A Busy Start to a Busy Day for DeHaan Services
DeHaan Services business card
After attending to personal business (read: shovelling a bit of snow), DeHaan Services has a very likely prospect who asked for a quotation, plus two active clients for whom to continue working.
Let's see how the rest of the day goes.
Including finishing some bookkeeping: yet another must-do for an entrepreneur.
Let's see how the rest of the day goes.
Including finishing some bookkeeping: yet another must-do for an entrepreneur.
Environmental Graffiti Articles from the Past
This continuing feature highlights another three animal-oriented items which I had written for Environmental Graffiti in 2010.
How To Fend Off A Bear Attack on Your Car or Home has safety tips, which are best used to prevent the bear from wanting to invade your space.
This has been a news item for North American biologists: Little Brown Bats Versus White-Nose Syndrome: Is Extinction In The Balance? It seems that the bats die of cold or starvation because "white-nose syndrome" wakes them during winter hibernation.
The Lionfish: Florida's Newest and Fiercest Predator addresses a significant concern. Lionfish are an invasive species that can eat through the Caribbean native fish population quite handily.
How To Fend Off A Bear Attack on Your Car or Home has safety tips, which are best used to prevent the bear from wanting to invade your space.
This has been a news item for North American biologists: Little Brown Bats Versus White-Nose Syndrome: Is Extinction In The Balance? It seems that the bats die of cold or starvation because "white-nose syndrome" wakes them during winter hibernation.
The Lionfish: Florida's Newest and Fiercest Predator addresses a significant concern. Lionfish are an invasive species that can eat through the Caribbean native fish population quite handily.
Image of 'Lionfish in Baltimore Tank' by [email protected]
Suite 101 Articles from the Past
Image of an attacking shark by mikebaird
Here are three more of my Suite 101 articles published in 2010.
Caffeine And Sugar In Energy Drinks: A New Health Crisis? outlines health concerns for people who use this kind of energy boost.
Which Deadly Poisonous Octopus Threatens People? discusses one particular octopus that had been featured in the news.
Despite South Africa's rules for adventure tourism, Training Sharks in South Africa: the Cage Diving Controversy discusses some very real dangers in chumming to attract sharks for cage divers to observe.
Caffeine And Sugar In Energy Drinks: A New Health Crisis? outlines health concerns for people who use this kind of energy boost.
Which Deadly Poisonous Octopus Threatens People? discusses one particular octopus that had been featured in the news.
Despite South Africa's rules for adventure tourism, Training Sharks in South Africa: the Cage Diving Controversy discusses some very real dangers in chumming to attract sharks for cage divers to observe.
Tweaking Old Suite 101 and Squidoo Articles
Image of 'Empty Room' by gary j wood
A few days ago, I realized that my "Bed Bug" articles had deliberately avoided suggesting the use of chemical pesticides by the home owner or apartment dweller. Since some people will try to handle that problem on their own, I decided to mention the use of pyrethroid insecticides, and to suggest the proper safety precautions.
Suite 101 permits easy updating. I just went into edit mode, and inserted the change along with the "update date" and a new reference link. Clicking the "publish" button finishes the job.
Squidoo is just as simple. Since that lens is about the mattress protectors, I simply updated the text that already pointed to the Suite 101 article and mentioned the pyrethroid insecticide.
My lowest-ranking Squidoo lens is a feature on one particular furniture manufacturer. Without knowing why Squidoo did not like that lens, I decided to jazz it up with a couple of new images. My approach had been to have image-free paragraphs, so the Amazon pictures would dominate. I added an image to a few of the paragraphs that had no Amazon follow-up sections. The "Empty Room" image, above, shows how a room might appear with no furniture at all.
I keep a spreadsheet with a separate worksheet for each article site where I publish. Each has a "date when written". The Environmental Graffiti worksheet has a very useful "Date Published" column, because of their editorial delay. Suite 101 and Squidoo have no editorial delays...well, Suite 101 could retract an article if an editor flags it after it is initially published...so the "Date Published" column is not very useful. However, in my Squidoo worksheet, that column is now "Date Last Revised". Because these pages point to items currently for sale at Amazon, it is absolutely vital to revisit each lens on a regular basis.
Suite 101 permits easy updating. I just went into edit mode, and inserted the change along with the "update date" and a new reference link. Clicking the "publish" button finishes the job.
Squidoo is just as simple. Since that lens is about the mattress protectors, I simply updated the text that already pointed to the Suite 101 article and mentioned the pyrethroid insecticide.
My lowest-ranking Squidoo lens is a feature on one particular furniture manufacturer. Without knowing why Squidoo did not like that lens, I decided to jazz it up with a couple of new images. My approach had been to have image-free paragraphs, so the Amazon pictures would dominate. I added an image to a few of the paragraphs that had no Amazon follow-up sections. The "Empty Room" image, above, shows how a room might appear with no furniture at all.
I keep a spreadsheet with a separate worksheet for each article site where I publish. Each has a "date when written". The Environmental Graffiti worksheet has a very useful "Date Published" column, because of their editorial delay. Suite 101 and Squidoo have no editorial delays...well, Suite 101 could retract an article if an editor flags it after it is initially published...so the "Date Published" column is not very useful. However, in my Squidoo worksheet, that column is now "Date Last Revised". Because these pages point to items currently for sale at Amazon, it is absolutely vital to revisit each lens on a regular basis.