There’s nobody to blame when business gets slow or when problems arise within your online operation. You can’t point your finger at the CEO, at the marketing department, or anyone else.

Your success and your failure rely completely on your efforts and on the value of whatever strategy you chose to implement.

Did your server crash? Customers won’t care if your “tech guy” had a misstep – the site has your name on it, so you’re responsible. The buck stops with you!

I have no problem telling you about the products I use to keep my online business running smoothly. I needed to share a document with one of my church friends as well as a customer. I forgot I had put it in my pocket one Sunday.

The following Sunday, I found a memory stick in two pieces today on the gravel drive at church.  I put it in my pocket.  After service I went home and showed my husband.  He was able to straighten the metal piece that plugs into the USB port.

To my amazement, the memory stick was readable.  What really surprised me was that the broken, run over buy a car, sitting outside for a week and got rained on disk was MINE.  I didn’t even know I had misplaced it or lost it.  I must have put it in my pants pocket before service the Sunday before and it fell out as I got into or out of my car.

With the cover completely broken off and the chip of the memory stick all exposed, no files were damaged or corrupted.  It was truly amazing.  What an awesome product!

Yes, it was a SanDisk Memory Stick.  I also trust Amazon.ca to purchase any electronics.
Truly unbelievable and I’m very impressed.

There are pros and cons to having your own online business.  I didn’t even know I lost the memory stick!  I had no one to blame but myself and this could have been truly a disaster.

Even with the drawbacks you read above, there are many reasons why selling online is one of the most rewarding jobs on the planet. I can’t even imagine going back to a job with a boss – it sends shivers up my spine. Even worse, having to tell my boss that I kind of lost a lot of data which was all on a memory stick because I forgot to do a back up.

Need to resize or crop your pictures quickly and easily?  Use this Free Online Picture Resizer.  I found it online and used it to quickly downsize my pictures from about 5000 kb down to about 300 kb.  You can do a single picture or you can do multi pictures.

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Managing Stress

If you don’t manage stress, it will find a way to manage you. Stress can be very invasive in your life. It loves to be in the driver’s seat and you hand over the keys without fail on a regular basis because you feel defeated by it.

You might blaming the boss, the car mechanic or your spouse for your stress. You can’t control what other people do or say, but you can manage some of the smaller irritations in your world in order to reduce your stress.

Here are some stress triggers that you have the ability to bring under management:

Clutter – The more “stuff” you have, the more time and attention it requires to maintain. One way to reduce that demand is to eliminate some of the stuff that you don’t really need.

Start room by room and take a critical look at the time demands of your stuff.  Pledge to give away or throw away at least two clutter items from every room. And don’t just do this once, do it once a month.

Buy Less – You brought that clutter into the house, so don’t bring in more. Before you buy a new wok or 26-piece baking set, think about how often you would actually use those items. Do you have any other kitchen equipment that can double for the same purposes?

Magazine Perfect Housekeeping – Unless you can afford a full time housekeeper, you need to accept that clean is good enough. Save the frantic furniture polishing and baseboard wiping for quarterly cleaning or preparing for a party. Remember that rooms in magazines look so great because no one lives there to mess them up.

Clothes Horse Needs Taming – Buying clothes is a kind of closet clutter addiction that can get out of control. Clothing isn’t just something on a hanger. You have to wash, mend, press or take it to the dry cleaners.

If you have an over-stuffed closet, it’s actually harder to get dressed in the morning. Too many choices become stressful – as does not being able to find the other shoe, so you waste time changing outfits.

Trim down the closet. If you need help, ask a fashionable friend or hire a wardrobe consultant to work with you.  These are just a few ways to manage stress by dealing with the things in your home. You can apply the same strategy to the “stuff” in your office.

While searching the Internet, this book had a lot of helpful tips that I had to learn from a psychiatrist.  I am not a big reader, but this book Click Here! seems to say a lot of things I was told.

Blessings

Brenda

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I currently own a logitech webcam.  It is already about 2 years old but it works pretty good still.  You get what you pay for and I paid about $30.00 for mine at that time. I also bought a Toshiba Laptop and it came with a webcam.

This is very handy however, the graphic are not the greatest. Now because I have used a webcam previously before I got my laptop is the only reason I can honestly say, if you want to produce a clearer, better graphics video then I highly recommend getting a separate webcam.  I personally love the Logitech products and after reviewing this model, and reading all the good reviews about it, it will be my next choice when I am ready to replace the one I currently have.  It isn’t easy now a days, to come home after a purchase and be totally satisfied.  I personally do not enjoy returning items because again, it is more gas, waiting in line and taking up part of my day.  I appreciate time more now than ever before. I truly hope this has helped someone make a decision with a little less concern.  I will be writing about my Toshiba next because I am very happy with this purchase.  Click on picture if you want to order it from Amazon.ca

Normally, if I feel a little tickle or even a cough which when I know is from my chest or a nasal drip, I would immediately take 5 drops of Thieves in a vegetable capsule and usually the symptoms stop there.  Today though it was like I got hit with the virus truck!  I felt so tired, and like I said had a cough.  My eyes and my body just wanted to cuddle back to sleep.  So I did.  Woke again by coughing.

Went to the washroom.  Headed straight to my fridge to get a slimfast meal replacement.  For me, it is best to take Young Living Essential Oils when I have something in my stomach.  So I put 5 drops of thieves in a vegetable capsule and swallowed.  Went back to bed and starting playing with facebook.

My sister in law Sue Wright suggested at this point to take 5 drops of Oregano.  So I did, that was at 9 am this morning and I have not coughed once since.  It is now 2:42 pm.

It is incredible.  Not over the counter medications, natural essential oils put my cough to a halt!

It helps that I am a distributor because I buy all my oils wholesale.  I encourage you to start treating yourself and your family to these natural remedies.

I am still tired and do not have much energy but that is also because I am fighting a virus.  Lots of rest, and liquids and my faithful trusted oils.

Change your medicine cabinet to Young Living Essential Oils.  Do not settle for less because quality does matter and yes, you do get what you pay for.

Blessings

Brenda

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Headache gone before I could put my cup down

Author: Sally Hourt
Location: AR, United States
Posted: Nov 02, 2011
Views: 105
Questions received: 0
Keywords:headaches, migraine, peppermint

I have used peppermint in cold water to relieve a terrible headache twice. Once it went away immediately after hurting ALL DAY and the second one went away gradually in the next five minutes.

unny thing was, I tried to get rid of it by putting the oil in my hot tea, but it just did not work.

So I called a friend and she said, put it in COLD water. Well, that was the trick, as the head ache that I had suffered with all day long, was gone before I set the cup down on the counter. Love the oils!

With Added Pressure Headache Happens

Headaches can often be the result of every day pressures and stress.  But another kind of pressure can also cause headache – that of sinus pressure.  Sinuses can be the culprit if you’re having chronic headaches.  But you may not recognize that your sinuses are the cause when you don’t have other symptoms.

Many people have sinus problems and don’t even know it.  The sinuses are spaces throughout your head that are open areas.  These areas are places where mucus can collect.  It can even become infected and clogged.  This is called sinusitis when sinuses are clogged up and painful.

Most people believe that sinus infections have to go hand in hand with other symptoms such as coughing, sneezing, runny nose, or stuffed up nose.  But sinus problems can occur even if you don’t have those symptoms.  This is particularly true when you have problems with the maxillary sinus.

The maxillary sinus is just above your mouth.  It can become clogged up and cause painful toothaches and headaches with no other symptoms.  Often this problem is diagnosed by x-ray images that show the infection.  The good news is that when you have a pressure headache, sinus infections can be treated quite easily and very effectively.

A physician or other health care provider can prescribe decongestants and antibiotics to help alleviate the pressure and kill the infection.  Depending on the severity of your infection, the treatment can work in just a few days.  For more serious infections it may be a week or two before you have relief.

In the short-term you can take hot, steamy showers can help to move the fluid out of your head and loosen sinuses.  You can also use cleansing systems that use saline to clean the sinuses.

Pressure headache can be very painful and you may find that you’re absolutely miserable as a result of the pain.  However, you don’t have to live with this pain forever.  In fact, a quick trip to the doctor will help you to get rid of it.  You may also need to do things to prevent the headache from occurring again.

To prevent pressure headache you may want to take allergy medication on a regular basis. This keeps mucus from being overproduced and clogging your sinuses.  For some people who have problems with clogged sinuses, a decongestant may also need to be taken on a regular basis.  In addition, steamy showers and spicy food can help to keep your sinuses open.

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            Menopause can be very disruptive in the lives of women who experience hot flashes, mood swings, and other symptoms.  Hormone therapy scares have led many women to seek alternative treatments for menopausal symptoms such as osteoporosis and postmenopausal cardiovascular disease.

Alternative therapies for irritability and depression during menopause are also being explored.  Below are some remedies that are believed to alleviate menopausal side effects:

• Soy – Scientific tests show that bone density is increased and depression, irritability and hot flashes are lessened. Although soy can decrease some symptoms associated with menopause, large amounts must be ingested for it to be completely effective.

• Natural Progesterone – Extracted from plant sources, “natural” progesterone has been widely used to treat menopausal symptoms, but no scientific evidence exists to prove its effectiveness.
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• Fish Oils – Rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, fish oil can be a positive component in preventing cardiovascular disease in menopausal women.  You can get it through the consumption of fish or via a fish oil capsule if it’s more convenient.

• Magnesium – Studies have found that the use of magnesium significantly increases bone mineral density in both the elderly and menopausal women.

• Evening Primrose Oil – Commonly used to treat symptoms associated with menopause, Evening Primrose Oil may reduce hot flashes and depression.

• Black Cohosh – An herb that’s used extensively in Europe to treat menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes.

• Exercise – Women who exercise regularly are found to suffer from menopausal symptoms much less than sedentary women.

• Red Clover – An herb that is sometimes used to prevent cardiovascular disease in menopausal and post-menopausal women.
• Clary Sage – Clary sage (Salvia sclarea) essential oil contains natural phytoestrogens.

            Non-traditional, alternative therapies have been used for centuries to treat menopausal symptoms in women. While these therapies can be effective, be sure to consult with your health care professional before you begin such treatment – especially if you suffer from another condition that might be adversely affected.

It’s true, many people have no idea how to log in and create a list, or manage it as they go (much less make the opt in form work on their blog or squeeze page).

But there is so much more to list building – and if you have a marketing audience, you’ll want to help them learn the ropes.

Tiffany Dow has released a new PLR eBook called “How to Build a List.”

It’s one of those special soup to nuts courses that walks the reader through every single step there is, complete with generic screen shots you can use (which won’t have her name or accounts on them).

The PLR eBook is 48 pages long (even includes a hyperlinked table of contents for your convenience) and it’s over 13,300 words.

Here is the Table of Contents for your review:

1. Gold Versus Good
2. List Size Isn’t Just a Numbers Game
3. List Set-Up Steps
4. Why Should a Visitor Opt In to Your List?
5. Follow Up Versus Broadcast
6. Install the Form on Your Blog Sidebar
7. Install on Squeeze page
8. Traffic and List Building
9. Dealing With People You DON’T Want on Your List
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Don’t Lose All That Hard Work!
11. Start Your List Building Journey Now!

All you have to do is download the PLR version for just $1 per page – what a steal! – and then plus your name on the front, put any links you want in there (perfect for promoting Aweber), and turn it into a PDF file to sell or give away for personal use!

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To find the pack, go to the PLR Mini Mart at the link below, click eBooks and Reports on the sidebar, and choose page 7. It’s at the bottom of the page

Brenda