WritingThoughts

Or, at least that’s what it feels like.

There  I was, having lots of fun blogging and concocting my own plans for this blog when suddenly my DSL decided to go out.

After investing $65.00 in a new DSL modem, we discovered that the problem must be in the DSL line. We are on the list  for a new cable modem, but now the “cable guy” says it will be next week before they can come and install it.

We are in deep internet withdrawal–completely reliant on WiFi hotpots not only for blogging, but for homework assistance, e-mail, and research. I must say it’s not pleasant. (This just goes to show how deeply we’ve come to rely on the internet.)

In the meantime, the DSL provider has made sure to withdraw their fee from our account. I can’t wait to tell them that they are fired!

Anyway, I do know that I’ve been tagged for two memes. I will have to write them offline due to the circumstances, so it will take me longer than usual to respond, but I will respond.

Thanks for your patience!

Debbie Ridpath Ohi has created this list of tax resources for the self-employed on her excellent (and fun) blog, Will Write For Chocolate. If you’re still working on filing your 2006 income taxes, you’ll want to reference this article.

Coincidentally, this week’s “Of Note” feature fits in with the WAHM theme of the week. In the past few weeks, I have found myself stopping by this site more and more often. Each time I go, I found an interesting and relevant post waiting for me.

Today was no exception. I stopped by The Writing Mother blog to find an interesting interview with Alyice Edrich (also known as The Dabbling Mum). Check the interview for more details about Alyice.

I don’t know about you, but I love learning what others do and how they do it. That’s why I love reading interviews and biographies. Thanks to The Writing Mother for sharing this particular interview with us. I look forward to seeing what she has to share in the future!

The link for last week’s “Of Note” feature is here.

Note: If you’re consistently posting great information and haven’t seen your blog featured in “Of Note” yet, I apologize. I’ll probably find you soon. I know there are a lot of great blogs out there; I discover more new ones each day. (So many blogs, so little time…)

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I first met Wendy Lindsey on the WAHMs Who Write forum, but it was a while before I clicked the link to get to her blog.

Wendy’s Mommy Space blog caught my eye instantly with its beautiful banner full of smiling moms and children. As I read through the posts I noticed that each one was relevant and interesting. Her blog is everything that I would like mine to become.

Wendy actually has a total of six blogs. You may want to check them out, so here is a list.

• That’s Just Plain Crazy. A blog where Wendy reports on weird and wacky real-life happenings.

• Thomas the Tank Engine Cake Tutorial. You’ve got to love Thomas!!

• Cake Space. Yummy!! This site makes me hungry. (I wish I could do this.)

• Mommy Space… Practical Ideas for Working From Home. Wendy’s site for WAHMs.

• Cake Magic. More about cakes.

• Adventures of a Suburban WAHM. Wendy’s musings about being a WAHM.

So, when I first thought about the WAHM week idea, Wendy Lindsey was one of the WAHMs that I decided to try and interview. I was thrilled when Wendy said, “yes.” Here’s the text of my email interview with Wendy:

Writing Thoughts (WT): When did you first become a WAHM?
Wendy: I became a SAHM nearly 5 years ago, but only started making money from home as a WAHM a couple years ago. It has taken many months to gain financial momentum, but I feel that I’m now on a roll that’s only just begun.

WT: What type of work do you do from your home?

Wendy: My primary source of income at this time comes from blogging, but I’m exploring other opportunities including writing for Associated Content, creating and selling ebooks, and launching a brand new website in the coming weeks.

WT: Tell the readers about your biggest accomplishment as a WAHM?

Wendy: I’m more independent financially. Every family works differently, but in mine we get along a whole lot better when I have a little mad money of my own! In the beginning my quest to earn online was all about mad money, but eventually it became so much more than that. My new goal is to make from home what I made before leaving my job in April of 2002.

I’m much happier when I feel productive and for me being productive can’t be limited to the mommy role. While I get a great deal of satisfaction as a stay-at-home mom, I’ve found I’m much happier having a money-making outlet to devout a part of myself to.

WT: What has been your biggest challenge as a WAHM?

Wendy: Balancing work, play, responsibilities, and homeschooling. Sometimes the biggest challenge for me is stepping away from the computer to get the laundry done!

WT: To what do you attribute your success as a WAHM?

Wendy: Patience and never giving up. There have been months where I made very little income and I could have just said enough of this, but perseverance is a very rewarding thing. I’ll also say that having support from family is extremely important. If you don’t have that your journey will be a more difficult one, but you can still do it.

One way I handled that reality was to keep my ventures to myself until I started to earn from them. I didn’t want anyone to discourage me. I didn’t even tell my husband my ideas because I was certain he’d laugh at me! I was careful not to spend any money without his consent. In order to really make that work, I only spent what I had in my own savings, which wasn’t much. Today he thinks it’s pretty cool that I’ve found a way to profit from blogging, although I’m not sure he completely gets how that works! (lol)

WT: What caused you to decide to focus on creating a blog for WAHMs?

Wendy: I spend a lot of time reading about working from home, researching what’s legitimate and what’s not, and reading what real women have to say about the work they do. My memory isn’t the best, so I had to start writing everything down anyway, I figure why not share what I learn with the world? So, my Mommy Space blog is really as much a resource for me as it is for any other WAHM.

WT: What impact has blogging made on your career?

Wendy: Blogging is my career at this time, so it’s everything to me. I started blogging simply to showcase my growing gallery of cakes, but when I learned you could actually profit from a blog, I began focusing my attention there and soon had multiple blogs. One thing blogging has done for me is give me greater confidence in myself and in my abilities. I’m now more comfortable stretching myself and taking risks than I was a couple years ago. I feel that regular posting has made me a better writer and one day I’d like to make a living that way.

WT: Can you recommend any resources for WAHMS who are just starting out, or perhaps trying to make the transition from the workplace?

Wendy: The best resource I can recommend is Wahm.com. I’ve learned so much from the ladies there. There is so much information, so many women working from home and sharing their successes and their setbacks. You can learn a lot from other people. I’d be lost without that forum!

WT: Tell us about your other ventures. I understand you have several other successful projects in the works.

Wendy: I’m currently working on my first e-book and a couple tutorials that I hope to sell online. Since quality is extremely important to me, I’m taking my time bringing the completed product together, but my hope is to make a couple hundred dollars a month in additional revenue selling tutorials to cake decorators. I also hope to launch a website for cake decorators in the coming weeks.

WT: Is there anything else that you want to share with the readers?

Wendy: I’d just like to add that I started earning money online a couple years ago registering with legitimate survey sites, with a cautious sense of optimism. Once I found I could earn money taking surveys (a very modest amount), it created a desire in me to search for other online forms of income. I have no background in anything I’m doing now, but have found I can teach myself just about anything I need to know.

This is important for women who feel like they have no skills to build on. You just need to research and play with ideas, give yourself time to learn, time to make mistakes, and start off slow. Don’t invest a lot of money into something you know little about or aren’t sure will be a good fit for you personally. Never make a decision out of desperation.

It has taken me a long time to find my happy place as a WAHM and I feel I have such a long way to go before I really find financial success.

I have something I didn’t have in the beginning though and that is a plan!

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I recently bought WriterMama‘s (Christina Katz) new book, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids. Since I’m focusing on WAHMs this week, I thought it would be the perfect time to give you a brief informal review of the book.

First of all, Christina seems to come primarily from the perspective of a writer whose career is largely focused on getting published in print publications. My own perspective is that of a writer who has primarily done technical writing and business copywriting. However, the differences between us did not keep her book from becoming a useful resource for me.

Christina begins her book appropriately with a pep talk. I always appreciate a good pep talk! In her pep talk Christina does a good job of both laying the groundwork for the book and encouraging other writers.

This book is full of examples, exercises, and practical applications. It’s the kind of readable book that you can read from cover to cover, and still keep on the shelf for future reference. I love the way that she refers you to other successful writers (and includes weblinks). I’m the type of person who likes concrete examples, and Christina delivers them.

I’m primarily a technical and business copywriter. Because of this, Christina’s section on Tearing Apart Target Markets (Chapter 3) was largely new material for me since it provided techniques for analyzing publications. I especially appreciated her decoding of magazine terminology. It’s good to have this information on hand.

I also loved Christina’s âPrewrite Your Feature (Chapter 13). In it she lists nineteen approaches for starting to write. Some of the things that she lists I already do, but I appreciate having the ideas formalized into a list like this. This should definitely help combat writer’s block. What are the nineteen approaches? You’ll have to read Christina’s book to find out.

Christina’s section on Develop Multiple Income Streams deals with something that every freelance writer that I know strives for. She lists some really good ideas and some of them are new to me.

In fact, the only thing that I found in her book that I disagree with is in her chapter titled Negotiate Like a Barter Queen (Chapter 17). In this chapter she provides a lot of useful advice. However, she also states that: There will seldom be a contract with online publications and small publications (page 193). I come from a different field, but there has almost always been a contract of sorts that I have had to agree to before I began writing. Even when I’ve submitted to content sites, there’s been a contract-like screen that I’ve agreed to before I was able to submit my content. In fact, there have only been two times that I’ve agreed to take a writing job without a contract and both times the work failed to materialize as promised. Of course, that’s just my own experience.

All in all, Writer Mama’s How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids is everything that I had hoped for and more. I have no hesitations about recommending it to other writers.

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Yesterday I said that the single most important thing to consider before beginning to freelance was your reason for freelancing. I said that because that reason affects all other aspects of your business. This particular post really exemplifies that truth.

If, like me, your reason for wanting to freelance is to spend more time with your family and kids, then you will likely need to work part-time until your children reach school age. (If you have another reason for freelancing that requires you to work full-time, then you may need to hire childcare.) It is very possible to carve out some productive work time at home with very young children. However, carving out forty hours (or more) working hours a week, every single week, with young kids at home may cause burnout on your part and ultimately won’t give you any more time with your children.

For the reasons described above, this article is directed at those WAHMs who, like me, want to find a better family/work balance. In my situation, I began working ten to twenty hours a week and have gradually increased my working hours to between twenty to thirty hours a week. That’s not to say I haven’t put in an occasional week of long hours to meet a deadline, but overall, I try to keep my working hours within that range.

Over the years I have developed some unique ways to find time for work and still remain involved in my children’s lives. The obvious tip for older children is to work while they are at school or doing their lessons. Most of the rest of these tips will work for both younger and older children. (Of course, you could plop a DVD in the DVD player, set out coloring books, and have your children watch DVDs all day—but I recommend only using that method for emergencies. First of all, it’s not really in the best interest of the your kids for them to be watching movies all day long every single day. Secondly, they will grow tired of it.) Where there is an age consideration related to the tip, I have noted it in the tip. Here is my list of flexible work times for WAHMs:

• When the kids are asleep. This works especially well with younger children who need more sleep and tends not to work so well when the children are older and have the same bedtime as you. Still, if you stay up and work an extra hour past their bedtime every day that’s five hours a week. If you have a baby, you will also want to work during their longer nap. (Note: Be careful that you get enough sleep. I cringe when I read posts from WAHMS who only allow themselves four to five hours of sleep a night. There is no quicker way to burn out.)

• During library story time. In our town the public library has weekly story times for children up to age twelve. (The story times are separated by age level with each level having its own program.) The children go into the story room and the children’s librarian reads to them and does activities with them. A parent is expected to remain in the room only if the child is under two. Parents of older children are expected to remain in the library, but are only supposed to go in the story room for emergencies. Story time can be an excellent time to get in an hour of work. (Especially since the public libraries in my area have wireless Internet access throughout.)

• During sports practice. You should not, I repeat, you should not, attempt to work during the big game or recital. Your kids will definitely notice that you weren’t paying attention. However, most children’s athletic activities for school-aged children have three to five hour-long practices a week. If you’re like me, it’s about a fifteen-minute drive to the practice. If you were to drive home that would be another fifteen minutes and you would only have about a half hour before you had to go back and pick the kids up. Why not bring your work and use the entire hour of practice as work time? If the weather is nice, I can sit in the car and get quite a lot of work done during a practice. You may not have Internet access (unless you get lucky and there’s a Starbucks across the street from the practice field), but you can easily bring a tote filled with editing, invoicing, work-related reading, and other paperwork. (This can be an excellent time to create skeleton outlines for articles or other writing.)

• Swap a play date. If you have a WAHM buddy with similarly aged kids you can take turns hosting a once a week play date. (I recommend play dates of no more than two hours for preschoolers and about four hours for school age children.) For this to work, it’s important to give your WAHM buddy some leeway. Remember, things do come up. Kids get sick. Families go on vacation. Try to be understanding about these situations when they occur. However, if your WAHM buddy proves to be totally unreliable you may need to find someone else.

• Saturday morning with dad. If you have a willing and supportive spouse, Saturday morning can become their special time with the kids. Trips to the park, or even running errands, can become special memories for your kids. Our family has been doing this on Saturdays, off and on, for years. (A couple of days ago I read on another blog where another WAHM was doing something very similar with her Saturdays. Now that I’m ready to link to it, of course I can’t find the post at all. If it was your blog and you’re reading this let me know and I’ll put a link here.)

• Mother’s day out programs. I can’t say enough about these wonderful programs, usually provided at a low cost, that are designed to provide preschool moms with a break. I found one through a local church, but some community centers offer them as well. The one near me meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and accepts children between the ages of six months to four years of age.

Depending on your own circumstances and community, you may discover additional work time. If you have other work times that allow you to focus on work without neglecting your kids, I’d love to hear about them. Feel free to drop me a note.

Postscript: A WAHM Caution Against Being Superwoman

When I was in corporate America I thought that I could do it all, all at the same time. If I couldn’t manage to do it all, then something must be wrong with me. That mindset didn’t go completely go away when I left my cubicle behind. It’s very easy, as a WAHM, to overextend yourself. The truth is, most people function best when they focus on one thing at a time. It just so happens that Yahoo put this article about multitasking on their front page today. I think it’s especially pertinent for those of us who work at home.

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One of my favorite things about WAHM week is that I get to “share” some of my favorite WAHMs with you. One of those WAHMs is Gayla McCord.

Because Gayla is an online mentor, of sorts, I was excited when she agreed to be interviewed for this project. I met Gayla through the MomGadget Forum, a forum that she started. Her advice there (along with the advice of others) helped me get WritingThoughts off the ground.

Gayla is the main blog author of at least eight blogs, and has helped with many more (see her own about page for more details). She is also one of the founders of Gack Ink, which was a network of independently owned and maintained blogs.

Before we get started with the interview, here are some of the blogs Gayla has worked on in the past:

• Gayla McCord. Gayla’s personal blog.

• Celeb Amour. Gayla’s celebrity blog with the prestigious and popular b5media.

• Dating Dames. Another b5media blog that Gayla co-authors. This one discusses the modern dating scene.

• Supernanny Rules. A b5media blog based that Gayla edits. The blog is based on the popular “Supernanny” T.V. show.

• Teen Zone News. A blog Gayla created with her kids.

• Step by Step. Gayla’s blended family blog based on her own personal experiences.

• Work at Home Mom. Gayla’s blog on the WAHM life.

• MomGadget. Gayla’s guide to gadgets, gizmos, and working from home.

I’ll let Gayla answer the questions in her own words:

WritingThoughts (WT): When did you first become a WAHM?

Gayla: I first became a work at home mom in 1999. My initial entrance was more in the health and advocacy field. It’s strange how my internet activity has almost taken on a life of it’s own. I feel I’m constantly evolving online and have learned not to resist it, but to go with it.

WT: Tell the readers about your biggest accomplishment as a WAHM?

Gayla: I knew I had arrived when I became part of the b5media network. I was thrilled to be a part of something that included my personal blogging heroes.

Another big accomplishment was being featured in the new Dr. Ruth Westheimer book, Fitness Magazine, and Marie Claire. Knowing that my efforts in my niche arena were being noticed to that degree made all my advocacy work seem worthwhile.

WT: What has been your biggest challenge as a WAHM?

Gayla: To get people around me to realize that just because I’m at home, doesn’t mean I’m readily available to go shopping, to babysit or to talk on the phone for hours on end. That’s still a constant struggle.

WT: To what do you attribute your success as a WAHM?

Gayla: I think being a single mother for so many years and having two little guys to raise was probably the best insurance I had to make it work no matter what.

WT: What caused you to decide to focus on creating a blog for WAHMs (Work at Home Mom)?

Gayla: I have a solid pay-it-forward attitude. And although my work at home mom blog is not my money maker, it is a way that I can continue to give back to the internet, what the internet has given to me.

WT: What impact has blogging made on your career?

Gayla: My network is enormous. If not for blogging, I wouldn’t know half the influential people I do.

WT: Can you recommend any resources for WAHMS who are just starting out, or perhaps trying to make the transition from the workplace?

Gayla: Those who are wanting to work from home should realize that nothing comes easy and if a product, service or opportunity claims ease of income, they’re wrong! It’s hard work, it’s demanding, but in the end, it’s rewarding.

Anyone who is considering working from home should make sure to pin down a niche. They need to plan out how they are going to become a leader in that niche and stop at nothing to get there.

Only the most recognized and trusted names will be left standing when everyone else falls by the wayside.

WT: Tell us about your other ventures. I understand you have several other successful projects in the works.

Gayla: I am self diagnosed OCD, MPD and ADHD – I’ll admit it and I’ve found that I can be passionate about a wide range of topics, depending on what side of the bed I wake up on. Blogging in the various arenas allows me a creative outlet for those moods/personalities and interests.

I started out being an advocate and that advocate will always remain a big part of who I am.

WT: Is there anything else that you want to share with the readers?

Gayla: Never underestimate the power behind your passion. If you enjoy a subject enough to talk about it every single day, you can make money with it.

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Well, my DSL connection is a bit iffy today. I keep losing my work (yes, I know I shouldn’t compose online). I am going to have to type a much shorter version of this than I had originally written. That’s probably a good thing.

Next month marks the fifth anniversary of what turned out to be a major lifestyle change for me. Five years ago, on April 1st to be exact, I left my corporate job as a technical writer to start my own writing business. In doing so I joined what has become a growing trend in the United States–the Work-at-Home-Mom (WAHM).

It’s difficult to find statistics tracking the actual number of individuals who work from the home, but judging from the hundreds of websites and blogs dedicated to the homeworker there must be thousands of us. I actually went to the U.S. Census Bureau to find more information on this topic and discovered that approximately 4.2 million Americans worked at home in the year 2000. Considering that this data is now seven years old, I’m sure the number of homeworkers is much larger now.

Anyway, I’m sharing my journey to self-employment with the hope that others can learn from it. I did some things wrong, and some things right. Even though this is a difficult post to write I hope that by reading the WAHM posts this week you can avoid some of the wrong things that I did and learn from some of the right things.

Here’s My Story:

In 2002 I had a wonderful corporate position as a senior technical writer. I had writers who worked on projects under me. I had bonuses. I had 401k matching. I had three weeks of paid vacation. I had insurance. I had paid sick days. I had perks coming out of my ears.

What craziness could have possibly led me to voluntarily leave such dream job? Two things: my two kids.

To Good To Be True

You see, the “dream job” came with a nightmare workload. Just to keep up with my projects I often had to work 11 or 12-hour days. My commute was one hour each way, so that meant I was gone from home between 12 and 14 hours a day. That just didn’t leave me too much time with my kids. The time we did get was usually so late in the day that they were exhausted and cranky—so much for quality time!

Yes, there were a couple of wake up calls. Like, for example, the time my preschool daughter drew a picture of our family and I wasn’t in it. (In my place was Grandma, who lives 900 miles away and only visits once a year.) But by and large I was convinced that today’s family needed two full-time incomes just to get by.

The Rubber Meets the Road

It wasn’t until one of my children was diagnosed with a learning disability that I realized I had to slow down. We tried many things, but the only way to make sure that the child learned what was needed was for me to work directly with them.

Even though I had wanted to work from home almost from the time my babies were born I was so convinced that it wasn’t possible that I did very little preparation. Instead, I sold my 401k and that money was enough to see us through while I learned to market myself and we learned to tighten our belts. (We were fortunate. I do not recommend this approach. Selling a 401k early results in a huge tax penalty.)

(By the way, we did learn to tighten our belts as a family. Tomorrow I will list some of the things that we have decided to do without in those early days.)

My First Break

It took several months of false starts and dead ends before I got my first client from a bidding site. Fortunately, the client was a good one. Shortly after that I received a referral from a colleague who had previously started a freelance business. Her lead also turned out to be a good one. Because I worked hard and made sure my assignments were as perfect as I could make them and always turned in on time, I received additional

A Business and More…

Because I wanted more time with the children I was determined to remain part-time. Staying part-time became even more important when, after only a year of owning my own business, I became the guardian of my elderly father with Alzheimer’s disease. Now, I was working nearly full-time again—juggling caring for my father with incoming writing jobs. Still, somehow, I managed to stay on target and to be there when the kids needed me. Best of all, instead of being an hour’s drive away from the family, I was only a room away.

I was proud when, after several years of working for myself, I went to lunch with a friend who also worked part-time in a retail job. Somehow, the topic of earnings came up. (I think that we had both just done our taxes.) My friend was shocked to find out that I had earned more working at home on my computer than she had earned working part-time at her retail job. I still remember her making me repeat the amount that I’d earned over and over.

Looking Ahead

This has been another year of transition for me. In January, I lost my father. He fought valiantly against Alzheimer’s disease, but in the end Alzheimer’s related swallowing difficulties led to the pneumonia that ultimately took his life. I still go about my days feeling like there’s something else that I need to do—of course, it’s the things that I used to do for him. With college looming closer and closer for my oldest (although it’s still a few years away), I plan on gradually increasing my workload this year.

What’s ahead? As I continue to work for my existing clients, I have begun gradually build an “online” writing presence for myself. This blog is only part of that effort. As my confidence has grown, fueled by my business successes, I have begun to branch out into more creative and “fun” endeavors. Yes, I know that if I put in more hours I could make more money, but there’s a tradeoff for me. I want to be there for the people that I love. To do that, I set a goal for a maximum number of hours that I am willing to work. That means that I sometimes have to turn projects down (or not apply for opportunities that I see), and I’ve learned that it really is okay to say “no.”

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Today marks the beginning of a week at WritingThoughts devoted to concerns and issues related to working at home. Since many freelance writers (including myself) are also work at home moms (WAHMs), this week should be fun and informative. (If you are not a WAHM, please stay tuned. WritingThoughts will return to our normal discussion about writing next week.)

Here is the WAHM week schedule (links will become active as articles are posted):

• Monday: WAHM Week is Here, How I Became a WAHM (My Story)
• Tuesday: Things to Consider Before You Freelance, Interview with Gayla McCord: Successful Blogger and WAHM
• Wednesday: Tips to Carve Out Work Time Without Ignoring The Kids, Book Review of Christina Katz’s Writer Mama How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids
• Thursday: Interview with Mommy Space’s Wendy Lindsey, Book Review of Good Kids Bad Habits by Jennifer Trachtenberg
• Friday: Great Resources for WAHMs, WAHM Hazards to Avoid

So, whether you are currently a WAHM, want to be a WAHM, or are just curious a about WAHMs–stay tuned! As you can see, we’ve got a great week ahead! (I reserve the right to add features.)

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I first visited the Creative & Editorial Freelancing: Industry Blog on the Business of Freelancing at the advice of another writer, who considered it one of her favorite blogs. After that initial visit, it became one of my favorite blogs too.

Creative & Editorial Freelancing is published by Yuwanda Black. It is the company blog for Yuwanda’s company, Inkwell Editorial. It is also packed with gems from Yuwanda’s own experience as a freelancer.

This week Yuwanda has been dealing with the difficult and touchy subject of finances for freelancers. With the income fluctuations that many freelancers, debt is a familiar problem for many. However, not too many freelance blogs deal with the problem. As creative professionals, we’d rather hear the success stories about five and six figure writers or bloggers than think about what to do when we need to come up with money for a car repair.

Yuwanda’s posts provide useful and timely information that should become a part of every serious freelancer’s mindset. If you don’t believe me, check out her blog.

If you missed last week’s “Of Note” feature, you want to read all about Grow Your Writing Business.

Note: If you’re consistently posting great information and haven’t seen your blog featured in “Of Note” yet, I apologize. I’ll probably find you soon. I know there are a lot of great blogs out there; I discover more new ones each day. (So many blogs, so little time…)

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