MInTheGap

Ensuring That They Get Your Business

The Internet is a great money saver.  It’s a great place to find deals.  It’s an engine of the economy.  However, it also hurts companies that are charging too much for their goods if people are wise enough to look for deals.

One of the deals that you can find online is on eyeglasses.  All you need to do is to get your prescription and your Pupillary Distance (PD) and you can make any deal you want to get you the best price.  So what are optometrists doing?  They’re refusing to give you the information, or planning ways to charge you more or give you the wrong value just to keep their business.

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Online Backups

I cannot wait.  My father recently purchased a computer to replace my sister’s current pc, and I’m getting her hand-me-down!  Why am I excited?  Because sometime last year I was able to get a 120-day evaluation copy of Windows Home Server, and I’ve been dying to try it out.  I just haven’t had a spare pc that met the minimum requirements.

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Bidray—A New Kind of Online Auction

Many of you are familiar with the standard online auction.  The seller places a item up for auction, he may or may not set a minimum price, and there’s a certain amount of time that the buyer has to place bids.  The highest bid wins the item, and a majority of the time the winning bid is placed within the last few seconds of the auction.

I’ve purchased everything from a MP3 player to borders for bedrooms on sites like this—most of the time you cannot beat the price.

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Determine Whether You Will Run Advertising

Something you’ll want to think about, if you’re new to blogging or have been doing it for a while, is what you want to get out of blogging. There are many different things that can be rewards for running a good blog:

• Recognition: Yeah! I got my first comment that wasn’t mine!
• Friends: Where did you say you were from again?
• Enemies: Yes, I do believe that God created the earth, why do you ask?
• Money?

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