Thursday Thoughts

At the moment, my thoughts are about my kids. Not too surprising, I AM a mom. Today I am an out of town mom. My girlfriend is keeping my two hooligans today. My thoughts are something like this:

"I hope they put on clean underwear." 

"I hope Z1 is not wearing more than one pair of underwear." (He did it again just the other day- put on every pair of underwear he owned! What's the deal? "Y" Chromosome, I rest my case.)

"I hope Z2 keeps her Aflac Duck voice under control."

"I should have packed more wine in her gift bag."

Here's hoping they all survive and a publisher likes one (or two or all) of my songs enough to pick it up,

Melissa

A Little Extra Today!

I just wanted to let all of you Mom Entrepreneurs out there know about a teleseminar coming up soon through the MomEntrepreneur.com.  It’s called How to Get Your Product Featured in Top Magazine Holiday Gift Guides, and it’s Thursday, 6/25/09 at 11:30 EST.  AND, if you register by 10:00 EST tonight, you can still get in on the 50% off discount.  That means it’s only $50.00. 

Okay, I know this sounds like an advertisement, but this group of women has helped me so much.  There is a support group, newsletters, advertising opportunities and more.  If you are a Mom Entrepreneur, you need to check them out.  I have learned so much, and gotten a ton of support from these women.

I’m off my soapbox now!  But seriously, take a look at their website.

Karen

Social Media for Dummies

By now, everybody has heard the term "social media," right? And do we all know what it means? NO!!! Sure, you've been on Facebook or My Space, or your kids have, but for all of us Mom Entrepreneurs out there, we're supposed to use social media to help us sell our products. HUH?

So, being the sales side of my partnership with Melissa, I decided to start looking into this phenomenon. My first step was to sign up for LinkedIn. Hey, I'm already ahead because somebody had sent me an invitation to sign up months ago, so I did. And that's all I did, but at least I got started! So...now what? LinkedIn told me to download my Outlook contacts so I can see who I want to invite to be in my "network." Hmmm, are they going to spam my friends? I decided to risk it, and actually found out that several people I know are already on LinkedIn. They have way more people in their networks, so I sent invitations to everyone who was already playing in this game. I figured if I have more folks in my network, I'll look popular and everyone will want to join. Right???? Okay, maybe not, but what I did figure out was that I needed to join "groups" to start getting my name out there, and to learn a thing or two about...well, about whatever these groups are about.

So I joined a bunch of groups that my friends and/or colleagues are in. WOW, I've gotten more emails in the past 24 hours than I think I got all month! Perhaps I joined too many groups! But at least I've gotten started, which is the important thing. I guess I just need to fine-tune everything. Oh, and by the way, you can see my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/karenbberg.

My next project: Twitter! Wish me luck!

Karen