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Secrets of the Workplace that All Employees Must Know if They Want to Succeed

Every morning, you get ready for work, leave home and reach your workplace, with the only intention of being good at what you do. You sit with a group of people and do what you have to do and go back home. But everyone wonders how is it that the same people who come with us every day, do everything exactly as we do land a promotion that we can’t get. In spite of it being a close race, these employees have special tips and techniques that they don’t want anyone else to know.

This list is made to reveal all those hidden puzzling tricks. All employees who get the dream job that we only can think of use nothing but a few well tried-and-tested ways that help them. Where we are scared, they go forward and fight. The following hold true for all employees in all companies: it could be someone from a wonderful position in an amazing company like IBM jobs or it could be an employee in a small company. These work anywhere and everywhere. As long as you follow these, you are on your way to being the employee all companies want to have.

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Our Hunt for A Guitar

I I’ve been away for awhile. I figured we all deserved nice little break coz we did worked out butt’s off last year. So we’ve spent the holidays and almost a month in the Philippines. And one of the things that we did there was: shop. Mainly we shopped for gifts, apparel and we also went on a hunt for an electric guitar for a nephew.

He wanted one of those awesome ibanez electric guitars and we looked high and low for one that would suit him at the price he was willing to pay. But alas, we didn’t have enough time and the one’s we saw weren’t to his liking. He did consider going for a Gibson, but figured it was too pricey and we also checked out a locally made guitar brand RJ.

Since he couldn’t quite make up his mind, I told him he better go with us next time so he can check it out. For non-music lovers and non-guitar players shopping for a guitar was like learning a whole new language so we thought it would be best if he travels with us next time and so he can shop for what he would really prefer.

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Excited about Black Friday & Cyber Monday?

I’m sure all crazy shoppers like me, {even those not so crazy ones} are very excited about the upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale in US.  It’s just too bad I’m not there and nobody I know are in US right now. Last time, my husband was there and I went crazy shopping for electronics and got some really great deals.

These sale events are like the opening salvo to the Christmas shopping season where most stores offer big discounts on some of their items. One of the best buys of the season would always be electronics but if you’re looking for ableton suite 8 from guitar center I’m sure you can find some discounts for that too.

So when does Black Friday happen? It’s on the day after Thanksgiving. A lot of people line up on retail stores as early as 4 am to get the best deals. Online stores also offer great discounts on this day.

If you fail to grab the bargains during Black Friday, you can try your luck on the Cyber Monday sales which happens after the Thanksgiving weekend.

So if you’re in the US, lucky lucky you. Go grab those great deals!

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A Blog for My Mushy Musings

Just in case you’re wondering what happened to my chick lit book reviews here, no they didn’t get hit with the booster hose, and no, I didn’t quit reading em. I simply transferred my reviews to another place.

I simply realized that I have a blog for almost everything, but I don’t have a place for those things that I do whenever I feel like relaxing or have the urge to do something lame and mushy. I’m talking about my penchant for indulging in reading chick lit and romance books as well as occasional Asian drama watching.

And so I made a blog catered to those mushy stuff. Yes, there are times one absolutely needs to do and enjoy some lightweight stuff and I’m not about to deny myself that. I like reading chick lit and romance books coz its uncomplicated, nothing too dramatic or nerve wracking and it relaxes me & allows me to sleep well. Asian dramas are also one of my sources of fun. I enjoy them immensely, even if they do have out of this world, insane plots.

Simply Reveries

And I get to blurb all about them at Simply Reveries. Do visit me there, for sure you’d enjoy it if you are like me who indulges in mushy stuff every once in a while.

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Moving and A Little Blimp

I’ve been thinking about moving a few of my blogs to another host and server, mainly because I don’t want all my blogs to be using a single shared IP addresss (for blog earning purposes hahaha). I upgraded my old hosting account and got a dedicated IP address, meaning only my blogs would be exclusively using that IP. Which is much better than sharing it with God knows how many sites on a single shared server.

Girl Blogger

I have also decided to limit blogs I host for every hosting account to maximize the earning potential of each when it comes to text links. So some of the blogs I have decided to move to my second hosting account and once I’m done with the transfer (about 6 blogs), I will also be purchasing a dedicated IP address for these account.

So that’s what I had been so busy with the past few days. Backing up, and doing the actual transfer of 6 blogs to a new server. I’m halfway through it, as I’m a bit slow and meticulous. I want to make sure all links are working and I don’t miss out anything. Also, I do take the time to test everything first before actually changing the domain DNS. At least I know for sure that when I go live, everything is in order.

After a couple of blog transfers I got the process down pat. It’s easy (although a bit scary at first) and it won’t really require much technical knowledge. There are a lot of tutorials you can follow and as for me, tutorials from the webhosts is what I prefer to follow. Thankfully, everything went beautifully when I transferred this blog. There was a bit of downtime (as normal) while the domain nameservers was changed and it was propagating but it was just a short blimp, so no harm done and now were live from the new host.

Once I’m done with all the moving, I’m going to post a mini tutorial here on how you can do your own tranfers.. complete with screenshots.

Image: suphakit73 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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Sony Splits From Ericsson

I’m sad here. I love my Sony Ericsson mobile phones. I know while everyone is clamoring for smartphones and all, I’m stuck with my two good old Sony Ericsson phones. It’s by choice and I couldn’t bear to be parted with it. For some reason, I love my Sony Ericsson phones a whole lot. Perhaps because I dropped them too many times but they are still alive. Hahaha.  It is serving me well and they do have awesome products..

Sony Splits from Ericsson

So now my tidy little cpu cart is upset with the announcement that Sony is now divorcing Ericsson. Sony has now taken over Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson’s 50-percent stake in their joint partnership and the company would be renamed “Sony Mobile Communications”. Its mobile phone arm would be integrated to its mainstream electronics business..

Read on here – Sony Press Release for more info.

I realize this is a not so usual happening and hope that Sony would continue coming up with great products even after this. If they come up with a cool smartphone I might just be tempted to buy one.

Via Engadget

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Happy Adsense Camper!

That’s me! Whoohooo! I’ve been blogging close to 4 and a half years already but it has only been more than 2 years since I have added Google Adsense to a couple of my blogs. I was hesitant to use it to monetize my sites coz I initially thought it would only work for big traffic blogs. And also when I started building my first blog (with blogspot) and added Adsense, the results were just sooo dismal. It was quite disheartening and I was quite glad  I blog mainly for pleasure if not I would have been devastated upon seeing my meager earnings for 6 months was a measly $.58! After that, I removed all traces of Adsense on my blog.

That was until late 2009 when I started reading about niche site building. Well, the concept was targeting small traffic, low-medium competition keywords for better chance at going up the search engine page results and targeted traffic means more probability of visitors clicking on targeted ads.

I thought about it and decided to try it on my older blogs and so I returned to Adsense. I picked out keywords with less than 8000 monthly searches and started optimizing the blogs with that and also everytime I post, I try to use terms that are being searched. I’m not overly concerned about numbers though, I think its intuitive, just think of the terms you yourself would use to search for a particular topic and try to use those keywords throughout the post and also using it as your ‘anchor text’ whenever you comment on blogs or link to the article. That’s SEO in my very simple terms. Lol.  I’m not really very good with SEO but the minimal effort was proven to be good.

Blog Earnings

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Back with a New Look!

Hi ya! I know I’ve been missing in action for the past months. Yes, I was updating my other blogs but this one, I decided to shelve for a bit because I had too much on my plate. May and June had been a particularly trying time i my life as my father battled cancer and eventually, we lost him.

After a few weeks of being depressed I decided to push myself into doing something creative. I honestly didn’t know what to do but I wanted to channel my bad vibes into something good. So I took stock of my blogs and decided I’ll overhaul each one to fill my days.

And thankfully, this pulled me out of the depressing  mood. And I also have better looking blogs. :) Lol. Anyway, for this site, I wanted something a little more girly as my other blogs tend to be minimalistic when it comes to aesthetics.

I made the header myself. The vector is pre-made from a free vector site. And it soo like me in my good days. Sipping coffee, sitting or walking in the park. Except that I’m a little meatier in person than that vector. But I really really love the outcome. It has a girly, retro-vintage vibe.

How do you like the site’s new look?

Image: Idea go / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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