Cathy Fletcher blog

Ryan Sperling of bnetTV.com interviews Tom Clayton from BubbleMotion on messaging services (asks about mobile advertising): BubbleTalk, BubbleBlog, BubbleCast (mobile advertising)  BubbleVideo.

Goofing around putting in a Favicon which you can make at http://www.favicon.cc/ and looking at the  help at WordPress, found how to upload it to my public html folder. Little bit clumsy, always late at night when doing things. Tried it a few times over some days. Used FileZilla…know did it right!

Then realized how to refresh my browser, like this: tools, options, network–click “clear now” button.

And there’s my bad favicon :) It may be bad, but it’s mine.

btw the favicon is the little thingy left of the “http://”. See? Mine’s a C. Now you make one.

And now for something completely different….

You should read this if you want to learn how you can avoid paying for privacy for your domain names, and lose your refunds, like I did: don’t add the privacy setting because if you buy your domain names at GoDaddy, then transfer hosting over to BlueHost it won’t happen unless you take off the privacy setting.

Now install WordPress at your BlueHost account, that’s good.

The reason being that putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea. And if anything goes wrong then you’re better off that 3 sides want you. So to recap:

1. domain names–GoDaddy
2. hosting–BlueHost
   
3. blog–WordPress

WordPress because google loves WordPress. Don’t go crazy with widgets! Now look at the tutorials for WordPress.

You want to look at the tutorial on BlueHost for ftp to set that up. btw the tutorials are slow and quiet, easy. I bought the 2-year package with unlimited hosting, because bots can see that it’s for 2 years and like it better than one year.

Remember you need iContact for your autoresponder. That’s $10 per month. Get a template to make your landing page using KompoZer, and put the code from iContact. Make a little video to:

• tell who you are
• tell what you have
• tell benefits
• tell to fill name and email in opt-in box

Upload then get the “embed” code from YouTube, look at the html of the landing page (a tab in KompoZer) then replace the code.

Do you love bunnies?

Oh, internet, don’t kill my blog…will access my WordPress dashboard tomorrow.

accellerating crazily

Gosh, got to ask myself if I can keep up with this focus group, which is extremely fun.

One of us started crying (it wasn’t me) because well, things are coming up, and it was so cool how our fearless leader dealt with it. I can’t imagine myself being so amazing. Kind of neat how growing (pains) helps us shift around.

Take my SitSmart sessions, for instance…I’ve been giving feedback to my trainer and saying, just observing how I kind of split in half and had an argument with myself about the new “physical upgrade” in my neural patterns and then just noticed the third part which is kind of overseeing everything (basic psychology, I guess) and then I integrated and was back into one piece again. She said it was normal and to be expected, and she that was the awareness part of me!

I’m kind of like the “encourager” um, electrical I-don’t-know-what of the group…getting a mini fan club. Like to share what I find, don’t care if it’s stolen from me (Mark Joyner of Mind Control Marketing, says everybody’s our competitor…but, oh well–he’s scary).

On the call last night, suddenly we realized that we couldn’t do without each other in this, and people are finding their place, finding their voice…trusting, supporting.

So, it comes out we’re all going through spurts of creativity, then nothing…like a rest and letdown, aftermath of overwhelm. Then, BOOM, we’re back at it firing on all cylinders, and it’s amazing. All these communications flying back and forth and we’re all over the world in different time zones!

Anyways, in our new group, stuff is coming up, you know like traumas of school where there was punishment, or lagging behind, dropping out–stuff, the internalized “bad teacher”, and one of us voiced…well maybe I’m not supposed to write this–generally the group dynamics are gelling, like “leave no man behind” and that.

And we are very diverse group, I’m telling ya. We’ve got the “everybody’s amazing ‘cept for me” thing going on, but it’s quickly out in the open and the teacher is going real slow and really hearing us and we’re getting this whole amazing dynamics emerging making us come out, though we’re all “Renegade Marketers” we’re acting as this mini team. It’s cool. We’re on track, so that’s good…finding our voice.

So tonight is the 12th and last session of Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program…and our much larger group is all excited and anticipating what’s going to happen now…and no doubt, there will be a review of the last several months and vision for the future

And I’ve been quite enjoying some funny podcasts starting with the first, which is very long but you can listen while surfing, though certainly I was glued to and almost killed myself laughing. Actually, the laughing seemed to help me process the information…and the series is very good.

Found the link when I was poking around BetterNetworker: the first one is called The World’s Most Unprofessional Podcast! They have their other sites, but this is new…Dean Hunt interviews various people, but he and Ciaran Doyle have amazing chemistry, so enjoy. Reminds me a bit of my older brothers, and listening to Fire Sign Theatre which was audio, British humour, back in the day.
http://www.blisteringsuccess.com/

Oh, my little brother offered me project work stuffing a bunch of envelopes for his business Car Heaven…and I responded to his voicemail with my voicemail accepting, but he’ll be zooming around the world a bit this week. My friend and I had good laugh at the corner drinking coffee and she’s going to help me. Knows the tricks and in-and-outs of envelope stuffing, so I’m pretty sure we can do it, I think. That’s how bad things are…

Used MindMeister, set up BlueHost, signed up for iContact.

off site data storage

Hi John,

I’ve been looking into off site data storage, too.

I have a regular backup on a separate drive, and that’s okay as long as the physical computer is okay.

Then tried Dell off-site storage, but it quickly reached the 2 GB which is free, and wanted me to upgrade to paid. So having heard of SkyDrive quite awhile ago, which is Google’s free 25 GB off-site data storage, using that now.

You’ll find it’s pretty good, just started a few days ago…actually couldn’t find the uploader tool which allows more than 5 files at a time. But I backed up all of our Out of the Box focus group stuff so I feel that’s safe now.

iContact called me because my trial had expired yesterday, so I signed up. During the conversation it was suggested to back up files there and found out that you can back up your contact list as an excel or csv file. So then just upload it to SkyDrive. The reason for this is for the safety of the people’s contact information.

Also, my blog, as you know has been down. When I had a look at the txt file when migrating over the files I saw with trackbacks (which is one of the save options) and without were quite different! With trackbacks was full of hidden drug ads!!

Needless to say, my new WordPress Blog has lots of spam protection and all kinds of security. Wow, we sure need to be one step ahead. I wonder if lenes are affected in the same way?

Cathy
ps at work we always used removeable drives, and then kept it at a different site
pps welcome back, Claire!

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