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- RITA and Golden Heart Nominees with Links If you've been on twitter today you've seen #ritanoms all over the place. Comments abound like why didn't she get it? but also a slew of congratulations are going out to the authors that did get to the coveted spot of finalist. I'm here to add yet one more with...
- Lessons to learn- How did Harley-Davidson turnaround? A Recovery Plan Harley-Davidson's remarkable turnaround – from a firm flirting with bankruptcy to one of America's premier automotive success stories – is what business legends are made of. How did they do it? President and COO Jim McCaslin explains their recovery plan. Operating close to bankruptcy in 1981,...
- Antique Dolls Antiques -> Decorative Arts -> Figurines One of the most popular forms of antique collectibles are antique dolls and there are some that can bring in an astonishing amount of money. Whether you have an old collection of vintage dolls, or you are trying to find one to complete your...
Movie Review: Bride Wars starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway This week has been full of movie-going. I saw Bride Wars the other day and it was quite good. I really enjoyed it. I didn’t find Kate Hudson’s character, Liv, all that wonderful, but her relationship with her fiancé, Daniel, was delightful. Emma played by Anne Hathaway was a wonderful...
Lladro Collectibles Collectibles -> Decorative Collectibles -> Lladro-> Figurines When you look at the beauty and grace that is customary with Lladro collectibles, it’s hard to believe that the company originally specialized in jugs and basic kitchenware. It wasn’t until the mid 1950’s that the three original founders of the company, who...- BUD - An American Company No More! What would 1 Share Purchased 24 Years ago of Anheuser-Busch be Worth When it Was Finally Sold Yesterday While it has been in the news recently, it became official yesterday, Anheuser-Busch is no longer an American Company. That's right, your favorite domestic beer company is now owned by beer GIANT InBev - you can find some full articles HERE, HERE and HERE. Never heard of InBev?  Guess Again - from...
Organic Farms Labeling Factory Farm Milk As 'USDA Organic' Oh. My. Somehow we all knew this day was coming, but COME ON...this is a huge company to be falsely labeling non-organic milk as organic and expecting no one to notice. It turns out that along with Horizon and Aurora brand dairy products, there are a bunch more private label...
Money Hacks Carnival #51 - The Office Edition Welcome to the 51st edition of the Money Hacks Carnival! My name is Adam and I am pleased to be your host this week. Please feel free to poke around the site if it is your first time visiting! You can subscribe to the blog using the links on the...- I get emails Who said working in publishing would be unrewarding? ------------------------------------- Subject: Immediate Release: Girls Gone Wild Heads Overseas Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:35:39 -0400 From: Barry Roesler To: oliver@alliancemagazine.org Hello Oliver, I thought you may find this interesting. If you would like to follow-up with Joe Francis or Scott Barbour,...
- Athlete Profiles: Anna Kournikova Although many only look at Anna Kournikova’s beauty, citing the fact that she’s never really done much in the sport of tennis, she is an accomplished player that has a remarkable attitude about the game and an innate talent. Born in Moscow in 1981, Kournikova began training as a tennis...
- How Rude! Something most guidebooks to Southeast Asian destinations don't mention is rudeness. While many countries in Southeast Asia rely heavily on tourism, sometimes their ideas of what's polite and what's not is at odds with many Western ideas. Some are even at odds with common sense This occurred to me as...
- The Best Marketing Blogs Right Now I have a list. A list of internet marketing and SEO/SEM blogs I read more than any others. Not the blogs that are merely there to support or promote products. The insightful, deliberately in-depth and well written blogs by people who care, maybe a bit too much, about what their...
How to Tell if a "Gluten-Free Menu" is Truly Gluten-Free I can see for myself the various ways in which a food-service menu item advertised as "Gluten-Free" by well-meaning food-service planners and menu designers could be slightly altered by well-meaning restaurant staff to become Gluten-Filled.
Michel Fortin: Short Copy Outperforms? Heresy! Guest Post By Michel Fortin An interesting discussion is going on in one of my favorite online forums, The Warriors Forum, about short copy winning over long copy. And the author of the thread cited a study he conducted, where he proved that shorter copy won over long copy. Some...
FREE Media Manipulation by Dean Hunt Part 1 Guest Blogger: Dean Hunt My name is Dean Hunt and I recently got DeanHunt.com featured in the biggest selling quality newspaper in the UK. What’s more, it was also featured in the top 1000 Alexa ranked online newspaper. It was no accident that I got this free publicity, and Jack...- Pagerank Update Data from Andy Beard Andy Beard has been tracking some interesting pagerank data on several popular sites. His findings are below. There seem to have been a few pagerank updates close together dealing blows to several sites and confusing pagerankings across different Google datacenters. For what it's worth, my blog went back to a...
Piss Off Louis Vuitton, Become a Celebrity Overnight, And Have Yourself Some Blog Success! Guest Post by Christopher Flores Most know me as a New York City joint venture guy or "that moderator on SMC" or "that college dude". More than being a spectacular person 90% of the time, I'm a scientist of people and cultures, an Anthropology student. In Cyberculture, my thing is...-
Michel Fortin: People Do Judge Authors By Their Covers Guest Post By Michel Fortin I do believe what Dan Kennedy says, when he says clunky copy outsells clean copy. But not all the time. And recently, a university study proves this point. People have a tendency to forge not only a lasting opinion based on first impressions but also...
New Issue of Personal Branding Magazine Personal Branding Magazine continues to grow its readership rapidly. People who've read it know why. Its a high-quality publication with some great writers on topics ranging from networking to personal development to getting more website traffic. The new issue, hitting the stands February 1st, includes articles from the following columnists:...- Authority Black Book Ranked #1 by Mashable Mashable now officially rocks hard! In a recent post Mashable (Alexa: 1098) ranked the top ten ebooks for bloggers starting with the Black Book. With in excess of 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world's largest blog on social networking. -Mashable They are also #8 on Technorati's Popular Blogs...
Pearl Harbor II: Starring Nuclear Weapons Sunday Paper - June 21st, 2009 As America and the rest of the world keep a watch on the events unfolding in Iran, we must not forget about other hostile members of the international community. Also making headlines recently was North Korea. The communist regime accused the United States of plotting...
Why Jun Lozaya's Viralogy will be successful I've been reading Jun Lozaya's blog for some time now. I also recently joined Viralogy and for some reason when I woke up this morning I was thinking about my blogs ranking on Viralogy. I thought that it would be nice to have a badge for my blog displaying...- Debt Update 8/27/2008 In conjunction with providing great and useful information, I created this blog is to keep me accountable for my debts. As of this update I am focusing on my wife and I's Credit Cards (as indicated by my status bar to the left). This is an update as to our progress:...
- How To Use Variable Annuities the Right Way First things first: variable annuities are poor investments for most people (with a few important exceptions I'll get to in a moment). They are usually expensive, complicated, illiquid, and hard to understand for all but the most sophisticated of investors. Unfortunately, the target of a variable annuity sales pitch is usually a...
- What Are Parabens And Why Should You Avoid Them. You may have heard about how you should avoid parabens in the products you buy, but you might be wondering why you should do so. After doing a bunch of research a couple of years ago, my wife and I decided to no longer purchase any products that have parabens...
Silent Hill: Homecoming Review I'm an old fan of the Silent Hill series, I played the first silent Hill on PSX a long time ago, loved it, it was one of my favorite PSX horror games. Enough with the old 1999 game; let's talk about the new 2008-2009 title Homecoming which I'm playing on...- How To Avoid Greenwashing Sin #7: Worshiping False Labels For our seventh installment in our greenwashing series we look at Terrachoice's Seventh Sin Of Greenwashing: Worshiping False Labels, a new sin that has arisen as a result of increased interest in and demand for green products. Terrachoice's first research report came out in 2007 and identified the six greenwashing...
- Bloging tips-Use Google Hot searches /trends to attract website traffic Getting a quality website traffic is not easy with the regular changes in the tactics of the spiders and crawlers and the search engines .The complex algorithm that the search engines adopt will confuse even the SEO experts. Howsoever, by simply using the proper key words and the search terms...
- What Else Can You Use Instead Of Live Rock In The Home Aquarium Live rock is very effective and efficient when it comes to filtering the saltwater aquarium however dependant upon the size of the aquarium can be quite expensive to purchase. There are, of course other filtration methods you can utilise in the saltwater aquarium. These range from deep sand beds, plenums, canister filters to name just a few.
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