Here are some more information for Task Scheduling:

The classical design for most websites is based around the premise that a single user is viewing the content from a stationary position using established hardware such as Windows or MAC machines and standard browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari.

If a particular website has not been developed with the mobile user in-mind, then the user experience is very poor to say the least. Some major websites have addressed this issue by producing a mobile-friendly version of their main site, the website detects that the user is browsing from a mobile handset and redirects the user to the mobile-friendly version.

Mobilised Websites

Without going into too much detail, a website optimised for mobile users will provide them with a better experience. Navigation, content and documentation will be easily viewable from the mobile user's handset. There will be no loss of visibility or information due to the smaller screen and lower resolution of the mobile handset.

Growth in Mobile Users

More and more web surfers are mobile users who are on the move on a regular basis. The main drivers for this increased mobile usage are as follows:

Improvements in technology

The new mobile handsets on the market such as iPhones, Blackberrys and HTC smartphones are much smaller and easier to use. The screen resolution are now conducive to providing a good user experience with regards web surfing. In addition, they support multiple modes of network connectivity such as Wi-Fi and 3G, thus enabling easy internet access.

Increased Application Development and Online Gaming

The ITunes app store and the android marketplace are examples of where service providers can stimulate demand for applications and games, and by handling the fulfilment process they make it easier for sellers to reach a hungry market. There are thousands of apps available on the iTunes store and millions of applications are downloaded every month.

Domestic Cellular Data Plans

The marketing strategy of many mobile network operators and resellers is to offer bundled services to customers; this is perceived as better value and also provides an element of customer lock-in, tying in the user to 18 or 24 month contracts.

The bundle typically consists of the mobile handset, the voice minutes and a cellular data plan. The data plan is the service used to access the web. Most mobile operators have already invested heavily in building out their infrastructure and have recouped most of this investment through the explosive growth in mobile voice over the last 20 years. For this reason, they are able to offer very low prices for cellular data such as 3G, EDGE and HSDPA as part of an unlimited data plan. Although stated as unlimited, most data plans have a fair usage policy limiting the data downloaded to 1GByte per user per month; as most web pages are a few kilobytes in size, this provides more than enough data for basic web browsing for most users.

Mobilised Websites

Noting the drivers previously mentioned, there is an increased requirement for websites that are optimised for viewing on mobile devices. As an example, consider a website for a local restaurant that publishes its menu in PDF format. The PDF menus are very difficult to view on a mobile device, but by mobilising the menu for viewing on a mobile handset, the menu can be easily seen by the mobile users. This example is true for all local services and not just restaurants e.g. builders, plumbers, dentists etc.

By mobilising the website, local businesses can stimulate business and increase revenues as more mobile users are able to easy and quickly navigate their website to find the products and services they need.

Commercial vs. Consumer Mobilisation.

Whereas consumer mobilisation consists of designing and developing a website optimised for mobile handsets, a commercial mobilisation strategy is very different. Commercial mobilisation includes the ability to mobilise (deliver to a handset) a specific customer back-end application e.g. Task Scheduling, Asset Management, ERP and Project Management.

In commercial mobilisation, a mobile middleware layer sits between the hardware (handset) and the software (customer back-end application) to ensure that business processes can be effectively deployed through a central system, with information being pushed to the handset to enable the business process to be effectively mobilised.

Many mobile middleware solutions provide what is called "context aware" feature, where they only push relevant information to a a person. So for example, a bus driver will get information relevant to his pick-up schedule, and an airport worker will get information about the bags to be collected on the ramp.

At HarrowSEO we have developed a solution to quickly and efficiently mobilise any website; our platform supports website mobilisation for all major handsets such as iPhones, Blackberrys and Android smartphones. We are currently running a trial for all business users, whereby we will mobilise your existing website for free. Sign-up for this limited offer now at http://www.sitesonmobile.com

Setting A Schedule Part 3 - The Importance Of Discipline

There are quite a few areas of discipline that I want to talk about in this chapter. Some are good, some are bad, but all of them are essential for the success of your business.

The first one I want to talk about is the discipline of target setting. Firstly note that I said target setting not goal setting. With goals your brain interprets them as just that - goals which are nice to haves. With targets it interprets them as things it must do. That difference is important. Your brain and subconscious will work together to help you find ways of hitting the centre of the target, if you just show it where it should be shooting.

So what do I mean by the discipline of target setting. People tend to fall into two camps here and it depends which hat they prefer to wear the most. Those who really love the employee hat will generally over estimate the time it will take to complete their target tasks and short change their business. Those who prefer to wear the employers hat most will tend to be very aggressive when estimating the time needed to complete a target.

Either one of these are dangerous by themselves. If you think back to the previous article when we were discussing how you go about making a schedule we mentioned that you need to make sure that you have enough time in your schedule to complete the things that you need to do in your business in that week. If you have either of these two problems then you'll either underestimate the time needed and not see the results you were hoping for, and that can be depressing, or you'll completely overestimate the time, meaning that you'll end up killing time to make sure that it took that long. Either way you're short changing yourself and your business.

So what do I recommend ? It's actually fairly simple. Put on your employers hat and go through and look at the task aggressively. If everything goes perfect and you do a good job how quick could you realistically complete this task ? Then put on your employees hat and go through and identify all the possible problems that you'd highlight to your boss when arguing for more time. What you now have is a best and worst case scenario and you need to decide which one is more realistic or somewhere in between. What I generally do I is err towards the side of aggressiveness in target setting, but then include several "buffer" time slots in the week to help bring hose target tasks that are falling behind back up to speed. The result is a fairly balanced schedule that achieves a lot. You need to play around with this for a few weeks until you determine for yourself just how much time is needed for your buffer slots. As you get to know yourself more and more you can fine-tune your buffer slots accordingly.

The next thing I want to talk about is the discipline of sticking to your schedule once you've finalised it. Often what will happen, and everyone is guilty of it, is that you'll be working on your business, when your best friend will phone you up and invite you round for a game of cards, or a game of pool or something else that you find a lot of fun. At this point most people usually think "Oh what the heck, I can do this tomorrow". What you should be doing is thinking of your business time as if you were at a work place where you were getting paid for working. If you were at your J.O.B, you'd turn around and say "sounds great, but I'm actually at work at the moment, can we do it another time" and then reschedule it for a free time in your weekly schedule.

You see this is a key difference in mindset when working on your business. Literally imagine that you have a clock card reader when you walk into your office and once you're "clocked in" you're just an employee. Behave as if you had a boss and exactly as you would if you had a J.O.B. If you'd agreed with your boss at work to have a website finished today then you'd finish it today. Start to have that mindset and your business really will start to accelerate faster than you ever though possible - I promise you.

So lets talk about what to do when you do give into temptation. When you go through your schedule for the next week, you should actually "punish" yourself. I don't mean literally but give up one of your nice to haves such as watching a sports event on TV or something and use that time to "repay" the time you took from your business last week. This is important, as it will stop you from doing the same thing next week. You'll start to really prioritise if something is really important before stealing time from your business.

Now don't get me wrong, I do not want your business to become a slave driver for you. It should generate pleasure and rewards. I personally find nothing more rewarding than when I'm working on my business, creating value that I know will pay me back for years to come. Let me show you what motivates me. Every time I feel like putting things off until next week I just think back to a very powerful example that someone gave me once, and that is that delaying your business growth today can prove very, very costly in the future.

Lets demonstrate this for just a moment. If your business is 100 people at the moment, and after people dropping out you manage 25% growth a year (I know its low but its just an example). For the sake of arguments lets say that each distributor generates $10 income for you each month.

If you start RIGHT NOW then in 20 years time your monthly income would be $86730. If you delayed though until just next month then your income would only be $85300 a month. That delay of one month costs you nearly $17500 a year in income. At 50% growth then the difference would be over $110K a year less. Still feel like missing your work session today ?

That is possibly the most expensive business mistake you could ever make and is one of the things that keeps me pushing so hard whenever I want to give up. I just look at it and say "is it worth $10K a month to you to not get this done today ?". All of a sudden most decisions seem very easy to make. Going round to a friends to play poker for example may be great fun, and is something you should definitely do on your time away from your business, but sacrificing business work hours for it could make it the most expensive game of poker you've ever played in your life.

So what I'm basically trying to say is that you and you alone are responsible for business performance. If you do the things we've talked about then you stand a great chance of achieving everything that you've set out for yourself. If you give in to temptation and don't use the discipline techniques outlined above then you are literally depriving your business of thousands and thousands of dollars, not just now but in the long term. Dollars that you could use to either grow your business faster or allow you to live the dreams you want to.

About the Author

Martin Lightbowne is a respected graduate in the Art and Science of Marketing, working with Network Marketers from all over the globe to explode their businesses. He can be contacted by either email on martin@explosivemlm.com or call the MLM Helpline on 623-748-1394. Website www.ExplosiveMLM.com

Scheduling Task in pc?

Do i have to keep my pc on if i have a schedule a task like disk clean up?

Yes, keep it on during the scheduled time. You can schedule it to shut down after it's done with most tasks.

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