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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Barbecued Chicken Sandwiches

Ingredients

1 loaf (11 3/4 ounces) Pepperidge Farm® Mozzarella & Garlic Bread

4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts (about 1 pound)

1 large onion , cut into 1/4-inch thick slices

1/2 cup barbecue sauce

Cooking Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Cut bread bag at one end. Place on baking sheet in center of oven. Bake 25 min. or until hot.

Place chicken and onion on lightly oiled grill rack over medium-hot coals. Grill chicken uncovered 15 min. or until chicken is no longer pink, turning and brushing often with barbecue sauce. Grill onion 10 min. turning once and brushing with barbecue sauce.

Remove bread from bag. Separate bread halves. Top bottom bread half with chicken, onion and remaining bread half. Cut into quarters. Serve with additional barbecue sauce. Makes 4 sandwiches.

TIP: Do not peel onion. Slices will hold together during grilling and onion peel will burn off.

A Guide to the Bubbly Stuff

Ingredients

4 bunches fresh young collard greens (about 3 pounds) stems removed and bruised or discolored leaves discarded

3 tablespoons olive oil

1 onion (thinly sliced)

2 cloves garlic (minced)

2 bay leaves

6 cups low-sodium chicken broth

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar

1 tablespoon granulated sugar

1 teaspoon dried red pepper flakes

salt to taste

Bargain Bubbly

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Ten Ways to Earn Money through Blogging

“Like life, blogging can be meaningful and rewarding as well.”

Money blogging or getting paid for blogging can mean; being paid just by writing for a site, posting advertisements, news feeds, pictures, music, or even videos. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn can provide sources of topics and inspiration for bloggers to write and work on and ultimately generate earnings.

Sites like those mentioned above provide leverage for those who intend to create visible web logs or blogs and pursuing advantage through multiple clicks or hits from visitors of that site. This process usually creates traffic and when there’s high traffic comes more money from advertisers of the site. Advertisers gravitate towards popular sites and are willing to pay a small sum just to make the brands of their products and services highly visible. It goes without saying that the traffic generated creates more money for the site, and more money also to the bloggers.

Here are 10 ways you earn money by blogging:

1) Maintain a site by writing and publishing your own blog.

2) Provide free blogging customization to blog enthusiasts.

3) Use search-engine optimized blogging and earn money using affiliate program sites like Twitter.

4) Direct all site visitors to focus on few popular pages – (known as your money pages).

5) Create more ‘Google-visible’ or ‘Alexa-visible’ web content.

6) Create automated blogging. (Not recommended)

7) Get paid by selling text links on your site.

8) Get paid through affiliate programs you promote.

9) Create high-priced keywords and optimize them for ease to find using search engines, get paid by joining blog networks

10) Get paid by branding or promoting brands of products or services.

8 Reasons You Should be Advertising on Blogs

8)Blogs are SUPER Viral: Traffic on blogs is super volatile and can go 5 fold over night with a really viral blog post, and if you are paying a flat monthly rate for your ad, you get tonnes of extra exposure for no extra money.

7) Good bang for your Buck: Most bloggers are part time and or just do it for a hobby, so any income is usually good income. You can get on some great blogs for as low as $50 or $100 a month. Try getting on Yahoo or MSN for $100. See if they return your email

6) Easy to get Started: Most medium sized blogs now have an ‘Advertise with Us’ section with simple pricing and some even have a click to buy option. Sign up for our automated option coming in 2010…http://www.advertisespace.com

5) Blog readers are Power Internet users: Blog readers spend a tonne of time online, so if you are not marketing your product to them where they live, you are missing them completely.

4) It elevates your products status: Let’s face it advertising says a lot about your product, and so does the medium by which you choose to promote it. Your product or service will seem a lot more cutting edge being promoted on blogs over the yellow pages.

3) Blogs tend to be read by other Bloggers: A high percentage of blog readers actually have their own blogs. This one leads into my next 2 points and the last one being the key reason for advertising on blogs.

2) Bloggers are Early Adopters: Bloggers and blog readers are much higher on average to test out new technologies than that average Internet reader. The usage numbers are higher than the average Internet user and massive compared to the average TV viewer.

1) Bloggers are Very Influential: This is the big one. The powerful influencers are quickly shifting to the small voice. Bloggers are generating dedicated readers and followers that not only test out or buy a product that they recommend, but the readers too are blogging about it. It’s a waterfall of influence if even one prominent blogger likes your product. I Bloggers can make or break your product. Get in front of them early and let your product grow with them…