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SIMO NetworkWe all knew that what happened last year with the SIMO was the chronicle of a death foretold. This year everything has changed, yet it shows a tendency to repeat past mistakes, but probably obdecerá business criteria. The truth is that the SIMO Network 2009 has lived up to its new name and is clearly geared towards the empowerment of the social network of people interested in common issues, and has served to raise one more year, and this time without thousands of people Undeveloped went in search of the last game, or the gift of fashion companies, professionals of the sector. A very broad and it is difficult to combine in a single acronym. So the “networking” is becoming the core engine that will pull in the coming years of this meeting.

Only two pavilions and several conferences. The conferences have been followed live from your SOHO (small office home office), or from their companies, thousands of people, and properly integrated into the social network, noting especially twitter as a standard tool for monitoring and participation. Not a few communication managers of different companies as Arsys , or Sage , hung on their brands and track everything that is talked about them and the consequences of their activities through this clear glimpse herramienta.Un 2.0 for this show, by copying some of pioneering developments that UIMP2.0 de Cantabria ago since 2008.

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Micro-businessA long, long, long talks and courses that attempt to show attendees the ease with which today can create a semi-stable source of income in the short term online . I mean, semi-stable, as the online business solutions, have a life sometimes too short, changes in technology, changes in service, changes in revenue models, positioning, etc. ..
They are what I call ” micro “. Repetitive income pills gradually and will automatically generating income, and we all know that many make a small income “acceptable return” .

I know people who have several of these micro businesses, which are mounted in a few months, and everyone takes an acceptable salary. There are different types of these micro- machines: a network of planets with automated information stores, affiliate links, twitter or facebook channels associated with marketing programs, paid advertising systems, specialized metasearch ..

One such micro, very challenged lately are those with a focused topic such as ” car rental “and also an attractive domain associated with this service. No need for a major technological development, so the implementation cost is significantly reduced. The largest investment is in the position in the “long tail” appropriate search , and a good distribution agreement with a service platform , in this case “Car Trawler,” which offered service searches all the systems reserve rental cars and vehicles.

In the world of meta search engines, there are hundreds of similar systems, some a little more evolved, and is built to be excellent in terms of measures of usability and user friendliness .

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