PR Rep 101, How NOT to Pitch a Blogger

Moomette's Magnificents (Admin) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:13:26 +0000

Especially A Mom Blogger

No, I will NOT Share Your Information With My Readers

Unless I have an already-established relationship with you.

Which means that we either email each other, talk on the telephone, have met IRL, converse on Twitter, post on Facebook or are also in forums together.

Not unless I’ve already done a product review for your company – where you’ve also sent me an item to review as well as offered my readers a like giveaway.

Or, unless you’re a struggling indie Mompreneur who stays up late at night working out of her kitchen or great room – designing jewelry, sewing baby or toddler clothing and accessories or perhaps handcrafting specialty bath and body or beauty items.

Are a non-profit or charitable organization that I would normally support

Are asking me to post a Public-Service Announcement that I support or feel is of value to my readers

Each day my email in-box is inundated with actual requests such as these (edited to protect the guilty):

We thought you and readers might be interested in winning a trip for two to Someplacewherethesunalwaysshines … We would love for you to share this opportunity to your readers.

Hi, I’m Jinnie. I work for Somecompanyyouneverheardof dot com which is a fun new way for experts like yourselves to exchange cleaning tips (because who knows better than Moms?). Would you mind sharing this FREE giveaway with your readers? It’s very easy: upload a relevant pic, get a free bottle of someproductyouneverheardofthatyoudontneed (free shipping, too!).

These pitches are exactly how NOT to pitch a blogger. They are just some of the pitches that I get from PR firm representatives and companies that are simply looking for free advertising, because they have no budget.

Maybe you found my blog through my tweets or the blog directories that I’m listed in.

Were you drawn to it because of it’s custom design that my graphic designers and I spend countless hours tweaking? Perhaps you think that the extensive social media influence I can yield via Twitter and Facebook follower numbers will get your message out and go viral?

If you took the time to look around my site, you’ll see I have an About Me page. I have a B.S. in Business, and an A.S. in Paralegal Studies (Magna Cum Laude, at that.) I can construct a sentence (when I want to.) I’m from New England, which means that I can be a curmudgeon. And a skeptic. And jaded. And I’ve “Been Around the Block.” Anyone who’s familiar with me online knows I’ve branded myself as an “Opinionated Baby Boomer Grandmom.”

There’s even a disclaimer that says: Proviso to lay it all on the table … Hold on to your hat, you’re in for a ride. If you can’t handle that, stop right here.

So, I just didn’t fall of the turnip truck. You might think that you can persuade mom bloggers to fall for your pitch because they’re just that – MOM bloggers. Moms blog for many reasons. They come from different backgrounds and have different life experiences. Some are even corporate CEO’s who are off-ramping while they raise children. I don’t call myself a mom blogger. I’m a mom, but I also blog about a variety of topics. I try to enlighten my fellow bloggers, and the work at home mom.

If you simply think that I’m going to stick up and post a press release promoting your company, or “share with my readers” the awesomeness of your company’s advertisement disguised as a giveaway because you think you’re doing me a favor by sending traffic my way ….

Think Again.

Your methodology is off, and how not to pitch a blogger.

If you or the company you work for doesn’t meet the above criteria …

I charge. A Fee.

My time is valuable. I have hosting fees.

Take your pitch and put it someplacewherethesundoesntshine

Please refer to my Media Kit.

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Here are some free blogs tips and articles using blogging techniques that you might find helpful whether you’re trying to expand on your work-at-home business or if you’re new to blogging.

New! Updated July 2010

Free Blog Tips

Be A WAHM Mom Make Money Working At Home

5 Tutorials To Make WordPress A Breeze to Learn

How to Make Your Blog More Social: WP Plug-Ins to Help Your Social Network

How to Publish Your Blog to Amazon’s Kindle

Get Clicky Analytics: Monitor Your Blog Traffic In Real Time

Put Your Retweets in Overdrive: Su.Pr URL Shortening Services By Stumble Upon

4 WordPress Plugins to Make Your Blog a Fast Mean Machine

Link Building through KeywordLuv

Backlinks: How to Build Solid Traffic

Alexa Toolbar Benefits

Switching from Blogger to WordPress: What You Need to Know

What You Must Know: Web Hosting Checklist for Mom Bloggers

Information For Bloggers – PLR vs. Free Reprint Articles: Which is Best?

How You Can Choose a Good PLR Service

How To Get Paid to Write Every Day as a Ghostwriter

Smart Tips On the New FTC Endorsement Guides for Bloggers

How To Get Sponsored to a Blog Conference

Easy Way to Work From Home ~ Start a Recipe Blog With Your Own Recipes

How to Review Products: Be a WAHM and Make Money with a Blog

Tips to Improve Your Blog Traffic: Change No Follow Attribute to Do Follow

3 Ways to Increase Comments and Traffic to Your Blog: Share the Luv

How Mommy Bloggers Can Increase Their Technorati Authority

You Can Improve Your Blogger Traffic Easily While Adding Value to Your Visitor’s Experiences

Why You Should Use Social Bookmarking as a Business Tool For Your Blog

How to Advertise and Gain Exposure and Traffic for Your Blog ~ Visit Mommy Ranks

More Traffic for your WAHM Blog! Join The Mom Blogs Traffic Exchange!

Easily Combine The Power Of Twitter & WordPress To Create A Viral Traffic Monster!

The Spectacular Tricks of Pinging ~ How to Get People to Read your Blog Posts

How to Use Digg to Increase Your Blog Traffic Readers

Technical Problems Today ~ Is It a Full Moon? Better Get Avast!

3 Tips To Help You Cut Down on Computer Screen Glare

Tweaking My Blog and Sharing Tips I’ve Learned Along the Way

PC Maintenance Options: Free Antivirus Protection versus Paid Subscription

Are You Having Trouble With Spyware or Malware?

11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

I hope you have found some of these blogging tips helpful – watch this space for updated info!

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NEW, July 2010 TIPS

Here’s some tips whether you’re interested in working from home or if you’re already a WAHM

Make Money Working from Home

Turn Your Talents And Food Related Ideas Into A WAHM Job

Easy Way to Work From Home ~ Start a Recipe Blog With Your Own Recipes

Manage Your Business and Family Time Easily With Planners and Calendars

Why Business Blogs are a Necessity for a Work-At-Home Mom’s Success

Secret To Getting Kids To Respect Your WAHM Office Time

Learn How To Recognize Your Procrastination Triggers When Working At Home

Stay Focused: How Phones Can be a Distraction to Online Business Owners

WAHM ~ Generate a Passive Source of Income by Becoming a Squidoo Lens Master

What is Social Networking and Why It Is Important If You Work From Home

What is Facebook All About and Why a WAHM Should Have an Account

So You’re a New Blogger: What Makes Twitter so Hot?

Reasons Why Twitter Can’t Replace a Blog

Download 15 Days of Marketing eBook Free from Jessica Knows

Watch this space for more WAHM info and tips for Work at Home Moms!

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Mediocre Smartphone

Verizon Wireless has been running a promotion for the Droid and as a WAHM since I spend a tremendous amount of time on the Internet I thought it would be a good time to upgrade my Smartphone. I’m going to tell you in this review what a terrible mistake I made by signing up for the Droid, and how the Verizon Store Manager threatened to call the cops on me when I went to return it.

One of my fellow bloggers, Mama Dweeb, had written a review of her experiences with the Droid, however I still was anxious to try it out so despite her negative review, I still went out and bought one. I should have listened to Mama and heeded her advice, as her observations were right on-the-money.

I consider myself pretty techie, so I was anxious to use the Android Apps so I could access Twitter, Facebook, my four email accounts and my favorite blogs on the Internet throughout the day.

The day before I left for a week long vacation on Cape Cod, I purchased the Droid and thought I would get used to it after reading the manual while I relaxed on the beaches at the National Seashore.

After looking at the Droid Incredible, I decided the keyboard was too sensitive, and didn’t have a pull-out keyboard, so I opted for the Droid.

The following are my personal experiences. They are all negative experiences. This is not a paid review. If it was, I’m sure Verizon would be extremely unhappy with me. However, they couldn’t be as unhappy with me, as I currently am with them.

Size:

The Droid is incredibly bulky. In fact, I think it was designed with guys in mind. However, I can’t imagine how guys, who normally have larger fingers than gals, would be able to use the touch screen with any accuracy.

Touch Screen

Even with my tiny fingertips, no matter if I increased the size of the screen, no matter when I hit a function to enter, it would enter something else, and I would have to go back to the beginning to start all over.

Example: Enter “Login” – it would inevitably enter the wrong thing and I would end up at something like “lost password.”

My former phone was an LG, which I could use a stylus on (or a pen tip, or a golf tee) and I would fly when tapping text messages, emails, or forum posts. Not so on the Droid.

You can’t use a stylus as the touch keyboard is finger-heat sensitive.

Answering the phone:

No such thing as one-key answer. You have to slide your fingertip across the screen to answer, and by the time you have that figured out (never mastered) you have a missed call.
Notification Options:

It’s either vibrate, with no sound, or miserable sounds for everything. No in between.

I couldn’t tell when I had an email from one of my four accounts, or a text message, or a phone call. They all sounded the same – or if I had it set to silent, I had to keep checking.

Those are just a few of the negatives of this miserable phone.

However, the story gets worse.

30 Day Worry Free Guarantee – Don’t Believe It

I purchased the Droid at the Verizon Store in Connecticut, which advertises all over the store that there’s a 30-Day Return period where if I didn’t like the phone I could exchange it.

After 8 days, I went to return the phone to exchange for a different one, along with all the accessories I bought:

Droid
Car Charger
Bluetooth
Screen Protectors
USB Port for Card
Case
Total: $346.03

When I went to return the phone on July 10, 2010 the store Manager at Verizon Wireless, indicated that the phone, which I’d only had one week, was not in the condition they sold it to me in and would not accept it for return because it had a sticky substance on it.

Duh, I’ve used that miserable phone for one week in my purse and all I had to do was wipe it. The Manager insinuated that it had been dropped, which it had not been.

Here’s a screen shot of their “Guarantee.”

After letting the Manager know that they were misleading their customers, and that I was not going to be stuck with that awful phone which I didn’t like, and I expected them to honor their “Guarantee” policy that was on just about every wall, he indicated he was going to call the police and have me removed from the store.

Way to go, Verizon. Way to keep customers, especially ones that have been with you for at least 10 years or more. Especially ones where every one of my family has had Verizon phones for that long.

This particular Manager was lets say “wet behind the ears” and was obviously strutting his stuff. I would suggest that Verizon spend some time on training their Managers about customer service. In my business classes, I was always taught that the “customer is always right.”

Fortunately Connecticut is a small state and there are several corporate Verizon stores in the area within driving distance. I was able to locate a store where the service representative was very courteous and exchanged my phone for a LG Fathom. I only had to pay a re-stocking fee of $35.

The LG Fathom basically allows me to do many of the functions that I wanted to do with the Droid and has a built-in stylus, which makes it easier to use.

My Observations and Recommendations:

Don’t buy a Droid, or the Droid Incredible unless you want to spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to operate that over-hyped phone.OK, so they offer 1-hour long educational classes. Really, it’s a flippin’ p-h-o-n-e. I didn’t even take classes to learn how to give birth.

Be prepared to be called a liar and treated like dirt by the Management of some Verizon Wireless corporate stores.

Seriously think about switching to AT&T

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This week I decided I really needed to focus and organize my life, and it became very apparent that I spend a tremendous amount of time blogging and on the internet, day and night – checking my email, and visiting all the social media sites I belong to. So I went out and upgraded my smartphone and purchased a Droid. I opted not to get the Droid Incredible, but the Droid that has the optional keyboard. One of the perks that Verizon was offering was a Netbook. I opted not to take advantage of the offer, because I’m still on the fence whether to get the equally sought-after
iPad.

It’s my way of cramming more hours into my already too short day! I do need to sleep – if only for about 3 hours!

An organized family is the best way to be because it makes life easier. This article will give you some tips that will help you become more organized as a family.

How to Get Organized by Amy Royce

Have you ever felt like you are a knotted up pile of yarn, and you just can’t seem to get untangled? That is a frustrating feeling, but in this article, I will give you some tips on how to get that “pile” into a nicely organized ball of yarn. It can be hard at first to get your business as well as your life organized, but once you are, you will wonder how you ever got along.

• A place for Everything/Everything in it’s Place

The best place to start is to get rid of the clutter. Go through all of those old papers and decide what is trash. After you determine what you no longer need, you need to decide how “sensitive” each paper is. With Identity Theft among us, you don’t want to just throw away some things. You want to shred them. This would include anything with your social security number on it, or any credit card or bank information. Anything you decide to keep should be filed in a file cabinet. This would include papers such as check stubs, bank statements, tax returns or any other important documents.

• Time Management

Everyone has a busy life. It would be nice if there were more hours in a day to get everything done, but unfortunately, we only get 24 hours, and we have to sleep. Time management is a very important part of getting organized. You need to decide what has to be done immediately, and what can wait. Once you decide that, you need to figure out how long it will take to complete that task. Try to stick with that time frame, so you are able to move on to the next item on your list.

• Daily Planner

When you have a busy life, making sure you don’t forget something is essential! Keep a daily planner with you all of the time. That way, when you make an appointment, you can write it down right away. Also, you will not forget an upcoming meeting or appointment. A daily planner will also help you plan for the next day. You can sit down, and look at what you have scheduled for the day and then plan when the best time would be to go to the store, or even when you can do something for yourself, such as a manicure.

• Delegating

Cleaning the house and taking care of things in the home should not be the responsibility of just one person. It should be shared by everyone including the children. Creating a chore list will help with the delegating process. This will also help ensure that everything is complete.

Organization can be a tough thing to get a hold of, but once you do, you will get so much more accomplished. You will be able to get things done that you never thought you could or would. If you follow these steps you will be well on your way to becoming organized. Good luck!

Amy Royce has been married since 1995 and she has two wonderful children. She is an affiliate marketer and she has a blog that you can view at http://amyswordsandthoughts.blogspot .com.

Article Source: WAHM Articles

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If you want to publish information to your site and on the internet quickly and easily, you need to be using WordPress. Even though it’s one of the best ways to publish content on the web, it may seem intimidating to the new user. That’s why I’ve compiled a list of free blog tip techniques and WordPress tutorials and resources that will help you gain the confidence to start using the power of WordPress.

I belong to several social media sites for moms who blog as well as other Ning sites and forums and am constantly see Mommy Bloggers inquiring about making the changeover from Blogger to WordPress.

Having used both, I can honestly say that I really like the flexibility that WordPress offers. I started out on Blogger, and was hosted there for quite some time.

Maintaining 3 blogs can be overwhelming at times, and I hired Shauna Callaghan a graphic designer, from See My Designs by Shauna to consolidate my sites together as one blog here on Moomette’s Magnificents. (By the way, Shauna is one of the Chevy Test Drive Moms in Texas – read all about her experiences on BurbMom!)

Each week I attend a Hot Seminar Series on WordPress. The most recent topic was WordPress Security. There’s 9 informative sessions, and if you want to grab a seat on Wednesday nights this summer, check out the Webinar HERE. Traci Knoppe, of Your Tech Web Team led the discussion on how to take precautions on your WordPress blog to ensure it’s secure . If you’re ever in need of a quick answers, just give Traci a Tweet @TraciKnoppe or use the hashtag #wphelp

For other informative sites and information, you may want to visit:

WordPress.tv -

Simple video tutorial site created by the team behind WordPress
Comprehensive videos on a variety of topics including installation, integration, publishing, themes, SEO, comments, widgets and much more

WordPress.org Support -

Features information straight from the source
How-to information and knowledgebase on just about every topic
Getting started resources, FAQs and an active discussion forum

SpeckyBoy.com -

An expansive list of WordPress tutorials, hacks, and help files
Detailed descriptions of tricks to expand WordPress’ functionality
Features a wide variety of common and uncommon WordPress tips

WPCandy.com -

Comprehensive PDF help sheet with code snippets & template files
Available in several languages

WPCandy.com Advanced Tips –

Advanced PDF help sheet with specific code snippets and what it’ll do for your site
Explanations are very clear and concise

These are just a few sites to get you thinking about making the move from Blogger to WordPress, or for taking your WAHM or Mom blog to the next level.

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Thanks to the winner on my Hot Seminar Series contest, Mia Ma Miah’s Diaries I was introduced to a way-cool new meme and would like to introduce you to these new blogs and get some fresh faces reading your stuff!

And her blog is going to RAWK even more, once she’s finished with the Webinar Series!

Admirer Monday is a new meme hosted by Heavenly Savings and Giveaway Blogdom and I too have teamed up to bring you Admirer Monday.

There’s so many blogs out there that are constantly looking for new readers to admirer and admirers for their blog.

#1 You must follow the first three blogs. Leave a comment letting them know and they will follow you in return!

#2 You do not have to create a blog post, but to be in the drawing for the number three spot which will be chosen by random.org each week you must have the button displayed on your blog.

#3 Please follow as many blogs as you like but more importantly please follow back the blogs that follow you by subscribing via email

#4 Enjoy meeting admirers!

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Last night I participated in the 2nd Session of the Blogging Hot Seminar Series on WordPress, hosted by Kelly McCausey.

The Guest Speakers were the dynamic duo twin sisters, Susan and Janice from 5 Minutes for Mom fame, who host the Ultimate Blog Party every year. During the 2-hour webinar, there was a Q & A session, and topics covered included branding, marketing, SEO & online ecommerce, as well as monetizing your blog.

An added bonus was that links were provided to some fantastic sites offering information to build and promote your business or blog that even I wasn’t aware of! And I get around the blogosphere! Additionally, Susan and Janice even recommended experts to follow on Twitter.

For participating and tweeting during the webinar with the hashtag #hss, one lucky participant was going to win a FREE PASS to the remainder of the 9-week session. And guess what! The winner was ME!

One of my lucky readers or WAHMs is going to WIN this pass so that you too can get in on all the action for the remainder of the summer! Just think how blazin’ your blog or online ecommerce store, Etsy store or eBay store will be come fall and winter, during the busy shopping season!

This is going to be a FAST Contest, so you’ll be able to catch the next seminar, which are hosted on Wednesday nights at 9 pm. EDT

Always wanted to learn how to blog on WordPress but were afraid it’s too hard? Are you a WAHM blogger who’s thinking of switching from Blogger to WordPress but hesitant to make the move? Don’t be! Sign up for this expert speaker webinar series!

Nine hot weekly webinars are planned, each one designed to help you up your blogging game and make better use of the WordPress blogging platform.

Mark all of the Wednesday nights on your calendar now before anything else comes up… this is a series you will not want to miss!

Nine hot weekly webinars, each one designed to help you up your blogging game and make better use of the WordPress blogging platform.

Current Speakers who’s name you’ll recognize from around the ‘Net and topics include:

Choosing a Great WordPress Theme

Amazing WordPress Plugins

Guest Experts: Susan & Janice (Branding)

Guest Expert: Traci Knoppe (WordPress Security)

Guest Expert: Lynette Chandler (Internet Marketing)

Guest Expert: Alexis Rodrigo (Freelance Options)

Guest Expert: Lynn Terry (Quality Content)

Guest Expert: Nicole Dean (Wrap-up How to get Maximum Profit for your Blog)

You’ll also receive access to view seminar session by video later or to download an Mp3 recording.

I’ll was there, and I hope you will be too!

For more information visit: WordPress Blogging Hot Seminar Series

Moomette’s Magnificents is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of a Free Pass to the remaining sessions of the 9-Week WordPress Blogging Hot Seminar Series.

Please include a way of contacting you. Should you be the contest winner, this information may be shared with the contest sponsor in order to send your prize.

Main Rule: (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
a) Sign up for my free Newsletter Updates to my blog through my e-mail Feedblitz link (on the top of my right column or let me know if you already are, in a separate comment) AND

b) Let me know why you want to win this Free Pass and what you hope to learn from the webinar.

~ One Extra Entry: Become a Moomette’s Magnificents Facebook Fan and leave a comment on our wall with your thoughts on this giveaway.

~ One Extra Entry: Click the “Like” button on this post (top or bottom) and leave and leave your name in a separate comment

~ One Extra Entry: Follow and Rank Moomette’s Magnificents on Networked Blogs (right sidebar) and leave your name in a separate comment.

~ One Extra Entry: Follow my blog publicly on Google Friend Connect (sidebar)

~One Extra Entry: Tweet this giveaway and post the link in your comment- (may do this daily) 1 extra/day (50 Followers minimum to qualify for extra entry)

copy and paste to tweet

This contest will run until June 28, 2010 at 11:00 pm.

For Additional Entries, check out my Contest Entry Rules.

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Welcome to the June 18 Friday Follow hosted by your awesome hostesses, Stephanie at Babes Rockin Mami, Michelle at Mommy Loves Stilettos, and Laura at Vodka Logic! Thank you ladies for being willing to host!

I’m excited to be part of this new Blog Hop meme!

You’re invited join us every Friday to get more blog followers and to find many interesting blogs that you like. This is all about sharing and having fun.

Please be on your honor and to have fun. These are only guidelines to make it more enjoyable for you. Here’s how YOU can join the Friday Follow celebration:

* Link up your blog name and URL using the McLinky below. Only need to add on one blog to be seen on all the blog hops.
* Grab the Friday Follow button on the right side and include on your Friday Follow blog post with the linky information which you can find at the bottom of the post.
* Follow Friday-Follow.com so you can see the current things going on. If you haven’t checked out the website yet, please do so. If you have any problems with the button, it’s a great place to get it.
* Follow the Friday Follow hostesses listed in the first 3 slots. (One of the benefits of being a host/hostess).
* Follow as many other blogs on the linky as you’d like.
* Take a moment to comment on the blogs telling them you’re from Friday Follow.

As always, we are trying to improve the Friday Follow so here are a couple of rules to make the experience even better for you:

* Only one link per blog. We do have a giveaway tab that you can include your giveaways on.
* Please try to keep your post current so that people can see your showcased work.
* Follow someone back if they follow you – this is common courtesy.
* No xxrated blogs.
* No spammers.
* Please leave your url so that others can easily follow you back. Someone requested me add this.

This list is new each week. The links do not carry over. Please link up each week for new participants to find your blogs. The list is only open to add your blog links on Fridays. It will be visible all week to visit the blogs listed.

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Come join the blog hop where you’ll meet some wonderful bloggers from New England. You’ll find groups of Work-at-Home Moms, Baby Boomers, SAHM, Grams, Review, Giveaway, Crafting and Jewelry designers, Coupon & Frugal writers who are as diverse as the states comprised of the 6 original Colonies known as “New England.”

Welcome!

You Know You’re From New England When:

You’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time

You’ve been to Cape Cod

You consider 65 degree ocean water “warm”

You have switched from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again

There are 25 Dunkin’ Donuts within 20 minutes of your house

You have ever missed school due to “Mud”

You get mad when people assume New York is part of New England

Sox-Yankees games are a life and death matter

It’s all true …

I’d like to thank Thoughts from an Evil Overload for hosting this blog hop. When I first came across Elizabeth’s blog I was over-joyed to realize that there were so many diverse bloggers in New England!

I have a special GIVEAWAY here just for Visiting My Blog today, so be sure to read to the end!

Today I’ll be introducing you to other New England bloggers – we’re such friendly folk! Make sure to visit the Linky!

On my journey visiting the extensive list, my eye was immediately drawn to The Cape Cod Rambling Rose.

Over the years our family has spent a tremendous amount of time on the Cape, and it’s probably one of my most favorite places to visit. We even considered for awhile buying a second home in the Eastham – Wellfleet area.

Louise, the author of Cape Cod Rambling Rose, considers herself a “washashore,” but her husband’s family has been on the Cape since 1623! When she isn’t busy tending to her 4 young school-age children, Louise shares her daily routine on the Cape through beautiful photographic images. She also enjoys volunteering, beach walks and offering magnificent beach~inspired jewelry, vintage embellished journals and albums, as well as romantic homegoods for her Etsy shop, Cape Cod Cupboard. When you visit her, please be sure to let her know that Cindi sent you from the New England Bloggers Blog Hop!

Visit at: Cape Cod Rambling Rose

I’m Cindi, a Baby-Boomer wife, mom of 2 grown daughters, 2 grandchildren & hail from New England.

Now do you want to know more about me? Read my 101 Random Things About Me post where I spill all the sordid details on the Baby Boomer Grandmom behind this blog!

You’ll see from my Featured Content Gallery on my home page that I’m a big cheerleader for our neck of the woods on the East Coast – in my Meme section I like to feature scenic photography shots from some of my family road trips.

I’ve posted so many, but these are among my favorites:

Salt Marsh at the mouth of the Connecticut River

Fall Splender on Main Street

Connecticut Scarecrows at Halloween

Shade Tobacco Farm Barns

Family Fun at Local County Fairs

Be sure to visit and don’t miss my posts on leaf-peeping season in Ogunquit, Maine and Vermont Mountains in winter, if only for the photography!

I offer Product Reviews from the perspective of a “Baby Boomer Grandmom Who’s Been Around the Block.” Don’t forget to check the tabs up above, and my sidebar where I have my favorite Best of 2009 articles, along with Blogging Tips, Social Media posts and Work-At-Home posts – all in one easy-to-find spot!

I’m also the author of Frugal New England Kitchen, for old-fashioned comfort food recipes, coupons, kitchen tips, reviews and giveaways.

At Great Finds and Giveaways, which I just launched last week, you can enter for a chance to win a Keurig B60 Special Edition System Brewing System! Who can’t use a good cuppa Joe on a cold New England winter’s night?

You’ll also be able to add and promote your Giveaway Linky to my Master List!

Subscribe to my newsletter or in a reader if you like what you see!

You can connect with me at:

Twitter: @Moomettes
Facebook: Moomette’s Magnificents

Visit my New England lenses:

Where to Shop for New England Comfort Food

Old-Fashion New England Yankee Recipes and Cooking

I’m so happy you stopped by ~ Whether you’re a regular reader or visiting for the first time, introduce yourself and be sure to leave me a comment so I’ll return the visit & get to know you! Leave your Twitter name in the fill-in box and I’ll be sure to give you a shout-out for visiting!

One last Goodie before you go!

Moomette’s Magnificents is hosting my own Giveaway Contest for more party fun! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of a Simple Pleasures Coconut & Sugar Cane travel set.

You’ll be getting:

1) Hand Lotion-2 fl.oz.
2) Shower Gel-2 fl.oz.
3) Body Mist-2 fl.oz.
4) Body Lotion-2 fl.oz.

All 4 of these products come in it’s own mesh zippered bag. Fits perfectly into any small space in your suitcase and they’re all just the right size for travel or a weekend getaway!

Please include a way of contacting you. Should you be the contest winner, this information is necessary in order to send your prize.

Main Rule: (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
a) Sign up for my free Newsletter Updates to my blog through my e-mail Feedblitz link (on the top of my right column or let me know if you already are, in a separate comment) AND

b) Leave a comment on a non-giveaway post on my blog! (please leave the title of the post in a separate comment)

*Open to USA and Canada Only

For Additional Entries, check out my Contest Entry Rules.

This contest will run until July 1, 2010 at 11:00 pm. EDT

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