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2011-04-20T04:07:00.000-07:00

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Add a Clock to Your Blog

2010-12-31T23:29:00.003-08:00

So that your blog see interesting and beautiful, you can add some blog accessories, one of them is by add a Clock. If you interesting to add a clock to your blog, you can get it for free at http://www.clocklink.com site. The example of clock from http://www.clocklink.com is like this :

Feel interest to add a clock to your blog? please follow the steps :

Step #1

Please check out http://www.clocklink.com.
Click at "Gallery" tab.
Click at the categories of clock which you want, there is Analog, Animal, Animation, Count Down & Up, Dark Background, Digital, Holidays, Logo & Custom, Seasons, Sport, Transparent, and Wallpaper.
If you have found the clock you wish, click at "View HTML tag" below of the clock.
Click at "Accept" button.
Choose the time which match with your zone beside "Timezone" text. Example : for west indonesia, choose GMT+7:00.
Set the measure of the clock beside "Size" text.
Copy the code and then paste at Notepad or other text editor. Save into your computer.
Close your browser.

Step #2

Login to blogger with your ID.
After entering the dasboard page , click Layout. Please see the picture :
Click at Page Element tab. See the picture below :
Click at Add a Page element.
After emerging pop up window , Klik add to blog button for the things HTML/JavaScript. See the picture following :
Open your Clock code, copy and then paste into available column.
Click
Done. Please see the result.

Now you have had a Clock at your blog.

Enjoy your beutiful clock. Happy blogging.

Make a News Paper Style Drop Caps

2010-12-31T23:23:00.001-08:00

Do you have read a magazine or newspaper? the answer is surely have. In this opportunity I will study concerning how do to make an alphabet which in printing bigger in comparing with other ordinary alphabet such as in writing in a newspaper or magazine. For example :

Many the way to back up the data in Widgets / page element, but I'm limitation of time to comment it in detail, hence I will try explain just two way, that is backing up directly from Page element and also backup from template source code.

To make the article like that is easy very, you are only adding a few CSS codes when you post an article. However you post an article, you must choose tab, don't at tab. This is the codes :

 style="float:left;color: #000;background:#fff;line-height:80px; padding-:1px 5px 0 0; font-family:times; font-size:100px;">First alphabet

Example. however you must remember when you add this code you must at Edit HTml tab :

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This is the result : Many the way to back up the data in Widgets / page element, but i'm limitation of time to comment it in detail, hence I will try explain just two way, that is backing up directly from Page element and also backup from template source code.
To be you more understanding, I will elaborate concerning above codes : color: #000 : this is the code for alphabet color, #000 is code for black color, you can alter this code with your color. background:#fff : this is the code for background color of first alphabet (firt alphabet). #fff is code for white color, you can alter this code with you want color. padding:1px 5px 0 0 : this the code dor padd, 1px--> padding for top, 5px psdding for right, 0 --> padding for bottom, 0 --> padding for left. You can alter the value of padding with other value. font-family:times : this code is for style of font, you can alter the font with font what you want, example verdana, georgia and etc. Font-size:100px : this code is for size of font, you can alter the size of font.
This is several example :

First alphabet

The result : M any the way to back up the data in Widgets / page element, but I'm limitation of time to comment it in detail, hence I will try explain just two way, that is backing up directly from Page element and also backup from template source code.

First alphabet

The result : M any the way to back up the data in Widgets / page element, but i'm limitation of time to comment it in detail, hence I will try explain just two way, that is backing up directly from Page element and also backup from template source code. And please create any style with your.
Except the above step, you can create a News Paper Style Drop Caps with other way. this is more then easy. this is the steps: Step #1 :

Login to blogger with your ID
After entering the dashboard page , click Layout. Please saw the picture :

Then click edit HTML tab. Please saw the picture :

Click the Download full template link. Save your template:

Go to your template code
Copy and paste the following code above of ]]>

Click Save Template button
Step #1 is finish.

Step #2 :

Click Setting tab.
Click formatting tab.
Go to lower side. you will find a blank text are beside Post Template. Fill that blank text area with this code :

Click Save settings button.
finish

How to post your article?

When you post your article, choose tab. and you will see the code below :

Place the first alphabet between and

Example :

  Many the way to back up the data in Widgets /  page element, but I'm limitation of time to comment it in detail, hence I  will try explain just two way, that is backing up directly from Page element  and also backup from template source code.

Publish your article and finish. Please see the result.

How To Make a drop down Menu

2010-12-31T23:22:00.001-08:00

Do you ever seen the menu such as below? please click at the menu to see the effect of this menu :
The name of this menu is drop down menu.

To make the dropdown menu, you only make the code be like this :

For example, the code such as the following :

This is the result : You can make the drop down menu more than one, just make the code more than one, so very simple.
Now, how to add this code to your blog. This is the step :

Login to blogger with your ID
After entering the dasboard page , click Layout. Please saw the picture :
Click at Page Elements tab. See the picture below :
Click at Add a Gadget.
After emerging pop up window , Klik add to blog button for the things HTML/JavaScript. See the picture following :
Copy and paste the code below into available column :

Click
Finish. Please see the result.

OK brother, now you have a drop down menu at your blog. Or maybe you still confused with the step above? don't worry i have an easy way to do it, just click the button below, log in to your blog and the widget will add to your blog automatically:

Add a dropdown in the sidebar of your blog.

Have a nice day My friends. See you at my next post

Add a Search Engine to Your Blog

2010-12-31T23:21:00.001-08:00

One of my friend ask to me, how to add a search engine in blogger like this?

Before I answer the the question it is better you know usefulness from a search machine in blog. Installation a search engine in blog of course will make your visitor is easier to find the articles in your blog, for the reason hence opening the big opportunity of your articles will in reading by many visitors.

To the point, to add this search engine to your blog, following this step :

Login to blogger with your ID
After entering the dasboard page , click Layout. Please saw the picture :
Click at Page Element tab. See the picture below :
Click on Add gadget
Click the sign plus ( + ) for HTML/JavaScript
Copy and paste the code below into available column :

Click
Finish. Please see the result.

At the code above, you'd meet the code be like this : size="20" The code is to arrange the wide of seach box. You can change it according to desire, ever greater of his value of course more wide. Example : size="25", size="30" And you will find the code like this : value="Search" You can change this word with your word. Example : value="GO !"
Or possibly you still confuse with the steps above?
Just click the button for automatically install to your blog.

Add a search engine in the sidebar of your blog.

OK my friends, see you at my next post with other topic.

Add Google Talk to Blog

2010-12-31T23:20:00.000-08:00

I'm sure you are surely knew what is the Google Talk, with Google talk you can send instant messages, make voice calls, leave voice mail messages, transfer files and etc, however of course must with other Google user. Do you know, now you can add Google talk to your blog? not yet known its way? please follow the steps following :

Login to blogger with your ID.
After entering the dashboard page , click Layout. Please saw the picture :
Click at Page Element tab. See the picture below :
Click at Add a Page element.
After emerging pop up window , Click add to blog button for the things HTML/JavaScript. See the picture following :
Copy and paste the code below into available column :

Click
Finish. Please see the result.

Now you have a Google Talk at your blog. Or maybe you still confused with the step above? don't worry i have an easy way to do it, just click the button below, login to your blog and the widget will be add to your blog automatically:

Comment Blog Send to @mail

2010-12-31T23:18:00.000-08:00

Hi Friends, I'm glad to meet you again at this post. At this opportunity, i will give you a tips. Possibly this tips a lot have known it, however don't close possibility is which not yet known it. This tips is about every your visitor give a comment at your blog automatically sending to your @mail inbox. So that every the comment entering in blog direct in sending automatically to your @mail, hence you have to do setting at setting tab. This is the steps :

Login to blogger with your ID.
Click Settings.
Click Comments.
Scroll to underside and you will find a box near the article Comment Notification Address, write your email address inside the box. for example : jalupapang2000@yahoo.com
Click
Finish.

Now you'd get an email from blogger.com every your blog visitor give a comment. Allright, I think enough.

How to change the template

2010-12-31T23:15:00.002-08:00

At this opportunity, I will discuss about how to change template in blogger.com. First matter to be in considering in changing template is you have to make a backing up your old template, this good for if you feeling not match with your newly template. if you not yet known the way to back up template, please read at the post how to backup template, and also don't forget to back up your widgets (this is very important). For back up your widgets, please read at the post how to backup your widgets.

To change the template, of course you must had a new template to uploaded. If still not yet had, you can download for free template at Bloger templates or at other sites. Have ready for changing your old template with newly template? Please follow the steps below :

Login to blogger with your ID
After entering the dasboard page , click Layout.
Then click edit HTML tab
Click the Download full template link. Save your template:
Click browse... button. Choose your new template. and then click Upload button.
Usually go out commemoration that your data in your widgets will be delete forever (so don't forget to backup your widgets).

image

Click at Convirm & Save button.
Finish. Please look he result.

Now you have had the new face. However of course your template is still empty, So next step is inserting your widgets manually through page element menu.

Enjoy your new blog face.

How to backup your "Widgets"

2010-12-31T23:15:00.000-08:00

Be like my promise at my previous post that is i will posting how to backup the data in the widget / page element.

If emerging question do we require to back up the data in page element? the answer is very require to. Because if you change your old template with new template, hence the data in page element will follow to be vanished, and you'd lose all data be like : guest book, blog accessory, blog tool, and also all which have been attached in your blog forever.

Many the way to back up the data in Widgets / page element, but i'm limitation of time to comment it in detail, hence I will try explain just two way, that is backing up directly from Page element and also backup from template source code.

Back up widgets From Page Element

Back up widgets in this way be in fact very disturbing, however than we lose various accessory and also tool which have been attached, wiser likely to do so.

Please follow the steps below :

Login to blogger with your ID
Click Layout.
Click menu Page Elemet, you will see the page be like this ( just example):

At representative of above seen the article edit which I give red circle, You must click at Edit in each the page element, hence will emerge popup window figuring in the code have in input to that. Pay attention the picture below :

Copy the code inside there, and paste to Notepad.
Repeat the step above at all the elements.
Finish.

There is the step how to back the data inside page element. This is the other way to backup your widgets.

Back up widget through Template Source Code

I think this way is more quickly and efisian, you need a few time to do this. This is the steps :

Visit your blog address.
After you at your self blog, click the menu View at the bar menu.

After click the menu View, will be out the sub menu, then click Source.
if your browser is Internet Explorer, so there is automatically will out the notepad with your template source code. If your browser is Mozilla Firefox or Opera, so there is out the new page with your template source code For example, see the picture below :

Save your template source code.
Finish.

If your question, where is the widgets code? there is always begin with :

    

And in terminating with code :

I hope with this post you become know how to backup your widget template. So, if you want change your template with a new template. Please don't forget to backup your template and your widgets too.

How to backup the template

2010-12-31T23:11:00.001-08:00

If you were interested to replace new template or want to redesign your template, It is best to backup your template before you changing any code. this step was as prevented to reduce the fatal risk if the mistake happening in redesign or changing your template. For you that did not yet know how to backup your template, please followed steps below :

Login to blogger with your ID
After entering the dasboard page , click Layout. Please saw the picture :

Then click edit HTML tab. Please saw the picture :

Click the Download full template link. Please saw the picture :

After you click Download full template link, then will emerge new window just to download. Click the Save button. Saw the picture :

You could choose this data would in kept where and with what file name what, Afterwards ended with click of the Save button. Please saw the picture :

Finish.

Now you had back up the template, if next time you needed him, you could use this came back. But must be known, backing up the template like steps above could not back up the data inside widget. How to back up the data widget? This would in discussed in next post.

How to do blog settings in blogger

2010-12-31T23:10:00.001-08:00

The first important thing you should do to make your blog in blogger have the best performance is to do some Settings. As your inspirations on how to do blog settings in blogger, the following, Blogspot Tutorial writes how to setup blog in blogger:

* Please login to blogger with your ID

* Click Setting

* You will see the menu tabs containing things to setup:

Basic

Some settings in Basic menu:

Blog Tools: Import blog → this is the facility to import data from your computer (this is usually done when transferring blog). Don’t click it, let it be as it is. Export blog > this is the facility to export blog from blogger server to your computer. This facility is also called as Backup blog facility. You are suggested to create blog backup at least once a week. The backup data will be useful and helpful when sometime you want to transfer blogs in blogger, or you also can use it when you want to do a blog migration from blogger to another blog machine such as Wordpress, etc. Delete blog > this facility is to delete your blog. Don’t ever click it if you don’t want to delete your blog.
Title: Fill out with the title of your blog, e.g. My personal blog
Description: Fill out with your blog description, e.g. Notes of My Unique Life.
Add your blog to our listing?: You’re suggested to choose Yes option.
Let search engines find your blog?: Choose Yes, so your blog will be indexed by search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
Show quick editing on your blog?: You may choose Yes or No.
Show email post links?: It will be an icon of email with which your visitors can easily email your posts to their friends. Choose Yes, if you want, or No if you don’t want this facility to appear on your blog.
Adult contents?: If your blog then will contain anything about adults including in the forms of writing, images, or videos of such as sexy girls, etc, you can choose Yes. However, if your blog then will contain anything to be accessed safely by kids and all ages, you should choose No. NB: If you choose Yes, there will be an adult content warning when your blog is accessed.
Select Post Editor: This is to select post editor in your blog. Updated Editor → This is the latest post editor that Blogger has with new features included such as the More button to cut off your articles, and more. Old Editor → This is the old post editor that Blogger has, but you can still use it if you feel more comfortable with this old editor, because there are some features at this old editor that are not included in the Updated Post Editor. Hide Compose Mode → This is an option for those who are familiar with HTML because this option will hide the compose mode in your post editor. Don’t use this option if you are not familiar with the HTML coding.
Enable transliteration?: Select Enable if you want your post editor allow you to translate to Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, or Telugu. Select disable if you want your post editor not to allow you the transliteration.
End settings on Basic menu by clicking SAVE SETTINGS.

Publishing

This is to change the domain name of your blog in blogger with your own domain name, e.g. http://yourblogname.blogspot.com into http://yourblogname.com.

For temporary, don’t do anything at this Publishing menu! Tutorial about custom domain in blogger can be read at How to use Custom Domain in Blogger.

Formatting

Some settings in the Formatting menu:

Show at most: type the number of posts you want to display on your blog homepage, e.g. 5. Next to number of posts option, there is dropdown menu allow you to choose Posts or Days. Just choose posts, which means your blog homepage will show 5 posts.
Date Header Format: Choose how the date format you would like to display above your posts.
Archive Index Date Format: Choose the date format for your archive index.
Timestamp Format: Choose the time format you would like to display. This is the time when a post is published on your blog.
Time Zone: Just choose the time zone where you are.
Language: Choose the language you want to use in your blog.
Convert line breaks: this is the facility of automated line breaks when you hit enter during typing an article in the post editor. This facility is used when you think you will not post or write the codes such as HTML codes, etc in the future. But if you think you will post about HTML codes and include the codes in your posts, you should choose No, for instance, if your blog talks about the tutorials about HTML, PHP, etc.
Show Title Field: You may choose Yes or No.
Show link fields: You may choose Yes or No.
Enable Float alignment: Choose Yes, so you can arrange the position of your post both images and texts. But if you think this option will disturb the display of your blog, just choose No.
Post Template: This is the facility to create any text or code to appear each time you write a new post. It is usually used to create blog signature that will always appear in every post you create without having to type manually each time you create a new post.
End the settings on Formatting menu by clicking SAVE SETTINGS

Comments

Some settings in the Comments menu:

Comments: Choose Show if you want your posts commented by your visitors, or choose Hide if you don’t want your posts commented by your visitors.
Who can comment? : Anyone – includes anonymous users → choose this option if you want everyone can comment on your blog including the Anonymous users or those without identity. Registered users –includes OpenID → Only users that are registered who can comment on your blog, i.e. those who have accounts in Google, Live Journal, Wordpress, Type pad, AIM, and or OpenID. Users with Google accounts → Those who can comment on your blog are those who have Google accounts. Only members of this blog → Only members of your blog who can comment. A certain community usually chooses this option such as educational community, etc.
Comment form placement: Full page → the page of your blog will switch to the comment form page if you choose this option. Pop-up window → your comment box will appear as pop-up window, so your blog is still displayed. Embedded below post → your comment box will directly be displayed under post, so your visitors can comment directly without clicking a Post Comment link. Bloggers like most the comment box is embedded below post.
Comments Default for posts: Choose New posts Have Comments if you want your articles have the comment box, but you can disable this when you create a post. Choose New Posts Do not have comments if you want your posts don’t have comment box, but you can add it when you create a post.
Backlinks: Choose Show if you want to display links to the websites that link to your articles.
Backlinks Default for Posts: choose New posts have backlinks if you want your articles have backlinks, and choose new posts do not have backlinks if you want your articles do not have backlinks.
Comment Timestamp Format: choose the date format you want to display.
Comment Form Message: type your massages to be displayed above the comment box, e.g. please comment freely but keep it polite by not doing spam.
Comment Moderation: choose Always if you want to display any comment after moderation. Only on posts older than …days. Choose this option if you want to display any comment on your selected posts based on the age you have determined, e.g. 15 days, etc. Choose Never if you want to display any comment without a moderation. Don’t forget to type your email address in the available field to get notifications when someone of non-member comments on your posts. Or leave blank if you don’t need the notifications.
Show word verification for comments?: choose Yes if you want to display word verification that will require commentators to enter before publishing their comments. It is to avoid a spam comment such as the robot spam script that can comment on your automatically and frequently. Anyway, visitors usually don’t like the word verification for inconvenience reason. Choose No when you don’t want the word verification displayed, although this option allows spasm like robot spam scripts to place their comments.
Show profile images on comments?: Choose Yes if you want the profile images of commentators to be displayed, and choose No if otherwise.
Comment Notification Email: Enter the email addresses up to ten emails that you want to send comment notifications.
End settings on Comment menu by clicking SAVE SETTINGS.

Archiving

Some settings on Archiving menu:

Archive frequency: choose how your blog archives will be displayed on your blog whether you want the archives arranged No Archive, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. You had better choose Monthly.
Enable Post Pages?: Choose Yes or No.
End settings on Archiving menu by clicking SAVE SETTINGS.

Site Feed

Some settings on Site Feed menu:

Allow Blog Feeds: Choose either None, Short, or Full. You had better Full at this option.
Post Feed Redirect URL: If you have burned your post feed, you can type the URL of your feed here, for instance, you can burned post feed at Feedburner, etc. Leave it blank if you don’t have. We will specifically discuss about Feed burner at next post.
Post Feed Footer: You can fill any code here that will be displayed in the footer of your post feed such as advertisements, etc. Leave it blank if you don’t understand.
End settings on Site Feed menu by clicking SAVE SETTINGS.

Email & Mobile

In order to be able to post an article on your blog, not only do you use the post editor, but you also have other ways, e.g. through email and mobile.

Some setting on Email & Mobile menu:

BlogSend Address: Type email addresses up to ten emails separated by comma (,) to which you want to send notification when posting an article.

Email Posting Address: Create a blogger email address (known as Mail2Blogger) from which you can post articles directly to your blog when you send an email to this blogger email address, e.g. if you have an email address at example@gmail.com, then you can create blogger email address at example.post@blogger.com or example.blog@blogger.com, or anything else you think very good, but you should remember that it’s a secret to avoid other people can post through it.

To activate this feature, you should choose Publish emails immediately, meaning that each time you send emails to your blogger email address, the content of your email will be posted as blog post on your blog. If you choose Save emails as draft posts, the emails will not be published automatically but will be stored in the draft posts.

However, if you don’t want to publish through email, choose Disable. For security reason, many choose this option.

End settings on Email & Mobile menu by clicking SAVE SETTINGS

OpenID

Nothing to do some settings here, but there is notification telling you that your blog address can be used as the address of OpenID. What is OpenID? Maybe we will discuss later.

Permissions

On this menu, you can add Authors by inviting them. Just write the email addresses you want them to be the authors of your blog.

At Who can view this blog?, you can choose who can view your blog. If you choose Anybody, your blog can be viewed by public or anybody. If you choose Only people I choose, only invited people who can view your blog that they should login first to view. If you choose Only blog authors, only your blog authors who can view your blog. If you think your blog is not worth publishing as you conduct maintenance, for instance, you can use this option, so only you that can view the blog.

Tutorial in creating blog in Blogspot

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1. What is Blog?

Blog is short for "Web log", which is a a web application containing note or writing that are usually called "post" and displaying on the web pages. The posts are often displayed orderly based on the age or based on the time when the writing is written and published, so when you view a blog, you will first find the latest posts, top to bottom of the web page and the first to the last page, if the blog has had more than one web page.

For the first time, blog was created as the online private notes, but along with its development and popularity, blog has various types of contents or writings such as tutorial (e.g. this blog), sharing, business, etc. In general, blogs seem not to have the difference with the sites on the Internet.

The blog platform or used to be called blog machine has been created in such a way by blog designers or developers in order to be user friendly, so the knowledge of HTML, PHP, CSS, etc that was a must to create a web application, now with blog, everything is so easy as 1, 2, 3.

2. How to create blog in blogspot

One of the free blog providers that is quite popular today is blogspot or blogger, where you have to register through blogger.com and you get the domain name as sub domain of blogspot, e.g. yourname.blogspot.com.

Why should you create blog in blogger.com, not in other free blog providers? Actually, there is no “should”, but blogger.com has more advantages than other providers do. One of the advantages is the easiness in operating so that blogger.com is good for the beginners. Other advantages are the freedom in editing and replacing the templates to make the best display, custom domain which means that you can replace the domain with your own but with the blogspot hosting, e.g. yourname.blogspot.com can be changed into yourname.com, but still in the same hosting, i.e. the free blogspot hosting.

It should be emphasized from the beginning that the Internet is highly dynamic, so it is very possible that this practical guide to create blog in blogspot will not be relevant anymore as changes occurring, whether to the platform, coding, or anything else that you see right now in blogger.com

To reduce something unneeded to write, below is how to create blog in blogger.com.

Creating Email

One of the conditions required in creating blog is to have an active email address. If you do not have an email, please register at gmail. Since Blogger is one of Google services, when you want to register at Blogger, you had better use Google Email or gmail. If you need a simple guide to create an email, please use Google search engine to search for the best guide.

Sign up for a blog at blogger

Please visit http://www.blogger.com
After registration page open, go to the right bottom of the page where you can change the language to your own to make you easier to understand the instructions, but in this tutorial, I use English for more global targeting. Please login by using your username and password of your gmail (your email account is allowed to use for login to blogger).
Click "CREATE A BLOG" button
Enter your Blog Title in the field next to "Blog Title", and your expected blog address in the field next to “Blog address (URL). Need to remember that when you enter your expected blog address, you have to be sure of it as you cannot replace it in the future, except you use Custom Domain facility. Check for the availability. If your expected blog address is not available, replace with your new one and so on until you get it. Then type the character you see next to "Word verification", below blog address point and click CONTINUE for the next steps.
Choose a starter template, meaning that you can replace this template in the future and then click CONTINUE.
You will see "Your Blog has been created!" meaning that now you have a blog and you are ready to start Blogging, by clicking "START BLOGGING".
You will soon be in the post editor, where you can write anything as you may have thought about before. (it is recommended to directly write for your first post to avoid "Blogger Anti-Spam Robot" that can result in your blog locked. For instance, you can write a very short entry if you have not prepared an entry: "Hello World!", and anything else you want. Click "PREVIEW" button to view how your post will be displayed, then click "PUBLISH POST" if you want your entry to be published.
Click "View Post" to see your blog. Below is the example of the blog display created
Done

For the first phase, your blog is ready and accessible for public. For next discussions about blogging in blogger are to come.

Managing Your Merchant Account

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You know how engaging the process is when you apply for your merchant account. You have to prepare a lot of documents and most of all; you have to be convincing enough that you are trustworthy for any merchant bank or third party merchant account provider to grant you what you are applying for. There are a lot of steps you have to go through and sure does it will consume a lot of your time, effort and energy into making sure that your application will be approved in no time. This is excluding the work you put into account when choosing the right bank or provider that you need for your company.

You have to research, ask people and finally decide which one to choose. When you have finally chosen the right merchant account for you, and you have been granted access to it. Now it's time for you to use its functions for your business to prosper. More than ever, it's time for you to take care of it.

Taking care of your merchant account is not exactly painstaking, but it sure requires a lot of your patience. For example, there are times when rates will increase and you are not informed prior or you are not given the right reasons for such increase in your fees. This is actually a sign that you may not have been very mindful of your obligations as a holder of your merchant account. This also means that you may have to exert a little more effort in taking care of this account to prevent anything like this or worst than this from happening again.

A very basic step you can make when taking care of your merchant account is to always never take your monthly merchant account statements for granted. Yes, even if you know how it works and you know what to expect, you have to go through each of these statements as it comes and check for anything that might be unclear or unjustified. To do this, you can ask the help of customer support representatives from your merchant bank or account provider. When you know at the right time what you're dealing with, the remedies you can take have a much higher rate of success than if you were to let your problems sit before finding a solution.

One of the most important things you look into is rate increases. Merchant service providers are not allowed by law to impose these increases without proper notification. So each time you receive your statement, make sure to read it from front to back and look for any indication of any rates increasing. You should also look into those discount rates that you may have to pay. Just make sure to keep track of the movements of these rates and the sooner you spot them, the better the solution will be to any problem that may come up.

Scouting for a bank or account provider to grant you a retail merchant account or an Internet merchant account? Look online today for a faster, more convenient transaction.

Want to make you weekend more powerful?

2010-12-31T22:49:00.000-08:00

We all look forward to the weekends after 5 days of working.

The best days of the week.

This weekend, I'm spending my time to write this for my readers to read. Tomorrow morning, I'll be taking the 6.00 AM flight to another country with my folks for a vacation.

Last week, I didn't go anywhere but just stayed at home doing my own stuff.

What do you do during your weekend?

Most of you will either say 'sleeping' or 'resting'.

That's totally fine because I can understand how tiring and exhausting it is working five days straight in the row.

But if that's what you're doing, you're going to achieve your goals at a very slow pace.

Resting to get your mind and body strong again for next week will put you in a repetition mode. Let me just point it out from this angle...

You've been working hard the past 5 days and understandbly, you're tired. Then you take a rest during the weekend so that you can work again on the upcoming 5 days.

You're going in circles.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not asking you to not rest during the weekend. I'm not saying that you're not growing while you're working during the working days. I'm stressing out that you're not maximizing your weekend's time for greater success.

Start creating a power weekend for yourself.

Here are the 5 steps you can achieve this...

Step #1: Appreciate that you get the weekends to 'rest' and do the things you like.

Step #2: Spend some quiet time during the weekend to reflect on your achievements the past week that will help you to achieve greater heights. If you can't find anything new, then you're not progressing but you're just staying afloat rather than swimming ahead.

Step #3: Do something that you like - doesn't have to be productive, it could be a total waste of time but you love doing it. By doing this, you'll feel fulfilled and power up your enthusiasm for the upcoming week.

Step #4: Read something. During your weekdays, you're DOING what you know -- not learning. If you stop learning new things, you'll be repeating what you know throughout your life. Ultimately, you could find that what you know is no longer relevant to the world.

Step #5 (THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP): This is the time that you get to spend with someone you love (wife, husband, mum, dad, granny, grandpa, your kids, etc) or simply catch up with your friends. It is proven that human without love and a positive social life are not happy which leads to sadness.

Seems like lots of stuff to cramp in for 48 hours, yes?

Well, not really. I think you can do it. Maybe you can start with less sleep. (smile)

Right now, I want you to look at it from another angle...

What if there's no such thing as a weekend or a weekday?

Maybe you enjoy doing your job or business as much as you enjoy your weekends?

What if you can do all of the 5 steps during the weekdays too?

You see, the beauty of life is you get to call your own shots. What you want to do with your life is up to you - how you want live it and decide what kind of emotion you want to live in. If you're thinking that you have no control because you have a job, I would disagree with you. If you disagree with a 'no', then the answer is 'no' simply because it's your life, not mine. But if you say 'yes', then amazing ideas start coming to your mind to see how things can work your way.

Do the Little Things Right

2010-12-31T22:47:00.000-08:00

Do the little things right and so many things go right, like the big things. Here is a story about a guy who made the little things right and made something happiness that many didn't think could happen.

Alan Mulally is now the president and CEO of Ford Motor Company. When he was hired from Boeing he was top executive there, but was turned down to be the CEO at Boeing. Ford offered him the job as CEO and president and he took it, even thought Ford was considered one of the big three to go out of business.

When Alan started his new job at Ford he took some time to look at the inner workings of Ford. After some time he called a meeting of his top managers and told them to give a report on the status of their area of responsibility.

Alan started the meeting by asking some questions, like why do we have so many wiring harnesses for the same car platform. He also brought up many others things that he thought needed to be addressed. It is not important that you know what a wiring harness is or a car platform, but it important to know he saw a lot of waste.

As you might imagine the first meeting was a lengthy one. What came out of the first meeting is that each manager was accountable to keep the organization fully informed of the progress of their group.

The little things mean a lot to Alan and it didn't take long for the management team to understand that. You as a manager had to keep the organization up to date on your team's progress and if it wasn't doing will you had do let everyone know. If you didn't then Alan had the whole Ford management team help you get on track.

Ford went from looking like a loser to being the most admired car manufacture in the United States.

Next time I'll give some of the little things that Alan did to turn Ford into a power house in the automobile business. What Alan taught Ford can help you do the little things right so the big things can happens.

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2010-12-29T04:17:00.000-08:00

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yours respectfully.

Danial Razali
Irbid, Jordan.