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Masterpiece – The Art Auction Game

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Masterpiece - The Art Auction Game

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MASTERPIECE: “Going once, going twice…SOLD!”

For years families have thrilled to the excitement and fun of the MASTERPIECE game. Now you can join the tradition and make your mark in the high-stakes world of an international art auction, where the excitement is in the bidding — and the fun is in the bluffing!

Rembrandt…Cezanne…Monet. Tonight, 24 works by the world’s greatest painters will go on the auction block. And with a shrewd eye for a deal, you can bid and bluff your way to the largest fortune in paintings and cash.

See a picture you like? What will you bid — $1 million? $10 million?

Of course, it could turn out to be a worthless forgery. Try to buy low and sell high…and if you can pass off a fake as the real thing, take the money and run!

It’s the classic MASTERPIECE game…Now, who’ll start the bidding?

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24 Painting cards
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42 Value cards
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Blogging for Bliss: Crafting Your Own Online Journal: A Guide for Crafters, Artists & Creatives of all Kinds

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Blogging for Bliss: Crafting Your Own Online Journal: A Guide for Crafters, Artists & Creatives of all Kinds

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Today’s crafting community is online, connected, and blissfully blogging about their work and ideas. Blogging is hot in this highly creative world—and here is the only how-to book aimed directly at them. Everyone from knitters and beaders to scrapbookers and altered artists will find the practical information and visual inspiration they need to create an artful online journal.

Thanks to hundreds of gorgeous screen grabs from the very best blogs, a thorough introduction to the tools of the trade, and instructions that virtually take you by the hand, even beginners will swiftly go from blank screen to colorful, enticing pages. Those who already have a blog, but want to enhance their presence on the Web, will learn how to add banners and graphics, take the perfect shots, crop and size photos, establish links, and attract an audience of eager readers.

Best of all, readers will meet some of the Web’s most popular creative bloggers, including Alicia Paulson (Posie Gets Cozy), Gabreial Wyatt (Vintage Indie), Emily Martin (Inside A Black Apple), Lidy Baars (Little French Garden House), Heather Bullard (Vintage Inspired Living), and Serena Thompson and Teri Edwards (The Farm Chicks).

 

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Since 2004, TARA FREY’s blog Tara Frey {typing out loud} (www.tarafrey.com) has inspired thousands with its honest, well-written, and often funny prose about subjects both professional and personal. Her blog was honored as a Typepad Favorite Blog in November 2008 and receives more than 6,000 hits a day. Her articles about the lives and blogs of creative bloggers appear regularly in Romantic Homes, Romantic Country, and Artful Blogging. Readers can connect with her at www.bloggingforbliss.com.
 

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Just wonderful!, July 18, 2009
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If you are thinking of starting a blog, are new to blogging or you’re like me, and have been blogging for several years, this book is a wonderful go-to reference for just what you need to know to be a great blogger! Tara covers all the important aspects of blogging from how to start your own blog to making your photographs look great to blog etiquette….plus there are so many wonderful bloggers featured inside. They share their take on blogging, what works for them and even the blogs they must visit on a daily basis. I love it ~ even as a seasoned blogger, there’s still so much I can learn!

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Finally! Some Real Help, July 28, 2009

Finally! Some real help and advice from a gosh darn great blogger! Blogger Tara Frey guides anyone from a die-hard techie back through the real beginner to find their own on-line style. And she does it with beautiful photographs, insightful personal notes, and candid interviews from other successful bloggers. There is a glossary to help understand vocabulary, an concise explination of several blogging platforms, and a wonderful chapter on creating the best photos possible. This book will help boost confidence, not only for the newbie or undecided, but also spark ideas in the experienced, as well. Not only a great starting point, it is also a great refresher!

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an incredibly beautiful resource, July 16, 2009

I love this book! It’s chock full of delicious photography and dozens of truly fabulous blogs. In addition, it’s loaded with down to earth information to help anyone create a blog that’s not only a work of art, but a practical online store, too. This is a really fun book!

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I Got My Kindle! Now What Can I Do?

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I Got My Kindle! Now What Can I Do? (090208) EVERYTHING For Email PDFs Free eBooks Graphics Audio & Fun

Product Description
Absolutely ALL About Free eBooks, Audiobooks, PDFs, MP3 music, JPEGS, Email, calendar, SMS Texting, Mp3 Music, Text to Speech, GPS mapping, web browsing, Shopping, Accessories and Personality on Your cool new Kindle. The only eBook your Kindle really needs.

FREE UPDATE 090208 — re-download and get the update for free. See below:

It’s NOT another tiny user guide, but a big, very fun read, over 45,000 words and 100 pages, yet fully up-to-date as of September 2008 and covering everything you’ll really want to do, read and listen to in comfort: buy security cases, newest lights, covers, and accessories. Cope with and Fix all the Kindle’s little quirks, how to read in bed or on the beach, where and how to get a thousand e-books into your free library, use RSS and subscriptions for free, where to check scores and stocks, get web resources and conversion software, or completely personalize Kindle to be totally tech-chic and make it Yours… Oh, sure, and how to show it off with a killer demo as well.

(What did we add in the latest update? Some pesky typo corrections; a better way to get GMAIL; Yahoo mail and calendar, more on how to put quick jumplinks in your very own documents; and whoa! –more Pirates? Run! Wake the garrison!)

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Yes, this one eBook really DOES have everything about the Kindle carefully explained in it, plus indexes, hyperlinks, and a sense of humor too. (Buy it right now, or we’ll make the ship’s cat walk the plank..again)

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Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing Handbook: Low Cost Strategies to Attracting NEW Customers Using Google, Yahoo & Other Search Engines

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Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing Handbook: Low Cost Strategies to Attracting NEW Customers Using Google, Yahoo & Other Search Engines

Review
In my view, this book is the PPC bible. Stunningly up to date, the authors seem intent on keeping it that way. Tracking, click fraud, branding, local advertising are all covered, plus plenty of background and tips from pros. Among much other material, the book identifies a top-ten PPC providers (Google, Yahoo!, FindWhat, Kanoodle, etc.), then lists 12 more second-tier providers (BrainFox, Findology, GoClick, etc.), then presents a table with 30 more PPC engines that offer pre-funded accounts.
  Brad Hill
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Pay-Per-Click Handbook has a tremendous amount of advice, strategies, and information on search engine advertising. As you read through the book, you learn a great deal about the pros and cons of each PPC search engine. They provide detailed reviews of pay per click tools, management tools, tracking tools, and research tools. This book is a no-brainer for anyone seriously using the PPC engines. For under $50, the coupons you get alone make it worthwhile.
 Barry Schwartz
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Great book!  I received my copy earlier this week and was really impressed by its high quality and comprehensive insight!  I have to admit – this may be the most thorough compilation of paid search strategies, tips and overall industry knowledge that I have ever seen!  You did a wonderful job researching the topic and putting it together in a very professional manner.
 Kevin Gold
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Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate receiving the new Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing Handbook very much and think you did an excellent job. It motivated me to get more involved with Yahoo’s Local Match!
 Nancy Houtz
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Product Description
You-ve got products. You-ve got a website. You-re ready to do business online. Now, how do you attract new customers? You-ll find the answers in this book. In it, search engine advertising pioneers, Boris and Eugene Mordkovich, share their knowledge from the most basic information explaining how Pay-per-Click works to why it is so extraordinarily effective, as well as offer detailed information on how to design a successful campaign, how to test concepts, determine what works, and fine-tune your campaigns to maximize the Return on Investment (ROI). It also delves into more advanced topics affecting advertisers today, including contextual advertising (getting your website listed on thousands of websites without paying a penny), localized search (targeting a specific local area through search engines), and click fraud (how to protect yourself against it).

The book also offers tips, techniques, and ideas contributed by 14 top experts in the industry.

After reading this book, you will learn:

  • How to put your site in front of 80% of Internet users in under 24 hours
  • How Pay Per Click can be used in any type of business to drive up sales and profits
  • How ad tracking software helps you KNOW true Return On Investment (and show you what works and what wastes your money)
  • Exciting new -Local- pay per click options that allow even hometown businesses to prosper online
  • How to choose best keywords AND bid effectively on them (and why #1 is usually not worth the money)
  • How to write a PPC ad to get better results than your competitors
  • How to expose your ads to thousands of people without paying a cent
  • How to use research and bid management tools
  • How businesses without a website can still use local PPC
  • If you can you trust the tools and reports the search engines provide?
  • What are the Top 10 PPC Search Engines

And, we cover in depth other vital marketing concepts important to any business, such as–

  • Website strategies to convert more visitors into buyers, then into repeat buyers (does your site work well?)
  • When you should use an outside marketing firm, and when you should do ot yourself
  • How to get thousands of people to view your ads without paying a penny
  • Split testing using 3rd party tools (the best way to determine the most effective ones)
  • Click fraud, and the tools, methods and techniques that protect your business online
  • Affiliate, partnership options and other ways to enhance profits with ZERO additional expense
  • Pay Per Lead, Pay Per Sale & Pay Per Call — and how to use them ALL

You also get full Reviews of the newest PPC tools and three appendices including an extensive Pay Per Click Glossary and Recommended Resources to help your business grow. Finally, we asked 14 recognized experts in online marketing to share what they feel are the absolute most important things to do, and to avoid, to build a super-successful business on the Internet today. Their responses, along with the other detailed information in this one book, will revolutionize the way you do business online.

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Email Marketing: An Hour a Day

Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 12:44 pm  
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Email Marketing: An Hour a Day

Product Description
If the idea of starting an email marketing campaign overwhelms you, the authors of Email Marketing: An Hour a Day will introduce you to email marketing basics, demonstrate how to manage details and describe how you can track and measure results.  Case studies, step-by-step guides, checklists, quizzes and hands-on tutorials will help you execute an email marketing campaign in just one hour a day.  When you feel comfortable with the basics, learn how to use video and audio enabled email, implement tools like mobile devices and leverage social networks.

From the Back Cover
Create Relationships and Revenue with Winning Email Marketing Campaigns

A Step-by-Step Guide

Email delivers significant ROI, increases brand loyalty, and is one of the most powerful tools in your marketing arsenal when used properly. Are you getting the most out of your current efforts? Are your campaigns profitable? Are you building brand equity? Are you integrating campaigns with other channels? Renowned email marketers Jeanniey Mullen and David L. Daniels offer a fresh, insightful look at modern email marketing in today’s customer-centric marketplace. They’ll alert you to the newest concepts, hottest trends, most budget-friendly tools, and best practices—while they help you build, deploy, and manage a smart, day-by-day plan for success.

  • Leverage eight different ways to use email for better results

  • Use website analytics to improve your email efforts

  • Create multichannel marketing strategies from your email database

  • Set up high-impact video- and audio-enabled emails

  • Develop email strategies for mobile devices and social networks

  • Track, measure, analyze, and report your results

  • You’ll also find:

  • What not to do when you send an email

  • Straightforward tools for adding email to your current marketing plan and getting budget approval

  • Online resources, cheat sheets, a glossary, and much more

  • Real-world “From the Trenches” case studies that illustrate successes to learn from and mistakes to avoid

Praise for Email Marketing: An Hour a Day

“You don’t have to quit your day job to start or radically improve your email marketing program. Just set this book and a decent pen next to wherever you brew your coffee. You and your bottom line will be glad you did.”
—Tom Gerace, CEO and founder, Gather.com

“Jeanniey and David have written a book in which the power of email marketing becomes simple to understand and easy to implement.”
—Dr. Ramesh A. Lakshmi-Ratan, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, Direct Marketing Association

“Common wisdom advises that ‘the money is in the list.’ That is absolutely true if you provide the proper experience. This book gives you real-world advice on planning campaigns for maximum impact, how to measure and improve your campaign’s effectiveness, and how to do it based on your budget and resources.”
—Bryan Eisenberg, New York Times author of Waiting For Your Cats to Bark

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