Shameless Self-Promotion and a Whole Lotta Links
(Note: The photograph you see here is one of my favorite photographs of Jack, one I fully intend to show at every special occasion, nonspecial occasion, and basically every available opportunity. In the same set of photographs, I caught him peeing on the couch on film. You just KNOW that one’s going to show up at the wedding.) You are in no way obligated to read this post, as it is all about me. I’ve had a pretty fantastic week and I want to brag. That’s it, really.
First of all, the nice folks over at Young Go Getter held a contest, the prize for which was a set of 5,000 business cards, custom designed by Travis, and printed by the uber-cool Andreas at Orange32. (When I say uber-cool, I do mean uber-cool. Yes, I’m pretty lavish with the awesomes and the wickeds here at IttyBiz, but uber-cool? Go check his site out. Neither you nor I will ever be as cool as Andreas or his website, so we must accept it and move on.) Anyway, I submitted The Art and Science of No-Bullsh*t Business Cards, and I won. Yay for me, yay for Travis, Yay for Andreas, not-so-yay for my printer. Five thousand business cards are going to last me a long time. I better not change my phone number.
Next up, Melonie at Workerette was getting trashed by some crazy person who called her sexist. As in, sexist against women. Put down your gin & tonic and read that again. Yes, I DID say that Melonie writes at WorkerETTE. Anyway, I came to her defense and called the other chick a psycho (not verbatim, but I’m trying to be brief here) and she came to check out my blog. Then out of the blue? This highly complimentary post that I swear to God I didn’t pay for. Basically, Workerette is for chicks who work. At home, outside the home, on the street corner, whatever. She talks about child care issues and home business and work-life balance and how to force yourself to shove something in the Crock Pot so you don’t order pizza for the sixth night in a row. Not that I would need that, or anything.
Then, we have the wicked Cyan of Freelance Switch, which you probably already read. On the off chance that you don’t already read it, please get off your ass and go subscribe. Do not pass Go, people. (A little aside about Cyan - if you don’t know anything about graphic design, this will mean nothing to you. But if you do, and that includes you, Mom, Cyan was named after “one of the four quintessential colors of the print medium”. You know CMYK? Yeah, Cyan is the C. How freakin’ cool is that?)
Anyway, the point is, Cyan ran a little fundraiser for Blog Action Day and raised almost three hundred bucks, which I said I’d match. Her money is going to Greenpeace and The National Wildlife Foundation. Mine is going to Greenpeace and The WILD Foundation, a charity I heard about through Sonia Simone’s blog, Remarkable Communication. Did you know that “a child living in the U.S. is far more likely to have ever seen a zebra or lion than a child living in Africa is”? Neither did I. Not cool. Go read her post about it because she says it a lot better than I could.
Oh, and I hit 100 subscribers today. That was pretty cool, too. If you’re reading this by RSS, hi, and thank you. If you’re not reading this by RSS, help me hit 1000 subscribers by Christmas and subscribe right here. One hundred random strangers can’t be wrong.
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Horray!
of course, I’m not an rss subscriber. I type in your domain manually.
guess that makes me retro.
You’re so retro, you’re vintage. I love it. Thank you for coming and always saying nice things. :)
I sub’d last week … So does that make me a random stranger?
(That may be the kindest thing I’ve been called all week!)
Hi Naomi,
I can’t remember how I ended up at IttyBiz (I’ve had a nap since then), but I liked what I read and signed up by RSS this very morning. That is one fantastic picture.
Congrats on the win!
Well done, Naomi! Congrats for the first 100 subscribers - and good luck with reaching 1000! That’s a great goal, and while for many it would be impossible, for some reason I think you can do it!
@ Dave - I have an opening for the position for favorite random stranger. Apply by email. :)
@ Damselfly - I’m so glad you stopped by, and thank you for signing up! The win was pretty exciting, I’ll be sure to show my new cards off on the blog.
@ Jarkko - Thank you. My fingers are crossed. When they’re not typing. Which they’re doing a LOT of lately. :)
That is the cutest picture I’ve ever seen. You should enter it in a contest, its so cute. It totally trumps the pic of my kid wearing the dog’s coat. Congrats on your great press. Rose
Dude(ette) - thanks for calling out the psycho chick for me. I had to be professional and not call her one. I even bit my tongue (hard) along with my fingers when I read what she wrote ON her blog. I had to give you more linky love today on ye olde other blog. And I promise I won’t send you a bill like some underhanded doctor who tells you your insurance will cover an expensive, totally unneccessary procedure that you actually don’t even need then sends you the bill cuz your insurance company went under when all the payment people started laughing so hard they spit soda on their computers and fried everything when they saw the bill.
Er, um, anywho. See what you do to me? I got all confuzzled. And that is one incredibly FANtastic picture. My little guy’s named Jack too. No Caribbean piratage here though - though I did meet his father over a Jack & Coke so we can always tell that to the grandkids. bwahaha.
Have a FANTASTIC weekend. Try not to get peed on. Hope the couch dried. I haven’t gotten showered lately - we’ll see what today holds with the little man.
@ Rose - I’m glad you like it. He’s definitely the most photogenic of the two of them, although this isn’t exactly his best example.
@ Melonie - You mean like the doctor who told me my boob job would be covered? Asshole. (I normally don’t like to laugh at my own jokes, but this one has me in stitches. Anyone who’s ever met me knows the very idea of me having had a boob job is The Funniest Thing They Have Ever Heard. I like to capitalize first letters like that because I’m going to break into Chick Lit one day.)
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