BlogHer Publishing Network has said that Blogs that will be considered for the BlogHer Publishing network must be: ...free of any advertorial or sponsored posts, and compensated product reviews.... And a number of you have been inquiring about providing a separate page without BlogHer ads, on which to post product reviews or giveaways. If you have tried this, you have no doubt seen that it isn't as easy as it sounds! On category pages and searches, and on the front page - the giveaways still show up! And how do you get the ads OFF your special giveaway page anyway? Although this … [Read more...]
Newsletter-Style Week-In-Review
February 14, 2010
For Your Readers: You will learn lots from these little slides, but your readers, whether pro- or anti- Twitter will appreciate this. This is a slideshow, 140 slides, with one tweet on each one - that is 140 characters - easy peasy. They are the best wisdom and guidelines for twittering. It will answer the "Why-on-earth-do-you-do-that?" types, and be eye-opening for the newbie tweeter. http://zubeta.com/twitter-M.html For Design Inspiration: It seems that every time I go site-surfing to find a graphic, I stumble upon more great designing websites and online magazines. My reader is … [Read more...]
*Updated* How to Hold a Giveaway with an Announcement!
January 23, 2010
Each Giveaway is now CLOSED. Thank you for your comments. Kimberly of Mom in the City fame won the Stationary Set from Visual Smiles. Mrs Soup won the set of Thank You Cards. Nadia won the set of Note Cards. You have one more day to win the Valentines Set! I'll post the winner on Tuesday! ~Cathy Tonight, while searching for some shoot-em-up drama for my Friday night down-time, I found instead, the Hope for Haiti fundraiser. The music was SO amazing that I got sucked in. Of course, it brought me to tears. I have been carefully avoiding the coverage of this, feeling like all of … [Read more...]
Christmas Giveaways – have you had enough?
December 3, 2009
The year I discovered blogging, this time of year was like heaven! The blog world came alive with prizes, giveaways, and reviews-a-plenty. The (mostly mom-) blogs I visited were just a hub of activity and discussion. It was like grabbing an eggnog and hanging with the girls just to visit my fave blogs! This year, as I think about putting together the December newsletter, it occurs to me that I don't feel like entering the Christmas advertising throng. There are so many opportunities out there to shop, win, review, read, watch, hear and click, that I've no idea how to set mine apart from … [Read more...]
Sherry won the 31 Days to BBB book!
November 14, 2009
She received this awhile ago, so in case you're paying attention, I'm not THIS late in getting it to her - only in telling you all about it! Through an exceedingly technical process, of "Haley, pick a number between 1 and 7!", we came up with Sherry Kline! She was excited to receive this book as it was on her wish list already. Sherry is the genealogy author of Family Tree Writer, the new owner of Nutritional Wisdom Today, PLUS we are working on another couple of sites for her. What a busy lady! Congratulations, Sherry! … [Read more...]
Free Troubleshooting!
February 1, 2009
The winner of our latest giveaway, is comment #12: Peggy Gorman! Congrats Peggy! I'll be in touch to make sure you are actually using your blog! I'm glad you won! :) … [Read more...]
Welcome to our first giveaway!
July 27, 2008
So....maybe you're a new blogger and just don't know what to do about all this stuff... or maybe you have a blogger blog, or wordpress.com blog or even a typepad blog that you don't want to pay for anymore. Regardless, if you're looking to either start or move your blog, this is for you. Included in this package is: Domain registration for 1 year. (Domain name after that will be approx. $9.95 a year) Assistance in choosing and purchasing the domain name 1 Year of free hosting (hosting after that will be $15 a year) Installation of Wordpress on your domain name Installation of a theme … [Read more...]
