The Author of this post is Cheryl Martinez

I am sure that you have probably seen the incredibly sad reports on the news about people who had suddenly died in their homes due to carbon monoxide poisoning. I recently saw a particularly sad story about a family of 5 with three little kids who had no heat in their house. They decided to bring in a natural gas style heater and placed it in the living room where they all slept together on the couches around the heater.

They didn’t know it but the heater was putting off dangerous carbon monoxide. Unfortunately they didn’t have an carbon monoxidedetectors and they all perished in their home that night. This is a very sad story about a very preventable thing. I had an alarm system installed by home security Colorado and they actually installed carbon monoxide detectors all over the house. Now when I go to bed I never have to worry or wonder if there will be a problem because I know the alarm system will wake us up if there is a threat of carbon monoxide.

Guest post written by Mellissa Hartman

It really just doesn’t do any more to just teach your family to reuse and recycle. There also all other types of things that you can do to teach your family to be less wasteful. I’m a big believer in caring for the environment and I think that you have to think a whole lot more about what you’re doing instead of just recycling plastic water bottles, or even reusing the same water bottle over and over again.

I’m constantly looking up ways for our family to be less wasteful by looking online with our clear internet service. I find all kinds of stuff that way and I’ve found all kinds of great stuff by doing that.

Just another way to be less wasteful, in my opinion, is to be more conscious of all the clothes that you buy. I know it sounds silly for a family on a budget, but I don’t automatically go for the really cheap clothes. Most of the time they don’t last very long and don’t end up being worth all that trouble any way! Besides, if you’re going to buy some new clothes, you might as well make sure that they’re good quality!

The New Biz   Thanks to Lemuel Craft

I have always said I wanted to try my hand at housesitting and I got my wish—in a big way! I signed up with an agency on line to do house sitting overseas and got a gig in Southern France. I am so excited to be leaving in two weeks but I still have so much stuff to do here. Since I will be gone all summer (for three months), I have to make sure everything at my home here is taken care of while I’m house sitting. Just to be safe, I used www.Home-Alarm-Systems.com to find an alarm system for my house. I’ve had my mail forwarded, prepaid all my utilities and am in the process of saying goodbye to my friends. Of course, at least half of them are planning to visit me during the summer, since they’ll have a free place to stay. I certainly don’t blame them though, as I would do the same thing. I just hope this experience is going to live up to all my expectations. If it works out, I’d love to find other places to housesit so I can see the world.

Guest post written by my buddy Keith Kramer

I was a little angry when the TV show Glee acted as though they were bringing it to everyone’s attention the fact that Gwyneth Paltrow could sing. This is a fact I have been aware of since her movie Duets came out. The song Groovin’ Together was even on the radio. I know that this movie didn’t do all that well, but I thought it was a known fact that Gwyneth could sing.

Despite all of that I did enjoy her performance as a substitute teacher on the show Glee. Her name is Holly Holliday and she fills in when Mr. Schuester is sick. After she is there for a few days she attempts to steal his job. Of course this is the show Glee and Gwyneth is required to sing. Her best performance was C! ee-Lo’s “Forget You” and she sang the song with him on the Grammy Awards.

I’ve seen advertisements that she is going to be coming back and may even have a romance with Mr. Schuester. I always enjoy the music that is performed on Glee and we like to sing along.

I watched this episode of Glee omy TV from www.Direc4U.com. I try to record several episodes of this show to enjoy watching as a marathon. Sometimes I get impatient and watch the show during the same week instead of waiting.

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This year, I am working very hard to build my primary home business into a full time income. Part of that is providing my team with a high-level of support. One of the things I have committed to, is providing my team with as much support as I possibly can, which includes my knowledge, experience, and the business building tools I have found to be useful.

One idea I am contemplating is purchasing a reseller hosting account so that I can provide my team with free website hosting as a bonus for being a part of my team. Reseller hosting is essentially buying hosting space from a large hosting company and then redistributing the hosting space to other website owners. You can actually create a business within itself using reseller hosting, if you want to get into selling web hosting.

I currently have a multiple domain hosting account, so getting a reseller account would only be for the benefit of my team members at this point. To be clear, the web hosting I would provide would not be meant as a bribe to join my team, but rather one less expense my team members would have to worry about. I am thinking of providing the web hosting for free for at least the first year and then maybe charging a small fee after that (probably $5 per month, which is a bit less than standard hosting).

Doing this would enable me to setup WordPress blogs for my team members (if they wanted to start blogging and branding themselves) or I could simply setup hosting for their business websites on their own domains. Then, after a year or so, when everyone’s business is growing, the reseller account could become another income stream for me. What do you think?

An email autoresponder is a type of software application that sends emails to people on a selected email list automatically, triggered by a schedule, or by receiving a certain response.  There are a variety of email autoresponder programs available, at varying prices. Having one as part of your Internet home business has become essential.  Email autoresponders are used to greet those on your email list, they help you communicate even when you’re not available, they help you build relationships, and they help you advertise and enhance public relations.

Since email autoresponders are automated and don’t require a live person, they save a  lot of time for a busy home business owner.  Since they can be configured ahead of time, which guarantees uniformity in the messages sent out.  An autoresponder is also great for bulk email marketing or sending broadcast messages to your entire email list.  You may want to send a newsletter to your subscribers or notify them of a coupon or discount offer. All this can be done with a single click.

Most email autoresponders cost about $20 per month to use their service. Although having an email autoresponder is a must, if you’re on a shoestring budget $20 per month can seem like a burden. A great option for those on a budget is the iContact Email Marketing company.  Their service starts at $9.95 per month, they have an easy to use interface and over 300 professionally-designed email templates. They allow you to track the opens and clickthroughs on your emails, add a sign-up form to your web site, segment your list, and manage your subscribers (including taking care of managing bounces and unsubscribes for you). It’s a pretty great service, especially for the price.  No matter what email autoresponder service you use, make sure you’re building your list because like they always say, “The money is in the list!” List building is definitely one of my main areas of focus this year. What about you?

I’m often asked how to make money blogging, especially within the last year because of the state of the economy. There are a few answers to that question. That’s because blogging affords you the ability to make money online in a few different ways.

My favorite way to make money blogging is by leveraging the power of affiliate programs. You earn affiliate commissions for any sales that result from your affiliate links. I also love Google Adsense, mainly because of its simplicity. You simply add your Google Adsense code to your blog and then you earn money when your visitors click on the ads.

I recently found a website called You Say Too that offers a unique way to earn money blogging and it allows you to promote blog at the same time! The way you make money from this site is not a new concept, they use a revenue sharing model. What makes them a little different is that they don’t just share Google Adsense revenue like most other websites, they also share Amazon affiliate commissions too. It’s 50/50 split on both, which is pretty generous.

Another thing that makes this website unique is that you don’t just share your written content, you can upload flash games too. That’s pretty cool for anyone who’s interested in gaming. Oh and did I mention that you can add your own blog? Yeah, you can add all your own blogs so they are centralized in one place and you’ll be promoting your blogs all at the same time.So, if you’re interested in blogging for money check them out at YouSayToo.com.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my marketing strategies and what I plan to change for 2010. Mobile Marketing is a fairly new medium for marketing your business, but one I’m very interested in. Wikipedia defines mobile marketing as “marketing on or with a mobile device, such as a mobile phone.” Since mobile phones and text messaging have become the norm these days, using these tools as a way to leverage your marketing message is a smart way to ensure that you get your message out to the masses.

If you think about it, text messaging marketing campaigns may quite possibly be the most reliable way to get your message out there. People will avoid answering their phone if they don’t know who the call is from or if the call is interrupting their time. People will delete emails if they don’t know who the email is from, suspect that its spam, or simply decide the message isn’t important to them. But text messages are another story. How many times have you NOT read a text message that has come to your phone? I can honestly say that I’ve never deleted a text message without reading it first – never, not once. Do you see the power in that?

Many people think that starting a mobile marketing campaign is complicated and expensive, but companies like 84444.com have made it easy and affordable. 84444.com offers a variety of mobile marketing campaign options as well – from interactive text campaigns, text broadcast campaigns, text voting, text contests, and even text coupons. Pricing plans start at $79 per month for up to 1,000 text messages. And they support just about every major service provider including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint/Nextel, Cellular One, Dobson, US Cellular, and Cincinnati Bell.  The cool thing is they even offer a free trial (which includes 25 free text messages)! I’m definitely going to integrate mobile marketing into my 2010 marketing campaigns. How about you?

If you have an online business social media marketing should be an intricate part of your promotion process. Once you learn how to do this making a living from your home based business becomes a snap. Social media marketing in tells many things and should be interactive using blogs or social websites, but don’t get social media marketing confused with social media networking to entirely different things.

There are a number of websites were you can become a member and create a profile. The next step is to share your news with the rest of the world. This is a very easy and fun way to promote your online business but always follow the rules and don’t be too pushy. People can contact you and you will be able to give them more details about your product that you’re tying to sell.

If you have business cards you shouldn’t forget to add your social media URL. People can learn more about your business this way. The key to a successful business is interaction with your clients. You will be able to keep your old clients and get new ones as well. Always try to build new relationships!

One of the most popular social websites right now is Facebook . . It’s very easy to create a profile as well as creating groups for your niche products. This way you’ll always have your own target community. Facebook has grown by leaps and bounds over the last year and will continue to grow in the future.

If you do a little research you can find hundreds of social networking websites. Always create a profile at the ones you feel most comfortable with. Linked In and Twitter are also two very well known websites. You can also join forums and ask for advice. Ultimately you want to target your audience. This is the key to success.

Before joining any of these social sites make sure you do your research. Try to see what the other members are interested in. This is a great way to gage what people are interested in. If after you checked the website and you think that it might be a great place to promote your business create a profile and go for it.

You should begin to see the results just after a few months. It takes a lot of time and effort to succeed. But Social media marketing is one of the new and best ways to promote your internet business . One of the main advantages is that it’s totally free of charge and it will help you build relationships with other people.

Up until recently, it’s been a somewhat well-kept secret that Kiosk is relaunching it’s hosting service, and wrapping in 3+ other services in September, under the GVO, or Global Virtual Opportunities.

GVO will become an all-in-one service that we would normally promote anyway: Kiosk Website Hosting, Email Autoresponder, Easy Video Producer Video service, and Hot Conference. This is Mike Filsaime’s, Mike Cheney’s, and Frank Bauer’s hosting company (and most of the big boys).

Just like when they were Kiosk, this will have a viral component, where the emphasis IS on the product, and NOT the opportunity, BUT there will be money to be made for anyone who gets in early.

This is because the compensation plan is a 2×10 forced matrix with a hybrid structure. The forced matrix means people in your upline OR your downline may contribute to your overall income as they refer more and more people. Lots of residual income potential!

Here’s more information about what an amazing passive income opportunity this is:

• You will receive a 50% quick start bonus for the first month on each of your personal referrals.  That’s a commission of $22.47 per personal referral for that first month when they sign up.

• You will receive 20% commissions on your first level.

• You’ll then receive 5% commissions on EACH of your levels 2-10 for indirect referrals. A full matrix is 2046 people, or over $4,500 per month if every person is on the LOWEST price-point product package — and if you DON’T refer ANY OF THEM.

• For those you did refer, you’ll earn a 20% matching check bonus on what your referrals earn too. This is in addition to your normal matrix commissions.

• For every 14 Titanium members in your organization, you get another banked position in the matrix. You can choose to save these, if you choose, and place them where and when you want.  This is a great strategy for recruiting a heavy hitting network marketer. You can incentivise them and offer one of your banked business to be placed directly under them and build their business for them… while you’re building you own!

• Now, GVO will also be sharing 10% of the companies net profits every month (bonus pool) with the top 20 recruiters based on the number of referrals they brought into the company for that month. This  is decided irrespective of the number of people you have in your downline.

It only costs $1.00 to sign up right now for a 2-week trial. Then it’s $44.95 per month for the reseller  hosting account (which means you can sell hosting accounts to others as a side business if you want), the hot conference tool, the easy web video service, and the email autoresponder, and more. I can tell I spend about that just for my reseller host account and my email autoresponder, so it’s like getting the conference tool and the video service and the other goodies (lead capture pages, downtime witness, etc.) for free. And, remember… you don’t even have to promote this to make money! You can make money just by being a part of this – that’s 100% passive income. Don’t miss this – sign up now!