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When I investigated this, on talking to one of my strange writer friends, I found it to be true. Whereas there are several well known singers that receive high pay or earnings, still many singers struggle hard in the singing field just to earn or “make a living”; they spend usually a huge amount of their time booking singing engagements as well as other part-time jobs.

Just so to support themselves, many singers find other kinds of singing jobs and no, they haven’t all become singing clowns at birthday parties and bar mitzvahs.

Busking

Buskers, or also known as street musicians, traveling musicians, subway musicians, minstrels or bards, sidewalk musicians etc.

Likely venues for buskers include sidewalks, fairs, parks, fetes, train stations, subways, shopping centers, bus depots, street corners and any open spaces where enough people are passing for the hope of interested receptions then donations fall into their hat.

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We are all about having fun, cool music and sports with a twist, so when we saw this post about playing paintball, we checked around to see what it was all about.

Like any sport, paintball is played by a group of participants out to eliminate opponents by hitting them with paint balls (spherical gelatin capsules containing primarily polyethylene glycol, other non-toxic and water-soluble substances, and dye) shot from a compressed-gas-powered gun, commonly called a marker. Spyder paintball guns are among the more popular sport weapon allowing the opponent both ease of use taking into account weight considerations.

The typical game usually involves two opposing teams with specific objectives like, retrieving a flag or taking out a specific player. It’s a combination of hide-and-seek and guerilla strategy combined. An average, non-professional game of paintball usually lasts around five minutes to half an hour although some can last longer and it can be pretty intense.

The rules vary from game to game and can be played either indoors or outdoors. There are various types with some of the most popular being woodsball, scenario and speedball.

Some of the better equipment available is Spyder paintball guns including the Spyder VS3 and the Spyder Pilot using a Spyder paintball. There is also good paintball gear by Tippmann, Smart Parts, Dye, Draxxus plus many more brands.

Well, that about covers our look into paintball. One thing about adding sponsored advertising to your blog comes in the form of all of the interesting things one can find out researching diverse products. Paintball was no exception and a fun topic to look at.

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10:00AM Sunday June 24, 2007

Jessica Alba says listening to very loud music in the gym is the key to keeping fit and sexy.

The Fantastic Four star hates exercising so much that she has to listen to her favourite tunes on full volume to stop her wanting to “kill herself”.

She said: “I have to look good but I hate to exercise. I get so bored so I just do anything that keeps me from wanting to kill myself when I am in the gym, like listening to my music on level 100.”

Alba’s exercising methods obviously work as the actress has topped many sexiest women polls.

Her role as the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four films recently saw her crowned Sexiest Superhero in a poll by Pearl and Dean.

Alba is eager to be known for more than her sexy curves, insisting: “I hope all my new work will help producers in getting past my hotness.”

Alba can currently be seen in cinemas in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

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Apple Inc.’s digital music store iTunes is now the third-largest music retailer in the United States with 10 percent market share, overtaking Amazon.com in the first quarter, according to a survey released on Friday.

The NPD Group report highlights the growing strength of digital music in the U.S. market as physical sales of compact discs continue to slide.
Apple’s iTunes is third behind market leader Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with a 15.8 percent share, and Best Buy Co Inc. with a 13.8 percent share, according to the survey of 40,000 people aged 13 and older.
Both of those retailers mostly sell music in the CD format. Online store bestbuy.com has a 1.1 percent market share with sales of both CDs and digital music.

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1. If you’re posting to a blog using WordPress (Like I am), do not put the post as a page. I don’t care how long it is. If you don’t want the whole thing on your front page, use the MORE and it will work just fine. The requirement is to get it into your Archives and if it’s a page, it never Archives, it just sits there.

2. Avoid being rejected by PPP due to lack of words
Look at the word count. The advertiser is paying for you to say something. Some don’t want much, just 50 words. I do try to give them more than that. 50 words is barely a sneeze and if your a blogger worth their salt, you can scratch up more to say. Visit the site your writing about. If they’re willing to pay you five bucks or more, they deserve some of your attention. Don’t just write from the copy they give you.

3. Avoid being rejected by PPP due to posting one behind the other
The minimum you can post a sponsored post on your blog is one-to-one which means that you have to have another non-sponsored post in between.

3. Follow the rules
Now, I’m not big on reading manuals or Terms of Service and I will tell you that PPP’s rules are a bit small and light for me. Yes, that is my one complaint. I am near-sighted and they look like they’re using 8 point type. However, if you miss something, they do give you another chance to get it right which is nice.

4. Sponsored by PPP, Sponsored Box - The Grey Box
Get that Sponsored Box, sponsored text in there correctly. It is important to keep things legal. You want your readers informed as to why they are reading something strange on your otherwise non-strange blog. Now if you’re just ranting and raving on anything (I have a blog for that. Doesn’t everybody), the public might not notice. However, you still need to tell them. I don’t really know why, as I haven’t completely read the manual yet, but I like this outfit so I may take time to cut and paste it into Word and increase the point size. Well, enough grousing on that.

5. Include the link text from the advertiser in your post
I’m pretty good about that although from point to point I have forgotten in my excitement over this process. Again, they give you another chance to make things right, so there you are.

6. Read the rejection email
Believe it or not, I really think they want you to succeed at this and are not some giant, no-name, faceless corporation with no heart. What I mean is, don’t get angry and give up. They clearly spell out what you need to do to make the post useable. That’s why I like them. Every one I’ve submitted has been rejected and I’ve fixed them according to what the problems were and then it went through. I think that’s why I really didn’t think this was a scam constantly rejecting you until you get so frustrated you just give up and leave.

That’s all I’ve learned so far in terms of PPP. I’ll be back with more tips as I learn more.

Judy B., Editor

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