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Gain some Buzz for your Business or Product by Holding an Instant Win Promotion

August 15, 2007 by Tricia

Having once been a small business owner, and now being a webmaster with several websites I guess you could say that I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the last decade or so thinking about sales, marketing and promotion.

Certainly many of your reading this post have your own blogs or websites, and I’m sure you try to think of new ways of promoting them from time to time in order to bring new visitors to your site. I’ve noticed that several blogs have taken to holding contests, both large and small in order to get peoples attention.

The reason why I’m thinking about business, sales and promotion is because I’ve just visited a website called Instant Win Promotions. Companies hold sweepstakes, contests and or even mail or scratch and win cards all the time in order to promote their business or a specific product that they sell.

I think Instant win cards are a great idea.

I know that there’s been times when I’ve gone to a store purposely because I knew they were giving out scratch and win cards that would give me a certain percentage off whatever I was purchasing. Most of those types of scratch and win cards only give you 10% or 15% off, but the promotion often states that some of the cards will give you and even higher percentage off. I’m sure the stores that hold these kind of promotions end up getting more customers visiting their store when they’re giving out scratch and win cards.

I’ve also received scratch and win cards in the mail. Occasionally those scratch and win cards have made me consider visiting a store, or signing up with the fitness club that was holding the promotion.

Those are just a few ways that businesses could use scratch and win cards to promote their business and draw in more customers. It’s certainly worked on me on more than one occasion.

Instant Win Promotions specializes in the creation of custom scratch off cards, pull tab cards, scratch and sniff cards, bingo cards, phone cards, and internet access cards.

If you own a business or if you have a special event coming up such as a fund raiser, and you’d like to try promoting your event or rewarding a few of the people who attend your event with great prizes via scratch and win cards, you should visit the Instant Win Promotions website. You can request information or contact the company to discuss your particular promotion. The staff will help you come up with custom instant win cards that will be sure to generate some buzz for your company or product.

Instant Win Promotions can make custom designed scratch and win cards in any color, shape or size. Along with being able to print in any quantity, their printing capabilities include custom prizes, design consultation, and even seeding $1,000,000 winners.

The company is also able to guaranteed the integrity of all promotions from start to finish as they have a series of checks and balances in place. Instant Win Promotions have multiple lockable storage areas for the scratch and win cards that they are producing, a controlled prize seeding environment and 24 hour camera surveillance.

If you click on the “Why Choose Us” link at the bottom of the main page you’ll be able to read in detail all of the features and reasons why choosing to work with Instant Win Promotions would be a smart promotional move.





Filed Under: Contest, Cool stuff, Entertainment, Sales and Marketing, Services Tagged With: 10 percent coupon, 24 hour camera surveillance, bingo cards, business, business promotion, Buzz, Contest, custom design, customers, design consultation, events, generate buzz, instant win cards, Instant Win Promotions, integrity, internet access cards, lockable storage, marketing, phone cards, prize seeding, prizes, Products, promote, promotion, pull tab cards, request information, reward, sale, Sales and Marketing, scratch and sniff cards, Scratch and Win cards, secure, security, seeding, sweepstakes, visitors, word of mouth

All alone

August 15, 2007 by Tricia

Yesterday I was supposed to go to Brantford with my husband to see his family and spend some time with his brother before he goes back to Chicago, but I had yet another bad night and Chris went on his own.

So I’ve been home alone all day yesterday and all night.

That’s ok. I don’t think I make very good company when I’m not feeling well. I spent a good portion of the day lying on the couch mindlessly watching TV. I only do that when I’m really not feeling up to much else and I just hate it.

I’m hoping that I’ll start to feel a bit better this week. Chris took this whole week off work so I’m hoping we can do something fun on our own and maybe get a bit more work done in our garden.

One side effect of my brother in laws visit was that he brought a big bag of Cheetos with him. Now I haven’t had Cheetos for a long time! I love them – they don’t love me, but I love them. So … I’ve been snacking on them here and there.

Hey it’s hard to resist a snack that you like when you haven’t had it for years! LOL

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Entertainment, Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Recreation, Television, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: brother, chicago, Chris, company, couch, Family, garden, holiday, home, husband, off work, on vacation, plants, vacation, visit, watching, watching TV, week off

Be sure that your articles are free from plagiarism use iPlagiarismCheck

August 14, 2007 by Tricia

If you’re a blogger or website owner I wouldn’t doubt that you’ve experienced plagiarism of some kind by now. Perhaps you aren’t aware that it’s happened, but there are people out there stealing our posts and articles and placing them on their own sites and calling the work their own.

Many years ago my exotic pet website – prints out to 400 pages! – was entirely copied by someone who at the time I thought was a friend. Well she was up until she pulled that move. I caught her quickly and got her to rewrite her site in her own words, but it was a terrible thing to have happened and caused me a lot of unnecessary stress.

I’ve heard it said time and time again that plagiarism is a form of flattery. I suppose in a very shady way it is, but it’s a crime. It’s theft. Someone has stolen another persons copy written work. That theft could result in loss of income for the original author and it can even cause problems when trying to verify who the original author was in the first place.

Plagiarism has been going on for centuries. It happens on the internet, it happens in music, song writing and with screen plays. It happens in the corporate world, and it happens in lower school, high school and universities. It’s serious!

People who’ve been caught plagiarizing an article can end up being fined, perhaps even jailed and when it happens in the school system students can end up failing their course or being expelled from the school.

I’ve been asked to tell you about a website called iPlagiarismCheck, you can visit the site by clicking the follow link – iPlagiarismCheck.com – Click here to visit us today!. This website offers a service that will benefit students and teachers alike.

I’ve already given you my opinion on plagiarism and the theft of copyright material. The iPlagiarismCheck website offers a solution to the problem of plagiarism. They’ve created their site in order to allow people to submit their documents and have them checked for even the most subtle signs of plagiarism.

Their software checks publications – soft and hard cover books, journals and articles, it also checks the internet by searching directories, online publications, blogs, websites, PDF articles and so on. The software has millions of places and articles to check, but it does so quickly. The software has a patented algorithm that checks the sentence structure and word synonyms in the submitted article against all those I’ve listed above on the internet and hard and soft cover publications.

I said earlier that the iPlagiarismCheck website will benefit students and teachers alike because it’s possible for a student to research an article and end up using work that was already plagiarized in their own work without knowing that they’ve accidentally used a research paper that’s been plagiarized.

I haven’t been in school for a long time, but I do remember that essays made up a large portion of a courses credit. Can you imagine accidentally using plagiarized work and failing? What if it was your thesis that ended up containing plagiarized work! A thesis would be one of the best examples of an important document to have checked using the iPlagiarismCheck website.

Students can protect themselves by opening an account at iPlagiarismCheck. I see that they currently have a special on their Startup Package. It’s only $5! The starter package allows you to have one document checked for signs of plagiarism. Other packages range in price from $20 right up to the unlimited submissions for one year SuperSaver package that costs only $65. I could see students signing up for the $5, $20 and or $35 packages, and teachers, professors, and other professionals signing up for the $65 supersaver package.

Once a document has been checked via the online plagiarism checking service an iPlagiarismCheck report will be provided. The report provides a list of all the external sources that have been included in the document. I suppose a student could even hand in a copy of the iPagiarismCheck when handing their article or essay to their teacher.

Visit the iPlagiarismCheck site to learn more about how the software works, to see an example of an iPlagiarismCheck report, and all of the options included in each of their packages.

I really do think this is a worthwhile service for students and teachers. I can also see how it can be used to benefit businesses, professionals and even website owners.

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It’s International Left handers Day!

August 13, 2007 by Tricia

Did you know that today, August 13th 2007, is International Left handers Day? Yes I’m a lefty, a southpaw, a port sider, a sinister being and I’m in my right mind and proud of it!

I actually wish I’d been aware of this special day earlier as I would have let all my fellow lefties know.

Many lefties suffer in silence most of their lives living in a right handed world. Today we rejoice!

We often have to become quite ambidextrous in order to survive. I mean, if we use a computer in our work place or in a public library or internet cafe it’s set up for right handed people. Can openers, scissors, gardening equipment such as pruners and so many things are made mainly for right handed people. Sure – in some cases we can get left handed versions, but not always, so we must adapt. Plus buying items that are made only for left handed people can be expensive too.

Throughout school I always had teachers come and try to turn the angle of my paper to a right handed angle (which is to the left). Uh … if you want to read what I wrote on a drastic slant to the left sure … otherwise leave the paper that I turned at a right angle alone!

I also always had ink on the pinky side of my hand when I’d come home from school. Now, as an adult that still happens occasionally, but I use better pens with faster drying ink or perhaps my technique has improved as I don’t have a messy left hand quite as often unless I’ve been writing a lot.

My husband has been pretty good about my being a lefty. The only scissors we have in our home are for lefties and we have can openers, veggie peelers and serrated knives that are sharp on both sides so they are easy for both of us to use. I guess you could say that he probably knows better than some what a left handed person has to go through since our house has a lot of things set up for my ease of use and he’s the one who has to adapt.

I like being a lefty though, even though it hasn’t always been easy.

We’re said to have a tendency to be more creative and I believe that I am a fairly creative person.

There are also quite a few genius lefties – perhaps some lefties are smarter because of all the adaptions we have to make in this right handed world. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this, but I’ve had my IQ tested a few times and it’s in the genius level at 163. (blush). If you want to find out if your a genius you can take this Mensa Quiz for high IQ geniuses. The top of the Mensa Quiz has some interesting facts about lefties and intelligence. Apparently in a test conducted by researchers there were more lefties with IQ’s over 140 (genius level) than right handers.

I also am in quite good company with fellow lefties. Here’s a list of famous left handers. I bet you didn’t know that some of those people were lefties did ya?

Unfortunately lefties also seem to be prone to some disorders that aren’t particularly nice ones such as Crohn’s disease and autoimmune disorders …. hmmm that’s me too. Darn!

How many of my fellow readers are lefties too? I should add a poll thingy to this post to find out. Perhaps I’ll do that later.

Challenge for my Right Handed Readers:

Right handed readers … want to know what it’s like being a lefty? Why don’t you try doing everything that you would normally do with your right hand for just one hour. Try to cut something with a sharp serrated knife (don’t cut yourself please, and notice that most serrated knifes are only serrated on one side! the wrong side for most lefties), try using scissors (don’t get blisters!), open a tin of food, try to write or draw with your left hand and try using your computer mouse with your left hand. Report back to this post as to how you did. I’m curious. I’d also be curious if you lasted the whole hour.

I wonder how long it will take Mr. Fab to come along and say something interesting about my being a lefty.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Inflammatory bowel disease, Life with Chris, Recreation Tagged With: adapt, Aug 13th, autoimmune disease, can openers, challenge, challenge to right handed, computer, crohns disease, famous left handers, high IQ, high IQ mensa quiz, husband, international left handed day, Internet, left hand inteligence, left handed, left handed facts, left handed quiz, left handed writing, left hander, lefty, only in right mind, port sider, right brained, scissors, serrated knife, sinister, smart left hand, south paw, special, test

Enjoy Supercars? Download screensavers and wallpaper

August 13, 2007 by Tricia

I know that a lot of men and some women really get into fine cars and sometimes if you can’t have one the next best thing is to collect models, take photos of them and perhaps even find fine car related wallpaper and screen savers to place on your computer.

The trouble is, there aren’t that many sites that have really nice car related wall paper. However, if you visit the Vcars.co.uk funzone you can find some really nice Supercar wallpapers. The site has 10 super car wallpapers and screensavers.

You’ll find screensavers and wallpapers for Koenigsegg, Saleen, Bugatti, McLaren, Ferrari, Jaguar, Pagani Zonda, Lamborghini Murcielago, Mercedes SLR and my personal favorite fine car the Porsche Carrera.

The screensavers can be downloaded for PC’s, Mac or Linux. They come in different formats because the screensavers actually have built in calenders and clocks. They’re pretty cool. Oh and did I forget to tell you that these downloads are absolutely free? If you have a few favorite super cars you could download more than one wallpaper or screensaver and change them as the mood strikes you.

The Vcar site is also a great website where you can read the Motoring News which reviews new cars, and has news about all the major car manufacturers.

Vcars also makes it easy for those living in the UK to find Used Cars in their area. They have listings for all the dealerships nationwide and you can use their site to compare prices on the make and model of your choice. All round Vcars seems to be a great site for the car enthusiast to visit and perhaps even bookmark.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Web and Technology Tagged With: Bugatti, car, computer, cool, deal, download, Ferrari, fine cars, free, Jaguar, Koenigsegg, Lamborghini Murcielago, listing, McLaren, Mercedes SLR, motoring news, Pagani Zonda, Porsche Carrera., prices, sale, Saleen, screensavers, super cars, Uk, used cars, Vcars.co.uk, visit, wallpapers, website

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