Here’s Why You Need To Use Landing Pages

All the products that you want to sell online are ready.  You have already signed up with the Google Adsense program or with other affiliate marketing programs and you have already prepared the ad you want to post on your affiliate’s site.  Your mind is now set to being the next most successful online businessman.  But is there anything else that you might have forgotten to prepare?  Maybe none.  But how about your landing pages?  Are they all set for your business?

Landing pages are simply web pages where visitors are directed to whenever they click a result in a web search or whenever they click a web ad.  For affiliate marketing, landing pages would refer to the web page where you, as a merchant, would want your potential customer to be directed after clicking your ad on your affiliate’s website.  Landing pages are, at most times, nothing really different from other web pages in a particular website, especially if the said website is an e-commerce site.  Some online businessmen would even use the homepage of their websites as the landing page for their ads.  Are these businessmen making a big mistake?  Or should you follow their method in creating landing pages for their ads?

Well, you can always follow what most online retailers do, directing their potential customers to the homepages of their websites.  But if you want to achieve something more from your online business, and if you want to earn a lot of profits, you better create a special landing page for your web ads.  Why?  Here are a few reasons why you need to use landing pages for your web ads.  And take note, it would do you a lot better if you create a great landing page than a so-so one.

Reason no. 1: It is the only way you earn conversions in an affiliate marketing program.

There are a variety of affiliate marketing programs today, but most of these programs let the merchant pay the affiliate in a pay per click basis.  Basically, all you have to do is sign up with the program and submit your ad.  The program owner would then distribute your ad to various affiliates who would then place your ad on their websites.  Whenever your ad is clicked, a visitor would be directed to your landing page and you would have to pay the affiliate for his service.

As a merchant, you earn in an affiliate program through conversions—that is whenever a visitor that is directed to your site actually buys a product on your site.  Without these conversions, you actually earn nothing from the program.  Also, the more visitors that your affiliates have directed to your site, the larger would your expense be.  And the only way that you can recover from these expenses is through conversions.

Now, you sure won't get any conversion if you have posted an ad on your affiliate's site without an actual landing page for the potential customer to be redirected into.  It's just like advertising a product without actually having a store to sell your product.  Your advertisement may be enticing enough to encourage people to purchase a product, but without the landing page, how will they know how to purchase the product

It is therefore important to have landing pages for your ads because it is the only way for you to earn something in an affiliate program.  Without landing pages, all you do is spend money paying your affiliates without actually getting anything in return.

Reason no. 2: Other web pages may just not be enough.

Many people make the mistake of making their website's homepage as the landing page for their ads.  The same is true for those who make use of other pages like a "contact us" page or a product page.  Homepages are often designed to serve multiple users and contains a lot of links to other pages or to other websites.  The same is with the other two pages mentioned.  If you want to be successful in an affiliate program, we're sure that you don't want your landing page to cater to the needs of various people, most of which may not be really interested with your product.

When choosing a landing page, you must always have the customer directed into that page in mind.  Therefore, your landing page must be relevant to the keywords and the contents you placed on your ad.  It is also important that the landing page can induce your visitor to take action—that is to purchase your product or at least provide leads for potential customers.

Final Word

You probably entered into an affiliate marketing program with these things in mind: to save on advertising expenses and to gain more profit.  But if you get into an affiliate marketing program without actually having a landing page, you'll end up paying too much without getting anything in return.  So if you still don't have a landing page for your ads, you better start creating one now.  And don't get us wrong; it isn't enough for you to have just a landing page—it should be a great landing page!

Makanan yang Bisa Menurunkan Sistem Kekebalan Tubuh

Sistem kekebalan berfungsi melindungi tubuh dari infeksi dan penyakit. Jika ingin memiliki sistem kekebalan yang kuat, sebaiknya jangan terlalu sering mengonsumsi nutrisi dan makanan berikut ini.

Beberapa faktor memang bisa menghambat dan menurunkan sistem kekebalan tubuh seperti stres, kurang tidur, merokok, kebiasaan makan dan olahraga yang buruk serta kondisi medis lainnya. Dan anak-anak serta orang yang sudah tua diketahui memiliki kekebalan tubuh yang lebih rendah.

Meski begitu beberapa kandungan dalam makanan diketahui bisa menurunkan sistem kekebalan tubuh  yaitu:

1. Daging merah
Makanan ini merupakan sumber utama dari lemak jenuh yang jika dikonsumsi secara berlebihan bisa meningkatkan risiko kolesterol tinggi, diabetes tipe 2 dan bentuk penyakit lain akibat kekebalan tubuh yang menurun.

Para ahli dari Cleveland Clinic menyarankan masyarakat untuk mengurangi atau menghindari sumber lemak jenuh (hot dog, sosis babi, salami, daging goreng, iga) dan daging merah.

2. Margarin dan mentega
Margarin mengandung lemak trans yang bisa merusak kesehatan jantung serta sistem kekebalan tubuh. Dr David Katz direktur Yale Prevention Research Center di Connecticut menuturkan lemak trans berkontribusi terhadap peradangan.

Hal ini membuat sistem kekebalan tidak bisa memberikan perlindungan yang tepat dan baik bagi tubuh. Untuk itu gantilah mentega dan margarin dengan minyak nabati seperti minyak zaitun dan kanola untuk memperkuat sistem imun.

3. Produk susu tinggi lemak
Produk susu yang memiliki kadar lemak tinggi merupakan sumber tambahan untuk lemak jenuh. Cleveland Clinic menyarankan untuk memilih susu, yogurt, keju atau makanan lain yang rendah lemak agar bisa memberikan manfaat bagi sistem kekebalan tubuh.

4. Konsumsi gula berlebih
Mengonsumsi gula berlebih hingga 8 sendok makan per hari bisa mengurangi kemampuan sel darah putih untuk menghancurkan kuman sebesar 40 persen. Efek ini sudah mulai terasa sejak 30 menit dari saat tertelan hingga 5 jam ke depan. Asupan gula ini bisa berasal dari permen, seral warna warni, sirup, selai, jeli, kue dan biskuit. 

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Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing

Are you a webmaster who needs funds to keep your website running?  Or is your website the only way for you to earn income?  Whichever you are, for as long as you are a webmaster or a web publisher and you need cash, affiliate marketing may work well for you.  With affiliate marketing, you may get a lot of cash pouring into your bank account easily.  And if your website is rich in great contents and you want to earn more profit, why not get into the Google Adsense program as well?

Why Affiliate Marketing?

Well, simply because affiliate marketing is the easiest and probably the best way to earn profits online, unless otherwise you are a businessman and would rather sell your own products online than advertise other businessman’s products on your site.  But even online retailers can benefit from affiliate marketing programs, because affiliate marketing actually works for merchants as well as it works for the affiliates.

Affiliate marketing, simply said, is a relationship or agreement made between two websites, with one site being the merchant’s website and the other being the affiliate’s site.  In the relationship, the affiliate agrees to let the merchant advertise his products on the affiliate’s site.  The merchant, on the other hand, would agree to pay the affiliate in whatever method they have agreed into.  This would generally mean easy income for the affiliate, as he would do nothing but place the retailer’s ad on his site.  This would also be very beneficial for the merchant, as getting affiliates to advertise their products would be a lot more affordable than hiring an advertising firm to promote their products.

There are a variety of methods on how the merchant would compensate the affiliate for his services, and for the webmaster, these methods simply translates to the method by which he would earn easy cash.  Among the more common methods of compensation are the pay-per-click method, the pay-per-lead method, and the pay-per-sale method.  The pay-per-click method is the method most preferred by affiliates, for their site’s visitor would only have to visit the advertiser’s site for them to gain money.  The other two methods, on the other hand, are better preferred by merchants, as they would only have to compensate you if your visitor becomes one of their registrants or if the visitor would actually buy their products.

Getting much profit on affiliate marketing programs, however, does not depend so much on the compensation method is it does on the traffic generated by your site.  A website that can attract more visitors would generally have the greater chance of profiting in affiliate marketing programs.

What about Google Adsense?

Google Adsense is actually some sort of an affiliate marketing program.  In Google Adsense, Google act as the intermediary between the affiliates and the merchants.  The merchant, or the advertiser, would simply sign up with Google and provide the latter with text ads pertaining to their products.  These ads, which is actually a link to the advertiser’s website, would then appear on Google searches as well as on the websites owned by the affiliates, or by those webmasters who have signed up with the Google Adsense program.

While one can find a lot of similarities between Google Adsense and other affiliate marketing programs, you can also see a lot of differences.  In Google Adsense, all the webmaster has to do is place a code on his website and Google takes care of the rest.  The ads that Google would place on your site would generally be relevant to the content of your site.  This would be advantageous both for you and for the advertiser, as the visitors of your site would more or less be actually interested with the products being advertised.

The Google Adsense program compensates the affiliate in a pay-per-click basis.  The advertisers would pay Google a certain amount each time their ad on your site is clicked and Google would then forward this amount to you through checks, although only after Google have deducted their share of the amount.  Google Adsense checks are usually delivered monthly.  Also, the Google Adsense program provides webmasters with a tracking tool that allows you to monitor the earnings you actually get from a certain ad.

So, where do all of these lead us to?

Where else but to profits, profits and even more profits!  Affiliate marketing programs and the Google Adsense program simply work, whether you are the merchant or the affiliate.  For the merchant’s side, a lot of money can be saved if advertising effort is concentrated on affiliate marketing rather than on dealing with advertising firms.  For the webmaster, you can easily gain a lot of profits just by doing what you do best, and that is by creating websites.  And if you combine all your profits from both the Google Adsense program and other affiliate marketing programs, it would surely convert to a large amount of cash.

Jangan Langsung Melakukan Ini Sehabis Makan

Makan adalah ritual penting yang harus untuk kesehatan dan kekuatan tubuh. Karenanya agar nutrisi di makanan terserap dengan baik, ada beberapa hal yang sebaiknya tidak dilakukan setelah makan.

Nutrisi yang masuk ke dalam tubuh memiliki peran yang penting terutama agar setiap organ yang ada di dalam tubuh bisa berfungsi dengan baik dan optimal. Untuk itu perhatikan hal-hal yang tidak boleh dilakukan setelah makan,  yaitu:

1. Merokok
Berdasarkan sebuah penelitian diketahui bahwa merokok setelah makan bisa meningkatkan risiko seseorang terkena kanker. Hal ini karena asap yang ditimbulkan dari 1 batang rokok setara dengan asap 10 batang rokok.

2. Mengonsumsi buah
Tradisi yang ada menyarankan seseorang untuk makan buah setelah makan sebagai hidangan penutup. Tapi makan buah setelah makan bisa membuat perut penuh dengan udara sehingga menjadi kembung. Untuk itu sebaiknya makan buah 1-2 jam setelah makan.

3. Minum teh
Minum teh setelah makan bisa membuat protein yang terkandung di dalam makanan menjadi sulit untuk dicerna. Zat-zat yang sulit dicerna ini bisa mencapai 80 persen.

4. Mandi
Ternyata mandi setelah makan bisa membuat aliran darah ke tangan, kaki, tubuh dan perut menjadi berkurang. Kondisi ini akan mengakibatkan gangguan pencernaan yang bisa memicu rasa tidaknyaman.

5. Berjalan
Berjalan setelah selesai makan bisa membuat tubuh tidak mampu menyerap nutrisi dari makanan dengan baik.

6. Tidur
Tidur setelah makan bisa membuat saluran pencernaan menjadi kembung, usus mengalami peradangan dan memicu naiknya asam lambung ke kerongkongan sehingga menimbulkan rasa tidak nyaman.

7. Minum air dingin
Mengonsumsi air dingin saat atau setelah makan bisa membuat makanan terutama yang mengandung minyak atau lemak jadi membeku, sehingga akan terakumulasi di dalam usus yang menyebabkan penyempitan saluran pencernaan dan obesitas. 

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Hentikan Rambut Rontok dengan Teh Hijau

Masalah rambut rontok dan tidak subur bisa dialami oleh siapa saja, jika tidak ditangani dengan baik bisa menyebabkan kebotakan. Tapi rambut yang rontok bisa dihentikan dengan mengonsumsi teh hijau.

Selama ini teh hijau diketahui memiliki manfaat untuk menurunkan berat badan, mencegah kanker dan diabetes, meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh serta menghilangkan bau mulut. Tapi ternyata teh yang satu ini juga bisa meningkatkan pertumbuhan rambut.

Pertumbuhan rambut dipengaruhi oleh suatu siklus dan beberapa studi menemukan bahwa teh hijau memiliki dampak positif terhadap siklus rambut ini. Ada beberapa cara yang diduga dilakukan teh hijau dalam membantu pertumbuhan, mencegah dan menghentikan kerontokan rambut, yaitu:

1. Menghambat DHT (Dihydrotestosterone)
Studi menemukan penyebab utama kerontokan rambut adalah DHT, dan sensitivitas folikel terhadap DHT ini bisa menyebabkan kebotakan. Teh hijau diduga bisa menjadi penghambat DHT, karena ia meningkatkan kadar hormon seks yang mengikat globulin (Sex hormone binding globulin/SBHG) yang berinteraksi dengan testosteron sehingga mencegah pembentukan DHT.

2. Meningkatkan sirkulasi darah ke folikel rambut
Teh hijau mengandung polifenol catechin yang merupakan salah satu molekul esensial. Pada beberapa studi zat ini bisa memicu relaksasi pada sistem sirkulasi darah microcapillary di dalam folikel rambut.

3. Merangsang pertumbuhan rambut
Saitama Cancer Center Research Institute di Jepang dan Seoul National University College of Medicine menemukan bukti positif dari senyawa epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG). Studi di laboratorium menemukan bahwa pertumbuhan rambut menjadi lebih baik dan folikel menjadi lebih panjang jika diberikan EGCG.

4. Memperkuat dan melembabkan rambut
Beberapa kandungan dalam teh hijau bisa bermanfaat untuk rambut. Kandungan vitamin E bisa meremajakan rambut kering atau rusak, vitamin C bisa melindungi rambut dari kerusakan radiasi sinar UV dan panthenol (provitamin) bisa menambah kekuatan rambut dan membuatnya jadi lembut sehingga tidak mudah rontok.

Mengonsumsi teh hijau dua kali sehari terbukti bisa bermanfaat bagi kesehatan secara menyeluruh termasuk membuat rambut jadi kuat dan sehat sehingga mampu mencegah dan menghentikan kerontokan rambut.

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Affiliate Marketer?

Each of us has its own interest or has a hobby. Some love all kinds of books, music, and movies while others are into sports and traveling. There are also people who love to grow flowers and loves pets. These things help us to relax and forget our everyday problems and troubles and these things are common to people. But not everyone has a hobby that makes money for him/her except if you love your job.

Money making hobby could let you treat your family and friends with the extra cash or you can even quit your current job that you almost certainly hate. That is why many of us today go online to start a business; their reasons are either to supplement their income or to gradually replace their offline income from their job. Affiliate marketing is a great way to start in making money online.

Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing partnership between a web merchant and one or more affiliates. The affiliate is paid a commission for referring clicks, leads or most often sales to the merchant. An affiliate’s advantage is that he can make money in a business where he doesn’t have the upfront costs of creating his own product, and he doesn’t have to worry about e-commerce, bookkeeping, or even customer support for it is the merchant’s responsibility.

Now, for sure you want to be an affiliate marketer with all that benefits an affiliate could get. But, do you have what it takes to be an affiliate marketer? Before you begin your venture into affiliate marketing, you need to decide first which area interest you. What products do you know the most and which products you could do the best job of selling? Once you discover your specialty, perseverance, patience, determination comes next. These are the qualities you should possessed to be a good affiliate marketer.

Too many online business prospectors lose out because they become impatient. You also have to know what your strengths are, the things in which you are good at and your capabilities and abilities related to your chosen streak. And the most important thing is you have to have a strong desire to succeed in affiliate marketing.

To be an affiliate marketer is not an easy task. You have to learn the techniques of marketing your product or service. You shouldn’t be looking at every chance because marketing is all about attracting you to look at this or that particular opportunity. To be a successful affiliate marketer, you should learn how to listen and to be taught because in life we need to learn skills to get by.

For an affiliate marketer, you should know how to market your site effectively, in will enable you to get thousands of visitors coming to your site which transforms into more sales. This only means that the faster you set up a website, the bigger your chances of making money online faster. You should avoid the same mistakes some affiliates make everyday, they are only building a short-term business where they just make a small sale. Make sure you do understand that you should be building a long-term affiliate business and not just something that makes you a few dollars on one sale. 

It is also better to have knowledge on how to upsell your visitors for expensive services. This will in turn make you become recognized as an expert in your field and making money will be easier. There are some people thinks that just by having affiliate links on their website will bring them good profits. This can have some truth to it, but then most successful affiliates still believe that making use of strong marketing campaigns for their affiliate programs is still important. But affiliate marketers become much more successful when they treat their customers or online visitors as friends. Make a commitment to establish relationships with your customers and especially with visitors to your site. It is very important for an affiliate marketer to have a good business relationship with customers or visitors. 

You should also be creative. The real key to being successful with affiliate marketing is to develop a good content based website and weave your affiliate links into all your content. You have to provide your prospects with good, quality content to keep them coming back to your site. So, do you have what it takes to be an affiliate marketer?

Orang-orang yang Rawan Kena Serangan Jantung

Serangan jantung atau yang juga dikenal dengan myocardial infraction adalah kematian otot jantung mendadak akibat adanya pembekuan darah pada arteri koroner.

Serangan jantung tak hanya menyerang usia tua tapi juga orang-orang muda. Serangan jantung lebih mungkin terjadi pada orang-orang dengan kondisi ini.

Jantung manusia memompa darah ke seluruh tubuh secara konstan yaitu sekitar 4-5 liter darah setiap menitnya. Karena itu jika aliran darah tersebut tidak lancar bisa mengakibatkan kerusakan otot jantung yang menyebabkan gangguan pada pompa jantung (gagal jantung) dan bisa mengakibatkan kematian.

Seperti dilansir Medicinenet, Selasa (5/7/2011), penyumbatan pada arteri akan menyebabkan otot jantung mengalami cedera. Cedera pada jantung ini menimbulkan sakit dada dan sensasi yang menyakitkan. Jika aliran darah tidak dikembalikan ke otot jantung dalam 20-40 menit bisa menyebabkan kematian.

Sebenarnya sebelum serangan jantung terjadi, tanda-tanda jantung bermasalah sudah bisa diketahui namun orang kerap abai dan menganggap hal tersebut biasa saja.

Ahli jantung dari St. Michael's Medical Center di Newark, New Jersey seperti dikutip dari MSNHealth ada tanda-tanda yang bisa mengarah ke jantung bermasalah sebelum benar-benar terjadi serangan jantung:
 
1. Sakit leher
Pasien yang telah mengalami serangan jantung kebanyakan baru menyadari bahwa ia sering merasa pegal, sakit dan rasa seperti tertarik di leher akibat ketegangan otot. Tanda ini sering terabaikan karena pasien lebih fokus pada rasa sesak atau sakit di bagian kiri dada.

Kondisi ini terjadi karena saraf dari jaringan jantung mengirimkan sinyal rasa sakit yang naik turun ke sumsum tulang belakang yang membentang ke leher dan bahu. Nyeri ini tidak terletak pada satu tempat spesifik dan biasanya tidak hilang dengan kompres dingin, hangat atau pijat otot.

2. Sering merasa pusing, sesak napas atau pingsan
Seseorang mungkin akan mengalami tidak bisa bernapas, pusing atau pingsan bahkan saat tengah melakukan hal yang biasa seperti berjalan atau membersihkan rumah yang sebelumnya tidak pernah bermasalah.

Kondisi ini terjadi karena darah yang melalui arteri untuk membawa oksigen ke jantung tidak mencukupi. Plak yang menumpuk akan membuat jantung sulit mendapatkan oksigen yang cukup, sehingga kadang seseorang merasa sakit saat harus menarik napas dalam-dalam. Biasanya terjadi lebih mendadak dan akan hilang saat beristirahat.

3. Sakit pada rahang dan telinga
Sakit pada rahang memang menjadi gejala yang misterius karena bisa akibat beberapa sebab, tapi kadang bisa juga menjadi petunjuk dari penyakit jantung koroner dan serangan jantung. Rasa sakit yang muncul sepanjang rahang sampai ke telinga dan sulit menemukan darimana rasa sakit itu berasal.

Kondisi ini terjadi karena jaringan jantung yang rusak mengirimkan sinyal ke sumsum tulang balakang hingga mempengaruhi saraf di sepanjang rahang sampai telinga. Rasa sakit yang muncul beda dengan sakit gigi atau infeksi telinga yang biasanya di satu titik, tapi lebih bersifat menyebar dan kadang mempengaruhi bahu serta lengan terutama di bagian kiri.

4. Gangguan pencernaan, mual atau rasa perih di perut
Serangan gangguan pencernaan parah dn mual bisa menjadi tanda awal serangan jantung atau myocardial infarction, terutama pada perempuan. Dalam satu studi diketahui perempuan 2 kali lebih mungkin mengalami muntah, mual dan gangguan pencernaan selama beberapa bulan menjelang serangan jantung dibanding laki-laki.

Kondisi ini terjadi karena sumbatan lemak di arteri akan mengurangi suplai darah ke jantung yang biasanya terjadi di dada kadang bisa muncul di perut. Hal ini tergantung pada bagian mana dari jantung yang mengalami gangguan sehingga ia mengirimkan sinyal rasa sakit di bagian tubuh yang lebih rendah dari dada.

Gangguan-gangguan tersebut sering diabaikan dan karena orang lebih fokus pada sakit di dada.

Menurut Dr M. Taufik Arifin Pohan, SpJP seperti dilansir dari tulisannya di detikHealth, setidaknya ada 5 tanda serangan jantung yang harus diwaspadai:
1. Rasa tertekan (serasa ditimpa beban, sakit, terjepit dan terbakar) yang menyebabkan sesak napas dan tercekik di leher.
2. Rasa sakit ini bisa menjalar ke lengan kiri,leher dan punggung.
3. Rasa sakitnya bisa berlangsung sekitar 15-20 menit dan terjadi secara terus menerus.
4. Timbul keringat dingin, tubuh lemah, jantung berdebar dan bahkan hingga pingsan.
5. Rasa sakit ini bisa berkurang saat sedang istirahat, tapi akan bertambah berat jika sedang beraktivitas.

Lalu siapa orang-orang yang rawan terkena serangan jantung?

1. Orang dengan kadar kolesterol tinggi
Kadar kolesterol yang tinggi akan mempercepat terjadinya proses aterosklerosis yaitu penyumbatan pembuluh darah. Kadar kolesterol bagi orang dewasa sebaiknya tidak lebih dari 200 mg/dl.

Jumlah total kolesterol dikatakan normal jika di bawah 200 mg/dl dan tinggi jika di atas 239 mg/dl. Jumlah kolesterol LDL (jahat) harus di bawah 150 mg/dl. Jumlah kolesterol HDL (baik) harus di atas 35 mg/dl. Jumlah kadar trigliserida harus di bawah 200 mg/dl. Hal lain yang juga tidak kalah pentingnya adalah rasio kolesterol LDL dan kolesterol HDL yang kurang dari 3,5.

2. Orang dengan tekanan darah tinggi (hipertensi)
Berdasarkan data WHO tekanan darah normal pada orang dewasa adalah 140/90 mmHg. Orang yang memiliki tekanan darah tinggi lebih berisiko terkena serangan jantung dan stroke. Seseorang dinyatakan menderita hipertensi bila tekanan darahnya di atas 140/90 mmHg.

3. Orang dengan kadar gula darah yang tinggi
Kadar gula darah normal sebelum makan ada di kiasaran 80-120 mg/dl dan setelah seharian terisi makanan 100-140 mg/dl. Kadar gula di atas 140 mm/dL pada saat tidak berpuasa harus dicurigai sebagai suatu diabetes mellitus.

Diabetes secara signifikan dihubungkan dengan kematian dini akibat penyakit pembuluh darah. Komplikasi diabetes pada mata, ginjal, dan saraf secara signifikan memberikan beban sakit yang sangat berat. Diabetes meningkatkan risiko stroke dan jantung sampai dengan 3 kali lipat. Untuk itu pertahankan kadar gula darah pada angka 80 mg/dL untuk mencegah pembentukan plak pada dinding pembuluh darah.

4. Orang dengan kebiasaan merokok
Kebiasaan merokok bisa menyebabkan serangan jantung karena mempercepat terjadinya aterosklerosis karena adanya iritasi pada dinding pembuluh darah sehingga mempercepat kolesterol mengendap, mempermudah terjadinya pembekuan darah yang dapat menyumbat saluran pembuluh darah serta menurunkan kadar kolesterol baik.

5. Orang yang mengalami kelelahan serius
kelelahan fisik dan mental bisa memicu berbagai penyakit kronis, seperti gangguan pencernaan, gangguan sistem jantung serta penurunan daya tahan tubuh. Kondisi tubuh yang lelah ditambah dengan konsumsi rokok terus menerus dan berbagai suplemen dan minuman yang mengandung ginseng dan kafein bisa memperburuk keadaan yang mengakibatkan seseorang terkena serangan jantung.

6. Orang dengan berat badan berlebih
Obesitas dihubungkan dengan penurunan sensitivitas insulin yang berujung pada Diabetes Melitus, peningkatan kadar lemak darah (trigliserid dan kolesterol), dan peningkatan tekanan darah.

Pertahankan lingkar perut kurang dari 80 cm untuk perempuan dan kurang 90 cm untuk pria. Lingkar perut yang berlebih (pada ras Asia : > 90 cm pada laki-laki dan > 80 cm pada perempuan) secara signifikan meningkatkan risiko stroke dan jantung sampai dengan 2 kali lipat.

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Don't Make These Common 4 Affiliate Mistakes!

Myths concerning affiliate marketing are appealing and attractive.  People who do not know the entire system the wrong way round are prone to believing that it is something capable of giving them great fortune overnight.  Stories concerning affiliates who earn tremendous amounts of money swim in their heads, and while these stories are as true as they can be, there are those who believe that they are going to have the same fortune once they indulge in this particular business.

It is true enough that affiliate marketing is financially rewarding.  People who have gone through everything to be able to succeed in this business are reaping the seeds that they untiringly sowed.  Many of them enjoy the kind of existence that was not possible for them to have had under ordinary circumstances.  Having gone through the A-Z of affiliate marketing, however, these people are the ones who know that while such business is lucrative, there is absolutely no easy money in it.

Ignorance of this fact is one of the main reasons why there are people who fail miserably in the internet business.  There are those who believe in myths concerning the easy money involved in systems such as affiliate marketing.  They do not know that there are those who have wasted time, effort and too many resources in trying to pursue the life of ease that they believe this business will give them.  And so they go into affiliate marketing armed with nothing but myths and fantastical notions of wealth swimming in their consciousness, never realizing that they bound to make mistakes that would prove to be their downfall.

What may be the reason why in businesses such as affiliate marketing, many are called but few are chosen?  Perhaps the answer lies on the fact that many affiliates make mistakes that result from their ignorance of facts concerning how the entire business runs.  Affiliate marketing is not as simple as an affiliate promoting a merchant’s wares through his website and getting paid for it.  It is also about knowing the market and the customers at hand.

Discovering what the most common mistakes affiliates make can perhaps dispel the gloom about myths surrounding affiliate marketing by correcting some wrong notions about it.  It might also be able to make those concerned understand that like any other business, there are dos and donts involved in this one if they want to make each of their steps count.  The first common mistake affiliates make is their lack of knowledge concerning principles involved in their business.  This refers to the affiliate’s knowledge of search engines in particular.

Affiliate marketing involves advertising, and advertising through the internet could not have been better without the existence of search engines.  What every affiliate has to do is to make these search engines his best friend through studying search engine optimization closely.  This way, he is able to know what to do in connection with building a better website to ultimately use for his business.

The second is that affiliates make the mistake of stuffing their sites with banners that do not provide enough information about the product at hand.  The best way to battle this mistake is to provide good content hand-in-hand with such banners.  It is important for customers to know and understand the features of a product, and good content will be able to help them realize this goal.

The third is that there are affiliates who make the mistake of promoting only one product.  Consequently, customers are not given enough options to choose from.  There is also the risk of generating fewer sales as compared to having more options for customers ponder about.  It is always better to give them a few better alternatives than to give them only one.

The fourth is that there are affiliates who make the mistake of promoting too many products.  As a result, customers are confused and end up beyond making a choice.  It is perhaps good to give them only the best choices.  This is because it is ultimately up to them to judge which one is the best for them to patronize.

All in all, affiliates that are doomed to fail in this business are those who do not exert enough effort to understand everything involved in the industry that they are in.  Knowing their path step by careful step will prove to be beneficial to them, as there is no other way to succeed than to go through any path slowly but surely.

Cara Mengatasi Susah Tidur Setelah Minum Kopi

Satu hal yang sering dikeluhkan saat terlalu banyak minum kopi adalah susah tidur, padahal keesokan harinya harus bangun pagi untuk masuk kerja. Beberapa cara bisa dilakukan untuk menetralkan efek kafein sehingga lebih cepat tertidur.

Cara-cara sederhana yang bisa dilakukan oleh siapapun adalah sebagai berikut :

1. Ciptakan suasana yang tenang
Di bawah pengaruh kafein, tubuh membutuhkan usaha lebih keras untuk bisa jatuh tertidur. Agar lebih mudah, sebisa mungkin jangan sampai ada benda-benda yang dapat mengalihkan perhatian seperti pesawat TV, komputer, ponsel serta video game di kamar tidur.

Meski benda-benda tersebut sudah disingkirkan, kadang-kadang masih ada suara berisik yang memang sulit dihindari seperti bunyi kulkas atau suara kucing yang sedang berkelahi. Suara berisik semacam ini bisa dinetralkan dengan CD atau kaset berisi bunyi-bunyian yang menenangkan atau sering disebut 'white noise' seperti suara ombak di pantai atau hembusan angin menerpa pohon pinus di pegunungan.

2. Lakukan gerakan-gerakan ringan
Berbagai penelitian membuktikan olahraga secara teratur bisa mengatasi gangguan susah tidur. Namun dalam kondisi darurat ketika butuh segera tidur, olahraga ringan yang dilakukan sekali waktu juga bisa membantu menetralkan efek kafein akibat kebanyakan minum kopi.

Lakukan gerakan-gerakan kalestenik atau tanpa alat, misalnya push up atau jumping jacks (meloncat-loncat sambil melakukan gerakan buka-tutup dengan kaki dan tangan). Jangan berlebihan, karena jika terlalu banyak keringat yang keluar maka tubuh akan terasa tidak nyaman dan semakin susah tidur.

3. Minum segelas susu hangat
Segelas susu hangat banyak mengandung triptofan, sejenis protein yang di dalam tubuh akan diubah menjadi hormon serotonin dan melatonin. Kedua hormon ini sangat dibutuhkan untuk menghadirkan rasa kantuk sebelum seseorang bisa jatuh tertidur.

Sepotong roti untuk menemani susu hangat juga bisa membantu, karena kandungan karbohidrat di dalamnya akan merangsang insulin yang bisa meningkatkan efek triptofan. Pilih roti yang tidak terlalu manis, karena lebih berisiko memicu kegemukan.

4. Lakukan relaksasi mental secara aktif
Jika ketiga cara di atas sudah dilakukan tetapi belum juga bisa tidur, lakukan relaksasi secara aktif. Salah satunya dengan memalingkan pandangan mata dari jam dinding atau sejenisnya yang akan mengingatkan bahwa malam semakin larut karena dampaknya justru akan semakin gelisah.

Cara berikutnya adalah duduk senyaman mungkin sambil membaca majalah yang isinya artikel-artikel ringan dan menghibur. Bisa juga dengan langsung berbaring di ranjang, menutup mata lalu berkonsentrasi penuh membayangkan obyek yang menenangkan misalnya suasana air terjun di pegunungan.

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Creating Multiple Streams of Affiliate Marketing Income

Have you ever heard or read the phrase “multiple streams of income” before? Do you know what this phrase means? For many businessmen, creating multiple streams of income online or offline is one way of securing themselves as well as their businesses in the future. They also believe that it can also save them from the so-called famine effect in the business industry. Once you are engaged in affiliate marketing business, it is advisable if you have multiple streams of affiliate marketing income so that if one of those income streams vanished, it will not upset you the way losing your sole stream would. If you depend on just one source of income and this single stream has been downsized or has lain off, you’ll surely find yourself bankrupted and hopeless. Try to ask the most successful online entrepreneurs, and you’ll discover that they have established multiple streams of online income.

There is a businessman that said and attested that the very first step you must take in creating multiple streams of income is to assess or evaluate your resources. Start by assessing yourself first. Jot down your answers to the following questions: What are the talents, abilities, strength and gears that you possess? Are you gifted with excellent and creative writing skills? Can you do well at sales? Are you good in communicating with people? Are you born with an artistic skill or unique ability that other people don’t have? Through this, you can determine the kind of business where can possibly excel.

Next, look around and write down you assets and physical resources such as computer, color printer, scanner, digital camera, cell phone, CD or DVD burner. Write these all down because it can be used as a resource. Consider also your friends and family. Find out what do they possess that you have access to. Remember that no man is an island. You can use the talents, abilities, knowledge and resources of everyone you know.

That’s basically the initial step if you want to create multiple income streams. But if you’re already a webmaster or a site owner, you definitely have an edge. Why don’t you join affiliate marketing business to help you gain extra income out of your own website?

Being involved in affiliate marketing is one of the most desirable ways to make multiple sources of income. It is because affiliate marketing programs come in various shapes and forms. There are a large number of affiliate marketing programs that you can sign on with and start gaining bucks right away. In affiliate marketing, you can make money by promoting and reselling your affiliate products and by recruiting new affiliates. What’s good about this is that you can find widest array of training materials that can enhance your marketing abilities. In affiliate marketing, you can be sure that there are genuine products to promote and sell and there is real income to make.

Either part time or full time, being an affiliate marketer is an excellent way to create multiple income streams by means of promoting products and services from web merchants. Here, you can get affiliate commission without investing big bucks in making your own product and without worrying about book keeping, customer support and ecommerce. All you have to do is to promote and resell the products and services in your site and pass on potential customer’s the merchant’s site.

In affiliate marketing, it is advisable to promote more merchants in your site so that your visitors will have variety of destinations to choose from.  Using multiple merchants in the same site or niche means only one thing – you have multiple streams of affiliate income. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this business strategy because this is one of the best ways to protect your business and expanding your horizons. Through this, you can be assured that you won’t experience crisis if ever one of your web merchants closed his/her program.

However, you should choose only those affiliate programs that interest you so that you can effectively advertise and promote them. Don’t ever be tempted into signing up for numerous affiliate programs in the hope that one of them will bring income. Select wisely and don’t be engaged in selling products you know nothing about. Go with the stuff that jives with your enthusiasm; your passion can capture your client by the nose and guide him/her to your affiliate link.

You should also work hard to make your multiple streams of income more stable. You can do this by embracing some strategies and tactics and by developing within yourself, some traits that can help you become successful in any kind of business such as patience, persistence and thirst for knowledge.

Lastly, just remember the adage that says “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” So that if one of them is lost, you can still have some to make omelets. And what do these eggs have to do with multiple streams of affiliate income? Well, it goes without saying that the more streams of income you possess, the bigger and better your money lake becomes.