Well yesterday was a proud day for me. My business, Ace Handyman Services, was voted the best handyman in Santa Barbara!

Thank you to all of you who voted for me!  It is a good feeling knowing people believe in me enough to vote for Ace Handyman Services.

I have been doing the handyman business in Goleta, Summerland, Carpinteria, Montecito and Santa Barbara since October of 1999. So it is really cool to be voted the best in Santa Barbara on my eleventh anniversary of going out on my own.

I especially want to thank my life partner Kurtis in supporting me through this endeavor.

To find out more about Ace Handyman Service, go to www.youracehandyman.com

Again, thank you!

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Do not let that stop you in giving, every little bit counts. I have secretly pushed my goal to $2000.00, With your help I can reach this!

I’m Helping to End Aids

From June 5th to 11th, 2011, I will be participating in AIDS/LifeCycle 10 as a roadie. This will be my 8th year participating in this extremely significant and important event. It’s a 7-day, 545-mile bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to make a world of difference in the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS, by raising much needed funds and awareness.

As a roadie, I do not need to raise any money to participate. Yet I feel it is important to not only deliver myself as a helping hand, but to deliver support from my friends in the form of a dollar here and dollar there.

I ask you to please donate as much as you can afford to support this great cause.

Just click the Donate Now link on this page and help me help them STOP AIDS.

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Help me support the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center by giving what you can. We’ll keep riding until AIDS and HIV are a thing of the past.

Why I do this.

For many years, till I was 33, I struggled with who I was. Yet whenever I drank or used mind altering substances, It became easier to be who I was. A Gay Man.

Society for a long time has frowned on people like me, and therefore hiding who I was seemed necessary. Well let me tell you, when I found a gay Alcoholics Anonymous meeting I knew I had found a home. AA gave me my life back. When I got sober I opened the closet and came out too.

During that meeting, I found a friend there who taught me how to be a Sober Gay Man in today’s world. Not an easy task I might add. This friend, who shall remain anonymous is no longer with us, this horrible disease took him from this earth. But for the rest of my life I will be grateful to this wonderful Human Being
It is for this reason I will continue to fight this horrific epidemic for as long as I am able. So please help me continue this noble cause by donating what you can today. Heck, put a few dollars aside each month to donate. Please click the Donate Now button and help.

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My friends Kevin and Sean Ayers wrote this rally, and we have left our fearless leader Joe Akerman out of the loop so he could actually  run the rally. So I kinda stepped in to help Kevin and Sean write, check out and organize the rally.

This will be a great rally, some really great roads to test your navigators ability to hold the cookies down with spirited driving, and a few places with straight lines and no other cars to help blow the carbon out. Mind you though, none of this is necessary to compete or complete the rally. If you follow the preferred route all times will keep you well within the speed limits.

One unique part of this rally is there are over 5 different railroad crossings. You could find yourself stuck behind a train! A long train going very slow. So for the first time, we have introduced an available time delay some what like TSD rallies.

It should be a good time and I look forward to seeing the faces of happy drivers and navigators at the end of the rally.

Start is today October 23rd at the Marie Calender’s restaurant off of I5 near the entrance to Six Flags Magic mountain. Registration opens at 10, A school for beginners at 11 and 1st car out 1:01. If you have never run one before, there is no cost to enter. Just bring yourself, a buddy for a navigator, an accurate watch and a willingness to have fun driving like you have never experienced before. I enjoy it because I forget the rest of the world for a few hours and just concentrate on the rally.

So come join us!

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Today I have re-created one of my other blogs at

http://www.dakurinvestmentsinc.com

At this blog I will be discussing daily how I invest time, not money in building my empire.

I know the going will be much slower, but consistency will pay off.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to posting again tomorrow.

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Have fun!

If you would like to view a larger version of this video, please visit my account at screencast.com. Just Click Here.

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This video shows you the basics of how to log in, find your participant center and
simple editing features of your Aids Life Cycle home page. 

Just click the arrow in the middle of the video to start playing it.

If this picture is hard to see what is going on, then you can see a larger version of the
video at screencast. Just click here to be taken there right now.

Thanks for stopping by, and make sure to look out for more videos on how to raise money
for your specific causes.

Make it a great day!

David

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According to Mashable.com, a leading authority on social
media, there are currently over 12 million users on
Twitter. Another resource called istrategylabs.com reports
that 46% of Twitter users are college grads, and another
17% have post graduate degrees. Furthermore, 47% are
between age 18 and 34, and another 31% are between 35 and
49. Males and females are evenly ranked, with women
accounting for 53% of users and men 47%. If your target
market falls within these demographics, actively
participating on Twitter is probably worth your while.

Twitter is simply a micro blogging service. What does that
mean? It means that you write short updates (140 characters
maximum) called “tweets” and send them out to your
followers. And it is a marketer’s dream come true – it’s an
easy way to stay in front of your target market and
showcase your authority at no charge!

The myth around Twitter is that Twitter users (called
tweeple or tweeps) tweet about useless information such as
what kind of coffee they had with breakfast. Yes, some of
that exists and it is actually important as you’ll see
below, but once you understand the power of connecting on
Twitter, you may become a Twitter convert, just like me.

So, if you’re on Twitter or considering starting, the
question becomes, “what do I tweet about that will make
this a useful tool for me?” Here are some categories you
can consider for your tweets. There are others but these
will get you started:

Industry Tips

This is a big one. You are on Twitter to showcase your
expertise, so industry tips act as your credibility
builders. Here’s how to do it: Create a list of high value
tips (remember – no more than 140 characters long) and send
one or two out every day. If you don’t want to have to
manually do this yourself every day, consider a free tool
called TweetLater.com to set up your tweets in advance. If
your tweets are really good, others will send them out to
their lists as well. This is called a “re-tweet,” and it’s
a super way to quickly build your list of targeted followers.

Here is one of my recent tweets that had a great response:

Connect Others: Be willing to connect others even if it has
nothing to do with your business. What goes around, comes
around.

About Your Business

Use this category sparingly. In other words, if you use
Twitter as a place to advertise your products and services
too much, people will stop following you. This is not what
Twitter is about. It is really about raising awareness of
you and your business and impacting others. Use the 80/20
rule here. For every eight tweets about things other than
your business, you can post two things about your business.

Here is an example:

Hey Columbus: I’ll be on Fox tomorrow at 7:45 where you can
see me interviewed about my new book, Flourish!

Re-Tweets

When someone re-tweets you, they are giving you the highest
compliment you can get on Twitter! It means that the person
who re-tweeted you thinks that what you said is worth
sharing with their own list of followers. This is like
having someone ask you to a meeting so they can introduce
you their entire list of contacts. When you get a re-tweet,
send them a short tweet thanking them! Re-tweet others who
are tweeting things that you agree with or want your
followers to read.

If you are not familiar with Twitter, the example below
probably won’t make a lot of sense because of all of the
abbreviations, but they are necessary given that you only
have 140 characters. Abbreviations are outside the scope of
this article, but just know that it’s really not as scary
as it looks!

RT @getgreatcopy: New blog post: The Sixth Habit of Highly
Effective Communicators http://bit.ly/ 175XGS Gr8 stuff Jan,
as usual.

Quotes

Tweeps seem to love quotes. If you are also a fan of
quotes, compile a list and send one or two out every day.
Again, you can use tweetlater.com to set these up in
advance so you don’t have to manually enter them every day.
Simply set up these tweets for a month and then watch your
re-tweets happen!

Here’s an example of one that I recently posted:

“The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational
person.” Voltaire

Invitations

Invite tweeps to your free events. No-cost events like
teleseminars are great to tweet about because people love
to share high-value, low-cost information with their lists.
When you offer something without a cost – a workshop,
teleseminar or report, your tweets about it are likely to
get re-tweeted, which provides you with greater exposure to
your target market.

Here’s an example of one of my recent posts:

How 2 write your book in a weekend – free telesemimar w/
@donnakozik. http://bit.ly/ 127GtU

Personal

Include some personal things that are going on with your
life. What you choose to include is entirely up to you;
however, be sure to be relatable. You don’t have to share
your deepest inner thoughts or too much detail about your
family, but sharing something about what you did over the
weekend makes you more relatatable. Remember, Twitter is
about connecting with people. Other people on Twitter want
to connect with people – not stale businesses. People often
connect on a personal level over food, pets or hobbies.
This is why these seemingly unimportant tweets are actually
very fruitful. These are pretty safe personal topics.
General things about kids are another hot topic under this
category. Just be aware that anything you say is out there
for the world to read.

Here’s an example I tweeted recently:

Interesting pop culture moment: Told a story to my sister,
who lives in Vietnam & realized she doesn’t know who Sara
Jessica Parker is!

As you can see, Twitter is simply an online forum for
connecting with others in 140 characters or less. Big and
small brands are using Twitter to connect and impact their
target markets and locate joint ventures. Can you, too?
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a free report called “101 Ways to Attract Ideal Clients,
Build Your List and Raise Your Profile,” which can be
downloaded immediately at http://www.RichLifeMarketing.com .
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