Using RANDOM.ORG to determine the winner, the winner of  The Five Love Languages of Children is… Maria.

  Congratulations, Maria!  I will get your book in the mail.  Just email me your mailing address.

The winner of the Swiffer 360 Duster from MS&L is….Christi.  I will be notifying her by email.

(Remember if you leave a comment for a contest in the future, you need to leave your first name and your email address.)

If you would like to try your chance at winning a Swiffer 360 Duster, all you have to do is go to the CONTEST post and leave a comment.  I’m enjoying my Swiffer 360 Duster, thanks to MS&L.  And there are coupons available online that you can use to buy refills.

How would you like to win a free Swiffer Duster to discover for yourself how much easier dusting can be?

There are several ways you can be entered to win a Swiffer 360 Duster. 

To be entered once, leave a comment with your name (first name is fine) and email address. Your email address will not be published. I will contact the winner by email.

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• To be entered two times, leave a comment and subscribe to my blog. (if you’ve already subscribed, just mention that in your comment – that counts)

• To be entered three times, leave a comment, stumble, & subscribe to my blog. (again, if you’ve already subscribed, that counts)

• To be entered five times, do the above plus write a post about my contest on your blog.

Contest will end October 12, and the winner will be chosen using the List Randomizer at Random.org.

I’m having the same problem again, for the second time, of an ad being put on my site that I do not approve of.  I am in the process of trying to find out how to fix this problem!

(Hopefully, the problem has now been fixed!)

I have been blogging for one year and nine months now and have really enjoyed it.  Some bloggers are up on everything such as conversion rate optimization and other things. I basically just check my stats and what posts are read the most. My goal is to write what will benefit readers and help them in some small way.  I have lots of room for improvement, so if you think of something you would like to see on my blog then just let me know.

Sometimes ads will appear on my site that I would not choose to have here.  When that occurs, I will have those taken off as soon as I can.  So if you ever see any ads that seem distasteful in any way, please let me know either through email or comment.  It may take several hours before they’re taken off.

This is a little late, but I do want to wish everyone a happy new year.  The holidays were so busy that I neglected my blog, but family is more important!

We had a wonderful Christmas with family.  Our daughter, son-in-law and 16 month old grandson came on Christmas Eve.  We enjoyed being together on Christmas Day, however, we weren’t able to be with everyone we wanted to be with and missed them!

We went out the day after Christmas to shop the after Christmas sales a little bit.  Then our daughter and her family left and we proceded to pack our minivan and leave on our trip to Illinois to visit my husband’s mother.

We enjoyed a wonderful visit with my mother-in-law and also my husband’s nephew, his wife, young daughter, and baby.   However, my mother-in-law got sick on New Year’s Eve day with fever so all plans were abandoned.  We hated to leave her on Friday, but she seemed to be doing better.  A couple of days later on Sunday, a friend took her to the ER and she was admitted with double pneumonia.  (So beware, the only symptoms she had were fever, nasal congestion, and a little cough from her throat – no apparent chest congestion or pain) We’re thankful she’s improving!

I pray that everyone will have a good year, that you will grow ever closer in  relationship with the Lord and if you don’t have a relationship then I pray a seed of faith will develop and grow, that you will have quality time with your family, and that you will find much joy in the things that money can’t buy!

Dragon Naturally Speaking enables bloggers to earn more on their blogs because of time efficiency, just to name one of the factors involved. And now is a great time to get 25% off Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred Also, full white paper is available for use.

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Here is an article written by a fellow blogger:
Press Release:

This is an excerpt from a white paper discussing how bloggers can earn more money through several different monetization and freelance writing services. It shows that bloggers that utilize Dragon Naturally Speaking can earn more money through these various services and how fast these extra earnings will pay for the software itself.
Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with Average Earnings

Basically, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can help you type so much faster, that you can earn a lot more money per hour.
In this article I’m going to walk you through another scenario focusing on how much extra you could earn.  The amount of money that you earn for your writing is not paid on a per word basis.
Opportunities typically have a minimum word count. The minimum word count is typically 200 words for your average article. In general, the average article on a high earning blog pays about $8.3. Sometimes they pay a little less, and sometimes they pay a little bit more, and a few go to extremes on the positive side.
Now if you are paid $8.3 to write a 200 word article, then that breaks down to about 4.2 cents per word. That is about 6 times more than what you can make at textbroker.com.
If you have additional blogs, you might be able to write additional articles on those other blogs.
Tip! – Write some additional articles without any sponsors in between those articles (as is required), and then write some articles at PayU2Blog, and when the work is exhausted there, you can write some articles at TextBroker.com! The trick is working for the company that pays you the most first, then moving on to the next highest margin provider, over and over again.
You will see in the case studies with Adsense that writing MORE articles is actually good for building traffic to your blog!
But if we assume, just to have a comparison to our textbroker.com example, if we assume that you could type articles for fifty minutes straight, earning 4.2 cents per word, and you could type 35 words per minute, you could earn $72.88 dollars per hour. Now obviously, you cannot take 9 articles on a single blog in a single day, but this does point to the rate at which you can earn things with the work that is available. That $72.88 would be the earnings you could make from about 8.8 Opportunities at $8.3 per Opportunity.
So bear with me again with this example.
So what can faster typing skills do to help you earn more money?
Well if you could type at 150 words per minute with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and you currently type at 35 words per minute, then you could earn about $239 per hour more! (Dragon only costs between $99 and $199 remember!)
Reminder – This would assume that you could type articles nonstop at a hundred and fifty words per minute for fifty minutes. For most of us, that doesn’t mean a whole lot.
But to put this in better perspective, if you earned $72.88 from writing about nine articles, and those articles were each 200 words long, then you would have written a total of 1800 words.
• 1800 words can be typed and 50 minutes at 35 words per minute
• 1800 words can be typed in 12 minutes at 150 words per minute
Dragon NaturallySpeaking can essentially save you 38 minutes when you write nine articles.
Now with those additional thirty-eight minutes, you can spend more time:
• promoting your blog,
• networking with people,
• researching other projects,
• taking on other work from other networks
• build up a new blog to command $8.3 per article!
• Write articles for PayU2Blog
• Go write some articles for TextBroker
• Go write some articles to bring in more traffic and earn more money through Adsense!
You can pocket your $72.88 from twelve minutes worth of work. You can then spend the rest of that hour, working to ensure that the blog you publish those on performs very well. But the point is this, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can save you so much time, that it will pay for itself very quickly.
Your average part-time blogger will easily pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the additional profits that they would earn from using Dragon NaturallySpeaking in less than 1 hour worth of blogging.
Plus just think of all of the time, that you would now have to make yourself and your site even more successful!

Isn’t this a beautiful picture?  I love the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, and this picture reminds me of them.  I don’t know where this picture was taken, but that doesn’t matter.  I just know that I really like it, and it makes me want to go to Colorado!

One thing I’ve noticed is that blog pictures add a lot to a post. I have often wished that I had a picture for something I was writing in a post. Well, now I have this great site to go to where I can get free, quality pictures for my blog.  These pictures are all properly licensed and ready to use on my blog or anyone’s blog who is a registered user.  And registering is very quick and easy.

In order to use a picture from acobox in a post on my blog, all I have to do is copy and paste the code they give me.  It’s that simple.  That’s what we bloggers need, right?  When we have a lot of things going on during the day, we certainly don’t need anything complicated or anything that will be a big hassle to use. Let me assure you that it is fast and easy!