Sylvie Veillet

If someone would have told me what my life would be like AFTER turning 40, I no doubt would have laughed, while thinking “IMPOSSIBLE” but I have to admit, it’s been pretty exciting. 

I'm having the time of my life right now and I'm really enjoying being the person I've become. I’m happier and more confident than I've ever been and it feels pretty amazing and it shows.   

After I had my kids, I think I fell into the “mom trap”.  The trap that basically says to others, “I’m boring, I have kids, I’m a mom and wife and I’m older than 40”… Now, come on, how boring and unsexy is that?   I was once a great conversationalist, model, and an incredible dancer, and so much more, but now, I talk about kids, hubby and recipes??  OMG!!  Could it get any worse???   We tend to forget about our own needs and we put the needs of others before our own.  Who’s supposed to take care of ours?  

I think this is just the beginning for me and life after 40 does have its privileges.  I’m old enough to do  anything I want, but wise enough to know better.  LOL.  After being a people spectator for years, I’m ready to go back out there and grab every opportunity I have to enrich my life… for me.  Not for anyone else, but for me.  

Now, that, that’s something I can do.  

I’m back!! And I’m here to scream out…  “Hey World, look at me!!!  I’m on fire and this is exactly where I want to be!!!

 

 

 

 

It is my pleasure to introduce you to Mr. Allan Barker, Owner & CEO of Alphatech5.com, a leading site for home based business entrepreneurs.

Web author of expert articles on starting, running and growing a home based business - plus SEO. Contributor to many leading e-zines and article directories on these subjects. Publisher of leading weekly SEO newsletter.

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Allan is ex military (Australian Army) and has had over 30 years in senior management roles in insurance companies around the world. He currently has an insurance brokerage business and his online web businesses, together with a leading eBay store - Alphatech5.

Allan is married with two children, 4 grandchildren, a blind poodle (cataracts) and spends most of his spare time building computers, building websites or annoying all his kooky friends on the internet. The garden gets looked at, occasionally.

You can find Allan on Linkedin, Squidoo, Adland Pro, BizPreneur, Apsense, CMU7, WIN Network, Tagged, Hi-5, MySpace, facebook, EVO, UVME, which is basically everything I'm involved in.

Just type “alphatech5.com” or”alb5049″ into Google. You’ll get over 10,000 links, so have fun. Allan and I met in Facebook and we have kept in close contact ever since. He has an incredible sense of humor and shares my passion not just in music, but SEO as well.

Allan, it's been a pleasure getting to know you. I wish you success in everything you do. Only 1 question remains. Are you ready "to get jiggy with it"?

Until next time,


Sylvie Veillet
"Instant SEO Geek"

Unfortunately, this post is coming to you on a more serious note, today. A very dear friend of mine (whose name I have omitted, for security reasons) had to go through the unpleasantness of Identity Theft. She came to me and asked me, “How do you protect yourself, from Identity Theft? How could have it have happened?”

I’m not saying I’m the leading authority when it comes to protecting yourself and your information online, but I do know certain precautions can be taken, to ensure your information doesn’t end up in the wrong hands. Information that we so willingly give out when we join an online community, or website, should be taken into careful consideration, when submitted.

Information such as:

Your Full Name:

First Name and Last Name yes, Middle Name. NO. If at all possible, try not to have your display name include your full name. Last initial should suffice.

Address:

Common sense prevails with this one. DO you want someone going to your residence and going through your mail, collecting all your information about where you bank, credit cards, and other personal information?

Display addresses, should only have your City and State/Province. No one needs to see the rest.

Area Code and Telephone Number:

With area code and telephone number is easy for someone to then follow up and find your home address and where you presently live. Not to mention charge 3rd party phone calls to your phone.

Birthday:

Big No No.. Unless they are going to send you a birthday card and in most cases they don’t, don’t hand out your actual birthday. Please see explanation below.

Place of Birth:

Now, you wouldn’t think this would be such a big deal, right? WRONG. Anyone who knows where you were born and actual date you were born, can easily submit requests for items such as birth certificate and social insurance number/social security number. This would make it extremely easy for someone to assume your identity.

Email Addresses and Passwords:

You must be wondering what do I mean about this, since you need an email address for just about everything online, however, I am referring to sites, communities and forums, that make it easy for you to import your contacts through your email programs such as yahoo, hotmail and gmail, by submitting your email address and PASSWORDS!

When at all possible, send a manual invite instead. Not only will it safeguard your password, it will also be appreciated by your friends and family since you will not be submitting their information to a 3rd party.

Please also, change your passwords on a regular basis. Yes, it is a hassle, but definitely worth the extra step, to protecting your information.

Paypal Email Address (and other online payment wallets/checkouts)

Another common mistake I have heard a few people mention. There should always be a way for a company to send you a cheque instead of supplying your palpal email address. Not to mention, you can prevent any unwanted charges and fees taken out of your paypal account.

Personal Online Banking:

Personally, I don’t advise doing your banking online, PERIOD. Again, let common sense prevail. With the amount of spoof email we get on a daily basis, are safe, just make the trip to the bank.


I know we all get busy and sometimes we fall into the rut of copying and pasting our information into profiles, for simplicity, ease and time. However, think about this. Would you give that information out so easily, if someone approached you on a street that you didn’t know? Ahhh… didn’t think about it like that did you? You should... With the rise of identity theft increasing and the rate at which it has grown, I would almost suggest not to supply any information at all, but I know, in order for our business to survive there is an amount of information we do need to supply.


Let common sense rule. When in doubt, don’t. Think twice about not only the information you provide, but also the amount. It’s your life and your identity. Protect it, by all means necessary.


If this has helped just one person, then my time writing this article was well worth it for me. I don’t want to see anyone else having to go through what my friend did, again.


Until next time,
Sylvie Veillet
"Instant SEO Geek"

    

How Smart Is Your Right Foot?

This is so funny that it will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying it at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot. But you can't!!!

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!

I told you so!!! And there is nothing you can do about it. Make sure you pass this on to your friends... They won't be able to believe it either!!!

For those of you who have not seen this movie, this is one of the movies, "YOU SHOULD SEE"!. Not to mention the music is pretty good.

 

This is done in installments of about 10 minutes each. The rest of the links for the Boondock Saints can be found on the right hand sidebar under "Boondock Saints". Please note, viewer discretion is advised since there is some swearing in the movie that you may not want younger ears to hear. In the meantime, please enjoy! Sylvie Veillet

This little button that you see above, has become a huge time saver for me. spam has become out of control, making it a tedious job, just going thru email.

With Qhelper, I am able to program the button code, to place on my websites, blogs, forums, conference room and email, so I can assist others, if they have any questions. All a person needs to do, is click on the button, which in turn, brings up a message slip, where they enter their name and question, then send it to me, right from any of my sites. I then get notified, right on my desktop. Once that is done, I can easily chat with them, answer any question they may have, or instruct them on how to join me in my conference room, if need be.

If the greenlight is flashing that means, I am at the computer. If it isn't, it is probably because I needed to step away, but no matter which, I still get the message on my desktop so I don't have to worry about being away, and missing another message.

I have tried other programs, that claim to do the same, but they don't come close to Qhelper.

If you would like the link to the site, please feel free to contact me and I will get it to you ASAP.

This is just one of those tools, you just need to have.

Until Next Time,
Sylvie Veillet

"Instant SEO Geek"