Art Speck wishes all his loyal readers a happy, healthy and peaceful Christmas.

I’m very fortunate to have a Special Wife who takes care of all this stuff, and all I’ve had to worry about is choosing a special Christmas Box for her, which I have done already, and she has no clue about it. She thinks it will be gift cards again.

My good fortune does not stop there though, for this year we will have all the family together for the first time in decades. How lucky a guy am I?

I sincerely hope you get to be as fortunate as I am this Christmas, and if you still need to find that perfect Christmas Box for someone special and do better than giving gift cards, here is my advice:

Desperately searching for the “RIGHT” Christmas Box and cannot decide?

Why not settle for giving gift cards, boring as a Christmas Box I know, but did you know if you are in the USA you can now buy gift cards for Amazon,

ITunes Gift Card Christmas Box

restaurants, Kohl’s, iTunes, Home Depot, Starbucks, SUBWAY, American Eagle, Aeropostale, Chili’s, Applebee’s, Outback Steakhouse and lots more, everyone seems to have a program for gift cards now. Check GIFT CARDS out here.

Pocket camcorders are very low on price this Christmas while being very high on features such as Full HD. Click the link for a selection of Full HD WATERPROOF pocket camcorders under $100.

Christmas Box List

If you need to appear cool and have no idea what to buy as a Christmas Box for anyone of any age and gift cards just won’t fit the bill, here’s a link to the biggest selection of gifts ON EARTH all in one place.

Best wishes to you and yours, and let’s all believe there is an end in sight to these grim times, now that would be a very special Christmas Box.

While in Fl, during our recent Orlando Florida vacation, we passed through Kissimmee going west along the 192 and came to Celebration resort, a new town built near Walt Disney world, just south of Old Town on the 192.

We saw someone riding a Segway, and met Dale, the owner of Segway Orlando in the Disney area, and learned that he gives private tours around the town of Celebration.

We knew that Disney Florida offered Segway tours, but ruled this out because of the high cost. So imagine our delight when we learned that Dale offers Segway tours for less than half of what others might charge.

We signed up straight away, and were given a tour around the lake at the end of Main Street, Celebration. To say we enjoyed it immensely is an understatement, the thrill of zooming along paved pathways in total silence, all without effort other than leaning forward to accelerate, and standing up straight to slow down or stop, made the tour so enjoyable and allowed us to take in the great views of wildlife and the varied scenery.

The tour came to an end all too soon, so we decided we would return for the 90 minute tour which was on offer, at a later date.

We thought we had been on most of the Orlando attractions, but of all of them this was the greatest and one of the cheapest fun things to do in the Orlando Fl area.

So, there we were, just a week later, back for more fun on the Segway.

With a party of 5, we toured many small lakes, mostly on paved walkways, with Dale pointing out all the wildlife, the many great multi-million $ homes, taking us from one lake to another over a series of raised boardwalks through wooded areas over swampland.

The Segway is just so easy to ride that we were free to appreciate all the beauty which the area has. Dale is so knowledgeable about the area, giving you a great insight into the best that Celebration has to offer.

Alas, 90 minutes passed by all too quickly, and we were back at the lake at the bottom of Main Street.

All I can say to anyone who visits Orlando in the Celebration area is to seek Dale out from his website www.zetours.com and book up for a unique thrill of your life.

Watch a video of the Segway x2 Golf Cart

We made a video of our trip through the Dora Canal, Orlando Florida which you can view here on Youtube.

There is another new tool just released to help you make money via the internet, but this one taps into the businesses in your local area.

It is said that over 90% of all small businesses have very little knowledge about Internet marketing, and this program trains you how to capitalise on that.

Jim Cockrum is the man behind this, he developed the idea after small businesses in his home town began seeking him out for help with the most basic of Internet business strategies and they are willing to pay him up to $750/hourly for his advice.

Now Jim is offering to train anyone how to make the same sort of money by simply signing up to his site Offline Biz

By acting now, you can get membership at no cost, but act fast as this will change soon!

You can check out just what’s on offer by reading a free 44 page report, and also take a look at the forum to see how others are making big bucks already.

If you can create a sales page, add an opt-in box, construct a mini-site, and add simple SEO, you can make huge amounts of money quickly with this business idea.

Even if you don’t know how to do any of the above that’s no problem to Jim, he’ll tell you everything you need to know!

Start right now by telling people today that you are a Professional eMarketing Consultant. You already know far more than 95% of the business owners in your area and there’s nothing you can’t either do yourself or outsource to get it done for them!

Offline Biz

Did you know that a Tilde is the squiggly character sitting on your keyboard looking like this ~ located to the left of the number 1 and above the ‘ key on the US keyboard, and above the # key on a UK keyboard?

More to the point, do you know it’s use?
Basically, it’s to find associated keywords used on your site.

In the Google search bar, enter ~toys (or any keyword used on your site) and hit search.
All associated keywords to yours will be highlighted in blue.
In my example, toys, games and toy store are highlighted.

Try this with your own keywords and have some fun.

Ever wondered when Google spidered your site last, or if it’s even found your site yet?

In the Google search box again, type cache:www.artspeck.com but of course replace the name of my site with your own.

The screen which appears will show your page as it was when Google last crawled your site,
with a box of text above it showing a first line something like this:

This is G o o g l e’s cache of http://www.artspeck.com/ as retrieved on 17 Feb 2008 03:28:52 GMT.

Hopefully you will get something like this, which proves that Google knows about your site.

Finally for now, if you have a site with multiple pages, you need to know if Google has found and indexed them all.

In the Google search box, type site:kasimba.com replacing kasimba with the name of your site.

In the example given, it shows that www.kasimba.com has 9 pages, all of which are indexed.

Now go back and use the tilde to check when each and every one of your pages were indexed.

Thanks for reading my Internet-Business-Blog,

Art