Archive for July, 2009

Global warming: Seattle area swelters under highest temps in 118 years!

Global warming: Seattle area swelters under highest temps in 118 years!

July 29, 2009 was one for the record books in Seattle, Washington as the Emerald City (known for its rainy climate) and surrounding areas struggled to deal with history making high temperatures. Seattle and Redmond reached 103, Olympia hit 104, Vancouver got 107, and Bellevue clocked in at a blistering 108 degrees. Thunder and lightening entered the picture, creating a bizarre weather pattern, the likes of which Washingtonians have never seen. Lightening knocked out a...

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How Boomers Can Make Money Selling on Ebay…

In a previous post (12 Ways Boomers Can Make Money – Part 4 – Selling on eBay) I announced a post focusing on the different ways digital products such as ebooks, reports, CDs and DVDs are being successfully sold on eBay…here it is: Any product that can be delivered (downloaded) to a person’s computer is a digital product… if a seller emails a link to the buyer of his ebook so that by clicking on...

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12 Ways Boomers can Make Money – part 4 – Selling on eBay

Selling on EBay That subtitle doesn’t begin to cover the different types of business that can be conducted on eBay, helping boomers make money with opportunities for many different kinds of selling and buying. Many of us know about selling off some of possessions on eBay to get over a difficult time… and many went on to setting up an eBay store – buying stuff offline and selling it at auction or for a ‘buy now’...

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How Good are You at Tying in Your Business with your Home Life?

‘Great post Janet’  I told my friend – you are really good at tying in your Internet Marketing business with your home life! There was a time when I had a family to feed while I was trying to focus on “more lofty goals” ha! (explanation: I went back to school!)… I resented the everyday seemingly grubby details… don’t get me wrong I loved my kids. but not the daily grubby details… I can tell you now as a...

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J K Wedding Dance Entrance Recommended by Caroline Middlebrook…

I hope anyone watching this enjoys it as much as I did… and do each time I watch it again with a big smile… I even danced with them… Fran

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The 60s’ Official Site Has New Content

Carl Hoffman, webmaster at The 60s’ Official Site sent me another update… Forty years ago, July 20th, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrich, and Mike Collins landed on the moon. Check out the Top 5 songs on the day they made history. The song of the week is from the same week as the countdown. It was a remake of a Coasters song that made #9 on the hit line in 1959. Ray Stevens remade this classic and reached...

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Remembering the Most Trusted Person in USA

I remember when Cronkite took sides… he visited Vietnam after the 1968 Tet offensive and wrote and narrated a “speculative, personal” report advocating negotiations leading to the withdrawal of American troops. He ended with these words:“We are mired in stalemate.” After the broadcast, President Lyndon B. Johnson is supposed to have said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.” He hated to have to retire at 65 but that was the CBS rule at the...

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12 Ways Boomers can Make Money Online-part 3 – Affiliate Marketing

Make Money With Affiliate Sales This article covers #2 of making money online: Affiliate sell products owned by someone else. It’s much like the salesmen working on commission for a company except that affiliates are independent, they are in business for themselves. They do not actually sell products… their job is to drive sales to the product’s sales page or website. This can be compared to the informal recommendations that we all make every day when we tell our friends about a...

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12 Ways Boomers can Make Money Online – part 2

Make Money with Service based businesses. Yesterday I introduced the subject of boomers making money at home, this is the first of the 12 ways mentioned: I wrote my title yesterday as Boomers making money online but there a few other ways a person can make money at home after retiring from a fulll-time job and I’ll mention some. Assuming that by the age of 60 a person has learned many skills in a line of work, that...

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12 Ways Boomers Can Make Money Online

Quite a few baby boomers learned how to use computers from their children and then they were mostly interested in using email and maybe searching for information they needed by going to Google or MSN… Ironically, out of my three children, two who are boomers were still at that stage not so long ago but have now progressed beyond the news, sports, videos and games online… I’m slowly roping them in to doing some money-making...

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