baker home inspection and consulting blog: You can go wild about watching Nature in Springfield, Vermont - 08/16/08 11:52 PM
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Right now somewhere in Springfield, Vermont there is a Fox sitting with pricked ears on top of a mountain.
There is a Black Bear having some quiet time
There are two Eagles talking over where to have their family
There is a Moose enjoying life
Around here, connecting with nature is not difficult and it comes quite naturally. You can do it just by simply going bird watching, hunting, fishing, hiking, canoeing, or … (21 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Helpful General Information for Springfield, Vermont - 08/16/08 10:11 PM
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GENERAL INFORMATION for Springfield
Population – 9,091
Area – 31,552 acres, 47 square miles
Altitude – 410 feet
Chartered – August 20, 1761
Average Temperature
January – 16.5 degrees, F
July – 67.5 degrees, F
Average Annual Rainfall – 43.5 inches
Average Annual Snowfall – 98.5 inches
MILAGE & APPROXIMATE DRIVING TIME TO
Albany, NY: 110 Miles, 2 ½ hours
Boston, MA: 130 miles, 3 hours
Burlington, VT: 110 miles, 2 … (8 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Your Oil Line and Oil Leaks in your Home Springfield Vermont - 08/02/08 11:49 PM
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A leak from a fuel oil line in your basement or even a utility room will create an unpleasant odor throughout your home. This is a very important condition to check because it's a fire hazard. You need to have any leaks repaired just as soon as you can. Unfortunately, there have been some systems installed where copper tubing is ran directly on the floor and makes it subject to being crushed. It's a very poor policy and a really big hazard. … (16 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Fuel Oil Heating Systes Vermont First Time Home Buyers - 08/02/08 11:27 PM
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A oil burner system is comparable to a gas burner except for the cost of fuel oil, which can run twice as much as a gas system. If you keep it properly maintained, your oil burning forced air furnace or boiler system will operate as efficiently and cleanly as a gas fired system. The oil burner does require more service than a gas burner, because there are a lot more compo nets to them. I always recommend having oil … (7 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Get eye to eye with Wildlife when you visit Vermont - 08/02/08 11:09 PM
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Vermont Institute of Natural Science
VINS Nature Center
Get eye to eye with North America's finest collection of birds of prey, you can see Eagles, Hawks, Falcons and Owls.
They have exciting New exhibits and programs going on.
Discover the hands-on Tree House Exhibithang out with wild, weird and whimsical creatures who call the tree's their home.
You can wander miles of interpretive walking trails aiong the Ottauquechee River
Kids and Adults have a … (13 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Having your fee's on your website - 07/28/08 11:36 PM
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Howdy everyone
I have been thinking about if it is best to have inspection fees on my website or not.
I have been working on my website. But I am just not sure about this part.
I would like to know how Y'all feel about having your fees on your website.
Do you think it helps you more by having they on your website?
This posting and the contents that are written here are the intellectual property of Baker Home Inspection and … (25 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Have you thought about revising your marking plan! - 07/28/08 08:15 PM
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I know most of us; work on our business plan at the first of the year!
Feel a business plan is always a work in progress, just like our Website’s; our Blogging is always a work in progress for us.
You just may want to review it, and revise it to make it more in line with the way the market has been going.
Are you thinking of new ways to promote yourself to folks? Like interacting and networking in … (7 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: A way to market yourself! - 07/28/08 07:13 PM
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Heres a marketing tool to think about.
Have you looked in to if a newspaper in your area prints a business profile supplement?
It can give you the opportunity to express your uniqueness, as well as letting your area know what you have to offer.
I hope business is going will for you all.
You could tell folks what you want them to know about your business like.
How did you get started?
How long have you been in business?
What … (6 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Did you know Benjamin Franklin - 07/27/08 09:17 PM
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( In case anyone stop's by, I am not done with this post )
A very unusual aspect of Franklin's personality, at least by the standards of the 18th century, was his concern for personal hygiene.
From his youth he was an avid swimmer, and in his adult life he bathed as often as once a week practice considered scandalous at the time.
Franklin not only brought the first bathtub to America but also improved its design and … (3 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: A Window Blogger - 07/26/08 11:38 PM
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If you are a window blogger, then you give folk's a distinct perspective on the very workings of your industry to the outside world. Window bloggers are knowen for their honesty with folk's. Window bloggers are seen as being odd, but they always very respected. They do not pull any of their punches. A window bogger will always tell you like it really is, be it good or be it bad. They also go way beyond that by leting you know the reasons … (16 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: A Signpost blogger - 07/26/08 10:51 PM
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The signpost blogger is unusual in the fact they don't share their opinions with fok's, that is not their primary reason for their blogging existence. The sisnpost blogger will point out very cool things of interest in their industry. They may not really have a lot to say in their blog post's. But they will post dozens of shorter post's each day. As they come along very interesting tidbits to pass along to their reads. They can always point you to a site … (5 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: How will you catch the eyes of New Clients with your blog! - 07/26/08 10:11 PM
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Having your blog bring in clients
With all the challenges that we face in todays market. Is mindshare, this is all about just how many folk's are really aware of you, and just how you are going to help them and take care of their needs.
What if we think of mindshare, as if it was like market shares, except instead of us having a share of the market in the terms of dollar value, you value mindshare as a percentage … (8 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Are You Tracking Your Blog- Part 1 of a 2 Part mini Series - 07/26/08 08:30 PM
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Using a trending system like BlogPulse you can track blog conversations from their starting point to their ending point, you are able to see how a conversation grows. It also will track specific terms for you over a period of time. You can compare the graph to other terms. You can also use a trending system to monitor how offten your Company is mentioned by folk's, versus how many times your competitors are mentioned over the net. You could even use them to … (8 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Are You Tracking Your Blog- Part 2 of a 2 part mini Series - 07/26/08 06:43 PM
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Using a system to track the activity on your blog is very helpful.
Using a feed tracking system, This kind of tracking system relys on the feed that your blog publish. Feed reading and tracking systems, look for feeds to determine if theres anything new go en on in and on your blog. These systems tell ya all the blogs that have linked to your blog on an every day basis or you can have a list return that mention specific terms on … (2 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Your Active Rain outside Blog - 07/25/08 03:37 AM
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To buy or not to buy your Active Rain outside blog it's own domain name. Is a question that folk's have been asking them selves and asking others in the community.
Some have been seeing that the search engines are not finding or picking up their outside blogs with it's own domain name. Even with have the same post's on it as they have on their Acrive Rain blog. You may be thing how can that be.
Will it all has to do … (5 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 10 of 10 in a Series - 07/19/08 11:31 PM
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Don't just parrot the same comments over and over!
Commenting on others blog post's
When you have taken the time to read someone's blog's. The natural thing to start doing is to make comments on their occasional post's. You don't have to comment on each and every post they write, but it's nice if you do leave them a note or even an opinion on some of their post's over a few weeks or so. By doing this they … (27 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 9 of 10 in a Series - 07/19/08 11:00 PM
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Ask your reads questions
One of the very best ways to get folk's to participate in a reallife conversation is to ask them a question, then why not do the something in your blog post's, there is really no different in the two. Ask them what they think? and what about how would you have handled this?
This will show your readers that you know that even some of the very smartest folk's sometimes … (2 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 8 in a Series - 07/19/08 10:30 PM
Build traffic to your blog
Always give folk's a reason to come back to visit you, give other bloggers a reason to link to you. Give folk's a reason to tell others about the great new post, you have taken time to write and post on your blog. You can build the traffic coming to your blog in many ways. Even though traffic is not the only measure of your success, you should have on your blog. More folk's reading your blog post's means more folk's are interacting, maken comments, contributing, … (3 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 7 in a Series - 07/19/08 09:57 PM
Making the most of a visit from folk's
When folk's start visiting your blog, it's all up to you, to see that it is easy for your visitors find the information they are looking for. Ask quwstions, and be sure to build relationshipe with your visitor. Have a E-Mail link on every page, that will make it mush better for your new visitors. That way they don't have to go looking for the contact you. Having the link at the end of your post, it's right there for your readers, when they are … (2 comments)
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baker home inspection and consulting blog: Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 6 of 10 in a Series and a ThemThem! - 07/19/08 08:25 PM
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Being a successful blogger is a little like the movie Field of Dreams, you know what the voice keeped saying. ( Build it and they will come! )
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Build your Blog of Dreams
Always have fun with your blod, mix it up.
Blogging was meant for you to have fun as you, work on geting your name out to folk's. Blogging is also very very serious busines at times. As you are blogging and networking to build your business … (22 comments)
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