Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Winter Warmth: Save Money On Heating
This heated mattress pad is saving me considerable money this winter as my home, on electric baseboards, doesn't need the heat on in the bedroom at night. My heated mattress pad gets turned on 30 minutes before bedtime and I get in to a warm and cozy bed. There are dual controls for either side of the bed so you can bake while your significant other doesn't and when you've got a cold or have aches and pains, the relief is heavenly! I highly recommend this product!
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Keurig Coffee Maker Review: Love The K-Cup of Coffee
I recently got a Keurig coffee maker. Here's my review of the Keurig k-cup coffee machine.
Coffee Prayers Answered!
This coffee maker is the answer to a major coffee problem in my house. I wake up about 3-4 hours earlier than my husband each day and as a result, he either gets stale coffee or I get to make two pots each morning (because the pouty lip and the rave reviews about my coffee's loveliness get me every time. )
This coffee maker makes a single cup of coffee at a time and perfectly brews each cup with a k-cup which looks like a milk creamer so this resolves several things including:
-getting a fresh cup of coffee
-getting a fast cup of coffee
-getting the exact flavour you want!
The k-cups are easy to use but not so easy to find as they're not yet available in the grocery stores (from what I've seen but I've seen them in coffee shops and Home Outfitters) so I'll likely start ordering them online through Amazon so I can get many flavours such as decaf, breakfast blend, vanilla, chai tea, and more. (Buying two boxes allows me to pay $0 in shipping). Sometimes you feel like a regular coffee and sometimes you feel like a flavoured one so it's nice to make just a cup at a time, especially if you and your partner don't feel like the same blend. We can even get it in hot chocolate for the kids.
My favourite is the extra-bold. The aroma fills the house instantly.
I've found extra uses for the Keurig coffee machine as well.
1. Make a hot cup of tea with it
2. Get hot water out of it for Cup-A-Soup and instant oatmeal
3. Make hot chocolate with it
You can use your own coffee instead of buying k-cups if you like by using this little doo-dad:
And, if you want to display your many flavours of coffee and tea on your countertop, you can use the Keurig K-Cup carousel:
Seriously, I love this coffee maker! I'm able to get a cup of fresh coffee any time I want. It literally takes less than a minute and tastes as good as coffee shop coffee. I definitely give Keurig a thumbs up!
Coffee Prayers Answered!
This coffee maker is the answer to a major coffee problem in my house. I wake up about 3-4 hours earlier than my husband each day and as a result, he either gets stale coffee or I get to make two pots each morning (because the pouty lip and the rave reviews about my coffee's loveliness get me every time. )
This coffee maker makes a single cup of coffee at a time and perfectly brews each cup with a k-cup which looks like a milk creamer so this resolves several things including:
-getting a fresh cup of coffee
-getting a fast cup of coffee
-getting the exact flavour you want!
The k-cups are easy to use but not so easy to find as they're not yet available in the grocery stores (from what I've seen but I've seen them in coffee shops and Home Outfitters) so I'll likely start ordering them online through Amazon so I can get many flavours such as decaf, breakfast blend, vanilla, chai tea, and more. (Buying two boxes allows me to pay $0 in shipping). Sometimes you feel like a regular coffee and sometimes you feel like a flavoured one so it's nice to make just a cup at a time, especially if you and your partner don't feel like the same blend. We can even get it in hot chocolate for the kids.
My favourite is the extra-bold. The aroma fills the house instantly.
I've found extra uses for the Keurig coffee machine as well.
1. Make a hot cup of tea with it
2. Get hot water out of it for Cup-A-Soup and instant oatmeal
3. Make hot chocolate with it
You can use your own coffee instead of buying k-cups if you like by using this little doo-dad:
And, if you want to display your many flavours of coffee and tea on your countertop, you can use the Keurig K-Cup carousel:
Seriously, I love this coffee maker! I'm able to get a cup of fresh coffee any time I want. It literally takes less than a minute and tastes as good as coffee shop coffee. I definitely give Keurig a thumbs up!
Sunday, November 9, 2008
3 Ways to Make Money with EHow
Are you making money yet with ehow? Here are three ways that writers can make cash from the ehow.com website.
All of these options have the potential for great earnings. You'll probably have to pick one of these, though because you'll be unable to use all three due to non-compete clauses. I have opinions on which program is best which I share below.
Good Option: Get Paid to Work With WRG
Writer's Research Group is a writing company that will pay you to write eHow articles due to their contract with Demand Studios. I worked for them for several months in 2007 and ghostwrote about 70-80 articles for the eHow.com website. They were a professional company but it took me about 3 months to get my first pay. You can get paid to write how-to articles through them and they have other clients as well but whn you write for WRG but must sign a non-compete clause. Writers should be VERY careful about signing non-compete clauses as it can seriously hamper your earning potential in the future. If you're not in the U.S, this can be a good option for you to earn money writing.
Better: Work With Demand Studios Directly
Demand Studios owns eHow.com and will pay writers to write directly for them. They have a self-serve system where you can claim titles and submit your own ideas and they pay weekly via PayPal. I was accepted into this program after I left WRG, but luckily realised I wasn't really eligible due to being Canadian before I submitted my first article.
BEST: Passive Income With The eHow Writer Compensation Program
The eHow Writer's Compensation Program (WCP) is a system that enables you to do revenue sharing by writing your own articles. You get to put your own name on them also so these are NOT ghostwritten. I'd love to make money this way but it's for Americans only (at least for the moment.) You can still write on the program if you're non-U.S but you won't get paid directly.
It can be good for high profile clips or to help you promote your other websites. If you use it now and they open up beyond their borders later, you'd be set to earn some cash. Because this site is a highly ranked site, it can help you get a lot of traffic!
How much can you earn?
Demand Studios doesn't divulge the % or formula so you're writing similarly to writing for Google Adsense where they keep the formula secret to maintain the integrity of the system. The great thing about the eHow writer compensation program is that instead of writing and getting paid once, you can write something once and earn from it for ever and ever. You do need to write the right way in order to maximise your earning potential, though...
That means you'll need to learn a bit about hot trends to write on subjects that have good earning potential and you'll want to learn a bit about search engine optimisation (SEO) as well.
When I wrote for WRG, I wrote some titles that I'm sure would have earned me a lot of money had I written them for the writer's compensation program instead. They are coming up in the search engines regularly near the top (or at the top) of Google's results even today. I now know that the $10 per article I earned could have earned me hundreds of dollars by now.
Learn to Maximise the Writer's Compensation Program's Potential:
My writing friend MariaO'Brien wrote an ebook on how to make money through this program. She's been doing it for several months and is making over $1,000 a month now from the program, mostly through residuals. The longer you do this, the less effort it takes because articles you wrote six months ago could be gaining momentum.
I just finished reading her e-book and highly recommend it! Check out the book. The great thing about this program is that taking ten minutes to write an article now could earn you money indefinitely. I once wrote a blog post for a shared revenue blog that took me literally 2 minutes to write and since late 2006 it has been earning me $20-$30 a month in Google Adsense revenue ever since and I'm not even getting all the revenue from it! I can only daydream about how much I'd have earned by now if it were on ehow.com considering their high monetization and traffic results! That's why this program is so awesome. You get to capitalise on e-how's Google juice to get maximum exposure for your articles which could have some great results.
All of these options have the potential for great earnings. You'll probably have to pick one of these, though because you'll be unable to use all three due to non-compete clauses. I have opinions on which program is best which I share below.
Good Option: Get Paid to Work With WRG
Writer's Research Group is a writing company that will pay you to write eHow articles due to their contract with Demand Studios. I worked for them for several months in 2007 and ghostwrote about 70-80 articles for the eHow.com website. They were a professional company but it took me about 3 months to get my first pay. You can get paid to write how-to articles through them and they have other clients as well but whn you write for WRG but must sign a non-compete clause. Writers should be VERY careful about signing non-compete clauses as it can seriously hamper your earning potential in the future. If you're not in the U.S, this can be a good option for you to earn money writing.
Better: Work With Demand Studios Directly
Demand Studios owns eHow.com and will pay writers to write directly for them. They have a self-serve system where you can claim titles and submit your own ideas and they pay weekly via PayPal. I was accepted into this program after I left WRG, but luckily realised I wasn't really eligible due to being Canadian before I submitted my first article.
BEST: Passive Income With The eHow Writer Compensation Program
The eHow Writer's Compensation Program (WCP) is a system that enables you to do revenue sharing by writing your own articles. You get to put your own name on them also so these are NOT ghostwritten. I'd love to make money this way but it's for Americans only (at least for the moment.) You can still write on the program if you're non-U.S but you won't get paid directly.
It can be good for high profile clips or to help you promote your other websites. If you use it now and they open up beyond their borders later, you'd be set to earn some cash. Because this site is a highly ranked site, it can help you get a lot of traffic!
How much can you earn?
Demand Studios doesn't divulge the % or formula so you're writing similarly to writing for Google Adsense where they keep the formula secret to maintain the integrity of the system. The great thing about the eHow writer compensation program is that instead of writing and getting paid once, you can write something once and earn from it for ever and ever. You do need to write the right way in order to maximise your earning potential, though...
That means you'll need to learn a bit about hot trends to write on subjects that have good earning potential and you'll want to learn a bit about search engine optimisation (SEO) as well.
When I wrote for WRG, I wrote some titles that I'm sure would have earned me a lot of money had I written them for the writer's compensation program instead. They are coming up in the search engines regularly near the top (or at the top) of Google's results even today. I now know that the $10 per article I earned could have earned me hundreds of dollars by now.
Learn to Maximise the Writer's Compensation Program's Potential:
My writing friend MariaO'Brien wrote an ebook on how to make money through this program. She's been doing it for several months and is making over $1,000 a month now from the program, mostly through residuals. The longer you do this, the less effort it takes because articles you wrote six months ago could be gaining momentum.
I just finished reading her e-book and highly recommend it! Check out the book. The great thing about this program is that taking ten minutes to write an article now could earn you money indefinitely. I once wrote a blog post for a shared revenue blog that took me literally 2 minutes to write and since late 2006 it has been earning me $20-$30 a month in Google Adsense revenue ever since and I'm not even getting all the revenue from it! I can only daydream about how much I'd have earned by now if it were on ehow.com considering their high monetization and traffic results! That's why this program is so awesome. You get to capitalise on e-how's Google juice to get maximum exposure for your articles which could have some great results.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Review of the Calorie Shifting Diet
The Idiot Proof Diet has loads of glowing reviews online. But what about the negative aspects of it? I mean, there has to be some negative reviews, right? After all, it is a D..I..E..T and if diets were simple, everyone would have bodies like supermodels.
Check out this Squidoo lens about Fat Loss 4 Idiots Complaints. Sounds like a good outcome overall but it's still nice to see what you're truly 'in for'.
Check out this Squidoo lens about Fat Loss 4 Idiots Complaints. Sounds like a good outcome overall but it's still nice to see what you're truly 'in for'.
Free Diet Ebook - Sacred Heart Diet
If you're interested in trying a 7 day diet that allows you to eat as much as you want (from a restricted list of foods) that includes unlimited quantities of a delicious catabolic vegetable soup, you'll be interested in trying the Sacred Heart Soup Diet. While you can find information on this diet for free online, the book organises it all in an easy to follow format plus I've compiled all the information along with some additional tips, recipes, secrets and discoveries that can enhance flavour, nutrition and fat burning capabilities of the soup while making the 7 days a little bit easier.
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It's not going to be free forever so if you want your copy, sign up for the free Health & Wellness Bytes newsletter today.
Sign up for the newsletter and get your free copy of the book: The Sacred Heart Soup Diet Report!
Want the free e-book on the fat burning catabolic soup? See: This link for further detail.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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