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February 23, 2019
Hacking Essentials : The Beginner’s Guide To Ethical Hacking And Penetration Testing
Originally, the term “hacker” referred to a programmer who was skilled in computer operating systems and machine code. Today, it refers to anyone who performs hacking activities. Hacking is the act of changing a system’s features to attain a goal that is not within the original purpose of the creator. The word “hacking” is usually perceived negatively especially by people who do not understand the job of an ethical hacker. In the hacking world, ethical hackers are good guys. What is their role? They use their vast knowledge of computers for good instead of malicious reasons. They look for vulnerabilities in the computer security of organizations and businesses to prevent bad actors from taking advantage of them. For someone that loves the world of technology and computers, it would be wise to consider an ethical hacking career. You get paid (a good amount) to break into systems. Getting started will not be a walk in the park—just as with any other career. However, if you are determined, you can skyrocket yourself into a lucrative career. When you decide to get started on this journey, you will have to cultivate patience. The first step for many people is usually to get a degree in computer science. You can also get an A+ certification (CompTIA)—you must take and clear two different exams. To be able to take the qualification test, you need to have not less than 500 hours of experience in practical computing. Experience is required, and a CCNA or Network+ qualification to advance your career. This book should act as your start into the world of ethical hacking.
February 12, 2019
January 30, 2019
Mastering eBay: The Entrepreneurs Guide To Selling And Making Money On eBay
There are 500,000 people who earn a living from selling on eBay full-time. Most American homes have so many unused items lying somewhere. That is where some sellers start—by selling things they no longer use. When they start doing well, they begin listing items for other sellers. Other people choose to invest their resources in eBay-related franchises. Take the example of Scott Kluth who decided to invest in iSold It. With negotiated supplier agreements and access to a check fulfillment system, he became a franchisee then opened a store. Currently, Scott Kluth location is among iSold It top 10 locations. Scott’s store lists an average of 28 new items every day. Customers usually start by bringing in a single item to see how things play out. When it sells, they come with more items. This store has been in business for only a year and it started bringing in profit in the third month. One of the best things about selling on eBay is the fact that you can do it as a hobby at first, then make it a full-time business if things go well.
January 6, 2019
January 1, 2019
3 Ecommerce Trends You Must Prepare for in 2019
Retail ecommerce sales continue trending upward, and consumer confidence has reached an 18-year high. Conditions are ripe for brands with an established ecommerce presence, but that doesn’t mean business as usual will always suffice. Instead, the organizations that excel will be those with a forward-thinking approach to ecommerce.
Ecommerce is thriving because enough companies have kept up with changing technology and consumer expectations. For example, as mobile purchases increased in popularity, ecommerce retailers began specifically catering to this shopping avenue. Mobile purchases constituted the majority of ecommerce sales in 2016, and eMarketer estimates that 72.9 percent of online purchases will be made on a mobile device by 2021.
Device preferences aren’t the only thing in transition — search methods are also quickly evolving as technology becomes more sophisticated. According to predictions from ComScore, 50 percent of all search queries will be made via voice by 2020. And it’s likely that more people will be audio searching for buyable goods soon: Devices such as Google Home Hub and Amazon Echo Show are integrating voice and image search so that shoppers can see what they’re asking to buy. Ecommerce retailers that can’t cater to a voice-activated future (read: optimize for natural language search) will quickly lose ground to their rivals.
Ecommerce companies are also partnering with payment processors to make online purchases as frictionless as possible. By offering payment options such as PayPal, Venmo and Amazon Pay at checkout, customers can leave their credit cards in their wallets, so buying becomes even easier.
No matter how mature your ecommerce presence might be now, you need to keep looking ahead to ensure future success. To elevate your ecommerce efforts in 2019, take advantage of these three emerging trends.
1. Sell your wares on social.
Effective marketing is about optimizing your messaging to appeal to your target audience, but messaging won’t matter if the audience never sees it. Meeting your audience members where they spend their time is crucial, and here’s a tip: If your customer base is online, it’s on social media one-third of that time.
If you’re not selling on social media, you’re missing a huge opportunity. Most social media platforms now support integrated buy buttons that transfer users to your website to complete a sale, and apps such as Instagram and Snapchat offer shoppable stories, too.
Retail brands like Jordan have also capitalized on event-related social commerce opportunities. For the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, Jordan partnered with Snapchat to offer access codes to an exclusive sale of the special edition Air Jordan III Tinker shoe. Users could only receive a code if they were near the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and the sneakers sold out in 23 minutes.
2. Remix the buyer’s reality.
Mixed reality technologies have yet to see mainstream adoption, but they have made huge strides in that direction. Vertebrae’s launch of its AR/VR ecommerce platform Axis aims to prove that the tech is much more than a novelty, and IKEA’s Place app provides shoppers with an AR-powered glimpse into what IKEA products would look like in their own homes.
“Augmented reality and virtual reality will be a total game changer for retail in the same way as the internet. Only this time, much faster,” says Michael Valdsgaard, leader of digital transformation at Inter IKEA Systems.
AR might not be everywhere yet, but ecommerce retailers that successfully incorporate AR capabilities into the shopping experience stand to gain a significant advantage over their competitors.
3. Strengthen your Amazon strategy.
Amazon has established a pre-eminent place in the ecommerce ecosystem, and Salmon’s “Future Shopper Report” indicates that 68 percent of American shoppers head straight to the site when browsing for products. What’s more, even when customers plan to buy from another site or store, 80 percent read Amazon reviews and check prices there.
Clearly, mastering Amazon is critical. Trevor George, founder and CEO of Amazon marketing agency Blue Wheel Media, says that the only way for sellers to win on the platform is through ads: “The future of Amazon is advertising, and if a brand wants to make money now and into the future, it needs to be able to navigate Amazon’s advertising platforms.”
According to George, that means investing in auto-bidding tools such as Prestozon or Ignite, isolating the right search terms, and incorporating negative keywords so your appliance company isn’t spending money to appear in searches for Easy-Bake Ovens.
The ecommerce boom isn’t waning anytime soon, and capitalizing on it requires a thoughtful strategy that keeps your brand ahead of the competition.
December 29, 2018
La alquimia de las hierbas: hierbas curativas para conocer, cultivar y usar (Spanish Edition)
Las hierbas selectas pueden crecer excepcionalmente bien en interiores o exteriores, en contenedores o en el suelo, todo depende de lo que desea hacer.
Si el espacio recibe menos de cinco horas de luz solar al día, es mejor optar por la casa para un acceso más fácil, especialmente para regar y cocinar. Además, esto ayuda a prevenir malezas, plagas o temperaturas fluctuantes.
Las semillas son bastante económicas, pero toman más tiempo y requieren más recursos para crecer. Mientras que, por otro lado, las plantas de semillero son de cultivo más rápido, pero solo están disponibles en primavera y verano.
Varias herramientas de jardinería son esenciales, puede ser una pala, guantes, ollas, recipientes, prácticamente todo lo que necesita para el trabajo. Y recuerde, algunos suelos fertilizados también son importantes, esto puede generarse naturalmente, o con una solución de compost de uso general de una tienda de jardinería. Para jardinería en contenedores, una mezcla de tierra para macetas empaquetada puede ser de gran ayuda, ya que casi no tendrá que preocuparse por las plagas.
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Introducción
1. Cultive verduras caseras en su patio trasero
2. Imhotep y el origen de la medicina
3. St. John Wort y la depresión
4. Hierbas en espacios pequeños
5. Remedios para el virus VPH
6. Medicina avanzada de sociedades antiguas
7. Historia de la medicina Ayurveda
8. Medicina china tradicional
9. El cáncer y las hierbas
10. Medicina nativa estadoinidense
11. Hierbas para mejorar el sexo
12. Los aceites de eucalipto y sus beneficios
13. Remedios para las alergias
14. Hierbas para desatascar sus arterias
15. Hierbas naturales nativas estadounidenses
16. Hierbas desintoxicantes
17. Salvia en la medicina herbaria
18. Jardín de hierbas hidropónicas
19. Aumente su inmunidad y combata la infección con hierbas antivirales
20. Tratamientos a base de hierbas y suplementos para la
Rideshare advertising startup Firefly launches with $21.5M in funding
Firefly, a startup that allows rideshare drivers to make money through digital advertising, is officially launching today. It’s also announced that it has raised $21.5 million in seed funding.
“Being the first at building out the IP is going to be the main differentiator,” said co-founder and CEO Kaan Gunay. “Over half our team are engineers, and we have been extremely focused on developing core IP to make sure it’s scalable.”
In addition, Gunay said that thanks to the combination of Firefly’s targeting capabilities with its “strict” advertising policies (it won’t accept ads for strip clubs, tobacco and cannabis companies, among others), “We’re working with a lot of advertisers who might not even have advertised outdoors before. We believe we are expanding the market.”
One of the main goals is to allow drivers for Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services to make more money. In fact, Firefly says the average driver in its network makes an additional $300 per month.
Gunay explained that if the driver meets a certain threshold for hours on the road, the company will pay them a flat fee to carry its advertising — but he also said the company is exploring different ways to “maximize the revenue that we share with the drivers and give the maximum benefit to the drivers.”
Gunay also said these displays will become the foundation for a “smart city data network.” In other words, they will collect data that Firefly plans to share with local governments and nonprofit groups. For example, he said the company has already been sharing air quality data with the Coalition for Clean Air, and it’s also looking to include temperature sensors and accelerometers.
Apparently Gunay doesn’t plan to make money from this side of the business. He told me, “We want to be able to add value to how cities operate … We’re not planning to monetize that.”
December 21, 2018
Tony Robbins: In 5-10 years, we may need to give people free cash
TR: Most of us know technology is displacing jobs. If you look 100 or 200 years ago, 80% of us were farmers. Now it’s less than three percent. We feed the whole world. So those jobs disappeared, and they were replaced by other jobs. No one ever thought that being a webmaster or writing copy for websites would be something. But the difference today is that the pace of change is so different.
So for my first question – is technology really displacing jobs? Or are they just being replaced? And if that’s currently true, do you see that continuing where we’ll be able to destroy certain jobs, create new ones, become more productive as human beings, and do things that aren’t so repetitive – but that are more meaningful? Or are we going to get into such a tempo, like Ray [Kurzweil] talks about, where [we get to a] velocity where all of the sudden we have people out of work – and you’ve got the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer? Where do you see that, and how do we address it?
PD: The challenge is that the data is on both sides of the fence, right? So there’s no question that the speed of disruption is increasing. We’re seeing Amazon with these automated shops you go into – there’s no cashier or checkout person, no one’s stocking. Eventually it’s going to be robots and AI taking the majority of these jobs. And the stats that we’ve seen, is that 40, 50, 60 percent of jobs domestically – even a larger percentage overseas in the developing world – are getting lost.And the question is, can we uplift ourselves and actually partner with AI and robotics to do that? I don’t know. But what I do know is I see a lot of fear. And I think this is where our partnership comes in. We want to talk about what the stats are showing us, but also, how you reduce that fear in people because it’s hitting not only our income, but our sense of purpose.
TR: Yeah, I agree. People have two extremes. They’re either a technology person and [believe] technology solves everything, and it’ll be perfect no matter what. I think that’s true long-term – but I don’t know if it’s going to be true in the short-term because of the pace of change. And then there’s the other people [that believe] it’s the end of time because we’re going to have total anarchy. The truth is probably somewhere in between the two, and we both know that.
PD: I mean, I just sat down literally last week, with our mutual friend, Ray Kurzweil. We were talking about brain computer interface, right? Ray’s prediction is that in the early 2030s, we will be connecting our neocortex with the cloud – and you can spin up a million times better memory or processing power […] So at the end of the day, what does a job mean? Most people have a job…
TR: …But they don’t necessarily love their job. It’s dread for most people. When I ask people, “What do you do? What’s your work, what’s your mission, or what’s your career?” If they say “work,” it is work. If they say “career,” there’s a more compelling aspect to it. They’re building something. If it’s their mission, they’ll do it 24 hours a day […] because it feeds them. So it’s finding the meaning that is really the critical piece.
I think the opportunity that technology brings is freeing up those repetitive tasks that do not require you to really grow and expand as a spirit, as a soul, as a human being. The question is the bridge. So if we have this massive disruption, and if it happens too quickly, what’s your view of Universal Basic Income (UBI)?
December 18, 2018
10 Easy Fiverr Gigs Anyone Can Do to Make Money
If you are looking to make a little extra cash on the side, then Fiverr could be the platform for you.
Fiverr is an incredibly popular website, which allows people to buy and sell services.
Some people make hundreds or even thousands of dollars per month from the site, just from selling simple services.
What Is Fiverr?
Basically, Fiverr is a freelancing platform, where people can buy or sell services, which are known as “gigs” on the site.
Online, people ranging from eCommerce store owners to local business owners are looking for products and services, from graphic design to testimonials.
As a seller on Fiverr, you can provide these products and services and get paid in return.
At a minimum, you’ll be paid $5 per gig, but you can earn more.
On the website, which has been around since 2009, there are thousands of users looking for gigs. So, whether you’ve got a knack for grammar, a penchant for logo design or a talent for WordPress, you could use Fiverr as a good income stream.
However, having technical expertise and know-how is not a must for making money with Fiverr.
And that’s the beauty of it…
Anyone, absolutely anyone can earn money on Fiverr by doing simple gigs that don’t require any special skills or expertise.
And your gig doesn’t have to be one of the top selling Fiverr gigs for you to earn money.
Here are 10 such gigs you can sell on Fiverr to make money…
1. Be a Human Billboard
Yes, people will pay you write a message n your face or body and take a picture of it so they can use it for promotion.
This could include drawing a client’s logo, their website or company name, slogan, etc.
Of course, this is not for everyone, but if you are comfortable doing that, you can make easy money on Fiverr.
Example: This guy is doing this all the way from Sri Lanka. He charges people $5 to write their message on his “big belly” and dance with it. He offers an extra 40 second dance “like a crazy man” for an extra $5.
2. Come up with Slogans and Company Names
A lot of new businesses and startups actually pay people on Fiverr to come up with brandable names for their new business.
If you are creative when it comes to coming up with names, this can be another easy way to make a few bucks.
Example: This guy has over 700 positive reviews!
3. Create Video Testimonials
One of the most popular types of gigs on Fiverr is testimonial videos. Video testimonials are highly sought after by business owners in particular. Generally, companies are looking for people to create high quality video reviews of their products or services or to be a spokesperson for their brand.
The client will let you know what they require you to say in the video. All you need is a camera and a place to record your video. If you have a smartphone with a good camera, then you could use that.
But, whatever you decide to use to film the video, make sure the area you are filming in has good lighting. Try to sit near to a natural light source, as this will improve the quality of the video.
If you are confident in front of the camera, then testimonial videos are a fairly easy means of making cash on Fiverr.
Example: This lady has over 3000 reviews. She is making a killing here.
4. Be a Sign Holder
Believe it or not, something as simple as holding up a sign can make you money on Fiverr.
“Hold your Sign’ gigs, as they are referred to on Fiverr are one of the most popular types of gigs on the site.
The client with ask you to hold a sign with a message on it. The message can be anything that the buyer wants, and most often it is their brand’s information, like their website address and logo.
This is one of the easiest gigs on Fiverr, as it does not require much time or expertise to complete the task. While sign holding is a good option, it’s generally a better option for women.
Example: This girl has over 400 reviews and seems to be doing great.
5. Do Voice Over
If you’ve been told you’ve got a great voice, then you could get work as a voice over artist on the site.
On Fiverr, buyers often search for people to provide voice overs and narrations for YouTube videos, audio books, podcasts, commercials and more.
The client will let you know what type of voice over they need and they will, generally, provide you with a script. All you need to record the voice over is a microphone and recording software, which is easily accessible nowadays.
When you’re just starting out, you can use your PC if it has an in-built microphone, and then you can move onto using better equipment when you’re more established.
It’s a fairly easy gig to make money from, and if you offer extras, like accents and script modifications, then you could earn even more.
Example: She has more than 18000 reviews, and almost all of them are positive. She is easily making a living selling this gig on Fiverr.
6. Be a Virtual Assistant
Bloggers, website owners, business owners and a range of other people are searching for someone that can help them with tasks that they simply don’t have the time to do themselves.
Whether it is for scheduling posts on Twitter or data entry, buyers on Fiverr are always looking for virtual assistants.
So, if you’re reliable, easy to communicate with and offer convenient services, then you could make a good amount of money as a virtual assistant.
People generally need virtual assistants to help them with things like, typing, data entry, research, email management, social media management and more.
Being a virtual assistant does require a bit more time and effort than other gigs on Fiverr, so it’s not the quickest way to make extra money.
Example: This guy has over 1000 reviews with an average 99% positive rating.
7. Blog Commenter
Do you enjoy reading blog posts?
If you do, then you could earn money from simply commenting on other people’s blogs.
On Fiverr, buyers are looking for sellers to leave comments on their blog posts or to leave comments linked to their blog on other people’s sites in a relevant niche.
For example, you could provide an offer like “I will write five comments per day on your blog for the next week”.
Or “I will find blogs in your niche, and leave relevant comments linking back to your blog.”
Blog commenting is a quick and easy job, but you may need to know a little about anchor text to complete some of the backlink comment tasks.
Example: Alex has over 6000 reviews. I imagine she is making good money with this.
8. Website Tester
As long as you know how to browse the Internet, you could make money as a website tester.
Startups, new blogs and even established websites all need to know whether their site is user-friendly.
That means that a site owner could pay you simply to check their website and report your experience to them.
Generally, you’ll usually only have to check for simple things, like how easy the website is to navigate, if the design of the site is appealing and just how user-friendly it is overall.
This means that you don’t need any technical skills to complete this gig. Some clients will ask you to use screen capture software, which you can easily get for free, to document your experience.
Example: This guy has just started and already has 12 positive reviews. Seems like there aren’t many people who are offering this service. It could be your chance to get in there and establish yourself.
9. Social Media Promoter
Social media has become an essential part of digital marketing. Everyone, from bloggers to big brands, now wants to build a strong presence and increase their visibility via social media.
Whether it is Facebook likes or tweets to a large audience, buyers on Fiverr are prepared to pay you to aid their social media marketing campaign.
You can easily set up a gig that offers likes on platforms, like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
And, if you have a large following, you could make money simply doing brand mentions on your social media profiles.
Example: This guys charges up to $30 to tweet clint’s message. He has over 400 reviews.
10. Prankster
Yes, even pranking can earn you money on Fiverr.
You can do all kind of pranks–making prank phone calls, offering to be somebody’s girlfriend/boyfriend on Facebook, etc.
Example: This clever girl charges people $5 to be their fake “crazy in love” girlfriend on Facebook. And for an extra $40, she will post the video prank directly to her Facebook profile.
Best Fiverr Gigs?
I don’t think there is one or a few that can be labeled the best ones. Any gig can be a great little money maker on Fiverr.
Fiverr can be a good source of income, especially if you stick with the tasks that require little skill and time or those that you’re already experienced with.
To earn good money with Fiverr, you need to be consistent and build up your reviews.
If you do that, you can turn Fiverr into a good source of income. In fact, some people make hundreds of dollars each month, just from offering gigs on this platform.
