Giving You The Bidness

 
Today's Friday Funny:

Introducing "Giving You The Bidness",  over here.

*No. This is not part of a pyramid scheme and PayPal is not involved.


Have a great weekend!

xo

Oh Yah. Bring It.

It's Bring The Funny? She Can Thursdays: where I'll be showcasing fantastically funny humor bloggers that I've been secretly, and guiltily, keeping to myself.

As I promised during blogoversary week, I'm going to be mature this New Blogging Year, and share them with you. Because it's the right thing to do. The world needs me to do this. Also? It weighed heavily upon my soul.

Bring the Funny? She Can Thursdays is thrilled and full of bloggy crushness to showcase {nicegirlnotes}.


I can't remember how I found her, but I do remember falling in laughterlove with the first post I read there. It was How To Dance in Polite Social Situations.  Cracked my a** up.


After that, I spent about an hour that flew by over at her site, on her Best Of page.

It doesn't hurt that she's adorable, too.

So, you may wonder, what makes {nicegirlnotes} so unique? Just another AMAZINGLY funny blogger, right?

Well, she is also CRAFTY. Not as in like a fox, but as in projects that are very cool.

Check out this How To Make A Portable Crayon Holder For The Sake Of All Mankind! yeah!

I've told you that she's funny, crafty, but {nicegirlnotes} also can tell a story in a way that will make you pee your pants. Like the one she tells in Culotte Hell.

I subscribe to her by email, because I don't want to miss a post. Posts like these that are just too wonderful:

TRYING NEW THINGS

Written on April 25, 2011 in storytelling

When I was a kid, I had brief encounters with different “lessons.”  Piano lessons when I was 3 (ended because my teacher moved away), art lessons when I was 9 (ended because she refused to teach me how to draw stick figures OR because I hated it), exactly one guitar lesson (ended because he was rather creepy and my ever-trusting mom finally acquired a ‘stranger danger’ sensor), and I finally stuck with karate for a few years.  (Seriously?  Don’t challenge my nunchuck skills.) [READ MORE HERE]


You can follow this little cutie at {nicegirlnotes.com}

And, of course, she is just as awesome on twitter @NiceGirlNotes

NiceGirlNotes Roo {NiceGirlNotes}

Oh dang, I have 777 followers on Twitter. NO ONE unfollow me. And no one new follow me. I've reached Twitter-Nirvana. #ahhhhh

12 hours ago


You'll be lured in by the tutorials (the drawer doll house), but you'll become a full-on follower because of the humor (dancing lessons.)

I know, I find the best. No need to thank me, now, go and follow the funny, witty, smart {nicegirlnotes}.

COMMENTS CLOSED HERE, SO YOU PAY A VISIT TO {nicegirlnotes}.

You guys are awesome, thank you!

What Does Your Blog Look Like To Others?

As if my life were not exciting enough, last week beat all.

I went and took my Starbucks money, and had a personalized blog assessment done by Eli/Rose Social Media.

It was so.very.cool.

I have always wondered what my blog looks like, what impression it gives. And, for the cost of one of my trips to Starbucks [double tall breve latte], I found out - for the special introductory rate of $7 until May 1,  Eli/Rose Social offers a 25 point blog assessment. Talk about giving it away!

Eli/Rose, an idea whose time is now, is a business founded by Liz of a belle, a bean, and a chicago dog, and KLZ of Taming Insanity. These two brainy, social media savvy lady bloggers have the best idea in the blogosphere that I've seen: they offer many blogger/etsy/ and business services, but the coolest is their Personal Strategy package - for $15 they can guide those interested in taking their blog to the next level.

I received 3 pages of an analysis and detailed review of my blog that was so interesting. Their points were something I could implement right away, and, just as a sample: one idea they offered shaved 4 seconds off my blog loading time.

Important stuff when you want people to be able to visit you.

I was so pleased and impressed with what Liz and KLZ did for me, that I want to spread the word on Eli/Rose. I invited them here for a chat, and we discussed some basic questions, that I think will let you know just how worth it I feel their services are. [psssssssssst...read through to the end, there is a GIVEAWAY involved!] Pay attention people, they have already worked with over 25 bloggers!

Welcome, KLZ and Liz!!

What services does Eli | Rose Social Media offer to bloggers?

Eli | Rose offers a wide array of blogger services. The cornerstone of our offerings is our 25+ point blog assessment and customized personal strategy session. We’re offering special pricing on both through May 1st.

I am not very tech-savvy, how will I be able to implement your recommendations?

Our blog assessment is put together in a simple checklist format. We’ll even provide links to any relevant tutorials you need.

Are you guys going to be mean?

No, no, not at all. We fully recognize that it can be hard to have someone review your work. But don’t worry. We’re not mean - we want to see your ideas grow. Growth does not come from meanness.

Besides your blogger services, what else can I find on your site?

In addition to our blogger services, our site offers regular tips and tricks for etsy shops and small businesses, as well as social media news and best practices.

If I get an assessment, will I instantly start raking in cash?

This, unfortunately, we cannot guarantee. What we can say is that others that have worked with us have seen substantial increases in everything from followers to pageviews.

Is my significant other going to be mad I spent money on this?

Again, no guarantees, but we doubt it. Our blogger services cost roughly the price of a trip to Starbucks with your family.

So, after I get my personal strategy and assessment, what else?

Keep following along. We’re planning to add blogging webinars to our bag of tricks in the near future. In the meantime, we’ve got some great post topics lined up on everything from blogging basics to innovative marketing ideas. 

I think I might know a couple people who’d be interested.

That’s awesome. We’ve got a referral program. If you love your blog assessment, refer 3 people who pay for a service and we’ll give you a free personal strategy session. And if you've already purchased a strategy session, you'll get a discount on a webinar of your choice.

Find us at http://www.elirose.com, like Eli | Rose Social Media on Facebook or follow Eli | Rose on Twitter @EliRoseSocial

**Great news! Eli | Rose Social Media is giving away one free blog assessment. Head over to Eli | Rose to enter this giveaway. Entrance is simple:

- Follow Eli | Rose Social Media via GFC or email

- Like Eli | Rose Social Media on Facebook

- Follow @EliRoseSocial on Twitter

- Tweet about the giveaway: I just entered for a chance to win a blog assessment from @elirosesocial ! http://bit.ly/aDdU31

Entries will be accepted through Monday, May 2^nd. Winner selected via Random.org.

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COMMENTS CLOSED. Please go and visit http://www.elirose.com and ENTER to win your free blog assessment! 


P.S. I was not compensated in any way for this review. I just love what these two are doing so much, that I begged them to do a review. Naah...not really, I just asked nicely.

I Do Not Want To Get Out Of This Day

My mom puts streamers outside of our bedroom doors

It's a late Monday start. As Baby E said, "why does the week have to start with a Monday?"


It's Baby E Post day, and he wants to talk about his birthday last week. From the picture above, you can see that I hang streamers outside of their bedroom doors during the night, so that on their birthdays, they wake up to this as the first thing they see. I can't take the credit for this idea, I saw it in Family Fun Magazine years and years ago.


The kids love waking up to the streamers. They count on it.


Now, here we go, with Baby E 's birthday recap. Thank you so much for stopping by!!
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Hi.

It's me. This is a picture of me waking up on the morning of my birthday.

My favorite color is orange.

Orange. I love orange.

Well, for my birthday, I got this cool thing called a Fushigi. It's a hard clear ball.


It's really cool. Cuz you can make it look like it floats and stuff but it doesn't really. It's just like fake magic.
But it's still cool.

And nobody knows that it's fake magic.

Oh, yeah, and I also got a brand new DVD player. Me. And it's not one of those little kid ones. It's one of those big grown up ones. Like the ones where the screen can turn 360 degrees. And it has like a touch screen. It's a bar where you just touch. No pressing buttons.  Or anything.

And my brother got me a DVD for it. I love SpongeBob and he got me the best one. The Season Six Volume two one.

I also got some stuff for my Capsters. Capsters are bottlecap art. See, you get a background you cut out from a magazine and then you buy some charms, little plastic charms and then you glue them in the bottlecap with clear crystal glaze and you wait for them to dry.

Guess what? We had orange cake. With orange flavor frosting glaze. I love orange. And orange juice. And orange slices.

My favorite T shirt is orange.

And my favorite fleece is orange.

I got a bunch of cool books that I like. 

Oh, yeah, I need to talk to you guys about something. To your kids about something.

It's this cool thing called "moshi monsters."  It's really cool.

It's this online thing where you can pick a guy, pick a monster you want to be, and then you can walk around and play with friends and catch little things you call moshlings.  And, for my birthday, I got the Moshling guide so I know how I can get all the moshlings.

I want your kids to play it and not talk about it anymore.

Here's a picture of a monster you can be. My favorite is General Fuzuki, the warrior wombat.

You can have a house and it's free.There's a card game, too. A real one and one online. They're both the same practically, though. There's a cool map online so you can see where guys life and stuff and you can get money and stuff to buy cool things for your monster house. You can buy seeds to catch moshlings.

Supercool, but you need an email so you need to ask your parents before you can go on.

Bye. My mom is going to let me do my moshimonsters now.

Next week I will tell you about Easter and my favorite Easter basket surprise.




Oh, and thank you very much for saying Happy Birthday to me. Thank you.

Bye.

Rebirth

“ The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”  2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT)

We wish you and your family, a joyous and wondrous Easter.