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Public Speaking: Pause and Drop

I get so tired of up-talk. You know, what it is, right? The speaker can hardly manage ending a sentence normally, allowing voice inflection swing up. (Apparently, it’s also known as the “Valley Girl” effect.)

I acknowledge that after falling in and crawling along through that rut, it’s frightfully difficult to get out on the smooth ground of normal talk.Read it all

Fruitlessly Fishing in the (e)Bay

Two weeks ago I took you on an eight-lesson cruise around eBay: Seven Things I’ve Learned Selling on eBay.

Now I’ve reeled in six Musings of a Flopping eBay Fish Seller.

1 Don’t Mess With Low-Profit ItemsRead it all

Seven Things I’ve Learned Selling on eBay

An eBay learner's learnings while attempting to sell books, compasses, plates, Tupperware, and Fenton. :-)

The Web is awash with hints and tips for eBay sellers. And delightfully effective (power seller) secrets. Let’s not forget those.

I have my own Greenhorn’s eBay Seller’s Tricks, cooked in the boiling, bubbling cauldron that’s eBay. So let me scoop out a few ladles of it for you…

1 Reward Prospective Bidders With a Good Offer — That’s right, reward. Why should anyone want to bother being the first bidder on your item? So entice someone to bid first — make your entry-level bid Read it all

What Do I Sell on eBay?

My energy levels and physical stamina and struggling online bookstore make full-time outside employment a challenge.

So I’ve been thinking and scheming about selling thrift store stuff on eBay.

But…what do I sell on eBay? Read it all

Words Darkening Counsel

“Who is this
that darkens counsel
by words without knowledge?”

Who said that?

And to whom? Read it all

Justify a Headline With CSS

How to do it with only a div, an H1, and a span.

So you want your headline to run the width of the body text.

That seems easy enough to do. Just use the text-align:justify CSS property on your H1. Like this, for instance: Read it all

Three Potential Health Tips

Need three broad-age-range health tips?

Three potentially useful health tips

If you promise to keep in mind the circled key words, I’ll give you the above links, live:

(Yeah, I know you didn’t promise.)

If the folks at Swanson Vitamins had contracted with me to proofread their work, one thing I would have told them is to capitalize is in the second title above.