By Randa Clay on January 31, 2009
Up for grabs today are two free 125px advertising spots (for the period of one month) offered by my new Twitter friend, Farrhad. He runs a successful site called Let’s Sermo (Sermo is the Latin word for conversation) and has recently launched a new site with several other authors called The Blogging Park and is [...]
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By Randa Clay on January 30, 2009
It’s Day 3 and time for more prizes! Today Deb Ng of Freelance Writing Jobs is kindly offering a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate to one lucky reader!
Freelance Writing Jobs is an amazing network of blogs about writing, networking, business tips, and of course job hunting. It’s not just for those who called themselves “freelance writers” [...]
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By Randa Clay on January 29, 2009
Chris Garrett is one of my favorite bloggers and one of the nicest people I’ve met in this online world. He also happens to be one of the foremost experts on the business of new media, blogging and online marketing, and this fall he opened an online course called Authority Blogger that is awesome. It [...]
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By Randa Clay on January 28, 2009
I recently had some business cards done by UPrinting after I won them over at Pro Blog Design. I am very happy with them- the card stock is nice, the printing is perfect and their online proofing system was very easy to use. They offer a wide range of printing solutions- flyers, posters, banners, envelopes, [...]
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By Randa Clay on January 27, 2009
2 years ago I was working on getting a freelance web design business going, and had just discovered WordPress and begun tinkering around with customizing themes on several sites of mine, when suddenly I realized that randaclay.com should be converted to a blog. The static site with my (rather small) portfolio was not really generating [...]
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By Randa Clay on January 19, 2009
I received the book, Universal Principles of Designfor Christmas. This book was recommended as a foundational text for anyone interested in design, and after only getting through a portion of the book so far, I have to agree. The book has definitions, explanations and illustrations of 101 principles, and I am learning a lot as [...]
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By Randa Clay on January 7, 2009
If you’re into blogging or online business in any serious way, there will likely come a time when you will need an online service provider of some sort. Choosing to do business with someone online has some inherent risks that can end up biting you in the rear end if you’re not careful. Anyone can [...]
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