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Lulu.com lets you publish and sell your digital content

May 23, 2007 by Tricia

I know that many of the people who read my blog are creative and talented people.Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to publish and sell some of your creative content? Well, you can at Lulu.com. Lulu.com is an online self publishing website.

You can create an account at Lulu and start to easily create content such as books, CD’s, DVD’s, calendars, blog books, photo books and much more, that you can publish and sell with absolutely no upfront fees.

So get creative! Make that documentary that you’ve always wanted to make, or create your first CD of your bands music. Write a book, or an e-book. Whatever you want to do, you can do at Lulu.

Publish your digital content and when someone places an order Lulu handles the business end of the sale by publishing the content, delivering the item and the customer service needs of the client.

You create the content and come up with a fee for your product. You own the copyright and control the content. Lulu.com is just the company that helps you get your creative digital content to those who are interested in purchasing it. You’ll get 80% of whatever retail price you decide your content is worth. Lulu will send out checks at the end of each quarter with your share of the revenue.

If I sound excited about this product it’s because I really am. I’ve had so many people tell me over the last few months that I should be publishing some of my work and articles as an e-book. I’ve also had people telling me that I should do something with my photographs. Now I can do that simply and easily with Lulu! I am sooooo signing up!

I know from visiting many of your sites and having email and IM conversations with many of you that there really are a lot of talented people out there. Please, do take a look at Lulu.com and see if you don’t come to think of this as an opportunity to show the world your creative talents too.





Filed Under: Cool stuff, Graphics, Internet, Make Money, Sales and Marketing, Services, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Website Promotion Tagged With: create e book, Lulu.com, no fees, publish book, publish CD, publish DVD, sell book, sell CD, sell digital content, sell digital media, sell DVD, sell your content

Web design and Graphic Arts courses?

May 22, 2007 by Tricia

I think I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been seriously considering going back to school for some course in web design, graphics and perhaps internet marketing.

I have years of experience in creating websites for others and myself, but I never pursued this as a form of employment. It’s always been something I’ve done on the side.

Now that I’ve been stuck at home for about a year and a half due to my stupid illness I’ve discovered that I actually can make a living by doing work through the internet. Whether it be marketing or design I haven’t fully decided, but I really do think I should work on my skills and learn a few more things if I really want to make this work. So I’ve been looking at the courses at Collins College. I don’t know if I’ll take any of their courses, but it’s giving me some great ideas.

I’m actually in the middle of redesigning a few of our sites right now. This is the only one that’s giving me trouble. The coding isn’t complex but it’s not as straightforward as on all the rest of the blogs. One wrong move and the site doesn’t work anymore! Perhaps if I did take some courses weird code like the one that makes up this theme wouldn’t be as much of a problem?

Filed Under: Education, Graphics, Internet, Web and Technology, Web Design Tagged With: back to school, course, Graphics, internet marketing, marketing, php code, redesign blog, SEO, stuck at home, webdesign, websites, work from home, working from home

Trying to win those concert tickets for Chris

May 22, 2007 by Tricia

Chris’ concert ticket quest continues!

Chris had to work today. His work schedule said he had to go in for 10 a.m. but he was talking to a guy from work yesterday who reminded him that another one of the guys, one with major seniority, always works at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays, so he called in and found out he should come in for noon.

Ok that’s fine. He got up this morning and spent time on the radio stations website, filling in quiz’s and things to earn points. Apparently if you have a lot of points at the Q107 website they might just give you tickets for the Thursday evening concert.

Then he got a call from work telling him that someone was sick, and would he come in and work from 3:30 to 11:30 p.m. That’s the first evening shift he’ll have done for his new job in the OR recovery room. Fine … he went back to working on getting points to win tickets.

In the meantime we had the radio on because the only way to get tickets for the concert is to win them. So we were waiting for any “we’ll take the 7th caller to win tickets!” announcements. Before Chris went to work we’d both tried calling in to the station twice on the phone and cell phone but all we got was busy signals.

Since Chris really really wants to go to this concert I’ve had the radio on since he left and I’ve been trying to win tickets every time they say we can try calling in.

I don’t play the radio very often when I’m sitting here by myself working on the computer. I should. I’m enjoying the music. I’m even singing along! It’s fun.

If everything goes well, Chris plans to go back to the radio station tomorrow after work to try to get tickets directly from Kim Mitchell himself. Kim told him that he might have to play his guitar on the air to get the tickets so this might be interesting.

Oh a few of you sounded like you have no idea who Kim Mitchell and or who the band Max Webster is … uhm you must have heard that song “Patio lanterns” before? “Go For a Soda”? “Rock n’ Roll Duty”? How about “High Class in Borrowed Shoes”? A Million Vacations? BattleScar? Blue River Liquor Shine? Chalkers? Check? Diamonds Diamonds? Gravity? Let go the Line? Oh come on! This is classic rock n’ roll!

Some lyrics …

A Million Vacations –

Friday Friday is a good time to shine / night sea journeys journeys to unwind
losing all survival signs / rerun movies taking all your time

or

Let go the line –

i see you there in your satin shirt / unfocused eyes on the ceiling
fluorescent lips on a painted face / i think i know what you’re feeling
this tightrope just begins to feel like home
when the wind comes rising from a desert storm
and all i know is that tonight i might / let go the line, let go the line

anyone?

Filed Under: Contest, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Life with Chris, Music, Recreation, Website Promotion Tagged With: busy, cell phone, Chris, computer, crohns, guitar, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, idea, Inflammatory bowel disease, mean, Music, night, pain, scent, sick, ticket, vacation, website, win, work

Silly email from my other websites

May 22, 2007 by Tricia

I have to laugh at some of the email questions I get for my websites. You may or may not know that I run two websites related to reptile care. Yes, I’m a lizard freak! Not only do I run two big websites, but I also run four mailing lists related to reptiles and their care that are associated with the websites.

I try to get people to join the mailing lists for several reason. 1. So that they can get other opinions other than my own, and 2. So that I don’t have to answer literally 1000 emails each day! Still, I get several emails each day regarding the care of various reptiles, or people write in from Florida telling me that they have wild iguanas eating their plants, or that they found a frog or small lizard in a plant they bought at a nursery.

One of the dumbest questions I received this week was from someone in Australia who wants to buy an Australian Water Dragon (lizard). They wanted to know where to buy one and if they can legally own one. Well, I know Australia has some pretty tough laws about their natural fauna, and they don’t import many exotic animals to be sold as pets either. However, I do not know all of the laws of a country on the other side of the world! LOL Pick up the phone and call your wild life service or whatever it’s called in Australia. Now, as dumb questions go, that one wasn’t all that dumb, but I make it clear on my site that I live in Canada so how the heck would I know the answer to her question.

In other reptile world news one of my close herp care friends is moving! He’s very well known in the reptile care field and he used to be just a short drive away from me so we could actually get together every now and then, but for some reason he’s moving to the Outer Banks in Carolina. I have no idea how long that drive would be from Ontario but I’m assuming it’s a pretty long drive. Oh well, guess we’ll have a nice place to visit if we go up there to see him sometime.

That’s the great thing about knowing people from all over the world. If you’re lucky you might have a place to stay when you travel, but at the very least you can get together with those people and they can perhaps show you around their city or their part of the world. That’s kind of cool.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Internet, Pets and animals, Services, Web and Technology, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: answering email, dumb questions, email, friends moving, laws in other Countries, mailing lists, reptile, reptile care, reptile website

1000th post coming up soon!

May 18, 2007 by Tricia

I think I have five or so more posts to go and I’ll have published 1000 posts on this site! Yeah!

Isn’t that amazing? I started this blog on January 21st, 2006. When I first started writing I didn’t even create a post everyday, until I learned that to have a successful blog you had to post regularly and preferably at least once a day. Now I sometimes write 6 or more posts a day on this blog alone!

Considering that the average blogger only posts once a day or less it would take most of them two and a half to three plus years to get to their 1000th post. I expect that I’ll reach my 1000th post sometime later today!

How long have you been blogging and how many posts have you written?

Filed Under: Internet, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology Tagged With: 1000 posts, 1000 posts in just over a year, 1000th post, blog, Blogging, posting

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