I had an exchange student for a few weeks my sophomore year in high school and it was wonderful. She and I hit it off like sisters immediately. She even came to visit for over a month when I was pregnant with my second child. Hubby got along with her just as well.

Ever since meeting her I’ve wanted to jump on a plane and head over to Australia and enjoying all the country has to offer. I’d stay in some incredible Gold Coast hotels and resorts. I want to runaway to the outback and then right back to the beach resorts. But most of all I want to be in the sunshine.

Taking a drive out to the outback would be a wonderful getaway. I don’t know why and African safari has never appealed to me but and Australian safari is something I’d love to do. I guess I’d have to analyze it more and is it really worth analyzing? Or just take off and enjoy it someday and who cares?

I’ve heard so many things about the towns in Australia and there are just so many towns that I would like to hit. Like Sydney or Melbourne. I guess I will need to visit over there for a few months in order to get it all done. lol

I’m always on the look for a better deal on my protein bars and meal replacements. I’ve come across Femnutrition and it has a lot of selection from the top brands such as Met-RX and Optimum.

Now they do have a lot of suppliments such as the famoushoodia diet pills. But if there is a product you are looking for you can do a quick search on the site and go right to it. That is what I did for meal replacements and protein bars. These are much better options for snacks because they are portion controlled and higher in protein than most snack foods you will pack.

I’ve chatted before about the need for life insurance, but I have a few women in my life that can not get life insurance easily. They both happen to own a dog grooming business together at this time and prior or previous health issues get in the way of many things. One of them had cancer the first time at 21 and then again at 22. She’s now 34 and has been in remission ever since, but she is still a super high risk.

I’m happy to send her to a site selling Global Life insurance no medical and get her the coverage she needs. If you have had health issues in the past or present, then think about shopping global life. Medical bills can be devastating to families. Leave yourself some piece of mind that your needs are taken care of without burdening the family.

One big thing about working at home is you cover all of your own expenses. From taxes to insurances, it’s all covered by you. Unfortunately, a lot of it get’s dropped when you leave that steady paycheck because you just can’t afford it. Think again, I don’t believe you can afford not to be covered. Especially when so many that work at home have health concerns.

Shopping insurance online is easy. If you are in need of high risk life insurance then you can get quotes right online. It is very easy to use. When you find a company that you want to go with, you simply fill out the submit application button and you will be contacted asap.

If you don’t have life insurance I recommend doing some shopping to see how affordable it is.

Product Name: Aweber
Rating: 9

Description: Autoresponder/Newsletter Services

Review: Aweber is a great way to manage all your lists in one place.

You can send your emails as plain text or HTML formatted emails. Sending broadcasts and creating autoresponder messages is easy with Aweber. You can easily test your emails before queuing them to be sent so that you can check that your formatting is correct and no links have been broken, etc. Also helpful to make sure it looks the same delivered as it did when you created it.

You can easily set up forms such as pop-ups, sign up boxes and more with a few clicks of a button. Just answer a few questions and the code you need for your website will be generated for you. Simply copy and paste the code into your site.

You can easily import lists from other places into Aweber and export your lists from Aweber for things such as creating a backup.

Aweber also allows those who sign up at your website to confirm their opt-in, which is a great way to keep your list from getting filled with people who really aren’t your target market anyway. Double opt-in also helps protect you from being black labeled for sending spam. You have proof that they really did sign up for your emails. Another way to help keep your list targeted is by offering your subs the option to unsubscribe with each email and Aweber does that too.

You receive an unlimited number of lists, follow up messages and emails along with up to 10,000 subscribers for one price. You can choose to pay monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually with prices starting at 19.95 a month. If your list grows larger you can pay less than 10 dollars for every 10,000 extra each month.

Very easy to use, even for the beginner like me and when I have a question, most times I can easily find the answer I need in the videos or FAQ section. There are also tutorials to teach you how to do simple or more complex things with your list.

I haven’t gotten into all the reports that are available, but I do know they have real-time stats and I can have them emailed to me when I need them so I don’t have to remember to check. So far I’ve used the undeliverable, open rates and click-thru stats and they are great for helping me tweak my different follow up email subject lines and copy. Try getting any of those stats from the old snail mail newsletters delivered to your mail boxes. Nothing like broken down stats to analyze your conversion rates.

Criticism: None so far! I’ve been using it for months and am very happy with it.

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