When you season a piece of meat, try it out before you start to cook it all. Meats such as meatballs, hamburgers and meatloaf need to be seasoned carefully. You should not cook the dish entirely after seasoning it. Cook a small portion first to sample. Doing this allows you to test the seasonings and Continue Reading
If you are going to vacation at a National Park you should get a National Park season pass. It’s only $50 annually, and it covers your entry to all the national parks. While you are ordering your airline tickets look for ways to ensure your flight is comfortable. Perhaps you are able to select specific Continue Reading
It’s important to ensure the balance within the composition of your photographs is on point. If you are careful to balance the elements in your photos, they will look good enough to frame. Get rid of any elements that may distract your viewer from the main subject, ensure that the horizon is properly leveled, and Continue Reading
This is a post primarily filled with pictures of my long time friend Aileen O’Donoghue who ventured all the way to Bowdoinham, Maine from the far off land of Potsdam, New York just to spend Thanksgiving 2011 with me. I was honored. She also did a spectacular job of cleaning my house, eating oodles of Continue Reading
During the middle of July, almost exactly a month ago today I had to opportunity to travel to San Francisco, California. The real purpose of the trip was to attend a Professional Mental Health conference. But of course we arrived a day early and left a day after the conference. And it was really interesting Continue Reading
My friend Sean Davis in Sydney Australia has just this past week started a new endeavor into the candle making industry. For some time Sean has known that he wanted to form his own entity and after working for another company marketing and selling candles and associated items he has now taken the initiative to Continue Reading
Are you tired of diet tips handed out by someone with apparently unlimited income and time? Don’t you find it frustrating to get diet tips from someone who’s never been there? While I’m not sure the program I have used is national or not, I was pleased to find this in Maine. I have lost Continue Reading
It doesn’t seem to matter much what you might be reading but just about everyone has had those moments when reading an unexpectedly moving piece that affected us deeply and emotionally causing shivers down the spine, lumps in the throat, or even a tear or two. Creating text that aims for the heart, or the Continue Reading
When you set out to write your copy make sure that, you are addressing the mind of your prospect and understand that you are speaking to their emotional side. We all make our purchasing decisions from an emotional stance. We are looking to solve some pain or increase some pleasure. Isn’t it really the little Continue Reading
1.) Know your Customer: In your copywriting approach you need to be specific about needs and desires so that you are attracting your targeted customer base. You will want to have an intimate knowledge and expeiereince of the people in this group. Therefore you will want to do some serious research and even testing to Continue Reading