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All Artists Are Creative

Thursday, February 15, 2007
We create a painting, and when it is shared with others, an intangible piece of the artist goes with it. Time will destroy everything: us, our thoughts and ideas, but it will not touch the things we have created - our music, our poems, our films or our artworks.

If you are one of those creative people with an "artist" waiting to emerge; we would like to meet you. Lack of money never stopped an artist with an urge that went beyond mere need.

http://the-self-taught-artist.com/gallery.html

Make a reservation in our Gallery. We'll do the rest!
Posted on 02/15/07 at 17:40:19 by Esther Smith
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Why Aren't You Using TrafficWave?

Saturday, February 03, 2007


TrafficWave.net is the leading provider of autoresponder email marketing solutions, enabling online marketers to build and manage their permission-based lists... create, personalize, and send targeted emails... and track the results.

More than 3,000 clients from around the globe count on TrafficWave.net Autoresponders to enhance customer relationships, build and reinforce brand recognition, acquire and retain customers, and increase revenues.

Try It FREE! We are so convinced that you will love our Autoresponder, we'll give you a free 30 day trial. Set up your sales letters, start your promotions, and begin building your list... absolutely free for the next 30 days! You pay only $17.95 and only after you have had a full 30 days to test it all out for yourself.

http://www.trafficwave.net/members/smitty
Posted on 02/03/07 at 12:01:57 by Esther Smith
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Ranking HIGH On Alexa Is No Secret

Tuesday, January 09, 2007


Let’s begin here with my choice of the top Affiliate Marketing program: Ken Evoy’s Make Your Site Sell. Ken has taught medicine, designed toys and games, and invented a niche software product which he sold on the Internet. But better known for the bible of site-selling, he describes what ought to be virtually impossible to sell. He has done updates to this writing which now total more than 1500 pages of seasoned strategies. It is the manual for anyone selling anything on the Net.

But let’s zero in on “Site Build It” – the finest in a site-building, hosting, promoting tool used today by thousands of small businesses and affiliates. Create your own website even if you have no technical knowledge at all! Further, SBI optimizes your pages for search engines and makes promoting a simple button-pushing task. Small wonder SBI has more than 20,000 happy users – ALL at the top of Alexa.

I dare anyone hoping to have a successful Online business to watch Ken’s video for 30 minutes and try to go it alone. Many have tried but few have reached the Alexa ranking that SBI owners have. And -- it is unparalleled in time and cost. Please, do yourself a favor and watch this video: http://www.sitesell.com/goplay.html

Esther Smith
Author/Publisher
Posted on 01/09/07 at 11:51:03 by Esther Smith
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Finally -- Someone Has Done It

Friday, January 05, 2007

With all the ‘great sounding’ products on the Internet today, one can’t help wondering “Can I trust them to deliver what they are promising in their sales letter? Will I get ripped-off once again, or is this the real deal?”

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Posted on 01/05/07 at 11:16:01 by Esther Smith
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Monte Yeager wrote:

I need your referral id to access the site

Monte
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Forget New Year's Resolutions - Most Will Fail

Friday, December 29, 2006


Mark Twain has written the best possible advice regarding New Year’s Resolutions:

“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever”.

Because most of us make a resolution away from something negative, instead of towards something positive, it’s hard to develop the urge to complete a resolution. Themes like losing weight or quitting cigarettes will be broken before January ends because it will mean deprivation and most of us are too weak to suffer withdrawal for any length of time.

If we, instead, considered a resolution towards something positive we would have a better chance of succeeding. A plan that addresses areas of our life including finances, health, relationships, career, or even spiritual would be more fulfilling. Instead of promising to decrease debts, promise to increase your income – it achieves the same goal, but gives your psyche a positive instead of a negative.

For those in free-fall living from one crisis to the next, this is a positive approach but even if you attain a fraction of your goal, you have achieved something good.

Esther Smith
Author/Publisher
http://thepermanentventure.com/2up.htm
Posted on 12/29/06 at 11:06:45 by Esther Smith
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Some Coke-Lore

Saturday, December 23, 2006
Celebrating 75 Years of Coca-Cola’s Santa Clause

The history of Coca-Cola is a story of special moments - times with family and friends and special occasions when Coke was naturally there. Every person who drinks a Coca-Cola enjoys a moment of refreshment - and shares in an experience that millions of others have savored. And all of those individual experiences combined have created a worldwide phenomenon - a truly global brand that plays its own small part on the world stage.

Did you know that Coca-Cola advertising helped create the modern image of Santa Claus? Or that Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth both painted for Coca-Cola, creating a beloved vision of mid-century American life? You might remember the 1971 television commercial in which young people gathered on a hilltop in Italy to sing "I'd like to buy the world a Coke," a counterpoint to turbulent times. Were you watching TV in July 1985 when Coca-Cola was the first soft drink consumed in space? Or maybe you saw the international exhibit of oversized Coke bottles, some more than 10 feet tall, featuring the folk art of more than 70 countries.

The Staff at Partners For Profit wish all of our subscribers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Posted on 12/23/06 at 08:27:24 by Esther Smith
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How About Some Common Sense

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Realizing that the rich get richer by setting up leveraged income, let’s look at this for the moment: in the workforce we consider “being promoted” as earning more and working less. With this mindset today, if you want to earn more and work less you’re going to have to start creating income that does not require your direct involvement -- leveraged or residual income!

Leveraged income differs from linear income (the money you make by working 40 hours in exchange for a paycheck). Doctors and lawyers earn a higher linear income than say, a salesman or pizza chef. But in fact we all have a maximum of 24 hours a day which limits the amount of money even professionals can personally generate. They can up their hourly fee but if suddenly they are unable to work their cash flow stops too.

Linear income is trading your time for money. Leveraged income is your money working for you. With the right business you set in motion a chain of events that duplicates your income over and over again. In the perfect scenario this continues without end.

To have Leveraged-Income-For-Life, read my free eBook as I take you by the hand and coach you all the way to $500. over and over again. Download your copy now.

Prepare for retirement now or find yourself saying, “Welcome to Wal-Mart.”


http://thepermanentventure.com/InternetSuccess.pdf

Posted on 12/02/06 at 10:02:46 by Esther Smith
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Happy Holidays Giveaway

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Partners-For-Profit Newsletter is a registered Gift Contributor and “Joint-Venture Partner” for the Happy Holidays Giveaway.

67 Leading Internet Marketers Have Joined Together To Celebrate The
Holiday Season, And They're Giving Away Their Hot Products For Free ...

This generous idea began with Erik James of Listmedia Network Inc. He has invited 67 of his best online friends to join him in this Gifting program. I am proud to be chosen and encourage you to go to the URL below and accept one or all of these beneficial gifts. No strings attached.

Our best wishes for the coming holiday. We are all blessed to live in America.

http://www.HappyHolidaysGiveaway.com/a03593


Esther and Ron Smith, publishers
Partners-For-Profit Newsletter
clendon@thepermanentventure.com
Posted on 11/30/06 at 06:27:19 by Esther Smith
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I Just Heard An Alarming Fact The Other Day

Friday, November 24, 2006

McDonald’s has just had to rewrite their employee handbook because they now have more people over the age of 60 applying for jobs than they do teenagers.



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Posted on 11/24/06 at 11:53:04 by Esther Smith
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Earn Big Time Advertising Credits

Thursday, November 09, 2006
The Amazing New Internet Marketing Forum That Transforms Newbie's Into Super-Hero Marketing Machines!

EARN BIG TIME ADVERTISING CREDITS... this is Russell Brunson's latest offer -- you don't want to miss this!

For all of the people that signup for ConquerYourNiche.com as a result of your promotions (all the way down through 5 levels below you) you will earn more advertising credits!

http://www.conqueryourniche.com/forum/goplay
Posted on 11/09/06 at 17:40:11 by Esther Smith
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Physical Activity Alleviates Depression, by PsychologyToday

Friday, November 03, 2006

There is a large pool of people looking for an alternative to current therapies, says Andrea Dunn Ph.D., exercise psychologist at the Cooper Institute for Aerobics in Dallas. In recruiting patients for a study, she found "many people who knew they had symptoms of depression but didn't want to take drugs." Besides, medication doesn't work in 30% to 35% of cases.

How exercise works against depression may be tied to its effect in improving aerobic capacity of heart and lungs. Depression and heart disease are linked through many channels. Even mild depression is a serious risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease.

Depression increases the mortality of pre-existing heart disease. People with depression have low heart-rate variability, indicating diminished ability of the heart to respond to stress. And exercise lowers mortality of heart patients.

Exercise undertaken to combat depression improves aerobic capacity and cardiovascular fitness, and Dr. Blumenthal makes a strong case for aerobic activities such as walking and jogging. "It was a surprise to us but we found that the largest improvements in aerobic capacity correlated with the greatest reductions in depression."

Still, there's more to the effect of exercise than fitness level. Several studies show that resistance exercise, or weight training, is as effective against depression as aerobic
activity. At the very least, both likely restore a sense of personal effectiveness. Both may also act on neurotransmitters and on the vagus nerve.

So to help yourself or someone you love, together take a 30-minute walk daily.
Posted on 11/03/06 at 14:38:25 by Esther Smith
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Free EBook -- Escape Your Time-For-Money Trap

Saturday, October 28, 2006
Introduction

Invitation to Internet Success
Wear Your Party Pants!



This invitation is extended to the 95% who have failed to find any real wealth on the Internet. All of your efforts have been a long line of dream stealers and the road has been tough, I know. Solo all the way and more often than not, the training you were promised was in poverty and patience.

But bless you – you’re one of the few people who is willing to do more, be more and get more out of life. You hang on to the belief that it can’t be all Internet lies because you’ve seen too many success stories. Like me, you get A+ for persistence!

If you’ve been caught in mere existence and true wealth has existed only in your imagination, everything is about to change. We will use a sort of “Velveteen Rabbit” principal; a guide to becoming real. To do this you must break out of the time-for-money trap because linear money (pay earned for hours worked) will never make you wealthy.

Stay close beside me as we do some me-and-you marketing and make yourself some really, really awesome income. We’ll do all the hard work upfront, and then as we move into leveraged income I’ll teach you how to coast.

Leveraged income is like remote control and you will clearly see how easy it is to make money work for you. This knowledge is no different than learning to ride a bike, or use a keyboard – once learned it is yours. You own the knowledge. No one can take it from you. Period.

This time you will do everything right. This time you will have a plan, a clear view of success and how to get there. This time you will join the 5% all wearing party pants!

Esther Smith
Author/Publisher
Entrepreneur

FREE E-Book for all of my Readers: Go here and download:

http://thepermanentventure.com/InternetSuccess.pdf
Posted on 10/28/06 at 15:19:16 by Esther Smith
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Andy Rooney Speaks

Friday, October 20, 2006


I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the UnitedCaucasianCollege Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.

I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off.

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!

My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich I don't pity the poor

I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building.

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!"

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa ; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe I am proud to be from America and nowhere else

And if you don't like my point of view, tough...

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

I was asked to send this on if I agree or delete if I don't. It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a problem in having "In God We Trust" on our money and having "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Why don't we just tell the 14% to Shut Up and BE QUIET!!!

If you agree, pass this on, if not delete.


Posted on 10/20/06 at 15:03:31 by Esther Smith
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The New "Cruelty Free" Home Based Business

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Personally, I refer to the 1StepSystem as “cruelty free” because I do NOT have to laboriously sell the product, make painful cold calls, feel the agony of presentations, or “go for the kill” as many companies like to teach. And, I have no fall-outs, no disappointments when someone decides to move on to something else after I have spent a good deal of time clearing all of their doubts.

The Company does all this for me!

My task is to advertise and bring traffic to MY page on the company’s website. When someone joins and pays the commission; I am notified that I “have a new member”. It’s a good feeling when this happens daily.

The page that I am recommending to everyone displays the next time for the tele-seminar call; very important to get on because an unheard of guarantee will be given at the end of this call. No one will ask for your name; it’s a “listen only” call.

Also on this page are several rotating Testimonials from our current members – these are VOICE messages and far more real to me as I listened because they were not given with the advantage of promoting their websites as most testimonials are. Once a member, there is a place to offer your own testimonial and this tells me it is strictly voluntary.

Besides the valuable product, besides the honesty of both Rod and Chris who run this program, is the not-so-small fact that it is Leveraged Income at its finest! The 2up Compensation Plan cannot be surpassed – only duplicated. I belong to two programs that carry this compensation plan, and if you understand Leveraged Income at all, you will never look for anything but! It’s money working for you.

So tell me, is this “cruelty free” or what?

Questions?
esmith@thepermanentventure.com
Posted on 10/19/06 at 10:12:08 by Esther Smith
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Super Affiliate Fuel

Friday, July 28, 2006
All of us are suffering from information overload with sales pitches on the internet about how easy it is to earn cash online. It isn’t. Like most worthwhile things, it’s hard work. The good news is it is entirely possible with a little help.

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Posted on 07/28/06 at 11:02:54 by Esther Smith
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