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Twenga – your UK shopping search engine

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logo-beta.gif Feel like doing a little shopping? Well if you happen to live in the UK you might want to gander over to Twenga. Twenga is a UK based shopping search engine that uses proprietary crawl technology in order to provide the best shopping deals for their members.

The site is easy to navigate. There are category listings on the left side of the main page, and all pages have category tabs across the top so that you can easily browse through the site without having to return to the home page first.

You can find just about anything you need on Twenga. You’ll find great deals on Photo equiptment, camcorders, digital cameras, mobile phones, MP3 players, computers, Household appliances, Homewares, Linen, Furniture, Gardening – DIY, Fashion accessories, clothing and many more products.

Another thing that I like about this site is that once you select a product that you want to know more about, for example this Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50, you can read a detailed description of the products. When you scroll down the product page you’ll see a list of online stores that sell this Panasonic model.

Other features that you might enjoy are the fact that you can read articles of the products that you’re interested in, as well as write a rating yourself. I believe that you can also rate the products that are listed as well.

If you happen to be browsing the site and see an item that a friend might like, perhaps some jewellery, you can click on the “Recommend to a friend” link that’s located directly under the product rating on the right of the product description and tell them about interesting item that you found.

It seems that they’ve thought of just about everything on this site that you might need.





Get a mortgage deal with eAgent

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If you’re looking for a new mortgage or your current mortgage is up for renewal you might be interested in visiting eAgent.com. It’s a new kind of way to find a Mortgage Deal check it out.

When you go to the eAgent Mortgage website you’ll first see a map of North America. You can click on e-Agent Balloon icons that you see in your State or Province. There might even be an eAgent in your city. Once you click on the e-Agent of your choose you can take a look at their mortgage offers and then if you are interested in discussing a mortgage deal with them you can fill out your contact information and that specific e-agent will get back to you within a short period of time with more information.

You can view deals up front without having to make any kind of commitment, plus, your contact information is only given to the eAgent that you’ve chosen to contact, no one else.

This is certainly a new way to find a great mortgage deal. Give it a try.

Track marketing campaigns and leads with AIMpromote

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Those of you who have small, medium or large businesses where you sell products or services to clients might be interested in visiting the AIMpromote website to learn more about their lead management system.

You can use the AIMpromote lead management system to improve your marketing effectiveness. You’ll get real time reports as to how well each of your marketing campaigns are performing, and how effective your sales representatives are being when they are out talking with clients and trying to generate both leads and sales.

You can use the AIMpromote lead management system to track every single lead, campaign and revenue dollar. The lead management system doesn’t just track from the point of lead generation. No, it begins tracking with the actual website visit and or advertising campaign that generated the lead in the first place. When you use the lead management system you’ll be able to figure out if your marketing campaign and the budget that you’ve allocated to that campaign is worthwhile or if you should switch to a new form of marketing campaign. In this way the AIMpromote lead management system can save you money and help you generate even more sales by allowing you to focus on the campaigns that are working for your product or service.

The system integrates directly with many of the other popular lead venders such as LendingTree, LoanBright, eLeadZ and many others. You can use it to track your mortgage lead management, or paper product supplies lead management. Whatever your product or service you can track all of your leads right from the start.

When compared to other lead management systems AIMpromote is one of the least expensive and appears to be one of the most effective systems that you can use. No matter which plan you choose, you will receive all of the system features. The AIMpromote team wants to help you make your business grow quickly, so why don’t you check out their lead management system?

If AIMpromote sounds like the kind of lead management system that you’ve been looking for why not sign up for their 14 day free trial? Two weeks should be enough time to find out if this system will work with your business.

The Marketing Monkey Blog

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I just wanted to take a moment to tell you about a new marketing oriented blog called Marketing Monkey. This site was created in order to bring you information about current marketing trends, newest techniques being used by successful marketers, and other helpful articles related to marketing and promoting your business or product.

There really aren’t many articles just yet, but I expect that that will change shortly since the site owner is busy promoting the site.

The current posts give a good explanation of ROI – Return on Investment – a term I see used often but didn’t fully understand until I read this post. The concept is quite simple really. Read the article if you’ve been wondering what ROI is too.

Another post discuss the necessity of believing in your product. That really is the key to success. You can’t sell something you don’t believe in – well I can’t, and I’m sure most people would find it far more difficult to sell a product that they don’t care for compared to one that they absolutely love. There’s also a post about securing a qualified lead, that tells you in simple terms and uses a great example that shows readers how best to go about finding a client who would have an interest in your product.

If this blog continues to grow I think it will do well. The articles are well written, and if I, someone who knows little about marketing products can grasp the concepts discussed quickly I’m sure that people who are looking into developing better marketing techniques will get quite a bit of benefit from this new blog.

I had the worst weekend!

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I’m starting to feel like a broken record. “I don’t feel good” … I hope I don’t sound like that, really. In person or on this site. It’s just that, I really really don’t feel good! LOL

You know I like posting on my sites right? Well … if you don’t see new posts for day or more it’s probably because I’m not feeling all that well. I mean, I’m a woman … I can talk and post all day if I want to – it comes with the breed. We have lots to say. It’s just that when I’m feeling really bad I can’t make myself sit in front of the computer.

I thought that getting a laptop might help so I got one last August. My thinking at the time was that if I was having a bad day at least I could lie down or slouch on the couch (that rhymes!) and still type away, or at least surf my favorite sites. Stupid me … I’m a lefty and I like sitting or lying on the left hand side of the couch (left when facing) and uh … my left arm is touching the couches back. That makes it kind of hard to type. LOL

So you know what I do now when I’m lying on the couch not feeling well enough to sit up? I lie on my side, and have my laptop on the table next to the couch. I pull the table over so it’s touching the couch and lean in a weird position and type that way. I must say this works much better for surfing than it does for typing.

At least now that I have a laptop … well when my husband isn’t hogging it … I can go outside into my back yard garden with it, or uhm … I can lie in bed with it or even shhhhh take it in the bathroom. Shhhh I didn’t say that!

Having told you all the different ways that I can possibly use our computers, when I’m feeling good or bad, none of that helped me this weekend.

I have my bad days, and my semi better than bad days, but I think from Friday onward I’ve been the worst that I’ve been in a while. I might even be able to go back earlier than Friday, … but I know that whatever is going on got worse and worse from Friday onward.

I’ve been getting fevers in cycles of every two hours or so. It spikes up and I’m freezing and shivering, and then, maybe 20 minutes later I’m peeling off the sweater that I just put on because I’m too hot since the fever is coming down again. I’ll just start to feel better and boom another feverish spike. So on top of all the other medications that I take I’ve been taking Tylenol regularly for the last 6 or so days to try to control the fevers.

If you ever wondered why the domain that this website is on is called Feverishthoughts – well there’s your answer. Fevers are a regular part of my life. So is thinking.

I guess I withstood the fever spikes on Friday pretty well, but by Saturday they were taking their toll on me. My abdomen was aching and I was still feverish on and off. I went through a weird napping phase over the weekend and slept on the couch on and off from Saturday through to Sunday. I think the first time I slept in my own bed in days was Monday night.

Yesterday was the worst. Gut rot supreme. When I got up in the morning just looking at a glass of water almost made me lose whatever was in my stomach at the time. I think I got up around 9 a.m. and I managed to stay awake until about 3 pm, but then I crashed on the couch again until 6 or 7 pm. Spent a bit of time with my husband and then crashed on the couch between 10:30 pm and woke again at 3 a.m for an hour at the most. I thought I was wide awake, but ended up falling asleep on the couch again by 4 a.m and woke at 8 a.m. when my husband came down stairs for breakfast.

Today is going better. It’s going on 6 p.m. and I’m still awake. I’m still feverish and achy in a gut rot kind of way though.

What really killed me yesterday was that it was 1k Tuesday again. This time they were going to put out 5 $100 posts, and one $500 post. Judging by the leaderboard for the day I think they might have put out as many as 7 $100 posts. I missed all of them as I woozily lay on the couch with the lap top in front of me, watching all day (whenever I was awake that is) for big money writing opportunities to show up. The only one that I managed to see was the $500 posting opportunity at about 7:50 pm. I tried for it, but of course didn’t get it.

Oh well, them’s the breaks. I did get that excellent posting opportunity last Tuesday, and there’s two more 1K Tuesdays coming up this month. Maybe I’ll snag something on one of those.

Even though I still feel like crap today I’ve been working hard, trying to make up for not really doing much if any internet work over the weekend. Chris had a short day at work too and he’s been working on making some funds too. We actually broke a personal record today and we are both on the leaderboard at the same time. It might not last for the rest of the day, but as of right now, we’re both listed as being in the top 10 money earners for the day:

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That’s me at the top, yeahhhh, and Chris is second from the bottom in the second column. Cool huh? Together you can see that we’ve made over $200 US. We actually made a bit more than that too because we each did some work for other companies too. Whoohoo! Boooyahhh!

Being sick at home and not knowing when or if I’ll be going back to work sucks, but I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the companies that have enabled me to make some money from home, and the advertisers who’ve made that possible too of course. I always try to do a good job when I’m writing – paid or unpaid. I do hope that visitors to this site enjoy all of the posts and excuse my “feverish thoughts” from time to time too.

I think it might be time to go and lie down again. Hopefully I won’t fall asleep again! If you don’t hear from me for a while I’m still here, still reading … I’m just trying to feel better is all, and uh … I’m probably surfing your site in a weird and uncomfortable position while on the couch. LOL

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