I mentioned I joined a webinar yesterday.  It was about a service called Traffic Geyser.  Traffic Geyser is a subscription service that helps you generate massive traffic and amazing search engine results, often in as little as 48 hours. 

This service saves you enormous amounts of time submitting your videos to get them up online.  Videos are the new love of the search engines.  The statistics for video viewing are staggering.

Don’t think you have what’s necessary to make a video? Neither did I.  I had been holding off doing a video because I thought I still needed specific software, a microphone and lights to make my video.  But once I watched the tutorial on Traffic Geyser (which was great) I set myself up and had me a video online before the night was out.

Watch it and see what you think.  I’m sure you could do as well.

If by chance you don’t have a camera to film a video, Traffic Gyser has a program called Slideshow Creator which takes your audio files and turns them into video ’slideshows’ which you can then upload to the top video sites.

No audio? No problem!  Traffic Geyser gives you your own extention at their toll-free number where you can record your own audio content over the phone. 

There really is no excuse anymore for not having your own video up on the web.

There are three levels of subscription:

SILVER MEMBERSHIP - Up to 25 Videos Uploaded per Month to 15 Top Video Sites

GOLD MEMBERSHIP - Up to 100 Videos Uploaded per Month to 35+ Top Video Sites

GOLD-PLUS MEMBERSHIP - Up to 500 Videos Uploaded per Month to 35+ Top Video Sites

This is a great service, with some great free tools and tutorials that will assist in your efforts to learn how to market on the internet with videos.

Check it out!  Traffic Geyser…

 Success…

Christy

I participated in a webinar today about getting free traffic to your website.  By attending this webinar I realized I had what I needed to create a video and put it on the web.

 Here it is, My First Video

I was pretty proud of the results.  I will continue to add the tools I need to produce quality, professional video and I will continue to share the results with you.  That way you can decide how far you want to go.

Peace,

Christy

By using a picture of my son in my Christmas card I was able to send a holiday greeting card like no other.

This year was the first year in many that I actually sent out cards.  I signed up with Send Out Cards just before Christmas.  I was able to upload my data base of names and the actual sending of my Christmas cards  took me all of 30 seconds.

The most time consuming aspect of my Christmas cards this year was designing the card and deciding on the message I wanted on the inside. 

Now, Send Out Cards is my new homebased business, and one of the bonuses of being involved in a homebased business like this is the system is available for you to personally  use in any way you wish. 

This homebased business is a people business, and anytime you are working with people you are networking.  Send Out Cards is perfect for networking because it allows you to be involved on a personal level.

If you have a business that could benefit from the personal contact a system like Send Out Cards provides, or if you simply want to never forget another birthday…if you’d like to be involved in a homebased business that is based on giving by sending a heartfelt, unexpected card everyday, and could make you a six-figure income at the same time, then you have to look at this MLM homebased business.  Go to my website here:

Touch Peoples Lives

Let me give you a free gift of the use of my system to send a card for free.

First off I would like to say that you don’t need any stats and numbers to have a successful vermiculture system.

What you do need is-

• a bin - this can consist of anything that will hold your bedding material and that you can drill holes into to allow for adequate air and drainage.  The holes will be in the side and bottom of the bin and if you have a lid in the lid.  See my example on my website at: http://www.vermiculturenorthwest.com/worm_bins.htm.  Check out The Plastic Tote Worm Bin.
• bedding material - this can be as simple as shredded newspaper, coir (shredded coconut hull material), or any type of non-domesticated manure such as horse, cow, pig, rabbit, llama etc…(not cat or dog)
• food stock - this will be any organic waste you wish to compost.  Food waste, leaves, shredded paper, manures…
• water - worms are 80% water and therefore bedding material needs moisture before you add your worms.    The bedding needs to be moist enough to be able to squeeze some moisture out of it.
• temperature -  your worm composting is much like conventional composting except you are trying to keep the temps down so as not to kill your worms.  Ideal temps for worms is right around 72 degrees.  If you live in an area that has cold winters, as I do, the worms will still survive, however, they will slow way down and not need as much care as in the more temperate seasons when they are more active.  If the summers are hot, then more care needs to be taken to keep the temps cool enough for worms to not stress from heat and begin dying.  All composting systems produce heat by the very nature of the system.
  
• worms - most recommendations are for 1 lb of worms for each square foot of bin.  If this is a first time adventure you can get away with 1/2 lb.  That way if your experiment goes south and you loose your worms the loss is not as great.

If you have a healthy bin you will start seeing mating worms and cocoon production fairly rapidly.  In my experience I was seeing mating within a week.  Depending on conditions in the bin, cocoons will hatch producing baby worms and your worm population should double within about 3 months.  At that time you should be able to harvest finished product that can be used for gardening and you should be able to harvest every month thereafter.  Worms can be split out whenever the population is healthy and thriving.  There will always be enough worms to continue with a healthy bin.  To see more specific information about worms, cocoons, hatching rates etc. please go to my website here: 

http://www.vermiculturenorthwest.com/at_home_in_a_worm_bin.htm.

I hope this gives you adequate information to start your worm bin.  There is a wealth of information on my website and I am adding to it all the time.  I have an established blog at http://wormbincomposting.blogspot.com/

I also have the free ecourse which I strongly encourage you to take.  You can find the sign-up form here:  http://www.vermiculturenorthwest.com/subscribe_ecourse.htm

I hope this gives you enough info to leave you with enough confidence to go ahead with your project.  Let me know if you have further questions.

Christy

Small worm bins can be fun as they can be very hands on and you can really see what is going on in the system.  However, because the smaller worm bins can be less forgiving, it is necessary to pay close attention to the smaller bin and it must be taken care of on a fairly regular basis.  The balance in these smaller worm bins is a bit more delicate than that of a bigger worm bin.

These small bins do not have any holes drilled on the sides or in the bottom for air or moisture drainage.  I tend to keep these bins on the dry side, but the more you are in the bin turning it the wetter you can keep it.  The worms will like that.  But the balance can be delicate and the health of the bin can turn sour very quickly.

Later,

Christy

Drosophila melanogaster (from the Greek for black-bellied dew-lover) is commonly known as the fruit fly.  This tiny flying pest does not negatively affect the worm bin, but it is pesky for the individual working the bin. 

It is always easier to avoid a problem than to try and fix it once you have it.  The same is true for fruit flies.  They hitch a ride on the rinds and peelings of the food waste you add to the composting system.  If you microwave or freeze the food waste prior to adding it to the system the eggs will be destroyed.  In addition to that, you must make sure you are burying the foodwaste beneath a layer of bedding and a nice layer of shredded newspaper.   This will keep all the flying pests from finding their way to your food waste.

Getting rid of the pests after they have already become established can sometimes seem impossible.  There is no overnight solution.  Keeping your food waste well buried is still your #1 defense, even against an established fruit fly colony.   If you can keep the fruit flies from feeding you have taken the first step towards controling your problem. 

 The life cycle of the fruit fly depends on the temperature of the environment the fruit fly is inhabiting. A worm bin is a perfect environment for the fruit fly as the temperature is ideal and there is a ready made food source. The shortest development time (egg to adult), 7 days, is achieved at 28 °C or 82 °F. Ideal temperatures for the fruit fly is 25 °C or 77 °F and development is 8.5 days. Females lay some 400 eggs (embryos), about five at a time, into rotting fruit, with the eggs hatching after 12-15 hours. The resulting larvae grow and molt, all the while feeding on the microorganisms that decompose the fruit as well as on the sugar in the fruit. Everything about your worm bin is perfect for the life of a fruit fly.

Plan on turning your bin on a regular basis.  Turning the material in the worm bin will help hurry along the composting cycle but it will also disturb the little beasties where they live.  Your layer of shredded newspaper will act as a blanket, keeping the disturbed fruit flies from relanding on the desirable food stock.  The newspaper can be folded back away from your work area and allow for turning the bedding.  Plan on turning your bedding at least once a week until the fruit fly population is under control.  It will take a little time, but it will happen.  You can also leave the lid off after you have turned the bedding and recovered everything.  This allows the fruit flies to escape and try to find food elsewhere.  Make sure you do not provide any food source for them.  They will die!

Remember, a healthy composting system has many critters that eat and are eaten, that break down your waste and leave you with the black gold we call compost.

Later,

Christy
Learn how to worm bin compost by taking my free e-course.  It is available here.  You will find it in the right border on each of my website pages.  And of course if you have questions you are welcome to share them here, along with your experiences and thoughts.

I have been actively worm bin composting since 1998 and I have probably used just about every type of worm bin there is, and there is much to be said about them all.

I’ve never composted in a freezer before.  And that brings us to the point that you can worm bin compost in just about anything as long as you can maintain the conditions the worms like (i.e. temps, moisture, and no toxins). 

This means you need to be able to drill holes in the material to allow excess moisture to drain out the bottom of the bin and you need to drill holes around the side to allow air into the bin.  A lid is good to keep out unwanted light, rain (if the bin is outside) and to help hold moisture in.

The worms will usually only want out of the bin if the conditions in the bin are not to their liking.  So pay attention and your worms will tell you about your worm bin.

Later,

Christy

Hi,

If you’ve been working on building an internet business at all you have an inbox full of hype and promises!  It’s amazing really to see all the junk that ends up in your email.

Now, I am involved in a couple of really great opportunities that I am proud to a part of.  But I went out and found these opportunities, they did not find me.  I got involved in them because I resonated with them.  

I also utilize some tools that I have found for the very same reason.  When I found them I could see the truth behind the message.  I could see the power and got very excited because I could see how this system of tools could be applied to any market.

Do you recognize this man?  If you have been involved in the internet marketing arena for long you have probably seen his face and heard of Magnetic Sponsoring.

I’m here to tell you what he has to share is not revolutionary.  It’s absolute, total common sense marketing.  It’s human nature.  It’s getting back to the way people need to be treated instead of all the hype and hogwash!

The system he has put together is of the magnatude I would never want to try to put together.  But he has the contacts to pull it off. 

No matter what industry or niche you are in Magnetic Sponsoring has great value.  And by making a purchase today you can place yourself in his sales funnel and take advantage of all his hard work for yourself.  And your purchase, while being of absolutely the best value to you and your business is just the tip of the ice-berg.

I don’t do a whole lot of recommending because quite frankly most of the “stuff” out there is just a lot of rehashed content that I have been over and over and over.  But there have been a few internet marketers I have come across that are worth their weight in gold, and Mike Dillard is one of them.  

Check it out here and just see what I mean. 

Go on, check it out. 

Till later,

Christy

P.S. And oh, if you want to see what other people are saying about Mike Dillard then go here.  If you can’t believe what people are saying in an unrelated forum, who can you believe?

 Of course, my first official post is going to be environmentally focused.  Because, ultimately that is what I’m all about.  I’m “All About Organic” in one form or another.

The latest newsletter that arrived in my inbox from a company I am in business with included a link to this website. 

The link took me to a movie.  Addressed in this movie are matters that are of great concern to the founders of this company and to the many representatives, myself included, who have come on board, because we share these values.

I am a worm farmer.  And my involvement with life on earth at this level has made me super sensitive to the issues of sustainability, conservation, organic practices and consumption…  This movie, ”Story of Stuff”, absolutely shines the light on the reality of what we are doing as consumers. 

The time has come to WAKE UP!!!  We can not continue to rape the earth, have our way with her, and toss the lot on the heap.  Out of site, out of mind. 

Go to Story of Stuff and watch the movie.  Become educated about the reality of our consumption.  Do something…

Christy

Hooray!!  I finally made it.  I have been thinking, and working, and failing at getting this blog up and running and now here it is, and on my own URL too! 

 I never thought I would have a reason to have a website branded with my name but here it is.

I hope with this new blog that visitors will become friends and friends will feel free to share their ideas and thoughts here with me. 

Struggling to make a living can seem a lonely journey sometimes, and after you get screwed enough times you wonder if there is anything really legitimate and ethical out there. 

Well, there is.  I’ll have to tell you about it later though cause right now I’ve got to go.  But I’m so happy I’ve made it this far.

Until later then,

Christy