NOT TOO SHABBY!

WOW! I just did a google search for our site using the 5 main keywords and guess what?!?!?!? http://www.BeautifulBabyBirthAnnouncements.com / Traditions From The Heart could be found anywhere from page 1 to page 3!!!! That means, out of over 1,000,000 people who do stuff similar to me, if you search for birth announcements, photo birth announcements and so forth, you will find us anwhere from #1 to #30! Like I said, NOT TOO SHABBY! Can you believe that?!? I can't either. We have been at this for 3 years now, and it is so fulfilling! I love what I do and hope I bring joy to all of those I work and design with and for! I just cannot tell you how thrilling this is! SEO, Search Engine Optimization is one strange thing! I have now spent 18 months trying to learn it. I do not think anyone really knows anything about it except for the google excecutives themselves. But this little peon who, started out only knowing how to purchase something online has developed quite a thing here! And has loved doing it! :) Thank you all for sharing that journey with me! Who knows what the next 3 years will hold. I cannot wait to see!

I am thinking about starting something new on the site! Tell me what you think! I am thinking about offering designs that you can buy and pop your own photo in the template and type your own message using your own photo editing software at a much lower price. It will just include the downloaded template, but you can then have your photos printed wherever you want, and buy or make your own envelopes. What do you think? Is this something you think you might be interested in? Give me feedback below. It might be something kind of neat! This will be PERFECT for those occasions that you just want 1 - 5 cards for a small party, or event. I will have the first one up next week for Mother's Day. These will be perfect for Grandma's or even for yourself. I am thinking they will sell for $5 but you can reuse them anytime and as often as you like! So, go ahead, tell me what you think! :)

Also, don't forget, free stationery to every 25th person to follow the blog!! AND the 15th order every week from the site is FREE! No matter what size your order or what product you order, FREE! So keep those orders coming! :)

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Hope your day is great!

What the heck is Twitter really all about?

I am baffled! I am even more baffled because I actually got fussed at by a "long-time twitterer" for my "hot pursuit" of followers! :) Pretty funny really! I was researching this phenom called twitter, of which I had been a member of for nearly a year under a name that had nothing to do with the company. NOTHING HAPPENED DURING THAT ENTIRE YEAR!!!!!! LOL So, in an effort to JOIN the crowd, I started one with TFTH, short of course for Traditions From The Heart. I began researching even more and joined a group on Facebook, and on that group found a list that said share your twitter, and we can follow each other! Interestingly enough, I followed everyone on the list and I do not think it asks people to follow you, it just notifies that person that somebody new is following them. As a result of my "follow," I received this response from one of the people from that twitter list on facebook:

"sorry I stay away from those who are into gathering followers by the 1000s esp. as their first posts - I'm pickier -"

WHAT THE HECK!?!?!?!? I got fussed at from some chick who had her info on a resource site, who had 1,500+ followers of her own?!?!?!?! I was floored!!! Actually, I was laughing so hard I was nearly crying! Somebody, taking twitter so darn serious! LOL More than that, you are not notified when somebody "twits," so unless you stay on the page all the time and never go anywhere else, you are never going to know what 140 character tidbit of info, that your fellow twitterers are willing to share anyway! Once again, VERY CONFUSED! LOL

So I replied to this so-called fellow marketer, via her original posting of facebook, because I had far more than 140 characters to share with her, with this response:


"1000's!!!!!!!!! That is kind of funny since you have over 1,000 followers yourself. I actually have another twitter account not related to my business that I have had for over a year. I really do not get the twitter thing anyway, but all the buzz lately says twitter, twitter, twitter!!!!!!!! SO, I was on FB this morning on the shoestring marketing page and YOU were there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW! Your pic and all! It said, list your twitter so I did, and I added you from there. It was not like I hunted you down or anything like that, you gave your info to share with others who are in the same boat as you, well maybe as you were at one time. Don't belittle me for using a resource that you put out there. I have 21 followers and have no desire to even reach 1000!!!!!!!!!!!! I was just "twittering" like the rest of the freakin' world today! Good grief some people and their hypocritical attitudes. If you do not want anyone to contact you, you should remove yourself from resource pages!
Hope your day is great and have fun being picky!!!!TFTH from Twitter"

Seriously, I can understand if I posted in great big letters on her BLOG, CHECK OUT TRADITIONS FROM THE HEART HERE > http://www.BEAUTIFULBABYBIRTHANNOUNCEMENTS.COM but all I did was follow her and I got reprimanded.

Oh well, life is what it is, Ain't it Great to be Human?
Hope your day is great!
In the words of T-I-Double G- ER,
TTFN - Ta-Ta-For-Now!