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Holy Flock! You Can Rent Chickens??

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Can you really rent a chicken

Renting a Chicken Is Nothing to Cluck At

If you just read that, and thought, “Rent a chicken – what a great idea!,” then you are more cognizant than this chick. If, on the other hand, you are like me and the others I mentioned chicken renting to, then you are thinking something along the lines of, “Whaaaaat? Why the cluck would I need to borrow a chicken for a few days?” Well, I’m here to answer that question.

To my amazement, there are numerous reasons to rent a chicken. The aforementioned Mr. Barraclough rents out his flock for educational purposes. Local schools in the UK borrow chickens from his farm for the duration of a school term. During that time, they learn how to properly care for a chicken. I’m not sure about you, but back in my day, we were given a doll to learn how to care for a baby, and scare us into not getting pregnant at such a young age. I guess the Northamptonshire area has seen an influx in teenage chickening.

You can Rent ChickensMaking a tad bit more sense, Mother Hen, Leslie Suiter, rents out her chickens to natives of rural Traverse City in Michigan for practice in breeding. Based on your experience, you can determine if the bearing of chickens is your calling in life. If not, you simply return the chicks, and go about your un”fowl” existence.

Rentachook appears to have the appropriate business strategy in mind with their trade of chicken rentals. They advertise the chickens as an “environmentally sustainable pet,” and stress the benefits of “fresh, free range eggs at home.” Well, that makes even just a little bit more sense. They also rent live poultry to schools and daycare settings that have a specific lesson or educational objective in mind. On a personal note, one of my past professions includes being a preschool educator, and I admit, I just might have found a benefit in renting a chicken during my Feathered Friends lesson.

So let’s just say this written work of art has convinced you to rent a chicken for one of the purposes mentioned or for a completely different rationale. First, please email me relaying your motivation so I can keep “abreast” of chicken renting. Second, check out Rent It Today’s pet equipment so you are sure to give your chicken the best life before getting smothered in spicy garlic sauce and landing on my dinner plate.

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Is Google Plus a Sexy Twitter or Clean Facebook

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Effectively marketing a company, website, or service online forces you to keep up with current search trends which inevitably includes the use of social media networks as internet marketing tools. Whether actively engaging in social media networking for personal or business purposes, you’ve probably read about the Google Plus Project.

What do you think about The Google Plus Project

Have a Google+ Account? What do you think about Google+?

Talk about Google+ has dominated Twitter, blogs, and social media news outlets for some time. Since it’s launch the majority of excitement and discussions have centered around Google+ being a social network to rival or replace Facebook. A quick search of article titles over the past few weeks covering Google+ will produce endless results illustrating this:

Opinions vary from article to article. One of the more interesting articles on the subject I discovered on Google+ was shared within a circle of Mark Dilley from AboutUs.org.

After reading the article, I set out to get other people’s opinions of Google+.  A lot of the feedback discussed how clean, simple, and even elegant Google+ is. This reminded me of what everyone was saying years ago, shortly after I finally set up a MySpace account. All the sudden my friends said I had to join Facebook. Are you kidding me? I just figured out this MySpace thing. It seems like yesterday people were talking about how refreshing, simple, and easy Facebook was both in design and ability to follow / communicate. They were right. After joining Facebook it did not take long to leave the glitter filled landscape of MySpace behind. Make no mistake, I do not think Facebook is going anywhere (quite the contrary). Nevertheless the fact that a lot of current Google+ vs Facebook feedback mimics past MySpace vs Facebook dialogue gives one reason to pause.

Just as thought provoking was a simple post within Google+ by Richard Ord, owner of the iEntry Network & WebProNews.com, asking the question “Is Google+ a Twitter replacement? Just wondering.”  I found this particularly interesting considering Google’s recent move to drop it’s real time feed and contract with Twitter.

Which led to the question at hand…Is Google+ a sexy Twitter or a clean Facebook?

The book is out and opinions will vary. Google always had all the individual pieces that make a network like Facebook popular and powerful; they had  just never successfully put them all together. Google+ certainly appears to do that. Furthermore, Google did a masterful job of looking at the social media market space and listening to people’s tweets, likes, & dislikes in order to produce what appears to be a sustainable and powerful communication tool that has tremendous potential. Google+ could replace any number of social media networks for individuals, or simply be an additional internet communication tool…time will tell…for now I’ll follow Mike Elgan’s advice and refrain from calling Google+ a Social Media Network. (Just as Google does)

Here at Rent It Today we have always been early adopters of new social media networks. Social media is integrated, in a variety of ways, throughout our website and advertising platform. Now the wait begins for the forthcoming Google+ for Brands. – Matt Stephenson Google+ – @MattRentItToday – RentItToday.com Facebook

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