One of the first things I ask them are you taking a multivitamin? They say yeah, or sometimes.

I ask them what food are you [...]]]>

The most common complaint I hear about peoples health is they are tired or have no energy.  You ask them how they are doing, and the answer is almost negative !

One of the first things I ask them are you taking a multivitamin? They say yeah, or sometimes.

I ask them what food are you putting in your body? Just normal stuff. ( normal stuff being processed McDonald, some big chain restaurant, or some diner food)

Third question is, what sorts of liquids are you putting in your body? ( pepsi, sweet tea, orange juice, etc)

I think in the back of my mind, YEP, I know why you feel bad. Have you ever thought about giving your body a break from all that processed food and liquid? Have you ever thought you are not getting enough vitamins through your “normal diet”.

I dare anyone to not go out and eat for an entire week. I dare you to take vitamins for a month . At the end of the month, tell me how you feel.

Zappos has got to be one of the best online retailers of all different brands of shoes.

Have you seen the commercials? I love the one where the lady calls in and wants to return the shoes because she had broken up with her boyfriend. The shoes were still in the same spot that the delivery [...]]]>

Zappos has got to be one of the best online retailers of all different brands of shoes.

Have you seen the commercials? I love the one where the lady calls in and wants to return the shoes because she had broken up with her boyfriend. The shoes were still in the same spot that the delivery person had left them.  No questions asked from the customer care. No are you crazy from the customer care.

If you call any other customer care from any other company they would have turned her down! Zappos is known for being kind, caring and having the best customer service.

One other thing I love about the company is free shipping. You get free shipping to your home and free shipping back if you do not like the shoes!

What are your favorite shoes? One of my favorite brands are Dr. Martens. They have a style of Mary Janes, I have always wanted but never gotten.

My second favorite are Flojos. I discovered their brand of flip flops when I went to the beach. I think I got them at a surf shop I am not sure. I had them for about 3 years and I broke one. So I emailed Flojos and sent a pic and they recommended something very similar and different people to order them from. So who did I order them from? Zappos of course because I knew I could send them back.

So when you go to buy shoes, think Zappos!

10. I get withdrawal jitters if I’m away from the internet for more than a few hours. I need someone who at least understands this malady if he’s not afflicted with it himself.

9. You won’t find many geeks out at bars or dance [...]]]>

Top Ten Reasons To Hunt Geeks In Their Natural Habitat

10. I get withdrawal jitters if I’m away from the internet for more than a few hours. I need someone who at least understands this malady if he’s not afflicted with it himself.

9. You won’t find many geeks out at bars or dance clubs.

8. You can find the love of your life while healing your Tiny Adventurer, blogging about your D&D campaign, IMing with your friends, and watching House.

7. The girl at the Friendly Local Gaming Store feels slightly uncomfortable being in a place so awash with testosterone. (You try being the only taco at the sausage fest!) Try to hit on her here and you’ll be shot down.

6. The girl at your D&D game is already taken.

5. The single girl at your D&D game is nobody you’d want to see when you wake up in the morning. Let’s face it, you’re only okay with your dwarf sleeping next to her elf.

4. Geeks usually make much better first impressions on paper than in person.

3. Geeks are often people with busy schedules – we’re working, studying, blogging, gaming. But there’s one thing we’re sure to check daily (hourly, every minute?) – email.

2. Some geeks are shy folks that don’t always open up in person. We’re more comfortable having first meetings over IMs and then moving into the real world when we’re confident that you really

via Top Ten Reasons to Hunt Geeks In Their Natural Habitat : Geek’s Dream Girl.

The Internet is a new Wild West: a free-for-all of abundant opportunities [...]]]>

The Internet is a new Wild West: a free-for-all of abundant opportunities and serious dangers where familiar rules don’t apply. There is no law enforcement to stop anonymous cowards from defaming your character, few social conventions to prevent it, and no mechanism to get lies and smears removed from the Web. One disgruntled employee, unhinged customer, jealous competitor, or bitter ex can trash your reputation in just a few keystrokes — leaving you to clean up the damage.

These online attacks have real repercussions. Every day, people search for your name on the Internet, and all too often trust the “Google Truth” — the collection of search results selected by a computer for their popularity rather than their veracity — to decide whether to do business with you, or even just associate with you.

The result? Gossip, lies, and embarrassing accusations are anonymously lobbed into cyberspace. Google makes these smears permanent and spreads them around the world. Real reputations and businesses are destroyed. Fortunately, you can protect and restore your hard-won reputation by following the simple steps outlined in Wild West 2.0. This ground breaking book explains why you are vulnerable to attack, and supplies proven strategies for building a storm-proof reputation. The book:

• Draws intriguing parallels between the Internet’s culture of expansion, speculation, and lawlessness and the gold rush mentality of the Old West frontier.

• Uncovers hair-raising stories of attacks made under a cloak of anonymity.

• Reveals new threats, including websites that broadcast your phone number, political contributions, family history, and more.

• Provides tips for locating every reference to you or your business in blogs, forums, and social networking sites.

• Supplies a plan to defend yourself now by preemptively creating layers of truthful online content.

• Shares the professional secrets of reputation repair, ranging from quick fixes for minor problems to massive rebuilding after calculated attacks.

Take control of it with Wild West 2.0.

I loved this book. Seriously your online reputation can be damaged in a matter of seconds. You monitor it. You make yourself a positive brand. This book teaches you how to fix it, if it gets out of control. I highly recommend this one to anyone in marketing or the SEO field.

If you want a copy for yourself, FSB has it.

The flowers in my house and around my yard are something that I could not live without! I have about 3 trees in my house.  I have a couple of indoor planters.  I really need to get some new ones. I have this money tree that in in desperate need of a new [...]]]>

The flowers in my house and around my yard are something that I could not live without! I have about 3 trees in my house.  I have a couple of indoor planters.  I really need to get some new ones. I have this money tree that in in desperate need of a new one. I want a very nice decorative planter. I need a really huge one too. They are not hard to find, but try and find them under a 100 bucks!

I have a small garden in my backyard. I have so many tomatoes coming off my vines, I have been giving them away. I do have a problem with the chickadees. When the tomatoes get a little red, those birds have been attacking them. So I have to bring them in, before they get pecked to death.

My next mission is to get some outdoor planters. I want some nice ones that will complement our wooden back deck.  I am looking into getting some raised ones, so I can grow some herbs in the summer.

I love my plants. I grew up having lots of them in the house. I grew up on a farm and we had so many acres of vegetables. I do believe strongly that flowers in the house contribute to the well being of everyone. It increase oxygen levels and it makes me smile:) Everyone should have some in their house too:)

Abducted into the newly formed Hezbollah army, a young American Christian fights for his life, his freedom, and the woman he loves when he defies a brutal regime during one of the most difficult times in Middle East history.

Escape the Hezbollah is a glorious story of how love can endure through the most cruel, hostile, [...]]]>

Abducted into the newly formed Hezbollah army, a young American Christian fights for his life, his freedom, and the woman he loves when he defies a brutal regime during one of the most difficult times in Middle East history.

Escape the Hezbollah is a glorious story of how love can endure through the most cruel, hostile, and depraved environment imaginable. Friends begin to go missing and rumors surface. Some of Joseph s friends are never heard from again. Joseph becomes entrapped in the mystery of his friends disappearances when, one day after work, he and his friend, Fareed, are forcibly thrown into the backseat of a black Nissan and abducted. The two young men are forced to join a ruthless militia.

This military, formed by the IRG to protect Lebanon from invasion by the Israelis, contradicts its credence. Joseph witnesses the most horrific sins that man can inflict upon another human being and he wants out. He thinks his Maker has abandoned him and he questions God s very existence, ultimately doubting his own faith.

After grueling years of enduring this military life, escape, and concealment, a way opens up for him to safely flee the country and eventually return to the U.S.

Luke 23:34 (NIV) Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are
doing.”

**Grabbed description from Goodreads. Thank you to the publisher for sending me this.**

#1: Don’t Ask How, Ask Why Just because social networking is hot, that doesn’t mean its right for every new business. Don’t just ask yourself what your social networking strategy should be. Ask why it should be, and why your target customers [...]]]>

By Rick Mathieson,
Author of The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World

#1: Don’t Ask How, Ask Why
Just because social networking is hot, that doesn’t mean its right for every new business. Don’t just ask yourself what your social networking strategy should be. Ask why it should be, and why your target customers should care. Seattle-based Jones Soda couldn’t afford pricey TV commercials to launch its brand of beverages. So it used social media to connect with consumers in very personal ways. Fans can upload photos that can be printed on Jones bottles. Today, it has over 1 million submissions and has used upward of 4,500 of the photos for bottles — which consumers can collect and trade on the Jones Soda website. As founder Peter van Stolk recently told BusinessWeek: “We allowed the labels to be discovered, and that gave consumers a sense of ownership. With big soda brands, the Britney Spears model of paying a lot of money to some hot artist to sponsor your beverage is so done. The wonderful thing about our competitors is for all the money they have, they should be thinking more originally but they don’t. If they ever do, I’m dead.”

#2: Keep It Events Based
Certain consultants (and business book authors) can have success using social media to share their stream-of-consciousness about things happening in their fields of expertise. But for most small businesses, a much more strategic approach is in order. Think of social media as digital direct mail — the ability to deliver a limited-time, social network-only offer. Countless small pizza shops, for instance, offer weekly specials on social networks to get people into their stores. One shop, called Golden Knights pizza, has discovered 40% of its business can come from these efforts, according to Clickz. In fact, according to a recent Rice University study, Facebook fans of one Houston-based café chain visited 20% more often, and spent 33% more, than non-fans.

#3: Keep It Social — And Keep ‘Em Coming Back
Youth-oriented discount travel company STA uses social media to enable customers to meet other people who love to travel, and who may be part of the vacation packages they purchase. Users can read about other people’s adventures through their own words, tips, pictures and videos. And they can ask experts about travel related issues. Best of all, every month, the company offers travel prizes to Australia, Japan, Europe and other destinations. And Twitter and RSS feeds will even send STA subscribers the cheapest flights so they can stop spending hours online searching for the best deals.

#4: Don’t Just Pitch, Sell
The price of developing apps for Facebook is coming down, and with ingenuity, can even be revenue builders. Pizza Hut recently launched a Facebook app that enables customers to place orders without leaving their profile pages. There’s no reason a small company, say a local sandwich shop couldn’t do the same. Los Angeles startup ice cream truck company Coolhaus takes a different approach. In addition to differentiating itself with ice cream sandwiches designed using architectural principles — with names like “The Mies Vanilla Rohe” and “The Frank Lloyd Light” — “we roam the entire radius of LA and update our location on Twitter,” co-founder Natasha Case tells Young Hollywood. The idea: To entice people out of offices and onto the street for an “ice cream social” that racks up serious sales.

#5: Don’t Just Talk, Listen
Social networks are also an excellent way to solicit feedback from your customers. Perhaps you’ve heard of Dell’s “Twelpforce” (or Twitter help force), a team that fields questions, offers and suggestions and sends Twitter-specific promos to followers.  There’s no reason why your startup can’t use social media in the same way, answering any questions your customers have about the products they’ve bought from you. Of course, as sophisticated as that may sound to monitor and respond to social networking chatter, it should be noted that it’s far more useful to have highly-trained, highly-effective customer service in the first place. If you want to get cutting edge, start there.

Adapted from THE ON-DEMAND BRAND: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World by Rick Mathieson (AMACOM; April 2010; $24.95 Hardcover; 978-0-8144-1572-6).

© 2010 Rick Mathieson, author of The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World

Author Bio
Rick Mathieson, author of The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World, is an award-winning writer and leading voice on marketing in the digital age. His insights have been featured in ADWEEK, Advertising Age, Wired, Broadcasting & Cable, and on MSNBC, CBS Radio and NPR, while his next-generation business models have earned recognition from USA Today and Dow Jones Interactive. His first book, Branding Unbound (AMACOM 2005) was widely praised in the business press. A regularly featured speaker at industry events, Mathieson also serves as vice president and creative director for Creative: Advertising & Interactive Media, one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent advertising agencies. He lives in San Francisco, California.

one-of-a-kind revolutionary new book … required reading for every woman (and her

partner) with a desire to take her pleasure to the next level . and beyond!” (Patricia Taylor, Ph.D.-Author)

“This easy-to-read, enlightening book is like a good novel, a good friend, a big sister and

a knowledgeable, understanding lover rolled into one!” (Carlyle Jansen-Sex educator and founder, Good for [...]]]>

one-of-a-kind revolutionary new book … required reading for every woman (and her

partner) with a desire to take her pleasure to the next level . and beyond!”
(Patricia Taylor, Ph.D.-Author)

“This easy-to-read, enlightening book is like a good novel, a good friend, a big sister and

a knowledgeable, understanding lover rolled into one!”
(Carlyle Jansen-Sex educator and founder, Good for Her)

“Winston has a unique ability to convey information about anatomy and physiology in

playful and accessible terms.”
(Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson-authors of The Essence of Tantric Sexuality

and Tantra for Erotic Empowerment)

Kingston, NY – June 3, 2010 – Sex! Men and Women have it, enjoy it, and probably

could learn a thing or two about it.  Most people in our society have misconceptions

about sex and also believe some myths about women’s sexuality, which can get in the

way of having great sex. Sex teacher, Sheri Winston, author of Women’s Anatomy of

Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Treasure, can help.

This astounding and highly insightful book just garnered this year’s AASECT Book of

the year award, (www.aasect.org, the American Association of Sex Educators,

Counselors and Therapists), the most prominent organization of sex therapists in the

country.

Throughout her 20+ year career as a certified nurse midwife and registered nurse, Sheri

has become a celebrated sex teacher who’s on a mission to transform our culture’s

attitudes and improve our information about sex. Her new book, Women’s Anatomy of

Arousal is targeted at both women and men and combines lost knowledge with ancient

and modern sexuality information.

Sheri’s book covers:

- Pop Culture and Sex

- Sex-Positive vs. Sex-Negative Cultures

- Myths about women’s sexuality

- Teens and sex

- Sex language and cultural shame

As a highly-trained medical professional, Sheri also covers the following health topics:

- Circumcision and hysterectomies-two epidemics of ignorance in this country

- Top 5 ways to avoid having a C-section

- Top 3 reasons a woman should keep her uterus

- Breast Cancer Screenings and Mammograms

About the book:

Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Treasure by Shari Winston

ISBN: 978-0578033952

Publisher: Mango Garden Press

Date of publish: 2010

Pages: 266

S.R.P.: $19.99

About the author:

Shari Winston lectures and makes appearances around the country to talk about sex and

Wholistic Sexuality. Sheri’s twenty years in women’s health care have given her an

excellent foundation for sexuality education and counseling, and formed her unique

approach.  She has also studied a wide variety of holistic healing modalities including

integral health, herbalism, energy healing, psychological and emotional healing, women’s

health, and many hands-on healing techniques.