We all spend hours on the internet visiting friends, associates, and business web sites. Most of us spend our time engaging in, or attempting to engage in, some form of virtual interaction with individuals, groups, and businesses. From the entrepreneur to small business owner to even those of us with new inventions in mind, the goal is to hook up with individuals, other small businesses and/or larger firms, yes?

However, during these tough economic times, individuals and businesses have seen the need to cut back on their amount of travel, which can often have a devastating impact on your company’s bottom line.

Yet, the majority of us are aware that nothing will ever really take the place of that face-to-face meeting. That’s where the British Airways Business Opportunity Grant steps in! (more…)

Okay, this one is almost for the record books. How many times have you seen a contest that didn’t involve U.S. citizens; one that specifically targets all you lucky folk living in Canada?

Stouffers-panini is promoting one incredible, global-taste-inspired contest with awesome prizes. The only thing I regret is not being able to enter this one for myself. (more…)

In early July, AT&T soft-launched a website geared specifically for the small business owner. Taking and implementing input from both small and large companies, their new AT&T Small Business InSite was born!

A visit to their new look reveals a very easy to navigate website. Clean and concise, it’s easy to see why AT&T is known worldwide.

But this isn’t just about a new website look, it’s also about your opportunity to enter to win a complete small business makeover from this giant!

The Grand Prize is remarkable, with a products and service package that includes: (more…)

Here’s a fun post for today that might start with the quote from Body Heat, “I’ll talk to you if you don’t talk about the heat.” (Hopefully that’s close.)

While that’s a favorite saying around our house here in Las Vegas, it still doesn’t prevent me from wearing my most favorite of all things… demin.

I live and breathe demin jeans. So this morning when I can across the Armani Exchange website, I had the opportunity to play around and create my own style (my other passions are tee shirts and handbags) which I’ll show you below. Keep in mind we’re not talking off the rack. Armani Exchange has “New Premium Denim starting at $98″ – yes Armani

I had to start, of course, with their J57 grey straight leg jeans. I choose grey, but they also have J57 in potassium straight leg. I considered the J11 Indigo Destruction Skinny Leg as a third potential, but I really prefer low rise jeans. They just fit better and look better on me.

I then was able to move into the “dressing room” and start putting shirts with jeans (or you can pick shorts, skirts, whatever), and adding accessories. I finally settled for a cool handbag (reference my passion above lol!).

Here’s the final result which should give you a fairly good idea about what I truly enjoy wearing. Give me a great pair of jeans that look cool, throw in an amazing top, and round it off with a stunning – very summer-like – handbag and voila!

Then I did some more digging around on their web site and discovered Armani is giving away a pair of demin every day throughout July. All you need to do is text A|X. Enter the keyword “DENIM2″ to ARMANI (276264). It’s that easy.

In fact, after visiting and putting together your ideal outfit or just purchasing a full price pair of denim from Armani Exchange, in store or online, between 7/7/09 – 7/19/09, and you will receive a gift card for $20 off your next purchase of $100 or more. And that gift card is valid from 7/30/09 through 8/15/09. Nice!

Let’s face it who wouldn’t want to wear Armani if the price is right. Street-chic, casual, sophisticated and affordable.

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