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Here's some tips to save your business travel costs

1. Insist on second approvals or senior-level approvals for all corporate travel
2. Eliminate first/business class on domestic flights for all corporate travellers, including senior managers
3. Allow business class corporate travel only on international trips with 10-hour or longer segments
4. Mandate that all domestic or point-to-point business travel be booked online through a corporate travel online booking engine
5. Require staff to plan meetings around travel, rather than travel around meetings
6. Avoid high rate hotel stays by avoiding corporate travel when major events are occurring at your destination. Post a calendar of major events in top cities on your corporate travel online booking engine
7. Limit corporate travel to trips involving face-to-face client meetings and sales-related trips
8. Ban full-service or high-rate hotel properties to lower your accommodation spend

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Social bookmarking is one of SEO strategies to get additional backlinks to the site. Social bookmarking allows web users to save, share, manage and discover the bookmarks of different web pages. So you can access these bookmarks no matter where you are. Your favorite bookmarks are also available for others to view and follow as well, hence the social aspect. Dofollow sites are ones that the search engines count in their link tabulations to rank your site.

Best practices to bookmark your favorite webpage

•     A short description that provides value
•     A compelling title
•     Keyword phrase within the title and description

Please note that the links are sometimes followed only if you are inside of your account and search engine won't ever get to your profile. So please make sure your public profile can be seen by search engines and check the links are still followed without logging in.

So I did a bit of research and registered with them to make sure they all are dofollow sites.  Finally, I came out with a big list of handpicked dofollow social bookmarking sites that you should use for link building strategies.

1. Digg
2. Reddit
3. Ziki
4. Motorpulse
5. Searchles
6. Indianpad
7. SyncOne
8. Spotback
9. Oyax
10. folkd
11. Mister Wong
12. Plime
13. Spurl
14. Mylinkvault
15. Swik.net
16. Linkagogo
17. Socialogs
18. i89
19. HealthRanker
20. Slashdot

If I miss out anything, you might want to add to it. Any comment on that is appreciated as well.

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I spent last night trying to figure out how we are going to fit a small mountain of Xmas presents into two suitcases - and where on earth we are supposed to put our clothes!

I would love to be spending Christmas in Noosa but it is our turn to travel this year, so while thousands of people are flying into town, we will be flying out.

It's not too late to spend Christmas in Noosa (think seafood, swimming, sunshine) if you want to escape. Noosa accommodation is always heavily booked over the Christmas period but I'm hearing there are still a few rooms here and there.

Noosa accommodation, a booking engine, might have last minute availability for you, or take a look at the video below to see the range of accommodation on offer, from backpacking to five-star.

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It is very import when choosing your Business Internet Solution, be it SHDSL, ADSL, Ethernet, Arrow Anywhere or any of the other Data services or any other provider for that matter, that you choose a usage plan that is right for your organisation and will cover your needs. Don’t try to save money in this area as you end up paying a multitude more if you are not careful.

1: Peer to Peer usage.

Unfortunately some employees will take advantage of the fact that you have a High Speed Business Grade connection and use that connection to Download Movies, Music and or other material that they perceive as being able to “get for free” from the Internet. Some one running Peer to Peer software on your service also opens you up to the possibility of being infected by Malware (Please see below for more information on Malware)

2: An unsecured Wireless Connection

The ability to Wirelessly connect to the Network with your office can be a great advantage, allowing you works to make use of there Laptops and other devices without the need for cabling. However if you do not have the appropriate security this can open you up to people from out side your organisation being able to access your services and possible your confidential information on your Network. This includes people possibly using your network for Peer to Peer usage (please see above)

3: Malware.

Malware includes, Worms, Viruses, Trojan’s, Key Loggers and other unwanted Software. Malware is most often cause by unsafe web browsing and the down loading and/or installation of unapproved Software. The best defence is a updated anti-virus software and a good firewall and of couse safe browsing practise’s.

4: Internet Radio and YouTube

Listening to music via the Internet users a constant stream of Data that can very quickly result in high and unexpected usage on your connection. Also constant use of UTube can have a similar result. Any site that you visit that has stream music or video is download this information and contributing to your total usage.

5: Remote Desktoping.

Remote desktoping from home can be a great way to be productive while out of the office. However if this is going to be part of your ongoing work practice you need to ensure that you have a Data plan the will accommodate the increased Data usage for both the work and remote location.

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Corporate travel management companies keep their corporate travel clients abreast of major security alerts and advisories as they are issued by the Federal Government, providing advice and assistance to corporate travel clients intending to visit countries for business or leisure where alerts have been issued.

Alerts can be issued for a number of reasons, including security and health. The most recent advisories related to security involve the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Spain, Thailand and Somalia. Health advisories have been issued for countries such as Vanuatu, where a series of dengue fever outbreaks have been recently recorded.

Part of business travel management is keeping corporate travel clients updated on major new alerts. 

The five levels of travel advisories are:
‘be alert to your own security’; 
‘exercise caution and monitor developments that might affect your safety’; 
‘exercise a high degree of caution’; 
‘reconsider your need to travel’ and 
‘advised not to travel’

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