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1. Discount Travel
We see endless possibilities and are very grateful for this business. We have been working the business a little under one month and are very excited for the future! Sherry L. I am not going anywhere else! CTCV is the best! I plan to follow the very carefully laid out “Just Get Three” strategy and get rich sharing something EVERYONE wants! Johann S., Norway I love to travel and now have the largest network of resorts and condos of anywhere else in the world at my fingertips . And when you LOVE what you do, it is easy to talk about, and when I talk about CTCV I make money. I am glad I investigated CTCV. Edward J., Detroit Who loves Cruise to Cash Vacations? M-L-M burnouts who want to get paid first, get paid big and get paid often direct to their own account, not with a company check they have to wait on. People who love to travel People who LOVE big commissions People who want something very simple to promote People who see the value of global condos and resorts People who see how church groups, schools, non-profit organizations and civic groups can benefit from travel products People who are tired of pretending to be a travel agent and like to let others do that heavy lifting Retirees looking for an extra income Employees who want to become their own boss Laid-off workers who see how they can make more than they ever did as employees People who want to enhance their lives with training and inspiration with group trips like the Full Sail Getaways Moms who like to have other moms in a travel club who make money together The list goes on and on. With CTCV, you get paid directly, you get paid first, and you get paid big! No one else controls your money, you do. Company cannot run off with your money because YOU get your money before we do.And the sky is the limit on how much you can make. With CTCV you are not a travel agent and don’t pretend to be. You are a member of a Private Travel Club with a MASSIVE inventory of travel benefits and with our Concierge Team doing all the heavy lifting. You just enjoy the planet and leave the rest to us! With CTCV, you can use the exclusive Concierge Cards as stand-alone products to invite people to purchase from you and enjoy the travel benefits OR you can join as a private member of CTCV and make a fortune sharing these products with others. Lots of people are pushing Robot-phone systems that will be against the law to use in a year (legislation already passed) Or gifting programs that have short lives because the Government always shuts them down as pyramids Or the newest juice drink… But CTCV has travel! Never out of style Travel partner and Concierge Team 24+ years in the industry 8+ trillion dollar industry now, 14 trillion in two years Private membership access 100% membership commission payout to help you make a fortune sharing it with others. MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS PRIVILEGES. * High-End Exclusive Resort Vacation Membership* Short Notice Vacations for mere hundreds of dollars for a whole week* One-Time Purchase of a membership package* No Condo Monthly Or Annual Maintenance Fees* No Exchange Fees* 52 Week Access, No Blocked Periods or Blackout Dates,* Travel As Often As You Like* Save Thousands Of Dollars On Each Vacations* Exclusive Vacation Destinations* Find them on the Travel Center website or call the members’ toll-free number And we are not talking about motels here. We are talkingabout 4 and 5 star luxury resorts in some of the mostprestigious locations available. CTCV membershave access to a registry of over 2 million luxury resorts and condosworldwide. Not 5400, not 70,000, not even 100,000. We are talking 2 million properties! Among these are some of the finest resorts availablethat most people would not be able to afford or gainaccess to unless they are members. Not only that, you havetrue Concierge treatment and service, making sure your vacation is an experience to remember and not just a room with a view. Time to make a move, get started and set yourself up for huge profits. Join us on a call and ask questions: 1-712-421-8859, PIN 545454#Monday- 1pm EST, 8pm EST and 11pm ESTTuesday- 1pm EST, 8pm ESTWednesday- 1pm EST, 8pm EST and 11pm ESTThursday- 1pm EST, 8pm ESTFriday- 1pm ESTSaturday- 11am ESTSunday- 10pm EST24/7 Sizzle Call: 618-355-1490

2. Discount Travel
We see endless possibilities and are very grateful for this business. We have been working the business a little under one month and are very excited for the future! Sherry L. I am not going anywhere else! CTCV is the best! I plan to follow the very carefully laid out “Just Get Three” strategy and get rich sharing something EVERYONE wants! Johann S., Norway I love to travel and now have the largest network of resorts and condos of anywhere else in the world at my fingertips . And when you LOVE what you do, it is easy to talk about, and when I talk about CTCV I make money. I am glad I investigated CTCV. Edward J., Detroit Who loves Cruise to Cash Vacations? M-L-M burnouts who want to get paid first, get paid big and get paid often direct to their own account, not with a company check they have to wait on. People who love to travel People who LOVE big commissions People who want something very simple to promote People who see the value of global condos and resorts People who see how church groups, schools, non-profit organizations and civic groups can benefit from travel products People who are tired of pretending to be a travel agent and like to let others do that heavy lifting Retirees looking for an extra income Employees who want to become their own boss Laid-off workers who see how they can make more than they ever did as employees People who want to enhance their lives with training and inspiration with group trips like the Full Sail Getaways Moms who like to have other moms in a travel club who make money together The list goes on and on. With CTCV, you get paid directly, you get paid first, and you get paid big! No one else controls your money, you do. Company cannot run off with your money because YOU get your money before we do.And the sky is the limit on how much you can make. With CTCV you are not a travel agent and don’t pretend to be. You are a member of a Private Travel Club with a MASSIVE inventory of travel benefits and with our Concierge Team doing all the heavy lifting. You just enjoy the planet and leave the rest to us! With CTCV, you can use the exclusive Concierge Cards as stand-alone products to invite people to purchase from you and enjoy the travel benefits OR you can join as a private member of CTCV and make a fortune sharing these products with others. Lots of people are pushing Robot-phone systems that will be against the law to use in a year (legislation already passed) Or gifting programs that have short lives because the Government always shuts them down as pyramids Or the newest juice drink… But CTCV has travel! Never out of style Travel partner and Concierge Team 24+ years in the industry 8+ trillion dollar industry now, 14 trillion in two years Private membership access 100% membership commission payout to help you make a fortune sharing it with others. MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS PRIVILEGES. * High-End Exclusive Resort Vacation Membership* Short Notice Vacations for mere hundreds of dollars for a whole week* One-Time Purchase of a membership package* No Condo Monthly Or Annual Maintenance Fees* No Exchange Fees* 52 Week Access, No Blocked Periods or Blackout Dates,* Travel As Often As You Like* Save Thousands Of Dollars On Each Vacations* Exclusive Vacation Destinations* Find them on the Travel Center website or call the members’ toll-free number And we are not talking about motels here. We are talkingabout 4 and 5 star luxury resorts in some of the mostprestigious locations available. CTCV membershave access to a registry of over 2 million luxury resorts and condosworldwide. Not 5400, not 70,000, not even 100,000. We are talking 2 million properties! Among these are some of the finest resorts availablethat most people would not be able to afford or gainaccess to unless they are members. Not only that, you havetrue Concierge treatment and service, making sure your vacation is an experience to remember and not just a room with a view. Time to make a move, get started and set yourself up for huge profits. Join us on a call and ask questions: 1-712-421-8859, PIN 545454#Monday- 1pm EST, 8pm EST and 11pm ESTTuesday- 1pm EST, 8pm ESTWednesday- 1pm EST, 8pm EST and 11pm ESTThursday- 1pm EST, 8pm ESTFriday- 1pm ESTSaturday- 11am ESTSunday- 10pm EST24/7 Sizzle Call: 618-355-1490

3. "I will NEVER again join an M-L-M...."
The Next BIG ONE! When a very accomplished network marketer looked at our company, his assessment of Cruise to Cash Vacations is this: “It is the next BIG ONE.” This networker has hundreds of thousands of people in his organizations in over half a dozen countries.He is a highly sought after consultant to MLM’s and Networking companies. He himself said he will never work an MLM again, but he saw the income potential with CTCV, saw it was not an MLM and chose to get started right away! After looking at the pay-plan, the product, the team, and long-range vision and the expansive marketing possibilities, he concluded that this was the best business he has seen in a decade. He is now sharing it with his worldwide network of leaders. Why is that important to you? Because while there will always be the “fancy and fast” flash-in-the-pan programs that come along and seemingly everyone and their grandmother jumps on board, CTCV is here to stay and has a product that everyone wants. We, the owners of CTCV, are not only accomplished network marketers, but also seasoned business leaders and owners in previous business ventures. Our management team is also made up of successful business executives and trainers. Often that has put us in the uncomfortable place of telling people that they are being unwise in their business choices, such as in the case of A--. We warned everyone exactly what it was and what would happen and many became angry at us.However, history proved itself out and within two months of our warning many people who chose not to listen lost thousands and thousands of dollars. We see history repeating itself as many flash-in-the-pan programs and cash games come and go. They always attract so many people looking for that “get rich quick” story but who ignore sound business principles. Thus, they end up making their sponsors richer but they themselves, because they do not learn to build a business, do not succeed yet again.And sooner than later, the programs end up getting shut down or the member loses a lot of money, confidence and their reputation in the process. Cruise to Cash Vacations is simple, has a wide variety of levels for every budget, has a highly leveraged payplan for increasing your wealth, has an outstanding product list that no one else even comes close to, and we have a plan to expand worldwide in big ways. We invite you to join the journey with us.Learn to build a business. Learn sound business methods and principles. When you do, it will stay with you for a lifetime.And enjoy traveling the world at greatly reduced prices and make a lot of money sharing the private membership advantages with others. Two Ways to Benefit with Our Company: 1. As a Customer: purchase one or more of the Concierge Cards and have access to the best Concierge service and prices for travel, worldwide! 2. As a Distributor: join our team and make crazy mo..ney sharing the private membership to Cruise to Cash Vacations with others and also save on your own travel. Membership has its privileges as you get great private travel deals, hot weeks, cruises as well as private member training for building a long-term business as a home business entrepreneur! There is no better time than now!The longer you wait, the longer

4. You Will Never Get Rich
1. Hint #1: you will never get ri..ch working for someone else. You are helping the boss fill his pockets, but you are not filling yours. You are just paying the bills. 2. Hint #2: you will never get ri..ch with M-L-M. It’s dead! The internet killed it! You must now change gears to move toward GPF (Get Paid First) enterprises and up front commissions with real products that promote a millionaire lifestyle. 3. Hint #3: you will never get ri..ch if you are lazy. If you bought the lie that you can join something for F’REE, do NOTHING, talk to NO ONE, and collect the ca..sh, just stay where you are: BROKE! If you are not willing to work at your dream for at least 8 to 10 hours a week building your own income then don’t bother. 4. Hint #4: You will never get ri..ch if you fear what others might think.If you are worried about what others will think about you, let me give you a hint: they aren’t! They are thinking about themselves and confronting their own battles. You have to decide to just move forward and do what is best for your future and your wallet. And when you do, you will actually be doing what is best for your family, too. Are you doing them any good barely making it, surviving instead of thriving? 5. Hint #5: You will never get ri..ch if you are addicted to inaction.Knowledge is not power. Acting on knowledge is power. It is no good if you know you need to make a change, know you have a choice in front of you to make, know you must build a better financial future, and then do nothing! Move forward! Take the next step! Stare down your fears and go for it! Want to join at elite group of people?You can belong to a DIFFERENT breed of people... "Enterprising Entrepreneurs" WE HAVE done it before, when OUR families were in recession or in a depressed state at the home front. What did we do?... WE LOOKED for opportunities, WE STARTED a Business, WE BELIEVED in our convictions, we STUCK IT OUT when people around us scowled at us... The current economic bust DOESN'T have to affect US. Choose to see the SAME BIG OPPORTUNITY WE SAW when WE STARTED Cruise to Cash Vacations!At Cruise to Cash Vacations, we created for fearless entrepreneurs who are going to carve out their piece of the action in this world!We have a membership level for every budget and for every goal. 100% Commission Payout AND Private Concierge Service… Traveler- $477 First two sales commissions are $238.50 making 100% of your cost back and you are qualified for the full $377 Traveler commission (Cruiser and Voyageur commissions beyond that amount pass up to Cruiser and Voyageur members BUT they qualify you for moving up to the next package level!). PLUS, you receive a package shipment of your Traveler level Concierge Cards for your travel benefits, and you get unlimited use of the Travel Center and Unlimited downloads of 2-3 day getaway certificates. Much more… Cruiser- $977 First two sales commissions are $488.50 making 100% of your cost back and you are qualified for the full $777 Cruiser commission (Voyageur commissions beyond that amount pass up to Voyageur members BUT they qualify you to move up to the Voyageur level!). PLUS, you receive a package shipment of your Cruiser level Concierge Cards for your travel benefits, you get unlimited use of the Travel Center and Unlimited downloads of 5-8 day getaway certificates. Much more… Voyageur- $1477 First two sales commissions are $738.50 making 100% of your cost back and you are qualified for the full $1177 Voyageur commission PLUS, you receive a package shipment of your Voyageur level Concierge Cards for your travel benefits, you get unlimited use of the Travel Center and Unlimited downloads of 5-8 day getaway certificates. Much more… Go to the website and see all the information there about each package level. Plus, see how powerful our exclusive Concierge Cards are and the global travel they give access to. No need to look around for anything else. With the Modified Two-Up Perpetual pay plan, you can make the most money in the shortest amount of time with the best product on the internet- Vacations! And with our brilliant qualification plan you can move up quickly to the top position in the company at the Voyageur level and make unbelievable amounts of money and enter into the million dollar lifestyle we teach you to develop. Over 90% of our members are Voyageurs which will tell you how successful our members are becoming at developing a caviar lifestyle on a hot dog budget! Now is the time!Cruise to Cash Vacations is the place!And the Planet is our Playground! Let’s go see it together! It’s Your Planet; Go

5. Cruise To Cash: The Money Machine
How Are People Creating Mo..ney, Freedom and Time for Themselves with Cruise to Cash Vacations? Come Find Out: 712-421-8859, PIN 545454#Monday- Thursday: 1PM EST, 8PM EST and 11PM EST. Friday- 1PM EST only Saturday- 11AM EST Sunday- 8PM EST and 11PM EST. Real Estate agent doubles his listings and sales using our vacation certificates One CTCV member asks a weight control center if using vacations as incentives would help motivate clients to lose weight. He says “YES!” and has a chain of 60 other centers looking at the incentives also. Two CTCV members have a booth at a Senior Citizen Expo about travel, making money and having “timeshare privilege without timeshare costs” with CTCV. These are not the typical home business seekers, they are people who love to have adventures and who would like to make extra money! One CTCV member uses certificates to get a crowd to her rock band’s show in a club, makes copies of the Presentation video to look like record albums and gives them out to all who come. One “soccer mom” develops a full-blown fund-raiser for her child’s school using the Concierge Cards. A team works together to rent a hotel room, take out ads in local papers and invites friends for a live presentation about CTCV membership. Live meetings are seeing a 40% to 80% purchase rate, meaning thousands of dollars in one night! There is no FREE LUNCH, but there is an EASY STREET! If you work your business smart and strategically for a year, you can create an income for yourself where you will never have to work again. When you join, we will teach you the JUST GET THREE plan for creating long-term income and success with CTCV. And the "work" is so fun, it doesn't feel like "work"! Some of our Great Marketing Tools: CTCV Business Center is something every member gets for no extra charge when they join CTCV. It is loaded with information and training to help you become a successful business owner with CTCV. It is the most comprehensive and complete training center on the internet today, and it also has access to collateral marketing material like hats, shirts, brochures and DVD’s to help you grow your business. Northstar Marketing System Co-Op gets very targeted leads to your CTCV website and Tour Guides can be contracted to follow up with them, calling them and closing your sales. Postcard mailing system sends a very exciting postcard to thousands of business seekers getting highly interested prospects to your lead capture page and CTCV marketing website. CTC Connect™ gets people to call you, then you work the phones, calling them back and getting them to the live calls or the sizzle call at 618-355-1490. Then, call them back and ask them what they liked and if they are ready to build their own million dollar income.Our daily MAGIC (Make a Grand in Commissions) Calls help you present your opportunity to your guests. The list goes on for all the powerful ways that CTCV members can create an unlimited income---limited ONLY by your desire and inventiveness. Come join the revolution called Cruise to Cash Vacations!

6. Boat Load Of Money With Cruise To Cash Vacations
How Do You Make a Boatload of Ca..sh With CTCV? Here are A Few Details About How This Works. In a nutshell, you'll be finding new friends, educating them about your Concierge Cards for their global travel and CTCV memberships so they can make huge amounts of cash by sharing these products with others. That's really all there is to it. It's quite simple and anyone can learn it; just talk about what you are excited about and others will be attracted to you! Here's a more in-depth look at how it goes... 1. You are invited to learn more by a CTCV member (you already responded by Joining Fr’ee). 2. You join at the level you choose according to how big your personal dream is by paying for your membership package. 3. Your CTCV sponsor provides your start-up training and mentoring along with the awesome Business Center materials and our weekly training calls. 4. You get connected to the live group calls every day. 5. You get to bring as many guests to the live calls as you want every day. You join your guests on the calls and our team explains the business and products and helps you close sales and build your team. 6. You make more and more in.come as more and more people join your team. 7. You get to live like you want to: free, on your schedule, traveling, paying off bills, and developing a million dollar lifestyle! You're in control with Cruise to Cash Vacations and you can choose your membership level. And as you make sales at higher levels, they actually help you qualify to move up the membership ladder until you could be a Voyageur member and enjoy all the benefits and income at the top level of our private membership travel club! And here's the best part - you can choose how many times a week or day you want to do this! No need to look

7. Cruise To Cash Concierge Cards
There simply is no comparison to what we offer and what our “competitors” offer in terms of inventory, pricing and Concierge service. And with our SYSTEMS that assure your su..ccess you can create a MILLION DOLLAR lifestyle using the new marketing systems, training and updates in the Business Center (second to no one else), sending out postcards in our new postcard system, and marketing co-ops with Tour Guide callbacks. In live meetings we are seeing a 40-80% closing ratio when people are presented the opportunity using our new Presentation Video available to members in their business center. Think about that, if you have 20 people in a living room, show the video and present the business, with those percentages you could finish the night with $8k to $16k in sales and have new members in your team ready to do the same thing! Why does this happen? Because our Concierge Cards and service are tangible and real; we are not just a website with a vague idea of what you are getting!

8. Discount Travel Testimonials
We don’t like blowing our own horn, so we will let a few others do it: “I investigated CTCV and compared it to GRN, Coastal, the new “business” called MOR Vacations, YTB, Platinum Destinations, Traverus and GuruCruise. I am a stay-at-home mom and found nothing even close to the value, the systems, and the money that I could make. I am very happy with CTCV. The calls are great! The training is great! And have you seen the Business Center? Wow! I just got started three weeks ago and have already made my money back and will be in big-time profit on my next sale. I am hooked on CTCV!” Terri K., Gadsden I am not going anywhere else! CTCV is the best! I plan to follow the very carefully laid out “Just Get Three” strategy and get rich sharing something EVERYONE wants! Johann S., Norway I love to travel and now have the largest network of resorts and condos of anywhere else in the world at my fingertips . And when you LOVE what you do, it is easy to talk about, and when I talk about CTCV I make money. I am glad I investigated CTCV. Edward J., Detroit

9. Travel Invitation
You have a chance TODAY to be on our CTC Vaca..tions M.A.G.I.C. call and hear EXACTLY why we are causing such a commotion in the Ho..me Bus|ness Arena. You are invited to learn about the most lucrative and fun opportu..nity of the decade. The World is our Marketplace, it is WIDE-OPEN and BIG MARKETERS are joining us because of the HUGE in..come potential. Not only are we HALF THE COST of a GRN or Platinum One Destinations, but YOU MAKE MORE MO..NEY every time someone joins your business and YOU HAVE MUCH MORE TRA..VEL at MUCH LESS COST! How can we say this so confidently? Because we KNOW WHAT WE HAVE and we KNOW WHAT IS COMING! *Our new Concierge Card program will open up the bank vaults for you and give you A+ concierge private membership service for all of your travel. *Our CTC Full Sail Getaways are designed for you to learn how to grow your business, to travel to exotic destinations, getting Donald Trump luxury at Motel 6 prices. Our next Full Sail Getaway is in the Grand Bahamas September 24-28, an all-inclusive luxury resort for 4 fabulous days filled with fun, training, connecting and memories for a lifetime. More info coming soon. *Our new marketing websites coming in July will reflect this new high-level travel experience and opportunity offered to the GLOBAL MARKETPLACE. Here is just a sample of Why You Want to join the CTC Team: 100% commissions to members in the payplan. YOU make money on your FIRST and EVERY sale. The FIRST EVER Modified Two-Up Perpetual payplan that is the most highly leveraged payplan in history. Unlimited Vacations for you to use in marketing and for you to use in travel. Vacation Your Way to Wealth! Why are people joining CTC every single day? Why are people making sales that have failed in every other business? Come find out the REST OF THE STORY on the call TODAY! 1-605-475-6910, PIN 190241# 8:00PM EST Sunday Night See you there! Keep Cruisin' Tod and Mike P.S. Our Full Weekly Call Schedule For YOU to Invite Guests to: GET IN! GET IN! GET IN! Here is our full weekly call schedule: 1-605-475-6910 Access Code is 190241# Monday- Thursday: 1PM EST and 8PM EST Friday- 1PM EST only Saturday- 11AM EST Sunday- 8PM EST.

10. Cruise To Cash To Launch New Sie
Cruise To Cash will be launching a new site in July. They have now partnere with the largest supplier of vacations in the world. Now cruise To Cash members will have access to the largest inventory of cruises in the world. Twice as many as Expedia. So join us and keep cruising

11. Cruise Industry To Laumch New Ships
In the next couple of years, the cruise industry will welcome ground-breaking new ships and bid farewell to two of the most famous vessels of all time. Let's start with the launches. When they debuted, Royal Caribbean's Freedom-class ships (Freedom of the Seas, Liberty of the Seas and Independence of the Seas) made waves as the largest and most innovative passenger ships in history. Next year, the cruise line will outdo itself when it launches the first of its Project Genesis ships. At 220,000 gross registered tons, the Oasis of the Seas (debuting in late 2009) and Allure of the Seas (debuting in 2010), will be significantly larger than the Freedom-class ships (160,000 tons), feature 16 decks, 2,700 staterooms and a previously unimaginable passenger capacity of 5,400 guests. The size of these ships isn't the only thing that will set them apart. Though little information has been released, Royal Caribbean has confirmed that each ship will be comprised of seven different "neighborhoods," one of which will be called Central Park. The most notable feature of Central Park is its radical designP.

At the center of the ship, six decks of balcony staterooms will face inward to overlook Central Park, an area roughly the size of a football field, open to the sky, with lush, tropical landscaping. These will be the first non-ocean-view balcony staterooms at sea

. According to Royal Caribbean, Central Park will act as the ship's "town square," offering a peaceful atmosphere during the day and serving as an upbeat gathering place at night, with al fresco dining, outdoor concerts and street performances. Dining options in Central Park will include the upscale 150 Central Park, casual Central Park Café, Italian restaurant Giovanni's Table and Royal Caribbean's signature Chops Grille steakhouse.

A number of bars and lounges will be found throughout Central Park, including the Rising Tide bar, the first moving bar at sea. A feat of architecture and engineering spanning three decks, Rising Tide will give guests the chance to enjoy a cocktail or two as they slowly ascend into Central Park and then descend back into the public areas below. Central Park will also offer upscale boutiques, quiet reading corners, a chess garden and a sculpture garden, featuring the works of internationally renowned artists.

12. Royal Caribbean makes cruises more accessible for passengers with limited mobility
All Royal Caribbean ships have wheelchair accessible cabins with widened stateroom and bathroom doors, roll-in showers, shower benches, and toilet and shower grab bars. All ships also feature lowered guest-relations counters, lowered blackjack tables, lowered or ramped thresholds, and pool and whirlpool lifts.

Our Freedom-class ships contain several new amenities, including the H20 Zone, a water park for children where we have plastic wheelchairs for our guests to navigate this wonderful play area. At the OnAir Club, a dedicated space for karaoke events, we have a ramp to the stage to allow guests in wheelchairs and scooters to participate. And, we have an accessible Junior Suite that accommodates up to six guests.

The Freedom-class ships and Voyager-class ships, because they are our newest new-builds and have a lot of accessible staterooms -- 32 on Freedom-class ships and 26 on Voyager-class vessels. And the Radiance-class ships, because accessible staterooms have automatic door openers, which makes it very easy for guests in wheelchairs and scooters to get in and out

13. Lawyer sues Delta for ruining family vacation
A New York lawyer is suing Delta Air Lines for $1 million, saying his family vacation turned into a nightmare after they were stranded in an airport for days and treated disdainfully by airline employees. ADVERTISEMENT Richard Roth, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of himself and his mother, said he planned the Christmas 2007 trip to Buenos Aires to celebrate his mother's 80th birthday. She had grown up in the city, but had not returned in years, he said. Instead, Roth, his two teenage children, his wife and mother spent three days in airports, went days without their luggage, were treated rudely by airline employees and were forced to spend $21,000 on unused hotel rooms in Argentina, replacement clothes, and other costs. "Through its gross negligence, malfeasance and absolute incompetence, Mr. Roth holds Delta responsible for ruining his vacation," said the lawsuit, filed in New York state court. Delta Air Lines Inc had no immediate comment. Roth said that he has been in touch with Delta about getting reimbursed, but was repeatedly rebuffed. He told Reuters on Wednesday filing the suit was a last resort. After the initial flight from New York was delayed by more than two hours, the family was not allowed to board their connecting flight in Atlanta, Roth said. A Delta employee "literally walked away chuckling that he had left them stranded," he said. After waiting in the airport for hours, Roth was told the next available flight would depart more than two weeks later. He then booked a flight through a different airline and arrived in Argentina three days later than planned. The family was not reunited with their luggage for more than five days. "Suffice it to say, Mr. Roth's elderly mother was a mess. And she has been suffering ever since. The kids are all upset. And it was Christmas Eve. Mr. Roth had spent one-half of his vacation in Buenos Aires chasing Delta and its incompetent representatives," the lawsuit said.

14. Cruise To Cash Breaking Ground
Cruise to cash continues to break new ground with Voyageur. People are joining Cruise to Cash daily. Now that the call center has been launched it’s even easier to make sales. Get the facts at http://www.bustourofthepack.com

15. Cruise To Cash Is Setting The Pace
THIS IS THE LAST WEEK OF CALLS BEFORE OUR HOLIDAY CALL SCHEDULE: Calls will continue until December 21, then will not resume until January 7. We may do special calls during those two weeks that you will receive email notification for so you can invite guests, but the regular 2-per-day calls will not be held during that time. Please vies My Press Releases Cruise To Cash

16. Cruise To Cash Is Awesome
MEET YOU ON THE �MEET THE CREW� CALLS THIS WEEK: 1-712-421-6141, Access Code: 873846#. Monday- 1PM EST and 8PM EST Tuesday- 1PM EST and 8PM EST Wednesday- 1PM EST and 8PM EST Thursday- 1PM EST and 8PM EST Friday- 1PM EST only. Or use the 24/7 four-minute Sizzle Call at 618-355-1490. Why have THOUSANDS of people joined CTC? �Anyone who wants to make big bank on your FIRST sale and EVERY sale. �Anyone who wants to develop a steady passive monthly income. �Anyone who wants to create leverage income from the efforts of others. �Anyone who wants to make 100% commissions. �Anyone who LOVES unlimited vacations. �Anyone who LOVES the idea of being able to give away vacations. �Anyone who LOVES the idea of making thousands of dollars a month, a week, or even in a day giving away access to amazing vacation deals to over 3500 locations worldwide! NO Ebooks no one reads. NO Software no one wants. "Vacation Your Way to Wealth" with Cruise to Cash.

17. Cruise To Cash Is a Winner
THERE ARE RUMORS FLYING AROUND ABOUT CTC: �Rumors that it is going to replace Coastal Vacations and GRN as THE discount vacation source. �Rumors that it is speeding past all the useless eBooks and Software programs. �Rumors that it is going to break all records for businesses in its price-range (it already has, but we are excited about breaking our own records!) �Rumors that it has a long life ahead of it as more and more people become aware of the incredible INCOME potential and the awesome VACATION deals. While you don�t want to believe every rumor you hear, these rumors appear to be TRUE! Who is interested in CTC? �Anyone who wants to make big bank on your FIRST sale and EVERY sale. �Anyone who wants to develop a steady passive monthly income. �Anyone who wants to create leverage income from the efforts of others. �Anyone who wants to make 100% commissions. �Anyone who LOVES unlimited vacations.

18. Cruise To Cash Is Moving Ahead
Cruise To Cash continues to move ahead of the pack The travel business is a 7 trillion dollars industry. Cruise To Cash has entered this industry to win. With the product that have and the compensation plan Cruise To Cash will change the face of the travel industry forever.

19. Hughe Week at Cruise To Cash
This is going to be a HUGE week for CTC. How do I know that? Because while our offices were closed over the Thanksgiving Holidays we still had scores of people joining CTC automatically through the system! People want into this business BECAUSE IT WORKS! And that was happening without the 2-per-day calls! Vacations are exciting! No more eBooks no one reads. No more software no one uses.

20. Do It Cruise To Cash
NO more turkey businesses with turkey products. CTC has the most exciting products in any business at our price range. Just check the airport this week! Record numbers of people traveling. Record numbers travel each and ever year. Travel is up every single year because more and more people like the FREEDOM and SELF-EMPOWERMENT that vacations give them. CTC offers travel at unbelievably low prices. We heard last night on one of our awesome "Meet the Crew" calls from one person going to Las Vegas for just over $5 per night!

YTB:The Bar has been raised

21. Cruise To Cash Is Moving On
Cruise To Cash continuses to set records and make people money. To date the top earners has been ppaid over $70k in two ans a half weeks. Cruise To cash continuse to offer new products like Another is going to Hawaii for less than $30 per night for he and his wife on Waikiki beach

22. Cruise To Cash Has Launched
Cruise To Cash has launched their new hot Travel Program. This program allows you take unlimited vacation and only pay the taxes. What a concept. The Cruise to Cash program will out perform all others. They includes YTB, Traverus and Coastal Vacation. Cruise To cash has raised the bar

23. Cruise To Cash Has Launched
Cruise To Cash has launched their new hot Travel Program. This program allows you take unlimited vacation and only pay the taxes. What a concept. The Cruise to Cash program will out perform all others. They includes YTB, Traverus and Coastal Vacation. Cruise To cash has raised the bar

24. Gas Prices

25. Gas Prices
The is my second post to this blog concering the high gas prices. From what I can tell the prices in my area have gone down about 4 cent over the last week. However that is not nearly enough. Please help us put presuure on the oil companies by creating a gas war . Until next time.

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1. SpiderWeb Will Rock the Web
Whoa Baby! This blog is getting whiskers. Anyone that has followed my path will know that I now have been heavy into educating myself about Internet marketing. Thus, the reason for no posts.

But I have been busy and on assignment. One of the keepers is a beta program known as The SpideWeb Marketing System. If you have seen it in passing, but did not consider it...time to time warp for a reconsider. I think this is going to be the next big monetizing scheme for the web.

Many have tried to create a self-sustained or auto-pilot system. This puppy started out with 12 streams of income, but now has 22. I have a gut feeling it's going to be a winner.

It still is in beta, so do get in now to position yourself. Leave a comment if you want to join my team. It's no cost, but I also don't need any slackers. Yes, I will drag you along, but you have to do exactly as I say and follow a plan of action.

Check out my blog on the subject, too, at "The SpiderWeb System Information and Reviews".

2. How to Produce 365 Videos in One Year
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

If you have been involved in the blogosphere for long, you know that many bloggers are gravitating towards video aka Video blogs, Vlogs, Vidcasts, or a Video Podcast.

This is a heads up on Mark Wielgus at 45n5.com. Mark is on top of online trends, and I am here to tell you that he researches, tests, and reports on things you will come to appreciate on a daily basis. All the information in this post was gleaned from 45n5. My belief is that Mark combines some marketing savvy with geekdom knowhow. He even writes simple, but useful utility programs and then gives them away for free on the blog. Here is a recent link to one he dubs "Keyword Scrubber".

45n5.com has turned into one of the few blogs I simply must check out on a daily basis. Now Mark is committed to deciphering Affiliate Marketing as a top priority. Another project he is combining with this effort is his personal mission to produce and post a video every day in 2008.

I think with 365 videos in the planning, his little experiment is one to watch for trends, plus the techniques, tips and tricks he is bound to uncover along the way. So, if you want to make 365 videos in one year, watch this guy in 2008 and I think you will learn something.

3. Prioritize Your Blogging for 2008
(Archived in: Social Media Marketing Social Media Optimization)

Welcome to the New Year! I have been spending the last week planning for 2008, which has included changes to my blogging style. If you follow my blogs, you know that I have decided to concentrate on Digital Nomads and The Rugged Notebooks Blog as my main focus for blogging, and with less frequent posting to this blog and The Sovereign Journey.

This is not for a lack or loss of interest, but merely a necessity of time management. Regardless, my blog niche revolves around the central theme of mobility and using technology to be independent. So, you can always check back here and/or catch my more frequent updates at the Rugged Notebooks or Digital Nomads sites. My plan this year is to move to private domains.

One thing I have been doing is writing more focused posts...themed, if you will, or a series of posts on a subject of interest. Recently, this has had a major slant towards telecom, and in particular new gadgets like MagicJack and VoIP telephoney solutions like Google GrandCentral.

I am finding that being more focused on a particular subject area makes it easier and more interesting to research, test, review, and write. I think my readers appreciate it a well and it is helping in the SERPS.

If you are still blogging, drop me a line and let me know how you are getting on. There seems to have been a drop in the number of friends I met online in 2007 that have continued to blog, or scaled back like I have. -Digital Nomad

4. Twelve Step Program for Email Addicts
(Archived in: Online Usability Reviews)

I saw this over at the BigString 2.0 website and thought it was good advice. BigString is an interesting concept in itself, which I will let you discover for yourself. These 12 items have been edited somewhat, so not to get dinged for duplicate content. There were some typos in the original text anyway. Enjoy.

1. Do not send email when you are angry. Wait until you calm down before you send that email. Feelings and thoughts can be difficult to interpret and easily misconstrued.

2. Never send a sarcastic email that could be taken out of context. Sarcasm and email do not mix. You can easily offend someone in an email without intent to do so.

3. Do not send email gossip. You never know where the email will end up. Just make a commitment to yourself not to participate in any gossip.

4. Never end significant relationships via email. Email is the equivalent of an electronic paper trail. Not good for any sour ending, whether business or personal.

5. If you don't want your boss or coworkers to see it, better not send that email from work.

6. Never put anything in writing that may come back to haunt you. A good overall policy. Not just for email.

7. Never, ever, hit â€˜Reply to Allâ€™ when you just want to send an email to one individual.

8. Donâ€™t email pictures of yourself to others. Especially, online acquaintances and complete strangers.

9. Donâ€™t make promises or commitments via email that you cannot or will not keep.

10. When you send attachments, be sure that you have selected the correct files and documents.

11. Good advice from New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, â€œNever write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email.â€

12. Try BigString recallable email. If you do happen to make errors...the recallable, erasable, and non-forwardable features will help to correct such mistakes.

5. How to Build 10-Minute Affiliate Website Mashups
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

If you are searching for ways to be innovative with your online marketing, then here is another plug for many of the ideas featured at 45n5.com authored by Mark Wielgus. No, this is not a paid post.

This is the good stuff, it's an addendum to the post on "30 Websites in 30 Days", and Mark calls this his YouTube-Ebay-Amazon Affiliate Website Mashup Thingy.

I have had a few email exchanges with Mark, and these are a few of his cautionary thoughts by way of how he has explained the ideas behind how it should work. Most people will not succeed with this mashup concept, or any other website scripting without the underlying concept and knowledge (or experience from learning) of how to build such a niche site.

Cranking out "out of the box" and rubber stamp solutions is what everybody else is doing. Doing the same thing that everyone else is doing online will bring the same results...which happens to be not making any money online. This also happens to mirror Einstein's theory of insanity, and he was no dummy. It's also making many people wealthy for some pretty worthless online information products.

So, if you use the script out of the box, most of your money will be made from luck or successful keyword research (aka) what words and topics you use to build these niche minisites in mass production.

Now is the time to learn. Take the time to consider doing it right. - Digital Nomad

6. A SOHO Reprise of Honest Riches System
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

A 25 Year Old Entrepreneur Making a Living Online from Home

You probably have read about or heard of The Rich Jerk and Chis X of Day Job Killer. If not you better stop and do a Google search right now. About 2 years ago, Holly Mann, a young mother started to successfully market directly against high profile Internet marketing gurus like these guys.

Living in a foreign country with no job and few resources, Holly decided she could research, design, and deliver a kinder and gentler approach to online marketing. Evidently she found her niche selling "How-To" information, because she has become successful in a short period of time (well, a couple of years).

"Honest Riches 2" is a 95 page proven guide. Holly shows all the techniques she has used to make money online through affiliate programs starting with no website and no start-up money, then on to free websites that can easily be setup with little or no experience, including free advertising that most people don't know or think about.

Yes, it seems possible to make money online and work from home just about anywhere (Holly lives in Thailand), but don't quit your day job just yet. You need a system and you need the right tools and knowledge to be successful. Changing your career is a life altering decision.

Before taking the leap, do plenty of due diligence and adequate research for information and resources about starting an online business and becoming an online entrepreneur. This e-book is geared for beginners, but is a valuable resource for all online marketers. No "get-rich-quick" schemes here....like any real business endeavor, it involves some effort and some work. But you will learn strategies and techniques to start making money right away.

To read more about Holly Mann techniques and other online marketers, visit Thank You Holly Mann.

7. John Chow Calls It Quits on Agloco
(Archive in: Weblogs and Business)

After many attempts at beating a dead horse, everyone involved in the Agloco fiasco can now uncross their fingers. It ain't gonna happen. Even John Chow has finally admitted defeat along with almost 30,000 signed up in his Agloco network.

Here is a partial screenshot of his last post on the subject, and here is a link to the post about the Agloco demise at TechCruch. Like John says...it shows that all those MBAs don't always muster up success, even the second time around. For posterity, watch the video on the Agloco viewbar attributes, and think about all the gurus that were on board for this.

8. How to Build 30 Websites in 30 Days
(Archive in Ecommerce SOHO Online Usability)

It may sound implausible, but it is not impossible. Follow this Digital Nomad and you know that just feeding the blogs is not going to cut it anymore. Blogging should be part of your online marketing network, but not a diversion.

I have been searching heavy for the folks that are making it online and not the wannabes. One such source is 45n5.com authored by Mark Wielgus. This guy tells it straight. You have to hunt an peck to find the good stuff, and you will have to piece it together, but I think a good start is on this website.

Mark will show you how to find a niche, create a website in 10 minutes, and then shove it in the pipeline with some SEO tricks. Theoretically, there is no reason why you could not do this everyday for a month and then have 30 minisites up and running for affiliate programs in thirty days. That's if you want to have a website between you and the merchant.

I am finding that you maybe don't even need a website to market affiliate programs, but you do have to commit to spending some money for Google Adword campaigns. Better have a pad and pen ready.

There is always something to learn. Take the time to learn something new each day. - Digital Nomad

9. Thinking Blog Celebrates First Year with A Free Laptop Giveaway
(Archived in: Shoutouts Social Media Marketing)

Anything that goes viral online can be fun to watch, but sometimes it's even more exciting if you are part of the effort with some skin in the game. The Thinking Blog will make you think about many different things, and it will also make you think about viral marketing with the chance to start the new year right with a new laptop computer as part of an online promotion.

You should know Ilker Yoldas as a website developer and graphic designer. Ilker is also a professional blogger. A great combination for promoting ideas and new products online.

The Thinking Blog celebrates its first anniversary with an online giveaway to help get a new product line of rugged computers noticed online and hopefully taking it viral. Few things work as good as "FREE", except maybe these two words combined: "FREE COMPUTER".

The giveaway rules from Ilker state, "To enter our giveaway, all you have to do is write about it in your blog. Ensure you have two links on your blog post, one link with rugged related keywords to RuffPC.com (e.g. "rugged computer", "water resistant laptop", "spill proof notebook", and the likes) and another link to this giveaway post."

With a worldwide entourage of blog buddies and faithful readers, some bloggers become the experts of online marketing by disclosing this online information by showing you what to do. "TTB" is in this category with over 1600 subscribed RSS readers and several thousand new and returning visitors to the blog each day.

To win the free laptop giveaway at The Thinking Blog you have to participate by writing a review in your own blog post. This promotion is being sponsored by Ruff PC, and the computer giveaway is worthy of your participation.

The computer is a brand new, rugged, water resistant laptop called the RuffBook Tech. This road-worthy laptop has a magnesium alloy case, and is built to survive the harshest conditions.

Stop reading about it in this post, and go read the complete entry rules at The Thinking Blog. Now go get your chance at owning a new rugged laptop before the end of 2007. Also, congratulate llker by leaving a comment or two on the blog.

Happy Anniversary! -Digital Nomad

Related Links:

www.thethinkingblog.com or email: ilker@thethinkingblog.com
Contact: Alan Shad, President: www.ruffpc.com
Telephone or email: sales@ruffpc.com

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10. Stop Feeding Your Blogs with Endless Content
(Archived in: Social Media Marketing Social Media Optimization)

I wanted to make a quick update in reference to writing and submitting Pillar Articles to article directories vs. the chore of "Feeding Blogs" with endless content. This test is progressing nicely. I have submitted 5 pillar articles since about the middle of last month.

I know this is working, as I have been posting less to all the blogs I author in varying degrees as a test. This has not affected the blog traffic much at all. Traffic is actually improving, according to StatCounter and Alexa for two of the blogs that I author. One averaging over 10 page views per visitor at the time of this writing.

It may also be that I am now writing better, more focused content, since I do not feel pressured to try and post something every day for the sake of trying to post so frequently.

The five recent pillar articles have been downloaded for publication over 100 times in less than 30 days, and this is just for GoArticles. I periodically will submit similar articles to several of the more popular article directories.

OK. You can "stop feeding your blogs" now, and you also can stop making endless comments on popular blogs, trying to get made a "Fav" on Technorati, and otherwise making the meter go up on metrics that have much ado about nothing when it comes to quality traffic.

I think submitting to article directories will also create better traffic with better long-term and permanent links.

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11. A Cheap Way to Secure Any Domain Dot Com
(Archive in Ecommerce SOHO Online Usability)

Here is possibly a way to secure a domain name when you are in a hurry, and at the worst an extra free email account. You can use your own domain to create a personalized email address for you, a business, or anything else through an AOL service called My eAddress. You have up to 100 invites for others to get their own email address on your domain. The free service is called AOL My eAddress.

Just a few comments and cautions from the TOS. You have to give out quite a bit of personal information, like a valid cell phone number in the US or Canada. Additionally, if you use the "Bring your Own Domain" option, you can use any hosting company you like while using free email service from AOL. However, if you choose the "Popular Custom Domain" option, you will be stuck with AOL as the administrator for the domain, so you will not be able to host a website at that domain.

This could be a catch 22 for your future plans, so please read the "Terms of Service" carefully at AOL My eAddress.

Source: www.nofullstop.com

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12. Planting Seeds with Pillar Articles
(Archive in Ecommerce SOHO Weblogs and Business)

Bouncing around the blogosphere, you may find that many of the well known bloggers are coming to the same conclusions that I already have. Get back to basics, don't worry about PR, Technorati, or Alexa ranking...and concentrate on traffic.

For some people this still means spending horrific amounts of time networking and hitting the social network scene. I am more convinced that writing pillar articles for submission to article directories is a much better approach.

This involves spending more time on research and organizing your thoughts far enough into the future to determine how you can approach a particular subject. You need to write for yourself, but you also need to write about things other people will have an interest in reading.

In many ways this is much better than the prospect of having to write posts just for the sake of writing a post. I know at many times people get a writing block, or just get bored, or even fed up with the notion that they have to "feed the blog" (I think I just coined a useful phrase).

Some of the additional rewards of pillar articles, is that your writing will be more involved and engaging, you will be building authority in one or more areas of personal interest or a niche, and you will be expanding your own knowledge base as you research and process information.

Additionally, you will have a greater chance of having your articles republished elsewhere on blogs and mentioned in references in such a manner that they are permanently linked back to your blogs and websites. Go plant some seeds for future traffic building, and resist the urge to "Feed the Blog".

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13. Google Page Rank Drops Like A Rock for SEO Stars and Network Gamers
(Archive in Ecommerce SOHO Weblogs and Business)

The Death of Page Rank! Everyone is complaining about their PR, or Google Page Rank dropping. I say, "Get over it and move on". As I wrote in a recent post about traffic strategy, it is becoming more obvious all the time that all these ranking metrics really prove is nothing...unless you want to post and brag about how you make the meters move.

Just like Technorati, or Alexa ranking, PR has little or nothing to do with traffic and successful marketing. Anything ill-gotten is just that, "ill-gotten". So, if you have spent months or years gaming the system, don't be surprised to see what your true worth might be in the Blogosphere and the Arpanet.

Take a deep breath, get back to work...and try to learn how to add value to your online projects and for your readers and visitors. Like the book says "Do What You Love, and The Money Will Follow."

I think that all this nonsense is amazing to the true online marketers that know how to push the buttons to make things really work. It once again boils down to Niche, Traffic, Monetization, with the actual "Product" bringing up the rear.

Maybe backwards of how the analog world works, but after all it is a "Market of One" when it come to the Internet and online marketing. Build a better mouse trap and you will be found.

Besides, you really can't toss rocks at Google for trying to plug holes in the dam by making the PR rank more honest. More fun for gamers, too, who just have a burning desire for shortcuts and beating the system.

Now we can all look forward to posts on new theories, new techniques, new ebooks, new widgets, new podcasts, new videos, new ezines, new seminars, new gurus, and new yearly conventions. Page Rank is alive and well, it just no longer is what it had become.

Apologies in advance for all the cliches. - Digital Nomad

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14. What Do Your Phone Numbers Spell?
(Archived in: Social Media Marketing Related Miscellany)

It's the middle of the weekend, so no heavy thought riddled posts today. Just some fun and games to let your mind roam a little. Maybe this should become a habitual weekend exercise to post about. Find something that is lighthearted, but still interesting and write a quick post about it.

I have had this bookmarked for some time, and today finally tried out PhoneSpell.org. Oddly enough, my telephone number does not spell anything. What are the chances of that. I tried both 7-Digit and 10-Digit combinations. This is no joke. Mouseover and click to see larger in a new window.

Oh well, give PhoneSpell a link up and see what you come up with for your numbers. It may give you an idea for a new blog or domain name, jog your memory for a new marketing approach, or just make you laugh. Maybe we can resurrect the notion of the "enum" network.

Sometimes we just need some levity. While you are there, check out the Voice Nation link at the bottom, and help PhoneSpell pay some bills.

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15. Article Directory Submissions vs. Frequent Blog Posting to Drive Traffic
(Archived in: Ecommerce SOHO Weblogs and Business)

Are you lost in the blogosphere? Tired of posting and timestamps? I have been doing some experimenting with the different blogs that I write, including analysis and research about blogs versus websites. This has involved researching the current methods to create traffic, which everyone and their brother has rehashed in posts and how-to SEO ebooks and seminars.

You know, like leaving comments on blogs, posting frequently, writing interesting posts, viral contests, linkbating, joining social networks, etc. These all do work. The caveat is that if you are using some of the monetization schemes that everyone writes about, you first have to have a presence with regard to a Techorati rank, and Alexa rank, or both to get in the game.

The long and the short is that both of these ranking systems have little to do with making money in my mind. I personally have no interest in PPP, PPC, PPA, or any of the advertising schemes that require tons of time and effort. It is a double edge razor blade in my opinion, because you have to spend an unbelievable amount of time socializing and creating backlinks. It also is why bloggers burn out fast.

Technorati is notoriously bad for not sending traffic. And get this...everyone that measures traffic knows that bloggers don't click on ads or text links. So what is the point of pandering to other bloggers in the blogosphere to get their traffic. Even Darren Rowse has recently admitted that Adsense income was no longer worth cluttering his Problogger blog up with ads.

I can almost guarantee that if you spend much of your time in forums and social networks to gain popularity, you will have little to show for it except some nice ranks and bragging rights. All this indicates that it's time to get back to the idea of selling a niche product or service (a real product that fills a need) using a static website and driving traffic to that website. That is what online marketing is about. By best accounts, only a few dozen bloggers make a full time living out of 100 million blogs. Not a very good business model if you ask me.

A good Technorati and Alexa rank may be giving you the illusion that you are successful. The same is true for frequent posting. I have deliberately cut back on posting to see what would happen. You guessed it...Technorati and Alexa ranks drop like a rock, and very quickly. The effort to maintain your rankings is an endless nightmare of posts to blogs, and posting comments to social networks and forums. It is like being a shark, stop swimming and you die.

I am beginning to think a better approach is to use your blogging as part of a network traffic strategy to create desirable traffic. I also am going back to writing "pillar articles" for article directory submission. These end up as permanent links and keep on giving for years to come.

There are only four things that matter in online marketing, and they are in this order of importance:

1. Niche
2. Traffic
3. Monetization
4. Product

Notice that the product is the least important thing. Unless, you just write for kicks or the truly original purpose of blogging...to keep a journal, my money is on investing time online that will produce recurring revenue and better return on your investment of both time and money.

What are your thoughts or experience?

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16. Consider Buying A Rugged Laptop
Author: John Smith

If You Work in Difficult Conditions, Then A Rugged Laptop
May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered

Rugged laptops are not cheap, you may know that already since you are interested in them. And they also don't come with the same configuration as the other commercial laptops you may be used to. What you get instead with a rugged laptop, is the possibility and flexibility to work in a lot of tough locations on difficult weather. That is the real value of a rugged laptop, value that earns all the money you may have paid for it.

If you work in a place where you find one of the below listed conditions, then you should really consider buying a rugged laptop:

Liquid All Over (including on your rugged laptop)

Rugged laptops have sealed keyboards that won't let the water or any other liquid to seep inside. Also, the ports that you will find on a ruggedized laptop are usually protected by efficient covers that keep the liquid away from connectors so you won't experience any unpleasant situations in wet environments.

Strong and Persistent Vibrations

Rugged laptops were designed with this issue in mind, they have strong components, a hard drive that resists to strong vibrations, things that commercial laptops don't do. Put a normal laptop in a vibrating environment and you may have the surprise of loosing data. Not with a rugged laptop.

They are also tested for...

Drops, Drops, Drops

During a work day you may drop your rugged laptop more than once. You should know that all the components inside it are strong and tested to withstand a strong impact: CPU, hard drive, optical devices, etc. The rugged laptop case is also strong not easy to break.

Electromagnetic Fields

Commercial notebooks won't perform well near an electromagnetic area such as radio transmissions, power generators, etc. A rugged laptop was actually designed to work in such environments, environments where commercial notebooks may actually stop working.

About the author:
John Smith is the editor of MagicLaptop.com. Read the complete guide on "How To Buy A Rugged Laptop"
www.MagicLaptop.com

17. Understanding SOHO Shoutouts
(Archived in: Shoutouts Social Media Marketing)

Do you have a list of bloggers you like and want to recognize? This is what my Saturday Shoutouts project is all about.

This is where I give people a mini review as a mention in a weekly post, and then Stumble, Netscape, use other bookmarks, and write a few comments to their blog posts.

This week will be fairly brief with four bloggers instead of the targeted five blogs I attempt to call out each Saturday afternoon. Charlene is recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month by doing a pink overhaul at her Casual Keystrokes blog. Scott is happy to be an S.O.B. at Finding Your Marbles (great name for a blog). Then David points out the marketing value of YouTube in a post on Social Media Optimization, and there is Ilker at The Thinking Blog, who is always thinking for us.

Leave a comment and let me know what you are up to with your blogging efforts.

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18. Review of SOHO Phone Guide
(Archived in: Ecommerce SOHO Online Usability)

Doing a recent search on "SOHO", the obvious acronym for Small Office/Home Office (assuming that you are not from New York City), I came across this website for the SOHO Phone Guide.

It is a good example of "soft selling" and using what looks like a free consumer information guide to steer readers to a commercial enterprise. In this case, a shameless plug for Onebox. In my early marketing days before the days of the Internet, this may have also been referred to as an advertorial. A thinly disguised attempt at making an advertisement look like editorial content.

In this case the marketing message may be useful for those that are lazy, or perhaps less adept a putting some of the free online telephony solutions together for use in there small business adventures.

I was a Onebox early adopter when it first came online, and prior to it becoming a paid service. All-in-all, still a good option for those willing to pay a monthly fee for unified messaging and a one number follow-me type telephone service.

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19. Saturday Shoutout Roundup
(Archived in: Shoutouts Social Media Marketing)

Once again time to acknowledge new friends and blogs worthy of note and interest. As is the new twist, you should get 3-4 extra links from being mentioned in my Saturday Shoutouts. Not sure why, but Shoutwire was being obstinate last week. That bookmark has been replaced with a bonus link. You also get a few comment or two on your blog and another Stumble for being picked.

This week we have Patrick from Top Secret Blogger and advice about staying on topic, John the Cow man is proud of his new look at John Cow Dot Com, and thoughtful design with Dawud at DawudMiracle. Round it out with what's up about music and cats at Wtfzup, plus Wendy at the new eMoms at Home (and Dads with Dawud again).

As might be expected, I too need the favors of social media networking, and those beloved comments on my personal blogs at the links that follow. -Digitalnomad

The SOHO Quest
Digital Nomads
The Sovereign Journey
The Rugged Notebooks Blog

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20. TokBox Alternatives to Video Messaging
(Archived in: Online Usability Technology in Plain English)

Here are a few other online Video Messaging systems I should have mentioned in my last post about TokBox. Everyone that uses the tried and true Skype will know that they have video capability. Other contenders are OoVoo.com, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and many others I don't care to mention or promote.

Festoon,Inc. had a plug-in for video chat that supposedly worked with both Skype and Google Talk, but the free download is no longer available (website www.festooninc.com domain expired 8-30-07) .

The best of the lot is said to be SightSpeed. Below are two promotional screenshots from the Skype and SightSpeed websites to give you an idea if what to expect.

Sorry to say that I am behind on my testing, and hope to report my personal findings in the near future. No doubt that as telephones and computers continue to converge there will be more "Talk-and-See" options, just like predicted in the Dick Tracy comics and Flash Gordon movies from the 1930s.

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21. TOK While You Chat and Alternative Talk Online with TokBox
(Archived in: Online Usability Technology in Plain English)

This was noted on Jimmy Huen's Blog some time ago last month, and I must admit I was intrigued. Also a little bit embarrassed as I did not have a video camera to test it out. I finally ran out and bought a camera (still in the box).

I do fancy free or near free telephony and communication solutions, and probably will end up building my own private network one way or another. The idea of video chat will certainly figure into those plans. I want to be able to at least have this capability with a rugged laptop and some wireless solutions when on the road.

I still have not had a chance to test TOKBOX, but wanted to at least post about it, and then I can come back and do an update. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch also has said some nice things about it.

"While there are plenty of video chat products out there on the market, including Skype, most of them require at least some software download to the computer. Something about the simplicity of TokBox, which is entirely a web application, suggests it might get very popular very fast."

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22. Saturday Shoutouts On A Cool September Day
(Archived in: Shoutouts Social Media Marketing)

Here are some Saturday Shoutouts featuring new blog buddies that are always there when you need them. These blogging bright spots help to boost the morale of those around them. There are many, so this will be the first of several posts.

I also want to thank you with these extra links. For this post we have Liz from Successful Blog Dot Com and her well known SOB promotion, Agent Sully at Life Learning Today, Loren with his always interesting Search Engine Jounal, Sujan and Single Grain Dot Com, plus Charlene with some essential info at her Essential Keystrokes Blog.

As an added bonus I also have cast some Reddit votes, Shoutwire (or something else special) for individual posts I have read on your sites. I hope this gets you some extra juice to your blogs.

Should you be inclined to return the favor, I have listed embedded links to all of my personal blog endeavors below to make it easy. Thanks for being there.

The SOHO Quest
Digital Nomads
The Sovereign Journey
The Rugged Notebooks Blog

Leaving a comment or two on my blogs is also always appreciated. -Digitalnomad

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23. Everything in the Known Universe about Technorati-Illuminati
(Archived in: Related Miscellany Weblogs and Business)

Well not quite everything. I had not updated this blog since sometime in August until today. In the process of checking my stats on Technorati I came across this anomaly.

As you can see from these screenshots taken today, I have two Technorayi scores. One says that this blog is in the Top 10K with a rank of 7,680, and the other screenshot shows this blog ranked at nearly twice that number with a rank 14,659. This descrepency occurs by clicking on different links within the Technorati UI.

I actually discovered something was wrong when I was checking the stats for JaKelDaily.com. I usually make the top comments there each month, and keep tabs on Jason. I new something was awry, because Technorati shows Jason's blog with an authority of "1" (-1-) and a rank of 3,915,745. Statistic that keep getting worse instead of better.

Many people get bent out of shape over Technorati stats and the ranking system, and for some good reasons. This is why I have in the past called Technorati the Illuminati of the Blogosphere.

Very mysterious, very secret...and probably part of a worldwide blog conspiracy. Just joking! This has to be part of an update glitch. Let me know your thoughts, and if you have had similar experiences.

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24. Just What Are Archives and How Important Are They to Your Blog?
(Archived in: Related Miscellany Weblogs and Business)

"Archives", or archiving for most blog platforms is something that for the most part happens automatically in the background with no action or "command" necessary for it to take effect. This is similar to auto-save. New bloggers can simply read about it when starting a new blog, set up their archive preferences...and then forget it.

First let's look at the concept of a "blog archive". As you might expect, it simply means a system to file or store blog posts for future reference. Since blogs were first written and intended to be more or less online personal journals, blog posts naturally were first archived in a reverse chronological order.

This makes some sense, as anyone reading your blog for the first time would probably want to read the current or most recent post. This submission would then be auto-archived by first the day, then the week, and then the month, and eventually the year.

Most blogging platforms display the archives in a sidebar, with some ability for you to control how the archives are listed, and how these lists are displayed to readers.

Anyone that has been blogging for any length of time, probably refers to their archives on a regular basis without thinking much about it. This comes in handy when you are linking to a past post as an update, for reference to create deep linking for SEO purposes, or as a continuation of a series for a particular subject of your blogging niche.

The beauty of blog archives is that you really don't have to think about them once you set up your preferences, but they are always there. This is not much different than the concept of doing automatic backups of your important computer files for permanent media storage.

It is easy to just think of a blog archive as a record of your blog posts for long-term or permanent storage for future reference. For a fairly complete glossary of current blogging terms visit The Giant Blogging Terms Glossary. "Archives" is listed there under the subhead of "Blog Components and Functions".

This post is part of a Link and Blog Dot Com project to list 40 common blog terms as defined by bloggers in their own words. That list is still being posted and updated at this link for L&B Glossary.

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25. Saturday Afternoon Shoutouts Mid August 2007
(Archived in: Shoutouts Social Media Marketing)

Here are some Saturday Shoutouts for a few people that have been helping out behind the scenes. Some are new acquaintances, but all are working most notably behind the scenes in some networking efforts, or new business venture.

You know who you are and what you do, and for that I say thanks with these linkbacks. So here we go...there is Salmon from Webtechlog, Ray at Freshblogger, Thomas with his Photography from Norway, Mark with the Zimbie Project, Noor from My Journey to Recovery, Derek the VoIP Professor, and Wayne and his Tip of the Iceberg.

As a bonus and a tip from Saman, I also have Stumbled your sites. Hope it give you some Juice.

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American Jobs: Going, Going...

Jane Birnbaum
2005
Reprinted from: AFLCIO.org

Corporations are escalating efforts to ship out jobs that pay well and build the middle class—and now they are aiming their axes at workers in the nation’s fast-growing white-collar sector.

The U.S. recession that began in March 2001 officially ended in November 2001, say the National Bureau of Economic Research and other analysts.

So why are so many workers still out of jobs?

“We’ve declared victory over the recession, and we’re still laying off a couple hundred thousand workers a month,” says Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.). “If it weren’t so painful for so many people who are out of work, it would be hilarious. But it isn’t.”

The U.S. economy has 3.2 million fewer jobs today than it did when President George W. Bush took office, including 2.5 million fewer manufacturing jobs. Bush appears headed for the dubious distinction of being the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over a decline in total employment during his term in office.

In the past three years, nearly one in five U.S. workers was laid off from the job, according to The Disposable Worker: Living in a Job-Loss Economy, a Rutgers University¡V University of Connecticut report released in late July. Among workers laid off from full-time work, roughly one-fourth were earning less than $40,000 annually, the report finds.

In July, a total of 15 million U.S. workers were either unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to job hunt, according to the Labor Department.

In contrast, within a year after the official end of the last recession in March 1991, the nation had embarked on six straight months of solid job growth.

This time, say economists, there are crucial differences: Companies are sending well-paying manufacturing and service jobs to countries with few, if any, protections for workers and the environment. And these jobs are probably not coming back.

“The movement of jobs and production overseas is handcuffing the recovery,” according to Mark Xandi, chief economist at Economy.com, as quoted in the New York Times.

“With NAFTA, the World Trade Organization and other trade deals of the last decade, American corporations are now tapping into a global supply of workers who can be trained to do everything from design to production, maintenance to marketing,” says Jeff Faux, economist and founding president of the Economic Policy Institute. “And while these workers become more productive, their pay doesn’t rise, because in many of these countries, to be a labor organizer means you risk winding up in a ditch with a bullet in your head.”

American jobs sent out of the country aren’t likely to return anytime soon. “As long as employers can take advantage of much lower labor costs in