I use different tactics, depending on what I'm selling. Keep in mind that in most cases you will want and/or need a tracking number, so the minimum cost for US postage on a package is $3.95 for priority mail, plus $.50 for tracking delivery confirmation. For a letter with delivery confirmation, the minimum postage is $2.79, because you can't just add a $.50 delivery confirmation to a $.39 stamp.So that's your starting point for costs.IMHO, you're best off to only charge the actual shipping co... Read Full Story

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is almost essential in drawing traffic to your site. One of the easiest ways to get a large amount of traffic is to rank high in the search engines. The best way to rank high in the search engines, at least from my experience, is to get links to your site on sites with high page ranks.You can figure out which sites have high page ranks by using the google toolbar or by using SEO software such as SEO Elite. After you find the sites with high page ranks you just... Read Full Story

Bottomline: It takes hard work but can easily be done with a little startup cost and alot of your time.The best way to earn money from home online is to do affiliate marketing.This is where you sell goods from other merchants straight to consumers and make a commission. There a great number of affiliate marketing networks that you can join. They will provide you with merchants and their products that you could sell.You don't even need a website (but this would be the best way of doing it). Yo... Read Full Story

So many people ask me how to get started on their own site and I always have to tell them how easy it really is. The first step is to find a good web hosting service. It is so critical to have an idea what it is you are planning to accomplish and find the best service for you to meet your goals. There are many web hosting available online and some of them are really great. How you can make it sure if the web hosting provider you are applying is one of the top 10 web hosting? It’s easy! All yo... Read Full Story

I'm excited to be at the beginning of a new chapter and adventure in my life. I will go down this road with my head held high.Anyone want to join me? (Lol) I am still working on it, everyday. I will never stop working on it. I travel a lot, so I am always meeting new people, and now I try to make an extra effort to hang on to some of those. I am always trying to reach out to people. I am a kind and generous person. And I never treat people badly or the way I have been treated. Everyone deserv... Read Full Story

I have new neighbours, and they are the best people Ive ever met, i connect with them and i feel so close to them. They are amazing and really know how to cheer me up!! Read Full Story

In college I won tickets to a "Rivermaya" concert by being the 7th caller at the local radio station. Not exactly lotto, but better than nothing. The only other thing I ever really won was a watermelon eating contest. Obviously, small town a long time ago. Sad really.I always wanted to participate in an video contest and win. Abbott Medical Optics Inc. (AMO) gave me this opportunity to join the iLASIK Video Contest. a global leader in laser vision correction, wants to know how better vision ... Read Full Story

I saved enough money to travel around the country... each day I would look at a photo of where I wanted to go to inspire me. I began putting a 10% of my salary into my savings account without fail and it's been great. If you put it in savings right away then you can't spend it! On top of that I've been cutting back on unnecessary things but I still treat myself every now and then.I also began putting all of my change into my piggy bank and it's amazing to see how much money accumulates from j... Read Full Story

Found this article online. I think it will help as long as I am able to incorporate these things into my life and don’t sabotage myself.1. Don’t always “one-up.”It’s annoying when an acquaintance does it to you in a bar, so don’t do it to yourself. When you meet a goal you worked hard for, take a moment to celebrate the achievement instead of immediately focusing on what you can, or should do next.2. Live in the moment.As Ferris famously said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and lo... Read Full Story

You never really know just how much you’ve improved until you have the opportunity to make the same mistakes and bad decisions that you did in the past and you do things differently.To avoid writing an annoyingly long blog, I will say this. Yesterday, I faced a situation that normally brought out the worst of my pessimistic tendencies…and I handled it just the way I always envisioned myself handling it: with patience, poise and a positive outlook.I feel rather proud of myself…hopefully, I can... Read Full Story