In my corner of the software industry, I will work from six months to a couple years to develop and release a new computer game. I can sell sequels or expansion packs, but I generally cannot sell upgrades as with other software.

Its starting to become common-place to hear of a company whose affiliate program has hit the 10,000 or higher mark.

Looking for a quality baseball cap? Hey, it’s easy. Check out the material and workmanship. Grab a color you like, and maybe a team logo. You don’t even have to try it on! Thanks to the little strap in the back, one size fits all. A marketer’s dream.

One reason most internet businesses fail, is because people are too tied up on trying to make a sale. When what they really need to be doing is generating quality leads.

Let us take a real-life example.

The AC in a car is an overhead. It eats into the petrol that is used to run the car. However the benefits and pleasure that the owner of the car derives from the AC far outweighs the additional expenditure in his perspective. His wife may still scold him that AC need not be switched on in the car during the evenings

. Thus an overhead is mostly a matter of perception.

When I had uploaded my first page at www.tripod.com, I used to log on tens of times in a day to check the number of hits on my site. Even an increase of one unit used to increase the speed of blood in my veins.

But, no matter how hard I tried I never got listed in the search engines. It was a collection of my short stories. In two months, I just got a few hits from my sister, my cousins and a few of my friends.

I ranked high in the search engines with Altavista and msn there for a while but I lost my ranking due to my change of real estate practice location. Right now, I am trying to target Dallas Real Estate instead of Plano Real estate, Dallas Homes, instead of Plano homes. Allthough I ranked high with Altavista, I am nowhere to be seen on Google.com, and that’s where I really want to be! Can you tell me how DallasRelo.com, ranks #1 in Google.com for the search term “Dallas Real Estate” when the quality of information provided is horrible in comparison with mine? Also, if his website is recommended more by other websites, is there a better way to get ranked?

Achieve more reliable applications through methodologies, modeling, and new techniques for finding and analyzing errors. Application development tools have spent the last several years maturing and building up compliance with successive versions of Java Development Kits (JDKs);); Java standard and enterprise edition toolkits; and supporting technologies such as JavaServer Pages (JSPs), Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), Java API for XML (JAX), JDBC, and a host of others. Today you can use virtually any Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to build a distributed application, using virtually any of the established technologies under the umbrella of Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) or Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE).

Link popularity, the number of incoming links to your website, plays an important part in determining your site’s ranking in a search engine. But, before you rush off to try and get any and all sites to link to you there are a few things to consider, and one of them is that the quality of the links is as important as the quantity.

“The page cannot be displayed.” Have you ever encountered this message while surfing the net? Of course you have. We all have. Think it can’t happen to you? Think again. If you’re hosting your business on one of the free hosting services, you’re literally placing your entire business in the hands of a complete stranger.

While billions of dollars are spent annually on leadership development, quality leadership is still in short supply. For example, the move towards total quality has inspired many organizations to take a long, hard look at building their leadership capacity. Quality management systems such as Baldrige, ISO 9000, European Foundation for Quality and the Canadian National Quality Institute all demand an emphasis on quality leadership.

Walk around the offices of corporate America today and you will hear whispers of the cost cutting and employee layoff villains. Where can we turn to, what force will combat these scourges? In the same hushed breath, people often answer with a focus on value added.

OK, you’ve decided it has been long enough. You are ready to take the plunge. You are going to get that MCSE that you have been talking about for so long. Great!! Now, where do you begin?