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How to make your lettuce and tomato salad SHOUT!

Jazz up your lettuce and tomato salad by adding these unconventional ingredients:

1) For a hearty punch, add sardines! They are an extremely good source of iron.

2) To effortlessly add Vitamin E, shake in some sunflower seeds! They are rich in cholesterol-lowering phytosterols.

3) Add green seedless grapes; the additional fiber will help you feel full longer!

4) Cube and add Brie. It's low fat and a change from the cottage cheese!

5) Corn kernels ( off the cob) add a nice healthy sweetness. There's a tremendous amount of Vitamin C in those golden nibblets!

Although you don't usually see these additives on a salad, these ingredients will add excitement to your lettuce and tomato mixture!

New ideas to list? Please leave your friendly comments below! Thank-you!

Five Ways to promote your Online Store

An online store can only be profitable, if the buying public knows about it!  Follow these tips and get the word out!

1) Add an informative signature to your outgoing emails.

Adding a signature to your outgoing emails, is a marketing tool that keeps on giving. As your emails travel around the internet, so does your logo, your tagline, your website link- picking up inquiries about your business along the way!

2) Use QR codes on t-shirts, totebags and posters.

A QR code (Quick Response code) is a type of matrix barcode. Assign any data to it (website link, contact info, sign-up info.) Put it on posters, t-shirts, etc. and ask the buying public to decode it with their Smartphones. They instantly get connected with you and your merchandise.

3) Become an internet radio guest.

Internet radio is always looking for interesting guests. Formulate a presentation, call a moderator you'd like to work with and move forward to bring your products to the buying public via the airwaves!

4) Start a You-Tube channel.

Create a number of videos via your You Tube channel. Lively and informative videos will be shared and travel all around the world. Promote your business far and wide.

5) Join and be active in online communities that pertain to your business and products.

There are many roundtable discussions on the www. that pertain to your business and your products. Introduce yourself and join in the conversation, answer questions and lend an ear. Drop information about yourself and what you do, when invited to do so! Watch your business soar!

Enhance the presence of your online store with these tips. Have potential customers lining up to come into your establishment for your awesome wares!

Birthday, promotion, baby shower? Make your friend a personalized gift bag!

Let's say your friend Maggie's just gotten a promotion on her job; make her a personalized gift bag. Fill it with goodies that sing to her heart!

Maggie's an avid reader of mystery novels. Decide what kind of container you want to use ( paper, plastic, or fabric) and decorate it with an assortment of stickers, pictures, charms and beads. Fill it with the latest book by her favorite author, a fancy bookmark, a magnifier for reading, a few exotic flavored tea bags and a fragrant envelope of potpourri!
She'll love the fact that you took the time to construct a special gift, personalized just for her! This type of gift beats the "cold" gift card and has "you're special to me", written all over it! Try it and tell us here, in the comments, how your unique gift was received!

Drowning in His love...

Tip Tell #10

I was in my neighborhood thrift shop on one of my many excursions for something different and cheap (smiles), when my eyes ran across the magazine rack. There were so many cooking magazines....69 cents a pop!

Looking for new and exciting cooking ideas? Pick up food magazines from your local thrift shop! Magazines that were $4.00- $6.00 are now 25 cents- $1.00! Yes, you could get new recipes off the internet, but cutting out pictures, recipes from the magazines you've purchased and making a colorful index file with them, is FUN! It also is something to be shared from friend to friend for years to come!