Hidup untuk menulis, menulis untuk hidup

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Bloglukmanagung.blogspot.com, Hidup untuk menulis, menulis untuk hidup. Bagaimana pendapat saudara-saudara sekalian? Setujukah dengan analogi demikian? Artinya fokus kita hanya menulis. Mengesampingkan provesi-provesi lain. Melulu hanya 'nulis' aja gitu loh!!!! Sehingga konsekwensinya kita bisa hidup karena menulis. 

Pasti arti menulis di sini adalah menjadi penulis profisional. Kita bekerja dengan cara menulis. Sedangkan menulis di sini meliputi segala yang berhubungan dengan dunia tulis menulis.Menjadi jurnalis atau wartawan media, bisa cetak maupun visual. saat ini yang butuh tulisan tidak hanya media cetak saja tetapi media yang lain pun memerlukan juga.Demikian juga penulis buku, penulis menjadi lahan yang paling menguntungkan bagi penerbit. 

Penerbit akan selalu hunting penulis-penulis berbobot. Yaitu mereka yang mampu menyajikan tulisan-tulisan yang berkualitas dan berbobot. Tak jarang penerbit buku saling berebut penulis terkenal. Sekali saja seorang penulis mampu menghasilkan buku yang bermutu dan banyak diminati sidang pembaca hingga mencapai penjualan sampai ribuan buku dan berulang kali cetak ulang (best seller )maka nilai pengarang /penulis ini semakin tinggi sehingga banyak penerbit yang ingin bekerja sama. Tentu saja karena perhitungan-perhitungan bisnis sehingga penulis yang akan banyak diuntungkan karena nilai tawarnya akan semakin tinggi. 

Adalah Tafiqurahman al azizi, novelis terkenal selalu berpegang pada analogi di atas, bahwa hidup untuk menulis dan menulis untuk hidup. TERBUKTI kalimat itu telah mengantarkannya pada gerbang kesuksesan. Siapa yang tidak kenal beliau. Penulis terkenal dengan buku-buku yang selalu mencapai puncak penjualan. Satu judul buku bisa sampai beberapa kali cetak ulang.

 Produktifitasnya sangat tinggi, hanya dalam hitungan hari mampu menghasilkan sebuah buku yang sangat berkualitas.Gila! Sedangkan kita mencapai satu bab saja berbulan-bulan (biasa pemula, belum menemukan jalan yang lurus dalam penulisan) Tetapi suatu saat nanti pasti dan pasti bisa. Asal mau! Bukan hanya menjadi kaya secara materi saja tetapi secara spiritual kekayaan juga bertambah. Menjadi terkenal dan yang pasti secara keilmuan dan intelektual.  Menjalani Hidup untuk menulis, menulis untuk hidup. Semoga tulisan ini bisa menjadikan semangat bagi kita semua dan termotifasi untuk menulis.Amiin!


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just do it !!!

Hanya satu kata just do it! Jangan ragu lagi langsung garap! Apa yang ada dalam fikiran segera tuangkan dalam tulisan. P D aja lagi! Temukan sumber daya yang ada di dalam diri. Semua pasti ada di dalam diri tinggal digali dan diberdayakan. Benar, pertama memang sulit rasanya. awali dengan yang paling sederhana, yang ada dalam fikiran dan angan sekarang.Banyak penulis hebat mengawali menjadi penulis dengan metode demikian. oke, just do it, Now!!!


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menjadi penulis

Salah satu peluang untuk meraih kesempatan menjadi orang sukses dan terkenal adalah menjadi penulis. Ketika ide kita telah tertuangkan di dalam tulisan dan mendapat sambutan serta respon dari pembaca maka gerbang kesuksesan telah ada di depan mata. Tentu saja tulisan yang akan mendapatkan respon pastilah tulisan yang spektekuler, kontrofersial dan harus bombastis. Setiap orang mempunyai kemempuan untuk menulis. Karena menulis sesungguhnya adalah hanya sebatas menerjemahkan apa yang ada di dalah benak kita. Sungguh setiap orang memiliki bakat dan kemampuan untuk menulis hanya tinggal mengasah. Bagaimana kita mengasah?


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How to Optimize Your PPC Earnings

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Bloglukmanagung.blogspot.com, How to Optimize Your PPC Earnings. If you are new to PPC (pay per click) advertising/publishing, than you should definitely do some research before simply slapping the ads on your website. While in theory earning money through programs such as AdSense sounds easy, it is not. Some people with decent websites make $0 per day, others make $500+ per day. The first thing you need to think about when considering adding PPC advertisements to your website or blog is how much traffic your website or blog receives daily. 

In general if you are not at the very least receiving several hundred page impressions per day, you will have a hard time earning even a single dollar. Traffic is definitely one of the most important aspects to earning through PPC ads. If you are not receiving enough traffic you need to consider several things. The first important part to getting traffic is having quality content. If people come to your website or blog and it has nothing that is useful to them, than don't expect them to spread the word or to ever return. If you offer useful,original, and overall quality content, than people do return and in some cases tell friends and family. 

So if you are lacking good content the first step to take is working on that. After you have good quality content you should look into SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. SEO is basically putting your website in a better standing to be ranked up in the top results of key words and phrases relating to your website or blog on search engines. Forms of SEO are things such as back linking by submitting your website to social bookmarking sites and directories, and even doing something as simple as emailing everyone you know and asking them to help you spread the word about your site. A great and easy way to receive quality back links would be to write good articles related to your website or blogs niche, and submit them to Ezine Articles with the links to your website in the resource box. Anything that can contribute to your website being ranked higher in search engines and receiving more traffic can be considered SEO. 

 Once you are receiving a good amount of traffic you need to look at what might make a person click on the ads. So often we see blogs and websites that have crazy color schemes and ads thrown all over the place. One thing that can really increase the amount of clicks you receive is how you set up your ads and how much they blend into your site. In general I have found that it is best to keep your website looking clean and neat. Make the ads look like part of your site, and don't put too many just because you can have three per page. If you can't fit two ads on a page without it looking bad, only place one. Make sure you blend the colors of your ads to match your site. 

If you sites background color is black for instance. Making the ads background black and the wording white could really make the ads look natural, yet still pop out at the viewers. Another important thing to consider is your niche or subject you write about. Certain niches pay better than others. For instance any website about games is going to earn less per click than a website about mesothelioma. While picking a well paying niche can earn you more per click, I personally suggest picking a subject that you can write good, useful articles about, and that you enjoy. Just remember, the most important aspects to making money through PPC programs are traffic, and ad placement/looks. 

How to Optimize Your PPC Earnings. If you generate good, quality traffic through honest methods, and make your website look nice. You will be on track to receiving a nice pay check from whichever PPC program you decide to go with. Good luck


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Helpful Tips For a Motor Trade Insurance Policy

Holding an insurance policy for a business that involves selling, fixing and generally working with cars is necessary, especially when the business is thriving. Even if it is a part-time business, a good motor trade insurance policy for your company can help you ease your mind in case of unexpected occurrences. The motor trade policy is an insurance coverage that is specifically designed for assisting large and small motor traders. You may notice that there are many types of insurance policies available for motor traders. There are a variety of premiums, coverage and features that you may want to select or your motor business. Therefore, it is important to have an idea of what kind of insurance you need that would fit perfectly to the company needs as well as the allotted budget. In most cases, specialised insurance sales teams handle the motor trade insurance policies. These motor trade insurance companies provide different types of coverage that are essential for motor business owners for ensuring the safety of their business. If you are looking for the right type of insurance policy for your motor trade business, you are usually given five choices when it comes to motor trade coverage on your insurance quotes. The most common types of motor trade policies are third party, fire and theft policies. These policies are the basic types of insurance policies that insurance agents are going to offer. However, you may also want to try other alternatives such as the comprehensive or liability coverage, as well as the combined policy. To ensure that you will get the best out of your insurance policy, it is just necessary to select the right type of coverage for your business. Most of the insurance policy holders are provided with interesting features that would help them in keeping their business in good stead. These interesting features may cover the social, domestic and administrative use of the insured vehicles. As a policy owner, you can also receive extra coverage for you and your partner. This additional insurance policy is a free coverage that provides up to fifty percent no claims bonus for a period of five years. Another great feature of these insurance policies is that motor traders have the option to use private or commercial bonuses from his original insurer. This would also have a great effect when it comes to reducing the cost of the premiums without compromising the amount of coverage of the insurance policy. Most often, the law requires the third party only type of motor trade insurance policy for businesses that involve selling, trading and repairing vehicles. Any type of business that works with cars is mandated to have this type of insurance policy in order to become eligible to operate within a certain area. Even a motor restoration shop or a garage or MOT station is also included within the businesses that should have the third party only policy. You can avail other policies such as the fire and theft insurance policies. You also have the option to select the comprehensive policy that would include all the coverage that is necessary for your business.


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Health, Fitness and Nutrition Tips

Approximately 33 billion dollars are spent on health and fitness products annually. WOW! 33 billion dollars! Not million...but BILLION! That's astonishing. But, if this is true then why are so many people in the U.S. overweight? According to a study from the Center for Disease Control, 35% of the U.S. population is overweight and 27% are clinically obese. That's well over half of our population. That's amazing. Being overweight has many detrimental effects, not only physically, but psychologically as well, leading to lower levels of confidence in ourselves and appearance. Carrying excess body fat can result in very serious health concerns including, coronary arterial disease, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and increased levels of stress. And these are just a few negative health issues, that can often times lead to additional problems. With all of the information available to us these days, why are so many people still struggling with so many health problems that in many instances can be prevented? Well, it's a combination of many things, including lack of proper education. There is so much information available to us it's hard to decipher what is the truth and what's not. This can be very confusing, typically guiding the public in the wrong direction. Also, too many people are looking for the easy or fast solution with the least amount of effort. Unfortunately, there is not short cut, or magic exercise machine or trendy diet that is going to help you reach the desired health benefits that you want. There are things that we can do to help us live healthier lives. For starters, we must change our behaviors. Most health problems are due to poor eating habits and being too sedentary. We have to stop depending on high saturated fats and high sugary meals (comfort foods) when we feel down or want something that will make us feel better. When I have days when I'm stressed, or generally feeling down about things, I exercise. It's a fact that when one exercises, the brain releases chemicals that not only increase our energy levels but make us feel great. The more habit forming we can make this than the better we will feel on a regular basis. Developing good nutritional habits is a key component in striving for better health. Rather than jumping on the latest fashionable diet craze. Try to find eating healthier in ways that work on a more individualized level. One diet cannot possibly work for everyone on the planet, despite what the bestselling books want you to believe. We have to consider our genetic makeup along with our overall health issues and goals. Eliminating certain food groups is not the answer. There are certain macronutrients our bodies need to survive; fats, protein, and carbohydrates. Start out by eating many small meals through ought the day, preferably 5-6. I'm not saying to eat five meals that are going to make you so full that you can't even move. But eat smaller meals, snacking between each one. For example, yogurt and a piece of fruit can be a wonderfully healthy snack. Fruits and vegetables not only make great snacks but they have extremely high nutritional value. They are loaded with disease fighting antioxidants. Plus, it's almost impossible to eat too many fruits or vegetables. You would have to consume literally hundreds of pieces. In addition, start the day by drinking a glass of water, this will aid in getting a jump on the hydration process. Follow that up with roughly 6-8 glasses of water throughout the day. If you are exercising regularly, drink more. But if you are just starting to form this habit, slowly begin by drinking 4 glasses daily gradually increasing your water intake as you feel comfortable. Your muscles are made up of 75% water. The more hydrated they are, than the easier it is for them to do their job. This holds true for your heart, as well. The reason for eating often is to increase your metabolism. Combining exercise with healthy eating habits will speed up your metabolism. This will turn your body into a more efficient fat and calorie burning machine. Building lean muscle also increases our metabolism, thus burns fat at a higher rate. Muscle burns 9 calories per hour while your body is at rest, compared to fat, which burns 4 calories per hour while at rest. That's more than twice as much! Can you believe it? By simply getting set up on an effective strength training program we can burn more fat! Also, cardiovascular exercise is an important part to the health and fitness equation. Not only is cardiovascular exercise great for your heart, but it too burns calories. A general rule of thumb is that for every mile you walk or jog, you will burn roughly 100 calories. Not to mention the incredible benefits your body will discover from more efficient oxygen intake ultimately leading to a lower resting heart rate. An important concept to keep in mind is to become more active. This might include walking more often, such as using the stairs rather than the elevator, or parking your car farther away while at the mall. Even performing some simple calisthenics, like jumping jacks, skipping rope, push-ups, sit-ups or anything that will increase your heart rate will help you get a jump on your fitness program. While watching your favorite half hour sitcom, try exercising during every commercial break. By simply getting your body moving, you will feel amazingly better. All it takes is some commitment, a little creativity and the desire to make you feel better. For maximum results, a complete health and fitness program includes all three components; eating healthy, strength training, and cardiovascular exercise. But as I mentioned earlier, everyone has different genetics, health concerns, and goals. Therefore it is critical to first consult your doctor before starting any program and then contact qualified professionals, such as a nutritionist and personal trainer. About Kelly Radomski: Kelly is the owner of Fitness Together in Santa Monica, CA and has a M.S. in Health and Exercise Science. She holds a certification with the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) and a certified personal trainer. She resides in Santa Monica, CA with her husband and son. Kelly meets with her personal training clients in her Fitness Together facility where they specialize in personal fitness training in private training suites. For more information about Kelly's training methods go to http://www.ftsantamonica.com or call 310 576-1508.


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The Future of Collaboration

Collaboration: it's a term that suddenly became trendy with the rise of new cutting-edge web 2.0 software solutions. Enterprise collaboration is a type of back-and-forth communication to promote innovation or take a product to the next level. Collaboration is the glue that holds many businesses together, allowing owners, managers, employees, clients and customers to see eye-to-eye. Back in the day, collaboration involved calling someone up and speaking on the phone, but nowadays it usually only takes a few mouse clicks to get a point across. New web applications that span various industries are taking collaboration to a new level, setting a new bar in ease-of-use and efficiency. The future of enterprise collaboration is also promising, with the potential to streamline and personalize data transfer. I'd like to take this opportunity to take a look at the present and future of cutting-edge collaboration technology. Where does enterprise collaborative technology stand today? And what sort of advancements can we expect at the turn of the 22nd century? Today, much of the front line collaborative technology is built on the trail that social networking cleared. Although social networking specifically refers to online communities like MySpace and Facebook, it also can be used as a broad term for any sort of 'social' collaboration. In the past, technology most often trickled down from high-tech business and government projects to mass consumer products (like the conception of the Internet itself). Social networking curiously took the opposite route, starting as a consumer tool for teens and geeks and slowly re-inventing itself as business communication technology. Not only do businesses around the world utilize their own proprietary collaborative networks, they also are starting to adopt consumer Web 2.0 tools. Google Documents is a great example of this. It began as Google's anti-Microsoft word document processing application, but has since evolved into a collaborative tool that businesses and consumers use to share data. From the Google Docs site: "Google Apps lets us centralize and consolidate information, simplifying our company's internal communication process and giving us better control over our business." Alejandra Cifuentes - IT Manager for Takami, Restaurant and Food Services Various other collaborative software tools allow businesses in every niche industry to efficiently share information across their network of employees. Another great example of an innovator is developers of recruiting and applicant tracking software solutions. The primary goal of applications like these is to simplify the line of communication between recruiters and hiring managers. By making this collaborative process more efficient, the whole hiring process benefits. So what does the future of collaboration hold? The Internet is such a powerful communication tool that it's hard to imagine any sort of collaboration existing outside of our current 'www infrastructure.' Think ahead to when the 'www' may no longer be relevant. Perhaps instead of domains and urls, we instead will be accessing information via thought command. Imagine accessing sites and information just as you currently access your memories. Speaking of memories, want to play back that first kiss and share it with your closest friends? Simply access it via your embedded neural chip and send it up into the cloud, where your buddies can access it and relive the memory along with you. On the business side of things, meetings can once again get up-close and personal. Meet, greet and collaborate wherever and whenever you want. Your client likes the beach? Set up your meeting on two solitary hammocks in Fiji. Or maybe have the meeting round-table style in the great hall of a European castle. Although the future of collaboration might sound a bit intimidating to you and I, it will certainly be commonplace for the coming generations.


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Hallo nama saya Lukman agung asal dari wonosobo jawa tengah, saat ini saya sedang belajar untuk menjadi blogger sejati, oya saya ayah dari anak-anak saya yang manis dan lucum selain ngeblog saya juga aktif sebagai penulis dibeberapa penerbit, sobat blogger bisa menghubungi saya lewat kontak form yang sudah saya sediakan
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