I don’t know what you guys are paying for gasoline…. but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money’s worth for every gallon..
Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose , CA we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.
Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold.
Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening….your gallon is not exactly a gallon.
In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.
A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
When you’re filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3)stages: low, middle, and high. In slow mode you should be pumping
on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some other liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you’re getting less worth for your money.
One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL or HALF EMPTY. The reason for this is, the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine.
Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.
Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up–most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.
Hope this will help you get the most value for your money.
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WHERE TO BUY USA GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON
Gas rationing in the 80’s worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us! The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor.
An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS.
Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia . Just buy from gas companies that don’t import their oil from the Saudis.
Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends.
I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.
These companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell……………………… 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco……… 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon/Mobil…………… 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway… 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco……………………….62,231,000 barrels
Citgo gas is from South America , from a Dictator who hates Americans. If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $90 - $100 a barrel
Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
Sunoco………………0 barrels
Conoco………………0 barrels
Sinclair………………0 barrels
BP/Phillips………….0 barrels
Hess………………….0 barrels
ARC0…………………0 barrels
All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It’s really simple to do.
Now, don’t wimp out at this point…. keep reading and I’ll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
I’m sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)…and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) .. and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers !!!!!!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
If it goes one level further, you guessed it ….. THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would all that take?
The Google AdSense program is like finding money in the street. Kids in High School are making thousands of dollars a month with Adsense… Housewives, Retiree’s, Mom and Pop’s who’ve never made a dime on the Internet have created full time incomes by simply placing AdSense Ads on their web site or blog. Then you have the “Super AdSense” earners. We have all heard of them… the Elite few who are on track to make half a million dollars a year or more promoting AdSense sites.
Do not be mistaken though… these people are not building like your Mom and Pop’s do. They have systems in place that create sites for them… people who build sites for them… they have outsourced and automated many of the tedious tasks such as posting to blogs and searching for keywords. While most people cannot emulate everything these Super AdSense earners do… many of them you can.
Here are 7 Required Steps you can implement today to copy their success.
1) Starting today… treat your AdSense business like it is a REAL business and track what you do. Begin tracking what you are doing that works… as well as what you are doing that does not work. This will keep you from making the same mistakes over and over, and you can repeat the steps that have worked in the past. As simple as this step seems… most people do not know the reason(s) to their success or failure.
2) Utilize the latest tools and software available. The Super AdSense earners are not any smarter than your average person. I know many people think they are… but for the most part, they are regular non techie people. They are smarter in one respect though… they use the latest tools available to them to automate most of the tasks involved with researching and creating sites. They use the latest keyword, site creation and search engine optimization tools available. The tools they use are their secret weapons.
3) Quit chasing the Mega Dollar keywords.
You cannot compete with the search engine experts who create sites for the $80 payout keywords. You may get lucky every now and then… but in the long run, you are better off building sites for the low to mid range payout keywords. The competition is less, and your chance of success is much higher over the long term.
4) Choose broad niches and break it down. Choose a broad subject as your main theme (lets use computers for an example). From there… break it down into as many sub niches as possible. Using Computers as the example… you could build sub niches/sites like laptop computers, computer hard drives, computer keyboards, etc, etc. You could literally build hundreds of sites around one major theme and stay totally focused. Once you have exhausted every possible sub niche of that major theme… choose another main theme and repeat the process.
5) KISS Keep your sites easy to navigate and forget the fancy graphics that distract your visitors attention.Unless you are just building AdSense sites for the fun of it and to impress your friends… the purpose of having the site is to have people click on one of the ads, right? Then keep the site layout simple… dump the scrolling banners, dancing chickens and colored scroll bars… they are distractions.
6) What is the purpose of your web site? Your web site cannot be everything to everybody. If you have a full fledged ecommerce site, with products for sale… links to other products, it is not a good site for AdSense. If the primary focus of the site is to sell products… let it do that. Do not distract or confuse your visitor with to many options or choices. The best AdSense sites are AdSense only content sites that sell nothing. They are sites that “Tell”… not “Sell.”
7) Be consistent. This is not one of those deals where you build one site and you are done. Refer back to Step #4. You must continuously build in order to be successful.
Think of it as planting a crop that you will harvest in a month or two, and the sites you build are seeds. Once the seeds have grown and matured… you will reap the harvest. The more seeds you plant… the larger the harvest. To sum it up… utilize the tools available to automate as much of the process of building sites - doing research and building keyword lists as you can. This alone will help keep you organized and on track. Be consistent in building… treat it like the business it is and you will reap the rewards of your harvest.
E-mail marketing is probably one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to stay in touch with your prospective students on a regular basis. There is a statistic in marketing, which states that it takes on average of at least seven contacts to convert a prospect into a client and most people stop at two.
The first step is to build your email database and the easiest and quickest way to do this is to get email addresses from everyone & anyone that you meet. It is important to tell people what you do and to let them know that you have a great educational and promotional yoga newsletter and that you would love send it via email to them.
Most people will be more than happy to give you their email address if you present it to them in this fashion. Be sure to get their business card immediately and to add their name to your database as soon as possible.
Make a goal to add a certain amount of emails to your database on a monthly basis. A good number to shoot for could be approximately 50-100 per month through manual collections. Don’t worry if they are potential yoga students or not, because on one hand you never know and on the other they could forward the email to others that could be interested.
Another great way to build your email database is by adding an email opt-in form to your website so you can capture email addresses when people visit your website. Many yoga teachers/studios already spend significant time, energy and money driving traffic to their websites and one of the very best ways to capitalize on that traffic is to capture their email addresses through an opt-in form. The nice thing about this process is that it is completely automated and you will be building your email list without doing a thing.
Instead of just offering your visitors the chance to sign up for your newsletter through your opt-in form, up the stakes and offer some type of free giveaway such as an e-book or discounts to classes in exchange for them giving you their email address. You should find that your sign up rate will increase significantly by offering a free-bee incentive. Most of the free offers can be tied through an auto-responder which will once again eliminate the need for your involvement in the process. In order to receive more information regarding email opt-in forms and auto responders, inquire with your web designer.
Once you initiate your email marketing campaign, you should begin to use your email newsletter and/or email marketing campaigns to drive traffic back to your website. Here are some ideas of how to take full advantage of your campaigns and to increase your website traffic in the process:
* Send out e-newsletters on a consistent basis. Many people will not open the newsletters and/or click onto your site until they see it numerous times.
* Spend some time in coming up with interesting subjects for your email newsletters that will encourage the reader to open the email. If they don’t open the email they will never have the chance to click onto the website. Be sure to check your open rates after you send an email blast. If you are below 5% you have a problem with the subject.
* Include in your e-newsletter; incentives, contests, coupons, discounts, specials and promotions and be sure to add links to the specific pages that contain these offers.
* Use student testimonials/success stories in your e-newsletters in order to build credibility. More people are apt to click onto your website if they trust you.
* Initiate an auto-responder drip campaign touching your prospects on a regular basis. Remember, it takes seven or more contacts to convert a prospective student into a paying student.
* Include at least one educational article in each e-newsletter. Add just a few sentences as well as the title to the article as a way of whetting their appetite and then add a link to your website for them to read the remainder of the article.
It all begins with a quality website and then everything builds from there. Mikel Bruce with WebFlexor Yoga Websites (www.websitesforyoga.com) recommends investing the time into your website since it is the first thing that many of your prospective yoga students will see. You should find that over time as you build your email database your business will spike with each send.
When you have your own business at home, getting into internet marketing can quickly raise the status of your business. One of the most important facets to having success with internet marketing is how you are generating traffic.
With out traffic coming to your site it is impossible to have success. Therefore you must evaluate how you are going to generate a high traffic volume.
Why is article marketing important?
To generate more traffic to your web site, you need to let people know its there. When you write articles and publish them, you will find that, as long as you make the article relevant and interesting, they will be picked up by sites like E-zine’s that need fresh content and you will have a new permanent back link to your site.
How Is this important?
Well the more back links you have the better your site will show in the search engines organic (free) results which will generate more traffic to your web site and you’ll make more money!
By using a research tool like GistWeb you’ll be able to spend a lot less time creating the articles.
You’ll feel like submitting articles more frequently and by using a submission service like http:// www.submityourarticle.com you will benefit from having your article submitted to hundreds of publishers, and by using a very easy to master piece of software you can make almost every article submitted unique.
The way this works is that when you make your submission, you are invited to add alternative titles,and sentences, which when making the submissions the system uses in different combinations to generate multiple unique articles. When you submit more articles you’ll generate more traffic!
Blogs and comments
Another way to create links back to your site is to write great blog entries that people will want to post onto their blogs, you can even publish your articles on your blog. In the world of blogging, people very often use another blog as content for their site,and give the author a link or trackback.
This allows you to have a viral marketing source and you won’t need to do anything to generate this traffic. The beauty of creating a network this way is that the more you are on other people’s blogs and commenting on their posts, the more traffic you will receive.
The thing to remember is that people love to have visitors on their site and they want to know who those people are. If you’re commenting on posts they have written, you can bet that they are going to appreciate that and check out your site as well.
Whatever methods of web site promotion and marketing you use, you will need to know how many visitors or clients are attracted by each of the methods and what is the quality of the traffic generated from each marketing source. The reports and statistics of ProTrackerPlus.Com will provide you with the most complete information, so that you can concentrate your efforts on the most effective methods of web site promotion and increase the effectiveness of other methods.
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