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Do You Use Groupon?

May 19, 2011 By
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This post is brought to you by Groupon.de. While driving to pick up Chris from carpool a couple of weeks ago, I listened to a story on NPR about Groupon. I remember when I got the first email telling me about this new site that would let people get an incredible daily Deal on all kinds of products and services, and I didn't really understand how it was going to work. Well as you probably know by now, Groupon is HUGE. According to it's Wikipedia page, Groupon is in more than 150 markets in North America, is in Europe, Asia and South America, and has 35 million registered users! One of the markets that has seen success with Groupon is Germany. Their site has Deals Berlin can't pass up! I can't read German but fortunately, some words are the same in both languages, so I can tell that today's deal has something to do with a 6-course menu at a restaurant. Previous deals appear to have been for three 20 minute sessions with a personal trainer, lingerie, and Botox! Looks like people … [Read more...]

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Nearly Wordless Wednesday 5-18-11

May 18, 2011 By

My camera is broken! The two teeny weeny screws holding the bottom cover fell out, so Chris took it to work to see if they had anything laying around that would work. I'm bummed because Kaitlyn got the cutest manicure today and I tried to take a picture of it with my phone but the resolution was terrible. So instead, here are two photos I took at intersections near my house shortly after getting the camera, I thought seeing green grass and blue skies would cheer me up on this gloomy day :) … [Read more...]

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I Really Need to Un-Complicate My Online Life

May 16, 2011 By

My online life is just way too complicated, people.  I don't know what made me think I could handle three blogs, three Facebook accounts, four Twitter streams, three email addresses. At first I thought I was "organizing" the information, but man, is it hard to keep with all of them! The thing about social media for me is that it feels so...important. Meaning, I feel like if I delete a Twitter account, the 37 people who added me to a Twitter list will see that my account is gone and, I don't know, dislike me?  Obviously I understand the overall importance of social media, but I also am thinking that over-saturation is much less effective. Is it really necessary, for example, to have four Twitter accounts?  I started with one, @Table4Five, then decided MomReviews needed it's own Twitter stream for tweets and retweets about reviews and giveaways.  And then I decided that MomCooks needed IT'S own Twitter stream for tweets about the reviews and giveaways I was doing there. Ask … [Read more...]

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