Hey Mister Taxi Driver, I Thought You Were Meant To be a Businessman!

May 9, 2008 – 12:39 am
We all love to hate taxi drivers, but at some point in our lives we all have to unfortunately use their quality service! Maybe quality isn’t quite the right word to use.

I will personally do anything I can to avoid them, when I have a night out which involves alcohol, I will try my best to persuade my wife that drinking too much alcohol isn’t very good for her latest dieting regime, and the result is I have the driving situation sorted out.

I suppose I just find them the most annoying, obnoxious, dumb, arrogant drivers out there. I would like to know when they were given their own version of the Highway Code. Also I can’t quite understand why so many of them haven’t figured out how to use a shower and what a bar of soap is used for.

Oh why do their employers allow them to drive in such a disgusting state, and the self employed ones, what sort of business are you trying to run.

I thought I had seen it all as far as taxi drivers were concerned, but alas even I was amazed this week. I had just left visiting my dad, when I watched an 80-year-old woman get wheeled to the taxi by her equally old friend. Her friend opens the door of the lazy Bstards taxi and politely askes the driver if he can put the wheelchair in the boot for her friend.

A simple enough request you would think, he was a self employed taxi driver so you would think, he would do his best to endear himself to his customers, the words, repeat business springs to mind and recommendations, about 100 old people stay in the complex he was at. Not this great businessman, he arrogantly tells her she will have to do it herself, its too heavy for him. Now this taxi driver was no athlete, but he was 40 years younger and she was paying for his taxi service.

I did what any half decent person would do I lifted the wheelchair into the boot of his vehicle. I thought about denting the Kia People carrier, I bet that would have made the dimwit move fast. (I know he wishes it were a Chrysler, hey learn some manners, decency and get some brains and you never know). I then quietly told him what he was, a dumb, lazy, asshole.

Lets see the proper way to do it. I would have woke up in the morning and then had a shower, used some shower gel, brushed my teeth, put on some clean clothes. I would have started my day, with some positivity, if you are reading this Mr taxi drivers, the following article it will help you start your working day

Taxi drivers here is a simple lesson in how to run a quality service! I would have been out the car waiting on the old dears, I would have smiled, helped them both into the car, gladly put the wheelchair in the car. When I had taken them to the hospital, I would have asked them if they required me to come back for them. If yes great more business, If not I would given them some business cards and then  politely asked them if they could recommend me to their friends. Now I would imagine, from the old folks complex where he picked her up and driven her to the hospital, the fare would be about £15 one way, not bad for 10 mins or so driving.

I suppose the problem is that most taxi drivers are just plain old dumb and haven’t got a much of a clue about providing a quality service or how to run a business properly! Taxi drivers quit cussing your customers, drive with manners and learn some basic personal hygiene. You will be more successful and life will treat you better!

Here are some nice places you can recommend for your tourist customers , remember be nice to them, they are paying you, they are doing you the favour by getting in your cab, not the other way around! A Must visit Scottish City, Town, village, Beach and Castle.

Or what about some Caribbean travel tips that you could impress your customers with as you drive them to the airport for their trip  7 Caribbean Travel Tips

 

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Internet Business Ideas That Create a Profit Funnel

May 7, 2008 – 10:18 pm
In this world, one simple idea can bring an enormous stockpile of wealth to your life. A large number of billionaires become wealthy due to a creative idea that sets them apart from the rest of the world. So ideas create wealth, and in the world of internet business, ideas are important as well. Therefore, in this article, you will learn the most important internet business ideas that will pile some guaranteed income into your pocket.

The first and most important of many internet business ideas that you can use involves a certain strategic way to build your email list. In this method, you will not just collect your visitor’s name and email address, but you will survey your visitor at the same time. Therefore, you are knocking down two important stones at one time. You are building an extremely responsive email list, and at the same time you are doing some heavy market research. This is one of the most powerful internet business ideas because it allows you to hit a home run with your business every time you send out an email promotion to your list. Remember this, if you know what your subscribers needs and desires are, then you can effectively market to them and generate optimal profits.

Now most internet business ideas from now on should revolve around this one major phrase known as web 2.0. When I speak of web 2.0, I am making reference to all of the social community, wikis, and content hosting sites that allow you to interact with other users. One great idea for your business is to choose 3 to 5 of these web 2.0 properties and commit to marketing in these properties daily. If you add fresh content daily, and get actively involved within the 3 to 5 web 2.0 sites you join, then you should see some very significant traffic results within 3 to 4 weeks of starting. If you want to put this step in hyperdrive, you can just funnel all of your traffic from your web 2.0 sources to the special email opt in page we mentioned above as the first idea.

For a simple and  low cost ecommerce business venture take a look at eBooks as a Business Opportunity, How to Make Your Own

What is the secret to becoming a millionaire find out here Can Anybody Become a Millionaire, What is the Secret Formula.

 

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How To Find Online Business Ideas And Opportunities

May 7, 2008 – 10:07 pm
If you have been itching to start your own small business but not sure how to  start, business ideas and opportunities are to be found everywhere.This article explains a few things about small business ideas, and if you’re interested, then keep on reading, you may pick up something new.

The most obvious Internet businesses are ones such as the travel industry or any kind of consulting or the  marketing of goods of any description.

You can scour the Internet for all sorts of different small business ideas and opportunities. So with all these home based business ideas available online, how can you decide which one is good for you? Finding business ideas is easy enough.

It’s more important to make it clear to yourself why you want to take the jump! And that you really have the motivation to go through the somewhat chaotic start up phase.

Outside of monetary gain, it can be rather hard for some people to come up with a few good ideas as to why they should leave the secure world of an employment.

Once you’re sure you want to go for it, there are a plethora of home business ideas that you can consider. However, if your idea of easy home business ideas, means ideas that you should be able to make money without a lot of effort, then your search for the perfect business idea will never end.

There are plenty of home based business ideas to choose from depending on your hobbies, interests and experiences.You need a business that will work, and that will provide you a solid long-term income.

An online Legend and an amazing success story “Shoemoney” lists his biggest failures My Top 10 Worst Ideas To Make Money

Before you invest in any online business opportunity this is a must read article How To Spot if a Business Opportunity is a Scam

 

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I’m Watching the Council Workers, Only £27 Million in Debt!

May 6, 2008 – 11:42 pm
As I normally do first thing in the morning, I take my prize Staffi for her 30 minutes of chasing after her ball at  the local park; she hasn’t become pure muscle, without lots of exercise.

Yesterday was a local bank holiday and the sun had been shining, so I can imagine the nearby ghetto people had a wonderful afternoon eating junk food and boozing it up at the park. Well I could tell they had, carrier bags filled with rubbish and the dozens of empty beer cans, which littered the main grassy area, were I suppose a dead give away! The place was a mess, much like the way most of them, look after their houses. The worst thing was, there are countless bins, they would have only had to walk 50 feet to find them, I know it’s far, a wee bit too far!

As I approached the park, I beheld a wondrous site, 2 council trucks and about 8 council workers working hard! I fooled you!  They were of course standing talking and having a laugh, for at least 30 minutes, (god only knows what time the business meeting had started) they then jumped into their trucks and disappeared. You may ask what about the mountains of rubbish they were standing next too, nah that isn’t their job!

Old woman walking her dog appears, she picks up the rubbish and puts it in the bins! She wasn’t even wearing gloves!

5 minutes later a one of those council grass cutters appears, you know the ones; they walk around with a wheelbarrow with a flymo it in. He does what any good council worker does; he finds the nearest seat, sits down and spends the next 15 minutes writing his latest novel. The sun must have been in his eyes, so he gets up and cuts some grass for 5 minutes, or about 5 throws of my dog’s ball. He then heads to the seat at the other side of the park and you guessed it sits down and gets back to his real job, writing the novel.

I wouldn’t have really minded too much, but the bastard was sitting in my seat, its tough work throwing the ball for such a long time, I like to have a wee seat before I leave the park. I thought he wont be too long, so I did some overtime in the hope that he wouldn’t sit down for too long, l through the ball for a further 15 minutes, it didn’t look like he was going to move in a hurry, his novel or maybe it’s a blog, was more important than working. I had to get home to the office to do some work!

If you haven’t heard the council in Aberdeen is only £27 million in debt, they are closing schools, sports centres, the ice rink; the roads are full of potholes. I suppose driving hear is going to be good practise for when I move to Barbados!

If any private business were to be operated like some councils are, we all know they wouldn’t be in business for very long. I have heard the stories about council inefficiency and corruption, haven’t we all!  The only thing that surprises me is that they are only £27 million in debt; of course it isn’t their fault!

I would love to hear some of your stories about lazy council working practices and corruption!  The story goes, once upon a time, in Aberdeen, if you were a blond female and worked within Aberdeen leisure you would go far! Or if you were a freemason and you were not  too bright you would go far, the second one hasn’t really changed!

For all you hard working council workers out there that are meant to working hard,  here is some motivation for all your hard work 10 Inspirational Travel Quotations, Which Will Get You on the Next Plane Out of Here!

Or what about some nice places to visit while you are meant to be working 10 Must Visit Places In Scotland That Everyone Should Visit

 

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5 Simple But Very Effective Self Defence Techniques That Really Do Work!

May 5, 2008 – 3:13 pm

I don’t know about you, but I don’t go out looking for trouble, I don’t go out with the intention of robbing someone of their money. It seems that these days you cannot pick up a newspaper, without reading about some innocent person that has being beaten up or mugged just because they happened to be walking down the wrong street at the wrong time. The bottom line is, I work hard for my money, and if I can help it, knowbody is going to mug me. I get up off my ass and do what most decent people do, I work, I don’t expect something for nothing, I don’t go out trying to take something that is not mine, I don’t go out and pick fights because I have nothing better to do. If someone attacks me, they better be prepared to suffer the consequences, and you know what, nine times out of ten, they are crying like babies when the devil stares them in face, and pays them a visit.

We have the right to defend ourselves from the dregs of society, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair before him; don’t seem to really care about street crime. They live in there nice ivory towers and are oblivious to what is actually happening in the real world. They obviously have bigger things to deal with, such as an American oil war in Iraq. Good riddens Gordon Brown and the Labour party, see what happens when you lose touch with the people.

Self-defence isn’t about going out and attacking someone just because they looked at you the wrong way or you didn’t like the colour of their shoes. It’s about protecting yourself, in some cases its about saving your life. Self-defence is what you do to keep yourself safe, and in control of your choices.

I was involved in kickboxing for many years and have had to defend myself on a few occasions, so I have discovered what really does work. To defend yourself, you don’t need to know how to do a jumping spinning hook kick, even a martial arts expert knows that you would have to be crazy to use stuff like that in a real situation.

My advice to you, is if there are multiple assailants or they have a weapon, you should to try and get away, or give them what they want just hand over your wallet, it isnt worth your life, Or if they are intent on beating you make as much noise as you can, if you cant escape.

I would advise you to practise these techniques with a friend, 15 minute a couple of times a week, will do wonders if you have to use them for real. Be very careful when practising; do not practise with full force and without proper control. It isn’t my fault if you take your friends eye out or maim them.

5 Simple Self Defence Techniques

The best thing you can do if you feel you are about to me attacked or if you feel threatened, is to strike first, don’t wait to be hit first. Cause a distraction, say something really stupid, such as point somewhere and shout very loud, what about Steven over there, then launch one of the moves below, make sure they are within striking distance when you cause the this distraction.

1. Striking the Eyes or Throat, Put index and third finger together, curl others to palm. Do NOT hyperextend your fingers, merely hold them rigid. Strike (think like a spear) straightforward into the eye or right above the hollow of the throat. Don’t strike directly into the hollow, strike about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch above it. (Note: you can also strike these points using only the thumb). One of the most simple, but most effective self-defensive techniques out there. I have personally used this to great effect on more than one occasion. After this they are at your mercy and can make a get away! If you wish!

2. Gif Lemon Juice, I always keep a squeezy bottle of Gif lemon juice in my car, I can have it in my hand and ready to quirt in someone’s eyes in about 2 seconds. If you don’t think this would work, go and get your friend to try it on you!

3. Groin Attack, depending on your position to the assailant, you can use knee, feet hands, I know how effective this technique is, both from using it and having received it.

4. Knee Attack, A hard kick to the kneecap will be very effective. Depending on your position, if they are standing in front of you, use the ball of your foot and drive it into the knee, if they are to the side of you, lift your foot and drive it into them from a sideways angel. Kicking an assailant in the knee, isn’t as simple as it seems, its easy to miss or lose balance, you must practise this if you want to use it with confidence.

5. Coins, Carry a about a £1 in loose change in your pocket, and throw them with full force in your assailants face. This will hurt a lot and will stop them  in their tracks. If someone tells you this wont work, ask to demonstrate it on him or her! It only takes 1 second to execute this technique.

If you ever have to use any of these techniques in a real life situation, don’t hang around and try to restrain them until the police turn up, if you have a few spare hour to wait that’s fine. Just get the hell out of there, you don’t want to wait the criminal to get back up and try to attack you again.

These techniques do work, but it all depends on you and your assailant, they won’t work against everyone. If you are unlucky and your attacker is a highly skilled street thug, you will have problems. I have seen guys that have never trained in anything in their life; beat the hell out of professional boxers and MMA trained fighters.

 

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Finding Your Motivation in Life

May 4, 2008 – 4:25 pm

I personally feel that one of the biggest obstacles, which prevents us from succeeding, is motivation. If you have problems with motivation, or staying motivated I strongly suggest you find a way to change the way you think. The following syndicated article defiantly provides some answers as to how you can stay motivated and rise to whatever challenges you are faced with.

What is motivation? The dictionary describes it as “the act of giving somebody a reason or incentive to do something” or “a feeling of enthusiasm, interest or commitment that makes somebody want to do something”. So, motivation can be the reason you do something or the feeling that makes you want to do something. Finding your motivation in life is about finding a reason to succeed and about creating and nurturing the feelings that make you want to be successful. When a person has gone through a tragedy, such as losing a loved one, sometimes they struggle with finding the motivation to get out of bed in the morning. Once you have found your true motivation there will be no circumstance that can stop you from wanting to get out of bed, in fact, the things that might be considered tragedies or setbacks to someone else will only make you try harder to succeed.

Think about two runners competing in a race for a moment. Both of them are about the same height, weight and have about the same degree of muscle tone. Each of them has trained equally hard and pushed his physical body to the limit during practices and competitions throughout the year. Now imagine for a moment that one of these runners has just lost a loved one. It was his grandmother who had raised him since his mother left when he was just two years old. His grandmother always told him to do his very best. The runners take their marks and this runner pictures his grandmother cheering him on. He wants to win this race to honour her memory. Which runner do you think will win the race? The runner with the greatest motivation will surely win, every time. It would not matter if he had a pulled muscle, headache or any other challenge that day. His motivation is so great that it will overcome anything that stands in his way.

Each and every person has something or someone that motivates him or her. Some people find their motivation in wanting to make the most of the gifts they feel their creator endowed them with. Other people find it in the love of their children. For some it is their own sense of contentment and satisfaction. Some people are motivated by money or power and others by feelings of love and commitment. Every person is unique in their talents and abilities, as well as their motivation to use their gifts successfully. A person who is not doing anything with their life or at least not achieving any level of success may think that they just don’t have any motivation, but this is usually not true. Sometimes it just takes a little work to uncover it. Many people do waste their lives away and never know their purpose or their motivation, but this does not have to be your choice.

Within each person lies the ability to succeed and find satisfaction, fulfilment and purpose in their lives. Taking the time to think about and uncover your hidden motivation can be the difference between a life of purpose and happiness and one of just survival. Your success begins the moment you make the decision to go after it.

For those of you who are struggling to stay motivated to continue as a blogger, read this great little article, which may just help you to regain your motivation Tips To Stay Motivated In Blogging

 

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Dream the Dream, Then All You Have To Do Is Believe, Achieve, Succeed

May 4, 2008 – 2:40 pm

Can success in life really be as simple as my title suggests, I haven’t personally reached the stage in my life where I can lay my beach towel down on crane beach in Barbados and lie back and relax knowing that I have succeeded with my life. I’m at the stage where I’m dreaming the dream and I sure as hell believe that I’m going to succeed. I suppose at the present time, I’m stuck at the achieving part of the great plan to become successful. It has taken me decades of working in a variety of jobs, to come to the conclusion that being a slave to a wage isn’t what I want my life to be about.

Being told what I have to do, or when I can have my lunch break, or when I can or can’t have my holidays, or how much of a pay rise I deserve, is not how I want to live my life anymore. That was the reason I quit my job and decided it was time to fend for myself. The time had come for me to be in control of my own destiny.

I had been dreaming the dream for a number of years, of working for myself and quitting the rate race in the UK and heading to the sun, but I was lacking the spark or the courage to do something about it. Having a secure job with a reasonable wage, 6 weeks holidays a year and a good pension, was a big chain around my neck. As much as I hated working for the boss man, I couldn’t free myself.

But I started to open up my mind and dared to dream the dream, there were those, and still are those people, that will tell you that dreams are fantasy and will never come true. That’s why the dreams of those people can never come true, they don’t believe in the dream.

It really is as simple as the heading of this article states, but you also have to put a lot of commitment, effort and time, into making the dream become a reality. Anyone can do it, you can control your own destiny, and it’s up to ourselves which path we choose to go down.

The day I started writing this blog and received my first reader and then made my first $1 dollar from it, was pure inspiration for me, it was the start of the dream. The second part of my dream, which was quitting the rate race in the UK, is about to come true, as I head to the Caribbean. Also receiving my first client for one of the business, which I’m going to be running in Barbados was another step closer to making my 2 million dollar bills. (What I will be making from the deal was the equivalent of 4 months wages, that I use to earn in the UK),

My advise to anybody out there that hates their job, hates the  boss or has had enough of the rat race, or for whatever reason they are unhappy in life. Do something about it; don’t be  like all those whingers around you, that are happy and content to moan about how much they hate life, rather than put the same effort into doing something constructive to change things.

You have to begin by dreaming the dream.

Read my article about Escaping the Rat Race in Scotland, Just Do it!

Sometime some of us develop bad habits, which we allow to manifest within ourselves and as result of this we are literally holding ourselves back!  7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People

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The Intriguing Story of D.B Cooper, $20 Million Dollars Required To Make the Movie!

May 3, 2008 – 2:51 pm

I feel that it is about time a cutting edge movie was made of the infamous tale of D.B. Cooper the plane hijacker! I am offering my services to anybody out there who has got around $20 Million Dollars to invest in the project. I will develop a script and put together a team of up and coming actors and directors to film the movie. Like most of the movie going public I’m sick to death of seeing the same old boring actors and actresses in the movies. Message to the big movies studios out there don’t waste your next $20 million dollars on that clown Tom Cruise, or that boring twat George Clooney. They are not worth it.

D.B Cooper (aka Dan Cooper) on the 24th of November 1971 hijacked a Boeing 727-100 and threatened to blow up the airliner, if his demands were not met. All he wanted was $200,000 from the planes owners Northwest Orient.

The intriguing tale begins at Portland International Airport where Dan Cooper boarded a flight heading to Seattle, Washington. Soon after the jet had taken off, he handed a note to a young flight attendant named Florence Schaffner. The girl had thought he was just giving her, his phone number, so she casually slipped it into her pocket. He leaned forward and told her that she better read the note because he had a bomb.

The note he had given her simply said, “I have a bomb in my briefcase I will use it if necessary. I want you to sit next to me you are being hijacked”. The note also placed demands for $200,000, in unmarked $20 bills, and two sets of parachutes. His note carried the instructions for the items to be delivered to the when the planed when it landed at Seattle, Tacoma airport.

The plane flew in a holding pattern around the airport while the FBI formulated another one of their infamous master plans! Dan Cooper casually sat in the plane drinking bourbon whisky and soda, while he waited for his demands to be met. As far as hijackers go Cooper was seemingly the perfect host, he was pleasant to all and requested that the crew were to be brought meals upon landing.

Upon the arrival of his ransom demands at the airport Dan Cooper ordered the plane to land, and a few minutes after his items arrived at the plane, he promptly released the passengers.

Once the aircraft was refuelled and upon carefully examination of the ransom and parachutes. The plane took off around 19.40 and the crew were then ordered to fly the plane to Mexico, at a relatively low speed of 170 knots and at an altitude of 10,000 feet and under, with the landing gear down. There was a very good reason for Dan Coopers flying plan, an unpressurized cabin at 10,000 feet would curtail the risk of a sudden rush of air and ease the opening of the planes pressure door, for the subsequent parachute attempt.

Soon after take off at around 20.13 over the southwestern portion of the state of Washington, D.B Cooper lowered the rear airstair of the plane and jumped out never to seen or heard of again. He has virtually vanished without trace, at the time Cooper jumped from the plane, it was flying through a heavy rainstorm, with no light source coming from the ground due to cloud coverage. Because of the poor visibility, his descent went unnoticed by the USA Air Force F-106 jet fighter tacking the airliner.

To this date his precise landing zone remains a mystery, a extremely thorough 18 day search of the projected landing zone in 1971 brought no trace of Cooper, the money or his parachute. The never get anything wrong FBI concluded that it would have been impossible for Cooper to know exactly where he was going to land, and therefore must not have had an accomplice waiting to assist him upon landing. Another 6-week search was conducted in April 1972 with 400 troops from nearby Fort Lewis and again no evidence or existence of Cooper was found.

The first piece of evidence relating to the hijacking, was found in late 1978, when a placard which contained the instructions on how to lower the aft stairs of the 727 from which cooper parachuted from, were found by a hunter just a few flying minutes time north of Cooper’s projected drop zone. In February 10 1980 a total of 294 of the $20 bills which cooper had escaped with were found still wrapped in their rubber bands, 40 feet from the river on the banks of the Columbian river 5 miles northwest of Vancouver, Washington.

The question is did he survive or did he die, the crime was quite simply perfect if he lived and simply crazy if he didn’t. Some say he lived, and is living the good life in Mexico or slipped back into normal society and laughs at the FBI’s inability to find any trace of him.

Paramount, Warner Brothers, Disney or anybody with lots of money and sense contact me and lets make the project a reality. What I’m planning to isn’t too hard, i.e. write a great script, get together a group of up and coming and unknown but very talented actors and actresses, and of course make a great movie. But when you look at how easily the movie moguls waste obscene amounts of money on pure crap, my offer isn’t so far fetched that It cant become reality.

If you have the vision, the money and the foresight to be a part of this project, get back to me.

 

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How To Use Digg To Get More Traffic

May 2, 2008 – 5:13 pm

Digg offers great potential for any blogger to increase the readership levels of their blog. Because I’m fairly new to Digg and just beginning to understand how I can make it work for me, I have decided to feature an article which I feel explains it perfectly. Read on if you would like to become part the social media phenomenon that has over 500,000 users and is growing at an amazing rate. I know its a long article but its worth reading!

 Before we get into details, here’s a quick note for beginners who don’t know what Digg is. For those of you who are already familiar with digg, you can skip this section.

 What is Digg ?

 Digg is a free “social media” website where the news on its pages is controlled by the community of users (over 500,000+ at this point of time). There is no central governing body that decides which news to report and which news makes it to the front page. The community of users submit the sorties and “vote” on them by clicking the “digg this” icons besides each story listed on its pages. Digg was originally for geeks only and had mostly technology related articles but has since grown to include a whole range of categories that cover almost any topic.

 If you are a blogger or a site that writes news stuff and is looking for extra traffic, you can possibly look at Digg to get this for you. It is difficult - and eventually only stories that are unique get large number of “votes” or “diggs” from the community of users and make it to the front page.

 If your blog post or story is unique and good enough, and the community picks it up and begins digging it - you can rest be assured that once you get to the front page you will get over 10,000 unique visitors to your site in one day… and that gradually tapers off in a few days. This is known as the “digg effect” and achieving this should be one of your goals.

 There are a  handful of ways to get on to the front page of Digg. These are power methods for power users” and I will discuss them below. I won’t go into the how to use Digg.com in detail. You can get that on the help area and FAQ area of the website… see the footer/bottom of the website, under the heading “all about digg”.

 Other Digg Clones

Before I begin, Digg has 2 main global competitors who have the same model - the all new ” [http://buzz.yahoo.com ]Yahoo Buzz, [http://www.propeller.com/ ]Propeller (previously known as Netscape) and [http://mixx.com ]Mixx. There are also countless numbers of digg type niche sites that focus on specific topics only - like [http://sphinn.com ]Sphinn that is a very popular digg clone for the online marketing community.

 So, if you have content that appeals to a niche audience hunt for the niche digg clone sites. You should also expand to  replicate your successful strategy on Yahoo Buzz, Propeller and Mixx.

 Making your strategy on Digg

 If you are new to Dig, then hang out around the site, for about a week and read and see how people are commenting and what kind of stories are getting popular. Participate in threaded comments and discussions.

  ”Just Make New Friends!”

 This is the key. You need to connect ot other users and thus have many friends on Digg. Why? Because, when you submit a story - you can invite your friends to Digg it. You can even legally setup a reciprocal digg exchange… “You digg my story, I digg your story”. You can do this by sending a private message, known as a “shout” to your friends. Just digg their story first and then tell them - I dugg you, please digg my story now … and include the link of your story that is on the digg site (not the offsite link that is on your website or blog).

 Another way you can invite them to digg, instead of shouting (private messaging) them - is by directly clicking  ”share this news” with all my friends link that appears under the story post on digg. This is quick but not as effective as a personal shout. Use it once you have over, say 200 friends on digg….

 Yes, you heard that right. 200 friends. That should be your target. Why? Simple, because you can invite them to digg your story. The more friends, the more diggs.

 Now, for the secret…

 There is a tool available that can automatically keep adding random f