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A $279 Laptop ????

2008-06-13T21:19:00.003-04:00

I got an email from TigerDirect advertising a $279 laptop - so of course I had to take a look.

I don't know who is worse on a computer me or my partner, SKinney - we both seem to wear them out within a couple of years. I've been using a Dell for a couple of years and honestly, it's lasted me longer than any other laptop I've had, but it too is wearing down. We travel a lot and my laptops just wind up taking a lot of abuse.

Anyway, I checked this out and it really looks fun.

Here are the bells and whistles the Asus Eee PC 2G Surf has :

Condition: New

Operating Systems: LINUX

Platform: Notebook PC

USB Ports: 3

LAN Ports: 1

Audio Out Jacks: 1

Microphone Jacks: 1

VGA Ports: 1

Processor Brand: Intel

Processor Class: Mobile CPU

Memory Type: DDR2

Memory Size: 512MB

Capacity: 2GB Solid State Drive (SSD)

Supplemental Drive Type: Media Reader

Media Types: Secure Digital Multi Media Card

Audio Description: Integrated Audio

Audio Chipset: Hi-Definition (HD) Audio Support

Graphics Description: Integrated Graphics

Communications Description: Integrated LAN/Integrated Wireless LAN

Interface Type: RJ-45 Ethernet Connector/802.11b/g Wireless Networking

Data Transfer Rate: 10/100Mbps NIC 54 Mbps

Protocols: 802.11b 802.11g

Width: 8.86"

Height: 0.79" - 1.26"

Depth: 6.30"

Weight: 2.0 lbs

Mouse Type: Touch Pad

Keyboard Type: 80 Key US Keyboard

Display Type: WVGA

Viewable Screen Size: 7"

Maximum Resolution: 800 x 480

Battery Type: 4-Cell Lithium-ion

Battery Life: Up to 2.8 hours

And here is a groovy little video that shows this fun machine in action!

Like it? Hate it? Tell me what you think! I think I might get one to travel with - ti would be just ideal to take along for writing (deadlines don't care I'm on vacation!).

End of May Stuff

2008-05-30T16:00:00.007-04:00

It's been a craz-zazy month for us.

We've been working on our car and winding down the school year with the kids.

Speaking of kids, did you hear about "The Worst Vaccine Bill Ever" that is pending in the New York State Assembly? This is just over the top nuts. In part, it "would see all vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made mandatory for all children, including infants and toddlers".
source : http://infowars.net/articles/may2008/300508vaccines.htm

Elected New York representatives would no longer determine the mandatory schedule of vaccines to attend school; decisions made by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would automatically become mandatory.

All children, infants and toddlers included, in New York would be required to get all vaccines recommended by the ACIP according to the ACIP schedule

All children in New York up to age 18 would be required to get annual flu shots.

All girls in New York would be required to get a human papilloma virus shot.

All junior high school children and college students would be required to get meningococcal shots.

Doctors would be required to issue certificates for every shot given and parents would be required to maintain the records and provide them to school and other authorities.

The rules committee claims that the new laws would have no fiscal impact on the state despite the necessity of the state to spend tens of millions on purchasing new vaccines, a vast increase in mandatory record keeping and enforcement for schools, and a huge increase that could be expected in the number of cases of neurological damage, Guillian Barré syndrome and other vaccine-caused injuries.

Does that bother you?

I've been watching the political process unfold in my country with a sad heart. I never thought I'd be in a position where I couldn't find anyone I wanted to vote for.
Who are you voting for? Why? Drop me a line and let me know or comment here - either or is fine.

Also, we've been tweaking out our PLR - we changed it to be even more economical and also added some good bells and whistles for you. It will be like no other PLR service out there today.

Our book, "Write All the Way to the Bank" is selling well and the feedback has been great.

I heard from a lovely lady that has used my methods and started her own writing company. She asked I not use her name because she's afraid some of her clients may be upset if they knew exactly who her writers were.
So I'll call her Claire.
Claire had a sister that was in her 40's and into crack and was constantly in trouble. She took her sister in and taught her to find jobs online and write. Turns out it was her sister's dream to write and she even got a gig writing a support blog for people in recovery - something she has first-hand knowledge of
.
Through her sister, Claire met a couple that run a halfway house for women who really want to stay straight and NOT wind up back using drugs.

Claire has been using women that have been through (sometimes) jail and (always) drug rehab and want to earn money but having a felony conviction or even multiple dings on one's criminal history for drug related offenses can be a real hindrance to making a living. Through carefully talking to and taking it slow she's gotten a good group of ladies together that want to reclaim their lives, their families, their kids and their self-esteem.

Claire wrote me that she's taking on 2-3 women at a time that feel they want to try writing and then showing them the basics. If they pass through a month of daily writing and grasp the ability to work online, she then provides them with their own laptop and gives them assignments. She said it's so wonderful because these women get a real commitment to staying straight because they have pride in themselves, they are WRITERS. So far so good - I look forward to an update in the future.

Well, May is coming to a fast close - I'll be back to posting more often in June after the PLR launch.

See you then!

May Stuff

2008-05-19T18:24:00.002-04:00

We have been SO busy this month. It's been great but wow, we appreciate the end of the day when we can both just fall back and do nothing for a while.

We've had a really fun project creating chocolate recipes for a company (I seriously never thought I would say this but I'm kinda tired of chocolate). And we've also been painting our car. It's a 1990 Ford Taurus (okay, you can stop laughing now) and it was ummm....kind of a rust-bucket to say the least. However it runs like a champ and has a nearly new everything engine-wise that was kindly replaced by the auto repair shop that caught our car on fire.

So SKinney and I were talking and we decided that since the car caught on fire and in effect "rose from the ashes anew" that it should have a phoenix on the hood ...and it kind of went on from there.

Here is what we started with :

and here is where we're at right now :

However since this picture was taken - we have painted the bumpers gold and purple LOL.....

Also, I got this an email last week from the iContent Robot peeps - apparently they have divorced themselves from Latif due to conflicting goals on where the company was headed - I hate with partnerships dissolve and they kind of involve their customers via emails and website postings don't you?
Anyway - they are now known as Content Fx - but it's still auto-generated content and well, it's great if you just want to post something slightly better than RSS vomit on your blogs - but nothing takes the place of people.

Ummm what else - wrapping up the PLR thing for release and we decided to make it even more affordable to people. This is good content. Nothing outsourced and nothing automated - it's excellent stuff.

And that's it so far this month - hope your May is rockin' along too!

J & SKinney!

LILEKS (James) Gallery of Regrettable Food

2008-03-30T13:48:00.000-04:00

Let me preface this by saying, I love to eat but I really don't like to cook. Fortunately the universe has graced me with a spectacularly talented fellow that not only loves to cook, he does a mean load of laundry too.
Therefore, my partner SKinney finds it pretty ironic and downright funny that I collect books, and not just any books - I collect cookbooks. I can't help it, I love to read about food.

I love cookbooks and in fact I collect them. Some of my most prized cookbooks are from the turn of last century and from the early 1900's when food was really....unfortunate for the most part. I was looking for a particular book from Knudsen's from the 1950's and I ran across this website - I just had to share it with you.
10PM Cookery was my personal fav.

Please visit :
The Gallery of Regrettable Food

A Writer's Thoughts About iContent Robot - It's Not Monkey Butt!

2008-03-28T09:15:00.005-04:00

Curious about the title? Monkey butt refers to this hysterical email I got some someone long ago that was using an article spinner and it did something along the lines of taking some sales copy and turning it into:
"Yes, you need this, you and your monkey butt, how can you live without this monkey in your home making your butt make money - NOW download the screen and get your monkey butt in gear!"

I always cringe a little when I see my clients purchase automated content spinners. It's not because I fear replacement, there's no artificial intelligence that can come up with creative angles, new phrases and new ideas - it can only spin what is put into it. And when they give me 100 articles of basically crap to rewrite - I usually just wind up trashing whatever they gave me and rewriting from scratch so they get something quality and usable.

I had a client gushing to me about iContent Robot so curiosity got the best of me and I decided to look it over so I paid $67 for a membership (it's monthly). And here's a quick list of what rocks and what sucks about it:

What rocks about iContent Robot:
* iContent Robot creates content that is a lot better than every other content generator/spinner I've seen to date.

*This program is very easy to use, you simply put in the coded keyword or keyword phrase and you get an article. When you click "regenerate" it will spin the article to be written differently, yet about the same niche market. For example, I did "cell phone" and I generated about 5 articles in a row about choosing cell phone plans, yet no two were exactly alike and would have been considered unique content by the search engines.

What sucks about iContent Robot:
*$67 per month for a membership is a little steep for a lot of people.

*The articles are boring. You can get an article that's presentable but after 3 spins the content doesn't exactly repeat itself but it is still the same articles over and over. Unique for search engines to be sure but not your readers.

*The articles are very general (which of course I realize that they must be or spinning would never work).

*You're limited to 50 topics to spin from per month. And not 50 that you come up with. You get to choose from a list the makers of iContent Robot are choosing.
A quick overview of a few from the list I got included the following:

( Cell Phones Topics )
cell-phone
cheap-cellular-phones
cell-phone-plans

( Finance Topics )
loans
bad-credit-loans
home-improvements-loan
critical-illness-insurance
yaght-insurance-costs

( Home Improvement Topics )
home-remodeling
bathroom-tile-designes
bathroom-decorating-tips
kitchen-remodeling

( Legal Topics )
lawyer
bankruptcy-lawyers
accident-lawyers
personal-injury-claims-lawyers

( Vacation Topics )
caribbean-island-cruise
business-travel-tips

( Beauty Topics )
using-beauty-care-products
cellulite
anti-aging
acne-skincare

( Health & Wellness )
back-pain
cancer
alzheimers

( Weight Loss Topics )
weight-loss-drugs
hoodia

( Miscellaneous Topics )
budget-car-rental-tips

( Weddings )
wedding-favors
cheap-weddings
choosing-wedding-rings

Okay all of those are decent niche markets, anyone into affiliate programs and PPC (pay per click) knows that. If you have a blog that you do this on - you can probably get away with using the Robot however, you will probably need to tweak the articles before you use them if you really want people to visit your blog more than once.

*And when I say you'll need to tweak the articles I mean these articles need a lot of tweaking. In the sample sets I ran (and I ran about 100 total articles on various subjects. Each and every one needed editing for incorrect words and just strange sentences that made absolutely no sense.

So make your own decision on whether or not you'd like to use iContent Robot - I have to give it kudos for being one of the best content creators to come out in a while - but like all the others - it's very limited in what it can do and but I will agree that it's not Monkey Butt.

Another Article Showing Stay-at-Home Moms How to Make Money (But This One's Real!)

2008-03-25T12:46:00.002-04:00

Somewhere between settling down and having kids, it happened - your need for an extra income increased by quite a lot. Then you have to weigh the factors on whether or not you're going to work outside the home. For many mothers, the cost of child care for one or more children, the professional wardrobe necessary for most jobs and the ridiculous price of gasoline can make working at home a very appealing thing. Not to mention that if you have little ones, they will probably develop a perpetual case of the sniffles that may or may not require antibiotics, my family doctor affectionately termed it, "Daycare Syndrome".

Paying yet another doctor bill for what I thought was an unnecessary cold my daughter had is when I decided I wanted to be self employed and see my kids all day every single day. If we wanted to go to the zoo on the spur of the moment, we could do it! When summer rolled around and we wanted to go bake at the pool for a day - we could do it! I decided if I were self employed I would have no boss, no schedule and no one to answer to except my clients and I would make sure to work in the evenings and early mornings when my kids were sleeping so no time would be taken away from them. And so started my search for what I could do from home.

I had done some web design in the past and I knew html like the back of my hand. Why I would just do web design for people. Well, it sounded good. I built a website and nobody came. I didn't know a hill of beans about how to market myself online at the time and then I got one client who referred me to others and in the meantime I got very educated and read everything I could get my hands on about Internet Marketing and how to get listed on the search engines. What did Google, Yahoo and other search engines consider important? That was my goal to find out and I did it. Soon I had web design clients then the inevitable happened. Web design wasn't something I truly enjoyed and I started getting a little burned out. I cringed when I saw an order for web design come in and even though the money was good, I wasn't enjoying it - in fact, I was dreading it. Still, I did my best for my clients while I looked for something else I would enjoy doing.

I decided since I had really gotten a handle on internet marketing I would take advantage of this new Google Adsense program where you put their script on your website and when people click you make money. I looked at my web stats and I had a really healthy number of unique visitors every month. I would never need to work again from all these clicks I was going to get! So, I did it and make approximately $1.25 the first month in clicks. Well, that won't even buy a cup of coffee much less replace the income from web design.

Then one of my clients asked me to create some web content. Words on a page for a website and I don't have to design it? Sure! I found that I liked doing research on products and writing compelling web copy to make everything from bad breath to fine jewelry interesting to read by and entice the reader to purchase from the client's site. Then I got asked to create articles and I found something I loved to do, I loved to write and getting paid to create words really rocked.

I learned to create articles, blog entries, keyword articles, e-books, press releases and even horoscopes for people and their websites. I've lost track of how many thousands of pieces of content I've created but I've enjoyed every second of it. I really enjoy research and I feel like I do something that keeps my brain busy learning every single day. Late last year, I wrote a book, "Write All the Way to the Bank" about how I did it and laid out a step-by-step game plan so you can do it too.

Okay let's talk about you. What are you talents? Don't say, "None". Everyone can do at least one thing really well and it's just a matter of propelling yourself forward and doing something that you're both good at and enjoy.

Love to write your thoughts? You can make it as a blogger or writer for the web and there are literally thousands of open opportunities to choose from every single day. I can show you how.

Do you love to organize? Consider starting a personal organization service. There are a huge number of people that would love to have their closets, drawers, cabinets and more organized and just lack the time and knowledge to do it. If you have a special talent for keeping things neat as a pin, sell your knowledge and you can do two main ways. Set up a service online that shows your talents (Use your own closets, kitchens and bathrooms for your first before and after photos) and then promote your online website by writing short articles about what you do and posting them on websites such as http://www.goarticles.com or http://www.ezinearticles.com with links back to your website. People searching for closet organization will find you and use your services.

Ever wanted to own an online retail business? It's very possible and you don't have to buy stock either. Consider the world of drop shipping. In a nutshell, when you drop ship, you have a retail store online and you show products as they are your own. When people buy, you contact your drop shipper, pay for the item and pocket your profit. The drop shipper will ship the item in your company name and your customer is none the wiser.

Need a website and you don't know beans about html? You can get a website that is literally fill in the blank and create a retail-ready website that is ready to with just a few clicks of your mouse and a Yahoo website is very affordable.

Now, need some ideas for finding drop shipping companies? First of all, don't buy a list. Those lists are generally scams and you just paid upwards of $20 for something that is probably outdated anyway. I went through a lot of Google searches to find an actual, legitimate drop shipping supplier and I bumbled onto one of the best!

The drop shipping catalog that I use has a huge number of companies affiliated with it and you can check it out here at Worldwide Brands/One Source. Ever wanted to sell jewelry, dog toys, plus size fashions, designer clothing, handbags, shoes, sporting equipment or even home security items? You can find it all there and more. Be the coolest Mom in the universe and sell children's toys! The price for drop shippers is below retail so you can compete with other retail outlets and your supplier won't be undercutting your pricing either. It's a great way to have an online retail business. Some drop shippers charge a small fee find out if it is per order or per item and choose your drop shipping partner accordingly.

Okay now you need to promote your online store. A company blog about what you're selling, what products make great gifts, ways to use the products with links back to whatever you're writing about is a wonderful way to promote your site for free. Also, informational articles with a link back to your site, such as the importance of using pretend play to stimulate a child's imagination would be a great topic for a website that sold children's toys. Don't write a sales piece, make it informational and you'll have people coming to your site. No one wants to read a commercial; you don't, I don't and neither will your potential customers. You can set it up yourself or have an outside company set it up.

A press release is another great way to promote your company. You can write one yourself or for about $25 you can have one written by a writing company. Create news, think of yourself as Jon Stewart of the Daily Show and make some news about your company. Have a poll on your website and publicize the results, tie in your company to an observance. A good example would be if you have a home safety store to release a press release along the lines of, "XYZ Company Promotes Safety in the Home During National Safety Awareness Month". Need to know where to check out those groovy obscure observances to create press releases of your own? Check out Brownie Locks, she has it all.

Are you a member of any forums online bulletin board communities? Don't just join a forum and start posting links to your website. You'll get blacklisted faster than fast. There are robotic programs that do just that - don't be confused with something like that. Instead, ask questions, post replies where you're interested in doing so, make online acquaintances and get "known" in the online community. You'll get much better feedback and no hassles for linking to your website or products.

Social networking is the biggie now with building traffic to yourself. You can hit up Myspace.com or Facebook.com. Even Hi5.com is getting traffic to people now. Building a Squidoo lens (simply a member page in Squidoo-speak) is another way to get yourself found and show what you know about a topic or product. If you're passionate about what you do, put it on a page with a link to your own website. It's a good way to really reach targeted traffic for your website. Sites such as Digg.com or Del.ico.us.com, Stumbleupon (my personal fav) and others are wonderful ways to share your links with others. You simply click and submit the site, along with a brief review or synopsis and keywords that relate to the website. Done. You can submit to something like 30+ social sites at once through Social Marker.com.

Affiliate programs and Pay-Per-Click like Adsense are great ways to bring in some supplemental income. You need a blog or website with a fair amount of traffic. Blogs are by far the best for this and you need to post things that relate to the content of your blog so you can get indexed with relevance in the search engines. In short, keep the theme you start with. I've always made far more money off promoting affiliate programs on blogs rather than Google Adsense. People have seen those "Ads by Google" on so many sites for so long, I personally think they blot them out of their field of vision now. Blogging to the Bank is a great e-book that will show you exactly how to build a blog and how to choose affiliate programs that will yield good returns.

In the 1990's, the online businesses of creating stationary and gift baskets exploded as home businesses for stay-at-home-Moms. They are still good businesses with a lot of draw as the call for personalized and "made for you" items is still strong. However, competition is fierce and you have to be able to market yourself on the web. Using the online techniques above is a great way to promote yourself if you want to go this route.

Avoid like the plague:
*Websites that offer a pre-made affiliate site for $XX. You won't make a dime because the
search engines prize uniqueness above all. How can you make a dime if your content is just like
everyone else's that paid x-amount of dollars for a website?

*Lists of companies that promise work at home opportunities. These are an old scam that is
still going on to this day. Repeat after me: "Don't pay to work".

*Companies that promise 6-figure incomes for doing nothing. If they don't have a service/product
they are selling, how the heck are they making money? Steer clear.

*Products that promise you overnight wealth. Google Adwords for Free is one of these. It's
a cool concept but will only work for a minimal amount of people.

*Data entry or email collection "jobs". These are 99.9% of the time scams. If you run across
one that is an actual legitimate gig - please forward it to me so I can fill in that hopeful
1% I left open in that estimation above.

And those are just a few ideas. Think about what you'd really like to spend your time doing and make it happen. If you really want to make a living at home, there are a good number of ways and it's just a matter of putting your efforts forth and doing it.

To your success!

2008-03-07T08:35:00.002-05:00

I bumbled across this lovely lady's blog (Maureen Johnson) and she had a hysterical post that I have to share and by all means check out her blog!

HOW TO BE A WRITER IN TEN EASY STEPS
http://maureenjohnson.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-be-writer-in-ten-easy-steps.html
Monday, February 26, 2007

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anonymous said...
How do you BECOME a writer anyway? You've already talked about what they do.

Fair enough, anonymous. Enough jibberjabber about the eating habits of J. Green, the cakemaking of E. Lockhart, and the bone-breaking of Cecil Castellucci. (But don’t think this will be the last time I will put you through this.) I like readers who say what they want.

Let’s take a second to clarify the question—I think you’re asking how you become a professional writer, or someone who writes for a living. The broader question of how one becomes a writer is not one I can answer.

The interweb abounds with information about this subject, some of it solid and good, and some of it terrible. I’ve already told you how to write a book and a little about the publishing process. Let’s look at the general state of being a writer—habits, behaviors, tricks and tips.

I have broken this subject down into ten elements that I feel are critical for any professional writer. You can go about these in any order you like.

1. HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN IN FRONT OF SOME BOOKS.

This is an absolutely essential first step. People forget things easily in our information-rich world. You don’t want people asking, “What’s this person about? Is she an oral surgeon? Is she a lion tamer?” The books will tell them that you are a Serious Writer.

2. OBSESSIVELY CHECK YOUR AMAZON RANK.

This is the true mark of a writer. Everyone does it. Those who say that they do not are lying.

3. MAKE FRIENDS WITH SOME MEDICAL PROFESIONALS.

Because you won’t have health insurance. My mom’s a nurse and can write prescriptions. This helps. You should make similar connections.

4. BE WEIRD.

If you’re a writer, everyone at the publishing company (and pretty much the world at large) already assumes that you’re two sandwiches short of a picnic. You might as well enjoy it.

5. BE AS INTENSE AND POMPOUS AS POSSIBLE.

Look, no one is going to take you seriously unless you show them that you are a force to be reckoned with. You are a Writer, dammit! People owe you respect! If anyone says anything bad about you or your book, go after them and tell them that they are wrong! Take everything personally! Go to their houses, steal their hamsters, leave threatening greeting cards on their doorsteps. Wax insane on your blog about your enemies, both real and imaginary.

Oh wait. No. People hate that. Just go back to point number four.

6. GET SOME HOBBIES.

Writing is solitary. It’s good to have a few outside interests that get you away from your desk. That means that internet surfing, blogging, “researching,” and Googling do not count. Step away from the keyboard.

7. BROOD A LOT ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU SUCK.

Wait . . . you’re saying YOU wrote the worst book/story/play/paper in the world? Because I thought I had. And you, guy over there. You’re saying YOU wrote the worst one? We can’t all be right.

Get in line, Charlie! Every writer claims this, usually at some bleak midpoint. This is pretty much a requirement. Dwelling on it is a great way to use time that you would otherwise fill with tedious writing.

8. MAKE SOME WRITER FRIENDS.

Writers make excellent friends. They will listen to your long, sad stories about how you suck and have no health insurance—and then match them with their own stories about how they suck and have no health insurance. A conversation like this can go on for hours! Blog about the time you spend with them, until someone sends you a comment and tells you to . . . wait. Nevermind. Just get some writer friends.

9. ALWAYS LOOK LIKE YOU ARE DEEP IN THOUGHT.

Writers are always supposed to be thinking, even when their minds are empty except for the sound of softly chirping birds. Practice your thinking face in your spare time. It helps to touch your chin lightly.

10. KEEP GETTING BACK UP.

You’re going to fall and fail. Keep getting back up. No, I don’t want to hear any excuses as to why you can’t. Just keep getting back up. Also, make sure you make those friends in the medical profession. They can provide useful medications when the getting up is hard.

There you go! I hope this helps. I invite other writers to add to this list, in case I have missed something.

Morons on Facebook....

2008-03-01T19:43:00.004-05:00

So I'm on Facebook (feel free to be my bud if you're cool) and I posted a link to our ebook - Write all the Way to the Bank - in the Marketplace.

And immediately I got this email:

Subject: Write All the Way to the Bank Dear Seller I will like to buy this your item on behalf of my client if the item still available for sale.And I will pay you any amount you which to sale it as your last price.

my client will send you M/O or Cashier Check as a mode of payment.i agreed to pay any amount you want to sell the item for me any additional money for handling. Here will go i am using this opportunity to inform you that the amount that i am purchasing this item on behalf of my client.

and ur payment will be made inform of cashier check or M/O also the amount that will be on the payment will more than your item fees because i will be including the shipping and state tax fees .i don"t really know the exact amount that will be.b cos it will be issue by my client who is owning me some money .and the reason of the over payment is that. the amount on the payment has been signed already,and it is more than your item fees.so once you receive it.you must deduct your item fees and western union the balance money back .

so a! ll the info you need for to ship and westernunion the balance money back will surely come with the payment .there will be no problem about the shipment.i want you to responsible for it.also make sure you deduct ur item fees and western union any additional money on the payment once you receive it. Here will go.i would have end the auction but i don"t know how to do it.so i want you to go and end the auction for me asap. to assure you that i am really interested in ur item. i will add extra $10.00 in ur payment if you end the auction for me asap. and email me ur mailing info and your phone# asap today. So i will like proceed with this transaction this my private email which is ( seecoman1@gmail.com ) so get back to me over there if you agree to sell the item for me.Bellow are the questions i have for you. 1)is the item in good condition? 2)is any western union location where you to send the balance money around you? 3)Can you make sure you get the check cash at ur bank the same day you receive it? 4)Can you allow me to send DH L for the pick up and complete the transaction the day you receive the check? 5)Can you promise me that you will once deduct your item fees and send back the remaining money once you have receive and cash the check?

If yes too all my questions.kindly email me back asap today so that the check can be send asap, SO I WANT YOU TO REPLY ME BACKTO THIS MY EMAIL seecoman1@gmail.com ok.. Thanks, Payment is ready for your item but i need ur full name and Address and ur mobile# asap Answer all my questions and get back to me with your full name and address asap today. To remind you make sure your reply goes to this my private email which is seecoman1@gmail.com

Super wackeroo!
What concerns me is are people really falling for this and sending this total waste of sperm and egg money?
Wow I hope not!

Pay Per Play is CLOSING to New Memberships - Get in Now!

2008-02-15T10:04:00.002-05:00

I told you previously about Pay Per Play, now is the time to get in if you've been sitting on the fence.
All you need is a website or blog (c'mon Wordpress and Blogspot are free kids!).

They have the ability to serve up billions of ads and as you know there are more computers than televisions in the world and this makes PPP a very powerful advertising medium. You don't make money by clicks, when someone logs onto your website, a 3-5 second audio ad will play once. Because the ad played - you get $$$. They said from the get go that they would have a limited membership and closing time is here!

Sign up here

Taco Bell, Harley Davidson, HBO and some other major players are already on board - putting the code on a blog or website couldn't be easier - can you say, "Cut n Paste?".

This is a F*R*E*E opportunity that is taking the advertising community by storm and your chance to get in is closing forever.

This will be bigger than radio, television and all other forms of media combined!

Get full details here: Pay Per Play

Got Beets?

2008-01-15T17:13:00.000-05:00

This post has nothing to do with books, marketing, keyword articles, search engine optimization or any of the usual topics - in fact it is about beets.

When I think of it, SKinney and I have a very untraditional life. I work and market our businesses because he doesn't enjoy anything to do with sales or customer relations and he does the shopping, the housework, the laundry, the errands, the mail getting and sending, correspondence, web design and other things like that.

In most households, one or both partners work; however the lionsshare of the housekeeping and basically house running falls on the woman - I know, because I used to be that woman. However, I never liked shopping for groceries, planning meals , cleaning house, blah blah blah and now, I have to admit, I love my life! SKinney loves food shopping, he seriously enjoys housework (No, I don't know what planet he is really from) and he loves cooking more than Rachel Ray and that's cool we both get to do what we love and stay home with our kids which is just perfect. Everyone wins.

Last week he was at the store and on a whim he bought beets.
Why beets? We have never eaten them and no one walks around saying, "Golly I'd love a big brimmin' bowl of beets". Turns out he got all enamored with the sale tag and wound up buying beets.
They were dirty, icky looking things and so we both looking at them on the counter saying, "Well, what do you do with them?".

The first thought was borscht (beet soup) and then we decided that sounded just gross. So we started looking for recipes and you know we only found three main ways that people make beets....

1-boiled
2-boiled and stuffed in a salad
3-boiled and made into borscht

Then we ran across this:

Hot Spicy Shredded Beets Recipe

Ingredients
2 pounds beets, trimmed, peeled, and coarsely grated
1/2 cup coarsely grated onion
3 Tbsp butter or margarine
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup dry red wine
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper

Instructions
Simmer all ingredients, covered, 25 to 30 minutes until beets are tender and flavors well blended.
Stir once or twice during cooking.

Yield: 4 servings

Per serving: 155 calories, 25 mg cholesterol, 475 mg sodium

Credits
Recipe from: The New Doubleday Cookbook by Jean Anderson & Elaine Hanna (Doubleday)

Anyway we thought it was so good we wanted to share it!
It may sound weird - but it's super good on veggie burgers!
Even our kids loved it!

Oh yeah, beets dye your tongue red for hours -Look!

Our Book, "Write All the Way to the Bank" Got 4 stars! Woohoo!

2008-01-15T16:07:00.000-05:00

I was noticing a lot of hits to our site from the Clickbank storefront and our book got 4 stars from them and it's up to #7 in the writing books category!
That's great news!
We have had the best feedback from people and I want you to know we really listen to your comments.
Whenever people are good enough to write us, we make a note of their correspondence and when it's time to update our book for the coming year - we take those comments into consideration and as a result the book just gets bigger and better every single year.

SKinney says that the only good news he wants to hear is that the snow is ending.
Anyway check this out!

#7. Effective Web Writing

Write All The Way To The Bank-Updated For 2008!
Access to good information on how to start and run a successful writing business.

4 star rating

Clickbank Popularity Rank : #197
Price: $19.95

Gig List Launched Yesterday!

2008-01-15T09:54:00.000-05:00

SKinney finally got done setting up our board and now our Gig List is up and running.

We will be posting at least 10 gigs a day for writers. These are not gigs for Keyword Content but rather gigs that we have run across.

No pay per click writing.

No "promised" proceeds or shared revenue gigs.

No writing for free ("exposure") gigs.

Just money paying writing gigs!
How's that for a way to start the week?

It's free and always will be. I don't know about you, but I just hate it when I read a gig description and it's right up my alley and then I click to answer and get a box that reads , "Answer this ad and many more for only $7.95 per month!".

I don't want that to happen to anyone so we're leaving this list free and open in the spirit of keeping information free and easy to access for all people that want to write for a living!

Come on by and share this with your friends - the more the merrier we say :
http://keywordcontent.net/giglist/

Interesting Informations About Google Adwords and Our Book!

2008-01-12T18:58:00.000-05:00

So I finally dove into Adwords. Wow what an education!

I dutifully used the keyword tool and chose my keyword phrases and completely missed the part about putting keywords in quotation markets for phrase match and brackets for exact phrase match. I had something along the lines of 600,000 impressions and 100's of clicks before I figured that one out and that was only day 1!

So I did some heavy reading at Google and "got my learn on" about Adwords. I'm spending MUCH less per day and my conversation from clicks to buys for our book have been really good!

Also, I've found it takes the average person about 5 visits before they buy the book. I'm not really sure why that is - just being a careful shopper I suppose but I found that really interesting.
Another good point is that we've been getting so much good feedback from people about the book.

I had a lady write me just today and tell me she needed to earn extra money because her husband lost his job and the wolves were at the door. She read the book and then slept on it and went to Craigslist and sent a small number of answers to advertisements looking for writers and she got a paying job writing for a coffee and tea company - something she has a real passion for but cannot even afford the luxury of right now - she went on to say she's getting free samples to write about as well as getting paid and her husband is now reading the book and getting ideas to make money writing from home too!
I love happy stories like that and I hope it works out so she can quit her day job and they both get to write full time - there is certainly enough work out there!

You know SKinney and I have a kind of wacky sense of humor and we're serious when it comes to writing good content, designing good pages and keeping those keyword stats in check - but we're two of the most fun people on the planet - so when we got together and wrote this book, we wanted it to be different.
And it is - it's about HOW to be a writer and HOW to make money.
Pretty sweet and simple.

Then it came time to get a cover and we went to someone and actually paid them for this:

Average and well......yawn - right?

So Skinney had a cow about the sheer boredom of this design and he tore it up and came up with something fun using our art.

Okay it's not conventional - but it's very "us" and we used out improved photos from our art company, 3am.

If you're ready to dive into the fun world of writing online and get paid to do something you will look forward to doing every single day - check out this book!

http://keywordcontent.net/writeallthewaytothebank.html

Repeat After Me : Google Will NOT Penalize You For Duplicate Content

2008-01-11T13:37:00.000-05:00

Last summer there was a great post on Google's own blog:

"Google wants to serve up unique results and does a great of picking a version of your ontent to show if your sites includes duplication. If you don't want to worry about sorting through duplication on your site, you an let us worry about it instead.

Duplicate content doesn't cause your site to be penalized. If duplicate pages are detected, one version will be returned in the search results to ensure variety for searchers.

Duplicate content doesn't cause your site to be placed in the supplemental index.Duplication may indirectly influence this however if links to your pages are split among the various versions, causing lower per page PageRank."

There is so much good information regarding this and more in Search Engine Myths Exposed and best of all, this is FREE.

Download your copy of this free and very fascinating report and start making more money from your Adwords campaigns and Adsense sites. Understanding how Google ranks and what they really consider important is so important to know.

Get your copy here: http://searchenginemythsexposed.com

Search Engines Myths Exposed In This Free Report - Get Yours!

2008-01-09T11:19:00.001-05:00

Confused about how to rank on Google?

There is SO MUCH bogus information out there, often coming from
the "gurus" themselves.

On January 9th, 2008, Jonathan Leger is releasing a new free report
that completely obliterates the following myths about Google (and then
goes on to show you what DOES work):

Myth #1: Google Knows All and Sees All
Myth #2: Google Will Not Rank Duplicate Content
Myth #3: You Must Get Links From Related Subject Sites to Rank
Myth #4: Your Site Must Focus On One Subject To Rank
Myth #5: High PageRank Means Good Rankings
Myth #6: To Maintain Good Rankings, You Must Add New Content

..and..
MYTH #7: THE BIGGEST MYTH: Ranking In Google Is Hard!

The site is in pre-launch now, but if you sign up early you will get
a sample chapter full of proof and details.

And did I mention he'll pay you for referring other people to this
powerful f.ree report? And that he'll pay you for anyone THEY refer
as well (even while it's in pre-launch)? Find out more about that
when you download your sample chapter from:

http://searchenginemythsexposed.com

Write All the Way to the Bank Updated for 2008

2008-01-03T22:33:00.000-05:00

We released our book "Write All the Way to the Bank" last year and we've had a really great response. It's not a book about form or sentence structure, but rather about how to create your own writing business.

Many people have a talent for writing however they don't pursue their dream because they don't know how or where to start and that's where our book comes in. We show you how to find the jobs, how to land the jobs and how to get paid.

We included several places that hire bloggers and web writers on a regular basis and updated the list to remove some companies that are either no longer hiring or have been absorbed into other firms. Get the scoop on writing for the web, creating keyword articles, and avoiding the scams that take advantage of new writers.

If you're ready to make a living writing online - check out our 2008 release of "Write All the Way to the Bank" - many people have written to say they landed a paying job the first week after they read through our book - we think that's great!!!

You Are Crazazay If You Don't Get In On This FREE Opportunity

2007-12-26T19:40:00.000-05:00

Hope your holidays rocked and are still rockin' along!

You know we are always looking for ways to generate passive sources of income. I told you previously about Pay per Play and it's going to be awesome - and here is why - they are capitalizing on the dying of the networks. You will make money from people actually visiting your website page - it's not a pay per click like Adsense - it's PAY PER PLAY - meaning if someone visits your site and views the ad - YOU GET PAID.

Taco Bell, Harley Davidson, HBO and some other major players are already on board - they are in pre-launch right now and putting the code on a blog or website couldn't be easier - can you say, "Cut n Paste?".

This is a F*R*E*E opportunity that is taking the advertising community by storm.

This will be bigger than radio, television and all other forms of media combined!

Get full details here: Pay Per Play

And then it got BIGGER!

2007-12-24T09:37:00.000-05:00

Sounds like one of those lousy ads for penis enlargement doesn't it? I get way too many of those in my email inbox everyday; and I don't even have a penis!

The bad news first: we had to bump the launch date of our PLR (private label rights) section to March Oneth (1st).

The good news is the reason for the bump : the PLR section increased by about 400% and we found something VERY cool to add for free on every page - whether or not you purchase a set of PLR topics - you'll have the opportunity to get at least one free thing. Cool? Cool!

And now something scammy and possibly scummy to share with you: My partner sent me a really strange advertisement for "Marl" - it's a stock picking robot. (I can't believe he was even thinkin' about doing this). He loves the stock market though - I'm kinda apprehensive about it and I wouldn't ever trust a robot to do the stock picking - to easy to manipulate and after reading about it - it seems like such a scam!

Read this from Andy Skelton's Blog and one subscriber actually takes it apart :

Marl the Stock Robot: Scam?

Have you heard of Marl the Stock Robot? Google “Marl” and click the first ad you see. You don’t have to read the whole page because I have summed it up in the next paragraph. Please click the ad anyway. You’ll understand why in a minute.

That page tells a story about the invention of “the first commercially available stock picking robot” which is available for $28,000 per license, which includes a week of training in the programmer’s home. The script assumes you can’t afford the software and offers you a stock tips newsletter subscription for only $47.

Maybe it’s a great newsletter. I don’t care about that. I am interested in the Marl software which, at $28,000, is out of the reach of anyone earnestly reading that page but vastly under-priced if it does what they claim.

Normally you would reject this sort of offer on the “too good to be true” rule alone but I wasn’t satisfied. I went looking for the software and I didn’t find any information leading to the purchase of a Marl software license. I did find a large number of sites echoing the same story and offering the same newsletter.

The site is one of a great many taking part in an affiliate marketing scheme to sell a newsletter subscription. This is just one of countless schemes telling lies in order to sell something. This is why I told you to click the ad rather than publish a link. They are paying for those ads, baiting real suckers, lying about a non-existent robot. Your clicks cost them money.

I don’t know whether the newsletter is any good. Maybe it can teach you enough to make some lucky investments. But if you want to make real money from Marl, I suggest you set up an affiliate marketing web site to sell that newsletter and buy all the ads you can get for $47.

Update 1: This is how a person can make money on a stock tip scam and why the government puts them away:

The volume of distribution of a newsletter such as the one at issue can rapidly become large enough that its membership, acting on the tips they receive, create an artificial demand for the penny stock and consequently cause the stock price to rise. If one reacts quickly enough and buys the stock before this wave of demand comes to market, it may be possible to realize a very high margin of profit where no real value exists in the merits of the company being traded. In this scenario, the biggest winner will be the first person to know about the tip and act on it, i.e. the publisher of the newsletter. Subscribers can profit, too, but they must buy fast and sell before the artificial demand bubble pops and the price regains parity with the actual market value.

Update 2: A reader going by the name of Mistlethrush left a very important comment below. It reveals the inner workings of the Marl software!

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If you want to see the actual sales page for "MARL" - you can see it here:
http://doublingstocks.com/

At Andy's site you can find a link to download the MARL software for free.

and Happy Holidays from Us to YOU!

Keyword Articles Are Still the King of Web Content (Human Written)

2007-12-20T13:01:00.000-05:00

I keep getting advertisement after advertisement in my email box for all these "miracle" keyword article writers. In my humble opinion - they all suck.

I've been given several different programs that promise to spin and rewrite articles which they do but they don't seem to make a lot of sense and I just don't think the AI is far enough along to replace good old human input.

I won't mention any product names but one in particular is good for counting keyword density and theme keywords densities and even gives helpful suggestions and shows you where you boo-boo with a misspelling in your piece - however when it's time to rewrite and you tell it to change the keyword article into something that could have been written by a child from a third world country.

I'm not saying don't use private label rights articles unchanged or don't spin your own articles - it's cost effective and works for positioning if you do it right, what I am saying is that in the time it takes to set up the program and tell it what to replace blah, blah, blah. You could have opened that keyword article in Notetab Pro (one of my favorite programs) or even Microsoft Word and used the Control + R function to replace the keyword or keyword phrase with whatever you wanted. It's clean and goes sentence by sentence so you can rewrite as necessary. It's faster and it WORKS and it works very well.

and that's my 2-cents - your thoughts?

Heard About Pay Per Play?

2007-12-09T17:47:00.001-05:00

I got this from Matt Garrett of TopKeyword Lists (a great place to get your keywords for marketing) - Much like Matt- I have to admit I had to read their sign up page twice too - I kept thinking there was going to be an "enter your credit card or paypal information here" pop up - but no- I was wrong - it's free.

Read this information below :

Hi,

I must admit I've gone back and read the sign up page for this one several times, as it just seems to good to be true, but they've got some major players on board, like HBO, Taco Bell, and Harley Davidson.

it's called PayPerPlay.
it's free to join.
and you get paid for every visitor to your site!!!

yup, I told you it sounded to good to be true, but I'm sure not going to miss out on trying it out...

http://www.payperplayadverts.com

they also credit you for referrals on two levels, so this is going to spread like wildfire!
we're all going to be bombarded with promo emails about this from every side over the next few weeks, mark my words!

If you know anyone with a list of subscribers, or a site that gets ANY traffic, sign up now and send them a quick email telling them about it, you could end up earning a nice residual income from introducing just a few people...

I'm telling you first, but as soon as I've sent this email out to you I'm going to be getting in touch with everyone I know!

http://www.payperplayadverts.com

So what's it actually about?

Well, it's a new advertising system that plays a 5 second audio "advert" when someone visits your website.

It's got some very big players involved simply because big TV networks are losing their "market share" to websites hand over fist!

People are spending more and more time online and less watching TV, as well as watching less adverts on TV, especially as their are all these new bits of technology that allow us all to automatically record out favorite shows and fast forward through the adverts, thank god! :)

So PayPerPlay is seen as the way forward for putting ads bck in front of us all, but this time instead of the big TV networks getting the advertising revenue, any website owner can grab their share...

At last their seems to be a system that is a very REAL alternative to AdSense for a simple quick way of making money from any website, and people don't even need to click on the ads for you to get paid, it's automatic!

cool or what!
;]

go sign up now and get started on sending out some emails:

http://www.payperplayadverts.com

Confused About Using PLR Articles?

2007-11-24T20:34:00.000-05:00

Since I mentioned the Private Label Rights, I've had some emails from people who are confused about how to use PLR articles.

It's easy, you just post them wherever you need fresh content.
Just like when we ghostwrite articles for you, you own the right to rewrite, change, distribute, publish under your own name or resell your articles. They are yours. The only difference between PLR articles and keyword content articles that you order from us is that there is zero waiting time. You pay, you download, you use. The number of PLR articles in each set is limited however so you can keep your exclusivity on the web.

Another great way to use PLR articles is to rewrite them (also sometimes referred to as "spinning"); I know, I know, you're saying, "But I bought articles because I don't write my own material" and that's the case of 99.9% of our clients - however what you can do is change an opening paragraph, add a sentence or two to make an article refer directly to a product on your site and link to it or otherwise replace a keyword phrase with another hot keyword phrase.

Here's an example using a PLR article paragraph:
"If you're interested in finding ways to make your small room
appear larger,an old standby trick of many interior designers
is to use a mirror or two on the walls to give the appearance of
more space in the room. You can also use lighter colors in your
interior decor as it gives a room a more spacious feel, darker colors
tend to make a room feel smaller ."

And here is the same paragraph with an added bit to make it specifically address a product:
"If you're interested in finding ways to make your small room
appear larger,an old standby trick of many interior designers
is to use a mirror or two on the walls to give the appearance of
more space in the room, such as the XYZ Mirror.
You can also use lighter colors in your interior decor as it gives
a room a more spacious feel, darker colors tend to make a room feel smaller ."

See how easy that is?
That's one of the things that makes using PLR articles so easy to do.
You can make and every article read as though it were written just for the niche market on your website. One sentence or comment can do it.

Our private label rights articles will be available starting in January and they will be very different from what is currently available. I wanted to put together something affordable, useful and limited in number so anyone using them will get real benefit. Join the mailing list on our PLR page and get the updates and I'm thinking about giving everyone on the mailing list - early entrance to the PLR articles first.

:)

The Great Thing About Being a Freelance Keyword Ghost Writer.......

2007-11-20T17:13:00.001-05:00

The bar none coolest thing about being a writer is that I have to research what I write about and I learn so many cool things about the most common everyday things.

I was writing for a cell phone blog today and when I was looking up keyword phrases for search volume and blah, blah, blah you know the drill - I kept running across "mosquito ring tone"...which intrigued me. Did people actually want that high-pitched annoying sound on their cell phones?
I was wrong - it's not just a ring tone at all.

Here's a snipped from freemosquitoringtones.org :

What is the Mosquito Ringtone?

The short version, A tone outside the audible range of hearing of most people over 30. This means that you can get phone calls and receive text messages in class or school without teachers hearing it. For more in-depth information on how the mosquito ringtone works, please see the Mosquito RingTone FAQ. For information on how to get the ringtone on to your phone, see our Mosquito Ringtone How To Guide.

A ring tone
teachers &
parents can't
hear!

So that's it in a nutshell - the tones are available for a free listen on the website - can you hear them?