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Google Your Way to the Top of Your Industry!It’s great to have a punchy Web site, but if you aren’toptimizing your search-engine presence, you’re just anothercompany lost in cyberspace.With Be #1 on Google, you can instantly put your companyin the top spot of relevant online searches—and dramaticallyincrease sales. An international expert in search-engineoptimization, Jon Smith explains how to draw seriouscustomers—not curious or bored Web surfers—to your site byRegistering with GoogleComing up with the best keywordsThinking like your customersMaking your site totally accessibleUsing metadata to your advantageAdvertising on the WebMeasuring what works, and what doesn’tContaining 52 techniques in all, each of which can usedimmediately, Be #1 on Google is the essential guide towinning the battle for first ranking on the world’s most utilizedsearch engine.

Jon Smith, noted anagramic archeologist, presents a discovery of monumental religious significance -- the Pastafarian Quatrains. Each verse of this epic comes directly from the Deity, uncontaminated by human hands and fingers ...128 anagram Spaghettigrams -- raw, direct, and unaltered -- from the FSM Himself. The timeless battle between simple truth and obfuscating illusion. Contemplate sacred Spaghettigrams that are vivid, profound, and often sexually explicit and vulgar. The astonishing truth of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Pigasus, the two iconic figures of thoughtful skepticism. Quantum meaningfulness analysis: at least 70%. (Note: This is the second edition of the classic GOD SPEAKS! THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER IN HIS OWN WORDS

The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields.The old southern studies tends to view modernity as a threat to a mystic southern essence—a dangerous outside force taking the form of everything from a "bulldozer revolution" to a "national project of forgetting." Since the rise of the New Americanists, American studies has also imagined itself to be in a permanent crisis mode, seeking to affiliate the field and the national essence with youth countercultures that sixties leftists once imagined to be "the future." Such fantasies, Smith argues, have resulted in an old southern studies that cannot understand places like Birmingham or Atlanta (or cities at all) and an American studies that cannot understand red states.Most Americans live in neither a comforting, premodern Mayberry nor an exciting, postmodern Los Angeles but rather in what postcolonialists call "alternative modernities" and "hybrid cultures" whose relationships to past and future, to stability and change, are complex and ambivalent. Looking at how "the South" has played in global metropolitan pop culture since the nineties and at how southern popular and high culture alike have, in fact, repeatedly embraced urban modernity, Smith masterfully weaves together postcolonial theory, cultural studies, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and, surprisingly, marketing theory to open up the inconveniently in-between purple spaces and places that Americanist and southernist fantasies about "who we are"have so long sought to foreclose.

The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields.The old southern studies tends to view modernity as a threat to a mystic southern essence—a dangerous outside force taking the form of everything from a "bulldozer revolution" to a "national project of forgetting." Since the rise of the New Americanists, American studies has also imagined itself to be in a permanent crisis mode, seeking to affiliate the field and the national essence with youth countercultures that sixties leftists once imagined to be "the future." Such fantasies, Smith argues, have resulted in an old southern studies that cannot understand places like Birmingham or Atlanta (or cities at all) and an American studies that cannot understand red states.Most Americans live in neither a comforting, premodern Mayberry nor an exciting, postmodern Los Angeles but rather in what postcolonialists call "alternative modernities" and "hybrid cultures" whose relationships to past and future, to stability and change, are complex and ambivalent. Looking at how "the South" has played in global metropolitan pop culture since the nineties and at how southern popular and high culture alike have, in fact, repeatedly embraced urban modernity, Smith masterfully weaves together postcolonial theory, cultural studies, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and, surprisingly, marketing theory to open up the inconveniently in-between purple spaces and places that Americanist and southernist fantasies about "who we are"have so long sought to foreclose.

Honest advice and information from a male perspective, with real-life stories based on interviews from over one hundred men, will teach every expectant father how to survive--and even enjoy--the experience. Original.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the world's newest deity. Wisdom direct from the FSM's noodly lips. Poetic insight on love, sex, service, and cleanliness; Eye-opening commentary on the 7 deadly sins and other world religions; The only logically proven answers to "What is the one true religion?" and "Who is the one true God?" Astonishing prophecies on the end of the world, and 10,000 mysterious and uncensored verses. With humor, GOD SPEAKS! challenges us to go beyond superficial religiosity and look for deeper meaning. GOD SPEAKS! is the Holy Book for the Reformed Church of the FSM, a heretical offspring of the pre-reformation Church of the FSM. Unlike the pre-reformation Church, The Reformed Church takes its wisdom directly from the FSM Deity, without human intervention. God Speaks! Really.CLICK "Preview this Book"TO BROWSE BOOK BEFORE PURCHASE.

The Deal is a unique and fascinating insight into the business of sports management through the eyes of Jon Smith, the man credited with creating the role of the football agent.

Reading and storing data is a core part of any application, and .NET developers want database access to be easy and intuitive. Entity framework Core is a .NET library designed to simplify data persistence, bridging the mismatch between the different structures of object-oriented code and relational databases. Entity Framework Core in Action teaches developers how to add database functionality to .NET applications with EF Core. Key features · Clear Introduction · Teaches from real-world applications · Hands-on examples Audience This book assumes readers are familiar with .NET development and some understanding of what relational databases are. No experience with SQL needed. About the technology With EF Core, you can access data using abstract objects and properties without tightly coupling your code to the underlying relational database structure. And because it's part of Microsoft's open source .NET Core initiative, EF works on Windows, Linux and MacOS, and even mobile platforms via Microsoft's Xamarin. Author biography Jon Smith is a full-stack software developer and architect who focuses on Microsoft's ASP.NET web applications using Entity Framework (EF) ORM on the server-side, with various front-end JavaScript libraries. Jon is especially interested in defining patterns and building libraries that improve the speed of development of ASP.NET web/database applications.

Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition is an in-depth guide to reading and writing databases with EF Core. Revised from the bestselling original edition, it’s filled with over 100 diagrams, code snippets, and examples—including building and scaling your own bookselling web application. Learn from author Jon Smith’s extensive experience working with EF Core in production, as you discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, unit testing, and all the book’s code is available on GitHub. about the technologyEntity Framework Core is an object-relational mapper (ORM) that bridges the gap between your C# code and the commands required to access relational databases. As Microsoft’s recommended data access technology, it automatically maps your classes and code to the tables and views of a database—making it radically easier to query and write to databases from a .NET application. It allows you to query and write to your database using standard LINQ commands, and it will even automatically generate the model from your database schema. Now that .NET Core 5 is Microsoft’s primary development system, it’s never been more important to master Entity Framework Core. about the book Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to accessing databases from .NET applications. Updated and upgraded with new content, new diagrams, and new examples, this second edition of the bestselling original begins with a clear breakdown of Entity Framework, along with the mental model behind ORM. You’ll discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and even unit testing, as well as tips and tricks developed by the author through their extensive experience working on different client applications. As you go, you’ll address common data access challenges and learn how to handle them with Entity Framework. what's inside Read and write databases with Entity Framework CoreConfigure EF Core to define every table and column in your databaseUpdate your schema as your app growsUsing EF Core with ASP.NET Core web applicationsWrite and test business logic for database accessLooking at different architectures to use with EF Core about the readerFor .NET developers with beginning-to-intermediate experience using relational databases. about the author Jon P. Smith is an independent principal software developer and architect with a special focus on .NET Core and Azure. He mainly works on the back-end of client applications, typically using EF Core and ASP.NET Core web applications. He is a working developer with clients from the USA and UK, typically designing and writing large sections of an application.

Would reality defeat their dream?Or would God give them a breakthrough? Jon and Jerri heard Jesus' voice and followed Him into one of the world's most militarized zones-the disputed area between Pakistan and Northern India. The goal-to multiply God's blessing in Jesus among a people with no other obvious hope of hearing and following Him. Yet all the ways Jon knew for leading others to Jesus were totally inadequate for this situation. After days of prayer and fasting, God led Jon to write a simple story based on Jesus' encounter with Nicodemus. Before dawn, Jon told it to the first person he could find-the hotel chef. Upon hearing the story, this man wanted to follow Jesus immediately. That evening this new believer brought nine other to hear the story. And in just two short hours, all nine wanted to follow Jesus. 5 Minutes to Eternity is the true story of what happened as an elderly couple heard and followed Jesus, then taught those God drew to also hear and follow Jesus. Immediately, these new believers began sharing with their family and friends, forming teams, and taking the gospel to other people groups and places. The resulting Lifestory movements mirror the book of Acts-new believers hearing and following Jesus, and telling others who He is and inviting them to follow Him. Trusting these new believers to hear and follow Jesus has led to a rapid multiplication of new disciples, and God's blessing in their households and communities. Lifestory movements are emerging in many places and cultures-embracing the lordship of Jesus, the authority of Scripture, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In just a few hours, you too can learn the Lifestory. And as you hear and follow Jesus, you too can begin a Lifestory movement to multiply laborers where they are lacking

The Bloke's Guide to Pregnancy by Jon SmithThis book takes a 'warts and all', sensible, yet humorous look at the many stages of pregnancy. It explores the changes, physical and emotional, that any man can expect to see in his partner and in their relationship over the coming months. Becoming pregnant involved two people. The rearing of a child will involve two people; there is every reason that your partner's pregnancy should also involve the two of you, together.For any man that has been put off reading pregnancy books because he doesn't feel he was the intended audience or that something about the tone of these books was alien to him, yet he still has questions that need answers; then The Blokes' Guide to Pregnancy is the book he's been looking for.As a father himself, Jon Smith realised, when his partner became pregnant that there was nothing out there that he could relate to. The Bloke's Guide to Pregnancy is the result. Jon takes a comical yet informed look at the ups and downs of life as a father to be.From the back cover: 'DARLING, I'M PREGNANT ' Three little words guaranteed to strike fear into the most grown up of first-time fathers-to-be.Sure, there are hundreds of books out there for the expectant mother. But they're often full of boring advice on diet and pelvic floor exercises, not to mention the kind of gynaecological details that'll make your eyes water.Sorry, but we just want the lowdown on what's happening and how it's going to affect us. A + B = C. Straightforward, unabridged and raw. The Bloke's Guide to Pregnancy - no flowery prose, just the truth, in bite-size pieces as easy to digest as a packet of biscuits.Based on over 100 interviews with blokes who lived to tell the tale, this book has real-life stories as well as loads of advice that isn't remotely boring (honestly). Now you'll be able to tell your trimesters from your triple blood tests, as well as discovering: MONEY - do we really have to spend my entire lager allowance on that hand-held breast pump?SEX - will it harm the unborn baby? (or am I just being arrogant?)BREASTS - will they stay that size forever?HOSPITAL PARKING SPACES - am I going to have to fork out 50 every time she thinks she's going into labour?... and a whole lot more besides.

Internationally published bestselling author Jon Smith makes his adult debut with The Fifth Horseman, a modern comic fantasy that rides roughshod over established mythology and the rules of life... and death. The Fifth Horseman is a darkly comic tale of two thirty-somethings caught between our world and the afterlife, who must embrace their role as reapers to prevent the End Times. Death is just a day job you can't quit... Emma and Mark had a bad day. The worst part of it was dying. But, according to Death, the Rider on the Pale Horse and first horseman of the apocalypse, things aren't that simple. Turns out the sand in their hourglass is stuck in place. Somewhere between life and death, they're put to work as Death's assistants, reaping the souls of the living until it's time for their final clock out... To compound matters, despite their omnipotence, the four horsemen are facing an existential threat - one they're ill-equipped and ill-prepared to combat. Does Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx, have more up his sleeve than just the coins proffered by the dead to secure passage to the afterlife? And why do you never see baby pigeons? Emma and Mark must reap like their afterlives depend on it, to help prevent the End Times - even if it means scuppering the one opportunity they have at being granted a second chance at life. Filled with humour, romantic tension, and suspense, Jon Smith utilises a witty, lightly sarcastic ensemble of flawed but loveable characters. It will appeal to mainstream fantasy readers and hopeless romantics, as well as those who enjoy a good story and a good laugh.

When a malevolent figure from Khmer folklore awakens, Sothea and Gabe must navigate friendship, family and the monster within to overcome a terrifying supernatural force and protect the society that shunned them. Gabe, a seventeen-year-old labourer, becomes besotted by the enigmatic Sothea after her family moves into the dilapidated manor house he's working on. Both are misfits and find it difficult to communicate with others, but in those brief moments they have together - be it a stolen glance, a whispered exchange, or a secret rendezvous - they begin to discover and explore their true selves and feelings.But this idyllic blossoming romance is shattered when a malevolent figure from Khmer folklore - an arb - roams the night to feed on the unsuspecting. The Arb is a dark coming-of-age tale that follows two neurodiverse teens who struggle to be accepted by a society that has little time, or empathy, for anyone who's different. A contemporary gothic paranormal layered in Arthurian legend with an Asian horror twist.

Start an Online Business in easy steps, 2nd edition will show you how to research, prepare and run your own online business and will also give you the tools and the confidence to be able to explain to other staff members, clients, potential suppliers and of course customers, about what your online business is, and what it can do for them.Now fully updated for today’s online market, it will guide you through: Planning, registering, and financing your business.Setting up your business online, and marketing it effectively. Monetizing your site. Managing and retaining customers. The tricks of the trade to earn more from your website, and much more to make your site successful! This book is intended for entrepreneurs, employees, employers, parents, students... in fact anyone interested in starting a business online no matter what their level of experience. It is for the non-techie who wants to be involved with every facet of setting up and running their own e-business. Whether you have a great idea for an online business but don’t know where to start, or you’ve just launched your online shop and need to attract customers, this book is for you!

Nowadays, just having a website or an app is not enough. Potential customers aren’t going to stumble across you by accident – you need to employ digital marketing tools and techniques to help them find you and keep you front of mind, and have them coming back again and again.Marketing your products and services online doesn’t have to cost the earth. Lots of digital marketing activities can be done for free, or very little, and are very effective. You may also save costs for advertising in magazines, and creating, printing, and distributing brochures. Furthermore, there are no geographical boundaries on the internet – you can target customers around the globe. Digital marketing for businesses in easy steps guides you through the essential steps you need to take to set your digital strategy and get it right first time. It covers all the key digital marketing channels you should consider deploying to generate a larger, stronger, and a more loyal customer base. It covers: The fundamentals of digital marketing.Getting more from your website and getting your “digital house in order”. The social network sites where your customers are most likely to be active: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. The art of blogging to get customer loyalty. How to create and launch a powerful Content Marketing Strategy. How to use Search Engine Marketing to ensure customers find you and buy from you. How to measure and optimize the effectiveness of your digital marketing. Whether you are new to digital marketing or want to rethink your strategies, this book is for you. Digital marketing is now essential for businesses – don’t miss the trick!

In a world driven by innovation, the most successful companies are often led by founders who break from convention, disrupt industries, and relentlessly pursue their vision. Founder Mode: Leading with Resilience, Vision, and Purpose gives you the blueprint to harness this unique leadership style and apply it to your own business. Learn how today's top entrepreneurs apply founder mode to scale startups into industry giants through bold decision-making, customer obsession, continuous product innovation, and tenacious execution. But leadership in founder mode isn't without its challenges. When founders become too entrenched in their companies, failing to delegate or heed dissenting voices, they risk undermining the very growth they've worked so hard to achieve. This book guides you on striking the perfect balance between being hands-on and evolving as a strategic leader, ensuring you stay connected to your vision while empowering your team. Packed with real-world examples, practical strategies, and actionable insights, Founder Mode helps you unlock the leadership qualities needed to drive innovation, scale with purpose, and build a legacy. Activate founder mode and take control of your business's future.