This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Hampton Hotels. All opinions are 100% mine.

Winning A Trip For All!

This is for anyone looking to win a trip for yourself, and a group of your friends, up to 100. I don’t think I could even come up with a 100 friends to take with me, might have to take some family members, just kidding Mom.

Man, what would I do with 100 of my family and friends for a weekend away. Just doesn’t seem like a weekend would be enough. Since most of my friends play golf we’ll have to locate a top notch course to hit for about 4 hours. Then come back and party till the sun comes up the next day. Hopefully my wife will be able to get me back home, but who’s going to get everyone else home, looks like the ladies are coming.

Anyway, there’s a contest that anyone can enter, it’s called the Hampton Chain of Friends Sweepstakes. The grand prize winner will win a free stay for themselves and 100 of their friends at a Hampton for one weekend. You will also be given $5000 to help pay the tax for the weekend. After all the government wants you to still pay the tax, glad to see this contest will cover that. One last thing, this sweepstakes is open to everyone, not just those that are Hilton Honors members or those that have previously stayed at a Hampton. So every one of you need to enter, and if you win, add me to your list.

Making The Switch!

Like most everyone out there times are getting harder. And lately it seems like the standard services we use are costing more and more every month. I’m talking about services like cable and phone services. Most of the time these service providers are rising their prices without any warning. Although the local phone companies have increases, there’s really not much we can do. What I mean by that you can’t switch your local provider out. But with cable companies, you can always order a dish service to fight back. But cable companies fight back by running negative ads against dish service providers to scare you off. In my opinion, if someone’s spending a lot of money to scare you off you need to at lease consider going with a dish company like Direct TV, or The Dish Network. These Dish TV companies require a contract so please make sure you understand the contract and service plan before you make the switch. Do what‘s right for you.

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boost Mobile. All opinions are 100% mine.

No Contract Needed!

My Wife and I went looking for new cell phones. Our contract was up, 2 years ago, we never renewed because they didn’t require it, and plus we weren’t sure if we wanted another contract. We were with the same company for over 10 years, so we weren’t sure if we wanted someone else. Anyway, we wanted new phones with better text and web access. What we really wanted was to get on Twitter and Facebook with our phones, plus a few other sites. But we didn’t want to purchase a $600 Blackberry. So in order to get free phones we would have to enter into another 2 year contract, which we weren’t ready to do again. So we decided to look at all the major cell phone providers, you know who they are, before we agreed to another contract. We even looked at Boost Mobile, a new provider in our area. Boost didn’t require a contract, we could get a Blackberry for $150 bucks, and all data plan that includes everything for $60 a month per phone. Which we both like because we can get on the web, get some great free apps, and get on Facebook. They even provided a way to reload your account, it’s called Re-Boost. Re-Boost is a way to reload your account to fund your plan. I will end with this, these guys, Boost Mobile, are worth considering for our next provider. I will be reading more about them to make sure their the right fit for us.

Increase Your Sales!

Are you a business owner looking to increase your sales in this economy? I am, and I’m always looking for new ways to increase my sales. Lately however it’s been really tough going with sales. It seems what ever I try to do it’s just not working like I want it to. Some of the things I have is running discounts and compiling services, selling packages basically. I’ve even lowered prices on a few of the products I offer, which has worked a little. But when you start lowering prices it underscores your products services in my opinion. And then what do you do with the customers you have paying full price, do you lower them as well? I know I would want my price lowered if I was a customer paying full price.

So I’ve been looking for new ways to get my name out there. One way is marketing offline, something I’ve never thought about before. Since all of my services and products are related to webmasters and site owners I’ve never marketed offline. I’ve been thinking about doing some direct marketing by sending out fliers. I’m even thinking about sending a postcard to some of my customers to let them Know I appreciate their business. I think by sending a full color postcard could go a far way, and hopefully bring in new customers. I know I would like to receive a great looking postcard with the vendors I do business with. The cost of a few postcards is very cheap, and the amount of business coming in could be huge. After all word of mouth is the best form of marketing. The more people you have saying great things about you will grow any business. What do some of you think about marketing online services offline, do you think it would work?