What kind of skin cream offers a 90 day or your money back guarantee? Vivexin skin cream. The 90-day guarantee means that Vivexin stands by their product!

The product is made from the finest, clinically proven – patented ingredients straight from France. It is allergen-free and guaranteed to help you get rid of those unsightly dark under-eye circles.

This product was introduced in Europe and is now being sold in the United States!

Great skin care starts with Vivexin.

I used to work at a place that used barcode scanners to keep track of their inventory. Everything that came in was scanned and automatically added to our inventory (via helpful computer program). We also would scan-out items that were used or given to a customer.

Barcode scanners make things easy, in my opinion. Perhaps they will one day become so advanced that the days of manually counting inventory items will be a thing of the past!

I have always had good luck with HP Printers. To me, they seem to do the job efficiently, fast and the equipment itself lasts a long time. Plus, since HP is a popular brand, it is easy to find hp toner cartridges, printer parts and plugins for different computer operating systems.

Having a printer/scanner/fax machine / copier has been great for my small business!

One of the things that I have learned as I travel on the road to learning how to administer a server properly is data backup. If you click here, you will go to a site that will help you find an efficient way to back up your data.

It is important (for security reasons as well as disaster recovery reasons) to keep data backed up efficiently.

I have a home-based business. One of the inexpensive ways for me to advertise is to have business cards printed up. I did a lot of research on business card printing. I made sure to make a short list of pricey printing services to low-cost printing services. I jotted down a few notables (like any review comments – both positive and negative).

At the end of the day, I believe that I chose the best printing service for my business cards. I made the cards myself and wanted to make sure that the very best care would be taken when printing them up! I just have to say, they look fabulous.

Do you own your own business? If so, do you make your own business cards? Who did you choose to print with?

My dad is forever convinced that gold and silver bullion bars are coming back to be a trade-able commodity once again. Since the US dollar is losing some in the current currency war, my dad has a theory that gold and silver bullion bars will be on their way back to exceedingly valuable.

The cost of silver is at an all time high and continues to explode off the charts! These just might be a worthy investment! Especially, if our economy swings further downward (let’s hope that doesn’t happen).

I firmly believe that we need to enhance and perhaps even expand our employable skills when looking for jobs in this economy. Recently, I was watching the news and an economist was discussing the state of the economy, jobs, etc. She said that the economy doesn’t need to go back to where it was but simply that people need to adjust their skills to meet the requirements of the current economy. Unfortunately, factory jobs and even some middle management / upper management jobs (where paper pushing is a must) are no longer in demand. So, we need to then take a look at what is in demand and then expand our skills to meet the demands.

What do you think?

Are you interested in making money at home? I know a variety of ways to do so. If you just click here you will see one of the ways I am referring to.

It’s not easy being a stay-at-home mom. But in life, things that are harder to accomplish are genuinely worth it. Still, sometimes having only one income can lead to a budget crunch. That means we stay-at-home moms need to find extra income.

So, if you want to learn about reputable companies that will allow you to work from home. Keep reading. In part two, I will name more of those companies.

I don’t know about you, but my cell phone loses signal in a rural area.  When I visit my parents, I find that their area only caters to certain cell phone plans.  However, they live so deep in the boonies that they don’t have much of a signal at their disposal.  I want to visit them but feel very strongly that I need to invest in a cell phone signal booster so that I can work from their home.

Do you have a cell phone signal booster? Does it work?

I used to work for an electrical contracting company. My job was to be the assistant to both the accounting department and the human resources department. From time to time, I would assist the purchasing department with anything they might need, including generating purchase orders for electrical parts. Instead of doing inventory the old way (hand counting items and recording them in the computer or on paper — depending on what you consider to be “the old way”), they purchased one of the many POS systems available on the market. Then, all they had to do was scan in their items and it automatically recorded the item and quantity in the system. It saved a bunch of time for sure!

My dream is to own a home that will allow for an office. I love the thought of having my own private space to get away from it all and work in peace and quite. That seems to be something i’m missing at the moment. Hence, why I probably don’t get as much done as I would like to. If I had my own office, I would certainly pick out some comfortable yet modern-style office furniture with accessories to match.

If you have a home office, did you/have you/will you decorate it?

I consider myself to have a pretty green business. I mean, working on the internet and expending only electricity a few hours of the day constitutes a pretty low carbon footprint. Recently however, there has been a Green Study that shows how different businesses are contributing to going green. E-tailors like buy.com, for instance, sell all of their products online. All of these transactions are taken care of without having to step foot out of your house. You save money on gas and help make the environment better in addition to being able to get great prices on products!

I have been in the business mode of things lately and have been searching for unique and cost-effective ways to advertise my business. One solution I found is to list my site in a directories list, which can be easily found by Google and other search engines!

I have done this before in other online ventures and found the method to be helpful and affordable.  Now, hopefully, the magic will happen again and I will be able to drive traffic to my site!

How do you drive traffic to your site?

It had never really occurred to me until tonight, that in the future, I may need to start looking at commercial real estate. At some point (unless this house gets bigger), i’m going to need more space to work. Shared workspace is becoming the latest craze in battling economic stresses of smaller companies. Not only do they share space, but they share equipment as well. This can reduce the cost of simple overhead by a larger margin.

Still, I think if I were to rent a small shop area, I would want to have it all to myself. To be alone with my creative thoughts… so to speak.

Do you hear that?  Nope.  Me either.

The noises we are not hearing:

~Throwing up

~Lots of crying

What we are not smelling:

~Loaded diapers (every half hour on the half hour).

The end of this week has brought some semi-normalcy to the compound again.  I even managed to get the laundry caught up!  Which, if you know me is a feat anyway… sickies or no sickies.

Not only did I manage to get the laundry caught up but I also managed to finish setting up the business billing system, appropriate e-mail addresses and am *thisclose* to having the site finished!

I weigh in at WW tomorrow and am hoping for at least a 1 lb lost!  *fingers crossed*  This has been a rather stressful week though so I won’t be surprised if it doesn’t happen.

TGIF!

There is an ongoing Sale on buy.com right now!  Everything from cameras, to laptops to apparel!  Buy.com has everything you could want or need with great sales prices to boot!  Right now I am looking at purchasing a laptop and I see that buy.com has one on sale for $479.00 with top of the line specs.  They also have great prices on clothing and accessories!  Check out buy.com today to find great products at great prices.

The AIG debacle continues as fellow American citizens put in their opinion on how the situation should be handled.  An astounding 89.2% said that legislation should be passed making the executives give up their big bonuses.

As tempting as it sounds, I am not personally a fan of that course of action.  For one thing, it would lead to a slippery slope cycle that would give an open crack in the door for the government to have their sticky hands in other businesses.  For two, this hole was already dug when the bailout was given.  I assume it was given to AIG without stipulation which means they can do as they see fit.  So I guess for now, we’re just going to have to suck it up.

If I had to vote for a viable solution to this… I vote that our so-called “representatives” take a pay cut for voting in this bailout in the first place.

You can read comments made by readers here:

Angry Americans say…

Despite AIG’s troubles and the 170 billion dollar bailout approved late last year for the struggling insurance corporation, they still manage to pay out $450 million dollars in big bonuses for company executives. Supposedly they were contractually obligated.

Truth be told, I have no problems with companies handing out big bonuses for executives.  That is the beauty of the idea of capitalism is it not?  However, I do have a problem with companies using bailout monies to pay $450 million dollars in bonuses.  We (the tax payers) bailed this company out of shambles only so that they could punch us in the guts and then laugh at us.  Not only that, but their stock has not improved since the bailout and has gotten progressively worse (they lost 61.7 billion in the fourth quarter last year).  So despite the big ol’ check from Uncle Sam, they are still headed toward the proverbial toilet.

So tell me… what company gives out big fat bonuses when it is failing to thrive?

The bottom line is this:   Our government stupidly gave AIG 170 billion dollars of bailout money.  This money was supposed to be used to get the corporation back on its feet.  Instead of being used to save the company and save jobs, the money is being used to save the summer homes of the executives.

This is an issue that the citizens of the United States should have been allowed to vote on because I GUARANTEE if we had been able to vote on this, then those corporate fat cats would not have been approved.  They would have been denied and forced to suck it up and do what most business owners do in hard times…. downsize, reorganize and simply live without.

If we (the average joes of the world) screwed up at work and cost the company money, we would get fired.  Folks at AIG get a million dollars.  If our companies fail to thrive and  fall on hard times, our employers take away our bonuses and other goodies until the company gets back on its feet.  And we are all okay with that because it means we get to keep our jobs.  The folks at AIG take an all expense paid trip to a tropical island somewhere (complete with private jet, luxury hotel, and a limo to go tooling around in).

People… this is why we are in trouble in this country.  This is one reason WHY the American public is so pissed off right now.

My final thoughts:  AIG… go to hell.

You can read the MSN article on the subject here:   OBAMA SEEKING WAYS TO BLOCK AIG BONUSES

It is only Monday and yet… things have been accomplished and started.  This marks the beginning of a good week!

As follows:

• I have been working on the shop design for the “Retrieve a Cure” website. I zipped my comps and e-mailed them to Evan this morning at 1:00a.m.
• Then, I had three doctors appointments (one for each child) today. Owie had to have shots. He hasn’t had shots since he was 18 months.  He didn’t cry but he did tense up his muscles.  Ouch!  Brody had a major ear infection and will get shots next week and Sophie was fine.
• We are currently working on a sketch up of the basement and are torn between regular vinyl blinds or Bamboo Blinds for the boys’ bedroom.
• I need to call and make a hot tub appointment for husb and I (our anniversary is in 3 weeks!).

All in all, this week will be busy as usual.  So much to do and so little time.  Oh how I wish there were more hours in a day sometimes and less hours in others.

I’m starting to recognize the true value of this social networking concept. It never ceases to amaze me at how adept we are all becoming to the internet. It is almost as if our lives (as of now) will forever consist of a global community.

Within that global community is the chance for all of us to succeed. One of the best ways to advertise (aside from locally) is via social networks. It’s along the same lines as buying promotional products. Except, you develop a relationship with your social network contacts. You get to know their work and they get to know yours. In that way it garners respect, acknowledgment and hopefully … business.

I can’t say enough good things about social networking online. I think that it goes beyond the social day-to-day chatter and can be very useful on a number of different personal and professional levels.

What do you think?