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Selling more products via the Internet is a major concern of most product retailers, distributors and manufacturers in today’s online world. The Internet has proven to be a terrific way to distribute products in a cost effective and efficient manner and should be a major focus for just about every product company.

If you’re a product company and are looking for an affordable way to sell more products, then lo and behold! Google Product Search is exactly what you’ve been looking for. Google Product Search, formerly named Froogle, is a place where product companies can submit and list their products directly with Google’s shopping search engine.

It’s a free service offered by Google that provides users with a search feature to search for products and be directed to the website(s) where they can purchase them. The previous name Froogle, named back in 2002, was originally a mash between the words “Google” and “Frugal” (meaning thrifty or thriftiness). The named was changed from Froogle to Google Product Search in August of 2006 because Google felt the word Froogle suffered in that users had no idea what Froogle offered from the name. There was nothing to make you think that Froogle meant shopping or product search, hence the new and improved name – Google Product Search.

Since Google has changed the name, Google Product Search has gained significant exposure from online users and it’s becoming more common for product companies to submit their products on a daily basis to increase product sales.

Google allows you to reach more shoppers by submitting information about your products to Google Base so they’ll be found on Google Product Search. You can link directly from the Google search results to your website. Depending on how many items you have, you can choose to submit your products one at a time, all at once using a bulk upload, or by having an automated product feed submitted three times a week, eliminating the need for you to manage the uploads all on your own.

The great part about doing an automated feed is once you’re setup, you’re done! Shoppers will be able to find your items on Google Product Search within 24 hours after they are submitted to Google Base and will be automatically updated three times a week. So as you add new products to your website, they are automatically added to Google Product Search, dramatically increasing product sales for your product company.

I spent many years in corporate life sitting through both presentations and meetings. I’ve also run a lot of courses on how to deliver effective presentations and how to organise and run successful meetings. One thing I’ve learned is that presentations and meetings tend to have a lot in common – and not in a good way.

1. They’re often organised without any clear purpose or outcome in mind.
2. They usually consist of one person passing on information to other people who have little interest in it.
3. They usually take place because someone in authority decides they should happen, not because the people involved want or need them.
4. The people who have to attend spend most of their time wishing they were somewhere else.
5. Often, even the person delivering the presentation or chairing the meeting also wishes he or she didn’t have to do it but they had no choice in the matter.
6. They nearly always go on longer than expected because no-one really knows how to bring them to an end.
7. People are often expected to deliver presentations or chair meetings as part of their job but get no specific training in how to do it properly.
8. There is technology available to help but most people have no idea how to use it effectively.
9. Organisations develop a “culture” (which is a fancy name for “habit”) of how to run meetings or presentations and people copy what they see everyone else doing, which perpetuates the bad practice.

A cynical view? Possibly. Accurate? In my experience, definitely!

It amazes me how many organisations still allow poorly organised or badly thought-out meetings and presentations to take place, soaking up hours of people’s valuable time and costing huge amounts in terms of staff costs. They would see a great return on investment if they questioned the way they do things and just gave people some basic training to help them improve the situation.

Most people are too concerned about what others think about them. Most guys tend to be held back by “some labels” attached to them by others around them. Often these “labels” stick on us because we dislike change or fail to realize we can change the way people look at us.

For example:
(1) “Shy guys” are shy because they are afraid of breaking their “nice boy” image
(2) “Boring guys” never flirt because they are afraid of being seen as “not serious” in a woman’s eyes.

Just like how you judge other people based on what you see, other people also judge you by what they see or hear.

For example:
(1) If you don’t look at women in the eyes, they are going to think of you having low self-esteem.
(2) If you always appear happy, people are going to think you are a warm and happy person.
(3) If you present yourself as a guy who is scared off women, women will think you as a guy who is scared off women.

You Teach People How To Treat You

If women always treat you like crap, it is because you let them.
If women always come to you when they need you and ignore you when they don’t, it is because you let them.

As you can see, these “label” that society or people around us attach on us can become the biggest obstacles in our lives. This is why you must be careful not to be defined by other people’s vision of you. The world will always be trying to assign you with various roles or “labels” in your life. As soon as you accept such a role, you will be stuck. Your power and personality will be limited to the confines of the role. As a nice guy, you will always have to be “nice” to women because you fear that if you stop, women will start seeing you as a jerk.

We Should Be Responsible for Our Own Identity

Define your own self-image. Create more than one. Don’t just become the teacher or accountant your mum has told you to become. Don’t keep acting like the guy, people “know” you about. Keep working on yourself to become the person you would want to become.

Here are 9 tips to build the identity and image that you want others to look upon you as:

(1) Realize that what seems to make sense 10 years ago may not make sense now. For example, even though it was wrong for you to talk to strangers and think about women you were 10, this doesn’t mean it is wrong for you to do so now.
(2) Your present situation is the result of your past actions. Whatever you do now will have a big impact on how your life will be in 5 months or 5 years later. If you work on your social skills now, you will be more sociable in 5 months from now.
(3) Take up a few new hobbies and learn a few new skills.
(4) Try things that you normally would never try. Be adventurous – it will expand your self-image quickly.
(5) A good way to break out of your past is by giving yourself a physical makeover. This “new look” will determine how you want yourself to be looked upon by the world.
(6) Make new friends who have the qualities you desire to have for yourself. Surround yourself with people who will improve your identity or self-image. If you are introvert with no social life, than stop “killing your time” with online friends. Hang out with people who have active social lives.
(7) Chase after your dreams and ambitions. Go after the things you really want in life.
(8) Redefine your definition of “being yourself”. Most people are not really “being themselves” when they say they are. All they are doing is letting others control their lives and trying to “live up” to other people’s expectations.
(9) Walk, talk and act as those successful people do (your idols). Study the things they do, do the things they do. You will become as successful as they are.

So, from now on, take charge of your own life and be the person, in how you want others to see you!