Museum Day 2011: Free Admission to Museum On Saturday 9/24
Museum Day is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine in which participating museums across the country offers free admission. The offer is one ticket per household, for two people. You can find a list of participating museums here.
Optimize your site with Webimax
As a blogger everyone wants to get more traffic and more readership. While there are different types of traffic the best type of traffic is searching engine traffic. If your site is ranked for a good set keywords it will receive natural traffic without much effort. However, in order to be ranked for a set of useful keywords you want to make sure you have a good understanding of Search Engine Optimization.
Some of the search engine techniques I have used in the past includes:
- Install search engine optimization plugin
- Carefully research the desired keywords and construct my post around the keywords.
- Change the URL to include the blog title instead of the default number.
- Generate external links back to your website by methods such as article directory.
Yet, I would say that optimizing your site for search engines is hard work. It requires time to writing additional articles to submit to different directories, guest post on another blog, or be active in a forum. Another option I recommend is to look for companies that specializes in optimizing your sites to rank high on the search engine. That way you can focus on what you do best: write content!
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Back to School Giveaway Drawing $100 Cash by Raining Hot Coupons
Raining Hot Coupons is having a drawing for one of her lucky readers for $100 cash to be used for back to school! Raining Hot Coupons is a great coupon site that is definitely recommended!
In order to participate you have to do the following:
1. Like Raining Hot Coupons on Facebook
2. Sign up for NoMoreRack
3. Invite your friends to Like Raining Hot Coupons by clicking on the “SHARE” button
4. Sign up for daily email
5. Follow her on Twitter.
Good luck!
Sam’s Club Free Trial for Back to School
Sam’s Club is having an August Back to School Open House from Friday, August 5 to Sunday, August 7 from 10 am to 6 pm. In additional to the list of sale items they are offering non-members a chance to experience Sam’s Club on these two days. If have been a Costco member but is looking for alternatives, be sure to check it out!
Moving Back
Thanks for the guest post by Jo Levy
Texas is where I’m from originally but when I went off to college in Washington I didn’t really think I’d be back. That was before I got this great job offer, though, and in this economy you can’t just turn something like this down. Cooking has always been my passion so when the restaurant company of my dreams offered me a marketing position here in Houston I couldn’t really turn it away so I packed up all of my stuff and moved back down to the lone star state. It wasn’t a huge transition: I found a great place to live and went to SHOPELECTRICITYRATESTEXAS.COM before I moved in – thanks to my mom for that one. Anyway, things were good when I got down and I was able to totally focus on work which is exactly what I needed and so far so good at the new job! There are actually some great people at my workplace and I have a feeling that’s where I’m going to end up making most of my new friends!
Old Navy: Spend $20 and get $10 Super C-A-S-H
When you spend $20 eligible purchases at participating Old Navy from now until 8/18, you will earn $10 in Super C-A-S-H!
While you can earn up to $50 in Super C-A-S-H, the Super C-A-S-H must be redeemed on August 25th-29th. If you are planning on back to school purchase, be sure to keep this deal in mind!
Healthcare and Higher Education
Being frugal often means you find ways to spend below your means (Often times way below). You follow daily deals and clip coupons in order to live within your means. However, there is a limit on how much you can save. At the end of the day you will need income in order to save money. For most people that means finding a decent paying jobs with decent benefits.
While there are a lots of industries that are struggling, health care is getting more and more popular as a career choice. During a time of economic hardship health care seems to be holding up very well. Are you currently out of a job? Perhaps you should consider a Master of Public Health program. On the other hand, if you currently have a job but you are thinking about a career change, be sure to check out University Degrees Online and websites such as WaldenU.edu which provides you a chance for continue higher education.
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Free $5 Amazon Video on Demand Credit with Twitter Account
Amazon is currently having one of those offers again where if you tweet from your Twitter account you get a free $5 Amazon Video on Demand credit.
- Connect your Amazon.com and Twitter accounts. (If you are not already signed in, you will be prompted to do so).
- Automatically follow @amazonvideo and @amazon_movies. The message “I just got a $5 credit for instant movies and TV shows @amazonvideo. Click http://amzn.to/oXQePf to get yours. #get5″ will be automatically tweeted from your Twitter account.
You can get more information here.
Netflix price increase
I have been a Netflix user for years and even though I do stop and restart the service from time to time I am extremely happy with the level of service they provided. However, as many of you are aware, Netflix is planning on increasing their price by separating out the DVD and streaming. Previously for $9.99 you can get unlimited streaming + 1 dvd out at a time (the price was increased not that long ago from $7.99). Now Netflix wants $15.99 for the same service of unlimited streaming + 1 dvd out at a time. I watch a lot of movies and television shows such that I can accept $9.99 for one month.
As a frugal person I don’t know what to make of this. $16 a month or $200 a year might just be the tipping point in which I decide to go rent movies from Redbox or join Hulu plus. There are a lot of unhappy customers expressing their angers on Facebook and Netflix blogs and I definitely belong in the unhappy camp regarding the latest fee increase. It really is hard to justify when your stock price is at an unbelievable all time high and you are recording massive amount of profits. I guess it is time to start researching on the best ways to get my content..
FREE 7.11 oz Slurpee drink on 7/11
This is a great free for today as the weather is starting to warming up! You can get yourself a FREE 7.11 oz Slurpee Drink on 7/11 from your local 7-11 store (of course). You can get it here.
Here is the official wording from Facebook:
Stop by for a FREE 7.11 oz Slurpee drink, general merriment and a one-man dance party should you choose to start it. “Running Man” and “Raising the Roof” welcome. “Macarena” NOT welcome.
RSVP today and Facebook will remind you to claim your free-ness on 7/11/11. They’ll also tell you who else is celebrating a birthday, but let’s focus on us, okay?


