Feb 15
2013

Targeting Keywords for Marketing

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Chris Padgett

A lot of webmasters these days are putting some forms of advertisements on their websites, hoping that their website traffic will click on some of these ads. Each time a click thru is recorded; it equals cash into the webmaster’s pocket. This can be a great way to generate a little extra income, just make sure that you do follow the rules of these different paid to click companies. They don’t like bad traffic or false clicks and often webmasters get their accounts canceled before they receive the first penny from these ads. I know words like attorney, real estate or make money online on a website will help generate these types of ads on a website and these are some of the ones that pay the higher bucks per click thru. Instead of focusing on some these higher paying ads, your better off making up a website with things you know or have a love to update regularly. The search engines prefer these websites more and this will lead to more traffic and keeping fresh content on any website is important if you want to rank high on the major search engines. Try to add the keywords that are relevant, but at the same time keeping a focus on the niche or theme of your website.

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Aug 26
2012

How To Play the Violin at Home

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Chris Padgett

Some musical instruments would seem easy to learn at home. While others, like the violin for instance, would be very difficult to learn at home by yourself. I guess that shows you how little I know, cause learning how to play violin is not that difficult at all. You can choose the more expensive path with private lessons. These types of lessons will eat into the wallet and pocketbooks real fast. For those on a stricter budget, you will be happy to know, about these cool DVD lessons for the violin, in which you can order online. The DVD lessons are a lot cheaper and students will learn just as much, if not more, with these helpful violin DVDs.

These cool musical DVDs do come with their own teacher with them. Your new violin teacher will be Mrs. Seidel and she will take you slowly through each step of the learning process, so you’re not missing a thing, with these DVD Violin Lessons at home. If you’re new to the violin, you will have the opportunity to start out with the Beginner Series, so you are not lost on day 1. The more advance students can save time and jump right in with the Intermediate Series; which has been specially designed and formatted for the more experienced students.

The part I like about these violin lessons at home, is the Holiday Series you can learn how to play. It won’t be too much longer, until the holiday season is rolling around again. Imagine getting the kids started on the holiday performances right now in the summer time. So they can show-off in front of the relatives and grandparents on Thanksgiving and Christmas. I can just see the look now, on a lot of proud faces from the parents; while the kids entertain a small or large group of adults, during the festive holiday season.

Let’s face it, there isn’t any more excuses for any of us. These instructional DVDs are available at a good price (cheaper than the private lessons) and they are just waiting to teach the next child or adult, that wants to learn how to play the violin. Or if you already know how to play; then learn how to play the violin better. Have fun with it and please hurry, if the holiday series interests you for this upcoming holiday season!

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Apr 01
2012

Taking my baby girl prom dressing shopping

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Chris Padgett

Guest post written by Alice Vernon

I can’t believe that my daughter is old enough to actually go to prom! She’s just 15 years old and her boyfriend is taking her to the prom. At first I thought about not letting her go because I was afraid of things that she might get into after the prom, but then she decided to come home after the prom if I promised to cook her and her boyfriend a cake. So that’s settled. Now I just had to worry about finding her an outfit!

Now, we don’t have a very big budget, but I wanted to make sure that she finds a nice dress to wear that she’ll be proud of for years. So i looked online to see if I could find some good ideas about where to take her shopping for it. When I was looking through prom dresses I saw this Debt Counseling Site and realized it could really come in handy for our family. We’ve been in some debt for a while now and I’d love to get out of it sometime soon.

We have a limited budget for prom dress shopping because of that debt and I want to make sure that the dress we buy is still gorgeous for her sake.

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Apr 01
2012

Someone Like You by Adele

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Chris Padgett

The Adele Song – Someone Like You

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Her name is Adele and when she sung this very song, I think it put her on the music map for life. She is a very talented artist into today’s ever-growing music field. There is probably no other female singer out there right now, that is shinning brighter than Ms. Adele. For anyone who seen the last music awards show, then you know what I am talking about. Just about every time she was mentioned in an award’s category, she ended up winning it. She made a lot of trips up to that stage that night and sent a strong and clear message to all, that Adele is here to stay!

She sings this song Someone Like You very well. The first time I ever heard it, I was thinking it was an old 1980′s song. It has a real familiar sound to it, but I just couldn’t quite place it. I wanted to figure out who this 80′s singer was, but to my surprise, it was a new song. Ever since then, I have heard this song being played many times over. Adele really sings her heart and soul out in this song and you can just hear it. I don’t really have the “musical ear“, but good music is good music. It doesn’t take a specially trained pair of ears; when you hear a beautiful and passionate song like this. I will go ahead and give Adele the female artist of the year and the 2012 song of the year. Someone Like You is a song that will be around forever and it will stand the test of time. It will still be around, long after we have all vanished from the face of this Earth.

To add one more funny Adele story to this blog post. I was listening to a local radio station in the Atlanta, Georgia area. It was on in the morning time and it was last Friday, the morning of that huge Mega-Millions Lottery. Where the winner of it would receive 640 million dollars! The lady hosting this radio morning show said, if she won the Megamillions Jackpot for all that money, she would get Adele to play a private concert in her living room. While that sounds funny and all, she might have been serious. It got me to thinking if it was even possible and I quickly concluded it was. I believe if you offered Adele 200 or 300 thousand dollars for a private home concert, she would do it for that price. If not, it shouldn’t take much more than that to land her. Even if a home owner went all out and gave her 2 million or even 5 million dollars for this private concert event, they would still have plenty of money. If they would have won the lottery drawing by their self and didn’t have to split with anyone. After a 5 million dollar check to the musical artist Adele, the winner would still have 400 million or so in their bank account. So getting Adele for a private concert would be a drop in the bucket and it got me to dreaming the same dream, as this Atlanta area DJ, who was hosting the morning show that early Friday morning. In case you didn’t hear or was living on another planet at the time, there was a Mega Millions Winner on Friday. It was actually 3 different winners from 3 different states, who will get to split the largest lottery jackpot in the history of the World!

Please give me some feedback and let me know where you think Adele currently ranks and do you like this famous song as much as I do? Also, let me know how many Mega Tickets you bought for the 600 Million Dollar Lottery?

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Mar 26
2012

Garden Results Begin with Micrale-Gro Planting Mix

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Chris Padgett

This post brought to you by Scotts®. All opinions are 100% mine.

The weather is warming up and it will be time to plant those vegetables and flowers soon. I hope to have a large tomato garden this year. I will start planting the week after Easter Sunday. I think this is the best time, for those who live in North Georgia or in the Southeastern areas. Usually after this spring holiday, you can count on the weather staying warm. We might still get blackberry winter, but the temperature will not go below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. It will just feel like it is freezing, with those strong winds; which come with blackberry winter.

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I don’t have the best green thumb in the world, so I will get a little “store-bought” help (if you know what I mean).  I believe I will try this Expand ‘n Gro™  from the Miracle-Gro Company. It is a concentrated mix of planting goodies, to help my vegetables grow fast and strong. It is an excellent source of plant food for your vegetables and the flower gardens too. What I like most about this Miracle-Gro Planting Mix, is the way it helps to retain water in the garden. If you keep a lot of water on your plants, they will grow real good. This is not always easy to do and sometimes due to droughts, some areas will be forced into local watering bans. You can get your garden through a drought and a watering ban, if you use this special formulated planting mix, which uses natural fibers to help retain water. It will hold 50% more water than those other potting soils you can buy. If your plants keep a good resource of water near the roots, they will not only survive, but they will thrive in any hot, summer weather. This planting mix keeps feeding your plants for 6 months; which is the whole growing season (pretty much).

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Mar 24
2012

Mega Millions Lottery Grows Bigger

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Chris Padgett

It is exciting to see the MegaMillions Lottery getting bigger. I think the Mega Millions lottery is a lot better than the Powerball Lottery. For one thing, it is cheaper to play. I can’t believe the Powerball folks want you to spend $2 on each one of their tickets. I will stick with my buck-a-day routine and play the lottery games for only a dollar.

If you hope to win the lottery some day, you must get out and play! Your chances of winning might be real small, but I can guarantee you will NOT win, if you don’t go play. It doesn’t take much money to play the lottery and it could change your life forever. Not only your life, but the people around you. Your neighbors, family, co-workers, and friends could all benefit, if your lucky numbers was to come out.

Recently I started to play the Fantasy 5 in Georgia. I think this is a great lottery game to play. It starts off at $50,000 and goes up each time there is not a winner. Some of these Fantasy 5 Jackpots get real big in the Georgia Lottery. Just this past weekend, we had a jackpot for over a million dollars. If you could just win 100 or 200 thousand dollars, this would be enough money to change your life for now. That much money would really help me out and come in handy. So I am playing $1 a day. I pick out my 1 set of numbers on Friday. I then play the same 5 numbers for a full 7 days. Hopefully I will win some through the week and get some cash back for my next week’s play. If I match 2 numbers correctly, I will win a free set of numbers to another Fantasy 5 drawing. I will save all of my free ticket wins and cash them in, when the jackpot is over $150,000 or something like that. Make sure I am not using it on a small 50K drawing.

I think you should start doing this same routine too. If you don’t live in Georgia or near the border of Georgia, you can play your state’s lottery game; which is similar to Fantasy 5. Hopefully you have one and the odds and jackpots are roughly the same. Get out and start playing, cause you can’t win if you don’t play. And if you do go out now and buy a ticket, because you read this blog post. I hope you will remember me, if you was to win something big. I would really appreciate any financial help I could get, so I can help to change my life and the people around me too! Thanks and good luck!!!

***Mega Millions Lottery is up to $356,000,000 for this Tuesday’s drawing

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Mar 02
2012

MATCHING CLOTHES

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Chris Padgett

Thanks for the guest post by Esteban Vinson

I have started using my clear internet coverage to start a little business out of my house. I have always loved to sew since my grandmother taught me how to when I was just a little girl. She taught me how to make clothes for my Barbies and dolls. She never even used a pattern and would make beautiful dresses and clothes. I still don’t know how she did that! Recently, I learned about a handmade and craft website called Etsy.com. You can sell your handmade goods on-line and it reaches a large audience. I have started offering to make doll clothes that match a little girl’s outfits. My first ones were just little jumpers. Now, I have gotten more advanced and will make custom outfits. Some customers have requested costumes for their children and their dolls. The custom outfits sometimes take more time because I have to do a lot of thinking before I make something that I have never made, but there is a pretty big market for it! If business keeps going as well as it had, it may be time for me to make it a week job and not just a weekend job!

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Feb 27
2012

Cookies and Ice Cream Recipes

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Chris Padgett

I got to thinking about a recipe in my head. I’m not sure how it would taste, but I think it would really be good. If you have any good recipes for cookies and ice cream, please don’t hesitate to post them here. Any replies I can get back, for any good dessert recipes, will be super!

My recipe consists of the following ingredients:

*Vanilla Ice Cream

*Oreo Vanilla Cookies (sandwich cookies yellow pack)

*Chocolate Syrup

*Caramel Syrup

*Mug or Tall Glass

First step is to make your cookie crumbs. You would take the Oreo Vanilla Sandwich Cookies and put them in a plastic bag or a freezer bag. Then take something hard and crush them to small pieces. Not too small, just enough hits, so each cookie breaks into about 8 to 12 pieces. Then take a few of the cookie crumbs and layer the bottom of your mug. Make it about 1/4 to 1/2 of an inch thick. Then take the chocolate syrup and poor a nice layer of it on top of the crumbled cookies. After that is done, then take a table spoon of vanilla ice cream (maybe a touch more) and put a layer of ice cream down. After you have done that step, go back and repeat the process over again, but instead of the chocolate syrup, we will start with our caramel syrup for our next layer. Then more ice cream and cookie crumbs. Keep doing this process of layering, until you reach the top or run out of Oreo cookie crumbs.

At the top, you could add something like whip cream and maybe a cherry on top. To make it look a little fancy, you could also add a small piece of mint (the mint plant stem with a couple of leaves). Also, if anyone doesn’t like chocolate or caramel syrup, you could use only one or neither. Just the cookie crumbs and ice cream would make a good little cookies n’ cream float. Yum Yum…to me, this sounds like it would be very good, but I have never tried my own recipe. So please don’t blame me, if this combination turns out to not be a good one. I think with the limited ingredients we are using, it would be a great combination of a cold sugary treat.

Now if you have any recipes like this or maybe one you just thought of in your head (like me), feel free to reply to this blog post and tell me your big idea. I always love hearing from my readers. Have fun with the recipes and with spring time fast approaching, we will need more of these ice cream dessert treats!

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Jan 26
2012

Tornado Season: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You!

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Chris Padgett

It is getting close to that time of the year again. Where a nice, sunny day can suddenly turn to a dark sky with a big twister coming down from the sky above. It is a scary site, to be near a tornado. One thing is for sure, no one should take tornado season lightly. There are things we can do now, so we can keep our families safe from the severe weather dangers, most of us will have to face in the months ahead.

There is a lot of things a homeowner can do, to prepare for the severe weather ahead. Most know the power will go out at some point, so a good crank radio is a good investment to get. Especially one that comes with a flashlight and a cell phone battery charger. Most of these hand-crank radios have a ton of different features that come with them, so people can be prepared for various emergencies. Another thing you can never have enough of with bad storms, is the wax candles. I know most homes have a candle somewhere in the house, but it may be hard to find with no lights on. So be sure you know where you keep the candles and try to stock them in different places around your house. Since candles are pretty cheap, this is an emergency item everyone should have on hand. I know one candle special online had 125 small candles for less than 10 dollars. You can’t beat that price!

Most folks probably don’t have a first aid kit or an emergency kit in their homes. I know its becoming more popular to keep these emergency kits in our cars, but each household should have one too. These emergency kits come in a variety of sizes and you can get them as big or small as you want. Looking around online is probably your best bet, to find the perfect emergency kit for you and your family.

Here is a short list of the most common supplies needed:

*First Aid Medicines

*Lights

*Cigarette Lighter

*Radio

*Batteries

*Cell Phone Charger

*Working Cell Phone

*Clothes

*Blankets

*Tarps and Umbrellas

*Shoes

I know shoes might not seem like a big deal, but it is. It is best to go ahead and put your shoes on first, before a bad storm ever gets to your neighborhood. Having shoes on, will be a life saver, if you need to get out and walk around or help others in the aftermath of these severe storms.

If you loose part of your roof, the insurance companies want you to cover it up, with one of those blue tarps. If any further damage occurs, because rain leaked in, then in most cases, the insurance places will NOT pay for water damages. They take care of the wind damage, but they expect you to protect your home from the water and rain falling down outside.

Hopefully when bad weather strikes us, it is during the daytime. Most of the time it is during the daylight hours. Since the heating of the day, is what produces the main energy for these thunderstorms. However, they do go over us during the nights too. This is one reason, why most will want to have a severe weather radio siren around, so they can be alerted to these overnight disasters. I hope you never have to face a tornado at night. I think it is hard enough to survive them during the day and it is much worse at night. Be sure to prepare your kits and your emergency plans, like it was at night, so you can prepare for the worse and hope for the best. If you take a little time now, to prepare for these awful spring time storms, we can all come out of them alive. No one should ever have to lose their life in a thunderstorm or a neighborhood tornado.

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Dec 17
2011

T-Mobile Offers a Friendly Social Networking Phone

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Chris Padgett

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of LG DoublePlay™ for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

How often do you use a phone for surfing the Net or checking up on your social networking sites? For me, I never have used my cell phone that much. I probably make about 50 calls per month and I send out less text messages than that. On average, I probably send 30 text messages out per month and I probably receive around 100 back. Recently my social networking sites have been helping me with my online business. I am now in the market for a phone; which will help me have more access to the Web and especially to my social networking sites and friends.

A phone from T-Mobile caught my eye. If you want this cell phone, you can only get it from T-Mobile. It is called the LG DoublePlay™  and I really like a lot of things about this phone. It does have a nice camera with it. It is a 5 mega-pixel camera with flash. Plus it can record live video in high definition or HD, so this is another attractive feature on this T-Mobile cell phone. It does come equipped with a full size Qwerty keyboard. I like having all of my typing keys on my phone. Users of the Double Play phone, will have access to the Gingerbread or  Android 2.3 and the Android Market. I don’t know much about these things, but I look forward to learning more about them.

Currently I don’t surf the web from my phone or do any social networking. My online business is really growing and the only way I can keep up, is to have a phone, that can connect me to the Net anytime I need it. Especially for my social networking websites, where I do a lot of advertising and speak to my online contacts and business clients. I believe T-Mobile has the best phone, for my social networking desires. How much do you like to use your phone, for the popular social networking websites? Do you use your phone at least one time a day, for surfing or checking up on your emails or social network sites? I will start spending about 2 hours per day on the Internet, with my new phone. Do you think you use your phone for online purposes this much? Or maybe you spend more time than this? About how many hours would you guess? Do you think if you had the LG Double PLay phone, it would help you more each day? Please be sure to let me know, because I am about to start a lot of multi-tasking assignments and I need all the help I can get.

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Dec 14
2011

Georgia Bulldogs Head Coaching Job Not Safe After All

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Chris Padgett

The Georgia Bulldogs will be playing Michigan State in their bowl game this year. Despite what the national sports media says, Mark Richt in Athens, does not have a comfy seat. His 10 game win streak did nothing to change the Bulldog Nation in Georgia. All this Georgia team had to do at the end of the year, was to beat Kentucky to go to the SEC Championship Game. As big as this game was for the Bulldogs, Richt did not bring a well-coach team in for this game. In fact, if not for a crucial turnover in the game, the Wildcats from Kentucky would have went to the halftime locker rooms leading this game. It was a series of field goals for the Georgia Bulldogs and that was their offense for this game. At no time, did this team really run the less talented Wildcats team off the field. This is a perfect example of a football game, in which Mark Richt fails to get his players up for the magnitude of the event. What should have been a blowout game or at least one, where the Bulldogs threw everything (including the kitchen sink) at Kentucky, they really came in with a vanilla game plan.

Then go to the LSU game for the SEC title. Mark Richt coached relaxed and let the boys play. Since there is a lot of talent in Athens, it was clear, the Bulldogs are a much more athletic team than the LSU Tigers. We saw the real Bulldog team in the first half of this game or maybe the first 25 minutes of the game. Once Georgia had a little success in this big southern game at the Georgia Dome; that is when Richt got nervous and begin to play Mark Richt football. He just doesn’t turn his guys loose on Saturdays. He doesn’t trust them. He doesn’t convey to his players the importance of things and how to deal with certain situations, when there is 2 minutes or less left in the half or the game. Mark Richt coaches a “scared game of football” and this is why he has not been able to push the Dawgs all the way to the BCS Championship Game and win it. Let these guys from Athens play, like you did in the first half, with creative play-calling, on-side kicks, and going for it on 4th down and this team can hang with anyone in the Nation. Let them play in the Mark Richt system and you will get blown out. Its been like this for years in Athens and Richt needs to move to another position for this UGA football team.

Don’t forget the first 1st down the LSU Tigers got, was due to Mark Richt telling the referees to enforce the penalty on the Bulldogs team. The referees in the SEC Championship Game had awarded the Bulldogs sideline a timeout. Yet, Richt did not want to lose a timeout in the early part of the 3rd quarter and allowed the Tigers to get their first (or maybe 2nd) first down of the game. There was no need to save this timeot, since the game ended and the Georgia Bulldogs still had a timeout in their back pocket. This did not get mentioned on the National TV Coverage, but the cameras did pick up Mark Richt and you saw him telling the referees, to take the penalty and not award him the timeout. This turned out to be the dumbest call of the game and it was the beginning of the end for the Georgia team in the Georgia Dome that night.

The way he led his team out of the locker room, from the Georgia Dome, for the first game of the year, the horrible play against Kentucky, when an SEC championship appearance was on the line, and his scared play-calling in the 2nd half, with his refusal to take the timeout and give the Tigers a 1st down and 5. It was a long list and combination of things like this in 2011, which has kept Mark Richt on the hotseat.

He admits he never heard anything from the A.D. (athletic director) at Georgia about his job. Now he is caught up in the national media hype that his job is safe and he is now off of the hot seat. FAT CHANCE! Mark Richt is a nice guy, nice coach, and can coach a descent game. He doesn’t have the guts to call games in the SEC or take chances in the toughest division in football. He has recruited well and it would be nice to see him stay in Athens and let him help with the recruits, who want to play in Athens, Georgia. The top freshmen class in the country came in to the Georgia Bulldogs football program in the 2011 season. Another super class of studs have already gave verbals to UGA and it looks like several of the big names this year, are going to be coming to Georgia again. The most talented team in the NCAA next year will be the Georgia Bulldogs. If they want the perfect season, they will need for Richt to step down, take away Mike Bobo from the offensive play-calling, or change the current situation in Athens; which has been in place for a long time now.

Good luck to the Dawgs in their bowl game this year against Michigan State. These two teams will match up in the Outback Bowl. It should be a fun game for the Georgia team, since they did get an easy opponent. Here goes my prediction for the game below and congrats to the Crimson Tide and Tigers for representing the SEC in the Big Game this year.

Georgia – 44

Michigan State – 9

*I pick the Bulldogs in the Outback Bowl and they should win by 35 points or more

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Nov 21
2011

Using Search Engines Online for Help

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Chris Padgett

You woke up this morning and you decided you wanted to go on a diet. You have no idea on what to do first, but you know you must start a new diet today. How would you approach a situation like this? Have you ever thought about using a search engine online for help? You know, one like Google, Yahoo, or one of my favorites Dogpile.

Start off by typing in keywords that relate to the subject matter. In this case, we are looking for a new diet. We can search for things like:

*popular diet plans

*diets that really work

*best diets

*top diet plans

*highest rated fat burners

For my search now, I will try “highest rated fat burners“. The first two results I get, don’t really relate to what I was looking for. The third listing in the search engine has a diet product called african mango. This would be a product I would want to read more about. I can save or bookmark this page now and continue looking for other search engine results, or just see if this African Mango Fat Burner would be the answer for my new diet plan. Either way, I will have a lot of options and there is a ton of information online, when it comes to best diet pills or popular diets.

I have heard to start eating more is the best way to lose weight. No, I am being serious! Instead of 3 square meals a day, you could benefit by eating 4 to 6 smaller meals. By eating a lot of times each day, you keep your metabolism going. So the trick here is to keep your metabolic rate high; while eating smaller portions. You could use a search engine, to find new diet recipes or search online for “low calorie foods and snacks”

I think the World is a better place now and a lot of credit goes to the search engines. They are our maps for the World Wide Web. We would never find nothing without them. If you don’t often think to use them, then start changing your thought process. Finding new recipes for a food you like or searching for diet tips online is just the tip of the iceberg. We can learn a lot more online; than we could with our encyclopedia collection; which is just collecting dust now.

 

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Nov 01
2011

Moving to Philly

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Chris Padgett

Guest post written by Joseph Finch

When we moved to Philly last year, I spent my first few months staying at home and watching Philadelphia Direct tv. I was having a really hard time finding a job and was getting really discouraged. I moved at a weird time during the year. I am a teacher and I know that most teaching positions don’t come up until the summer, but I couldn’t even find a job being a substitute for the first few months. I applied everywhere. I even applied to work at a local department store. After taking an on-line personality assessment, I immediately got an e-mail that said that they were pursing other applicants. How discouraging! Luckily, about three months later, I got a call from a local school. One of their teachers was going on maternity leave and they needed a long-time fill-in. Now, I am so happy where I am. I am teaching science to middle-schoolers. Everyday is exciting and something new. I like Philly much better now than I did when I first got here.

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Oct 28
2011

Global Advertising Solutions the Odd Way

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Chris Padgett

For any small business trying to make it today online or off, it takes a lot of hard work and desire. A lot of things fail, cause the owner or the company never streamlines the product or service correctly. One website online is offering help, for those companies that are new or need help immediately. The group called G.R.U. is currently online and ready to help anyone succeed, that has the desire and time to make it happen.

They are offering 3 main services or “engagements” as they put it. You have the Brand Engagement, Digital Engagement, and Retail Engagement. Some advertising services you find online today, may only want to focus on 1 or 2 of these areas. Trying to look at the big picture here, I think Odd in London has the right idea, by spotlighting these 3 main engagements. Under each main one, they list about 5 smaller and more detail areas for a business to focus on. Allowing time to breakdown things and concentrating on these marketing tactics, can produce better results. Since 2002, these guys have worked with some really big names, which most people commonly know around the World. If you’re seeking global recognition or just better numbers, look to partner with a group online you can trust. One that gets motivated, when a small business calls them up and trusts them to handle their local advertising needs or shares their global advertising goals with them. Success for you and your small business, could really be only one click away. You already tried it your way, now give the Odd Way a try!

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Oct 28
2011

Crafting some vegan fudge for Halloween

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Chris Padgett

Guest post written by Beverly Fox

Going vegan a few years ago was a really tough personal decision for me to make, but I’ve decided that I’m not going to look back. Although, Halloween can be a little tough for me because I have such a sweet tooth and I just can’t go and grab just any kind of Halloween candy off the shelves now like I used to do before. Now I just have to be a little more creative and make the non-vegan treats myself.

I love to use my wireless internet Honolulu to search for different vegan recipes that I can fix. There are so many recipes out there too, so I’m never at a loss as to what I should fix.

Even though I normally think of fudge as a Christmas treat, I decided to make some vegan fudge for Halloween. I mean, when isn’t there a good time to eat fudge? To me, it’s always a great time. I shared it with my roommates too, who aren’t vegans, and they said that they thought it tasted like regular fudge! What a vegan success!

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Sep 27
2011

Join the Zacapa Premium Rum Society Today Online

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Chris Padgett

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Diageo. All opinions are 100% mine.

The beverages most of us drink today, all have a great story behind them. This is true with soft drinks and alcoholic beverages too. One story you may have never heard about, comes from the Zacapa premium rum label.

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Back in 1976, a tiny town in Central America was celebrating 100 years of life. It was during this time, when all of the right things came together, for a great-tasting rum. Several key factors played a part in this unique brew, like the local ingredients and geography of the area. In Guatemala there is a town called Zacapa and it was here, where this special-tasting rum came to be, in the late 1970′s.

This premium dark rum would later share its name with the town and be called Zacapa. From the acidic soils, to the local sugar cane growing abundantly all around here. Made everything come together in the ageing house; which is one of the highest in the whole world. This high elevation and all of the local ingredients around, made a unique tasting rum. Along with a lot of casks and an American Whiskey or two.

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It’s a great story to know the process this rum takes. Check it out further, by taking part in the society online.

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Sep 01
2011

Closet shuffle to find rush week outfits

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Chris Padgett

Guest post written by Breanne Murphy

I’m always finding pieces of clothing in my closet that I thought were lost or I had gotten rid of. Well, I recently had to down size my wardrobe a bit when I moved into a dorm room for freshman year of college, but I have some creative storage solutions for a lot of my things. Right now though, I’m worried about finding some good rush week outfits from my extensive wardrobe.

But I needed some guidance on what to expect to wear to an event like this. While I was looking online I found some info on internet packages, decided to Click HERE and forwarded the info to my parents. They’ve wanted to change over their service for a while anyway.

I think that i have a few options picked out already. I basically live in dresses. The best thing about them is that they’re an outfit by themselves so you have to do less planning to look really pulled together! Now I just have to worry about how exactly I’m going to accessorize my dresses.

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Aug 06
2011

Easy Way to Hire Cheap Construction Help

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Chris Padgett

Is there a such thing as cheap construction help?

Well that might be debatable, but I do know how you can the lowest construction offers possible. Currently online there is a website called Hire-a-Pro.com and I really like how this website is set up. First the home owners or someone like your self will come online and post a job you need done around the house. You can post a financial range of money on the amount you’re willing to pay. Then you will have construction workers, professionals, and every skilled worker capable of doing the job, bidding on your work services. All you have to do is sit back and let the offers roll-in. Once you find a bid; which is in the range of your financial budget, you can hire the person or company for the job. I believe an online service like this, is the way of the future for all home owners.

Those landlords out there who overlook several homes or apartments will find value in a service like this. They now have the opportunity to post jobs online for gardeners, roofers, plumbers, electricians, swimming pool cleaners, and others who work in the construction job industry. This will make it easy on them for finding the lowest bids; for the new jobs they have available. Keeping the tenants happy, is not always an easy thing to do. The task should be a little easier now, with a great online job service like Hire-a-Pro.com around. They connect home owners and landlords alike, with a wide range of professional workers.

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Jul 03
2011

A Trip West

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Chris Padgett

Guest post written by Bob Thornton

So my wife and I have been doing a lot of work inside the house lately, and we’ve been cleaning up and getting ready for the spring. Yep, that’s spring cleaning started early, and we have felt good for doing it! We are looking sooo forward to warmer weather here in South Carolina, and we can tell that it won’t be long until it gets here. While cleaning up the house, my wife and I discussed the possibility of taking a vacation after we get the place clean. I am all in for this idea. I think it would be a great way to say goodbye to winter and hello to spring after spending all this time indoors!

The sears cabinet refacing South Carolina crew is coming next week to fix up the kitchen, but after that would be a golden opportunity. After talking to my wife, I think we are probably going to California. She loves beaches, and she’s always wanted to see the beaches of the Golden Coast. I love the water too, and I think it would be great. I’m sure we’ll see a lot of the touristy spots, too, without a doubt.

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Jul 01
2011

How To Make 1 Million Dollars

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Chris Padgett

The time has come for a lot more people to have a million dollars in this world. It wasn’t that long ago when just a few people around the world had this much money. Now as time has moved us forward, the almighty dollar has gotten weaker and weaker and owning a million really isn’t that difficult. Even with that said, most people will never make a million dollars in their lifetime. Just figure up your current salary per year and go back to the age of 18. From 18 years old to 65 years old, most people will not make a million dollars in this life span. But I figured out a true and honest way to make 1 million dollars and anyone can do this. I won’t go down a long list of things and tell you all the things this program ISN”T; like so many other online programs choose to do. I will speak directly and straight to the point on how you and your family can own a million dollars. How long will it take? Well that is totally up to you! I can tell you, if you are 18 years old right now, most people will have their 1 million dollars, before they turn age 65. I hope that is a little comfort to you. Since most of you are probably closer to 65 than 18 years old, I know speed is important. To earn this much money by 65 years old, just be willing to spend more time on it; than the average person will be doing. If you’re 65 years or older right now and seek a higher income. Well you can do this simple-to-understand program too! You may fall short of 1 million dollars, but you could still make several hundred thousand dollars and I’m sure that is music to most of the “elderly” ears out there.

OK, enough talk. To avoid being like all the other programs that beat around the bush, let’s dive right into this. You may have had this million dollar conversation before. Did someone ever tell you making a million dollars is easy? They say that line and follow with “just find a way to make a buck and do it a million times“. Well if you have heard that before, that is the whole “trick” or “gimmick” to this real life million dollar plan! It’s true! Just find one way to make one dollar and then repeat the process 1 million times and you have your million bucks! Isn’t that easy? Well figuring out how to make that first dollar can be hard for some people. Others who know how to make the first dollar, don’t have a way to multiply it 1 million times. I understand this and I thought it over long and hard. I must be completely honest with each and every one of you out there right now; who is reading this blog post. The first one dollar is easy, but finding a way to duplicate the process one million times is where the work comes into play. I never said this was an easy way or an overnight way to 1 million dollars. If I did, I would be pulling your leg, like every other money making program already does on the World Wide Web. We will have to work, but the good news, you are not alone. I will be here and others will come in with other new and bright ideas, as we all make this journey together. What happens if we fail? Well if we only make it half way to our goal, we still all come away with 500,000 dollars each and that isn’t too bad is it? Most programs you fail with and you take a negative loss to the financial side of things. With my honest and real way to 1 million dollars, ever the failures that use my system will still be in the profit! It’s true! Why? Because with my system your investment is only 1 dollar. If you fail with my product 100% and never get your dollar back, you could be in the hole 1 dollar. If you have a few friends, a neighbor, some family members, or co-workers; then I’m pretty sure you won’t be one of the ones to make minus -1 dollar. No, you will profit and you will profit over and over again with my system. Don’t worry! You don’t have to talk this over with family members, people at your church, your co-workers, or strike up any financial conversations at the annual family reunion. My system is mainly based online. I plan to make 1 million dollars online and never ask any of my close friends or family members for the first red cent. Again, like other online programs that want you to only get 2, 3, or 5 of your closest friends and family members to join. After you get your share; then they have to go out and get their own close friends and family members.So let’s get to the first part of my 1 million dollar plan.

HOW TO MAKE THAT FIRST $1?

All you need to do is buy my professional-looking money page. Instead of going out and creating your own, I already have one made up. It costs only $1 to get and that’s it! Once you pay me $1 for this page; then you can take it out and show it all over the Net and begin to make your one dollar bills. Are you with me so far? This is how each and everyone of us is going to make 1 million dollars!

IS THERE ENOUGH PEOPLE ONLINE FOR US ALL TO MAKE 1 MILLION DOLLARS?

Yes! The latest numbers I saw for people being online was something like 880 million people. So mathematically or technically speaking, it would be possible for about 880 of us to go out and make that million dollars today. Realistically you and I combined will never have a 1 million dollar day in this program. We won’t make a million in 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or even 1 year. The truth is, it will take us some time to get our 1 million dollars. For those who get tired on the journey or give up, all of these folks will have lost nothing and there will be a financial profit there; to have paid for all the time and energy you invested in this 1 million dollar online program. But each day there are hundreds, if not thousands, of new people coming online for the first time. We will never run out of an audience online. We will never fall short of finding people who want to make a million dollars. This is not a pyramid scheme or ponzi scheme like so many like to point out. We all make the same profit on the exact same million dollar page. We never get a raise or the value of the page never increases or decreases. This 1 million dollar page will remain $1 always and forever!

All you need to get started today is one simple dollar! To send this dollar online, you will need an Alert Pay account. This is just like PayPal and it works the same way. Join Alert Pay for free and add the one dollar to your account. If you are anxious to get started; then simply just add a credit card to your Alert Pay account and send the money by CC to my Alert Pay account. You will be able to do all of this from the one million dollar page. And once you get your own page, with your own referral information and an ID number on your one million dollar page; then you will be all set to market your page online.

HOW TO PUT OUR 1 MILLION DOLLAR PAGE IN FRONT OF 1 MILLION PEOPLE?

This is where the work and time comes in. This is the most important step to this real and honest way to make 1 million dollars online. You will need to advertise on a lot of different websites, blogs, message boards, newsgroups, social media sites, and any where else you can stick your own personal 1 million dollar referral page. Everyone can do this marketing online, without ever having to spend any real money! You can advertise on PTC sites for free and traffic exchanges for free! The way you do this, is by joining these free advertising websites and spending time on them clicking ads for real money or surfing pages to earn credits. Each new website you join for free could be putting you 10, 50, 100, 1000, or even 10,000 dollars closer to your million dollar goal. The good news for you and me is that the Internet is totally free for small time advertisers and small business organizations to use. There is over 1 million websites and places online that you can advertise for absolutely no cost! If each site you joined, only produced 1 new dollar bill for you, then it would still be possible to achieve the 1 million dollar dream. Obviously we will have better luck than this on some websites and as we go toward our goal, we will learn which sites offer the best return on new sign ups and time spent there.

To advertise on PTC or paid to click sites, you will need to join a few of them online and start a daily routine by clicking at each of them daily. This way, you are building up cash in your account and later on, you can use this account cash to buy online advertising. The PTC sites offer unique views and you will get your highest success of sign ups at these types of sites; when comparing them to the free traffic exchanges online. So the best place online to start is with the PTC sites. I will list a few links below and after you join a couple of them, you will find other PTC sites you can sign up for free with and create your own arsenal of PTC websites. Here is a few to help you get started:

*ClixSense

*LogiPTC

*LinkGrand

*TVIptc

*BuxSecure

*Infinity Bux

*NeoBux

*WordLinx

*JordanBux

*IFBux

*ClixZing

For traffic exchanges, you will find a lot of these free online to join. Most of them will let you advertise several different websites on each one of them. You may want to advertise some of your other free traffic exchanges and cross promote them with each other. Especially the free traffic exchanges that offer you free credits for each of the pages your referrals surf. I will give you a few examples of some free exchanges you can join. Once you sign up with a couple of mine, you will see other pages in rotation for more free traffic exchanges you can join, so you can create your own personal arsenal of traffic exchanges too (just like you did with the PTC sites). Here is a few to help you get started:

*EasyHits4U

*Volcano Hits

*Leading Surf

*24/7 Traffic Pro

*Surf Sumo

*Traffic Era

*Traffic Hog

*Hot Website Traffic

*Super Traffic Highway

*Traffic Dance

*Traffic Chamber

*Traffic G

*Traffic Speedway

*Hit Lion

*Polar Hits

I will try to update more places you can advertise for free online later on. This should be enough to keep you busy and get you off to a profitable start online. Please let me know if you have any questions and I will try to answer them as fast as possible. Good Luck!


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