Poker isn’t only for professionals anymore. Due to a variety of great online poker sites, a dying game rarely played outside of casinos has been transformed into perhaps the hottest pastimes on the planet. What has driven the game to turn into such a success now? Easy access, thrills, and the chance to gamble with the choice of fake money or for large actual money drove the tremendous growth of these sites from the moment the very first sites went live in the late 90’s. Naturally, many others discovered the steady growth of the industry, and before long, poker sites were starting up everywhere wanting to get their piece of the action. All the excitement resulting from online poker brought about events such as the World Poker Tour being given live coverage in 2002. Increasing in participation by a fantastic 500% during the next year, the WSOP was screened on TV along with the well-known amateur player Chris Moneymaker, who took part in and won the tournament. Chris surprised everyone by illustrating that it really was possible to go from rags to riches solely by playing a poker game. The vast majority poker devotees could only fantasize about playing full-time and Moneymaker was doing it. Naturally this increased the hysteria, and in 2004, this at one time almost forgotten pastime was earning an unbelievable one billion dollars and was still growing.

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Nowadays, poker has a worldwide appeal, devotees log on to bet in competitions offering spectacular cash prizes, or just to gamble ‘fake’ money and sharpen up their skills. With numerous sites and different varieties to select from, there’s a place for you at the table irrespective of whether you’re a beginner or a pro.

Occasionally it can be fun to look on while the pros online, you can see the most well-known celebrities daily on several television channels. But, with the ability to play ‘fake’ funds and entirely dispose of any financial danger, you essentially can’t go wrong. You might even get hooked. Online poker has brought the game back to life in a few years. Now that betting online is so easy and such fun, you can be sure the industry will grow at an exponential rate well into the future.

We have now entered the world of blogs! Sounds kind of Harry Potterish, doesn’t it?

If you’re over 20 years old, you probably think this is some crazy sci-fi phenomenon, or I’ve simply lost my mind. Don’t fret, the vast majority of people don’t know what a blog is all about and more importantly, why it matters to them.

If you’re under 20 you can stop reading because you probably know all about blogs, and the value they have in sharing information. You’ve been trading game-breaking codes, South Park clips, and jokes through blogs for months now or maybe even years.

In a recent article, Johnson Ong quips “I have a blog. Doesn’t everyone? You mean you don’t? How uncool are you? According to Merriam-Webster, ‘blog’ was the word of the year last year. Not having your own blog is like not having your own Gmail account. What? You don’t have Gmail either? My God, what are you? A caveman!”

Over or under, cool or uncool, I want to address blogs from a business standpoint, and the tremendous value they can deliver to business. There are several reasons that developing a blog is a tremendous strategy for any business.

1) It will increase your web presence significantly the search engines love blogs!

2) It will allow your business to educate customers and prospects about certain subjects, and appear as experts

3) It will raise your business profile with your vendors and other strategic partners, if they are invited to contribute to your blog

4) Other blogs can, and will, take information from your blog, and you will increase your exposure to anyone that participates in the ‘taking’ blog

5) Blogs accept subscribers, and everyone that subscribes to your blog will be constantly updated (pinged) by you with current information

So What is It?

The full name for a blog is a weblog. It’s a repository for articles, newsletters, information, and discussion boards. It’s like a ‘what’s new’ page on the internet in whatever subject you choose. When people research any topics that you have on your blog, they may very well end up on your blog through their search. If you’ve done it right, your blog is of course, fully branded to your company, and linked to your main website.

If you keep current articles, and information on your blog, you will receive hits from people looking for information about those subjects. You will also receive hits from other blogs, and they will then distribute your information to their own audiences.

You will receive hits from contributors of articles or news items, as well as people looking for those particular contributors through a search engine.

Hopefully, you get the picture. Your web traffic should increase exponentially through the proper use of a blog.

Business Blogs

Business blogs have yet to sweep the business community, which presents a significant opportunity to adapt the technology to any business. It will allow you to share expertise and knowledge with a much larger audience, which should create a significant benefit.

There is specific blogging software, and you will have to learn how to create an effective and valuable blog. You will also have to learn how to acquire and produce current industry information to populate your blog with articles that will maintain interest and value. Yes, there is an element of work to it you didn’t think it was free, with no effort required, like the mumps did you?

As you add current information to your subject area, or to secondary subject areas that you may include in your blog, your chances of more hits are higher. If you continually contribute self-generated articles and news items to the appropriate subject areas, your chances also increase. In addition, there are sources that allow you to publish their materials, which can be used to increase the value of the blog, and therefore the likelihood of being found on the good old inter-web.

So How Does It Work?

If you still push the Pause/Break button in the upper right-hand corner of your keyboard to request permission from your boss for a visit to the bathroom, you can skip this part. Otherwise, it’s really not too hard to follow.

Without getting too technical, there are many web robots (bots), crawlers, and spiders, and similar technologies that have RSS Reader capability. That’s the stuff that is specific to blogs. They are basically looking for news, and blogs have that news.

If you do it right, these bots, crawlers, and spiders find your blog, and send information elsewhere, which is just what you want. Your blog is basically yelling at these web ‘beasts’ to “come on in and take this great stuff I’ve got.”

For example, these web ‘animals’ include yahooslurp, googlebot, feedstercrawler, pubsub, syndic8, msnbot, newsgator, CP30, & R2D2.

O.K., the last two were Luke Skywalker’s buddies, but the rest are real.

It will take 4 to 6 weeks for the search engines to adjust rankings but the ultimate result will be that you will progress up the ladder in the engines in the various topic areas that you feature. When people are searching for technologies or subjects that are being discussed in your blog, they will find you on the search engines.

That should be a hint that you should have content on your blog about the subjects that are most often searched.

When a subject is searched that is covered by one of your branded, self-generated articles, your fully branded information may be pulled to another blog, or to a specific person doing a search in that topic area. You can post that same article on your website, and it won’t go anywhere. However, on your blog it gets a shot of super juice, and may just get pushed through any number of doors.

Linking The Benefits Increase Your Brand

When website owners and bloggers (yeah, I’m now a blogger!) think of linking, they are usually referring to inbound links from external websites and blogs. For example, if you had a link to your website on the website of another business.

While adding more inbound links on external sites is important, there is also a sort of ‘reverse’ link strategy associated with blogs.

Your blog’s incoming links will provide another benefit when someone is referred to an article in your blog from another website. For example, through GooglePageRank, the receiving page (you) gets a boost up the search engine when that happens, which helps the blog overall by boosting the popularity of the blog, which in turn is what increases the search results, which in turn drives up the search engine rankings.

What!? I wrote it and I have to read it six times to really follow what I’m saying.

Basically, the more people that visit your blog when they come from other sources, the more likely it is for people to find you when searching for a whole myriad of topics. That type of benefit does not exist with normal website traffic, because those visits don’t effect web site rankings on the search engines. But blog traffic that is through a link from another site will drive you up the search engines. There that’s much more clear!? As clear as fog in a low-lying bog. Ouch!

Web designer Sue Studios says; “Blogs are highly strategic, here-to-stay desktop tools that can strengthen relationships, share knowledge, increase collaboration, and improve branding. Think of the potential for your e-newsletter strategies:

1) Articles within newsletters can be linked to a blog, extending life and creating a massive conversation

2) You can offer a bi-directional forum to customers to get true, personal opinion on your products and services

3) Company experts can start a blog and become industry experts, helping your company edge out competition and, through this interactive forum, draw customers into another exchange of information and thoughts.”

Well, it’s snowing out so I think I’ll go blogging! Wait, is that something you do in the snow, or is it something you do to stay out of the snow?!

Or is it a Celtic dance? Or should the Steelers have blogged that kick Sunday? I’m confused.

Dennis Schooley is the Founder of Schooley Mitchell Telecom Consultants, a Professional Services Franchise Company. He writes for publication, as well as for schooleymitchell.blogging,com and franchises.blogging.com, in the subject areas of Franchising, and Technology for the Layman. http://www.schooleymitchell.com, 888-311-6477, dschooley@schooleymitchell.com.

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Sydney, Australia is one of the most popular vacation, holiday and destination places in the world. Sydney has become a Mecca for travelers all around the world, with its beautiful beaches, laid back outdoor life and colourful night life. Renting a car is the best way to explore the many attractions Sydney has to offer. Therefore, it is crucial for one to know the correct steps to make hiring a car effortless.

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In this industry, education and experience are only part of what you need. The quality of what you do will be determined by the opthalmology equipment you opt to work with, rendering the choices you make very significant. Then, you will need to examine each piece separately including tonometers, examination chairs, and slit lamps to be sure of finding the best selection for your practice.

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Since you have the power to log on to the best poker site wherever you are and join a game, it’s easy to see why Internet poker should have become one of today’s foremost pastimes. And what criteria must you meet? Not very many, actually. You may play from home, you may play as expert or beginner, but nothing prevents you playing. Naturally, with such a variety of haunts to visit, you’re likely to identify the most appropriate sites for you to improve your skills and pick up winnings with. In just eleven years Internet poker has risen from that first fledgling site to thousands globally. Millions of people log in as part of their weekly routine and indulge in the various poker variations, without leaving their study. On its way to accomplishing this fanbase, however, the distinction between Internet and casino poker started to blur.

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From time to time Internet play granted the possibility of seats in major real world events. Online tournaments put up awards along the lines of seats on the 2002 World Poker Tour. Not long after this began, an online amateur didn’t just attend a major offline event but triumphed, drawing attention to Internet poker to a degree it had never before known. The idea took off straight away, and consequently so many people were competing to find the ideal poker game site in hopes of becoming a professional.

Entry to a real world event has turned into a typical accolade for the players who triumph in an online series, with the majority of sites joining in. These aren’t nothing but unimportant local events either. One example would be the well-known World Series of Poker where spectators see the princely sum of 100.000.000 dollars awarded at each Series. It takes place in several of the most famous casinos, renowned for their high rolling clients and abundance. You’ve heard of the World Poker Tour? As we said, it’s the tour which was first won by someone from the Internet community — and you can still enter that way. Of course, when you’re round the table in venues including Casino Europe, there are famous names and major pots, and a whole lot of adrenalin. Put this all together and you’ll see that by making your name with wins on any of the biggest poker game sites you have a chance to establish yourself as a competitor in the very same events that as a fan you’ve watched on TV. You don’t need to be from a particular nation, or be famous. Why not try? Simply enrol for the Internet tournaments and emerge victorious to take your spot at the table with the superstars. What this means is that long term players planning for their big professional break and casual players looking to hone their game at the easier play sites can both find what they seek in the Internet poker world.

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The real estate market seems to be on the comeback path after a long hiatus, as companies like Royal Dutch Shell and Google scout around for large office space in the City of London. The real estate market has been suffering from falling occupancy rates and rentals for over a year now, and the entry of these indicates the beginnings of a turnaround.

According to sources at Cushman and Wakefield, the real estate consultancy, Google is reportedly looking at an office space in the region of 145,000 sq ft, while oil major Shell needs around 220,000 sq ft for their London operations. In the beginning of 2009, a number of prospective buyers were looking at office space but held of due to the downward trend in the market. Serious buyers now seem to have finally made their presence felt, with the value of property set to rebound.

Take-up of offices to rent London in the third quarter of the year were almost two-thirds higher than the previous quarter, when rates hit their lowest in ten years. The new demand is likely to raise the valuations and position of a number of large real estate management firms like British Land, Land securities and Hammerson. Apart from Google and Shell, other serious buyers in the market reportedly include media publishers Centaur and insurers Aon Corp.

According to sources at C & W, rising demand for commercial property is expected to reach about 9 million sq ft in London alone, a marked rise of over 20% against the low point in January this year.

poker online tournaments with large entry fees and many players often offer “satellite” games as a way to enter. What are satellite poker tournaments? These are smaller tournaments, held at online poker rooms and sometimes in casinos that have lower entry fees and where contestants vie for a prize that includes an entry to the larger pokertournament with bigger prizes.

Satellite tournaments came into the public spotlight when Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker. He entered a satellite with the intention of wining the second-place money but instead finished in first and won the $10,000 seat in the Main Event. The advantage of satellite tournaments is that the entry fees are much lower than the main event’s cost. Satellites allow those with more constrained budgets to make a run a bigger events. It helps build the field of the more expensive tournament with the bigger prize money. The entries into the satellite basically cover the cost of one entry into the main event plus prize money for those who finish behind first place. Many online poker rooms offer satellite tournaments to their bigger events. They are also popular in casinos, which often offer the satellite opportunity a few hours or days before the scheduled bigger event. If your bankroll won’t allow you to play the big tournaments, then check out the satellite opportunities that may be offered.