Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 |
Young divas have been choosing role models from books and fairy tales to dress up as during parties. For unknown reasons, I and some of my playmates then could relate more to the ethereal beings than actual people. We called ourselves fairy princesses, and I think this hasn’t changed much.
When I started reading however, I met some of the most powerful goddesses in the literary world. These women didn’t live in storybooks but in comic books. One goddess in particular is named Diana.
She was a descendant of a woman whose soul was intercepted by the Goddess Gaea at death. An army of female souls soon were reincarnated as the race of the Amazons. Powerful women with illustrious powers. Diana was a former Princess of the Amazons and Goddess of Truth among her people. Her life changed somewhat when she joined the Justice League, but she is by no means less powerful than she was before.
She is more commonly known as Wonder Woman, the lasso wielding savior and my earliest paradigm of an Alpha female.
Nowadays, when I see kids wearing halloween costumes, I smile and reminisce about how meaningful my costume plays were for me. Donning costumes of celebrities and heroes makes a childhood more memorable. Kudos to the parents who let their kids live out their fantasies of heroism through cosplays.
Boys love to wear Iron Man and Batman, and those characters too have special meanings to me. My knowledge of the stories behind these comic book characters could be more extensive than some, but one thing is for sure, those of us who still remember being kids will always think of these dress up memories as we grow older.
You should have seen the way I wielded that golden lasso (rope painted with gold poster paint).
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
I think there is a specific age when single people start craving for automobiles. I think it’s between 21 and 25, while the person is starting a career or getting promoted after a year or so in an entry level position. This is like a status symbol among young ones, a sign that one is moving up the social and financial ladder. Obtaining a loan for a car during your early twenties makes sense in that you can pay for it until you’re 30 and then be able to say that you own the car completely when you reach the age of contentment.
While I am aware of these things, I chose to commute my way through traffic in Metropolis Manila. Although admittedly jealous at how some of my friends are cruising around with their new cars and getting involved with loan for car agents, I am nonetheless content with my decision.
An automobile symbolizes additional responsibility, which I wasn’t ready for. I was 22, earning just enough to sustain my love for languages and my daily needs. Perhaps the only thing I failed to study in depth was the debt system, and how I could have made it work for me. Nowadays, the car issue is still an issue as I feel that I should do everything in my power for my child to live comfortably.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008 |
One can never learn enough in a lifetime. This is particularly true for learning addicts like me who just itch at the thought of continuing an education or taking up a complimentary course. Exploring a subject in depth, getting to speak another language perhaps, or simply expounding on a topic you are passionate about brings fulfillment that doesn’t just come. Earning another degree is priceless, not only as a career move, but as a personal development thrust as well. Why stop learning about something you feel strongly about?
I took my enrichment subject from a nearby school, and attending class again was much more worth it than spending time doing nothing, or spending cash on shopping. I was satisfying a need that I know will make me happy. I took up another language, French, and it seemed impossible to learn at first. Interest, more than intellect is a bigger factor in continuing education. No matter how much mind power you put in, if the burning passion to learn the subject isn’t there, the education will not be effective.
Now that we’ve covered some personal requirements that you may need to consider before taking up your next course, or supplementing your current knowledge about your passion, let’s discuss logistics. Going to class daily can be tedious for learning addicts who need to go to the office, do some gardening etc. Sometimes the effort to take the long commute to school is the turn off that keeps people from pursuing further education.
I look into online school programs, like those of University of Phoenix, that offer several courses of interest to professionals and new students. They do have physical locations in various states and cities, if you prefer to go to school rather than study online. Still, the option for an online, home-based course is convenient. You dictate your own study time and the only limit to what you can achieve is yourself. If you’re not one to procrastinate, the online school is for you!
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008 |
Let me talk about a service called live tv and how it could benefit bloggers. If you’re more of the talking and cam-on-me type, and you definitely want to keep on promoting your presence over the net, this could just be service for you. Think in terms of a live show or a live broadcast, where you are the star and your potential blog readers are your audience. By the way, how would you feel if you are having your broadcast and people are chatting about your show in real time? You think it’s fun? Then sign up, sweeties!
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008 |
I’ve heard these terms only a few times during my life offline, but now I’m learning about these concepts more and more as I go deeper into internet marketing.
Soft Selling. I’ve always understood this as unobtrusive selling of a merchandise. examples include small banners or links and the like that people may just see in passing, and may or may not opt to click. This is less obvious, and apparently less irritating to potential customers than…
Hard Selling. Writing about the product, using action words like ‘buy’ or ‘avail’ or ‘click’. This is actually synonymous to pushing the product to potential buyers, and is only considered irritating if the person is not interested, or detests being forced to buy something.
Let me tell you about my experience as a Christmas stall lease owner. I leased a stall for 2 days during Christmas rush time and the space wasn’t cheap. I sold gift items (i.e. pre-packed, available for wrapping) such as small towelettes in 2’s for generic gift giving; bath sponges in various shapes and colors, also pre-packed in 2’s and 3’s; plastic boxes filled with craft items for kids; and chocolate houses. During the first day, I planned on breaking even, and I did so by lunch time. The second part of the day was slow, as siesta time set in. I sat there smiling at customers and entertaining orders as they came. This was soft sell day.
The second day was hard sell day, and I knew it. Because the benchmark for gaining back my investment was met the other day, it’s profit time. It was the day before Christmas and people are rushing to complete their Santa lists. I broke open a chocolate house and invited passers by to taste some. I engaged parents in conversations and pushed the craft items to them, all the while creating my own crafts from one box to demonstrate. I sold a lot more than the first day but noticed that a lot of customers who were really ‘just passing by’ got irritated with my pushing.
Some would say i probably could’ve sold more if I started out hard selling rather than lounging around waiting for customers to inquire. I see the same trends in internet marketing. Will I be content just pouring out the content and attaching affiliate links to posts and sidebars, or should I review the products, push them, market them everywhere, wear them on my signatures and the like? There are certain factors that affect how I may approach an affiliate program:
1. Time
Some affiliate programs terminate accounts after a duration and nothing is sold. Another thing related to this is personal deadlines. Some bloggers or marketers value the time they spend on one project very much and won’t spend a lot of it on products that don’t sell for a certain time frame. What they do is hard sell a product from the onset and all throughout. If they don’t convert during that period, they quit and move on to the next.
2. Resources
Not all affiliate programs are free to join. Some of them require a certain pledge money from associates, or require that you buy their product first before you have the right to earn by re-selling it. Some never want their resources to get tied up for extended periods and want to gain the invested money back ASAP.
3. Trends
If the item you are selling is hot as of the moment, you can sit back and relax, put up a banner and let the sales roll in. However, if a product is an innovation that no one has heard of, or an improvement (or knock off) of a popular thing, you’re in for a challenge.
Selling a product whether insistently or not really depends on how much you loved the product yourself. Sometimes, it’s easier to hardsell a product if you are firmly convinced that people who can relate to you will buy it too.
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