Favorite Online Resources

About This Favorite Online Resources Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Tue, 10 May 2011 11:44:53 PDT

Hi, you've arrived at one of my older blogs, the Favorite Online Resources blog and you'll still find great content to explore. However, Favorite Online Resources is no longer a blog that I regularly update because all my activities and resources and now focused into the My Forward Steps Member site at www.myforwardsteps.com

My Forward Steps is my new space brimming with daily tips, success lessons, inspiration, prompts for self development, power for life, tools, ideas for business & web wisdom.
You know, if you aren’t learning then you could be standing still…

My Forward Steps has tools & inspirations to keep you stepping forward

Once stretched by any new idea, your mind never regains its original dimensions. Every forward step enhances the value of your first and if you’re facing in the right direction, all you need to do is to keep walking

Each week, My Forward Steps Members enjoy wealth for momentum, so hop over there and take a peek.

The other place to which I direct visitors is my book's site at www.timeformylife.com. Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones contains 2,843 life power and personal energy boosters at your fingertips, every day for a full year.

I created this book for myself, and NOW I share it with you... 424 power pages - to use daily before the gremlins take hold!

Meantime, you can look over the resources at this blog that I had posted in the past. I won't be updating any dead links, so I'll apologize in advance if you find any posts here that are no longer relevant. Though I'm certain you'll still find many goodies you can still use well.

Cheers, Thea

P.S. Meantime, leave your details in the email form, top-right. You'll love the free bonuses that I send to you in your first few emails.

Use Delicious to Stay Up-to-Date On Popular Topics

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:02:11 PDT

A unique website in its own right, Delicious offers the ability to post bookmarks to their website. What makes this tool interesting to bloggers and other internet folk are that all of the bookmarks being posted by all users are then presented as a feed. Although there are a number of other social bookmarking websites such as Digg and Reddit, Delicious is the one of the earlier ones, having survived the dot com crash in the early 2000’s, and remains quite popular to this day.

For bloggers, the private bookmarking scheme provides a more user friendly tool over the built-in browser bookmark, allowing you to tag posts you’d like to come back to for research purposes. For those of you interested in internet memes, the hotlist provides a good indication of what types of content are currently going viral.

Delicious is also the site responsible for introducing tagging, a resource that has become nearly ubiquitous in the blogosphere. Although Yahoo! is apparently looking to sell this valuable site, they have said that they don’t plan on shutting it down, so it is unlikely to be going anywhere any time soon.

For research purposes, regularly checking in on the other major social bookmarking sites is certainly a good idea, but I prefer to use Delicious. Its simple-to-use interface, readable URL’s, and RSS feed make it a winner for me. Certainly, if you’re a blogger and aren’t using some kind of social bookmarking service you are behind the power curve; put your finger on the pulse by using this site.

Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education where she writes about education, online schools, and what it takes to succeed as a student taking a masters degree program remotely from home over the internet. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.

Geekiest Couple?

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:35:55 PDT

... or “Craziest Couple”?

My friends Veena & Ravi are the developers of one of the best membership plugins for WordPress http://forwardsteps.info/DigitalAccessPass

Married to each other, total geeks, and borderline crazy – sending out emails and responding to tickets at all times of the night, even on weekends.

They’ve put together an amazing product, and I’m happy to introduce them to you, and equally happy to introduce their work of art, that they seem to fondly call “DAP”.

You probably already know that the two most talked about membership plugins for WordPress are DigitalAccessPass.com (DAP) and WishList Member (WLM).

While it is true that WLM has much better marketing, and is probably the more famous of the two, DAP has been silently picking up market share for the last 2 years.

In fact, it has been my personal experience that unless you want a very simple membership site with no content dripping or any of the advanced features, then DAP is your best bet to create a full-featured membership site that has everything you would want from an automated, easy-to-manage, easy-to-publish membership site.

Their new version just dropped, and it has some really cool features – like vBulletin integration, ability to send HTML email, process offline orders, and more.

Check out what’s in their newest release

Secret to Manifesting Your Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Tue, 10 May 2011 10:11:00 PDT

We can all be frustrated by this Law of Attraction thing. On the one hand you want to believe it's true, you want to believe you can have everything you desire simply by imagining it. On the other hand, if you tell the rest of the world you believe in it, they will think you're insane.

Surely it can't be that easy? Surely, you have to work hard for what you want? How can everyone else in the world be wrong and you right? That makes no sense, right?

Action will be taken! However, it's not "work" and it's not a struggle, it's almost as though the action occurs through you.

We have all had success with the Law of Attraction. However many of us know that it can be hit and miss when we want to produce predetermined results.

Whenever you've experience some success in creating what you want in your life, you may often have just seen it as an amazing string of coincidences that happened to give you something you really wanted. Yet in retrospect, it also seemed pretty obvious to you that something larger was at work.

The Law of Attraction is always at work, and it always works, just like gravity. Yet how can we get access to the "levers and dials" to have it producing the results we want, with consistent reliability?

We also know that it doesn't work the way popularized by The Secret. You don't just imagine what you want and have it magically appear, right?

Discover the hidden secret to manifesting your dreams...

What you're looking for is the precise, step-by-step formula that you can systematically apply to create what you want, over and over again.

This step-by-step formula is now rolled into one course, offered for you RIGHT HERE! In a program made up of 6 VIDEOS, 2 WORKSHEETS and 1 MINDMAP

My friend Rishan Bhagowat is offering a step-by-step, empirically proven system to engage our other than conscious resources and the Law of Attraction to create absolutely anything you could want. He also has the personal results to back up what he teaches. Rishan takes what works and discards what doesn't, keeping it as simple as possible.

I have taken a close look at Rishan's "Manifest It All Today" course and the information presented in these 6 videos is excellent and based on a sound foundation of Rishan's personal experiences.

Collect the FREE video that walks you through exactly how Rishan is doing this!

See just what is contained in each video...

My Most Favorite Online Tool

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Tue, 10 May 2011 10:12:41 PDT

I'm adding a slightly hurried message here because I wanted to be sure that you do not miss out on these 3 free video interviews and the six free pre-made movies.

View these Law of Attraction Interviews here

I have no idea what they plan to do with the mastery video series, with these insightful interviews and inspiring movie gifts, when the site goes live for their launch on 5 August, 2pm USA EST.

I wanted to get you over to see all three, in case they disappear!

Bob Proctor, John Assaraf and Joe Vitale answer some of your hard hitting questions about visualization, and about the power of the subconscious, plus why subliminal messages can so powerfully embed your aspirations in your mind, that they become your reality.

You see, here's the thing - are you saying YES to allowing those things you want most, enabling them to become your reality? It's an important question to be asking every single day & many times over.

There are so many "urgent distractions" that keep leading us away from our own path. We are being programmed by so much else that is out of our control, and which is being created by other's agendas.

I invite you to pause and stop, only a few moments for YOUR life...

View these Law of Attraction Interviews here

It is half way through 2010 and if your goals are not quite where you had hoped they would be at this time, or if things are moving more slow for you then, WHEN is it time to do something different?

The missing piece of your manifesting puzzle

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Tue, 10 May 2011 10:15:53 PDT

If you've ever given up on visualization or have just not seen the precise results you were looking for, you need to watch this video...

Ryan managed to pin down who I call 'the god of visualization' - Mr Bob Proctor and find out his biggest success secrets and the key to where effective visualization begins.

Discover Bob Proctor's answers here

I'm sure you know Bob from the movie The Secret but what he shares in this video interview is nothing short of inspirational amazingness!

He has such an incredible way of laying it all out, it's like nothing I've ever seen before... he gives a whole new perspective to the Law of Attraction.

Prepare to be blown away

So...if you're someone who has ever...

...Tried visualization for a few days but hasn't seen results so has given up

...Or think that to see results you have to spend a few hours a day focusing on what it is you want but hey- you're busy and there's not always enough time in the day to get to it

...Or have put together a vision board or a Mind Movie, look at it every day but it kind of feels like you're wasting your time as you haven't seen any real life results and the images on it still seem so far out of reach

Here's my answer...

Take a look at what Bob has to say and get started doing exactly what he suggests. You'll find that this just could be the missing piece of your manifesting puzzle.

Here's one of my favorite quotes from this video...

"Even if you don't believe in it - do it anyway. My attitude is: if your way isn't working, try mine. I'm doing all right. I'm healthy, happy, and I'm wealthy. I earn more money in one hour than I used to in twenty years. So I must know something. And I know that this works." -Bob Proctor

Learn how To Multiply Your Manifesting Power

The one thing I love most about this video is that everything Bob says makes complete and utter sense.

Enjoy these self improvement gifts as my thank you

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:37:01 PDT

Get a full free chapter of my book Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones, for taking a little time to do this for me.

Plus, four days later you receive a free copy of my 55-minutes MP3 audio interview about Goal Setting Motivation and Momentum.

Those are my thank you gifts for helping to vote my book Time For My Life into Round 2 of a contest that is focused on finding authors whose book appeals to the spiritual market.

Hampton Roads Publishing offers a book contract to the winner. It is a $50,000 book publishing contract that I would love to achieve.

Voting in the first round of the contest ends on 3 May, 2010.
Will you vote for me? Go to http://forwardsteps.info/NextTopAuthor

It will take a few moments of your time, they've made it a little bit fiddly however it is something special that doesn't come around often. While you're in there, vote for Chris Cade too http://forwardsteps.info/ChrisCadeAuthor

Go to http://forwardsteps.info/NextTopAuthor before Monday 3rd May and vote.

Feel free to pass along that web link to your friends. They are sure to enjoy the gifts as my thank you for voting.

Remember to check these before Easter!

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:38:11 PDT

Below, are 4 important reminder notes, 3 are for end of March 2010:

Firstly, I invite you to a special online Self Improvement Summit...

I feel honored to be a part of this awesome lineup of experts.
There is no cost to attend! www.SelfImprovementSummit.com

Secondly, I have chosen to enter Time For My Life into a competition, focused on finding authors whose book appeals to the spiritual market. Hampton Roads Publishing offers a book contract to the winner.
Will you vote for my book? http://forwardsteps.info/NextTopAuthor

Third, I heard that Bob Proctor's Six Minute Success membership is going to be including an incredible bonus around the end of March. It will only be offered to any of us who had signed up at http://forwardsteps.info/sixminutesuccess Best do it before end of this month!

Lastly, a quick reminder that www.timeformylife.com returns to its original price at the end of March 2010. I will use midnight USA EST as the cut-off for this unique opportunity for you. I think that you might also enjoy the revamped and improved video at my book's site!

Feel free to pass along any of these three web links to your friends.

Enjoy a very happy Easter, and my card http://forwardsteps.info/EasterCard

News From Thea At Forward Steps!

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:19:10 PST

I've got a real treat for you today. A bunch of us (including myself) went ahead and put together a load of free downloads for you.
Grab them at this link because I believe it is only a limited time opportunity to collect these free gifts.

You can also earn 100% commission on that same site. It's an awesome opportunity.

TODAY, I want to thank you for visiting this blog and for reading my news...

It means a lot to me and I hope I've been helpful in one way or another to your online business and to your self-improvement.

As we go forward in 2010, I look forward to providing more value to you.

You might notice that it has been quite some time since I added content at this blog. I am in process of collecting all my posts and I'll be pulling down this blog as well as my others, in near future. I will give this blog and my other blogs a different purpose.

ALL my resources are now being published at My Forward Steps and you should also know about a special offer with regard Time For My Life for the month of March 2010, ONLY!

Do you want to stay connected with me? I recommend you look at my current online activities and the newest direction for Forward Steps Self Improvement publications.

LASTLY, if you have your own web site and you would like some support in promoting that site, then you definitely want to participate in this latest project of mine at Spread Wealth And Share Self Growth!

Cheers, Thea

420-pages of daily momentum!

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:04:58 PDT

It's Thea Westra from Forward Steps, with some very exciting news!

A short while ago I promised to let you know when my book is ready to buy. My book is now ready and available to you.

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"Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones"
http://www.timeformylife.com
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Can you even begin to imagine, how 2,843 actions, options, ideas, inspirations, tasks, and thoughts could transform your life if you took up each of them, over the course of a full year?

Try it out! Go ahead and order my 420-pages of daily momentum, at... http://www.timeformylife.com

I am so thrilled to finally have this wonderful resource ready for you. It has taken 18-months, and I calculated that I built it at the rate of 1.3 pages every day, all 7-days per week, for all those 18-months.

Now those are some Forward Steps!

Celebrate with me and take a look at this gift, from me to you.

A demonstration of the power of connection in action!

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:58:50 PST

No one achieves success without the help and support of other people. The book “Personal Development Kaleidoscope”, is a demonstration of the power of connection in action. The Kaleidoscope Relationships List began with only a list of the authors and their web-sites.

These authors were each asked to publish the list on their site, and to add 5-10 people who they feel use or have used the principles taught in this book effectively.

If you are not on the list, but would like to be – email Priscilla at relationships@priscillamcintire.com to express your interest and start a connection with us. Please include your name, the name of your Web Site, and the site URL.
Finally, use this list to connect with each other! After all that is the whole point of the Kaleidoscope Relationships List.

If you need information about how to post this list to your site easily please read Easily Post a List With Active Links.

To the authors, I am personally adding Patricia Schiavone, Christopher Westra, Jim Randel, Robert Scheinfeld, Andy Andrews, Elan Sun Star, Alicia Castillo Holley

Abu Aremu Positive Self Talk Guide
Adam Kayce Monk at Work
Adebola Oni Naija Motivation
Al Ramsey 7pproductions.com
Alex Shalman Practical Personal Development
Alik Levin PracticeThis.com
Angela Lord at Angelalord.com
Armen Shirvanian Timeless Information
Arswino Inspiration & Motivation Blog
Arthur Hung & Jason Fonceca   Spiritentient
Bunny BunnyGotBlog
Cheryl Ragsdale   That Girl Is Funny
Chris Cade Think without the box
Chris Marshall Martial Development
CK Reyes My Coaching Works
Cinderella S Kelley Kroh The Krohs Nest
Cindie Wilding Answers From Within
Corrinne Edward Personal Growth with Corinne Edwards
Craig Harper Motivational Speaker – Craig Harper
Crystal Silver CrystalSilver.com
Daniel Sitter Idea Sellers
Daphne Joyful Days
David Rogers How to Have Great Self Confidence
David Zinger David Zinger Associates
Dawn Edwards Second Hand Roses
Dawna Jones Management-Issues
Diane Brandon Diane Brandon.com and Diane Brandon.net
Dr. Susan R. Meyer, Ed. D. Life Work Cafe
Dr. Venerina Conti VenerinaConti.com
Dragos Roua dragosroua.com
El Baugher at Thesmilingspirit.com
Ellie Walsh at Living the Law of Attraction
Frank Butterfield Life Unfolding Beautifully and 68 Second Videos and Re/Transformation
Gamy Rachel Mind Think Success
Gary Evans Good To Feel Good
Gleb Reys Personal Development Ideas
Gordie Rogers Lifestyle Design 4U
Gregory Allen Butler holistic-personal-development.com
Heather Beste a little bit of me time
Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
Ian Quantum Learning
Isabella Mori MoriTherapy
Jacklyn Ker Inspiring and Empowing Lives
Jeanette Maw Good Vibe Coaching
Jeanne May Goals and Aspirations
Jeff ‘Yoopersmith’ Smith Shift-Your-Consciousness
Jennifer Mannion   JennyMannion.com
John Sadler   Bitesize Marketing NLP
Jonathan Fields Awake At the Wheel
Jonathan Wells Advanced Life Skills
Jordan Rosenfeld Make a Scene
Judy Kinney Dream and Flourish
Judy Martin The Work/Life Monitor
Justin Wolsey Riggs Easier Method
Kaya Singer Awakening Business
Karen Putz A Deaf Mom Shares Her World
Lance Jungle of Life
Lexi Sundell Energies of Creation
Liz Strauss Successful Blog
Lori Painter at Inspire2act
Lorraine Cohen Powerfull Living
Lyman Reed Free Personal Development Material
Lynn Solarczyk Livingloa
Luciano Passuello Litemind.com
M. Farouk Radwan 2knowmyself
Mel Kaye Monday Morning Power
Melissa Goerke Melissa Thinks Out Loud
Marelisa Fábrega Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online
Meryl K. Evans   Meryl.net
Michele Woodward   Lifeframeworks.com
Michelle Vandepas   Conscious Destiny
Mike King Learn This
Mohammad Shafi’e   Ultimate Secrets of Success
Neil Sattin NeilSattin.com and Natural Dog Blog
Patricia Schiavone Thriving Together, AtoZEdit.com and Attracting The Best
Patricia Singleton Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker
Phil Gerbyshak PhilGerbyshak.com
Priscilla McIntire at Personal Development Demands Success
Rachel Rofe at Rachelrofe.com
Rahul Bhambhani Take-20.com
Robert Henru Reason4Smile
Robert Higginson Robert Higginson
Robin Skeen Robin?s Reflections
Rod Smith   Difficult Relationships
Sam Kotadia MindSportLive.com
Scott Ginsberg Hello, My Name Is Blog
Scott H Young Scotthyoung.com
Sharani Robins Sharani Girl on a Road
Sherri Joubert   Being The Change I Wish To see
Shauna Arthurs Follow Your Path and Breathing Prosperity
Slade Roberson Shift Your Spirits
Sonia Simone   Remarkable Communication
Steve Borgman Success Factors
Stephen Balanced Existence
Stephen Rat Race Trap
Steven Aitchison Change Your Thoughts
Sugandi Iyer Life Business Creations
Thea Westra   MyForwardsteps.com and TimeForMyLife.com
Tina Su   Think Simple Now
Todd Goldfarb We The Change
Vincent Tan Health Money Success
Vivienne Quek Versa Creations
Zorka Hereford Essential Life Skills
Zubli Zainordin Your Wisdom of Total Happiness

These, And Many More Are Moving. Join Me Today!

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:09:10 PDT

ENTER INTO to the largest treasure trove of Forward Steps resources, free gifts, inspiring content, motivational messages, internet tools/ideas, videos, audios, programs, self improvement exercises, and so much more!

What is delivered to you goes WAY BEYOND the very low US$4.95 monthly My Forward Steps Membership. Don’t let that crazy, low price fool you! Plus, there is no fixed term, it’s pay by the month, and cancel anytime.

I have more than seven years of fantastic resources related to Increased Life Power, Self Improvement, Your Personal Success, Plus Online Business And Internet Know-How Tips.

You will have the SUPER ADVANTAGE of receiving all my years of gathered and personally created resources, as well as the benefit of my years of online experience, years of my own personal development discoveries/adventures, and years of internet knowledge.

You get all of this, and so much more, all by way of a slow release “Content Responder”.

At your own leisure, you get to delve into every inch, of ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING that I have ever put out since 2002.

SOON, My Forward Steps will be the only place at which you will be able to get your hands on my personal collections.

See you inside!

Thea

P.S. Remember, all the content at all my blogs and all the pages, books, resources I have ever created will gradually diappear behind the screen of the My Forward Steps Member site.

Who's Among Us (whos.amung.us)

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:46:04 PDT

I love the simplicity of the tracking software by whos.amung.us, allowing you to better understand your website how your visitors use it.

There are two main widgets available, the original widget which comes in a variety of sizes and colors, and the maps widget.

The original widget displays how many people are currently on your website or blog. The number represents concurrent unique users, meaning no person is counted twice and once they leave your site.

The map widget is an exciting way of showing where all of the past and current visitors come from. Maps are also very customizable, the background, pin style, and colors, and size are all configurable. I have personally used that widget at www.forwardstepsblog.com (near the bottom right hand, in the side-bar).

There is no registration to use their widgets. Simply take the HTML code you see and put it on your website, or use one of the instant install buttons under the codebox for supported networks. Their widgets are free to use and they will always remain free.

The Firefox extension/addon allows you to see how many people are on your website from the convenience of your browser's status bar. It requires that you have one of the widgets installed on your site already. That extension only works with the Firefox web browser.

You can read much more about the whos.amung.us serice at their help page.

Here is a sample that I created purely for the Online Resources blog - hope it works inside this blog post!:

201 Free Twitter Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:16:41 PDT

201 Free Twitter Tools

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Non-fiction Books marketing web

Customized gradient backgrounds, borders, text , buttons

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:52:47 PDT

Gabriel Ross designed and has been maintaining GRSites.com since 1997. Now you know where the "GR" in the address comes from!

Gabriel lives in Montreal, Canada, with his wife Kaamini and sons Nathan and Alexandre.

He is actually a scientist by training, and completing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at McGill University. Their laboratory focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of memory in the brain.

GRSites.com began a decade ago when he found himself having trouble finding a good background texture for his first web site (long gone!) and realizing that the internet needed a good comprehensive archive of textures for use in web pages. So Gabriel made one himself, and since then it seems to have become the most popular one. He also created a web graphics archive, as well as one of fonts and sound effects.

Eventually, features were added that allows you to customize the background textures in interesting ways. And more recently, Gabriel created the Button Maker, Logo Maker, and Menu Maker features which have proven very popular indeed.

There's a whole lot more in progress at GRSites.com that you won't find anywhere else on the web, at least not for free: realistic 3D logos, complex animated Flash logos and menu systems, beautiful new button types, all fully customizable.

I hope you enjoy GRSites.com as much as I enjoy using it for my web creations...

Saturday 2 May Is Shutdown Day 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:01:02 PDT

Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?

Shutdown Day announces the Annual 2009 Campaign. Just like in years past, Shutdown Day 2009 calls on every net obsessed, computer–addicted individual to SHUT DOWN their computers for 24 hours on May 2, 2009 and do something else!

Shutdown Day 2009 will be promoting several organizations that help young people suffering from computer addiction. A bunch of events are also organized for May 2, 2009, so visit their website and watch that space.

A New Website For Listing My Online Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:32:57 PDT

I have just recently created a new web page with my favorite online tools, and this site will have more added to it, as I find more.

When I find something that does a job better than a tool I am currently using, then I will replace it with a better one.

This blog will still list and add others, plus retain the original online software, widget or tool links. This way you can select from the ones that I have collected and used over time, choosing the one that is most preferred by you.

By the way, you can even let us all know about your favorites at the Forward Steps Online Resources Links page I created as an add-on for you all.

Gmail backup

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:06:58 PDT

Recently, I found this handy, and very user friedly, Gmail backup tool.

If you've ever wanted to save certain emails from Gmail on your own computer just in case, then this is worth a go.

This is the next release of the GMail Backup tool - the ultimate one-click solution for doing backups of your GMail account.

Here is a screen shot of how easy it is to use...

An eCommerce Solution For Adding Revenue To Existing Sales

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:29:15 PDT

Have you considered adding TrialPay as a payment option for products that you have available, for sale online?

TrialPay does not replace your current e-commerce solution; instead, they provide a new way for consumers to pay that adds additional conversions and new revenue onto your existing sales.

With TrialPay, customers get your online product for free by completing one offer from brand-name advertisers. For instance, customers can send flowers from FTD or sign up for Blockbuster and get your product for free. They use money from the advertiser (FTD or Blockbuster in this example) to pay you for your product.

TrialPay currently work with some of the biggest names in the industry: McAfee, Skype, WinZip, AVG, Lavasoft, Real Networks and hundreds of other premier partners.

If you'd like to get started with TrialPay, you can sign up for a free, no-obligation merchant account. TrialPay is an absolutely free service with no registration or transaction fees.

Also, no integration is necessary with your current e-commerce provider. Simply insert a TrialPay "Get it Free" button on your site and you're ready to go!

I am currently using TrialPay at my Forward Steps Triggers site. I have set the page abandonment widget script to only appear once a week for my site visitors. You have a choice to set it more, or less frequently than that. As well, you'll notice the TrialPay button that's right under my sales button at the Triggers site.

I have also added the option (using my own selected image) at these two links from the Triggers main site - Triggers Affiliates and the free Triggers Sample option

If you'd like to read more about TrialPay, here is a great background article on TrialPay that appeared in the New York Times.

Wordle

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:37:52 PST

Images created by the Wordle.net web application are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

You may take a Wordle, put it on your book cover, your t-shirt, your campaign poster, what have you. You may get rich off it. Just tell people how you made the image, or, if you're using one from the gallery, where you got it.

If you use a screen-capture, PDF, or other image representation of a Wordle, you must attribute the image to http://www.wordle.net/.

See their FAQ for information about using the Wordle applet or other intellectual property from this web site.

How Are We All Feeling Today?

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:57:36 PST

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.

The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.

Read More About This And Explore The Magnificent Visuals HERE >>

Here also, is a List of Positive Emotions to help expand your awareness of the emotions you feel in life. As you learn to name your emotions, you grow and become more skilled at creating the emotions you desire! I have presented you with this list before, however I thought it would fit well with the 'We Feel Fine' site.

How Long Is A Very Long Time?

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:18:40 PST

[Image via Wikipedia]

dipclip.com is about having a little bit of fun out there in internet lalaland.

The idea is simple. One million sites listed, each getting one million banner ad impressions. This equates to one trillion, hence the Mission: One Trillion Served. Here is the plan:

February 14, 2009 to February 14, 2010 (or as long as it takes - which they realize may be a very long time) they want to serve One Trillion 50 x50 banner ads on dipclip.com. There is a checkerboard (10 x 10) with 100 banners shown at any given time on www.dipclip.com.

Entering is simple. Fill out the form on ‘Get Your Spot’ and submit it. They will verify all information. Once your information checks out, they enter your banner into the rotation (1,000,000 impressions) and will track your clicks.

At the end of the run, the site with the most clicks wins. What does this mean for you? Either you have a lot of time on your hands or you know a lot of people that will spend the day looking for your banner. A winner will be announced at the end of the trillion served. Presently, this is just for fun. If it becomes something more than that, it will be disclosed to all participants.

What are you waiting for? Submit your blog, website, etsy, myspace, facebook, youtube page, bebo, twitter….what ever you want.

Have fun!
Thea

P.S. Remember this is absolutely free, there is no catch, besides my own curiosity to see what events happen over the course of the year. Let's call it a social experiment.

Who Wants To Grow Their Mailing List?

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:01:02 PST

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If you have your own web or blog, and a product to give-away, plus you'd like to build a mailing list for yourself, then I would highly recommend that you sign up at this link...

This sounds a bit like a sales pitch, however I am being perfectly straight, when I say that I had 870+ new subscribers to join my list (in only a 2-month period), and I did no more than let visitors know about wonderful free gifts at a gift link.

It was the best business exercise in which I had ever participated and a very small investment of my time & energy. I was super surprised. Test it out for yourself with the next opportunity...

However remember, 'big lists' mean nothing. They are people who have chosen to find out more about what you offer and who you are, no different to yourself when you subscribe. This is about building a relationship and giving away much more than you receive. You can't outgive the universe! :)

Have a magnificent 2009,
Thea

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Happiest Place on the Internet

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:48:45 PST

Take a look at my GratitudeLog profile!

I set up a profile on GratitudeLog, the Happiest Place on the Internet, where I can express daily what I'm grateful for, and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it.

First, you need to join GratitudeLog.

The best thing is that it literally takes less than a minute. Once you join, you can also create your own profile.

See you there,
Thea

P.S.
Remember too... it is almost Friday 20th February!

Weight And Mass Conversions

noreply@blogger.com (Thea) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:25:45 PST

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I love this handy link with several weight and mass conversions. I have it bookmarked for handy reference.

You'll find all of the following, listed at this one handy conversion site. Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions...

Acceleration
Many different acceleration constants. g-unit, meter/square second, more...

Angles
Gradients, Radians, Degrees, Minutes, Seconds, Points, More...

Area
Square centimeter, Square meter, Square inch, Square foot, Square mile, Square Kilometer, Acres, Circles, More...

Astronomical
Astronomical unit, light-years, parsecs, More...

Clothing
Convert clothing sizes between many different countries.

Computers and Electronics
Various conversions and calculators related to computers and electronics.

Cooking
Various cooking volume conversions, including Drop, Dash, Pinch, Teaspoons, Tablespoons, Cups, etc. Plus other cooking conversions such as butter weight, and gas mark temperatures.

Date/Time
Several different converters and calculators related to dates and times.

Density
kg/cubic meter, lbm/cubic foot, lbm/gallon, aluminum, copper, gold, water, More...

Energy
Joules, Btu, calories, electronvolt, erg, watt hour, therm, toe, tce, More...

Finance
Several calculators and conversions related to finance

Flow Rate
Many different flowrate conversions. Includes separate pages for mass based, volume based, and mole based flowrates.

Force
Dyne, gram-force, poundals, newtons, pounds, kgm-force, more...

Frequency
Hertz, cycles per second, revolutions per second, degrees per second, radians per second, many more...

Fun Stuff Several fun and interesting calculators and conversions

Length/Distance
Millimeters, Centimeters, Inches, Feet, Yards, Meters, Kilometers, Miles, Mils, Rods, Fathoms, Nautical Miles, More...

Light
Conversion calculators for illuminance and luminance.

Mapping
Many calculators and converters related to mapping and navigation.

Miscellaneous
Several calculators and conversions that didn't fit any other category

Numbers
Number conversions and information. Base conversion, SI Standard prefixes, American and British naming conventions, and more...

Objects and Shapes
Various calculators for finding volume, area, and surface area for various different objects and shapes.

Power
Watts, BTU/hour, foot-lbs/second, Horsepower, kilowatts, more...

Pressure
dyne/sq cm, Pascal, poundal/sq foot, Torr, inch H2O, inch mercury, more...

Speed
centimeters/second, meters/second, kilometers/hour, feet/second, feet/minute, miles/hour, knots, mach, more...

Temperature
Celsius, Fahrenheit, Rankine, Reaumur, and Kelvin

Torque
Pound-force Foot, Pound-force Inch, Kilogram-force Meter, and Newton meter

Viscosity
Poise, Centipoise, Water, Oil, Glycerin, more...

Volume
Liquid and Dry. Liters, Fluid Ounces, Pints, Quarts, Gallons, Milliliter/cc, Barrels, Gill, Hogshead, more...

Weight/Mass
Kilograms, Ounces, Pounds, Troy Pounds, Stones, Tons, more...