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Lulu.com lets you publish and sell your digital content

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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.





Trying to win those concert tickets for Chris

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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?

Bumpzee a social network site that you should join

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I don’t know if many of you have heard of the Bumpzee social network site yet?

I just wrote a post about it on Webstyle that describes many of the great features that I’ve discovered, and talks about two important communities that I took the time to join.

If you are interested in promoting your site, finding other bloggers and even getting some back links from a great site you really should read my article on WebStyle.

I know that there’s a lot of social networks that everyone’s joining these days, not to mention Do follow lists, and technorati favs and all, but this is one site that I’m certain you’ll benefit from joining. So please, don’t forget to visit site, ok?

Do Follow blogroll update

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I started a blogroll for blogs that have removed the nofollow tags from their comment area about two weeks ago and already the blogroll has grown to a list of about 110 sites! It’s gonna be huge!

The blogroll is called the Do Follow Blogroll, and if you have taken the time to remove the nofollow tags from your site manually or with a plugin I’d be happy to add you to the list. Just visit the blogroll page and leave me a comment.

While you are on the blogroll page please notice that there are now some logos that you can use above your copy of the blogroll or as a link to your Do follow blogroll page/post. You have five different colours to chose from. Zorn from Don’t Fear the Truth was kind enough to make these graphics for us. All I ask is that you copy the graphic of your choice to your own computer and or server – do not link to the images on my site.

I’d like to take the time to thank everyone who’s joined the blogroll so far. Many of the list members are going around and visiting the sites on the blogroll and leaving great comments.

As you might know by now, sites that Follow give you a real link that can be picked up by the search engines, so commenting on these sites provides more comments for the site owner and they in turn give you a true link. Great for bloggers and visitors alike.

All I ask, and I’m sure many of the blog owners will agree is that you do leave a valid comment. Don’t just stop by and say “nice post”. Please only comment if you really have something to say. I do think the majority of people have been leaving great comments but I just wanted to mention this because I know the do follow bloggers probably don’t appreciate people leaving lame comments just for the sake of getting a link. Find a post that you connect with and leave a good comment.

Likewise, don’t fill the body of your comment with links to your other sites unless it really pertains to whatever the comment is that you are leaving. Links inside the body of comments look spammy and in fact, spam plugins tend to think it’s spam and end up putting it in the spam folder. A lot of bloggers don’t go through their spam folders and just delete, so that means you’ve just wasted your time.

Again, thanks to everyone who joined the list. I hope that you are all getting something out of it. For those that haven’t signed up yet – what the heck are you waiting for?

Winning and Losing?

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I’ve got big news coming soon … I know I teased you a few days with it but I think I might be able to tell you about it within a few hours, certainly by tomorrow.

The news is coming just at the right time too because I’m pretty fed up with some of the other things that I’ve been doing. I mean … as a way to make money and promote our sites and so on. It’s getting stressful and now I’ve got something like Big Brother watching over me and I’m really fed up.

You know, I’ve been stuck at home sick for 16 months now. Terrible pain and not able to work and still I didn’t get depressed. I just kept myself going and always tried to look at the bright side and make the best of things. Lots of good things have happened during this time period too so I do have a lot to be grateful for … but the only time I verge on the side of being depressed is when this one company gives me a hard time. Like today.

One step forward … two steps back ..

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