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Archive for September, 2009

Sep 29, 2009

Favorite Halloween Treats

Halloween is about a month away and that means it’s time for dressing up in costumes and stocking up on the candy for the kids. I always loved Halloween as a kid and now enjoy all the scary movies that come on during the Halloween season. There were certain types of candy that I like getting better than others. A nice tootsie roll, jolly rancher, or any candy bar was a welcomed treat as a trick or treater. I wasn’t a big fan of the apples some people tried to hand out each year at Halloween. I know when me and my friends were trick or treating into our teen years, we would just use the apples to throw back at the houses they gave them to us. So even though you would like to see our youth eating better these days, Halloween is not the time to spread your message. The kids want candy and this is something every homeowner should buy for the kids on Halloween night.

What was your favorite treat as a child trick or treating? Did you have a certain candy that you like to see people handing out each year? Please let me know some of the treats you got on October 31st that made you smile. I know Halloween is still a long ways away, but I have seen one Halloween commercial already. It was the one for Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and it’s the one where the lights are flashing and you get a quick glimpse of a buttercup that’s been made into a jack-o-lantern. You only see it for a second and it’s a scary jack-o-lantern, but it’s a sign that Halloween will be here before you know it.

I look forward to watching the scary movies that will come on this year. All of the Halloween movies with Michael Myers are great and these movies will still be popular 50 years from now. The Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th movies are good too and you will see some of them on TV this Halloween. For those of you that have the Movie Channel on your cable or satellite subscriptions can see horror movies every Saturday night. The Movie Channel has a thing called Splatter Day on Saturday and they feature 2 horror movies every Saturday night. I have Dishnetwork and you can find The Movie Channel on channels 329 and 330. Check out these two channels on Dish Network for the Splatter Day on Saturday movies. I have two movies recorded on the DVR from last Saturday’s double feature from the Movie Channel and I will probably watch them tonight. I don’t watch horror movies in the daytime, it must be night time for me to see a horror movie. It spoils all the fun watching horror movies during the day. Although the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a good horror movie that started it’s killing during the daylight hours; you typically see horror movies doing all of their action during the night time.

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Sep 20, 2009

Meeting New Folks in Vermont

Vermont is one of the prettiest states in America. I have always heard that Colorado and Vermont was the two most beautiful states out of the 48 U.S. continental states. People that live in Vermont can get to know each other better by being online and meeting up in vermont chat rooms. A chat room that only the good folks of Vermont will be present in, is a great way to learn about others living in your state. If you live in Vermont and haven’t met Mr. or Mrs. Right yet; then a chat room online may be where you can find your next love. Chat rooms are great for men and women looking for relationships or just a friendly companionship. You can also use a chat room to talk about a specific subject or topic. I’m sure talking about Vermont laws, Vermont politics, and other subjects related to Vermont could be found in a chat room; that was designed for those people living in the state of Vermont. I know I would like to find a good fishing place in Vermont and meet someone that would have access to a good fishing stream or lake. Perhaps I could find a fishing buddy with some good connections in Vermont and plan out a fishing trip with them. Please let me know if you are someone that has permission or the owner of a lake in Vermont that has fish that are waiting to be caught. I would like to meet someone living in Vermont that liked to fish as much as me.

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Sep 20, 2009

How Is Working At Home Treating You?

There has been a strong increase over the last couple of years of more people staying at home and working. Are you one of these people that work at home? It’s hard to make enough money to support a family and pay all the bills from a work-at-home job. Some people do manage to make ends meet by making a nice income from the comforts of their home. In many cases these people were lucky and found their self at the right place at the right time. Their luck was enough to make them a nice stream of income coming in and it allowed them to give up a normal, offline job. Others that manage to earn a living working at home do put in a lot of hours and they work just as hard at home as they would at a job that they had to drive to each day.

Some people decide they just want a work-at-home job and try to find something that way. These are usually the people that fail and will have to get a job down the road one day. It’s tough making a buck at home and especially if you don’t know how to start or have a good idea to begin with. The truly dedicated folks do find ways to make it work. The same people that make good money while working at home are the same ones that would perform well in a normal job setting that would be away from the home.

You must be willing to work longer hours than 8 a day to make a work-at-home job work for you and your family. These people that claim to make thousands of dollars in their spare time or just working a few hours a day; don’t really earn these large sums of money. They are some people that got lucky and they have manage to make thousands of dollars, but don’t think you can follow their footsteps and make the same income. You will need to come up with your own unique idea or stay-at-home job to make enough money to stay working at home.

Our computers is where most people will make money from home. It’s a good idea to learn simple ways to make money online and doing it on the weekends to earn a little extra cash. The people that spend their evenings and weekends making extra money online, normally have a good lifestyle, because they have their 40 hour a week jobs still paying them. Most of these people would not make it on their online earnings alone, so they have to keep their normal jobs.

You don’t have to quit your job to start making money at home or online. Just spend your spare time in finding new ways to earn extra money during your free time and continue to work your regular jobs. Even when you start making a few hundred dollars a week, make sure you have a nice savings built up, before you even think about quitting your normal job. Also, if you do decide to leave your normal job; then give the two week notice and make sure you’re leaving on terms that you could get your job back, in case things take a down turn with your at home business. There is money to be made at home and on your computers, but it takes a lot of work and effort to get it.

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Sep 20, 2009

My Car Repairs Mounting Up

I haven’t been taking too many trips these days; since my car is in need of so many repairs. I hate spending money on car repairs and instead of paying for small things when they go wrong, I usually end up paying for more serious damages to my car. I would rather spend money on car insurance compared to the money I spend on car repairs. I will have to start taking care of some these repairs or I won’t have a car at all. I need a new air filter and oil change would be a start. I will also have to get new belts for my car and a new car battery too. My car is just barely cranking right now and I know it needs a new battery. Unless my alternator has gone bad and then I will need a new one of them. I was hoping to win the lottery or get some huge sum of money coming in, so I could take care of all these car repairs at one time. It doesn’t look like that is going to happen and I will need to start knocking out some of these auto repairs I am going to need. I just hope my car can get me to these places I need to go for it to get repaired.

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Sep 20, 2009

NFL Looking To Make History in Dallas

cowboys new stadium Jerry Jones finally has his new toy and he’s ready for it to start paying him some money back. The new stadium for the Dallas Cowboys is really nice and really big. We may just see history tonight when the Dallas Cowboys host the New York Giants in a football game that many will see. If the 103,000 fans that are expected to attend the new Cowboy Stadium, then the NFL will be making history in Dallas tonight.

If you laid the Empire State Building down on its side; then that would be how long this new football stadium is. It also supports one of the largest TV screens in the world that is located right above the center of the field. Fans will get a chance to see replays of game action really easily on this huge TV screen.

I’m sure the New York Giants don’t want to be the first team to lose in the new stadium and Dallas will have their hands full tonight. It’s already week 2 of the NFL schedule, but this will be the first home game for the Dallas Cowboys football team and their fans to attend the new stadium. NBC will carry the game live tonight in front of a national audience as they go for the history books with one of the largest crowds ever to watch an NFL game.

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Sep 19, 2009

Tech Leading the Way for Small Businesses

It’s not easy for a company to be considered 2nd best in their line of products or services they offer. There can only be one top company in an industry and more than likely your small business doesn’t fall in that category. If you really think about it, second place isn’t that bad and even a top 10 ranking in any industry would be considered good. Thanks to all the new technology that continues to roll out; these smaller companies do have a better chance of keeping up with their competitors.

Space is a very important part to any business. Often companies don’t have enough of it and especially when they start to grow and expand. Moving the company is not always an option, but making better use out of the space you do have can be. This is where technology comes in and creates new working tools for the work space and office space. Tools that work just as good as the bigger tools, but take up far less space. When companies can start contracting their workstations and start using smaller laboratory furniture, drafting tables, cutting boards, and other things that can take up space, they open up new space under the same roof. Even a workbench could be developed to perform the work of 2 work benches or offer more flexibility than an older designed one could do. The chairs and desks in the office area can benefit from technology and allow a small business to create new space with their office furniture. The extra space that technology can provide some companies, could be use to bring in a new machinery or just have more storage space. New technology can actually cause a small company to grow in size; while the dimensions of the building remain the same. The old line about “work smarter and not harder” is how the smaller guys can keep up with the larger companies in their industries and they can all thank the ever-changing tech world.

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Sep 18, 2009

Large Animal Rescues by the Fire Department

I heard an interesting story on the news today. It was in Cherokee County, Georgia which is about 40 miles north of Atlanta. The emergency 911 center got a call from a person that was claiming their horse had got stuck in the mud. The recent rains over North Georgia has been causing some minor flooding problems and trees have been falling too. So it doesn’t sound too far fetched that a horse would have got stuck in all this new mud that is being created now in Cherokee County.

The Cherokee Fire Department and the Milton Fire Department, which is located in North Fulton County, teamed up to help this poor horse that had got stuck in the mud. It wasn’t an easy task for the rescue officials on the scene, but they manage to use one of their large hydraulic ladders on the truck to lift the horse. The hard work from the Milton and Canton Fire Departments manage to save this horse from an awful death. The horse is still in bad shape since it was stuck in the mud for so long, but they are nursing it back to health.

The story really didn’t end there either. After our local news in Atlanta got done reporting the rescue of the trapped horse in Cherokee County, they said other large animal rescues have occurred too. This was the 5th horse that had been rescued in Cherokee; since they implemented the large animal rescue. So the next time you get in trouble and your wondering who your gonna call, no need to bother the Ghostbusters, just call the Cherokee County Fire Department to the scene!

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Sep 17, 2009

Are You Ready for Hitsilo?

It won’t be too much longer until the new release of the latest creation from Canada. Up there in Canada is a group of people that call their self Logiscape Technologies. They have been turning out some really good traffic exchanges. A traffic exchange is a place that people can join for free (in most cases) and advertise their websites or online programs. The newest traffic exchange in the world is going to be called Hitsilo. It will be the place to be for the next few weeks and maybe even longer, if you go on the success of Logiscape TE’s.

I can’t wait for Hit Silo and I plan to be one of the first ones to join. You can join Hitsilo for free and start promoting your favorite websites there too. It will be a website that anyone can use and you don’t have to belong to a special club to join. I have a feeling a lot of people will be running to Hit Silo when they give us the “go ahead” sign to join.

If you been looking for a way to earn extra money; then Hitsilo may be a good place for that. We are being told now that they will pay up to 70% in commissions. That’s a nice percentage and members at Hitsilo won’t have to worry about getting paid or not. You do have to worry about a lot of online programs that claim to pay you for certain things. I have been ripped off on a few scams in my lifetime on the Net. Logiscape Technologies has a good track record and they will be an admin you can trust online. The idea of advertising my other money making programs online and earning extra cash while I do it, sounds like a win win situation for me. You should do the same and join hit silo, so you can get paid for advertising your favorite websites.

If you have never heard of Logiscape Technologies before, you can go now and sign up for a couple of their creations they have perfected online. I think TS 25 is the best one for getting results, but Trafficera is the most fun. I always rank Traffic Syndicate 25 and EasyHits4U as the two best traffic exchanges online. I highly recommend joining one of them or both. If you got time to surf a 3rd TE; then give the Trafficera traffic exchange a try. They have over 2,000 teams at Trafficera you can choose to join and they even have a Google surfing team!

Now you have a few things you can sign up for and once you see the quality of the Logiscape websites, you will want to add Hitsilo as one of your advertising weapons online. Millions and millions of people are out there just waiting to become members in our downlines. It’s up to us to go find these people and a website like Hitsilo is a great place to start!

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Sep 14, 2009

Seafood Vacations

A lot of fishermen take fishing trips during the fall time of the year. I hear that between now and Thanksgiving is the best time to go deep sea fishing. I wish I had the time to travel to a nearby ocean shore and cast the rod out a few times. I have only went deep sea fishing once in my life; while on vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida. I caught about 7 or 8 fish and our whole trip lasted 4 hours in the Gulf of Mexico. It really wasn’t enough time to fish, because we spent about 90 minutes just traveling to and from our fishing spots.

I am a big fan of seafood restaurants and I always like to eat at a good seafood place when I do take a trip. I think Bishops in Panama City Beach, Florida is the best place I have ever been to. They have more than just seafood and everything they serve is really good. I’m not sure if they are still in business or not. It’s been a long time since I have been to Panama City Beach. I have taken two trips to Daytona Beach, Florida in the past 5 years. It’s been longer than that since I have went to Panama City.

I don’t eat everything on the seafood buffets, but a buffet is the best way to go. It allows you the chance to try a little bit of everything. You never know what the best tasting item is on the menu and buffets help us to figure that out. My favorite seafood dish is a nice piece of grilled fish. It has to be fresh and cooked to perfection. Tilapia is a great tasting fish and there are lots of restaurants that now feature it on their menus. I think mahi mahi is a little better than tilapia and I usually choose it first. If you order the fish, be sure to get it grilled and tell the waitress to bring you some slices of lemon. Squirting lemon juice on fresh, grilled fish is very tasty. I think one day I will just have to plan a traveling vacation and try out all the different seafood restaurants in a state like Florida. Just thinking about it now makes me hungry for a seafood vacation.

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Sep 4, 2009

The New Hit Silo Looks To Be Big

The folks from Logiscape Technologies are going to be releasing their newest website in the coming days. The new Hitsilo promises to deliver massive amounts of traffic and earning Hit Silo members comissions too! Earning money from a Logiscape website has never happen in the past and this will be a first time for people to earn real money there. The logibucks have been a nice touch on the websites created by Logiscape Tech but real money is what traffic exchange members want and it looks like they will get it this time with Hitsilo.

The current trends in the traffic exchange industry do show that surfers and members want to earn money while they are advertising their websites. Many other traffic exchanges are already paying cash to their members by looking for bonus links and bonus pages while they surf and clicking on them to claim their money. Often these amounts are not large sums of money and most traffic exchange members can expect 1 to 10 cents normally. You do see special promotions at TE’s where the bonus links and pages contain some pretty nice prize amounts and in some rare cases it goes into the dollar amounts. Once a member has 15 to 20 dollars on their traffic exchange accounts; they can cash out and their money gets sent to their Pay Pal or Alert Pay accounts. Earning money while you advertise is a very popular fad right now and it doesn’t look like it will go away anytime soon.

In order to capture or get in on this latest TE trend, Logiscape will open up their ownpaying TE Hitsilo so they can reward their members with cash and real money. Every member at Logiscapes website Hit Silo will have the chance to earn cash commissions at Hitsilo and create another stream of money coming in from their online promotions. I think Hitsilo will be a huge success and look for this TE to get heavily promoted over the upcoming weeks and months. No matter what traffic exchange you’re surfing at; you are sure to find a Hitsilo referral page that will be coming across your computer monitors.

All the current traffic exchange records may be broken when Hit Silo does officially launch. I don’t think it will surprise too many people to see this website bring in 5 to 10 thousand new members on it’s first day of launching. We may see these numbers balloon to 35 to 40 thousand members in their first week. No traffic exchange has ever had 40,000 members in their first week of existence, but Hitsilo may just have a chance to do it. Let’s just hope the guys from Logiscape Technologies understand how many people want to earn Hitsilo commissions and will load up on plenty of server space and bandwidth to keep the site up and running the first few days. Hitsilo will be bringing in tons of new visitors and members to their website that it’s going to get crazy and you can be a part of the excitement.

Signing up for Hitsilo free is what many are expecting. No one knows for sure right now if there will be a charge at the door and if you have to pay to just get in at Hit Silo. I would doubt that this would be the case, but it sure would help on any bandwidth issues they may have on day 1. People are eager to join and sign up when they can make money for free, but they aren’t too happy when they have to spend money to make money or if they have to spend money to advertise their websites online.

If you want massive amounts of traffic from Hitsilo; then you need to join and get in while the action is good. I think Hitsilo will be the hottest 2009 websiteand it may just carry over into 2010. We will have to see about next year and see what other new programs come out for us to advertise and make money from. Go ahead and do yourself a favor and climb on board for the new Hitsilo website that is going to be explosive!

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Sep 3, 2009

Finding Leads for Your Company Online

EquiLeads: Providing Online Leads and Sample Leads Available for Viewing Too

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A successful business online or in real life must continue to grow their customers each day to keep up or beat their competition. The customers are the life-blood of any business and it’s very important to keep that blood flowing. A small business owner may be clueless the first time they try to promote online. They may need some help trying to find a good advertising platform or a place they can get good, fresh business leads from. There are companies and businesses online that specialize in finding these good leads for various types of companies.

An insurance company that is striving to find leads for the various insurance policies they offer can be difficult. There are people willing to help generate these insurance leads to the companies that seek them. These leads can be very helpful and productive in jump-starting the sales for an insurance company or any other type of business. The owners will get excited when they see a jump in sales, revenues, and customers that can often come from these online leads. When you consider all the marketing tools online today, there might not be a better one than using leads as your main promotional weapon online or offline.

Financial services are often using financial leads to help them track down customers or investors to keep their businesses operational. Money speaks very loud these days and everyone wants to find ways to make more of it. The financial sector has took a big hit lately on Wall Street and for the people that own small businesses. Just about everyone is going to seek some financial assistance or advice from a financial advisor for keeping their company profitable. Anyone associated with finances can take advantage of these demands by getting with a company that track these sorts of things. They will be able to hand information from the people seeking financial help and connecting a financial service with a possible customer or new investor. This can all be achieved with leads and this process can save time and money for a company that is in the search for new clients. Just about any business or industry can use leads to help generate more customers and start growing their companies larger than they have ever been before!

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Sep 1, 2009

Favorite Celebrity Blog or Blog in General

Alyssa Milano BlogDo you have a favorite celebrity, athlete, or star you like to keep tabs on? Most famous people have blogs these days and someone like Alyssa Milano(Who’s the Boss and Charmed) has a blog online. Alyssa Milano actually has her own website that has a lot of good information on it and she has a Major League Baseball blog too. She is a big fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers and she shows her support through her MLB blog. Other fans of sports teams or certain athletes could do this exact same thing and create a blog around their favorite sports personality or anyone else that has reached celebrity status.

Now if you have a celebrity blog that you follow very closely and think they do a good job; then nominate them for your favorite online blog. If you have a friend or just know where a blogger is located online; you can also nominate one of their blogs for the best blogs online. I am currently taking nominations for the best blogs and wanted to see which blogs people are reading these days.

You can reply with your blog nomination on my other blog called My Favorite Blank. I have a “favorite blog” category on that blog and just replying to the post where you see Alyssa Milano’s picture is where you can add your favorite blog to the list. Feel free to submit your own blog or blogs to the list. This is a great opportunity for linking purposes and you can get your favorite blog or your own personal blog mentioned with some of the best blogs online today. So please go share your links and let’s see which celebrities or bloggers have created some of the best blogs!

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