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Renovating a home often yields the property owner numerous positive results. Arguably, however, the most important occurrence to emerge from this process is the increase to resale value. Many construction industry professionals maintain engaging in the following eight home renovations can significantly increase the residence’s worth:

Finish The Basement 

Basements that appear to be more than a damp, grimy space where old junk is stored are significant value-boosting assets. Homeowners have many choices when deciding how to transform this often untapped below-ground space. Contracting professionals opine basements often prove suitable locations for kids playrooms, additional bathrooms or media centers. Regardless, real estate officials recommend homeowners make some upgrades and never leave the space dark, dingy and fallow.

Build A Home Office

For many businesses, telecommuting has become a viable option for a discernible percentage of said establishments staff. In fact, since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, working from home has been the norm in various industries. With such facts in mind, homes with built-in offices could prove extremely attractive. Such locations should be rife with open space to position furniture and electronic equipment, in addition to extra phone lines, data ports and electrical outlets.

Perform A Kitchen Makeover

Kitchen makeovers are among the most important home renovations for a property owner. Residents usually spend extended periods in this room to cook, eat and relax. Therefore, homes with inviting kitchens stand a far better chance of selling quickly and for top dollar than those that do not possess such attributes. Optimal kitchen upgrades should, at the very least, include the installation of new or renovated cabinets and drawers and modern, energy-efficient appliances.

 Address The Bathroom Situation 

Though occasionally overlooked and undervalued, bathrooms are viewed as pertinent real estate within a home. Too few bathrooms or those appearing old or outdated may very well turn off prospective buyers. Therefore, should the home contain at least two or three washrooms, engaging in upgrades involves paint jobs, new flooring, and modern, water-conserving sinks, baths, and toilets. If the home in question lacks bathrooms, the property owner is strongly encouraged to add such locations.

Increase Lighting 

Few issues prove more off-putting to potential home purchasers than a residence lacking the appropriate lighting. First and foremost, limited light could prove dangerous and precipitate avoidable injuries from falls or bumping into objects that cannot be seen. Furthermore, light provides natural illumination for a home and can accentuate existing positive attributes. Enhancing a home’s lighting capacity could be executed in several ways. First, electric fixtures can be installed. Additionally, items drawing in natural sunlight, such as skylights and windows, could be inserted.

GOOGLE PAGERANK Every one with a business web site knows that the lifeblood of their business is the traffic that they can get to it, and that the Search Engines are a sure and economic way of getting it… If… Your web site shows among the first 20 or 30 results when someone looks at a Search Engine For the keywords of your web site. Google is one of the biggest Search Engines (or the biggest) and that´s why Google is one of the most used ones. If your web site has a big PageRank, that´s one of the easiest ways to reach the first places on a Google´s search, so many people think that what you should look for, is to have a BIG Google Page Rank. And what is the PageRank? PageRank it´s a measure of a site´s reputation according to the quality and quantity of it´s in pointing links. How can you get in pointing links from the expert sites on your market? You can do it with a link exchange campaign, but most of all you can achieve it: Having good content! So for the same keyword, the page with higher page rank will rank higher on the searches, and a page with higher page rank linking to your site, will help you more to get a better page rank for your site. To determine the relevance of a web page, Google looks for keywords in various places of each web page, plus many other things and one of them is the PageRank, meaning that Google has a ranking where the best pages about each keyword have the bigger Page Rank. So the marketers and search engine optimizers started to manipulate the keywords, in order to have a bigger page rank, and soon the Search Engines noticed it and started to counteract creating extremely sophisticated algorithms to evaluate each web site´s real page rank and banned the the cheater´s web sites. And this is an endless dance, the search engine optimizers keep studying better ways to optimize the web pages, and the search engines keep evolving and creating evaluation methods that will tell them the truth about each web site´s content and value. Many search engine optimizers will tell you that they know how Google evaluates the web site, but the real truth is that no one of them knows it! Maybe two or three people at Google really know it, and they will never tell it to any one because that will ruin their business. And which is Google´s business? Google´s business is to recognize what each web site is about and how good is at it, because they want to sell advertise, and they do it providing the best results on each search (including the page ads on the results). So their business is to provide targeted surfers to their advertisers. People find that the results are really related with what they are looking for, they click over the URL (sometimes over the free ones and sometimes over the ads) and they keep on using Google as their favorite search engine. To recognize what each web site is about and how good is at it sounds reasonable and easy for a human being, but it´s not easy at all for Google´s robots. So Google creates algorithms to evaluate the sites and from time to time changes their algorithm in what it has being called “Google´s dance”. This “dance” of course irritates many people (the ones that try to discover what the algorithm is about) because when they get near to know how to artificially inflate a web page´s value, Google changes the relevancy criteria. But the fact is that Google does the right thing. The want to be able to recognize what each web site is about and how good is at it, without mistaking good content web pages with well “optimized” web pages. Search engines as Google need to recognize reality and to give the proper page rank to each web site, and how do they do it? They check the on-page criteria and the off-page criteria…

And there´s only one way to generate off-page criteria: with good content! It´s you who know your business, and you are the best suited to write your web site´s content and this is the basic idea. 1) Create web pages with excellent content about your topic. This will tell the search engine´s robot what your page is about. 2) Once you create a professionally designed web page as the ones that “How to Sell on the Web” helps you to create, don´t loose your time tweaking it to reach better places with the search engines, use your time to create more good content web pages. Keep on creating good content web pages until you have 20 or more. 3) Submit your web page to the search engines 4) Start a links exchange campaign. This will not only help you reach a higher pagerank but some search engines do not allow you to submit your web site to them and will only be able to find you through your inbound links This plan works as a snowball…

It should be easy for you to write about your topic, but it might take months to get a decent pagerank. You will find yourself writing pages and exchanging links without noticing any results… Don´t worry!

Don´t worry, persist… And you will succeed for sure! If you want an automate reciprocal link exchange program like the one I use to build my Easy Home Business Ideas site, you can download your free copy of from here: http://newsletter.easy-home-business.com/hts/zeus.html And if you want to “Make Your Links Work” and grow your site to the first 3 % download this Google PageRank Profit free ebook: http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/RB.html Written by Dr. Roberto A. Bonomi

Ideas, ideas, ideas – the lifeblood of any business. Stay in
one position too long and you are dead! Today’s market place
requires constant change, new angles, different products,
fresh presentations, original advertising slogans. In short
it requires business creativity. It requires creativity in
advertising. But how do you get them?

You can spend thousands of dollars paying the pros to
deliver slick advertising slogans. You can pay web site
designer generous fees for original designs. But how many
small business owners have that kind of budget? The
alternative is to use an extremely valuable piece of
apparatus which right now is as close to you as close can
be. What? Your brain!

The human brain is a constant source of amazement to
scientists. Each of the 10 billion neurons has a possibility
of making connections to the number of 1 with 28 zeros after
it. So the total number of connections which can be made
through electro-chemical processes is pretty well limitless.
Regular thought patterns form channels in the mind, much
like a path formed through frequent pedestrian traffic
across a field. This has benefits. We don’t have to
deliberate about every minor decision every day. However,
there is a danger! If our thinking falls into ruts when
considering important areas of our lives and business, our
creativity is stifled.

The good news is this: You do not have to be a genius to
come up with creative ideas, break out of the rut and start
thinking “outside the box”. You just need to kick start your
brain by providing outside stimuli to get it to think in
ways it hasn’t before. This can be accomplished by
associating totally unrelated subjects together and
observing what reactions come from the fusion!

This method, applied to our business can be a fertile source
of ideas. Let’s do a little exercise to illustrate.
Supposing you need fresh ideas, words, phrases, for an
advertising campaign.

Choose any word at random. For the exercise we will use the
word FROG. Even better, get a picture of one. Now start
writing furiously on a clear sheet of paper anything and
everything that comes into your mind to do with frogs.

Here goes:

green, slimy, jump, legs, leap, croak, tad poles,
metamorphosis, reeds, water, bull, tree, wide-mouth, eyes,
smell, slippery, cold, kermit, spawn, eggs, jelly.

Take one of those words and explore further if you wish:

Legs – long, jointed, tasty, delicacy, spring, fold.

Mind Mapping is an excellent tool for this kind of exercise.
Review the mind mapping handbook here:
(Book review: http://www.vitalstop.com/br-mindmap.htm)

Now you look at your advertising subject. Are you selling
software? Then start making some connections:

Leap frog your business with ——-
Jump ahead of the competition with ————-
Blow your competition out of the water with —–
Spring load your business using —————–
STOP business slipping through your fingers with this!

Just keep on cranking out phrases until you have a
heap. Then? Boil them all down to the best ten, best five.
Then start testing them until you find the winner! OK, so
most of them will bomb! But then again, one, and you only
need one, could just skyrocket! Often it happens without any
logical explanation. Sometimes you come up with a real slick
idea which gets nowhere. Other times a seemingly mediocre
slogan takes off! Can anyone explain that? No. So testing
is essential to success.

Let’s take another direction and apply the same idea to
web site design. Do you want to change the look of your
site? Do you have reasonable computer skills so you can save
yourself a large fee and at the same time produce a
professional looking site? Good. But what theme to use? How
can you be different?

Take another word at random, SOAP, or again a picture if
you have one from a glossy magazine. Let’s start listing
every word we can think of to do with soap:

Flakes, scent, pink, white, marble, skin, bubbles,
soft, round, square, gentle, perfume, liquid, toilet,
bathroom, sink, bottle, creamy, model, block, water, wash,
towel, bar.

Now, do any of those words give you ideas for
texture, color, shape? For an interesting navigation bar,
could you incorporate some different shapes based on bars of
soap?

The idea of bubbles has much potential. Links in
bubbles, different size bubbles according to importance of
the link. Could an attractive picture of a model help
present a feature of the site? Could a liquid dispenser
bottle be used in a graphic in some way?

After thinking carefully on these lines you could come
up with a very original, slick, attractive design for a
web site or whatever project you are working on.

So back to our title – What Frogs and Soap Can Do For
Your Business! No, these are not the ramblings of a crank!
These ideas are used by big companies who have millions of
dollars set aside for advertising. Check out for yourself a
book full of resources on business creativity and creativity
in advertising. – Jump Start Your Brain
(Book review: http://www.vitalstop.com/br-jumpstart.htm)

Why not mimic the big boys and do a little creative thinking
yourself? Sit down with a sheet of paper and turn on that
amazing thinking apparatus between the ears – your brain!

You will be amazed at the effect on your business!

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 However, accidents still happen in these areas. This
is because of some factors such as not adhering to safety regulations and not
being careful at work. Here are some of the dangers of working in a
construction site:

 1. Falling Objects

Tools and equipment could fall from above, and this
could cause injury to anyone even if they are wearing a hard hat. Though not
always the culprit, this could be caused by falls from a crane, poor equipment,
low-quality materials, or someone’s negligence.

 2. Electrocution

Power lines in construction sites have high voltage.
Being electrocuted because of faulty power tools and exposed overheads and
wires could oftentimes lead to death.

 3. Trenches and
Excavation

When excavated matters like soil are mounted too
closely or too high, this could result to cave-ins. When this happens, workers
who are buried underneath could die from drowning and asphyxiation.

 4. Chemicals

A construction site may contain harmful chemicals
which when inhaled in excess for longer periods of time could result to
illnesses. Moreover, there is also the risk of explosions and fire.

 5. Heavy Equipment

Machineries that malfunction or are not used properly
can cause injuries. Cranes and forklifts could topple anyone, and this may also
be fatal

 Aside from those mentioned above, you could also be
injured because of carrying heavy materials and equipment. Injuries are usually
muscle strains, back pains, and broken bones. You could also suffer from cuts
and burns. These are just mild injuries; others are more serious which include
poisoning, amputations, and even death.

 Depending on the injury, one might have to miss work
for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or even longer. Others are not so
lucky and they may have to stop working indefinitely.

 If you have become a victim of a construction
accident, you need to file a personal injury claim. You can do this with higher
chances of success if you avail the services of a personal injury lawyer who
will help you get the full compensation you deserve.