Free Photo Gallery Software
Posted on May 8, 2008 by Neo
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Expectal offers free downloadable photo gallery software, called Expectal Photo Gallery (EPG). The main focus of the EPG is put on extremely easy controls with minimum operating elements while keeping all the functions necessary, which otegether with vivid graphics provides a visual stunning presentaiton of your photographs. It is very user friendly. Just prepare your photos, make some changes to the data file and upload to your server space. The user guide is very simple to follow. You can have a professional looking gallery on your webpage in minutes!
Ghost Ghillie Suits
Posted on May 1, 2008 by Neo
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Ghost Ghillies is a new store which sells premium ghillie suits online. Please go check it out!
Life Stages Dog Crates
Posted on January 25, 2008 by Neo
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Life Stages value priced Midwest dog crates include divider panels, plastic carrying handles and black ABS plastic pans, which are held in the home by a pan stop. The doors are equipped with slide bolt latches for maximum security. They feature rounded corners on the door and the panels. The horizontal wires are spaced a bit closer together which produces a slightly tighter mesh spacing than the Better Buy folding homes.
Strength: Medium Duty
Life Stages Dog Crates and Cages
Midwest Life Stages Dog Cages are the most Popular Dog Cages Made.
The Midwest makes the toughest dog crates, reinforced with extra tough closly spaced wire to hold up to heavy use. Midwest Life Stages dog crate comes with a Satin Black Electro-Coat Finish. These dog crates offer Safe & Secure Dual Slide-Bolt Latches. To make your life easier the cages also come with a Carrying Handles. If you are looking for a larger crate we offer the Lowest Price on the Largest Crate available.
The Midwest Life Stages dog crate receives its name from the FREE Divider which comes with the dog cage. By using this divider panel you are able to minimize the puppies space in the crate while the dog is young. Then as your puppy grows into a full size dog, you can move the divider pannel providing your pet more room in the cage. When your puppy is full grown, your dog will have a comfortable crate to call their home.
To provide your puppy or dog with extra comfort, consider a dog crate cover. Dog crate covers will make your dog crate much more attractive. Our dog crate covers come in several colors and several sizes. A popular addition for your doge crate is an exercise pen. Our exercise pens will attach to your crate and allow your puppy or dog extra room to exercise. We recommend the Gold Series exercise pens, because they are on Sale and because they come with floor protectors.
- Medium Duty
- Cuts Housebreaking Time in Half by keeping puppy from eliminating in one end and sleeping in the other.
- Allows you to adjust the length of the living area as your puppy grows into its adult size home.
- Easily Sets Up and Folds Down to Portable Size
- Durable, Satin Black Electro-Coat Finish
- Safe & Secure Slide Bolt Latch(es)
- Tough, Easy to Clean ABS Plastic Pan
- Floor Grids Available for Most Models
- Includes FREE Crate Divider
- Also available in double and triple door models
I won a contest
Posted on December 10, 2007 by Neo
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I figured I should finally post that I actually won one of the contests that I entered last month! I won the $100 Gift card from Ghillie Suit Clothing and chose to get a Best Buy card instead of the Ghillie Suits. With the card I got a Tom Tom GPS on Black Friday. It was a good Turkey day. I was thinking about getting this Ghillie Suit instead but I think I’ll use the GPS alot more. LOL
What a cool shirt!
Posted on November 14, 2007 by Neo
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It’s probably the geek in me that thinks that this is a cool shirt.
Contest o rama
Posted on November 10, 2007 by Neo
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Well I haven’t had time to update this blog in a while. But after stumbling upon this blogging contest page. I decided to enter a bunch of them. This is my mass contest blog entry. I’m only entering contests with simple link entries, else I’d be writing 10 pages of posts.
So let’s start:
Contest #1:
- Link back to the Making Sales Making Money homepage using the anchor text home based business opportunities.
- Link back to the Contest Blogger homepage using the anchor text sweepstakes.
Contest #2:
Here is some link love for The Rookie Blogger.
Contest #3:
Get a cool sniper suit or also called Ghillie Suits at Ghillie Suit Clothing.
Contest #4:
Mark Houston Recovery has a contest here. Check out their articles about drug and rehab.
Contest #5:
Here’s a weird link. 97e3613
Contest #6:
I want to killthezombies.com.
Contest #7:
Here’s another contest from the writers manifesto.
Contest #8:
Crucial has a contest here and ;inking to both David Airey’s site and our Split-Shared hosting page will get 1 extra entry into the draw.
The Business of Hot Yoga
Posted on August 15, 2007 by Max
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One of the things I like to do is go to a hot yoga class. When I say hot, I mean that literally. Known as Bikram yoga, a series of 26 postures are executed in a heated room (105 degrees) in 90 minutes. It is said that the heat warms up the muscles and joints which helps students to perform the poses. The sweat also detoxifies the body. It is recommended that students attend a class everyday. I go once a week. Maybe.
Anyways, I first heard of this back in 2001, while acquiring my MBA. My management strategy professor at the time mentioned that the business model was ingenius. He noted that all teachers of Bikram yoga must be certified, a process that costs $6,000 dollars and takes a couple months, held only in Los Angeles. Re-certification is necessary every 3 years. There are more than 3,000 teachers. That comes out to a staggering $18M in revenues every three years.
Buying Web-Based Businesses
Posted on August 13, 2007 by Max
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In my quest for retirement, I recently looked into buying an e-business that sells services related to search engine optimization (SEO). My research into web-based businesses has been interesting to say the least. As someone with a background in finance, I found it surprising that these businesses are commonly sold for the equivalent of one-year’s net income. In traditional businesses, it is often many multiples of one-year’s net income. Seems like a cheap way to buy cash flow.
The business I wanted was purported to generate $80K in revenues against $30K in expenses, for 10 hours of work per month by the owner. The asking price was $60K. A few days after verbally accepting my bid, the seller told me that they signed a contract with another buyer. No big deal. I’ll definitely be looking into more web-based businesses to get my feet wet in the industry.
I think I may look for niche markets which may be easier to break into. I’ve always liked reef tanks so something like a site selling protein skimmers may work.
Did You Choose to be Poor During College?
Posted on July 26, 2007 by Max
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There is a joke that one of the shortest books ever written is titled “Career Choices for History Majors.” That’s pretty funny, though it’s probably not funny to history majors. The fact is, choosing your major is a critical decision that people are forced to make at when you don’t know much about life – age 19. Who really knew what they wanted to do, were capable of doing, and would enjoy doing, at that time?
I had two roommates in college. One was a sociology major, one was pre-med, and I majored in finance. Everyone was happy with their choices – everyone did ok grade-wise. After graduation, the sociology major became a social worker. The pre-med roommate attempted but failed to get into medical school, and went into dentistry instead. I got a job in finance.
As a few years passed, the sociology major realized that his job would not enable him to amass wealth. He earned less than $25K per year – steady, with little hope of substantial increases. I went from $30K to $67K in that time period, from 1995 to 1999. Fortunately, my roommate was smart enough to see his dilemma, disciplined enough to obtain several certifications in information technology in his spare time, and determined enough to change his career path. Today, he earns $80K per year in the computer industry.
Now, I know people are going to say, you should do what you love. Unless that realistically can make you good money, you shouldn’t. Do what you love in your spare time. Once you become financially independent, you can do what you love all day long. That mean’s staying away from majors like sociology, anthropology, history, women’s studies, English, philosophy, etc. Leave those for the future peasants.
You want to be rich, right? So do your due diligence. Research what jobs are available for your chosen major, what they pay and the typical career path. If you are fine with that, then by all means, pursue it. If not, then change it. When you are in a foot race, do you line up a few feet behind the starting line? Then why would you do that on your road to riches.
How Real Estate Accelerates Net Worth
Posted on July 23, 2007 by Max
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I bought my first home in early 2000. Much to my parent’s chagrin, I purchased a cold, hard loft in Chicago’s gritty Fulton Market neighborhood. Surrounded by meat packing factories and industrial warehouses. It was a condo conversion. I paid $250K, with $50K down. The $50K down payment was comprised of the fruits of my 4 years of working in corporate America. I’d lived with my parents for a couple years, then moved to an apartment. I’d managed to save $50K in those years.
In 2003, as the Treasurer of the condo association, I resigned from the board and sold because a special assessment was a certainty. I got $300K for my place - $200K paid of my mortgage, I got my $50K down payment back, and gained $50K in profits. That was when I experienced the power of real estate. I had spent four years saving up to collect $50K. And in two year’s time, I made $50K for what? Nothing but living in loft.
So with $100K in my bank, I resisted the urge to trade up. Instead I bought two one bedroom condos in the South Loop, a good rental neighborhood where the rents cover the mortgage, taxes and assessments. I lived in one, and rented the other one out. In the meantime, I also put money down on a pre-construction condo in Evanston, a Chicago suburb that is home to Northwestern University. This all happened in 2003, where my net worth at year end was $100K. As of today, my net worth is a tad under $500K.
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