Posted on 28th March 2010 by admin in Blogging Online |Technology
Apple, colorware ipad, Digg, digg app, digg iphone, Handhelds, IPad, iPhone, IpodTouch, Smartphones, taptaptap, Twitter
You have a chance to win the new iPad that has been tricked out from ColorWare for a limited edition. This is a great way to learn about what taptaptap has to offer in the way of Apps for the iPhone and they are using the twitter social world to help promote their newest Digg iphone app. We stumbled upon this great viral marketing opportunity from TapTapTap and felt we should share it with our readers. Here is what you have to tweet and then follow @taptaptap and that is you are entered:
- the free @digg app’s here for iphone! to celebrate they’re giving out a custom colorware ipad each day for 2 weeks! http://bit.ly/diggapp
They are doing this to help promote their new free Digg App which does:
“The Digg app is finally here for your iPhone or iPod touch! Digg and view top stories, read comments, save stories for reading later, and do it all in a sleek interface with one tap from your home screen. It’s all the stuff you care about on the internet, now elegantly presented in mobile form.” We are going to be tweeting and blogging about this great contest for the next few weeks to help our readers stay in tune with what is happening. You can follow our Tweets at @traffexone and stay on top of some great ways to use your new iPad. So the competition will heat up as iPad’s begin to ship next week and we will read about the advantages and glitches through our new iPhone app for Digg. There is a great explanation at taptaptap.com where you can read about the free app that is now available to download for your iPhone.
Posted on 20th March 2010 by admin in Careers |Education |Shopping online
business, Business and Economy, Canada, Company, Employment, Human resources, Job Search, Labour economics
We have learned over the years that a good resume is the key to finding a good job. Now if you’re trying to get a job at a fast food restaurant; then your resume really isn’t that important. If you are looking for a well-paying job and there are many other applicants trying for the same position; then you will need to focus on a good resume. Preparing a great resume can be very important to finding that next job. Especially with the job market getting more competitive now with all the recent lay offs from the big companies.
We are also learning that your looks can go a long ways into securing a position with a good company. The way you dress and groom yourself is something employers are taking a closer look at these days.If you already have a job and you’re just looking to move up the corporate ladder; then there are some things for you too. There was a corporate survey recently done and they used more than 500 HR professionals to conduct their survey. They found that most of these HR professionals agreed that a well-groomed employee is the one that stands a better chance of landing that job or just moving up the company ladder.
You really don’t want to take chances these days. You don’t have to spend a bundle on getting new clothes if you are getting back into the job market. At Blairs.com they have a great selection on men’s dress shirts starting at around $10 for some fashion and colors. There is no telling who might have been watching me during this time. What if one of these companies gave me an interview on the spot? You never know who you will be interviewing with and you really have only one chance to make a good first impression. It is said that the quality of your interview is done within the first 30 seconds so dressing your best will only help give you more confidence and the appearance that you are serious about working for this company.
Posted on 19th March 2010 by admin in Marketing Online |Social Blogging
Marketing, SEO, Think Big Sites
An SEO (search engine optimization) company can fix your website up so that you will get more visitors than your competitors and increase web traffic. If they have the chance to see your products or services first, then they might not ever know that your competitors even exist. There are so many ways that you can make your website “search engine friendly” and many of the SEO companies know how to do this.
The trick to the whole process is to get your website to appear on as many search results as possible and choosing the right key words, implementing meta tags, and submitting your website to the right places, can get your website to appear in more search engine results.
ThinkBIGsites is a place you can go for search engine placement. These guys can do a check on your website and find the best ways to optimize it for the search engines. Now a lot of companies promise that they can get you into hundreds of different search engines. Don’t concern yourself with hundreds, when some say that there really isn’t no where near that many, when you can focus on the main ones. The big search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN and now Bing; are the big boys and if you can get noticed by them, then your on your way to more traffic! So try to focus on these search engines first, before you try to get on other search engines.
As soon as you get your website optimization plan going, you will see a big difference on the search results for your website.
Once you start to see that the search engines are picking up your website, then your goal is to move to the first page on search results. Most people never look at the 2nd page of search results from a search engine. So being on the first page is crucial to getting more people to your website. Keeping your website up-to-date and adding fresh and relative content to it, will maximize your efforts and help you to climb to higher positions on the search engine results. There is a lot of information that you can find out about getting better search engine results. Take the time to learn some of the tricks to getting your website in more search engine results and find a company like thinkbigsites.com.com to help fine tune your website. So be like the grocery store that has the big sign and all the advertisements and get an SEO company on your side today!
Posted on 18th March 2010 by admin in Marketing Online
Using Domain parking services
We have recently tried a new service called Domain Parking through a vendor called Gold Key. The results so far have been very impressive. See the details, and if you wish to try them out they are free. Unlike some services, they do not charge to park your domainn, and they even provide loads of templates to use for sites.
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Posted on 14th March 2010 by admin in Education |Success
Persistence
Persistence does mean:
You must try something else until you do find a strategy that does work well and then you can keep on doing it because it is bringing you the results that you are looking for.
So how do you develop a persistent attitude?
You must:
1. Have a burning desire to succeed. It is not a need. It is a MUST.
2. Picture yourself reaching your desired goals in your home business or online business.
3. Have faith that you will reach your goals.
4. Have something that can push you on a daily basis to do something. Maybe it is your job that you don’t like and this can be a great motivator to never give up. Maybe you want to improve your income, and knowing this will give you the ability to keep on going despite many failures along the way.
5. Tell yourself that you will succeed and you will do what ever it takes to make your business a success. You have to feed your subconscious mind with positive self talk.
6. Make your own decision that this will work and don’t listen to negative people who will tell you that you should quit. Choosing to be your own boss working from home is YOUR decision and no one else.
7. Read motivational books and listening to tapes. This will give you the right motivation and encourage you to continue.People have used brainwave meditation in order to help them focus and gain more energy on their goals.
8. Associate with the right people who will guide, teach, and encourage you to follow through.
9. Make a commitment. This is one of my favorites. Once you make a commitment, there is no going back or quitting.
There are multiple resources online that can help in your daily routines in order to help boost your self confidence and help you start with a positive attitude. There is a good resource at http://www.gobrainev.com where they discuss the potential of brainwave meditation that can help improve your performance, IQ, and master your emotions through their 6 CD meditation suite that only requires 30 minutes a day. They are offering a free 30 day trial and even comes with a 7 month , no questions asked guarantee. The technology and science behind the program is explained in depth on their site and something you should check out if you are looking to gain that edge in your overall work and life.
Posted on 11th March 2010 by admin in Marketing Online
One of the newer and growing VOIP companies is called Packet 8. VOIP (Voice over IP) using your existing High Speed Internet connection. We recommend a Broadband connection, as sometimes you will notice some noise on a DSL line, especially if your are downloading any large files over the internet while talking on the phone. Most providers you will be able to use your existing phones, but some are will not. We have found the Packet 8 to be very reliable and have recently made the switch. You can see there information here Packet 8
A great technology resource to help compare and get questions answered is :
Packet8 is an affordable and easy-to-use broadband telephone and videophone service. Designed with both residential and business customers in mind, Packet8 allows anyone with broadband (high-speed) Internet access to use their regular phone to make UNLIMITED calls to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada for as little as $19.99 per month. Packet8 subscribers with videophones can make video calls for as little as $19.99 per month. All Packet8 subscribers get world wide UNLIMITED calling to other Packet8 subscribers at no extra charge.
Posted on 9th March 2010 by admin in Health and fitness |Marketing Online
Vimovo is a new consumer health care site that allows you to search and locate health care providers and insurance in your local area. their belief is that the consumer should be more empowered to choose their providers and insurers that will benefit them and their families. Vimo will help to make buynig buying health care and insurance more transparent and more cost effective. Consumers can get objective and comprehensive shopping information for insurance, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), medical procedures, doctors and dentists.
They have made a very user friendly site to be able to search by Zip code for your healthcare provider. You can also compare Health Care Savings Accounts (HSA) in your area to help in your decisions. They also provide a great tool to research and review various Health Care Providers (HCPs) in your area. The Vimo database contains over 650,000 Dr.’s and over 13,000 disciplinary actions. Each report on the HCP will contain, among other things, Board certifications, hospital affiliations, and any disciplinary actions.
(formerly known as Healia)is in the news and here is what some of those reports had to say:
Vimo (which thankfully just changed its name from Healthia) is a search tool aiming at allowing consumers to access doctors and insurers, and eventually medical products and services. CEO Chini Krishnan says Vimo is “a comparison shopping site like Lending Tree.” Health IT.com Octrober 9,2006
Posted on 6th March 2010 by admin in Other
For all those parents or grandparents expecting their first child/grandchild, nothing is greater than those first moments of birth. With three still relatively young kids at home, we always had to make sure on top of everything else, that the Baby Announcements went out and to all the relatives. I remember when our daughter was born, we sent out the Hershey :HereSheis” chocolate. Only to get a call a week later from our mother- in -law that we forgot to mail one to Aunt Suzie. Who was aunt Suzie? we were working on a limited budget and the candy bars were not cheap. We have since explored other options and this what we came up with. Send the Chocolate bars to immediate family memebrs and friends, and then send Birth Announcement cards to the rest of the family.
One such online site I just found is http://www.babyshere.com. They offer a great selection of Brith Announcements for all. They even have a special section for Twins and Triplets. You will have more work ahead of you with triplets, than worrying abut the Announcements.
Posted on 5th March 2010 by admin in How to market Online |Marketing Online
The answer is Any Kind! So, the right question should be “what blog can make more money?”
The answer is Well Prepared Blog! 
What to prepare? Why not just posting? If you want to just blog and you don’t care things to prepare, maybe you’re not serious about making money from your blog. Otherwise, please read on.
First, I want to say this, “DON’T BLOG unless you know what you’re going to blog!”
By this, I don’t mean only conclusion of you blog. Before you blog, sit back from your keyboard and take a time to answer following 3 questions:
1. About what topic am I going to write? Are many people want to know about that topic?
2. With that topic, what product or link am I gonna introduce?
3. And how am I gonna do that?
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Posted on 4th March 2010 by admin in Blogging Online |Marketing Online
AdSense, Advertising, Blog, Blogger, host, Web search engine, WordPress, WordPress.com
Attention all WordPress bloggers: InBlogAds has recenetly launched allowing you to sell the ad space on your blogs. They offer benefits for both advertisers and publishers. If you are an advertiser you get direct html links, which can help drive targeted traffic,while increasing your link. With the context links, they are typically included within the blog, which search engines love and appreciate. You can have your site reviewed by the community of bloggers, and the posts will be up for a minimum of 30 days
For Publishers, the current technology works with WordPress and is currently being tested for free blog sites such as Blogger.com, and WordPress.com. You can control the types of ads and posts that are on your blog, as you approve or deny them to fit your blog content. Each publisher can earn as much as 60% of the ad revenue sold through their blog. Since these are ads are not contextually served, similar to Googles Adsense, the content can be run along side other ads.
Posted on 3rd March 2010 by admin in Blogging Online |Marketing Online
Well I guess you need to be careful what you write about. Just after I wrote about the Phishing vs Vishing, I received an email from the Ebay Account abuse team??? They wanted to inform that my account had been compromised, and unusual activity had been reported by bank. They instructed me to click on the link to verify my account within 48 hours, or my account would be closed. And they would have to close any PayPal accounts linked to my eBay account. It was even signed by the VP of eBay abuse report dept. WOW! Of course I did nothing, forwarded to the eBay fraud email address. I did click on the view source for the email, and you could see where the links led to and they were not ebay. Also, the email was cloaked under a gmail.com account. So I sent that over to Google.
Posted on 1st March 2010 by admin in Recreation |Travel on a Budget
We make an annual trip to Florida in January to DisneyWorld with our three kids. This year, though we will be joining family to travel through the park. There will be 15 of us staying in a two bedroom condo, for the 6 day excursion.
In planning our Florida Holidays in the past it was much simpler in that we could plan for ourselves. Now coordinating the likes and dislikes of 10 other people may prove to be a challenge. We are using planning guides and have mapped out the best days and times to visit the different parks. There will be a total of 5 kids, all under the age of 8, and all they want to do is see Mickey and Minney. We have scheduled the breakfast with the characters, which if you plan on doing this, you need to plan well in advance. The times book up very fast. What’s great is that there are sites like Florida Holidays to help plan and provide assistance on where to go and other interests outside the Disney Park.
So plan ahead, for a large or small group, and bring some comfortable shoes. We plan on doing a lot of walking. I hope to be able to post some pics of our large family gathering in Disney World, and hopefully we make back still as a family.
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