Now you can download a WordPress plug-in so a signup box can be added directly to your blog from MadMimi.  This makes getting more subscribers to your blogs and newsletters even simpler.

Here’s a direct link to the WordPress plug-in – it’s totally free and easy to use.   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mad-mimi/

Enjoy!

Well, I’m here today to flatter Phil Stone of http://www.AskKimAndPhilStone.com. I was honored to be friended by Phil recently over on Facebook and instead of a simple (but always appreciated) "thanks."  ~ Or the dreaded "buy my stuff, join my team, BUYMYSTUFF!!!!!!!!" type of message I’m seeing more and more of over on Facebook, I got an unexpected treat.

Phil sent me a link to an intro video – and he didn’t try and sell me a thing. How refreshing is that!

So, naturally, I ain’t dumb!  I asked if he would mind if I used his video as a starting point for creating one of my own. Thanks, Phil! You live up to your word … no sales, no hype – just good information on your website!

I can easily recommend Phil Stone as a keeper!  And here’s to both of our sites keeping up the good work!

Want to see my new intro video??  Well, you’ll just have to go over and friend me on Facebook, now wontcha!  tee hee!

I found the most mouthwatering cocktail recipe video. 

I just love fresh cucumbers and combining them with mint sounds truly awesome! 

Since I’ve never made a mojito before, I love the video format that walks me through everything.

I’m putting this on my list of cocktails to try soon!

And believe me when I tell you, if you are in direct sales (a party plan company, as some call it) this webinar could seriously be the beginning of a whole new way of doing business for you. Julie Anne really outdid herself and packed so much actionable content into this one hour webinar I was really amazed.

I went into the seminar wondering if I was going to need my bull-crap filter.  You know the one I’m talking about – it’s the one you have to pull out and use when you realize that the "free" seminar you are listening to is packed full of nothing but fluff and you have to strain all that "stuff" through a filter to get any decent nuggets of value out of it – the leader is just trying to promote their next best thing.

Not so with Julie Anne’s webinar.  It was surprisingly informative and well worth the time I spent. She provided information that I could take away and use.  She is one of the most down-to-earth coaches/trainers I’ve listened to in the area of direct sales in a long, long time.

The only thing that bothered me was the fact that I found out about it so close to the date that I didn’t have time to tell many people about it.  So many of my direct sales friends and colleagues weren’t on the webinar. Then Julie Anne told us she was GIVING AWAY not only the replay, but also the MP3 Download of the call! You really have to take the time to listen.

You can access the replay here.

Here’s what Julie Anne covered during the call:

• How to navigate your way through all the information and education and choose just what you need to succeed.
• How to move from ideas into action.
  
• The 4 areas you must master in order to achieve real success.
  
• The one shift you can make in your thinking that WILL change your results.
  

And just in case you listen to the webinar and then want to share the information with others, go ahead and forward them this e-mail. We want to get this information into the hands of as many people as we can!

Questions? Call Julie Anne Jones, Inc. at 410-838-7305 or e-mail them at info@julieannejones.com.

Now, how many companies out there hand out their phone number these days? This is a sign of Julie Anne’s sincerity and her legitimacy as a groundbreaking coach in direct sales.

Again, you can access the replay here.

Enjoy!

It’s not very often that a sequel is as good as the 1st movie. I believe, in this case, the sequel was even better than the original.

Not only was it an incredible movie, but I live right down the road from where quite a few of these scenes were filmed – Bethlehem, PA.  They used the old Bethlehem Steel Mill and it was really cool because I was even able to see the filming (even if it was from far, far away!)

Transformers – Revenge of the Fallen starts out with Sam heading off to college … alone. He isn’t taking his girlfriend or his Autobot protector, Bumblebee, with him.

After one of the most hysterical scenes where Sam’s Mom has been given hash brownies, Sam meets his “legend-in-his-own-mind” roommate and then he’s seduced by a gorgeous classmate (who just happens to have a 12-foot long metallic scorpion-like tail).  Then things start to get interesting.

Apparently, the Autobots haven’t been completely honest with Sam & since he’s touched a shard of the AllSpark, he knows things that he’s not supposed to know and the Decepticons will do whatever it takes to get the info that’s in his head.

A couple of movie theatre hours later and some really intense scenes, everyone (at least the good guys) live happily ever after.

What’s great is that the fans live happily ever after as well – because this sequel is well-made and definitely worth the price of the movie ticket. This is one of those movies that I am happy to recommend to everyone! Enjoy!

Since I’m a computer geek, I really love all the info that’s been put out there about how this movie was created. Here are some really cool fun-facts that I think you may enjoy!

Robots

• 1st movie: 14 robots
• Revenge of the Fallen: 46 robots (ILM only)
• If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
• Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
• Devastator’s hand is traveling 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyramid.
• The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than the old rigid simulation all-time record holder at ILM.
• All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
• Devastator’s parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state buildings.
• If all the texture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 football fields.

Disk space (This is TOTALLY cool!)

• TF1 took 20 Terabytes of disk space.
• Revenge of the Fallen took 145 Terabytes. Seven times bigger!
• 145 terabytes would fill 35,000 DVDs. Stacked one on top of the other without storage cases, they would be 145 feet tall.

Rendering times

• If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year’s premiere!
• A single imax shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop.
• IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

IMAX

• Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
• Imax frames take about 6 times longer than anamorphic to render.
• IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

ILM Screen Time

• ILM Screen Time is about 51 minutes.

Devastator

• Devastator is as tall as a 10 story building.
• Devastator has more than 10 times the number of individual parts found in an average car.
• Laid out end to end, Devastator’s parts would be almost 14 miles long.

Devastator Totals

• Number of geom pieces: 52632
• The total number of polygons: 11,716,127
• The total length of all pieces: 73090 feet
• The total length of all pieces: 13.84 miles