click or PPC is often discussed in terms of a wider internet marketing campaign, or as a method for large businesses with huge advertising budgets to buy their way to the top of the search engines. However, small businesses and SMEs can benefit fro

[Embedded_C_VC] Amazon Vs eBay - Which is the Best Option For Online Sellers?

2009-03-24 Thread Lexie Lee
Amazon Vs eBay - Which is the Best Option For Online Sellers? With Amazon increasing more 30% every year on 3rd party sales and recent news of layoffs in eBay, the question of selling on eBay or selling on Amazon is more important to online sellers now than ever. The economic slowdown an

[Embedded_C_VC] How to Write an Interview Winning Resume

2009-03-21 Thread Lexie Lee
How to Write an Interview Winning Resume Since I get the same question from many of my clients about using one resume for multiple job targets, I thought it would be a great topic to cover. When writing your resume, it's a good idea to remember the purpose of the document. The fact is an

[Embedded_C_VC] 10 ways to be a good manager during a recession

2009-03-20 Thread Lexie Lee
10 ways to be a good manager during a recession It's tough enough to be an effective manager when the economy is strong. But making the right decisions, keeping staff focused, and maintaining IT service levels may seem next to impossible when you're managing through an economic crisis. H

[Embedded_C_VC] FTC urged to investigate Google’s hosted services

2009-03-19 Thread Lexie Lee
FTC urged to investigate Google's hosted services A privacy group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Google Inc.'s cloud computing services, including the popular Gmail hosted e-mail service, Google Docs and the Picasa photo sharing service, adequately protect

[Embedded_C_VC] Facebook Marketing - Top Tips For Small Businesses

2009-03-16 Thread Lexie Lee
Facebook Marketing - Top Tips For Small Businesses There are plenty of social networking sites out there today, but none is growing faster right now than Facebook. Facebook marketing will be essential for small businesses who want to take advantage of the most current trends in social ne

[Embedded_C_VC] Career Advice - Stick to the Truth in Your Resume

2009-03-15 Thread Lexie Lee
Career Advice - Stick to the Truth in Your Resume No doubt about it. These are tough times. Jobs are hard to come by and to hold. It is not surprising, then, that job seekers may be tempted to pad their resumes. That is, be less than truthful about their skills, experience, even their re

[Embedded_C_VC] Reality of Software Piracy

2009-03-14 Thread Lexie Lee
Reality of Software Piracy Joe is average computer user. He uses software on his computer for regular things like writing resume for job search, editing photos from vacation trip, making personal website, playing games, backing up important files on CD etc. While surfing the Internet hi

[Embedded_C_VC] Opt in Emails Must Be Tested

2009-03-10 Thread Lexie Lee
Opt in Emails Must Be Tested Having to do an analysis is enough to make anyone run. This is especially so if the subject of your analysis is opt in emails. These emails can form a very long list or even more than one list. If you do have extensive mailing lists then you are enticing view

[Embedded_C_VC] 25 Best Outdoors iPhone Apps

2009-03-08 Thread Lexie Lee
25 Best Outdoors iPhone Apps Not even a year ago, there were those who questioned the hoopla over the iPhone. And here we are now, secure in the knowledge that Apple's micro-Mac isn't just a radical new phone, it's a revolution in computing, communication, entertainment, and connectivity

[Embedded_C_VC] The 8 Biggest Severance Package Mistakes

2009-03-03 Thread Lexie Lee
The 8 Biggest Severance Package Mistakes It does not matter whether your company calls it a "mass layoff", "reductions-in-force", "position elimination", "downsizing", "outsourcing", "restructuring", or some other euphemism for having your employment terminated with only two hours notice

[Embedded_C_VC] Financial Literacy 101

2009-03-02 Thread Lexie Lee
Financial Literacy 101 It doesn't take a genius to understand money. Money is nothing more than a tool, no different than a hammer and nail, or even a computer. It is a means to an end and should never be feared. Money is misunderstood by too many people and rather than being able to har

[Embedded_C_VC] EFT For Job Interview Stress - How to Tap Away Your Worries With EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)

2009-03-01 Thread Lexie Lee
EFT For Job Interview Stress - How to Tap Away Your Worries With EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Nervous about your job interview? Worried you'll say something wrong? Read on and discover EFT, short for Emotional Freedom Technique, a very powerful way to ease intense and stressful emot

[Embedded_C_VC] How to Keep Staff Motivated in Tough Times

2009-02-28 Thread Lexie Lee
How to Keep Staff Motivated in Tough Times What does it really matter whether or not staff enjoy their job, are enthusiastic and happy in their roles, so long as they get the job done? Well studies show that enthusiastic, motivated employees are more effective, productive, take less time

[Embedded_C_VC] Get Started on eBay

2009-02-27 Thread Lexie Lee
Get Started on eBay You've decided to get started on eBay as a seller; before you throw yourself all in there are a few things you need to consider first. What do you sell? Firstly the most important thing is to always sell what you know, it will be easier to put together a good descript

[Embedded_C_VC] Is Customer Service Better Then Sex?

2009-02-26 Thread Lexie Lee
Is Customer Service Better Then Sex? Over the years many things have been suggested to be "better than sex". For example, I've heard sky diving, mountain climbing and other extreme sports are often subjects of this comparison. But I've never heard anyone suggest that offering good custom

[Embedded_C_VC] Comparison of Laser Hair Removal Methods

2009-02-25 Thread Lexie Lee
Comparison of Laser Hair Removal Methods Getting rid of unsightly or unwanted body hair is something that most adults spend some time dealing with. Traditionally women have been more concerned with "unsightly" hair because it is generally considered unacceptable for a woman to have obvio

[Embedded_C_VC] 10+ air travel tips for IT pros

2009-02-20 Thread Lexie Lee
10+ air travel tips for IT pros Flying has become trickier than it once was - especially if you're packing a laptop and other electronic gadgetry. Here's some basic advice, along with a few pointers for traveling techs, to help make the trip go as smoothly as possible. Traveling by air u

[Embedded_C_VC] 10+ air travel tips for IT pros

2009-02-20 Thread Lexie Lee
10+ air travel tips for IT pros Flying has become trickier than it once was - especially if you're packing a laptop and other electronic gadgetry. Here's some basic advice, along with a few pointers for traveling techs, to help make the trip go as smoothly as possible. Traveling by air u

[Embedded_C_VC] The industry's 10 best IT certifications

2009-02-18 Thread Lexie Lee
The industry's 10 best IT certifications IT pros tend to have strong opinions when debating the value of professional certification - and views become even more polarized when it comes down to a discussion of which certs are meaningful. Erik Eckel put together a list of the accreditation

[Embedded_C_VC] Reality of Software Piracy

2009-02-14 Thread Lexie Lee
Reality of Software Piracy Joe is average computer user. He uses software on his computer for regular things like writing resume for job search, editing photos from vacation trip, making personal website, playing games, backing up important files on CD etc. While surfing the Internet hi

[Embedded_C_VC] Personalized Bank Checks

2009-02-05 Thread Lexie Lee
Personalized Bank Checks If you want to find a unique way to express yourself, consider personal checks. At first thought, these bland instruments used for withdrawals and deposits might seem the unlikeliest of places to show your true colors. But checks have come along way since their i

[Embedded_C_VC] Reviving a Lost Friendship

2009-02-05 Thread Lexie Lee
Reviving a Lost Friendship A friendship can be lost because of many reasons. Some lost friendships are not always worth reviving and, it will depend on the clear circumstances as to what led to the breakup. The following are some of the common reasons for lost friendships. First, you mig

[Embedded_C_VC] How to Flirt With Girls - 3 Most Mind Blowing Flirting Tips You Should Not Miss at Any Cost

2009-02-01 Thread Lexie Lee
How to Flirt With Girls - 3 Most Mind Blowing Flirting Tips You Should Not Miss at Any Cost Flirting is a way of attracting attention and making advances towards a person to whom you yourself are attracted. There are ways and ways of flirting, but we shall begin with just three tips firs

[Embedded_C_VC] 3 NAS devices offer big-time storage for small networks

2009-01-29 Thread Lexie Lee
3 NAS devices offer big-time storage for small networks We are collecting and keeping more information today than ever before. Whether it's video, pictures, music, or just plain old gobs of e-mail and text messages, all that information has to be stored and backed up. Even in a down econ

[Embedded_C_VC] AMD sees no Geode chip replacement in sight

2009-01-28 Thread Lexie Lee
AMD sees no Geode chip replacement in sight Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said it has no replacement planned for the aging Geode low-power chip, creating uncertainty for its use in products like future XO laptops made by One Laptop Per Child. There won't be a Geode successor, and the compa

[Embedded_C_VC] Majority of Web users share personal data online

2009-01-27 Thread Lexie Lee
Majority of Web users share personal data online LONDON - Although 84% of Internet users claim they never give out personal details online, the reality is very different, said AOL LLC. According to research conducted by the Web portal, 89% of Internet users have at some point willingly g

[Embedded_C_VC] Is Obama's handheld a BlackBerry or something else?

2009-01-25 Thread Lexie Lee
Is Obama's handheld a BlackBerry or something else? The decision announced yesterday that President Barack Obama will keep his BlackBerry, or some model of a wireless handheld, amid tight White House security would seem to take a back seat to concerns about global terrorism and economic

[Embedded_C_VC] Amazon cloud could be hijacked to harvest BitTorrent files, researcher says

2009-01-24 Thread Lexie Lee
Amazon cloud could be hijacked to harvest BitTorrent files, researcher says Cloud services are now vulnerable to malicious use, a security company has suggested, after a techie worked out how Amazon's EC2 service could be used as a BitTorrent file harvester and host. Amazon's Elastic Com

[Embedded_C_VC] Fitness Myths Busted!

2009-01-23 Thread Lexie Lee
Fitness Myths Busted! Shoehorning your workout into a few days a week is challenging enough-don't make it tougher by buying into those nagging exercise misconceptions that may divert your attention from pursuing your better body goals. SELF went to the pros to poke holes in these popular

[Embedded_C_VC] Facebook has a Bigger Population than Japan and Russia!

2009-01-22 Thread Lexie Lee
Facebook has a Bigger Population than Japan and Russia! It was only a matter of time. Social network Facebook says it has hit the milestone of 150 million active users, just more than two months after reaching 120 million and about four months after reaching 100 million. The site hit 140

[Embedded_C_VC] BlackBerry Bold 9000 Smartphone

2009-01-21 Thread Lexie Lee
BlackBerry Bold 9000 Smartphone The BlackBerry Bold 9000 Smartphone is a fan favorite for its' versatile features and distinctive styling. First off, this phone is smart, with tons of features that will leave you the envy of even your most technologically savvy friends. The BlackBerry Bo

[Embedded_C_VC] Security at the Point of Sale

2009-01-20 Thread Lexie Lee
Security at the Point of Sale When thieves stole the PIN pads at a cash register in one of his company's stores, Daniel Marcotte was amazed. Not that they'd done it - such thefts can happen once a week during the holiday season. But watching it on videotape later, "I couldn't tell they h

[Embedded_C_VC] If you fire people, don't be a jerk about it

2009-01-18 Thread Lexie Lee
If you fire people, don't be a jerk about it Mark Eckley can't forget the day when a former employer informed 100 of his colleagues they no longer had jobs, and then quickly escorted them out the door using security guards to monitor the situation. Managers, he says, then bad-mouthed a f

[Embedded_C_VC] What your computer's drive will look like in 5 years

2009-01-17 Thread Lexie Lee
What your computer's drive will look like in 5 years Hard disk drives may soon be replaced by solid-state disk (SSD) drives As solid-state disk (SSD) technology closes in on hard disk drive (HDD) capacity and price, experts say it may not be long before spinning disks are a thing of the

[Embedded_C_VC] Job site releases lists of best and worst jobs

2009-01-15 Thread Lexie Lee
Job site releases lists of best and worst jobs Each occupation is ranked using data from such sources as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau, as well as information provided by a wide range of trade associations and industry groups. http://xrl.us/becnch

[Embedded_C_VC] Macbook Air For the Truly Evolved User

2009-01-14 Thread Lexie Lee
Macbook Air For the Truly Evolved User If you want to buy a notebook that will allow you to see exactly where the computing industry is going, then the MacBook Air is a shining example of modern computing. Many of the criticisms that have been leveled at the Air are worth noting, but wha

[Embedded_C_VC] Muscle Building Supplements - Why Some Work Crazy Well

2009-01-13 Thread Lexie Lee
Muscle Building Supplements - Why Some Work Crazy Well There are a lot of supplements on the market these days. You can just cruise through your local gym and probably see half a dozen different types just out of the corner of your eye. The hard part comes down to deciding what is right

[Embedded_C_VC] Cheap Car Insurance For Imported Cars

2009-01-12 Thread Lexie Lee
Cheap Car Insurance For Imported Cars Imported cars such as the Toyota Estima, Eunos Roadster and Mitsubishi Pajero are often deemed more of a risk to insurers because the car insurance companies are not necessarily familiar with the vehicles in question. Their parts may be more difficul

[Embedded_C_VC] Foreign Relatives and US Citizenship

2009-01-11 Thread Lexie Lee
Foreign Relatives and US Citizenship In general here is what you need to know to help your family become US citizens. This needs to be done with the assistance of a qualified immigration attorney due to the many recent changes is the USCIS rules. The person applying for a green card or v

[Embedded_C_VC] Reverse Cell Phone Lookup - The Investigation Tool For Novices

2009-01-10 Thread Lexie Lee
Reverse Cell Phone Lookup - The Investigation Tool For Novices There are many ways to conduct an investigation online. However, one of the easiest and most efficient ways to do an investigation on a person is to use a service known as a reverse cell phone lookup. Believe it or not, just

[Embedded_C_VC] Tools, Software and Methods to Ensure 100% Recovery From Computer Data Loss

2009-01-09 Thread Lexie Lee
Tools, Software and Methods to Ensure 100% Recovery From Computer Data Loss If you have had a major computer data loss or hard disk failure that resulted in the loss of major data stored in your computer, the measurement of the effectiveness of the data recovery process lies in the time

[Embedded_C_VC] Top Ten Mini Laptops

2009-01-08 Thread Lexie Lee
Top Ten Mini Laptops Our top ten mini laptops list as of December 2008. This list compiles the best netbooks based upon cost, size, practicality and how useful they are. On a side note, we've also judged by looks as well in some cases. Down the bottom is of our top ten mini laptops is.

[Embedded_C_VC] Quatre conseils pour l'achat d'un Pet Canaries

2009-01-07 Thread Lexie Lee
Quatre conseils pour l'achat d'un Pet Canaries Alors, vous songez à acheter un animal de compagnie canari hein? Eh bien, il ya quelques choses que vous devez savoir avant de faire un achat.? Cet article va vous donner quelques conseils. Santé Il va sans dire que vous voulez choisir un oi

[Embedded_C_VC] Education Based Marketing Can Increase Sales Results

2009-01-06 Thread Lexie Lee
Education Based Marketing Can Increase Sales Results Any day in the week, several gray suits enter the marketplace selling their products and services. Gray suits are those sales professional who act and, therefore, sell like everyone else. Their sales to earn ratios (sales to close for

[Embedded_C_VC] Platypus For iPhone - Review

2009-01-05 Thread Lexie Lee
Platypus For iPhone - Review Released Nov 30, 2008 Developer: Handmark Inc. Price: $4.99 Platypus is a PC game-inspired arcade side-scrolling 2D game for the iPhone. This game is pure fun, and also kicks a lot of adrenaline with the amount of action it has. I'd recommend the game to anyo

[Embedded_C_VC] 9 Great Resume Writing Tips

2009-01-04 Thread Lexie Lee
9 Great Resume Writing Tips These 9 Great Resume writing Tips will secure the interviews YOU want. Because you MUST have a Resume that gets you the interview. http://tinyurl.us/?f=7I38 Resume Writing - Can Software Make a Difference? A resume builder (i.e., resume sof

[Embedded_C_VC] 11 'Laws of IT Physics'

2009-01-04 Thread Lexie Lee
11 'Laws of IT Physics' This is a guest post from Michael Krigsman of TechRepublic's sister site ZDNet. You can follow Michael on his ZDNet blog IT Project Failures, or subscribe to the RSS feed. Given high rates of failed IT projects, it's helpful to examine first principles that underl

[Embedded_C_VC] Perfume Becomes the Reason For Discharge

2009-01-02 Thread Lexie Lee
Perfume Becomes the Reason For Discharge The consequences of the economic crisis are sharply felt by female employees who are fired for their predilection for perfume. The point is that in a stressful environment people's sense of smell, especially those who have a lot of responsibility,