If you are in need of publicity and/or buzz for your service or company, Izea is definitely your one stop shop. You can get everything you need from the various social media advertising they offer. They have products sampling, blog posts, and blog sponsorships just to name a few of the offers you can do.  I have been on both sides of the campaigns that can be run;  I have run some of my own opportunites for bloggers, and I am a blogger myself.  The Izea staff is great — if you have any question, they are great to help you get exactly what you want.  Izea now has two marketplaces you can choose from — PPP and Social Spark.  PPP allows you to pick segmentation and any blogger who meets your criteria can choose your opportunity.  Social Spark is more of social networking site.  You are able to set up blogrolls and street teams and choose which bloggers can take you opportunity.  There also is the marketplace like at PPP that allows anyone to take your opportunity.  You can set it up that after your opportunity is full that people can request a slot.  They will tell you why they should blog about you.  It is great way for you to find bloggers that missed out on your opportunity but still are a good fit for you.  They also have dynamic pricing where instead of spending all your money in one day, you can choose a daily spend.  These are just a few of the advantages of working with Izea.  I highly recommend trying them out if you want to advertise!

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We can’t be the only household that watched the NFL Draft this last weekend (or are we?). I’ll be honest. I hate the draft. I don’t know who these players are, and I don’t really care. I care that they are going to perform for my fantasy teams. Last year, I sucked with my picks. I wonder if this year I should look at some free nfl picks over at 1st NFL picks. My picks on my own sucked, and I was out quite early for all my fantasy leagues ( I think I was in 4 different leagues last year). Their percentage rate is over 50%, and that is a lot better than my record!

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So far it has been pretty exciting.  The plane ride here sucked.  It was four and half hours with screaming kids.  I made it through it though.  LOL  They had a limo pick me up.  It was pretty cool.  I got to baggage claim and the driver was standing there with a sign with my name on it.  I probably will never have that happen again, but it still was super awesome.  We are staying at La Valencia Hotel and this place rocks.  I highly recommend it to anyone staying San Diego.  I have an ocean view room.  I can literally lay in bed, open my balcony doors, and watch the waves.  Sony also provided in our rooms some chocolate and a rose.  We also were given gift certificates for dinner.  I had fillet mignon.  It melted in mouth, that’s how good it was.  Even though I didn’t order dessert, I tried my fellow bloggers desserts and they were to die for.  So far, this trip has been awesome.  Tomorrow should be another fun day.  We get to play with the cameras that we are getting.  They have us going from 9 am – 9 pm, so hopefully, I will get a chance to blog somewhere in there.

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I just realized today was Thursday. I apologize that I forgot to put this up yesterday. Its been a busy week.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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As most of you know, I am from Wisconsin. More specifically, Green Bay Wisconsin. My parents live close enough to Lambeau Field that you can actually walk over there. Imagine my surprise, when I just heard that Brett Favre has retired. The story is over at NFL.com, so I am pretty sure it is true.

He retires with 5,377 career completions in 8,758 attempts for 61,655 yards, 442 touchdowns and 288 interceptions. He also has the following records: consecutive regular-season starts (253 games and if you are add the playoffs, you are looking at 275 games), most touchdown passes, most yards passing, and most career victories by a starting quarterback

We wish you well Brett!

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