Shop Hop Saturday 8/20/11

Good Morning---it is still morning as I type this.
I woke up extra early to have a garage sale but found that it was raining.  I wanted to go back to bed but instead I decided I should get to work on my online business stuff.  


I went and added more items to my zibbet store.  It's slowly growing.  As a free member I can have up to 50 items listed.  I'm still debating on the paid membership, but that will come after I close in on the 50 items listed and see if I get sales as well.    While I was there I found some cool banners to help promote (like the one below).   I put the banner in reallysmartdeals and in easyhits4u.





Speaking of reallysmartdeals---all of my sites in rotation had ended so I spent a lot of time putting in products.  I put all of my zibbet, all of my etsy, all of mu zazzle and some of my blujay store items.  With my $1.99 a month membership I can have up to 125 items in rotation.  I got up to 91 put in today.   Reallysmartdeals offers something cool---a rotator link.  This link will randomly put up one of the items I have listed.  You can check it out here: http://reallysmartdeals.com/rotator/59846   
Now, where can I rotate this?  Most traffic exchanges don't allow the rotators since it does rotate urls and any of them could be a virus.  I have it rotating at easyhits4u.  I don't really do any other traffic exchanges anymore other than reallysmartdeals.  Any ideas?

I have work to do in blujay.  They are requiring that you now put in isbn numbers for books you have for sale.  For the books that I didn't put that in the description I will have to drag out the milk crates of books from the middle closet to get those.

I'm trying to decide what to do about homeschoolbuy.  Seems for whatever reason, there are over 1000 members but for the longest time I've been the only one listing anything.  I'm thinking of moving the books over to blujay.  That way they don't expire so I don't have to remember to go in and update them before they expire.  Good idea, just will take a lot of time.

That's my report for this week.   Click the button below and hop along with abitosunshine!

Shop Hop Saturday 6/11/11

Good Morning!  I think most of you know I've been a lot of busy this week with my daughter Heather having her first child.
Zelda Drucilla was born Sunday June 5 at 2:44 pm weighing in at 7 lb 8 oz and 20 inches long.

I have kept busy in my blog this week.  I hope you will check out my recent posts.  I put up 2 new giveaways and I have one that ends tonight.  Please click over to the Reviews/Giveaways page and check those out.

I got in a special order for 3 fabric bags, so I've been working on those.  I also started another set of the double thick hotpads to list in my etsy store.  I've been working daily in reallysmartdeals to get my products and websites listed and put in a few banners.  I still need to put together some text ads to be in rotation.  I didn't realize they started where every so many sites you visit you earn 2 cents and can get paid at $5....that is cool and a great incentive to me to stay active there getting my products seen!

Here is a program you might want to check out.  It's called Crowdtap.  You earn points for quickhit questions and for participating in discussions.  You can also earn money for the discussions.  They often have surveys that are worth money and they even sometimes send you a product to try.  It's lots of fun!  Also, you choose a charity and every time you cash in Crowdtap donates to the charity of your choice.  I've chosen the ASPCA.  You earn $5 when you refer just 5 friends too!  I hope you will click over and join in.


I can't really think of anything else for this week.  I want to thank Ruthi of abitosunshine once again for hosting this each week.  Click her button and join us!
 

Shop Hop Saturday 6/4/11

Wow!  This week has flown by!  It's Saturday already and 4 days in to a new month.
This past week I didn't get anything else created for my Zazzle shop.

I did get 2 sets of the double thick crocheted hot pads added to my etsy store:

Double Thick Crocheted Hot Pads Set of 2 in Pinks

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Double Thick Crocheted Hot Pads Set of 2

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I don't think that I've ever mentioned my blujay store in these posts yet.  I used to have my crafts in my blujay store before moving them to etsy.  You will find books and lots of other different things in my blujay store.   Click here to take a look around.

Today I would also like to tell you about a traffic exchange.  It's called reallysmartdeals and it's made specifically to rotate your items that you have for sale. If you sell on ebay, etsy, cafepress, your own website etc, this is a great place to get your items seen.  I'm sorry that I don't know how many URL's you can rotate as a free member, I believe it's 25.  I'm a paid member at just $1.99 a month and I can have up to 125 URL's in rotation!!  There are higher memberships as well with many more.  Remember, you can join free.  As a paid member I get a set amount of hits automatically each month to my account, as well as text credits and banner credits.

You are provided with a rotator URL.  This url will rotate everything that you have listed.  This is great to use in other traffic exchanges.    I've been a member for a long time and really enjoy it.

You can not have frame breakers in the URL rotation, but you can in the text and banner sections (think squidoo here! you will have to make your own banners for this)  I do believe you can also promote in banners and texts urls that aren't related to items you have for sale as well.

I hope you will check it out and give it a try at least as a free member: 

With that I'm going to end this week on that note.  We have a baby coming in to this world tomorrow.  My daughter is on her way now to stay here overnight and head to the hospital early in the morning.

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Saturday June 6

Good Morning! It's yard sale day. I am so thankful to have this laptop so I can earn on here with the little bits I am earning at the sale.

Yesterday I totally forgot to write my blog until it was after supper time. It was my usual day of late with going here and going there. When I wasn't running I was still looking through all I could to get ready for the yard sale.

Nothing productive going on. I did get into reallysmart deals and get 100 of my blujay items listed to rotate while I looked through books on the bookshelf. Reallysmartdeals is geared towards what you have for sale on auctions and other such websites. If interested, it's a great exchange.





I need to go through and upodate my homeschoolbuy auctions. I even found some more books that I want to get listed too. That won't get done into next week. The bathroom is being redone here at least Monday and Tuesday and we aren't allowed to be home 9-3 each day due to them taking down lead based paint.

Guess I will move along...and try to find a way to plug in this laptop before the battery is totally gone.

Have a great Saturday!
Marsha

Saturday April 25

Good morning! I've been booking along this morning working on all kinds of things...realized it's 11 am and I hadn't typed my blog yet!
I had so much fun last night at the dinner theater!! I really do need to get out and do more fun things like that.
That's one of the things I've been doing this morning is preparing my photos and videos from the trip to share on gather. Those and some from the night before at my grandson's Spring program.

Today is yet another short internet day as we've promised Steve to go spend the evening at his house. Not sure what we will do, probably bbq and watch a movie.

I've still working this morning yet on getting my blujay items in rotation on reallysmartdeals. I'm almost done!

I came home late last night but check wordlinx as I was so close to payout. Clicked the ads then got instant payout to paypal. This is another of the really good and reliable paid to clicks. If you aren't a member I hope you will check it out.


I'm going to close for now. I won't be on the computer tomorrow until the afternoon after church.
Have a great Saturday!
Marsha

Thursday April 23

Good Morning! I did it again, only this morning I didn't get out of bed until 9 am! Once again I couldn't sleep last night. I finished reading one book and started reading another one.
Tomorrow is my birthday, and also my heavier cleaning day of the basement. I'm thinking I should do all the cleaning today. Tomorrow I am going with a group from church to Wichita for the evening to the Crown Uptown Dinner Theater. I want to be able to spend what time I am home tomorrow on the computer not cleaning. Besides, who wants to clean on their birthday?

Today is shopping day. I printed out the sales list but haven't even looked at it to see if there are any things I can match coupons to. I just have some things that I want to buy and ingredients for a recipe I want to try.

I'm busy getting my blujay items back in to rotation at reallysmartdeals. I am still so very glad that blujay came back!

Hey! I just got another payment from matrixmails. It's one of the great paid to click type programs that I do.


Well, off to get a bunch of other things done for today. Have a great Thursday!
Marsha