What is Multi Level Marketing?

Multi level marketing is known as network marketing. This is a kind of business where franchising and direct selling are combined. This business makes a person associated to a company in an independent transaction approach. It is an approach where the company creates a contactor relationship to the person who wants to expand his business. 

The members make their earnings based on the sales they have reached in that particular product or service. It also includes the sales of the person that they have recruited to join the business. Most of the time the individual who has recruited more members and provided a good sales output on the product compensate higher because of the effort to transact in two different fields.

There are "pyramid schemes" or Ponzi schemes, which are considered illegal. Most people associate multi level marketing to these kind of schemes because they also recognize themselves to be a legitimate networking business. Because of the bad image brought up by these schemes, many prefer to use their names for their businesses as "home based business franchising" or "affiliate marketing". 

Commissions are earned in the process of selling a particular product or service in a legitimate network marketing. There can be no earnings in what they call as a "sign up fee" or for just recruiting yourself alone. This kind of marketing is always criticized because of the questionable recruitment process where they get their revenue and profit. They get their sales from members and new members, which are considered the end users of the product and as the distributors. 

These criticisms led to the major changes in the multi level marketing in the early 1980s when many companies have started to allow their members to concentrate only on marketing and not on distributing or stocking the product. Most multi level marketing firms nowadays perform as fulfillment firms by taking the tasks of shipping the product, paying the commissions and taking orders from their clients. 

Many people who are victims of the illegal schemes in multi level marketing are required to buy expensive products, but most of these schemes do not last long because most of the sales are not easily resold. 

The Good And Bad Of Chat Rooms

The rise of the internet has given people of all ages the abilities to communicate with friends and to make new friends in many easy ways. People can send emails, start a blog, or create a personal webpage to keep people connected to the happenings of their life. Chat rooms have become another main way that people communicate and build relationships with one another. And like any source of connection and communication, chat rooms has both pros and cons.

There is no denying that chat rooms are a great way to meet people. You simply log in, enter a chat room and begin having conversations with other people in that are logged in. You can initiate conversations with people or they can initiate conversations with you. Sounds harmless, right?

Chat rooms can also be great to connect with people with whom you have things in common. Chat rooms are created for people with certain hobbies, beliefs or lifestyles. People who love to cook can certainly find chat rooms for others who love to cook and teens who love to skateboard can use chat rooms to find other skateboarders.

Chat rooms have their dangers. Because all you need to do in entering chat rooms is sign in, think about all of the people who can make up identities that are not their own. A ten year old boy can sign into chat rooms as a thirty year old mother of three. Or, worse yet, a sixty year old man can pretend to be twenty five and in search of the perfect girl. So while it is fine to enter chat rooms if all you are looking for is fun, do not let yourself get hopeful about meeting a new best friend or the wife of your dreams each time you sign into chat rooms.

Parents needs to be especially watchful about their children's habits on the internet. Monitor them carefully to see that they are not entering chat rooms that are inappropriate for their age and interests. Children are smarter than you think and more able to find their way to what they want online. Many parents would be shocked to learn the things their children see and learn on websites and in chat rooms.

So yes, chat rooms can be fun and harmless, but they can just as easily become dangerous and addictive. Know yourself and know your family members well before giving yourself or anyone else the freedoms to search the internet and spend time in chat rooms.

Google's Forecast For A Speedier Internet

Google is currently the top search engine company in the industry, both in terms of market share and technology. To reach the top spot in an Industry which analysts predict could balloon in to a multi-billion dollar one, it took a Google that has an abundant supply of innovation, great foresight and to a big extent, a stealthily-developed arsenal of one the best and most advanced Search Engine Technology the whole Industry has ever seen (or not seen, since Google is trying its best to keep competitors in the dark about the true extent and power of their biggest weapon – their clusters of datacenters). Although they're at the front of the pack right now, Google and its army of engineers are in no way sitting on their laurels. Innovation is what brought them where they are now, and innovation is definitely what they're continually using to bring the company forward. Google's engineers are continually working on ways to improve their search engine's performance and to give additional features that will enhance user experience.

Although it could be very easy to miss because of its sheer simplicity, speed is one of the key reasons why Google is number one. They understood early on that in order to provide a top-notch user experience, search results must be delivered to the user in the shortest time possible. Even when on a dial up connection, Google has designed its search engine in such a way that the web search results appear in a snap. One might say that Google has perfected the speed aspect of search engine results delivery, but displaying the list of results is just half of the story. What happens when a user clicks on the result is also an important component in the overall experience of the search engine user. Google therefore wants to improve on the Internet for the user searching for information. Improving the speed of the Internet for the users is also important to Google's other mission: to bring software applications that a user uses from the desktop to the web. The idea of network computing is something that is not entirely new, but it is only lately that we are seeing a start (albeit still slow and not without its own share of challenges) towards the right direction. Products like Gmail, Google spreadsheets, Google Calendar and Writely are testament to this Company mission.

So now we know that Google wants to deliver a user experience in a much faster way than what the current Internet technology has to offer. Now we move on to the how question. Or, how Google intends to improve the speed at which information is retrieved and delivered to the user.

We'll start with what Google is doing now to address the problem of speed, moving on later on the company's future plans, clues of which can be found in the company's patent applications.

Web page pre-fetching is one method that is generally used in increasing the speed at which a web page is accessed and Google is using it in now in its search engine. Users using Firefox browser to search Google may have already felt the effect of pre-fetching without them knowing it. Google currently pre-fetches the top items in the list of search results especially if the algorithm has determined that it is most likely to be clicked by the user. Pre-fetching a web page means that the browser will download a web page to the user's computer even before the user has clicked on the link to it such that when the user actually clicks the link, the page is loaded quickly from user's computer memory.

The Google web accelerator is another Google product that aims to speed up the Internet experience for the users. It speeds up the speed of Internet users on broadband using a desktop component and dedicated Google servers to cache content and compress certain data before it is sent to the user GWA also uses a more aggressive pre-fetching feature that works not only on Google search result pages but also on other pages that the user is using.

The Google web accelerator and the page pre-fetching feature of the Google search engine are two methods currently being used by Google in bringing a speedier Internet experience to the user, but there are a lot more that Google is doing in its labs to make the Internet even faster, or more specifically in some cases, the speed at which information is delivered to the user. Search being the second most popular activity done by users on the Internet, speed improvements on information retrieval and delivery is an important improvement on the user experience of many Internet users.

"Predictive information retrieval" and "anticipated query generation and processing in a search engine" -two patent applications by the search company, says a lot about how Google aims to improve the search experience by hinging on one thing: anticipating and predicting what the user is looking for. The focus of the patent application mentioned is returning search results faster and more personalized for the user.

The search engine that Google wants to develop will capture the keyboard characters as they are entered by the user, then sends partial queries to the Google servers that are actually predicted by an algorithm based on what it thinks that the user is actually looking for. This prediction is based on a list of words found on one or more dictionaries which can differ from one user to user. The search engine can therefore predict what you are looking for based both on what other people are looking for and a personalized profile that Google can make out of what it knows about the user. This can include the user's search history or other factors. Google can then display the list of suggested keywords to the user and in some cases, actual search results. Predictive information retrieval when perfected will make searching experience speedier for the user, and will smartly optimized the work being done by the search engine.

Google has a lot to gain in a speedy Internet, that's why it's also investing a lot of money and engineer time towards this goal. Whatever Google delivers to the table to improve the way users use the Internet, it is a sure win for its users and customers. In the same way that we don't know how we managed to live in a world of dial up connection now that we're on broadband, we might be surprised in what the future will be offering in harnessing more the speed potential of the Internet. 

How a Unique Little Workbook Helps Seniors Earn Money Online in Retirement

How would you like to wake up in the morning to messages in your email inbox with a subject line that reads, 'You have new funds in your PayPal account' or 'invoice @clickbank.com'; messages from electronic payment processors that confirm you have been making money passively while you were asleep?

I have a unique little seniors' workbook that helps me do just that.

And you too can do this in retirement even if right now you consider the concept beyond your capabilities because the little workbook to which I refer is a practical tome that will show anyone how to earn money online in retirement irrespective of personal circumstances. 

? You can do this even if your knowledge of online marketing is currently at zero;

? You can do it with just an email address to start;

? You can do it on the tightest of budgets;

? You can do it without ever interfacing with anyone;

? You can do it even if you think you can't;

? You can do while you sleep.

Retirees represent the world's largest demographic market (Source: marketresearch.com 2006)

This being so, even if you decide to deal only with fellow travellers in the third age journey, you

would nonetheless still be operating in the single biggest marketplace online.

Think about that for a moment or two.

But you don't have to restrict your efforts in making money online in retirement; cyberspace in its entirety is at your disposal…

You can choose the direction in which you wish to travel…

1. You could take the quick route; 

2. You could take the slow route;

3. You could take both routes in tandem.

Why bother with the slow route?

We all like to make money quickly but you must bear in mind that marketing on the internet is not a virtual get-rich-quick destination. The quick route is where most successful online marketers start out but the clever ones quickly switch direction, boarding the slow train that leads to sustained online income generation; the train that is perpetually fuelled with proven strategies.

Remain closeted on the quick train and your retirement online money-making journey will be over

after a few stops along the way. 

If you would like to learn more about my amazing little workbook or even download your own copy, visit the website in the resource box below.

JIM GREEN is an active retiree, online enthusiast and a bestselling author with an ever-growing string of fiction and niche non-fiction titles to his credit.

Tag Clouds Coming to Your Desktop

With overwhelming amounts of information cramming the Internet, it's harder and harder to find something meaningful every day. Web catalogs such as DMOZ can hardly list a few million sites, when there are literally hundreds of millions of them in the wild. There are almost a hundred billion unique Web pages in existence. It comes to no surprise that this non-structured, hardly

categorized crowd can no longer be effectively searched. 

Finding a particular site from billions of pages is near impossible statistically. One has to be dedicated and persistent in formulating advanced search queries in order to find the result. You can 'surf' the list of returned results, and if you're lucky, you'll find what you need. Want more of the same kind of result? Until today, you had no other choice but to continue surfing. 

That's all changed now. With the release of INTSPEI P-Navigator ( http://www.p-navigator.com/ ), you are no longer forced to surf on the surface of the Internet. Dive deep into the depths of mysterious relations and tag clouds, and get more than you even wanted when you started searching! 

Based on tag clouds, P-Navigator not only searches better; it searches deeper. Tag clouds are assemblies of links made of various sized words that you can stumble upon frequently on blogs. On most blogs, the size of the link typically indicates the number of times the tag was used on that site. P-Navigator reinvents the concept of tag clouds by performing semantic analysis of all resources on the Web, and forming tag clouds to improve your searches.

P-Navigator is a daring explorer of the depths of the Internet. Based on revolutionary search technologies, P-Navigator makes comprehensive Web searches available to everyone. P-Navigator allows finding documents and finding out about relations visually, memorizing and improving your searches with a semantic tag cloud. All actions are performed from the modern crafted visual interface coming straight from tomorrow. 

P-Navigator brings you not just a revolutionary visual view of a search experience, it also offers a fully featured tool for researching the Internet not only on what's out there, but on how such things relate to each other. Your searches are structured into straightforward hierarchies, and are easy to refine by simply clicking the mouse. Another click of a mouse will switch the view on what's linking to the page being investigated. One more click, and the view is transmutated to display what other pages are referred by the page you are researching. Need your own view? Unleash your imagination and make one! 

With P-Navigator, you can discover hidden information, find out how one document is related to others, assemble all connections and solve the puzzle. Intrigued? Download P-Navigator now (http://www.p-navigator.com/). Revolutionize your search and never look back. 

The benefit of One-Way links from Web Directories

There are so many rules that search engines follow to determine which site gets ranked number one for certain search words and so on and so forth. However, one of these criteria includes links so that is something you should focus on if you are interested in increasing your traffic and rankings with the search engines.

You may not know how to go about getting one way links to your website, but it really is pretty easy. All you need to do is start listing your website in different web directories and before long you will have plenty of links pointing back to your website. This is really important and something you want to focus on because if you do not have links to your site then getting ranked high in the search engines will be difficult.

Why Do you Need Links for the Search Engines?

Nobody knows for sure exactly what formula the many search engines use to rank websites, but it is known that links to your website make up a big percentage of where your website is ranked. Obviously, the higher your website is ranked in the search engines the more visitors will click on your site and the more traffic you will have. Because of this the success of your website just might depend on how many links you have pointing back to your site on the Internet. Think of it as a popularity contest and the website with the most links is the most popular and wins a high ranking in the search engines as a result. So, the higher your site ranks in the search engines the more visitors your site will receive and the more money you will make! One way links and search engines rankings have a great cause and effect relationship so you should get started today.

Web directories are one of the best way to get the needed one way links to your website and they offer many benefits to your site other than helping your site get a high ranking with the search engines. Also, web directories all you to submit your site to a category and then a human edits your site information in order to approve it for the directory. Many people use directories to find information and websites as opposed to search engines, so when you use a web directory or web directories for linking purposes you will also be able to attract traffic due to the individuals who visit the directory looking for website. 

When you use website directories to list your website or even websites you will quickly realize an increase in your sites rankings with the search engines as well as increased traffic due to this as well as traffic from the directory. GO ahead and increase your business and website traffic and start listing your site with the many web directories today!