The 12 Days of Christmas

Mark Hendricks is at it again this year with "The 12 Days of Christmas". Sometimes known as "The Marketer's Santa", Mark has had successful 12 Days of Christmas promotions since 2003!

This isn't some worthless junk that you see everywhere. All of the gifts are original products or services from created by their owners!

Registration is free and it all starts December 3rd and ending December 23rd.

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"Cyber Monday" sets a new record for spending

I hope you were part of this record day. The day after Thanksgiving is known as "Cyber Monday" and this year was an exceptional one.

Reuters is reporting this morning that shoppers spent a record $733 million! This was up over 21% over last years "Cyber Monday".

Online buyers rose 38 percent from a year ago and the data also showed that 60 percent of the money spent came from work computers!

The most trafficked sites came as no surprise; they included Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and Dell.

I have been real busy building a lot of shopping sites and blogs getting ready for "Cyber Monday" and it indeed payed off. It is not too late to get that shopping site up now.

Source Reuters

Time to move over to Wordpress?

Everywhere I go I see WordPress and how much everyone loves it. Much to my dismay as I have said before I do not know PHP, MySQL or any other programing but I am going to do it!

I realize the benefits that WordPress has to offer. Caroline Middlebrook has talked about it quite a bit as well as Amy Bass moving her site over to WordPress. All the 'successful blogs' that I have noticed are all on WordPress. Courtney Tuttle has a great article about many different plug-ins that would make my life more proficient.

I'm looking forward to this new task and the increase in productivity. I go on the road the first of the year for 6 months and I need to streamline my business. With over 20 sites and 15 blogs and Squidoo lens it is a lot ot keep up with and I am adding more everyday!

Google + Oil = Great Opportunity!

Google's stock broke above $700 a share yesterday and it got me thinking. Oil too has risen to record levels and I can't help but think of the correlation here. Google is making unseen amounts of money and there is no limit for them right now.

That capitalizes into a great opportunity for those looking to make a living from home. Working from home saves money in many ways mainly saving on gas. So as more people work from home the demand goes down thus the price of oil goes up. This is my theory so please don't take me verbatim.

Even if you don't know how to read a stock chart, you can clearly see the price of Google going up and the black line behind the candlesticks is the relative price of oil to Google. You can clearly see they follow each other very close.

Bottom line, get your butt going and do something! What a great opportunity to make a living from home and it's only going to get better.