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Make money with Loudlaunch

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Did you know that there’s yet another way to make some money while you blog? That’s right. A new company called Loudlaunch recently opened up and the site allows bloggers to be paid for blogging about advertising campaigns that posted by advertising members of the Loudlaunch site.

Loudlaunch is a benefit to bloggers in that they can write about products or sites that fit well with their own blog, or about sites and products that they are interested in that they believe their readers would enjoy hearing about; and advertisers have a great way of getting word out about their new site, or about specific products on their site. Advertisers can create an advertising campaign for as little as $50. The bloggers make money by writing about the advertisers promotions and the advertisers get more visitors to their sites and perhaps some new sales as a result. Everybody wins.

When a blogger signs up with Loudlaunch and puts their site up for review they can select which categories their site best falls into. A formal review of the site is done by a Loudlaunch team member and they might make slight adjustments to the blogs listing. Advertisers can select which type of blogs can write about their campaign via the various categories that the blogs end up being listed under.

The amount that a blogger is paid for each campaign that they post is determined by their blogs rating. Such factors as a blogs standings via Alexa, Technorati, page rank and possibly a few other factors come into play as to what the blogger will be paid. Bloggers will be compensated anywhere from $5 per posting up to over $200 for very high ranking blogs.

One thing that I like about Loudlaunch is that at the bottom of each post a disclosure will show that declares that the post is sponsored. I also like that advertisers can’t require a positive spin or tone to their campaigns. Bloggers can write what they feel, however if they feel negatively towards whatever an advertiser is promoting I don’t really see much reason to promote the product. So I’m assuming that most reviews will be neutral to positive depending upon the bloggers point of view.






The old tin roof

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This weeks theme is Silver

A barn with a tin roof

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Another view:

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I love these old barns with their silver tin roofs.
Have you ever been in a barn like this during a rain storm? The sound of the rain can be so loud! It’s kind of nice when it’s just raining lightly as it sounds like a little pitter patter above your head.

I took this photo this past summer in July when we were on our way to Ottawa for one of my Aunt’s 80th birthday parties. It was a hot summer day and the smell of the meadow was heavenly.

Common Gardening terms

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Gardening glossary of terms

When you’re new to gardening, you might not understand all of the terms that are used on the various gardening websites that you might encounter so I thought that it might be a great idea to post some of the more common terms and explain them.

Annual: a plant that completes it life cycle in one growing season and then dies. Keep in mind that annuals for one region of the Country may be a perennial in another region, or even in another Country.

Biennial: a plant that completes its life cycle in two growing seasons and then dies. Generally, the first year the plant produces foliage and the 2nd year the plant flowers.

Bulbs: fleshy leaf bases consisting of scales attached to a basal plate; tulips are one example.

Conifer: mostly evergreen trees or shrubs, usually with needle-like linear leaves and seeds borne naked on the scales of cones.

Deadheading: removing spent flowers or flowerheads for aesthetics, to prolong bloom or promote rebloom, or to prevent seeding.

Feng Shui: the ancient Chinese art of design and placement that balances the chi, or energies, within your surroundings.

Golden Mean: the ration 1:1.618 and a rule of proportion common throughout nature that can be applied to garden design.

Hardiness Zone: determined by the average annual frost-free days and minimum winter temperatures. The Hardiness zones in Canada are rated differently than those of US regions, keep that in mind when you read up on hardiness zones. If you are purchasing a plant in Canada that was shipped in from the states know your USD zones.

Herbaceous: a plant without woody stem; the plant parts are fleshy and wither after each growing season.

Mixed garden: a garden that is planted with combinations of herbaceous and woody plant material.

Neutral colors: green, violet, black, white, gray, brown.

Perennial: a plant that lives three or more years.

Primary hues: red, yellow, blue.

Rhizomes: swollen, horizontal undergrown stem; cannas are examples.

Suckering: describes plant material with adventitious shoots arising from below soil level, usually from the roots rather than the crown or stem of the plant.

Tuber: a swollen, irregularly shaped stem or root used for food storage; dahlias are one example.

Vascular plants: plants such as ferns and seed-bearing plants in which the phloem transports sugar and the xylem transports water and salts.

Warmer colors: yellow, yellow-green, yellow-orange, orange, red-orange, red, and red-violet (magenta).

Woody: A vascular plant that has a stem or more than one stem. Woody plants are trees, shrubs, etc. Most woody plants will be composed mostly of wood.

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