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Beginning June 3rd, 2008, dentity Theft Radio will no longer be broadcasting on Talkshoe. IDTR will be moving to a video format and the audio will be taken from the video and then podcasted on our servers here.

You will be able to view the live shows as well as the archives at our new location. As always, the podcast will be available along with the show notes/blog post and you will have RSS capability to the podcasts by subscribing to this blog.

Since Talkshoe is no longer monetizing the podcasts, and as many hobbies, this one is no different, it takes money to keep up with the equipment and internet connections, etc. Since this show is not making money on it’s own yet, I am moving it to my own servers so that I can possibly start to monetize it. In this way, I can continue to bring you the news from the world of identity theft.

If you have any questions or comments, you can post them in the comments section here or conact me at identitytheftradio@gmail.com. Thank you.

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Episode 13 – Has Flash Made a Mistake – Originally aired July 27th, 1935

Episode 14 – General Tal Attacks Flash – Originally aired August 3rd, 1935

Episode 15 – Dale is Rescued by the Boys – Originally aired August 10th, 1935

Episode 16 – A Voice from the Shadows – Originally aired August 17th, 1935

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Many businesses are not only depending on their physical offices in marketing whatever product they have available for the general public. With the introduction of the internet, there are many changes that took place in the business world.

The internet allows a particular organization to reach many prospective clients wherever they are. Even if you have one office, you can practically advertise your goods/services anywhere in the world.

Putting your business in the internet world is not an easy task. Don’t regard the internet as a medium for advertising your business because it is more than that. You have to maximize the use of the unique qualities of the web, and in this manner, you will be able to provide prospects and clients with a better experience.

Internet marketing, this are two simple words but when put together, it covers a lot of subject matters that needs considerable amount of attention. The basics of internet marketing includes researching the market, search engines, advertising (email), marketing, promotion (local) and marketing offline.

Let’s start with researching the market. You have to identify first your market, and think of ways on how to reach those markets. You should be able to convey a message with value, for your prospects and clients to get a better understanding of what you are trying to advertise.

The two most important words in market research are target and hit. An effective marketing research should be able to hit the identified target. Your target will depend largely on what your business can provide to clients. Examples are children aged 7-12; or it can be men and women.

Marketing research further involves primary and secondary research, combined research, quantitative and qualitative.

The next internet marketing basic is the search engine. This has two types, namely: directories search engine and the PPC (pay per click) engines. If you are to engage in internet marketing, the presence of a search engine is quite important. Although it can be quite expensive, most business can’t possibly do without it because it is the most effective way to advertise the business.

Directories require a huge amount of patience for effective marketing. You have to wait for a couple of weeks before you actually appear on the site. Your site position can also change without further notice because this engines change their indexes and ranking rules every now and then.

PPC engines are more expensive but easier to utilize. You can obtain a much higher listing and fast and steady results.

Advertising is the next basic on the list. After you identify the desires and general wants of your target, you can also identify their interests. There are different publications which take up advertising; you can also make use of newsletter list advertising. It has three types: solo advertisement, classified ads, and top line ads.

Marketing through email usually leads to several problems, but despite this situation, it is quite effective because you can actually generate a response from three targets. You can make use of opt-in, newsletter, and UCE.

Email by opt-in is done by creating email addresses by which you send messages occasionally. Newsletter marketing on the other hand is similar to opt-in but it includes information like insights and articles. The UCE is also a form of advertising and is really effective, it also known as unsolicited commercial email.

The second to the last internet marketing basic is promotion. Make sure that you also promote in your local area, besides your first real clients will surely come from somewhere near your place. Since many businesses focus their attention to web audiences, they often forget to advertise locally. You can make use of press releases, magazines, newspapers, business guides, and many more.

Finally, marketing offline; classified ads are good if the publication itself focuses on your target market, otherwise you can do without it. Instead, you can correctly make use of print advertising, URLs, and movie slides.

Without advertisement, any business will fail. It is therefore imperative to have a good team that could handle all your business advertising, offline or online. Internet marketing requires a lot of thought, effort, and time. If you devote all these aspects towards proper advertising, all your efforts will be worthy once you see the business’ success.

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Quite often it is better to let others know of your situation and while you might feel somewhat embarrassed to tell friends and family that you’ve fallen into financial difficulty you might be quite surprised to know that many of them have been in a similar situation in the past or are currently in the same situation as you.

If anything you might be helping them to address their financial problems at the same time.

The reason why I say that it is often better to tell others about your finances is to make them aware that you are unable to do many of the things that you would previously have done such as going out to parties or clubs and spending up large on drinks and entertainment until you can get yourself in a better financial position.

It often takes a lot of the pressure off when people know that you don’t have the money to spend and it allows you to adjust your lifestyle accordingly to help cope with the situation.

Often friends and family will be only too willing to help in many different ways whether it be, by offering you the opportunity to do more work to earn more income or to help you make better decisions with your budget and other aspects of your finance to help you get back on track.

Sometimes it is good to have somebody to talk to who you can trust to relieve some of the tension of having to deal with the situation on your own.

Others who have gone through similar circumstances as yourself will be able to give you a lot of feedback on what they did to reach their goals were they might be able to recommend other people who helped them along the way such as financial advisers, bank managers or accountants.

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*Lester Chan’s Wave 2* – Lester Gamerz Chans has announced the second wave of updates for his plugins. These updates are for WP-DownloadManager, WP-Ban. WP-DBManager and WP-PostViews. This second round of updat4es means all of Lesters plugins now work with WordPress 2.5 and above. – http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2008/05/30/lester-chans-wordpress-plugins-june-2008-update-wave-2/

*WordPress 2.6* – Here is a highlight of some of the developments that have taken place with WordPress 2.6, support for Google Gears, a new style loader to complement the new script loader, drag and drop sortable gallery collections for the new Media Library, and adoption of the WordPress.com WordPress Theme preview ability which allows “lightbox” previews of Themes before you make your final selection. – http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/

WordPress Post Revisions – For those running multi author blogs, you’ll love this new feature coming down the pike in 2.6. WordPress post revisions will work with the autosave feature to store a history timeline of your blog posts so you can get protection from accidental changes, as can happen with multiple blogger blogs, and if something goes bork in the blog while posting. – http://mdawaffe.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/post-revisions-in-wordpress-26/

*Plugin of the week* – Plugins List WordPress Plugin – This is a simple WordPress plug-in aimed at giving credit where credit is due. This plug-in lists all the plugins you are using. The plugin inserts a simple html list into any post/page via a piece of shortcode.

If you would like to know more about what is going on within the world of WordPress, visit www.weblogtoolscollection.com <http://www.jeffro2pt0.com/> or tune in to my weekly podcast called WordPress Weekly which comes on immediately following this talkcast.

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What a show! First a power outage (at my location), but thanks to Jeff Chandler, he kept the show running and then a really late start when I was finally able to get back online! Wow! In any event, we discussed several topics including Twitter, Talkshoe and WordPress and then finally got in a little about the main topic. You can obtain a copy of Blogging On Steroids in PDF format here.

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There’s no doubt about the fact that being in financial difficulty is one of the most stressful things that you will need to handle in your life. How you handle the stress will determine how well you come out of your financial problems and more often than not how quickly you can turn your life around so that your debts are paid and you don’t need to deal with money problems on that scale again.

Stress can cause all sorts of problems and in the extreme it can cause you to become depressed and not be able to go about your everyday tasks including your employment that will help you to get out of your financial problems.

People all handle stress in different ways but there are certain things that you can do that will ensure your stress levels will be lowered and they don’t even need to cost you any money.

Simply taking a bit of time out for a walk or some form of exercise will go a long way to relieving stress. Yoga is probably one of the best forms of exercise to relieve stress and you don’t even need to go to classes to do yoga. You can even get books and DVDs from the local library that will give you enough basic exercises to do to ensure that you maintain a better balance in your life.

Your energy levels are liable to increase which will help you to handle more throughout the day and in doing so get to your goals sooner.

Simply having a little quiet time to yourself and reading a novel can be enough to give your mind the rest from the constant worry of the debts, creditors and juggling the money to make ends meet.

Many financial advisers even make a small allowance in the budget to allow for a reality check to help you remember there is more to life than just worrying about money and on occasion you can spend a few extra dollars on something that will reward you for the efforts in tackling your debt problem.

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There are many factors that you need to consider before borrowing from friends and family.

First and foremost you need to discuss, with whoever you are borrowing from, your financial situation so they can make a decision whether or not to lend you money based on whether they are comfortable that you can repay them.

There is no quicker way to lose friends or cause family strife than to get in a situation where you have borrowed money from them and cannot pay it back when they need it.

It is also recommended that you only borrow money from people who have excess funds that they have invested elsewhere and where you can pay them interest for the use of those funds so that they aren’t losing out on the deal.

In situations like this you will be able to borrow money at a lower rate than you could get from any of the financial lending institutions and the person lending you the money could also get a better return than they would get by investing their money in those same institutions or at the bank.

So it is quite possible it could be beneficial to both parties in the deal but once again I need to stress the importance of total disclosure of your financial position as they need to know that to determine whether they are happy that you are a safe investment or not.

Friends or family should not feel obliged to lend you money no matter how bad your financial position is because it could put them in a similar situation.

It is better fair you to leave the risk with financial lending institutions if you have any doubts whatsoever of paying back the money borrowed from those close to you.

Some people are only too willing to take advantage of the opportunity to earn a little more interest and if that’s the case then well and good – they have decided that you are a worthwhile investment. Let them have a look at all your books and your budget and possibly even get them to help you work through your budget and to sort out a plan of repayment for their loan to you.

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The National Do Not Call Registry

You’ve probably been on the other end of all those solicitations ending up in your email, mailbox and phone calls. Those offers can really pile up and are extremely annoying to many people. There is a way to reduce your bulk mail advertisements. There are three lists to opt out from. There is opting out from telephone, email and mail. The Directory below supplies you with the information to “Opt Out”

DMA – DIRECT MARKETING ASSOCIATION

Opting out by phone
Telephone Services
PO Box 9014
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Opt out by phone: 212-768-7277

Opting out by mail
Mail Service
PO Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9014

Opt out by email
www.e-mps.org

THE CREDIT BUREAUS
There are three national credit bureaus. Experian, Equifax and Trans Union. These credit bureaus share your personal information with Telemarketers, insurance companies and financial services companies. You can opt out with these companies as well simply by calling the designated phone number.

Opt out from the credit bureaus
1-888-567-8688

OPTING OUT FROM OTHER DIRECTORIES
There are several other directories that carry information about you especially if you are listed in any phone book, voter’s registration or if you’re a homeowner.

Haines Criss Cross
1-800-562-8262

Sample Opt out Letter
To opt out by mail use this simple letter.

To: List Service

Date: today’s date

To whom it may concern,

I am aware that I am listed in your directory. At my request, please remove my name from these lists effective immediately. Below is the information you need to complete my request.

Your full name:
Your current address:
Previous mailing address:
Your signature:

Remove your name from pre-screened credit offers.

If you would like to reduce the number of pre-screened credit and insurance offers you are receiving, visit www.optoutprescreen.com or call 1-888-5OptOut (1-888-567-8688) to opt-out of these offers. This is a free service to consumers offered by the major credit bureaus.

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