Email Autoresponder Sequence With A Money Magnet Infographic : An email capture box, for visitors to leave their name and email address on your site, is arguably, the most important thing on your blog if, you’re wanting to make money blogging.   If you have heard the saying “The money is in the list”, I’m about to explain to you why.

Your email list is the place that contains the contact details, to all of your most die hard fans.  Fans, because they have taken the time to opt in to your newsletter, as a subscriber.  This means that, it doesn’t matter if that person ever really visits your site again.  Of course you would like them too  and hope that they do, but if they didn’t, it doesn’t matter.  You have their email address, so they are still reading your emails, which should contain epic content, especially for your die hard fans.

Always Give More than Your Readers Expect to Receive

When blogging, you always create massive value, for the people, who are the ones who already, know, like and trust you.  When it comes to selling your readers anything online, the statistics clearly show that it’s the email subscribers, who do the purchasing.  Why is that?  Well, these are the people who know you.  They have read your blog, interacted by signing up for more information from you, in the form of giving you their personal email address.  You could say, these are the people, who you have developed a rapport with, and if anyone is to buy anything from one of your links, or from a product that you have created your self, it is these wonderful people.

So with that being said, it’s a no brainer that in order to capture the email address’s of more and more people that visit your site, is going to require some kick ass give away. This is generally called in Marketing speak, a money magnet. The money magnet is generally an extension of your work. The epic content that the readers that come to your site are already enjoying, but in a more structured form. Instead of spell it all out for you, I have created and infographic, that does exactly that. It shows, a reader exploring your sites content, choosing to take up your free offer, or money magnet, landing on your squeeze page, (the page where they enter their email details), and go on into your autoresponder sequence.

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Pantry Storage: Is important, especially when it comes to smaller kitchens, for saving space reasons, and larger kitchens, for quickly being able to find things.  Having all of your kitchen cupboards, and pantry shelving filled with a mixture of ingredients for cooking, together with cooking and eating implements, glasses, rolls of plastic, foil, paper bags and a mish mash of Tupperware, only leads to confusion and turns cooking into a chore instead of an enjoyable experience.

How to Organize Your Pantry Storage

The solution to this problem can be easily fixed by deciding on finding a place for everything in your kitchen.  Begin by pulling everything out of your cupboards and decluttering.  Getting rid of all of the things that you no longer need, use or love.  If there is two of anything, choose the best and pass on or throw away the other.  Throw away all out of date items.  Throw out all opened packages that may of become stale.  This entire process shouldn’t take very long, providing you stick to the rules of cutting clutter.  Read more on de-cluttering here.

Next: Follow our guide on the ways to organize your cooking ingredients.   For the best pantry storage ideas I’d like to introduce you all to our expert on kitchen pantry storage, Marilyn Moreno.  Marilyn writes for Better Caterers Blog, and has some fantastic ideas for helping you plan and organize, the setup of your cooking ingredients in your kitchen cupboards.  Over to Marilyn;

Five Creative Ways to Organize Cooking Ingredients

Cooking is sure fun, but it can get so messy sometimes, especially when you need to use a lot of ingredients. What’s more, keeping and organizing your ingredients pose a more challenging issue. Poorly organized ingredients can make your cooking time even longer, especially when you forgot where you last saw your salt, pepper, oil, and other ingredients. Poorly organized ingredients can also pose a threat on your cooking space—scattering bottles of oil and sauces, bags of flour and other dry ingredients, cans of vegetables, and all. So if you want to save time and space when cooking, follow these simple yet creative ways of organizing your ingredients in your pantry storage areas.

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1. Glass jars and bottles. This may look very simple, but you can use old mayo jars and other bottles to sort your ingredients. You can put both dry and wet ingredients into these. Mayo jars are perfect for flour, sugar, pickles, chopped vegetables, and many others. Another good thing with old mayo jars is that you can stack them because they have flat lids and flat bottoms that can go together. Smaller bottles can hold oils and other sauces, and you can easily tuck into spaces between the bigger bottles or jars.
2. Cake Stands. As hard as it is to believe, a cake stand can be used as a good ingredient organizer. You can arrange your ingredients (already placed in ideal-sized containers) on a cake stand for easier reach when cooking. This also offers better mobility since you can lift the cake stand and transfer all the ingredients from one place to another at once. Some cake stands also come with rotating heads, and offer a much easier access to all the ingredients placed on top of it. It also helps you save space on your counter tops.
3. Ladder to Increase Pantry Shelving:  This may be another bizarre, but very helpful option.  All you have to do is put planks on the rungs of the ladder to create a shelf-like appearance. Make sure that the planks you used are sturdy enough to hold any weight of the ingredients you plan to put on top of it.  It is also wise give the planks a little extension on both sides to keep balance and maximize the space. Needless to say, this ladder shelf can help you save space, why?  Because you can always disassemble it when not needed and reassemble it when the need arises.
4. Sorting Kitchen Cupboards:  These are probably the most commonly used type of organizing methods for kitchen cupboards.  There is always room to make some improvements. How? Sort your ingredients on your pantry shelving accordingly. For example, you can sort the spices according to the level of their flavor so it will be easier for you to decide which one is best to be mixed with your recipe. You can also sort your salt (if you have more than one type) according to their coarseness, sort your flour according to use an grade, your sauces and oils according to their uses or the frequency they are used, so it’s easier for you to reach the ones you most use.
5. Mixing Pantry Storage:  Another way to save both pantry storage space and time when organizing your ingredients is to “mix” them. By mixing, we mean that you group them accordingly. For example, you put the ingredients that are often used together in the same place for easier reach. Flour, baking soda, icing sugar, cocoa, and other baking ingredients should be placed in the same area; kids snack foods for school, in their own space, tea, coffee and powdered milk, sauces together, spreads and condiments grouped together; and so on. You can come up with a lot of possible combination for each ingredient groups, so it is wise to consider which groupings are the ones you use most frequently and go with that sorting.There are a lot of ways you can organize your ingredients: you can use tools (tips 1–3) or techniques (tips 4–5). But at the end of the day, it is always your method, coupled with the right analysis of your current kitchen arrangement, will prevail. Go with the most convenient way of organizing you ingredients, be it using tools or techniques.

Author Bio

About the author – As a caterer and writer, Marilyn Moreno has written numerous articles providing tips to be used in the kitchen and when planning events. She is also a contributing author on Better Cater’s blog, a catering software company. 

Questions

If you have any questions on our tips for pantry storage and organizing your cooking ingredients, or if you can think of any tips Marilyn may have missed, please leave them in the comments below.

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Laundry Room Organization: “The washing”, is a generally a task which we’d rather not have to do. Understandable, due to the fact that our dirty washing, is so much more than just plain old dirty laundry. How? Well, doing the washing is only one of the required tasks, involved in doing the washing. Once that load of washing has been done, or washed, there are still 3 tasks left in the equation and 1 task actually fits in before we even start. Some of us struggle at getting the first part of the equation happening. Others get it started okay, but often lose track of it somewhere between the washing machine and the clothes line, or from the clothesline into the house. Once back inside, many feel a small victory and decide to fold and put away the clean laundry at a later stage. Often this later stage won’t occur until a few more days worth of clean laundry, has joined ranks with the earlier days, forming what is known as a mountain of washing.

 Routines and Habits for Organizing Laundry

5 Stages to getting that laundry complete, and all need to be spread out over the period of a few hours. Like anything, failing to plan for these washing stages, leads to failure.

There is only one solution to this problem, and that is forming a daily laundry routine. You can read more about laundry routines and habits here and here.

Good Laundry Room Organization

Aside from organizing good routines and habits for doing your laundry each day, there are two other things, that can help in making the laundry tasks more bearable.

1. Good laundry room organization:  To have a really well organized laundry requires space for a number of different containers, and systems for using those containers.  Laundry room organization, that includes room for all the different situations, that can happen to clothes will take a little bit of time to set up, but once done, is easy to maintain, and makes life a whole lot easier.  Consider a separate space, this could be a basket, or a colored bag, for items such as:

• Things that are going to the dry cleaners
• Things needing mending
• Rags
• Clothes for donating
• Laundry detergents, stain removers, bleach,nappy sans, fabric softener and conditioner.

For more on this area of laundry room organizing check out this article from Barb at The Time Manager, on 12 Ways to Organize your laundry

 2. A good washing machine and dryer.(Read more on washing machine choices here)

Expert on Laundry Organization

Now with some expert advice on organizing your laundry room, I’d like to introduce you all to Josh Andrews.  Josh works for clothesmaid a company which makes air drying laundry solutions, so he’s the perfect person to give us all the facts on getting our laundry rooms organized.

Thanks and take it away Josh,

Organize Your Laundry Room

When you set out to organize your laundry room, you quickly discover that you have to work with the space available. Admittedly, that space is usually quite limited. Here are some pointers on how to take advantage of the space available in your laundry room.
You probably have those kitchen cabinets that require a 12 foot ladder to reach. But, in your laundry room, items don’t have to be quite as inaccessible. There are several ways to take advantage of the height of your laundry room that you wouldn’t normally do in living spaces.

Hanging Space

Consider putting up shelves with hanging rods under them. These shelves will need to be solidly installed on studs so that they don’t pull out of the wall. Buy color-coordinated baskets on top of the shelf and keep laundry items in the baskets. On the bar under the shelves, you can hang laundry as you take it out of the washer or dryer.

Another way to add hanging space in your laundry room is with a tension rod. Most of the time, a shower curtain rod will serve the purpose. This can be placed higher up on the wall than even shelves, because you don’t have to reach anything on the top of the rod – you’ll reach it with hangars. Put the rod up when you’re doing laundry, then take it down when everything is moved to your closets.

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Sorting Space

Any laundry room needs space in which to sort laundry. Some families sort according to members. This is especially helpful with large families, in which sorting socks is important, and in which it’s important to know what belongs to whom. In this type of sorting need, you can get matching laundry baskets or duffels. This helps keep the room from looking as cluttered. You can get vertical (there’s that word, again) shelves with rails that support the baskets. This allows you to get them off of the floor, and makes better use of space.

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If you sort laundry according to color, consider getting baskets that match the colors sorted. In my house, we had whites, lights, darks, and jeans. Since my color scheme was blue and white, I used a white basket, a baby blue basket, a black basket, and a dark blue, respectively. From the time my children were able to tell colors, they were able to sort their laundry.

Suspension Systems

You’ve probably seen the organization systems that are suspended from the wall. Once again, this is a use of vertical space. These systems are anchored into the wall, leaving the floor clear and easy to clean.

Appliances

Your choice of appliances can make a big difference in laundry room organization. Front loading machines give you tremendous counter space, as you can use the tops of the machines for folding. Stackable units are also great, especially with – vertical space. This frees up a lot of floor space. For help on choosing between a front loader washing machine and a top loader washing machine, check out this article here.

Cabinets, drawers, baskets, shelves, and rods all contribute to storage ability and make laundry room organization much easier and much more useful.

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“Josh Andrews loves to give information about the home and garden. He enjoys helping and suggesting great ideas for creating storage and more space in the home. He works with Clothesmaid and  is good friends with a Kitchen, Laundry and Dining room furniture supplier where he often works on his days off.”

Thanks Josh.  If you guys have any questions to ask Josh, you can leave them in the comments below, and he’ll be more than happy to answer them for you.

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