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"Growth hacking is the creative use of low cost methods to recruit a small base of enthusiastic customers as unpaid Ambassadors to fuel buzz about their product."

"Growth hacking is the creative use of low cost methods to recruit a small base of enthusiastic customers as unpaid Ambassadors to fuel buzz about their product."

Most website owners rely on quick website tweaks and the right tools for measurable website success. That's not wrong but that's also not enough. Being serious about business, a webmaster must get links to get additional exposure via search engines, of course predominantly Google. Google still judges a website mostly based on the number and quality of links pointing to it (backlinks). So even today you got to get links, be it via outstanding content, viral campaigns or just conventional link building. Still most people do not take all the measures easily available on the Web today. Some have been around for ages, others just popped up recently. Check the 30 easiest ways to get links and exposure.

Contrary to popular belief, e-cigarettes are a safer substitute to conventional smoking. A new study has identified chemicals in the vapors of e-cigarettes that can damage cells in a way that can cause cancer. For more info take a look at this: http://bit.ly/1YQ04mX

For someone who is new to transferring money across borders, this may seem like a challenge at first. International transactions have many complexities, unlike local transactions. Cross-border transactions generally require the communication of two or more financial institutions with different systems and procedures. All of them charge some sort of fee that the initiator of the transfer has to pay. Currency conversion is almost always required, which creates the need to know the current exchange rates. Intermediaries and even your trusted bank can sometimes seem to try to scam you on the exchange rate or fees. However, sending money abroad does not have to look like a minefield. Meeting a few simple criteria can make your transfers almost effortless. Goals and means People generally don't initiate money transfers in a frivolous way. You would have a very good reason to send money abroad. Depending on the reason, you will know how much you need to send and when. Like most other actions, an international transfer is initiated with the end goal in mind. For example, if the requirement is to pay for the higher education of a young family member, your goal will be a specific amount (semester fees) and a specific schedule (deadline). Based on the exchange rate, you would calculate the amount you need in your local currency. You must then add the amount that your bank or other services would charge and arrive at a total. Determine the duration of the transfer (say, four days). Count down from there and you will have your date sent. Easy! The cost of convenience Common online channels for international wire transfers are banks, card payments and independent money transfer services. There are usually several channels for medium and regular transfers, each with advantages and disadvantages. Fewer channels are available for very large or urgent transfers. The choice of channel largely depends on the requirement. For example, suppose you live abroad and send money to pay

The decentralized applications space is dominated by two categories, such as DeFi (Decentralized Finance) and Gaming. This holds true for blockchains such as Ethereum and EOS. Decentralized Finance has been making waves in the past several months after the surge in platforms and products that offer DeFi services. It is a conventional financial that is built on the blockchain- specifically Ethereum. These are open-source protocols or modular frameworks that help create and issue digital assets and provide improved access to financial services.

Microformats are easy conventions (known as entities) used on web content to explain a particular sort of data. Microformats use the category attribute in hypertext markup language tags (often or ) to assign temporary and descriptive names to entities and their properties and vcard, hcard, span class tag to define CreativeWork, Organization, Event, music, Person, Place and Product.

Sometimes a small business just doesn't have the financial resources to grow.

Sometimes a small business just doesn't have the financial resources to grow.

In the first episode of MOOCs and online courses we discussed the advent of online courses. We also discussed the basic features one needs to employ in order to build an app that replaces conventional classroom teaching. In the sequel to the same we will discuss the more complicated features and the future of these applications.