Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

~Orison Swett Marden~

6 Reasons I Love Paypal Here

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Jeff Davidson in Owning a Business 5 Comments

Switching to Paypal Here I recently made the decision to start using PayPal Here as my main merchant account for accepting credit cards. I already have a merchant account with one of those old swipe terminals that spit out the thermal paper slips. This is one of the main reasons I wanted something else, I didn’t want the responsibility of storing all those receipts and I am going paperless in the studio. Since I’ve been with this company a long time they have extended me some pretty good rates. The problem is all the extra [...]

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What Has Happened to Common Courtesy?

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Jeff Davidson in Life in General 2 Comments

Warning I may get into a little rant here and is not about money. Today made me question mankind and human nature again. For all those in a service type job were your clients set appointments with you, I’m sure you’ll know exactly where I’m coming from. When you set an appointment with someone you are expected to show up right? If you can’t make it or maybe changed your mind you make a phone call and cancel! It’s common courtesy, the type of thing you are taught as a kid. Roll reversal, when the [...]

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5 Things About Me You May Not Have Known

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Jeff Davidson in Life in General 5 Comments

If you are one of my 15 readers you may have surmised that I wasn’t an English major. I’m not the greatest writer out there and I don’t regularly post 3 times or more here a week like other bloggers. Things get busy and/or I get writers block like the common cold. I do have some posts started that I never finished, some controversial and been afraid to hit the publish button. Well this is one of those weeks so I thought Id share some other little tidbits about me that you may have already figured out and perhaps some you would [...]

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Debt, the evil arch enemy of wealth

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Jeff Davidson in Debt No Comments

As I develop this website i have decided that I must include debt in the equation. After all why are we seeking multiple streams of income? For most of us it is to create wealth and increase net worth, to provide comfort and security now and in our future. The biggest killer of this would be debt and the accumulation of debt. With debt not only is your hard earned income going somewhere else, but if you are like most and only pay minimums then these debt payments can go on for years and years [...]

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WordPress Fun #1 – Favorite Plugins for Sharing

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Jeff Davidson in Wordpress 4 Comments

Doesn’t matter if you are creating micro-niche sites or you blog on a daily basis the one thing that fuels the growth of our sites is referrals and sharing of your posts. So why not make it easy on your visitors and give them all the tools to do so. With wordpress its so easy with plugins, no messy coding to deal with. For the start of my WordPress series Im going to start with a couple of my favorite sharing plug-ins that I use on almost all my sites. Sexy Bookmarks Just the name [...]

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Missing in Action Update

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Jeff Davidson in Life in General 4 Comments

I realize I havent posted in a bit and even missed my regular monthly income report, sorry about that. You see I’ve been going through some things and was concentrating on the studio and getting healthy. Honestly I have just been pretty tired and have lacked motivation for much else. So I thought I’d pop on and give a little update on things that would have gone in the income report and a few others. Photography Studio June was not bad at all, not great but not bad. Had 15 sessions which is very good and income [...]

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Mint’s New iPad Review – Sort of

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Jeff Davidson in Budgeting, Reviews 6 Comments

Yep I was getting tired of Mint‘s iPhone app on my iPad. Hitting the 2x button and seeing it all pixelated, wishing they would come out with an app for just the iPad. Well they read my mind and came out with one just for me! Ok it is available for everyone and if you haven’t upgraded or installed it you really should. While I planed on doing a cool review and such it seems some one else read my mind and did it already. So I didn’t want to steal her thunder and do [...]

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How to Choose the Right Pair of Headphones for You

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Jeff Davidson in Guest Posts No Comments

Choosing headphones can be fun, but it’s certainly no fun when you realise you’ve been through around five pairs in the past year. Searching for the right pair of headphones can seem like an epic, never-ending quest. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. There are certain things you have to think about before charging into a store and picking out a pair of headphones that look cool or ‘have great bass’. If you’re looking for the real deal, you might have to sell some of your stuff to save up – visit www.musicmagpie.com [...]

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Save on Shaving: Dollar Shave Club

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Jeff Davidson in Savings No Comments

Ok I know many of you have heard of this before, but I’m just catching on. Thanks to a klout perk I was introduced to Dollar Shave Club Thoughts on the Products First a little history… I hate shaving! Some may call it lazy but I don’t shave unless I am having clients that day other wise I’ll go days with out shaving (went two weeks once). The price of razors also contributes to that. I’ll make a razor last a month sometimes (painful but true) and then buy the cheapest I can find (just [...]

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Saving Money with Rain Water

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Jeff Davidson in Budgeting, Savings, Ways to Save No Comments

I have gone all in with growing my own food lately and doing most of it hydroponically. Growing this way it is best to use dechloronated water and the easiest way to do this is to use rain water or if from the tap let it set around for at least 24 hours. So I started doing researchIn building my own water storage system and this lead me to rain water collection. Free Water Being Wasted As I did my morning walk I was looking around at homes and all the rain gutters just flow [...]

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Do You Spend More for Convenience?

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Jeff Davidson in Budgeting, Savings No Comments

While shopping for some wood for a shelf in the greenhouse I got to thinking how much more do I spend for convenience? Let me fill you in. I needed to put in a shelf in the back of the greenhouse for buckets (which are 12″ wide). I could go one of three routes. 1. The cheapest would be to just get a 4′x8′ sheet of plywood, muscle it into the truck and cut it when I got home. This also would have given me a lot of left overs. 2. Lowes also has pre-cut [...]

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Hydroponics are Cool

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Jeff Davidson in Health, Life in General No Comments

In an interest to work on my health issues the natural way I have been doing my best to eat more fruits and fresh veggies. This means at least 2 if not 3 trips a week to my local health food store or farmers market.this gets time consuming, costs cost and the veggies are not cheap. This lead me to thinking about doing the backyard garden again, except for a few minor things: Having to clean the backyard Having to put in raised beds Having to buy or condition soil Planting Weeding Bugs Bending over [...]

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An Answer to my Health Issues?

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Jeff Davidson in Health No Comments

Well I went to see the specialist again this week to go over the last batch of test results. Apparently all normal, so he says the last ANA test was a false positive (2 in a year though?). So the good news that everything says no autoimmune disorder. So the docs diagnosis at this time is Fibromyalgia. What is Fibromyalgia? I still have some doubts about it, from what I have read I don’t meet all the requirements, but my mom has it as well and she didn’t have all the markers early on either. [...]

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How to Choose the Right Pair of Headphones for You

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Jeff Davidson in Guest Posts No Comments

How to Choose the Right Headphones for You

Choosing headphones can be fun, but it’s certainly no fun when you realise you’ve been through around five pairs in the past year. Searching for the right pair of headphones can seem like an epic, never-ending quest. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. There are certain things you have to think about before charging into a store and picking out a pair of headphones that look cool or ‘have great bass’. If you’re looking for the real deal, you might have to sell some of your stuff to save up – visit www.musicmagpie.com [...]

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