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Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. Of the more than 30 million Americans with diabetes, 90% have type 2 diabetes, while the remainder have type 1, or insulin-dependent diabetes.

In type 1 diabetes, the body’s own immune system damages the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Type 1 diabetes can’t be cured and requires daily insulin treatment. In contrast, type 2 diabetes can be managed by diet and lifestyle changes, although some people will also need medication to manage their blood sugar levels.

Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body doesn’t handle insulin well or cells stop responding to it, causing blood sugar levels to become too high. Over time, if it isn’t treated, high blood sugar causes serious damage throughout the body, resulting in vision problems, skin infections, and an increased risk of heart disease and stroke.

Who Gets Type 2 Diabetes?

Type 2 diabetes begins with a period of prediabetes, when blood sugar levels are elevated but not as high as a full diabetes diagnosis. Prediabetes is more easily reversed than diabetes, so it’s important to be aware of both conditions. If your blood sugar is high but you don’t yet have diabetes, it’s important to make changes to bring your blood sugar down. 

The main risk factors for both prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are the same. They include: 

Being overweight or obese
Having a waist circumference of 40” or more for men, or 35” or more for women
Being 45 years or older
Having a family history of diabetes
Having had gestational diabetes or having given birth to a baby over 9 pounds
Being sedentary (physically active less than three times a week)
Being of African American, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native, Pacific Island, or Asian American descent

While the risk of type 2 diabetes increases with age, people of any age can get it. In fact, the number of children diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has steadily increased over the past couple of decades, alongside the rise in childhood obesity. The number of youths under 20 with type 2 diabetes is still small – less than 200,000 children and teens – but as childhood obesity increases, these numbers are likely to increase.

A healthy diet and plenty of activity is the key to preventing type 2 diabetes in children. Only one in three American children get daily physical activity, yet children and teens should be active for at least an hour every day. 

How Diabetes Is Diagnosed

Type 2 diabetes is diagnosed with several tests that show your blood sugar levels. Your doctor will test you if you show symptoms of diabetes. Many doctors will also conduct regular blood sugar tests as part of your annual check-ups. This is important since in its early stages, type 2 diabetes may not show symptoms, or the symptoms may be very mild. You should talk to your doctor about routine diabetes screening if you:

Have a body mass index (BMI) over 25 (23 if you are of Asian descent) and have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, are sedentary, have a history of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), or have a family history of diabetes. 

Are older than 45. If your initial test is clear, retests are advised every three years. 
Have a history of gestational diabetes.
Have prediabetes with mildly high blood sugar. 

Diabetes is diagnosed through blood tests. The most common test is a glycated hemoglobin (A1C) test, which measures your average blood sugar level. An A1C level of 6.5% on two separate tests means that you have diabetes, an A1C level between 5.7 and 6.4% shows prediabetes, and less than 5.7 is a normal reading. In some cases, your doctor may also recommend a random blood sugar test, a fasting blood sugar test, or an oral glucose tolerance test. 

If your doctor suspects that you might have type 1 diabetes rather than type 2 diabetes, you will need urine tests for specific byproducts that are produced in the kidneys of people with type 1 diabetes. 

If you have been diagnosed with prediabetes, it’s important to make lifestyle changes as soon as possible to prevent diabetes. The same lifestyle changes are needed with diabetes, and your doctor may also recommend some medications. 

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Introduction

Making your first $100 online is easy.

Actually that’s not quite true – actually earning your first $100 online IS pretty easy…and what I’m going to show you in this book makes it easier.;

What’s hard is believing you can do it, and sticking with the method.

Once you’ve made $100 then replicating the system is easy. You know you can do it, your sub-conscious belief system kicks into place and before you know it, pulling in $100 daily will be a pretty simple matter.

It’s that first step that takes some doing.

So much so that I think it’s easier to make $1000, $10,000 or $100,000 online that it is to make $100.

Take that first step, jump that first hurdle and you’ll never look back.

The best, simplest and easiest way to start is selling other people’s products as an affiliate. There’s very little risk, the setting up is quite straightforward with a little help (that’s what this book is for) and the results usually speak for themselves.

So let’s start with the first $100…………

Chapter 01 - Getting Started As An Affiliate

One of the easiest ways to get started in internet marketing is to promote affiliate products. This means you get a commission for each sale of a particular product that comes from your link or referral. It’s definitely the easiest route into making money online.

You don’t have to spend time and effort creating and marketing a product of your own, you don’t have to deal with customer service and recruiting people to sell for you...all that you have to do is find a product to promote and create a website or link “pre-selling” the product.

Many affiliates choose Clickbank.com to start out with, for a number of reasons. They are incredibly easy to use, the merchants pay generous commissions, and their products sell well.

Clickbank describes themselves as a “leading retailer of digital products”; they do not sell physical products. Everything on their site can be digitally downloaded.

So to explain to you how to get started in affiliate marketing, we are going to use Clickbank as an example, although there are many other reputable affiliate companies as well, such as paydotcom, Commission Junction, Pepperjam, and countless others.

To sign up as an affiliate at clickbank, all you have to do is go to their home page at www.clickbank.com.

At the top of the page, you will see a link that says “sign up”, and you click on that link to create your affiliate account.

When you sign up, you need to give Clickbank your physical address, because they will be mailing you a check for your commission. They do not currently have an option to pay via paypal, but they HAVE just introduced a direct to bank account system. This makes things a whole lot easier if you live outside the US.

They will also ask you to choose a nickname. This nickname is how you get your commissions, because you are going to include it in a link called a hoplink. Don’t worry it’s not madly complicated – this is just a web address that people can click on that includes your nickname so when you make sales, Clickbank knows who to pay.

When You Choose Your Nickname, Choose Wisely
We’ll talk more about hoplinks shortly, because they’re very important.
They are how you get paid.

Customers will be able to see the nickname in your hoplink, so keep that in mind when choosing it.

Also, once you choose that nickname, you will not be able to change it later.

Here’s how Clickbank works: when a publisher creates a digital product that they want to promote, they are going to want as much help selling that product as possible.

The best way for them to enlist an army of salespeople is to pay those salespeople, (referred to as affiliates), a generous commission. Generally they are going to pay most of the sales price to the affiliate. A product that sells for $37, for instance, will probably net the affiliate about $23 per sale.

A usual commission to an affiliate ranges from 50% - 75%

If a merchant pays too low a percentage to their affiliates, the affiliates are most likely not going to feel very inspired to promote the product, and the merchant’s sales will suffer.

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Chapter 01 - Building your Mailing List

Just in case you have been in this industry for long enough, we are absolutely sure you have already heard a great deal about how the REAL money is in your list. Actually this statement, though very commonly used, is not entirely true but because it partly is, we will not just thrash it. The truth and all of it is the fact that your cash lies right in the relationship which you build using your list, the trust you are able to gain which is the key to success.

However, in order to develop a relationship with your list you must have a list to start with. Without a list, you do not really have a stable online source of income and one cannot earn a living, randomly emailing. You will essentially need a strong and long emailing list and you have to be able to use it properly to make any real profits out of it.

Know that if you are just getting started, you must know that you will want to build a list, but we completely understand that you would not really understand or know how to build a list. That is where most people will be stuck, yes they get stuck right at the beginning... Now not actually having built an email list is among the top most reasons as to why 95% of folks who try to make money online, face failures. They are happy to try their luck and invest money into ads, making every attempt at making sales and they get pleased with a few sales and once they can't make anymore, instead of opting for alternative methods in the world of internet marketing, they simply give up and say internet marketing doesn't work.

1.1 The HOW? How to build your mailing list?

Too many people focus on things like SEO, the famed article marketing, or spamming the net with their affiliate links without building a list. This is one of the most common mistakes made by beginners, because instead of building a business they are pleased about a few quick bucks, when they should be concerned with establishing a business rather making a few quick sales. List Building is difficult and since it pays off very well, there are no reasons as to why it shouldn't be. One of the most frequent arguments for why people do not build email lists is usually that list building is tough and to many an ordeal, next to impossible.

To build a significant list of subscribers in a short time you would need a high-end advertisement and an appealing, almost irresistible FREE gift to go along as an incentive for those who subscribe to it and leave you with their email. The free gift, technically is termed as a lead magnet in the world of marketing and is particularly one of the key elements of every list building process. This free gift is what help you establish a list.

Although theoretically we may say that list building is pretty simple, but in practice the list building process can be quite tricky if you don’t know what your are doing and what are the end results that you are trying to achieve. Some people would even pay a fortune to get their hands on a few significantly long mailing lists and then end up realizing that only some people open the messages being sent to them and nobody buys anything easy. It is true that list building might be hard if you don’t have a very good system in place and a solid strategy to be able to produce a profit out of it. However, we come with a great news for you all of you who are interested in internet marketing.

Chapter 02 - Getting Started

We found an easier solution to build our mailing list and earn money during the process of building my list, and we will now be teaching you on how to replicate this proven strategy without charging you a single penny. Just in case you have not already been working on building your email list by now, or you have run out of ideas to accomplish this, we will be guiding you through the process and helping you in learning how to make your list and make that income from home. No matter which part of the world you may be living in you can cash in on your mailing list with a few clever strategies and moves. You can start your list and online marketing with a simplistic approach of using emails. The key is creating powerful emails that will influence your audience into opening the email.

However, before that, I must begin by telling you the truth, your email marketing and its respective database is subject to degrading by almost 22.5% each year. Your contacts may change their email addresses and therefore as a smooth online marketer, it will be your job to ensure that you are constantly adding and updating fresh contacts to your precious email marketing list. You can accomplish this with the help of which you can run successful campaigns, and with the help of which you can keep your sales soaring and the numbers in your bank account moving up and right.

2.1 How to get STARTED?

Start with the creation of a remarkable email content, which will be appealing enough, as to tempt your audience into opening the email. Your content will be by all means need to be amazing, and if you are planning that your visitors or your client should be loyal and keep returning to your product. With significant number of visitors the case will usually be that, they may not only stay but also subscribe and later forward your emails to a few of their friends, family, and colleagues if not all. This will only happen if you captivate and engage them; it will give you more marketing exposure and help you in reaching out to those who are not already on your mailing list.

2.2 What must you do for that six figure online income?

Here are 22 simple steps in which you can build up your mailing list and maintain a good income with almost no work later. But mind you, the secret is in a great deal of hard work initially, you cannot just lie about and rely on bought mailing lists, you will carefully need to establish one and ensure that the list you have is of potential clients, who will be interested in your product and this will enhance the possibilities of you locking sales and making the profits that you wish to:

Number One:

You must inspire your present email subscribers into sharing and forwarding your emails through to more people, who may not be on your subscription list. This forwarding and publicizing of your product will be inclusive of social sharing buttons and that send an "e-mail to a friend" button which will further reinforce your advertising emails and bring about more chances of sales. With this method, if you are able to engage and captivate you should be able to gain access to contemporary networks. At the backend of your emails, and your mailing list must comprise of a vital feature of "Subscription" with your embedded website, to ensure that all traffic reaches you and you have a higher chance of capturing sales.

Number Two:

You can get many sales by promoting an internet contest, such as a free giveaway, and have entrants sign up or subscribe with their e-mail addresses, this way you will not only know who is interested in your niche but also make a strong mailing list of potential clients. (For a higher rate of success: Do not forget to advertise your contest on social media platforms!)

Number Three:

You can create more than one e-mail subscriptions, so that you have a variety to offer as individuals with different interests subscribe to you. What will make this more effective is the relevance and personalized effect that this can have; always remember that addressing your potential client directly will always give you greater impact than generally shooting out the same e-mails to everyone. It would only be smart to divide your potential audience into 5 6 categories, where you can have more clicks and hence a higher conversion rate.

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If you’re like most other business coaches, you’re an experienced entrepreneur who can not only talk the talk... but walk the walk when it comes to building and maintaining a successful business.

And like so many others with your level of expertise, you possess a genuine desire to help other business owners become successful and have their dreams fulfilled.

What gives what you have to offer a struggling business owner a great deal of value, is your willingness and practice of being hands on.

In other words, when someone seeks you out, and or secures your services, they are not tapping into an anonymous internet persona or a text book.

But rather, they are gaining access to a living breathing business professional who generously gives them your time, talents, advice and proven expertise.

A client is a recipient of all of your experience and business know-how. And if that isn’t enough, they also receive it in a customizable fashion, tailored to meet their specific needs and goals.

However, just like numerous other business owners, it’s not uncommon for many business consultants to have difficulty scaling their operation.

The good news is...in this special report you can discover the ways and means to do exactly that, and do it simply and easily.

The following detailed steps will guide you.

What is Your Niche?

Step number one is... decide what your niche is.

Are you a big-picture individual who wants to focus on all areas of your client’s company...?

Or do you want to be a specialist and zero in on a specific department of a business?

Maybe you’re a sales wizard. Or you could be brimming with expertise in the areas of finance or securing joint ventures. Perhaps like the president in his former life, you are an expert at ‘The art of the deal”.

Only you know the answer to this... so you will have to decide.

But let’s use the practice of law as an example.

An attorney who practices law as a generalist, earns considerably less than a lawyer who specializes in, let’s say...personal injury law.

There’s a considerable difference between a generalist and a specialist

By specializing, you are perceived as someone who has, and can delve deep into your well of knowledge and offer solutions to obstacles and pressing issues a generalist cannot.

This kind of expertise is looked upon as having greater value than what would normally be possessed or made available by a lawyer who dabbles in many areas of the law.
Next, you need to look inside yourself and ask the following two questions:

Ponder your skill sets, acquired knowledge, and hands-on-experience. Then ask and decide what is the number #1 problem you can solve for your clients?

What makes your problem-solving solution unique?

When you able to deliver genuine results for your clients in a unique way, you will generate loyal among your clients and it won’t be long before you acquire more followers than you could have ever imagined.

Your next step is attracting your ideal clients.

How to Attract Clients Without Difficulty

There are three concrete steps you can take to acquire new clients and move your coaching business forward.

Pay-per-Click Advertising 

By far, pay per click (PPC) ads via Facebook, Google AdWords, and LinkedIn are the fastest way to start sending people to your funnel and content.

Social media platforms make it easy to target clients who are ideal for you and your coaching business. Facebook is especially affective. For the simple reason their platform has built in demographic, interest, and behavior-based targeting abilities.

However, keep in mind that testing different types of ads in your campaigns is key to turning your advertising into profitable undertakings.

Strategic Partnerships 

Developing a profitable and mutually benefitting partnership is dependent upon you finding a partner who provides a product or service that complements yours.

A strategic partner is not your competition, for the simple reason you both share the same target audience.

Expert Positioning

One of the very best ways to be seen as an expert in your particular area of expertise is for you to post highly valuable content your audience finds irresistible.

You can create a great deal of buzz with blog posts, videos, and social media posts. In fact, once your content begins to attract attention due to folks sharing it, it won’t too long before your content goes viral.

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The Best Practices for Building your Instagram Business

You probably have wondered how short videos and images can be used to promote business awareness through Instagram in a bid to enhance customer experience. It is simple. Instagram can be used to promote your business online through a number of ingenious ways that have been developed over time. Here is a list of strategies, tools and practices that can assist you building your Instagram business.

Learning To Use Instagram for Business

You should note that Instagram has been used on a number of occasions for fun. People are gradually absorbing the idea of using Instagram for business and hence you should learn how to use Instagram for business other than fun. Since businesses are increasingly using this platform for the purpose of promoting their business, Instagram initiated the Instagram for Business Blog. The blog was initiated for the purpose of offering helpful tips and ideas on how to use the platform for business.

If you are new on Instagram and intend to use it for business promotion, it is important to visit the Instagram for Business Blog. The platform is operated and managed by Instagram HQ and offers numerous tips on how to make use of it for business purposes. With this platform, a new Instagram user is able to learn basic tips and practices of its usage for business purposes.

Therefore, the Instagram for Business Blog is the very first avenue to explore when you want to promote your business on Instagram.

Striking a Balance b/w Fun Images and Visuals Meant To Promote Your Business

Instagram is widely recognized as a social media meant for fun. Drawing from this, not many people view the platform as an avenue for promoting business. Nonetheless, the enormous traffic drawn by this social media platform is ideal for business promotion. It is for this reason that entrepreneurs are increasingly using Instagram with the intention of promoting their businesses. In the process of using Instagram as a platform for business promotion, it is important to balance between fun images and images meant to promote your business.

While you ought to include fun images in order to attract and impress your audience on Instagram, be careful not to overuse fun images. In the event that your Instagram is flocked with fun images with only a few images and short vides that promote your business, you are at a risk of misinforming your audience. It is always important to clarify your intentions on your Instagram. Make it clear that your platform is meant for business promotion. By doing this, you will be notifying your audience on what to expect during your business promotion. Needless to say, it is imperative for a business personality, or an entity for that matter, to balance between fun images and images meant for business promotion.

Nurture a Following on Your Instagram

A key preamble to promoting a business online via Instagram is ensuring you have a sizable number of followers. The more followers you have on your Instagram the better your chances of succeeding in your promotional activities on social media. Thus, having an enormous following is one of the most significant tickets to succeeding in Instagram marketing of a business. It should be noted that there are a number of proven tactics of cultivating the desired following on Instagram.

One of the widely used methods of cultivating the desired following on Instagram is connecting an Instagram account with a Facebook account. It should be noted that Instagram has a provision of connecting to a Facebook account. With this tool, you are able to synchronize your Instagram and Facebook accounts. When this is done, all your postings on Instagram will be shared on your Facebook account and hence appear on your Facebook timeline. By the way, Facebook and Instagram are associated entities with the same ownership and the possession of the two somehow leverages a business and individual’s online presence. This is an implication that your Facebook friends will be able to view, like, and share your Instagram images and short videos. Therefore, when your Instagram account is linked to your Facebook account, you stand a chance of doubling your audience thereby enabling your promotional information on Instagram to reach far and wide.

You can also make use of your Facebook audience to communicate your presence on Instagram. This can be achieved by cross-posting selected images and short videos to your Facebook page and aligning them to your campaign on Instagram. With this provision, your Facebook audience can be made aware of your engagements on Instagram and follow your there. On most occasions, this practice comes in handy in the event that you are new on Instagram and want to have the same audience on your Facebook page to follow you on your new Instagram page. Therefore, cross-posting images on Facebook and aligning them with your Instagram campaigns is an important strategy of not only cultivating an audience on your Instagram page but also promoting your business effectively on this platform.

The use of relevant popular hash tags is also another useful strategy of cultivating the desired following on your Instagram. Social media enthusiasts have a trend of identifying themselves with popular or trending hash tags. On most occasions, trending hash tags are used to disseminate current and highly persuasive information of any kind. You can therefore take advantage of the enormous traffic attracted by these hash tags to effectuate your promotional goals on Instagram. If this is done correctly, your promotional information on Instagram will reach a wide audience thereby assisting in meeting your marketing objectives.

Building a strong business through Instagram can also be achieved by engaging other famous Instagram personnel and liking their images and short videos. It is important to note that Instagram users will feel free to like your content if you like theirs as well. You can take advantage of this trend and like images and short videos posted by other Instagram users with the intention of luring them to like yours as well. This has worked for many and will definitely work for you if done correctly.
Make Good Use of Debut Videos

Videos clips complement the image and photo postings on Instagram. Therefore, it is advocated that savvy promoters should make consideration in uploading video clips that are sizable enough for the followers to peek through and generate fun. Notably, the video support capability by Instagram has, in many ways, offered an alternative to and, in fact, become a direct competitor to twitter’s Vine. The most notable competitive edge that Video on Instagram has over Vine is the 15-second editable video and filter-enabled functionality. This is in comparison to the 6.5 seconds of twitter’s Vine. The fact that Instagram is doing well with video attachments is a direct implication that the use of videos can go a long way in helping users cultivate the much desired following needed to grow Instagram business promotion. Therefore, you should never hesitate to make use of video attachments on your Instagram.

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Chapter 1: Affiliate Marketing - Definition and Overview

Affiliate marketing is a way of making money online. It’s really a simple concept. When you are an affiliate marketer, you promote a product, service, or site for a business, and you as a publisher get rewarded for doing so.

In most cases, you find products related to your niche and offer them on your website or blog. You promote the products and post a link on your site where they can purchase the products. Then, when someone follows that link to buy something, you earn a commission. The commissions can be either a percentage of the sale or a fixed amount. You’ve seen links to other sites when you’ve read other people’s blogs. These links make the blogger money.

For example: I write a book about affiliate marketing. Your blog is centered on tips to make money online. You actually promote and sell the book from your site. You get a percentage of the sale. It’s like being paid an advertising or marketing fee.

You may also sell other products that are related to your site. For example: You blog about cooking and recipes. There are endless numbers of cooking related appliances or utensils you could sell from your site to make it easier for them to prepare those recipes.

In other cases, you might earn an amount when someone follows the link and take some kind of action such as: sign up for something with their email address or complete a survey with their name and address.

Your earnings are usually tracked by using a link that has a code embedded in it. This link is only used by you. They may also be tracked when the advertiser gives you a coupon code. You’ve probably followed a link from another site at one time or another online. You’ve also probably bought something where you enter a code. When customers do this, you make money without doing a thing. They do the work for you.

There are a few factors that help make your affiliate marketing successful.

They include:

The amount of traffic you have. The higher the traffic, the greater your earning potential will be.

The quality of the products you recommend. Recommending junk products can really hurt you, so you want to make sure what you recommend will be a value to your readers.

The amount of trust your readers have in you. If you have established trust, your readers are more likely to click on the link.

Publishers like affiliate marketing for the obvious reason…you get paid while someone else does the work. You may be in bed asleep and still be earning money. If you find a product that is relevant to your niche, your earnings can be good if you have a large following.

You may be wondering why an advertiser would pay people for advertising in this manner. It’s a matter of cost. They may pay a lot of money for an advertising campaign that doesn’t pay off. With affiliate marketing, however, they only pay when the advertising pays off. If they have a network of affiliates they may make less per sale, but overall, their sales will increase.

If you have a good level of trust with the people who read your blog, they will trust that you wouldn’t recommend something they wouldn’t like. This will cause them to at least look at what you’re recommending. With the right sales pitch online, you can make it something they “must” have. If they purchase something from you and it is a good product that they like, they’re more apt to buy another. They’ll also pass on where they got it. That will lead more traffic to your site and increase your sales.

Chapter 2: Advantages and Benefits of Affiliate Marketing

If you’re looking for a way to make money online, you should consider affiliate marketing. There are numerous benefits to becoming an affiliate. These include:

There’s no production cost—If you wanted to set up a business selling products online you’d have to buy, ship, and store the products. It can be costly. If you have an affiliate program, production cost isn’t an issue. The merchant has already paid for the development of the product.

The set-up cost is low—You probably already have a desk, an internet connection, and a computer. That’s all you need to get started.

There are no fees or licenses to pay—Affiliate programs are usually free to join. Your geographic market reach is as big as your ability to promote your site. The internet is a worldwide marketplace. You can take advantage of this market.

You can sell almost anything—There are a few blog sites that probably wouldn’t be able to find a product to promote that is related to their niche, but they are limited. Almost everything you can think of is sold online. There are thousands of affiliate programs, so it is easy to find products related to your current site or the site you are planning to set up.

You don’t have to handle any sales to make money from them—You have no inventory, no order processing, and no shipping to deal with. You making money from sales by promoting the products, not having take care of the actual sales process.

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Foreword

If you or someone you know is experiencing difficulties with a drug addiction, you know how damaging it can be to a person’s life. However, if you are a person or know someone who has just begun using drugs, you may not be fully aware of the dangers you fill face once you become addicted to the drug. One of the best things you can do to either avoid or treat a drug addiction is to make sure you are well informed on the subject. It is advised that you get your information from a reliable source, such as this book, rather than from other drug users. The following chapters in this book will touch base on some key points that will help you with beating or avoiding an addiction which will eventually lead to death.

Many people think that their addiction problems will never be solved or that change is impossible. This is not true! With proper guidance, determination, support, and the helpful information in this book, a better drug-free life will be within reach.

Chapter 01 - What is Drug Addiction?

Synopsis

Drug addiction is a serious problem and it is not only found in certain areas or with certain types of people. Addiction is found everywhere and with all types of people. It does not matter if a person is rich or poor, strong or weak or what neighborhood or country they live in, addiction exists. That is why it is so important that people are well informed on the subject of addiction because no matter who you are or where you are, if you make poor decisions involving drugs addiction is waiting just around the corner.

Some people may be misinformed on drug use and addiction, either because they have talked to the wrong people or because they have not talked to anyone about it. This is understandable; it can be awkward talking to others about drug-abuse and addiction, especially when the person is already sliding down the slippery slope of addiction. If you are one of these people this book might serve as a better option for you because it contains reliable information that you can read in privacy and not have to be embarrassed about your issues. The following chapter will provide you with more information on the basics of drug addiction.

Addiction Basics

Being stuck in an addiction or knowing a friend or loved one with an addiction can feel like you are being sucked into a black hole with no way of escaping and death waiting just on the other side of the tunnel. Those who are currently experiencing addiction or are currently in recovery know how true that statement really is. The worst part about addiction is that once it is full blown it begins to make people delusional toward how bad their problem really is. Getting through to someone about how much damage they are causing to their body can be compared to trying to reason with a rock, they just don’t listen. In most cases, it is not until the addict reaches their lowest possible point in life, also known as rock bottom, that they will begin to see what their life has really become. Sadly, this point often times comes no sooner than death.

Drug addiction comes in a couple different forms. There are mental drug addictions and there are physical drug addictions, there can also be addictions that are mental and physical. Mental addictions are serious, but can be easier to deal with than physical addictions. This is due to the fact that a physical addiction stems from a lack of chemicals produced in the brain because of drug-abuse. Chemicals that are naturally produced by the body to regulate your mood and energy levels are produced at a slower rate when drugs are taken on a regular basis to try to compensate for the flood of dopamine and serotonin that the brains receptors are trying to take in. At first this flood of chemicals in the brain will cause euphoric feelings but as time goes on, your brain starts to produce less and less of its own chemicals. This leads to more drug use and a worse addiction. The act of using more drugs to try to reach the same level of euphoria is known as chasing the high. Eventually this leads to the brain producing hardly any chemicals and the person feels depressed without the drug, has a hard time functioning without the drug, and can become physically ill. A couple good examples of physically addictive drugs would be heroin and alcohol. Both can make a person very ill and that is why most heroin abusers and alcoholics have to go through a detox process in a clinic before going to rehab.

If you are a parent who is trying to keep your child from using drugs, or any other loved ones, the following are a few tips that will help you in your battle.

Know Their Friends:

It is important that you know all of their friends. You need to actually sit down and talk with their friends to get a real feel for the type of person they are. A lot of parents know the names of their child’s friends but do not really know anything about them. This can create a high risk situation because most kids begin using drugs through the influence of their social group. This is especially true around the junior high to high school phase of the child’s life. However, it seems that every year kids are starting to use drugs at a younger age and harder drugs than you would think a child would ever do. That is why it is so important to know all of your child’s friends, even at an early age.

Be Involved in Their Life:

People want to feel loved, so it is important to be involved in your child’s life. Do everything you can to show them that they matter. It may be

difficult at times to make time for this but it is very important and should be thought of as your top priority.

Be Honest and Have Discussions:

This is probably the most important step you need to take in order to prevent or treat an addiction. If your loved ones do not feel as if they can be honest with you they will most likely stray off in undesirable directions. This can be avoided by being open with your loved ones and making them feel as if they can tell you anything.

If you are a person who is already suffering from addiction or know someone who is, the following chapters will be very beneficial for you because they contain information on treatment for drug addictions.

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Introduction

If you’re looking for a way to make money without a huge upfront investment, and without a lot of hassles or work, drop shipping with an e-commerce platform is exactly what you’ve been looking for.

It’s simple, inexpensive to get started, and your business can be run in your spare time or turned into a full-time business, if you wish to branch out.

With drop shipping, you don’t have to worry about having money to invest in inventory, or about dealing with finding warehouse space or shipping out packages.

Simply add products to your online store, place orders with the drop shipper, and have them sent directly to your customers. For the most part, it’s incredibly straightforward, and hassle-free!

Obviously, like any business, you’ll have to be ready to deal with issues occasionally, but we’re going to cover some easy ways you can minimize any such issues and keep your business running like a well-oiled machine.

This special report is all about helping you get started with drop-shipping quickly and easily. Not only will I show you how to find the best drop shipping sources, but I’ll even show you to jumpstart your business by generating premium traffic to your store. So, let’s get started!

Chapter 01 - Drop Shipping - How does it Work?

Let’s take a quick look at how the drop shipping process works, starting with how to sell using just a single product as an example.

Let’s say you decide to drop ship fidget spinners. You choose a model you believe will be popular, and you create a simple web page for the product with a photo, description, basic information, and a link to buy.

When someone makes a purchase from your page, they pay you at the time of purchase. You then order the product from the supplier’s website, paying for it with the money the customer already paid you, and enter your customer’s shipping address instead of your own.

It’s a bit like making a gift purchase from a site like Amazon. You pay for the product, but you have it shipped directly to the buyer.

Okay, you probably have a whole bunch of questions running through your mind right now. We’ll get to most of them shortly. But yes, it really is that simple.

The first thing you’re probably asking is, “Why not just order the products from Amazon if it’s that simple?”

Well, there are two BIG problems with that.

First, you’d never make much of a profit doing that. Products on Amazon are being sold around retail price, so making a profit would be pretty difficult unless you somehow manage to get into a niche market with a lot of demand where you can charge a premium price and still have buyers.

Second, Amazon puts their own promotional material all over everything they send out. While you might get one order from a customer, once they realize the products came from Amazon, they’ll go there, discover the product was much cheaper there, and never order from you again.

It’s just not a smart way to build your own brand.

With drop shipping, most companies won’t put their materials or branding on or in the boxes, and some may even put your promotional material into the packages for you, if you ask!

Example: I’ve purchased coder stickers from a popular programmer online and while he’s transparent about the fact that he purchases the stickers from a drop-shipper in China, when the package arrived every sticker package had his branding and logo on the box! I would have never known it was a drop shipped package from China.

And that’s the point. You are selling products as though they come directly from you, even though you never have to bother shipping anything out or tracking packages. You simply receive payment, order the item, and let the company handle delivery.

Are you starting to understand why so many people love drop-shipping?

Chapter 02 - Advantages of Drop Shipping

You don’t have to use drop shipping to be successful in e-commerce. You can find success with just one simple, inexpensive product with a relatively small upfront investment.

You can also find success investing a great deal upfront in stock and offering a wide variety of items. It’s totally up to you and your circumstances.

However, if you want to have a full e-commerce site, and you don’t have a lot of money to invest in the beginning, drop shipping is the perfect business model to help you get started. You can always invest in inventory later, once your business is profitable enough.

Keep in mind that drop shipping is not a perfect business model. There are a few issues you need to keep an eye out for, which we will address in the next chapter. But there are some big benefits, too.

Let’s take a look at some of the biggest benefits of drop shipping.

For one thing, you don’t have to invest a huge amount of money in the beginning to get started. All you need to get started is a domain, website, and the software to run your shop. In most cases, you can get started for less than a hundred bucks.

Also, you don’t have to spend as long sourcing products. One of the most time-consuming elements of e-commerce is finding the right products for your shop, and when you use drop shipping, you’ll often be able to source multiple products from the same supplier.

It’s also very easy to add inventory to your shop, because most major drop shipping suppliers either have a plugin you can use to automatically add inventory to your shop, or they have CSV files you can import into your software to control your stock. This is a huge time saver.

Another great thing about drop shipping is that there is much less risk involved. Since you aren’t investing in product upfront, you don’t have to worry about getting stuck with unsold inventory if you buy something that turns out to not be as popular as you anticipated.

It’s also very nice to not have to worry about having warehouse space, managing inventory, and sending out packages. These are all things that are expensive and time-consuming, and they are completely avoided by using drop shipping.

These are just a few of the biggest benefits, and you can probably already see how great it can be for someone who’s just getting started!

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Introduction

Webinars have become one of the most popular ways to promote a business in the past few years. They are so effective because they provide an immersiveness that other forums of media do not and attendees get real-time information delivered straight to them, not to mention the interactivity of question-and-answer sessions. According to the Adobe Software blog, webinars rank in the top three of the content delivery methods out there.

If you are reading this book and have no idea what the word ‘webinar’ actually means, it is a method of communicating to a group via a specific platform, with the ability to share information with them like voice, text, slides, multimedia and more. Webinar is a play off of the word ‘seminar’ because that’s what a webinar basically is – a seminar for the web.

In order to use a webinar to promote your business, you are going to need to know the secrets to a successful webinar. This book is your guide to putting on a successful webinar, including emphasis on the most important concepts. According to SlideShare, the elements that engage 70% of people the most are interesting content and a passionate speaker.

This book will help you become a passionate and engaging speaker, as well as develop your idea so that you can host the best webinar possible. In addition, we will be covering other concepts that are vital to webinars, such as the equipment that you will need, mastering Q&A’s, working with co-organizers and hiring staff and much more.

This book is divided into three sections. The first section will cover what you need to do before your webinar starts. The second is information you will need to start your webinar and things that happen during. Finally, the third section will cover what happens after your webinar is over and how you can begin preparing for the next one.

Each section will explore in-depth the topics of webinars and at the end you will be able to prepare and hold a webinar with confidence. Here are just a few of the benefits that you will get out of this book.

Understanding what the available platforms are for conducting webinars and how much they cost, as well as information on how to use them. These programs are complex and often have a great deal of features. You will be able to understand how these programs work with this book.

You will also learn how to choose the topic for discussion during your webinar. Choosing a topic that is interesting and engaging is very important because it a significant number of attendees go to webinars simply because of the topic.

How to prepare for your webinar, including how to do marketing and advertising. You are going to need to let people know about your webinar and most people are pretty lost the first time that they try to get attendees. You will have some tools for promoting your webinar when you finish this book. You will also learn how to prepare your slides, do a rehearsal and make sure that you are completely ready to run a webinar.

You will learn methods for improving your presenting skills, including how to have better diction, body language and many other factors.

You will be able to choose which equipment you want to use for your webinar, and make sure that you present yourself in the best way possible like tips for screen sharing, camera, lighting, backdrop and more.

You will be able to improve your current webinars by making them more interesting and engaging, including the way that you present slides and using alternative forms of multimedia to make your webinar amazing.

Learn how to increase your attendees by partnering up with other speakers and each of you giving information to the audience. A webinar with one expert is great, but a webinar with multiple experts can’t be missed.

Everything you need to know about monetizing your webinar, including how to charge admission for your webinars and how to host webinars for free but make money by creating other revenue streams. There are many people making very good money with their webinars and you can do the same.

You’ll learn what to do at the end of a webinar in order to get people to take action, whether that means signing up for an email list or actually buying something that you are selling. The whole point of free webinars is to point consumers towards the alternative revenue streams and then convince them to take immediate action.

You’ll also learn what it takes to get people to come back to your future webinars. If you don’t have return attendees, then you will be starting over every single webinar you do. This book contains tips on how to make them want to sign up for your next webinar and then how you can actually convince them to show up.

In addition, you will learn how you can create a business from your archived webinars including tips for placing them on YouTube and bundling them up into a course and selling it separately (via a webinar of course).

Finally, you will learn things that will help you immensely if this is your first time doing a webinar. For example, do you know which day or days of the week is best for a webinar? Do you know how long most attendees prefer them to be? If you are going to charge for your webinar do you know what price range will make people attend and at what point you will price yourself out of business? These are all things that are covered in this book

This is going to be an exciting journey through the world of webinars and you will learn more than you ever have before to create the perfect webinar business. If you have struggled with webinars in the past, then this book will help you get back on track and make the kind of money that you have always wanted to from webinars.

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Could You Be Having Hearing Trouble?

Around 45 million Americans have some degree of hearing loss. While seniors are the group most at risk (half of people over 75 have some hearing loss), hearing loss can happen to anyone, at any age.

Common reasons for hearing loss include genetics, exposure to loud noise, viruses and infections, as well as blockages and obstructions in the ear from fluid, earwax, or foreign objects. Many forms of hearing loss are preventable but irreversible, so it’s important to take steps to protect your hearing. Read on to learn more about how the ear works, and how common problems can affect your hearing.

=> How the Ear Works

In order to understand how many ear problems develop, it’s helpful to know a little bit about how the ear works. The ear is made up of three parts: the outer, middle and inner ear.

The Outer Ear

The outer ear consists of the ear canal and the pinna (also called the auricle), which is the portion of the ear outside your body. The outer ear captures sound waves and funnels them through the ear canal to the middle ear. 

The Middle Ear

The middle ear, an air-filled cavity, has the important job of transforming sound waves into vibrations. Between the outer ear and the middle ear lies the eardrum (tympanic membrane), which stretches tight across the ear canal. When soundwaves come into the ear canal, they hit the eardrum, causing it to move. When the eardrum moves, it sends vibrations into three tiny bones in the middle ear. These bones, the malleus, incus, and stapes (the smallest bone in the body), are collectively called the ossicles. The ossicles transmit vibrations to the inner ear.

In order for the middle ear to work properly, the air pressure on both sides of the body needs to be equal. The Eustachian tubes, which connect the ear to the back of the throat, help to balance pressure on both sides of the body. When you have a bad cold, the Eustachian tubes have a hard time draining fluid and balancing pressure, which is why your hearing can be muffled when you are sick.

The Inner Ear

In the inner ear, the vibrations from the middle ear are transformed into nerve signals that are sent to the brain for processing. The cochlea, a snail-shaped, fluid-filled part of the inner ear, is where vibrations are changed into nerve signals. The nerve signals then travel to the brain along the cochlear nerve. 

Just above the cochlea, like antennae on a snail, are the semicircular canals. These three fluid-filled tubes control balance. Each canal is lined with tiny hairs. As you move, the fluid in the tubes splashes around, moving the tiny hairs. This provides information on the position of the body. The hairs send that data to the brain via the vestibular nerve. The brain then sends signals to our muscles, helping us to stay balanced.

If you are prone to motion sickness, you have the semicircular canals to thank. When they sense a lot of movement, but the eyes say we’re staying still (as on an airplane), the brain gets confused, resulting in nausea. 

Hearing Loss

Hearing loss is classified into three types, depending on where in the ear the problem originates. 

* Conductive hearing loss involves the outer or middle ear. In conductive hearing loss, something is preventing the sound waves from reaching the inner ear. The most common causes of conductive hearing loss are blockages from fluid, earwax or foreign objects in the ear, and ear infections.  

* Sensorineural hearing loss involves the inner ear. Sensorineural hearing loss is most commonly caused by genetics, viruses and infections, exposure to loud noises, and as a side effect of some medications and other chemicals. 

* Mixed hearing loss occurs when there is both conductive hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss. Mixed hearing loss can happen as the result of a head injury, infections, or due to genetic disorders.

While some types of conductive hearing loss can be reversed, many forms of sensorineural hearing loss can’t be improved. However, if your hearing loss can’t be reversed, doctors and audiologists have many tools to help you manage hearing loss, including hearing aids, surgery, and training on how to minimize the impact of hearing loss on your life. 

=> Protecting Your Ears from Hearing Loss

While you can’t do anything about your genetics, you can protect your ears from some kinds of hearing loss. Even if you already have some amount of hearing loss, protecting your ears will help prevent future damage, and keep your hearing as healthy as possible.