NewYorkHotelDeals.US is a the place to go if you need a hotel in New York City. The reason why is simple: Using it’s hotel search engine is like using all of the other hotel websites (including all of the big name ones like Expedia and Travelocity) at once. Basically, instead of searching through 30 different websites looking for the best deals you can just let New York Hotel Deals search through all of them for you. This saves you a ton of time and a lot of money.

Another great thing about this site is the way that you can search for hotels based on all kinds of different criteria. For example, if you want to find a hotel that’s near Times Square then you can do that. If you want to find a hotel that’s in the Upper West Side then you can do that too. You can search for hotels in any particular neighborhood. This is a really great feature if you want to be located in a particular part of the city.

You can also search by price (you can find some surprisingly inexpensive hotels in NYC) and by star ratings (this is helpful if you’re looking to stay in a luxury hotel.)

There’s really no better hotel website for New York than New York Hotel Deals. You should bookmark it and use it every single time you need to make a hotel reservation in the greatest city in the world! CLICK HERE to get started.

If you’re looking for a hotel somewhere else then you should try out HotelDealsFinder.com which works in a similar way except for any city in the world! (It’s a good idea to bookmark HotelDealsFinder.com so you can get the best deal next time you are looking for a hotel.)

And remember, just because a particular website (such as Travelocity) has the best deal this time around doesn’t mean they’ll have the best deal next time around. You should always go back and use Hotel Deals Finder (or New York Hotel Deals for NYC hotels) to make sure you’re getting the best deal.

Ear training is something that far too many wannabe musicians and songwriters don’t really spend enough time with. When it comes down to it, music is a “listening art.” If you can’t clearly hear what you’re playing or what you’re writing then how good is it really going to be?

Certainly if you want to be an improvisational musician you will need to have a great ear and if you’ll have no chance of “playing by ear” (obviously) without a great ear.

As of late I’ve been training my ear with EarMaster Pro 5 Software and I’ve been extremely impressed with how my ear seems to be “opening up” as I use it.

I think it’s a really well designed piece of software. There are quite a few other ear training methods (including other software) out there that I’ve tried and nothing else seems to be on the same level as this. It’s very highly recommended and definitely worth the price if you’re serious about music.

If you’re looking for a professional quality microphone at reasonable (although certainly not cheap) price then you should definitely consider buying a Shure KSM44 Condenser Mic.

This large diaphragm mic has a very neutral frequency response and a multi-pattern switch (cardioid, figure-8, & omnidirectional) which makes it an extremely versatile mic. Because of this it can be used as a sort of “one size fits all” mic which makes it perfect for those of us with a home recording studio without a huge amount of mics to choose from.

It works very well for recording vocals, acoustic guitars, drum overheads, & percussion.

Going from a cheap mic to a pro quality mic such as this one is one of the best things you can do to improve the quality of the recordings you make at your recording studio.

Of course like any other condenser mic, the KSM44 needs a quality mic preamp for the best sound quality. An affordable choice is the Art MPA Gold Tube Preamp (which sounds especially great if you replace the stock tubes with some higher quality tubes.)

Time to do online Christmas shopping is quickly running out. Depending on when you’re reading this, it may already have ran out!

One great option if you’re running out of time (or if you just can’t think of what to buy someone you’re shopping for) is an Amazon Gift Certificate.

What’s so good about this particular gift certificate is that you can easily buy it online (even on December 24th) and have it ready to go and because Amazon has such a ridiculously huge selection that pretty much no matter what kind of person you’re buying the certificate for, they’ll be able to find what they want.

CLICK HERE to buy an Amazon Gift Certificate now.

A 12 month Golden State Delite Fruit Club membership is an excellent gift for any lover of gourmet food (whether it be a gift for yourself or someone else!) I know this from personal experience as I bought such a membership for my wife and she is thrilled with it. She loved the fruit for December (Satsuma Mandarins) and she and I are definitely looking forward to all of the interesting fruits to come (each month has a different fruit.)

January - Comice Pears
February - Navel Oranges
March - Pixie Tangerines
April - Long Stem Strawberries
May - Mangos
Colossal Bing Cherries
July - White Peaches
August - Fantasia Nectarines
September - Bartlett Pears
October - Bosc Pears
November - Golden Comice Pears
December - Satsuma Mandarins

The 12 month club is really the best deal because you get to try all of the different fruits and it actually costs less per month than the other possibilities.

Finally, The Beatles music can be bought in the MP3 format (and they’re high quality 320 bitrate files to boot!) with The Beatles USB which being released on December 8, 2009 (in time for the Christmas shopping season.) This Apple themed USB memory stick is essentially the digital version of The Beatles in Stereo Box Set.

FEATURES

• Every song The Beatles released from 1962 through 1970.
• Remastered stereo that sounds fantastic.
• 320 bitrate (high quality) MP3 files.
• 24bit (better than CD which is 16bit) FLAC files for audiophiles.
• 13 mini-documentaries for each of The Beatles studio albums.
• Extended liner notes.
• Photographs & original vinyl artwork for the UK LPs.

CLICK HERE to order The Beatles USB on Amazon. There are only 30,000 being made, so it’s a good idea to order sooner rather than later to make sure you get yours.

One way to make money online is by getting your “landing pages” to rank highly in the search engines for related keywords (to your landing pages) so that you can get highly targeted traffic to your pages. You then “monetize” that traffic through affiliate programs or ads (such as AdSense.)

The big key to all of this is getting your pages to rank highly in the search engines in the first place. How do you do that? The best way to do it is to build links to your websites (because the search engines rank your pages based on how many incoming links they have) and the best way to do that is with article marketing.

That’s where Content Crooner comes in very handy.

This is an article distribution service which takes the one article that you write and sends it out to many websites so that although you’re writing just one article you can get back many links from that one article.

Sure you could do this manually. You could go around looking for sites to submit your article one by one. But that would take you forever and would be extremely inefficient. I would definitely not recommend trying that.

Instead, it’s better to play a little bit for a subscription for to Content Crooner and get the massive benefit of being able to submit unlimited articles with their service.  CLICK HERE to learn more about the service and how you can join now.

Two big pieces of news from Amazon.com today:

(#1) For the first time ever the best selling Kindle reading device will be available with “global wireless” which means that it can be used all around the world instead of just in the US like the original Kindle.  The Kindle With Global Wireless will be released on October 19th but it can be pre-ordered starting today! For now this device is only available to be ordered at the US based Amazon.com, but customers from the UK and Canada can order it from the US store.

(#2) The price of the original Kindle (which only works properly in the US) has dropped from $299 to just $259.

Features Of The Kindle With Global Wireless

+ International coverage. Works in over 100 countries.
+ 6″ display.
+ Global 3G wireless lets you download books instantly. No fees.
+ Lighter than the average paperback book.
+ As thin as the average magazine.
+ Reads like a real book. No glare.
+ Holds 1,500 books.
+ Long lasting battery. Lasts for days without recharging.
+ The “read to me” feature will turn all of your books into audio books.
+ Huge selection of books, magazines, & newspapers available.
+ Subscribe to magazines, newspapers, & even blogs.

CLICK HERE TO ORDER.

I’ve been using 1800Contacts.com for so long (with absolutely no complaints) that I always find it surprising when I hear about someone who doesn’t order their contacts this way. It’s just the easiest and least expensive way to get your contacts delivered right to your door.

Their selection (they have every brand of contacts including Acuvue, Biofinity, Biomedics, Focus, Proclear, PureVision, & SofLens) is unbeatable and you can order online 24/7/365: CLICK HERE to order now. What more could you ask for? Free delivery? Yup, they got that too.

Honestly, I think 1800Contacts is such a “no-brainer” choice as the place to order contacts that I don’t think there’s much reason to continue on with this review. It’s obviously the place you’ll want to order your contacts from now on. I’ve been ordering my contacts online at 1800Contacts.com for years now and I wouldn’t even consider ordering them anywhere else.

One of the best ways to make money online is with the OAInternet Affiliate Program. I know this from personal experience. I’ve been having success promoting their products since 2005 and they pretty much “sell themselves.” If you can get targeted customers to their sites, they will convert into sales (which means big commissions for you.)

This is a simple step by step process you can use to start making money online with this affiliate program:

(1) Sign Up With OAInternet (it’s 100% free of course.)

(2) Create a “landing page” on your own domain (I recommend HostMonster) which promotes OAInternet products (particularly Vimax.)

(3) Write articles which link back to your landing page using Article Marketing Automation. I recommend this article distribution service because they have no rules about what kind of content you can submit (ie no rules against “adult” material) or what kind of sites you can link to (no rules against “adult” websites.)

Of course you may want to create multiple landing pages to increase your chances of ranking in the search engines for important search terms. So really steps #2 and #3 can be repeated endlessly until you reach your goal. You may also want to take advantage of “Web 2.0″ sites such as Squidoo.