Give Yourself Reasons Why You Can

Negative thoughts and negative talks affect our brain and our ability to perform even simple tasks.

Giving in to the reasons why you can’t is a form of a self-imposed stress. Instead of giving yourself reasons why you can’t, give yourself reasons why you can.

For most of us it is very easy to spend our energy in comparing ourselves to others and common standards.

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For a change, acknowledge your uniqueness and abilities. Nurture what is best in you. Go and fulfill your dream.

Here is a popular short story of Monty Roberts. You may have already read or heard about this story, still it is good to read it again as it can teach or remind us of valuable life lessons.

Infographic: How To Prepare For Calamities

manny catabas / originally posted 3 days ago at EC Mobile Solutions

Infographic guide on how to prepare for calamities such as tropical typhoon, earthquake and terrorism. Three calamitous events that hit the Philippines recently, just weeks ahead of each other.

Disaster Recovery Reverse Engineering: From The Cloud To The Ground

by manny catabas / 20 hours ago / originally posted at ecmobilesolutions.com

The Philippines was recently been hit by a triple whammy – terrorism, earthquake and tropical storm, in that order. All with dire consequences for businesses and lives. All occurring just weeks ahead of each other.

These events may have occurred in different places, but the intensity of each is almost the same in magnitude – whole cities or provinces were desolated; The effects and consequences for businesses: prolonged work stoppages.

Except for the terrorism, these natural phenomenon are a regular occurrence.  The Philippines is situated in the so-called Pacific Rim of Fire, together with Japan, Vietnam and China in the Western Pacific. It extends up to the Eastern Pacific where the US West Coast is located running down the whole length of the Pacific rim of Central and South America. Within this region tropical storms and earthquakes are to be expected at any time (another is volcanic eruption), sometimes with the kind of magnitude that is immensely devastating.

How To Build Your Free Web Presence

This post is related to my previous post on "More Than a Storage, You Can Turn Your Cloud Storage Into ECommerce Platform". Here I will give a concrete example of how to have a free web presence (that is if you opt not to hire the services of a web developer or designer). Otherwise you will have to settle for the very inexpensive option.

First thing to do is open a free Dropbox account. If you already have one which I would presume is positive, then check your storage capacity. Though your web capacity does not require so much amount of space, I suggest you leave at least 250 MB reserved for this purpose.

Next step is register you dropbox account with Site44. Register with your Dropbox account. Then give your consent for Site44 for access to your Dropbox file. Do not worry as Site44 will only create a folder named site44 and this is the only folder Site44 will have access to.

Once the folder site44 is created in your dropbox files, go back to Site44 and give your web site its name. If you do not want to pay for a domain name, then you have to settle for a website address as yourwebsitename.site44.com.

Now your web site infrastructure is established. You now have a domain host (Site44) and a web server (Dropbox). For a web site that is meant only for display these are all what you need. Now let's build your web site.

Remember you prefer to work on your own and there is no web developer nor designer working for you. So how do you do it?

There are thousands of free templates  available in the internet provided by very nice people who only want their name or company retained in the code. I think that is a fair deal. Select a free web template (a sample site that offers free templates can be found here) from hundreds of templates that suits your taste. Download your selected template to your computer not yet on your Dropbox folder. Since your Dropbox folder is synchronizing what ever you save there.

After you have made your selection comes the tricky part - modifying the template for your own web site. You are not a web developer nor a web designer, again you ask the question how do I do it? Simple. These templates include instructions or notes on what items have to be edited for your own purpose. So it is really easy to modify them. There is no need to modify everything.

Ok, let's see how you could modify these templates for your own use. For this you will need a tool web developers use. I recommend Kompozer. This is a free developer tool. With this tool you have a choice how to edit your web site code - in developers view or graphic view. In graphic view you can see how your web site will look like and you can perform your editing here. What You See Is What You Get (WYSIG) in our developer language. Yes, instantly you see what your web site will look like while you are editing the template.

After finishing your editing and you are already satisfied with what you have done, copy the entire folder where you have saved your template to your Dropbox folder created by Site44. After Dropbox finished uploading your finished template, it will synchronize with Site44.

You now have a website of your own without spending a single cent.

If you are still having a problem on how to do this, just send me an email and let us talk how I can help you, or contact my company, EC Mobile Solutions. We offer this kind of services for the small business. Please click on this link for more information.

On my next post, we will tackle how you can turn your website into an inexpensive ecommerce web site. So you will not only have a web site that is a marketing tool but a sales tool as well.

Do Not Forget the Feature Phone In Your Mobile Strategy

The mobile technology may be revolutionizing the way consumers behave online. Smartphones may be selling briskly all over the world. A new era in digital communication and commerce is dawning.

There is no doubt that consumers today are more mobile. In some countries, the number of mobile device may be at par with the nation's population. This phone density has never happened to the telephone. The reason is that mobile infrastructure is more cost effective than a land line structure.

In the Philippines, getting a mobile phone is easier than getting a land line. This despite the telephone's head start of almost a century. Well, that's what innovations are for any way. And mobile technology has really benefited so many people.

With the advent of this new technology comes the way people live with it. The growth of mobile devices is staggering that it has created a new era. The PC era has really ended.

Western nations are leading the way with how to create opportunities with this new phenomenon. Apple store recently awarded its 50th Billion downloader of its apps. Fifty billion downloads, Wow! You can just imagine how much business there is in mobile apps. Thus, many companies are riding to this extravaganza. Mobile commerce is included in their marketing strategies now.

This may be true in the western side of the world and in some industrialized countries in Asia. But how about those in the developing world?

In a recent article by BBC News, use of feature phone in developing countries is still quite a number to reckon with. They are still part of the demography any marketer has to consider. And the functionality of the smart phones like payment gateways are not preferred by the users of these kind of phones. It is to be expected, any technology in its beginning has to consider the behavior and acceptance of the consumer. It will take time for everyone to adjust or adopt to changes. This is not new. Always this must be included in every marketer's consideration.

Based on the graph provided by BBC News it will still take about four to five years before smart phones will be at par with feature phones. Still, even though these users may belong to a demographic group that is not a marketer's preference, still they are consumers your company has to reach out to.