By Randa Clay on July 2, 2010
Not your momma’s bean bag chair…
Last summer the folks at Sumo contacted me and asked if I’d like to review one of their awesome bean bag chairs. I agreed and they sent me the Sumo Omni, and we love it. So, when they offered me the opportunity to review their new Sumo Sway Couple I [...]
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By Randa Clay on July 6, 2009
Last year I began to see reviews of a cool looking giant bean bag on several blogs, and I was impressed with the way the company was marketing their product through non-traditional means. I was also jealous. I wanted one.
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By Randa Clay on May 13, 2009
One of the best things about the internet is the plethora of instructional content. If you want to learn how to do just about anything, you can find a tutorial out there to teach you how. For me, tutorials have been absolutely essential to learning how to use Illustrator and Photoshop in particular. When someone asks me what books I recommend for learning the programs, I point them not to a book, but to online tutorials because you’ll learn much more quickly that way.
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By Randa Clay on April 27, 2009
Blogging is one of the best social networking tools available. Maintaining your own blog enables you to share your thoughts and ideas, and can even be used to make money. Blogs are popular as they facilitate a two way communication between the blog owner and visitors to the blog. The biggest obstacle is how to [...]
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By Randa Clay on November 5, 2007
There’s a cool new plugin out that automatically gives your readers extra information about some of the items you link to. It’s called SmartLinks, and basically what it does is analyze the links in your posts and brings contextually correct information directly to the blog. When the reader clicks on the little blue square next [...]
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By Randa Clay on September 8, 2007
Everyone has failures in our lives and only by learning from them do we improve ourselves and succeed in our goals.
The quote above is from the the site of Ian Hedges who was the winner of the blog review in my recent Pimp My Blog contest. His blog title is “Failure is the Key [...]
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By Randa Clay on August 24, 2007
I’ve got a new post up over at Wisdump about the top 4 mini-blogging options that are available, including a comparison chart to get a quick idea of what’s available. There are zillions more of course, allowing you to share your current mood and what you ate for breakfast, as if anyone cares, and I [...]
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By Randa Clay on April 27, 2007
I’ve been using Pmetrics from Performancing a couple of days now, and so far I really like it. I was planning to write a review in a week or so, but they have an offer out for the first 100 reviews to receive free premium service for a year, so I thought I’d better jump [...]
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By Randa Clay on March 10, 2007
I recently read ChrisG’s e-book “How to Write Killer Flagship Content”. I’m not a big e-book reader, but I have a lot of respect for Chris and have really benefited from reading his blog. Chris’ writing style is particularly engaging and easy to follow. Some of the best points from his book in a [...]
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By Randa Clay on February 20, 2007
Now that I have four separate blogs going, I decided to try a blog editor to see if it would make things simpler. Logging in and out of separate blogs, waiting for pages to load, etc. can be tedious, so I thought it might be worth a try. I considered Qumana, because I [...]
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