The Facebook Number Game

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If you’ve run across a bunch of numbers in status updates for your friends on Facebook, chances are they are playing the number game. What is the Facebook Number Game? You ask your friends to send you a private message with a  number (any number will do…this is for them to remain anonymous when you post [...]

Mommy Really Is About To Crack

I don’t know why I bother setting lofty blogging goals for the month of December because every year it starts out with a bang and doesn’t let up until December 26. This year has been no exception. Business at the bookstore has picked up tremendously, and then there’s been the decorating and organizing up there, [...]

How To Kill Your Business Using Social Media

Whether a business is large or small, interracting with consumers through social media outlets is one of the most relevant ways to take advantage of free advertising, connect with potential and current customers, and receive feedback on products and services.  When done properly and in moderation, this can yield successful results like sales, leads, and networking [...]

Wordless Wednesday- Driver in Training Edition

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6 WordPress Plugins For Your Blog

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Imagine being able to fight spam, choose a winner for your blog giveaways, and improve your blog’s SEO all with one click of a button.  If you’re using WordPress for your blogging platform and you haven’t implemented plugins into your blog, you’re really missing out on some great time-saving secrets of blogging. What exactly is [...]

Spam. It’s Good For Your Ego.

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Since moving to WordPress, one of the features I have been enjoying the most is the spam catcher for comments left here at my blog.  I wondered why I got so many spam comments since moving my blog to WordPress, but it’s because I had a word verification in place for comments left on my blog when [...]

It’s Just a Blog, Right?

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Sometimes (and lately more often than not) I come to my “command” place on my blogging control panel, hit the “New Post” button and just sit and stare, just as I did for a good twenty minutes before beginning this post. I have a million things that cross my mind during the day that I [...]