Every so often there is an mlm model that says it is new.

This one really is.

You sign up, you buy online - just like you would anyway - to qualify your mall.  And the folks who sign up under you - contribute a % of their sales to your income.

Sounds simple?

It is.  You have to buy something every month to keep your powermall active, but anyone under you is doing the same and it will eventually pay dividends. 

Why do it?  Why not?  It is free to sign up, what have you got to lose?

Visit http://www.mypowermall.com/mall/143625 and see for yourself.

Based on book Nice Girls Don't Get Rich, this article illuminates five personality types that prevent women from accumulating wealth.<< MORE >>

I launched OddShoeFinder.com in 2007 after becoming aware of the millions of people around the world who must buy two pairs of shoes at a time or one shoe because of severely mismatched feet, an amputation or an injury. I envisioned users selling pairs of mismatched and unused shoes stuck in their closets to those with similar problems, but complementary shoe sizes. After six months, fewer than 150 single shoes and pairs of shoes were posted, leaving me discouraged about the future of the site. I received an unexpected e-mail through the Web site a few weeks ago offering to sell me thousands of new, name brand mismatched shoes at one dollar each. I felt this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to populate the site, make matches with users more likely and keep thousands of shoes out of landfills. Around the same time that those shoes were being delivered I received another e-mail from someone else offering to sell me thousands of new, name brand mismatched shoes to me for ten cents each (if they shipped them) and free if I could pick them up. I realized that this was a twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity that just happened to come within weeks of the first of the offer. Before I had a chance to make shipping arrangements for the second batch of shoes, I received yet another e-mail through the site from a shoe manufacturer asking if I was interested in taking 3,000 shoes off their hands. It was becoming clear to me that new, mismatched shoes are an extremely common problem in stores that sell shoes - especially self-service stores and thousands of these shoes are being thrown away each year. How do stores end up with so many mismatched shoes? Sometimes, people open more than one pair of shoes to try them on and unintentionally put one of the shoes of each pair in the wrong box. Some of those people come back to the store when they realize their mistake but others do not. Perhaps more common is people with mismatched feet intentionally switching out shoes to get one in each of their sizes, leaving a pair of mismatched shoes the store cannot sell. With most chain stores, the mismatched shoes are sent to a central location. In some cases the chain itself sorts through the shoes and makes as many matches as possible to return to their stores and take whatever they can get for the shoes that cannot be matched. In other cases, the chain just sells the entire batch of shoes to salvage companies, who sort through the shoes to find matches to sell at discount stores. Mismatched shoes are worth very little to shoe stores, but are potentially worth a lot to those who normally have to buy two pairs of shoes at a time. Until now there has not been an efficient way to match the shoes with those who need them. OddShoeFinder.com is the first searchable Web site that matches otherwise unwanted shoes that would normally end up in a landfill with those who can use them. It offers business opportunities to some and low-priced shoes to millions. While it was launched for people with mismatched feet, there is no reason for users not to post their matched pairs of shoes. It costs nothing to post shoes on the site, and there are no commissions. OddShoeFinder.com started as a very simple site. People registered with the site and posted their shoes and others clicked on "buy this shoe," triggering an e-mail to the seller including the shipping address and contact information of the buyer. Buyers and sellers decide pricing and shipping and payment methods. Users are encouraged to give feedback on the site and enhancements have been developed based on their input. Some users complained of the inability of to communicate with each other prior to a sale, so a messaging system was added. If they decide to complete the sale then we recommend they use the "buy this shoe" button because it removes the shoe from the listings and helps the seller and Webmaster keep track of sales. Realizing that many people may visit the site repeatedly to search for shoes in their size, only to find nothing new, we installed a feature that allows users to receive an e-mail each week to when someone posts shoes in their size(s). A few users asked for a means of rating sellers and buyers such as those found on eBay and Amazon.com. While we have not reached that point yet, OddShoeFinder.com now has a forum where people can post information about their experiences - or anything else (in good taste, of course) they want to talk about. Many users of the site suffer or have suffered from similar health issues and we hope the forum provides a place for them to find each other for advice and comfort. Our plan is to help the site reach critical mass by purchasing and posting mismatched new shoes so that everyone will have the opportunity to purchase an inexpensive pair or shoes, a mismatched pair or a single shoe in the perfect size. (c) 2008, Odd Shoe Finder. Reprints welcomed so long as the article and by-line are not changed and all links are made live. Kent Basson is the founder of OddShoeFinder.com an online website that helps people find mismatched or single shoes. The site was created after Kent's sister suffered a foot injury that resulted in her having to buy two different sized shoes. After searching the web, he discovered the problem is far more common resulting in millions of unused, mismatched pairs of shoes that can now be given away, sold or purchased at http://www.oddshoefinder.com << MORE >>

Women are taking the business world by storm, and it doesn't look like they're backing down. According the Womenentrepreneur.com, women-owned firms are the fastest growing in the country. Women are looking beyond the traditional roles and moving ahead to a new role: entrepreneur. This does not necessarily mean women are swapping roles with their spouses (although some are), but they simply may be adding owning a business to their list of daily duties. << MORE >>

There are many places on the web for advice and sooner or later someone had to come along and try to make a "central" place to look for pets, and pet related services and products.  A place where you can read advice, find a good pet sitter, or see when the nearest adoption fair will be... that place is going to be www.Whole-Earth-Pets.com. 

The Whole Earth Pets team are pet owners who have experienced the frustration of moving to a new place and wondering who the best Vet is, or traveling with pets and trying to find a motel that is pet-friendly, or even dealing with aging pets' issues and needing help.  They figured out that it would save a lot of time if they had a single place to go to see these kinds of things. 

"When I first adopted my cat, Morgan" says Dixie Richards, co-founder of Whole Earth Pets, "There were questions I had and my Vet didn't always have the answer.  For example, I had never before had a cat that was declawed - I wasn't sure if there would be behavior issues or sensitivities.  I wasn't sure if she was eating enough, or playing enough or how long it would take her to adjust to being with me, since she had been fostered with a lot of other cats, and now she would be an 'only' cat. There wasn't much on the web either, at least not all in one place."

"My dogs have been with me through a marriage and moving from Texas to New Jersey to Michigan to Texas again, and now that they are getting older - I worry about their health and have been cooking for them every night because they have developed sensitive tummies with canned foods." says Natalia Corres, the other co-founder.  "Finding recipes and determining what the dogs can and cannot eat has been an interesting scavenger hunt through books, Vets, and the web.  Why isn't there one place to go for this on the web? So Dixie and I were comparing notes and we came up with Whole Earth Pets."

They set up the site with Products and Services Reviews, Member Web pages, Member Blogs, News and Articles. And they have a policy of soliciting nominations for Non-Profit Pet related Organizations and allowing the membership to vote - the top three get 10% of the membership fees as a donation in December of each year.  Also, Whole Earth Pets will give free full memberships to non-profit animal companion focused organizations (for more info on that email them at Membership@Whole-Earth-Pets.com ).

Their motto is: We think the world of our animals!

The www.Whole-Earth-Pets.com website is up now and ready for new members.  The cost?  Less than three Venti drinks at a Coffee Bistro, per month... isn't your furry or feathered baby worth that?

Whole Earth Pets is also accepting article submissions - write to them at Admin@Whole-Earth-Pets.com for more information.

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Kiva is a non-profit that allows you to make a small 0% loan to low income entrepreneurs in the developing world (microfinance). Individuals like you can help provide affordable working capital for the poor -- money to buy a sewing machine, livestock, etc. -- and empower them to earn their way out of poverty.
 
The way I see it, I get a higher return on $25 helping someone build a future than the interest my checking account pays.   
     
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This has been sent to us four times in one hour so we are posting it here, and yes we have already checked it to be sure it is not an Urban Legend or Hoax:

From a nurse:


     "I'll never forget the look in my patients' eyes when I had to tell them they had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast. I remember begging the Doctors to keep these women in the hospital longer, only to hear that they would, but their hands were tied by the insurance companies. 

     So there I sat with my patients, giving them the instructions they needed to take care of themselves, knowing full well they didn't grasp half of what I was saying, because the glazed, hopeless, frightened look spoke louder than the quiet 'Thank You' they muttered.

     A mastectomy is when a woman's breast is removed in order to remove cancerous breast cells/tissue. If you know anyone who has had a Mastectomy, you may know that there is a lot of discomfort and pain afterwards. Insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an outpatient! procedure. Let's give women the chance to recover properly in the hospital for 2 days after surgery.

     It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important .. Please take the time and do it really quick!

     Please send this to everyone in your address book.

     If there was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this is one of those times. If you're receiving this, it's because I think you will take the 30 seconds to go to vote on this issue and send it on to others. You know who will do the same. There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which will require Insurance Companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy.

     It's about eliminating the 'drive-through mastectomy' where women are forced to go home just a few hours after surgery, against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached. Lifetime Television has put this bill on their Web page with a petition drive to show your support. Last year over half the House signed on. PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the Web site below. You need not give more than your name and zip code number. Click the link:

http://www.lifetimetv.com/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php  

This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and family, and on behalf of all women, THANKS!

A friend  forwarded an article to us about the top ten jobs in ten different industries.  It makes sense to do this sort of research whether you are jumping into the work life for the first time, or swimming around the career pool looking for the next great wave to surf on.

One thing is for certain, finding a job, let alone a "career" has changed significantly from the days of our parents no matter what generation you identify with  - X, Y, Z.  Technology has been the single most agent of change and also the area of the biggest gap in understanding for the last 50 or so years.  It will get wider as the economy shifts down and we see a greater gap between people with access to technology and those without.

That being said, the key to finding your best job or career is to Research Research Research...find out as much as you can, and then some.  It will change but being armed with as much information as possible will give you a head start.

And when you have researched like crazy, the next step is to network like crazy.  There are lots of ways to network, social events, social networking sites, professional networking sites. Get out there and get the word out about what you are looking for...

Good Luck and we hope to hear from you - share your job or career hunting experiences!  Send them to editor@ella-ments.com .  Maybe you'll start a whole new vocation as a writer <smile>!

At Ella-ments.com we're always looking for good shopping opportunities, and nothing beats low low prices paired with doing something good for the community!

This event is being put on by Carrollton/Farmers Branch ISD Council of PTA's and Educational Foundation.

The sale will be held at Trinity Valley Shopping Center at  Josey Lane north of the George Bush Turnpike, Carrollton, TX.

Hours are:

10 am to 7 pm Feb 27th through Feb 29th.
9 am to 6 pm on March 1
1 pm to 6 pm on March 2

Prices are $1 for paperbacks/ $2 hardbacks on Feb 27-28 50 cents paperbacks/ $1 hardbacks Feb 29-March 1

Box of Books Sale March 2

Please feel free to send your announcements for great shopping and responsible community activism to Editor@ella-ments.com.