New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has identified the incident where a bomb went off from inside a dumpster in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, injuring 29 people, as an act of terrorism.

“I said yesterday I believed it was an act of terrorism,” Cuomo said in a September 19 press briefing at New York’s Penn Station. “By definition, terrorism is taking an action that endangers human life that appears to be intended to cause intimidation or coercion. I believe you set off a bomb, you try to set off a second bomb. That’s an appearance of trying to intimidate New Yorkers.”

The suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was taken into custody after firing at police officers in Linden, New Jersey, although Governor Cuomo stated in a September 20 call with CNN that authorities are investigating the possibility that Rahami was not working alone.

While it appears that property damage from the incident was not large enough to trigger the terrorism insurance program, there could be other ramifications for businesses affected by business interruption as a result of the event, according to the vice president of communications at the Insurance Information Institute, Loretta Worters, who encourages business owners to take a close look at their insurance policies.

“Terrorism is not generally covered under business interruption insurance, so the language could be important if this was indeed determined a terrorist attack,” Worters said. “Businesses that were affected by the explosion should contact their insurance professional as soon as possible.”

Business interruption insurance covers financial losses that occur when a firm is forced to suspend business operations either due to direct damage to its premises or because civil authorities limit access to an area, preventing entry to the business. Coverage depends on the individual policy, but it usually begins after a waiting period of 24 to 72 hours and lasts for a period of two weeks to several months, Worters explained. The coverage generally reimburses a business owner for lost profits during the time period when the business wasn’t operational.

The concern for insureds, however, goes back to 2002 when insurers began to exclude terrorism from policies, pricing it separately following the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York. In response, Congress passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), creating a public-private loss program that is contingent on damage of at least $5 million, as determined by the U.S. Treasury Secretary.

“That law established the $5 million threshold for coverage to kick in,” Worters said.

This could lead to problems for businesses suffering interruption losses in the wake of a terrorist attack, particularly smaller businesses.

“Sometimes people tend to think insurance covers everything, but for a small business, a couple of weeks without revenue would be a huge loss,” said Dr. Erwann Michel-Kerjan, executive director in the Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at Philadelphia’s Wharton School of Business. “Maybe more small business owners will take a look at what just happened and ask, ‘Are we adequately covered? Is there an insurance gap here in terms of what I could purchase as a business owner?’ Similarly, maybe more insurance companies will ask themselves if there are products they could propose to clients that would be more tailored to these type of attacks.”

This is because reductions in business income associated with fear of traveling to a location, in addition to closure of areas by authorities because of a heightened state of alert after an attack, would not be covered by general business interruption policies, Worters said.

That said, a standalone terrorism insurance policy could be important for businesses concerned about losses due to terrorism, although it is important to check with insurance agents on a case-by-case basis, according to Tarique Nageer, terrorism placement advisory leader at Marsh U.S.

“If you have a standalone terrorism policy, that’s a policy that is not dependent on TRIA,” Nageer said. “Those policies could have a broad definition of contingent business interruption, so theoretically, you could be able to collect from those policies if it was a terrorism event. A standalone terrorism policy does not require the U.S. government to certify an event as an act of terrorism.”

Although it is too early to tell if business interruption losses were suffered as a result of the recent incident, it is important for clients to take a close look at their policies and carefully consider their decisions when purchasing terrorism insurance going forward, Nageer explained.

“Many clients don’t have to be a target of an act of terrorism to suffer a loss – anyone in the vicinity of a terrorism event or near a trophy property could suffer a terrorism loss just being where they’re located,” he said.  “Clients should be aware of that and take that into consideration when deciding what to buy in terms of insurance.”

Following the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, Massachusetts regulators heardcomplaints from some businesses that thought they were covered under the policies and insurance brokers reported that more smaller and medium-sized firms were buying terrorism coverage.

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New York Businesses Advised to Check Insurance in Wake of Chelsea Terrorism Bombing

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has identified the incident where a bomb went off from inside a dumpster in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, injuring 29 people, as an act of terrorism.

“I said yesterday I believed it was an act of terrorism,” Cuomo said in a September 19 press briefing at New York’s Penn Station. “By definition, terrorism is taking an action that endangers human life that appears to be intended to cause intimidation or coercion. I believe you set off a bomb, you try to set off a second bomb. That’s an appearance of trying to intimidate New Yorkers.”

The suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was taken into custody after firing at police officers in Linden, New Jersey, although Governor Cuomo stated in a September 20 call with CNN that authorities are investigating the possibility that Rahami was not working alone.

While it appears that property damage from the incident was not large enough to trigger the terrorism insurance program, there could be other ramifications for businesses affected by business interruption as a result of the event, according to the vice president of communications at the Insurance Information Institute, Loretta Worters, who encourages business owners to take a close look at their insurance policies.

“Terrorism is not generally covered under business interruption insurance, so the language could be important if this was indeed determined a terrorist attack,” Worters said. “Businesses that were affected by the explosion should contact their insurance professional as soon as possible.”

Business interruption insurance covers financial losses that occur when a firm is forced to suspend business operations either due to direct damage to its premises or because civil authorities limit access to an area, preventing entry to the business. Coverage depends on the individual policy, but it usually begins after a waiting period of 24 to 72 hours and lasts for a period of two weeks to several months, Worters explained. The coverage generally reimburses a business owner for lost profits during the time period when the business wasn’t operational.

The concern for insureds, however, goes back to 2002 when insurers began to exclude terrorism from policies, pricing it separately following the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York. In response, Congress passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), creating a public-private loss program that is contingent on damage of at least $5 million, as determined by the U.S. Treasury Secretary.

“That law established the $5 million threshold for coverage to kick in,” Worters said.

This could lead to problems for businesses suffering interruption losses in the wake of a terrorist attack, particularly smaller businesses.

“Sometimes people tend to think insurance covers everything, but for a small business, a couple of weeks without revenue would be a huge loss,” said Dr. Erwann Michel-Kerjan, executive director in the Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at Philadelphia’s Wharton School of Business. “Maybe more small business owners will take a look at what just happened and ask, ‘Are we adequately covered? Is there an insurance gap here in terms of what I could purchase as a business owner?’ Similarly, maybe more insurance companies will ask themselves if there are products they could propose to clients that would be more tailored to these type of attacks.”

This is because reductions in business income associated with fear of traveling to a location, in addition to closure of areas by authorities because of a heightened state of alert after an attack, would not be covered by general business interruption policies, Worters said.

That said, a standalone terrorism insurance policy could be important for businesses concerned about losses due to terrorism, although it is important to check with insurance agents on a case-by-case basis, according to Tarique Nageer, terrorism placement advisory leader at Marsh U.S.

“If you have a standalone terrorism policy, that’s a policy that is not dependent on TRIA,” Nageer said. “Those policies could have a broad definition of contingent business interruption, so theoretically, you could be able to collect from those policies if it was a terrorism event. A standalone terrorism policy does not require the U.S. government to certify an event as an act of terrorism.”

Although it is too early to tell if business interruption losses were suffered as a result of the recent incident, it is important for clients to take a close look at their policies and carefully consider their decisions when purchasing terrorism insurance going forward, Nageer explained.

“Many clients don’t have to be a target of an act of terrorism to suffer a loss – anyone in the vicinity of a terrorism event or near a trophy property could suffer a terrorism loss just being where they’re located,” he said.  “Clients should be aware of that and take that into consideration when deciding what to buy in terms of insurance.”

Following the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, Massachusetts regulators heardcomplaints from some businesses that thought they were covered under the policies and insurance brokers reported that more smaller and medium-sized firms were buying terrorism coverage.

A Day In The Life Of An Affiliate Marketer


Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard now with the internet at your disposable. It is much easier now compared to the days when people have to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along.

So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this…

Upon waking up and after having breakfast, the computer is turned on to check out new developments in the network. As far as the marketer is concerned there might be new things to update and statistics to keep track on.

The site design has to be revised. The marketer knows that a well-designed site can increase sign ups from visitors. It can also help in the affiliate’s conversion rates.

That done, it is time to submit the affiliate program to directories that lists affiliate programs. These directories are means to attract people in joining your affiliate program. A sure way of promoting the affiliate program.

Time to track down the sales you are getting from your affiliates fairly and accurately. There are phone orders and mails to track down. See if they are new clients checking the products out. Noting down the contact information that might be a viable source in the future.

There are lots of resources to sort out. Ads, banners, button ads and sample recommendations to give out because the marketer knows that this is one way of ensuring more sales. Best to stay visible and accessible too.

The affiliate marketer remembered that there are


Ever wondered where you stood in the lifecycle of affiliate marketing? Your wait is over. ... Level Five – The Affiliate Marketer($500 – $1500/day profit). affiliate ..... Great post..basically a typicallife cycle of an affiliate! Reply.This entry was posted in Affiliate Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Make Money Online, Online Marketing Education,Wealth Creation & Prosperity and tagged affiliate marketing, Limitless Book, limitless high, Limitless High Ticket Affiliate Marketing, Limitless Money Method, MOBE, my online business education, the life of an affiliate marketer. Bookmark the permalink

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Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard with the internet at your disposable. It is much easier now compared to the days when people had to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along.

So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this…

Upon waking up and after having breakfast, the computer is turned on to check out new developments in the network. As far as the marketer is concerned there might be new things to update and statistics to keep track on.

The site design has to be revised. The marketer knows that a well-designed site can increase sign ups from visitors. It can also help in the affiliate’s conversion rates.

That done, it is time to submit the affiliate program to directories that lists affiliate programs. These directories are means to attract people in joining the affiliate program. A sure way of promoting the affiliate programs your offering.

You take time to track down the sales copy that you get from the product owner making sure of it’s accuracy. There are phone orders and mails to track down depending on the type of marketing you are doing. You want to see if there are new clients checking the products out. You also take down the contact information that can be a viable source of building you your customer list.

There are lots of resources to sort out. There are ads, banners, button ads and sample recommendations that you use to promote the product because the marketer knows that this is one way of ensuring more sales. Best to stay visible and accessible too.

The affiliate marketer needs to look at emails and answer questions from any visitors. This should be done as quickly as possible. Nothing can turn off a customer than an unanswered email so always make sure to answer customers and be professional about it. This also helps in giving you that presence on the internet.

As an affiliate marketer, you can if you like set up a chat room in order to interact with other affiliates for different programs although this should be done by product owners if they feel it would help. Things discussed could be on how to promote a product or even setting up newsletters. At the same time affiliates are able to discuss with themselves on different ways of promoting a product for best results.

There is always something to learn as a marketer and this is a continuous daily task. Sharing tips and any advice you may have is a good way of showing support for your affiliates. There is never any harm done by helping others as you move along during your day.

You can work to produce newsletters and ezines. These should be worked on a daily basis and updating on a daily basis if at all possible. I would suggest here that as a marketer you put out a newsletter at least once a month if at all feasable and if you can gather the information needed in a reasonable time. That’s for another report.

You can set up newsletters through an auto responder to make life easier for you. This way you at least can send out you newsletters at the same time so everyone gets them at the same time. These newsletter publications can be an important tool to use in keeping everyone up to date with any new products, or information to help them succeed along the way.

As an affiliate marketer you might need to set up promotions and sales materials for products that you may want to promote.. As an affiliate you would pretty much get these items from the product producer. There is quite a bit of work involved here if you are by yourself but setting up salesletters, graphics, optin pages, upsells, downsells etc. all take time and yet it is a part of marketing today if you want to make a decent income.

As a marketer you also want to show appreciation to those who have helped you with the promotions and helped to increase sales for you. Mentioning a persons name, their site and the excellent work they are doing is a great boost not only to their ego but to yours also making you feel good.

Of course, you can also publish this in your newsletters along with all that other important information that you are finding and distributing to your followers.

The marketer still has time to write out recommendations for those who would like to know about credible sources for the products being promoted. You also want to post some comments on how to be a successful affiliate marketers on your site where there is traffic to see it. This is also something else for your newsletter.

The two objectives getting done is the marketer gets to promote the product as well as maybe the program they might be in

at the time. We are always hoping that we can get more affiliates to help promote and more people to join with us.

I’ve been sitting here trying to put together this report and finally realized that I’ve missed my lunch. I can say that because I do this out of my home so I am able to take lunch just about any time I want.

OK, so this may not be all done in a day, but then, this hopefully gives you some idea of how an affiliate marketer, a dedicated one that is, spends the marketing day.

Is that success looming in the distance for you or what?

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A Day In The Life Of An Affiliate Marketer

A Day In The Life Of An Affiliate Marketer


Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard now with the internet at your disposable. It is much easier now compared to the days when people have to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along.

So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this…

Upon waking up and after having breakfast, the computer is turned on to check out new developments in the network. As far as the marketer is concerned there might be new things to update and statistics to keep track on.

The site design has to be revised. The marketer knows that a well-designed site can increase sign ups from visitors. It can also help in the affiliate’s conversion rates.

That done, it is time to submit the affiliate program to directories that lists affiliate programs. These directories are means to attract people in joining your affiliate program. A sure way of promoting the affiliate program.

Time to track down the sales you are getting from your affiliates fairly and accurately. There are phone orders and mails to track down. See if they are new clients checking the products out. Noting down the contact information that might be a viable source in the future.

There are lots of resources to sort out. Ads, banners, button ads and sample recommendations to give out because the marketer knows that this is one way of ensuring more sales. Best to stay visible and accessible too.

The affiliate marketer remembered that there are


Ever wondered where you stood in the lifecycle of affiliate marketing? Your wait is over. ... Level Five – The Affiliate Marketer($500 – $1500/day profit). affiliate ..... Great post..basically a typicallife cycle of an affiliate! Reply.This entry was posted in Affiliate Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Make Money Online, Online Marketing Education,Wealth Creation & Prosperity and tagged affiliate marketing, Limitless Book, limitless high, Limitless High Ticket Affiliate Marketing, Limitless Money Method, MOBE, my online business education, the life of an affiliate marketer. Bookmark the permalink

If you enjoyed this post “The Life Of An Affiliate Marketer” please Comment, Like and Share

Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard with the internet at your disposable. It is much easier now compared to the days when people had to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along.

So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this…

Upon waking up and after having breakfast, the computer is turned on to check out new developments in the network. As far as the marketer is concerned there might be new things to update and statistics to keep track on.

The site design has to be revised. The marketer knows that a well-designed site can increase sign ups from visitors. It can also help in the affiliate’s conversion rates.

That done, it is time to submit the affiliate program to directories that lists affiliate programs. These directories are means to attract people in joining the affiliate program. A sure way of promoting the affiliate programs your offering.

You take time to track down the sales copy that you get from the product owner making sure of it’s accuracy. There are phone orders and mails to track down depending on the type of marketing you are doing. You want to see if there are new clients checking the products out. You also take down the contact information that can be a viable source of building you your customer list.

There are lots of resources to sort out. There are ads, banners, button ads and sample recommendations that you use to promote the product because the marketer knows that this is one way of ensuring more sales. Best to stay visible and accessible too.

The affiliate marketer needs to look at emails and answer questions from any visitors. This should be done as quickly as possible. Nothing can turn off a customer than an unanswered email so always make sure to answer customers and be professional about it. This also helps in giving you that presence on the internet.

As an affiliate marketer, you can if you like set up a chat room in order to interact with other affiliates for different programs although this should be done by product owners if they feel it would help. Things discussed could be on how to promote a product or even setting up newsletters. At the same time affiliates are able to discuss with themselves on different ways of promoting a product for best results.

There is always something to learn as a marketer and this is a continuous daily task. Sharing tips and any advice you may have is a good way of showing support for your affiliates. There is never any harm done by helping others as you move along during your day.

You can work to produce newsletters and ezines. These should be worked on a daily basis and updating on a daily basis if at all possible. I would suggest here that as a marketer you put out a newsletter at least once a month if at all feasable and if you can gather the information needed in a reasonable time. That’s for another report.

You can set up newsletters through an auto responder to make life easier for you. This way you at least can send out you newsletters at the same time so everyone gets them at the same time. These newsletter publications can be an important tool to use in keeping everyone up to date with any new products, or information to help them succeed along the way.

As an affiliate marketer you might need to set up promotions and sales materials for products that you may want to promote.. As an affiliate you would pretty much get these items from the product producer. There is quite a bit of work involved here if you are by yourself but setting up salesletters, graphics, optin pages, upsells, downsells etc. all take time and yet it is a part of marketing today if you want to make a decent income.

As a marketer you also want to show appreciation to those who have helped you with the promotions and helped to increase sales for you. Mentioning a persons name, their site and the excellent work they are doing is a great boost not only to their ego but to yours also making you feel good.

Of course, you can also publish this in your newsletters along with all that other important information that you are finding and distributing to your followers.

The marketer still has time to write out recommendations for those who would like to know about credible sources for the products being promoted. You also want to post some comments on how to be a successful affiliate marketers on your site where there is traffic to see it. This is also something else for your newsletter.

The two objectives getting done is the marketer gets to promote the product as well as maybe the program they might be in

at the time. We are always hoping that we can get more affiliates to help promote and more people to join with us.

I’ve been sitting here trying to put together this report and finally realized that I’ve missed my lunch. I can say that because I do this out of my home so I am able to take lunch just about any time I want.

OK, so this may not be all done in a day, but then, this hopefully gives you some idea of how an affiliate marketer, a dedicated one that is, spends the marketing day.

Is that success looming in the distance for you or what?

3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online



Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.
Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving…

The 3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online

Now every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

 sing unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing.

Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

 fer free reports to your readers.

If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

 et the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product.

Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.

Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.

Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving!

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3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online

3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online



Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.
Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving…

The 3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online

Now every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

 sing unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing.

Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

 fer free reports to your readers.

If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

 et the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product.

Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.

Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.

Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving!

Facebook on Thursday unveiled its redesigned Messenger app, which replaces the list of conversations it previously displayed with a home screen that will let users perform more actions within a chat.

The Home tab now organizes Messenger into recent conversations, favorites, active users, and messages awaiting a response.

It has a shortcut that reminds users about Facebook friends' birthdays.

Messenger now prepopulates users' favorites list based on whom they exchange messages with most often.

The active users list identifies people browsing Facebook or using Messenger at any given point in time.

Improved search features help users find what they're looking for, even if the conversation is ancient history.

An Active Now section indicates who is currently available.

Facebook's Vision

The redesign is in line with what CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in January, when he said Messenger would become "the next big platform for sharing privately."

The goal was to position Facebook Messenger to provide an experience that would be better than the mobile Web, without the need to download additional apps.

"That's the promise of a Web-based approach -- none of those pesky apps," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.

However, working offline "could be problematic as a result," he told TechNewsWorld.

Facebook earlier this week announced that members could send and receive SMS messages and texts in Messenger. While it's only available for senders on Android, recipients of SMS messages can be on any platform.

SMS in Messenger supports standard text, images, videos and audio, as well as rich content like stickers, emojis and location sharing. However, members will have to use regular Facebook Messenger to send GIFs, send money, make voice and video calls, and book car-sharing rides.

The revamped Messenger app runs on Android devices only, noted Facebook rep Heidi Hagberg.

"iOS doesn't currently support app permissions for accessing text messages and SMS," she told TechNewsWorld.

Facebook "is going after all the unified channels of communications in order to be that productivity device -- the personal connector," observed Ray Wang, principal analyst atConstellation Research.

"It's trying to do the voice-to-text and video-to-text so people might look at video, which nobody's watching," he told TechNewsWorld.

The new Messenger "is an improvement over most messaging class apps," said Enderle, but Facebook is "pretty far off the mark with regard to a universal messaging app, in that this really doesn't do a good job of replacing email or embracing voice or video conferencing as a true converged product might."

Messenger for Business

Facebook is positioning the revamped Messenger as a tool for business use in addition to use by consumers.

"If you have email and calendar, you own a person's lifestyle," Wang said. "Facebook's taking small steps that tie the consumer role to the enterprise role."

The question is whether we're willing to make the tradeoff between privacy and convenience on the one hand, and privacy and security on the other, he mused.

"With Messenger, there's already a low level of trust as far as privacy is concerned," observed Mike Jude, a program manager at Stratecast/Frost & Sullivan.

"That ... is lethal in a business setting," he told TechNewsWorld.

The Payoff for Facebook

Facebook eventually might place ads in Messenger, Enderle said, and it might offer advertisers information on the items that can be sold to people as well.

Facebook introduced sponsored messages, a program that lets businesses pay to deliver relevant marketing and promotional messages at scale to people already interacting with them.

In the United States, "we're testing the ability to send sponsored messages with just a few select businesses," Facebook rep Hagberg said. "The vast majority of Messenger users will not see sponsored messages right now."

Ads "are the short-term game," noted Constellation's Wang. "I want better 

context around the social graph -- and if I have that, I don't need ads

Supercha

I've just started using Superchat because it is a true universal messaging app -- it connects my Facebook Messenger, gTalk, Skype, and Twitter accounts. So, from Superchat I can chat with all of my friends on those platforms as well as my friends on Superchat. Highly recommend t.

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Facebook Gives Messenger More Jobs to Do

Facebook on Thursday unveiled its redesigned Messenger app, which replaces the list of conversations it previously displayed with a home screen that will let users perform more actions within a chat.

The Home tab now organizes Messenger into recent conversations, favorites, active users, and messages awaiting a response.

It has a shortcut that reminds users about Facebook friends' birthdays.

Messenger now prepopulates users' favorites list based on whom they exchange messages with most often.

The active users list identifies people browsing Facebook or using Messenger at any given point in time.

Improved search features help users find what they're looking for, even if the conversation is ancient history.

An Active Now section indicates who is currently available.

Facebook's Vision

The redesign is in line with what CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in January, when he said Messenger would become "the next big platform for sharing privately."

The goal was to position Facebook Messenger to provide an experience that would be better than the mobile Web, without the need to download additional apps.

"That's the promise of a Web-based approach -- none of those pesky apps," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.

However, working offline "could be problematic as a result," he told TechNewsWorld.

Facebook earlier this week announced that members could send and receive SMS messages and texts in Messenger. While it's only available for senders on Android, recipients of SMS messages can be on any platform.

SMS in Messenger supports standard text, images, videos and audio, as well as rich content like stickers, emojis and location sharing. However, members will have to use regular Facebook Messenger to send GIFs, send money, make voice and video calls, and book car-sharing rides.

The revamped Messenger app runs on Android devices only, noted Facebook rep Heidi Hagberg.

"iOS doesn't currently support app permissions for accessing text messages and SMS," she told TechNewsWorld.

Facebook "is going after all the unified channels of communications in order to be that productivity device -- the personal connector," observed Ray Wang, principal analyst atConstellation Research.

"It's trying to do the voice-to-text and video-to-text so people might look at video, which nobody's watching," he told TechNewsWorld.

The new Messenger "is an improvement over most messaging class apps," said Enderle, but Facebook is "pretty far off the mark with regard to a universal messaging app, in that this really doesn't do a good job of replacing email or embracing voice or video conferencing as a true converged product might."

Messenger for Business

Facebook is positioning the revamped Messenger as a tool for business use in addition to use by consumers.

"If you have email and calendar, you own a person's lifestyle," Wang said. "Facebook's taking small steps that tie the consumer role to the enterprise role."

The question is whether we're willing to make the tradeoff between privacy and convenience on the one hand, and privacy and security on the other, he mused.

"With Messenger, there's already a low level of trust as far as privacy is concerned," observed Mike Jude, a program manager at Stratecast/Frost & Sullivan.

"That ... is lethal in a business setting," he told TechNewsWorld.

The Payoff for Facebook

Facebook eventually might place ads in Messenger, Enderle said, and it might offer advertisers information on the items that can be sold to people as well.

Facebook introduced sponsored messages, a program that lets businesses pay to deliver relevant marketing and promotional messages at scale to people already interacting with them.

In the United States, "we're testing the ability to send sponsored messages with just a few select businesses," Facebook rep Hagberg said. "The vast majority of Messenger users will not see sponsored messages right now."

Ads "are the short-term game," noted Constellation's Wang. "I want better 

context around the social graph -- and if I have that, I don't need ads

Supercha

I've just started using Superchat because it is a true universal messaging app -- it connects my Facebook Messenger, gTalk, Skype, and Twitter accounts. So, from Superchat I can chat with all of my friends on those platforms as well as my friends on Superchat. Highly recommend t.

Google's Cardboard has proved to the masses that virtual reality is more than a pipe dream. Inexpensive cardboard headsets leverage smartphones to create makeshift head-mounted displays for low-level VR experiences.

For those whose fancies of owning a US$600 Rift or a $900 Vive were out of reach, Cardboard was a way to keep their imaginations captive while Google was dreaming of Daydream.

Coming two full Google I/O developer conferences after the introduction of Cardboard, Daydream gathers novel and nebulous ideas surrounding mobile VR into a cohesive ecosystem that someday could be a star.

Twinkle, Twinkle

Daydream builds on the Cardboard concept.

On the software side, Daydream and its VR tools will be baked into the upcoming Android N. Users will have the ability to switch between a traditional user interface and VR mode.

With Cardboard's cogs still in place -- things like VR versions of Street View and YouTube -- Daydream will arrive with a healthy amount of content. Further, Daydream-compatible apps from CNN, HBO Now, MLB.com, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Hulu, Netflix and IMAX are headed to the platform.

As for as hardware, Google has given top device manufacturers standards for developing Daydream-ready smartphones and headsets to hold them. Vendors selling the headsets will be required to package them with the Daydream remote control.

Nodding Off

Quietly, Google has been conquering the VR industry.

While most of the press has gone to the high-end headsets, such as the Rift and PS VR, Cardboard has become the world's most successful VR platform.

Cardboard app downloads have surpassed the 50 million mark, Clay Bavor, head of VR at Google, said during Google's I/O 2016 developers conference last month.

Those numbers are telling. Ultimately, Google has been looking to solve one of VR's most fundamental problems, suggested Abi Mandelbaum, CEO of YouVisit.

"While high-end developers like Oculus and HTC have worked to create headsets that provide highly immersive experiences, these pieces of hardware are very much unavailable to the general population due to their price tag and additional computer power needed to support them," he told TechNewsWorld.

As a result of its approximately $30-tall barrier to entry, Google's Cardboard platform has been a free-for-all to some degree, and its VR experiences are among the most basic of those on the market.

While hopes were high for a standalone headset to follow Cardboard, Google decided to make VR native to the phone, notedMarxent CTO Barry Besecker.

Google is "betting that mobile will be the key to VR proliferation, vs. desktop or console-based hardware like Oculus," he told TechNewsWorld.

Lucid Dreaming

Along with setting standards for Daydream hardware, Google will work to further establish itself in the VR market on the software side.

Through Daydream, "Google is helping to close another massive hole within the VR industry -- that is, the gap between the growing number of devices to view VR experiences and the limited amount of immersive content available to consumers," said YouVisit's Mandelbaum.

Google has kept consumers from nodding off while some awaited the release of the high-end headsets and others still await the affordability VR's second generation likely will bring.

That said, even though Google's VR efforts have held the attention of the masses, it's premature to consider them a success, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.

If Google sees Daydream through, the company's sheer scale and resources might help it claim ownership of the market-- but Google has developed a reputation for failing to follow through, he told TechNewsWorld.

"Daydream VR appears to be the new strategic direction for Google VR," Enderle said, but "be aware that Google has the attention span of a small child on sugar, so how long this will remain 'strategic' will likely be measured in months."

Waking Up

The noise Google has kept up with its VR initiatives may have kept consumers from falling asleep, but it also might be waking up the company's rivals. OnePlus, HTC and LG have gotten a relatively early start before VR rush hour arrives.

One Google rival might be sleeping in, though -- unless Apple is keeping long hours in a lab somewhere working on its own VR products, which is entirely possible, according to Roger Entner, principal analyst at Recon Analytics.

"Microsoft is betting on HoloLens, and we still have to see what's up with Apple," he told TechNewsWorld. "Often Apple comes a little bit later than the others, but then they do it a lot better. I think that's the game plan here."

If Daydream is everything Google hopes it will be, Apple could start to hear murmurs from its following if it doesn't come up with an answering volley.

While Cardboard eventually grew beyond Android to support iOS, Daydream is native to Google's mobile operating system.

That could be risky, suggested Google may need to find away to support other platforms or it risks making the same mistake as Oculus and Samsung did, according to YouVisit's Mandelbaum.

Samsung's Gear VR, powered by Oculus -- a platform much like what Daydream wants to be when it grows up -- arrived with a built-in ceiling. Gear VR is compatible with just four Samsung handsets, he pointed out.

"In order to be successful in offering universal access and driving both viewership and creation," Mandelbaum said, "Google will need to shift to a more device-agnostic strategy that allows consumers access, regardless of their technology or location.

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Google: Dare to Daydream

Google's Cardboard has proved to the masses that virtual reality is more than a pipe dream. Inexpensive cardboard headsets leverage smartphones to create makeshift head-mounted displays for low-level VR experiences.

For those whose fancies of owning a US$600 Rift or a $900 Vive were out of reach, Cardboard was a way to keep their imaginations captive while Google was dreaming of Daydream.

Coming two full Google I/O developer conferences after the introduction of Cardboard, Daydream gathers novel and nebulous ideas surrounding mobile VR into a cohesive ecosystem that someday could be a star.

Twinkle, Twinkle

Daydream builds on the Cardboard concept.

On the software side, Daydream and its VR tools will be baked into the upcoming Android N. Users will have the ability to switch between a traditional user interface and VR mode.

With Cardboard's cogs still in place -- things like VR versions of Street View and YouTube -- Daydream will arrive with a healthy amount of content. Further, Daydream-compatible apps from CNN, HBO Now, MLB.com, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Hulu, Netflix and IMAX are headed to the platform.

As for as hardware, Google has given top device manufacturers standards for developing Daydream-ready smartphones and headsets to hold them. Vendors selling the headsets will be required to package them with the Daydream remote control.

Nodding Off

Quietly, Google has been conquering the VR industry.

While most of the press has gone to the high-end headsets, such as the Rift and PS VR, Cardboard has become the world's most successful VR platform.

Cardboard app downloads have surpassed the 50 million mark, Clay Bavor, head of VR at Google, said during Google's I/O 2016 developers conference last month.

Those numbers are telling. Ultimately, Google has been looking to solve one of VR's most fundamental problems, suggested Abi Mandelbaum, CEO of YouVisit.

"While high-end developers like Oculus and HTC have worked to create headsets that provide highly immersive experiences, these pieces of hardware are very much unavailable to the general population due to their price tag and additional computer power needed to support them," he told TechNewsWorld.

As a result of its approximately $30-tall barrier to entry, Google's Cardboard platform has been a free-for-all to some degree, and its VR experiences are among the most basic of those on the market.

While hopes were high for a standalone headset to follow Cardboard, Google decided to make VR native to the phone, notedMarxent CTO Barry Besecker.

Google is "betting that mobile will be the key to VR proliferation, vs. desktop or console-based hardware like Oculus," he told TechNewsWorld.

Lucid Dreaming

Along with setting standards for Daydream hardware, Google will work to further establish itself in the VR market on the software side.

Through Daydream, "Google is helping to close another massive hole within the VR industry -- that is, the gap between the growing number of devices to view VR experiences and the limited amount of immersive content available to consumers," said YouVisit's Mandelbaum.

Google has kept consumers from nodding off while some awaited the release of the high-end headsets and others still await the affordability VR's second generation likely will bring.

That said, even though Google's VR efforts have held the attention of the masses, it's premature to consider them a success, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.

If Google sees Daydream through, the company's sheer scale and resources might help it claim ownership of the market-- but Google has developed a reputation for failing to follow through, he told TechNewsWorld.

"Daydream VR appears to be the new strategic direction for Google VR," Enderle said, but "be aware that Google has the attention span of a small child on sugar, so how long this will remain 'strategic' will likely be measured in months."

Waking Up

The noise Google has kept up with its VR initiatives may have kept consumers from falling asleep, but it also might be waking up the company's rivals. OnePlus, HTC and LG have gotten a relatively early start before VR rush hour arrives.

One Google rival might be sleeping in, though -- unless Apple is keeping long hours in a lab somewhere working on its own VR products, which is entirely possible, according to Roger Entner, principal analyst at Recon Analytics.

"Microsoft is betting on HoloLens, and we still have to see what's up with Apple," he told TechNewsWorld. "Often Apple comes a little bit later than the others, but then they do it a lot better. I think that's the game plan here."

If Daydream is everything Google hopes it will be, Apple could start to hear murmurs from its following if it doesn't come up with an answering volley.

While Cardboard eventually grew beyond Android to support iOS, Daydream is native to Google's mobile operating system.

That could be risky, suggested Google may need to find away to support other platforms or it risks making the same mistake as Oculus and Samsung did, according to YouVisit's Mandelbaum.

Samsung's Gear VR, powered by Oculus -- a platform much like what Daydream wants to be when it grows up -- arrived with a built-in ceiling. Gear VR is compatible with just four Samsung handsets, he pointed out.

"In order to be successful in offering universal access and driving both viewership and creation," Mandelbaum said, "Google will need to shift to a more device-agnostic strategy that allows consumers access, regardless of their technology or location.

 a powerful NMS for monitoring your network, physical & virtual (VMware/ HyperV) servers & other IT devices. Deploy and start monitoring in less than an hour. Trusted by over a million admins world-wide.

I'm on a mission, and that mission is to save on my power bill. I've already done the obvious stuff, like replace lightbulbs - especially the 500W halogens floodlights I have outdoors - with low-power LEDs, and I'm being more careful as to how I use heating and cooling. But along with making big changes, I've also been looking at just how much power all the random stuff I have plugged in uses.

Last week, I looked at how much power smartphone chargers consumed when there wasn't a smartphone attached to them. Now let's look at how much power it takes to charge a smartphone for a year.

Now, the proper way to do this test would be to measure the power consumption over a year. Well, I want results quicker than that, so I'd have to do shorter periods of real-world testing and extrapolate out the results, which shouldn't be a problem.

So, what I did rather than keep detailed charging note for a year, or find how much power it took just to charge the battery from 0 percent to 100 percent, and try to fudge that into some real-world figure, I replicated what most people do and put my smartphone on to charge overnight and measure the nightly power consumption.

I chose this method for two reasons:

• It's a usage pattern that matches how many people use their device
• It is more real-world, since when the device is on charge overnight, not only is power being used to charge the battery, but also to run the device (remember, your device is doing stuff in the background like checking email), so this goes beyond just measuring the power used to charge the battery

Power consumption was measured using a WattsUp? PRO power meter.

My test subject was the iPhone 6 Plus, which has the biggest battery that Apple offers. I'm also a pretty heavy user, and this meant that going all day was sometimes tricky (the things I do for you). This means that my results are going to be at the high-end, and that more restrained smartphone users are going to have a smaller power bill.

So here's what I found.

On average, during an overnight charge, the iPhone consumed an average of 19.2 Wh.

According to figures published by the US Energy Information Administration for January 2016, the average cost per kWh in the US was $0.12.

Remember that 1 kWh equals 1,000 Wh.

So, take our average of 19.2 Wh per day, multiplying that by 365 days, we get 7 kWh, which works out at $0.84 a year.

So if you guess under a dollar, well done.

How much does the electricity needed to charge a smartphone over the course o#Reforms

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f a year cost? Under a dollar? A few dollars? Tens of dollars? Hundreds of dollars? Let's find out.

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Here's how much it costs to charge a smartphone for a year

I'm on a mission, and that mission is to save on my power bill. I've already done the obvious stuff, like replace lightbulbs - especially the 500W halogens floodlights I have outdoors - with low-power LEDs, and I'm being more careful as to how I use heating and cooling. But along with making big changes, I've also been looking at just how much power all the random stuff I have plugged in uses.

Last week, I looked at how much power smartphone chargers consumed when there wasn't a smartphone attached to them. Now let's look at how much power it takes to charge a smartphone for a year.

Now, the proper way to do this test would be to measure the power consumption over a year. Well, I want results quicker than that, so I'd have to do shorter periods of real-world testing and extrapolate out the results, which shouldn't be a problem.

So, what I did rather than keep detailed charging note for a year, or find how much power it took just to charge the battery from 0 percent to 100 percent, and try to fudge that into some real-world figure, I replicated what most people do and put my smartphone on to charge overnight and measure the nightly power consumption.

I chose this method for two reasons:

• It's a usage pattern that matches how many people use their device
• It is more real-world, since when the device is on charge overnight, not only is power being used to charge the battery, but also to run the device (remember, your device is doing stuff in the background like checking email), so this goes beyond just measuring the power used to charge the battery

Power consumption was measured using a WattsUp? PRO power meter.

My test subject was the iPhone 6 Plus, which has the biggest battery that Apple offers. I'm also a pretty heavy user, and this meant that going all day was sometimes tricky (the things I do for you). This means that my results are going to be at the high-end, and that more restrained smartphone users are going to have a smaller power bill.

So here's what I found.

On average, during an overnight charge, the iPhone consumed an average of 19.2 Wh.

According to figures published by the US Energy Information Administration for January 2016, the average cost per kWh in the US was $0.12.

Remember that 1 kWh equals 1,000 Wh.

So, take our average of 19.2 Wh per day, multiplying that by 365 days, we get 7 kWh, which works out at $0.84 a year.

So if you guess under a dollar, well done.

How much does the electricity needed to charge a smartphone over the course o#Reforms

#Congress#Hillary Clinton#Republicans#Ferguson Сity#Obamacare#Ebola#MH17 crash#Afghanistan#Nuclear deal#Israel#Xi Jinping#Putin#Iran#Ukraine conflict#Boko Haram#Barack Obama

f a year cost? Under a dollar? A few dollars? Tens of dollars? Hundreds of dollars? Let's find out.

It seems even Microsoft is getting sick of bloatware.

The software giant has built a tool designed to "refresh" systems with a new copy of Windows 10, which takes aim at preinstalled junk apps, the security flaw-ridden apps that come bundled with almost every new consumer PC.

now included as part of Microsoft's second "fast-ring" test build of Windows 10 Anniversary Update this week.

ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley has more on what's inside the new test build.

In an updated community page, Microsoft said the feature will reinstall a fresh copy of the operating system, which excludes necessary hardware drivers, as well as support applications -- known as "bloatware" or "crapware."

These preinstalled apps are often included on new notebooks, desktops, and even some Android devices. It's generally added by the device maker, and is often embedded deep in the operating system, making it difficult to remove. Making matters worse, they're often full of security flaws, putting the device owner at risk. Recently, a security firm discovered that every single PC maker installed bloatware that included at least one major security flaw, which could lead to device compromise or data theft.

Even Microsoft has taken heat in the not-so-distant past for its part to play.

Microsoft says its own line-up of Signature products are the "safest" devices, with claims on its website that device owners can "forget" about preinstalled bloatware. But the same security researchers found that these supposedly bloatware-free devices "also often included OEM update tools, potentially making their distribution larger than other OEM software."

Their report concluded that buying a Signature edition PC may be "beneficial," but users are "not guaranteed to protect end users to flaws in OEM software altogether."

Microsoft is expected to release Windows 10 Anniversary Update later this year.

The new feature downloads and installs a fresh copy of Windows, killing any pre-installed apps bundled in by PC manufacturers., 048x1, 536 display, All affected users are from US, 

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Microsoft pushes new Windows 10 tool to kill PC bloatware

It seems even Microsoft is getting sick of bloatware.

The software giant has built a tool designed to "refresh" systems with a new copy of Windows 10, which takes aim at preinstalled junk apps, the security flaw-ridden apps that come bundled with almost every new consumer PC.

now included as part of Microsoft's second "fast-ring" test build of Windows 10 Anniversary Update this week.

ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley has more on what's inside the new test build.

In an updated community page, Microsoft said the feature will reinstall a fresh copy of the operating system, which excludes necessary hardware drivers, as well as support applications -- known as "bloatware" or "crapware."

These preinstalled apps are often included on new notebooks, desktops, and even some Android devices. It's generally added by the device maker, and is often embedded deep in the operating system, making it difficult to remove. Making matters worse, they're often full of security flaws, putting the device owner at risk. Recently, a security firm discovered that every single PC maker installed bloatware that included at least one major security flaw, which could lead to device compromise or data theft.

Even Microsoft has taken heat in the not-so-distant past for its part to play.

Microsoft says its own line-up of Signature products are the "safest" devices, with claims on its website that device owners can "forget" about preinstalled bloatware. But the same security researchers found that these supposedly bloatware-free devices "also often included OEM update tools, potentially making their distribution larger than other OEM software."

Their report concluded that buying a Signature edition PC may be "beneficial," but users are "not guaranteed to protect end users to flaws in OEM software altogether."

Microsoft is expected to release Windows 10 Anniversary Update later this year.

The new feature downloads and installs a fresh copy of Windows, killing any pre-installed apps bundled in by PC manufacturers., 048x1, 536 display, All affected users are from US,