Are you a blogger and a bride to be? If you answered yes to both questions, you probably try to blog for money, and for sure you are going to need money to spend in your honeymoon.

Well, you’d better hurry up and join Smorty, the service which pays you to blog, the place where bloggers meet advertisers and get paid for giving their honest opinion on various services or products. Joining is easy, but in order to have your blog accepted into the network, your blog has to conform a few conditions, such as:

• To be set up on the main domain, not in a folder (for example, blogs with addresses like www.yourdomain.com/blog are not accepted)
• To be indexed in Google (this doesn’t mean to have a PR bigger than 0, it just means that some of its pages have to figure in Google’s index) - you can check this by typing into the Google search box site:yourdomain.com and hit enter. If Google returns at least one result, it means you are indexed.
• To have some content (empty blogs are not accepted)

In the beginning, you can have only one blog in the network. You can submit others as long as you have written 5 reviews and they were accepted. The good thing is that payments are issued on weekly basis (via PayPal). Once you accepted a campaign you have up to 72 hours to publish your post and to submit your link for approval.

I see blog advertising as a viable option to earn some money without too much trouble. As long as you can give your honest opinion on the things you write about, and as long as you can accept only those campaigns which match your preferences, your beliefs and your blog’s topics, there is nothing wrong with getting paid to blog.

You’ve been invited to a wedding. Whether you intend to accept the invitation or not, there are some things which you can do, in order to show respect for the ones who invited you:

1. Call back as soon as you get the invitation and confirm or deny your participation. Weddings require long time to prepare, so the host must know how many guests will attend the event, in order to make sure everybody has a place at the table, and there’s food and drink for all.
2. Ask about the dress code if it is not mentioned in the invitation. You need to know what clothes to prepare for that day.
3. Check some weather reports for the wedding day, especially if the wedding ceremony is going to take place outside.
4. Don’t arrive late. It is very rude to show up in the middle of the party, or worse, toward its end, and excuse yourself unconvincingly.
5. Don’t be the first to leave. Most probably you’ll be followed by a big bunch of guests who were just waiting for somebody to take the first step.
6. Eat something before you leave home. The church ceremony can be long, plus they might organize a photosession immediately afterwards, so you’ll get very hungry by the time when the real party starts.
7. Don’t ask the hosts to change your seat. If they allocated you a place at a certain table, just sit there and try to enjoy the company of your table neighbors. If you ask to be moved, you’ll force the host to move also other guests to make place for you, and they might get very upset.

In rest, just enjoy the party and don’t forget to ask for photos.

I’ve been approached to review this shopping cart software, and I remembered the days I was dreaming to open my first online shop. At that time, making an online store required a lot of time and very good programming knowledge, which I was never able to acquire.

Today, I can use a ready-made solution for my wedding store shopping cart, so easy to implement that I don’t need to force myself into learning too many technical details. This will allow me to spend more time in developing my business, in promoting my online store, in making better deals with suppliers, for my clients’ advantage.

But how should the ideal ecommerce software look like? Well, I’d like to have my technical questions answered within the shortest time, I’d like to have guaranteed uptime of minimum 99.8%, a SSL certificate (free, if possible), and SEO friendly pages. All these conditions are gathered by Ashop Commerce, and if you want to see how they operate, you can take advantage of a 10 days free trial period.

Ashop Commerce provides four variants of subscriptions, depending on your needs, so you won’t need to pay for things that you won’t use. for example, if you have only 500 products in your shop, you can get the smallest package, Starter, which has all functionalities needed to operate, but it is tailored for a smaller amount of traffic (less bandwith, and less web space). In this way, you will pay less than a shop with, let’s say, 10,000 products.

Last but not least, Ashop Commerce has a gallery of tutorial movies, which will guide you through setting up your online shop easily.