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Publisher: Mary Wilkey
Volume 4 - Issue 9 - March 2, 2004
Published every Tuesday

Hi, folks, and welcome! I invite you to enter our current ad contest to win a top sponsor ad, submit your short autobiography, laugh with the humor, learn with the English lesson and the marketing tips and articles, and be inspired at the end. Hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I always enjoy publishing this ezine.

March came in like a lamb this year . . . it is nearly balmy in Ohio . . . just hope it lasts. I do remember the Winter of 1976-77 when we had record lows of -21 Fahrenheit and deep, deep snow . . . we were living at the time in a condo with double sliding glass doors in two rooms and single sliding glass doors in two others, plus a huge bay window in the dining room, over which we hung an Indian blanket to keep out the cold. Well, it worked . . . and stuck to the window for a full month before we could take it down!

That was January, 1977, and then came February . . . my little girl had just learned to walk inside without shoes, and I remember putting shoes on her and taking her outside to walk for the first time, as the temperature rose to the 70's . . . of course, we realized that it wouldn't last . . . but it did . . . really! It got warm in February, and we went right into Spring . . . awesome! Hope it happens again this year!

In Remembrance of
September 11, 2001

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I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them,
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—Helen Keller

Contents:
Sponsor Ad
Ad Contest
Subscriber in the Spotlight
Feature Article
Classifieds
Today’s Chuckle
Today's English lesson
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
Etcetera

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Subscriber in the Spotlight

The first subscriber to submit his or her personal profile sharing with the rest of us all about who he/she is, background, family, location, interests, hobbies, goals, dreams, etc., will be spotlighted right here next issue—and yes, an email and/or URL may be included!

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This week's Subscriber in the Spotlight is Cheryl Hovey . . .

I am married with four grown children and four absolutely beautiful grandchildren :-) I work full time outside of my home at an alcohol and drug residential treatment facility.
I have been working online for a little over a year, with the intention of eventually leaving my outside job to work at h-ome full time. After much learning, I have finally found two different online businesses that I feel good about and have every intention of producing a generous in-come from.
One is my MotherNatureKnowsBest site that sells the very best liquid nutritional products that I have ever used. I have tried many nutritional products as nature's healing is where my passion lies.
I also have a Coffee Fair site that sells organic coffees and teas at fair market prices. I absolutely love coffee, and the compensation plan and support are fantastic!
Thank you for letting me share a little about myself. May success come to all of my fellow 'elf Expressions readers. :-)

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Feature Article

Reaping & Sowing & Ripples

We reap what we sow—or do we? Actually, we always reap much more than we sow. Think about it.
Oh, we reap in kind what we sow, all right. However, we reap not only in kind, but—like the stone tossed into the pond—the ripples reverberate incalculably.
The point is, before we sow anything, we have to consider, not only what we hope to reap, but all those little ripples that will be reaping many side effects, much like drugs—prescription or illegal.
Ever read one of those whole-page ads for any given drug in Reader's Digest? Most people will skip right over the next two whole pages of miniscule print that follow those ads, in which is revealed the multifarious side effects of ingesting the subject drug. (To digress a moment: I have a nurse sister-in-law, who picks apart with a fine-tooth comb any natural substance that I tell her about, yet she will swallow anything [literally] a medical doctor writes a prescription for, even though that substance is synthetic, was promoted to the doctor by a pharmaceutical sales rep, and has numerous known—and acknowledged—side effects.)
Now you want an example. And you shall have one. Let's use a rather graphic example, as I believe most people retain learning better by that which is most dramatic.
A single woman gets pregnant. Intentional or not, there will be many ripples to consider.
Say she chooses to carry the baby to term and then relinquish parenthood. She is close friends with a married couple who are unable to have children and are waiting to adopt a newborn.
She makes the decision to give her baby to this couple.
First of all, the mere decision to carry her baby to term is going to affect not only her, but her family (assuming that she has one), and each member of that family will have different feelings about the whole matter. Perhaps not in this extremely liberal society in which we find ourselves in America today, but years ago she may have been ostracized from part or all of her family.
Then, in deciding to bestow her baby upon a childless couple, instead of taking responsibility for her child herself, she may be condemned in another way. Certain family members may feel deprived of a relationship with the child. Resentment may build up, rifts may arise.
The child's biological father may wish to have a say in the matter. And when he learns of the proposed adoption plan and the identity of the chosen parents, that could create additional issues . . . ripples.
Since the mother is close to the adoptive couple, an ongoing relationship is almost certain. And more ripples thus are possible, if not probable.
As the child grows up, he may become curious about his parentage, and . . . more ripples may arise.
And so it goes down through the years . . . ripple-wise.
So the woman who originally sowed the seed has created an indefinite ripple cycle for many people.
Turn this whole thing around now and apply it to marketing. Sow your seeds all around. Sometimes you can't tell if they are falling on fallow ground, stony ground, fertile soil, or what. But if you sow enough of them, often enough, eventually many of them will take root. And those are the ones that will create the ripples. And if you have sown good seed, they will be good ripples . . . and, my friend, you can make a good living from these ripples.

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A Bible Riddle

When the Lord God told Abram to go into a land that He would show him, God made him a 7-fold promise. How many of the 7 can you list?
Answer —
1 — I will make of thee a great nation.
2 — I will bless thee.
3 — I will make thy name great.
4 — Thou shalt be a blessing.
5 — I will bless them that bless thee.
6 — I will curse him that curseth thee.
7 — In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 12:2-3)

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Today's Chuckle

Strange, Isn't He?

One day, a lawyer named Strange died, and his friend asked the tombstone maker to inscribe on the tombstone, "Here lies Strange, an honest man and a lawyer."
The inscriber insisted that such an inscription would be confusing, for any passer-by would tend to think that three men were buried under the stone.
However he suggested an alternative: He would inscribe, "Here lies a man who was both honest and a lawyer."
"That way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone and read it, they would be certain to remark: 'That's Strange!'"

Associate with well-mannered persons, and your
manners will improve. Run around with decent folks,
and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
—Stanley Walker

Today's English Lesson

Seeing the same elementary mistakes over and over again has prompted this publisher to write an English lesson each issue. Look for some of these lessons to be repeated, because the mistakes are!

This is another word that I've seen from time to time and never took the time to look it up. Well, today I did . . .
Parvenu is one who has risen, by the acquisition of wealth, to a social station above that into which he was born. Parvenu usually carries a bad connotation, in that the person is regarded as an upstart, unaccustomed to his new-found wealth, not knowing how to handle it.

So now I know . . . and so do you! :-)
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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw.
All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success
in life to the moral, intellectual and physical
education I received from her."
—George Washington

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Patience is something you admire greatly in the
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Guest Article

300% More Sales With A Simple Zero-Cost Script!
by S. Kumar

Which word in the whole world sounds the most important to you?
Undoubtedly, it's your name!
The moment you see it or hear it anywhere, your antenna is up. Naturally and instinctively, you notice your name, wondering "what caused" it to pop up!
And you already know that personalizing your email messages is critical for your subscribers to respond. But can we take this same personalization a step further and extend it to even on our Web pages?
Is it possible to call our subscribers by their names from the web page itself and stand out from the rest of the marketing crowd?
You can very effectively use this "psychological trigger" on your web page and directly address your subscribers by their names when they hit on the links in your email messages or autoresponder messages.
For example, just replace the "YourName" from the below URL with your name and see how you are personally addressed on the Web page: http://www.learnhomebusiness.com/HomeBiz.htm?YourName
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*#1. Ezine Campaigns: Before you start the campaign, just request the ezine owner to place his personalization tag to Your URL: e.g., http://www.your-campagin-url.com?Personalizationtag
Each visitor will be pleasantly surprised and will be inclined to take closer look at your proposition.
*#2 — Your Newsletters: Whenever you are sending a special or an issue, make sure that your pages are ready for personalization, and insert the personalization tag in the emails. Your subscribers will be knocked out of their socks.
*#3 — Tell-A-Friend Page: Just imagine the feeling of the first time visitor to your site for advice, and he finds he is being personally addressed. More often than not, he will want to stay and explore your site.
*#4 — Autoresponder Sequences: Use the same principle on every email in the autoresponder. Each time when the reader hits on a link in the email, he is addressed personally by his name.
The sweetest word in anyone's personal dictionary is his own name. Why not address someone with what he likes most and in the process triple your sales, too?

©2004, S. Kumar
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Inspiration

A Lesson in Patience

I sat in my seat of the Boeing 767 waiting for everyone to hurry and stow their carry-ons and grab a seat so we could start what I was sure to be a long, uneventful flight home. With the huge capacity and slow moving people taking their time to stuff luggage far too big for the overhead, and never paying much attention to holding up the growing line behind them, I simply shook my head knowing that this flight was not starting out very well.
I was anxious to get home to see my loved ones, so I was focused on "my" issues and just felt like standing up and yelling for some of those clowns to get their act together. I knew I couldn't say a word, so I just thumbed thru the "Sky Mall" magazine from the seat pocket in front of me. You know it's really getting rough when you resort to the over priced, useless sky mall crap to break the monotony.
With everyone finally seated, we just sat there with the cabin door open and no one in any hurry to get us going, although we were well past the scheduled take-off time. No wonder the airline industry is in trouble, I told myself. Just then the attendant came on the intercom to inform us all that we were being delayed. The entire plane let out a collective groan. She resumed speaking to say "We are holding the aircraft for some very special people who are on their way to the plane, and the delay shouldn't be more than five minutes.
The word came after waiting six times as long as we were promised that "I" was finally going to be on my way home. Why the hoopla over "these" folks? I was expecting some celebrity or sports figure to be the reason for the hold up. Just get their butts in a seat, and let's hit the gas, I thought.
The attendant came back on the speaker to announce in a loud and excited voice that we were being joined by several U.S. Marines returning home from Iraq! Just as they walked on board, the entire plane erupted into applause. The men were a bit taken by surprise by the 340 people cheering for them as they searched for their seats. They were having their hands shaken and being touched by almost everyone who was within an arm's distance of them as they passed down the aisle.
One elderly woman kissed the hand of one of the Marines as he passed by her. The applause, whistles and cheering didn't stop for a long time.
When we were finally airborne, "I" was not the only civilian checking his conscience as to the delays in getting "me" home, finding my easy chair, a cold beverage, and the remote in my hand. These men had done for all of us, and I had been complaining silently about "me" and "my" issues.
I took for granted the everyday freedoms I enjoy and the conveniences of the American way of life. I took for granted others had paid the price for my ability to moan and complain about a few minutes of delay to "me," because of those heroes going home to their loved ones.
I attempted to get my selfish outlook back in order, and minutes before we landed I suggested to the attendant that she announce over the speaker a request for everyone to remain in their seats until our heroes were allowed to gather their things and be first off the plane. The cheers and applause continued until the last Marine stepped off, and we all rose to go about our too-often-taken-for- granted everyday freedoms.
I felt proud of them. I felt it an honor and a privilege to be among the first to welcome them home and say thank you for a job well done. I vowed that I will never forget that flight nor the lesson learned.
I can't say it enough, Thank You to those veterans and active servicemen and women who may read this, and a prayer for those who cannot, because they are no longer with us. God Bless America! Welcome Home! And Thanks for a Job Well Done!

Submitted by Jim Schulte, a subscriber

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