How To Give Your Room A Face-Lift Inexpensively!


 by: Ann Bickell

Looking for ways to improve your home's appearance...without spending a fortune? Here's how I gave our old family room a burst of color - without bursting our budget!

I was tired of looking at the same old earth tones in our family room. Everything seemed so ?safe? and blah.

With winter storms blowing in every week, I wanted a fresh burst of spring! But I had to stay within a budget as we just finished up with holiday spending.

I browsed through Pier 1 Imports and with great ease I collected a few colorful and well-made items and put those together to coordinate an outstanding new look for our family room that screamed ?fresh and alive!? I began by removing the throw pillows that came with our sofas. I replaced them with bright gold pillows. I was just looking for a splash of color to brighten those sofas.

On the walls, I relocated a hanging clock and took down old tired pieces of artwork and replaced them with paintings with the same vibrant gold color to honor the new theme: new life! Pier 1 had some gorgeous silk florals on sale and I teamed them up with a handsome red hand blown glass vase for a stunning look.

Finally, I grouped a cluster of simple white glass candle holders of various sizes, inserted brand new scented yellow candles and the look was elegant, yet comfortable and new. For less than $150 I changed a tired room and gave it a clean, fresh new look.

That?s all we needed!

We didn?t need to paint, buy new furniture etc. It just needed a lift, and our spirits soared.

You don?t always have to think big when redecorating. Something as small as new throw pillows and new scattered throw rugs might be all you need.

Have fun!

About The Author

Ann Bickell is the co-owner of HouseBuying-Tips.com. For more tips on buying a house, sign up for the free ?How To Avoid These 10 Costly Mistakes When Buying Your First Home? email course at: http://www.HouseBuying-Tips.com. © 2006 HouseBuying-Tips.com.


A Guide To Writing Successful Website Copy

A Guide To Writing Successful Website Copy


 by: Steve Hattrick

We all know that the lion?s share of web traffic comes through the search engines. We also know that keywords and links to your site are the two things that affect your ranking in the search engines. Your keywords tell the search engines what you do, and the inbound links tell them how important you are. This combination is what determines your relevance. And relevance is what the search engines are after.

There?s a lot of information around about how to incorporate keyword phrases into your HTML meta tags. But that?s only half the battle. You need to think of these tags as street-signs. That?s how the search engines view them. They look at your tags and then at your copy. If the keywords you use in your tags aren?t used in your copy, your site won?t be indexed for those keywords.

But the search engines don?t stop there. They also consider how often the keyword phrase is used...

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6 Things I Know About Postcards That You Don?t

6 Things I Know About Postcards That You Don?t

 by: Joy Gendusa

In my plethora of experience tucked away between these ears, I have managed to cull out for you what I consider the ?best of the best? ? in other words, I took the most proven details about postcards that were significant to you starting a postcard campaign and really winning at it. So here goes the most incisive higlights about postcards.

1) I know that a postcard is better than something in an envelope.

For many reasons, the main one being, in an envelope you can?t make your potential customer see your message.

People are fast. We see and read very quickly ? actually much more quickly than we even realize.. Think about yourself ? how fast do you go through your mail and process out what you want to keep and what you don?t want to keep? Pretty darn fast. It takes fractions of seconds to go through and process in your mind ?bill, bill, advertisement, bill, advertisement,...

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It's Not Your Job to Lower Your Fees to Help the Client Afford You

It's Not Your Job to Lower Your Fees to Help the Client Afford You

 by: Kirstin Carey

I constantly receive questions and complaints from my creative professional clients about what to do when a prospect claims, "I can't afford your prices, but I want your services."
My clients are frustrated, because they are usually being told this while standing in a mansion-like home, furnished with top-of-the-line furniture, with a beautifully manicured lawn, and three luxury cars parked in a four-car garage.

How much your client can afford is relative to their values and beliefs of what is important.
It is not your job to lower your price so the client can afford you.
It is your job to help the client see the connections between their values and your services, regardless of how much money they've spent on other items.

In other words, don't lower your price because the client says she can't afford you.

What a...

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Relax in a Hammock

Relax in a Hammock


 by: Dawn Rowlett

Hammocks have been a standard for backyards for decades. Although they traditionally come from South American and Caribbean cultures, they have easily become a part of modern life. They are the ultimate way to just kick back and relax, and even doze off for a while. Just like most things, the hammock has been developed for maximum comfort and practicality.

Hammocks are a staple in homes in the Mexican state of the Yucatan. They have been made there for centuries and are hand woven by women and children alike. They are made in villages all around Mexico, though they are also made and sold worldwide. Hammocks have also been widely used on ships by sailors. Since they rock with the movement of the ship, they make sleeping on a ship much safer than a bed. Whether or not these cultural backgrounds have helped the popularity of the hammock is not know, but the practicality of the hammock sells it for itself.

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