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If you want to know how to make money from affiliate marketing, it's first important to understand exactly what affiliate marketing is!
In today's post, you'll learn:
Affiliate marketing is simply getting paid for recommending things online.
You don't necessarily own any/all of the products you recommend (though it helps), you just provide links to them, on sites like Amazon.You recommend something that you like and use and people go and buy it.
When the sale is made you get a 5-15% cut. Nice right? Almost every decent company out there now has affiliate programs you can take advantage of.
In fact it's so common these days that when I'm buying a product, one of the criteria I use if I'm tossing up between 2 options is 'which one has an affiliate program I can use?' I mean if I'm going to buy it, use it, then tell people about it, I should get paid for my recommendations, right?
This is how to make money from affiliate marketing - giving people links to products that you write about on your website, then you getting a cut of the sale.
In real life terms we've been doing a kind of affiliate marketing forever. It's just that we haven't been getting paid for our recommendations. By going online, this is how to make money from affiliate marketing.
Think of it like this: you go out on a Saturday morning and get a new haircut. It looks absolutely fabulous and you meet your friends on Saturday night for drinks. Your friends say how unbelievably good your hair looks and ask you where you got it done
You tell them you got it cut at XXX salon so then over the next week 10 of your friends go to XXX salon and ask for haircuts. XXX salon absolutely loves you!
But in the real 'offline' world, does XXX Salon give you a cut of the money they're making from your 10 friends going there? Good Lord No!
They might give you a pat on the back and a big thank you and perhaps even a Christmas card. But they keep all the money that you have given them based on your recommendations.
Well wouldn't it be nice if you got a share of the money from XXX Salon for the 10 friends you sent to them? That's exactly what happens with affiliate marketing. And that's how to make money from affiliate marketing.
You are simply recommending products that you vouch for and like and use. People listen to you or read your reviews on your website and then go and buy those products from the links that you provide. Once the sale is made you get a cut, at a rate of anywhere between 5-15%.
One advantage of affiliate marketing, and the most enjoyable part when you're learning how to make money from affiliate marketing, is that you can link to as many products as you like.
So if you like photography, for example, you can link to things such as cameras for beginners, lenses, tripods or filters, or editing presets from any company available that sells those products. The options are almost limitless.
But the one thing that is absolutely essential when it comes to affiliate marketing is that you must have your own website to link from.
Without a website you can't learn how to make money from affiliate marketing, coz you can't do affiliate marketing! In fact, sites such as Amazon make this one of the basic requirements.
You can't just use your Facebook profile or Instagram or any other social media account to link to affiliate products. It's forbidden by most product hosting sites.
Sites like Amazon use tracking to determine where visitors have come from. And if they find that they haven't come directly from your website you will not be credited for the sale, meaning you won't get any commission.
Plus you will also be banned from being an affiliate. So having your own website is absolutely essential if you want to learn how to make money from affiliate marketing, and create an income from affiliate marketing.
And this is where Wealthy Affiliate comes in. Wealthy Affiliate is an online resource that is by far the best internet marketing training for beginners (and seasoned vets).
Wealthy Affiliate provides you with the affiliate websites you need and training in setting up and optimising websites. This is the entire premise of Wealthy Affiliate - giving you the websites you need and helping you learn how to make money from affiliate marketing.
Wealthy Affiliate is specifically designed to help you succeed with affiliate marketing. That is its sole function. Some of the things you get when you sign up (free) with Wealthy Affiliate include:
The Wealthy Affiliate system helps you set up your websites to make money from the get-go.
Wealthy Affiliate really is a one-stop shop that tells you every single thing you need to know about creating successful websites that can help you learn how to make money from affiliate marketing.
Absolutely everything you could ever wish for is there. So if you're genuinely interested in affiliate marketing, and creating a 2nd income online, and learning how to make money from affiliate marketing, Wealthy Affiliate is easily, easily your best choice.
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Today's post on 'How To Make Money From Affiliate Marketing' has shown you the basics of how affiliate marketing works, and what you need to do to get started.
As I said, almost every company out there these days offers affiliate programs, so why not get in on the act and get a piece of the pie? Two quick examples on this website here are:
> I link to my favourite Lightroom Presets for photography
> I link to AWeber - the email marketing service I use
Sites like Amazon offer 100,000's of products you can link to. You name it, you can link to it. And get paid for it!
We've been recommending products and services to people since forever. So why not get money for doing so? You just need to set it up the right way. And Wealthy Affiliate is perfect for that.
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So first there was this awesome giveaway from JenJen at Tatertots and Jello. I LOVE reading Jen's blog. She is so full of creative ideas, she's an amazing homemaker who goes the extra mile for her children, and I am always motivated by all the wonderful things she does for her family.
This would be perfect for me, right? Because you know I'm re-doing my bedroom in black and white!
So Jen was sweet enough to put an entry in for every one of her followers, besides those who commented. The original winner happens to be downsizing, and doesn't have a place for these...so they got passed on to me! Yay! Thus began my string of wonderful luck!
Next was this goodie from the BLAH, BLAH, BLAHger. She is anyting but blah! Her blog is filled with awesome DIY tips and projects, makeovers, photography, so much talent and advice. I love it! I have so many projects in my head, and I'm excited to delve into her blog for more inspiration, and tips on how to get my stuff done!
I was one of 2 lucky winners of this awesome spray paint gun! I used it today for my Mod Podge Mania project...don't forget Thursday's the day ladies! It. is. AWESOME! No sore finger from pressin' that stupid little nozzle forever! Thank you JJ!
And finally, Tabitha over at I Choose Bliss was giving away this fun package of pampering goodies! You must go visit Tabitha...she is the most loving, uplifting, kind-hearted person! Her blog is so full of joy and inspiration. It never fails to bring a smile to my face, and warmth to my heart!
I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of this treat! I can't believe I won 3 times! Of course this probably means I'll never win anything again in my life...but whatevah...I'm thrilled with these!
I hope you're all having a wonderful week, and remember to come back Thursday for Mod Podge Mania, it was so fun last month - there were so many amazing projects! I can't wait to see what everyone has in store for this month!
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Pittsburgh Airport HuntingContributors to this thread:
Whitetail Deer
Porthunter04 09-Jan-19
jstephens61 09-Jan-19
Bou'bound 09-Jan-19
Mule Power 09-Jan-19
jstephens61 13-Jan-19
Single bevel 13-Jan-19
marktm250 13-Jan-19
White Falcon 13-Jan-19
From: Porthunter04
Haven't hunted the airport in 5 years. Feels good to be back at it one question where's all the deer?
From: jstephens61
Shale gas drilling ran them off.
From: Bou'bound
They are headed out of town with Antonio Brown
From: Mule Power
Yep gas drilling and the hunters who have always hunted it long before you and I had a chance to. I drive by there every day and they are long gone.
From: jstephens61
I was actually joking, but I can see it happening for a short time. At a meeting in Pittsburgh a couple months ago, the commissioner in charge of the airport gave a talk about how much revenue the gas production had brought into the airport. We did an exercise in where we'd recommend drilling and installing transmission lines. Hope we didn't screw up your hunts.
From: Single bevel
Gas pads do cause deer to relocate...for a short period of time while to construction is happening. But they return. We have a pad right here in the neighborhood and I've witnessed that behavior. The construction of well pads often create edge where there was none. Pads often create food plots along the access roads and the larger footprint of the construction site. Then, there are the new transmission lines that are created. Pipelines are needed to get the gas to market and the new pipelines create miles of new edge and new plots. Another aspect of the construction of gas infrastructure, is the cutting of trees and putting browse on the ground. Chainsaws are dinner bells to deer. And stumps sprout, creating longer term food source. Gas development does more for the deer herd than it takes away from deer.
From: marktm250
So the airport is open for hunting now? I used to hunt that area way back when ... about right where 376 cuts through it now. Never had much luck but always heard stories about the other side of the fence. Anyone remember White Swan Park in that area?
From: White Falcon
Years ago, I hunted in Allegheny Co, Monroeville. also around Murrysville. Good hunting then. Killed my first deer behind 380 and 22, up on the hill by that housing plan.


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The work on the Collet Chuck for ER32 started last weekend. Up to today, I don't have much to write about. This is the time I'm dealing with a large piece of steel stock and frankly, I've no confident that I can pull through this project to the required accuracy.
The mild steel stock I bought measures slightly bigger than 100mm in diameter and 42mm in length (or should I call it thickness?). The edges around the circumference was deburred with a file before I started work.
|The approximate centre was punched with the aid of a Centre Square and a rule.
|It was then fastened to the mill table with the step clamps. The drill shown in the pic has nothing to do with this ops. It was there from the previous job.
|Trying out the new Spot Drill, which is a mistake. Should have use the Centre Drill as I'll be using the Live Centre on the Tailstock to centre the stock as best as I can in the 4 jaw chuck.
|The 90-degree spot drill in use instead of the 120-degree shown in the previous pic.
|Opening up the jaws of the 4 jaw independent chuck to slightly more then the circumference of the chuck body (100mm diameter).
|It will save me the trouble of trying to locate the centre of the hole if the Centre Drill was used. The jaws were carefully tightened around the job.
|Facing cut was done first to square the face to the spindle rotation.
|Then the side. This piece has tough skin! I should have started with heavier cuts to go beneath the skin but I was scared of the job flying at me...
|Finally, I've about 25mm section turned concentric. This will be the section I'm bringing down to 50mm.
|This was where I stopped - 90mm diameter and 40mm more to go...
I took a video of the turning in progress. The chart I've on my lathe says that the spindle speed for steel stock of 100mm diameter is 80 rpm. I tried both 80 rpm and 160 rpm at depth of 0.1mm to 0.5mm per pass with the carbide insert tool. I was trying to see how deep I can cut. Don't really feel comfortable at 0.5mm from the sound produced - it sounded like the motor was going to stall anytime though that didn't happen. To play safe, I backed off from the depth to 0.4mm. Now I wonder how long will I take to bring the 25mm section down to 50mm diameter at the rate I'm going...


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BISA Working Group on Intervention and R2P
The BISA IR2P Working Group is also delighted to announce its inaugural annual book and ECR article award. This is for the best contributions to the study of intervention and R2P.
The prize for each will be £100 in book tokens.
Book award: This is open to all BISA IR2P Working Group members. This book must published in the calendar year of 2017. Monographs and edited collections will be considered.
Early career article: This is open to BISA IR2P Working Group members who are either current PhD students or submitted their thesis within two years of the date of the submission date for the award (1 July 2018). The article must be published online either (i) on Earlyview or Firstview in 2017 or (ii) in a 2017 edition of a journal.
Authors can self-nominate if they so wish. Books must be received by the judges listed below by July 1st 2018. Books nominated will not be returned. Full regulations for the annual book award are available here
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I subscribe to Seeds 4 Life, a wonderful site on which many wise and inspired people share their words of wisdom. Ok, I did post there so I may seem to be bragging, but this is not my point or goal. The following was posted by Moshe Kessler and it is a much more accurate and helpful perspective than the traditional "Hindsight is 20/20." I felt it was very timely since I am working so hard to move forward personally and professionally. I hope this is of assistance to you as well.
The quotation that he reflects upon is from Søren Kierkegaard: "Life Can Only Be Understood Backwards; But It Must Be Lived Forwards"
Moshe writes:
Never in history has humanity been as advanced as we are today. No matter what field you examine, incredible strides have been made. From medicine to space flight, from human rights to standard of living; we are far better off than our forbearers. Yet with all of these advances; in certain moments, we are no different from our ancestors of the distant past. When serious challenges arise; we still ask that eternal question, "why is this happening to me?"
In that stillness of time when we are hit with a traumatic event, there really are no answers. What often does occur is that as we gain some distance from it, sometimes a beam of understanding pierces through the darkness. Perhaps what we initially thought was to our detriment turned out to be to our advantage. Maybe we were forced to take a more rigorous look at the direction our life was taking and make some painful adjustments. Sometimes we were forced to admit our powerlessness and learned to practice acceptance.
As we emerge from that life changing event, we hopefully have attracted new levels of wisdom and understanding. From that point, the trajectory of our lives must be forward. It's crucial to avoid the trap of dwelling in the past. Rather than bemoaning our "bad luck," we can recognize that we have been given a second chance. We become gripped by a powerful drive to make every day count, and even every minute count. To do otherwise would debase the profundity of what happened to us in the first place.
Per The Seeds 4 Life: "Moshe and his beloved wife have 3 children and 7 grandchildren. He loves to meditate, journal, and do tai chi and yoga. He is also a member of a number of 12 Step Programs. He believes that insights from these programs can be of help to anyone. On a daily basis he blogs at http://www.wisdomfromtherooms.com."


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Brazil vs Egypt – 15 June 2009
by Gerhard
Amazing game with 7 goals in it. In the end Brazil won 4-3 with a penalty goal in the last minute. It was the third match of the 2009 Confederations cup that took place in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The whole experience was wonder full and i enjoy every moment of it. It is really a experience to take photos of some of the world's best footballers like Kaka of Brazil and Zidan Mohammed of Egypt.
Brazil supporters enjoying the vibe before the match. Taken with Nikon D3 and Nikon 10.5 mm lens.
Kaka of Brazil after scoring the first goal for Brazil. Photo taken with Nikon D3 and Nikon 400 mm F2.8 lens.


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Dalkurd vs Helsinborg: Preview & Prediction
Up to the top, the Brommapojkarna have pulled off and seem almost impossible to chew on, but in general the top fight has shrunk and the tension increased.
Since both Dalkurd and Helsingborg lost their respective matches last, the remaining part of the table has not really entered. The former also lost to Jagning Örgryte, who really got air under their wings and strengthened their position on the fourth place.
Both Dalkurd and Helsingborg are placed on 23 recorded studs and said Øis of 21. The competitors closest below should not be omitted from the discussion entirely. Hard to sia every time it barks, as it's still early in the season.
Helsingborg went on a solid day in Monday's match against series leaders and dominating Brommapojkarna. The loss figures were written 0-4 at Olympia, which was the year's first loss in the Superettan.
Advantage of the plastic mat
Something we can conclude is that Helsingborg has previously had some flow with the results. Does the reality keep track of them? That's what I'm in.
The scoring has actually been quite weak in their performance and, in particular, defensive, there is a lot to improve. Even more worrying, it was because hardly anything was created in the attack road against Brommapojkarna, despite a large ball possession and strengthened by the home ground.
Neither the result nor the performance before was nothing to cheer over either; 1-1 away towards Falkenberg.
Player for players, I value Dalkurd as better than Helsingborg. There is more powder and on Domnarvsvallens plastic grass they are very difficult to get out of balance. All three losses have come from natural grass. The difference is like night and day.
Nearly it was also to score now at the latest against Örgryte. However, a 0-1 loss on Old Ullevi is nothing to be ashamed or digging the head down into the sand, and here the team will be seen with the best chance to get back on track again.
Dalkurd vs Helsinborg: Direct Matches
The shutdown on Kebba Ceesay, after having got his third yellow eye against Öis, is a minus for Dalkurd, but otherwise the problems are quite small on the troop front.
1.91 times the money for the straight one is good enough. Pollets – in!
Dalkurd vs Helsinborg: Betting Tips
X2 – Odds: 2.00
Over 2,5 goals – Odds: 1.95


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It all starts with training. If you are good you are good an Ironman distance triathlon will take you about ten hours or thereabouts, if you are average it will be around 12. Your body needs to be ready for a long day, so your training must reflect this. I know the Don Fink plan builds up the bike as you progress but my personal opinion is that you should be comfortable doing a 5 hour ride 12 weeks out from race day. This means you can then start focussing on building your ability to maintain race pace efforts for longer durations. Why so long? I think the long hours in the saddle train the muscles that support your back, arms, neck so that they do not limit your performance. Then all you need to focus on is your legs. Believe me your back etc do pretty much the same amount of work no matter how fast your legs are going. These long rides also build your aerobic engine allowing you to burn fat more effectively as a fuel source. Your long training rides should really not exceed a moderate effort, give or take the odd hill, and you should finish as strong as you started.
Once you are into your build blocks, say from weeks 11-3, you need to start adding in some harder efforts to your long rides, either on a few hills or with some increased efforts on the flat. Your aim is to lock in you Ironman pace and position on the bike. Your race pace efforts could build from say 3 x 15 min from 2 hrs into your bike, with some recovery between each, to perhaps 5 x 20 mins in your biggest week. You are trying to lock down a pace you think you can sustain for the duration of your Ironman bike so you know how it feels. This is best done when you are already a bit fatigued e.g. 2 hrs into your bike, to represent what it will be like on the back end of your bike leg. This must also be combined with a relentless focus to hold you aero position as much as possible – sitting up on the last hour of you bike leg wastes a lot of energy and time so you have to get your body ready for holding an aero position for the duration of the bike leg. Alongside this you need to start getting your race day nutrition sorted by practising this during your big training days and any races you have in your training plan leading up to your Ironman.
This depends on how many hours you did in weeks 6-3. Above 20 hours a week you probably need a 3 week taper. 15 hrs maybe 2 weeks, if you are doing 10 hrs a week then a week long taper will do. It really depends on how much fatigue you have accumulated. If you stop training you lose fitness, that is why you reduce volume but maintain race specific intensity when tapering. This allows you to get over your fatigue and replenish your enery strores so you feel fresh and sharp and ready to race.
Race day
Avoid the temptation to change your bike set up. Do not change anything on race morning that you have not practised and feel 100% confident doing. Plan for the weather, if it is cold pack arm warmers, a gilet and even a lightweight rain jacket. Getting cold in a long distance triathlon can kill your race e.g. IM Switzerland various years. Practice T1 in your head… over and over! Make sure you know where your bag is… and your bike. Know your entry and exit points. Have a plan and execute it.
The bike leg
Athletes literally loose their minds in the excitement of the start of the bike. Unless you are planning to ride 4 hours 30 mins, at no point in the first hour should you be seeing 40 kph, think about it. If you are doing 40 kph in the last hour then maybe you should have gone faster but you will still be set for a cracking run.
Remember, you have a marathon to run at the end of all of this. Which is better a 5 hour bike and a 4 hour marathon or a 5 hour 20 bike and a 3 hour 30 marathon? The bike must set you up for the run. So if you are feeling great in the first hour check your speed/power, check your heart rate and start eating. If you can get the calories in and keep a steady pace you will race faster overall. How many times do you here athletes talk about how they could not eat on the bike? It usually means they were going to fast. I know if my heart rate is consistently above 140 I will struggle to digest my food, which means at some point I will blow up, which I did quite fantastically at IM Switzerland where my second lap took 20 mins longer than my first. Oh, by the way, my run was journey into a very dark place indeed.
2 hours in, you should be locking into your race pace. The field around you will be less excitable barring the large gruppo's you sometimes get of draft illegals. Concentrate on your own race. The next 3 hours need to be focused on steady pacing with regular feeding. It can be difficult to maintain the focus but if you are pacing your race well you will find something really great is about to happen.
In the last third of the bike, if you have paced your race effectively, you will start to effortlessly move up through the field, passing those athletes who went out too quicly. All around you will be athletes sitting up and stretching out their backs, struggling up the hills that before were but minor lumps. Each athlete passed will give you a lift, and you will feel it has all been worthwhile. With 30 km to go it is time to get all your focus back. Concentrate on that aero position and think about your nutrition and hydration. I generally stop taking in solids at this point and try and get a large bottle of fluid down especially if it is hot. With the run to come you don't want to much in the way of solids in your gut but you need to be sure you are not behind on fluids.
With 15 km to go you need to keep pushing and not back off. 5 km to go on the bike, watch out for the hustlers who want to race you into T2 avoid a last minute loss of concentration. Use the crowds to get you home.
T2 is coming, this should be a quick change. Again you will have a process in place for T2 that you will have rehearsed in training. Plan on getting out as fast as you can. Sure your back will be stiff, your feet will ache, your legs will feel heavy but you have got 42 kms of running to deal with that. So let your focus in T2 be on getting out as fast as possible and knocking off you first 10 km of the run!
Stay tuned for another guest blog about the Ironman run. Happy training! Gabriel.


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What I Learned in the First 6 Weeks as a New Blogger
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If you made a list of people who would potentially become bloggers at some point in their lives… If you knew me at all, my name would appear near the bottom of the list.
Melvin Knothead
Anita Haircut
Stephen Johnson
OK, you get it? The Bottom.
I do have an entrepreneurial spirit, and I do need to supplement my income from our local business, which is why I would even entertain this idea. However, this is so far out of my wheel house, let's be honest, blogging was in another galaxy from anything I ever thought I would even attempt to do.
Six Weeks In…
I have learned so much in the last six weeks, and I would like to share it here. Maybe you can benefit, or at least be encouraged that you can do it, too.
Techy Techie Stuff
Theme Selection and Setup
I considered myself a somewhat tech-savvy guy through college. I graduated in 2000, and since then I have been so immersed in work and family, technology had begun to pass me by.
Using technology has always been part of my job, no matter where I was employed, and even more since starting a local business. Nevertheless, I had no idea how to begin a blog on the technical side, and truthfully, I was a bit afraid to try.
Having no money with which to pay someone to do this for me (remember, I needed additional income, not something else to spend on), I began the slow, painstaking process of learning about blog themes. If you asked me what a blog theme was prior to this…
No clue.
My wife definitely had an opinion on the look and feel of the theme, so I left the theme selection process mostly to her.
We chose the Bard theme and went with the Pro version because of the additional options available. Why? They make the theme look and feel more professional to the end user.
Ok, so you've chosen a theme. Now you just need to format it to your liking.
I will be honest, I had no experience at all in this, and it terrified me. What I decided to do was look at other blogs that I liked, and through trial and error, toggle options on and off in my theme until I manipulated it to my liking.
I basically copied my way to a theme that appealed to me.
The destination of a perfectly formatted theme I will forever be happy with still seems a few hundred miles away. Even today, I still made some minor changes to the layout of my page.
But, if I can figure this out, you can too.
There are certainly many resources available to help you. Just look at other blogs you like and copy their format in your theme. If you find a theme on a blog you really like, scroll to the bottom of the page. Generally you will find the theme name there, and you can go get it for yourself!
In my estimation, hosting is paying a company to "hold" your site for you. This is not a technical definition, because I do not understand the technical definitions. They allow you to choose your domain name (www.youramazingblogname.com). This should not be rushed. I think we spent at least 3 days tossing names around in our heads and batting them back and forth before we settled on ours.
Basically, if you want to make money from your blog, if you want your website (which is really synonymous with your blog) to look professional, you need a hosting company.
A good hosting company, like SiteGround, will walk you through this process with tutorials and even live support, something unheard of these days. SiteGround has award-winning support, something I have already taken advantage of, and they are stellar! I really can't recommend them enough. If you already have a website and would like to change your hosting company, they can help with that, too.
I was, generally, a "Low B, High C" student all the way through high school. I never enjoyed writing, and I have finished reading very few books, even to this day.
But blogging is different.
I am sure that there are some super successful bloggers out there that draw on an immense talent of writing. These people could be, and many are, authors. I am the direct opposite of these people.
But blogging is different.
Blogging levels the writing playing field a bit, in my opinion. Don't get me wrong here. Your blog post can't be full of misspelled words and gross grammatical errors and keep people's attention. However, blogging is best when it takes a conversational, friend to friend tone. Friend to friend conversation is something I can do, and so can you!
Taking this belief and understanding about blogging, I went with it. I began writing blog posts, and the more I wrote, the better they got.
Believe it or not, I was beginning to enjoy writing. This was shocking but fun to me.
So, even if you don't enjoy writing, remember that a blog post is a conversation between friends. Imagine you are just chatting with a friend about a subject you enjoy. Before you know it, I bet you will be typing away and starting to enjoy the process. That's what happened for me!
Promoting Your Blog
You do not have to look very far to find out the best place to promote your blog. Without fail, at least from my research, Pinterest is by far the best way to do this. There are other methods to promoting your blog, and you should try some of these, eventually. Most of the advice for new bloggers is to focus on one platform to start and maximize that.
Again, they all say Pinterest.
But won't people stumble upon my website by searching for things that I have written about?
No, at least not in the beginning. You will need to promote your content for people to find you.
I knew of Pinterest, but prior to this new journey, I had never pinned anything. I really didn't understand Pinterest, how it worked, what the purpose was, or anything about it until before this. My wife patiently taught me the basics, and I bought a book, Pinteresting Strategies 2017-18 by Carly Campbell. Carly's book has helped me a ton.
I finally began to understand what Pinterest really was (it's not what you think) and how I could use it to get traffic to my website. I am still learning, but Carly's methods are working!
It really does work! I have gone from 1,723 Pinterest viewers per month to 13,934 in six weeks. I had 44 engaged viewers per month to begin, and now I have 450. I started with about 20 followers and now I am over 200!
Obviously, I haven't been promoting my blog since day one, either, so these results are in the last four weeks or so. I own and run my own local business, a Coffee Shop, here in Hixson, TN. I also lead music for our church, three services per week, so the blog and promoting it are done in my spare time.
Not much of this really matters if it does not turn into views on your website. This takes some time, but remember, we've only been at this for a few weeks. I am happy to report that I have grown from 0 Page Views on our blog to 171 in August, 2018. So far in September (today is the 29th) we have received 295 page views.
While these numbers are not high enough to make a significant (at least $1000 per month) income from our blog yet, but there is definite, encouraging growth.
So again, it is working!
This is Your Call to Action (because every good blog post has one, right?)
I write this to encourage you, especially if you are thinking about beginning a blog and fear, no time, or whatever has been holding you back. If I can grow at this rate, you can, too, and you may even grow faster! Be encouraged, and do this!
Comment below, and introduce yourself. Tell us about your journey. Ask us a question. We want to connect with you!


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Roughly 200 miles of the nearly 800-mile Oregon Desert Trail stretch through the Owyhee Canyonlands. Joseph resident Nikki Beachy and her friend, Talia Galvin of Bend, backpacked 27 miles of the Oregon Desert Trail in the Owyhee Canyonlands this past spring, starting in Leslie Gulch and weaving north through stunning formations. Along the way, they appreciated the power and wonder of the high desert. Here, Nikki Beachy shares their adventure, along with Talia Galvin's photos.
Hickory, Me, and the Owyhee
The night we arrived was a new moon. Hickory and I set up our camp under the still light of dusk, later talking about Aldebaran and the Pleiades. Hickory is the trail name for my friend Talia, and together we were hiking Section 25 of the Oregon Desert Trail through the Owyhee Canyonlands. Some hours later lightning illuminated the night sky, and we wondered if Hiram Leslie's spirit still wandered the gulch and formations that now carry his name.
After consolidating our gear the next morning, we headed up Juniper Gulch. Warm morning light bounced off the honeycombs, the kind of colors you wish you could re-create. Taking a rest next to an old dead juniper on top of the ridge, I rechecked the maps that later became tokens of memory. It was already warm as we headed down through a narrow unnamed gulch with brightly colored rocks and small spiders darting in and out of the damp sand. Water rose up and down below the surface of the drainage, forming spring desert pools with bursts of grass and small flowers almost too small to see. At a particularly moist area, with rock wall faces that grooved and softened with the tell-tale signs of runoff, was an intact skeleton of a desert bighorn ram. Through our elation, we guessed at the story of his demise, feeling the weight of the bony skull and the row of flat teeth.
Hickory spotted a grassy campsite beneath a massive sheer rock at the confluence of two gulches. We relished our dehydrated delicacies, feeling the kind of hunger we often don't meet. Later, I watched the light fade into sharp lines on the rock and heard the coos and small sounds of chukars or mountain quail I could not see.
The water from the cow tank filled our bottles and Platypus with a murky green concoction that quickly plugged Hickory's gravity filter. We settled for Aquamira and arrived at Three Fingers Gulch soon after. I got us off course by a half of a mile, but the detour ushered us into a place that should be named Nature's Shrine; a meadowy spot with soft green bunchgrass surrounded by massive canyon faces. Our voices echoed off the mahogany and sunset colored walls; we were tempted to remain indefinitely.
Luckily we found a delicious seasonal spring and made the switch, moving up to the top of the gulch where Hickory and I descended into the land of the giant sagebrush: Painted Canyon. We camped that night trying to guess the other's songs, but we both knew too much of Marty Robbins and John Prine and not enough of anything else to stump each other. The next morning we rose early to navigate the aromatic labyrinth and later to take turns climbing over unforgiving boulders as the canyon narrowed at the top. The weather shifted as bitter winds met us at South Sheephead Spring. We could see pockets of sleet disguised as dark grey masses in the sky move their way across the landscape and begin their relentless whipping for the next two days.
Rookie Canyon Spring had guests; were they wild horses? They took off running down the mountain as we approached from a half mile away, their band healthy, with a new foal to boot. I took our bearings as we hiked up towards the Owyhee Ridge. The cold March wind and snow was our tradeoff for abundant water — we wore every article of clothing we brought that night as we hunkered in our shelter to the sound of freezing rain and spells of snow that weighted down the tent sides to our sleeping bags.
The last morning we startled three coyotes enjoying a carcass. The previous night's cold moisture made the ground muddy on top and frozen below. Still, the buttercups and desert parsley persisted. We opted for the longer but less difficult way to descend to Lake Owyhee. Birch Creek showed itself far below as we felt the familiar elation mixed with the terrible sense of anguish at achieving our goal. Every backpacker knows that feeling.
The bighorn skeleton still lays in the unnamed gulch as a cairn, a reminder of the very small part of life we inhabit in the shadow of canyon walls. Life bursts at the seams in the desert, at once inviting and forbidding us to try to make our niche in the community of life that has adapted or perished. What would happen to us, I think, if we could not experience the power, beauty and difficulty of the desert?


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At this year's graduation ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, the Sociology team presented graduating students with the fourth edition of the annual Westminster Sociology Dissertation Anthology, which showcases some of the outstanding and innovative research produced by final year Sociology students at the University of Westminster.
The aim of this anthology is to reward good dissertations, to provide an example of quality work for future dissertation students, and to promote more widely the achievements of our students in Sociology at Westminster.
The anthology includes work by Nisha Waller, who uses depth interviews to explores the experiences of six women who have been the partner of a male prisoner. Mehreen Khan's contribution deploys an intersectional analysis to explore how South Asian Muslim women have made choices about their education, career and future aspirations. Chloe Payne's chapter sensitively draws on interviews and ethnographic data to provide an in-depth account of the experience of 'postvention', the activities which aim to support the bereaved after a suicide in the UK. Kim Corti provides a critical and comparative examination of the discourses around veganism in UK national newspapers. Finally, Luke Allmond's dissertation explores sexism in the contemporary music scene in Oxford.
While these five projects are incredibly diverse, they all have qualities that make them distinctive of the kind of work our students produce in Sociology at Westminster: they engage creatively and passionately with some of the urgent issues of our time, they use a finely tuned sociological imagination to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions, and they are motivated by a desire to understand and challenge social inequalities.
Nisha, Mehreen, Chloe, Kim and Luke are not alone in producing great dissertation projects. The Sociology team had the pleasure to read some really excellent work. In particular, we would like to commend dissertations by Lois Anderson, Neela Khan, Marwa Fichera, and Jake Lovric. Well done to you all – we are very proud of you!
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(Re)producing Insecurities
Europe, Migration and the New Politics of (In)security
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Friday 29 September 2017
09:30 - 10:00
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10:00 - 11.15
Session 1: Fearful encounters: race, belonging and migrant precarity
Chair: Aneta Piekut, Sheffield Methods Institute
Alexandria Innes, University of East Anglia, Research, activism, and urban immigration in a small city
Paul White and Jocelyn Finniear, Swansea University, Securities of (be)longing: beginning an ethnographic examination of alterity, sameness and difference within post industrial communities
Maria Abranches and Ulrike Theuerkauf, University of East Anglia, Migration experiences, (in)securities and the Brexit referendum: preliminary findings of migrants' responses to racist rhetoric and actions in Great Yarmouth
Session 2: EU insecurities in South Yorkshire
Chair: Gwyneth Lonergan, Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Tina Patel, University of Salford, Pip Tyler, Migration Yorkshire and Phil Brown, University of Salford, Insecure bodies: the impact of Brexit on Roma in South Yorkshire
Jeremy Abrahams, Remain/Leave http://www.jeremyabrahams.co.uk/remain-leave
Session 3: Everyday borders in street-level bureaucracy
Chair: Joe Turner, Politics, University of Sheffield
Léa Lemaire, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) & Science Po Aix (France), The role of citizens in the politics of insecurity Malta and Sub-Saharan migrants
Nora Ratzmann, London School of Economics and Political Science, Transforming the status of EU citizens: The making of foreigners at German street-level
Rachel Lewis, University of Warwick, Anxiety and the precarious subject: affect in the contemporary UK citizenship regime
Keynote: Professor Adrian Favell, University of Leeds, Crossing the Race Line: Brexit, Citizenship and "Immigrants" in the Referendum
Roundtable discussion: Beyond (in)securities? Alterity and practices of resistance post-Brexit vote
Chair: Majella Kilkey, University of Sheffield
Ben Knight, University of Manchester
Tesfalem Habte Yemane, Refugee Education and Training Advisory Service
Pip Tyler, Migration Yorkshire
Roundtable speakers will respond to Professor Adrian Favell's keynote talk and offer their own reflections on migrant resistance to insecurity, as a lead in to a discussion about the practical, conceptual and political challenges to researching (re)producing insecurities.
Closing remarks: migration insecurity research horizons, White Rose Network leads: Deirdre Conlon (Leeds), Alex Hall (York), Hannah Lewis (Sheffield)
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Vanessa Hudgens' "$$$ex" takes advantage of "Spring Breakers" buzz.
Vanessa Hudgens may be taking that whole "spring break forever" mantra from "Spring Breakers" to heart. The actress, who plays Candy in Harmony Korine's new film, released "$$$ex," a new single that she calls "a bomb-ass song." According to Hudgens, the track goes "perfectly" with "Spring Breakers."
E! Online broke the news of Hudgens return to music. The actress last released an album in 2008, but rose to fame on the back of the Disney Channel franchise "High School Musical." She's left that image behind in a big way here in 2013: Her "Spring Breakers" character does copious amounts of drugs and engages in a threesome; her new song includes lyrics about keeping a man with a "condom in his wallet" up all night. Listen to Hudgens' "$$$ex" above.
Despite her edgy exterior, however, Hudgens has said filming "Spring Breakers" was difficult — particularly that aforementioned sex scene between her, Ashley Benson and James Franco.
"The thing I was most scared of was the sex scene and the nudity issue behind all of it," Hudgens told MTV. "Because I was not down to show this [gestures to chest]."
Her fears were sated by director Harmony Korine, who gave Hudgens control of the final product.
"He let me know it was going to be OK, and at the end of the day, if there's something I don'r like, we can snip it out of there. […] It was like a great compromise. I think that it turns out really beautiful and artistic."
Hudgens released "$$$ex" on Friday. "Spring Breakers" is out in wide release right now; the film earned almost $90,000 from three theaters in New York and Los Angeles last weekend.
For more on Hudgens' new track, head over to E! Online.
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Why Isn't The U.S. Gymnastics Team At The Rio Opening Ceremony? These Ladies Have A Busy Schedule Coming Up
If I were to compete in the Olympics myself (hahahahaha), I would definitely attend the opening ceremony. It seems like such a high energy event, and I wouldn't want to pass up my chance to wave a tiny flag along with thousands of other people who achieved their dreams. But, I am not an Olympic athlete, and so I don't have the self control that Olympic athletes have. For instance, the U.S. gymnastics team did not attend the Olympics opening ceremony, probably because they are there to compete, not to ooh and ahh over the outfits other countries decide to wear to the Parade of Nations.
As for why the 2016 Fierce Five didn't attend, none of the gymnasts explained the decision on their social media accounts or wrote anything about not attending. The NBC broadcast of the opening ceremony did note that Simone Biles was watching it from her bed.
One explanation may be that they just needed their rest. According to USA Today, the team decided to "save their legs" (i.e. not walk around a stadium) for their qualification round on Sunday. TeamUSA.org reports that the women had the entire day off on Friday, but trained on Thursday and have two training sessions on Saturday. On Sunday, the women will compete for the first time in a round of qualifications. Hey, nothing wrong with continuing with your day off to get some rest in before training. After all, the opening ceremony runs pretty late.
But even though Biles, Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian, Gabby Douglas, and Laurie Hernandez were not in attendance, U.S. gymnastics was represented in the Parade of Nations:
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Couple-oriented prenatal HIV counseling for HIV primary prevention: an acceptability study
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Describes the uptake of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing of pregnant women in London, England between 1991 and 1996. Findings of a survey of 780 women; Discussion of the results of the survey; Need for multidisciplinary research.
- Evidence-based guidelines for universal counselling and offering of HIV testing in pregnancy in Canada. Samson, Lindy; King, Susan // CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal;06/02/98, Vol. 158 Issue 11, p1449
Presents a study that has the goal of providing Canadian health care workers with evidence-based guidelines for universal counseling about HIV testing. The offering of such testing to all pregnant women; Options; Outcomes; Evidence; Benefits; Harms; Costs; Recommendations; Validation.
- Acceptance of HIV Testing During Prenatal Care. Fernandez, M. Isabel; Wilson, Tracey E.; Ethier, Kathleen A.; Walter, Emmanual B.; Gay, Caryl L.; Moore, Jan // Public Health Reports;Sep/Oct2000, Vol. 115 Issue 5, p460
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- Antenatal HIV testing: What now? Noone, Ahilya; Goldberg, David // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);05/17/97, Vol. 314 Issue 7092, p1429
Editorial. Focuses on the British health department's policy of encouraging obstetric units to offer HIV testing services to pregnant women. Importance of determining a pregnant woman's HIV status early in her pregnancy; Difficulties in implementing antenatal HIV testing.
- Antenatal counseling on breastfeeding -- is it adequate? A descriptive study from Pondicherry, India. Dhandapany, Gunasekaran; Bethou, Adhisivam; Arunagirinathan, Arulkumaran; Ananthakrishnan, Shanthi // International Breastfeeding Journal;2008, Vol. 3, Special section p1
Background: Antenatal counseling on breastfeeding and postnatal lactation support are likely to improve rates of exclusive breastfeeding. This descriptive study was undertaken to assess whether antenatal visits were utilized for promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in addition to the routine...
- Prenatal Discussion of HIV Testing and Maternal HIV Testing--14 States, 1996-1997. // MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report;5/21/1999, Vol. 48 Issue 19, p401
Analyzes the results of a survey from 1996 to 1997 on HIV counseling and testing in pregnant women. Agencies involved; Survey methods; Percentage of pregnant mothers who recall discussing HIV testing with their health-care provider.
- Representaciones sociales del proceso salud-enfermedad bucal en madres gestantes de una población urbana. MedellÃn, Colombia. Escobar-Paucar, Gloria; Sosa-Palacio, Catalina; Burgos-Gil, Luz María // Salud Pública de México;jan2010, Vol. 52 Issue 1, p46
Objective. To understand social representations of oral health-disease among pregnant mothers. Material and Methods. A qualitative study was conducted for which 28 pregnant adult women were interviewed who attended a prenatal program at a health institution in the city of MedellÃn, Colombia...
- Perceived risks and benefits of HIV testing, and predictors of acceptance of HIV counselling and testing among pregnant women in Zimbabwe. Martin-Herz, Susanne P.; Shetty, Avinash K.; Bassett, Mary T.; Ley, Catherine; Mhazo, Miriam; Moyo, Sostain; Herz, Arnd M.; MKatzenstein, David // International Journal of STD & AIDS;Dec2006, Vol. 17 Issue 12, p835
This project evaluated perceived risks and benefits and determined predictors of acceptance of voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) among pregnant women in Zimbabwe. One hundred and seventy pregnant women attending an urban antenatal clinic were surveyed. Implications of a negative or...
- HIV Testing Among U.S. Women During Prenatal Care: Findings from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Anderson, John E.; Sansom, Stephanie // Maternal & Child Health Journal;Sep2006, Vol. 10 Issue 5, p413
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Mega Man 11 Bombs on to Consoles This October, And Boy It Looks Mega
After a weekend of murmurs, it has finally been confirmed that Mega Man 11 is bombing on to the PlayStation 4 on October 2nd. The rumour mill was a day out, but who are we to judge?
The North American PlayStation Blog was chosen to make the disclosure; we can only imagine that the launch date will be the same for both sides of the Atlantic. But either way, there are many reasons to turn blue with excitement as Kellen Haney of Capcom was quick to tell us.
"Now, Mega Man is about to get equipped with his most powerful upgrade yet in Mega Man 11: the Double Gear system.
"Dr. Wily is up to his old tricks, and Mega Man must tap into the evil genius's own technology to combat eight haywire Robot Masters. The new Double Gear system allows Mega Man to increase his speed, slowing the world around him to a crawl, or power up his Mega Buster shots to blow away tough enemies. You'll be able to tap into these new abilities from the start of the game, which can be helpful aids in tricky situations."
In addition to the new mechanic, we've also been introduced to a couple of new bosses. Fuse Man is a fast and sparky fella, keen to zap you with a few hundred volt. Unfortunately Block Man is no friendlier, instead opting to drop pixelated cubes on to your head.
They've also incorporated a weapon wheel in to the controls. They're hoping it will make its handling more efficient and modern.
The blog ends by pointing out that pre-orders are now live, and will come bundled with a few enticing extras.
"All pre-orders will include in-game alternate soundtrack DLC so you can groove through stages with remixed music. And, in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Mega Man, pre-orders on PlayStation Network will also include an amazing interactive Mega Man theme created by Truant Pixel."
If this article wasn't mega enough for you then head over to the PlayStation Blog to read through a couple of stages. Or don't, if you prefer a surprise. Your choice.
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"Well, aren't you just the cutest… Oh. Oh God…"
He's just so precious, isn't he?
See more kickin' Halloween costumes at Buzzfeed's 32 Parents Who Nailed It On Halloween.
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Happy Friday the 13th!
That's Cold: "The Ring" Wake-Up Prank
Also, where the hell have I been? The good news is I've been writing like crazy. The bad news is afterwards I'm a vegetable. Will return, guns blazin', shortly.
I'm Being Stalked.
I was meandering through the dictionary (I knew I spelled "whininess" correctly, even though my spell check claimed there was no such word. I'm editing a story and it may or may not make the final cut, but the point is I WAS RIGHT.)
And there it was: Dark Side staring at me from another ad.
I love this, make no mistake, but it's feeling a little… aggressive. Wherever I go, it's already there. Waiting.
And the next thing you know…
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The Balut Incident
I like to think I'm adventurous. I like to think I'm always up for a new challenge, to push my limits and try new things.
Sometimes that gets me in trouble.
Like when a coworker and I were talking about all the weird and wonderful exotic foods we'd be willing to try, and balut came up.
What's balut? A fertilized duck egg. Big deal, right? We eat eggs all the time. Except the eggs in the grocery store are just eggs: dormant, neutral, never ever going to be anything else. Fertilized eggs, well…
…they start to develop baby birds.
Squishy, chewy baby birds. Considered a delicacy in places like the Philippines and eaten intact: feathers, beak, and all.
Eaten on Fear Factor in North America.
The next day another coworker happened to bring them in and ate them while the rest of us gathered, horrified, and watched. First Coworker heard about it afterwards and was disappointed he'd missed out. Promises were made for more balut to be obtained, and the next thing you know somehow I had agreed to join in.
I talk a big talk.
Tuesday came, "Egg Day", and I started having second thoughts. Big, feathery, crunchy thoughts. But I said I'd do it. I tried to quiet my rolling stomach. I didn't manage breakfast.
I sauntered into DayJob, full of machismo.
Oh, the egg is here? Cool, yeah, I'm totally down. Pffft, it's just an egg.
And I sat, and I tried to concentrate on my work, and I thought way too long and hard about textures and the probable unpleasantness thereof, and…
I — if you'll pardon the expression — chickened out. I hadn't even said I'd eat the thing, just that I'd stuff it in my mouth, but even that was too much. I thought about going through with it anyway; I thought about vomiting in front of my coworkers. Eventually I had to admit defeat and watch as Second Coworker fulfilled his end of the deal and chowed down, proclaiming it "Good" and worthy of eating again.
I have no shame, and I still have my stomach inside where it belongs.
How was your week?
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Many of our good readers have been sharing their experiences to be shared with all our readers. This week, I would like to Thank Rams, Rajesh and Sandhya for taking time to share their experiences with all of us. Rams has given a much detailed experience, special thanks to him. You can share your experience as well here .
H1B and H4 Visa Experience at Hyderabad by Rams
Background: I attended H1B visa interview last week in Hyderabad and it was approved. I am following this forum from past 2 weeks and people are sharing their experiences. Whenever I read the existing experiences posts, I always think about when I will write my H1B experience like this. Finally the day came and I am really very happy to write my experience. I will not write how I started from my home and what I did after that (it's all dependent on the person how and where he start :)). Below is my Experience at OFC and on the day of Interview
OFC/ Biometrics Experience at Hyderabad
Please reach before 30 mins to your schedule appointment, before that the security person did not allow you to enter inside (This is what I have observed their, incase if you want to wait outside of the consulate for some time, it's your wish)
Documents Carried to OFC Center : I have carried all my H1B documents to OFC center to avoid any further complications or issues.
1. OFC and Consulate Interview appointment confirmation Letter
2.Passports (For all if you are going with your H4 people)
3. Fee Receipt acknowledgement letter
5. DS 160 confirmation page with Barcode
Step 1 : Once you enter into the consulate with basic security check, you will be joining in a queue and VAC people will come to you and they check DS 160 forms with your passport details (If there is any mismatches they will guide you to make the changes and join in the queue. My suggestion is, while filling DS 160 itself, give all the correct details to avoid any further complications inside the consulate)
Step 2: Once you clear the step1 process, you will be entering into the OFC premises where you have to empty your pockets and keep everything thing in the tray and go to the officer and they will cross check your passports and put a white sticker with Token# on the backside of the passport.
Step 3: Once the 2nd step completes, security person ask you to sit in the waiting area for your turn (Keep a eye on the display screen for your token) and go to the respective counter.
Step 4: Once the 3rd step completes, you will be inform of the VAC officer and they will ask your passport and ask you basic questions. In my case it was,
Question: Why you want to go to States?
Answer: To work for my employer (Said the Employer name)
Question: When is your interview?
Answer: Tomorrow (Said the date and time)
they have taken photo and finger prints. That' it. the entire process completed in 20 mins.
H1B Visa Stamping Interview day: I really prepared well and I have complete documentation from my employer so I am confident but there was some nervous and my heart is pumping like anything from 8:00 AM. My interview was scheduled at 10:30 am. me and my family went to consulate by 9:40 AM. Outside of the consulate gate we waited for 15 mins and then they asked us to hold the passports in hand (they did basic check and allowed us to inside the consulate). We formed in a queue and I have taken out everything from my pockets and kept it in a tray (Watch, Belt, documents, Bangles, wallet, pen, etc..) and we proceed further into the queue and inside the security room they have asked me to open the sealed cover. So, finally I joined in the queue and after 20 mins they asked us to proceed further for finger prints verification, after that we have joined in a queue for Visa interview with a token.
In front of me there were around 7 including F1, H1b, H4 aspirants. Before me, there is one guy from top MNC company and his visa rejected saying, your qualifications are not meeting H1B requirements hence ask your employer to refile again in next year. My Turn came. We went to the counter with lot of stress ( But I managed with little smile)
H1B Visa Interview Questions
Questions asked:
Me: Good morning Mam.
VO: Good morning.
VO: passports please.
Me: passed
VO: Who is your petitioner?
Me: Said my petitioner name
VO: How long you have been working for this employer?
Me: It's new opportunity
VO: What is your salary?
Me: I have asked her, you're asking about Current salary or proposed US salary?
VO: US salary?
Me: Said the salary as mentioned in my offer letter (Please cross check your salary should be common in LCA, Offer letter, and other documents.
VO: What is the current employee size in US company?
Me: said the count (I have taken it from my I129 document)
VO: What is your position?
Me: Said my Role. I am a Software Engineer (as mentioned in the I129)
VO: What is your Highest Qualification?
Me: Master of Science in Computers
VO: From when you have completed/did this?
Me: OU, Hyderabad
H4 Visa Interview Questions:
VO: How long you have been married?
Wife: XX years old.
VO: Will your kids go to school in US?
Wife: yes
VO: Pointing her finger to the Human rights pamphlet and said that, Do you have this document and you have to read this before you land in US.
That's it.. Not golden, Platinum words " I am approving your VISA, have a safe journey". We wished her with big heart and said " Thank you mam, have a good day"
The interview process took less than 5 mins and entire process took about 1 hour. We came out of the consulate @10:35 AM and you guys know what we will do after coming out with such a happy moment in life. Collected my passports on the very next day. Very happy… All the best.
H1B Visa Experience at Hyderabad by Rajesh
I have been a silent listener in this group from the past 8 months and this forum really helped me in each and every aspect. I want to say heartfelt thanks from my bottom of my heart to the Admin of the site. Yesterday i have given my H1B Visa Interview in Hyderabad consulate and my Visa got approved. I want to share my experience here –
Background : Biometrics Appointment
10/04 12:30pm is my biometric appointment and I have reached there by 12:00 Pm. As soon as i reach they allowed me to go inside and the overall process took me around 7-8 min to complete. They just saw my passport, DS-160 and Appointment letter. They verified and gave it back. Later gave my finger prints. I was out by 12:10 Pm.
H1B Interview Day : 10/07 10:30 Am is my H1B Interview Appointment time. I reached there by 9:30 Am, but they allowed me after 10 Am. We have a seating arrangement inside. They took another Finger printing (to cross check) and gave me a counter number to stand in the queue. Have 4 members in the queue. I was able to listen from all the counters what they have been asking but did not want to show interest what they were asking because unnecessarily you will think for those answers and get you more tensed.
In my counter there was a US lady and there are two guys before me, they both gave interview about 10 min each and I'm really tensed what she will ask me. But thank god she only asked 3 questions to me
- Who is the petitioner filed your case
- what is your Client
- What will you do there?
- Did you read the pamphlet – Yes
Finally golden Words – VISA Approved. All the best friends those who are going out there for VISA interview. Thanks
H1B Stamping Experience at Hyderabad – Sandhya.
Today I want to share my H1 interview experience at Hyderabad consulate.
Day 1 – Biometics for H1B Stamping : My Biometric was on September 13th 4:00 PM at OFC. I went there at 3:15. Security did not allow my brother to the entrance who accompanied me. We are not allowed to take anything other than required certificates. Security guard allowed me into the queue at 3:15 pm. The queue is not that much the reason may be its starting season of H1. After 10 mins queue standing one attendant checked my DS 160 and appointment letter and passport. Then she allowed into the OFC. Visa officer checked my DS 160 sticked one label on my passport and gave token to take biometrics. I waited at the waiting hall for my turn. After 10 mins waiting biometric officer have taken my photo using web camera and finger prints. She asked my name and the purpose of travel. That's it my biometrics done. This entire process had taken 30 mins completed all this at3:45.
Day 2 – H1B Visa Interview : The second day my visa interview September 14th at 10:00 am. I reached consulate at 9:15 and was allowed into the queue. The security checked the label on the passport which was sealed by the biometric officer. Security guard instructed us to don't carry any cosmetics, phones, food etc. After I allowed into the premises greeter showed the seat to wait for the security check. After 10 mins waiting my turn came. During that check we need to put all our belongings in one box for scan including wrist ornaments also. Once it's done, I waited 10 more mins for the next process. They allowed our row to the biometric check.This day officer will compare the biometrics which was given by us at biometric OFC. Once it's matched they gave one token with the counter number. Lined into that counter. After 10 minutes of waiting my turn came. Visa officer and I greeted each other. Then the most tensed moment questions turn 🙂
1) he asked my experience in IT industry.
2) my client name
3) my designation
4)what my client is doing over there.
5) After that he asked my I797 B
Then he took my passport and smiled at me. Thank god my tension relieved left consulate around at10:45.
Admin Processing Status after H1B Stamping :
Once I came home checked my visa status. Again my tension raised. The visa status is showing as admin processing. I checked in the net what's meant by admin processing. Different versions I read. finally concluded by reading all those was it might take more time to get visa. Some process was left to get visa. But by god's grace the status had been changed to issue by the evening. On 15th I got a mail from US Embassy pick your passport. That's the story of my interview process friends.


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Anonymous PR Donal Wayswin is lifting the curtain on the murky world of tech PR, in his first column for Giz UK... A weighty minimalist desk sits atop the darkly-varnished wood floor, enveloped in the silence of a pre-work office. Early morning sunlight streams in through a crystal-clear glass dividing wall, highlighting a Mont Blanc fountain pen; crisp unused note-pad and perfectly calibrated iPad with a messianic halo.
These are truly precision tools, forged by elves in the fires of mount doom and calibrated by military scientists. They await the touch of their master, emanating a barely perceptible hum as waves of pure potential radiate into the air.
These tools are deployed with ruthless accuracy to bring highly-creative strategic communications campaigns to some of the biggest and most recognisable technology companies on earth. To the layman this means PR; however within the four walls at Despot, Bogie and Chubber (Soho's most respected technology communications agency) this term is banned. According to the Managing Director, PR is something that girls in tight t-shirts do when they hand out flyers outside bars in Lanzarote.
Instead, we carve strategies; re-imagine worlds and deploy creative assets in a way which is so cerebral our whole building sits in a bath of spinal fluid. Tech companies come to us as flailing unknown paupers and we make them famous, rich and successful by using a variety of Top Secret Dark Arts. To them we are a phantasm, the puppet-masters who pull the strings. When anyone from The Agency picks up the phone to a journalist, not only do they listen, but entire news rooms fall silent in anticipation. We are the butterflies, and when we flap our wings, storms form and rain falls.
At least, this is the impression given by our website and the luxuriant non-standard template company PowerPoint. This is the slick-looking and lofty vision the brand imageneers from the creative consultancy !Play! came up with when they 're-spliced our company DNA.' What they were trying to do was create the PR equivalent of the super-soldier, but what they actually did was take the skin off a long-dead general's corpse and pull it over a scared little girl. If you listen really carefully, you can still hear her hammering on the bloody insides, trying to get out.
The website depicts our staff as the perfect hybrid of smug-looking experienced communications professionals and young, pretty Oxbridge grads eager to do your bidding. The subliminal message is, "Look, not only can we definitely do your work, but you could also have a pop at Jenny, 23, whilst she talks to you about Ukranian philosophy and Taoist literature."
Disregard the cornflower-blue logo; frustrating Flash landing page; suits; friendly receptionist; free coffee bar; smiling teeth, and expensive wall-hangings, and you find out the real secret. Human beings work here, and we don't re-carve imaginations; we just speak to journalists. Or at least we try to. When they want to speak to us.
There is no more stark evidence of this contrast than taking a look at me this afternoon. My desk looks like the aftermath of Hiroshima. The mating publications form the base strata, with trade mags currently cross-breeding with T3 and The Times' supplement on Call Centres. Scattered on top of this is the half-eaten carcass of a banana; a disembowelled M&S salad box and an exsanguinated can of Red Bulll. There is also Miso soup spatter on the lapel of my shirt; a more PR agency war wound it is harder to imagine. The sensitive thick-glassed representatives from !Play! would be disgusted with the bastardo-Frankenstein representation of their brand crawling towards them.
Today started off bad and has picked up downhill momentum ever since. My first action was having to explain to a client why the 'news' that they had allowed their product to plug into a well-known social media site wasn't on the front page of The Sun; being discussed on the Today programme and generally causing zombie-like droves of digital denizens, whipped into a frenzy of desire, to break down their website. It went down like a cup of warm sick, leaving me no choice but to play subservient bad dog while they spanked my bottom. In the end I think I promised to speak with the people at the Leveson enquiry to see whether they could raise it when they speak to Rupert Murdoch.
From about 10:30 onwards, journalists began dropping out of tonight's press event like clockwork. Each subsequent email crashed into my inbox like Jason Statham falling through a big glass conservatory. This means that, as opposed to the 'high-level press event' that was promised, packed with twenty or so of the UK's leading technology press, we now have about three journalists coming along. The Reaper is definitely looming up behind me on this one.
Luckily I have been busy enough not to dwell on it, but every time it pops into my head, a small baby starts crying deep inside. At least there will be booze.
The run-in to the event doesn't bode well either. A four-hour long meeting for a company that makes coloured plastic accessories. Four. Hours.
So this is me -- bloodied, but unbowed. Think of me tonight when I am sitting in the corner at an empty swanky central London venue; watching the event (and my hopes of career progression), crumble like an over-dipped Digestive, praying hard that the third freelancer will turn up. The baby will start crying out loud, but only when I am safely tucked up in my tiny bed in my crappy little South London bedsit, hugging my knees and thinking of the time the careers man said I should have gone into the Army.
Donal Wayswin is a pseudonym for a PR professional working for a tech agency in London, not dissimilar to the dozens of agencies that Giz UK hears from daily. All Pitches From the Ditches are based mostly on true events, with some details changed to protect the not-so-innocent.
Check back every(ish) Monday for his columns, or tune in at 1pm on Wednesday for the rantings of an anonymous IT manager in Emails From the Command-Line, and 1pm Fridays for anonymous copper Matt Delito's Notes From the Frontline columns.
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It is generally agreed that Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson has had more influence on modern bookbinding than any other person. The following brief notes may therefore be of interest to fellow-members of the craft who will remember that it was in our small workshop that he first became acquainted with the mysteries of the trade in which he was destined to make such a mark.
It was in 1880 that I first remember him as a customer, having a fine small Italian classic bound in plain morocco, Jansenist style. He was always very particular about the lettering being perfect and I remember at least one book being re-covered to please him.
One day early in 1883 he came to the shop during tea-time and said he wanted to learn bookbinding. My father tried to dissuade him from the idea at first, but finding him set on it, said that the only way to learn properly was to come into the workshop and work at the bench. His first idea had been to have some lessons, but he seemed mighty pleased at the idea of coming into the workshop - and was very proud of his first apron.
We had a very good small press by 'Meager' of 24 Endell Street, W.C., with plough and tub that we used to send out to jobs. It was almost new and the size suited him. He became so fond of this that he insisted upon buying it when he left us and it was with this press that he started business.
During his stay of rather over six months he tried his hand at every sort of job that turned up in a binder's shop - and one knows that there are many. Only one thing seemed to defeat him and that was the glue-pot, which he never quite mastered while with us.
He was always trying to find out the best way of doing things and would take no end of pains with the most simple job. We often laughed at his quaint ideas, but on the whole he was a very pleasant man to get on with. He used to go out to lunch, but always had tea with us and generally kept up a running conversation the whole of the time.
We found that he had tried quite a lot of things since he left Trinity College, Cambridge - the last thing being matrimony, he having married the youngest daughter of Richard Cobden and added that lady's name to his own. They were living at his chambers, 3 Paper Buildings, Temple, and invited my wife and me to go and see them.
Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson we found quite as enthusiastic about books as he was, and she had a great idea of setting up a press to print good books, that he might bind them. This was many years before the Doves Press was started, but she had the satisfaction of seeing her ideal realised in that direction.
When he left us, Cobden-Sanderson took a floor in Maiden Lane and started in business as a bookbinder. He had many influential friends; he seemed to know everyone in the literary and artistic world, and they sent him plenty of work. In fact, they rather overwhelmed him with it.
He had taught his wife sewing and headbanding and I think it was their first idea to do all the work themselves, but they soon found this was impossible.
The most successful books I saw bound by him while at Maiden Lane were two for Mrs. William Morris. The first was entirely covered with a small scroll tool that he had cut from a drawing he made of an iron Grill in Florence. It made a very pretty book and I remember when he showed it to me he asked what I thought it was worth, and I told him thinking it would please him to have what I thought a top price, but noticed he seemed a little disappointed at my low estimate of the value of his time. We soon found the bookbinders would never have complained of his undercutting them in price, as he succeeded in obtaining much larger sums for his bindings than we had dreamed possible.
The question of how and why he did this is well worth discussing. First as to the man himself. He was forty-three years old when he learned bookbinding and about forty-seven before he began to achieve any great success - an age when most men are thought too old to launch out in a new career - but he possessed the vitality of youth combined with the signs of mature age. Having made up his mind to do good work and finding he could obtain plenty of orders, he took an old house in The Mall, Hammersmith, close to his friend William Morris, and secured the services of two first-class workmen, Mr. Wilkinson from Zaehnsdorf's, and Mr. McLeish from Riviere's. These men had the advantage of training in two of the best shops in London and were, of course, able to execute his work with a degree of finesse that is only acquired after long practice.
Up till this time he had done both forwarding and finishing himself except when he first moved to Hendon. There I worked with him for a short time as he was getting overwhelmed with books sent to him by his numerous friends. His success at the Society of Arts Competition (where he carried off first prize with a copy of Endymion bound in blue morocco tooled all over with leaves on scrolls); lectures at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition and at various other places; interviews with newspaper correspondents, etc. had all helped to advertise him so that American collectors were anxious to possess a specimen of his work.
The Doves Bindery, as he called his new workshop, was soon turning out work at a fair rate, though the output might have been considered small by some of our west-end binders. The prices obtained were high, even considering the long time spent on the work, but his customers soon found they were making a good investment, as whenever a book bound by him came into the market it was sure to fetch a good price.
Prices at Sotheby's, November 4, 1910, the property of F. S. Ellis:
Now I believe the books turned out at Hendon when he was alone fetched higher prices than the Doves Bindery.
All his early schemes of decoration were floral, but later he began to make use of the lines that were so successfully used by Grolier, the Eves, and Le Gascon - styles that had been referred to as being closed or dead.
The future, he said, is not with them, or their developments or repetition.
And now I will close with a quotation from his article on Bookbinding, describing a well-bound book:
'It is neither out of type, nor finished so that its highest praise is that, had it been made by a machine it could not have been made better. It is individual: it is instilled with the hand that made it. It is pleasant to feel, to handle, and to see. It is the original work of an original mind working in freedom simultaneously with hand, heart, and brain to produce a thing of use which all' time shall agree, ever more and more, also to call "a thing o Beauty".
From a paper read by Mr. E. L. de Coverley, to the Master Binders' Association in about 1912.


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The detailed requirements that you will need within your accounts package depends on the type of business you have and how you run it. When choosing the right accounting software for your business it involves you deciding on your requirements and then looking for an accounts package that can meet all your overall and detailed requirements. The requirements that each accounting software have all vary, which is why it is important to consider what you will want out of your accounting software package. Some of the requirements that you may want from your accounting software include the following:
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o VAT calculations – allows you to keep track of VAT and to calculate your VAT
o Payroll processing – you should consider this as part of your accounting software if you have more than three employees. The payroll function calculates PAYE (pay as you earn) as well as your weekly/monthly National Insurance contributions.
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o Credit control – this option highlights where customers have exceeded their limits and provides statements to chase them.
o Compatibility – you should think about whether your chosen accounting software is compatible with any other accounting systems, including the one that is used by your accountant.
o Stock control – if your business sells products then stock control is an important function to ensure that you have enough products in stock and so that you know what has been sold.
Accounting Software is application software that records and processes accounting transactions. Most accounting software packages consist of various modules/sections. The main core modules of most accounting software packages are as follows:
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How Jim Feck turned a chance meeting into a thriving business designing logos for drummers
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Checklist Page Now Up!
I just added another site to the SprouseNet family of blogs: The Chris Sprouse Checklist.This site began as a post on this very blog several months ago, but I decided it would be easier to keep the whole mess updated if it was a separate entity. The new site consists of an alphabetically arranged list of all my published comic work as well as a list that's chronologically arranged. There's also a section for upcoming work complete with on-sale dates. Check it out HERE (or click on the link in the "Links" section)! In case this all seems like the narcissism-flavored icing on a self-involvement cake, well, I'm the kind of person who makes lists of everything and an obsessive collector to boot, so I already had the source material on my computer and thought it might be useful to someone out there. Plus, I figured that anyone reading these words has some interest in my work or is related to Xan or myself. If you aren't interested in Xan or me or my work, then why are you reading this?! Life is short--go away and read about something or someone you do like!
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