Popular Air Cargo Freights

In the present day, we usually get and receive our material things from different places around the world. We usually don't even know that it came halfway around the world before even getting in your possession. We never even bother to think about them of course, this is all done by freight systems around the world, and one of the most popular is air freight. Air freight is usually used for business purposes and convenience.

Once you want to send a package of any content (usually in bulk or big amounts), we typically send them in air cargo freight services. This simply proves to be efficient and will likely be the fastest mode of transportation for your cargo.

These dedicated companies are divided into two divisions; International Freight Forwarders, which ship goods to other countries or Domestic Freight Forwarders which ship goods within one country.

Various methods of shipping goods are simplified on your needs; this depends on the importance of the cargo being shipped. For example, you need to send product samples from Los Angeles to France for verification, hence express cargo would be your choice. Charges will also depend on the value being shipped.

Air Cargo Freight is likely to be a different situation than the mode of the efficiency of cargo being sent in less time, there are many of freight companies in the United States alone, this will likely be a hassle to anybody who wants the best reputable shipping. There are many good choices of freight service companies; however, this will depend upon the fee. Fees is another factor, you can usually compare them online as there are many sites that will offer a good comparison of services in contrast to the shipping fees itself.

The freight is usually measured on gross weight, value which is then sent forth to the carrier's tariff or rates. This will grant rights to the carrier but will never open the containers or packages. If the particulars are not matching or sent to the wrong address, you will likely pay for the expenses incurred during the examination, measurement of value and the freight charge itself.

In the usage of aircrafts being used, large cargo shipping airlines usually use the latest and greatest but many of them use older models such as the Boeing 707, Boeing 727, Douglas DC-8 just to name a few. Some do use much older models but it involves replacement and strengthening of parts to be usable for cargo services. Some airlines tend to carry a few passengers from time to time to minimize the cost of shipping. Also airline freighters which are dedicated to transportation of goods are mostly divisions or subsidiaries of large passenger airlines.

Notable shipping companies around the world are always on the top of their business, here are some of them which you will likely choose but this article has no connections to any of these companies and does not promote nor advertise them, these are used for reference purposes only.

• Federal Express
• Korean Air
• Lufthansa Cargo
• United Parcel Service
• Singapore Airlines Cargo

You can simply find your best air cargo freight service by your own experience. People will likely choose their local air freight forward
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Great Alternative Sources of Traffic

You're probably already using Google Adwords, Yahoo (USA, UK and Australia) and MSN to buy traffic to your site, but did you know there are many other sources for paid traffic that can be really profitable?

Four of my favorites include:

Google Content Network — I'm listing this as an alternative because most people using Google Content Network don't do it the way that I'm going to show you.

Facebook advertising

DoubleClick — you can put your banners and ads up on other people's websites

YouTube — Now that it's been absorbed by Google, this has become a pretty big player.

The good news is that most of these sources aren't being heavily exploited by merchants and affiliates yet, so you can still get clicks for pretty cheap! Here's the low-down on these great alternative sources for paid traffic...

Google Content Network

1. Text vs. banner ads

It doesn't cost any more to have your Adwords ad display as a banner graphic rather than text, and it means that your ad takes up a lot more space than it would if it was just text. Often these can be a lot more profitable than your standard text ads as well, and at the very least it's good free branding for your site — even if it doesn't get clicked on.

Of course Google displays ads pretty randomly, so you're never really guaranteed a space in the ad slot. That's why it's a good idea to hedge your bets and create both text ads and banner ads.

2. Separate your ads for "content match" and your ads for "search match" into separate campaigns

This is really important for a number of reasons:

The results you get for your search match campaigns are going to differ from the results for your content match campaigns, and it's vital that you can see the difference. You can't do this if they're all lumped into the same campaign.

It also means that you can write different ads for the different campaigns. What works for content match might not work for search match, and vice versa. It's important that you have the flexibility to target your ads accordingly.

You might find that search match is profitable in a bunch of countries, but content match is only profitable in the United States. Or you might find that your content match rocks the casbah in a whole bunch of countries while your search match campaign tanks in all markets but the UK. In either case, you need to be able to work out your profit margins for each campaign, and then you can tweak your countries accordingly.

3. Don't be lazy, be relevant!

Categorize your adwords (use Traffic Travis)

Imagine you're creating a PPC campaign for a dog training product. Take the time to categorize your keywords and note the major trends: You might have a bunch of keywords focusing on German Shepherds, and you might have another bunch of keywords related to "stop dog biting". Once you've categorized your words you can create different ad text for each group, so that the ads are actually relevant to what people are searching for!

For instance, you could write "Discover step-by-step how to stop your dog biting right now" or "Discover how to stop your German Shepherd's behavior problems for good" instead of the very generic "Get expert dog advice and stop your dog problems for good"

When your ads are more closely related to the search term, you get better clickthrough rates and better conversions. A little bit of extra effort equates to a whole lot more profit.

Create different size banners

If you're creating banners for your Google content match ads, be sure to make them in every size that Google supports. That way you've got a better chance of having your ad appear on someone's site.

Create effective banners

This is at least as important as having your ad show up... make sure your banner ad is effective! Remember to target your banners to your keywords, so if your keywords are "poodle training", then create a banner focusing on poodle training!

Remember that while images draw attention, it's the text in your ad that sells. Make text a big focus of your ad, and if you're using multiple frames in your ad (as an animated gif or a flash movie) then make sure your viewers have time to read the text. I recommend that you allow about 4 seconds per frame.

If you're looking for free pictures for your ads, pay a visit to Stockxchng. If you need free image editing software, check out Paint.net.

This doesn't need to take a long time or a lot of effort when designing your ad. Your initial design might take you a little while to come up with, but you can usually just use this as a template and switch a few words around here and there to target your ad at different search terms. And again... a little extra effort goes a long way!

Check out this blog post for more tips on effective banner ads.

4. Use conversion tracking or tracking IDs to see where your sales are coming from.

It's important to know which keywords are actually resulting in sales so you can prune away the unprofitable words and amp up your efforts on your profitable words.

Google gives you a really effective way to do this with their conversion tracking tool. It places a little cookie in a user's browser when they click on your Adwords link, and if they make it through to the merchant's afterpurchase page (which means they've made a purchase) it triggers a little alert that records a conversion. You can then look at your ads and keywords and see which ones are resulting in the most conversions.

The downside of this is that you need the co-operation of the merchant site to make it work. You need them to insert your conversion tracking code into their afterpurchase page so that it can trigger the cookie when the user makes it through. Some merchants have no problem with this, but others can be reluctant. If you encounter a reluctant merchant, there is another method you can use if you're promoting a ClickBank product.

ClickBank allows you to add tracking IDs to your affiliate links. This means that you can set up a different tracking ID for each of your landing pages, and different landing pages for each of your adgroups. You might not get the same detail you'd get from the Google conversion tracking code, but you'll at least have some idea which landing pages are converting the best.

For more information about Google Conversion Tracking, click here, or for more information about adding ClickBank Tracking IDs, click here.

Facebook

Facebook gets a huge amount of traffic, and it's only set to increase over time. If you visit Alexa.com and plug Facebook.com and Myspace.com into the "Movers and shakers traffic graph", then zoom out so that you're looking at the maximum amount of time the graph will permit, you'll notice that Facebook is curving upwards in reach, rank and page views. In fact it's almost matching MySpace in terms of pageviews as I write this.

How does this help you? Well, you can advertise on Facebook. And that's just the start.

Because people pour so many personal details into their Facebook profiles, it gives you unprecedented ability to target your ads towards the people who will be really interested. You could narrow it down to single women in the New York area between the ages of 45 and 60 if you so choose... a great market for promoting online dating sites or relationship secrets products.

The other advantage with Facebook advertising is that you have much less competition because fewer people are doing it. At the moment it's extremely cheap... about 1 cent per click. Good luck finding clicks for that price on Google!

YouTube

YouTube is another monster on the Alexa charts — already it's almost up there with Google and Yahoo. It's also another arena where there's much less competition, so it's not too hard to get your video ranking highly. Even if you just create a screen-capture video or a series of PowerPoint-style slides to teach people something, you can get some good traffic to your site. The trick is to add some subtle branding to the video that directs viewers to your website. The people who are most successful in YouTube tend to be ones who create a series of videos and develop a following of viewers, so consider this as well.

The other benefit to YouTube is that you'll find your videos showing up in Google search results, and your video result listing has a nice picture from the video next to it. This makes it more appealing to click on.

Other Ad networks/places to advertise

MySpace — Similar to Facebook: You can also choose which demographics you want to promote to.

DoubleClick — You can choose which types of sites you'd like to advertise on: For instance, you might advertise your dog training products on dog training websites.

Cost-Per-Acquisition networks (like Azoogle.com) — Once you know how well your campaign converts and what your profit margin is, you can use these networks to pay affiliates for generating particular actions. For instance, if you know that every newsletter signup you receive on your opt-in page you earn 50c, you could use a CPA network to pay affiliates 20c for generating newsletter opt-ins. You still earn 30c, and it takes no effort!

Hopefully this newsletter has given you some good ideas for your PPC campaigns, and got you thinking outside the box a little bit.

All the best, and bye for now.
Traffic Travis

P.S. If you're really serious about your pay-per-click campaigns, Traffic Travis Professional offers you unlimited projects and the ability to import 5000 keywords to research. More keywords means you have a better chance of hitting those really profitable keywords that your competitors are having so much success with, so it's a must for any serious PPC marketer.

Remember we've got a $5 trial for Traffic Travis Professional for a limited time, so don't miss out! To find out more see www.TrafficTravis.com/professional
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Tips Computer Help.

Where and How to Get It

Well there's no denying it - No matter how new or how well maintained our computers are, we all encounter computer problems sooner or later. The good news is that we don't have to face them alone. There are a ton of resources available to walk us through computer issues but it may take a little knowledge in knowing how to access them. This article will show you how.

1. Remember help files. It's funny, but people seem to forget that every computer and every program installed on a computer comes with its own help file. Even the operating system of a computer has a help file and it really should be the first place to look for answers. Help files are designed not only to guide the usage of a computer, they're also designed to solve problems. Inside a help file, look for a section called, "Troubleshooting" (or something similar) when you need to resolve an issue. This section is reserved for solving problems specific to the software or hardware that you're using.

2. Product websites. If you're having a problem with a piece of software or with a hardware part, try the website of that software's or hardware's manufacturer. Most (if not all) manufacturer's reserve a portion of cyberspace and dedicate it to support the products that they build. Microsoft's help desk is good example.

3. Fan sites. Fan sites probably isn't a good name for this resource, but you can find websites that are dedicated toward supporting the users of a particular software program or piece of hardware. We've called them "fan sites" because the maintainers of these sites have no affiliation with the manufacturers that they support! Call them what you will, but their free help is immeasurable and without it, we wouldn't have some of the wonderful workarounds and unique problem solving techniques that we have today.

4. Usenet newsgroups. Another underused resource on the Internet, Usenet newsgroups have hundreds of discussion groups dedicated to some of the most popular computer systems, operating systems, hardware manufacturers, and individual software programs. Sometimes, the representatives of these companies participate, but most of the time, the support in this group is user to user, which is just as valid because you're working with a team of experienced people.

Strategi Bisnis ; Arti Pesaing dalam Manajemen Bisnis dan Strategi Bisnis

Saat ini hanya ada 2 produsen prosesor yang "terdengar" di dunia ini,  Intel Corp dan AMD yang secara mati-matian bersaing dengan strategi bisnis terobosannya. Secara umum penguasaan pasar masih dipegang Intel, namun disisi lain AMD juga memiliki kelompok segmen yang sangat fanatis, karena performa yang tinggi namun harga yang sedikit lebih murah.
Seorang narasumber di bidang pengadaan komputer, pernah saya tanya apakah mungkin Intel menguasai pasar prosesor dengan model manajemen AMD, jawabnya "pasti bisa" bahkan mungkin membinasakan produsen AMD. Namun saya berpikir apakah kalo Intel membinasakan AMD,  apa malah nanti Intel Corp tidak terbentur Hukum Anti MOnopoli di banyak negara terutama USA? Kalo ini terjadi strategi bisnis jadi mentah kembali karena terbentur undang2.

Sehingga AMD sebagai pesaing Intel tentunya tidak mungkin dibinasakan Intel,  karena justru dengan adanya AMD memberikan jalan menuju penguasaan pasar prosesor, terutama saat ada  proses tender atau seleksi walau tentunya hanya 2 perusahaan itulah yang selalu muncul dalam proses tenderisasi pengadaan prosesor di dunia ini, walaupun kita tau VIA juga mempunyai produk prosesor walau nyaris tidak terdengar, dan produknya tida sehebat AMD atau intel.
Hikmah dari kasus di atas bahwa secara strategic, makna pesaing dalam  strategi bisnis adalah:
1.    Sebagai partner dalam menguji prestasi internal organisasi
2.    Sebagai pemacu peningkatan kinerja secara berkelanjutan
3.    Sebagai pembanding output baik layanan dan produk
4.    Sebagai alat uji pasar, kecuali pada pasar bersifat dominan dan monopoli
5.    PEsaing dijadikan barometer dalam inovasi-inovasinya
6.    Meningkatkan adrenalin jiwa bersaing secara individu dan teamwork
7.    Pesaing adalah  partner/sahabat  terbaik pada wilayah anti monopoli

Dalam strategi bisnis, pesaing bisa diposisikan sebagai rival dan parner. Tergantung bagaiman pengaruh internalnya.

Solo , alternatif ibukota negara.

Jakarta macet. Apakah itu saja ?

Tidak. Jakarta banjir, Jakarta sumpek. Apalagi ? Malah ada pepatah : "Kejam ibu tiri, lebih kejam ibukota". Nah, lho ??? 

Bagaimanapun juga Jakarta sebagai ibukota negara adalah tempat tujuan dari segala – galanya.

Jakarta merupakan pusat pemerintahan, pusat bisnis dan ekonomi, pusat pendidikan, dan sebagainya. Orang mau cari kerja, datang ke Jakarta. Orang mau mengadu nasib, datang ke Jakarta. Ingin karir PNSnya bertambah baik, datang ke Jakarta. Karir pekerjaannya bagus, ditarik ke Jakarta. Hampir semua ke Jakarta. Bahkan preman, pengemis dan tukang copet yang ingin pekerjaannya lebih meningkat penghasilannya, datang ke Jakarta. Mau diapain lagi ? Semua berjalan alami bahkan mulai dari zaman Belanda, yang dulunya bernama Sunda Kelapa atau Batavia, yang mana duluanpun aku sudah lupa.

Dengan pertumbuhan ekonomi yang sangat tinggi, jadilah rakyat Jakarta menjadi rakyat berpenghasilan menengah ke atas dalam jumlah yang sangat banyak yang minimal 1 rumah memiliki 1 mobil. Sedangkan kelas bawah, dengan sistem cicilan yang sangat murah perbulannya, jadilah 1 rumah memiliki minimal 1 kenderaan roda 2.

Dan akibat dari itu pertumbuhan bisnis, perdagangan barang dan jasa, industri menjadi tumbuh sedemikian pesat dengan sebagian besar karyawan yang berasal dari luar Jakarta.

Terjadilah kemacetan yang luar biasa, terutama pada jam – jam tertentu.

Timbullah pemikiran untuk mengatasi kemacetan, salah satunya dengan membangun angkutan massal seperti busway, monorail, subway, dan sebagainya.

Semua diskusi dari banyak ahli dan pakar digelar dalam usaha mengatasi kemacetan Jakarta. Namun Jakarta masih tetap Jakarta yang macet.

Boleh boleh saja berpikir bahwa angkutan umum masal adalah salah satu solusi penting mengatasi kemacetan Jakarta. Tapi yang lebih penting lagi adalah pencegahan dengan mengkaji apa penyebab Jakarta macet, atau kenapa semua orang datang ke Jakarta yang berujung kemacetan ???

Menurut saya, status Jakarta sebagai pusat segalanya harus dikurangi satu persatu. Dan menurut saya, dengan kondisi yang seperti sekarang ini, cukuplah Jakarta hanya sebagai pusat bisnis, pusat perdagangan barang dan jasa dan pusat industri saja. Sedangkan status yang lain mulai dipindahkan secara bertahap ke kota lain.

Dan satu hal strategis yang harus dipisahkan dari Jakarta adalah statusnya sebagai ibukota negara. Status ini merupakan magnet utama kenapa semuanya bertumpuk di Jakarta.

Banyak analisis yang muncul ke permukaan tentang rencana pemindahan ibukota negara. Saya akan coba kupas dari segi dampak terhadap PNS pemerintah pusat.

Bagaimanapun juga, dalam beberapa tahun ke depan, Jakarta akan tetap macet. Dan bila ibukota negara masih tetap di Jakarta, akan terus macet sampai puluhan tahun ke depan, bila tidak lumpuh seperti prediksi beberapa pakar. Bagi para penyelenggara negara dan PNS pemerintah pusat, kemacetan ini merupakan problem tersendiri. Dari segi waktu merupakan pemborosan waktu. Bagi yang berkenderaan, macet menyebabkan pemborosan BBM. Belum lagi dari segi biaya hidup yang tinggi akan mendorong seorang PNS untuk korupsi.

Rencana pemindahan ibukota negara merupakan hal menarik bagi mereka. Ada rencana ibokota negara akan dipindah ke Kalimantan. Mungkin dari segi geografis jelas ini sangat mendukung, apalagi Kamlimantan dikenal sebagai pulau dengan tingkat kemungkinan terjadi gempa kecil sekali. Namun dari segi sosial ini masih merupakan hal yang tidak mungkin. Ibukota pindah sama saja dengan memindahkan SDM / PNS dan seluruh perlengkapannya. Bila si PNS adalah asli penduduk Jakarta maka barang tentu memiliki rumah di Jakarta atau di sekitarnya. Bila si PNS adalah seorang pendatang, mungkin sudah memiliki rumah di Jakarta atau di sekitarnya, atau mungkin masih mengkontrak rumah, atau ngekos.

 Bila ibukota negara pindah, ada dua pilihan, ikut pindah atau tetap di Jakarta dengan konsekuensi pindah kerja dari pemerintahan pusat ke pemerintahan daerah terdekat. Bila ibukota negara dipindah ke Kalimantan maka saya memprediksi sebagian besar PNS, terutama level menengah ke bawah akan memilih tetap bertahan di Jakarta dengan konsekuensi pindah kerja ke pemerintahan daerah terdekat. Sedang PNS menengah ke atas, sebagian bersedia pindah ke Kalimantan, sebagian memilih tetap di Jakarta dewngan konsekuensinya. Sehingga pergantian ibukota negara akan berakibat pergantian SDM / PNS pemerintahan pusat.

Saya melihat bahwa resiko di tingkat PNS akan sangat tinggi bila ibukota negara pindah ke luar Jawa. Namun bila ibukota negara hanya digeser sedikit, seperti ke Bogor sebagaimana usulan pak Harto, maka potensi kemacetannya masih akan bergerak sangat cepat juga. Demikian juga bila dipindah ke kota di wilayah pantura Jawa seperti Semarang, Surabaya. Daerah pantura Jawa masih merupakan pusat bisnis dan perdagangan serta industri yang memiliki potensi kemacetan yang luar biasa. Maka menurut saya lebih baik pemindahan ibukota masih tetap di pulau Jawa tetapi jangan di wilayah pantai utara Jawa. Berarti pilihannya di wilayah pantai selatan Jawa, seperti Jogjakarta atau Solo. Jogjakarta sudah kita kenal sebagai kota budaya dan pendidikan. Tentu kondisi Jogjakarta ini patut untuk dikembangkan terus sehingga akan terganggu bila dijadikan sebagai ibukota negara. Saya melihat bahwa akan lebih baik apabila ibukota negara dipindah ke Solo saja. Solo didesain hanya akan menjadi ibukota negara saja dengan membuat peraturan yang sangat ketat sehingga memperkecil kemungkinan menjadikan ibukota negara menjadi daerah tujuan segalanya. Dengan demikian potensi kemacetan juga bisa diatur dan dihindari. Dan dari segi PNS, akan lebih besar kemugkinan bagi PNS baik dari level atas, menengah dan bawah untuk pindah kerja dari Jakarta ke Solo. Ataupun bila memang tidak memungkinkan untuk pindah rumah, mereka bisa bekerja senin – jumat di ibukota negara dan sabtu – minggu pulang ke rumahnya di Jakarta.

Kualitas pemerintahan pusat sangat ditentukan oleh kualitas penyelenggaranya yaitu PNS. Pemindahan ibukota negara juga berarti pemindahan para penyelenggara negara / PNS.

Salam repotmasih.
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Improving your Credit Score is Just Three Steps Away

Credit score could be a dire stuff to talk about, especially if you are a "cold cash patriot" for quite some time now. Why talk about credit score, if you can afford to purchase a real estate property using thick bundles of 100 dollar bills. It is just a waste of time, and you would not be interested in dealing with credit scores or its attributes.

That is, if you have plenty of cold cash to spend. But what if time comes that you do not have even a single dime at all? Do you think a credit score is still a dire stuff to talk about? Think again: may be this is the right time that we talk about credit score not just by an "inch below the water" but by "at least six feet underground".

Keep in mind that your credit score could be your "best of friend" or the "worst of your enemies". The higher your credit score is the higher chance you have to qualify for loans and credit cards with lower interest rates and easier terms of payments. The lower the interest rate, the more savings you can generate in the long run.

And that is a good thing.

On the other hand, lower credit score will give you headaches, making it difficult for you to secure a loan or credit card, not to mention the higher interest rate applied in case you will be able to qualify for a loan or credit card. Thus, possessing lower credit score will really make your head ache and will make you dig in your pockets beyond the limits.

At this point, you should consider improving your lower credit score. There are several options that you can take, yet you are just three steps away from improving your credit score. How will you do it? Take a look on the following and make sure you will be able to follow them.

1. Inspect your credit reports for any inaccurate entries. Keep in mind that errors in credit reports are very common, thus it is recommended that you examine your credit reports at least twice a year. In this way, you will be able to pinpoint any mistakes and fix the problem before it can do serious damage to your credit performance. You can obtain your credit reports from the three major credit reporting agencies in the United States.

2. Always pay financial obligations on time. Do not underestimate the value of making payments on time. Keep in mind that one of the major factors that can affect your credit score is your habit in paying your financial obligations. If possible, pay your bills ahead of the scheduled due date. If you have problems in making payments on time, you may also consider automatic mode of payments.

3. Use credits on a minimum basis. If you are using credit cards, avoid making purchases beyond your credit limit and attempt to keep your balances at bay—let us say, around 25 percent below your credit limit. It will help you avoid accumulating huge debts that may come from unwanted purchases using credits.

Credit score is very vital, especially if you have plans of securing loans in the future. Thus, if you have a lower credit score, do not waste time and follow the aforementioned three steps to improve it. Make your credit score as an asset and not as a liability.