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How to avoid getting hacked

February 7, 2012

As I mentioned last week my site had major issues in the past week. I experienced an unusual amount of downtime from my host at the same time I found out my site had malware. To say Monday (and the rest of the week) was stressful is an understatement. In layman’s terms the downtime means [...]

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Moving Beyond Blogging at The Financial Bloggers’ Conference

October 3, 2011

This weekend I attended the Financial Blogger’s Conference. Hosted by Philip from PTMoney it was a great conference that I hope will be repeated again next year. Not only was it great to put faces and voices to the names and blogs I have been reading for years, it was wonderful to learn so much. [...]

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StumbleUpon: Find great content, and grow your blog traffic

September 2, 2011

StumbleUpon is a social media tool that is often overlooked (and vastly underrated). All the buzz is about Facebook, Google+, twitter, or newer social sharing services and apps (leave Pinterest out of it though, since it rocks). While attending BlogPaws, a pet blogging conference I spoke at, I sat in the session on StumbleUpon. What [...]

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BlogHer 2011: The sessions, the exhaustion and the chance to win a $100k job

August 22, 2011

2 weeks ago I returned from a whirlwind trip to San Diego for BlogHer. It was such a busy time, I think it took me two weeks to recover. The bumpy red eye that may have involved some prayers I took home didn’t help. My time in San Diego started with chatting with Colleen, and [...]

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Type A Parent and Asheville North Carolina

June 29, 2011

Last week I drove with the awesome Cecily (you may know her she’s kind of twitter famous) and the super talented Sherry (who makes adorable capes and masks for kids via BabyPop) in a GM car* to Asheville to travel to TypeA Parent Conference hosted by the talented Kelby Carr and held in the heart of [...]

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Mom Spark Media: Learning, Community and Opportunity

April 27, 2011

  I am a member of several mom blogger groups, but my favorite is by far Mom Spark Media. If you have read Mom Spark or met Amy you know why it’s such an amazing group. Amy is savvy, and funny, but most importantly she’s generous. She shares what she’s learned on her blog, and [...]

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Getting Gorgeous: Friends, Fun and Fabulous Brands

April 4, 2011

I may have mentioned a time or two my absolute love of New York City. While we lived closeby growing up, I could only remember a handful of times we went into the city. It wasn’t until I started blogging that I started frequenting NYC more often. Only a 2 hour train away from my [...]

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New logo & design

March 5, 2011

New logo and redesign Yesterday was a big day. If you were watching my website yesterday you probably saw the changes as they happened, and as we worked out the kinks I got a few helpful emails from folks who noticed things who were amiss. Thankfully everything is back in place and I’ve made a [...]

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Should you work for free?

January 13, 2011

While I’m away healing from some horrible virus that hit me, and taking care of offline business you should read this awesome flowchart I found via Budgets are Sexy. If you ever thought about working for free (no matter what the field) you should read this blog post and look at this flowchart. It will [...]

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Over $1,000 in business ebooks for $97

November 29, 2010

Cyber Monday offers a variety of deals from various online merchants, but this deal from ONLY72.com takes the cake for me. Over $1,000 in business guides from some of the most successful people in the online world. All for $97. With this sale you learn how to: tame your inbox work for yourself live a [...]

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