06.01.10 at 9:24 am by Kara_S
Ever since I started my first office job and was introduced to DayTimers, I’ve had a love for calendars and planners. I also have a strong dislike for how much a nice planner costs.
And, I confess, I’m the type of person who loves planners but usually ignores what they say, other than making note of impending deadlines. So… paying for planner pages I may or may not look at every day just doesn’t strike me as wise stewardship of my funds.
Last month, my awesome business accountability partner shared a link that she found to free planner pages for freelancers and bloggers.
What I like about Productive Flourishing’s planners …
Designed with the freelancer in mind
Printable – choose which ones you want and forget the others
Includes instructions on how to use them to maximize productivity
Can be placed in a notebook or folder or hung on a wall
Clean design
And best of all, free!
So, if you’re tired of “making do” with
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05.12.10 at 11:12 am by Kara_S
ABOUT THE BOOK
They took away everything she loved…now, she’s out for revenge.
Sage Morrow had it all: life on a beautiful Colorado ranch, a husband who adored her, and a baby on the way. Until five ruthless gunmen rode up to their ranch and changed her life forever. Now Sage is a bounty hunter bent on retribution.
Accompanied only by her majestic hawk, she travels throughout the Rocky Mountains in search of injustice, determined to stamp it out wherever it’s found. The stakes are raised when two young boys are kidnapped and Sage is forced to work with Marshall Parker Timmons to rescue them. But Sage may ultimately get more than she bargained for.
In this exciting historical romance set in the late 1800s, murder, intrigue, kidnapping, and questions of faith will keep you in suspense until the final pages.
If you would like to read the first chapter of A Woman Called Sage, go HERE.
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04.22.10 at 4:51 pm by Kara_S
One of my projects for the month of April has been focused on social media and my business. Living in a rural area, and one of the poorest counties in the country, doesn’t exactly lead to high business volume. My desire is to spread the word more about who I am and what I have to offer. So, I’ve been looking for ways to expand my client base.
The wave of the future seems to be social media – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs. People are obsessed with knowing what others are doing and what their opinions are. What better way to connect with potential clients than to go where they are?
My first step was to find a way to make my business website dynamic. That means I needed something that changed periodically so people would keep coming back to the site. What did I do? Created a blog.
My second step was to start tweeting as my business. (Follow me @SkalaCreative.)
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04.16.10 at 4:23 pm by Kara_S
How am I doing with my American Idol picks for Season 9?
Back in the beginning of March, I chose my top 3 females and top 4 guys from the top 24. At this point, I chose 5 of the top 7.
Wednesday night we said goodbye for the second time to a female pick – Katie Stevens. Like Ryan said when chatting with Katie, she really has come a long ways in the past weeks and has grown up a lot too. I have no doubt in my mind that we’ll hear from Katie in the future. She has a huge set of vocals! I thought her performance Tuesday night was one of the best of the night. (But I don’t think the judges thought so.)
The only complaint I have about Katie is that whoever chose her wardrobe for the show didn’t do her justice. Her clothes were consistently unflattering and made her almost look frumpy. And if I had to guess, the clothes probably
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04.06.10 at 5:13 pm by Kara_S
I finally accomplished something I set out to do about 10 months ago!
Some of you will remember my lamenting about my business website and some of the issues I had with it. One of my goals all along since I started the site about 2 years ago was to add a blog.
Through the blog, I wanted to share writing tips, editing hints, graphic design ideas, grammar lessons, and publishing-related stuff. (Isn’t “stuff” a fun word? It can encompass so much without having to be specific or particular. Of course, some might say it’s uncreative and it can be replaced with a better word, but oh well.)
Well, guess what? My new blog launched last week!!!
I’m going to be sharing on the topics I originally planned on – writing, editing, grammar, publishing, and graphic design. I might even throw in a few posts about rural small business, advertising, and who knows what else!
One of my favorite parts of the blog is the
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