(stepping up on my soapbox)

I know this post is off topic,  But this is my site and I believe the words bare repeating.  I’ll  probably get the Google slap for duplicate content, so what!

Who is a teacher??

From A School Principal’s speech at a graduation..

He said “Doctor wants his child to become a doctor………
Engineer wants his child to become engineer……
Businessman wants his ward to become CEO…..
BUT a teacher also wants his child to become one of them..!!!!
Nobody wants to become a teacher BY CHOICE” ….Very sad but that’s
the truth…..!!!

The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life.
One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued,
“What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option
in life was to become a teacher?”

To stress his point he said to another guest;
“You’re a teacher, Bonnie. Be honest. What do you make?”

Teacher Bonnie, who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied,
“You want to know what I make?
(She paused for a second, then began…)

“Well, I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.

I make a C+ feel like the Congressional Medal of Honor winner.

I make kids sit through 40 minutes of class time when their parents can’t
make them sit for 5 min. without an I Pod, Game Cube or movie rental.

You want to know what I make?
(She paused again and looked at each and every person at the table)

I make kids wonder.

I make them question.

I make them apologise and mean it.

I make them have respect and take responsibility for their actions.

I teach them how to write and then I make them write.
Keyboarding isn’t everything.

I make them read, read, read.

I make them show all their work in math.
They use their God given brain, not the man-made calculator.

I make my students from other countries learn everything they need
to know about English while preserving their unique cultural identity.

I make my classroom a place where all my students feel safe.

Finally, I make them understand that if they use the gifts they
were given, work hard, and follow their hearts, they can succeed in life

( Bonnie paused one last time and then continued.)

Then, when people try to judge me by what I make, with me knowing
money isn’t everything, I can hold my head up high and pay no
attention because they are ignorant. You want to know what I make?

I MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN ALL YOUR LIVES,EDUCATING KIDS AND PREPARING
THEM TO BECOME CEO’s ,AND DOCTORS AND ENGINEERS……….

What do you make Mr. CEO?

His jaw dropped; he went silent.

THIS IS WORTH SHARING WITH EVERY TEACHER & CEO, EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW.
Even all personal teachers like mother, father, brother, sister, coach
and spiritual leader/teacher.

God bless all the Teacher’s in the world, for with out them we would ALL be mindless idiots !

“author unknown”

Sincerely

Silas A. Thornton

(getting off my soap box now)

Setting up a new blog can be easy but making the blog popular and acceptable to the online users is another story. There are practically millions of blogs out there competing for attention from the user and how do you make yours stand out in the crowd? Here are ten tips to help you achieve this goal.

Tip#1: Informative Posts
Make sure you post only materials that are useful and can be put to use immediately by your readers. People are always looking for solutions to their problems and if you can give them the solution they are looking for, they will be back for more!

Tip#2: Fresh Content
Don’t go for the PLR packs and post them without making changes. They are posted all over the web and people might nave seen those same articles and would lose respect for you. It simple shows that you are too lazy to modify them before you present it your visitors.

Tip #3: Unique Information
Make your information unique and cannot be found elsewhere specially on blogs relevant to your niche. It is important that you present your visitors only with unique and relevant content that you came up with the idea yourself or an existing idea that you modified and enhanced. If you cannot deliver this, you will lose the visitors.

Tip#4: Create a Sensation
Try to create a promotion or sensation on your web such as a USD1000 reward for the one thousandth visitor, or a special link to a download for the hundredth visitor. Alternatively you can set up contests and agents on your blog that your visitors can participate in and they will come back again to see the results.

Tip#5: Subscriber Rewards
Give away frequent gifts and downloads for your loyal subscribers. This is one way to get them to join in the subscribers list. The bigger the number of subscribers you have the more success you can expect from your blogging work.

Tip#6: Visit Other Blogs
Go out and visit other blogs in your niche. Try to post friendly comments and invite the blogger and the visitors of those blogs to visit yours. If you can post enticing informative and friendly posts you can attract some of their visitors to come visit yours.

Tip#7: Humor
You can use humor as a way to make your visitor enjoy their visit. Nothing beats a humorous post that can gauge a good laugh from the visitors. When they feel good chances are they will return to your site and you get a loyal visitor. Be sure not to use offensive jokes though and always so for the safer side when you are unsure, you don’t want to antagonize anyone in the virtual world and end up making enemies.

These are seven tips you can sue to make your blogs popular. There are many other creative ways how you can achieve this but you can start your journey by following these tips we share. It won’t be long before you have a steady stream of visitors to your site.

Bless your success,

Silas A. Thornton

Blogs are Vital in the New Millennium: Read on to Discover Why

If you have been online for some time, you would be sure to notice how blogs are growing at an astounding rate, in fact even faster than the growth of websites. Blog platforms seems to take a hit with the young and old and here are just some of the reasons why people love to set up blogs instead of static websites.

Reason #1: Popularity
People love to visit blogs because they are very conversational and informative as opposed to static sites that may be full of hyped up sales pitches. Therefore people have a natural tendency to look for information on blogs from real people instead of believing what those sales letters say.

Reason#2: Real People
There are usually real people behind every blog instead of business organizations that run a website You can connect with thee blogger chat with hem via the comments form and get know their personally. It builds trust and rapport over time. This is one reason why blogs are very popular in the online world.

Reason#3: Search Engine Optimization
Bogs are very important for SEO purposes. Blog pages tend to rank better on search engines and this is one of the reasons why nearly all successful websites have blogs attached to them. In fact they may be running totally on blog platforms. Blogs have the unique ability to ping search engine whenever a new update is made. This means that your site receives multiple chances to rank on the search engine’s result pages. Each new post on a blog, no matter how short it is will be considered as a new page. Each has an equal change to rank on the first page of the search engines, depending on the determining factors that decide its place in the rankings.

Reason#4: Current News
Blog lets the readers in on the most current information available. For websites, the information may be outdated and applies when they were published Blog pages lets people publish any new updates in a jiffy with a click of a button which makes it extremely easy to publish those information on the Internet. People always want to be the first to know about a certain development so blogs is a great way to let the new information be disseminated to the masses.

Reson#5: Ease of Maintenance
This is a very easy platform to maintain; in fact blogs are a great way to let you enjoy everything the cyberspace offers without the hassles of learning complicated programming language. Blogs lets anyone with an Internet access to post messages and share knowledge and ideas online. It does not require huge costs to set up either. Most blog platforms are free and you can register for one anytime and start blogging right away! If you desire your own blog with a domain name, then get one from any of the registrars and you can setup a free WordPress blog using the built-in installer and viola you are ready to blog your heart out in an instant.

For a Free Blog-Profits Book

Silas A. Thornton

How to Make Blogging a Pleasurable and Profitable Hobby

Blogging can be a fun and enjoyable activity in our pastime. Millions of people who have discovered the wonders of blogs and have utilized this platform as an enjoyable way to spend pleasurable moments working at the computer and sharing ideas, experiences and express their own views and opinions on current events. Certainly there is much fun to be derived from this favorite pastime of many. But how do we make this pleasurable hobby profitable as well?

There are many ways you can make profits money from blogging. A blog can be the platform for you to share your own special expertise with the rest of the world. It really doesn’t matter what your passion may be there are people who would be interested in your talents and interests and blogs can be a very good way to gain exposure.

The first thing to do when you first start out blogging is to deliver string, passionate posts. This means that you should have enough material to blog on or write about and do it passionately with feeling and enthusiasm. People can easily distinguish between random ramblings of a half-baked blogger who is doing it for the purpose of getting words to pages and one who is absolutely passionate about his writings.

This is the only way you can get the attention of your visitors and make them come back again and again to visit you. The blogosphere is full of related posts on similar topics and people want to be entertained when they read your posts so be sure to deliver the message with full-impact if you want them coming back again.

The next thing is to blog on regular basis. If you come up with sporadic excellent posts, your visitors will not have a regular routine for them to visit and most likely they will tend to lose interest over a period of time. Be sure to set a regular time to blog each day or week and keep to this schedule no matter how inclined you feel to pursue other things. Be disciplined if you want success from your blogging effort.

The last tip to make money from your blogging work is to find the best way to monetize your blog. There are plenty of ways you can do this but you don’t wan to spam your post or blog platform with these money-making ads or you will turn off your visitors fast. So be sure to select only two or thee that you really like and test it out on your blog for a week or two. If one or two doesn’t deliver the results you want, then consider changing it until you find those that does.

Once you have established yourself as a regular blogger with a string of followers then make sure you don’t slacken up and neglect the necessary work to keep working at it. There would need to be a continuous effort to sustain your success and ensure your visitors will be loyal to your blog and come back again and again.

Silas A. Thornton

Welcome to my new site SilasThornton.com, it’s going to take me a few days to finish the set up.  It’s been an AMAZING DAY !! I have lots of good news to share and I look forward to building and sharing information with others.

God Bless,

Silas