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Recently I learned a very difficult lesson, and that’s to do backups often.  It’s something that my boyfriend, Steve, tried to teach me over and over, but I guess sometimes you have to learn the hard way.  That’s exactly what happened on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

What Is Mamapedia?

Mamapedia.com is a new site – still in Beta – that has taken the advice given by thousands and thousands of moms at Mamasource.com and has made it searchable in question format. Imagine a Google that searches just for the advice of real moms given to other moms! That is Mamapedia.

*Thank you to New Baby for donating this VADO camera from Creative Labs to our fun event. Please check out New Baby and consider adding your own vlog!




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If you’re not yet, click on the button above and go register at the site to become one. Then join us on Friday, March 6th & 7th for the Site Launch party on twitter! You can win all sorts of prizes, including a sponsor package to go to BlogHer09! Which just happens to be one of the biggest blogging conventions ever and it’s mostly for women! Just do a google for BlogHer08 and see all the great things (and sometimes crazy things) that happened at last years event. I would absolutely LOVE LOVE to go, mostly to meet all my blogging, twittering, social networking friends.

There are other great prizes to win at this twitter party as well, and more is being added! So don’t forget to sign up at Sassy Mamas, pre-register for the party at Mom’s Most Traveled, and then start tweeting about the party!

Article by Lynette Chandler

Did you know there are lots of ways RSS can be used for your business? Here are some example uses that you may not know about. Quick note: Some can be easily abused so… use them wisely, if you use it.

Twitter: Automatically create a new tweet when you have new posts. There are many ways to do this, a popular and free tool to use is Twitterfeed.
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There is no question that blogs are great for business. When you blog, you can connect with your target market and promote your product(s). Blogger is a free, easy to use blogging service offered by Google. Using this service can be a great way to market your business.

When you use a service such as Blogger, you can create posts that explain the features and benefits of your product in a subtle way. For instance, if you have an information product on growing tulips, you can create posts that give a bit of helpful information. At the end of the post you can add “for more information ”.

If you have a physical product, you can create similar posts, giving people reasons to buy your product. If you happen to sell kitchenware, you could create an informative post about the benefits of silicone bake ware. You can add pictures of your product to your post and include a link to the page where your readers can buy the bake ware.

Blogs serve as a great communication tool. You can keep your readers up to date with any changes you have made to your site, provide information on new products you are going to be introducing, and receive feedback on the types of products your customers wish you would develop.

Another way to communicate with your target market and position yourself as an expert is to establish a “question of the week” feature to your blog. Simply have your readers send in their questions, and then, one day each week, choose one of the questions to answer. Your readers will look forward to this interactivity and will take note to visit each week to see if their question was chosen.

You can also use Blogger to increase the size of your mailing list by adding a sign up form to your newsletter or other autoresponder list. Once people are subscribed to your newsletter, you can continue to market to them.

Adding links back to your website on your blog will also help your website gain search engine traffic. The search engines crawl the Internet, and when a site has a lot of links coming into it, the search engines take notice. This can help your website rise in the results pages when someone performs a search using one of the keywords on your page.

These are just a few of the reasons why it is important to have a blog and how you can use a service like Blogger for marketing purposes. As you get more familiar with blogging, you can add an RSS feed to your blog, which will notify your readers that you have created a new post. This will keep your readers coming back regularly, and further help your marketing efforts.