Equinox Fitness is a significant cut above your typical gym. Their site makes it apparent that they take fitness from “Life Decision” to “Lifestyle.” The reason Equinox stands out is because this facility provides more than just your standard weights and other workout equipment. This facility provides an entire system of amenities that treat more than the body, they focus on the health of the mind as well. I thought i had seen some nice facilities in my time, but this place takes the cake. As such, members of this posh facility will experience a truly life changing experience by partaking in all it has to offer.

Anyone that comes to the site will instantly become aware of the slick design and focus of the site. That focus is the customer. Almost all fitness sites I’ve gone to confuse their members with information not relevant to what their needs are. This site really keeps it simple by allowing the reader to choose where they want to go as opposed to forcing something down their throats. This creates a comfortable experience, and one that users will want to repeat.

Considering how much this fitness facility has to offer, it allows the broad general links at the top to tell the story. Everything else related is systematically divided amongst the links across the top leaving the front page free of clutter. Moving across the site is fluid, using amazing photography and complimenting typography. I’m further amazed at the brevity used in listing their numerous services.

I was at first turned off by the concept of their changing backgrounds colors starting from the “Yoga” link. That would have been the only downfall that I would have pointed out, but afer looking at the logo, i noticed that it was cut in half, separated by a fine line, and those colors are reflected in the background transition. Was this intentional? Whether it is or not, irrelevant, it works, it’s functional, I like it.

While this fitness establishment might seem on the higher end of quality, it would appear that every cent is worth it. There’s more of an investment for your life here rather then just the standard lifting weights and run on a treadmill. They are located in most major metropolitan areas but expanding rapidly. Keep an eye out for this facility, enjoy surfing their site, and make the investment in your life!

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This is how hyperwebenable.com distinguishes itself as a unique and FREE blogging service by providing bloggers with a complete web domain(yoursitename.com) compared to other service providers allowing only sub domain names(yoursitename.blogspot.com), and charging extra for site name, space and hosting. In addition, if you need help getting started, Hyperwebenable.com will help you build your blog or website through a quick and easy site building process. Also, gone are the days of forced ad hostings, bloggers are free to place their own ads on their own blog.

Here are the main benefits that comes with your free account at Hyperwebenable:

	1. Free website of your choice (yoursitename.com)
	2. Free Email service for your blog
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It’s amazing how expensive rugs can be. Something people walk all over, treaded on daily by feet and shoes alike, but ultimately being able to tie a room design together, or add color to an otherwise monochromatic coloring in the room. The versatility is endless, the sizes, shapes, and colors are just as diverse.

Superior Rugs appears to be the equivalent of an online outlet store for all of your rug needs. I love rugs, I have like four of them in my home. Navigation on this site is quite intuitive, especially when you are looking for discount deals. I especially like their immediate highlight of the rugs they offer on Clearance with up to 80% off. The links at the top help further support the site once you’ve wondered in.

This site is especially tailored towards making it easy for shoppers to purchase a rug. Aesthetics aside, I just want to find what I’m looking for and find the price. This is where Superior Rugs is at its best. It’s easy to see the rug photos, sizes and pricing. You click on the image and you’re taken to a larger photo where detail is more evident and more info is provided for the potential buyer. One attribute that should be included is the option that most stores offer, the ability to rank the pricing from “low to high”, “high to low”, all of which would help the buyer on a fixed budget.

Looking over some of the rugs they offer, I don’t doubt they offer high quality rugs, and with their Clearance section, I’d be surprised that someone in the market for rugs would not find something they like there. I was surprised to see that they have announcements via email which is a nice touch to stay in touch with the customer. Might be an excellent way to directly send specials to regular customers who have purchased from them in the past.

One big suggestion I’d like to make is perhaps offering a space where customers can leave feedback. As an online buyer myself, I tend to favor the “word of mouth” arena in terms of level of satisfaction and service. Just a thought, but a good way to keep the customers involved.

In addition, I would breathe some creative juice into the site to get the Site visitors excited about buying rugs. The idea here is to keep their attention span just long enough to stay focus on your best selling items. The worst thing that you can do to your site is to make it appear as if it was hastily designed with little or no creative thought put into the process – like a template that either was purchased and put together quickly, or a shopping cart program that required the site to look a certain away after the plug and play method was attributed.

A good sales landing page should catch the attention of the visitor and have a clear call to action message, therefore being intensively wordy would turned off a potential purchaser. That being said, I would collapse the history of the company that is on the front page into a link. Everything below the halfway point is too wordy. I like how I am given easily identifiable colored buttons that detail just exactly where I will be going when I click on them.

Overall, I found the site to be easily navigatable especially if you are a shopper looking for discount deals. And they do have some really good deals going on all the time.

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Motive Interactive an online advertising company established in 2003 in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, now based out of San Diego, California offers advertising solutions that are innovative and yet simple to use. The hallmark of Motive Interactive success in this highly competitive industry is their attention to detail and their relentless efforts to help publishers maximize their revenue while ensuring that advertisers and agencies reach their targeted audience. Coupled with their unique distribution opportunities and customer service second to none in the industry, Motive Interactive is poised to become a leading force in the Affiliate Marketing Network industry.

Motive Interactive first released their first version of Advent – a groundbreaking Affiliate Marketing Network Platform earlier this year amidst much fanfare. The first version of Advent was more of an Architecture release introducing their performance-based CPA network and performance lead generation platform that featured streamlined campaigns with ease-to-use state of art tools. Now, the Affiliate Marketing world is bracing for its second release – Advent 2.0 - packed with more publisher centric and advertiser features and an enhanced lead generation platform that is truly ahead of its time.

Background

Motive Interactive, like many industry leading companies are not without their secrets of success – it’s the superior intellectual power and experience of their staff that work tirelessly to come up with the next generation of Affiliate Marketing Networking and performance leads generation platform.

Brendan Smith – entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Motive Interactive was quite an accomplished internet marketer himself before joining NetCreations, a leading opt-in email marketing company with direct clients like MSNBC, CNET, ZDNet to name a few. Brendan also brought with him his association with trade and standards organization like Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Lead Generation Committee, and The Online Lead Generation Association (OLGA) where he is a founding member. Motive Interactive Online Advertising Marketing is also blessed with bright engineers and senior management who came from reputable networks like ValueClick Media, DoubleClick, and 24/7.

Features

Advent 2.0 is an advanced performance Ad Network that seamlessly integrates a publisher centric advertising network with a direct performance Leads generation network. Most Affiliate Marketing Network provides one or the other but not both.

It has the following main features that even other Affiliate Marketing Networks envy:

	1. Provides Ad serving, impression, search term tracking capabilities ;it also provides JavaScript and IFRAME conversion tracking.
	2. Highly scalable and adaptable to future enhancements which would enable Motive Interactive to stay ahead of its competition and easily integrate with changes in lead generation industry that is constantly in a fluff.
	3. Multiple Payout Support including commission based sales.
	4. Allocations among individual publisher and advertiser.
	5. Lead routing to multiple advertisers and agencies buyers.
	6. Real time and batched lead processing as well as very flexible and powerful data handling and validation capabilities
	7. Easy to use User Interface that is superior to most Affiliate Marketing Networks

Control Panel/User Interface

Advent 2.0 offers a clean and streamlined User Interface that enables publisher to manage their offers, campaigns and performance statistics quickly and efficiently by sorting them according to CPA, CPA (direct post), and CPS, and filtered by Co-Registration, Email, Incentivized, and Web Placement traffic types.

Advent 2.0 makes heavy use of AJAX – a leading edge technology that allows certain segment of the web page to load without ever the need to refresh – the effect is a rich desktop-like user interface experience for the user. For instance, if you click on one of your offers, the segment of the offer will open up with more information in its place without having to refresh the page or popping up a window like other non-AJAX enabled Affiliate Marketing Networks’ site. If you like what you see, you just click “Apply” to submit your application for the offer. The advantage of this is that you are off to applying for the next offer without ever waiting for a response – this saves you lots of time!!

Also, once you’ve been approved for an offer, selecting the banners and ad creative for it is a breeze with Advent 2.0 Control Panel powered by AJAX technology, by just positioning your mouse over it to see the banner and the Ad Creative. There is no annoying popup all over the place and wasting time waiting for the Banner to load and render itself.

Reports section or Campaign Statistics section in Advent 2.0 enables you to measure important campaign performance metrics across all time periods, campaigns and payouts in multiple perspectives including ‘effective’ perspectives like eCPM and eCPL. Reports can be filtered based on different performance criteria, and can be exported in various popular formats like PDF, EXCEL and CSV.

To enable finer grain of reporting capability based on publishing channels, Advent 2.0 like other Affiliate Marketing Networks also allow the usage of SubID’s to be added to campaign URLs.

Signing Up

The sign up process for a Publisher at Motive Interactive is quick and easy with the minimal of information required to get you started. The approval is sent to you via email within the next 24 hours and it’s usually quicker than that. As with any other Affiliate Marketing Networks, tax forms are required to be completed and faxed in before any payment can be made to you.

You would be assigned an Account Manager at Motive Interactive upon approval, and communicating with your Account Manager is never been easier by opening up a chat window.

Payment

This is an exciting part for all of us and Motive Interactive doesn’t disappoint here. Motive Interactive payout threshold is $50 and it’s paid on a Net-15 basis. Payment can be made to you through check, bank transfer or PayPal. My personal favorite is PayPal which I find is a rather rare payment method among other Affiliate Marketing Networks.

Referral Program

Motive Interactive referral earnings program is 5.5% lifetimes referral earnings.

The referral system is currently being tracked manually with reports each month via a unique referral link and a number of banners are available as well by request – signup to our referral program is usually approved within hours.

With the release of Advent 2.0, full daily, weekly, monthly reports will be available as well as a unique tracking link, and banners available from the referrals tab in off our dashboard. If you already have an account under the old system, don’t fret, it will be automatically moved over to the new referral earnings reporting system.

Rewards Program

In order to reward and encourage affiliates Motive Interactive offer a reward system as well. Same as referral program Motive Interactive will need an icon and link in the side navigation area that takes publisher to a page where they see the stats.

Rewards are paid each month based upon a publisher’s commissions for the previous month.

The reward payout starts at 1% then increases to 2% the higher the tier. The current payout tiers for the rewards program are as follows:

. $1,000 – $10

. $2,500 – $25

. $5,000 – $50

. $10,000 – $100

. $15,000 – $150

. $20,000 – $200

. $25,000 – $250

. $30,000 – $300

. $50,000 – $500

. $100,000 – $1,250

. $150,000 – $2,000

. $200,000 – $3,000

. $500,000 – $10,000

Summary

With it’s ease of use and loads of publisher centric features, doing business on Advent 2.0 is a breeze. There are many offers on Advent that are suitable for monetization on blogs, and I strongly encourage you to sign up for an account.

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The site Wonder, Wealth & Wisdom pulls no punches, it’s obvious the reader has an immediate passion for sharing the wonderment of life and finding purpose; he’s fascinated by wealth and a person’s ability to come to financial understanding in their lives, and finally the wisdom to work towards becoming a better person, ultimately finding enlightenment. Quite honestly the introduction to the site inspires me and drives to want to discover more but two things hinder the process.

First there is no clear understanding of the amazing human being behind this obviously insightful site. The about page talks about the blog…but who is the person sharing this information. I assure you the information is very good, but for a newcomer it might be somewhat comforting to know the background and little about the person who is sharing their thoughts. The disclaimer frees the writer from the readers assumption that what is shared is gospel, but to connect with a writer in a blog is paramount in understanding, or at the very least gaining perspective. There is an avatar you can click alongside the far right hand column, but it only takes you a Blogger profile that does not give you an idea of just how the writer of the site is. As a social media professional, transparency has always been key to community connection, so perhaps that is something that could be developed.

The second hindrance to easy reading is most certainly the loosely defined categories. For me personally, due to the lack of defined categories, I jumped write in and found what I wanted with enough exploration, but for someone who is not too familiar with web research and discovery, they may not have the same patience I have. I enjoy jumping around a site and being curious when I come across new material, but not everyone can be expected to be the same. If I wanted “Wealth” articles, where do I click? What if I wanted only “Wisdom” articles where do I click for those too?

Perhaps the writer is writing for a very niche group of individuals that is unclear to me. I have gone to college, have been overseas on numerous occasions, and consider myself well read on a variety of topics, but words titles like San Guo and Zhuge Liang just don’t register. Again, another point where a reader just might bypass the material all together.

As for the material, let me just start off by saying that Seven Deadly Sins of Investing is an amazing piece of work, but so is the series on Financial Intelligence. Must reads, especially for people in the region from which he rights, but application seems almost global. To be honest some of the articles went right over my head. The writer is an accountant, that much I know so talking money comes easy, not being too familiar with that world I was amazed at how detailed some of the posts are.

The most enjoyable to me were the Philosophical Musings. I was able to connect with the brief words he shared about daily life and personal conflict, but the words he shared from the Roots of Wisdom are calming and very thought provoking. For those looking for wisdom in a philosophical sense, this series of posts will be most enjoyable.

Wonder, Wealth & Wisdom is definitely a site to visit to challenge yourself. Though the criticism fell mostly on the organization of the site, make no doubts, everyone could use a little help in the three areas of life, money, and personal development.

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Political Disgust is hands down one of the more refreshing sites that I have come across in a long time. Fox News and their shows claim that they are the No Spin Zone, but some of the topics covered here and the opinions attached to them are blunt, in your face, and whether you like them or not, make you think. The buck literally stops at Political Disgust, and one man’s opinions and life are bared for the world to read.

The site is uncomplicated with easy to navigate selections. On first opening the site I found myself reading the rotating quotes at the top right of the page for several minutes. All of them profound, all of them true. That alone warrants a nod because it really sets you up for what to expect on the site. The site’s author is just a regular guy in life working, paying bills, and enjoying what he can in the day to day. Like us he hears, reads, witnesses, and feels things about events in our world that he just can’t keep quiet about. The difference between us and him, is that he’s taken to the web to share these thoughts, and his “About” page aptly warns us all that we don’t have to agree with anything he says, but his insightful commentary is hard to ignore.

The Reason

The author clearly states that he is not a “donkey or an elephant” and even negates his activity in the independent circuit. The bottom line for him is that politics sucks and as an individual he’s commenting on all thebullsh*t that we see and hear.

He briefly shares his beliefs, and the point is not to stand with or against him, but he clearly becomes transparent for us so as to better understand his writings. I commend him on this transparency, and through his writings he transcends from just an “angry guy” to a man with a voice. What I find most compelling is that he does not lose sight of the human side of a blog. Amidst the posts where he rants and raves against politics, you’ll find posts about his family and life happenings weaved in. In my opinion this keeps us grounded to the fact that this guy could be our neighbor, our co-worker, or the guy at football game. This constant reminder of his humanity keeps me interested in what he has to say.

The Meat

It’s amazing how approachable his topics are. I typically steer clear from articles on politics or other related topics only because there is always a slant from the writer. For some it’s hard to notice, but for more well versed readers, the style it is written is a clear give away on the person’s take. The author of Political Disgust does not mince words, and has an easy and approachable style that makes you want to read more. I’d almost say his style of writing is conversational. I can see myself sitting at a bar with him while he tells me his take on life in general and how pissed off he is about this and that.

The articles from the first load page are interesting. The first article lists some of his favorite political movies, which I happen to agree a lot with. Further down he discusses the debate from this past week, and even further down he supports The Golden Girls for president. The humor is hard to miss, but it’s evident from reading the posts that the author is tapped into pop culture, entertainment, and various forms of media. Posts don’t just deal with direct politics and upcoming elections, but also dabble into events that have effected this nation that in a way will be touched by politics. The state of mortgage companies, hurricane response and relief, Social Security, just to name a few.

Definitely give this site a look if you’re looking for something that goes against the grain, but in a good way. Just remember, this ain’t CNN folks, so don’t expect 5 star caliber reporting. This is a blog, where a man share this thoughts, and you can decide whether to be engaged or not. You make the call!

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