Monica Kochelee

There’s no doubt about it.  Any business that wants to expand needs to establish themselves on the Internet.  The biggest trend nowadays in promoting a business is through online marketing.  Websiteoffice.com is a great website designed to help webmasters learn about online marketing, search engine optimization, search marketing, and website resources.  

Many people who live in bedroom communities don’t even know what stores there are locally for them to patronize.  That is why the website local.com is a great resource.  It has partnered with four major shopping search sites, Citysearch.com, Yelp.com, Yellowpages.com, Superages.com to compile all of the information available to help the consumer locate local businesses. 

I went onto the local.com website a few minutes ago just to see how it would work if I wanted to find a local restaurant.  There were two boxes for me to fill in, the first one being the type of business (I typed in Restaurant) and then the second one was to fill in the area (I typed in the city and state) and then clicked on search.  Within seconds I had a large listing of restaurants that are local to where I live.

I am going to be laid off for the summer, so I am going to be job hunting right off. My last day of work is next Wednesday, so I am polishing my resume and I am going to be posting it on a new Internet employment service that I discovered called Applicant Tree. This is a really exciting new way to job hunt - I will be posting my resume with them. Applicant Tree works as a recruiting service for a lot of large companies. (Some of them are UPS, State Farm Insurance, and Home Depot.) Every time one of their client companies requests my contact information, Applicant Tree will pay me money! So I’ll be getting paid for looking for work! If Applicant Tree accepts my resume, the minimum I would get paid when a company requests my contact information be $7.50, the maximum would be $50.

I can’t even believe how often I have to buy printer ink for my Lexmark X6100 printer!  It seems like every two weeks I have to buy a new black cartridge, and a new color cartridge.  I think that when I’m at work my hubby and kids must get on the internet and find a lot of things that interest them and run off prints.  Buying printer ink at local stores I found that the best price I could get on a black ink cartridge is about $28, the color about $35.  Buying that much ink gets expensive!

I used to take my empty ink cartridges to an office supply store that would give me $3.00 off of the price of a new ink cartridge, but they recently stopped doing that.  Their prices were so high on the ink anyway it really wasn’t even worth it! 

I see stores that offer “ink refills” for only $10 or $15 but I’ve heard that doing that voids the warranty on printers, and I’ve heard horror stories from friends about how they did that and it gummed up their printer and totally ruined it, so I don’t want to do that at all!

There is a website for a company called Inkers that I’ve found at www.inkers.biz that sells generic computer ink for great low prices.  They offer just about every type of toner and ink ever made for just about every brand of printer.  I looked up the ink for my printer, and they sell it for a lot less than I can buy it locally.  They offer free shipping, and usually ship the same day the order is received.  They ship to the USA and Puerto Rico, average delivery time is 2-3 days.  They guarantee their products for up to a full year, and they give you a 30-day full refund period if not satisfied.

I know a lot of people who wear glasses. That actually surprises me, because in this day and age of contact lenses and Lasik vision correction, I would expect to see a lot fewer people wearing glasses! A lot of my co-workers wear glasses, and yesterday during our lunch break we were talking about prescription glasses and prescription sunglasses. The price of glasses nowadays is getting really expensive! Seems to me that two years ago I spent over $300 on my new pair of glasses.  I’m due for a new pair in a couple of months, and I dread the expense!

Anyway, several of the ladies were talking about how they want to get prescription sunglasses and weren’t sure how to get the best deal on them. None of them want to spend a whole lot of money on them, and I can’t blame them a bit!  I told them that I had heard about a website where you can order $ 8 Zenni Optical Rx Eyeglasses.   I told them that they can buy their sunglasses online through ZenniOptical.com.  They have a large frame selection, and they give you several different lens options.  You can choose progressive lenses, single vision lenses, tinted sunglasses lenses, sunsensor (potochromic) lenses, tinted suglass lenses, and bifocal lenses.  They can offer the glasses at a really reduced price because they only sell only their own manufactured eyeglass frames direct to the customer.  They have eliminated the middlemen and they have a very small advertising budget