The Internet and Time

The Internet

If you were to do a search today on Alexa of the top 100 websites in the U.S.A. ranked by traffic you would find that the following categories summarize what is most popular by online surfers. On the Ron Orr Blog, each of these categories will get their very own blog entry. We will take each concept, and tell you how to maximize each with Time Savings,Time Leverage, and how to avoid common Time Traps.

With e-mail we’ll go over web-based email, pop3, video e-mail, SPAM, and other email subcategories. With the concept of E-fax we will cover the companies E-fax, and Maxemail, and how they can save you a lot of time and money with instant results. Instant message, we will cover the messengers from MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, and other messenger services and why these services can save you a lot of time, and help make communication easier and more efficient. Online auctions, such as Ebay have remained popular over the years, and we’ll go over how you can save a lot of money as well as make money with this knowledge. Bookmarks, from personal bookmarks and favorites on your own computer’s browser, to popular social bookmark sites, we’ll tell you how these can be Time Savings Short Cuts, or they can help you gain more Marketing for your business by maximizing your Time Leverage.

Web 2.0 is probably the most explosive trend on the web today. It covers many topics from social networks, to social communicating. Blogs, with likely over 100 million different blogs already by the year 2008, it will be important to learn how to find the best, track the best, and to create your own blog, as well as adding plugins to improve your blog. E-books are a very popular format and platform to share writing; we’ll cover where to buy them. Search engines have been around since the beginning of the internet, but Google has really changed how often we use them, and how accurate it has become, we will do a post on Google and how to make money and save time all from this one search engine. Wiki’s, such as Wikipedia offer an online encyclopedia to research almost anything, and it offers contributions from the rest of the world, which helps it to exponentially grow. We’ll cover how to save time on this site and get your site noticed.

Mp3’s are quickly becoming the most popular format to listen to audio. I’ll get into how to use this with an Ipod to useTime Paralleling to your advantage. Social networks are part of the Web 2.0 revolution, with popular sites likeMyspace, Facebook, and Orkut, it’s important to understand how to use these communities to your networking advantage. Photo sharing sites like flikr and tagged, are becoming very popular for all friends and associates to view and share photos online. I’ll go over how to use this concept to your advantage when applying your time. Online videosites like YouTube and MetaCafe can be used to market your services online. Movie info from actors, to movie times are very popular online, Let me show you how to save time with this concept. With Online shopping I can tell you which sites are best to help you with your time when you find yourself shopping online. Personal websites, we’ll tell you how to get your own website up, so that you can spend your time Marketing your own website and brand, a great use of Time Leverage. Voip, there are now better ways to make phone calls, cheaper, more flexible, and open to communication around the world.

Webinars are a great way to get exposure for a business concept and a great use of Time Leverage. Domain names are needed to get your business online. There are ways to buy these domains cheap, ways to brand them, deciding which to choose, and how to make the most efficient use of your time in the process. Web hosting is important to understand when working your online business and your domain name, let me show you how to get this set up and where to go. Classified sites offer a great way to get your Marketing message out to the consumers and the online classified sites I use are free. Online news sites can help you to know what to invest your time in; I’ll show you how. Online games, generally games are just for leisure time, but I will try to explain how to work these online games to your advantage. Maps, I will tell you a few websites that have online mapping, and how to maximize the time savings with these.

Investment info, it’s always a great use of time to do your investment homework before investing, we’ll tell you where to look. Home info, I will tell you what you should look for when searching for a home to get a good price, by knowing what to look for, you’ll save a lot of time when looking at homes. Sports stats, along with online games, can be a leisure activity, I’ll show you how to make the most out of your time with this leisure activity. Message boards, if used correctly can teach you a lot about your desired subject, while saving you a lot of your time. Internet providers, which provider should you choose, dial-up, DSL, cable, etc. File sharing, with multi-media usage increasing every year, and email limiting the size of attachments, this is beginning to be more popular; I’ll show you how to use it to your advantage.

Articles, learn how to find the right articles written by experts to save you a lot of time, and answer your questions.Reviews, you determine which products are worth buying, which movies are worth seeing, where to spend your money and time. Online marketing, there is so much potential on the web these days with Classified sites and Web 2.0 to market your own business to gain exposure for it as well as make money with it, best of all, it’s a great use of Time Leverage. Affiliate programs are a great way to earn additional money online, I have joined nearly a thousand over just a few years, and I can tell you which to join, how to maximize profits, and efficiently use your time with the programs. Online payment processing, I’ll teach you how to pick a payment processor, that will save you money, time, and be automated with the use of direct deposit. Bookmark this page, as we will be adding other additional popular topics found on the internet to this page. Each post will not only teach you how each concept can work to your advantage, or how each can work against you; we will break it down in a time analogy language that can easily be understood.