When they were first introduced, video surveillance systems were mostly used with medium to large businesses. These days however, they are becoming more and more common in homes. Video surveillance security systems are also known as Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) and are used to monitor certain areas around the home and help to protect it from burglars and thieves.

The monitor is a key aspect to the video surveillance setup. The monitor will feed the video from the cameras that make up the system. The monitors are normally black and white and feature a higher resolution than that of a standard television set. Monitors vary in size and resolution, although the standard resolution is between 500 and 1000 lines.

Cameras are also important. When setting up the home video surveillance system, the cameras are placed strategically around the outside of the home, in the most vulnerable areas. They should be set up in areas where they are nearly impossible to see. The cameras are always working, sending the video transmissions to the monitors on a frequent basis.

Coaxial cables are also a must have for video surveillance systems. The coaxial cables are what transfers the video signals from the camera to the monitor. The cables are available in a variety of sizes. You can find them at a local electronics store in your area. Your home video surveillance system will come with coaxial cables, although you may need more depending on where you plan to set the cameras up at.

Home video surveillance systems also use switchers. Switchers allow you to run multiple camera feeds to one monitor. Normally, a switcher will cycle through feeds unless it detects movement going on around a camera. When the switcher detects any type of movement, it will automatically lock in to the camera that has detected the movement.

There are some video surveillance systems that you can get for the home that make full use of VCRs. These systems will use the VCR to record any live video feed that you program. This can come in handy if you travel a lot, as the VCR can capture a break in as it happens. If you end up going to court or to the police, you can use the video tape as evidence. VCRs can catch burglars in the act – especially if you set the camera up to a location that is hard to see.

By utilizing the combination of a monitor and video camera, home video surveillance systems can easily catch burglaries and break-ins. They are very affordable these days, and used in thousands of homes throughout North America. If you’ve been looking for the ideal way to protect your home – a home video surveillance system is something you should look into immediately.

Matthew Ulmen
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I will be linking to my podcast pages on these to give you an idea on what the site you will be getting looks like. The resources that I will be talking about are: iTunes, Podcast.net & PodCast.Com, PodOMatic, and Yahoo Podcasts

First PodOMatic. Why this one first? Well mainly because here is where you can host your podcasts. Just type in the Episode/Podcast Title and upload the Mp3 or even record one right there. You start with 500MB of space and 15 gigs of bandwidth. You can upgrade to get more filespace and bandwidth for relatively cheap ($10 a month for 2gigs for filespace and 100gigs bandwidth) which makes this an ideal starting point. From here you get the podcast home page and RSS link you need for the other sites.

Next up is iTunes. Yes iTunes does handle podcasts, I have been on iTunes for a couple months now. It is good to get in on because, and let's not kid ourselves, a LOT of people use iTunes. Getting in on this through PodOMatic is usually pretty easy as they usually do it automatically, but it never hurts to check.

Podcast.net,PodCast.Com&Yahoo Podcasts are our next stops. This is the first place you will use your RSS Feed that PodOMatic gives you. Submission to all three is free and highly recommended as the word podcast is quite well known and so is Yahoo. This will help get your name out there directory wise.

If you follow these your podcast will have a shot in the arm over everyone else and hopefully get better results.

Matthew Ulmen
List your Podcast here-A directory to link your podcast on. Use Coupon Code GYWNPC to get your listing for free :).

Now then I got into all this affiliate biz when I first checked out the Lucky Nugget Casino. They had an offer at the time where you could try out their software and games and they would start you off with $10. I ended up enjoying playing and even won about $200 on it. I decided it would be cool to tell folks about this and so I made a site. I then found out there was an affiliate program. I could get paid for my testimonial page by putting their link in. I started looking for other casinos that did this and found one that even today continues to get awards in interCasino. After that I slowly got out of it, though every now and then I will play at Captain Cook's or 7 Sultans as a free player.

After a couple of years and a few sparce paychecks I decided to look for other programs. The first I started really promoting was I Give Away Money which I still think has one of the friendliest communities around right now. It was IGAM who showed me how usefull splash pages are.

Once I was in IGAM though I needed a way to promote them. I tried some traffic exchanges with moderate success and then found 10KHits4uNow. While it was a traffic exchange, and a good one, they offered me more ways to learn and help others with their use of a Hot Conference chat room. They also got me my own domain in Matt Ulmen.com.

As time went by I started looking for more ways to earn money online. I've tried pretty much everything from MLM to lotteries to Randomizers. Finally it started to dawn on me if I want to make a serious income I need a serious product.

This catches us up to now where I have just started finding some good products to promote. One is a subscription that allows you to get 250 Articles a month for $25 a months. These cover 10 catagories and some topics have included Adsense, Auto Responders, Home Security and Video Sites. If I can get people interested in this I have a feeling this could do well.

The other product just launched this weekend and it is a link purchase site called Get Your Word Now. This site is geared toward the changing world of the internet in that every tab but one is a blank slate so people can add what they want to. The price is $10 for your link to stay on the site for 6 months which I think is fair. Right now until November 2, 2006 I am running a grand opening special. use coupon code GYWNA and get 50% off your purchase. This can be used as many times as you want until the special ends. There is also an affiliate program that pays out at 25% per purchase. So this can not only help you advertise, but it can also help you make money to advertise more.

That is about where I stand now. I do have a side project called Rendal's Ravings taht is a radio show I do for one hour live every Tuesday at 3pm EST on The FBC. I also have just been hired by them as Music Director, meaning I am the one on the lookout for new music to play on the stream.

That does it for me. If you would like to comment please feel free. I hope I haven't wasted to much of your time :).

Matthew Ulmen
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Well in this case I have decided, as I usually do when working with things like this, to see what is working with others. One thing I noticed is very few sites make use of the suggest a word feature, or they charge more for it. I decided right off I wouldn't do that.

Another thing is most sites limit themselves to two or three tabs when the script can hold 10. So I took some time and thought of things people use to advertise. Mainly they use names, either theirs or the programs. So I added tabs that are customizable that people can add those things.

I even kept around the affiliate option wich right now pays 25% which comes out to a minimum of $2.50 per order. I may adjust it higher as time goes on if it is cost effective to do so.

Well enough suspense, I know you want to know where this site is and what the basics are so here you go. The site is called Get Your Word Now. Price per word, custom or on the general tab, starts at $10. You can add cheap word upgrades (the most expensive upgrade is where you can link a picture to the link for $10. Pic size is 100x100 pixels.) that are $1 or $5.

Tabs available for adding custom words are:Name (turn your name into a keyword. good if you have a yourname.com), MLM (post a link to your favorite moneymaker), Exchanges (link to your favorite traffic exchange), Advertising (link to other exchanges, safelists or search engines),Website (got a website? list it here) and My Space (good for bands on My Space). I'm also thinking of adding a Blog or Podcast tab, we'll see :).

If you act now (god that's a cheesy line) you get 50% off as a grand opening special. This lasts until Nov 2. You do have to signup but that is so you can access tool in the back office of the site.

Of course I will be promoting it as much as possible through Traffic Exchanes, Safelists and using iSubmit to get the site indexed in search engines.

Enough from me though, head on over to Get Your Word Now and either check out the words or the affiliate program. Thanks for taking time to read this article :).

Matthew Ulmen
What A Crock Of...

The two I mainly use are Mad Vlad and AdTactics. They are both credit based lists, which means you earn advertising credits to send your ad by clicking links in other members ads.

Now one of the main problems I see that may have been a neat trick when it started is people trying to put tags in the email's. When I say tags I mean things like [firstname] or [email]. I don't know why people use this, I mainly stick with using phrases like "Hello fellow Advertiser" or "Howdy fellow [insert safelist name here] member". This way you are acknowledging the reader and you can move on, besides most of those tags get messed up now so all you see is a very ugly "HELLO [FIRSTNAME]. That won't get you many responses, if any at all.

The second point deals with the end of the ad. ALWAYS put your name and MAIN web site. I say main one because there isn't much point beating a dead horse and putting the site your promoting under your name as you should've put that in the article. Putting up your main site, which can be your about me site if it's personal or it could be like my main site and have a list of the programs you are currently in along with your personal info. Either way it is another click you can get from them before possibly loosing them.

The third and final tip for now is something I see way to often. People forgetting to include the link of the site their promoting in the ad itself. This happens a lot more in AdTactics than in Mad Vlad for the simple reason that Mad Vlad doesn't have a place to enter your web site address though you still see some people who think people should just guess the web site address because it never seems to show up.

The main reason for this point lies with programs like AdTactics where you enter web site address so people can click the link and get credit. The problem is with this is it doesn't send you directly to the site. It opens a frame that your site loads in while a counter runs (20 seconds on AdTactics) and assigns you credits. You can not bookmark the site from here. So if people click the link and like it they can not get to it again without a direct link somewhere in the ad. Thus you can gain and loose a prospect in the time it takes them to collect their credits.

These are just a couple of tips that should help you out with your Safelist success. Hopefully using these will increase you ad productivity and let you enjoy more free time and less time worrying about how your going to get your next lead.

Matthew Ulmen
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