Profitable Productive Blogging

We all have ideas about how to make money from your blog. I came across this video from Howcast and thought you folks might enjoy the content. What do you think about the ideas and methods in this video? Do you agree or disagree? Have you tried any and had them work/not work? later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out my other blog Cman's Cognitive Content .

Have you ever wondered how you could increase revenue on just your average blog? Do you want to make more money? Do you want to make your blogging easier and more productive? Today I am featuring a guest article on just this subject. The topic being discussed is using a particular piece of software to boost earnings and productivity. Also in addition to all of this great information I have an exclusive offer for all of you. Nuance is allowing us to offer our readers a 25% Discount Coupon CODE Exclusive for Dragon Naturally Speaking, but you must click the image to the left and use this code (DNSMSBG) Together. Code will not work from other sources. Here is a quick video...CHECK OUT THE ARTICLE BELOW This is an excerpt from a white paper discussing how bloggers can earn more money through several different monetization and freelance writing services. It shows that bloggers that utilize Dragon Naturally Speaking can earn more money through these various services and how fast these e

I don't know about all of you but the day after a long weekend is always tough for me. It is hard to get going and find that motivation to do any work. I always just try and take it easy for a bit in the morning. No reason to over do it! Relax, have a cup or two of coffee, slog through a few emails, head down the hall and chat a bit, then get to work. In this way I liken the return to work as a return to a discarded exercise regimen; You've got to ease back into it or it will kick your butt. Light exercise - calisthenics This is a great way to get the blood flowing in the morning and will give you more energy throughout your day. Many Japanese practice this every day. Find the "happy" "peppy" person in your office Find that person, you know who they are, that just seems to have a bit more pep than most. Carry on a conversation with them and you will find that pep will rub off. Spend a minute to clean and organize your desk Get everything organized and b

Are you looking to move your blog from a free blog to one hosted on your own domain? Are you just unhappy with your current host and wanting to change? Whatever your reason you should check out Webhosting Geeks dot com. They have a nice reviews of many of the top hosts, including my favorite BlueHost. The nice thing about how the site is set up is that you readers can review the host that they are using. I did a review of BlueHost because that is who I use. In addition to the reviews they have a ton of great information related to website hosting . If you are just starting to learn about hosting your own blog or site then you should check out all of the great articles they have on the subject. There is information on everything from beginner instructions all the way to advanced information. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, book

Internal page links are an area over which you have complete control yet many people don't pay enough attention to them. You have the greatest control over links from within your own web site so take advantage of that control. Sometimes it is hard to control how others link to you, but you can always do a good job of providing great links to yourself using internal site linking. Here are some rules to follow when creating your Internal Page Links. Make sure that the anchor text for you link is relevant to your target page Whenever it is possible use words similar to those expressed in the title of the target article or page you are linking to. Make sure the anchor text is relevant and that the link title and the title of the article, post or page match the main keywords of the target page. Having a few of those ubiquitous "click here" links scattered around might make you look a bit more natural, but for the most part your links should describe what is on the other

Okay well I would assume that by now you have probably come across a Black Friday ad online somewhere. There are entire sites devoted year 'round to just that one day. Stores purposefully leak the ads to build buzz. People get in line at midnight, or earlier in some cases, just to get that TV, Computer, or toy for their kid. A lot of brick-and-mortar stores have started extending the Black Friday sales to their online stores as well. The online store runs the sale the same hours as the in-store sale and with many offering free site-to-store shipping this is fast becoming the way to go for many consumers. I know for me I have pretty much quit going out on Black Friday. I never, well once about 10 years ago, gotten what I really wanted and wasted my day trying to get. I would just get frustrated and stressed and end up wasting the day anyway. So now I do the online shopping thing, or I convince some poor gullible soul to go out for me :). Well I wanted to make my contribution to

I have asked myself, and others, this question many times. It all started with the answering machine. Then we had emails, mobile phones, and now mobile phones with emails. We now have Twitter, which I have yet to embrace. It isn't that I don't see how it could benefit this blog, but simply put I don't give a da-- that you are sitting in starbuck's reading a book. I don't figure you give a da-- that I am either. I understand Twitter goes beyond that, but you get the point. So we have people running around with their iPhones and Crackberries worried they are missing emails, phonecalls, and text messages. They are doing this while listening to music and Twittering away. With all of the social networking apps for the new smart phones, I have to admit I do love my iPhone, they are probably running an app that allows them to geotag the picture they just took, just before playing live poker and chatting with other players.... We all need to just unplug, turn off, disco

Guest Article and video by Brett Bumeter of Benspark dot com. Stop over and check out his blog about photography. A big thanks to Brett for this article. I have been talking about an application over the last several weeks called Dragon NaturallySpeaking. With this great program you can knock out a blog article in literally less than half the time. I love it. The price for 25% off Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard is very reasonable and with the coupon code below you can save 25%. With 25% off Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred you can even transcribe from mp3s. I love this option because I can blog while driving. I record what I want to say on my iPhone and then load the audio into the program and viola first draft of an article. Nuance is allowing us to offer our readers a 25% Discount Coupon CODE Exclusive for Dragon Naturally Speaking, but you must click the image below and use this code DNSMSBG together. The code will not work from other sources.Anyway...without fur

Be thankful live in America where you can blog with freedom. You can blog critically of your government without fear of prison. The recent Presidential election was an example of the power and influence of the new online media, including highly respected and wide read blogs. This was the first Presidential election ever where the majority of people 18-34 got their information from the web. The internet is a key source of independent news in Malaysia where the government exercises tight control on the mainstream media. Bloggers are now increasingly in the government's sights with several being charged with sedition. One of the most influential bloggers in Malaysia was jailed and just recently released. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out my other

Just wanted to pass along this information to all of you....Anamigo is running a FREE Pet Photo Contest! and you could win $300 bucks. You post your picture and if you get enough votes bingo-bango you win. Pretty easy money if you think about it. Here is the picture of our cute little doggy that, after a bit of editing to clean up centering issues and the like, I will be entering. Is your pet cute enough to win you $300? Enter the Anamigo Pet Photo contest and find out. Entries that get the most votes will win daily and weekly cash prizes. You could win: - Daily prize of $25. (You have 7 days to win!) - Weekly prize of $125 Get your camera out and email your friends. Your furry friend could bring you in cash! later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out

Since I moved out of my last residence back in the middle of June I have been a vagabond. I have temporarily been staying with friends and family and looking for a place to call my own. Now you may be wondering why it took so long? Well for me it was a very big decision. I have two kids and where I live has a big impact on them as well. At the present time they don't live with me, but I am hopeful that they will be in the near future. Because of this I had to take them into account when it came to size and location. I looked at a ton of places in many many different municipalities. Well I finally decided on a place last week and put down my deposit. I have never rented before, but given my situation at the moment I have not been looking to buy. Well, I met the owner of the place last night and signed the lease. I now have keys to my brand new place. To say I'm a bit stoked is probably an understatement. It will be so nice to have my own place again. It will be next week befor

Monday night around 11:45ish I was sitting watching some TV, blogging, & chatting with friends when suddenly the whole house went black. I had no power. This lasted for about an hour and then everything returned to normal. I was using my laptop but I had my battery removed so when the power shut off so did the computer. I didn't feel like digging around in the office in the dark to find the battery. It could be so many places depending on the mood I was in when I removed it last. Anyway, this little scenario got me thinking about blogging without power. I would define power as having control of, authority, or influence over others. How does one define the power of a blog? There are various rankings from Technorati, Alexa, Google, and others as well. What do they mean though? What do they represent and do they give a good indication of the power of a blog? Does a blog that had a PR6 in October last year that now has a PR4 have less power? What about if that same blog now has 100

How to save money at Restaurants with Restaurant.com Certificates Restaurant.com is a great way for you to save some money this holiday season. I have been using Restaurant.com for quite a while now and love their prices. Normally you get a $25 certificate for only $10, which is a great deal. As an affiliate partner with Restaurant.com I get information on some of their best deals. I wrote an article on this last October about How To Save Money At Restaurants and talked about how you can stretch your dollar using Restaurant.com certificates and their special promotions. Well I am please to announce that once again Restaurant.com is running their TREATS coupon code promotion. Once you have selected all the certificates you want enter the coupon code TREATS in the checkout box and you will get this incredible deal. Head on over to Restaurant.com and start searching for restaurants in your area. They have restaurant descriptions and even menus for you to help choose a new restaura

How many browsers do you use? One? Two? Three or more? For me I really like Firefox and use it most of the time. At work however I have problems with it for certain applications and have to use Explorer. Now Google comes along with their new browser Chrome. The Google Chrome browser is a very fast browser and I really like how each tab is a separate process and if one crashes you don't have to shut down the entire app. When Google Chrome came out I tried it and really liked the speed and tab/process features so I started using it at home as my main browser for most things. I can't use Google Chrome at work though because of security/proxy issues, so I have still been using the Firefox/Explorer combination. Well now there is a new browser in the mix. It is from Mozilla, the guys behind Firefox, and it is called Minefield. Now the big hype surrounding Google Chrome was that it's new javascript engine was supposedly the fastest around. Well now Mozilla and the new Minefield

I saw this news broadcast on mommy bloggers and thought you all might be interested, and I included the video below. Blogging is a great way for moms to make some extra money from the home. A friend of mine Lori Falcon , who only started blogging about 1 1/2 years ago, has established 4 great blogs and is well on her way to building a little blogging empire and making some great money. She has recently received recognition from Wal-Mart as one of their Eleven Moms and is in the process of getting her makeover . Big congrats to Lori for all of her success. If you haven't visited her blogs here are some links. A Cowboy's Wife My Wooden Spoon Cowgirl Critiques Blogging With Cents later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out my other blog Cman's Co

If you have never visited the blog Lisa Reviews I think you should head over and check it out. She does really great reviews on a variety of products. She hits everything from software to dolls and tons of stuff in between. Watch her video review below and then click the link to her blog and poke around. You won't be disappointed. Here is another great video review by Lisa, who coincidently writes the blog Lisa Reviews . She writes about how she can write at 150 words per minute with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I think one of the key takeaways from her video, the key insight that is, is that she is able to write a lot more in those spare moments of time that she has while she's doing other things. Sometimes it's great to multitask, but it's even more important to be able to accomplish useful goals in those spare two or three or four minute pockets of time that we all experience throughout the day. With Dragon NaturallySpeaking a four minute pocket of time can tran

As bloggers we all need to be careful what we say. Obviously bigger blogs with tens of thousands of readers will have greater exposure to legal action. Although any Blogger needs to be careful what they write and remember that they could possibly be opening themselves up for legal action. Here is an interesting news story on the topic...thought you guys might be interested. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out my other blog Cman's Cognitive Content .

Just wanted to let everyone know that there are going to be some changes happening 'round here in the very near future. Now that I am back to having time to do some "for real" work on the blog I decided to spruce up the place a bit. I'm not going to say exactly what is going to be taking place but I think everyone will be pleased. Stay tuned...There just might be money involved in it for you! How do you stay tuned you ask? Well you can subscribe to my feed, but if you are going to do that why don't you enter the $50 October Contest while you are at it. That way with your subscription you get a shot at $50, and you are staying tuned for the changes and the possibility of even more cold hard cash....Have a great weekend everyone. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. Y

First let me say a big thanks to Rita over at Rita's Digest (bloggrrl.com) for dropping me a message telling me that she couldn't for the life of her figure out how to make a comment. At first I thought this strange as I personally had never had any trouble ;) , then I actually tried to make a comment. Obviously I got the same result as Rita. No go with the comments. I started investigating and realized that Google had come out with a new comment format option for blogger. It is an "embedded below post" option. Well this blog had been defaulted to that option and it was not compatible with the current template. I have fixed the problem and the comments are working again the $50 October Contest is back ON !! One more thanks to Rita for saving the contest! later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or a

Obama wants to support all of us middle class folks in achieving the American dream. Just remember that the American dream tops out at $250,000! After that you are the evil rich and are to be punished for your arrogance and success. Heck I know a lot of small business people that are middle class and far from rich who gross over $250,000 a year and THEY ARE A FAR CRY FROM RICH Mr. Obama. I'm not simply bashing Obama, and I'm not supporting anyone with this post. I am simply questioning his reasoning for the $250,000 threshold. I know a man who runs a landscape/care taking business with only 3 employees and he grosses almost twice that much. Although after paying the already exorbitant taxes, overhead, and good middle class wages to his employees only gets a solid middle class income himself. Now Obama would FORCE him to provide health insurance for his employees on top of raising his taxes. This extra burden has the potential to put him out of business or cause him decreas

I got the title of this post from the last paragraph of an article by Jonathan Stein that I read today. It is just a little commentary by him on bloggers and their view of themselves and blogging in general. It is a very interesting little read. Here is the article in it's entirety...not the little disclaimer at the end from which I got the title to this post. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out my other blog Cman's Cognitive Content .

It has been a long time since I ran a contest hasn't it? Well just last week I purchased an incredible Halloween costume and so I decided to run a contest that involved it. The contest will be simple and you don't have to be right to win ! The contest has two parts and here are the "rules." Rules: 1. Subscribe to my feed and post a comment with your guess, and feel free to mention what you will or might be for Halloween. It is that simple. You are entered in the contest. If you decide to also post an article mentioning the contest and linking back to this contest post and you get 5 extra entries. It is that simple...each person can get up to 6 entries in the contest. 2. I will also be awarding a bonus prize to the correct guess. In the event that there are multiple correct guesses the person with the most entries wins. If there is still a tie then the person that commented first will win. 3. Contest ends on Friday October 31, 2008 at 4:00 PM Central Daylight

It is interesting that just recently Jeremy "ShoeMoney" Schoemaker, in his keynote speech at IzeaFest , talked about having a Screw Google Mentality . Now in his recent article about the same topic he reminds people that you must take the remarks within the context of being a successful webmaster. Basically if people pretended like Google never existed or like they were blacklisting in Google its the best thing they could ever do. This applies from many things Google… From SEO to AdSense. - Shoemoney Around this time last year when the whole paid link no-follow google PR update issue was big I wrote a satirical viral linking article I titled Guck Foogle - Give Google A Virus . I don't blog for approval from google. I don't blog to increase my PR. I blog for readers and ultimately to make money. My attitude is screw google, and has been for quite a while. Now the response I got was pretty much as expected as far as the viral marketing goes. I really wasn't loo

The other day I wrote an article about a company called XFLOWSION and their picking of PepperJam for their online marketing efforts. Well today I came across this opportunity on SocialSpark and decided to take it. You may not agree but I feel this is a simple little illustration of how you can make money blogging and from affiliate marketing. I can market a product via affiliate sites/blogs, PPC ads, and then make more money from it on a paid posting op like this. Creating multiple income streams for a single product is a great way to strike while the product is hot. I do encourage you to take a look at the XFLOWSION program. It is a great exercise program and is very hot right now in the Hollywood circles. If you have been looking for something to help get and keep you motivated to lose a few pounds this is it! XFLOWSION™, with its revolutionary TRIPLE TRAINING™, is the ONLY exercise program that efficiently and effectively gives you all three workouts in one convenient workout, co

I always like to see the big money bloggers getting exposure. It really just helps the whole blogging community. It lends us credibility and drives traffic. I was perusing the pages of US News & World Report a while back and read an article about making money blogging. In the article they mentioned John Chow , Steve Pavlina and others. I came across the article again today and decided to pass it along to those of you who haven't read it. What do you think of this article? Do you feel that exposure like this benefits just those covered or the blogging community as a whole? later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out my other blog Cman's Cognitive Content .

I mentioned a while back that I was moving. At least I think I did. If not I am moving. One of the reasons that I am moving is so that I have a proper place for my kids. Yep in case you missed I have to wonderful children. Well now that I am back I have the task of getting moved, getting the kids situated in a new school, and getting settled in. I will be a little farther from work but closer to my family so there is some upside. While moving I decided it would be a great time to get the kids things and my stuff reorganized. I have started sorting through clothes, papers, books, dishes, and everything else to cull out what isn't needed. Not only that, necessity warrants a bit of downsizing as space is more of a premium in the new digs. I pretty much have my stuff done now and I am moving on to the kid's things. Between the old stuff and the new stuff I have been purchasing for school it hasn't been easy. I have been using my DYMO Labelmaker and labeling the crap out of

ProfitChoice.com has a section called blog market that is a paid posting marketplace. I had never heard of them before but came across this article today and visited the site because of it. I signed up and will see what it is and whether or not it is any good. Anywhooo....here is the article that I read. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out my other blog Cman's Cognitive Content .

I have this wonderful little program for my iPhone that transcribes spoken word into text. It is called Jott and it is free via the iTunes store. I was using this the other day and thought that wouldn't it be wonderful if I could blog while( Brett Bumeter for pointing out my poor grammar)driving, working out, cooking dinner, or other activities. I know there are times I have flashes of inspiration and I wish I could just get them down on paper. If I could just talk and have my words transcribed for me and then just paste them right into an article it could really be a time saver. What are your thoughts on this? Well I have found a program that does this and wanted to pass that information along to all of you. Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Preferred allows you to not only turn speech into text, but you can use your voice to actually control your common applications like Word, Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer. You can even use it to search the internet or your computer. This

While they are using PepperJam for their online marketing they have yet to setup an affiliate program through the Pepperjam Network. I really hope they do as I think this product could make me a lot of money considering the buzz that is being generated. If you haven't checked out PepperJamNetwork and the great affiliate programs and service they offer I encourage you to Join the Affiliate Revolution. Not only can you make money from their great programs but they are also offering a $10 Sign On Bonus for All New Pepperjam Network Affiliates. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out my other blog Cman's Cognitive Content .

I wrote an article on my other blog to stoke the climate change/alternative energy debate a bit. In my article Wind Energy, Climate Change, And Arrogance , I simply talk about how our arrogance leads us to an anthropogenic view of climate change and whether or not we are truly being honest in the debate. Take a minute and read the article and let me know what you think. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out my other blog Cman's Cognitive Content .

I have had discussion with fellow bloggers many times on the topic of affiliate marketing via our blogs, paid posting, and paid reviews. Many times the question of ethics comes up and whether or not a blogger promoting products and services can be done in an ethical manner. As an affiliate marketer and a blogger I regularly post about products and services with which I have a relationship. I also do paid posting and reviews. I do have a disclosure policy in place and link to it from my main page. I came across an article today on this very topic and so as not to duplicate I will link over to the article and let you read it. It is on Blogging Tips and the article is Ethics of Affiliate Blogging . The only thing I might have a small issue with from this article is linking to the disclosure policy in each post. Many of the paid posting opps want site wide disclosure only and this in post disclosure would eliminate some very lucrative offers. Another recent article on this topic,

If you are selling products online direct to customers you should have a merchant account. If you are using PayPal, which I know a lot of folks do, you are being ripped on if you are doing even a moderate amount. Here’s a low cost, hassle-free solution for credit card processing . OnlineChecks offers an unusual program, most companies say they have the best merchant services, but we honestly do. No fees, no contracts, and a free credit card machine. If you have ever looked into getting a merchant account and setting up credit card processing you know that it is a very unusual offer. Most of the time you are having a lease pushed on you, and those offering free terminals usually still have high fees. Not only do they give you a free machine, not charge any fees, and no lease contracts, but you can try the service for free. Here is what you get: * Virtual Terminal - Free! (Process transactions from any PC - A $195.00 Value) * Credit Card Processing Terminal - Free! (A $295.00 Value

Okay so it really isn't but come on could it be any more boring than curling? Anyway I came across this picture of ice boxing and thought it was kinda funny and decided to post it. I figured what the heck expand our horizons :)... I have decided to expand the postings on my blogs a bit and see what happens. I know I am breaking a cardinal rule of blogging. I have been spotty with posting and traffic has fallen quite a bit and so I decided to try and bring a few new readers in and then go from there. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites. You also might want to check out my other blog Cman's Cognitive Content .

I just wanted to share a few free or low cost ideas on ways to market your online ventures offline. Many bloggers overlook the benefits of promoting offline as well. If you can implement some offline marketing strategies with little or no money that is even better. If you are trying to make money online you certainly don't want to be spending large sums of money offline it just isn't practical for the return you get. Free Offline Marketing Method #1 Do a Google search for customized ink pens, customized promotional items, or something along those lines. You will obviously get a ton of results. Just start clicking on some of the results focusing on sites that offer free samples, or that have a print catalog. In my experience you have the best luck with those. Remember you want free! Okay now that you have found a few go ahead and register with the site. You want them to send you their catalog in the mail. The reason why is that every month or so they also send free samples of

If your blog falls would anybody know? If you stopped posting and never updated your blog from this moment on would anyone care or notice? Do you ever feel like you are just blogging for only you? Are you blogging just for you? It is something to think about. There are literally millions of blogs with thousands started every day. There are probably thousands of blogs on just about any topic you can imagine. People typing away at their computers in their little corner of the world all trying to impact someone else with words. Are they making any difference whatsoever? Does it matter? Have you started a blog only to let it die? Have you ever tried to resurrect a dead blog?  Okay if a blog like Problogger or  John Chow went away people would notice as they are "mega" blogs especially in the make-money-online crowd. What about blogs like this one? How about the middle-to-upper blogs like My Wooden Spoon , Pajama Professional , Benjamin Patton , or Standout Blogger ? What a

If you are going to go to all the trouble to make money online don't waste it. Don't run up credit cards. Don't spend money just on needless gadgets and what not. Unless you are making a killing, but even then it is boneheaded to live above your means. Why do you all think we are in this so-called "mortgage crisis?" People not knowing, and in many cases, not caring to know their limits. If for whatever reason you have gotten yourself in over your head and you haven't damaged your credit beyond that of being able to still obtain a loan you might want to consider debt consolidation. With rates still around 6% and in some cases even lower now would be the time. Not only that with the uncertainty of the economy and the market in general having money in savings is absolutely necessary. Debt consolidation has many variations, from services like debt management, debt settlement, or credit counseling to debt consolidation loans and mortgage refinancing. Typically,

How many times as a kid did you hear your parents remind you to say please and thank you? How many times have you as a parent said exactly the same thing? Why do so many people have problems saying a simple thanks? Are we so busy and distracted in our lives that we just don't think about it anymore? I can't tell you how many times in just the last several days where I have simply held a door, or when I stopped a cart from hitting a vehicle, helped pick a display knocked over by a child, and the person did not say a simple thanks. Oft times they are in such a hurry they quickly speed on their way and ignore the fact that a fellow human being just took some time to lend a hand. In our society we have become so quick to wine and moan when things don't go right, service is bad, or mistakes happen. Conversely we have become MUCH too slow in saying a thanks when things simply go right, service is exceptional, or someone lends a helping hand. Teach your kids to be friendly and