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Bill Gates Profile

Bill Gates has created the world’s largest company he is the world’s richest man and he has become the biggest charitable giver in history.
He may be a college dropout and “computer geek” but rivals have often underestimated his abilities in the cut throat world of business.
Despite the wealth and ruthless domination of the global computer industry Gates maintains it is the programming itself which is his abiding passion.

He stood down as chief executive of Microsoft in 2000 to focus on software development and the new challenges of the mobile internet age.
The onetime high school computer enthusiast whose worth
passed the 100bn mark in 1999 said he wanted to immerse
himself again in the work he loves most.
Early fascination
Gates has come to be known for his aggressive business
tactics and confrontational style of management.
He and his company have attracted a vast army of critics and enemies in recent years as their domination of the IT world has grown.
He was born on 28 October 1955 growing up with two sisters in Seattle. Their father William H. Gates II is a Seattle attorney and their late mother Mary Gates was a schoolteacher.
Gates began computing as a 13yearold at the city’s Lakeside school.
By the age of 17 he had sold his first program a timetabling system for the school earning him 4200.
It was at Lakeside that he met fellow student Paul Allen who shared his fascination with computers.
During Gates’ stint at Harvard the two teamed up to write the first computer language program written for a personal computer.
The PC’s maker MITS liked their work and the two friends established Microsoft in 1975 socalled because it provided microcomputer software.
Selfmade billionaire
A year later Gates dropped out of Harvard once it became clear that the possibilities for Microsoft were bright.
The big break came in 1980 when an agreement was signed to provide the operating system that became known as MSDOS for IBM’s new personal computer.
In a contractual masterstroke Microsoft was allowed to license the operating system to other manufacturers spawning an industry of “IBMcompatible” personal computers which depended on Microsoft’s operating system.
That fuelled further growth prompting the company to float in 1986 raising 61m.
Now a multimillionaire Allen had already stepped back from the frontline. But Gates continued to play the key role in the company’s growth with his vision for networked computers proving central to Microsoft’s success.
However his judgment has not always appeared flawless.
While sales and profits rocketed in the early 1990s he was seen to have misjudged on a grand scale the possibilities and growth of the internet.
Outside of Microsoft he also has interests in biotech companies sitting on the board of the Icos Corporation and has a stake in Darwin Molecular a subsidiary of Britishbased Chiroscience.
Family man
He founded Corbis Corporation which is developing a digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the globe.
His books The Road Ahead and Business the Speed of Thought have both hit the best seller lists.
Gates married Melinda on New Year’s Day 1994.Together they have three children Jennifer Katharine born in 1996 Rory John born in 1999 and Phoebe Adele born in 2002
He met his wife in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan. She was working for the company and later became one of the executives in charge of interactive content.
Other interests listed on his official website are reading and playing golf and bridge.
Gates and Melinda have been giving increasing amounts of money to charity with his father running a foundation.
It has been endowed with billions to support initiatives in the areas of global health and education.
It is the world’s second richest philanthropic organization and within shouting distance of the world number one The Welcome Trust in the UK.
Bill Gates
Business Personality
Name at birth: William Gates III
Bill Gates is the head of the software company Microsoft and is one of the world’s wealthiest men. Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in the 1970s though Allen left the company in 1983. Gates oversaw the invention and marketing of the MSDOS operating system the Windows operating interface the Internet Explorer browser and a multitude of other popular computer products. Along the way he gained a reputation for fierce competitiveness and aggressive business savvy. During the 1990s rising Microsoft stock prices made Gates the world’s wealthiest man; his wealth has at times exceeded 75 billion making Gates a popular symbol of the ascendant computer geek of the late 20th century. In June of 2006 Gates announced that he would step down from daytoday involvement in Microsoft by July of 2008. He said he would then remain chairman of the Microsoft board while focusing on his charitable foundation the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Extra credit: Gates married Melinda French a Microsoft employee on 1 January 1994. The couple have three children: daughters Jennifer Katharine b. 1996 and Phoebe Adele b. 2002 and son Rory John b. 1999… Gates’s personal chartiable initiative the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has focused on global health issues especially on preventing malaria and AIDS in poor countries; in 2005 ABC News reported that he had given away over six billion dollars in the previous five years… For their philanthropic activities Time magazine named Bill and Melinda Gates along with rock star and activist Bono its Persons of the Year for 2005.

About the writer:  Karina Gallo is a fulltime handcrafter of artisan soaps. She currently lives in New York City and her bath and beauty items can be found on www.SoapThatMakesScents.com

Cash Gifting Marketing With Postcards And Offline Methods

It’s no secret. Those who are receiving the most gifts are not only using the Internet as a means of reaching out to new prospects and converting them into leads but they have an effective cash gifting direct mail campaign in place as well. While some sponsors and mentors are touting or training their members to compete with overcrowded markets online they themselves are secretly using direct mail marketing to reach out to an evergrowing number of opportunity seekers thereby receiving large numbers of cash gifts.

I get calls all the time form people in this program wanting to know the secret to success. Many are searching online knocking their heads against the wall to get the secrets or somehow find the clues. Many who are in the know are intentionally withholding their secrets to success when someone calls them asking for help or for tips and ideas on marketing.

For the most part it is my opinion that these individuals have completely forgotten the true spirit of the gifting program which is one person helping another even if the person needing help is not on their team. And what happened to No man left behind?

I am here to tell you THERE ARE NO SECRETS! Stop looking for secrets as if someone has a magic wand totally unbeknown to you and start learning how to use direct mail advertising. There are many great books and courses on the Internet and at the library. Take some time and pick up a few books on the subject. Email me for recommendations. Use this article as a means to get you started and start thinking of yourself as a student of direct marketing instead of a “cash gifter”.

What I am about to tell you below is a strategy that has been used over and over again to make people millionaires and to changed lives at the speed of light. The strategies below flatout works and crushes the online competition. Don’t take it lightly.

However before you jump into this arena you have to understand that direct mail is not something you should take lightly. For the inexperienced you can lose a lot of money quick if you are not guided properly. That’s why it’s important to join with someone that has experience in direct marketing.

There are many components to running an effective offline campaign but once you understand the keys to running an effective mailing campaign you are empowered with an unfair advantage over those who are competing with overcrowded online advertising mediums.

This is not to say that the Internet has become an ineffective way to advertise. There are tens of millions of traffic hits available for the experienced but totally unknown to those who are unaware and it has nothing to do with PPC campaigns either. Most newbies are not aware of these massive online traffic sources. We’ll save that for another time. However I want to confine this article to using cash gifting with offline methods such as direct mail.

For those looking for answers I will give you the top ways direct mail is being used to run and grow a profitable gifting activity. In fact I don’t care what someone may have told you over the phone or by email there are only three major ways to market your program offline. Please bear in mind that I am not saying there are only three ways to prospect offline but there are three advertising strategies that highly successful cash gifters are employing at this time.

First the most successful are Postcarding. This is exactly what it implies simply mailing out postcards to a list of opportunity seekers looking to make extra money from home. There are many sources of mailing lists as well.

Once you find a card that catches your eye either use a company or the “Doityourselfapproach”. If you take this route simply print the card out and take it to your local print shop and have it replicated with your personal information such as your website and contact info and search for a list of opportunity seekers either online or in the SRDS.

The key is to use an effective eyecatching postcard with a hot list of opportunity seekers.

The second best place to run your ads is in Nationwide Advertising. Here you can get massive classified and small space advertising at dirtcheap discounted prices. Take a look at nationwideadvertising’s website for more information. You’ll be totally thrilled.

Finally Out Bound Automated Phone Broadcasting. Although this is not using direct mail it is a form of direct response marketing that’s being used with amazing results. To use this marketing strategy you’ll have to either purchase your own autodialer or use the services of a webbased phone broadcaster. Here you simply record the voice mail message no longer than 3045 seconds and upload it either into your own autodialer of a webbased company and import your list of telephone numbers.

When ordering your numbers look for numbers that have been scrubbed against the “Do Not Call List” or DNC so you are in compliance with the privacy laws of the U.S.

The autodialer then dials out each phone number and delivers your sales message directing them to your website or to press a predefined number to connect with you or a phone message system. Should you use this strategy it’s good to order lists that are 31 to 60 days old and blast 1000 or so at a time. Phone dialers can rapidly deliver your message and run through your list very fast.

Word of caution: Be ready for a surge of incoming calls immediately following a phone blast.

There are many variations to use the strategies mentioned in this article. Some employ the use of all while others use on one of these methods. The most important thing to remember is to always test small before your roll out in a big way. I hope this helps.

About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;Merudh Patel is an online marketing entrepreneur from NJ who is studying at Rutgers University at the moment and successfully mentoring others to achieve success in internet marketing using the best online opportunity Cash Gifting.Visit his website: MyCashRevolution.com

Web Traffic Techniques You Can Use Right Now For 2006

As you probably know getting web traffic to your site is one of the three most crucial components to making any money online. In Mark Joyner’s Internet Intelligence Manuscript Volume II he clearly explains how any web traffic not just “targeted traffic” can be made profitable by mentally framing or conditioning your visitors to become receptible to your offer.

One of the easiest ways to mentally reframe your visitors upon entry to your site is to walk them through a threestep process that:

A Grabs their immediate attention with a promise of benefitB PreQualifies them before they get to your sales letterC Follows up with them over time with new content and reminders of your offer

Keep in mind web traffic is just one component of the three required to sustain sales.

The other two are:

1. Testing new advertising campaigns and ad copy2. Tracking and keeping records of your results from each campaign

Here’s an example case study of the threestep process…

On December 16th 2005 my book “The Instant Traffic Formula 2006″ was released to teach internet entreprenuers how to create attract and monetize responsive web traffic to any web site or affiliate program. As of today my web site which uses the exact techniques taught in the book is averaging a 64.86 visitortolead conversion and an average sales conversion ranging from 4.69 up to 11.36 allaround from the redirect which is currently netting me just over 1.48 per unique visitor to my site.

Again these statistics do not take followups into account. These are “straightoutofthegate” type sales that occur within minutes of my visitors signing up to read my sales letter.

And you can do this too.

I follow a simple formula to create web traffic qualified leads responsive subscribers loyal customers and even active affiliates who promote anything and everything I sell online.

You can sum up the entire formula into the three major components I mentioned above and create a failproof success system for your products services and affiliate programs. After you’ve activated the formula the best way to keep the momentum of traffic leads and sales coming in on a consistent and even predictable basis is in three words…

What those three words are and how to use them by combining eight other powerful elements is carefully documented inside my book. But here’s the process I used personally on my site:

1. My visitor is directed through a tracking link or affiliate link to a lead capture page called a “Name Squeeze” where prospects give their contact information in order to get details of my report.

2. Upon submitting their contact information they are immediately directed to my sales page for the details and offer for the Instant Traffic Formula Scientific Marketing Report.

3. My followup autoresponder system immediately sends them an email reminding them of my offer giving a few testimonials of the report and sends them a link to check it out at another time. A few days later they receive reminders of my offer more quality feedback of my report new articles and content about getting web traffic and again links back to my sales letter.

The lead capture page serves to “prequalify” visitors who actually want to read my sales letter to find out more about my offer. I’ve heard a lot of people claim many visitors and sales can be lost by forcing your prospects to “do something” before they get to your offer but my direct experimentation and results show the majority 64.86 of visitors who hit my site sign up.

Once my visitors sign up they become leads and are set into my autoresponder system to receive consistent followups until they buy or unsubscribe.

Thankfully the autoresponder service I use allows me to easily direct my new subscribers to a custom “Thank You” page. Most web marketers still use the “default” thank you page and their subscribers are returned to a “thanks for subscribing now close the window” type message. Useless.

My thank you page redirects to a tested sales letter that continues the mental conditioning process by giving indirect answers to questions that were created in the mind of my prospects upon reading and signing up from my Name Squeeze.

Now that my three elements are together I combine them with “CII” or the three most powerful words in all of marketing and achieve phenomenal and consistent results over time.

Using just this part of the formula alone can cause a massive shift in your bottom line. However when the complete formula is both discovered and activated you’ll have a direct funnel to bring money “out of thin air” to you whenever you like and for whatever you want.

Do this. Think of something you’d like to have.

Anything. It can be anything. Don’t limit yourself.

A new car a new house a nice expensive necklace for a loved one anything.

Now put a price on it.

That’s your goal. Your intention.

Write it down.

Next get out a calculator and punch in the price of what you want.

Divide that number by the price for whatever item you want to sell.

Round up to the nearest whole number and you’ve got a definite number.

This number equals the amount of sales you’ll need to get your wish.

Now use the formula described in this article and funnel the correct amount of sales into your business by getting the traffic prequalifying them and going for the sale using CII to guide you along every step of the way until you reach your desired number of sales.

Once the sales you’ve accumulated equal your desired amount you get your wish.

Try it for yourself and see the power in this technique to create anything you want.

Above all stay focused… keep the momentum… and enjoy your prosperity in the new year!

About the writer:  Author:Jimsun Lui of Agog Digital Marketing Strategy Ltd an SEO company offers SEO service including Chinese SEO service.