Your Home On A Budget

Where can you find money-saving advice and share free offers with others?

Your Home On A Budget!

This new blog was begun only within the past month and already it is filled with LOTS OF FREE STUFF you'll want to check out.

Jenny Wagner started her blog because she was "looking for a way to share money-saving advice and free offers with others." She thought "a blog was the best way to do just that. "

Jenny brings more than 20 years of experience from the home improvement industry "and a lifetime of learning how to live on a budget…"

In addition to providing links to free items, Jenny provides tips on upgrading and decorating your home "on a budget."

By joining the community at Your Home On A Budget, you can look forward to daily updates on new free items for everything from Starbucks Coffee to Breathe Right Nasal Strips.

As Your Home On A Budget states, "Your Home On A Budget provides money-saving ideas for everyday life. Affordable home improvement ideas, decorating tips, sweepstakes, freebies, coupons and coupon codes, and many other budget-friendly suggestions and ideas."

Visit Your Home On A Budget by clicking any of the links in this blog.

And if you would like to read Jenny's articles on Associated Content, click anywhere you see Jenny Wagner's name.

It's A Tidal Wave – I Mean a BlogTide

How often have you heard the term, back linking? If you write a blog and you want people to read your blog, you know the importance of back linking. And if you don't know it yet, you will eventually learn that you have to have it in order to succeed in the blogging world.

According to wikipedia.org, "Search engines often use the number of back links that a website has as one of the most important factors for determining that website's search engine ranking, popularity and importance. Google's description of their PageRank system, for instance, notes that Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B."

So how can you improve your back links? By joining BlogTide.

Started only about three weeks ago to give bloggers an opportunity to share blogs via hundreds of social bookmarking services available, BlogTide takes back linking to the next level.

It's really quite simple: Back links help authors, and BlogTide provides back links.

ANYBODY can join. Anybody, that is, except Spammers. Absolutely, unequivocally NO SPAMMING ALLOWED! And NO SCAMMING ALLOWED!  The creator of BlogTide is very protective of BlogTide members.

As a matter of fact, BlogTide's creator cares so much about the privacy of BlogTide members, he recommends setting your privacy at "Friends only viewing."

If you're looking for what BlogTide's creator defines as, "friendly social networking,"  and you want to increase your back links, you'll want to check out BlogTide by clicking any of the links in this blog.


If you would like Your Blog Connection to showcase your blog, please contact me through one of my other blogs, Your Weird Dreams at: weirddreams@mail.com

Happy Blogging! And Happy Back Linking!

Parent Successfully

Parenting is a tough job. Ask any parent. When Hillary Rodham Clinton repeated the old African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child," she wasn't kidding. Parents need all the help they can get.

And one of the places that offers a plethora of information to help parents raise their children successfully is a web site entitled, Parent Successfully. Parent Successfully offers parents more than just one blog too. As a matter of fact, it offers FOURTEEN blogs.

Begun in November 2009 by the mother-daughter team of Lyn Lomasi and Jaipi Sixbear, Parent Successfully offers parents links to important articles written by Lomasi and Sixbear and numerous other writers who share tips and information on raising children successfully.

Maintained by Lomasi, Sixbear, and two of Lomasi's daughters, Parent Successfully was created when Lyn and Jaipi looked for a place to share advice and tips with other parents. Realizing that "no one person knows every single thing about parenting," and that no other web site offered a "one-size-fits-all approach to everything," they decided to create their own.

According to Lyn, "When parents come together and share their different methods, it can make many things run smoother. Doing so gives people ideas they may not have thought of otherwise."

Who is most likely to read their blogs? "Parents, parents-to-be, and educators," among others.

Kids, too, will enjoy Parent Successfully, because Lyn's 11-year old daughter writes one of the blogs. Parent Successfully often posts links to web sites aimed at children and they offer activities for kids as well.

Along with the blog posts and article links about a variety of issues related to parenting, Parent Successfully provides "forums for more in-depth discussion."

Chances are, if you're looking for information related to raising children successfully, you'll find whatever you need at Parent Successfully.

(Click any of the links to take you to their blog. From there you can visit other areas of the site.)

Article Writer For Hire – Lyn Lomasi & Jaipi Sixbear

 Article Writer for Hire is one of the most helpful and user-friendly online web sites dedicated to helping fellow writers that I have found.

Begun by the eco-friendly mother-daughter team of Lyn Lomasi and Jaipi Sixbear in May of 2008 (the blog began in January of 2009), Article Writer for Hire is one of the most comprehensive informative writing sites around. And the Lomasi-Sixbear writing team is very accessible. You won't find a better informed team willing to help fellow writers than the two of them.


Want to make money from your blog? Visit Article Writer for Hire. From SEO information to how to maximize your earning potential as a writer, Article Writer for Hire helps writers learn about how to make a living as an article writer.

Everybody begins a blog or a web site for a reason and I asked Lyn why she started hers. "Fellow writers, as well as clients, are constantly asking me questions, so I thought this would be a good way to share tips and updates."

Who is most likely to read her blog and/or web site?

In Lyn's own words: "I would say the majority of my readers are writers from Associated Content and other writing sites."

How can you benefit from reading what Lyn Lomasi and Jaipi Sixbear have to say?

According to Lyn, "I am constantly sharing advice on how to succeed as a freelance writer, especially on Associated Content. Anyone who is writing for pay or to optimize their own website can learn from my posts. Each time I learn something new, I like to share it with others doing the same thing."

Lyn is committed to satisfying her readers and always takes suggestions and questions at Ask Lyn. Her mom answers questions at Ask Jaipi.

If you are a writer, you will be doing yourself a huge favor by enlisting the help of Article Writer for Hire created by the mother-daughter team of Lyn Lomasi and Jaipi Sixbear.

(As an aside, if any of you would like to join Associated Content, a site I highly recommend because it allows you to make money from writing and you can set your own schedule, I placed my link to get you started. Just click on Associated Content. And if you would like to read Associated Content articles written by Lyn Lomasi, please click her name. Please do the same for Jaipi Sixbear. Both of them are fellow Associated Content writers.)

My thanks to Lyn Lomasi for allowing me to interview her and to promote something I KNOW will help writers who are serious about writing. If I haven't linked it enough, please visit Article Writer for Hire for information on how to write better, get paid for writing, and learn more about the craft of writing.

And for those of you who have thought about writing but who claim you don't know what you would write, please check out this link from Amazon.com. If you have a passion for writing, write, and ask Lyn and her mother, Jaipi, for advice.

Showcasing ROI Analytics & The Success of YOUR Business

As an article and blog writer, I'm always interested in knowing the marketing analytics of promoting my work. Blogs and articles are my "business" and the goal is to get as many people as possible to read my work, which will hopefully increase my chances of making money.

Who reads my work? Are Twitter and Facebook the only promotional tools I can use to promote my writings? Are my marketing efforts paying off?

Anybody interested in marketing their product, their business, or their web site wants to know what their ROI (return on investment) is. You put a lot of work into creating and marketing your business, but is your marketing program working for you? Do the strategies you have incorporated into your marketing analytics result in profits?

ROI Analytics provides concrete measurable statistical information for businesses that provide RFQs (requests for quotes). ROI Analytics is designed to guide you in making intelligent marketing analytics decisions, and they help you discover the effectiveness of your advertising campaign by demonstrating, through graphs and other marketing analytics, ways to improve your advertising campaign.

If you offer a product that includes requests from potential customers, this marketing analytics tool can help you locate which keywords are working for you, who your potential customers are, and what changes you should probably make to improve your changes of competing in the world of marketing.

And the really nice part of ROI Analytics is that they are free. Check them out by clicking on any of the links in this blog. They offer so much more than I can cover in a blog.

Divorce Help and a Writing Mentor All in One Person

Donald Pennington is a, shall we say, unique individual. Just to give you an example of how unique, I display for your eyes, comments he made to the questions I asked him when I wanted to know a little bit about why he created his divorce blog. Here they are:

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He does have a great sense of humor, and he actually did respond with some useful comments, so for your blogging pleasure, I introduce to to Donald Pennington and his divorce blog.

About a year ago he came up with the idea of creating a divorce blog but didn't actually implement the blog until about five months ago. He wanted to help others who were going through a divorce because he wanted to make money.

OK, that's only part of the reason he wanted to write his divorce blog. He also wanted to help others who were going through the same thing he went through. And he wanted to offer a place where people could vent their frustrations and find healing.

The only annoying thing about Donald's blog is the popup ad that appears when you first visit the site. However, if you are interested in the ad, definitely click on the link. Otherwise, go to the upper right hand corner and click, "Skip this ad."

You'll have to get on him to update his blog. He is admittedly lazy. "I'm a greedy little throw away Dad who wants a lazy man's income from helping others going through a divorce."

He encourages other divorced writers to contribute content, so if you are a writer, or if you just want to vent, you can pitch your stories to him.

Donald's plans for the future? Opening a discussion forum, though how far into the future his plans will materialize is questionable. Remember, he is lazy.

Topics he covers, besides divorce support, is child support and single moms.

But Donald Pennington is not just about divorce. In addition to helping those hit with divorce, he also mentors writers at his web site, aptly entitled Welcome to DonPennington.info!

So click on his web site and his blog to meet the man who will help you through your divorce or with your writing.

Donald also writes articles for Associated Content. Find his articles HERE.

Do You Care About The Way You Look?

Do

You

Care

About The Way You Look?

Enough to post questions about your looks online and get some honest feedback?

How many times have you stood in front of your mirror and said, "Hmm, something is not quite right."

"Maybe I should do something with my hair."

"I wonder how I would look blonde."

"Would that red dress look good on me?"

"Should I change the shape of my glasses?"

Those types of questions prompted the developer of MyLooksOnline to open a web site in search of the TRUTH. Why? Because you don't always know what types of responses you'll get when you ask friends or family members, "How do I look?"

Can you trust their loving replies?

Maybe everybody is just trying to be nice, or maybe they don't want to hurt your feelings, but family members and friends don't always tell the "whole" truth.

So how do you know if that hairstyle makes your nose look too big? Who will tell you honestly if you look too fat in that white pant suit?

For an absolutely honest opinion from people who are just trying to help, try mylooksonline.com.

You send in your photo and wait for people to respond. Every time somebody offers a comment, you get a response in your email.

The nice thing about MyLooksOnline is that uploading your photo is FREE, and the responses you get are FREE. You do have an option of ordering a detailed summary that breaks down the replies into age and gender (costs only $2.99), but, other than that, the questions and responses are completely free.

Categories where you can submit your photo and question include: General Looks; Hairstyles; Makeup; Body Shape & Weight; Fashion, Clothes & Accessories; Skin & Complexion; Facial Features; and Piercings & Tattoos.

Don't be afraid to post your photo. The sight is geared toward honesty and does not accept obscene or rude responses. What you will get is a quality reply to your question. Be prepared though, because sometimes the opinions may be brutally honest. You wanted the truth though, right?

You can read more about what initiated the website owner's desire to help others by reading her blog HERE.

In the meantime, take a photo of yourself, upload it to MyLooksOnline and get some honest feedback about your looks. Or, offer your own opinions to people who are waiting to hear your honest response.

As an aside, after I lost all of my hair due to chemo from breast cancer, I posted a photo of myself without hair at MyLooksOnline asking for opinions about what I should do now that I'm bald. You can read the opinions I received HERE. I would appreciate more comments if you care to make them.