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Known Links! crankymen.comtipups.comFishing Leelanau Today Lifestyle known.com is a site about pieces and parts of knowledge and information. Where to find information, who has it, who is selling it, and what is known about that knowledge and information. Most of known.com is searchable. The public, and individual businesses are invited to add information to known.com and sell and buy items on known.com too! Currently this is offered for free! No listing fees, no transaction fees.
known.com is a site about sharing the information we encounter during our every day lives. known.com is about revealing ideas and celebrating people; what they are doing, what is new, what they have and are offering, news celebrating accomplishments and hard work, changes to businesses and lives, new thought processes, new theories, the next 'new thing' and all the parts of our lives that are easy to get excited about and share.
known.com is also a site about books, because we are passionate about books - whether to be entertained while escaping within a wonderful story or as a source of reference. Because most of the answers we are seeking to our questions are contained within books - we believe a book is always a great starting point, from infancy throughout our lives. Pages and pages of great learning starting points. Our purpose with known.com is to make that information known for you.
The quest for answers can sometimes be a simple process of looking something up on Google or on any of the other popular search engines. Sometimes we need a horizon of information, from many sources, a different perspective, more pieces for our puzzle, a complete picture. And sometimes we really just don't know where to begin. All learning begins with a 'not knowing.' We all have to start the quest somewhere.
Our hope with known.com is for this site to be one of your many stops along the way while you are looking for something. Whether it is the beginning, while in progress, or when you reach that "Ha! moment when everything makes sense and your thirst for knowledge and information has been quenched for a bit; until the next time a thought runs through your mind which begins with, "I wonder....." or "Where is....." or "where can I get......."
known.com will always be a work-in-progress. The known.com website is the natural result of the evolution of our flagship business, Known Books.
For over eleven years our bookstore enjoyed being a must-stop destination for tourists and book lovers from around the world (both walk-in and via the internet!). Even though we grew and flourished while on the main street of our tiny resort village of Suttons Bay in northern Michigan, a decision was made during 2006 to make a move across the street to a smaller storefront on the shores of Suttons Bay.
During 2007 we further refined our business model and made one more move, one doorway north, into a suite of offices in the lower level of the Millside Building. With this final move we eliminated regular retail store hours and now concentrate our time and energy on the internet aspects of our business - both bookselling and the ongoing research and development of known.com as an information resource and to facilitate an environment for individuals and business to easily list items for sale, and for site visitors to buy those items! We continue to maintain a suite of shelved books for our regular customers and have adopted the habit of telling every one that they are "always welcome, if the lights are on and the door is unlocked to come on in, we are always happy to sell them something!"
I'm sure by now you've been hearing a lot about "Twitter," one of the most popular "social media" sites on the web today.
And like many aspects of social media and internet marketing the more you participate on Twitter the more you realize the endless opportunities to connect, to follow, to make friends, and to let your friends make you rich on Twitter. Quickly.
Intuitively, once I became involved with Twitter I knew I could expand my business and have a bit of fun too. I was in for a big surprise.
What happened is pretty amazing. I was hooked. I became aware of an entire society and wealth of real-time conversations flowing between those I chose to "follow", internet marketers. I figured if I was going to be spending time being "social" I wanted to learn something too. And what I learned was that I needed to learn more!
Daily, hour by hour, I was watching lives unfold. I read about different businesses, who was doing what, where, and with what group. I read advice freely given to those who asked, and also caught glimpses of personal lives too. And I got involved and started asking questions and all at once I felt like I had found a place where I fit, where I belonged, because I had created the community where I wanted to spend my time. But I wanted more. I wanted to know how to be outstanding. I wanted to make my time on Twitter of value to me and to those within the Twitter community I had created. So I started paying attention to the leaders and tried to learn how and why they had become successful on Twitter.
You know how it is on the web. You read something which catches your mind. You want to know more so you read profiles and click and follow links to blogs and websites. The more you read you learn about yet more people who are in any given industry. I continually want to know who is the guru. Who is the leader. Who is the person others willing give credit to for helping to make them successful. I found many. Two stand out for me.
Early on I discovered Kenneth Yu. He caught my eye and mind because of his Twitter "handle" @emailcopywriter. Who could resist that? Of course I followed Kenneth because I wanted to know more about writing killer emails which would get opened and convert to sales.
The other stand out for me is internet marketing guru Dan Lopez. Why? Because I am curious my nature and I had hundreds of questions about Twitter and the process and flow of internet marketing. And I kept hammering Dan Lopez with questions - 140 characters at a time! And you know what? Dan answered my questions and offered many suggestions. And then it hit me that yes, this is what Twitter is all about. Just being a friend, having conversations about things which mattered in our lives at that moment. Today Dan told me more about Kenneth Yu's Twitter Salvation System. He told me his system could help me learn how to use Twitter to sell whatever it is that I wanted to sell. Sweet.
Like a true guru, Dan has created an information page about Kenneth Yu's Twitter Salvation System with more information. Rather than copy and paste all of it here take a moment and click here to learn more about Kenneth Yu and his Twitter Salvation System - and yes, they will both answer your questions, and as a fun bonus there are a couple of fun videos on the site from Perry Belcher and author Jonathan Gunson.
Stop back by the "Make it Known" blog after you you begin the Twitter Salvation System and let me know about your Twitter experiences. Oh, and leave me your Twitter "handle" so I can follow you too!
Cheryl
@known
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How To Save Money on Home Heating Bills
Casey Stanton, of Suttons Bay, has just brought his product to the internet making it easier than ever to learn about different ways to save money on your heating bills - actually save money on the appliances in your home or business which use fuel.
A Michigan State graduate with a degree in Environmental Science, Casey has been researching many different products to help people save money on their heating bills. He has been doing direct selling of this product for some time, and then realized that because installation is so simple it could easily be sold over the internet. He has set this site up, full of great information too, just for you.
Again, another seemingly complicated procedure made very simple through this patented product. I could install this device, heck, even my mother could install this.
I like the clean technology, and I like the fact that you don't need to call an outside service person to let you begin saving on your fuel bills right now.
Give it a look. It would also make a great gift for all those people who have everything, except for a way to save money on their home fuel bills!
Today I noticed that somebody named Melanie wrote in the guest book that I keep in my U-Pick shed. “Forget Disneyland,” she wrote. “This is the happiest place on Earth.”
On Earth? I was stunned. And grateful. Of course, for me, the Upick IS the happiest place on earth. And I needed to be reminded of that, and realized for about the millionth time how easily we take for granted the best parts of our life when things aren’t going so well in other parts of it. This is a lesson it seems that I need to learn over and over.
I have sworn off looking at the falling stock market and reading all the bad news. At least for now. Today I am thinking about a close friend’s husband who was taken to Hospice House on Tuesday and is struggling valiantly to get through this final stage of life. He was diagnosed with kidney cancer in April, and it has been a nightmare for my friend and her family ever since. This is a good and gentle man, a thoughtful intellectual, a loving father, a stellar husband who is being taken from this earth. Life is not fair, this much I know.
I have the day off today as I do not work on Fridays at all, in order to keep up with the farm. It is one of those spectacular fall days on Omena Bay. The blue water is all the more stunning, set off by the emerging fall color backdrop of Omena Point. This is the first Friday since early June without bouquet making and deliveries. To wander from bed to bed, pulling weeds here, clipping back dead stems there, is a luxury. I have no agenda on this day other than to be at school in time to pick up my 9-year-old son, Will.
As I do my work, a monarch comes to rest on the nearby neon pink sweet William to drink the nectar. Neon is a new variety I planted this spring, said to be a true perennial. It is blooming again in a short burst of color after being cut back in June. The monarch slowly opens and closes its wings as it feeds. Uh oh, little fella, I think. You are a long way from where you need to be at this time of the year. How these fragile creatures make their long journey is one of life’s greatest mysteries, and, in my opinion, some kind of annual miracle.
When I see things like the monarch, or the rainbow on my way to school earlier this morning, I wonder, is this it? Did my friend’s husband pass over? Is this some sort of sign? I am a person who looks for signs, explanations. And then I think that perhaps the monarch was not a sign that a wonderful life had ended, but rather a reminder of the fragile journey that we are all on toward that destination.
Bail-Out October 2008 FDIC Insurance Coverage Limit Will Temporarily Increase - New Interim Rules Better Safeguard Trust Account
Dan Penning, the Suttons Bay Attorney with Wright Penning & Beamer has provided this timely and topical "bail-out" information about FDIC Insured Institutions and how it could affect your trust accounts. Read more information on his blog at www.suttonsbaydepot.com.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF NEW INTERIM RULES TO BETTER SAFEGUARD TRUST ACCOUNTS AT FDIC INSURED INSTITUTIONS
(The $100,000 FDIC insurance coverage limit will temporarily increase to $250,000 upon President Bush’s signing of the “bail-out bill” passed in the House October 3, 2008. This increase is effective until December 31, 2009, at which time the insurance coverage will revert back to the $100,000 limit).
The FDIC has adopted an interim rule to simplify and modernize its deposit insurance rules for revocable trust accounts. Your living trust may be modified to take greater advantage of the new FDIC interim rule. Prior to the interim rule being adopted, all revocable trust accounts (both payable-on-death accounts and living trust accounts) were insured up to $100,000 per “qualifying beneficiary.” (A “qualifying beneficiary” was limited to the account owner’s spouse, child, or grandchild, parents, and siblings.) Under the interim rule, coverage is based on the existence of any beneficiary named in the revocable trust, as long as the beneficiary is a natural person, or a charity or other non-profit organization.
FOR ACCOUNTS TOTALING NO MORE THAN $500,000.
For account owners with revocable trust accounts totaling no more than $500,000, coverage will be determined without regard to the beneficial interest of each beneficiary in the trust. This issue typically arises in the context of a living trust that, for example, provides either varying lump-sum payments for designated beneficiaries or different percentage interests in trust assets to certain beneficiaries, or different remainder interests in the assets to the same or other beneficiaries. Under the new rules, a trust account owner with up to five different beneficiaries named in all his or her revocable trust accounts at one FDIC-insured institution will be insured up to $100,000 (temporarily $250,000 until Dec. 31, 2009) per beneficiary.
SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR ACCOUNTS TOTALING MORE THAN $500,000 WITH MORE THAN FIVE BENEFICIARIES.
Revocable trust account owners with more than $500,000 and more than five different beneficiaries named in the trust(s) will be insured for the greater of either: $500,000 or the aggregate amount of all the beneficiaries' interests in the trust(s), limited to $100,000 (temporarily $250,000 until Dec. 31, 2009) per beneficiary.
We recommend that trust account owners first ensure that the institution holding their funds is FDIC insured. We can help you determine the maximum FDIC insurance coverage amount of your trust account as it currently stands and how to better take advantage of the simplified interim rule. First and foremost, depositors should determine whether the institution holding their funds is maintaining solid footing in the financial industry during these uncertain times. Trust account owners may decide to move their funds to a more secure institution if they discover that their current institution is not equipped to handle the current financial predicament.
Dan A. Penning, Attorney Wright Penning & Beamer
Farmington Hills and Suttons Bay, Michigan
231-271-4500
Rich Schefren Sweetens the Guided Profits System with Extended Program and Lower Payments
Wow, I wasn't expecting this...
So last week Rich Schefren launched his revolutionary new Guided Profits System coaching program...
And he closed the doors waaaay faster than expected.
But for every person who got inside, there were another half dozen or so that couldn't. Many wanted a longer payment plan... and many wanted a longer program.
So Rich is doing something extraordinary. Check it out here...
That's correct--Rich has created a special "Silver" version of GPS just for these people.
And this version doesn't skimp on the good stuff either. Rich has left in all the most powerful tips, techniques, and strategies to help you finally break through the walls that are holding you back.
Dan A. Penning, Attorney
CoryB, Leelanau Real Estate
Logged 50 million miles in more than two thousand orbits of Earth at 18,000 miles per hour. First American to undock from the space station in Soyuz spacecraft, first American to perform a spacewalk outside a foreign spacecraft. At the completion of the mission he had spent more time in space than any male American. Signed and personalized copies of his books are available exclusively at Known Books of Suttons Bay.
Your Local Grocer - Your Neighbor - Many Premium and Nationally Known Award Winning Products! - Specialty Products in Every Department!
A Widely Known Must-Experience Leelanau Destination! A U-Pick flower farm located 7 miles north of Suttons Bay on M-22 in Leelanau County (sign visible along M-22) - Open dawn 'til dusk daily, May through October with 23 beds to pick from with over 40 varieties of annuals and perennials grown. There is a self service shed on premises with jars of water, scissors, etc.
Known as the Historic Romantic Bed & Breakfast in Suttons Bay, Michigan at 231.271.2711. "Every second was a moment of magnificence." 
Three Cottages on the shores of Suttons Bay in Northern Michigan. A known vacation favorite in Leelanau County.
Known as the Oldest Tavern in Leelanau County - Where Good Friends & Great Food Meet
Northern Lumber in Suttons Bay is the Local Lumber Yard, Hardware Store and Building Supply Source for Leelanau County and the Grand Traverse Area in Northern Michigan. Known throughout northern Michigan as the source of lumber and building supplies.
Situated in historic Fishtown - Up on the main street in Leland, which is just a quick walk across a parking lot you will be delighted to discover the charming, and historic, fishing village of Leland, Michigan. Leland is known for many things including Fishtown. Take time to stop and explore this vacation site.
Located near the heart of downtown Suttons Bay. Close to Known Books and area shops and The Village Inn and Martha's Leelanau Table restaurants.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF NEW INTERIM RULES TO BETTER SAFEGUARD TRUST ACCOUNTS AT FDIC INSURED INSTITUTIONS