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You know, I saw this one label once that confused me nearly to death.  You’re all lucky that I’m still standing here alive today!  The label was on a juice container when the “health craze” really started to break out.  The bottle said very boldly and obviously “100% Juice!” across the front of the package about as big as you can get, in fact I noticed it from across a couple of aisles… but I thought it was odd because it was made by like Sunny Delight or one of the other well known faux juice producers.  I was intrigued that this company would actually make a juice product that I had to see for myself… especially since in a clear bottle it didn’t really look like “juice” but more like a juice colored cool-aid mix.  Upon closer inspection they had in much smaller text under the 100% Juice! label that said “From concentrate”  alright… that sort of explains the odd look of it… and it’s really hard to find anything that’s not from concentrate anymore, so I was forgiving them… until I spotted in minuscule almost illegible text the words under that “With other ingredients”  Now… don’t get me wrong, but doesn’t 100% mean 100%?  How can it even be legal for this company to advertise that they have 100% juice if it’s from concentrate, with added ingredients?  Don’t the added ingredients take up some percentage?  I mean if it was like .5% other ingredients fine, but reading the ingredients label the reconstituted juice wasn’t even the first item on the list!  Which means that it can’t even be 50% juice, and I’d say you were lucky if it were…

I’ve been seeing the same kind of propaganda with handmade items any more too.  Many of the items I see sold as handmade or handcrafted should have a little label that goes along with them that explains that they were handmade by a person running a keyboard that input information to a computer that controlled a robotic arm that assembled pieces of the product.  It just makes me mad to see stuff like that, you know that there are people who fall for it too!  If they didn’t the companies would have no reason to lie like that.  Of course it still doesn’t really cut into my market being that I like to think that the people who are looking for my jewelry items, and purchase from me are actually looking for quality products, having some understanding of how to decipher the difference… I guess I could say that mostly I just feel bad for the fools who get tricked by such blatant lies.

And the weekend aproaches!  I’m so eager to get back to the St. Louis Ren. Faire too!  As I stated in the last entry I won’t be running my handmade jewelry booth out there this year, but I will most definitely be there. I would like to be running my jewelry booth, but it’s just not possible right now unfortunately.  For next year I should (fingers crossed) be running the Young Artisan’s Guild where I may have my handmade jewelry booth, or if not at least be out there running it.  If not a booth in the young artisan’s guild I will try to get more stuff made up so I can put up my own booth and have someone run that while I keep the young artisan’s section running.  It shouldn’t be a problem for me to have a booth within the young artisan’s section since they’re kind of wondering how they’re going to get some other young people out there anyways at this point… I have a few ideas, but if you guys got anything please drop me a line!

Haha, so I’ve been out at the St. Louis Ren. Faire last weekend, and several weekends to come, just to be out there because I love the people more than anything.  Well, last weekend I was talking to someone I met out there last year who was with a friend of hers.  We started talking about why I wasn’t running my chainmail jewelry booth this year, which has much to do with the neglect I’ve offered Archmaille Designs in the past few months thanks to working for MTV.  She was like “Oh my goodness I’m so sorry!” when I said I hadn’t touched my chainmail jewelry stuff in a matter of months… I kind of brushed it off a little bit thinking it was okay… but now, when I got back into the real world I find it terribly difficult to focus on any of my projects online!  I only wish I could do chainmail work full time!  Or anything that keeps me in the Ren. Faire world more often.

Alright, it’s time to take the Queen CD out of my player and put Linkin Park in… this is a job for Linkin Park. Storyline: I took an opportunity for a company called Cost Captain from the P3 website to blog about CostCaptain in my personal blog here. Cost Captain was offering $9 for the post and only required 50 words, for a link that said www.costcaptain.com pretty easy right? I thought so! In fact it was too easy… CostCaptain sells Microsoft products, Cost Captain specialize in the order of selling Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows Vista packages at student discount prices. I wrote a 100 word article about such deals because the more my site relates to Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows Vista products the more they get the value for it to their website which in turn translates to more search engine queries for the terms Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Windows. The problem with my post was that I also included CostCaptain’s description on the P3 website IN ADDITION to the article that I wrote, because it gave them a much better link rating because of the keyworded specificness of Cost Captain description. I thought I was doing Cost Captain a favor, Cost Captain thought otherwise. This is the description:

CostCaptain.com is a Microsoft Authorized Education Reseller. We sell the brand new Office 2007 Suite and Vista to students and staff of schools, libraries and research labs. Home schools qualify too. We have served hundreds of schools, colleges and libraries and thousands of students and staff members.

We offer:

- 100% Authentic Microsoft products at academic discounts

- Microsoft Office 2007 from $129, Vista Upgrade from $89

- Friendly customer service.

- Buyers provide academic eligibility and after that the product is shipped

- Gift certificates that are a great way to give especially during holiday season

Very good keywording if you ask me… but hey, I’m no SEO expert or anything, just because I ranked number two and three on Google for the term “Cost Captain” simply by writing the Cost Captain article on my website… I mean I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about apparently… so therefore I won’t know what I’m talking about all over the net. Cost Captain said that they wouldn’t pay me and denied my post until it was rewritten because I “wrote the article using their description” Obviously the company didn’t want any sort of SEO relevancy so I rewrote the post, I put a 150 or so word description of why I rewrote the article the way I did on top and left what I had described before on the rest… just translated it. You see not only am I a blogger, webmaster of over 9 websites, internet marketing coach, but I also use Opera as my main browser of choice… I just like it. It’s not for everyone, I suggest FireFox for most people (as most of you already do since my stats say that 2/3 of my visitors are FireFox users). I used a widget on my Opera browser to translate the article into Ł337 5ρ34|< (or more commonly known as 1337 5p34k the translator is just hardcore). They didn’t like that either and banned me on P3 which is fine, ban me all you want… my site is more SEO friendly and optimized than your site will ever be, that’s your loss. Of all the bloggers who took your opportunity who ranks for your websites keywords? Oh that’s right, it’s me. I just want my money from the deal… that’s all. So therefore I’m taking my money that Cost Captain won’t pay me. If I can’t get it from the P3 website I will make damn sure I get it from ad revenue on my website.

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