What am I Doing?

Hi there! I know I’ve been a little distant this days, but don’t even think that I’m not here, because I am, the thing is that I’m just in the middle of a research, this research is related to The Lounge and to the Blogosphere, I mean it’s not a separated project, I am still behind this blog, which in fact is almost reaching the top 1,000 in Technorati which is amazing, other interesting fact that you might not know about the Lounge is that currently it is visited by an average of 3,000 people per day, really great, just 4 months old. I’ve been reading your blogs too.

Next week I’m goi9ng to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, but during this week I’ll continue with my research project and I’ll try to publish the results when I come back. Please be patient, I know you are. 😉 Take care.

When Creativity REALLY Hits The Market

The other day I was surfing the web with my StumbleUpon Toolbar and I came across with some interesting ads which I found very very creative, in fact it is possible that you’ve already seen them, but I thought it would be great to share with all of you, take a look and see how the masters of advertising can make when creativity matters. I hope you like them please let me know what you think. 😉

WildLife

WildLife is disappearing, Where’s the lion?!

Pepsi Lemon

 

Heinz Hot Ketchup

 

 

Healthy Sunflower Oil

 

Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneur StartUps

There are certain mistakes that most entrepreneurs do at the moment they start a project, any kind of project. These mistakes can cost you a lot of time, and of course money, you can even lose everything because of them, remember to pay attention in details and never forget to follow your instincts, but above all, use your brain. Well, now let’s take a look at the Top 10 most common mistakes of entrepreneur startups.

Confusion – The entrepreneur dreams about a business without analyzing the characteristics that would make him a successful businessman. When problems appear, the entrepreneur gives up to his idea of business and fights to enter the labor market. A good businessman insists until he achieves it, and never quits.

Intuition – When you have a great idea , the first thing you have to ask yourself is: Does it has potential? Will someone buy my product? You should have enough vision to answer this questions, a big mistake of most entrepreneurs is when they don’t analyze the consequences and they just follow their instincts without even analyzing the possibilities. Most of them ask those questions after they launch their idea, not before.

Business Plan – believe it or not it is important, it matters. even though there have been a lot of successful companies that began without a proper business Plan, it is a good tool to guide your new project. Most entrepreneurs think they don’t need it.

Continuous improvement – when they’ve reached a certain level of success they think there’s no need to learn more or to improve themselves or their business, huge mistake! continuous improvement is always important in all aspects and areas.

Obligations – We all have. No matter what you do, you can never run away from them. We all have obligations with our customers, our partners, our employees, the shareholders, the society, the government, and the environment. Take that in mind.

Money money and money – Some entrepreneurs plan their strategies according to profits without having in mind the other aspect of the company like the cash flow or the general balance between the assets and liabilities.

Customers – They are the ones that drive your success, without them, there’s no business at all, so take care of them, they are one of the most valuable assets of all, gain their loyalty and respect and you’ll have them wherever you want.

Organization – Well in fact the lack of organization is a big mistake not just in business but in everything, without it the whole ship can sink forever.

Strength – and courage to continue when everything seems to be failing, never give up, just keep trying.

Your own Money – It is forbidden to mix your personal expenses with those of the company.

Inspirational Dropouts

The other day I was reading a very interesting article about success, there was a particular line that caught my attention in that moment, “Success is not always found at school. School isn’t for everyone, as simple as that.” But don’t get confused, success is not for everyone either. There are a lot of stories that tell us that sometimes we have to follow our dreams and take some risks to achieve success.

But what makes a dropout a successful one? well, some of the factors that matter in these cases are:

• Creativity
• Imagination
• Vision
• Innovation
• Will
• and… Faith

As Einstein said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge, For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Now let’s take a look to some inspirational dropout stories.

William H. Gates III (Microsoft)

Dropped out of: Harvard University in 1975 at age 20.

He represents maybe the most famous dropout of all, why?, simple because he’s also the richest man of the World, at least for now. There are some who can’t understand why a 20 year old student from Harvard University left school in pursuit of a dream that was unachievable for them. With his partner and friend Paul Allen (Also dropped out) founded one of the most successful companies in history, you already know the rest.

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Get More Backlinks & PR, Sponsor This Theme!

We all know how important is PageRank, Technorati Rank and Backlinks, right? well all blogs and websites should focus also on this 3 things, because a good PR , TR and a lot of quality backlinks can increase the value of your blog or websites along with other benefits. if you remember, a few weeks ago I publishes a post about the advantages of theme sponsorship, well in that article I also point out that with this simple technique bloggers and site owners can focus their attention in generating quality content and traffic because they’ll be dedicating less time to build a solid link network.

Well that’s why this time I want to offer you the opportunity to sponsor one of my themes, it is called Helios 1.0 and it has 2 spots available check the LiveDemo, very cheap prices and the benefits will be huge! Invest your money in something that’ll really help your blog or site. Get lots of backlinks in a great variety of blogs with different PageRank, just check my own PR and my TR. I’ll promote this theme in many sites. Plus, both sponsors will get a nice backlink in a post in this PR 5 blog! If you’re interested drop me a line!

UPDATE– Both links SOLD! Thanks!

Give New Life To Older Posts With AdRotator!

This time I’m going to introduce you a very useful WordPress plugin you probably don’t know, it is called AdRotator. While redesigning this blog, I noticed that i needed an interesting way to promote my previous posts to my new readers, so I found this nice plugin, Adrotator is very simple to use, in fact it takes less than 5 minutes to set it up and the result is amazing, you just have to design nice looking graphic ads, the plugin can be used with AdSense and other kinds of advertising, but I prefer to use it with my own ads.

First of all download the plugin and upload it to your plugins directory, activate it and that’s it just paste a simple script in the sidebar or wherever you want the ads to appear, design your ads and upload them to your directory, after that just design each ad , I prefer to use the same size for all of them, as you can see in my sidebar, they are all of the same size. Now the most important part is the txt file that will locate and deliver the ads, take a look to the complete instructions. I hope you enjoy it, make the most of it, and if you want you can use it to generate some dollars from it, just use your imagination!

The Lounge Season 2.0!

At Last! Welcome to the new version of The Lounge Season 2.0! This is the new face of Blogger Lounge , it is more sophisticated and versatile, it has more features and more space. After 2 months I wanted to give this blog a new image, so far everything has been great so I wanted to continue with the same trend. First of all and one of the most important changes is the new brand.

Completely New Identity

The first thing in my mind was a rebranding, why? because I noticed some gaps in the design of the layout and of the brand, that’s it. So I redesign the logo of Blogger Lounge, using almost the same colors of the original brand.

As you can see the logo maintains the same glossy style, but the soft curve lines in the 3 corners represent a dynamic style. Also the orange tones are more visible and clear in the new identity. The Tagline of the Lounge has changed too, if you remember it was:

“Blogger Lounge | be successful, be creative, be great …be yourself”

Ok, it was a good one, but I thought that with a simplier line everything will be much better, so the new tag line is:

“Blogger Lounge | Success Matters.”

As simple as that.

Other new features

The layout. The new theme is a brand new original design, by me. Now I decided to add an extra sidebar to increase visibility and space, with this new sidebar, I can order my blog elements in a nicer an cleaner way.

I also redesign the Navigation bar, it is now a “Tab style” which makes everything easier.

Another new feature is the Footer, I improved it’s design and I added some commands and special characteristics like a search field, a subscription link, “Top Posts” section and “Recent Posts” section, it has also enough space for advertising.

Plus!

A new “About Page” and other interesting posts, like interviews, contests,guides, tips and more techniques about success, creativity entrepreneurship, design, innovation, style and much more! Check also some of the best WordPress themes, Pure Haute Couture for WordPressâ„¢!

This is The New Lounge! Enjoy it! Why? just because success matters! Please give us your opinion.

Deserved Link Love!

Hi there! I know I’ve been a little bit absent, I’m sorry for that but I’m preparing the new version of The Lounge, and believe me it worths it, you won’t regret it, ok, but now I’m going to give some link love to three loyal readers of this blog, why? because before I stopped writing a few weeks ago they asked me for a link, well, in fact they gave me a backlink first in their blogs, so now I think it’s time to spread the love!. The new blog is almost ready, please be patient.

Thanks again to:

Nirmal. I checked his blog and I noticed that he changed the design, good work!

Matt. He’s also in a redesign process, he showed me a sketch of his new blog a few days ago and it’s good, I liked it.

Best CD Rates. This site was one of my sponsors in one of my recent themes, so this was part of the deal!

That’s it 3 nice backlinks from a PageRank 5 site!

How Much Would You Pay For a Domain With a Technorati Rank Under The Top 10,000?

Ok, I’m not talking about this domain, I’m not planning to sell it, so don’t worry, The Lounge still has a long way to go. I just wondered how the domain sales business works.

I read Mitch Harper’s blog the other night (Harpzon.com, he must sold it already because it’s no longer available) anyway I noticed that a few days ago, he decided to put on sale his domain, the initial bid was $5,000 which sounds quite reasonable to me considering he has a good PageRank and a nice Technorati Rank, well that’s why I wondered how much money can you really make from a deal like this?, just by selling the domain, not the whole blog, I mean if you decide to sell your domain right now, with your current TR , how much would you ask for? or better yet, also let us know how much would you pay for a domain with a TR under the Top 10,000 , please tell us why.

I’m not talking about those ugly domains we all know, like for example: igoldmoney.com or dollars-make-me-happy.net ,no!, I’m talking about premium and creative domains (like ours 🙂 ) the kind of domains that everyone will remember and the kind of domains others would like to use. Please help me with this and share your knowledge and opinion with others, thanks!

New WordPress Theme. St-Style 1.0!

Hi everyone! Guess what?! I have a new WordPress theme! I call it St-Style!, why? I really don’t know why! : ) . Anyway, I know you expect something different than just WP theme, but believe me, this is just part of a strategy, I’ll be posting very interesting articles soon, just be patient. Well now let’s talk about this new theme, it has a nice design with a perfect combination of red, green and black, 2 colums, and some nice gradients. Well someone said that it was not working in IE6 , but it works fine in IE7 and Firefox, for those who still have IE6, just let me tell you one thing,.. get a new browser now! I’m just kidding. Really, this is nice looking theme, thanks to my sponsors too. Stay around because one of these days I’ll publish something for you, and after day everything will be back to normal, but much better than before! See ya!

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