JARD

This month I took part in this wonderful challenge by Jessica Knows

It was #15 days of great tips by Jessica based on how she has builded up her BRAND.  She explained step by step the various she took to market herself and the websites/programs that she used to help her along.

Some of the items she mentioned were reminders to me that I have overlooked or have yet to be implemented.  Even though I have a business degree I haven’t been really active in the marketing field since my switch to education after graduating from uni.

Now that I am even more determined to create my own flexi-hour worklife being a mom of two boys the more I should persue getting more exposure online as it could lead to more freelance jobs/ part-time projects which would definately help supplement the family income.

I seriously do not wish to go back to teaching full time as the benefits/satisfaction pales in comparison to the amount of labour intensive/ stressful hours that I would have to put in . I do not want to miss out on my children’s development and possibility of growing up to be dysfunctional teenagers due to the lack of parental discipline/ instruction as I will not be able to spend time with them when they need the most.

Do check out her Marketing Challenge if you haven’t already done so.

I’m feeling happy and smug as I finally managed to transfer my websites from Hostpapa to Lunarpages. It has been a rather frustrating year with Hostpapa as the website has had outrages and even timeouts from my 2nd month hosting with them.
Last December when I signed up with them I thought that I made [...]

This website was down again this morning Grr!!!
This is the 2nd time this month that my website was down. I have been on Hostpapa since Dec 2007. At that time I thought it was the best choice for my $$.  What a pain it has been for me. I have experience numerous downtimes on my [...]

I have been thinking of changing autoresponders as my term with Aweber is almost up. Awber has been functioning well for me but I bulk at having to pay the hefty $20/mth for its usage. I feel that I have rather under utlize it’s function as I only use it to send out monthly newsletters [...]

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:

The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve [...]

Over at momgrind.com- Vered posted about the Feedburner experiement that she had fluctuating numbers who have subscribed to her feedburner feed. I too haven’t had much luck with readers subscribing through feedburner.
The number hasn’t grown and is a far cry from the subscribers count which range in the thousands for sites like Simplemom and Fussypants.
I [...]

Rockfuse is one of the blogs that I have on my google reader. It has lots of tips on improving my blogging and am slowly implementing some of the tips that I have picked up from that site.
There is a great list of prizes which one can win from the current contest.
Here are some of [...]

This month has been quite hectic for me.  I did another free e-book , some ghostwriting and guest posted on Wishpot baby blog. I am also doing up a few guest posting for other prominent blogs in the parenting arena. I hope that my blog will be able to receive that much amount of traffic [...]

This is one of the best free books that I have read in a long time. It is by John Cow and touches on how to build up your blog to generate income. He gives excellent tips on how to start and focus on developing your blog. Pick it up by clicking on the picture [...]

One of the qualms I have is having to spend more then necessary time scaning through the different blogs that I like to read. Today at Simplemom.net I was introduced to the Google reader and have promptly added the blogs that I read on an almost daily basis to it. It will help to streamline [...]