The Importance of Social Marketing Optimization

I have asked a few of you that follow me on Twitter if you are going for quality or quantity of followers. What good are thousands of followers if your tweets are "lost in the stream of posts", unread, your links unclicked???

I choose my followers carefully. I don't automatically follow back everyone. If I find them interesting and fun, I follow back. OR they have something that I want to know about... enter James Dillehey..he is a well known book writer of Craft as a Business. Has appeared on various Craft television Shows.. a really interesting person.

We started a discussion about Art Fire and if he had reviewed it yet...not easy 140 characters at a time. And ended with James asking me to review Art Fire for publication on his blog!

So with out further ado... Craft Marketer Blog

Have you ever thought about

wanting a Commercial Kitchen?? One with a nice 3X6 foot gas flat top grill, a char broiler, a shiny stainless steel exhaust hood, and a sandwich board.

http://www.mychefstore.com/restaurant_equipment/model_details.cfm/1304/True_Food_Service_Equipment__Inc_/TSSU-72-18

Just think if you had one of these well stocked babies in your kitchen! WHOO HOO! Midnight snacks would be on my list of things to DO!

Then I would also want terra cotta tiles on the floor and a sanitizing system built in..YIPPEE! I could just turn on the hose and spray down the kitchen squeegee the floor .. DONE!


But then reality sets in..commercial kitchen..I'd be in there cooking and therefore EATING...nevermind..

Vote Handmade

I resisted signing up for Vote Handmade...I knew it would be addictive and I didn't need one more site to obsess about! (wink)

Dang as soon as I created my account BOOM! Four links ready and listed..

These are my submitted links~ HERE

These are the items I submitted!

Gravel Road Jewelry hypnotic ring



CyndieSmithDesigns Fortuna Ring



SilverRiverJewelry Rustic Opal Wild Flower Copper Pendant



WickwireJewelry Popsicle Gemstone and Sterling Silver Pendant




I'll be posting my daily picks! Vote on Vote Handmade TODAY!

Art Fire NEW Fusion Studios!

WOW! You can now customize your studio at Art Fire! You can add custom color..widgets...it makes for a great studio!

I have added some slide shows at the bottom of mine..including this one from Flickr!




Want to see my new Fusion Studio? Click ME!

Rainy Days and Mondays~

Well I'm not DOWN! *smiles~ I'm looking forward to the germination of my seeds that I planted Thursday~

Today I'm taking the opportunity to cook a fabulous dinner from scratch~and catch up on a few household duties!

I started some beef stew..not something that I would normally do on the 1st of June..but today is quite cool..and rainy! I'll simmer said stew all day and add some potatoes and carrot an hour before serving..I'll also make some biscuits at that time.

I'm tackling Mount Laundry and I hope to get to the summit today!

Art Fire Artisan Jeweler Guild Dads and Grads Gift Guides

The Jewelers of AJG have many gifts for your Dad or Grad! Why buy them something ordinary?? Get them a gift of Artisan Jewelry that will last their lifetime and possibly become a family heirloom!

Dads Gift Guide

Grads Gift Guide

Also check out our GALLERY on Art Fire..there is sure to be something that would strike your Dads or Grads fancy!


From CyndieSmithDesigns
Dunlap Ring

Laugh for the DAY!

another worthy email I'm sharing! ROFLOL
Subject: HUSBAND SOFTWARE


For upgrading your IT knowledge!

Desperate woman writes to the Technical support Guy

Dear Tech Support ,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and I noticed a distinct slowdown in the overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0 .

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NEWS 5.0, MONEY 3.0 and SPORTS 4.1 .

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2. 6 simply crashes the system.

Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed,

Desperate Woman

____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________

DEAR DESPERATE Madam,

First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.

Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme. html and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.
If that application works as designed, Husband1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5..

However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Silence 2.5 or Beer 6.1 .
Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do, DO NOT under any circumstances install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)

In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0 .

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.
You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance.
We recommend: Cooking 3.0 and Hot Looks 7.7.