World Wide Web

Selasa, 12 April 2011

World Wide Web

Now that we have World Wide Web, the affiliate website marketer can be anywhere with thousands customers. Long are the ages gone when only affiliate marketing was an offline thing. Affiliate marketers were restricted to operate only within their locality.

You don't know what the term affiliate means? You are surprised because I'm talking about it first without explaining it to you' I am really sorry for this. You see, the world of internet is too fast and it really leaves some of us with less less time. To define it, it's when a website earns commissions by sending potential surfers to their merchant's websites they are representing. This commission is only earned after the potential surfer buys or makes the action anticipated by the merchant.

The more the number of surfers a site sends to its merchants, the more the commission they make if only these surfers buys the merchant's products or services. Does this sound too simple and you want to be an affiliate right now? Hey! Hold on first' review this statement before you jump to it "Being a successful affiliate is not easy as majority of people may tend to think' You and I know very well that in a realistic world nothing is achieved easily.

Any successful modern affiliate marketer will tell you that it involves hard work which is blended with passion, right attitude, patience, planning and focus. They will tell you about the many lonely hours they sit in front of their computer screens searching for the best affiliate programs to recommend.  Successful ones know that everything starts from the time of choosing a site theme [site concept]. They build their site concepts from where targeted surfers starts from. 

They start from the search engine because that is where the targeted surfers start from. This is how they chose their site concepts. These affiliates are after providing information first before selling. Why information first and not selling merchants products and services? Well'you see, they first sat down and thought hard. Then they asked themselves this question: what makes surfers to surf on the internet?

Kauai Vacation Condo

Kauai Vacation Condo

If you're thinking about picking up a Kauai vacation condo rental for your next trip to the island, you're in for a treat - especially if you work with booking agents who actually live on the island and can provide you with insider information that is perfectly suited to the experience you want to have during the course of your visit. What kind of condo rental options are there? The list is as diverse as you are, but here's some highlights of some of the best amenities available.

Activity options to book with your Kauai vacation condo rental

To start with, no relaxing vacation to Hawaii is complete without experiencing Hawaiian style massage, known as Lomi-Lomi. A skilled masseur can actually provide therapeutic touches and strokes to calm to your stressed bodies; add some outdoor activities like snorkeling among tropical fish and perhaps taking a Pilates or yoga class and you'll be feeling top-notch in no time! You can book a variety of adventure activities to go hand in hand with your vacation condo as well.

A helicopter ride over the exotic cliffs of the Na Pali coast will be worth a try; schedule a charter boat to take you fishing or, treat yourself to a view of the rarely seen coastline of Ni'ihau, the privately owned "Forbidden Isle" which lies 17 miles off the western coast of Kauai. You could opt for a paddle up Wailua River, Kaua'i's only navigable stream and end up in the famous Fern Grotto, a magical place formed millions of years ago which is chock full of native Hawaiian plants and ferns that actually hang upside down. 

There are also numerous hidden waterfalls and secluded beaches you could challenge yourself to find, surf, stand-up paddling or kite-boarding lessons to take as well as world-class golf courses, authentic Hawaiian shopping and a plethora of dining and dancing options to partake in.  Then, when you're all done with your day's worth of exploration, you could come home and relax in your spa while your private, organic chef prepares a delectable meal designed to tantalize your taste buds and nourish your body, before you head off to wind down the night sipping cocktails, listening to jazz and watching for the famous "green flash" of the Hawaiian sunset.Yep, it's true. Your time in Kauai will be like no other if you consider complimenting your Kauai vacation condo rental with all the personal indulgences you can imagine. And oh, before I forget, make sure you book these activities with someone who appreciates the paradise island of Kauai the way you do!

 

Tobin Tax

Tobin Tax

A Tobin tax, suggested by Nobel Laureate economist James Tobin, was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. The tax is intended to put a penalty on short-term financial round-trip excursions into another currency.

Tobin suggested his currency transaction tax in 1972 in his Janeway Lectures at Princeton, shortly after the Bretton Woods system of monetary management ended in 1971. Prior to 1971, one of the chief features of the Bretton Woods system was an obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy that maintained the exchange rate of its currency within a fixed value—plus or minus one percent—in terms of gold. 

Then, on August 15, 1971, United States President Richard Nixon announced that the United States dollar would no longer be convertible to gold, effectively ending the system. This action created the situation whereby the U.S. dollar became the sole backing of currencies and a reserve currency for the member states of the Bretton Woods system, leading the system to collapse in the face of increasing financial strain in that same year. In that context, Tobin suggested a new system for international currency stability, and proposed that such a system include an international charge on foreign-exchange transactions.

In 2001, in another context, just after "the nineties' crises in Mexico, Southeast Asia and Russia," which included the 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, and the 1998 Russian financial crisis, Tobin summarized his idea:

The tax on foreign exchange transactions was devised to cushion exchange rate fluctuations. The idea is very simple: at each exchange of a currency into another a small tax would be levied - let's say, 0.5% of the volume of the transaction. This dissuades speculators as many investors invest their money in foreign exchange on a very short-term basis. If this money is suddenly withdrawn, countries have to drastically increase interest rates for their currency to still be attractive. But high interest is often disastrous for a national economy, as the nineties' crises in Mexico, Southeast Asia and Russia have proven. My tax would return some margin of manoeuvre to issuing banks in small countries and would be a measure of opposition to the dictate of the financial markets.

Currency Strength

Currency Strength

Currency strength expresses value of currency. By economists it is often calculated as purchasing power, while by financial traders it can be described as an indicator, reflecting many factors related to the currency, for example fundamental data, overall economic performance or interest rates.

It can also be calculated from currency relation to other currencies, usually using pre-defined currency basket. Typical example of this method is the U.S. Dollar Index. The current trend in currency strength indicators is to combine more currency indexes, in order to make forex movements easily visible. For calculation of these kind of indexes are usually used major currencies, because they represent up to 90% of the whole forex market volume.

Currency strength is calculated from the U.S. Dollar Index which is used as a reference for other currency indexes.

The basic idea behind indicators is "to buy strong currency and to sell weak currency".

If is X/Y currency pair in up trend, you are able to determine whether this happens due to X's strength or Y's weakness. :

With this kind of indicators you are able to:

• choose the most valuable pair to trade.
• see the reactions of each currency on moves in correlated instruments (for example CAD/OIL or AUD/GOLD)
• look for a strong trend in one currency
• observe most of the forex market in one chart

Examples

Typical example of indicators based on currency strength are Relative currency strength and Absolute currency strength. Their combination is called Forex Flow indicator, because you are able to see the whole currency flow across the forex market.

Balance of trade

Balance of trade

The balance of trade (or net exports, sometimes symbolized as NX) is the difference between the monetary value of exports and imports of output in an economy over a certain period. It is the relationship between a nation's imports and exports. 

A positive balance is known as a trade surplus if it consists of exporting more than is imported; a negative balance is referred to as a trade deficit or, informally, a trade gap. The balance of trade is sometimes divided into a goods and a services balance. 

Early understanding of the functioning of balance of trade informed the economic policies of Early Modern Europe that are grouped under the heading mercantilism. An early statement appeared in Discourse of the Common Weal of this Realm of England, 1549: 

"We must always take heed that we buy no more from strangers than we sell them, for so should we impoverish ourselves and enrich them." Similarly a systematic and coherent explanation of balance of trade was made public through Thomas Mun's c1630 "England's treasure by forraign trade, or, The balance of our forraign trade is the rule of our treasure"

Foreign exchange controls

Foreign exchange controls

Foreign exchange controls are various forms of controls imposed by a government on the purchase/sale of foreign currencies by residents or on the purchase/sale of local currency by nonresidents.

Common foreign exchange controls include:

• Banning the use of foreign currency within the country
• Banning locals from possessing foreign currency
• Restricting currency exchange to government-approved exchangers
• Fixed exchange rates
• Restrictions on the amount of currency that may be imported or exported

Countries with foreign exchange controls are also known as "Article 14 countries," after the provision in the International Monetary Fund agreement allowing exchange controls for transitional economies. 

Such controls used to be common in most countries, particularly poorer ones, until the 1990s when free trade and globalization started a trend towards economic liberalization. Today, countries which still impose exchange controls are the exception rather than the rule.