Archive for May, 2012

Internet Marketing Business Opportunities For Newbies

If you have contemplating beginning your own internet marketing business, you may think that it’s a difficult feat to accomplish. There are so many avenues you can choose to take, and of course, some are easier than others to get going. No matter how much computer experience you have, there are opportunities available for newbies. Just educating yourself on the options will get you started.

Probably the most common option new internet marketers partake in is affiliate marketing. In this venture, you promote other people’s products, and make a commission when people purchase the item through your special link. There are many affiliate programs out there that you can work with.

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25 Historic Technology Predictions

It’s the end of the year and you won’t be able to escape a wave of technology predictions for next year. Most of them seem to fairly reasonable, but they aren’t quite as aggressive and entertaining anymore as they were in the past. Here are our 25 favorite technology predictions that were not exactly true.

1878 – Erasmus Wilson (Oxford professor): “When the Paris Exhibition [of 1878] closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it.” Fact: The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy. Thomas Edison is credited with the invention of the light bulb in October of 1879.

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