Assigned Retail Possesion (ARP)
A marketing system where, when you purchase a product and join the marketing scheme, you "lose" a specified number of your own customers to the person from whom you purchased. When your customers themselves find customers, you likewise "gain" a specified number and thus earn money from people to whom you have made no personal sales. In theory, a perfectly genuine marketing system with ongoing residual income

Avi
Audio Video Interleaved. A Microsoft video format where audio and video coding appears in alternate segments. AVI files will end with an .avi extension.

Access Provider
An entity which allows your computer to contact the computers on the internet

Banners
&nbspBanners or banner ads are site promotional graphics that are usually in thin strips and hyperlinked to the site they promote. Banners are frequently traded among sites to increase site traffic for both parties exchanging banners.

Beta Test
In software development, a stage of testing where the program is tried out with a selected trial audience to find and correct bugs, usually people of similar backgrounds to those expected to use the software

Bit Map
A graphic which is defined by specifying the colors of dots or pixels which make up the picture. Also known as raster graphics. Common types of bitmap graphics are GIF, JPEG, Photoshop, PCX, TIFF, Macintosh Paint, Microsoft Paint, BMP, PNG, FAX formats, and TGA.

B2B
Business to Business. A mode of conducting business between two or more companies over the Internet, rather than more traditional modes such as telephone, mail, and face to face.

Downline
Those who you have introduced into a network marketing plan, plus those who they have introduced, plus those who they have introduced. The pattern continues on.

Forced or Fixed Matrix
Most uses are now outlawed under the trading schemes legislation. A method of artificially shaping a downline or matrix by restricting the number of people who can be placed on any level.

HTML
A computer language to create web documents. Usually used by a specific program which is like using a word processor for a word document.

Java
Java is a network-oriented programming language invented by Sun Microsystems that is designed for writing programs that can be safely downloaded to your computer through the Internet. They are run without fear of viruses or other harm to your computer or files. Using small Java programs (called "Applets"), Web pages can include functions such as animations, calculators, clocks and other great things.

Java Script
Developed by Netscape for creating short programs that you can put into a webpage. It is supported by most web browsers.

MLM (Muli Level Marketing)
A Multi Level Marketing program is an agreement between you and a manufacture, or a distributor. The agreement is to purchase products at wholesale and sell them at retail. You also have to create a downline to increase your sales, by receiving a portion of the sales they make.

OPT (optional)
Usually refers to a group or list that you have signed up with. You have been givin the option to subscibe and unsubcribe.

Server
is simply a group of people with shared interests who exchange messages via email. (Optin) Means that you have persmission to put someone on your mailing list and vise versa.

Server
Simply, a computer that provides resources, such as files or other information.

Signature
An text file that can be automatically attached to the bottom of a piece of email or newsgroup posting that identifies the sender. Many signatures (or sigs) use graphics, or links to make the signature more interesting.

Telecommuting
A geographically dispersed office where workers can work at home on a computer and transmit data and documents to a central office via telephone lines and the internet.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
Specifies the resource on the internet.

Zip
A Method of compressing lagre files or documents. Used with some sort of zipping program.

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