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Wii Fit Plus with Board & Fitness Ultimatum 2010 Giveaway
Sports Authority and I are giving away a Wii Fit Plus (with Board) and a copy of Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2010.
Come on over to MommyBlog Reviews and enter the contest running through November 23 @ 9am CST. More details including date and location of personal appearance are available on the site.
Good Luck!
Pingg, your invitation has arrived.
Thank you TechCrunch! As I patiently wait for my final manuscript to come back from the editor, I’ve been researching how to send out the round of e-invitations that should start the buzz-generator of party-goodness that is going to occur at a fabulous launch party in Chicago.
Of course, without the manuscript I have no idea when the party will be, so goodness only knows how this is all going to work out. You’ll never hear me say I’m an event planner! However, in the meantime I still need to have everything ready to go so I don’t bite my fingernails to the quick. (Oh, and to save time and be prepared once I do get the manuscript back.)
At first, I assumed I’d be using an Evite invitation. Sure, more often than not they end up in spam filters, but I figure that’s okay because I know most of the people on my list and can tell them to check the spam for my invite. It is true Evite’s invitations are canned-looking and difficult to customize well. Oh, and of course the piece de resistance – the part where you can’t get the details of where you’re going without clicking on your email and visiting the Evite website.
I don’t know about you but I’m just not that into going to the Evite website for every event I’m asked to attend. I want to open my email and see where I’m supposed to go. (This is usually done five minutes after I was supposed to leave, when I realize I forgot to print out directions for how to get to the event.) Needless to say, going to the evite website to get details takes about thirty more seconds than I want it to – then add to that adding the info into Mapquest, and it’s a hassle.
Of course the hassle might be worth it if the invitations were stunning. I’m always willing to compromise.
But with Pingg, I don’t have to compromise!
Beautiful designs (and you can upload your own, too!) All that lovely party invitation goodness packed right into the beautiful email that goes right into your email inbox. Pretty *and* functional, who’da guessed it was possible, right?
For an additional charge they will even send SMS invites and printed invites for really not-bad prices. Of course, I’m planning on designing my own invites and sending those out myself. But I could see that being a big selling point for someone who doesn’t want to design a postcard (or address them…even I’m dreading that portion of the program…)
So now I just have to make sure my book cover really looks phenomenal, because it’s going to be the main image for the party invitation.
Yes, I’m into the branding thing, how did you guess? If you’re not on the list yet, sign up over there in the upper left-hand corner. I’m not spammy, I’m actually quite fun…and you’ll get a discount code when the book Non-Toxic Networking is released!
Technorati Tags: pingg, online-invitations, evite, pretty-and-functional, personal-branding, non-toxic-networking, launch-party
jennideckidoodles | The Recipe
This is a recipe for a cookie that tastes like a cross between a snickerdoodle and an oatmeal cookie.
If you make them, let me know how yours turn out.
Basics:
Preheat the oven to 350
Cooktime 13-18min
Ingredients:
1 1/2c Sugar
1c Butter
2 Eggs
2 Tablespoons Milk
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
1 1/2 Cups Flour
1/2 Teaspoon cinnamon
1 Teaspoon baking powder
3 Cups uncooked oatmeal oats
Turn on the oven so it’s preheated. Please check it before you turn it on for pans, pots, or anything else you may store in your oven. These cookies will not taste good if you burn plastic in your oven before cooking them.
Cream together the butter and sugar (This means mix them till they are together – usually involves lots of schmearing along the side of the bowl)
Add
2 eggs
2tbs milk
1tsp vanilla
Blend well via electric mixer, spoon, fork, or whisk. Whatever.
Put a sifter on a plate. Put into sifter
1.5c flour
1/2tsp cinnamon (this can be altered for taste and you can add nutmeg too if you wanna)
1tsp baking powder
Sift all of it into the wet ingredients.
(Note: If you don’t have a sifter, put it through a colander…if you don’t have a colander, just wing it. At least stir it with a fork mix it up…don’t just dump it in there.
Fold in (aka gently mix in) 3 Cups uncooked oatmeal oats. If you want mushier oats use the one minute style. I use the regular style.
Drop by rounded teaspoon onto a cookie sheet. I don’t care if you grease or flour or spray said cookie sheet with Pam or some other crap. Just do what it is you normally do.
Bake as specified above.
Let them cool on the cookie sheet for a few minutes so they firm up a bit and don’t go all goey on your spatula. Finish cooling on wire rack if possible, if not, no one will die if you put them on a plate right away. They’ll just stick together a little.
Enjoy.
This is a crunchy cookie if you make them small, it’s a gooey cookie if you make them big.
It really does taste like a cross between a snickerdoodle and an oatmeal cookie. Good times.
NewsGator is Free!
I’m very excited about NewsGator getting another round of funding and offering their fantastic desktop feed reading software free.
I really don’t like to leave open a web page all day just for my RSS feeds. I could just bring them into my happy little Google Desktop program that sits on the right hand side of my screen, but I still don’t like it very much – too small. I feel like Goldilocks. Bloglines is too big…Google Desktop is too small…
NewsGator is juuuuuust right!
(Hopefully I don’t get eaten by a bear at the end of this story.)
It looks like a cross between Outlook, a Mac, and a webpage. It’s really just perfect. They also have a version for Mac, for Windows Mobile, and for Outlook.
You should give it a try. If you love it, you could even tell them where you heard about it *grin*
Technorati Tags: newsgator, free-software, downloads, funding
Using Google as a Personal Knowledge Manager
Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion has a great blog post about using Google Reader as a content management tool.
I may need to do this, because my bloglines account is huge and unwieldy. I know if I go in there I’m going to be there for at least a solid hour or two, possibly more. This, in turn, keeps me from visiting bloglines.
A vicious cycle.
Many people have told me how super-cool Google Reader is, and I plan on taking Mr. Rubel’s advice and making it my new personal knowledge database.
There is no way I could sum up all of the tips he lists in just this post in any detail without being an evil plagarist…so go there now and check it out!
If you do not, you will meet with my mighty shuriken! (If you don’t know what that is, you’ll just have to go to the blog entry…)
Black Friday Bash and Special Offer
We had a very powerful offer that we presented today at the Black Friday Bash. What we offered was simple, powerful, and really just pretty darn awesome all around.
Either of the following were offered for $20
- Group Sales Call
- Great for product OR service businesses!
- No more than five participants per call – so everyone has a chance to participate actively.
- Quick worksheet so you’ll be able to start the call with a plan.
- Safe non-judgmental environment.
- At least one real sales strategy you can use by the time you’re off of the call.
- Keyword Research
- Five top keywords being searched for in your niche.
- Five long tail keywords you can be found on page one of Google for.
You can use these keywords in your headline and body of an article if you do any article marketing. You can use them in press releases. You can use them on niche websites or in forum posts. You can even use them in your signature line or comments on other people’s blogs.
All Keyword research is done by our Google AdWords Professional.
The part that makes it a TRUE black friday deal is if you want both of the packages…we’re offering that package for only $30! (at least until Monday…then the deal goes away forever…so sad…)
If your business needs a jumpstart (or just some powerful keywords) this is the PERFECT opportunity for you to get it at a super-low price.
If YOU want to get in on this awesome deal, send an email to jennifer@marketingcurve.com letting me know if you want to schedule a group sales call, keyword research, or both and we’ll take it from there.
Have a great weekend!
Jen
p.s. You can forward this to someone you think needs keyword OR sales help and as long as they send me an email by Monday…they’re in!
Free Video Recording/Editing Software! Yea, Camtasia!
There’s an amazing deal going on over at The Warrior Forum right now.
To get more people to upgrade to Camtasia v5 they’re giving away Camtasia v3 – which will record your desktop, you can edit video…it’s a great program if you’re planning on teaching people almost anything.
It’s also the best way to turn your powerpoint presentation into a movie that can be put up on YouTube, etc.
As with all Warrior Forum posts…make sure to read the comments after, not just the juicy first post. There’s more good information in there.
One last thing. The first time I went to the .exe link in the thread, it wouldn’t install completely. I redownloaded the .exe file from the website and it worked just fine that time…so if you encounter a glitch, don’t freak out…just try again!
Go get yours HERE….before it goes away… (I don’t know if it will go away, but better safe than sorry!)
I like my readers!
How can I prove it?
FREE COFFEE of course! Enjoy…the next entry will be on social networking!
