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           The short URL for this page is http://icreferral.com  
Thanks in advance! All the products on this site (except for photo magnets) are through affiliates that we have agreed to promote their products because we recommend them. This means that we will earn a commission. Starting in 2015, we want to use proceeds from this site to help build the "Shawn Mohr Passion For Nursing Scholarship" that we have set up with Texas A&M. You can read about it at
http://shawnmohr.org . Please check back as we will be adding more products and visit our other pages (listed on the left side of each page) .............Thanks.............Ken
 

 
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Does Your Business Need To Accept
Credit Cards??

                 NO SET UP FEES!.............. NO LONG TERM CONTRACT!
I put that in all caps because of my past experience with getting a merchant account. Back in 2005, I felt like we needed to start taking credit cards at The Ivy Cottage. I ended up paying some high set up fees and getting locked into a 5 YEAR LEASE! Looking back, what a bad decision and what a nightmare! For the volume that we did back then, PayPal would have worked just fine, but they did not offer back then what they offer today and they are a little expensive.

Even if you already take credit cards, it would not hurt to click the banner below and check out Power Pay. They will do a comparison with your current merchant account to see if they can save you money, and be honest about it! Besides, you can join their affiliate program above and earn residuals for referrals to offset their processing fees. What have you got to lose? Click the banner below and check them out!
 

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 Earn Residual $$$ By
 Giving Away Merchant Accounts

These days, credit cards and debit cards are a way of everyday life. Every business needs to accept them, whether they are online or brick and mortar. Here is a company that has been providing merchant accounts to businesses for over 10 years. What is different about them is that they use their advertising budget to pay monthly referral commissions to you and I for sending them customers. This is not a one time "thank you", it is a percentage of the processing fees from every sale that customer does with credit cards.

I personally think that this is brilliant!. Now, you are not going to make tons of money right away with this. But over time, this could be a pretty substantial monthly residual. It is free to sign up, just click the banner below to watch a video that explains more.

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Do You Skype?

   Recording Skype video and audio calls into MP4/AVI movies. Easy to use for your Skype video and audio interviews, conferences, podcasts, or family VoIP calls. Evaer records Skype calls with capturing original media data and there is no data loss. It is not a screen-capture recorder, video quality is not affected at all if you resize Skype video windows while recording.
NOTE: They have a free trial version but you can only record up to 5 minutes. I bought the full version because it is only $19.95! 
Just click on the photo below.
 

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You can take the Skype video and make a fantastic DVD with Power Director. Years ago I started with version 8, then 9, and now I use 12. Here is the newest version. It is wonderful for preserving all types of videos, like VHS, or 8mm. You can even create slide shows with your favorite music. Here is a description:

"PowerDirector 13 Ultimate includes all the powerful video editing tools for high quality video productions - 100-track timeline, MultiCam Editing, the world's fastest 64-bit TrueVelocity engine and much more. To bring more professional touch to your video creation, PowerDirector 13 Ultimate also includes worth over $650 value premium effects and templates to further enrich your video creation."

I highly recommend this product. Just click on the photo below to learn more:

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Printer Ink Blues???
OK, here's the situation. I go to a retail store to buy ink. On the way out, I look over the new printers and their prices. After I check out, I feel like it would have been less expensive to buy a NEW printer with ink in it! Geez! What a racket! I have bought ink online and have been very disappointed, then a few years ago, a friend told me about Comp-and-Save. Thank You!

Between personal and business, I use 6 different printers, 2 of them that will print 11 X 17. Comp-and-Save has really saved me a ton of money and I have not had any problems with their cartridges or laser toner. Check them out for yourself, you won't be disappointed. This is why I wanted to add them to this site. Just click the banner and save a bunch!

 

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 Facebook Marketing??
Want to save time and $$$!

 
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FREE 3 Day Webinar Called Webcamp
When is the next one?
Click Banner Below!

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 All it will cost you is 3 days of your time to find out if it is right for you. Is your time worth it? I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend the monthly subscription to WebCamp!

 
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There IS a Reason For This!

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angelbluebonnet photo

This all started from a photo I took at my Mom's funeral in 2002. So many people were amazed by it and wanted a copy of it. After doing some research in 2003, I found that I could create my own website using templates through EarthLink for about $20 per month. Now I could share my photo and the story behind it with everyone without having to learn all that technical stuff. Great! This was the perfect avenue to honor our Moms and share it with the world.

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The Ivy Cottage

 In January of 2004, I published the first 4 pages of angelbluebonnet.com . Soon after, I built ivycottagestore.com in support of our little store. It is all part of the same account but is also separate; interesting how that works. One would be for sharing, the other for selling.

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Shawn & Kenny

As time went on and the years passed, "things" kept happening. When they happened, I would add it to angelblubonnet. It became apparent that there were 3 factors involved in the ongoing creation of this website. They are signs, music, and my nephew Shawn. He was with me and shared the experience of several of the signs, he introduced me to some music that connected it all together, and we shared many discussions about the correlation of it all. I had been prompted to write a book about it because there are many details that are not on the website. This did not interest me at the time because there seemed to be questions about some things that were still unanswered; at least for me.

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Shawn at Methodist Hospital

On June 22, 2011, everything changed. We got the news that Shawn had died in his sleep in his apartment in Houston from what they call an enlarged heart. Our family was devastated. We were all so proud of him. I, for one, admired him and looked up to him in every sense of the word. He had graduated from Texas A&M with honors and later went to A&M Nursing School in Corpus Christi where he graduated with a 4.0 in 2007. He was in the early stages of a very promising nursing career at Houston Methodist Hospital. He was only 33.

By 2012, some of the questions had been answered and emotions were still raw. So I ventured into doing research for 2 projects; one is writing, publishing, and promoting that book about angelbluebonnet and two; creating a nursing scholarship at Texas A&M to celebrate Shawn's life so that his memory will live on through nursing long after I am gone.

As of today, April 14, 2014, the book is about halfway written. We have established the scholarship through the Texas A&M Foundation. I have added a "Nursing Scholarship" page to the angelbluebonnet site to keep everyone up to date. I even created a separate URL to go directly to that page. It is http://shawnmohr.org . Our slogan for this is:
                           "Creating Mohr Nurses With $33"

In doing research over the years, I have run across many things that I liked or felt that they were a good deal, like the WebCamp and Power Pay that is on this page. So I became an affiliate which means that I will earn a small commission on any sales generated from this site. I will be adding more pages with business referrals, books, music, etc. Most of which I would earn a small commission.  

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Shawn Mohr

 My point is this, or here is the reason (sorry this is so long): I want to use proceeds from this site to help build the scholarship for years to come. The book, once I finish it, will be posted here and on Amazon. If you choose to make a purchase from this site, I want to thank you in advance, from the bottom of my heart for helping me with this endeavor.
.....................Ken Miller

 

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As I mentioned above, I will be adding more pages of products here soon. If you would like for me to send you an email whenever I do updates, please fill out the form below. The email you would receive will be from "Ivy Cottage Referral". You are welcome to leave a comment also. Thanks for your interest!

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