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Your Smokies Kicks Off Funding to Support The Elk Bugle Corp in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2009-11-26T11:00:00.000-08:00

Disgusted by the tragic poaching of Bull Elk #21 inside the Great Smoky Mountains national park, the owner of Mean Cash Inc and all of the Your Smokies Web Sites Christopher Hibbard kicked off a memorial fund for this worthy cause with a $1,000 donation.

Christopher Hibbard is a member of the Elk Bugle Corp national park volunteers and is a strong supporter of Friends of the Smokies who set up the fund within days of the poaching incident.

The hope is with proper funding, the Elk Bugle Corp an all volunteer organization which helps educate the public about the North American Elk Restoration program in the Great Smoky Mountains national park, will be able to function better as the eyes and ears of the park service in the Cataloochee Valley and discourage any further incidents of poaching as well as improve the visitor experience for hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to the valley.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park chapter of the Elk Bugle Corp was formed and 2007 and has grown from 36 members to 81 volunteers on 2009. 2010 will now be the first year the Elk Bugle Corp will have a budget and funds to spend on necessary equipment.

All donations go directly to equipment and not to any administration expenses.

Click here to learn more about the memorial fund for bull elk #21.

Your Smokies expands business listings to the brand new Your Smokies Directory

2008-12-28T16:44:00.000-08:00

Your Smokies Information web site is now entering its 5th year of covering the North Carolina and Tennessee Smoky Mountains and has just split off most of its business listings to the brand new Your Smokies Directory in anticipation of its continued explosive growth and the changes we are projecting in the Search Engine Industry.

Most travel related business will continue to be listed on the main Your Smokies Informational web site, but the listings of other business in the N Carolina and Tennessee Smokies such as Real Estate agents and offices, banks, car repair, retail stores, jewelry stores, outlet malls and more have been moved to the Your Smokies Directory.

Both sites easily interconnect for ease of its visitors and of course Your Smokies News will promote news of interest for both Your Smokies and the new Your Smokies Directory.

There is plenty in store for all 3 Your Smokies sites in 2009 as now more than ever, businesses in the Smokies Mountains need to have their business listings found.

Help wanted: Internet Advertising Account Executives

2007-03-26T08:38:00.000-07:00

If you are looking for a job with almost unlimited income potential as an internet advertising sales executive and you have the natural born ability to cultivate and sell customers by offering the best internet marketing advertising alternatives and providing your own customers with exceptional service, integrity and honesty we want to hear from you!

We have an immediate need for a few key individuals who can build relationships and sell to a large variety of businesses.

We presently need sales professionals to cover the following territories:

North Carolina Smoky Mountains Region for Your Smokies: Smoky Mountains Directory
Tennessee Smoky Mountains region for Your Smokies: Smoky Mountains Directory
Tennessee Cumberland region for Your Cumberland: Cumberland Tennessee Directory
Boca Raton and Delray Beach for My Boca Delray: South Florida Directory

While these are the geographic areas that we are will be selling the majority of our advertising, you can perform this job from any geographic location if you wish to sell clients strictly over the telephone or by mail.

Visit or main site for information on advertising sales jobs.

My Boca Delray Launches News web site

2007-03-06T14:11:00.000-08:00

Long overdue Mean Cash Inc just launched a south Florida news site to support the My Boca Delray web site which features Boca Raton and Delray Beach south Florida.

Local businesses listings for restaurants, hotels, real estate agents, dentist, car dealers, car rentals, auto repair shops, hospitals, vets, dentist, funeral homes and cemeteries and so much more including live weather await anyone visiting the My Boca Delray web site.

Now with the My Boca Delray News site Mean Cash can bring you local news, local schedule of events to see who and what is happening in the South Florida scene.

Local businesses who wish to spotlight their company are encouraged to take advantage of this great new South Florida advertising medium.

Florida Mortgage Broker Jim Kemish Shares Some Thoughts

2007-01-05T16:02:00.000-08:00

The housing market is soft throughout the US especially in South Florida but economists a predicting that the real estate market will pick up by the end of the summer of 2007. Now is a great time to buy a house while prices are low, but getting the right mortgage can be just as important as finding a good deal on the house you want to buy.

It pays to use the right Florida Mortgage company

Jim Kemish a Florida Mortgage broker and president of Power Mortgage Corp of Delray Beach, Florida shares some of his thoughts with MyBocaDelray.com. Power Mortgage has been around since 1989 and Jim Kemish is an expert in mortgages of all types and knows the local Boca Raton and Delray Beach Florida real estate markets.

Jim discuses in detail:

The Financial Obligation of Your Mortgage
Mortgage Management
Whether to Refinance or Not to Refinance Your Mortgage
Fixed or Adjustable Rate Mortgages
The difference between 15 Year and 30 year Mortgages
Interest Only Mortgages
Getting a mortgage checkup

The following is an excerpt from his informative article on mortgages:

Between June of 2004 and June of 2006 the Federal Reserve increased the Federal Funds rate 17 times. This rate directly impacts all short term interest rates such as the Prime Rate. During the same period of time the long term rates remained more or less steady. The net effect was to close the gap between rates on shorter term mortgages like the 15 year fixed and longer term mortgages like the 30 year fixed. At the time of this writing the rates on these two loan products happen to be exactly the same.

It's nice to get some free advice from an expert, so to see the whole article on mortgage information from an experienced and reputable Florida mortgage broker click here.

Your Smokies up to date Smoky Mountains National Park and surrounding area informational Directory

2006-10-25T13:48:00.000-07:00

The Smoky Mountains are America's playground and Mean Cash Inc is proud to officially announce Your Smokies, the most complete Smoky Mountains informational site and business directory covering the North Carolina and the Tennessee Smoky Mountains.

More than 40 years in the making, Your Smokies and Your Smokies News are finally here with up to date National Park information, outdoor and indoor activities, all the great restaurants and dining, local lodging, real-estate information and so much more covering hundreds of square miles of the smoky mountains region running from Asheville North Carolina to Knoxville Tennessee.

In depth information on Camping in the Smokies, biking in the Smokies, hiking in the Smokies, Fishing in the Smokies, horseback riding on the Smokies Smokies Golfing, and all the Great Smoky Mountain National Park information you can ever want is on Your Smokies or will be there shortly. Your Smokies already has more than 10,000 images taken in the area.

Looking for real estate agent or broker in the Smokies? How about a new car, or a used car or maybe you just want to rent a car - or even repair your car we have all the local listings.

Need a vet, a Dentist, a lawyer Gyms and Health Clubsor a NC or TN bank? You're right - Your Smokies has it! We even have more than 1,000 local churches and places of worship listed. If you need it in the Smoky Mountains - we have it!

More than 8,000 businesses are already listed as they are finding it as an exceptional way to reach both a local audience as well as visitors from around the world. Where else can you have thousands of eyes a day see your listing for as little as $100 a year?

Advertising on Your Smokies is a great way to get customers looking for your goods or services - all at prices even the smallest business can afford.

Take a look at Your Smokies or our other new site: Your Smokies Blog.

Your Smokies - Your Way!

Lots of changes at Mean Cash Inc!

2006-10-19T18:40:00.000-07:00

It has been a long road since Mean Cash started operations in 2001 and we can keep in the excitement of what we are launching any more.

In the past few months we have started releasing our new directory web sites - three in all with the largest one to be released in late 2007.

The directory sites cover the North Carolina and Tennessee Smoky Mountains, the Upper Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, and the towns of Boca Raton and Delray Beach in Palm Beach County South Florida.

The informational directory sites cover local points of interest, weather, news, local businesses and non profit organizations. These sites have been designed and search engine optimized by the Mean SEO division of Mean Cash Inc using the latest programming and coding techniques that are certified as error free and compatible on all web browsers and web based platforms.

Sorry No Comment...

2005-10-01T15:15:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately with all of the spam we have to deal with on a daily basis with all of our sites, you can no longer post comments to this or any of our other blogs without them being moderated

As long as you do not spam or post obscene material we welcome all comments and suggestions and will post all of them whether we agree with them or not.

So many spam and scam emails pour into our inboxes every day, we built My Crap Mail dot COM and list may of the culprits and expose the scams> We have also instituted an extremely strict spam policy. We are sorry to take such drastic measures but a few unreasonable people have forced us to make this move.

On a last note, in order to keep our mail system from being overloaded by mountains of spam we use Spam Blocker Pro.

Save money with Dish Network satellite TV !

2005-08-23T07:10:00.000-07:00

This is a golden opportunity to save money with a highly demanded product - home entertainment with Dish network TV!

Thousands of people a day are looking to buy their own Direct Dish Network TV for home, RVs and boats.

This is a wonderful program that offers a tremendous value with free equipment for up to 4 rooms! and Direct Dish Network TV really is far better and cheaper than cable TV.

Enjoy all the TV you have been missing for far less than you expected.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to save a fortune with very little work. This is a money saving opportunity you should not pass up.

Mean SEO: Search Engine Optimization and Marketing

2005-08-16T17:11:00.000-07:00

Having the greatest online store on the web or the best affiliate program means nothing if you can not get enough qualified targeted traffic coming to your web site.

It is a proven fact that the most productive new customer traffic you can get to your web site is through Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo!, MSN and a host of smaller engines.

Search engine traffic can be broken down into 3 main categories:

Organic or natural search engine results: Your website's description and link are displayed in the Search Engines results Page (SERP) for free.
Paid inclusion: You pay for a listing in the directory with no guarantee of where your site will show up
Pay per click (or per thousand clicks) Your text ad or banner is displayed along with the search engine results

All these methods have their advantages and disadvantages, but marketing and search engine experts all agree that well placed organic search engine results convert far better than any other search engine marketing technique.

Of course since organic search engine results work so well and are "free" they are the most sought ever and the most competitive area of the internet. The techniques and methods that can rocket you to the top of the Search Engine results one month, can get you banned by the search engines the next month if you do not keep on top of what the search engines are doing on an almost daily basis which is why you either have to outsource your search engine marketing and optimization or you have to stay on top of the industry and use the best tools available.

Whether you do your own search engine work or hire a qualified top notch search engine professional, if done right, it is worth any investment in time and monies you put into your search engine marketing.

MeanCash: Website for Webmaster Tools

2005-08-16T17:10:00.000-07:00

Mean Cash has become a respected and trusted name for thousands of online marketers, affiliates and webmasters since it's inception in 2001. Like most businesses, it started out small and as a byproduct of another venture.

When 2 executives from a company who specialized in surplus packaging were looking to entire an entire new market, they decided to research the industry by attending a trade show for this new industry.

Not only did they find out that the new product they were looking to introduce into this new industry was a home run, one of the executives who previously was in the computer software industry in the 70's and 80's, saw the tremendous potential of some niches in the blossoming - make that exploding - internet world.

Lots of poor quality information was out there and industry leaders and marketers and indeed consumers were just not computer savvy enough to see through the spam that was being served up as steak.

Some companies foolishly aligned themselves with some of these cyberpirates and inadvertently destroyed their reputation by counting on the gullibility of surfers and search engines. Some made tremendous short term profit through spammy web pages, embedded spyware and viruses, and a host of other deceitful and dishonest business practices.

What started out as a small website with free resources for internet techies has blossomed into a thriving business, and due to honest business practices and long term thinking, has grown by leaps and bounds.

Mean Cash is about to go through another dramatic metamorphosis and will shortly be moving all of its resource information to one of its spin off sites Mean SEO.com. Mean Cash will become the umbrella site encompassing a myriad of both online and offline businesses: search engine optimization and marketing, distribution of packaging components, web site design, specialized software for webmasters and designers, and affiliate programs.