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March 03, 2008

Creative music with Garageband

Playing with Garageband on my imac, brilliant program, and adding music audio to my utterz.



Still amazed at how beneficial a mac is, makes such a difference to everything.

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February 26, 2008

Over Fifty

I am now 50.  Life begins at 40 until you reach fifty, when life begins again.

I'm off to practice being a "grumpy old woman" or should I wait until I reach 60?

Naahhh !!!

Better get started today so i am well practiced by the time I hit 60 :>))

Time goes so quickly and I remember thinking I would never reach 19, probably when I was about 14 years old.

Enjoy life

Diane "over fifty" Stafford
http://www.arthobby.co.uk/

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February 22, 2008

Link Building Sites

Agoldstar_2Link building sites continue to be important for anyone with their own website who aims to increase their traffic.

The internet is populated with many high quality websites, yours may be one of them! Yet the internet is also littered with scams and shams sites which often appear in the front page search results, perhaps even above your quality site.

One of the many things the less than savory site owners do is use link building sites.

Link building sites are those such as article marketing sites, blogs, memberships sites etc.

Scribd, although not new in itself, has just released ipaper, which you can see working in my blog title ipaper and paper clay.  I like it!

if you are sharing information, Scribd with ipaper is an excellent tool to help you share your knowledge and expertise and whilst offering something of value to the reader you are also building backlinks to your site.

A new beta. invitation only link building site (this is your invitation link from me) can be reviewed here.  It will be interesting to see how this one develops.

Edu. backlinks are also said to be important from a search engine "authority" standpoint.  If you are not sure how to - then this affordable report shows you How to Get Edu. Backlinks.

Fun and Success

diane stafford

 

February 20, 2008

Blood, Sweat and Tears

You have them now and again, you know, those blood, sweat and tears days of anti productivity. Your to do list is long, intentions focused on actioning the listed tasks then your email client drops out and takes an hour to sort out. You get back to business and the phone rings, another 20 minutes gone, every time you answer it. A quick addition to a website is thwarted by your ftp client. And so the day goes on. My to do list has been growing all day. Roll on tomorrow.

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February 14, 2008

One of the great things about Mums - they make the best homemade soups, filled with all the goodness you need to help you recover from a bad bout of illness. BIG hugs to my Mum today, must dash my soup is ready. thanks mum kiss kiss.

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February 12, 2008

Stressless Arts

How to Make a Plaster Bat, free how to make guide for art hobby. One in an ongoing series of free 'how to guides'  for anyone interested in learning new art or hobby crafts.  Make handmade pottery and other craft items for fun or for profit.

Stressless Arts, art hobby crafts collection success without stress, creative processes, new hobby crafts how to guides.

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Art Hobby Crafts Success

Success without stress on art.

New How to make, art hobby craft collection of free guides. How to make paper clay and more.

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January 27, 2008

Website Optimization

Websiteoptimization Website Optimization

Website optimization is certainly a very important part of your overall holistic marketing strategy, whatever type of business or service you provide.

If you are like myself, you will have learned how to undertake your website optimization from several 'experts' in the SEO arena.  You may have visited plenty of forums, enrolled in seo clubs and generally applied what you have learned, tried and tested and tried and tested again to monitor your results and success rates.

Have you noticed how much conflicting advice there is out there!

One seo expert tells you one thing, another tells you something completely different, which contradicts the other advice ... and so  it goes on...

and on ...

So why should you believe that THIS seo expert has the answers to your website optimization questions?

Well, I thought I'd cracked it at long last, I thought I knew most if not all of the seo things I should be doing right for my clients website optimization..... guess what!...

I read her SEO EBook this weekend and discovered there were a couple of vital things I wasn't doing at all, and I'd probably have done them the wrong way if I had known about them.  And then there are the tools I didn't even know about and I wish I had ..... I could have saved hours of time in the analyzing and testing stages......

Don't just take my word for it, take a look at her Website Optimization EBook, just released, and see what other people are saying about it as well. I can assure you - you will save time and money through applying even just a few of these steps.

Check it out NOW and gain control of your website optimization today!

to your
stressless success

January 12, 2008

Starting a Home Based Micro Business

Workingtogether_2Starting a Home Based Micro Business

With the power and accessibility of the internet and with the availability of free web design tools and other open source software, it is so easy for you to work from home if you choose to. 

In fact, starting a home based micro business is really easy for you , no matter what your age !

Here's a little story about one of my daughters first steps into "micro business".

If she can take her first steps, then so can you.

"taking steps means taking action" DS

January 04, 2008

How to Organize your Home Office

Organiseyourhomeoffice

How to Organize your Home Office by Sandy Clyne PhD is being released today.

Do you know what the tell-tale signs that your Home Office is in desperate need of organisation are?

Sandy helps you recognise what these might be for you and shows you how to overcome those challenges, so that you can gain much more control over your work / life organisation.

Would You Like to Concentrate on What You Do Best?

Sandy helps you discover the elements that may be stopping you right now from doing what you do best, so that you can resolve those issues and get back on track!

This isn't just about saving time, it's also about living the life you want and spending your time the way you want to.

Brimming with great content to help you get organised.

The table of contents is rather impressive, flick over to "How to Organize your Home Office" to read the full table of contents.

A refreshing, informative and useful book that shows you how to achieve stress-free productivity whilst working from home. It's not just for home based business people, you might be a CEO with a home office that you work from at the weekend or evenings. Not all CEO's are organised at home!

Is Your Home Office Organised?

How much more relaxed would you be if your home office was organised?

To your relaxation and Stressless Success

regards
Diane Stafford

ps: Check out your home office and see whether you need to get organized today with Sandy Clyne, PhD.

pps: Sandy's book will soon be available in printed book format. If you would like to be notified when it becomes available sign up for her free membership and benefit from her FREE ecourse too!