If you are in need of publicity and/or buzz for your service or company, Izea is definitely your one stop shop. You can get everything you need from the various social media advertising they offer. They have products sampling, blog posts, and blog sponsorships just to name a few of the offers you can do. I have been on both sides of the campaigns that can be run; I have run some of my own opportunites for bloggers, and I am a blogger myself. The Izea staff is great — if you have any question, they are great to help you get exactly what you want. Izea now has two marketplaces you can choose from — PPP and Social Spark. PPP allows you to pick segmentation and any blogger who meets your criteria can choose your opportunity. Social Spark is more of social networking site. You are able to set up blogrolls and street teams and choose which bloggers can take you opportunity. There also is the marketplace like at PPP that allows anyone to take your opportunity. You can set it up that after your opportunity is full that people can request a slot. They will tell you why they should blog about you. It is great way for you to find bloggers that missed out on your opportunity but still are a good fit for you. They also have dynamic pricing where instead of spending all your money in one day, you can choose a daily spend. These are just a few of the advantages of working with Izea. I highly recommend trying them out if you want to advertise!
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008The Weekend
Monday, June 23rd, 2008We had a great weekend. We went up to Green Bay. Bill went camping with my dad, uncles, and cousins for a guy weekend. The kids and I stayed with my mom. We took the kids to Bay Beach on Saturday, and Madison had a blast. My plan is to get some pictures posted up a little later. Madison was so disappointed that we couldn’t go back again this weekend (we have some parties to go to and Bill’s parents are coming back from 2 weeks in Hawaii).
How was your weekend?
I won! I won!
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008I will say it again. I am not lucky (which I know you guys are starting to not believe me when I say this). I just found out last night that I won Elizabeth’s (Table4Five) DVD giveaway for Baby Einstein Baby’s First Sounds DVDs. I am super excited. We own a ton of Baby Einstein DVDs, and they are all awesome. Madison still likes to watch them once in a while. My mail sucks, so it’ll probably take a while to get here. I’ll be unpatiently waiting for it.
Vat19
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008I have often posted on here about the different products that Vat19 has that I just absolutely love. They have everything you could ever need like giant remote controls, instasnow, and remote control forklifts. Watch this video if you want to know what I am talking about:
You can tell that these guys have a warped sense of humor (like me!). You can learn how to operate the forklift and learn how helpful it would be in your home or office. Make sure you watch the video till the end where they blow up food! If you need a unique gift for someone, make sure you check Vat19 out!
Wednesday’s Hero
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008This Weeks Hero Was Suggested By Mary Ann
Wednesday Hero was started to put a face to the men and women of the American Armed Forces and what they do for us. Vary rarely has there been a member of a foreign military profiled. In fact, in the two years Wednesday Hero’s been going on it’s only been done once before. Here’s the second.
24 years old from Birmingham, England
40 Commando Royal Marines
L/Cpl Matt Croucher is not only one of the bravest men alive, he’s also one of the luckiest men alive. On the morning of February 9, 2008 L/Cpl. and his unit were searching a compound near Sangin in Afghanistan that was suspected of being used to make bombs to be used in attacks on British and Afghan troops. Walking in the darkness among a group of four men, Croucher stepped into a tripwire that pulled the pin from a boobytrap grenade. His patrol commander, Corporal Adam Lesley, remembered Croucher shouting “Grenade!”
As others dived for cover, Croucher did something nobody expected. He lay down on the grenade to smother the blast. Lesley got on the ground, another man got behind a wall, but the last member of the patrol was still standing in the open when the grenade went off.
“My reaction was, ‘My God this can’t be real’,” said Lesley. “Croucher had simply lain back and used his day sack to blunt the force of the explosion. You would expect nine out of 10 people to die in that situation.” L/Cpl. Croucher was that 1/10. Not only did he survive, amazingly he only suffered shock from the blast and a bloody nose. He was saved by the special plating inside his Osprey body armor. The backpack he was wearing was thrown more than 30ft by the blast.
“I felt one of the lads giving me a top to toe check. My head was ringing. Blood was streaming from my nose. It took 30 seconds before I realized I was definitely not dead,” said L/Cpl. Croucher.
For his actions that day, L/Cpl. Croucher was in line for the Victoria Cross, the highest award for a British Serviceman, but it has yet to be awarded.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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