I learned early on the power behind networking. Through all my days on Wall Street, networking got me far. As Senior vice president of a consulting firm, I recruited high net worth retail brokers throughout the country;” it wasn’t always what you know as much as WHO you know.” Even today, as a single mom,…
Tag: Blogging
Blog Review: Kelly Cho – Catch a Falling Star
This be the last winner from my March Technorati contest.So, without any further ado I present to you Kelly Cho – Catch a Falling Star!Kelly Cho’s blog is relatively new as she only started this blog in March of 2007. Now, it may be new but that does not mean it is not good. In…
Blog Review: The Answer May Surprise You
It’s that time of the week again, the time when I review a blog as part of my Technorati contest.This time I am turning my sights on The Answer May Surprise You, a blog with a long name that has only recently left Blogspot to make it on its own. It’s always a wonderful thing…
$750 for a Review?
Some of you may be wondering why I have priced the ReviewMe reviews for the blog at $750. Well, sit back and read on because I am about to tell you why.For the past month I have been fooling around with Pay-Per-Post, a sponsored posting service. This service matches up bloggers and advertisers. Advertisers tell…
The importance of post timing
If you are following my earlier advice about using the WordPress Timestamp feature to publish your articles you might want to pay attention here.If you are using the Post Timestamp feature to write all of your posts (or at least a majority) at one time and scheduling them to appear throughout the day you need…
A new blog is born
My daughter (and her friends) have been pestering me to let them post content on the blog. Don’t worry, I did not give in.It’s not that I don’t love my daughter it’s just that… Well… She’s in second grade and she can’t exactly string a few sentences together. So, rather than let them on here…
Moving on up and looking back
I was just checking on my Technorati ranking this morning and I found myself with a nice low number. It’s not as low as I would like it to be but I can’t complain. There are some folks who would kill (or spam) for a ranking as low as mine.What really got me thinking though…
Blog Review: Untwisted Vortex
I first found this blog by checking my incoming links. For some reason I was showing incoming links but, when I went to the blog I couldn’t find any! I didn’t think much of it but I did keep checking out his blog. He must have been reading mine because he took me up on…
I’m number 1,000
Yesterday I created a card for the new website Bla.st. It took me a few minutes to make the card but, those minutes turned out to be very profitable as I soon received an email from Tim at Bla.st informing me that I had become the 1,000th member of Bla.st!He posted about it on their…
Checking out Spotback
My good friends over at The Plugg turned me on to a new sidebar widget called Spotback. The question you are probably asking is,”What is Spotback?”Too be honest, I’m not 100% sure yet!The interesting thing about this particular sidebar widget is that it is not a plugin. Instead it is more like the MyBlogLog widget…
Blog Review: SiteLogic Web Development
A few days ago I announced a contest where I would reward four bloggers with site reviews in exchange for adding HMTK.com to their Technorati Favorites. This is the first of four reviews.SiteLogic Web Development is a blog that aims to cover all aspects of web design and development and provide resources for the budding…
Clutter hound
Clutter. How many of us have it? What is it? Stuff? Too much of it? We live in a society that breeds perpetual stuff. Welcome to America. Capitalisim at its height, which fosters materialism. Other countries are not like us when it comes to personal possessions. Storage units are over flowing and building on a…