The latest in the pop up gadgets is Exitfire.

This is an easy to install gadget and works very very well.

It not only increases your traffic but you get credits for your visitors.

There is a free version and an upgraded version both are well worth having.

Check the site out and give it a try for free or do the upgrade, either way your traffic will increase.

I have been doing some research on the number of offers of getting paid to click.

Three I sought out were Lollipop mails, Flame mails and Planet mails.

These three offer ridiculous amounts of money to view ads.

Guess what! The money is not real. I call it Lollipop money.

You can only convert these so called dollars into advertising and it takes over one million dollars to advertise.

These three must be linked in some way as they all have the same format and the same cash out policy. Which is no cash out at all.

Beware of this sort of offer.  If you pay them anything and then find out you do not get paid you will lose your money.

These sites also do not give you good exposure and quite frankly I would not like my site linked to theirs.

This is a definite buyer beware situation.

So Saying there are some good one out there and I am with a couple of them and they give great expousre and you get great results. (lots of sign ups etc.)

http://alturl.com/2599 

this site pays $10 per click and really does pay and their advertising is very reasonable and well worth joining as a paid member.

They have a free option but you do not get as many ads to view.

This next one pays $1.00 per click and it also pays the money out and great advertising rates and also has a free option.

http://alturl.com/cvhd

The New in Thing is Mobile Phone Marketing! I will never ever give anyone my mobile number again.

Can you imagine having your mobile phone inbox loaded with the amount of mail that you get to your junk email system?

There is also a big catch with these and this is very much user beware.

If you give anyone your mobile phone number read the fine print very, very carefully as you may be charged for them sending you the mail, replying to it or in some cases even canceling it.

I will never resort to this type of advertising I think it has great potential to be abused and what worries me is the legal, moral and ethical implications.

We have enough advertising in our lives and do not need our Mobile Phones Cluttered with more junk.

Some offers will not let you past a certain point unless you input a mobile number.  This is a low practice at best and these offers should be given a wide berth.

Imagine your mobile Phone in the morning with 200 messages!

The thought is horrifying.

 So how many times have you seen someone offer you a
free trial of something or other, but to get started
you need to provide a credit card number, or use your
Paypal account to sign up.

  A lot of services or products even ask that you pay
ONLY $1 to start any sort of trial and act as if you
are getting an incredible value. 

  But what they are really doing is getting your credit
card number or PayPal account locked into their auto
re-billing feature and hiding behind their real motive
simply by telling you that it is for your convenience.

  It is a well known fact that many people who offer
products or services are making more money due simply
to people forgetting to cancel these auto re-bills.

  Now I'm not in any way speaking for all marketers.
Many do in fact provide great value and are trying to
make things easier, but it is also an overly abused
marketing tactic to make the product or service owner
a lot of extra recurring income.

  You see a lot of unethical marketers know that most
of the time you will forget about the trial and a few
months later you will finally notice that you have been
charged XX dollars every month.  Guess who makes a pile
of money that way.  That's not cool man.

  So it is something to watch out for when signing up
to any fr.ee trials of anything.

  On a total flip side, here's an example of a guy who
has an insanely good fr.ee trial offer, but you don't
have to give your credit card or Paypal account up
front.  It's just a free trial, because he believe it
works and is not hiding behind anything!

  http://smart.gurumarketer.com?c=9501 
 
 
  It's a no obligations 90 Day Free Trial of what's
called the Smart Subscriber marketing system. His name
is Ian and he's been an online marketer for over a
decade and claims he will make you mon.ey through
affi.liate comm.issions just to prove his service is
worth paying for!

  With no credit cards or Paypal account stuff upfront,
I'd say that's a pretty rock solid and safe fr.ee trial.

 

I am a member of most Social sites, Twitter, Tweetglide,Facebook,Sokule,Google Buzz and the new one on the block SWOM.

For your general social sites you have Facebook (of which I am not a big fan due to the abusive nature of some of its members).

Then comes Google Buzz.  This I like very much as you can access it from your email and link your sites and others to it easily and post to them as well. this works very well and means you only have to log into one site to get all the feeds.

Well Twitter and Tweetglide are good for business people and they have a good social side as well.  The information you get via these sites is good quality and from dedicated people.

The new SWOM I joined recently and is aimed at the proffessional marketer.

The number of followers and business opportunities available and number of people willing to try your offers is positively amazing.

SWOM is free to join and you can list your sites there for Free as well.

Have you found yourself spending more and more time on the Internet instead of more and more time doing the things you love or want to do?

We all get caught up in this on-line thing but we have to have balance in our lives, not only for our mental stability but for our overall wellbeing.

It does not matter how young or old you are in this we are all equal.

Friends come in all shapes.

Our families and loved ones need us too.!

Take the time to spend at least one hour per day doing the thing you love or spending exclusive time with the ones you love.  The difference in your life will amaze you.

I love being on the net, it is fun and fascinating but I get up and go for a long walk, spend time with my animals and talk to my children.

I have to physically and psychologically turn off from the internet to enjoy the real world.

Before I wrote this I was sitting outside watching the torrential rain which finally came to ease the parched land. The rain was soothing and watching all the native animals eating and drinking oblivious to the rain was a sight I wish everyone could see.

Remember we only have one life!

Live it to the fullest extent you can and along the way you will also help other live theirs to the best they can.

You may never know the difference you have made in someones life but everyday we change someones life in some way.  Let’s make the change for the better.

Smile even if you do not want to, it changes people.

Stop and smell the Roses, their beauty only lasts a short while but they will be back next year

This one is really going to stir up a lot of people.

I like most as you get older start to put weight on where you do not want it.

A friend had the same problem and she did just one thing and I could not believe the result. She had lost weight, not just a bit but a lot and she was not a particularly active person and she had not done anything else to lose the weight.

She cut out Bread!

OK, so I cut out bread. I would maybe eat two slices a day but the result was amazing. I lost the weight from the area I needed to lose it.

This is  completely free and easy to try to see if this is the one that works for you.  It does not happen overnight, but it does happen and I am so glad I perservered (I almost lapsed a couple of times).

But I am healthier and trimmer having taken this simple step.

I hope it works for you.

Cherie.

There has been a lot of information or disinformation going on across the web lately about sites like this one being a rip off for the person who runs it as an affiliate.

Well I for one would not be without this site.  It has taught me a lot and has excellent up to date content.

Yes it does make money for the person I am an affiliate to but I do not mind that. They put in the hard yards and I am still learning what they already know.

If anyone take a look around this site they will see a lot of products for sale or for Free.  Some of these products are my personal products or products of other people who wanted to have their products on my site.

There are sites out there that are Iffy! but try to weed them out (this is hard).

Yes I do pay a monthly fee, but I do not pay the hosting or any other ongoing fees. This is a win for me and something else I do not have to spend my time on.

I appreciate everyones comments and respect their opinions on this subject because a lot of people have been burnt and it is very tough out there.

Remember No One is a Failure on the net, you do not fail at anything on the net you just give up trying, there is a difference.

If you are having a tough time of it, try getting the free websubmitters you download to your desktop and work from there.  They work very well and you do get listed. One in particular is a Free bulk submitter and works very well

http://www.fastdirectorysubmitter.com/downloads.HTML

Have a great 2010.

Cherie

Well it had to happen when you have cats that are raised by a dog.

My dear Beagle, Lana went off chasing foxes (the only thing she will chase).  Unfortunately my two cats lined up behind her and headed for the hills close on the trail of the fox.

They came back after about an hour and they were all covered in thorns, cuts and everything else (I bet the fox won).

So off to the vet and luckily my vet is in to a lot of natural products and they are on the mend. No serious damaged done, just hurt pride I think.

I am now putting my articles where my mouth is and using the cat training information to see if I can retrain them.

If you need to train your animal I have a couple of good selections in these pages for you to look at.

My cats names are Sooty and Prinwata.

Health and Happiness to your pets whatever they are.

If you need to train your cat try the link below.  Just  go to this URL:

http://www.cherie47.net/CatTraining

Cherie