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Meet our Sellers: Bird Mommy DVD and Jan Davis Guitar

Donna Carleton-Bird, better known as Bird Mommy, is the creator of a delightful kids DVD that is 40 minutes long for kids ages 2-8.  It is available as a DVD, or if you prefer to watch them online, you may purchase the individual musical story-rhymes and download them to your computer for just .80 cents [...]

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February 2, 2010  Tags: Articles by Jessica Franke, Bird Mommy, Donna Carleton-Bird, Guitar Music, Jan Davis, Jan Davis Guitar, Kids DVD, Stone Tiger Music  Posted in: 50 States Classifieds, Articles, Bird Mommy DVD, Featured Sellers, Jan Davis Guitar, Kids, Kids DVD, Kids Educational DVD, Meet Our Sellers, Stone Tiger Music, childrens videos  2 Comments

Team 50StatesClassifieds.com on Kiva update

We are pleased to announce that our Kiva Team just hit the $1000 mark!  That means that the Friends of Green Web Design / 50 States Classifieds team members have loaned out $1000 to small businesses and entrepreneurs in developing nations.

Impact of 50StatesClassifieds.com

Team Members:         5
Number of Loans:      27
Loans per Member:    5.40
Amount Loaned:        [...]

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January 29, 2010  Tags: Ads, Advertising, Charities, Classifieds, Free Ads, Free Advertising, Free Classified Ads, Free Classifieds, Free Stuff, Kiva, Lending, Loans, Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofits, Small Business  Posted in: 50 States Classifieds, Charity, Kiva  No Comments

Shameless Spammers – BVD / Big Value Depot / Big Ticket Depot and other annoyances

In the heat of annoyance, I posted this rant on the signup page overnight.  When my head was clearer, I realized that I didn’t really want to rant directly on the signup page.  However, it’s still worth saying.  So, here’s my rant.  It started out because of the BVD spam incidents this week, which kept [...]

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January 29, 2010  Tags: Big Ticket Depot, Big Value Depot, BVD, Jerks, Scammers, Scams, Site Policies, Spam, spammers, Terms of Service, Terms of Use, TOS  Posted in: 50 States Classifieds, Free Classifieds, Scams, What Not To Do  6 Comments

Featured Wisconsin Business: Compost Joe’s in Fond du Lac, WI

Are you looking forward to spring and organic gardening?  I know I am!  This year I’m extra excited, because I know the owners of  Compost Joe’s Premium Soils & Organics LLC, one of [...]

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January 25, 2010  Tags: Compost, Compost Joe's, Compost Tea, Featured Sellers, Local Businesses, Local Wisconsin Businesses, Mulch, Organic Compost, Organic Gardening, Organic Gardening Supplies, Organic Mulch, Small Businesses, wisconsin, Wisconsin Compost  Posted in: Featured Sellers, Home & Garden, Press Releases, Uncategorized  No Comments

Happy New Year from 50 States Classifieds!

We at 50 States Classifieds would like to wish you a very joyful and prosperous new year! Our promise to you for this year and always is that we will continue to work just as hard to keep our websites  scam free, and spam free, providing a safe and enjoyable experience for shoppers and sellers [...]

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December 31, 2009  Tags: 50 States Classifieds, Ads, Advertising, Classifieds, Free Ads, Free Advertising, Free Classified Ads, Free Classifieds, Free Stuff, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, Holidays, Newsletter, Newsletters, Press Releases  Posted in: 50 States Classifieds, Advertising, Press Releases  No Comments

Happy Holidays from 50 States Classifieds!

Dear 50 States Classifieds Member:
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year. Whether you are celebrating Christmas, Haunaka, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Festivus, HumanLight, or just looking forward to ringing in the New Year, may your holidays be filled with joy, love, and [...]

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December 25, 2009  Tags: Ads, Advertising, Classifieds, Festivus, Free Ads, Free Advertising, Free Classified Ads, Free Classifieds, Free Stuff, Haunaka, Holidays, HumanLight, Kwanzaa, Merry Christmas, New Year, Winter Solstice  Posted in: 50 States Classifieds, Newsletters, Public Notices  No Comments

An important note for sellers

This is the newsletter that I just sent out sitewide.  In case you missed it, or your spam filters ate it, here it is in its’ entirety.
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You are receiving this email because you have a user account at www.50statesclassifieds.com.
We have made a lot of updates to our website this year, and this month is no [...]

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December 14, 2009  Tags: 50 States Classifieds, Ads, Advertising, Classifieds, Free Ads, Free Advertising, Free Classified Ads, Free Classifieds, Free Stuff, Newsletter, Newsletters, Seller Information, Site Updates, updates  Posted in: Advertising, Newsletters, Uncategorized  No Comments

Google now offers directory assistance?

According to their website, using goog-411 to quickly find a local business is free, easy, and fast.  Just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 from any phone, state the business type and location, and Google will connect you to a local business for free!

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December 9, 2009  Tags: 411, business search, Directory Assistance, Goog411, Google, information, phone assistance, telephone services  Posted in: Business News, Business Services, Freebies, Innovations, Public Awareness, Resource Center, Tech News, shopping  No Comments

Free wishlist service makes holidays a breeze!

While we were looking around the web we found a cool site called The Things I want.  It’s a free online wish list that lets you add any item from any website to your wishlist, easily, with the click of a mouse button!  All you have to do is sign up for an account, drag [...]

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December 8, 2009  Tags: Free Stuff, Freebies, Gift Ideas, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Shopping List Tool, Useful Stuff, Wishlists  Posted in: Freebies, Giveaways, Holiday Items, Resource Center, Uncategorized, shopping  No Comments

We are no longer accepting VMC Satellite / Dish Network affiliate ads

I was going through the new ads and approving (or disapproving) them, and found my first “bad user” of the day.   Anyone who takes the time to read the brief instructions and TOS before creating a listing knows that all of our ads are hand-screened before being posted, and that we really don’t like it [...]

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November 13, 2009  Tags: Affiliates, bad users, Banned Companies, banned users, disallowed, Free Classifieds, What Not To Do  Posted in: Banned Companies, What Not To Do  One Comment