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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Summer in El Burgo

Just joined twitter, thought it was time to promote our home a bit more, we have found several houses that we like just need a buyer for ours.

The summer fiestas are upon us and there's a lot going on. The weather here is great we have not had any rain for 6 weeks and I have got my tan back, this Sunday we have a fiesta which is held down by the river in the National forest.

The fiesta will start in the village of El Burgo at the Church The Virgin will be taken down to the river carried by 20 plus men, the journey goes from the church down 100 steps down the main street and on to the the river a total of 2mile.

People of all ages will be singing, dancing and enjoying the free food and entertainment provided by the town council of El Burgo. Time to meet old friends and make new ones.

The Paella is always cooked by the local women and everyone as to have a stir, the music and dancing take place looked on by the Virgin of the Sierra de la Nieves

Tomorrow we are going the the lakes will take pictures and load them on to photo gallery for you to see. Will hopefully have others sorted out to put on as well

Please pop by again and don't forget to leave a comment

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Spanish Beach Bars Saved

Chiringuitos Saved

Good news for all those who love to have a coffee and tapas on the beach.

The ministry of the Environment has now said that the beach restaurants – chiringuitos – can stay on the sand without disciplinary action being taken against them.

Only those where a move is easily possible off the sand will do so, and only with the agreement of the owners.

This is a new concession on the part of central government, which had announced pans to impose the 18 year old Ley de Costas (coastal law) which decreed that all beech was public land and the restaurants should be moved off it.

It as now been decided that the chiringuitos are now beach installations and no further action will be taken.

Spanish Travel Tips - Be Careful

Travel Tips - Be Careful

Wherever tourists gather, be it at a castle, railway station or in a café bar you are more than likely to be approached by gypsies offering bunches of roses and or other plants. These can be very nice and a good buy but be careful. If this happens, first hang on to your bag. They are often in groups and whilst you are looking at the offerings, another picks your pocket or your bag. It happens all the time.

You will come across beggars everywhere, outside supermarkets at the bus station and again at tourist attractions. They often have a sign printed in English telling you their story. You may be approached by children or by young women with a card saying that they are refugees and have no money. If you feel strongly about these issues you should make a donation to a registered charity as often money given in the streets ends up in the pockets of organized gangs.

Finally, how to deal with the Looky, Looky men of African origin who sell CDs DVDs and watches, toys and sunglasses. More and more they drop by your table as you enjoy your coffee in the sun. They have a great sales pitch but the goods are sometimes worthless. If you are tempted to buy it is always a good idea to ask around bar owners and local residents to find out who are the regular and reputable Looky, Looky men because some of their stuff can be ok. If you do not want to do business with them Keep your money in you wallet or purse Smile, be firm and say no thank you and they will go away.

My Spanish Home Visitor Rules

Visitors Rules

Most of us like having our annual visitors to stay but sometimes the welcome wears a bit thin. One of my friends, at the end of her tether, sent the following to her family, not entirely tongue in cheek. Does it strike a chord?

Dear all,

Yes of course we would love to see you again this year, but we have to tell you that there will be a few changes:

1 We recommend that you hire a car from the airport as we no longer do free airport pick-ups and deliveries.

2 Day-time flights only, please. We go to bed at midnight, so no middle of the night flights (however cheap)

3 We no longer complete with the all inclusive hotel holiday deals. We do not provide breakfast, lunch and dinner together with all-day snacks and of course alcoholic refreshments. We will of course tell you where the best menus del dia can be found.

4 We do not have a live-in-maid, so you are responsible for making your bed, mopping the floor and keeping the bathroom clean.

5 We do not provide a free laundry service so please bring your own hand, bath and beach towels, or contribute to the soaring cost of electricity to keep washing ours for you.

6 Our daily, free sightseeing trips to local places of interest have been cancelled because we are sick to death of looking at the save caves and views etc over and over again. We will provide maps and information for you to explore on your own.

7 Our free telephone service to the UK has been suspended, use your own mobiles.

8 You may be on holiday and want to stay out until 3 in the morning, but we live here, so keep quite when you come home.

9 Should you wish to spend time lazing around our pool and prefer to stay in, we shall expect help with food preparation, shopping etc, we will operate a joint kitty, from which all food and drink shopping cost of petrol for joint trips etc will be deducted.

10 We are retire and living on our pensions which, due to the awful exchange rate and decreasing each month – so we were considering coming over to you for two weeks instead.

What dates did you say you were booking?

Monday, July 27, 2009

Quote of the Day

"Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend." -- Lucian

19 Autoresponder Course Secrets

19 Ways To Increase Your Traffic And Sales Using Free Follow-Up Autoresponder Courses Read it below! An autoresponder course is a group of articles orinformation set up to be sent out separately over aset period of time by e-mail. People just e-mail yourautoresponder to receive the free course and it issent out automatically over time. You can find freefollow-up autoresponders to use by typing it into anysearch engine. Below are ten ways to use them toincrease your traffic and sales.

1. Offer your course as a free bonus for purchasing one of your main products or services. People will buy your products quicker when you offer a bonus.

2. When you write and give away a free course you will become known as an expert. This'll gain people's trust and they will buy your main product quicker.

3. Allow others to add your free course to their own product packages. Their customers will see your ad when they purchase.

4. People love to get freebies. A free autoresponder course is perfect. They will visit your web site toget the free valuable information.

5. Allow people to receive your course for free, if they give you the e-mail addresses of 3 to 5 friends or associates that would be interested.

6. Allow other people to give away your free course This will increase the number of people that will see your ad in the course.

7. You could trade advertising space in your course for other forms of advertising. It could be banner ads, e-zine ads, web site ads, etc.

8. Gain new leads by having people sign up and give you their contact info before they can receive your autoresponder course.

9. Give away the autoresponder course as a free gift to your current customers as a way of letting them know you appreciate their business.

10. Give away the course to people that join your affiliate program. This will increase the number of people that sign-up.

11. Make money selling advertising space in your course. You could charge for small classified ads or sponsor ads.

12. Get free advertising by submitting your course to freebie web sites. This will increase the number of people that will see your ads in the course.

13. Make money by selling the reprint rights to those people that would like to sell the course. You could make more money by selling the master rights.

14. Hold a contest on your web site so people could win your course. You will get free advertising when you submit your contest to free contest directories.

15. You'll gain valuable referrals from people telling others about your course. Word of mouth advertising can be very effective.

16. Make money cross promoting your course with other people's products or services. This technique will double your marketing effort

17. Increase your e-zine subscribers by giving your course to people that subscribe to your e-zine. This'll give people an incentive to subscribe.

18. Allow your affiliates to use the free course as a promotional tool for your product. Each lesson could include their affiliate link.

19. Promote other businesses affiliate programs you join with your free autoresponder course. Include a different affiliate link on each lesson.

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Friday, July 17, 2009

Quote of the Day

"The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible." -- Duane Newcomb

Keep Your Profits Moving - 10 Ideas.

1. Sell more back end products to your existing customer base. You already created rapport, trust and proved your credibility to them.

2. Make it a practice to up sell to new and existing customers. After they decide to buy one product, offer them another product.

3. Cross promote your products and services with other businesses that aren't competition. You will reach a wider audience at less cost.

4. Create joint venture deals with other businesses.You can expand your product line and target other profitable markets at a lower cost.

5. Start an affiliate program for your business. You will be able to spend less profits on risk advertising and spend more money on guaranteed sales.

6. Trade advertising with other businesses to save revenue. You could trade e-zine ads, banners ads,links, print ads, etc.

7. Out source part of your workload. This can save on employee costs, equipment costs, taxation costs,expansion costs, etc.

8. Add low cost bonuses to your offer that have a high perceived value. It could be ebooks, members only sites, consulting, e-reports, etc.

9. Use viral marketing to promote your business on the internet. Give away free stuff with your ad copy include on it so others can give it away.

10. Follow up with all your prospects. You can usea free e-zine, a follow-up autoresponder, an updateor reminder list, etc.

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Quote of the Day

"The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money." -- Titus Maccius Plautus

14 Creative Ways To Make Lots of Money with Ebooks

Here is a list of 14 creative ways to make money on line with your ebook.

1. Allow other e-zine publishers or web site owners to republish small nuggets or excerpts of information from your ebook with your byline or ad included.

2. Make extra profits from selling monthly updates of your ebook. You could also back end sell the extra never released chapters of your e-book.

3. Give away a free ebook and then give people an option of buying the paid version of the ebook. Also let others give away the free version of your ebook.

4. Divide your ebook content into reports then give people the option of just purchasing the info they want.

5. Purchase reprint rights to other people's ebooks an combine them with your in a large package dealor private ebook library web site.

6. Change the benefits on your ebook ad copy into links. When people click on it take them right to the order page. It'll give them a urge to buy your ebook.

7. Charge people a cheap price to read half of your ebook. If they like it, they can pay full price to read the other half.

8. Offer freebies that are related to the ebook your selling. It could be free monthly ebook updates, free e-zine, free consulting, etc.

9. Show your prospects a sample page out of your ebook. Just black out some of the important info. This will make your prospects curious to buy.

10. Provide a low and high priced version of your ebook. Show benefits of each version side by side. People usually spend a little more for extra info.

11. Offer the reprint rights to your ebook. You can sell the rights with the regular purchase price or as a separate higher price.

12. Make your ebook available for offline people. Your could turn it into a print book, report, video, audio book, print newsletter, etc.

13. Redesign your ebook for specific niches. You can create multiple profits with very little work. Ex:Turn a business ebook into a craft business ebook.

14. Give your prospects discount coupons on other products when they purchase your ebook. It could be your products or others that you made deals with.

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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Plug in Profit Site Review

Something Hard to Find:
An Unbiased Plug-In Profit Site Review


The Plug-In Profit Site (PIPS) is an online home business opportunity developed by Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy. You may have heard of it and are interested in joining, but being a smart person you decided to look for a review. Well if it's a review you need, you came to the right place.


If you are not yet familiar with the Plug-In Profit Site, it is a popular online business opportunity in which several affiliate and home business programs are combined into single system. It is essentially a downline builder for MLM and residual income programs. That is, you get your own site promoting several affiliate products and home business programs so you can make money. The site itself is set up for you for free, and you are provided with great training and support to help you along the way.


Click here to check out the Plug-In Profit Site yourself. Be sure to read the whole page to truly appreciate what Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy is offering.

The Plug-In Profit Site is definitely a package that's hard to beat when it comes to ease and speed of starting your own successful Internet business. But before we move on, let's make this clear:


Plug-In Profit Site is a home business opportunity, and like all legitimate businesses you must put some effort into if you are going to succeed and make money.

Now that that's out of the way, read on...



The Highlights of Plug-In Profit Site

These are the benefits of joining Plug-In Profit Site and why people like it.
You can read the sales letter all you want, but of course you won't take it too seriously until you hear it from someone who's been there already.
•Ideal for complete newbies who have no experience in online business
•Website is designed and set up for you at no cost to you. It is also completely customizable to the owner's desire.
•Complete training is provided to help newbies into promoting and working their business. Also introduces to newbies the many aspects and components of internet marketing.
•Included with Plug-In Profit Site is a 400 day pre-written newsletter campaign for members to send to their mailing list and follow up on prospects.
•Members have their own message board devoted to PIPS, where members can discuss and share tips and tricks, and ask for help.
•Serves as a great foundation for people new to online business to expand to other areas of internet marketing.
•Since the niche is already set for PIPS, there's no need for researching what to sell and promote, since it is all given.
•Perhaps the most important thing is that it can potentially earn a decent amount of residual income. Some people make some extra pocket money from PIPS, while there are some who manage to earn their living entirely online from PIPS.
•PIPS works on a system of duplication: one person can do something to succeed, and others can do the same thing with success as well.
•The helpdesk and support is extremely helpful and responsive.
•Plug-In Profit Site also provides an exclusive advertising co-op that you can join to receive a share of all the traffic, subscribers and sales from a large-scale, professionally-managed online and offline advertising campaign.

The Drawbacks of Plug-In Profit Site

What the sales letter won't tell you.
This is a review right? Not some lens that blabbers about the highlights of the program. Like almost anything you'll ever find, there are also things that nobody wants you to know about, because they want to make money off of you. Well that's what sets this lens apart from all the rest.
•On top of the initial start-up costs, you will also encouter back-end expenses that Stone recommends. These include upgrading your autoresponder, upgrading your account in some affiliate programs, etc. However it is entirely up to you if you want to invest more in your business.
•It's not fool-proof, despite what anyone makes it out to be. If you think something is fool-proof, then you underestimated your fools. That being said, not everyone makes money from PIPS. But honestly, you mind telling me of a business opportunity that is truly fool-proof? I didn't think so.
•If you want to truly customize your site, you're either going to have to learn some HTML, or pay money to have your site upgraded (I beat them by teaching myself HTML and doing all the upgrades myself).
•The training given to you can only teach you so much. A lot of things vital to surviving in the world of internet marketing (such as search engine optimization) are things that you will have to learn on your own.

Is Plug-In Profit Site Right For You?

Do you match these kind of people?
I won't say Plug-In Profit Site is for everyone. Rather, it is for people who want to start making money online for whatever reason, and are willing to do the work and learn what it takes to succeed. Here's a sampling of people who might be interested in PIPS.
•A disgruntled worker who is tired of the corporate world and desperately wants to work from home and enjoy life without a job running his life.
•A student who needs some extra money and doesn't want to work some low wage job, since those are usually the jobs available to students.
•A person who is content with their career and job, but would like some extra pocket cash for something like a vacation, a new car, etc.
•Someone experienced in business/marketing and would like to add more streams of income to their life (these people would have quite an advantage over most people starting in Plug-In Profit Site).

Why do Some Fail?

Not everyone makes a profit.
Honestly, with all the business opportunities you see on the internet, can you tell me about one that has 100% success? I didn't think so. Plug-In Profit Site is no different. Here are a few reasons I can think of that people fail with PIPS.
1.They simply give up before they have a chance to succeed.
2.Lack of promotion of their business.
3.They think that they can just wait for their success without doing anything to help their business.
4.They don't join the Plug-In Profit Site advertising co-op which is an easy way to promote your site on autopilot. It is very effective and I highly recommend it to all Plug-In Profit Site members. The co-op builds your opt-in email list, it writes and submits articles for you, it writes and submits a press release for you, it blogs for you and so much more - virtually all the things you need to do to build a successful online business is what the Plug-In Profit Site Advertising Co-op does for members.

The problem is that a lot of people join Plug-In Profit Site and then don't want to do ANYTHING to promote their site. So even though there are built-in advertising opportunities that can do 90% of the work for you, some people just won't do it. As the old saying goes: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink."


So Where Does This All Lead?

Have you decided if the benefits outweigh the costs?
There's only one person in this world that can decide if Plug-In Profit Site is truly right for you, and that person is you. While I can give you information about the benefits of joining PIPS, I can do no more as to getting you to join.

Now maybe you've decided Plug-In Profit Site seems like it's worth a try. If so, sign up here . It really is one of the best home business opportunities I've ever seen.

The Plug in Profit Site is what I have been dedicating my time and effort to into earning money on the internet. It takes some learning and patience, but I've found it to be well worth it. It's more fun than most jobs, and it definitely pays better. :-)

So do you want to start learning how to make money on the internet? Would you like to have your own money-making website? Are you willing to take consistent action toward changing your life and creating a better financial future for yourself?

If you answered "yes" to any of those questions then I would highly recommend Plug-In Profit Site.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Quote of the Day

"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent." -- Jim Rohn

Another 10 Bonus Ideas to Help You Succed

1. Interview Articles - You could compile an ebookor report of interviews you've given to experts from your particular industry.

2. Coupon eBook - You could compile an ebook full of coupons from other products you sell or from other businesses you've made coupon deals with.

3. Online Gallery - You could compile a free online gallery of pictures, graphs, charts, or graphics that is related to your target audience.

4. Webcam - You could set-up a webcam so your customers could view a particular environment or place they are interested in.

5. E-zine Archives - You could bundle all your olde-zine issues together into an e-book or member'sweb site.

6. Survey Results - You could compile together the results of all the surveys you've taken from your website visitors. It could be an ebook or reports.

7. Personal Journal - You could publish a personal journal of daily actions you take that's related toy our particular industry.

8. Calendar Of Events - You could publish a list or ebook of events related to your target audience, It could be trade shows, seminars, fundraisers, etc.

9. Top Lists - You could publish a list or ebook oftop ten lists that your customers would be interested in. It can be about related products, people, etc.

10. Email Discussion List - You could make a privatee-mail discussion list only for people that purchaseyour product.

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