Christmas is around the corner again
and you can smell the holiday season.

Holiday shopping can sometimes be a
real headache. Some people are
incredibly difficult to buy for. What
do you get for the person who has
everything? With a little general
knowledge of the kinds of things
they like you can give
a gift that they can enjoy.

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<>Do they enjoy cooking?
Do they like reading?
Do they like photographs?
And, and….?

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The excitement builds and everyone
can’t wait to see what unique holiday
gift ideas the rest have gotten.
Finally the time to open the gifts has
arrived, and guess?

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Despite what other dog training books, videos, and experts may say, dog training isn’t about the dog.

It’s about you.

“My owner was driving me crazy! He didn’t understand me at all, and we were making each other miserable. I was actually thinking of running away to join the freedom with my girlfriend when he found your e-books. He discovered so many things he’d been doing wrong! Now we’re learning together and having loads of fun every day!” - Buck

The Secret to Dog Training Success

Here’s the secret most dog trainers won’t tell you (some of them don’t even know it themselves): successful dog training is not about getting your dog to understand you—it’s about you understanding your dog.

Humans are smarter than dogs. Yep… no offence to dogs, but even the dumbest human you know is smarter than the smartest dog you know. That’s good news, because if you want your dog to be a good student—to learn to sit, stay, heel, come, fetch; in short, to obey your every command — you have to be a good teacher. To be a good teacher, you have to understand how your student thinks.

All you have to do is follow the step-by-step instructions provided in this popular e-books. Within a few weeks, your dog will be so well trained you’ll be showing him off to all your drooling, envious friends.

But it will require some effort on your part.

For Dog Lovers Only

Your dog loves to be with you. He loves to please you. That’s why he’ll be easy to train once you understand him. But if the feeling is not mutual… if the idea of spending time with your dog, training him, playing with him, loving him… does not appeal to you, this are not e-books for you.

Go here to see all five ebooks and the bonus flip-books

Depending on how long you’ve been looking at earning money online, you’ll know the importance of having an email list building facility for you Internet business. You can have the most magnificent platform to show your products, and still be struggling to make a dime. And correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s why you’re online, yes?

Extensive testing from experts seem to suggest that it can take up to 10 exposures to your site before you can turn your average visitor into a buyer. Translated, that means that if you aren’t able to get your website in front of all your visitors more than once, you’re risk leaving a lot of potential money on the table, hence the need for an Internet list building element for your business.

Another way of looking at it is this. Let’s say that for example your Internet list building website conversion is at 1%. Your average client buys on roughly the 7^th email, and you’re maybe getting 1 in 4, or 1 in 5 sales. So that’s more or less a 3-5% conversion rate.

How’s that done then? This is where a landing page comes in. In other words, it acts as gateway to your Internet list building site, and to get any further, visitors have to give their name and email. They do so, in exchange for a gift – usually a downloadable ebook, report or something else from which they can get value and benefit.

No doubt there’ll be a few who you’ll never see again, but the odds are stacked in your favor and you should get most of your traffic opting-in for your Internet list building website. Doing things this way allows you to keep sending emails until they buy from you. This is obviously a huge advantage over a one-hit effort that never sees them again.

What’s the method of getting response from your list?

There is no other way than providing them with free content; information they can apply. Do this in the first emails, then at regular intervals – for ever! Sending messages containing “buy now” wording will alienate them quickly. Try and be inventive when emailing so that you can give plenty of good reasons to keep on opening your email

Your emails need to be opened – otherwise there’s no chance of purchases being made.

But first they need to be opened. That may sound really elementary, but you’d be surprised what can be misses in our Internet list building. We all want people to purchase our products and that can lead to irrational haste and carpet-bombing our emails with promotions. Yes, we need sales, but that comes from building successful relationships with your email list, not crucifying them with sales letters. Gibe them free information for methods they can instantly apply.

Introduce them to the habit of clicking links in your emails. Coax them to click through to free offers, rather than just uploading them into your email. It’s habit-forming and will get them into a comfort zone for your emails, and clicking through. So when the time comes to introduce and offer – say a free trial – they’ll be in the frame of mind to click through, thus making a profit for you.

Be sure to use the same email for all your Internet list-building emails. This is obvious really – they’ll get to trust it and as soon as they receive one from another address you’ve used, that factor goes.

Test, test, and test again, but these three things in particular:

1. For a particular headline – what’s the email opening rate?

1. Your email’s click-through rate – for a given style of bulletin or letter

1. The opening rate of the email that follows the previous one.

That last one is pretty important.

Don’t dismiss #3. If you send a rubbish email, then you’re not so likely to get the following one opened at all. It may be boring but force yourself to make a continual study of your list building parameters, because it will help you to improve it, and that can only be good for the profits of your Internet business

Go now here for more information, prelaunch April 08,2010.

According to a news release from Amazon, next month they will be releasing an SDK (software development kit) that will allow software developers to build and upload active content that will be available on the Kindle store later this year. The release states that Handmark is developing an active Zagat guide, Sonic Boom is building word games and puzzles and EA Mobile is porting some of its games.

The full press release:

For the past two years, Amazon has welcomed authors and publishers to directly upload and sell content in the Kindle Store through the self-service Kindle publishing platform. Today, Amazon announced that it is inviting software developers to build and upload active content that will be available in the Kindle Store later this year. The new Kindle Development Kit gives developers access to programming interfaces, tools and documentation to build active content for Kindle–the #1 best selling, most wished for, and most gifted product across all categories on Amazon. Developers can learn more about the Kindle Development Kit today at http://www.amazon.com/kdk/ and sign up to be notified when the limited beta starts next month.

“We’ve heard from lots of developers over the past two years who are excited to build on top of Kindle,” said Ian Freed, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. “The Kindle Development Kit opens many possibilities–we look forward to being surprised by what developers invent.”

The Kindle Development Kit enables developers to build active content that leverage’s Kindle’s unique combination of seamless and invisible 3G wireless delivery over Amazon Whispernet, high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper, and long battery life of seven days with wireless activated. For example, Handmark is building an active Zagat guide featuring their trusted ratings, reviews and more for restaurants in cities around the world, and Sonic Boom is building word games and puzzles.

“As the leading worldwide publisher of mobile games, EA Mobile has had the privilege of collaborating with many dynamic and innovative companies in bringing exciting gaming experiences to new platforms,” says Adam Sussman, Vice President of Worldwide Publishing, EA Mobile. “Working with Amazon, we look forward to bringing some of the world’s most popular and fun games to Kindle and their users.”

Starting next month, participants in the limited beta will be able to download the Kindle Development Kit, access developer support, test content on Kindle, and submit finished content. Those wait-listed will be invited to participate as space becomes available. The Kindle Development Kit includes sample code, documentation, and the Kindle Simulator, which helps developers build and test their content by simulating the 6-inch Kindle and 9.7-inch Kindle DX on Mac, PC, and Linux desktops.

About Amazon Kindle

Kindle and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the most wished for, the most gifted, and the #1 best selling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.

In the Christmas business 2009 ordered customers over the worldwide Amazon web pages to more than 110 products per second. At the tip day, the 14th of December 2009, more were ordered altogether than 9.5 million products in Amazon. Worldwide Amazon in the Christmas business 2009 sent out of its logistics centers at the tip day over 7 million articles – into more than 178 countries of the earth.

At the first Christmas day bought customers for the very first time of more Kindle books than physical books on Amazon. com. In the Kindle Shop on Amazon. com are for German readers already over 300,000 books available, the largest selection of the most popular books, inclusive New-York-Times-bestsellers and new publication.

In Amazon. de the 14th of December was the tip days also: Customers ordered in Amazon. de over 1.7 million products and therewith 40 percent more than at the tip day of the preceding year. Those are more than 20 articles per second – at the tip day 2008 were it with more than 1.2 million articles more than 14 products per second.

Over 1.2 million articles, the logistics centers in bath Hersfeld and Leipzig left this day in more than 297 trucks.

Sent became out of the German logistics centers into the most distant countries of the earth: The “Greenpeaces of calendar” was delivered became over 8,500 kilometers a customer to Madasgascar, and the book “The Spirit of Democracy” over 5,500 kilometers after Kyrgyzstan, Miarinarivo, sends and delivered on time to the christmas.

The most popular gifts of the Amazon. de-customers this year (ordered article between 1st of November and 22nd of December 2009) were:

1. Harry Potter and the half blood prince (DVD)

2.Ice Age 3: The dinosaurs are happening (DVD)

3.New super Mario Bros. Symbol lost Wii (video-game)

4.Das (served Brown) (book)

5.Reality Killed the video star (Robbie Williams) (music)

Take a long hard look at a book, any book. Pull a favorite off a shelf, dust off the top–maybe it’s the Bible, the Koran, a novel by Jane Austen or Leo Tolstoy. Perhaps you’re more into Dan Brown or Jacqueline Winspear mysteries, Doris Kearns Goodwin biographies, or you’ve dog-eared page after page in Skinny Bitch. You may even gravitate toward business books like Viral Loop, my latest. Now say your goodbyes, because there will soon be a day that you may view such analog contrivances as museum pieces, bought and sold on eBay as collectibles, or tossed into landfills.

Coming soon … It’s the end of the book as we know it, and you’ll be just fine. But it won’t be replaced by the e-book, which is, at best, a stopgap measure. Sure, a bevy of companies are releasing e-book readers-there’s Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and a half dozen other chunks of not-ready-for-primetime hardware. But technology marches on through predictable patterns of development, with the initial form of a new technology mirroring what came before, until innovation and consumer demand drive it far beyond initial incremental improvements. We are on the verge of re-imagining the book and transforming it something far beyond mere words.

Take note: The first battlefield tanks looked like heavily armored tractors equipped with cannons; early automobiles were called “horseless carriages” for a reason; the first motorcycles were based on bicycles; the first satellite phones were as clunky as your household telephone. A decade ago, when newspapers began serving up stories over the Web, the content mirrored what was offered in the print edition. What the tank, car and newspaper have in common is they blossomed into something far beyond their initial prototypes. In the same way that an engineer wouldn’t dream of starting with the raw materials for a carriage to design a rad new sports car today, newspapers won’t use paper or ink anymore. Neither will books. But mere text on a screen, the stuff that e-books are made of, won’t be enough.

The first movie cameras were used to film theater productions. It took early cinematic geniuses like Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Charlie Chaplin and Abel Gance to untether the camera from what was and transform it into what it would become: a new art form. I believe that this dynamic will soon be replayed, except it will star the book in the role of the theater production, with authors acting more like directors and production companies than straight wordsmiths. Like early filmmakers, some of us will seek new ways to express ourselves through multimedia. Instead of stagnant words on a page we will layer video throughout the text, add photos, hyperlink material, engage social networks of readers who will add their own videos, photos, and wikified information so that these multimedia books become living, breathing, works of art. They will exist on the Web and be ported over to any and all mobil devices that can handle multimedia, laptops, netbooks, and beyond. (Hey, Apple, are you listening?)

For the non-fiction author therein lie possibilities to create the proverbial last word on a subject, a one-stop shop for all the information surrounding a particular subject matter. Imagine a biography of Wiley Post, the one-eyed pilot from the 1930s who was the first to fly around the world. It would not only offer the entire text of a book but newsreel footage from his era, coverage of his most famous flights, radio interviews, schematics of his plane, interactive maps of his journeys, interviews with aviation historians and pilots of today, a virtual tour of his cockpit and description of every gauge and dial, short profiles of other flyers of his time, photos, hyperlinked endnotes and index, links to other resources on the subject. Social media could be woven into the fabric of the experience–discussion threads and wikis where readers share information, photos, video, and add their own content to Post’s story, which would tie them more closely to the book. There’s also the potential for additional revenue streams: You could buy MP3s of popular songs from the 1930s, clothes that were the hot thing back then, model airplanes, other printed books, DVDs, journals, and memorabilia.

A visionary author could push the boundaries and re-imagine these books in wholly new ways. A novelist could create whole new realities, a pastiche of video and audio and words and images that could rain down on the user, offering metaphors for artistic expressions. Or they could warp into videogame-like worlds where readers become characters and through the expression of their own free will alter the story to fit. They could come with music soundtracks or be directed or produced by renowned documentarians. They could be collaborations or one-woman projects.

Before you add your comment to the comment thread at the end of this column, or hustle off an email to me to vehemently disagree with my vision, I want to emphasize I’m not predicting the end of immersive reading. I see a future in which immersive reading coexists with other literary, visual and auditory modes of expression. You get the full book–all the words on the page or screen–but you also get so much more. And ask yourself: Which would you rather have, the hardcover book of today or this rich, multimedia treatment of the same title? Suddenly mere words on a page may feel a bit lifeless. And remember that today’s youth are tomorrow’s book buyers, and they have been brought up on a steady diet of entertainment on demand, with text, photos, and video all available at the click of a mouse. I’m skeptical that simple text will cut it for them.

Now, I realize that many can’t imagine life without a good book to curl up with, but these may be the same people who might have thought they’d never forgo the pop and hiss of vinyl records, jettison the typewriter for a laptop, spring for high speed Internet access, or buy a BlackBerry or iPhone. In an earlier age they might have even resisted adopting the Qwerty keyboard (what’s wrong with ink and feathered quill anyway?) And sure, there will be some books around. After all, even today there exist vinyl records–just not a lot of them.

As the author of three books, I’m excited by the possibilities. Despite all the doom and gloom surrounding newspapers, magazines, and books, I think all writers should be optimistic. Because where there’s chaos, there’s opportunity.

And besides, it’s inevitable.

Adam L. Penenberg is author of Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves. A journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, Penenberg is a contributing writer to Fast Company.

Today I set up the first site for my e-books. Now I have to prepare all the other pages. For may Landing Page I choose a Christmas story.

Sharlee Plett is writing in her ‘Vintage Christmas Countdown’ about the history of Christmas. There are many old and high quality Wallpapers and cards to download, cooking and stories, quotes and all that what you need to know for this magic days.

Do you believe in magic?

Can you feel it warming your heart light?

In every precious moment

It’s a magic we all share, it’s everywhere.

It’s in your loved ones far away and

In your children’s smiling faces on Christmas Day.

Merry Christmas!

May the magic light your way

(Author’s Preface/Shalee Plett)

Vintage Christmas Countdown is a good researched e-book (PDF) about the long history of Christmas and worth to read.

Welcome to my new site. The site is created for my business as photographer and gardener. I have set up an photo-stock and a photo-contest, an e-card program and the book shop of me is the next.

For the moment the site is under construction and you must me forgiven, that the links are sometimes broken. I made a ‘?’ in the menu-posts of navigation, which in construction.

If you interest to see more of my work, please check in to my other site http://irmgardhartmann.com. Look around and you will see how this site look in a month.