Our tough economic times mean that most of us are worried about our finances. Will we be able to maintain our lifestyles? Will we be able to provide our kids with the extras that they crave and we love to give them?

Earning extra money is a great way to get some economic breathing room, but a second job can add stress to an already busy life. There is an easy and no-cost, home-based solution though: Become an affiliate—recommend quality products and services to your friends, family and acquaintances and earn commissions while you do it.

“It’s simple,” says Vipin Goyal, Affiliate Marketing Manager at online retailer Rugman. “People interested in becoming a Persian rug affiliate can sign up on our website. We’ll send each one a set of exclusive coupon codes to pass on when referring our products. When a customer uses an affiliate code, we’ll know who recommended us and the affiliate will have earned a commission. It’s easy to make a few hundred dollars from the sale of a single Persian rug.”

Most people think that affiliates need to have websites of their own featuring the products that they’re recommending. If you’re trying to get the word out to thousands of people, this is a great way to go. Don’t be afraid to start small though. How about mentioning a particular product to your friends and following up with a nicely worded email? Include one of your online coupons and a link to the company’s website so that the customer can shop right away. They’ll get a valuable discount and you’ll get credit for any sales that you’ve generated.

It’s best to keep your emails low key and avoid being pushy. After all, you’re referring a company’s products or services to someone that you know and see regularly! Most affiliate programs offer sales assistance and will recommend techniques that they’ve found useful in the past. They usually offer technical assistance too.

Most important of all—never spam anyone. Merchants and internet service providers all forbid it and will ban anyone caught using the practice. It’s not worth losing out on your commissions! 

Using this low key approach, you can promote any products that you feel comfortable with. Big ticket items, such as Persian rugs or Oriental rugs might be the best to start with since the commissions will be quite large. Searching an affiliate directory will help you find the companies offering affiliate sales programs. There are thousands for big ticket items alone.

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Deena Nathanson is a Communications Consultant at Rugman.com. Rugman.com is the world’s leading online Persian rug retailer with thousands of Persian rugs and Oriental rugs to choose from.

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There is DWI – driving while intoxicated and DWT – driving while texting. Both are extremely dangerous and there are statistics that say teens are to blame the most for the ladder. In fact 46% of teens text while driving and can be a parents nightmare if something happens to their child and to the victim if an accident occurs. This is not the best statistics on texting people want to know about or have their children a part of.

Although you can make an argument a person can operate a vehicle safely while talking on the phone but preferably with a head piece. But in no case can you argue that you can take your eyes off the road trying to send a text message. Texting just like alcohol does not go hand in hand with driving and operating a vehicle.

There are many statistics on texting that are interesting to discuss. Recruiting in college sports in super competitive with convincing student athletes to attend a school. Coaches and recruiters have until recently utilized texting to communicate with their prospects since there were limits to phone conversations. They utilized texting as a way to get around that but that is now banned as well. One prospect who planned on attending the University of Florida would get over 100 text messages a day from competing coaches. He commented and said that he had to empty his inbox twice a day to allow for additional texts.

More statistics on texting – Almost 70% of American users send at least 1 text message every single day. Verizon is the first American carrier to report the average SMS text messages sent by its subscriber base has passed 1 SMS sent per phone subscriber per day. And when was the 1 text per subscriber level reached by the UK? Four years ago (of course. The pattern holds in lock-step)

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And how big will these statistics on texting become in America? We’ve just seen Irish numbers by the Irish telecoms regulator say that they average 5 SMS sent per day across the whole subscriber base. UK reports 6. South Korea reports 10. Singapore reports 12 SMS text messages and the Philippines report 15 SMS text messages sent per day on average across the total subscriber base.

There is NO age limit to SMS. Most grandparents learn to send text messages by connecting with their grandkids – back in 2005 M:Metrics reported that 14% of Americans over age 65 sent text messages (I don’t have more current numbers). Bearing in mind that back then 39% of Americans age 65 and above had a cellphone, that means over two YEARS ago 36% of American senior citizens who owned a cellphone, were already active users of SMS text messaging.

There is not enough room to report on all the statistics on texting but this is a start. How about something totally different on texting? A brand new service and application is being offered that combines chat and texting with your favorite social networks like Facebook, Bebo, and soon Myspace. This application can be installed on your home page as a chat box that says send me a text. You can also install it on an unlimted number of blogs and websites and acts as a live help software where you can interact with website visitors while they are the hottest.

That message is sent to your i Phone/cell phone in real time and allows you to repsond and start a live conversation from cell phone to chat box for the first time. The best thing they offer an affiliate program that pays you for referrals. With over 145 Million profiles on Facebook alone this is sure to be a signifcant income generator for thousands of people all the while using a really cool appliation that is installed on your social network page and also can be installed on your own website. Just copy and paste the html code and you will have your own live chat area on your website without having to worry about someone calling you. The application is cheap too only $5.99 per month and like I said you can make money for referring it to friends and friends of your friends friends.

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If you are a country music fan, you’ll never miss this album in the year of 2010 – Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now”. This is an album that you may expect for a long time because of their great debut album. Anyway I was really excited for the release of this album and it lay in my iPod for this whole year. Although this is not an amazing or breathtaking album from a fabulous country group, it’s never an album you would get tired after a few times of listening.

Without any doubt, the most popular song on the album is the lead-off single and title track, “Need You Now”. I first heard this song when searching for BLUE LASER on the net. When I opened the website of an online shop with wholesale green laser at a low price, the song, “Need You Now”, came up and I was attracted by it at once. I booked Lady Antebellum’s album with a Wholesale Blue Laser pointer. Since I received the CD from Wholesalers, I had been played it over and over again. This is a song that you’ll never get tired of it even though you had listened for thousands of times.

Recently, nominations for the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards have been announced. Lady Antebellum has been one of the biggest winners who top the nominations. I’m anticipating how many golden trumpets they will take home from GRAMMY Awards. Totally, they were nominated for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Country Album, and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Country Song. No doubt, these three awards – Best Country Album, Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Country Song – must belong to them.

If you browse on a Wholesale online shop you may find this album on the Top Music Deals. Most of the songs on the album are good quality. Most of the songs are worth listening, and most people will relate to and enjoy them. “Need You Now” is the valedictory cut from Need You Now, though it is accompanied by some exceptional competition, surprisingly. The production work here is brilliant, straddling country and pop worlds making this cut the #2 pop hit it was. There is superb chemistry between vocalist Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott, who tradeoff between verses. The pre-chorus (bridge before the chorus) is well penned (“and I wonder if I ever cross your mind, for me it happens all the time”), not to mention the classic chorus: “It’s a quarter after one, I’m a little drunk and I need you now, said I wouldn’t call, but I lost all control, and I need you now, and I don’t know how I can do without, I just need you now” Any doubters should be silenced by this exceptional cut that makes the non-country fan want to beg for more. And “Hello World” is a bit of a downgrade compared to the first three cuts, finding Charles Kelley’s vocals lovely, yet too `sleepy’ here at times. The cut is pretty – don’t get me wrong – but it just does not feel as inspired as pre-eminent cut “Need You Now.” Hillary Scot does not enter until nearly the 2:00 mark (mixed in the background for the most part). Only the dynamic ending truly atones for the lack of “oomph” with this cut. “Perfect Day” atones for the missteps of “Hello Word” with a more driving groove and up-tempo feel here. Also bowing in “Perfect Day’s” favor is the brief duration at 3:20 and the production work. Overall, there are so many songs worth listening.

On the whole, every song on their sophomore album is more different from the others, just like the first album they did. I love how they write their own lyrics to the songs as well, making it all so much more personal. Off the album, there is some music you might hear at a country club and dance to them under the rays of green or red light laser pointer. Good music is good music! And Lady Antebellum has done it again. This is just the group worth expectation. Although Lady Gaga is so famous these years, I have to say there is more to Gaga than Lady Gaga!

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