Buried in Email

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Everyone says, "just write    about your    life". Well, that  graphic over there? That  is my  life right now.  Okay, so Ryan is helping out more  around the house than ever even when  he would rather be with his friends, and  Nathan is mowing the lawn now for  spending money, and Kaitlyn came up to  me the other day while I was wearing a  shirt that reads "happy mom" (all  lowercase on it) and correctly identified  all the letters, and that's what ELSE is  going on in my life, but mostly? It's email. Those of you who follow me on Twitter or on Facebook know that I've been posting a lot recently about trying to achieve this mystical state of being known as "Caught Up."  That I'm trying, so hard, every day, to not just stay on top of the emails but to get through the ones I've already opened that need me to do something. But people, I'm losing the fight and I don't know what to do. Let's look at Outlook as of today. Outlook is where I read the emails that come … [Read more...]

A Caveman’s Guide to Sponsored Conversations

Image via CrunchBase I'm a Mom, I'm a blogger, and I'm a brand enthusiast. When I find a product that I really like, I tell people about it. I tell my family, my real life friends, my online friends-heck, I tell strangers at stores about it. What I do has a name, it's called word-of-mouth marketing, and people have been doing for as long as there has been conversation. And now, major companies are compensating bloggers for telling their online friends and readers what they think about products in what is called a sponsored conversation. IZEA, the social media marketing company for which I am a compensated Insider, sponsored this post about sponsored conversations.  And I've got a video that IZEA asked me to put in this post about what exactly a sponsored conversation is and how it works.  I might be able to work the words 'sponsored conversation' into this post a few more times if I try :) This clever video explains what a sponsored conversation (see?!) is, who uses … [Read more...]

Site review- The Exit Store

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Here's something I bet most people don't think that much about but can be found in every building everywhere- EXIT SIGNS. Building codes require exits to be clearly marked, whether it's an office building or restaurant or school.  Talk about something we take for granted! We assume that in any public building, we will be able to figure out quickly where the exits are, and that's where The Exit Store comes in. Until I reviewed this site, I had NO IDEA how many different kinds of exit signs there are.  They come in "thermoplastic", steel, and aluminum. They can be self-luminous (some kind of glow in the dark material so that the sign glows without need for batteries or an external power source), or lit with LED bulbs. For "high abuse" areas like correction facilities, apartment buildings, and schools, exit signs can be made with tamper-resistant materials and even housed behind steel cages. Different cities have different requirements for compliance, meaning that The Exit … [Read more...]