links for 2008-11-14

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Is Mr Blue Light - Frosty's New BFF?

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How Frosty and Mr Blue Light Became Best Friends Forever.

Even frosty isn't immune to these economic troubles, not only was he laid off from the North Pole, but he's move back in w/ relatives in Canada and now he's gotta face global warming too.

Christmas just almost wasn't possible.

Then frosty met Mr. Blue Light. He can relate to being blue, and a fast friendship soon evolved.

Frosty was truly afraid he wouldn't be able to get any gifts for his little snow angels. Blue Light took him by the hand and showed him that there's a whole world of savings out there at a magical place called: KMart.

"But Mr. Blue Light, I can't afford that 32" LCD TV that my parents want, or the Kitchenaid Mixer for Mrs Snowman." Frosty exclaimed on the brink of tears..

"Oh Frosty, it's ok - you don't need to have all the money right now."

"Oh is it one of those credit programs? Ya know I don't have that great credit, and with the credit freeze going on, I doubt I'd get approved.."

"Frosty, they have Kmart Layaway! No credit checks required, just make weekly or biweekly payments and presto pick up your gift the week before Christmas. You can put all kinds of things on layaway like: Bikes, Toys, Electronics, TVs, Xbox, etc..."

"Wow Mr. Blue Light - I can definitely afford layaway, and this might save Christmas for us this year. Wow Thanks!"

If you're suffering from the credit crunch, and poor economics - do like Frosty: Click Here

Visit KMART Layaway.

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Make Glass with your Propane Grill - Or maybe you Shouldn't...

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This is a video on how it is possible to make your very own glass using a grill over-clocked at 2000 degrees and adding washing soda, lime or borax to white-silica beach sand. This is showing what's possible- even though it is possible, I highly recommend not using this technique. "You'll blow your eye out, kid" (Sorry couldn't resist the Christmas Story line drop - I know it's shoot not blow - but blow works better for the scenario). [Sources: Gizmodo via PopSci]


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Breaking News: Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake hits California..

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At 10am today the Great Southern California Shake Out will take place, in which organizations across SoCal will pretend that there has been a magnitude 7.8 earthqake on the Southern San Andreas fault-line.

According to officials:

"In an earthquake of this size, the shaking will last for nearly two minutes. The strongest shaking will occur near the fault (in the projected earthquake, the Coachella Valley, Inland Empire and Antelope Valley). Pockets of strong shaking will form away from the fault where sediments trap the waves (in the projected earthquake, it would occur in the San Gabriel Valley and in East Los Angeles)."

"An earthquake of this size will cause unprecedented damage to Southern California—greatly dwarfing the massive damage that occurred in Northridge’s 6.7-magnitude earthquake in 1994. In summary, the ShakeOut Scenario estimates this earthquake will cause some 2,000 deaths, 50,000 injuries, $200 billion in damage and other losses, and severe, long-lasting disruption. The report has regional implications and is a dramatic call to action for preparedness."

It is estimated that more than 5 million people will be taking place in this earthquake drill that may be the largest in history.

Click here for a page that tells you how to prepare yourself, families, business, and schools.


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7 Step Guide for Choosing a Multi-Level Marketing Business

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I just put together a new lense on squidoo - would you please do me a favor and check it out and let me know what you think?

"7 Step Guide for Choosing a Multi-Level Marketing Business"


I appreciate it - Thanks!
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Your Ad Plastered All over this Site for Pennies? I Must be Mad!

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This blog gets roughly 40,000 pageviews weekly. As an experiment I've added Project Wonderful code to the bottom of every post, both on the single pages, and the main index page.

Right now the bid is less than a penny - Go Ahead and bid - you might get your image on this blog and get your ad viewed 40,000+ times in a single week.

If only 5% of those pageviews end up in clicks that's a huge 2000 unique hits.

All for as little as 1 penny!

The quicker you bid for your ad spot the faster you'll get it.

Click here to Bid Now!

Comment here if you bid, and I will be picking one commenter to receive a free Review.
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Get Elfed. ElfYourself.com gets JibJabbified.

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ElfYourself 2008: 3 Days till ElfDay!


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Just a year ago OfficeMax debuted its highly successful holiday hit website: ElfYourself.com.

ElfYourself.com was a promotional viral video with a twist - users could upload their own pictures and create dancing elves to send to family and friends as e-cards.

Sounds pretty simple, eh? That simple site got over 100 million unique visitors throughout the 2 month campaign.

Enter Greg Spiridellis, CEO of JibJab Media. He saw ElfYourself and saw some great potential. ElfYourself.com resonated with him because it matched some of the offerings of JibJab which also lets people personalize e-cards with their own images.

Spiridellis looked up ElfYourself's traffic stats in Quantcast and saw the following:


In the one month that ElfYourself.com debuted and got hammered it rivaled facebook in traffic, which is pretty darn extraordinary. JibJab's ceo thought they could do it a few bits better. In Februar Greg Spiridellis cold-called the chief marketing office of OfficeMax proposing a partnership.

Under the partnership JibJab would create new dancing elves around its 'Starring You' platform. JibJab is planning not one but three different dances including: Disco Elves, Country Elves, and Jazz Elves.

They are also planning on capitalizing on the opportunity to sell digital downloads of the videos, and printed images on cards, mugs, mousepads, and more.

Elfyourself.com could turn from an expensive marketing ploy into a huge money-maker. OfficeMax agreed to JibJab's proposal and is scheduled to relaunch in about 3 days.

[Source: TechCrunch] Disclaimer: I'm in no way being compensated for this post it's purely an interesting blog post - however if you work for OfficeMax and would like to compensate me by all means drop me a message.
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Of God and Universal Healthcare... Why God Approves!

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I've had many people stating that they don't know where God says Universal healthcare is a freedom, or where it's mentioned in the constitution, or how it related.

Here's my view: First off I'm lds / mormon a christian denomination founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.

For all those politicians, business men, republicans, etc who are against Universal Healthcare - I suggest that you are also against the Bible.

Here's the scriptural support for Universal Healthcare:
Matthew Chapter 25, Verses 34-46
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his aright hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

I submit that - to deny someone medical care is to cast them aside and is un-christian.

Christianity has no room for hypocrites and if you do not support Healthcare for all people, then you have no business saying you are a Christian.

There are people suffering with Cancer, Leukemia, Heart Disease, and all manner of common, and rare diseases. Many cannot afford the health care they need, many show up in the ER which costs 10 times more than a normal doctor, and helps raise the overall cost of healthcare across the board.

Write your congressmen, and senators and let them know that they cannot go on being hypocrites and call themselves Christians and expect to be believed if they go on not supporting Universal Healthcare. After all your congressmen and senators have the best health care our Government can afford, of course they may not care about universal health care.

We may have won a huge victory with Obama getting elected as he favors a more universal plan - but the fight isn't over yet. Keep fighting, and spread the word!

Some great websites to check out about Universal Healthcare include:

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Biggest Loser Trainer Arrested for Beating a 6 Yr Old.

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Looks like this guy truly is the biggest loser. Anthony Badalamenti one of the trainers for the Biggest Loser was arrested Monday night for beating his girlfriend's 6 year old son with weightlifting belts.

I'm not sure who this jerk is - I haven't seen him on the show, when I first heard about it I was wondering if it was Jillian Michaels of Bob Harper who was arrested.

I'm glad it was neither - but my money was on Jillian - she's bad ass.

I've been a big biggest loser fan since 2005 - with secret aspirations of one day making it on the show myself one day.
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How I made my first Dollar in Network Marketing - it only took me 8 years!

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How to Make your first Dollar in Network Marketing.

That first commission check is the most important in a Network Marketer's life. It is the make or break of becoming successful.

Many Network Marketers say to themselves, if I could only make that first check, I know I could be successful.

The sad thing is most people never make it that far.

We all dream of being the epitome of success. We all dream of making $10,000 per month. To reach $10,000 monthly we must first meet $1,000 per month. Before we can reach $1,000 we must reach $100. Before we can reach $100 we must reach $1.

How do we get that first dollar?

With everything in life there's a process. I've been in and out of Network Marketing for many years. I've never really had much success myself until 2008.

When we begin our network marketing career we lack the confidence to talk about our opportunity. I kept saying to myself: "Sure if we had a ferrari everyone would listen to me, but nobody is going to take me seriously in my crap car."

I've wasted maybe 3 years of my life trying to be successful in many different programs. I say it was a waste, but instead perhaps it was just an education. One that I just hadn't planned on.

You know, it actually took me 8 years to make my first dollar in Network Marketing?

During the 8 years I've made many changes in my life, I got married, I buckled down at a day job that I hated, but that I needed to pay the bills.

I've spent hundred on self-help materials thinking maybe I just don't have the right mindset, people are being successful -what's wrong with me. Why can't I do it?

Enter Social Media.

In 2007-2008 I found a new business. Blogging. I first started out writing my blog, and monetizing with affiliate programs and ad networks like google adsense.

I made a few dollars here and there initially. Then I started getting more and more traffic. Eventually I was getting 40,000 hits per week.

It was about this time that I was introduced to MyWorldPlus. It was also about this time that things were tanking for the economy as well.

MyWorldPlus caught my eye because their powerline structure is extremely powerful as a marketing tool, and I saw this potential. However, the selling point wasn't the commission structure, or the business opportunity - the seller was the product.

In order to make money, online or off, you must fulfill a need. Who became the richest during the gold rush - prospectors or the people who sold them their supplies?

Right now we aren't in any goldrush by any stretch of imagination, but if you target your audience and focus on what they need,  you will win as those gold mining suppliers did.

Today the gold mine is helping people save money. It just so happens with this business opportunity you can also help them make money.

First let me talk about saving money.

MyWorldPlus is a savings card that lets you save money on goods and services that you would buy everyday. MyWorldplus also offers money-back from purchases at hundreds of stores. This card literally pays for itself each and every month.

Sure there's a monthly fee but it's nominal and the money saved is about 5-10 times what I'm actually spending.

In this crappy economy saving money is a gold mine, or helping people to live more frugal.

Now lets talk about The Opportunity.

MyWorldPlus is a great company where you can make money almost immediately - you'll very likely receive downline members via the powerline, and you can receive a percentage of the global pool by only referring 3 members.

Some people only refer three people themselves and make decent income.

Back to earning your first dollar.

I joined MyWorldPlus and had a number of people placed below me before I even joined. I didn't think I'd really make any money off these people. The first month though, I made a whopping $2.50 just off the people placed below me.

Now sure you say - $2.50 isn't anything to get worked up over. When it comes to my failures in Network Marketing it was a LOT to get excited over. It was essentially my first $2.50 - after 8 years of trying.

I had my first taste of success, and I became an addict. I worked hard placing ads all over the place, posting in forums and putting the link in my signature, and blogging about it.

Now I have a loyal following of blog readers, and I didn't want to bombard them with batant ads and make them stop following me. Some people have been burned out by Network Marketing before, and have an almost religious crusader attitude against all things Network marketing. I myself have always kept an open mind, believing that it was my own failure that was the issue - not the company.

Having learned many things in my 8 year marketing experience, blogging and social media was the biggest catalyst. I have learned how to build a following.

The key to success is learning to build relationships. It's all about relationship marketing - it always has been - it just so happens that social media and social networks make it a lot easier in this day and age to build relationships.

Some other tips to successful relationship building via Blogging:

  1. You absolutely must master twitter - of all social networks right now Twitter is the best. While you're at it - why not follow me on twitter.

  2. Be conversational - @reply to a lot of people on topics related to your niche - it will make you stand out as an authority. A good tool to see conversations related to a certain topic, and reply is monitter. Just enter some search terms and it will show live twitter results for those keywords.

  3. Participate in online forums. Some of the best forums are forums for work at home moms. The members are very active and they're usually more friendly and honest than a business opportunity forum. Also they're a lot less spammy.

  4. Write like your life depends on it. The bottom line to successful blogging is the more content, the more traffic. Period. That is the biggest secret - to be truly successful you should be writing at least 3 blog posts daily.


Lastly - Never give up - your time will come and if it takes longer than you are hoping then you will be that much more grateful and thankful when it does. Never give up hope.
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6 Easy ways to get more Subscribers.

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6 Techniques to get more RSS Subscribers to your Blog!


1. Comment on someone's blog who has as many or nearly as many subscribers as you do - Tell them you've subscribed to their blog. They may reciprocate - a lot will.

2. Ask your Readers to subscribe. Make it easy and blatant. If people see links asking to subscribe all over the place then they're more likely to subscribe.

3. Write Guest Posts for other Bloggers. This is a great way to get new subscribers - instead of puting your link in your bio, put a link to your feed url.

4. Bribes are always welcome. Offer something nice to your readers if they subscribe to your blog. This is always a good method to get new RSS readers.

5. Build your network, and then ask your network periodically to subscribe to your rss feed.

6. Start Podcasting. Podcasts are great ways to get more traffic, and get the word out about your blog. It's also a great way to get new rss subscribers.

These are just a few methods - what's your favorite method of bringing in new subscribers?

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Veteran's Day 2008 - Give a Veteran a Hug Today!

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Happy Veteran's Day 2008.




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Do you know the history of Veteran's Day? If not sit down, as I tell you a bit about the history.

Veteran's Day was originally called Armistice day celebrating the end of the first world war on November 11th, 1918.

In the 1950s, it was changed to a day to honor all veterans of America.

Many veterans have, and continue to give their lives so that we can claim the supreme privilege of having our freedom.

We should each take a moment today to sit in silence, and think of the many sacrifices of the Veterans who have given their life for this country.

As a believe in this country I honor and support our veterans and soldiers. I don't support the reason they are fighting, I don't support the Iraq war, but I do support our veterans. Today is their day. Tell a veteran that you know - how much their sacrifice has meant to you.

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Is Do-Follow commenting Dead as a link-building Strategy?

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Is Do-follow in Comments Dead?




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This is primarily heresay, and only the opinion of one blog - but they tend to have some highly informative articles.

I was reading a very interesting post from SEO 2.0 entitled "Commenting on DoFollow-blogs as a link building Strategy".

The blog asks the question whether do-follow in comments matters anymore.

According to SEO 2.0 they say it doesn't matter anymore. Apparently google is an intelligent beast, and knows whether a link is in the blog post, comments, sidebar, or footer.

Comments and footer are devalued largely, where as the link may appear on a PR 4 blog it might only provide a PR 2 or even PR 1 benefit.

So is it worth it to waste your time commenting for hours on end?


I think that link-building or gaming of google is dead.

At least traditional methods, I think the better way to get search engine traffic is via a combination of writing high trend posts via google trends, writing seasonal articles that will bring traffic year after year, and being sure to link out to other blogs to get pingbacks.

Content is still king - don't waste time commenting - write, write, write.


I stick to my guns on this point. If you're not writing a blog post now, you're probably not making money. You should always be writing, or looking for something to write about.

The one factor that all the Rich bloggers share is they are always writing new content. They have over 1000 articles and counting. They keep content coming.

The best way to get ranked by the search engines is to be unique, and keep writing unique content.

Don't give up, and don't stop writing!
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MySpace Launches Profile 2.0 - Featuring Drag and Drop!

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MySpace Launching Profile 2.0 - Feature Filled Drag and Drop Profile Upgrade...




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Myspace the world's first and still foremost leader in social networking has announced the integration of Profile 2.0 (I wonder when everything will hit 3.0? Isn't 2.0 getting a bit old?).

Profile 2.0 for myspace is the next step in the global site redesign which is enabling millions of users to opt-in to customize the appearance of their profiles using an inovative drag-and-drop ajax user interface.

Profile 2.0 is a huge step towards the next wave of Myspace's global redesign initiative which they launched this past year. This new profile page arrives on the heels of a new splash page, and navigation redesign only months earlier. Profile 2.0 builds on MySpace's existing framework and allows deeper levels of control with their friend categorization functionality.

Major features of MySpace Profile 2.0:

Drag and Drop visual Interface: MySpace users are now able to arrange their profile by dragging and dropping modules into any location to create new layouts. Similar to blogger.com's template management. Users are also able to use a new, fast, and intuitive editing and loading system to customize each profile module.

Flexibility in Viewing: Profile 2.0 allows users to display specific information on their profile to specific friend categories that they create or have already created in "Friend Categorization". E.G. a MySpace user may choose to share one module with family, one with friends, and a different one with co-workers.

New Redesigned Themes. MySpace has also gone a long way to create 50 new profile styles ready to load giving users a ton more flexibility in redesigning their profiles at their leisure. The easy to use single-click themes will feature popular celebrities, fashion designers, films, musicians, and sports figures in the future.

Currently users are being offered the new profile but have the option of staying with the original profile including any CSS they may be using.
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The 3 things I learned by following and unfollowing 19,348 people on Twitter.

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Twitter is a mad beast. It can be a tremendous tool, and sometimes a nightmare.

I've been using Twitter heavily since March of this year. Following Jason Calacanis and Robert Scoble's lead I followed as many people as my little fingers could click.

I also followed everyone who followed me.

I ended up with an unmanageable mess of 19348 twitters to sort through, and only 5705 followers, roughly 1 in 4 followed me back.

Was I trying to be a spammer? Nah. I really don't think spamming is possible because someone has to actually click on your profile and choose to follow you - if they follow you just because you follow them, that's their right and their choice.

Then came the follow limit, and I could no longer follow new people, sure I could create a new account and start over, or just use multiple accounts.

I largely went from being a huge user of twitter and conversationalist to being primarily a broadcaster of my blog posts via ping.fm.

I'm currently spending about 1-2 hours weekly unfollowing those who aren't following me, then eventually I'm only gonna follow those who sincerely interest me. That's just my opinion - everyone should make their own decision how they're going to use Twitter. I think the beauty of twitter is that there are a million and one ways to use it.

These are the three main things that I've learned from twitter - as I commented on a post "To Follow or Not To Follow ALL Twitter Followers?" on AdvancedIncome.com by Yisel.

  1. Content is king. As with blogging write good content and people will follow you. They will flock to you like bees on honey. Make sure all your best blog posts are tweeted.

  2. Be a Conversationalist. This applies not only to Twitter, but social media in general - the keyword is Social, if you're not building relationships, then you just don't get it! Talk to people, help people, share your success with people, etc..

  3. Be Popular by Talking to Popular People. We are who we associate with. It is said that your success in life is the sum average of the success of all those with whom you surround yourself.

    To go a bit further - if you reply to someone famous, and they respond to you - you may get a few followers out of it - do it on a daily basis, even become someone they mention a lot and who knows - you may become a Joe the Plumber, or equivalent.


We all want to be successful. I totally believe that the day of the small A-list is over, and that the day is dawning for the everyday person to make it online. I believe that more small-timers will be able to chart their own path. Just keep being real, stay focused, and don't give up.
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