Selecting An Unusual Present For A Friend Who Has An Interest In Star Signs
Love it or loathe it Christmas shopping is something the majority of us are resigned to doing. But when you have to find a Christmas gift for an astrology enthusiast it can prove even more of a problem. Here are a few ideas for choosing unusual Christmas gifts that, while targeting star sign devotees, are actually applicable to anyone who is difficult to buy for.
Possibly you enjoy the frenzy of gift shopping each year. I dislike it intensely. I am too busy for Christmas shopping and have things I would much prefer to do. So I really do not need the extra hassle of searching for a gift for someone with an interest I know little about, such as the zodiac.
It could be that you manage to buy unusual gifts for everyone and their faces light up with delight when they open their Christmas presents. My family make polite noises of gratitude then I find the socks, after-shave or whatever, tucked away unused in a cupboard six months later. (They can usually manage to use all the alcohol!)
I really resent time and money wasted on presents that just do not hit the mark with the recipient. It's not that I'm mean, or uncaring, I just do NOT know what to buy people that will fit in with their interests. I have enough problems looking for interesting gifts in areas I know well, without the added difficulty of looking for astrology Christmas novelties on top of everything else.
My family and friends are all lucky enough that they have everything they want - well, at least in the category of expenses that I can afford as a present. I dare say a Christmas Porsche for one son would raise much enthusiasm and the other would be delighted if he received the keys to his own home. But with a tight Christmas budget, shortage of time and no idea what presents to buy, I need to get a little creative, particularly when hunting for a Christmas gift for a star sign enthusiast.
While still relevant to our zodiac enthusiast, let's generalize and look at the most important characteristics of unusual Christmas gifts?
1. It should be different - not boring slippers, chocolate, smellies etc
2. It should be affordable by the giver
3. It should NOT look crummy to the receiver - ideal if it's impossible that they can guess the cost
4. It should be practical or (take your pick) totally fun
5. It should be something they have always wanted
and/or
6. It should be something they would never dream of buying for themselves
7. It should be easy to buy (on the Internet is best for me, I have no desire to wait in line for hours to buy this year's latest fad gadget)
8. It would be great (but not compulsory) if it gave something to chat about instead of the Christmas TV
Well, I'm not sure if I've made your Christmas Shopping life any easier or much harder with my list of "how to pick a Christmas gift" tips, but there are hopefully some ideas for you to think over.
Of course shopping online will save you much stress and time and also give you the chance to click around all the links on a website at a time convenient to yourself, unhindered by pushy shop assistants following you round.
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Tissa Godavitarne's ACME People Search & GDI Support Forum
I've deep-linked to the Advertising section, but there's a whole lot more!
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Tissa
Free SEO Analysis - for APS members - first come, first served!
Hi folks,
This is something I just thought of. Since you guys are all such a fantastic bunch, and this community keeps getting better all the time, I thought to provide this value-added service to you.
I use IBP (Internet Business Promoter) - slightly older version, but effective nonetheless - for analyzing and optimizing websites. It's a fantastic tool, and I thought that perhaps some people could benefit from this analysis - even though people might not be able to afford a copy of it themselves.
A while back I used this software to optimize one of my websites, and it has been amongst the top 10 for more than 6 months. IBP will analyze the top 10 websites for your chosen keywords, and give you suggestions to tweak your page by comparing to those top ten sites.
Here is what I can do for you (this is free of cost for APS members, since you guys all rock, and you deserve to get paid forward to in this way):
I can have your page analyzed for SEO and send you back suggestions that the program makes - as a RTF or PDF file. These will contain a lot of suggestions - very detailed - you will be surprised at how helpful this will be for you.
For obvious reasons, I can only entertain one page per person, so send me the one URL you consider the most crucial. So sorry, I wish it could be more, but I don't want to make promises I cannot fulfill.
Here is what you must do:
1. Post here that you need my help. I will go according to the queue here, but also you must PM me (in #2). I will go on a first come, first served basis.
2. Send me a PM with the desired keywords for which you want your website to rank, plus one URL that you want analyzed. Please note that I can only do one set of keywords per URL, due to the shortage of time.
3. Wait for me to get back to you with the analysis report. If you don't hear from me within a week, please PM and remind me again. (Just in case I forget or something slips through the cracks). Include your email, so I can mail you the report.
4. The report will be sent you via email, once I can have the software analyze it for you.
5. If it helps you, please post back here with the results. This is not to give me a pat on the back,
but more so that people can see the kind of results they might expect, and also the scope of this service.That's it. Hope this will help anyone out there who can use the help.
I can't guarantee how long I can do this, and I do have limited time (between my IM and creating my own new sites and campaigns, studio work, voluntary projects, sleep, eating, etc.
), so as long as I can keep up with this, I will. Just a plea: please bear with me due to my myriad commitments - it might take a bit of time to get back to you, and I will do this in the background while I work on things. If I can't keep it up, then I might have to withdraw this service, but this is just a test run for now.
Somesh.
Free Traffic for your website!
Hello guys, i want to share with you something that helped me very much, that is FREE TRAFFIC!
Every site must have traffic and i will share some proven ways that I've used to boost my
website's traffic.Question abaout hosting choice at step 2
I specified GDI Only (Matrix) at step 2 but yesterday my new ACME referral created his search engine with hostgator. Why?
monthly subscription and payable account ballance
Hello everyone..
I cancel subsciption for step3 monthly on the third subscription because there's no funds in my paypal account.
I see in current earnings that my accounts payable is zero, when I was in a state of step3 subscription, my payable account balance is $ 205.
step 3 is currently locked.
current APS Referral Fees Payable is the "$ 205"
In the next payment period, I will get paid or not with this condition?
thanksThis Is Who I Am! Who Are YOU?
I know this is off topic but I hope to use this thread for us all to get to know a little about each other.
My name is Neil, 29 years young, born on 16th January 1981, live in a small town called Ashby De-La-Zouch in Leicestershire smack bang in the centre of England (furthest point away from the sea) in the United Kingdom, and I have 2 younger brothers who are aged 9 and 17.
I am currently single
, live for the weekend with my mates, have no kids, don't smoke and I work as a part time Sales Assistant for Tesco the world's 3rd largest retailer (with Walmart being the 1st, lol.) I also have 2 basic Fist Aid qualifications, basic Food Hygiene levels 1 and 2 qualifications aswell as a GNVQ - General National Vocational Qualification in Business Studies.I was recently taking a course with Advent IT training learning Web Design and how to be a PC Technician. Unfortunately the company went bust meaning I couldn't carry on with my training but luckily I have APS to fall back on and with you great people to help carry me through.
I love a challenge in life, meeting people, making new friends and I enjoy participating in fundraising events such as Dragon Boat Racing and 10 Kilometre runs to raise sponsorship for Marie Curie Cancer Care and Cancer Research UK. These are my 2 main charities and I do all this in memory of some unfortunate family members who suffered from cancer.
Here is my personal Facebook profile. Please feel free to add me as a friend if you want to know more about me and my personal life. (There are plenty of embarassing photos too) but please don't post anything business related on my wall is all I ask
http://www.facebook.com/neil.clues
This is me... what's your story?
Neil
Free Advertising Topic Revival!
There are literally thousands of postings from when this forum originated on many topics and I am creating this thread to revive many of those techniques.
Just going through many of them so that they can be implemented to see if their effectiveness is still applicable today. Which most of them will be of course but since they are from long ago and long forgotten (or just not found), this is a good time to implement a "revival" of techniques lost to the archives.
Everyone please share any archived material here with a link to the original poster and results of your efforts in utilizing them.
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Since, I am currently on a free classified advertising campaign I am beginning this with Mike Oyama's post REEMikes Advertiser Listing Directory, dated: Jul 8 2009. The reason being is that when I went to this blog it had some free advertising sites that I never heard of mixed with many that have been around for awhile.
I will be spending the next couple of weeks working these sites to gather data on how effective this can be for our current efforts. Updates will come regularly for this. Mike, thank you for this post, it is from long ago but I see a lot of value with this
Happy Marketing,
Amy
Get Control Over How Often Wordpress Pings Your Blog
Hello again. Keeping up with a sequel of Wordpress plugins posts, today, I€ll show you a plugin that prevents Worpress from pinging your blog€s update unnecessarily. You know, Worpress, by default, ping your blog every time you edit and save a post or page. More than unnecessary, this may also pose as a thread for your blog indexing, since you site may be flagged as spam, drastically reducing the odds of first page indexation, even on long tailed keywords.
I€ll start with a brief introduction of what ping means, for those who doesn€t know what I€m talking about. Then I€ll introduce this plugin I€m talking about, show you where and how to install it, and finally, how to configure it. I hope it can be useful for you.
Introduction
So, what is ping? Basically, all we need to know is that a ping works like some kind of signal your website send to search engines to tell them that it has been updated, as in you added new pages and posts. So, every time you use a ping service, you are informing search engines that there is new content on your website, so that they can send their €crawlers€ to index your new pages, and so on.
cbnet Ping Optimizer
This plugin called cbnet Ping Optimizer will make Wordpress€s auto-ping function wiser. It will prevent Wordpress to ping your blog every time you edit a page, preventing your website to be flagged as spam. You can view more information about the plugin here.
To install it, just follow the standard procedure to install a plugin on Wordpress: login to your administrator section, click on €Plugins€, €Add New€ and enter €cbnet Ping Optimizer€ at the search form. Find the plugin on the results and click on €Install€ and €Install Now€ on the pop-up window.
Once the installation process is over, activate the plugin. You should be taken to the installed plugins list page. Find Ping Optimizer and click on €Settings€.
From the setting page, you can add more update services URI (find more sites here), choose to enable or disable pinging, perform a manual ping, and so on.
Once you are done customizing your installation, save your changes and there you go! It is already working as it should be. You are no longer in danger of getting banned from search engines due to excessive pings. You blog will ping only when you create a new post or page.
Ajuda para Brasileiros/Support for Brazilian people
Hello. I visited a topic yesterday from a guy from portugal offering support for brazilians in his native language. After that, considering that brazilian portuguese is actually different from portugal portuguese, I decided to create this topic, to help people from Brazil who can't understand english very well, with the ACME People Search program.
My help includes but is not limited to completing the 3 steps, setting up the domain name, subscribing to the affiliate programs and so on.
From this post on, I'd like to say that my further posts on this topic will be on portuguese. If some user who doens't speak portuguese fell uncomfortable with that, just manifest yourself and I'll put translation below my posts.
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Pessoal do Brasil, usem esse topico para postar suas duvidas sobre o programa. Vou fazer o melhor possível para responder todas elas e ajuda-los, entretanto, se alguem mais puder e quiser ajudar, será muito bem-vindo.
Programas desse estilo ainda n£o existem no Brasil. Do tipo 'revendedor Natura virtual'.. pra falar a verdade, eu estou tentando bolar alguma coisa que possa ser aplicada a nós, que facilite os pagamentos, comunicações e tenha um potencial de ganho igual a programas americanos.. mas ta dificil!
Mas.. vamo que vamo n© gente? A final, somos brasileiros e n£o desistimos nunca. Fiquem a vontade para postar suas duvidas.
Hi, Tissa!
My partners of ACME registered to you to GDI. You sent me a letter
saying that everything will function as before, even without pay.
As a result, I see that it is not.
It's like a Trojan horse! And I was not informed about it.
So as you act with partners who are experiencing temporary
difficulties with money and can not pay for the ACME ?
Frankly, after ACME me in GDI no reported Affiliates. Not for the first
trial 30 days, nor for the next. ANY!!!
I guess they are all registered with Tissa! Maybe that is why he has such a high rating on the LeaderBoard :DI guess they are all registered with Tissa! Maybe that is why he has such a high rating on the LeaderBoard
But it is vile!
Why should I pay $ 39 in ACME I do not understand.
Can anyone deny this and explain?