Your Brain on Autopilot

Here is a brain thing that occurs on autopilot and it sure surprised this skeptic!

How it happens

• Sit in a chair and lift your right leg to a comfortable level. You do not have to raise your leg very high, just enough for your foot to clear the floor.

• Now, begin rotating your right foot in a clockwise-circular motion, and at the same time with your right hand, sketch an invisible number 6 in the air.

When you do this, your brain will automatically tell your foot to move in the opposite direction (counter-clockwise.) After a few tries you may be able to activate the manual switch in your brain and counteract this autopilot activity. Then again, maybe you will not be able to. I know that in 10 tries my foot still moved counter-clockwise when I drew the 6 in the air with my right hand, although my foot was initially moving in a clockwise direction. Try it and see what happens when you do.

Chat Forum Undergoes Name Change 6-25-09

I made note of the name change to the chat forum in the chat index. However, I wanted to let all of you know about it. Some readers might have previously visited the single entry under "chat" and may not look there to see the updated information I placed there this morning.

To save you from having to click on chat (found on the side bar) to read about the name change to the chat forum, below is the message I posted there.

Updated Information 6-25-09: The chat forum has a new name. It is now the NetBiz Network. The url for the forum has not changed as of yet, due to the number of places I will have to update with this information before considering a change to the URL. When and if I do decide that changing the url is necessary, I will let everyone know about that change here.
Nothing else about the forum has or will change. Writers, internet entrepreneurs/marketers, and all those interested in working and making money online utilizing the powerful technology of the internet are welcomed and invited to share information about working online/ business opportunities/ and how to be successful at making money online.

Happy Fathers Day Wishes

Happy Fathers Day to all the good fathers in the world! Your presence in your child's life and being a positive role model for your children really does matter, and is something that will stay with your child for his/her lifetime.

Target Searches for Better Results

You are too busy to be wasting time scrolling through long pages containing only general listings results for the search queries you make. Target your searches to gain better results and significantly reduce the inclusion of tons of generalized listings on the results page that offer you little in respect to the information and resources that you are searching for.

You can target your searches and save yourself loads of time and the tedium of having to weed through volumes of garbage to find the true treasures in the mix, using specific keywords, and keyword phrases in the search window.

For instance if you are a writer looking for writing jobs you might consider using the following terms to mark your searches to experience better returns for your search queries.

• Authors
• Article writer
• Article writing
• Article submit
• Paid articles
• Ghostwrite
• Paid to write
• Writer
• Writers marketplace
• Writer forum
• Buy/Sell articles and content
• Freelancing
• Freelance writing work
• Writing and translation jobs
• Work for freelance writers


If you want to find the best online places to help promote yourself and your business, targeting your searches will help tremendously to provide you with more useful information and links to follow than general searches produce.

Determine where the people who are most likely to be interested in receiving information about and buying the products and services that your business offers congregate in large numbers. Forums, blogs, discussion groups, and social sites are excellent places to find eager consumers.

If you have a work from home or online business opportunity that you want to get more exposure for consider trying these terms to target your searches to narrow results down to the best places for you to promote your work or business opportunity through.

• Wahm
• Work from home
• Work from home jobs
• Work from home business opportunity
• Online business opportunity
• Online jobs
• Online services
• Online business listing
• Webmasters
• Webmaster forums
• Online business advertising
• Free classified ads


Sometimes even when searching the web with a couple of different keywords you can keep seeing the same results appearing on the results pages the search engine you are using presents to you. Click on your tools tab and clear your browsing history and cookie files, and then try searching with a new keyword. You might also find it helpful to use the search suggestions that search engines like Google and Yahoo often recommend in a box that opens below the search box as you are typing your query. Switching to another search engine may also provide you with different results.

If you have a niche business opportunity or services to offer use a keyword, keywords, or keyword phrases specific to your businesses niche to get better results from your search queries.

Increase your productivity and find exactly what you are looking for more successfull by targeting your searches.

Proofing Your Work for Comma Usage Errors

I confess- I am addicted to commas! I have to proof my work carefully because I often add commas to my sentences unconsciously. Thus, I often use them without any regard for whether they are really needed or proper.

I cannot rely on my word program grammar checker alone to catch these punctuation mistakes for me either. Just as it is not wise to rely solely on the spell-checking feature of your document program to find misspelled words, it is not wise to assume that the grammar check feature will uncover every instance of improper grammar usage in your article or document.

Use the spelling and grammar usage checking features of your document program for sure. Yet, you will need to proof your work yourself as well to ensure it is free of errors before you send it someone else to view.

Here are two good tutorials on the proper use of commas put out by the English department at Purdue University to help you in proofing your work. Proofing for Commas, and Further Comma Use Rules.

As easy to understand as the information presented in these tutorials is, I cannot say that it will stop me from placing unnecessary commas in my work. I guess I will have to take a one-day-at-a-time approach to resolving my problem of overusing commas like people with other addictions do.

Proof, Proof, and Proof Some More!

The importance of proofing your work before sending it out to clients, or displaying it somewhere for other people to read cannot be overstated. It can sometimes be difficult to proof and edit your own work. The following tips may help you to better proof your work to ensure that it is error free.

1. After you have written or typed your piece, click on your tools menu and run a spelling and grammar check if you have those tools available to you. Correct any highlighted mistakes. Do not depend on these program tools only in proofing your work. It will skip over words spelled correctly, but words you may not have intended to use in your sentence. The show will go on rain ore shine. That sentence does not make sense although there are no errors in spelling. The show will go on rain or shine. This second sentence makes sense. There are many other instances of words having close spellings and very different meanings that spelling tools may miss.


2. Read your document through to get a sense of how it sounds (reads.) Does your document have a natural and sequential flow to it? It helps to get a trusted friend or editor to read your work for you as it can often be hard for writers to separate how their brains say it should read, and how it would actually sound to readers. You can do this on your own. Only you may have to put it away and come back to it several different times to make sure it reads well.


3. Now go through your document again one sentence at a time, reading each sentence aloud and making any changes to your sentences that you think are necessary.


4. After you have done a sentence-by-sentence check of your document, it is time to read your entire document again. Why should you do all of this reading and re-reading? Because, you want to make sure that your written works are as free from errors as possible. Your works are representative of your writing skill. You do not want easily correctable mistakes to shout to readers, “Hey, look at me, I cannot spell or use grammar properly.”


5. Save and close your document and do something else for a while. For how long is up to you. Many writers will set aside their completed works for a day before going back to them again for one final reading When you have cleared your head from your previous proofreading of your document, open it for a final reading to make sure it reads exactly as you want it to.

I hope you found this article on proofreading your work helpful. We will be discussing other mechanics in writing in future articles.

Here is a Bright Idea

Would you like to add a free or paid forum to your website? How about a guestbook, web polls, surveys, mini-surveys, a visitor counter, a contact form, Q&A page, or newsletters? Perhaps you would like your website visitors to help you build a strong link list. Maybe you could use an ad manager to help track your numerous advertising campaigns. Sparklit has it all!

This is where I created the NetWrite Chat Forum, and I have used several of their other products with good results.

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Professional Directory for Freelance Writers launched

Writers: Submit your free listing in the new Professional Directory of Freelance Writers. Most writers spend a bulk of their time looking for writing jobs. With a Free or Paid listing in this directory, you can gain more exposure and help employers find you to offer writing work to you.

Employers looking for qualified writers for their writing projects can save themselves a lot of time and hassle by looking through the author pages of listed writers in this professional freelance writer’s directory to find writers whose qualifications meet their business writing needs.


Writers can submit their information for listing in the directory, and employers can browse the directory to look for qualified professional writers by visiting Find/Hire Writers, the professional freelance writers’ directory.

The Website Dance with Search Engines and Visitors

The overall design of your website can make a difference in how well it catches the attention of search engines spiders to crawl your site, and whether visitors will be so captivated by what they see, that they want to see more. You only have seconds to accomplish both of these tasks.

Search engine spiders move at warp speed as they rapidly gather information about sites to produce results for search users. They will only pick up those sites along the way that have the proper designing in place. Meta tags are your website’s calling cards. Search bots “see” these first and use these tags to quickly determine, whether your site should be crawled or skipped over. Each page of your website needs a Meta tag, and their titles should be short and relevant to the content displayed on the pages they represent.

Navigation is important as well. It should be easy to move around the pages in your website. Be careful of frames and codes that can block search engines from crawling, your entire site. You can research further which website designs and specific codes search engines have the highest difficulty with, and make sure your website does not utilize these. You can also find help on ways to work around these issues if they need to be on your site so that they will not send search engines running to competing websites.

First time visitors and even returning visitors want to see a website with intriguing designs to them, compelling content to read, and interactive features they can utilize. They will make up their minds about whether your website offers this to them rather quickly. If your website does not inform, entertain, and otherwise flatter and grab the attention of visitors, people will choose to move on to another website. Do not underestimate the power of people telling their friends, family, and co-workers about your website either. Word spreads faster than a roving search bot, and can be your downfall if your website makes a weak presentation. Make your website is one that has the necessary elements to draw people in, and that people will be more likely to share with others.
I hope that you find much success in this massive online business world