My Art Collectibles

Starting a fine art, collectibles and gifts website was a major milestone for this ex-corporate warrior. Cherish Collectibles features fine art by award-winning American artist Edna Hibel, as well as fine art collectables like collector plates and dolls. It's been both fun and frustrating, growing a business while battling Goliaths. Jesus is with me, and He will not let me fall.

Friday, March 24, 2006

KEYWORD ELITE REVIEW -

KEYWORD ESPIONAGE TO RULE THE INTERNET



Demolish your competition! Keyword Elite has arrived. This keyword analysis software knocks out all other keyword research tools from the ring! It really gets targeted website traffic flowing. I bought my Keyword Elite just hours after its launch, and I'm absolutely floored by it. This baby is fast! The valuable secrets it has been revealing has been making my head spin. If this keyword tool had existed when I first started my internet businesses, I could have saved time, money and effort, and made money more quickly and easily too!

Masterminded by the creators of SEOelite, a great SEO analysis tool, Keyword Elite is really keyword spy ware for those looking to rule the internet through keyword espionage. Keyword Elite combines the power of SEO analysis with the ability to zero in on money-making pay-per-click keywords, and spy on competitors’ Google Adwords campaigns too.

Why is this important? If you’re serious about getting ahead of the internet marketing game, you need to know how to manipulate keywords to your advantage. Search engines are content-driven, so choosing the right keywords can help you relegate your competitors to the sidelines, while you make buckets of money at the same time. Keyword Elite gives you the power to reel in profitable website traffic.

I’ve certainly spent buckets of money in my search for programs which will turn websites into money-making machines. I’ll bet you have too.

Doing keyword research is normally very time-consuming, and involves a lot of guess work. You have to spend time and money testing various keywords and markets, before you can see any success. There are keyword research tools which will help you save some effort, but I must say that Keyword Elite totally outclasses them.

In a matter of hours, it helps you draw up a killer keyword strategy which can actually start making money for you within days. The icing on the cake is that you’ll optimize your websites so that they will be indexed and receive a higher search engine ranking as well. Yell profitable website traffic!

How does Keyword Elite achieve this? Through five projects in the software:

1. Analyze Pay Per Click Listings (Project #1) - Helps you easily find low-cost and high to moderate traffic keywords that will make you money. Are you starting to dream yet? Yell profitable website traffic again!

2. Create A Keyword List (Project #2) - Builds keyword lists of 50,000+ keywords for your website needs. You enter a word or a phrase, such as ‘insurance’, and Keyword Elite starts building. It will allow you to add a word at the beginning or the end of certain words or phrases, to help you make your list more targeted. That’s a really handy feature. You can even filter out certain words, such as ‘free’, to weed out undesirable visitors. Gets rid of the tire kickers right away! Now this is targeting website traffic the smart way.

3. Select A Keyword List (Project #3) - You can quickly grab your keyword list and prepare it for your Google Adwords campaigns and page builder software. With just a couple of clicks you're done. To create keyword lists with exact matches, you can add quotation marks, brackets, commas etc.

4. Analyze Keyword Competition (Project #4) - Allows you to quickly see how hard it will be to rank well for a specific search term. You can easily see if your competition is ranked well by "accident", or if they're going to be tough to outrank. This can save you hours of wasted research time. This is where you can really flex your muscles with Keyword Elite. Do a keyword search, and the software will find the top websites (as many or as few as you like) carrying that term. You’ll even find out how often that keyword or phrase is searched. Sites that rank high for the keywords searched can also be checked for their Google Page Rank. An essential tool for those doing SEO strategizing and website traffic analysis.

5. Spy on AdWords Competition (Project #5) – This feature alone can make you huge profits. Keyword Elite lets you spy on your competitors’ AdWords campaign! Monitor which keywords your competitors are bidding on in Google AdWords, and for how long. You can then take that list of guaranteed profitable keywords and plug them into your own AdWords campaign. Saves you a bundle of money and time doing market research and keyword testing! Simply key in the URL of a product you’re interested in, and include a keyword list, to uncover cool information like the AdWords ad copy, and whether the website running the AdWords campaign is the product owner or an affiliate. Are you ready for serious money making website traffic?

The creators of Keyword Elite are so confident that users will be so bowled over by this keyword spy ware that they actually offer a money-back guarantee. I don’t think they’ll be making many refunds because, going by initial reports, users started raking in the cash just a few days after putting Keyword Elite into action.

Keyword Elite is a must-have keyword analysis tool for those :

- Looking to drive targeted traffic to their websites
- Conducting Search Engine Optimization
- Searching for market niches
- Doing market research
- Wanting to build targeted opt-in e-mail lists
- Running Google Adwords with affiliate programs
- Wanting to profit from websites combining pay-per-click campaigns with Google Adsense

Keyword Elite can be set to update you with the latest data automatically, so you’re always a step ahead of the rest. In the highly-competitive world of internet marketing, you need this edge. Get ready for money making website traffic!

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

THE MOTHER’S DAY STORY

Mother’s Day is celebrated by many countries on the second Sunday of May. It’s origins may be traced back to spring celebrations in ancient Greece which were held to honor the Mother of the Gods, Rhea. The introduction and spread of Christianity throughout Europe eventually led to a change in focus, where the Mother Church was honored instead of pagan gods or goddesses.

In the 1600s, mothers in England were remembered on the fourth Sunday of Lent, the forty-day period leading up to Easter. This day became known as Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday was so revered that the servants of the wealthy were actually given that day off to spend with their mothers. Such family reunions were often celebrated with a special cake called the Mothering Cake.

It was in 1872 that a special Mother’s Day was suggested by the lyricist of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe. She envisaged it as a day dedicated to peace. Mother’s Day meetings were organized annually by her in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ana Jarvis from Philadelphia is credited with crusading to have Mother’s Day recognized at the national level. In 1907, she persuaded her mother’s church in Grafton, West Virginia, to honor mothers on the second Sunday of May, which was the second anniversary of her mother’s death. By the following year, Philadelphia was also celebrating Mother’s Day.

Ms Jarvis and her supporters besieged politicians, ministers and businessmen as they continued their campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. Thanks to their efforts, Mother’s Day was marked in almost every state in the USA by 1911. Finally, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially declared the second Sunday of May as Mother’s Day.

Let mum know how much she means to you with a special Mother's Day gift from Edna Hibel’s 2006 Mother’s Day Collection! If you’re a mother, celebrate the mother and child bond with an Edna Hibel mother daughter or mother son keepsake from http:/www.cherishcollectibles.com.

A mother and grandmother herself, Edna Hibel’s favorite artistic theme is family. She is particularly famous for her heartwarming depictions of the mother daughter and mother son relationship. In typical Hibel style, mothers and children in her artwork glow with love and radiate inner peace.

Precious moments are tenderly captured in Edna Hibel’s mother and child art and collectibles - precious moments to treasure forever.

Friday, March 10, 2006

CHERISH YOUR LOVED ONES


Christopher Reeve's wife, Dana Reeve, has just died of lung cancer, only one-and-a-half years after Christopher Reeve passed away. Dana was an amazing woman who faithfully cared for her husband after he was paralysed from an accident, even though his paralysis was so extensive that he could not even breathe without the help of a respirator.

What heartache she must have suffered these last few years! The stress obviously took its toll on her. She loved her husband to the very end, even at the expense of her own well-being. Not all spouses can be as faithful and loving in the face of such trials.

Just last week, I heard that a young wife from my town broke under the stress of being the main caregiver for her semi-paralysed husband, venting her frustration daily by abusing him both verbally and physically. The abuse culminated in a particularly vicious attack one night when she beat her husband in bed, kicked him off and continued her attack with a broom, wielding it with such fury that her grandmother intervened by using her own body as a shield to try to protect the poor invalid husband.

Edna Hibel, the award-winning artist whose products I feature in my website Cherish Collectibles, is known for her romantic, Impressionist/Renaissance-style depiction of loving families and humanity. The tenderness, warmth and devotion portrayed in her artwork is somehow comforting in a world which is hurting from broken relationships and violence. That probably explains why Hibel art and collectibles have been popular for decades. Hibel's work reminds us all of good old-fashioned values, and precious family bonds.

If only people would focus on cherishing their loved ones more, while they still have them, rather then looking out for flaws. Life is too short to be wasting a single moment. I know Christopher and Dana Reeve would agree.

Live richly, love deeply. The storms of life will always threaten, but you'll survive if you build your relationships on strong foundations.

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Mother's Day without Dad

MOTHER'S DAY WITHOUT DAD


Mother's Day is coming, so I really must get started on featuring the Edna Hibel 2006 Mother's Day Collection on my art, collectibles and gifts website Cherish Collectibles. When you operate a retail website like mine, you have to prepare for each holiday or festive period months in advance. I'm running a little late, due to my father's long illness and recent passing.

My dad left this world just a few days after my mother's birthday, and only two days after Valentine's Day. I had meant to make my mum a birthday cake. Cheesecake, actually, with the addition of her favorite fruit. Dad's rapid deterioration scuttled those plans. I had already purchased all the ingredients. In all the anxiety and hurry, I had forgotten to put the cream in the fridge. My husband, Andrew, noticed it on the table outside the kitchen four days later. The weather had been unusually warm, so we wrote the cream off. For some reason anyway, Andrew decided to put it in the fridge.

Amazingly, when I checked the cream a couple of days ago, it was fine, and absolutely delicious. Life is so unpredictable. Those that don’t seem to have a hope of lasting, survive, And the ones that you take for granted and think will always be around, eventually fade into the night.

Dad made it a point to celebrate Mum's birthday in a fancy restaurant every year. It was always the same restaurant, and he always ordered her favorite dishes. This year, he was so sick that Mum missed her annual birthday treat for the first time ever. I thought that I would try to make it up to her by making her a special birthday cake. But that didn't materialise either when Dad took a turn for the worse.

When we realized that Dad wasn't going to make it, Andrew and I bought a box of my mum's favorite pastries on the way to the hospital, right after we picked her up. Dad treated my mum to those pastries every weekend, stopping only when he became seriously ill. During Dad's last moments, we told him that Mum had her favorite pastries with her, and that he shouldn't worry about her. We would take care of her, and she would always have her favorite things to enjoy.

This will be Mum's first Mother's Day without Dad. Dad's shoes are too big to fill, but I'll try my best.