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Guest written by our friend Mason Abbott

My brother has played every sport you can think of. He has played baseball, basketball, soccer, football and tennis. He has also been a swimmer. Recently he decided that he wanted to concentrate more on baseball in hopes that he might be able to go to college on a baseball scholarship. My parents have always involved with his sports. My dad usually helped with coaching and my mom was usually the team mom. They have always spent a lot of money on trophies, uniforms and equipment. However, they wanted to be even more involved. They had the idea of opening their own trophy store. Then all of the local teams could get all of their team trophies from their store. Ever since they opened their store, they have had so many orders. They decided they needed a better way to keep up with all of the orders, so they decided to search “T1 San Antonio.” They were able to setup internet and a website for their store which made taking orders for trophies so much easier. Now, even after my brother graduates my parents will still be able to be involved with the local sports teams.

Crowd control, stanchions, velvet rope, and barricades are everywhere.  They help people staying lines and keep everyone orderly.  For a business with high volume clients this can save you a lot of headaches.  Fights and frustrated clients happen when others cut in line or they don’t know where the line even begins.  They keep red carpets safe for stars and they make the VIP section in clubs so ever so much more important.

The piece of mind they give business owners is immense.  Knowing that things will be that much more efficient and orderly can be very comforting.  Sometimes all that keeps people from trampling each other are these simple velvet ropes.

I was thinking about this in line in a theme park once.  The huge lines, the sweaty frustrated people and the only thing keeping everyone in line were their crowd control measures.  Without them, pure ciaos.

The article written by Alonso Kramer

I am a huge Kansas City Chiefs fan, and we love to have huge parties at our house for away games. We grill out in the back yard and our kids invite all their friends over. It has become a tradition for us and we do it at least three times every season. Now that our kids are older, some of their teenage friends have started spreading the word about the parties and we’ve had some riffraff try and come to our house. Most of the kids are good, nice kids that we know from the neighborhood, but we knew these were different. They seemed like they were there casing our house to see what they could get out of it. We got really worried that they would try and come back and steal from us so we contacted Kansas City ADT. We got a home alarm system so that we could feel good about our parties and not get worried about people knowing all that we have in our home. Making that change has made us feel more relaxed. We can let our kids invite whoever they would like and they enjoy that too.

Guest post written by Hannah Brooks

I remember so many times that I’ve been to my aunt and uncle’s cabin for the holidays and admired their cabin decor. They have it decorated like you would expect for a cabin, but with a bit of a chic twist. In other words, I really love it and wish that I had a cabin like that to decorate on my own!

I thought that I would try and emulate their decorations for at least my Christmas tree, if not for the rest of my holiday decorations. While I was online trying to find some info on how I can easily do that with what I already have, I ran across some info on kitchen remodeling. After I showed it to my husband and explained that’s what I want for Christmas, we decided to Click here and go ahead and arrange for it to all happen.

I did find some pretty good little ideas for decorating our Christmas tree, like using some twine and gingham printed fabric to make a little garland with gingham bows. I also picked up a few pine cones and sprayed them with fake snow, completing the look without getting all new ornaments and blowing my budget!

A great tip to add to your beauty regime is exercise.

Americans don’t get enough of it! It’s sad to see so many overweight Americans when all it takes is a good diet and exercise to keep you looking your best and of course HEALTHY!

Consider….Biking.
Its a great workout for the entire body, especially the lower body. If you are one of those people want to develop great muscle tone on their legs, back end and hips while trimming their waists and increasing their cardio vascular health try biking. Biking regularly can significantly decrease a your risk for heart disease. Since heart disease is one of the biggest killers of Americans any activity that can decrease your risk of heart disease is something worth trying. Who knows, you may soon learn to love it and look forward to it.

Biking is a low-impact activity that doesn’t cause a lot of stress on joints so biking is a good exercise for people who may have limited range of motion or may not be able to handle an exercise like running which puts a lot of stress on the joints. Low impact activities like biking can also reduce cholesterol and can help lower blood pressure, which is a major health concern for millions of people. You can try a life fitness stationary bike or even a leg scooter as well.

Bike riding, however, can also reduce stress, and it’s been proven that managing stress is a key component when it comes to staying healthy. This is a big one! I see a lot of people with belly fat and stress is usually the underlying cause. This is the most dangerous fat to have and should really concern you into action.

Biking has a lot of health and fitness benefits, even just short bike rides daily can make a noticeable difference in your health in a very short period of time. You don’t need to start out buying a fancy bike or any fancy equipment, just buy an all purpose bike and get outside and start riding.

Check out http://www.become.com to do a search for a bike you may want to try. Try searching for lightweight bikes. This site is also a great tool for online shopping in general. You can compare prices from various sites and find the best deals. Give it a try.

The difference between successful businesses and hobbies is simple…choosing the RIGHT marketing and advertising. Advertising is not optional in business. It’s the first and most important element to success. Sure you can do fabulous work in whatever it is you do; be that your cosmetics products, makeup artistry, photography, hair styling, etc. Whatever it is you do and want to do for a decent living still requires advertising.

But you do amazing work, right? And your friends and family already know about it and refer you to others. That’s great and a fine way to work on a hobby, but that doesn’t guarantee continued business in a tough economic climate. For example, if your friends and family are not among or connected to people with little to no money problems. You need all types of costumers to make a business successful and if all your clients are struggling financially at the same time, so will you.

The best way to success is to reach those clients that are better off financially. Those clients are less likely to continue to use your services when times are tough.

So how do you reach them? The answer is simple…become fabulous at your marketing and advertising and do so in a way to target the correct audience that needs and can afford your services time and time again. If you are not an expert at this, have no fear there are books and information out there that can help you. Best off there are other professionals that focus only on this aspect of your business for you and can do it while you concentrate on the parts of your business you enjoy most. Hiring an Advertising Agency can save you time and money. They don’t need as much trial and error when it comes to finding your customers and can offer new and inventive ideas for getting the word out effectively on your business.

So if you are frustrated and worried about how you can make your business work, remember to focus on your marketing and advertising and that if you need help an Advertising Agency is a great jumping off point.

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Blue Sky Scrubs has great deals going on and their scrubs are not like those uncomfortable ugly and unflattering scrubs we all hate. As someone who had the misfortune of wearing scrubs, there is nothing worse for a woman. Nothing more frumpy and unfeminine. But finally they get a clue and companies began to emerge with nice looking scrubs. Slightly fashionable even.

If you are in the medical profession…or work in a medical office and need to use scrubs as your uniform.

Check out them out here: Nursing uniforms scrubs

For those of you located in Austin Texas, check out www.thesteamteam.com.

They offer rug and carpet cleaning, carpet cleaner rental, water damage insurance, water damage service, and should a skunk wander in your home they offer skunk odor removal too! This is something I would need to use very often if I were in Austin. Mainly because my husband has FLOODED his past apt. Yup and up to 8 floors beneath him as well. Fancy that. Needless to say the ENTIRE apt was livid and wanted to kill him. Imagine having a great service like this in your emergency list just in case. The quicker they get their the better and the least likely you’ll be in a hostile situation with angry neighbors.

Need Pet Odor Removal? They help with pet order removing and such too. Something my father needs with two adorable by spiteful kitties. Sure they are cute, but cross them and they will mark their territory on your stuff. Priceless Persian rug, now belongs to Mr.Fuzzy!

WaldenU.edu is a great tool I recently found out about. For those of us having trouble finding jobs in this tough economy, going back to school and increasing your education is the best option. They make it easy to search and find the program that works for you.

Walden University’s online degree programs

If you’re thinking online degrees don’t help because most jobs won’t accept them, think again. Many programs online are accredited and widely accepted by employers. In fact, my last boss had a BA like me for a traditional university, but all her other advance degrees were from online university classes only. That’s right, the only separating her from myself were her extra online degrees. Her degrees gave her that step above which got her the higher paid manager position. So think about it. She did this on her spare time and online, while working full time. That’s something anyone can make time for. Check out the many type of programs they offer to see how you can take your career to the next level (and pay grade) today.

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