Pertinent Reviews

If you want to get that look from your significant other on Valentine’s Day, buy her this gold blue topaz bracelet with  diamond accent. Yes, it’s only diamond accent, but it looks great, and the topaz is an eye-catching gem on its own.

According to mystics, topaz promotes truth and forgiveness, and who couldn’t use a little of that?

Hindu mythology tells us topaz will ward off injury or attack.  On top of that, it promotes  generosity and  wealth by simply wearing it. It promises there  will be real attachment or affinity between couples and that the spouse of the wearer will be faithful and loyal forever.

You can’t beat that.

Check it out here.

For you bloggers who are looking for more traffic to your site (and who isn’t?) Karl Sultana’s 12 Fail-Proof and Proven Techniques to Get Infinite Number of Backlinks explores some ways to get backlinks to your site without breaking the bank or spending hours at the task.

Written in plain language, Sultana offers step-by-step solutions for both beginning and advanced bloggers.

Sultana covers all the basics and a few techniques that even experienced SEO wizards might find useful.  His tips on finding good sites to link from alone is worth the download.

Sultana covers:

• 7 Instant Ways To Load Your Blog With Backlinks

• How To Turn A RSS Feed Into Backlinks

• The Most Deadly Link Building Myths

• How To Buy Backlinks To Improve Your Rankings

• How To Get One Way Links In The Next 7 Minutes

• What Else Can You Do On Forums?

• Write Press Releases For Backlinks

• SiteWide Links – Too Many Links What Are They?

• Free Link Building Technique For Bloggers

• Free Way To Get One Way Links

• More FREE Ways To Get Links

You can download it here at no charge.

Well worth reading and the price is certainly right.

Yearning for a simpler life is common among city dwellers. The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre shows you how to do it, at least how to get started.

Carleen Madigan has put together a useful book that covers everything from growing your own grains, fruits, and vegetable to, more importantly, making your own beer. Anyone who owns a quarter acre of land can become self-sufficient.

Somehow, that gives me hope.

Ms. Madogan covers raising chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, goats, sheep, pigs, and yes, for you steak and milk lovers, cows. A smart urban homesteader can produce 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, and 75 pounds of nuts.

Yes, bake your own bread, churn your own butter, make your own cheese. Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?

Anyone who longs for self-sufficiency should own this book. Even if you don’t take it all the way, it’s worth it just for the dreams.

More info here…

It’s time you toughened up.

The Iron Gym Total Upper Body Workout Bar is just what you need.  Unlike expensive stair climbers or elliptical equipment, the bar doesn’t make a very good towel rack or place to hang your clothes.  It’s compact and useful — especially for apartment dwellers.

It doesn’t install permanently.  You can take it down, slide it under your bed, or put it in the closet.  Clever engineering assures that the bar will hold your weight, up to 300 pounds, for chin-ups with no problem.

Assembly is easy enough that even I could do it, which means that you can, too.

Trust me.  I can turn an artificial Christmas tree into a pretty fair imitation of a shrub simply by inserting part A into slot B.

It’s refreshing for a product to do exactly what the manufacturers claim.  The bar is well-built, nothing flimsy about it.  It does double duty as a push-up bar and sit-up bar, too.

It’s money well-spent.

Read more reviews here…

Nothing of any importance happens in your email campaign until your email is opened.  Everything depends on this one simple action.  You may measure success in a number of ways, amount of sales, sign-ups, or cash to the bottom line, but getting your email opened is the first, and most important, step.

Initially, you have only two things to work with – your from line and the title.  Be honest.  Put your name or company name in the from line.  Remember, you only want people who are interested in your product.  Your subject line should reflect the content of your email.  Tell them exactly what you are offering.  There’s no need to be secretive or evasive about it.  If they are interested in your offer, they will open your email.  If they have no interest, you will never sell them anyway.

A good subject line should arouse interest.

“Five Ways to End Your Back Pain Naturally.”

“How to Rid Your Garden of Pests Without Poisons”

“The Secret to Gaining Muscle Fast”

If you use phrases like “special offer,” or “Autumn Sale,”  your open rate will probably decrease, but your sales may stay constant or increase.  If your title is an obvious offer to buy, chances are that buyers will open the email.   Test your subject lines to see what works best.  Keep in mind that what appeals to you may not be what appeals to your prospect.   Often, the most effective subject lines are counter-intuitive.

The third piece to the puzzle is picking the right time to launch your email campaign.  If you are selling business-to-business, think of your customer.  Mondays are usually harried, leaving your prospect little time to look at your offer.  If you wait until mid-week, the chances are that she will be more disposed to looking at commercial offers, and more disposed to buy your product or service.

The same holds true for the time of day.  Early in the morning is probably not as good as mid-day for getting you business-to-business email opened.  Think coffee breaks and lunch.

Finally, you need to pay attention to the issue of getting your email delivered.  Some services do a better job than others. Make sure that your email service provider offers the statistics necessary to adequately test your email efforts.  The key to successful email campaigns is constant testing and improvement.