My Buy Essay

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Advantages: Complex characters, plot told from different viewpoints, realistic morality

Disadvantages: Depressing

The first book of the Song of Ice and Fire series is my first foray into George R.R. Martin’s world. Before I was introduced to his work, I was mainly a Robert Jordan fan. Upon reading A Game of Thrones, I realized that I was missing a huge part of the high fantasy genre.

From beginning to end, I was not sure whether or not I really liked the book. The plot was interesting enough. If it’s worth anything, I spent a couple of sleep-deprived nights reading A Game of Thrones! Now that I think back, I would say that the complexity of the characters and the plot as a whole is what made me hold back. Other fantasy novels usually define the line between good and evil very clearly. We have the good characters on one side and the evil powers on the other. George R.R. Martin manages to reflect reality by emphasizing the moral gray areas. Characters are not boxed into single moral categories. There is no clear protagonist. A “good” character is not totally likeable. An “evil” character seems to be a nice person on the inside. Good and bad is so maddeningly intertwined you can’t help but see a reflection of the real world.

This book is not for the faint of heart. If you are looking for light reading, free of violence and sex, you might not want to read A Game of Thrones. There were times when I thought Martin was overdoing it a bit. I decided I would just chalk it up to artistic freedom.

Another frustrating aspect of the book is that as the story progresses, it seems that the “good” guys are getting killed off one by one. If that isn’t enough to make you depressed I don’t know what is. Of course this is only the first book in a yet uncompleted series -the story is yet to unfold.

The storyline is gripping. It leaves you craving for more. One good thing about discovering this series at this late date is that you wouldn’t have to wait for the next few books to be written. A Feast for Crows, the fourth and latest book of the series, has been out since last year. Once you start with A Game of Thrones, you might want to pace yourself so as not to have to wait too long for the fifth book.

If you’ve been trying to make a business online but had a few set backs you’ve probably asked yourself this question and the others I’ve listed below.

I also added the answers I use to keep going when I feel like just “Throwing in the towel”.

Don’t worry be happy! It’s easy to say but hard to do, without some kind of logical reasoning behind the positive affirmations.

Here’re the questions and the logical answers that I use to keep myself motivated and ensure that I achieve my potential.

1. Do you have what it takes to make money on the internet?

2. How do you know if you should to quit or not?

3. What does it take?

4. Why are some people successful and yet others aren’t?

5. Does what I do now effect my future?

Do you ever ask yourself these questions?

I do and I have the same answers every time!

Below are my self talk answers they help me stay on track.

The answers are listed in the same order as the questions.

1. Yes, I have a computer and usually have access to the internet.

2. Because I started I have to finish.

3. It takes perseverance, tenacity, faith, self belief; I have all of those qualities.

4. Some are successful because they are lucky, some because they are smart, some because they work hard, some because they never give up. I have a little of all those qualities.

5. Yes, if I sow a seed today I’ll reap a harvest tomorrow.

Please feel free to copy this and look at it every time you have any doubts. Also you can add some of your own positive self talk favorites.

I sincerely wish you good luck and happiness

Bill Boyd

Joint ventures can turn your competition into your companion!

What are they and are they profitable?

You can benefit greatly from sharing the costs of your advertising and promotional campaigns, while doubling the size of your target market.

How can that be so? It’s simple! just look at it like this, you are in the coffee business, you have identified your major competitor, he/she is currently servicing a good portion of the customers you wish to attract. This competitor has been servicing these clients for many years and has built up a strong following. Do you think it would be easy for you to “take these clients away” from their trusted provider? Of course not.

What if you offered to give your competitor free access to your client base? Do you think he/she would like that? Or if your competitor offered to do the same for you, would you like that?

YES, YES, YES!

A joint venture is simply offering to promote your fellow business persons product or service to your client base and in return they do the same for you.

You can use tracking URLs to determine what sales are made and then split the profits or commissions in whatever way you both agree to.

Another advantage is that if you sell to one of your fellow business persons clients you will be able to add them to your mailing list. We all know how valuable that can be.

So next time you see a competitor, STOP and think of a way you can make him or her into your companion in success!

I sincerely wish you good luck and happiness

Bill Boyd

Do you get a lot of emails, important emails? If you do then you probably appreciate how important it is that everyone know that you did in fact receive their message right? If you find it next to impossible to be on top of your email accounts every second of every day, and lets face it: who can actually do that all day, then you will appreciate autoresponder software. Only autoresponder software will help you to let everyone know immediately when you receive his or her messages. They will never have to fret or worry about if you know what you need to know because they will have proof that you did get their emails.

Autoresponder software is not just about making life better for others though. You can have your autoresponder software message say anything that you need it to. If you are out of town it can tell people that, if you are screening your emails then you will be able to do that with ease using autoresponder software.

Autoresponder software will not be able to give different people a different message, it is a one answer kind of deal. You will set your autoresponder software to send a reply message to everyone and this message will always be the same until you change it. Autoresponder software is often used when people sign up to newsletters and blogs and other internet sites. These autoresponder software programs can save everyone a million hours of their precious time which in turn leaves them open to use that time for more profitable ventures.

You will simply tell your autoresponder software to respond a certain way when anyone sends an email to a specific email address. Let me be clear, when anyone, I mean anyone sends any kind of message to this address they will always get the same exact message in reply. If you run a website where people need to subscribe, you will be able to sit back and let the autoresponder software program do all of the hard work for you, it is virtually painless.

Every year autoresponder software programs are getting more and more sophisticated. Now you can use autoresponder software to send out scheduled messages and each of these can differ. What makes these kinds of autoresponder software so powerful is that no one need even send a message to receive the messages you are sending out. Here is an example, lets way that your website is offering free tutorials on speaking French. Okay, now you have offered a free 7 week lesson plan in which the subscribers will receive a brand new lesson each and every week. You can set up your autoresponder software to send these out each week for you. So you will sit down at your computer and put in all of the information at one time and the autoresponder software program will know that they should send this part of it out this week and that the next week and so on and so on. How amazing and simple is that?