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I'm not sure if you are looking for general feedback from someone who knows nothing about fishing or from an expert fisherman.
If you want the name of an avid fly fisherman you could contact a guy I know, Andy. He has a fly shop and does local tour…
Sharon,
Just a note to let you know (if you don't already) that there is an article in the Parade (this weeks Sunday paper 11/15) about canning. Its page18, title: Five Unexpected Food Trends, canning is #5 Author: Joanna Prisco.
Lisa
Thanks again David. Sorry I didn't explain myself.
The links to the sites doing the pick your own recipe cookbooks helped. Just what I was looking for. Ideas.
Sharon
www.simplycanning.com
Thanks David, I already have a website and I am working on ideas for some e-books. The idea of customers picking out thier own recipes intrigued me.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Sharon
www.SimplyCanning.com
David can you direct me to somewhere I can learn HOW to automate something like this?
Verses to keep it simple
In Quietness and in Confidence shall be your strength Isaiah 30:15
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands.... 1Thessalonians 4:11
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- How did you hear about 48Days.NET, and what do you hope to get out of being a part of this community?
- Teresa invited me. Thanks T! http://www.48days.net/profile/Theresa
Ideas and support for starting a feasible business to supplement our income.
- What is your current work situation? Employee, self-employed, generating any income on your own?
- I am currently a stay at home wife with 4 sons. I have home educated for the past 12 yrs. (oldest is graduating yee haw!) and my youngest is 5.
My husband and I started our own business last May. Tim quit his 8-5 so called "secure" and "good" job in the telecom industry. He is now contracting similar work and business is going great! I am learning the ropes with all the bookkeeping involved.
- And then...what is the goal/dream you are striving for regarding your work life?
- Support my husbands dream of working for himself.
Learning basic bookkeeping.
Work now to develop my website and bring in a supplemental income with low maintenance. If it works, do it again!
- How about your personal life? Any specific goals or achievements or dreams you are pursuing (or want to pursue)?
- Figuring out how to keep things organized amidst the craziness of life with four sons and a busy husband.
- What would you say are your core competencies? How are you 'wired' and what can you offer to the world (it's OK if you don't know yet, but knowing is key to pursuing your dreams!)?
- Dunno but I can spend hours on the computer.
- Do you have a website presence anywhere?
- http://www.simplycanning.com/
- More than one website?
- http://simplysharon.wordpress.com
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- At 10:11am on December 14, 2009,
Heidi Walker said… - Sharon,
Would you be interested a visitor builder group? It is designed to get more actual visitors to your blog. Let me know and I will send you the link. It is simple and completely free.
You do have to promote it yourself. That would be part of why it is FREE.
Heidi Walker
AVON Indep Sales Rep
http://www.youravon.com/hwalkerDelete Comment
- At 9:25am on November 7, 2009,
Peter Brissette said…
- Hey Sharon,
I didn't realize you were in Colorado. Are you in the Denver metro area?
Peter
- At 11:41pm on October 28, 2009,
Matthew Casteel said… - Thanks.
- At 8:41pm on October 28, 2009,
Matthew Casteel said…
- Sharon, I checked out your blog through the personal branding assignment. Very cool idea. I think you're on to something. It will be fun to see how all our ideas develop. Just keep plugging away!
Matthew
- At 9:12am on October 15, 2009,
Kelly Harbaugh said… - I know it works with Wordpress as well - I've seen people in forums who are doiing that. I think it would be a similar set-up. I went back and forth on it, and decided on blogger b/c of a comment in the forums from someone who said their pages index much faster since linking w/Blogger (owned by Google). However, Wordpress has a very professional look to it and I think the consensus amoung bloggers is that they have more options with it.
You're second question is the one I agonized over. I liked having everything contained in SBI, and because my site is kind of like a blog already, I originally didn't see why I would need one. Mine is a difficult concept because unlike writing about a product or hobby like gardening or parties or canning, my writing kind of "is" the concept.
However, as I got out there on the web reading other author blogs and following people in the writing/publishing industry, I realized that I really needed a blog for those daily short posts. I needed to be able to get on and write and not worry about analyze it and all of the other stuff that goes into the permanent pages that makes it take much longer. The blog gives people a reason to come back every day and gives me an "easy" place to write "whatever" and not worry about where it fits into the tier structure. It also makes it easier for me with book reviews that need to be done on a certain date, to write it in advance and schedule to post later.
The blog would be meaningless and trafficless without the SBI site, the defined concept, and all of those tools, though, so I think it is working together okay. My traffic on the blog does not show up on the traffic stats, but the blog address shows as a referring site, so I can see how much traffic is coming in from the blog. I'm currently getting about 2,000 initial visitors in a month's period. So I have a long way to go on numbers, but I've only been up for 4 months so I consider that a sign that it's headed in the right direction. (it has doubled every month, but is growing slower this month).
I think it can work the same way for you - blogging about the simple living topics that you feel are helpful, not worrying about the keywords and structure - but having a site that defines the main concept, has tiered pages built around keywords and maybe c 2.0 pages for reader input. That in combination with the blog makes it a very rich site, and I think your concept would be very well-received right now (I would read it!). At the end of your blog post, put links to "related articles" on your site, encouraging clicks into the website pages that may be of interest to people who read the blog post.
I would recommend using twitter to link up with other people who have similar interests, and then tweet all of your new posts to drive traffic to the blog. All of this will help build a following for your site!
- At 6:28pm on October 14, 2009,
Kelly Harbaugh said…
- Hey! Sorry I didn't read this before I posted a reply to you in the forums. Yes, I used Infinit! to incorporate the blogger page. It is actually not as hard to do as I tried to make it. You enter a couple of things in Infinit and enter a couple of things on blogger, and that will link them.
If you want the look & feel to be similar, you can get the code for the logo from your transition template, and then the navbar code is generated in infinit. You just copy and paste into the blogger layout and it's done. (This is where I wasted my time - I tried to upload the whole transition template and wasted a day and a half before I realized I could just cut and paste and be done in 5 minutes!)
It didn't cost anything extra - I used Blogger so it was free. I can give you more detail when you are ready to do it. The one thing you need to know is that it can take over a week for the navbar button to show up - it says 48 hours or something like that but it took mine around 9 days. But now its there and it is working so oh well.
I like having the blog, and I feed the posts to Twitter, so it drives traffic and blog traffic flows to the site.
- At 7:26pm on October 13, 2009,
Pamela Wofford said… - Sharon,
Have you or your husband considered a network marketing business?
Pam
- At 7:53pm on September 9, 2009,
Tammy Bumgardner said… - Sharon, I too homeschooled my 2 boys. now in their 20's and know how hard it is to find a way to make money while being with them. I just got involved with a company that is a Christian based company, no direct selling, but it looks like a great opportunity. Their is a good number in CO already in the program. If you are interested, email me at mastersdesign@verizon.net and I will get your number and talk to you. Ten minutes is all it takes. God bless, and praise to you for homeschooling.
Tammy
- At 8:54am on July 8, 2009,
Kelly Harbaugh said…
- Thank you so much! That page seems to be the traffic-puller. I actually wrote it last year on my blog and tweaked it a little for the site. I am about ready to add content 2.0 so that people can add their stories- I have been trying to follow all of the rules, and it has been hard to wait to add those features, but the traffic looks like it is hitting right this week, so I just need to add some more content over the next couple of days to get the ratio right. This is so much fun!
- At 1:33am on May 3, 2009,
Scott Newton Smith said… - Sharon,
Thank you for joining our Untethered Group. We look forward to helping one another build profitable, passion-driven internet income streams. See you there!
Scott Newton Smith
Speaker, Author, Infopreneur Coach
UntetheredLife.com
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