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Psssst….!!! It’s my birthday the week of November 1st.
So What? Right?
Well the week is so full of great things that you just have to know about them! I’m one of those people who believes that you should always celebrate your birthday and that if you want to have a good party…throw one for yourself. However, this year, three great folks are having terrific events during my birthday week. And you know what? They really have almost nothing to do with me and absolutely everything to do with you guys. Both of the following events are so good that you won’t want to miss them!
Well, I don’t know if she makes Six Figures but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if she did. I met Kim Rowley last week at Affiliate Summit. She was a nominee for a 2009 Pinnacle Award for Affiliate of the Year. She’s a mom and an affiliate marketer and she sells something most of us women love…SHOES! Check out her website, Shoeaholics Anonymous. She sells great shoes and she’s also an affiliate for Zappos.com. I love Zappos and I was reminded why several times over the past week.
Friday I’m off to Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit West. This is my first trip to this conference and my first venture into Affiliate Marketing. I’m excited to start learning about this new area. I signed up to cover this event on a press pass representing Six Figure Moms Club. I really think there might be some opportunities for reengineering your careers in this area so I want to learn more and pass it along to you guys.
If you’ve been following along, you know that my love affair with Twitter has been going on for a few months now. This past weekend, I had the great pleasure of meeting the author of The Twitter Revolution, Warren Whitlock…again. Not only did I meet Warren but I also had the honor of joining him at TwitCastRadio when he interviewed Adaptive Blue about Glue, a cool new tool that enhances your web browsing experience. Can you imagine what I asked when it came to my turn for an interview question? Of course, you’re right! I asked how the new tool could interface with twitter! You’ll also hear Mari Smith stepping in for a few seconds too. (You can hear our interview by clicking on the links above.)
Six Figure Moms, What are you REALLY grateful for? As I’ve read other blogs and articles, I’ve been thinking about this question all week. I decided I wanted my post to be narrow so I’ve asked myself this question:
“If you only get to give one answer, what ONE thing are you most grateful for?”
My answer is STRUGGLE. I’m so thankful for the struggle I have in my life and for so many reasons.
- Struggle makes me continue to grow and think about things from a multitude of perspectives.
- Struggle reminds me that I’m alive.
I’m truly amazed at feedback I’ve received in response to my post on Proposition 8: Why Should the Majority Get to Choose How the Minority Lives?. In addition to the 16 comments on the blogpost itself, I’ve received emails, phone calls, twitter tweets & direct messages, facebook messages, phonecalls and people walking up to me to chat. It’s been so enlightening. Below are some demographics about the folks that have reached out to me:
- 90% of the group voted no for Prop 8.
- Most of them have someone in their family that is gay and therefore directly affected by the law.
Since last week’s election, you have inevitably saw some of the statistics covering how President Obama maximized social media tools to connect with his constituents. During his campaign, he reached out to connect with people using the internet through Facebook, Linked In, My Space, Twitter, and other social media tools. He even paused to email a thank you note to his team before his acceptance speech. Undeniably, he had many competitive advantages over John McCain, but one cannot debate that social media played a huge part in his election.
Last Thursday night I attended the 15th Annual Women Who Mean Business Awards Ceremony presented by the San Diego Business Journal and Procopio. I was among 111 finalists and I had also nominated two other women. I’ve never been more proud to be a loser! As I sat at a table of 12 people I didn’t know who wanted to know my story as an honoree, I watched and read the details of each nominee as they were featured on three large screens in the front of the room. I was in awe of the talent surrounding me. What an esteemed and accomplished group of women doing great things in our San Diego community.
It’s been so interesting to me lately to watch the faces of people when they ask me what I do and I answer that I’m a blogger. Of course, my answer includes a few other things too (executive coach, speaker, web 2.0 evangelist and a writer) but the blogger part always stops people in their tracks. If someone isn’t intimate with the blog community, their face gets distorted, they get a somewhat condescending smile and start asking questions. “You do what now?”
Last week Six Figure Moms Club sponsored a fabulous event in Orange county, The Next Generation in Work Flexibility. It was my intention yesterday to write a post about this terrific event and the fabulous women I encountered there. However, due to the Law of Attraction, that post has been detained a bit longer.
As some of you may remember, I have been salivating over tickets to Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference since it went on sale and then subsequently sold out in less than three hours earlier this summer. I even wrote a post about it hoping Maria Shriver herself might read the post and provide a few lucky Six Figure Moms Club members with tickets. Nothing happened.