Internet Marketing 101

The Internet as we currently recognize it began in 1994. That is the year that the first easily usable commonly available web browser – Mosaic 2.0 – became both available and popular. The Internet prior to that time was a tool primarily used by scientists and toyed with by computer wizards, but it [...]

An Introduction to SEO

What is SEO? The letters stand for Search Engine Optimization, and many assume the term refers to esoteric manipulations performed by specialists to the computer code side of a website, which ultimately serves to send that website to the sought-after Page 1 of Google. That view is not entirely incorrect. SEO is about [...]

Financial Stress: An Overview

Financial stress is one of the largest – if not the largest – sources of stress in society today. The forms and types of financial stress are so numerous, and the causes so varied and so intricately intertwined with so many other life factors, that the subject as a whole is itself rarely addressed. [...]

Workplace Stress

While stress is an inherently psychological phenomenon with physiological consequences, it is a mistake to regard it as exclusively subjective. Many stress disorders are triggered by, and in some cases a direct consequence of, objective conditions. A person who regularly works long hours and receives insufficient sleep will experience in various degrees the [...]

An Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Blogging

What Is Blogging?
Blogging is the act of writing articles and commentary and putting them on a blog. A blog is short for the term “web log”. A web log, which is what the first blogs were called, were in effect online diaries or personal notebooks. The web log writer – the word [...]

How to Create Abundance Through Blogging

For those who are fairly new to blogging (and for the purposes of this article, websites and blogs are represented by primarily by references to blogs, since the same principles apply), monetization – turning a blog into a steady source of income – may be seen as a rather mysterious process. Many first-time bloggers [...]

The Psychology of Twitter

“Facebook Makes You Smarter. Twitter Makes You Dumber.”
Perhaps that overstates it. But the reaction on Facebook and Twitter to the research of Dr. Tracy Alloway of the University of Stirling in Scotland proved a prime example of social psychology in action: headlines similar to the above were soon a topic of choice on both [...]