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      <title>Successful Notary Tip #8 - Just Try It!</title>
      <description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;When it comes to marketing your business there are no hard and fast rules. What works for one person or business may not work for another. If you have a marketing idea the best thing to do, if it's in your budget, is to give your idea a try.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people will swear against cold calling, canvassing, mailers, e-mail marketing, networking groups and promotional giveaways but then there are others that have built their business using these techniques. Since the notary business has been slow in my neck of the woods I decided to give cold calling a try.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cold calling is definitely not on the top of my list of favorite things to do but I figured it could not hurt. To my surprise the response I received was 99% positive. Because I am offering a service and not trying to sell anything, the person on the other end of the phone was happy to learn that I was available to perform mobile notary services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So next time you have a marketing idea give it a try!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mobilenotaryreview.com/2008/10/notary-foreign-language-documents.html" target="_blank"&gt;Notarzing Forgein Language Documents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mobilenotaryreview.com/2008/09/bride-or-groom-unable-to-appear.html" target="_blank"&gt;Bride or Groom Unable to Appear?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:14:19 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/746005/Successful-Notary-Tip-8-Just-Try-It</link>
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      <title>My First 100 Mile Day in a Month!</title>
      <description>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lately business has been slow in my notary world. 2008 started out so promising the slow down of the last couple of months caught me totally off guard; I didn't know what to think.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Thankfully, all hope is not lost as I have had a busy week so far, and it's only Tuesday! I was so busy today that I drove over a 100 miles handling notarizations and authentications from Long Beach to Norwalk back to Long Beach to Downtown Los Angeles to Rancho Palos Verdes back to Long Beach. I was in my car from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. And I already have two jobs lined up for tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I may have been running around like crazy but I was busy doing what I love so the day could not have gone any better. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Browse The Rain for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in your area.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:23:38 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/729020/My-First-100-Mile-Day-in-a-Month</link>
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      <guid>681244</guid>
      <title>L.A. County Posts Useful Forms for Download</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"&gt;I am happy to report that the L.A. County Recorder's office has officially come into the 21st Century and is posting for download some of the most common &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;forms relating to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lavote.net/GENERAL/Form_Downloads.cfm" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: #3333ff;"&gt;real property&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; transactions. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;On their website you can find such forms as&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lavote.net/GENERAL/PDFS/POWER_OF_ATTORNEY_GENERAL.pdf" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;power of attorney&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lavote.net/GENERAL/PDFS/GRANT_DEED.pdf" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;grant deed&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.lavote.net/GENERAL/PDFS/QUITCLAIM_DEED.pdf" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;quitclaim deed&lt;/a&gt;. This is a really convenient service and I hope they continue to use the web to its full potential.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;If you are unable find the form you're looking for you can also view the &lt;a href="http://riverside.asrclkrec.com/ACR/FO.asp" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;County of Riverside&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://riverside.asrclkrec.com/ACR/FO.asp" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;'s&lt;/a&gt; County-Clerk website.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;More helpful information can be found @ &lt;a href="http://www.mobilenotaryreview.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Mobile Notary Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:05:37 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/681244/LA-County-Posts-Useful-Forms-for-Download</link>
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      <title>Successful Notary Tip #6 - Always Be Marketing</title>
      <description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Any successful business owner will tell you how important it is to market your business at all times, and to always be on the look out for new and inventive ways to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_marketing" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;guerrilla marketing&lt;/a&gt; techniques I decided to employ was to use my car as a advertising tool. Because being mobile is the key to my business, I spend almost as much time in my car as I do at home. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;If fact, my car is my second home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I was deciding what method to use - window lettering, door magnets, etc. this brightly colored vehicle drove right past me. I liked what I saw so much I called them right away!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gsYdq2yL4sA/SFs7jz0HgaI/AAAAAAAAANY/oU9S5Ax3RHI/s1600-h/IMG_0654.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gsYdq2yL4sA/SFs7jz0HgaI/AAAAAAAAANY/oU9S5Ax3RHI/s200/IMG_0654.JPG" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213826480001745314" alt="" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After deciding on the wording and the colors this is what I came up with and I absolutely love it! It's only been a couple of days so no one is knocking down my door quite yet but I am confident I will be receiving business in no time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Browse The Rain for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in your area.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:33:35 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/558455/Successful-Notary-Tip-6-Always-Be-Marketing</link>
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      <title>Fax Backs Can be a Pain!</title>
      <description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;As a notary, you'll have the greatest opportunity to earn income working as a &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/153937/What-is-a-Notary"&gt;Loan Signing Agent&lt;/a&gt;, and after four years in this profession I have gotten used to many things - last minute signings, e-docs (loan docs that are electronically transmitted so that you can print them), keeping a smile on your face when in front of a difficult borrower, etc. But one thing that I still do not like are fax backs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is when the company that has contracted you requires you to fax back a portion of the loan documents after the signing for their review. I know it is a necessary evil in some instances but when I have to fax back 20 pages and more I am a little irritated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean what are they doing with all this extra paper?! You are overnighting the documents back to them so what is the big deal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could understand if they were asking for just the notarized documents to review so they can catch any errors early but I just faxed over 50 pages for a Countrywide loan and only three of the pages were notarized! Faxing that many pages took more than 30 minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thankfully, this does not happen all of the time or I would be pulling my hair out. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gsYdq2yL4sA/SBtFCqcegNI/AAAAAAAAALY/WAcCxTQmDnA/s1600-h/screaming+lady.jpg"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img title="mobile notary" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gsYdq2yL4sA/SBtFCqcegNI/AAAAAAAAALY/WAcCxTQmDnA/s320/screaming+lady.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195822507157782738" border="0" height="219" hspace="100" alt="lady screaming" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile Notary &amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Browse The Rain for a qualified Loan Signing Agent in your area. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/MobileNotaryReview/%7E6/6"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MobileNotaryReview.6.gif" alt="Mobile Notary Review" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mobilenotaryreview.com/"&gt;Mobile Notary Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 12:15:18 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Too Busy to Think Straight!</title>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gsYdq2yL4sA/SAg5tM9JIvI/AAAAAAAAALA/bzFGfbBXZvQ/s1600-h/tired+face.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="face" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gsYdq2yL4sA/SAg5tM9JIvI/AAAAAAAAALA/bzFGfbBXZvQ/s320/tired+face.jpg" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190462019279069938" height="117" align="left" alt="tired face" width="105" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yesterday was one of &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; days... It started at 6:30 a.m. and did not end until 10 p.m. In total, I completed three loan signings, one non-loan notarization and spent 3 1/2 hours at the Tai Pei Consulate. Let&amp;#39;s just say I&amp;#39;m pooped!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I traveled from Long Beach to San Pedro back to Long Beach to Los Angeles to Carson back to Long Beach to Cerritos back to Long Beach and then home. At the end of the day my odometer reading had increased by 118 miles!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started the day knowing it was going to be busy but I just had not imagined my trip to Los Angeles would take so long. I have taken documents to be apostilled by the State of CA but I have never had to make a trip to a consulate office before so I was green to the process and the &lt;em&gt;wait&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though I&amp;#39;m incredibly tired I would do it all over again. You can&amp;#39;t beat the variety of this business.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originally posted at:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mobilenotaryreview.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/8/3/8/6/ar120668170568384.png" height="45" alt="signature" width="237" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:00:40 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Successful Notary Tip #3 - Get a Website!</title>
      <description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;If you are a notary looking to get loan and non-loan notary work then you must have a website. People are using the web more and more to find professionals to do business with so why not make it easy for them to find you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have personally found that developing a website and learning how to &lt;a href="http://www.easywebtutorials.com/ebooks/SEO-MadeEasy.pdf"&gt;optimize it for the web&lt;/a&gt; was one of the best things I could have done for my business. I frequently get calls from clients that found me on the web. This easily adds an extra $500 a month to my income.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are apprehensive about where to start then I would suggest listing your profile in as places on the web that you can. Two of my previous blogs list directories that enable you list your profile for free. Here is a link to &lt;a href="../../blogsview/105004/Increase-Your-Web-Presence"&gt;Vol. 1&lt;/a&gt; &amp; &lt;a href="../../blogsview/148027/Increase-Your-Web-Presence"&gt;Vol. 2&lt;/a&gt; of "Increase Your Web Presence For Free."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also do a Google search for "&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=free+directories&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a"&gt;free directories&lt;/a&gt;" and you will never run out of places to list your profile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you decide to create a website yourself a good place to start is &lt;a href="http://www.freewebs.com/"&gt;Freewebs.com&lt;/a&gt;. They have hundreds of templates to choose from, which are relatively easy to use. If you can get around Microsoft Word then you can make the most of Freewebs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get out there and start increasing your web presence!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Related posts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedocdiva.blogspot.com/2008/02/successful-notary-tip-2-network.html"&gt;Successful Notary Tip #2 - Network, Network, Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedocdiva.blogspot.com/2008/01/success-notary-tip-1-answer-your-phone.html"&gt;Successful Notary Tip #1 - Answer Your Phone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedocdiva.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-series-sucessful-notary-tips.html"&gt;New Series - Successful Notary Tips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile Notary &amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Browse The Rain for a qualified Loan Signing Agent in your area. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:0; padding-bottom:0; text-align:center; line-height:0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MobileNotaryReview/~6/6"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MobileNotaryReview.6.gif" alt="Mobile Notary Review" style="border:0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top:5px; padding-top:0; font-size:x-small; text-align:center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mobilenotaryreview.com"&gt;Mobile Notary Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:35:01 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/443111/Successful-Notary-Tip-3-Get-a-Website</link>
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      <title>Successful Notary Tip #2 - Network, Network, Network</title>
      <description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One way to increase your chances of success as a notary is to network with other notaries&lt;/strong&gt;. An easy way to do this is to read and participate on the many popular notary boards, such as &lt;a href="http://www.notaryrotary.com/forums/forumsbody.asp?id=&amp;amp;forumid=1AAA00000003&amp;amp;messageid=&amp;amp;action=list&amp;amp;rid=&amp;amp;replytonbr=&amp;amp;replytoid=&amp;amp;subject=&amp;amp;format=threaded"&gt;Notary Rotary&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://members.boardhost.com/gomobilenotary/index.html?1202253721" title="Jiglu link tag: Notary Board"&gt;Go Mobile Notary&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.notarynetwork.org/" title="Jiglu link tag: Mobile Notary Network"&gt;Mobile Notary Network&lt;/a&gt; (view &lt;a href="http://www.mynotarysource.com/view_articles/additional_resources_for_the_mobile_notary_public/"&gt;MyNotarySource&lt;/a&gt; for a comprehensive list). There you will find new and experienced notaries that you can learn from, get your questions answered and exchange marketing ideas with. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you first log on to a board it is always good to read and get a feel for the board before you post. Once you feel comfortable you can introduce yourself to let your voice be heard. The board I recommend the most for newbies is &lt;a href="http://www.notarynetwork.org/" title="Jiglu link tag: Mobile Notary Network"&gt;Mobile Notary Network&lt;/a&gt; because the notaries are friendly and helpful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another way to network with other notaries is contact local notaries in your area to set up a referral system&lt;/strong&gt;. Because I have been in contact with other Long Beach notaries, I can easily refer business to them that I am unable to accept. If am presented with an assignment that conflicts with my schedule I tell the caller that I can have one of my associates perform the notarization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I then proceed to take down their information so the other notary can contact them (this is the best way because when you just give them another notaries&amp;#39; phone number they never seem to call).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Long Beach notary group has set up a referral system so if the notary makes $100 and up from the assignment then a 20% referral fee is paid to the referring notary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not be afraid get out there and network you way to success!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Related posts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedocdiva.blogspot.com/2008/01/success-notary-tip-1-answer-your-phone.html"&gt;Successful Notary Tip #1 - Answer Your Phone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedocdiva.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-series-sucessful-notary-tips.html"&gt;New Series - Successful Notary Tips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Browse The Rain for a qualified Loan Signing Agent in your area. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:54:15 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/369209/Successful-Notary-Tip-2-Network-Network-Network</link>
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      <title>Success Notary Tip #1 - Answer Your Phone</title>
      <description>   &lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gsYdq2yL4sA/R5A7v6wVcXI/AAAAAAAAAIw/28Wusprz04o/s1600-h/cell+phone+graphic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="mobile notary" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gsYdq2yL4sA/R5A7v6wVcXI/AAAAAAAAAIw/28Wusprz04o/s200/cell+phone+graphic.jpg" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156687267751096690" height="200" align="left" alt="phone" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As a notary, your cell phone is your lifeline to receiving new business. If you do not answer your phone then the caller is likely to hang up and dial the next notary on the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Because our cell phones are so important to our notary business, I am often shocked at how many notaries do not answer their phones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recently had a gentlemen tell me that he was surprised to get a live person when I answered my phone. He had tried several other notaries and I was the &lt;u&gt;only&lt;/u&gt; one that actually answered his call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great customer service not only sets you apart but it also guarantees repeat business. One way to deliver great customer service is make sure your phone is always in ear shot so that you can easily answer your phone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even with the best intentions there are times when you are going to miss a call. I have found it extremely helpful to ask in my voicemail greeting that the caller &amp;quot;leave a message as I am able to return most phone calls within 15 minutes.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being a notary requires that you are available at a moments notice so be sure always keep and answer your cell phone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Related post - &lt;a href="http://thedocdiva.blogspot.com/2008/01/clarify-clarify-clarify-save-your.html"&gt;Clarify, Clarify! Before Your Notary Appointment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedocdiva.blogspot.com/2008/01/clarify-clarify-clarify-save-your.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MobileNotaryReview/~6/6"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MobileNotaryReview.6.gif" height="60" hspace="100" alt="Mobile Notary Review" width="468" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mobilenotaryreview.com" target="_blank"&gt;Mobile Notary Review&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:53:03 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/346475/Success-Notary-Tip-1-Answer-Your-Phone</link>
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      <title>Blog Tip - Work To Promote Your Blog</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;If you're relatively new to blogging or only blog on AR you may not be aware of all the ways to promote your blog. Many of the steps are similar to traditional website promotion, such as submitting your site to &lt;a href="http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/" target="_blank"&gt;blog directories&lt;/a&gt; but some are different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are a few sites that have helped me drive traffic to my outside blog - &lt;a href="http://thedocdiva.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;Mobile Notary Review&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linkreferral.com" target="_blank"&gt;Linkreferral&lt;/a&gt; - You benefit by reviewing sites and in turn your site is reviewed. Open to blogs and regular websites. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingzoom.com" target="_blank"&gt;BloggingZoom&lt;/a&gt; - Similar to &lt;a href="http://www.digg.com" target="_blank"&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Stumble&lt;/a&gt; except it's only open blog sites and not mainstream sites, like CNN. A great way to discover blogs and drive traffic to your blog (&lt;strong&gt;warning&lt;/strong&gt;: highly addictive).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.entrecard.com" target="_blank"&gt;Entrecard&lt;/a&gt; - I'm still trying to figure this one out but I've received consistent traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogcatalog.com" target="_blank"&gt;Blogcatalog&lt;/a&gt; - A friendly community of bloggers &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogsrecord.com/record/" target="_blank"&gt;Blogsrecord&lt;/a&gt; - Similar to BloggingZoom &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;Please feel free to share steps that have worked for you. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile Notary &amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="../nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:04:51 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/298478/Blog-Tip-Work-To-Promote-Your-Blog</link>
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      <title>Rain Is In The Forecast</title>
      <description>  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Mobile Notary" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/6/2/5/7/ar119690454675268.png" height="124" align="left" alt="Umbrella" width="138" /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve never lived anywhere else but Southern California but I&amp;#39;ve been told that no where else does weather make the top story on the evening news like my hometown. It doesn&amp;#39;t matter whether it&amp;#39;s raining, about to rain, windy, hot or cold it all makes news in Southern California.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Starting early this week the coming rainstorm has been reported on by the local media. I usually think it&amp;#39;s a much a do about nothing but in this case I can say the media attention is warranted because our weather has been downright wacky. We started out in the high 70s on Monday to only end the week in the 50s with showers. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, many have a right to be concerned due to the fact that the recent fires may lead to flooding in burned out areas. With that said, I hope everyone stays dry and safe while taking the time to enjoy the rain because due to the drought we don&amp;rsquo;t know when it will be back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img title="Mobile Notary" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/1/2/6/8/ar119690485586218.jpg" height="223" align="right" alt="lady in the rain" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/action/nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  </description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:08:42 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/297332/Rain-Is-In-The-Forecast</link>
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      <title>Upcoming FREE Principal Group Teleclass</title>
      <description>&lt;h1&gt;Make Your Million Dollar Idea a Reality: Advice From an Entrepreneur Who Aimed High and Succeeded&lt;/h1&gt;           &lt;table border="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;         &lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;td&gt;Tuesday, December 04, 2007&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr valign="top"&gt;         &lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;td&gt;12:00 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Mountain and 10 a.m. Pacific&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;         &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;             &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sign up for this free class conducted via phone:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;             &lt;p&gt;Registered users: &lt;a href="http://secure3.websiteencryption.com/teleclassreg/aspx/ClassLogin.aspx"&gt;Login&lt;/a&gt; and register for the class.&lt;/p&gt;             &lt;p&gt;First time attendees: &lt;a href="http://secure3.websiteencryption.com/teleclassreg/aspx/Profile.aspx"&gt;Create a profile&lt;/a&gt; and register for this free class conducted via phone.&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;         &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Class Overview:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;         &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once you have that million dollar idea what are the first steps to making it a reality?&lt;br /&gt; What was the tipping point for your company?&lt;br /&gt; After your company is off the ground, how do you continue to grow every year?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Find out during the complimentary teleclass: Listeners gain inspiring advice and hear first-hand how to nurture and grow their business.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Our Speaker: Elaine Brodsky, President and Co-Founder of CitiStorage, LLC&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Brodsky&amp;#39;s CitiStorage is the largest, single-market, and independently owned and operated records management company in the United States.&amp;nbsp; CitiStorage&amp;#39;s clients include New York&amp;#39;s largest hospitals, banks, financial services providers, government institutions and law firms.&amp;nbsp; With more than 17 years in business, CitiStorage is now a $25 million company with more than 150 employees.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Brodsky leads &lt;em&gt;Inc. &lt;/em&gt;conference sessions and consults with prominent businesses and assosiations.&amp;nbsp; She has contributed to &lt;em&gt;USA Today&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt;, among others.&amp;nbsp; She won a lifetime achievement award in 2007 from the New York chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners and was names a 2006 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for her region.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;For More Information on Elaine Brodsky Please Visit:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.citistorage.com/" target="_blank"&gt;www.citistorage.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;For More Information on the &amp;quot;Women in Business&amp;quot; Teleclass Series Please Visit:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;This teleclass is provided by The&amp;nbsp;Principal Financial Group and is an educational program dedicated to the growth and success of women business owners.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For more information, please visit &lt;a href="http://www.principal.com/teleclass"&gt;www.principal.com/teleclass&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:41:55 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/282146/Upcoming-FREE-Principal-Group-Teleclass</link>
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      <title>Great Deals On Black Friday</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;All work and no play makes for a boring day and you have not had fun until you have gone shopping on&lt;em&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_friday" target="_blank"&gt;Black Friday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Black Friday&lt;/strong&gt; marks the beginning of the winter shopping season. If you plan to be among the masses of frenzied shoppers then you will need three things:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Focus - this prevents distraction, too many sale signs can make you dizzy &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A list - this helps you stick to your budget&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A plan - what stores do you plan to hit and in what order&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be sure to check out &lt;a href="http://www.bradsdeals.com/guide-Black-Friday.html" target="_blank"&gt;Brad&amp;#39;s Deals&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.blackfriday.info" target="_blank"&gt;Black Friday&lt;/a&gt; to find the best &lt;u&gt;Black Friday&lt;/u&gt; deals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Mobile Notary" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/5/8/7/2/ar119568542827852.jpg" height="309" hspace="200" alt="lady shopping" width="200" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="../../nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:51:41 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/282085/Great-Deals-On-Black-Friday</link>
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      <title>Who's Heard of Valdosta, GA?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Mobile Notary" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/7/4/8/7/8/ar119525946187847.jpg" height="142" align="left" alt="georgia" width="161" /&gt;Yesterday I needed to find a notary in Valdosta, GA even though I&amp;#39;m in California. This was very interesting since I had never heard nor been to Valdosta, GA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This all started when a man called me a couple of weeks ago needing a will notarized for his sister who was in intensive care and it did not look like she was going to pull through. Due to the fact that a notary cannot prepare and notarize the same document I gave him a couple of referrals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next time I heard back from him his sister had died but he had never gotten the will. He now needed a document notarized allowing his brother, who was homeless and living in Valdosta with no I.D., to sign over the life insurance policy his sister had so they would have money to claim her body and bury her. There was nothing I could really do from CA but I agreed to help him find a notary in GA.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first notary I contacted wanted to charge $175 because he was afraid of the liability involved due to the fact that signer did not have identification. Now I know they can only charge $2 per signature in GA but I thought that was outrageous for ONE signature! Needless to say, I moved on and found someone else that was a little more reasonable.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the end the man said he probably did not need the notary anymore so it was a lot work for nothing but I did what I could. It&amp;#39;s definitely never a dull day as a notary.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="California Apostille" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/5/4/4/3/7/ar119525950273445.jpg" height="156" hspace="200" alt="flower" width="184" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="../nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:27:29 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/276687/Whos-Heard-of-Valdosta-GA</link>
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      <title>SEO 102 - How to Benefit from Misspelled Keywords</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;You have taken the time to put together a fabulous new website. It&amp;#39;s proof read for misspellings, grammatical errors, and optimized with all the hot keys words so you are sure to be found by the search engines in no time. &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; have you optimized your site for misspelled words?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When designing a website we have to keep our audience in mind. Just because you won 2nd place in your 4th grade spelling bee (&lt;em&gt;yes, that was me :)&lt;/em&gt; ) does not mean that your future client did. And we have to consider those that just accidentally clicked the wrong key.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recently downloaded a free eBook, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.timberway.com/includes/SEO_MadeEasyGood.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Search Engine Optimization Made Easy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by Brad Callen. It is absolutely fabulous in my opinion. The book takes you step by step through the many tips and tricks you can use to create a perfectly optimized website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the great &lt;strong&gt;free&lt;/strong&gt; resources he mentions is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.goodkeywords.com/" target="_blank"&gt;GoodKeyWord.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. I have been looking for a software like this for months. It provides you with not only keyword suggestions for a specific term but also possible misspellings of the word. I&amp;#39;m absolutely loving it, and it&amp;#39;s &lt;strong&gt;free&lt;/strong&gt;!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For instance if I type in the word &lt;strong&gt;notary&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;notary public&lt;/strong&gt; these are a few of the suggestions I&amp;#39;m given:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;notory, notarie, nnotary, nootary, notery, notery republic, noterepublic, public notery, notorization, and notarially&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can now creatively (I say creatively because I will use the misspellings but I still want to present myself professionally) sprinkle these words throughout my website so that I&amp;#39;m found in a search.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Take the software for a test drive and I think you will find it as useful as I have.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="notary services" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/3/0/5/9/ar119402231195039.png" height="418" hspace="25" alt="Good Keyword" width="550" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Beach&amp;#39;s #1 Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/action/nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:05:33 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/259323/SEO-102-How-to-Benefit-from-Misspelled-Keywords</link>
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      <title>Recycling E-waste in Long Beach</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;      &lt;img src="http://www.thedocdiva.com/recycle.jpg" border="0" align="left" alt="" /&gt;The minute the latest and greatest upgrades comes out it&amp;#39;s out with the old and in with the new, which leaves you with an outdated piece of electronic equipment you don&amp;#39;t know what to do with. Thankfully &lt;a href="http://www.goodwillsolac.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Goodwill&lt;/a&gt; stores have come to the rescue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Traditionally known as a place to recycle unwanted clothing, dishes and toys they are now the place to recycle your e-waste. If you have old TVs, computer monitors, cell phones or anything else electronic, just drop them off at your local Goodwill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recycling your old electronic equipment prevents them from ending up in landfills, which contributes to a cleaner environment. Another benefit is that your donation is tax deductible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E-waste can be dropped off any Goodwill store or drop-off point, of which there are 15 in Long Beach and surrounding cities. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So do your part for the environment and to keep our landfills free of unnecessary waste by dropping off your e-waste at your local Long Beach Goodwill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For others locations please call 562-435-7741.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Beach&amp;#39;s #1 Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="../../nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:29:33 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/254650/Recycling-E-waste-in-Long-Beach</link>
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      <title>Fighting for a Litter-Free Long Beach</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you live in Long Beach then you&amp;#39;re familiar with the hundreds of flyers, postcards, and advertisements we receive at our doors every year. Thankfully now there&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://www.litterfreelb.org/index.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;Litter-Free Long Beach&lt;/a&gt; to the rescue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The program strives to keep the streets of our city litter-free to ensure a safe and clean community. The Litter Abatement and Awareness Campaign represents a citywide effort with residents and local businesses to create more vibrant business corridors, safer neighborhoods and a cleaner and healthier environment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To participate in the program you can order a free door hanger or fence sign, or even better yet, download a &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.litterfreelb.org/complaint_to_advertiser.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Stop Advertising&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; letter to mail to the offending business owner along with their advertisement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I first learned about this program I was thrilled. I like others are sick of the hundreds of menus, free gym memberships, and auto repair advertisements. I&amp;#39;m all for free enterprise, just not at my door. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope others take an opportunity to participate and stamp out junk advertising in Long Beach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Beach&amp;#39;s #1 Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="../nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:33:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/243474/Fighting-for-a-Litter-Free-Long-Beach</link>
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      <title>Loan Officers - Customer Service 101</title>
      <description>&lt;img title="Long Beach notary" src="http://www.thedocdiva.com/money.jpg" border="0" height="243" align="left" alt="money" width="119" /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The only foundation of real business is &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;service&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Henry Ford (1863-1947)&lt;br /&gt; American industrialist, inventor &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Correct me if I&amp;#39;m wrong, but loan officers stand to make a pretty sizable commission when their loans fund so why do many deliver such poor customer service? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One simple thing that can make a difference between a client signing and not signing their loan documents is the ability to get their questions answered in a timely manner.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/153937/What-is-a-Notary" target="_blank"&gt;Notary Signing Agent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; may be the only person the borrowers meet in person during the loan qualification process. We are neutral parties in the transaction; we represent neither the lender nor the loan officer. If a borrower has a question we are allowed to answer the &amp;quot;what&amp;quot; but not the &amp;quot;why&amp;quot; so that is &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; it&amp;#39;s so important that borrowers are able to get their questions answered once they are at the signing table.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Below are two real life examples:&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario#1 - How the process should go:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I arrive at the borrower&amp;#39;s home with loan documents in hand. &lt;/strong&gt;The loan officer has spoken with the borrower prior to my arrival. He has answered all of the borrower&amp;#39;s questions so that when I arrive the borrower is comfortable with signing the loan documents and I am out of there in less than an hour.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario #2 - How the process should not go:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I arrive at the borrower&amp;#39;s home with loan documents in hand. The borrowers are a very nice elderly couple&lt;/strong&gt; attempting to refinance a home that will be purchased by their daughter in six months. The borrowers are completely unhappy because they have been going through this process for three months and this is the second time a notary has been out to their home.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The first set of documents had a higher percentage rate than they were quoted, included a prepayment penalty&lt;/strong&gt; (which wasn&amp;#39;t going to work since the daughter was going to be refinancing the property in her name in six months), had a mysterious $100 fee for local officials, and to top it all off their loan officer is hardly available and doesn&amp;#39;t return phone calls. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now this new set of loan documents again has errors, and as usual they are unable to get in contact with their &lt;/strong&gt;loan officer. When they spoke with him last night he said he would be in the office by 9:30 a.m. but it was now 10 a.m. and he was no where to be found, so let&amp;#39;s just say they were a little upset.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The borrowers are not willing to sign and they can&amp;#39;t speak with their loan officer so there is nothing left for me &lt;/strong&gt;to do. I tell them it was a pleasure meeting them and I&amp;#39;m out the door. I get a call about an hour later from the borrowers who have finally spoken with someone who could put them at ease so they are ready to sign. I will have to make a return trip later today.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario #2&lt;/strong&gt; is an ordeal that could have easily been avoided. In my experience if the borrowers are able to get their questions answered and made to feel comfortable then things will go smoothly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  I think the above quote from Henry Ford aptly states what we as real estate professionals should be striving to deliver. Quality customer service is what our businesses should be based on to guarantee repeat business and referrals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/9/8/3/4/ar119267707843892.jpg" height="190" align="right" alt="note" width="176" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Beach&amp;#39;s #1 Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="../../nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:36:11 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/239418/Loan-Officers-Customer-Service-101</link>
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      <title>Web Page Development Workshop - Southern CA</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="3" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#001974" align="left" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a name="event5" title="event5" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Internet Marketing:  Web Page Development&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr valign="top"&gt;     	&lt;td bgcolor="#ff8400"&gt;                   &lt;a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=sou98ecab.0.nelyrvbab.ldacovbab.535&amp;amp;ts=S0289&amp;amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.score114.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.score114.org/News/announce.jpg" border="0" height="150" alt="" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                                      &lt;table bgcolor="#001974" cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="1" width="150"&gt;         &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td width="148"&gt;                           &lt;table bgcolor="#ffffff" cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%"&gt;                          &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td align="left"&gt;Course Details&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;                          &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td align="left"&gt;                                                   &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Los Alamitos-Rossmoor Branch, Orange County Library&lt;/div&gt;                     &lt;div&gt;12700 Montecito Road&lt;/div&gt;                                          &lt;div&gt;Seal Beach, CA  90740&lt;/div&gt;                                                    &lt;div&gt;Wednesday, October 24, 2007&lt;/div&gt;                 &lt;div&gt;6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.&lt;/div&gt;                                  &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;             &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;                           &lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;                            &lt;/td&gt;     	&lt;td align="left"&gt;                                                &lt;p&gt;         Co-sponsored by the Orange County Public Library -  Los Alamitos Rossmoor Branch and the Los Alamitos  Area Chamber of Commerce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;                      &lt;p&gt;             &lt;strong&gt;Course Description&lt;/strong&gt;             &lt;/p&gt;                      &lt;p&gt;             Learn how to construct your web site so that you will  have a higher standing with the search engines.   Learn Google&amp;#39;s and Yahoo&amp;#39;s search engine secrets,  how to do your keyword research and how to stake out  your sales territory on the Internet. Learn about web  analytics, adwords, Internet marketing ROI, link  development, pay-per-click, Internet radio ads,  blogging, RSS, eCommerce benefits, and linking  structures that promote sales. If you have not done  search engine optimization (SEO) for your web site,  then we highly recommend this workshop.             &lt;/p&gt;                      &lt;p&gt;             &lt;strong&gt;John Gibson&lt;/strong&gt;, a senior technology consultant,  brings extensive experience in information technology,  business management, eCommerce, search engine  optimization, and software development to his clients.  Mr. Gibson has worked with companies such as  Bechtel Power Corporation, IBM, United Engineers  and Constructors Inc., E.I. DuPont, JobNet, Inc. and  Eaton Corporation. He is president of United  Intelligence Corporation in Irvine.  John also consults  in the area of business management and Internet  marketing to the Orange County Small Business  Development Center (OCSBDC), Orange County  Institute for Women Entrepreneurs (OCIWE), and  California Manufacturing Technology Consultants  (CMTC).  He established the Orange County  Technology Resource Alliance and the Workforce for  Technology programs.             &lt;/p&gt;                      &lt;p&gt;             Reservations: Adult Services Desk or call (562) 430- 1048             &lt;/p&gt;                  &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For those that are interested in learning more.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Beach&amp;#39;s #1 Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/action/nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:32:56 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/238113/Web-Page-Development-Workshop-Southern-CA</link>
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      <title>Plan a Cheap Date Night in Your Town</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you&amp;#39;d like to attend a nice event without having to spend an arm and a leg. That&amp;#39;s where Goldstar Events comes in. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They work similar to Ticketmaster except they offer tickets to events at a discounted price.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3 class="browseHeadline"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Cirque du Soleil&amp;#39;s &lt;em&gt;Corteo&lt;/em&gt;: Graceful Acrobats &amp;amp; Stunning Acting&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;     Full&amp;nbsp;Price:&amp;nbsp;$80.00 - $90.00&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Our&amp;nbsp;Price:&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;$48.00 - $54.00&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3 class="browseHeadline"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ray Charles Live! A New Musical&lt;/em&gt; at the Pasadena Playhouse&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;     Full&amp;nbsp;Price:&amp;nbsp;$66.00 - $125.00&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Our&amp;nbsp;Price:&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;$33.00 - $62.50&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you live in, near or are traveling to any of these major cities you can enjoy a Goldstar event - &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;San Francisco&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chicago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New York&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DC Metro&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;San Diego&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boston&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Las Vegas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;===============================================================================&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/3/1/7/3/ar119204924237136.jpg" height="312" align="left" alt="goldstar events" width="228" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the website:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What is Goldstar Events?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We help our members find better ways to spend their leisure time by providing them with opportunities to see live entertainment and other unique events.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;How does the service work?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When someone becomes a member of Goldstar Events, they tell us what kinds of events they&amp;#39;re interested in and where they like to go. We then tell them about event offers that match their preferences. Members get a weekly e-mail summary of events with our special pricing, and if they also sign up for e-mail alerts, they get late-breaking event offers tailored to them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;===============================================================================&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I just attended an event on Sunday in Long Beach, a children&amp;#39;s adaptation of Suessical. It was only $10 so you can&amp;#39;t beat that!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can sign up for Goldstar Events &lt;a href="https://www.goldstarevents.com/join?p=F23121RP" target="_blank"&gt;right here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;(referral link)&lt;strong&gt; I know you&amp;#39;ll like it as much as I do.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Beach&amp;#39;s #1 Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="../../nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:24:59 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/232980/Plan-a-Cheap-Date-Night-in-Your-Town</link>
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      <title>Notary Bay Eliminates the Middle Man</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#39;re a member of &lt;a href="http://www.notarynetwork.org" target="_blank"&gt;Mobile Notary Network&lt;/a&gt; then you already know that the site owner, Scott Krager and his team, have recently launched a new site, Notary Bay.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notary Bay is not just another notary directory, it is aimed at directly connecting escrow officers and lenders (signing companies aren&amp;#39;t even allowed) with notaries. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can elect to receive instant notification by cell phone (SMS) or e-mail once there is a closing in your area. You can even set the minimum price you&amp;#39;re willing to work for. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.jpg" alt="" /&gt; It&amp;#39;s still in the beta (developing) stages but if you&amp;#39;d like to get in on the ground floor use this &lt;a href="http://www.notarybay.com/DocDiva/signup" target="_blank"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to sign up (referral link).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/1/0/7/8/ar119196369387011.jpg" height="185" alt="notary bay" width="602" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Here&amp;#39;s a list of &lt;a href="http://blog.notarybay.com/the-100-free-massive-master-list-of-signing-services" target="_blank"&gt;signing services&lt;/a&gt; provided by Notary Bay.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Beach&amp;#39;s #1 Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="../../nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:07:51 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/231852/Notary-Bay-Eliminates-the-Middle-Man</link>
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      <title>Use Your Signature to Market Yourself</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Whenever I leave a comment on someone&amp;#39;s blog I always sign the comment with my signature. It&amp;#39;s free and easy marketing. It&amp;#39;s also practical because I can always find my comment when I return to a blog to see if the blogger posted a response.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" border="3" height="67" hspace="200" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a sea of over 50,000 members on AR it&amp;#39;s easy to get lost in the crowd so why not create a signature to help you stand out. You can create one at &lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;MyLiveSignature&lt;/a&gt; or use any graphic you like. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The more memorable you make yourself the more people are likely to remember you, which comes in handy if they have a lead to throw your way...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Beach&amp;#39;s #1 Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="../../nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:23:59 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/231779/Use-Your-Signature-to-Market-Yourself</link>
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      <title>My First vFlyer Flyer</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I'm so excited, not only did I create my first vFlyer advertising my notary services but I was also one of the small businesses featured in the official vFlyer &lt;a href="http://www.vflyerblog.com/blog/2007/09/06/flyers-small-business/" target="_blank"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;! Omuoto wrote about how a variety of small businesses are using the vFlyer technology to get the word out about what they do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   

&lt;div style="text-align:center ; background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/body_bg.gif) #a19a92 0px 0px repeat ; margin:10px 0px 0px 0px ; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px ;  padding-top:20px; padding-bottom:20px; "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vflyer.com/links/links?linkType=3295d14b091b2f969b0b4a247856b6a283bbb255959c937673c7b7404e883240cbffad548c272da533d6a64d3c68f3443def4c8f49a6851e5c48a8d0056f6ac66077a223b4be010556eee99dbe545b14d3f1c4d62605bc990a79b2c9e8eec189&amp;id=111" shape="rect" target="_blank" style=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.vflyer.com/stats/stats?linkType=034108d85ba50b435478044c347a640b1cd2e509a4b5502c03a93455bb84eb8b6aa003180e375961fb3748016b48892df07f5dfc14606b8d5ade090321e5efef" style="visibility:hidden"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/footerBg.gif) 0px 0px repeat ; text-align:left ; margin:0px auto ; width:750px ; "&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/pageR.gif) #ffffff 100% 0px no-repeat ; margin:0px 0px 0px 0px ; "&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/pageLB.gif) left bottom no-repeat ; "&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/pageL.gif) transparent 0px 0px no-repeat ; "&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/pageC.gif) 0px 0px repeat-x ; height:11px ; margin:0px 4px 0px 4px ; overflow:hidden ; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:722px ; padding:0px 14px 11px 14px ; "&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/itemTitleBottom.gif) transparent left bottom no-repeat ; padding:0px 0px 10px 0px ; font-family:Georgia ; font-size:25px ; color:#ffffff ; font-style: italic ; "&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/itemTitleTop.gif) 0px 0px no-repeat ; padding:0px 5px 3px 5px ; font-family:Georgia ; font-size:25px ; color:#ffffff ; font-style: italic ; background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/itemTitleTop.gif) 0px 0px no-repeat ; padding:0px 5px 3px 5px ; font-family:Georgia ; font-size:25px ; color:#ffffff ; font-style: italic ; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Long Beach Mobile Notary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family:Georgia ; font-size:11px ; color:#455660 ; margin-bottom: 5px ; padding:5px 0px 5px 0px ; "&gt;&lt;div style="float:left ; padding-right:10px ; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://longbeachnotary.vflyer.com/1/images/1397143_main.png" border="0" alt="Main Photo" style="margin:3px ; padding:3px ; 	border:1px solid #555242 ; background-color:#ffffff ; "&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Long Beach, CA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family:Georgia ; font-size:11px ; color:#455660 ; line-height:17px ; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;"Professional, Punctual, Precise...Services Guaranteed!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; Three years as a mobile notary public/loan signing specialist has allowed me to travel thousands of miles, meet some interesting people, notarize hundreds of documents, and to become very skilled at what I do. If the documents aren't signed correctly the first time the signing is on me! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;Example of documents notarized:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; Loan Signings &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; Trust Documents &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; Corporate Documents &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; Affidavit Of Citizenship &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; Parental Permission To Travel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; 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Orange counties. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="none" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both ; float:none ; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both ; float:none ; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding:0px 5px 0px 5px ; "&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/subItemNarrow.gif) #fff5cc 0px 0px no-repeat ; width:226px ; float:left ; padding:5px 0px 0px 0px ; "&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;div style="font-family:Arial ; font-size:16px ; color:#ec1c24 ; font-weight:bold ; line-height:25px ; padding:0px 12px 0px 12px ; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding:2px 12px 0px 22px ; color:#7a7a7a ; font-size:11px ; ;font-family:Georgia ; font-size:11px ; color:#6f6251 ; line-height:15px ; 	padding:0px 12px 0px 12px ; 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height:1px ; margin:0px ; border-top:1px solid #d1c8b0 ; border-bottom:1px solid #fffbea ; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding:2px 12px 0px 22px ; color:#7a7a7a ; font-size:11px ; ;font-family:Georgia ; font-size:11px ; color:#6f6251 ; line-height:15px ; 	padding:0px 12px 0px 12px ; 	margin:0px 0px 10px 0px ; "&gt;&lt;div style="font-family:Arial ; font-weight:bold ; color:#6f6251 ; font-size:12px ; text-transform:uppercase ; padding:5px 0px 5px 0px ; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Rates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold ; "&gt;Rate Details: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Contact for pricing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold ; "&gt;Payment Methods: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Paypal, Cash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;div style="font-family:Arial ; font-size:16px ; color:#ec1c24 ; font-weight:bold ; line-height:25px ; padding:0px 12px 0px 12px ; 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color:#7a7a7a ; font-size:11px ; ;font-family:Georgia ; font-size:11px ; color:#6f6251 ; line-height:15px ; 	padding:0px 12px 0px 12px ; 	margin:0px 0px 10px 0px ; "&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both ; float:none ; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float:left ; background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/sqBullet.gif) 0px 0% no-repeat ; 	padding-left:12px ; width:120px ; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com" shape="rect" style=""&gt;My Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both ; float:none ; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float:left ; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/subItemWide.gif) #f5f0e1 0px 0px no-repeat ; width:470px ; float:right ; padding:5px 0px 0px 0px ; "&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;div style="font-family:Arial ; font-size:16px ; color:#ec1c24 ; font-weight:bold ; line-height:25px ; padding:0px 12px 0px 12px ; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Profile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding:2px 12px 0px 22px ; color:#7a7a7a ; font-size:11px ; ;font-family:Georgia ; font-size:11px ; color:#6f6251 ; line-height:15px ; 	padding:0px 12px 0px 12px ; 	margin:0px 0px 10px 0px ; "&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/sqBullet.gif) 0px 0% no-repeat ; font-size:11px ; line-height:17px ; padding-left:12px ; 	float:left ; width:200px ; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold ; "&gt;Service Area: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Long Beach &amp; Surrounding&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/sqBullet.gif) 0px 0% no-repeat ; font-size:11px ; line-height:17px ; padding-left:12px ; 	float:left ; width:200px ; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold ; "&gt;Years of Service: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/sqBullet.gif) 0px 0% no-repeat ; font-size:11px ; line-height:17px ; padding-left:12px ; 	float:left ; width:200px ; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold ; "&gt;Service Type: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Notary Public&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/sqBullet.gif) 0px 0% no-repeat ; font-size:11px ; line-height:17px ; padding-left:12px ; 	float:left ; width:200px ; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold ; "&gt;Market Focus: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Standard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both ; float:none ; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;div style="font-family:Arial ; font-size:16px ; color:#ec1c24 ; font-weight:bold ; line-height:25px ; padding:0px 12px 0px 12px ; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Credentials&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding:2px 12px 0px 22px ; color:#7a7a7a ; font-size:11px ; ;font-family:Georgia ; font-size:11px ; color:#6f6251 ; line-height:15px ; 	padding:0px 12px 0px 12px ; 	margin:0px 0px 10px 0px ; "&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;div style="float:left ; background:url(http://themes.vflyer.com/11/images/sqBullet.gif) 0px 0px no-repeat ; 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      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
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      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
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      <title>E-mail Free Fridays</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Notary" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/7/2/6/6/6/ar119162021766627.jpg" height="251" align="left" alt="in box" width="250" /&gt;I was just reading in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;USA TODAY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; that in a movement to tame in-boxes some companies are declaring &lt;strong&gt;e-mail-free Fridays&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today marks the first day that about 150 engineers at Intel will kick off &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://blogs.intel.com/it/2007/10/quiet_time_on_track_no_email_d.html" target="_blank"&gt;Zero E-mail Fridays&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; While e-mail is not&amp;nbsp; forbidden, everyone is encouraged to phone or meet face-to-face with the goal of more direct, free-flowing communication and better exchange of ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to the article, each day about 39.7 billion person-to-person e-mails, 17.1 billion automated alerts, and 40.5 billion pieces of spam are sent worldwide. The average worker receives 140 messages a day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even though e-mail is a useful, quick communication tool those who write more e-mails are likely to receive more. It&amp;#39;s sad that people can work in the same office but never even talk to each other because they will just send an e-mail rather than walk over to the person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think these e-mail free Fridays sound like a good idea. Just like too much paper can clutter your mind so can too much e-mail.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you think? Are you encouraged to do e-mail free Fridays?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Beach&amp;#39;s #1 Mobile Notary &amp;amp; Loan Signing Agent &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Professional, Punctual, Precise. Services Guaranteed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedocdiva.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Long Beach Mobile Notary" src="../..http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/4/5/5/ar118497051655449.png" height="67" alt="diva sig" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attn: Mortgage, Title, Escrow &amp;amp; Loan Officers&lt;/strong&gt;, help your borrowers - arrange to have their loan signed and notarized in their home, at their convenience. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Browse &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a qualified Notary Signing Agent in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="../../nav/show_featured/Notary" title="Find a Featured Certified Notary Signing Agent" target="_blank"&gt;your area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <author>Long Beach Mobile Notary - LaShon James-Major (The Document Diva)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:45:32 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/227512/E-mail-Free-Fridays</link>
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