Panda Picks-Seniors Work on the Net!

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Meet Donna and Jake

I met Donna on an on-line community, ulearn2earn and invited her to share her story of success. She is just like us Seniors when she says, ”My computer/internet training is from years of trial/error experience only, my web design training is self-taught, and my internet marketing skills are feed from people that are already in the field of online marketing, I really believe in asking for directions. There are people out there to help you if you just ask the right questions on what you are looking for. I’ve had no formal training.” Her one advantage of course is that using the computer when younger comes much easier than for us seniors, but her idea of depending on others for guidance is good advice.

Another success idea from Donna is that she is “‘targeting the right audience, marketing properly, and using the right tool to thoroughly get my information out to the right people. Success in using the internet has always been positive for me.”  A healthy positive attitude goes a long way when striving to build that on line business.

By the photo you can tell  Donna is  no Baby Boomer but I felt her story of success was something  from which all us seniors on line could benfit.  As retirees we long for freedom to do our own thing and in Donna’s case she is already there while most her age are working at jobs they long to escape. Donna says, “I work from home where it is more informal  and brings out the creative side of me. If I was in more of a formal environment, my work output would be too stuffy and monotous. At home, I can feel more like myself.”  When the days work is done, she can go on her adventures, meet new people, and perhaps move on to another fun location.

Donna’s On Line Business

“I am a web site designer for RV parks. I also design websites that promote RV traveling and supports the RV community. Most of my income is from business advertising thru my own websites that promote the RV Lifestyle. My two websites that I own are http://www.travelbyrv.com and http://www.rvingblogs.com.
I’m located in Manchester, NH for the summer months and travel in an RV in the winter months. I left on November 20th 2008 to join the snowbirds of the south for five or six months. I’m 34 years old and I have a Maltese puppy named Jake. I’ve never been married and I have no children.”

Donna sums it all up when she says, “Trying to show seniors that people can be successful using the net hits home with me because where I travel from an RV, it really puts me in touch with the retirement population and they ask me how I live my life they way I do financially and when I tell them that I have an online business, they become very intrigued and I tell them exactly how it’s done.” Thank you Donna for showing us the meaning of on line success AND lifestyle success.

Donna uses the blog as a way of sharing her carefree winter adventures.  http://rvtrip08.wordpress.com/ Please note she has been in Florida, Arizona and managed to be in Vegas for the historic snow fall.  Gosh Donna the snow followed you to Vegas for that record 6 inch snowfall. 

Donna sums it all up when she says, “Trying to show seniors that people can be successful using the net hits home with me because where I travel from an RV, it really puts me in touch with the retirement population and they ask me how I live my life they way I do financially and when I tell them that I have an online business, they become very intrigued and I tell them exactly how it’s done.” Thank you Donna for showing us the meaning of on line success.

Meet other people who are RV people using blogs to share their adventures. http://www.rvingblogs.com/blogdirectory.html

For more links to make your RV Lifestyle:

tp://www.rvjokes.com/index.html  RV  Jokes, site linked to other sites of interest

RV Books  Amazon’s best RV books

RV Supplies

Canadian Newsletter for RV users

Panda Picked this success story to show that Seniors can make a good income on line and live the lifestyle they wish to live.  RV living allows for mobility  and freedom allowing us to increase the adventures that enrich our lives. On line business can provide that extra income to allow for RV living in warm comfortable environments while we enjoy doing our own thing.

Seniors look for  effective and easy to use sites for advertsing our business ventures.  Sometimes we look for sites that accomadate our need for simple set ups and use as we may not have computer savy to manuer through too much via directions and use.

If you use Traffic Exchanges, I find there is a big difference is useability.  I look for owners that respond to inquiries for help, visually large enough figures to match, and especially like the new hover technology where one does not click but merely place the mouse over the matching figure. On these exchanges the site is easy to manuver your set up, and assigning credits. Panda Lady recommends the following.  Please add any others you find nice for us seniors to use.

Senior Friendly  Traffic Exchanges Sites:

TRAFFIC JAMMS- listen to music, earn credits for paying attention/name song artists for good brain exercise. Owner: Scott Desmond

VOLCANO HITS- Owner  Ray Casey  Brand new Dec. 5

HOVER TRAFFIC- Large buttons for manuvering the site.  Owners: Allan Karlsen and Kenneth Krackstad

TRAFFIC ROUNDUP- Over 5 yrs. old, large figures, easy to add credits.  Cow game for  extra credits Owner Stephen Ayer

LORDS OF TRAFFIC- no matching, hover over large banner.  Owner Kjell Skogsoy

BLUE SURF-  Owner Scott Martin

BOOT SCOOTIN-  Owner Sunny Suggs

Panda Picked Traffic Exchanges as effective advertising.  A hint for the visually challenged, use  control plus the (+) key  to enlarge any traffic exchange site where you need enlargement. Likewise, use (- ) key when you want to return to normal size. This will enable you to use other sites you like where enlargement is essentail for ease on the eyes.

Panda Lady

Age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. 

                                                                                    ~Mark Twain

What is your impression of this quote?  It seems those who age with grace and style are those who follow Mark Twain’s advice.  Enjoy this season of your life.

Panda picked this quote to remind us to not dwell on what we no longer have but appreciate what we have to enjoy in our senior years.

Panda Lady

So here are two snacks to solve that desire for a “little” bit of chocolate. The cake was sent to me  as an e-mail, the other I found when I searched for a good fugde receipe on line. Now I can limit the servings but wow I can have them made in minutes.

                                   F u d g e  for  O n e 

In a 1 Qt. measuring cup/ or a bowl mix together:

1/3 c. sugar,   1 heaping T. Cocoa,  1T. plus 2t. milk  Microwave for 1 min.  Stir down  the sides and microwave for 40 sec. more. Watch as it will bubble quite high.

Add 1 scant T. butter, and 1/2 t. vanilla.  I added a heaping spoonful of peanut butter. Beat til thick. This really is not for one person, so be prepared to share some of your fudge.

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                       C h o c o l a t e   C a k e   aka (5min. choc. cake)

Butter the inside of large coffee mug.  Stir together:  4 T. flour, 4 T. white sugar, 2 T. cocoa.

Stir together:  1 egg, 3 T. milk, 3 T. oil,  Stir liquids into the flour mixture til smooth. Add 3 T. choc chips (optional) and a splash of vanilla.

Microwave 3 min.  Don’t panic the cake rises above the top of the mug.  ( I had to add a few more  sec. til done on top).  Tip out on a plate.  I cut in half to make 2 servings, as it really is  cake for two. Some frosting or whip cream  makes a perfect snack or dessert.

Panda Picked these two chocolate recipes to satisfy our love of chocolate while making the servings small for one or two.  Cooking for One can be fun and challenging.  Cooking for Two can be creative and healthy. Cooking the amount you need takes planning.

Panda Lady

Seniors out of work look to the internet for an income source.  Or we seniors may be merely   looking for ways to make a few extra coins to supplement our retirement funds.  Right now we may be looking at investments that plunged, groceries becoming more expensive, heating costs rising for winter here in the colder climates. All are pushing on our budget.  So a few extra  coins might make a difference in our style of life. If we choose to use the internet we look for ways to advertise our products. 

Assuming you have a business idea we now look at some potential advertising sites that are senior friendly. By senior friendly, we mean; easy to understand directions, visually easy to manage for those with eye problems and easy to use for those disabled or inconvenienced with arthritis.

Pandy Lady picks orange leads advertising site as my favorite for the amount of exposure and ease of using the site.  After signing in, one merely scrolls down and puts in a 200 word or less ad, insert your http url site, and send off to 13 thousand (current membership)  as your ad appears on the front of the site.  Because it is growing by 1.4% this figure is not accurtate. You can contact your downline in the same way.  As often as you like,  you have access to free leads with phone numbers, adddresses, and names of potential customers or potential business partners. TAKE AS MANY LEADS A DAY AS YOU LIKE. The best part of all is that your mail box does not fill up with ads from everyone else.  Everyone merely looks at the ads on the front of the site and chooses what will help them build their business.

Search Engine Optimization/ SEO Tools— Search Engines will do the advertising for you. All you do is insert your url and your e-mail address. Here is what you get as reported to me when I completed the process. Click on the above banner  fill in your information and here is what I received at the completion.

 Quote: Google … submission successful.
Yahoo Web Pages … submission successful. Listing will appear after Yahoo’s Web Site category listings.
AOL Search … submission successful.
iWon.com … submission successful.
Exactseek … submission successful.
Jayde … submission successful.
scrubtheweb … submission successful.
In addition your site will be listed in the below Meta Search Engines:

Search.com                   mamma
C4
Canada.com                  metacrawler
Dogpile                         WebInfoSearch
Infogrid                         WebFile
myGO                            800go
megacrawler                 query Server
ixquick                         Debriefing                                
     
WebInfoSearch              Highway 61
37.com
OneSeek                       metaSpider
Vivisimo                       PlanetSearch
SurfWax                        qbSearch
ProFusion                     Proteus
Go 2 Net                       megaGo.com
WebFile                         myGO

Your listing will appear on the above search engines anywhere from one day to usually 6 weeks. If you cannot find your listing try searching for your URL. There are several factors that may block you from being listed on the above search engines or penalize your rankings. Order our 75,000 search engine submission and one of our analysts will evaluate your site for any such problems and we’ll also send you a list of things you can do to improve your rankings. “  All that exposure made me a happy senior working on the net as now  my ad has maximum exposure.

Panda  Lady picked two of the most powerful ways I find to advertise without bugging friends and  business friends.  Saving time in advertising means we have time to go do those fun things we Seniors enjoy. We seniors with on line business after all we retired for a reason ie, not being held down to a schedule.

Panda Lady Picks Top Advertsing

I have fond memoiries of singing Christmas Carols in church as a child and throughout all my adult life. I remember Christmas caroling through the years, and listening to Christmas Eve services from Kings College, UK via  the radio.  So let’s have a little fun and see if you can name these Christmas Carols.

1.  ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQURSTU

2.  On my list, I only desire my foremost dual incisors

3.  The smog less witching hour has arrived

4.  Exuberating to this orb

5.  288 Yuletide hours

6.  Sir Lancelot with laryngitis

7.  Leave and do an elevated broadcast

8.  That small hamlet south of the Holy City

9.  Listen, the winged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully

10.  Mom’s mother was the victim of a “hit-and-run” by Santa’s sleigh

11.  I spied my maternal parent face-against-face with Father Christmas

12.  Whose offspring

–author unknown                                                       

Did we stump you?   Here’s the answers

1.  The first Noel (no ‘L’)

2.  All I want for Christmas is My 2 Front Teeth

3.  It came Upon a Midnight Clear

4.  Joy to the World

5.  The Twelve Days of Christmas

6.  Silent Night

7.  Go Tell It on the Mountain

8.  O Little Town of Blethlehem

9.  Hark The Herald Angels Sing

10.  Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

11.  I  Saw Mama Kissin’ Santa Claus

12.  What Child is This?

Panda picked this opportunity to have a little fun and test your memory of Christmas Carols. If you need Carols for any occassion, just consult Amazon for assistance.

Mary Hofstetter AKA The Panda Lady