This excerpt is from an article written by Justin Premick

“According to the National Retail Foundation, holiday shopping for this year is set to increase, but only by a modest 4%. Just about every other report or story I’ve read about this holiday season has suggested it won’t be a good one.

As other direct and indirect competitors vie for your subscribers’ pocketbooks, how are you going to make sure your business isn’t left holding a lump of coal?”

To read the full article and the 5 tips, please go here – Holiday Sales Tips

If you are a Traffic Exchange (TE) user you are going to love this.. just launched today.. a Pro TE – which means everyone pays to join, so they are serious about what they do and not “tyre kickers”.. that fee is just $10 for a year.

Various upgrade options are then available, the highest level being ”Pro 5″ which costs JUST $6 per month..

So right from the get go, this is a very affordable Pro Traffic Exchange. However, it is also offering 80% commissions to it’s members which pretty much beats the pants off everyone else!

Even though this launched just TODAY they have a Referral Contest up and running to kick things off nicely with 5 cash prizes – total prize value is $1500 broken down like this:

• 1st = $500

• 2nd = $400

• 3rd = $300

• 4th = $200

• 5th = $100

Click the link to my splash page which gives you more info and if you want to get in quick as this will go round like wildfire, then click the banner in the splash page (or below) to get more info and to join..

Splash Page

Just a quick post about this VERY useful tool that someone told me about a few weeks ago and I have been using it ever since.

I am new to html but I am getting there, I now normally know when I have made a mistake and how to put it right (but please realise, I don’t do anything complicated YET! but watch out world when I’ve done with my lurnin I will go nuts with my new found knowledge - that will be about the time of our grandchildrens grandchildren by the way).

Anyway, this is the link to the HTML School:

HTML School

You will see lots of useful headings on the left hand side but what I really love about this is for instance, on the page you should land on, “HTML Links” if you click on the red underlined title of ‘create hyperlinks’ you then get a new page come up which is split screen.. it shows some examples with the html of the example on the left screen and the actual thing you get on the right hand side.

All I do with this is, I go to a free space on the left, I put in what I think the code needs to be for what I want (using their example to work from) I then click the “Edit the text and click me” button at the top and voila, my project appears also on the right hand side.. so I can check what I get with the html still visible on the left, I can see what is wrong then and keep playing with the code on the left and clicking that old button until I get it right.. easy peasy, all I do then is just copy the code on the left and go place it wherever I need it.

You will see from the index on the left that html school covers a ton of things, all using this nifty Editor and I have found I have learnt a lot already and do not always need this tool now BUT when I go getting all too big for my boots and something won’t load properly or whatever, then I do find myself back there, putting in the code and low and behold, it is then obvious what the tiny little mistake is that I made.

I hope this helps some of you guys out there too.

Sue

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As some of you will have noticed I am new to blogging. I have to say I am enjoying it immensely, I know I have a lot.. let’s say that again for effect.. A LOT to learn but I am so enjoying that process.. yes even when about a week ago, I lost my blog.. arghhhhh!!! how does that make you feel? I will tell you… sooo bad!!!

The reason I can now look back on that and still enjoy this whole process is because I made a stupid error with something techy **sweats and reaches for Valium at mere thought of it** BUT it was me, yes ME! that figured out what I did and then put it right.. (we won’t mention the hours, nay, days of anguish it took me to get to that result) but I am sure you can imagine (or I hope you can) the wonderful sense of achievement that bought me.. mind you, my 11 year old son Jonathan is still recovering and now considering two options:

1) Can he get himself fostered or

2) How easy is it to “Divorce” ones parents..

Because all he remembers about me losing my blog, is a VERY grumpy Mother that he quickly and astutely learnt not to go anywhere near unless perhaps he cut himself with a sharp object, or smelt fire or some other emergency type scenario which fortunately did not happen [see authors notes below post].. and then this total mad woman running around his house and yelling, “Yes!, Yes!, I saved it” rushing up to him and hugging and kissing him (I did note him checking me for sharp objects) and then skipping – yes skipping!! up and down our (in the words of Dr Cox from Scrubs) verrrrryyyy long corridor singing and screaming at the top of my “let’s face it” reaaaaaaaallllly not very good voice…

Anyway, I digress from my original point of this story.. my growing enjoyment and sense of achievement of my new found blogging world… One thing I have not enjoyed up until today.. was the feeling of “Billy No Mates”.

Now if you are from the UK I know you will not need me to explain what that means but if your from anywhere else.. and oh I’m guessing your from the USA – just a wild stab in the dark there you understand (lol) then you might be sitting there now saying “I’m with Jonathan, get this mad woman out of my life” or something along those lines… so let me explain the meaning of ‘Billy No Mates’.. The Wallflower at the dance..The poor kid in the corner at the local youth centre (English spelling of centre, live with it LOL )

Can you use more traffic to your websites?

If you’re like most marketers online, I’m guessing the answer is yes…

I just discovered a new online tool that generates viral traffic for you automatically, for as many websites as you want.  The most amazing thing is that it is free, and also you don’t need to change much about what you already do and yes of course there are upgrade options as well, you will get access free and then when you register you can either stay free or take advantage of the ‘One Time Offers’ (OTO’s) you will be presented with, you do not have to accept them, I chose to upgrade to Diamond though because this launches properly TODAY so I might as well earn a little extra for the old bank manager along the way..

I know it sounds too good to be true, but let me assure you…

• It’s NOT some unethical or “blackhat” traffic generating tactic
• It IS 100% real, 100% professional, and 100% effective
• It has NOTHING to do with safelists, FFA, traffic exchanges, spam, submitters, or anything else
• It has EVERYTHING to do with a breakthrough new tactic that will blow you away when you see it

The easiest way to explain is for you to see it for yourself.  Just go here….

VIRAL LINK TRACKER

This is REALLY cool and very easy to use (if your a bit techno challenged like me LOL).

Oh and one more thing.. they may start charging for it soon, so get over there now…

Have you ever joined a dating site, filled out the form.. you would like to meet that someone special right? So you get to know someone from their profile, you feel like your talking to a Goddess or an Adonis and then you find out, they have a day release from the local zoo?

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I just wanted to pay tribute to a wonderful man – George Osmond – who died today aged 90.

Because of George, we had (and still have) The Osmonds, because of The Osmonds and in particular for me, Donny.. there are hundreds of people now connected in love and friendship across the world. Because of them, I joined Donny’s fan club online a few years ago.. through that fan club I have met so many wonderful people who have become my friends.. they have done favors for me and I for them. I have friends in America who are so very dear to me and if it were not for the Osmonds and all they stood for – honesty, loyalty, never judging anyone, family values, so many things quiet apart from their Entertainment careers – I would never have come into contact with these people and been able to go to America and meet them.. these friends are now my lifeline..

So I thank you George for wanting the best for your family.. for wanting to pay to help your two eldest sons with their hearing.. if you and Olive had not decided to do that so many decades ago, there would never have been “The Osmonds” – I thank you for teaching your family the values they live by today and that we “40 somethings” all learnt about in our early teens, you gave us then a good guide and a good set of rules to live by.. we have all had hard times one way or another but had your example to follow and we took what we learnt with us into our adult lives and it helped so much.

A little ditty I heard about George and Olive – when The Osmonds were so famous over here in the UK in the 70’s – I heard that both Mother and Father Osmond (that is how they are known and referred to by both family and fans alike and its the way the Osmond want it) would often look out for the young teenage girls they would see on the streets of London, always stopping and making sure they were ok, could they get home, did their parents know where they were.. listening to the young teenagers stories, sometimes heartbreaking ones, keeping in contact with them via letters, so many things.

Olive Osmond created the “One Heart Foundation” for children and as well as looking after her own family she did a lot for many hundreds of children.

Their children are a wonderful tribute to them, when you meet up with an Osmond you are always treated with respect, never like a fan, in fact they like to call their fans, “Friends” – gosh I could go on and on here..

It is a very sad day, I have to say, I kind of thought George would always be around – silly I know… I will treasure the fact that in 2003 I was receiving some awards from Melaleuca in the UK and the awards were being presented by Donny, he had bought his Father over with him and Father Osmond sat in his wheelchair at the back of the huge room.. I was lucky enough to be getting several awards and so went up to get them from Donny and each time I had to work my way back to my seat, well on one occasion, I knew George was at the back, I managed to go by his wheelchair and I just kneeled down and said “Father, I do hope you don’t mind but may I please give you a kiss on the cheek?” and he said, of course you can my dear but why, and I just said, well just because.. I kissed his cheek and went on my way, I will treasure that memory.

So George, you will be so missed by many hundreds of people around the world – thank you for what you did, thank you for lending us your family and for the things you taught all of us.

The one comfort we all have is to know that now you are back in the arms of your sweetheart, Olive.

Sue – one of your friends

Official Family Announcement

In a few hours from now, hundreds of people are going to be hit with a dozen emails from

people all promoting ‘Brad Callen’s Affiliate Elite’.

Well if you are one of them then do yourself a favor. Ignore those emails.  “DealDotCom” have got an exclusive deal, read below what DealDotCom have to say:

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Okay, okay… maybe those examples were a little over the top…. or were they?Here is the *real* deal about Affiliate Elite:We received a copy of the software three weeks ago and some of the Minions over here put it to the test.

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If you would like to read the rest of this then you can join DealDotCom (free) from any of the links in this article and you will then get access to it AND to the great deal they have worked out which includes $20 into your DealDotCom account..

DealDotCom is free to join and each day they present a great product for less than you would get it normally or with some special deal – each deal only lasts for a day, you can tell people about DealDotCom and if they join, you will earn commissions on any products they decide to buy through DealDotCom (but nobody is obligated to do so).  Also, each day, DealDotCom pick one member and whatever is the deal of the day, that members gets it for free, no matter what the price, all they need do is log into their account to grab it.

Certainly think it’s worth your time to read the rest of the article, don’t you?