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Best Buy isn't giving away gift cards through text messages

Best Buy says people who get text messages telling them they've won a gift card and referring them to a website should disregard the message because it's a scam.

Spokeswoman Sarah Anderson told me Best Buy is investigating the situation, and people who get the message can report it to local authorities.

I was alerted to the scam by a co-worker, who said she got a text that said, "You received a free $1000 BestBuy Giftcard." The text referred her to visit a website that starts with "buygift809." Since she was going to the Best Buy in Whitehall Township on Saturday anyway, she asked customer service about it and was told they weren't aware of any giveaway. My friend said store staff told her she was the second person to ask about it, so apparently this is going around.

Be cautious in visiting websites that you're referred to from unsolicited text messages. There could be a virus or spyware lurking, or they could be trying to trick you into signing up for something.

Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Stores aren't giving away money these days.

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Occupy Christmas and buy gifts made in America

My friends and family don't know it yet, but I'm Occupying Christmas.

No, I'm not braving frigid temperatures camping out in the North Pole, I'm simply choosing where I want my holiday shopping money to go.

In early November, I read an article on a social media site that suggested keeping out of the big commercial holiday purchasing, and instead keeping the gifts local — suggesting that gift cards from local business would make great presents.

 So I totaled up what I spent last year on presents and holiday meals prepared for friends and family, and the figure loomed somewhere between $2,000 and $3,000.

Of that, I estimate that three-quarters was spent at big-box stores on gifts and products made outside of the United States.

I bought a GPS made in China for two family members. A label-maker for my husband, along with name brand plastic toys for the kids, all from China. Pajamas from Indonesia, a tricycle from Mexico. Gourmet food from France. My holiday ham was even purchased in the grocery section of the big-box store, shipped from Canada.

Shame on me. In a tight economy, in a country that has shopped out many of its manufacturing jobs overseas, I've come to realize my responsibility to my fellow Americans.

I have decided to keep as much of my Christmas money as possible out of big-box stores and in the hands of our country's craftsmen.

And in my quest for American-made products, I have discovered a wealth of affordable, beautiful, handmade products that I know will satisfy the hardest to please on my list.

Etsy.com has become my website of choice, offering a plethora of handmade and vintage goods.

One of my friends is getting a bouquet of hand-sewn flowers and branches made out of fabric manufactured in the United States. Another is going to receive a cement serving bowl created by an artist in southern California. My girlfriends are each getting a set of note cards lovingly crafted in Hawaii and homemade soap from Vermont.

Handmade rugs, scarves, wallets, belts, wall art, furniture, candles — they are all for sale, most made in the United States.

I'm trying to keep the grocery money closer to home, as well.

I have ordered my holiday ham, goose and short ribs from my favorite butchers at the Allentown Farmers Market, rather than purchasing them from my closest big-box store. My Christmas candy will come from Josh Early and Mink's candy shop in the Farmers Market.

There are gifts for my kids that I can't find on Etsy, technical gadgets that are on the top of their wish list, but I'll try to find those at smaller, local retailers.

 In keeping my dollars closer to home, I feel like I'm giving back to my community. And it's a feeling of community that my friends and family can also partake of, knowing that their gifts have kept American dollars on American soil.

So this holiday season, I encourage all of you to find ways, however you can, to keep your holiday dollars closer to home. Fill the stockings with local gift cards, handmade candies, candles, sewn gifts. And take pleasure in the fact that you have helped Occupy Christmas.

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Salon sold gift cards online after closing

Businesses can live on in cyberspace long after they're dead in the real world, misleading customers and even costing them money.

Such was the case with TC Salon & Spa. Until the Watchdog stepped in, the long-closed salon still was selling gift cards on its website.

The salon's Bethlehem location closed in 2010. The Allentown location closed in June. In December, Timothy Porcelli ordered a $100 gift card as a Christmas present at http://www.tcsalonspa.com. Of course, he never got it.

He said he emailed the salon through its website several times in January. When those emails were not returned, he called and found the phone numbers were disconnected. That's when he poked around and found my report from last summer about the salon's closure.

"I find it highly unethical that their website is still able to process gift certificate orders despite the business no longer functioning," Porcelli told me in a recent email asking for my help. "I have an unhappy feeling I will not be getting my money back, but at the very least they should take their website offline to prevent this from reoccurring."

I get a lot of complaints about people stuck with gift cards for businesses that have closed, most recently the Center Valley Club golf course. But this was the first time I'd heard from someone who had bought a gift card for a business after it had closed.

I was just as surprised as Porcelli to find the TC Salon website not only active, but still taking payments.

Porcelli lives in New Jersey and didn't know the salon had closed. He told me a friend had recommended the spa when he was looking for a gift for his girlfriend, who lives in Bethlehem.

"I thought a massage or something would be good for Christmas," he said.

He intended to buy the certificate in person, but ran out of time and went online.

"They should take the website down, at least," Porcelli said.

It's down now, but only because I asked about it. I never got to the bottom of why it still was up and making sales.

TC Salon owner Frank Shipman told me he had left messages with his website developer, the former NURD Inc., months ago asking it to take down the site. He said those calls were not returned.

"I have no desire to have it up," Shipman told me last week, while the website still was active. "I would have preferred it to come down a long time ago."

NURD owner Jason Pijut told me Shipman never called about taking down the salon website.

"He never asked us anything," he said.

Pijut said if he had been asked, he wouldn't have been able to kill the site because he doesn't own the domain name. The salon does.

I relayed that information to Shipman, who told me he wasn't knowledgeable about that process because he was not involved in that end of the business: "I did hair. I didn't do the office stuff," he said.

He said he thought Pijut, as the site's developer, could do anything with the site, and said if he couldn't take it down, he at least should change it so it no longer sells gift certificates and makes it appear as if the salons are open.

I relayed that suggestion to Pijut. In a matter of minutes on Friday, he disabled the site. It now displays only a login screen for a Web hosting service.

"It's not pretty," said Pijut, who now owns Killer Interactive design in Bethlehem. "It solves the problem. At least no one else is going to push an order through there."

But it doesn't resolve Porcelli's problem, which is getting back his $100.

He said he paid for the gift certificate with a debit card and asked his bank for a refund, but was told too much time had passed.

Shipman said Porcelli should seek a refund through PayPal, which processes the orders. Porcelli told me he would try that. I tried reaching PayPal on his behalf but was unsuccessful.

Pijut has access to the salon's PayPal account and said there were other unfilled gift card orders there besides Porcelli's. He said he previously had heard from several other people who had ordered certificates around Christmas, and he walked them through the PayPal refund process.

Shipman told me he heard from one person who bought a certificate through the site after the salons were closed and that he told them to request a refund through PayPal.

As impractical as it may be, if you are not familiar with a business, it's a good idea to call to make sure it still is open before ordering a gift card through its website. A merchant's online heart can beat long after its storefront falls silent.

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3 Ways To Build A Quick Profitable Opt In List

The following paragraphs summarize the work of opt-in list experts who are completely familiar with all the aspects of opt-in lists. Heed their advice to avoid any opt-in list surprises.

You finally realize that you need a good opt-in list. After reading countless articles and sought expert advices and have read many success stories of people creating a small fortune with opt-in lists you finally decide to have one of your own. Then it happens, you think you have known everything there is to know about opt-in lists and have followed their advices to the T and you still weren’t able to make a profit.

In fact, you may be losing money. You maybe hiring writers to help you out, or there are some expenses incurred, even if you have a big list, but only a very small percentage actually buys from you, your still losing profit. You’ll realize that after a few months when you see your statistics and sales figures.

So what could have gone wrong? Why have others succeeded where you have failed? The most common mistake is that you dived straight right in. You chose a topic where you think could be quite popular and would earn you money. This just not the case. Just because you wrote people from the list doesn’t mean they are going to buy instantly.

Here I will offer more advice, for those who have started an opt-in list and have failed, you can rejuvenate your failed venture. For those who are starting, here are three quick and easy ways to build a profitable opt-in list.

1) Get your customers to trust you and your products first. Just launching your opt-in list would not make you an expert and a believable seller. Put many articles first before you start an opt-in list. Write about the topic you know and have started and used for your site. Try to put forums first to gain knowledge about your customers about their wants and needs and target those wants and needs.

Join forums from other sites as well. Provide expert advices and recommendations. When you feel that people trust you already, you will be able to start your own opt-in list. You can build a base as well with other forum users. You can ask them to join your list. Friends are always good customers. Put up a link to your site so that they may be able to see what you're business is all about.

If you find yourself confused by what you've read to this point, don't despair. Everything should be crystal clear by the time you finish.

The certain truth is, the money will only come in when the consumers and subscribers believe and trust in you. They want a product or service that could be a good exchange for their money. People are not going to buy something out of your recommendation if they don’t know you.

2) Find a product or service that people want and need. Although it may not be your forte, if you provide a service and product that you have researched and learned about well, you can carry it on forward. Invest your time, effort and money that you could sell as well as the buyers or subscribers of your opt-in list can use.

While it is true that it is best to sell something that you have interest in, there are not many people who have the same interest as you if you decide to sell something that is not entirely popular or profitable. Do your research well and you would see the profits come in. Also provide your subscribers with promotional material that they could actually use and spread around.

3) Make friends with other opt-in list users. This is basically beneficial especially if it is someone who has already launched a successful opt-in list. These are people that have the experience in this venture and experience is still the best teacher. While there are many articles available for you in the internet to use, there is nothing like getting a first hand account from someone you trust.

Experienced opt-in list users will be able to tell you what to do and what not to do because they have gone through it. While different situations occur for different people, the general concept can still be very helpful. There are many things to avoid and these people will be able to tell you which ones.

Building a profitable opt-in list don’t just happen overnight. There are many preparations and effort to do. Opt-in lists are built from scratch, as your list grows, you should also maintain the quality of your list. Keep it organized and manageable. Get or hire help if need be, just make sure that your subscribers are happy and satisfied and they will be willing to buy from you.

Now you can understand why there's a growing interest in opt-in list. When people start looking for more information about opt-in lists, you'll be in a position to meet their needs.

3 Main Ways to get Instant Traffic

We have seen in our previous topic, how to increase your traffic.In some circumstances, you may need to increase your traffic immediately or to boost it in order to spread a new product or an offer or or simply to implement your viral marketing.

Well there is  3 easy to do that and we will explain them now. You can: Buy targeted traffic to your site, email to your list, or make a Joint Venture(JV).

To buy fast and immediate traffic, you will need to go to google or one of the other alternatives like overture from yahoo.You may need to know how to use google adwords first, there is excellent ebooks on this subject, that will save you a lot of money, and avoid your ad to be deactivated.

That type or advertising is called Pay Per Click advertising. You will set a daily budget for your campaign, and you will only pay when some one make a click on your link. You will be able to see your ad on the right table of the page, when you search for specific keywords.
You will need to track your campaign.

For example, you can buy 3 different advertising sources, pay the same price for each, then track with a software which advertising gives you more results. Then go on, like that you will save your money.

The second way is to email to your list.
You must understand the sale process. In a nutshell, visitors  are surfing they fall on your site, but they probably won' t come back except if you offer them an incentive, or newsletter, something that will bring them back: You can send a promotional email, twice a month or once. Send valuable information between the promotional offer.

The last tip for immediate traffic is Joint Venture.
You have to get other websites to send email to their list, place your link on their website, and you will pay them only when they process a sale.

Pay them 50% or more. And make the sale easy  for them, prepare for them  the subject and body of the emails, prepare the affiliate link they will put on their websites, and any other material you can use. And who knows, you will maybe find some good friends out there.