101 Converting Old School Websites in .ASP and .CFM to WordPress-open-source CMS

Posted by Israel Rothman on Apr 9th, 2012 | 0 comments

WordPress does not need to look like a blog: example, this $599 custom redo of an outdated .ASP site:

As the use of Java, Ajax and other open-source browser-powered and third-party applications and social networks like Facebook, Google+ and Linkedin.com has increased, so have the old proprietary content managements systems that were used to develop these advanced functions on the server side declined, and the use of enterprise-level WordPress has increased. This is because of the fact that, on the cloud, things move very quickly, and they must be inexpensive and universally compatible. Being dependent on an outdated skill set and a proprietary content management system like Cold Fusion, or Microsoft ASP, is expensive, less flexible, and much more expensive; therefore there has been a corresponding decline in the percentages as web servers, except for sites that need the highest possible security, and even that can be achieved with open-source Drupal (which is hotter than a firecracker right now with top developers in high demand at $150/hour).

Now that some group and networking functions can be supplied by an integration with Facebook, Google+, and Linkedin, as well as other third party reservation systems, MLS stream providers, etc..the marketing arm of putting the content out there can be done least expensively and most effectively with WordPress, with the more secure functions existing elsewhere: we even use the integrated Facebook group as a source of content to feed WordPress, and our efforts posting relevant data about the community on a well-connected and fully integrated Boerne.uplog.org, and HillCountnry.uplog.org to feed traffic to the site, and create rankings, can also be used for content for the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/HillCountryNetwork/.

If all this sounds a little complicated and elaborate, and like a lot of trouble, consider that now:

• The clients can edit and change this website at will themselves,
• Without paying separately – hosting ongoing is only $120 per year
• The rankings in organic search are stellar and immediate
• The Facebook group is a long term strategy than is hard to beat for feeding local business
• The UpLog.org blogs eventually becomes the most elaborate Google map of the town, and it feeds Googles’ maps, and connects the clients in a netowrk (see ‘hill country social network’ Google search hillcountry.UpLog.org)
• From a marketing point of view, this is a total solution: with the blogs feeding the business and the social media profiles, the social media groups feeding the blog, and all are feeding Google quality local content, and the client reservations third party service, without paying per click, per lead, per action: an uplog.org exclusive city blog is only $179 per year DIY, $200 for custom setup if so desired, or $1,000 per year with us doing everything, including posting and managing the groups.
• There is a built-in revenue model: the 30% paid to the owner for advertising sales to non-competing businesses can be used as a credit for advertising, or cash for other marketing – some of us actually make a full time living with a blog!

From the 2012 Rothman Guide: 101 Converting Old School Websites in .ASP and .CFM to WordPress-open-source CMS

Downtown Palm Springs News 2012 – Ron Jesser is top blogger at UpLog.org

Posted by Israel Rothman on Apr 5th, 2012 | 1 comment

Our featured top blogger Ron Jesser; long overdue!

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Downtown Palm Springs News-The Place To Be in 2012

The City Of Palm Springs Is Taking Off!

We are moving forward with revitalization plans for downtown and the area in general is seeing a huge uptick in business in general. Both the Uptown Design District and the Downtown Area are alive experiencing growth, increased sales and plans for a whole new Downtown experience under way.

Be a part of a building demolition!

Back in November, the citizens of Palm Springs passed the Measure J sales tax (with no net increase in sales taxes) to finance infrastructure work throughout the city for the next 25 years and to also finance the tear-down of Desert Fashion Plaza with a later redevelopment of that entire section of downtown.

It all kicks off January 26th!

Demo of the former BofA building will begin with a public ceremony on January 26th at the site. Stay tuned for details or call us at 760-322-7822 for information. The city is moving along very fast with plans for the sale of financing bonds with that will complete in April. At that time, the city will take deed to the public properties, streets, and the parking garage.

The former bank lot will soon be a public plaza right away as a signal to the beginning of this very exciting project. And immediate steps increasing public parking to help all businesses in the area. By mid-2013, the entire old mall will be gone and the new neighborhood will begin to rise out of the rubble.

Look for courtyards of shops, a new movie complex, restaurants and public areas. Features of this pedestrian friendly area will include outdoor areas with shade structures and natural convection cooling for year round comfort.

In other news

The Coachella Valley Association reported increases in hotel bookings for events this year (at 137,000 room nights already) and they are talking to Westjet, Alaska Airlines and Virgin Air on promoting the valley as a tourist and sporting destination. Look for special fares from all over Canada and the US.

The Coachella Valley is the #1 Golf destination in North America! What? Yes, we are tops when it comes to golf and a look outside at the weather, a balmy 75 degrees, will tell you why our 125 golf courses do so well. Check out the video below.

The city is working on several fronts to capitalize on the many things happening now:

• The needs of downtown and uptown merchants in working with the city will provide for the success of business and comfort of tourists. The Merchants Association and the city work very closely to this end with a common goal of giving business the tools to grow and visitors a fun and rewarding experience.
• Promoting business and tourist access as we move into a new era with the Downtown redevelopment projects. Their lists include everything from new newspaper racks to new bike racks, additional crosswalks, lighting, billboard advertising, and radio ads and around the area.
• The plan is to promote the entire Downtown and Uptown area at a time when we have the attention of so many around the country and the world with the work happening to revitalize Palm Canyon and Indian Canyon Drive from end to end. The demo of BofA will be the catalyst to set that in motion.

If you would like to stay connected and informed, attending this meeting once a month and joining as a business or as an interested citizen is a great way to stay in the know. And being a member is not required…… meetings are open to the public.

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1 Best Forex Training System and Trading Systems by Gaubfx 252-542-8239

Posted by Israel Rothman on Apr 4th, 2012 | 2 comments

About Forex Training Systems and Forex Trading Systems:

What is Foreign Currency Exchange (FX or Forex)?

Foreign exchange, or currency exchange, is a strange and somewhat confusing place at first where nothing physical is traded. Where the market is run electronically, within a series of banks, and trading is conducted 24 hours a day from Sunday afternoon to Friday afternoon. Forex is the world’s largest market dwarfing all markets combined many times over. The latest figures show $3.8 trillion with more being traded every day. That’s growth at a rapid pace!

Until the 1990’s Forex was only traded by multi-millionaires and banks. With the advances in technology and the internet, now anyone with a few hundred dollars can get in on the action.

How simple is the basic premise?

Price either goes up or down. It doesn’t rest or move sideways often. All you have to do is guess right. Here’s how it works:

• You buy or sell one currency while simultaneously selling or buying the other currency in the pairing at the same time.
• If the market price of the base currency moves in the direction you chose, you accumulate money until you close the position.
• If the price of the base currency moves in the opposite direction you chose, you lose money until you close the position.
• You Open in a buy or sell position. If you open a buy trade, you are expecting a rise in the exchange rate between two currencies. If the rate then goes up you make profit for every little bit it moves. You then close the trade and the profit is in your account. If you have made a bad decision and the rate goes down you will lose money for every little move it goes against you.
• If you think the rate will go down you reverse all of that and open sell position trades.

That’s it! Hopefully you are right 80% of the time and on the 20% of the time you are wrong your losses do not wipe out your earnings. Like most things, it is easier said than done. However knowledge can increase your chance of success in most things in life. In the next few lessons we will cover some of the tools and strategies found in the Dan Gaub Academy that will help increase your Forex knowledge.

How Forex Works

When you go to the airport and trade your U.S. Dollars in for the Euro there is an exchange rate. When you come home again and trade in Euros for U.S. Dollars that rate has changed. The rate change was either in your favor for profit or against you for a loss. Forex works like this but is far more complex.

In Forex you buy one currency and simultaneously sell the other currency (or exchange one for the other). When you put your trade into play (often referred to as “put in a trade”, “make a trade” or “enter a trade”), you either gain profits or incur losses as exchange rates change. Sometimes the exchange rate goes in your favor for a while and then can turn and run against you and vice versa. The great thing about Forex it is that you can decide when you want to bank profits or cut your losses. You then look for the proper conditions and trade again. Here’s an illustration:

Visualize this scene to illustrate how Forex works

You and a friend are sitting on the sidewalk. You both have 100 dollars in 1 dollar bills in your pocket (that represents your live account in Forex). You say that you think more cars will pass you going left to right. Your friend says more cars will go from right to left. You both decide that every car that passes will cost a dollar. You shake hands and start (that represents entering into a trade). As cars pass by you get lucky, and the first 5 cars came from the left. Your friend hands you $1 as each car passes. Oops, 2 cars come from the right. Now you are only up $3. You sense there may be a line of cars coming from the right and you get worried. You say, “I’m done” and quit (close your trade) with a small profit.

On the other hand, if you were the one down $3 and you sensed more cars would come from the right, you could quit and cut your losses. You may also think that even though you may lose more money in the short term, you could stay in the game. Perhaps in a few minutes the cars will come from the left and you will get it all back and more! Of course there is no guarantee this will happen. But hey, you have been on this sidewalk before and have seen it all, so you will take the calculated risk (this represents Forex analysis and experience). You are the best Forex sidewalk trader alive!

An important point to remember, is that either you or your friend could have made money. In Forex, you can make money if the exchange rate rises (cars coming from the left), or if the exchange rate falls (cars coming from the right). Conversely, you can lose money if the opposite happens. It all depends on what position you take when you place the trade.

Let’s get a little more technical

You will use a trading station to watch the different currency pair exchange rates change. In this station you will enter into trades. You will assign the value of each pip (a pip is the smallest measurable movement of the exchange rate). You will close trades there too.

To make sound decisions on when to enter and exit trades you will look at your custom charts. These are real time moving graphs that show exchange rate changes in an easy to follow format. The graphics on the charts are comprised of “candlesticks” which you will get to know very well. You can add a mind numbing number of indicators that will help you make a trade decision, And you will learn very well which ones Dan believes in and how to use these charts and indicators.

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Ever see a race horse racing form?

Forex is a lot like horse racing only with way better odds. A racing form has 20 or more statistics to analyze.

All of this past information is scrutinized to predict future performance. HOWEVER, PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE PERFORMANCE. The same holds true with Forex. There are a lot of tools at your disposal to help you make sound trade decisions.

The good news is that you are only predicting if price action will rise or fall and not trying to guess 1 winning horse out of 12. HOWEVER, LOSSES ARE STILL POSSIBLE WHEN TRADING FOREX.

Forex trading can be fun, fast-paced and done right can be profitable. Done wrong it can eat your money.

— It might seem kind of complicated, at first. Risk and reward, leverage, charts and Fibonacci — where do you start? With good training. Dan’s team has taken his concepts and built a systematic approach to understanding Forex. Even if you have tried Forex before and did not get it, this system is designed to help you understand the concepts. Dan’s approach involves all of the tools listed below to help you learn to trade.

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Short Film Showcase Award | Short Film Submission For Short Film Award | Serenity Media

Posted by Israel Rothman on Mar 31st, 2012 | 2 comments

Short Film Showcase Award | Short Film Submission For Short Film Award | Serenity Media

Serenity Media Announces Serenity Short Film Showcase, a showcase and competition featuring a multitude of intriguing — and under-noticed — short films from around the world:

Featuring a multitude of intriguing — and under-noticed — short films from around the world.

At the culmination of the showcase, we will select one truly outstanding short film for a $500 award. Over the next several months, will display selected short film submissions online, so that folks can watch and leave their comments.

What they are looking for:

1. Every short film submission to be ‘positive and uplifting’
2. Serenity Media is interested in stories that are socially conscious and globally friendly.
3. Open to short film submissions of almost any genre:
4. Action
5. Comedy
6. Musical or music video
7. Animated
8. Sci-fi
9. Children & Family
10. Romance
11. Sports
12. Documentary
13. Your film is under 15 minutes in length. Shorter is better.
14. Work must be original, and owned by you.
15. By submitting your film, you are agreeing to feature the film as part of the Serenity Short Film Showcase.
16. As long as your work is completed, it can be old or new.
17. Short films can be in any language, as long as the filmmaker(s) provide English subtitles.

April 15th 2012 B2B Network News Goes Bi-Monthly | Advertise Now Instead of Paying Obama!

Posted by Israel Rothman on Mar 30th, 2012 | 0 comments

April 15th 2012 B2B Network News Goes Bi-Monthly | Advertise Now Instead of Paying Obama!

Obama wants you to pay higher taxes for more government so he can “spread the wealth around!”  We have a better idea: With this special ‘Galactic Network Ascent’ bundle, we will do it all for you!

Here is what you get:

1. An upLog.org City or Niche blog that ranks on Google: Example: Hill Country Social Network

2. A successful Facebook Group to go with it – this one went to over 100 members in one day:

3.  A custom WordPress Website with hosting included and IDX integration if so desired; Social Media Integration: an SEO Machine Example:

4. A custom 5000 Person list with Telephone Numbers Specific to Your Market made just for you, and a Robo-calling Launch to the list!

That is correct: you heard right, we will create the list, call them all up to launch your “ascent”, and give you the custom list!

 

5. We will maintain if all for one year! Yes we will do the posting and promote the group – you do nothing if you do not want to!

6. An income! That is correct, we will attempt to sell advertising to local businesses which are non-competitive with you to promote the blog – If they buy advertising and you accept the ads (it is your blog, after all) you get 30% of the money!

Order your Galactic Network Ascent Custom Bundle (only one per town while supplies last – first come first serve):
$999 for one year

Note: payable in advance, by check or money order: sign and send this contract with it – call Israel for answers to questions 805-827-2450

You must sign this contract which incorporates this special post by reference – offer ends April 15th, 2012 – until then the robo-calling and Facebook group promotion and list building are included at this price free of charge:

I ___________________ of _________________ ; on Date: -_____/____/_______do hereby agree to the terms of this offer, and signify my agreement with this signed contract and my check or money order.  I understand that I will receive a questionnaire after receipt of these funds, and that the service will start shortly after it is filled out and returned.  I understand that this special pricing for this service is non-cancelled and non-refundable.

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Boerne, Texas 78006

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