Wednesday, 31. March 2010
Happy Hour App Saves You Money
Save money at happy hour with this friendly iPhone app. Simply open the Cocktail Compass and the app tells you where happy hour is, how far it is, how much longer remaining on happy hours, and even has an automatic ” call a cab ” feature. The Stranger says,
” With Cocktail Compass you’ll be able to:
*Easily find happy hours that are happening near you RIGHT NOW.
*Search for bars with your preferred features (patios, pool, dancing, free wi-fi, etc).
*Bookmark your favorite places.
*And, once you’ve gotten good and drunk, you can call a cab quickly and easily! “
You can download the Cocktail Compass at the Stranger’s website. You might also like my article on the Happy Hour Finder app.
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Monday, 29. March 2010
A Successful Blog Starts By Defining Your Audience and Niche
A successful blog can be measured in a number of different ways. The easiest way to measure a blogs success is analytically. How many visitors in the demographic you are targeting are visiting your site? The second way is revenue; how much money, duckets, dollars, chavo, or pesos. And finally, user interaction; is your blog truly Web 2.0?
Successful Blogs Define Audience and Niche
For instance, let’s say you have about dating. There are 180,000,000 pages that relate to “dating” indexed by Google. The chances of someone finding your site by searching for dating are pretty slim. But when you narrow the scope of your blog to free dating, the number of competing pages drops to 41,500,000 pages, about %23 of the total number of matches to dating. And if you take this one word further and make the search absolutely free dating, the total search responses drop to 2,060,000 indexed pages, about %1 of the original search.
So let’s say you are a dating expert, and want to start a blog about free dating. To bring in traffic from search engines, you’ll need to narrow your focus to article or pages with 3 – 6 keywords, often referred to long tail keywords. For example, the following are the top longtail keywords for “free dating”:
- Free dating online
- Free dating site
- Free dating service
- Free online dating services
- Dating for free
These different niche keywords all have to do with your defined audience, people looking for advice on free dating. If your blog has an advertising network showing relevant ads, the chances of increased revenue are maximized from the relevant ads being shown. If you have are looking for interaction with your visitors, the likelihood of people making contact are greater now due how specific each page is.
Now that you are writing your article topics for your target audience, you’ll want to breadcrumb your site. Simply put, if you are writing an article, and you mention a key word that is developed in a different page, use that keyword to link to the page in question. You can even use that keyword to link to a category or tag page. This will help your readers find the articles they are looking for, but as an incidental bonus, your entire site will start to rank better in the search engine results page.
If your site is already written, don’t worry. You can go back and make minor edits to individual pages to better optimize keywords, keyword density, and intrasite linking strategy. By employing these tips you can turn a broad keyword into longtail keyword magic.
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Sunday, 28. March 2010
Save Money While Dining Out
Saving money eating at restaurants almost seems counter intuitive. Let’s face it, generally it costs more to dine out for two than it does to eat at home. For some people, dining out is a necessity some times. How many times have you been finishing up to go home and your supervisor tells you that the report that is due tomorrow morning is now due before you leave? By the time you are close to getting home it is late and you have no desire to cook dinner. Here are some tips, advice, and links to other articles to help get the most out of your dining budget.
Save Money – Plan Ahead
So, you know that eventually you are going to need to eat out. And when it’s time to be dining out, you don’t necessarily have the time to look on the internet for which local restaurant had a special going on. Have no fear, coupon man is here. Ok, I admit that was pretty dorky, but it emphasizes the point I want to make. Plan ahead by clipping coupons. I know this seems like pretty basic stuff, but you would be surprised by how effective this is.
Let’s start by getting your chain paid discounts. One popular discount is to use the restaurant.com gift certificate deal. You get a $25 gift certificate for around $10. Now that’s what I call easy money. I found an amazing selection of neat little eateries around my office in downtown Norfolk, VA.
Another great resource is the local coupon magazine that is often delivered in the mail or placed out front of local grocery stores. The one for the Norfolk, VA coupon magazine is www.MoneyClipMagazine.com. On a slow weekend I’ll clip out coupons for the restaurants that I know are close to the my house, my office, or the route between the two. A lot of people don’t want to clip and carry coupons around. So don’t clip and carry coupons. Put the entire magazine in the car, your briefcase, or your back pack. Don’t forget to carry one of those safety paper cutters.
Save Money – Pack Ahead
If you want to save money eating out, the worst mistake is to go to the local restaurant hungry. I know that seems like an oxymoron, but it is true. If you dine out while you are famished, you’ll generally eat and spend more. To counter this, keep some small snacks in your desk, locker, purse, brief case, etc..
I recommend either nuts or dried fruit as they are fairly healthy. But is could be one of those small 100 calorie snack packs, some crackers, or even a couple jelly beans. Eat a small snack and have at least 8 ounces of water 10 minute before you leave the house, office, or conference. By the time you get to the restaurant your blood sugar will be back on the rise, and the water you drank will turn off some of the natural hunger signals.
Save Money Eating Out Articles
10 Ways To Save Money When Eating Out – savingadvice.com
Tips For Saving Money When Eating Out – mommysavers.com
Eating Out Affordably, Restaurant Saving Money Tips And Advice – moneyinstructor.com
16 Strategies To Save Money Eating Out – www.couponsherpa.com
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