Philbrick

We all just keep on dancing
dancing with the devil
ignoring every scream around us.
We hold up our blankets
cover our our eyes
and go to the next step
that we have listed for our lives.

I thought I heard a baby crying.

The population is numb to seeing
singing all the way
they seem to have forgotten the lyrics.
Music without lyrics
try to find the music lyrics to the song.
There must be a meaning somewhere.

I thought I heard a baby crying.

I closed the shudders
then walked toward the doorway
thinking I was mistaken
and must have missed my cue,
mysterious symptoms.
I will still request flowers in the morning.
What else is there to do?

It is the legend of a universal sorrow
that blinds these bridges.
It is the weeping of the stains
left behind.
I don't find comfort in your vigils
candles on my behalf
or suggestions you hear a babies moan
a wake set in place,
you never understood them anyway.

Men in pain
reading tarot cards in the desert
alone.
I make free coloring pages
fairies and dragons
and wait to hear them singing.
Thumbelina let me be your wings
fly toward the next chapter of the story
music without lyrics.

Yet
I thought I heard a baby crying.

Forever the dark wanderer,
looking for romantic ways to propose
to the bodies of mature women.
Their arms remain folded
they will indeed continue
holding beads of promise.
Shy love and the fantasy art of exotic women
is heard at the end of each day.

And ohhh
I thought I heard a baby crying.

I listened for their call
but the stones had already met the water.
There is a goddess post
one of linseed and blue
it covers the containers with mysterious symptoms.
I tagged their recognitions none the less.
One day there will be lilacs
youthful innocence.

I thought I heard a baby crying
but no
tiny infant calling
perhaps once
had ceased its breathing.

ABOUT Kathy Ostman-Magnusen

I paint and sculpt female fantasy art and map faery tale adventures. I dream of beautiful women on canvas and art of exotic women.

I have illustrated for Hay House Inc.,"Women Who Do Too Much" CARDS taken from Anne Wilson Schaef's book. I also illustrated for Neil Davidson, who was considered for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing, and several other publications. My paintings are collected worldwide.

Giclee canvas art work, greeting cards & posters are available for sale on my website:

http://www.kathysart.com

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The internet is growing very fast and we have only seen a small potential of what it has to offer yet. Most individuals today still do not shop online, however more and more people are shopping online at websites like eBay and Amazon. Here is a simple 4 step process to make money using the tools of the Internet.

1. Drive Traffic The 3 most important words in Real Estate is location, location, location. On the Internet,the 3 most important words is traffic, traffic, traffic. Over 1 billion websites exist today and most are not seen by anyone accept a small # of people. A few methods to drive traffic include monthly e-zines, subscription option on your website, forums, Google AdWords (paid), link swapping, affiliate programs or joint ventures with other websites. Once you have traffic on your site, you would like to have a good web stat program, to tell you how many people are coming to your site and from where. The power on the Internet will allow me to know how many people came from this article to my website. Find the ones that work and keep using them.

2. Market, Monetize and Deliver Once someone arrives to your site, you only have a few seconds to catch there attention. Just as easy as the Internet has become to see more and more in less time, you can lose a person very fast. Market to your audience with something very catchy to get them interested quickly. The product or service you sell them, make sure if meets there needs. Make sure you are setting the site to be all about your visitors needs, they are your guest and you want to make them comfortable. If you market correctly, only then will they purchase your service. Once they have purchased your service and you show you can deliver. You have built trust, now you have a customer for life. You have built your database and can deliver over and over to this customer.

3. Auto-Everything Serving a potential customer on the internet, a fast response is equal to a smile in person service. You want to make sure your customers received fast service, therefore it is important to automate your service if you can to deliver to the person as fast as you can. Auto responders (which you can type into Google for more details) will allow a person to receive digital services right away. For actual product businesses, it may be used in to send off an email to the warehouse right away to fill the order faster. I set up eBooks and digital products so my customers get the product the moment they buy something and get it right away without me having to do anything. Now do you see how you make massive fortune online. You can be fishing, traveling, working in the garden doing anything you truly love to do while the internet is making money for you.

4.Repeat This is the most critical, but most overlooked step. You have worked on driving that traffic, you have worked on marketing and delivered to your customers once. Repeat the process over again to your customers. However I suggest you only repeat it to your customers with high quality information that your customers will find valuable and benefit from.

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In the world of Japanese management style, Kaizen means change for the better or improvement. Kaizen refers to the workplace strategy calls for never-ending efforts for improvement involving everyone in the organization managers and workers alike. Generally, a Japanese management Kaizen team has two major components - maintenance and improvement. Each component has its specific functions. The maintenance function is to maintain current technological, managerial, and operating standards while the improvement function is aimed at improving current standards. These same principles can be applied to blogging. Here are ways you can apply Kaizen principles to blogging.

Lets analyze Kaizen for blogging in terms of the Management and Improvement functions.

1. Management

For Kaizen, normally you should concentrate at improving the process rather than at achieving certain results. It is also a process that, when done correctly, it helps to eliminate overly hard work (both mental and physical), and teaches people on how to learn to spot and eliminate wasteful processes. A good blogger should possess the following management skills:

Time Management

Time management helps you to work on the most worthy tasks and to get through them quickly. Time management is not some obscure notion but an important blogging strategy that can be followed to gather a huge amount of success. Many bloggers have failed because they are inefficient and time management can increase that efficiently. Knowing how to manage your time effectively will help you achieve the goals you want with the least amount of effort.

Maximize Blogging Effectiveness

Every blogger puts a lot of effort in creating a blog and then posting content regularly but then its even more important that the content is read by many people.

Keywords

Always try to build an understanding of the keywords used in your blog. You should also understand how your blogs unique characteristics and how your blog can fit in with the current concerns of your audience. This understanding will help you to develop content and also target conversations.

2. Improvement

Under the improvement function, a blogger should work continuously towards revising the current standards, once they have been mastered, and establishing higher ones. Improvement can be broken down between innovation and Kaizen. Innovation involves a drastic improvement in the existing process and requires large investments. Kaizen signifies small improvements as a result of coordinated continuous efforts. Areas that require constant improvement for a blog are:

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via search results. A blog that is ranked higher in a search engine result page, will have more searchers visit the blog. A good blogger should always pay attention to the latest SEO techniques in order to fully optimize ones blog for search engines. A high search engine ranking is also essential for better blog revenues.

Writing Skills

Blogging is about writing. In order for you to publicize your blog content, you should always strive to improve your writing skills. While most people think of writers as infinitely talented, living in some rarified air denied to the rest of us, writing is a learned skill. While some people are indeed born more talented with the written word than others, most people can become better writers simply through practice. Blogging is as good a practice field as any.

Internet Marketing

Your blog does not serve a good function if it is not marketed properly. Without the proper marketing, you may end up having limited number of readers. You should learn some basic marketing tips for your blog. Some of the basic marketing techniques are like joining a blog network e.g., mybloglog, 9rules etc, submit your blog to directories, have a contest, create links and trackbacks and many more.

True to the principle of Kaizen, you should always strive for small improvements for your blog. A continual small improvements and standardization yields large results in a form of compound productivity improvement.

Kuan Hoong is currently residing in Nagoya Japan. He is passionate about eBay. He also blogs regularly on topics related to SEO and Internet Marketing. You can visit his blog at kuanhoong dot com

The only reason you would ever need to create a website for your small online business would be if you are totally committed to continuously be putting forth helpful and updated information for all of your viewers, information that will catch their attention, as well as keeping them coming back again and again. If that is not your intentions and you do not feel as though you could actually handle maintaining a website such as this then you should really never consider doing it in the first place. Having a small online business definitely has its good sides compared to trying to manage a larger online business.

However, managing a small online business will still be quite a bit of hard work and will also take up a great deal of your time. The best advice I could give for all of you considering opening up a small online business is please make sure that you are totally knowledgeable about all aspects of the small online business and are completely dedicated to working as hard as needed to ensure the longevity and success of that online business.

Building websites for the purpose of attracting more customers or helping provide information to those viewers really sounds like an awesome idea right but just make sure that you are 100% sure that you are prepared to do everything that it will take to keep it looking great and not just boring away viewers instead. Talk to somebody that has more experience in this matter before you make any decisions on whether or not creating a website would be right for your small online business and make sure you are more than ready to make it work.

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