Are You Addicted to Sport?

According to a recent survey, Moveandstay team is practicing regularly 11 sports in total. I detail below the variety of sports we are doing:

• Badminton
• Cycling
• Fitness (including BODYPUMP™)
• Golf
• Kitesurfing
• Running
• Soccer
• Swimming
• Tennis
• Walking
• Yoga

In average our team is exercising 2,5 hours per week (some of us are doing sports up to 9 hours a week).

Of course some few staffs do not practice sports at al but we hope that after this article they will discover the benefits of sports :)

A Buzzle article: benefits of playing sports mention the following:

"Playing sports is very beneficial for the development of social skills in a person. Sports teach a person to interact with people, act as a team. They foster collective thinking and develop planning skills in children. Sports build confidence in children and give them a sense of accomplishment. Sports thus play a vital role in one's social well-being. "

and

"Playing sports serves as an excellent exercise, which has a wide variety of health benefits. It reduces blood sugar level and reduces the risk of blood cholesterol. Playing sports decreases the chances of hypertension and several other stress related disorders. Research has revealed that people who play sports regularly can deal with stresses and strains in life in a better manner. Depression, anxiety and other psychological disorders are less probable in people who indulge in sport activities. "

Another article related to sports benefits and therapies says the following:

"Some of the most proficient advantages of sports include development in:

- Proficiency in various sport skills

- The person's skills that are needed to socialize among the peers and adults. - Confidence and independence of the person

- A sense of success, triumph and achievement

- Leadership qualities and skills

- Agility, endurance, coordination, speed, strength and flexibility

- A sense of cooperation and competition

- Ability to accept responsibility and make decisions

- Imagine, appreciate and express emotions

- Good working habits

- Temperament

By participating in sports, the person gets to:

- Promote physically fit and healthy style of living

- Develop motor and physical skills

- Increase personal development like focusing on the task at hand, being on time, listening to what others say and trying the best possible

- Learn how to win gracefully and lose respectfully

- Experience injury and pain and learn how to work it through

- Learn how to handle criticism and take coaching

- Help others in the team

- Encourage positive attitude in life"

If you are interested in living an healthy life, you can also see the Benefits of biking to work

As someone said, "the hardest part in sport is to lace up your shoes".

eBook: Practical Guide For Business Travelers Coming to Sydney

Today we have released one FREE eBook related to Sydney:

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A drastic difference between setting up a business in Sydney, Australia, as opposed to Bangkok, Thailand, or Manila, Philippines, is the country’s economic and political stability.

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eBook: Practical Guide For Business Travelers Coming to Hong Kong

Today we have released one FREE eBook related to Hong Kong:

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Hong Kong is not necessarily a completely foreign country. It must be remembered that the city was under British rule up until recently, and while there is certainly a distinct Chinese flavor to it, Hong Kong houses its citizens very similar to the way any American city would.

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eBook: Practical Guide For Business Travelers Coming to Kuala Lumpur

Today we have released one FREE eBook related to Kuala Lumpur:

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eBook: Practical Guide For Business Travelers Coming to Singapore

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When deciding where to operate your business, many considerations need to be considered. What kind of governmental regulations and requirements are imposed on small, or, conversely, large businesses? What are the differences in protocol between the two?

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eBook: Practical Guide for Business Travelers Coming to Bangkok

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Bangkok is a huge hot spot for tourism. In fact, it is

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Advanced Web Ranking and Moveandstay: A Case study

My team and I've been using daily Advanced Web Ranking, a website positioning software produced by Caphyon, for a month now and if you want to save hours in your SEO works and be more productive, here's a review of this great SEO software.

At Moveandstay, we are extremely focused on search engine optimization and we need to track 5 websites with hundreds of keywords related to serviced apartments and serviced offices. That clearly means a bunch of data to be tracked and analyzed on a daily basis.

We started with one city in year 2000 (Bangkok, Thailand) and then another one (we were checking daily and manually our rankings in Google, Yahoo! and at that time- Altavista) and after 5 cities and dozens of keywords, we started to look for a more efficient and effective way of working.

We tried several solutions on the web (i.e. Digital Point Solution, WebRanking or AgentWebRanking) and I was a bit disappointed by the results because the updates are not automatic and to me, the way of displaying the data is not very natural.

Most importantly, the results were not 100% accurate. All of this made me think we had to change our method of tracking our search engine rankings for all our keywords.

We then discovered Advanced Web Ranking (AWR) on some dedicated SEO forums. After checking out demos and very interesting graphs from people we like to read, we felt that AWR were for us.

We tried the free demo (the version we tried is Advanced Web Ranking 6.5) for one month and we totally liked the software. What I clearly like in this software are the following:

GENERAL

- It is "Plug & Play" (you do not need to search for information or "learn" anything before using it
- The Interface is very clear
- The system updates itself automatically
- It does not ask for password, cachka protection or anything annoying
- The search engines covered are the most important ones (Google, Yahoo, MSN Search)

MORE SPECIFIC

- You can load the last project you used automatically
- You can compare your previous search engines ranking
- You can import a list of keywords from a text file, URL, Google suggest, etc
- You can view the evolution in time for websites, keywords and search engines
- You can schedule the report you need (it does on schedule a keyword check), AWR will generate this report for you

- You can see your popularity among search engines (very interesting concept)
- Interestingly, you have a submission tool where you can manually submit your websites to around 400 search engines and directories

You will find below some screen shots to make up your mind:

The Assistant

The Keywords Ranking Changes


The Keywords Ranking Changes Evolution in Time

The Keywords Interface

I and my team greatly recommend this software and I would conclude by simply saying: Advanced Web Ranking made our SEO work much more productive. kudos to them!