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How to secure a sponsorship for a convention

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How to secure a sponsorship for a convention  With conventions around every corner, bloggers are all abuzz about sponsorships, scholarships, and partnerships with companies to help pave the costly way. I wanted to bring in a few ways to work with Public Relations and companies in order to secure sponsorships for the conferences that would [...]

Mom Blogging Platforms

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When you are first starting out to create a blog, its very important to decide exactly where you are going to put up shop….basically, the biggie…Wordpress or Blogger. You first need to decide what you are DOING online… Are you looking: to make friends blog about your life and kids are you a hobby or [...]

Rayovac, my privilege of being a blogger

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Every company on the market does promotions. Whether it be coupons, products, in store sales, or PR releases there are numerous ways to learn the ins and outs of your favorite products. As a blogger, I often get the privilege of learning some of those facts due to participation and its so exciting at times [...]

5 PR Requests that Drive me Insane

I have been a blogger for 3 years next month. During that time, I have seen some drastic changes in online media and social networking, some good, some not so good, but recently the trends that have been hitting my mail box have become beyond obnoxious. I thought I would share…the Top 5 PR Request [...]

The Top 25 Most Annoying Bloggers

Top 25 Most Annoying Bloggers Now you didn’t come here thinking I was really going to list 25 annoying bloggers by name, right? Cause I would never do that. (Well, probably not.) Honestly, this started out as an article for the top 10 most annoying blogger types, but after asking around I found out that [...]

Spring Clean your Blog!

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The other night MomDot hosted a Critique My Blog class where all sorts of bloggers showed up and we did a round table discussion going around to individual blogs and laying down (in a constructive way) what exactly could be improved on each blog. Whether it was overall loading time, graphic & theme updating, or [...]

Stupid Questions? No. Stupid Answers? Yes.

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Although I have been publicly blogging for nearly three years, I am often considered a novice in many blogging circles.  There are women out there that have had their sites up for 10 years or more and have seen the blogosphere fade and grow like the stock market. That being said, the past three years [...]

Blogger Shares her Cyber-Stalking Story

My situation is so creepy, it started at work. A gal I work with has been insanely jealous of most women we work with. She conjures up insane rumors and allegations against people, out of thin air. Her history of bad behavior caused her to be fired at one point. Then when new management came [...]

How you know you are a failure as a blogger

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Fresh off the heels of Dooce announcing she was shocked to see her blog as an answer on  Jeopardy, I opened an ad at Books A Million today and what do my wondering eyes appear? Me + Blog = Failure. Im closing this blog and opening something that will net me one of these gigs. [...]

Congrats to Lee for Peoples Choice Award Inte ...

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A big Heartfelt congrats goes out to Lee, mom blog owner of My Sentiment Exactlee and MomTV show owner, who just got word that she will be interviewing on the red carpet at the Peoples Choice Awards! Lee took it upon herself through her experience and contacts to pitch as a red carpet interviewer for [...]