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Where in the World is Ted Murphy?

Lisa — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:55:12 +0000

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings - A day in the life of a busy mom . . .

For those of you who don’t know, Ted Murphy is the CEO of Izea. He’s a really cool guy (yes, I’ve actually met him several times), and he’s got a cool little thing going on his blog right now. He wants all of his readers to post photos of themselves, so he can see his viewers. However, he has a little twist on it — he wants to be in the picture with you. He actually gives you his head to print out, so here’s Ted here in Chicago with us:

It looks like he’s done a little cross dressing and grew out his hair. Bill and Will also join in on the fun:

Will also decide to take Ted’s picture to everybody and kiss us, so Ted you’ve made the rounds here.

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Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass Giveaway!

Lisa — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:52:17 +0000

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings - A day in the life of a busy mom . . .

This contest is over. The winner is Content Pig!

Now, as many of you know, I was lucky enough to get picked as an Izea Insider. One of my perks is that I have access to passes to conferences. One conference that is coming up is the Affiliate Summit. It takes place in Las Vegas from January 11 – January 13th, 2009. I can’t go. We will be celebrating Madison’s 5th birthday, and I kind of need to be here for that. However, I want to pass this on to one of my lucky readers, because you are all so great!

This is one of the top conference to go to. The Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass gives you admission to the Affiliate Meet Market, Exhibit Hall, and the Affiliate Summit Social Network. The normal cost of the Silver Pass is $349 when ordered online or $449 when you get there. But yours will be free!

Here’s what you need to do:

Each one of these things will give you one entry:

1. Leave a comment on this post. I want to know why you want this awesome pass!
2. Twitter about this contest. Please leave me your username so I can verify.
3. Stumble this post. If you don’t know what Stumble Upon is, please read Lori’s post at Blogging Cents. She explains it extremely well.
4. Add this post to other social media sites like Digg, Kirtsy, Blogging Zoom, Reddit, Propeller, Etc.

For 5 additional entries,

1. Blog about this on your blog. Please give me the URL, so I can verify.
2. Add this to any forums you belong too. Please give me the URL, so I can verify.
3. Subscribe to this blog using either my email or RSS feed
4. Add my badge to your sidebar:

For 1o (yes, 10! additional entries):

Join my Spark E Facebook page! Just leave me a link here to your profile on Facebook, so I can verify.

This contest will end December 19 at 8:00 pm CST. Good luck, and if you want a few more chances to win, check out these fellow Izea Insiders for their contests too:

Julies Journal

Oh, Hey

Steven Sanders dot com

Beautiful British Columbia

Box Tops & A $50 Giveaway Too!

Lisa — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:55:05 +0000

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings - A day in the life of a busy mom . . .

The school that Madison is going to next year collects Box Tops. If you don’t know what Box Tops is, let me explain. There are a ton of items that you can buy that have the image to the left on the box. You collect these for your local schools, and they get 10 cents for every one you turn in. Now, that doesn’t sound like a lot, but when if you can get a bunch of people together, it adds up quickly. Now, the school’s goal is to earn $750 from Box Tops. Last year, they made $536, and I would love for them to meet their goal for this year (even though Madison is not even enrolled yet. I understand that any extra money to the school with benefit her). Now, there are several ways we can do this for our local schools.

First, you need to log into the Box Tops site and create an account. You enter your state and your school or if you don’t know that, just enter your zip code. I personally entered the school and state. From there, you are able to see how your local school is going. Now, how do you increase that number? Well, you can collect box tops with that logo on it. They also have a Marketplace. Now, until recently, I did not know about the Marketplace. This works so awesome too! There is a list of stores that will give a percentage of whatever you buy from them back to the school. There are stores like Avon, Gap, Kohls, Best Buy, Leap Frog, Target, and Walmart (this is just a couple of them — the whole listing is on the site). All you have to do is log into the Box Tops Site, click on marketplace, then click on the store you want to shop it. That’s it. Once you checkout, the percentage you purchased will then be applied to your school. If you are Christmas shopping online anyway, why not help out your local school (and if you don’t want to help any of them out, I’ll tell you the school we are sending our money too, and you can use them).

Did you know that Box Tops has donated more than $250 million to schools nationwide since 1996? Would you like to help raise that number? Then start collecting Box Tops and use their Marketplace to do your online shopping! To help you get started, I am giving away a $50 gift card to Barnes & Noble (thank you Barnes & Noble for your support of such a great program!). What do you have to do?

Each one of these things will give you one entry:

1. Leave a comment on this post. I want to know why you want this $50 gift card to Barnes & Noble!
2. Twitter about this contest. Please leave me your username so I can verify.
3. Stumble this post. If you don’t know what Stumble Upon is, please read Lori’s post at Blogging Cents. She explains it extremely well.
4. Add this post to other social media sites like Digg, Kirtsy, Blogging Zoom, Reddit, Propeller, Etc.

For 5 additional entries,

This contest will end November 26th at 8:00 pm CST and is for US residents. Good Luck!

Lands End Giveaway!

Lisa — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:22:18 +0000

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings - A day in the life of a busy mom . . .

I love Lands End. They have some of most stylish clothes at a good price. They even have plus size items that look good, so they score 2 thumbs up in my book. I also love that they have a virtual model on their site. All you have to do is put in your height and weight (there are othere things you can customize too like eye shape and hair color). You then can pick up clothing to put on your model, and know how that looks on you. You can exchange out colors, sizes, and pretty much anything else you want. I could literally spend hours just playing with that.

Now, if you are interested in shopping there for yourself or Christmas, use this coupon code:

Code: OUTERWEAR
Pin: 1013

This code will get you free basic UPS shipping on any order you have from October 13 – October 20. Now, I know that times are tough. Lands End knows this also and wants to give one of my readers either a Women’s Half-Zip Pullover or the Women’s Sherpa Fleece. I will let the winner pick which one she would like to receive! What do you need to do to enter this contest?

Each one of these things will give you one entry:

1. Leave a comment on this post. I want to know which one you want and what color it should be.
2. Twitter about this contest. Please leave me your username so I can verify.
3. Stumble this post. If you don’t know what Stumble Upon is, please read Lori’s post at Blogging Cents. She explains it extremely well.
4. Add this post to other social media sites like Digg, Kirtsy, Blogging Zoom, Reddit, Propeller, Etc.

For 5 additional entries,

This contest will end October 29th at 8:00 pm CST and is for US residents. Good Luck!

Blogging

Lisa — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:46:11 +0000

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings - A day in the life of a busy mom . . .

I’ve been a bad, bad blogger. I swear I have been trying to keep everything updated here, but I have been super busy. Now that I have a few minutes, I will be doing a ton of posting across all five of my blogs but I may end up with five or six posts for today on this one!

Why do I keep up with this? I love blogging. I love being able to connect with people across the world. I love having friends that I have never met in person, but I know will go to the ends of the world for me. I love that if I have a problem or an issue, and that another blogger can help. I love that some of the hardships that I have blogged about have helped others.

Now, I do suggest getting your own domain if you ever want to do blogging for pay. Now, if that isn’t in the cards for you, I highly recommend looking at some of the Free Blog services out there like Thoughts.com. Some things that I like about this particular service is that they allow you to decide for each post if you want it to be public, private, or only viewable by certain people. You are able to upload pictures, podcast, and videos. They even have their own community forums! I also love that they have free unlimited bandwidth. This way, if you get a lot of traffic you don’t have to worry about your site going down or getting charged for it!

If you want to get involved in this wonderful community of online blogs, what are you waiting for? Go get yourself a blog!