30 April 2007

Auto Auctions

Hurry and come to North Shore Public Auto Auction - the Chicago area's Used Car Auto Auction for used cars for sale in Chicago - and buy your next used car at wholesale pricing: Opening bids on cheap used cars start at $200! Huge selection of used cars ready to be auctioned! Financing available on the used car you select from our auto auction! Interested in Chicago public auto auctions? Attend the next North Shore Public Used Car Auction! We have a large selection of: Foreign used cars for auction Domestic used cars for auction Trucks and SUV's for auction. All vehicles are pre-owned and are sold As Is - Where Is. Vehicles are sold without warranty and are not guaranteedas to year, mileage or running condition. North Shore Public Auto Auction welcomes and recommends that all buyers inspect vehicles prior to purchasing.

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Long Distance

If you need to find Long Distance Moving Companies you need to find one that can be trusted, it has been known for companies to be around one day and gone the next. You really wnat to find the right one. One website that can be trusted for finding the right moving company is movingcompanies.tv, they only feature companies that are licensed and insured. To accept any moving company in their network they have to pass rigorous vetting requirements. This portal has successfully helped more than50,000 customers to move home this year alone, so from this you can see they are trusted company. The best thing is you can get up to 65% discounts, which the site has negotiated on your behalf.

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Best Bank

One of the most important ways to rate a bank if you are considering moving your bank account is to see what others are saying about them. Alliance & Leicester was awarded the title of “Best Current Account Provider” in 2006 and it has a lot of imaginative bank account options as well as various saving accounts. The bank is a full provider with personal loans, secure loans, mortgages, saving and investments, credit cards and insurance on offer as well. If you are in th UK you can apply online or call in at your nearest branch. You as a customer can be rewarded for telling your friends how happy you are with the service. Every time one of your friends switches Bank Accounts, the bank will credit your account as a way of saying thank you.

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28 April 2007

Technical help online

I have met some very friendly bloggers and gained extra visitors since I signed up at mybloglog.
This has also shown me some great sites that I would not have found otherwise. Dexter's Laboratory picks out some excellent technical tips and highlights useful free resources, such as how to make free phone calls from your PC to any US phone number if you live in the States. This is a great blog and well worth a visit.

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Page Rank Updates - Check Your Ranking

The page rank buttons installed on websites do not always show the latest page rank, nor does the Google Toolbar in my experience. I did some checks on all my wealth creation web pages using this free tool and I found some pleasant surprises - even recently created pages have a Page Rank of at least two . There is nothing to download, just go to the page and paste your URLs for instant results.

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Capella

The first step to finding an accredited online college degree that offers the qualification you want is check with colleges or universities local to you to see if they are offering online programs. The benefits of studying with a local college are that tuition costs tend to be cheaper for their own students and you do not have to worry about accreditation. Looking further afield, Capella University is an accredited online university offering graduate degree programs in business, information technology, education, human services, and psychology, and bachelor’s degree programs in business and information technology. The Capella online university currently serves more than 17,900 students from all 50 states and 56 countries.
This blog post is based on information provided by Blogitive. For more information, please visit Blogitive.com.

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Earn Online Fast - Affiliate Program or Website

I found this interesting article which I thought you would find useful
"How To Earn $1000 Online Fast!

Almost every day, I get at least one email or phone call from a subscriber or potential client who is in a financial bind. Often they need $1000 or more for rent or car payments within the next few days. They're looking for me to give them a quick-fix solution, so that they can then focus on building a solid online business.

I shudder when I hear someone say that they need to do something 'now' because I've seen so many people in similar situations make very bad decisions. Often when they implemented poorly conceived plans it ended up costing them much more in the long run.

Here are the top suggestions that I offer to Internet marketers who find themselves in the above described situation:

1) Write an ebook and offer resale rights to it. Currently Internet marketers love resale rights to ebooks. If you can put together a complete package that includes a website that's even better.

Writing an ebook is no harder than writing a high school research paper and then converting it to PDF format. If you are really stuck, you could get a ghost writer to do it for you, but that means you need capital upfront.

Creating a website is no harder than visiting any of hundreds of template sites (which offer many free templates) and choosing a suitable template. Then you edit the template in your favorite html editor.

If you do offer the website with the ebook package then you also need to come up with the copy. The absolute easiest way to do this (for me) is to pretend I'm explaining, to someone sitting across from me, what problem(s)the ebook solves and why they need it. Then you go back and add things such as a guarantee, bonuses, and perhaps testimonials. To get the testimonials, offer free copies of the ebook to online associates in exchange for feedback. If the feedback they give you is negative, then that tells you where you need to fix the ebook.

This won't give you the best copy in the world but will give you something that can be reworked several times. After you're out of that bind, if you want to become a really good copywriter, then you get a top copywriting course, such as the one I own (Yanik Silver's Ultimate At Home Copywriting Course): http://www.ultimateonlinecopymanual.com

After the ebook package is created, you can offer it to your list if you have one. If not, you can offer it prominently on your website. Make the offer irresistible. You can also offer it through online forums, and community-type sites, where they allow you to advertise. In a real pinch, you can offer it through Ebay auctions, but realize that Ebay buyers are generally looking for a bargain.

2) Create, or have created, a piece of software and offer resale rights to it. Practically everything said about marketing the ebook package applies to a software package. You can go to numerous sites such as Elance.com and RentACoder.com and place a description of the software you want created. "Techies" registered at these sites then bid on your job. You review their bids, their references and portfolios, and then choose one to do the job.

There are techniques and intricacies to hiring out work through these sites. I won't explain them here because there are countless articles on the topic that you can find through the search engines. Read several of these articles, and you should be equipped with the do's and don'ts of hiring out work through "lance-type" sites.

3) Offer your services. If you've been online for any amount of time, and been seriously learning the skills required, then you should have marketable talents. Many online marketers do the tasks that they do best and outsource the rest. If you make it known that you are available to do some of these chores, you should be able find jobs.

One problem that I've noticed in this area is that someone will offer to pass along work to another person (as a favor to get them out of a bind), and the person gaining the work will quote outrageous fees. Don't do that! The person offering the work will just go find someone who charges reasonable fees.

The are numerous Elance-type sites where you can go to list your availability and/or to see what jobs may be listed. You can also post your availability on certain discussion forums and community-type sites.

4) Sell an affiliate product using article marketing. This is one of my favorite selling techniques, and one that I teach often to "serious content marketers" such as members of Content Desk where I sometimes help conduct webinars. It’s at, appropriately enough : http://MassiveCashFromArticles.com

My system, which should be easy for you to adopt, is to first identify a product that’s really needed and wanted by your marketplace. It should already be selling well. Identify the problems that this product solves. Then you write an article about the PROBLEMS. Emphasize why these are really serious problems that your reader really wants to solve. Then you show why the affiliate product that you are marketing is the perfect solution. This is a proven formula!

After you've written the article, you can distribute it to article directories and publishers using article submission software. You can also use article submission services which may be a little more expensive (but can also be more convenient). The software that I use, submits to over 700 sites, and comes as part of my membership in Content Desk.

You can also submit your article directly to the publishers of your favorite ezines. Use a personal approach with each one. Explain that you are a longtime subscriber, and why you feel that this article is perfect for their ezine. Explain how their readers would benefit from the article and therefore be further endeared to the ezine. By explaining the "what's in it for them and their readers" you increase the chances of them using your article dramatically.

5) Run a sale from your site of specially selected product(s).If you have a steady flow of repeat visitors, this can solve your cash flow problem very quickly. What's critical here is that you make absolutely certain that the product is fresh, in-demand, and properly priced.

After identifying a product that you plan to sell, do a search on Ebay to confirm it's not being sold dirt-cheap over there. Then do a search on your favorite search engine for the product, and visit a few sites selling the product to see what they're selling it for. Unless it's your own product, or brand new, you should be able to find it in the search engines. If you see a lot of sites giving the product away, that’s a sign that you should seek another product (one that's not being devalued).

Find, or have created, a good product, place it on its own page on your site (with NOTHING else), and then direct traffic to that page. Then use standard copywriting techniques to sell the product. Prove to them that your price is better than they can find it elsewhere. Prove to them that the product will solve their problems. The easiest way to do this is with testimonials. Ask them for the order, and make it as easy as possible to place the order.

Any of the above five techniques will enable you to generate some quick revenue in a pinch. I've used 1, 2 and 4 numerous times with fantastic results, although I wasn't in a pinch. The reason that I don't use number 3 is that I don't like trading time for money, which is what you're doing when you offer a service. Your earnings are limited by the amount of time that you can offer. I rarely use number 5 but when I have used it, it's worked well too.

The final thing you have to do after deciding to use any of the above techniques is to DO it. Make a plan and then take massive action. Don't over-analyze. That's what stops too many people from extricating themselves from that crisis!
Copyright 2006 by Willie Crawford

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Information Site

I have a fascination for visiting Arizona: I don't know why a desert area appeals really, but it seems to be to an enigmatic destination for a trip to the States. Researching Arizona Vacations
I found an excellent information site. It is one of the the most comprehensive sources of information about Arizona that I've seen, and it now has a slick booking service where you can filter hotel searches by price class, brand, amenities, and proximity to landmarks or street addresses, and will plot the search results on Google maps. Detailed information is a vital point when deciding where to travel as you need to have information and knowledge about the place to visit which is only gained from azcentral.com.

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Search Engine Optimization - 5

Make New Friends
Getting listed on the major search engines and directories is just the beginning of your SEO work. You also need continual inbound links to your site. The debate is between quality and quantity of links. If your site is in a niche where related websites are happy to exchange links, go ahead. If the process is slow, then you can check out the various linking directories available. Linkreferral is a good site for quality visitors and links, and it is free . Link popularity is a huge topic, there are just two things to watch out for - never exchange links with a site whose page ranking is 'grey' (this shows in your toolbar), and do not exchange with adult sites unless you are in that market.

Search Engines are dumb but clever
Do not try to play tricks on the search engines, they will find out. If you are following just some of the SEO techniques listed here the search engines will recognize your pages and they will show up. Playing tricks will make you the loser in the end: getting banned from Google or Yahoo will cost you a lot of time and money to rectify.

Search Engine Optimization is rather like doing your maths homework - it is easy to put off but once you start it can be strangely addictive.
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Moving Domain Names - Lessons I learned

I wrote a post about my experiences of setting up some new 'free' domain names, which are now happily set up at my usual domain name registrar and web hosting company. Next I needed to deal with sending visitors from the old subdomain to the new domain. I loaded up the files via the FTP server to the new domain control panel. My big concern was to avoid a duplicate penalty form running the two sets of files at the same time. The web hosting CP allows a redirect to be placed on teh domain, but then I discovered that I could place a redirect in the .htaccess file from the old domain to the new one. The content of my .htaccess file now reads 'redirect 301 / http://www.top-dog-tips.com/' Problem solved - all existing traffic is sent to the new domain and I can remove the old files to avoid duplicate problems.
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27 April 2007

Worldwide Lists

Martin Worldwide is one of the largest and most successful Lists Company providers in the nation, offering customized mailing lists, telemarketing lists and fax lists to small business and Fortune 1000 clients. Utilizing over a decade of experience, knowledge, and database acquisition expertise, Martin Worldwide provides a variety of cost-effective services to ensure success in its clients’ direct marketing efforts. Martin Worldwide possesses a database of over 290 million consumers and 14 million U.S. businesses and is one of the only major list providers to guarantee its data integrity in writing. “ResponseCom™ is the result of decades of tracking, compiling, and optimizing data merged into one vast database of proven direct mail responders. As a result, our clients have experienced higher response rates, profitability, and new business opportunities.” says Chip Matthews, Client Relationship Manager for Martin Worldwide. For more information on Martin Worldwide and its direct marketing products and services, please call (888)- 267-3545. Contact: Chip Matthews, Client Relations Manager chip@martinworldwide.net

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Search Engine Optimization - 4

See previous Search Engine Optimization tips
Make full use of link and image tags

Every URL and image link will be labelled and this is another chance to include keywords and phrases, both on the page and in the HTML. On the page, it is simply good writing style. Instead of 'click here', use a term like '.. more funny dog stories'. Within each URL tag the HTML code can include "alt = funny dog stories". These are two more chances to include your keywords and increase their relevance to the page, all helping your page ranking and Search Engine Recognition prospects. There is nothing 'black hat' about this practice, as the alt tag is intended to describe the link if the link is not available. Your description will not only inform your reader but also include your keywords.

7. Invite the spiders to visit
It is disappointing for knowledgeable web designers that the search engines do not enjoy Frames, reams of Javascript, Flash and HTML style descriptions - in fact they will probably choke and go elsewhere. If you must include these elements you will need to pay an SEO specialist to set up an alternative web for the spiders to crawl. Otherwise, just go back to basics: keep Javascript to a minimum, use a separate stylesheet and no frames.
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Search Engine Optimization - 3

See Search Engine Optimization Part 2

Optimizing Page Content
When writing page content it is easy to forget the constraints of SEO, and start writing advertising copy that has no connection with your keywords and phrases. Your page must still be written with readers in mind, and contain those vital keywords and phrases - otherwise you have wasted all your keyword research work. If you find this difficult, cut and paste your keyword list at the top of your page draft, then you can check the keyword density. Do not stuff the page with key words, and make sure that the sentence still sounds natural.

Why should people visit your site? Ask yourself constantly why each page is worth visiting. What is interesting on the page - is there free offer or an incentive to return? Can they get to another area of interest from any landing page?

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Lending

A popular form of mortgage lending is the endowment mortgage, where only the interest on the principal of the loan is due. Repayments of the loan principal is planned on maturity of insurance known as an endowment policy taken out to cover the value of the loan. The policyholder makes regular monthly payments over the loan period to ensure they will be able to pay off the loan when it comes due on maturity of the policy. Endowment policies were very popular in the 1970’s and 1980’s and were expected to be able to pay off the mortgage loan completely leaving a sum on top. However, for a number reasons, many of the endowments are plagued by a shortfall.

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Blog offline - great free tool

Yesterday I was posting like a demon on several blogs, because I am having a day off tomorrow. I got a sinking feeling when Blogger lost its connection, and I felt very panicky. Sure, I quickly cut and pasted the contents but that's not the same. So I was pleased to see news of a tool that enables you to save blog posts without an internet connection, over at my friend Edward's blog. You can go over there and download the tool for free.
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Website Translation

Any business operating in the international marketplace needs to offer the same service to all its clients in order to get their business. For example if you are based in an English speaking country, potential clients who don't have English as their first language will be impressed if you have gone to the trouble of offering a website translation. This will help them to browse your products or services more easily and, of course, make an order more easily too.

Don't think you can leave the translation to the automatic translation buttons offered by the search engines. They don't give an accurate legal translation of your words and the reader could get the wrong impression of your message if there as a word in your website copy that the translation software doesn't understand.

And another tip: use an agency that provides a seamless service for translation, website design and search engine optimisation.
Translation Central, for example, can quote you for the whole job: translation - including the localised version e.g. Brazilian Spanish - design and programming and SEO in the translated version.

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26 April 2007

Cell phone

Whether this is an example of creeping paranoia or a legitimate security gap, it is becoming more common for so-called ordinary people to get an encrypted cell phone. When you read about some of the more high profile examples, you can start to see just how intrusive it could be if your cell phone was tapped. Imagine finding that your private conversations with friends and relations were being overheard by an unauthorised person? It could be government, your boss or just a random stalker listening across the airwaves for anything they can turn to advantage. If that makes you start to think about phone security, have a look at Sigillu, who stock all types of devices that'll help you catch anyone tapping your phone.

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Free Webmaster Tools

If you are not using Google's Webmaster Central to improve your site's ranking, you are missing out on a valuable free resource. Google webmaster tools is your one-stop shop for comprehensive information about how Google crawls and indexes your websites and blogs. You can learn here how to ensure that your site is easily crawled and indexed and access tools that will enable you to diagnose crawling issues, study statistics on how your site is doing in Google's index, and say how you'd like your site to be crawled and indexed.
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Gifts

The best gifts, I think, are the ones that you can use, eat or drink. They are more likely to be the type of gift we really crave and consider as a little luxury. Chocolate, especially, falls into that category and makes an excellent gift. Mothers Day chocolate gifts, are a big favourite everywhere and some of the best are available to order online for delivery direct to your Mum. Gifts that arrive by delivery also make us feel very special! For example the Chocolate Covered Company can send Mothers Day chocolate covered strawberries direct to her door, beautifully packed and presented. Their wide array of hand crafted, chocolate dipped fruits are sure to go down well. Their chocolate covered strawberries are top sellers, but they also have a wide variety of fresh fruits, dried fruits and nuts. If someone prefers a different taste, just ask and they can accommodate. The Chocolate Covered Company will personalize your order to package up her favorite fruits or nuts. And if your Mum says she is watching her weight, don't worry - Sugar Free Chocolate is available on request, with the same large fresh strawberries inside.







They (http://www.chocolatecoveredcompany.com/category/chocolate_covered_strawberries_for_mothers_day) are available in 1 dozen, 2 dozen and 9 in a gift box. They only use high quality, fresh fruits - all from Sunny California. Each berry is hand dipped and packaged with care. These make an excellent mothers day gift.


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25 April 2007

Webmaster Help

If you want to set up free web signup forms fro your site or blog you might want to check out Forms4Free.com. They offer a stress free way for webmasters to make a free HTML form and download form mail after subscribers enter their details on the Online form. This looks as if it is going to be a top site for non-technical webmasters to save hours of work. Forms4Free.com has been around since 2005, at first they just provided a free HTML Form Wizard to help website owners who did not know how to code an HTML form to design a form completely free of charge. Now they have added a new service. In addition to a free HTML Form, they decided to also provide the form mail file for $19.95. The form mail file is a processing file that gets uploaded to the website, and it processes the HTML form and emails, to the webmaster, the answers from the form.

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24 April 2007

Mailing Lists Make Money Long Term for You

The money is NOT in the list. How could I possibly be saying this when you and I both know that since the dawn of Internet-time it's been preached to us again and again that the money IS in the list? Well let me tell you... the money is NOT simply in the list. The money is in WHAT YOU DO with the list! You have probably known for a long time that getting your own list is one of the best ways to generate revenue online. But have you struggled with figuring out HOW you actually get your own profitable list? You can finally discover the EXACT steps you need to take! Michael Cheney, whose AdSense Videos launch made $250,260 a few months ago, is giving away EIGHT free videos on list building.In fact, you can get your hands on EIGHT free list building videos and win the full set of 42 videos;

Thousands of people have already watched the videos and discovered some of Michael's most potent list-building techniques that he shows you in his usual step-by-step style. You can also join them all in discussing list building techniques on the blog right now. You need to move quickly though as these videos are being taken offline very soon! You want to know how to get your own profitable list where you can hit 'Send' and get instant sales into your Inbox? Then you need to check out these free sample list building videos;
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Legal Practice

Ten years of solid hard work has transformed Simmons Jannace & Stagg from a small litigation firm focusing on commercial and general liability litigation to today's highly respected full service law firm serving leading clients in the United States Of America and worldwide. Simmons Jannace & Stagg recently received the highest peer review rating by Martindale Hubbell as well. Today, have expanded their operations to cover a wide variety of areas such as securities law, banking, labor and employment law, arbitration and litigation, and consumer litigation. They also cover real estate, corporate transactions, municipal laws and environmental law. SJS is a law firm as well as a consultancy firm that provides full services to its corporate and individual clients, earning their valued reputation in this service industry.


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Earn Online Risk Free

I was very pleased to hear from several of our ezine readers recently, many of you are rightly wary of internet scams. You are also cautious of investing money upfront, and that is a wise strategy. I started online with one domain name ($8), one month's web hosting ($10) and an auto responder ($10 per month). There are free autoresponders, but they offer a very basic service and it is time consuming to move your subscriber list when you later outgrow a free responder.
My blogs are hosted for free on Blogger, and I never buy any books or software without justifying the spend to myself and my partner. Even if an opportunity requires no cash investment, you could still waste a lot of time taking part if it is a scam (like duno), so it may not be recommended here - I will highlight the best of the best for residual income, over the next weeks and months.

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Keywords and SEO Basics

It is vitally important that you optimise your business website before taking the next step, which is to submit your site to the major search engines. There are a few things that you can do freely to make sure your site is optimized for the keywords and phrases you want to target. First let's talk about keywords: every day millions of web users trawl the search engines for popular and less popular search terms. You may have found any of my sites by searching for the term "residual income ideas".Read how to start Search Engine Optimisation.

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Wedding Photographs

When you get married now there are so many types of souvenirs and ephemera crying out for your cash, you need to keep a cool head to decide how valuable they are in the overall success of your big day. I think wedding cameras are one of the better goodies to buy. They range from very cheap disposable cameras through to more pricey digital versions. Your guests can use the cameras at the reception to capture casual and more candid shots during the wedding breakfast and speeches. This gives your guests a chance to get involved, you get more interesting photos, and you don't need to pay to keep the professional photographer around for hours. You can leave the cameras on the dining tables, or station them at a special photo spot where guests can pose for pictures on the way in to the room.

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Text Link Ads to monetise your blog

Good news recently for Bloggers is that Blogger (blogspot) sites can now display Text Link Ads. Until now this network would not allow its ads on these types of sites only option for Blogger users was to display an affiliate link and recruit new TLA advertisers.

Text Link Ads offers another extra way to monetise a blog. Text Link Ads can be displayed alongside AdSense without breaching the Google Terms of Service. Text Link Ads deliver ads to websites with a similar theme to the host site. The ads are not contextual - they do not change to reflect the page content in the way AdSense does, so are not directly in competition with AdSense. As a Text Link Advertiser you are paid a flat monthly fee which is depends on your site traffic. They are not pay per click, so the publisher can be confident of receiving payment every month that a TLA ad appears on their site. TLA pays your advertising revenue by PayPal at the beginning of every month. If you are a Blogger and you have not yet joined Text Link Ads you can sign up today.

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Paypal merchants expand

Good news if you earn money through Paypal - the number of companies accepting Paypal is increasing every day. Over here in the UK, we can now use Paypal at Boots, the famous high street chemist, which is currently the subject of a major takeover deal by a US Venture Capital firm.

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21 April 2007

Gold Investment

No other form of investment has been shown to equal the wealth preserving power of Gold. Values of other assets can fluctuate according to a certain government or political climate to retain value, appreciate, and not be taxed excessively, but Gold is largely independent of political climate. Gold investors believe that political and economic turmoil may have a negative influence on the value of their other investments, but the opposite effect on the value of Gold.

Through Monex Deposit Company (MDC) you can start gold investing by buying gold or other precious metals for immediate personal delivery or arrange for convenient and safe storage at an independent bank or depository. Monex has been America’s Gold and precious metals investment leader for decades. Monex Precious Metals is home to a large and dedicated staff of hard asset professionals committed to serving your precious metals investment needs and being America’s best dealer with a convenient market and competitive precious metals prices.

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Learn Spanish

Anybody who wants to do business in the international arena really does need to speak at least one other language, preferably more. The good news is that it is never too late to learn. Even if you found languages hard when you were at school, you will find there are business language courses that are tailored to your needs. Teachers who are highly qualified and experienced can give you one to one language teaching, or they can teach you in a small group with work colleagues. I have Japanese tenants in my house at present so I am considering whether to sign up and learn Japanese in Birmingham.

Classes are available across the UK, so language trainers can help you get started and learn French in Brighton if you are on the south coast. Your language trainer will check your current knowledge of the language you want to learn. There is a very good interactive multiple choice test that you can take to check your knowledge of French, German, Spanish or any other language you want to study.


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Business Language

The need to speak at least one other language is no less now than it has ever been and I cannot understand why schools in England no longer make language learning a compulsory subject. I was lucky, I learned French and German at school, but later I decided it would be a good idea to learn some Italian and Spanish as well.

I later had the chance to learn Spanish in Birmingham with some work colleagues and a language teacher came to the workplace for our classes. We were working in the International department and it was essential for all of us to be able to read emails from agents in other countries, written in Spanish.

Learning Business language was really interesting, and when I learned Italian I found a similar type of class. All our textbooks and language exercises covered the situations that would arise when dealing with a Spanish company, from booking a business trip to visiting the client's business premises in Spain. I fully recommend in-house business language training to any company that wants to remain competitive in international markets.

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20 April 2007

Vacations all inclusive

An expert travel agent can find you an all inclusive Caribbean vacation where you simply pay a flat price and all of your essentials are thrown in. With all inclusive Caribbean vacation packages, your travel and lodging expenses are typically paid for upfront so you do not have to worry about running out of money before your trip is over. If you want to take a second honeymoon - or a first one - for fun and romance during your stay, you can also find an all inclusive caribbean resort to fit your needs. With an all inclusive vacation, you can pay for your essential touring needs up front, such as transportation and lodging, and use the rest of your money for extra adventures.

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Free Google Adwords Guide - Make Money from PPC Advertising

Many new businesses are nervous of using Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC), concerned that it could eat up a small advertising budget overnight. You need to understand the system before committing your hard-earned money. With a little knowledge, PPC ads can provide a massive return on your investment. I have a free guide by Brad Callen, a leading authority on search engine optimization for business, and it can be yours NOW by instant download. Just go to'Internet Business Tips Ezine' and click on the 'Adwords Made Easy' book cover.

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Mechanic schools

Apparently you can train as a professional engineering technician in as little as a year, and as a qualified engineer you will open the door to fantastic career opportunities. Of course you need to find the right Motorcycle Mechanic Institute, and that is where Mechanic-School-Directory.com comes in. This is a comprehensive directory for anyone who wants to pursue an engineering career. You can find top auto mechanic schools, diesel mechanic schools, aircraft mechanic schools, motorcycle mechanic schools, marine mechanic schools, welding schools, and HVAC (Heating and Air-Conditioning systems) schools as well. This easy to use directory has a full list of mechanic schools in the U.S. and helps you find schools and programs that might interest you.

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Google Page Rank Update

Apparently the next Google Page Rank update is due at the end of April or the beginning of May. I cannot wait, since I have been working on a new blog with information on how to earn money from a blog recently. I also migrated my dog's Dog Training and health tips blog from a blogspot address to its own domain. This means it can attract higher paying earning opportunities, because a lot of paid to post sites exclude blogs with blogspot addresses. The downside is that the blog had reached page rank 4, but that disappeared of course when I moved it. As I have mentioned before, this taught me that I should have invested in a domain name (just $8!) from the outset.

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Earn on your Blog with TextLinkAds

I have sold my first few blog links through Text Link Ads, this is a great way of getting passive income and you can now submit most types of blogs including Blogspot blogs. Text Link Ads offers another extra way to earn money from your blog. You can sell Text Link Ads as well as displaying your AdSense ads: This doesn't breach Google's Terms of Service. The ads sold through TextLinkAds are not contextual - that means the page content doesn't influence the Ad content, so your TextLinkAds do not conflict with AdSense. As a Text Link Advertiser you are paid a flat monthly fee for each link, depending on your site traffic. TLA pays your advertising income to your PayPal account every month. If you have blogs and you have not yet joined Text Link Ads you can sign up here today.

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Marketing Your Business

An important part of your marketing mix in a local business is the use of Custom Imprinted Promotional Products. They can be used to get your message out to the marketplace. Custom printing can be a cost effective way of showing your slogan on the chosen item. You can use promotional giveaways at any venue for maximum attention. Signs, banners and balloons, tee shirts of course, there are hundreds of customizable items to choose from. One of the most interesting is from Neet Feet, makers of the “talking sole”, a die-cut flip flop that acts as a walking billboard, leaving an impression in the sand. It is true - imagine walking along damp sand and seeing the name of your business printed there hundreds of times. You literally cannot ignore it.

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Replica Business

Most of us love to wear a stylish pair of sunglasses - Designer if possible. Yes, the cult of the brand name has affected this market as well. Trouble is, most style conscious people cannot afford the outlay for the real thing. That is where you, the entrepreneur, come in. You can start a business buying Replica Wholesale Sunglasses and sell them on at a high profit margin with instant returns on your investment. And the outlay required to start this lucrative business can be as low as $30. Imagine, you can be buying them replica Raybans at under $5 each and sell them on for at least 150% profit. These are high quality look alikes, completely legal and above board. Have a look at the CTS Wholesale website, they will show you exactly how to get started. With Replica Wholesale Sunglasses starting as little as $10 per dozen and no minimum order, you can start to see how easy it is to build a great business with instant returns.


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DVDs

Over here there is massive interest in all things Indian. Of course Indian food is excellent, the fashions are great for women, and there is some fantastic crossover music being made. The most stunnng and surprising success of all, though, is the interest in Indian Movies, otherwise known as Bollywood films. These mass produced compositions are no longer confined to the subcontinent, they are now famous around the world. Indian movies are a cult interest in many parts of the world, creating interest in both the movies and the Bollywood stars. People like Payal Rohatgi, Divya Dutta and Priyanka Chopra are big news wherever they go. Indian movies do very well here in the UK, and are often played on the big screen in Indian wine bars and restaurants.

This is really great news for the Indian movie lovers. Now there is a new site where the fans of Boloywood living in the United States can get their fix of Bollywood too. You can buy DVD’s of all the top Indian Movies at luckykabutar.com. Top Bollywood Movie DVDs cost as little as $ 12.99 by same day despatch. Check it out and you can get yous movies to your door.

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19 April 2007

Let someone work for you

Against the current perception where people equate travel with pressure, clients of United Vacation Network still enjoy travelling. Thanks to the services of their specialist agency, they take advantage of travel arrangements designed with you, the traveller, as the primary consideration. Worldwide destinations are available, all you need to do is select the destination they want and the United Vacation Network staff will do the rest. The travel packages that United Vacation Network can find will surprise you. This is great for anyone who has become jaded from the stress of previous vacation arrangements. Holidays should be about relaxation- and United Vacation Network never loses sight of this.



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Landscapes

I studied horticulture when I was younger and this opened my eyes to the importance of sound
Landscape Design. The garden is the outside room of your home, and it is worth devoting time and effort to make it look as good as possible. Your choice of contractor is important, of course. You need landscapers who will help you with all the logistics to achieve the result you are aiming for. If you are anywhere near Boston MA you are lucky - check out SLDA Landscaping. Their Three SteppingStone Process helps you incorporated all aspects into the design, for example traffic flow, children and pets. What is good about them is their quality assurance: even when the job is done you still hear from them, whether to give you tips on keeping your property looking its best or simply to see if you are happy with the design as it matures. The website is a gem, and their email newsletter is irresistible.

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18 April 2007

Wealth Creation ezine

Welcome to the April edition of brilliant business ideas.
Flora presents Get a Higher Page Rank posted at Wealth Creation
Praveen presents Internet Marketing Lesson - I'll Pay You $2 posted at My Simple Trading System.
Vahid Chaychi presents AdSense Arbitrage Secrets Revealed ! posted at Internet and Search Engine Marketing, saying, "AdSense Arbitrage works but you just need to know some secrets about it. These secrets are not revealed in the expensive e-books you see their ads every where over the web. You need to know how to choose the keywords; how to design the website and how to advertise in PPC search engines."
supermom_in_ny presents CBClicks: Another Way to Monetize Your Blog! posted at Getting Out of Debt.
Money Online presents Affiliate marketing for bloggers posted at Money Online.
Azmi Mufti presents Selling a Million Apples Business Plan posted at Azmi M..
Michael Anuzis presents Cheaper Space Flight and Curing Cancer posted at Empowering People Through Information.
Chris Harris presents Star employees posted at New venture outsourcing blog, saying, "thank you..."

Mister Juggles presents Emerging (Market) Opportunities posted at Long or Short Capital.
Sagar Satapathy presents 101 Bonehead Mistakes Every Manager Should Avoid posted at Business Intelligence Lowdown.
Will Chen presents How would you like a free car? posted at Wisebread.
Alan presents Starting your own business posted at Made to Be Great.
almomento presents How to Change Your Money Fate posted at BurstCreativity.
Pushpa Sathish presents Doing Business in India: 20 Cultural Norms You Need to Know posted at Business Intelligence Lowdown.
Stephanie Foster presents Google Now Offering Pay Per Action Options posted at Aspects of Home Business Blog, saying, "Google has started a beta test offering pay per action opportunities for AdWords advertisers and AdSense publishers."
L. Mills presents Online Tutoring...Is it the Job for You? posted at Work at Home Mom Revolution, saying, "Article on Online Tutoring"
Rebecca Newburn presents How-To Squidoo and EducationalLenses posted at Information Age Education, saying, "Squidoo is a free website where you share your "lens", or perspective, on a topic. It can be used to funnel traffic to your blog or your other revenue generating sites. Squidoo has Adsense, EBay, Amazon and Netflix. Money generated on your lens is shared with Squidoo."

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of brilliant business ideas using our carnival submission form.

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Squidoo - Secrets or Lies?

I have set up four Squidoo Lenses because I noticed that other internet marketers were singing the praises of Squidoo for wealth creation and creating backlinks to your web sites or blogs. However, four months later I have earned the princely sum of $2.57. I created one lens on how to deal with acne, which got quite a few votes but I'm not seeing the cash to back it up. If you are wondering how Squidoo works it is fairly simple. You create an account and then you can set up numerous lenses - these are your own pages. Squidoo explains them thus:
'A lens is one person's view on a topic that matters to her. It's an easy-to-build, single web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, your eBay auctions, CafePress designs, Amazon books or music, and more.'
Have a look at Squidoo and you can set your own lens up quickly and easily. You could just find the magic formula for success.




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Voice Communication

What is Ventrilo communication - it is a technology development used by businesses for some time, now open to private callers, that means you can cut your phone call costs dramatically. Online voice communication is about connecting people with people, so if you are looking for a voice over communication provider, have a look at a leading company that recognises its business depends on people. NationVoice uses state of the art Ventrilo Servers for the highest possible performance. NationVoice sees its customers as individuals withe the varying needs of individuals. They pride themselves on keeping their promises and exceeding customer expectations. They use quality where it matters in order to keep the people across the world connected.

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Conveyancing Solicitors

Conveyancing solicitors offer fixed price house conveyancing for house purchase, sales and also for remortgaging. They will quote you a cost for their conveyancing services, plus disbursements. The only problem can be that solicitors don't always specify the cost of the disbursements so you could still get a nasty surprise. I was checking costs for my mother's house move yesterday and the solicitors I used last time were asking a fee of £500 + VAT for the sale transaction alone. I was seeking a lower price, but I still want personal service from a named conveyancer. This led me to a firm called Conveyancing Brokers, who offer to connect the house buyer with a recommended firm of conveyancing solicitors for a competitive fixed price. The fee - £279 +VAT for the sale, and they listed out all the disbursements. I get a named conveyancing solicitor and the whole transaction is by phone, email or post. I will keep you posted of progress ....
Sell or let your house privately

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17 April 2007

Mycoupons

Have you ever bought something and the found out you could have bought it for a lot less? Well now that there are some very good sites where you can check prices online before buying, it really should not happen. But that is not the whole story. A lot of people will buy at retail without checking if there are any further reductions available. When you realise that MyCoupons.com has more than 12000 coupon codes that you can access for free, you can see there is scope to drive the price down even further - as much as an extra twenty percent. This is one of the leading online coupons sites, and it is a community of people dedicated to keeping their costs down. This site is completely free to join, and joining provides you with access to the extended site features, including the ability to add codes to a wallet for easy retrieval, create your own blog, post in our shopping forums and gain access to a powerful and highly customizable member control panel. Check it out soon - and definitely before your next trip to the shops.

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Responsible Tours

If you are a fan of Hawaii's natural beauty you will be interested to hear about steps being taken to conserve its fragile ecology while sustaining the local tourism-driven economy. Hawaii Vacations are now designed to take account of Ecotourism - nature and culture based tourism. This means the impact of your Hawaii vacation is ecologically sustainable and still supports the well being and incomes of local communities who depend on tourism to the Hawaiian islands.
The Hawaii tour operators are now a positive and successful influence in the area because they promote environmentally and culturally sensitive vacations while at the same time increasing profits. You can find out the best way to take a responsible vacation from HawaiianBeachRentals.com, who will help you plan your next trip to Hawaii.

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15 April 2007

No down payment

When I first tried to buy my first home it was really hard because most lenders demanded a ten per cent downpayment. It is really hard when you cannot get on to the first rung of the housing ladder, but things are better nowadays. If you have encountered similar difficulties with finding loans or mortgages, have a look at Canadian Mortgage Brokers. This is a website where they will find credit for people with a bad credit history due to past difficulties. For example they can help you to find a No Down Payment Mortgage which is really good news if you don't have anyone in your family who can help you raise that vital first deposit. Home ownership really is the best way to live as long as you make sure your repayments are manageable. Buying A House With $0 Downmeans your asset starts to appreciate from day one, and eventually you start to build up that equity that allows you to move on later.

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14 April 2007

Finance Help

A friend of mine confessed recently that she was caught in a negative equity dilemma when she bought her first home some years ago. Faced with falling prices and no obvious solution they handed the keys back - big mistake. Happily there is now a free online consumer portal Bills.com that can advise you of all your options if you are faced with high repayments on your mortgage. They tip the tables in your favour by making quality lenders compete for your custom, not the other way round. American consumers have saved millions by shopping for finance through Bills.com, where all the best rates are available in a click. Regardless of your current circumstances there is plenty of information on this site to help you reach your personal finance goals. And you do not need a perfect credit history - trust Bill to find a lender who welcomes your business even with a poor past credit record. Have a look today, you are bound to be better off.

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13 April 2007

Registrations

The ultimate personalisation feature for your vehicles are your own car number plates, and this is made much easier with a new site where you can browse through a huge selection of private number plates for sale. If you have been thinking about the personal car registrations that would epitomise your style, you should be able to find it here. Whether your phrase is to be found among the ageless car registrations, prefix type registration numbers or current style number plates, you are sure to find something to suit. And these guys see to the transfer paperwork for you - they do not simply issue you with a certificate and leave you to do the work yourself. Have a look at the BARGAIN page where you will find huge reductions. They are definitely the guys to make the process easy for you. They deal with all the DVLA paperwork, whether the transfer is vehicle to vehicle or a certificate transfer. They will keep the costs to a minimum and get you the identity you have always wanted.

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12 April 2007

Online learning

Online learning can be a really cost-effective way of getting a career qualification or an academic degree that would not otherwise be possible due to work commitments or geographical location. If you want to find the best online schools, make sure you look at DirectoryofSchools.com. They have been around for eight years and they have helped more than 20 million learners to located accredited online schools and e-learning information. When you visit the website you will find over 8,000 online degree and professional certificate programs from 1,300 schools. DirectoryofSchools.com seeks out to excellence in online education through its established partnerships with universities, colleges and vocational schools.

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House Stuff

It would be an understatement to say I have been thinking about home improvement
recently - I have thought of almost nothing else. My Mum is looking to move house and whenever we view a property we have to weigh up the location of the house against the costs of bathroom remodelling, for example. Then today we saw a nice flat but all the kitchen unit doors needed new fronts so I suspect we will decide that kitchen remodeling is the answer. Where will it stop? I thought the floor in the kitchen of her chosen house felt lumpy so the next step is some new flooring
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Vacation Home

A welcoming vacation home in Orlando can be just the ticket after a busy day sightseeing at the theme parks. Your private holiday home is just much more relaxing than a hotel, and you are not tied to other people's timetables. In a vacation rental your kids get somewhere safe to play and you can rest easy that they are not disturbing others. Orlando is such a convenient place to be if you want to see the best of Florida's offerings. How many other resorts can boast 52 theme parks, as well as beaches inside a 40 minute drive? Yes, there is Disney World of course, but there is so so so much more that they offer as well. How about PGA level golf courses, a huge convention center for your corporate meets, and the real bonus - almost every recreational activity in Orlando is family friendly. Get in touch today and enjoy more of your next Orlando Vacation.

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11 April 2007

Google statement: links to other websites can hurt your rankings

Linking to other sites can be an important element in search engine optimization, but some links are more desirable than others. Here is a useful explanation of some of the areas to watch.
Official Google statement: Can links to other web sites hurt your rankings? The effect of bad neighborhood links on your web site rankings.

Linking to other web sites can hurt your rankings if you link to the wrong web sites. Links to web spammers or 'bad neighborhoods' on the web can have a negative effect on your rankings on Google and other search engines. A Google official has recently commented on bad links and how they affect your web site rankings on Google.

What are bad neighborhood links?
It seems that Google doesn't like the following type of web sites:
- free for all links pages (FFA)
- link farms (automated linking schemes with lots of unrelated links)
- known web spammers
Linking to that type of site can have a negative effect on your Google page rankings.

Is there an official Google statement about bad neighborhood links? In a discussion in a webmaster forum, Google's Adam Lasnik has recently clarified what Google looks for in regards to bad neighborhood penalties:

1. There is no relation between outbound links and Google's supplemental index.
'It’s unlikely that your outbound linking is causing your pages to be listed in the supplemental, rather than main index.'
2. Google looks for bad neighborhood linking patterns
'Also be assured that we’re not looking to penalize folks for a 'bad' link here and there. Rather, our algorithms are tuned to look for patterns of 'egregious' linking behavior… both on individual sites and in the aggregate."
3. You should check the links on your web site
"It's certainly in your users' interest that you regularly audit outgoing links on your site (especially prominent ones) to ensure that you're not losing folks' trust by sending them to inappropriate places or 404 pages.

Sure, it's great to keep Google happy, but it's usually more important (long term) to have your users be return visitors. From Free SEO News

What does this mean to your web site? Google looks for linking patterns. That means that it probably won't hurt your site if you link to a bad web site by mistake. Look for good related web sites with which you can exchange links.

Many links to 404 error pages might cause ranking problems. For that reason, it's a good idea to check the links on your web site every now and then. It is surprisingly easy for incorrect links to go unnoticed. Using Google's webmaster central is a good way to check. It will list URLs not found, URLs not followed, URLs restricted by robots.txt, URLs timed out and Unreachable URLs.
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05 April 2007

Domain Names are Important

Even my dog now has his own domain name - this is not just a whim of an indulgent pet owner, there is a reason why we did this. Kevin the Collie has had a dog training blog for almost a year and we set up a blogspot blog at first, but in the longer term his own domain name will make a big difference to search engine results. The domain name also improves his chances of being paid for posting on his blog and linking to other sites. A domain name costs less than $10 a year, which soon pays for itself and helps keep him in dog biscuits.

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Passive Wealth Creation

I have found an intriguing website that offers you a long-term investment account in your name, but it is funded with their money. You never need to put a penny in your account -- in fact, you CANNOT put your own money in. Wealth toolbox allows you to benefit from their investment acumen and add to your wealth creation by remaining a member and referring others to the site.

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Postie Patrol London

Pay Per Post recently hooked up with a Postie on the this side of the pond for a trivia style version of the Postie Patrol. Visit famous London landmarks and learn a thing or two about England's history. The winning paid to post blogger walked away with £500, not bad for a morning's sightseeing. See how he got on in the film and test your own knowledge of British history here.

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03 April 2007

Work at Home

I cannot say this often enough - you can find lucrative work at home opportunities from reputable companies and they should not ask you to pay anything to be put in touch with those opportunities. Obviously when you start any business you will invest time, money and effort in a variable mix. But any business opportunity that requires you to send money to find out more is to be avoided.

So I am happy to tell you about a company that can show you a number of innovative and non-traditional business solutions, - home businesses that can make money for you, and offer work opportunities for individuals who want the flexibility that only comes from working at home.

Like us, the site only promotes legitimate work at home opportunities. All the partners have been vetted thoroughly so you will not be put in contact with companies who fail to deliver what they promise.

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Ticket Agent

There are so many fabulous holiday attractions at Walt Disney World in Orlando: this huge destination comprises four theme parks, two water parks and much, much more for an unforgettable vacation. To keep your holiday budget down, you can look for Discount Universal Studios Tickets from a top notch agency, OrlandoFunTickets.com. They can get you the best priced discounted tickets to all the various Disney attractions, like Disneyquest, Downtown Disney Pleasure Island, Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach Water Parks. And they also handle tickets to all the evening entertainment venues - for the best deals and a highly personal service, visit Orlandofuntickets.com.

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02 April 2007

Wholesale Business

A hot recommendation for a high margin business with low overheads is to buy Wholesale Designer Sunglasses that can be sold at retail prices wherever you choose. This is a business with tons of possibilities for you, and it is not restricted to cheap throwaway versions. Many resellers make profits of between 600 - 1000 per cent by selling the glasses in shopping malls, open air markets, bazaars and flea markets - anywhere you can think of. The company is now offering Polarized Sunglasses, in response to many requests from customers. These are made to a high specification that is unique to CTS Wholesale, and are particularly useful for sport or activity such as fishing or skiing because they cut out the glare. To help you get started easily you can take advantage of one of the variety of package deals on wholesale sunglasses. These are replicas of renowned brands like Adidas, Gucci, Versace and Armani, bringing your customers the same excitement they would have felt when wearing the original ones. This deal can bring the cost per pair down to as little as $1.50, and there are free display boxes included. Check the details at CTS Wholesalers today.
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