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I just read the article below?this morning and found it very helpful so wanted?to share. I find so many?businesses not doing?#12 and?you'll see my?previous blog posts talk about this.?Some of the techniques are more effective than others, some have a?faster learning curves than others but?I tend to agree with these suggestions. I hope you?find them useful.


30 Free Ways To Market Your Small Business Site

By -?Carrie Hill

Are you looking for ways to market your small business website with a limited budget?
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Whether it?s with established sites such as Google and Facebook, or newer outlets like Pinterest, there are plenty of options available to promote your site.
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There are at least 30 ways to market your website with a time investment and no credit card required. Some of these are oldies but goodies, while others are newer and exciting avenues you may not have tried out yet.
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Here are 30 things you can do today to get started marketing your website for free.
?1. Press releases still work. Granted a submission to PRWeb or a Vocus account make the pickup and link benefit much easier, but those cost dollars ? so for this article lets reiterate the best free press release sources: ?24-7PressRelease.com
??PRLog.org
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2. Send the press release to your local media outlets, or any niche media outlets that may be interested in what you do.


?3. Claim, verify, and update your Google Local Business listing. This is extremely important. Google Local Listings have been absorbed into Google+, so be sure to check out this great resource over at Blumenthals.com to keep up to date on how to manage your Google Local Listing.


?4.?Find a niche social media site that pertains to your exact business and participate. Be helpful, provide relevant and useful information, and your word of mouth advertising will grow from that engagement. ?Examples: ?Travel or hospitality business ? Tripadvisor.com forums
??Photography store ? Photo.net or RockTheShotForum.com
??Wedding Planning or Favor site ? Brides.com or Onewed.com forums
??Search your niche or service plus forums to find ideas. If there isn?t a forum out there, consider starting one.
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5. Build a Google+ page for your business and follow businesses that are related to your product or service niche. Share informative and relative content and link to your profile from your website. You should also consider allowing users to +1 your content on a page by page basis.
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?6. Setting up joint benefit with local businesses or others in your niche can help you reach eyes you never did before. Be sure to answer the question "Will my user find this information beneficial as they shop and purchase?" every time you link to a resource, or request a link or listing on another site.
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?7. Comment and offer original, well thought out, sensible information, opinion and help on blogs that are relevant to your website's topic and be sure to leave your URL. Even if a nofollow tag is attached, you could gain a bit of traffic and some credibility as an authority on the subject matter. This is not blog comment spamming, this is engaging in a conversation relevant to your website's topic.
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?8. Set up and verify a Webmaster Central Account at Google.
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?9.?Set up a Bing Webmaster Tools account and verify it.


?10. Update or create your XML sitemap and upload it to Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools.
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?11.?Write a "how-to" article that addresses your niche for Wikihow.com or Answers.com. This is kind of fun and a good resource for getting mentions and links. Looking at your product or service in a step-by-step manner is often enlightening in several ways. It can help you better explain your products and services on your own website. I will say I don?t know why some of these sites still rank well, many of them are junk. I do like most of the answers on the two sites mentioned above. Be picky with where you participate.


?12. Write unique HTML page titles for all of your pages. This is still extremely important, don?t skimp on this one.
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?13. Share your photo

s at Flickr ? get a profile, write descriptions, and link to your website. Don't share photos you don't own or have permission to use.


?14. Start a blog. There's nothing wrong with getting the basics of blogging down by using a free service from Blogger or WordPress.
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?15. Make sure your Bing and Yahoo Local listings are up to date.
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?16.?Update and optimize your description and URL at YP.com. They'll try to get you to spend money on an upgraded listing or some other search marketing options. Don't bother with that, but make sure the information is accurate and fresh.
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?17.?Use your Bing Webmaster Tools account to look at your incoming links. How do they look? Are all of the sites relevant and on-topic? If not, reevaluate your link building practices and start contacting any of the irrelevant sites you can and ask them to take down your link. A clean and relevant incoming link profile is important; cleaning up bad links is a necessity until we can tell Google and Bing which links we want them to ignore.
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?18.?Make a slideshow of your products or record an original how-to video and upload to YouTube. Be sure to optimize your title and descriptions. Once it's uploaded, write a new page and embed the video on your own Web site. Add a transcription of the video if possible.
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?19. Try a new free keyword tool for researching website optimization, then see #20.


?20.?Add a page to your site focused on a top keyword phrase you found in #19.


?21.?Build a Facebook Page and work to engage those that are interested in your product or service. Facebook is so much more robust than it ever was! Create groups, events, and photo albums. Link to your Facebook profile from your site and allow visitors to your site to like and share your content.


?22. Install Google Analytics if you don?t have any tracking software. The program is pretty amazing and it's free. You need to do this if you haven?t already. It's that important.
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?23.?Start Twittering or start doing it much better than you are now ? it's a great way to network with like-minded individuals.


?24.?Pinterest is hot right now. If you have visually stimulating content that is relevant to the site's demographic, you can find great success right now. Be sure you're using solid practices for marketing on Pinterest as you get started.


?25.?Create a new list in Twitter and follow profiles of industry experts you know and trust. Use this as your modern feed reader. I don?t use RSS feed readers anymore. I like content that has been vetted by my peers and is worthy of a tweet or two.


?26.?Try a new way to write an ad for a struggling PPC ad group or campaign.
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?27.?Review your Google Analytics In-Page insights and take note of how users are interacting with your page. Where to they click, what is getting ignored. Make changes based on this knowledge.


?28. Set up a Google Content Experiment through your Analytics account and test with the information you obtained and changes you made in number 27.


?29.?Build a map at Google Maps and add descriptions for your storefront, locations, and nearby useful points of interest. Make your map public and embed it on your own website. Add links back to relevant content on your site if possible to each point of interest.
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?30.?Keep reading Search Engine Watch for more free tips and tricks.
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There you have it ? 30 ways to market your website. Get to work and make something happen! There's no reason to say you can't be successful because you don?t have a huge advertising budget. Time is all you need.

63 Free (or Almost?Free) Ways to Market Your Business

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While I?agree Free?is very good. Running?an internet search marketing campaign along with?online display advertising is very cost?effective.?For details and costs contact Brian Brown?at 215-384-4568?or bbrown@reachlocal.com.

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Startup 101: What's an LLP?

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

In recent years, new legal structures have emerged, including the LLC (Limited Liability Company). That?s good news for small businesses ? because let?s face it, not all businesses are the same, and the same corporation structure isn?t right for everyone.

Yet new options bring new questions about which business structure to use, and for many entrepreneurs, the process of picking a business structure is uncharted territory.

If you?re a small business owner or service professional, here?s a quick primer on two important legal structures: the LLC and LLP (Limited Liability Partnership). We?ll explore the key differences and details to help you determine which is better for your business.

The Basics: Defining the LLC and LLP

Let?s start with the basics ? some definitions:

An LLC is a legal entity that limits the liability of owners from liability found with the company. With the LLC, there are no shares. An LLC does not file separate taxes, either; all company profits flow through to the owners and are taxed at the personal income rate. It?s great for businesses that want liability protection but minimal formality ? the LLC is free of much of the legal requirements and red tape that govern corporations, such as director meetings, shareholder requirements, etc.

The LLP is a general partnership where partners enjoy some level of protection from personal liability. Similar to the LLC, the LLP is a hybrid of both the corporation and partnership, to give the greatest advantages of taxation and liability protection. The LLP is not a separate entity for income tax purposes ? profits and losses are passed through to the partners.

Differences Across States

It?s important to understand that laws concerning LLPs vary widely state by state. Generally speaking, LLCs can be formed by any business, persons or person, while LLPs may be restricted to licensed professionals such as attorneys, doctors, engineers, architects and accountants.

In California and Nevada, for example, licensed professionals can form an LLP, but cannot form an LLC. For this reason, a large law firm will opt to form an LLP; they are able to operate as an LLP in every state, but wouldn?t be able to operate as an LLC in every state.

You?ll need to check with your state?s Secretary of State office to determine the specific rules for your state. And if you?re anticipating operating in other states down the road, you should look into their rules as well.

Differences in Personal Asset Protection

While both LLCs and LLPs help shield the personal assets of the owners, there are some critical differences. For example:

In the LLC, members are protected from any debt or liabilities of the business. However, members of an LLC are not protected from the liability of another member. If a member in an LLC makes a client error that is legally actionable, then the LLC and all of its members can be held liable.

In the LLP, partners can be protected from the liability of another member. A partner in an LLP is personally liable only for his own negligence (or of someone working under his direct supervision). Note that this is different from a general partnership, in which each partner is liable for the debts and obligations of the business, as well as the malpractice of other partners.

In some states, a partner in an LLP can still be personally liable for a variety of partnership debts, such as obligations owed to lenders and creditors. However, some states regulate that partners are not personally liable for such debts and obligations. As mentioned above, it?s important to understand the laws of your state.

What About Taxes?

Both the LLC and LLP typically do not require the business to pay income taxes on its profits; rather any profit or loss of the business is passed through to the members (LLC) or partners (LLP). By comparison, a corporation pays income taxes on its business earnings, and then if those earnings are distributed to owners, the owners must pay taxes on them again in their personal tax returns.

A single-member LLC is considered a sole proprietorship, and the member must pay self-employment taxes. It?s important to note that while most LLCs opt for pass-through tax treatment, some may choose to be taxed as a corporation. LLPs are treated strictly as partnerships, and profits are passed through to the partners.

The Bottom Line for Your Business

By mixing some of the properties of corporations, partnerships and sole proprietorships, the LLC and LLP can be very advantageous for new companies. Only LLPs give partners legal protection from the actions of another partner. For this reason, the LLP can be better for a group of professionals who plan to actively participate in the company. If you?re forming a business, take a look at your state law to first determine which entity is allowable in your state, as well as the state laws regarding personal liability for each entity.


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Podcast: Jarrod Morgan of ProctorU explains live monitoring of ...

Posted by Joan Phaup

Andrew Jackson University, a distance education school based in Birmingham, Alabama,?faced a big question several years ago:?How could students take tests the same way they pursued their studies ? off campus, via the internet ? with the same level of security they would encounter in a test center?

Jarrod Morgan, who was then the school?s director of technology, recently told me the answer:

Jarrod Morgan

?We decided to come up with our own process based on the face-to face monitoring experience that?s been used by colleges and universities and test centers for decades and decades. ? What that means is that you have to see the person, you have to see what they?re doing, and you have to know who they are. So if you can do all three of those, see the person, see what they?re doing, and know who they are, you?ve essentially monitored that exam the same way you would do it in a test center. ?

Great idea! But how did they implement it??By using?webcams, screen-sharing technology and?layered authentication?methods, with a live proctor observing each test taker.

The success and popularity of this solution?led to the formation of ProctorU, a live, online proctoring/monitoring?service that allows people to complete assessments from wherever they are while? ensuring exam integrity. Questionmark partners with ProctorU to bring added security for higher-stakes exams taken outside testing centers.

In this podcast interview with? Jarrod, now the company?s vice president of business development, you will hear more about?how online monitoring works and why? academic institutions, businesses and other organizations are choosing this option.?We also talked about various security challenges, including identity fraud, and how to combat them.?We touched on how test takers have responded to this idea, too. Feel free to listen in!

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What Is the State of Social Media in Europe? [Live Hangout]

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Video Games Partly to Blame for Increase in Lightning Damage ...

A home insurance study found that Lightning strokes, consoles and other electronic devices insurance have been very busy appraiser.

Institute ?Gaming systems? put the insurance information on the list of devices that have been claims for damages are due to lightning from 2004 to 2011. The study found the increase of claims by other ?Surge vulnerable? electronics such as plasma and HD TVs, computers and smart phones.

The study said the average amount for all claims, which rose by a lightning strike caused by 5.5 percent and the average cost per claim increased by amazing 93 percent in just one year. Paid claims, surge protection however fell over a period of seven years due to increased use of protective equipment. The study blamed the rise in the price of these electronics for the increased claims for shortages product from countries, to deliver the large chains because natural disasters such as Thailand and Japan.

First of all get video games responsible made this for children violent and now? Is there something we?re on video games can not be blamed?

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What is the cheapest bankruptcy credit counseling certificates ...

My experience has been that consumerbankruptcycounseling.info offers one of the least exensive or cheapast bankruptcy credit counseling certificates at $5.00. That being said, all certified programs offering the credit counseling certificate offer free certificates for those who meet certain financial criteria. Don?t be afraid to ask!

The only downside to getting your certificate from the website above, is that they often take 2-3 days to email you the certificate. If you are an emergency and need a certificate right away, I would try cricketdebt.com. It is a good bit more expensive (approx $36.00)however, they will fax you the certificate within the same day in most cases.

One final note, I have a lot of potential clients tell me they have a certificate from a counseling program they completed a year ago. First, please note that any bankruptcy certificate is only good for 6 months. If 180 days has expired, the certificate is no longer valid. Second, the certificate has to come from an approved company by the UST. If they are just your run of the mill credit counseling company, they probably are not approved by the UST to provide official bankruptcy counseling certificates. The website above and cricketdebt.com are fully certified by the UST.

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AU: New force nearly ready to fight LRA

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GlobalSign, DigiCert, Comodo, and NGINX, Inc. improve Online Trust

Browse > Home / Featured News / GlobalSign, DigiCert, Comodo, and NGINX, Inc. improve Online Trust through Enhanced Certificate Revocation Checking

Web Hosting Toolbox ? Boston, MA ? GlobalSign, DigiCert, Comodo, and NGINX announced a joint effort and a sponsored development contract, to enhance the NGINX open source Web server to support OCSP-stapling. This collaboration further advances the SSL ecosystem by improving the privacy, reliability and revocation checking for all websites using the NGINX web server ? currently run by more than 25 percent of the top 1,000 websites, and by 70,000,000 websites on the Internet overall.

?The team at NGINX is delighted that GlobalSign, DigiCert, and Comodo support the OCSP stapling enhancement to the NGINX webserver,? said Igor Sysoev CTO and principal architect at NGINX, ?We have been continuously working on enhancements to NGINX that increase performance, reliability and security. With improved SSL functionality we expect the vast majority of our customers to share our enthusiasm for increased safety on the Internet.?

article sponsor GlobalSign, DigiCert, Comodo, and NGINX, Inc. improve Online Trust through Enhanced Certificate Revocation Checking
The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is used to present the revocation status, or current validity, of an SSL certificate, and provides an alternative to the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) method. OCSP offers efficiencies when compared to the CRL method, which requires the client, such as a browser, to download potentially large databases of revocation information reflecting the status as of its last publication date In contrast, OCSP can provide more up-to-date status information by allowing the browser to query the revocation status at the very point of encountering the certificate, without relying on cached information.

OCSP-stapling enhances the basic OCSP method by allowing the presenter of a certificate, such as the website hosting the SSL certificate, to deliver the OCSP response to the browser instead of it being delivered by the issuing CA. By keeping the certificate response within the web host and not with the CA, OCSP-stapling ensures the browser receives the same response performance for the certificate status information as it does for the website content. This helps to maintain a high-quality user experience and avoids delays otherwise caused by request volume or network congestion that can slow CA response under the standard OCSP method. Compared with basic OCSP, privacy concerns are also addressed, as the CA is no longer receiving revocation requests directly from the browser.

In a collective statement by GlobalSign, DigiCert, and Comodo, Ryan Hurst the Chief Technology Officer of GlobalSign stated ?By addressing the issues holding back common usage of OCSP, NGINX is contributing toward a unified goal of widespread OCSP adoption across all webservers on the Internet. This project is another major initiative where certification authorities are working closely to improve the ecosystem for everyone relying on SSL for a safer, private and more secure Internet experience.?

NGINX is the second most popular open source webserver and, according to the W3Techs server survey, is currently used by more than 25 percent of the top 1,000 most visited websites. The new version with full OCSP-stapling support will be available in late August 2012. IIS on Microsoft Server 2008 and Apache 2.3.6 already support OCSP-stapling; thus, the enhancements to NGINX mean that nearly all webservers can now deploy this critical technology.

About NGINX
Run by the busiest websites on the Internet, NGINX enables businesses worldwide to match rapidly increasing demand for faster web experience without incurring unnecessary costs in capital investments or time. In almost 10 years of its history, NGINX became key software component of most famous web architectures. Today NGINX serves over 25 percent of the top 1,000 websites, and 70 million of websites overall. Successful online services, transforming and shaping the future of Internet?such as Netflix, Pinterest, CloudFlare, Airbnb, WordPress, GitHub, SoundCloud, Zynga, Eventbrite, Zappos, Media Temple, Heroku, RightScale, Engine Yard, use NGINX as part of their infrastructures.
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Fresh strawberries from the garden

Fresh strawberries from the garden

These past few weeks had not been too bad. In fact it has been surprisingly beautiful most of the time. It?s a real frustration not to be out and about but to stay at home, hopping around on crutches. But then not all is bad. I had the time of my life watching The French Open and The Queen?s tennis competition on TV. Wimbledon tennis is here now and soon will be London Olympics. Olympics trial is also here. Had just finished watching the Royal Ascot horse racing over the weekend. Then of course I am always very thankful for my blog and all the friends that I made through blogging.

I must say I have never felt so much cared and loved by so many people around, especially my friends here. Every now and then I am surprised with delicious food delivered to my home. There are some that I forgot to take pictures?.*sigh*. Also, there are too many to upload here. You can see that I am very well fed?..*big smiles*. I sure need LOTS of exercise when I can get back on my feet. Having said that, hopping around on my crutches is seriously no joke. It is very tiring! It?s also about balancing act which I am still not too good at. I should have learned some acrobatics before?..haha.

There?s one special friend that really touched my heart! She called almost everyday and she even came by bus which took her at least an hour to get here. Once she brought all the ingredients and cooked here. We had a most wonderful time chatting and laughing. I was so touched by her love! She cooked fried egg noodles, fried rice noodles and a sweet dessert drink and a lot of other goodies.

Delicious fried noodles

Delicious fried noodles

Fried rice noodles

Fried rice noodles

Sweet dessert drink

Sweet dessert drink

Delicious Scottish smoked salmon

Delicious Scottish smoked salmon

One of the best food that she bought which I had never tried before was the smoked salmon?.a big piece! It was absolutely delicious eaten with rice or added to salad. She told me she bought it from Costco.

Not only that,?her teenage son even played guitar to entertain me! I feel so honoured?*big smiles*. That?s so sweet of him. He had just taken up guitar and I am really so happy for him, proud that he is willing to learn.

Rice dumplings or 'zhang'

Rice dumplings or 'zhang'

Delicious meat rice dumplings ('bak zhang')

Delicious meat rice dumplings

On another occasion, she made rice dumplings and asked a friend to bring to my house. It has been a LONG time since I last ate one. So you can imagine how thrilled I was to eat them. They were really delicious. My family liked it very much. It was dumpling festival on 23 June and I heard that glutinous rice and dried bamboo leaves which are needed to make these dumplings were all sold out in the Chinese supermarket!

Those back home in Malaysian and other Asian countries are very lucky. You can buy them from the shop any time but not over here in Aberdeen. We have to make if we want to eat. In a way it is good because we learn how to make a lot of food that we miss. This is really the place where I have learned a LOT of cooking and baking?.*big smiles*.

Beautiful and delicious chocolate pizza

Beautiful and delicious chocolate pizza

Another food surprise was Chocolate Pizza. My gosh?..I have never seen such a BIG piece of chocolate. Must be 12 inches across. It?s so beautiful and tastes really good. Worth all the calories?.*wink*

Salmon in sauce

Salmon in sauce

Steamed meat dumplings (or 'bao zhi')

Steamed meat dumplings

Pork rib soup

Pork rib soup

One day, my door bell rang. Oh wow?.so surprised to see a dear young friend at the door with a bag of hot food for my lunch. Her mom cooked the food. That was the best lunch that I had after my leg injury. Everything tasted so delicious. We had salmon, dumplings (boa zhi) and pork rib soup (pictures here above). I ate a big plate of rice?..*big smiles*

Roasted duck wrap

Roasted duck wrap

On another occasion, I received a phone call from a friend. She said she was coming with roasted duck, her signature dish. Oh, I really love her roasted duck. It?s simply the best. Immediately, I told myself I need Chinese pancakes to make duck wraps?.mmm. My girl helped me to make the pancakes. We enjoyed it very much. My family always love duck wrap. It?s so fun to eat. I kept the bones for making rice porridge. Nothing is wasted!

Rhubarb pie

Rhubarb pie

Looks like most of the food are savoury. But no, wait. A friend came by with rhubarb and almond pie. It must have been fresh from the oven and straight to my house. It was still very warm when she came. That was one of the best pie that I have ever eaten! We almost finished the whole pie after she left. I never knew rhubarb makes such a wonderful pie. My family liked it very much. I have to learn how to make it. She had just given me the recipe??.yay. She told me I can use apples or pears to replace the rhubarb if I want to.

Chocolate mint cheesecake

Chocolate mint cheesecake

I also received a cheese cake. It?s the biggest cheesecake I have seen! Must be 12 inches across. It?s chocolate mint cheesecake. It?s very rich but very delicious. I love mint so I really like this cheesecake.

Another lovely friend came straight from the strawberry farm with a basket of very fresh strawberries! (first picture on top). They went there for strawberry picking. Awww?how I miss that! The strawberries were so delicious?mmm. I actually had them for dinner?*big smiles*. Maybe that?s the way to losing weight?.haha.

Other friends came with food to join me for lunch or tea time. So, you can see how happy I am! I feel so loved, cared for and so pampered. It sure makes my days pass by quicker. I?m just really so thankful to all my friends, and of course my family too.

My girls and hubby had been giving me a lot of surprises with some of their cooking skills. But I must say, my hubby chickened out after a few days. Reason?.he lose out to the girls?.haha. Well, actually by the time he gets home from work, dinner is already there. Lucky man huh!

Life is no fun if I keep receiving and eating only. I had learned to fight my way into the kitchen to cook and bake if I can, with lots of my influencing and negotiation skills of course?.*grin*. Actually I end up more like begging until I won??haha. My girls know that a bored mom is a dangerous mom and a happy mom recovers faster!

I?m really happy that I was able to make quite a few delicious food, with lots of help from my girls. They have been fantastic. I think it?s very good because it?s hands-on training for them. I am just so proud of myself that I can still cook and bake. Won?t show here. You have to come back?*wink*. I won?t make you wait long though. Will be back very soon to show you what I made and also the recipes.

Till then, see you in my next post. Hope you have a great start to a new week.

Quote of the day??

?There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you?ve learned, the closer you are to your outcome? If you can handle rejection, you?ll learn to get everything you want.?

- Anthony Robbins

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