You don’t have to wait on long lines this coming Black Friday to get great deals on the items you want. Amazon.com is rolling out daily deals as early as Monday November 23, 2009.
Black Friday is easily the biggest shopping day of the year. Masses of people will gather at department store doors, across the country in the early hours of the morning eager to grab the limited supply of supper discount deals.
Some people may find a certain alure in getting up the day after Thanksgiving at the crack of dawn to possibly grab that coveted deal that only comes around once a year. It’s also a chance to get a jump start on the Christmas holiday shopping.
Yet Black Friday hasn’t been without it’s list of horror stories though, with of out-of-control mobs trampling people in a heated rush to get an advantage over other zealous shoppers. Some might even suggest Black Friday shopping has gotten completely out of hand in recent years because of the lack of security and order.
There’s probably no better security than shopping in the comfort of your own home. Amazon.com is hoping shoppers take the safe route this year by starting their Black Friday shopping early by visiting their site.
You can check out the Amazon.com Black Friday Page here @ www.amazon.com/blackfriday. The everyday deals starts Monday, November 23, 2009.
5 Tips on How to make the best out of Black friday?
1) Don’t spend more money then you have. Buy only things you really need.
2) Use cash if possible. You will not be getting a deal if you use credit cards. Think of the interest you will pay evey month.
3) Make sure the store has plenty of security. Just in case someone tries to snatch the last blue-ray player out of your hand.
4) Just don’t buy something because it’s cheap. Go for quality merchandise that will last and keep your receipt.
5) You can always shop online.
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If you happen to travel often and enjoy racking up frequent flyer mile points as well send the occasional bouquet of flowers then this sweepstakes is for you.
FTD.com has teamed up with United Airlines to offer five prizes of one million miles each in the “Win a Million Miles Sweepstakes”.
To enter the contest is easy. All you have to do is visit www.ftd.com during the Sweepstakes Entry Period now through December 20, 2009, and sign-up for FTD Reminders.
To qualify for one sweepstakes entry, new participants registering for FTD Reminders for the first time must provide three “reminder” dates.
Exisiting FTD Reminder customers must add three new “reminder” dates to their account to be eligable. No purchase is necessary to enter to win, and a purchase will not improve your chance of winning.
Each of the five Grand Prize winners will receive 1, 000, 000 United Mileage Plus® Redeemable Miles from United Airlines in the form of a frequent flyer miles award. Approximate Retail Value of each Grand Prize is US $20, 000.
Five Grand Prize winners will be selected in a random drawing on or about December 21, 2009 from among all eligible entries received. The odds of winning depends on the total number of eligible entries received. You must be a U.S. resident 18 years or older to enter and you can only enter the sweepstakes once.
Entry Page: http://reminders.ftd.com/sweepstakes.asp
Every now then you come across some strange yet amazing pictures on the web. What these pictures do, is illustrate the vast creativity of the human mind and how if we challenge our thinking we can take the normal and mundane and make it much more.
Imagine applying the same principle to your own life or business and how you can reinvigerate excitement to what ordinarily would not get as much as a second glance. Images like this must reawaken something inside you, stir your sensibilities to the idea of limitless possibilities.
Here is the work of both nature and scientist:
Halloween Flowers are a great way to celebrate this spooky time of year. From scary costumes, decorated homes with spooky effects, horror movie marathons and the hordes of trick-or-treaters knocking on your door, even flowers can play a roll in this festive holiday.
If you are having a Halloween party or celebrating a Halloween birthdays, or you just need to add some extra pizazz to your indoor Halloween decorations check out this spooky floral selection.
If you scare easily then maybe these aren’t for you. But if you love the Halloween season these are definitely fun and frightful.
If these aren’t the best Halloween Flowers around post a link and share it here. These arrangments are from online florist fromyouflowers.com.
The Thanksgiving holdiay is just around the corner. With Teleflora you can add a touch of elegance to your dinner table with a world famous Lenox bone china accented with 24k gold, along with Lenox flatware and crystal stemware by entering in the Teleflora’s Gather Round the Table Sweepstakes.
There will be 10 grand-prize winners that will be chosen to receive Lenox Fruitiffero China including a 4-piece place setting for twelve, Stemware for twelve and Flatware for twelve. Each grand prize is worth a whopping $3,000. 
In addition, 100 first-prize winners will receive a Thanksgiving Platter worth $200. The best part is that there is no purchase necessary to enter the contest.
If your Thanksgiving diner table in the past has been a little less than extraordinary give your self a chance to dine in style. If the turkey diner doen’t leave the best impression at least the china set will.
Teleflora also has a Thanksgiving centerpiece to boot that comes with a ceramic sauce boat keepsake, that is a sculpted leaf design, FDA-approved for food.
To enter the Gather Round the Table Sweepstakes you need to be a resident of the US and Canada aged 18 and above. Enter the sweepstakes once before December 11, 2009.
Have you noticed! 1-800-flowers.com has revamped it’s website and logo. The new 1-800-flowers features not only a new brand image and redesign but the introduction of the newly intergrated brand of 1-800-baskets.com to complement the floral offerrings.
Martha Stewart was the most recent adjustment to 1-800-flowers.com about a year ago when they – 1-800-flowers and Martha Stewart floral – merged to create a co branded label for Ms. Stewarts designer floral arrangments.
As you can see here 1-800-flowers love to develop and connect consumers with a brand. In this case two recognizable brands.
Most online florist don’t rebrand their line of gift baskets from the floral bouquets but 1-800-flowers has taken the opportunity to actually distinguish its gift basket offerings to complement it’s ubiquitous brand name. It’s perhaps an ingenious idea to get cutomers to start thinking gift baskets as a seperate entity.
Gifts and gifts baskets is a large consumer market and what better way to establish yourself in the market but by getting consumers to connect with a brand name for that market. Walmart may sell toys but Toys R’ Us specializes in toys.
The redesign breaks down as many pieces of the total of what 1-800-flowers has to offer consumers. You still get the basic line up of floral bouquets with their steady price point.
Check it out for yourself and tell me what you think?
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and you can support CancerCare for kids buy buying, baking or sending cupcakes through www.cupcakesforacause.org.
In 2004 CancerCare launched its Cupcakes for a Cause program to provide free support services to children affected by cancer and their families with the help of a group of bakeries selling specialty decorated cupcakes.
Now a week long event bakeries around the country are selling their specialty cupcakes and donating a portion of sales to the CancerCare for Kids program. This event has had tremendous success but can always do better. The 2008 Cupcakes for a Cause campaign raised nearly $120,000 for CancerCare for Kids.
This year will mark the 6th Annual Cupcakes for a Cause™ Week which will be held September 21–27, 2009. The campaign has expanded to include participating BloomNet florists parent of 1-800-Flowers.com, who will be selling its signature Cupcake in Bloom™ arrangement and donating 10% of net proceeds from its sales. Click below to find out where you can buy cupcakes or the Cupcake in Bloom™ near you. Participating florists
When you send a virtual cupcake through CupCakes for Cause 1-800-FLOWERS.COM® will donate $1 for each e-cupcake sent,up to a total of $5,000 USD, through 9/30/09. You can also support Cupcakes for a Cause online by shopping the exclusive 1-800-FLOWERS.COM® Cupcakes for a Cause collection from 9/1-9/30/09. 10% of net proceeds from select floral and edible cupcake products and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM best-sellers, benefit CancerCare for Kids.
The Retail Bakers of America (RBA) is also a proud supporter of Cupcakes for a Cause™
Get Free Flowers from FTD florist. That’s right FREE!
In honor of FTD Good Neighbor Day 2009, taking place on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, hundreds of select FTD florists across the U.S. are celebrating by holding local events, delevoping sponsor relationships and most of all spreading a message of friendship and kindness through the distribution of free flower arrangments. Get a list of particapting florist here or go to FTD® Good Neighbor Day® 2009
FTD florists have celebrated FTD® Good Neighbor Day® since 1994 in effort to encourage people to be give flowers to create a more caring and compassionate world. Customers are encouraged to keep one flower for themselves and give the others away — brightening the day of many other people.
Will you celebrate The FTD Good Neighbor Day?
