2012 – Slinky Life

Container Gardening – A New Way To Small Space Gardening

Container gardening is also referred as pot gardening; itis the process of growing plants, such as edible plants completely in containers instead of using the ground. A container used in gardening for various flowers, plants of different types, vegetables. We use pot, box, tub, basket or a hanging basket for container gardening.

Pots are made of plastic normally; we use Small pots for flowers and in growing some vegetables, we prefer the bigger ones. This method is useful where we find the climate unsuitable for the plants. When we transfer these plants from one pot to another small or large pot, then the process is known as Re-potting. This process depends on the size of their root system.

December 31, 2012Home & Garden, LifestyleBy Slinky Life

Singles facing hard luck in finding a date

Single and ready to mingle but finding it tough to find a date? If you have spent days trying to find a date or have always faced rejection, it is time you take a look at yourself. You need not be drop-dead gorgeous or a hunk to lure attention. However, the way you carry yourself makes a big difference. There are several singles that fail to realize the reason why they don’t get a second look or can’t hold on a guy’s attention.

The reason behind some singles not even getting a first look is their personality. It is a fact that you are judged by the way your appearance. You have to look pleasing and carry yourself smartly. Take a look at your personality. Go in for a make over and change your appearance.

December 22, 2012Lifestyle, RelationshipsBy Slinky Life

Online Security – An Important Aspect Of A Dating Site

Online dating is widely accepted and has gained immense popularity. Everyday there are several people across the globe that register with popular dating sites to seek their dream date.

There are numerous success stories of couples that have made it through online dating sites.

However, at the same time there are several other online fraudulent activities that have come to light.

Other than several advantages that online dating sites have, it also has a negative side, if certain security measures are not followed.

Although online dating is fun, exciting, and an easy way to find your perfect date, you need to be careful, before disclosing any information about yourself. As you do not see the person, you never know who is at the other computer.

There are many false accounts being tracked on the dating sites. There are a few black sheep that log on only to be prey on vulnerable people. Be very careful when you register on any dating website. Do not be use any site that has no guidelines and security measures in place.

December 19, 2012Lifestyle, RelationshipsBy Slinky Life

Train Your Child to be Tidy – Painlessly

Most children are not naturally tidy. They love to get all those blocks or other toys out to play with, but they don’t like the job of picking them up off the floor and putting them away. Unless they are taught to put their clothes away, they will no doubt stay on the floor or wherever they landed when taken off.

Training your child to be tidy need not be a hassle, but be warned; if you are not tidy yourself, don’t expect your child to be. Children copy what their parents do and if they live in an untidy environment will see no reason to be any different. That said, most parents realise that life is easier and more pleasant when the home is relatively tidy. At least they don’t waste time or get frustrated looking for important things that just disappear into the general mess.

December 10, 2012Lifestyle, ParentingBy Slinky Life

Dating advice for teens

Dating has no age limit, and you shall find several teens talking about their newly found love. The rate at which teens are dating is quite alarming. At the same time, the rate at which little gals are falling pregnant and face other problems has increased tenfold. Thus, it is important that teens are given proper guidance and advice on dating in this vulnerable age. With teens being stubborn, it is a tricky situation to explain the importance of safe dating to them.

As a teenager, most guys and girls are interested in exploring their sexuality. The rate at which young girls are conceiving is simply high. Majority of teenagers have repented for experience sex at an unwanted stage of life. Most pecks and kisses take a turn into brave sexual behavior that can take a toll on your happy life. As a teenager, it is good to like someone and date him/her. However there are certain limitations that you should not ignore. All the precautionary measures are for your own good that you may not realize being a teenager.

November 25, 2012Lifestyle, RelationshipsBy Slinky Life

Window Replacements For A Living Room Makeover

A living room is a room where we spend our most precious moments. Its decoration always plays a vital part to complete our living in the home. We often thought about making a change in our living room decor but because of lack of time and ideas; we don’t consider doing it.

Now, if you have considered doing it, then there are several elements to work upon. But the most important element in a living room is Windows. We often do everything for a living room makeover but most of the times it’s the windows that we ignore.

Window is the Face of the Homes

Windows are the key ingredient of a room; it plays many parts rather than just looking outside or letting the sun rays in. If you really want to get a perfect living room, then you should give a try to few of these windows decorating tips that can make you feel awesome:

November 15, 2012Home & Garden, LifestyleBy Slinky Life

3 Reasons Why Carpet is a Good Choice for Children

If you are having your home built or doing a renovation, flooring is one of the essential components to decide about. What kind of flooring do you like best that will suit your budget and your lifestyle? And don’t forget to think about your future needs. For instance, a young working couple may think their life will go on as it is for many years and before long the removalists are called. It may well do so, but usually couples have children sooner or later and what suits your lifestyle now may not suit it then. Here are 3 reasons why carpet is a good choice for children.

It is safer

Hardwood, vinyl and tiles may seem like a great flooring choice for children, but if you’ve never had any there are some things you may not realise. Sure, babies and children are messy little creatures and likely to throw up on the floor at any given time. Hard floors are much easier to clean than carpet, but they can do damage to your child that carpet never would. How?

Toddlers and little children fall over all the time. Toddlers especially love to climb up on things and often fall off them if you turn your back for two seconds. A fall onto hard tile or even timber can give them concussion or break a limb. Many children break an arm or split a lip from falling off the settee onto a hard floor.

Babies can roll over while you are reaching for the powder after changing their diaper. If they are on a change table, it is a long way down to that hard floor. Carpets don’t break; children do.

October 16, 2012Home & Garden, ParentingBy Slinky Life

How To Create The Perfect Landing Page

A great landing page can drastically change the results you see from your website. This is an area that you can’t afford to just throw together: it is your first impression. People tend to decide whether they want to continue browsing your site with just a glance at your landing page. These four tips will guide you in the right direction, and help retain your visitors.

1) The right amount of copy: Information overload can be a serious issue for your landing page. Too much copy and your visitors may go running for the hills, straight into the arms of your competitors. One way to make sure your copy is as concise as can be is to thoroughly consider your audience, and have different pages that explain the benefits of your service(s) or product(s) catered to each. For example, if your product was an at-home t-shirt logo maker, it would be difficult to appeal to universities, businesses, individuals, and event organizers all at once. Keep the message as personal as possible. Also keep in mind that paragraphs of text don’t tend to convert very well, as visitors tend to scan and move on.

Consider adding “lightboxes” to your website. These are the windows that open up on your landing page and dim the background text. These pop-up windows only appear when the visitor prompts them to, and gives them more information on a particular topic. This keeps the page clean and concise and allows the visitor to only see the extra information they want to see.

October 11, 2012Getting OnlineBy Slinky Life

How to Reduce the Chlorine in Your Pool

When you have a swimming pool that uses chlorine to destroy bacteria and make the water ‘safe’ to swim in, there are ways to reduce the amount of chlorine used. After all, this chemical and its by-products are actually hazardous to human health and is known to be carcinogenic, among other things. One way to reduce the need for so much of it is to ensure the pool is cleaned regularly. An automatic cleaner can take care of this onerous chore, leaving you free to enjoy your leisure time.

While the automatic pool cleaner crawls around the pool gobbling up algae and debris, you may have time to read about other methods of reducing the toxic soup that you have to use in the pool. One way is to use a salt pool. This reduces the amount of chlorine only slightly and it can rust out any metal fittings. It can also have a detrimental effect on pool cleaners.

October 9, 2012Home & GardenBy Slinky Life

Understanding Brand Management

We can’t stress enough how important it is to understand brand management. What exactly is brand management? It’s the strategy behind the way you expect people to perceive your brand. This requires the right kind of formula: you want to remain true to your brand, while offering consumer insights. A report from Aberdeen Group and Oracle recently found that 74% of CMOs considered brand awareness to be a top priority.

Understand the Essence of Your Brand

What needs does your product or service solve? What are you trying to achieve? How can you help your visitors? These are all questions that are the essence and truth of your brand, and you need to evaluate them before making any steps forward. Try this brand exercise: answer the following customer question in one or two sentences, as if you were speaking to them directly:

What is [insert company name] and why do I need it?

The answer to this question should clearly state what the brand is, what questions it answers, and what sets it apart from competitors.

September 25, 2012Business AdviceBy Slinky Life

Tips For Pitching the Media

There are many different ways that you can use the media to build excitement about your business. Once you’ve identified the key ways to go about marketing your business to the public, it’s time to start pitching. But this is easier said than done: the media rejects roughly 95% of the pitches they receive. At the start, it seems the odds are against you, but there are a few key things you can do to capture their attention.

Do Your Research

Seems easy enough, but the media are constantly inundated with pitches for products or services they would not normally cover. This is why your research is important: you need to have a thorough understanding of the type of content they cover.

Many publications have an editorial calendar–particularly big name magazines. Once you have created a list of media sources you’d like to pitch, check each website for its calendar. For example, if you run a service that helps empower businesswomen, you may want to pitch Glamour magazine in September for their December “Women of the Year” issue (magazines plan 3-4 months in advance).

Know who you are emailing. Your emails are less likely to get read when you’re sending to a general email and not a personal one. It isn’t hard to figure out the names of journalists who could potentially be interested in what you have to offer. Once you’ve come up with a target list of ideal publications, begin checking out bylines belonging to stories that fit the industry or niche you’re a part of. These are the people you want to reach out to: those who have a vested interest in what you’re promoting.

June 20, 2012Business AdviceBy Slinky Life

8 Valuable Health Benefits Of Drinking Wine Everyday

Wines are alcoholic beverages formed from the fermentation of grapes. Wine is a highly healthy beverage when taken in a controlled quantity. Whereas wines of other fruits too are being produced but grapes wine amongst all is more popular due to its scintillating taste and healthy effects.

The color of wine depends on the color of grapes from which wine is produced but mainly depends on the color of peel. Wine in limited quantity helps in curing various health concern and its adverse effects are only diagnose when taken in excess.

1 ounce of wine for a female and two to 3 ounces of glass for man is the adequate amount that is prolific for human beings. It does not harm pregnant women also if taken in little quantity.

Health Benefits of Wine

May 24, 2012Food & Wine, LifestyleBy Slinky Life

Four Different Types of Scaffolding

Builders are not the only ones to need a temporary work platform to construct or maintain a project. There are many different types of scaffolding structures to do the job, but four major types. In addition, within each type there can be the classification of light, medium or heavy duty scaffolding, depending on the job to be done. Light scaffolding holds just a few workers and hand tools; medium supports workers, hand tools and materials, while heavy duty is used for workers, hand tools and stored materials, which means it is strong enough to support sustained weight.

May 1, 2012Home & Garden, LifestyleBy Slinky Life

How to Get the Kind of Outdoor Furniture You Admired in Bali

If you’ve recently returned from an enjoyable holiday to Bali, there are sure to be many memories about what you did and saw during your time in that popular tourist destination. Many people enjoy the varied shopping opportunities and the cheaper prices. They stock up on clothes and many other things. But what if you’ve seen outdoor furniture to die for and had no idea how to get it home?

In fact, it is difficult to import furniture from such a place when you have no experience and no importer’s license. But that doesn’t mean you have to go without. If you are planning on having a beautiful outdoor area complete with comfortable furniture that you can use for rest and relaxation after a hard day’s work, then Bali or Indonesian alfresco furniture would be ideal for it.

April 8, 2012Home & GardenBy Slinky Life

Professional Carpet Cleaning vs DIY

If your carpet is looking a bit grubby, or you are moving house and the removalists have just left, you might decide to shampoo it properly. You can lease a machine and go ahead, or you could hire professional carpet cleaners in Perth, but which is the best option? Here are some pros and cons to help you decide.

DIY carpet cleaning

Firstly, if you go ahead with DIY carpet cleaning you will need to lease or purchase the carpet shampoo machine. Add to this the cost of the cleaning product to go in it and the time it will take for you to do the job. Do you have a spare day or two? Because once you have the machine in the house and have cleaned one room, all the others will look grubby in comparison and you will want to clean every room with carpet.

February 16, 2012Home & GardenBy Slinky Life

How To Get Subscribers In 5 Easy Steps

Getting email subscribers for your mailing list can provide a huge boost to your business. The costs for running a blog can add up when you factor in advertising, hosting, image purchasing, graphics, SEO experts, writer’s fees, and other miscellaneous purchases. If you aren’t doing your best to maximize your return on investment, running a blog or website can become more costly than beneficial. For many websites that sell products and services, the subscriber list is crucial.

Here are a few tips on getting more subscribers:

1) Sell your email list. Simply putting a form on your website that allows visitors to sign up will not do the trick—especially when you’re looking for long term results. Your landing page should discuss the benefits of becoming a subscriber and the value you offer. Use social media and guest posts to further propel this.

2) Offer free thing. Offering your site visitors incentives to subscribe works very well for your email list. This can include a free e-book or course that offers insightful information and will keep the subscriber coming back. A service like Aweber hosts your email list and sends out free materials upon subscribing.

3) Advertise. To get your name out there, it could be very useful to advertise via Google and social media platforms with strong advertising models, like Facebook. Set your budget and only pay what you can afford to advertise. With so many different options for placing advertisements, there’s no reason not to give it a try.

February 9, 2012Getting OnlineBy Slinky Life

4 Steps To Hiring the Right People

The hiring process can be expensive, time consuming, and draining. It’s no surprise that the right team can make or break your company. Hiring the right people, especially in your business’s early stages, is imperative. One mistake, particularly for smaller companies, can prove to be a huge hindrance to growth. Remember: Great companies, services, and products are driven by people.

1.) Create A Marketing Plan
If you create a marketing plan for your business, why not create one for your recruitment process? The goal is to increase the volume of applicants and attract the right people. This plan should include a clear definition of who the ideal candidate is and what you’ll need to do to achieve your goals and bring in those types of candidates. You should also prepare a list of things you’ll need to do to achieve those goals. This list might include creating targeted ads on LinkedIn, a thorough jobs page on your website, or promoting the position via social media and AngelList.

2.) Maintain Culture Fit
Culture fit is something you do not want to compromise. This doesn’t mean that you should hire people that you could see yourself being best friends with; rather, you’re hiring people whose values and interests mirror that of the company’s. By having the same values, it becomes easier to cultivate organic friendships and working relationships. Keep in mind that company culture fit comes first, and social fit comes second. These new hires will also shape the culture fit of the future, as they will eventually have to hire candidates themselves.

January 16, 2012Business AdviceBy Slinky Life

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