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Blogging Changed My Life – Could It Change Yours? In August of 2011, I found out about blogging and decided to learn how to create a blog of my own, so I created Making Sense of Cents. I didn't know a thing about blogging and I never planned to make a penny from it. But after learning how to create a blog, my life completely changed. I never realized it back then, but I'm so glad that I gave blogging a chance. Figuring out how to start a blog has definitely treated me right! Due to that, today I am going to talk about how blogging changed my life as well as the many reasons for why you may want to learn how to create a blog. After all, blogging has been one of the best things ever for me. Blogging changed my life and it allows me to earn thousands of dollars a month, all by doing something that I love. As you can tell from my business income reports, I now earn over $100,000 a month from my blogging-related services. I definitely never thought that I would leave my

How to create a Web page that will boost business and build your brand Last week I was approached by a New York Post journalist, Faye Penn, who found me by Googling ‘graphic designer NYC‘, of which I am fortunate enough to have the #1 search position for. Faye wanted to interview me for her next article on the topic of building a web business. I happily accepted and I soon found myself answering a variety of questions on the topics of SEO, social media, branding and online business. A few days later, I had a photographer around to my apartment in NY and today the article went to print. You can view the article in print below or read it online here: You.com: How to create a Web page that will boost business and build your brand. For those playing at home, you can find the article as the cover story for the Work section and can be found on Page 39, of the Monday 18th 2011, New York Post. Below is a short snippet from the article: By one measure, Jacob Cass is the top graphi

Parenting in SA: one size doesn't fit all Questioning parenting self-help books from a cultural perspective. There are a few established "rules" for being a good parent. Praise your children for their achievements, big or small. Be warm and happy when you’re around them. Smile at them and stay upbeat. When it comes to babies, make lots of face to face verbal contact. Look at and talk to them while they babble and play.  Parenting matters These approaches are based on extensive studies that seek to understand the relationship between parenting and child outcomes. Again and again, research has found that parenting behaviours have a huge impact on child development and success, from school performance to good peer relationships. The conclusion? Parenting matters and certain ways of parenting are better than others. But how much does where you live or grew up influence how you parent? And are the same parenting techniques relevant in every setting? This is what I h

Father's Day at Rainham Marshes - Sunday 18 June Father's Day at Rainham Marshes Sunday 18 June Treat Dad this Fathers Day! Enjoy a special roast dinner (beef, or nut roast served with a vegetable selection, Yorkshire pudding and gravy all served at noon), Dad’s go free on the reserve, join the Wildlife Walk and discover nature at the Rainham Marshes, and buy a special gift from our shop! Delight Dad to a new pair of binoculars (our optics experts will be around to help you), or pick up a fabulous book, or buy something for his garden. I would put a nice picture of the roast dinner but they will not make one just for me so that I can take a shot and then eat it! Prebooking is required for lunch call 01708 899846 or pop into the centre. Lunch will be served at noon, £9 for adults, £5 for kids. Price: Sunday lunch will be £9 for adults, £5 for kids Kids given the chance to make special Father's Day gifts Kids given the chance to make special Father's

Gold dips as U.S. jobs data bolsters dollar Gold dipped on Thursday, pressured by a slightly firmer dollar, on the back of the firsttranche of U.S. data due to provide further clues on whether interest rates will rise this month. Private payrolls increased by 253,000, well ahead of expectations. Economists surveyed by Reuters expected the report to show that private payrolls grew by 185,000 in May, from 174,000 in April. The ADP figures come ahead of the U.S. Labor Department's more comprehensive non-farm payrolls report on Friday, which includes both public and private-sector employment. "We are getting important data today and tomorrow, and gold is very much dependent on how the dollar and yields will react to that data, so it's a bit of a waiting game," said Georgette Boele, commodities strategist at ABN AMRO in Amsterdam Spot gold was down 0.25 percent at $1,264.92 per ounce. On Wednesday, it touched a session high of $1,273.74 an ounce, its strongest

How Much Money Do You Really Need in Your Savings Account? Bank savings accounts don't exactly earn you a huge return these days: in fact, most big banks are offering a fraction of a percent in interest on their savings accounts. However, savings accounts do serve an important purpose as a safety net. Should you run into some sort of crisis (losing your job, injuring yourself seriously and expensively, suffering a car breakdown, or so on) a well-funded savings account can get you through it while avoiding the drawbacks of going into debt. But how do you qualify "well-funded" in terms of a saving account? Saving the bare minimum The Federal Reserve Bank of New York holds a monthly Survey of Consumer Expectations in which it asks consumers various questions to determine their financial situation and expectations. One question on the survey asks whether the consumer would be able to come up with $2000 in cash if necessary. That's because the Federal Reserve Bank h

Buenos Aires prosecutor shuts down Misionbet gaming site Argentinean state-regulated iGaming site Misionbet.com.ar has reassured players about the security of their deposits after the site was taken offline Tuesday. The closure is described as temporary by El Instituto Provincial de Lotería y Casinos Sociedad del Estado (IPLyC), which operates the site in defiance of the national lottery association La Asociación de Loterías, Quinielas y Casinos Estatales de Argentina (ALEA). In order to first launch the site in December 2015, the provincial lottery association withdrew from the national association ALEA, complaining that it had done little to support efforts to regulate online gaming in the country while being blind to unlicensed offshore operators. Five Things To Do Today, Friday, May 26 | pop ukelele and more The musician has taken the ukelele to the next level with his collaborations with a range of artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Jimmy Buffett, Cyndi Lauper and many oth