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Trey Pennington, Social Media, and Silently Suffering with Depression

September 8, 2011

Pretty much everyone in the industry now knows that Trey Pennington committed suicide over the weekend. It came as a shock to many people, since Trey’s Twitter feed was full of positivity. He appeared to be making plans to travel to upcoming conferences even the day before he killed himself. Had he already decided to [...]

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Why Spray and Pray PR Pitches are Full of Fail

September 6, 2011

As the owner of a parenting blog – one of those mommy blogs I’m sure you’ve heard about – I receive a high volume of pitches and press releases from PR professionals every day. I must confess that I delete most of them without reading them. But sometimes that little one-sentence preview I can see [...]

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My Favorite GoDaddy Coupon Code

August 10, 2011

I know that not everybody likes GoDaddy.com, but I’ve never had a problem with them when registering my domains. Most of the complaints I hear (when not the corporate responsibility flavor) have to do with hosting issues. I don’t use GoDaddy for hosting. Instead, I use HostRocket.Com. Their customer service has always been amazing to [...]

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Is The Celebrity Cafe Stuck in 1999?

June 3, 2011

I’ve just received this email today: Dear Webmaster, We’ve recently redesigned TheCelebrityCafe.com to include partner links. So far these new links have been trading about 400-800 visitors a day. We’re looking for other partners to do trade trades with. If you have a site that gets significant traffic, we’d love to trade with you I’ve [...]

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How to Tell a Vendor You Don’t Have the Money to Pay Them

May 18, 2011

The first tip for telling a vendor you don’t have money to pay them? Never get yourself in the situation in the first place. If you hire someone to do work for you, you need to pay them. If you don’t? They can sue you for nonpayment of services. That being said, perhaps you don’t [...]

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The Nigerian Government Apologizes for Scams?

May 16, 2011

I just received this fantastic email: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Federal Republic of Nigeria Ref: An Open Letter To All Scam Victims, If you have sent money to Nigeria in the course of getting one fund or the other it means you have been scammed because those funds will surely not get to you, you [...]

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Do You Own the Blog Posts You Write for Other Sites?

May 4, 2011

If you are a blogger and/or freelance writer, chances are that you write blog posts (or will at some point in the future) for websites owned by someone else. This includes guest posts, group blogs, and even magazines, newspapers, and other publications. When you write for someone else’s site, who owns the content – you or [...]

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My Dad Has Mantle Cell Lymphoma

November 11, 2010

I’ve been a bit out of sorts lately because we found out a month ago that my dad has cancer. He’d gone to Urgent Care because he had trouble swallowing. His voice sounded funny, too. Urgent Care sent him to an ENT straight away. That doctor told him later that he presented like someone with [...]

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