Tag Archives: “I’m Not A Famous Blogger” Crew

Blogging

Workout on Friday, Blog Well on Saturday

4 Comments

Something that I have noticed every Friday when I workout is that I’m always the only person in our gym. No one is working out on Friday. I also notice that bloggers post a lot of their fluff on Saturday. The thing that I realize is that not everyone reads blog posts during the week. Many people save their reading for the weekend so why not give people something worth reading. That is one reason why decided to call my weekly post about SocialSpark, SocialSpark Saturdays. Saturday gives people time to read and digest extra detailed posts and try to follow step by step instructions. I’m more focused on the weekends because I’m not trying to read blog posts and get back to work all day through. On Saturday I can sit down for a solid un-interrupted hour and concentrate.

I guess the point of this is that if you are bucking the trend a bit you are going to see some results. By working out Friday when everyone else is sleeping in (and I want to sleep in) I can focus on my own workout more intensely. The same thing with blogging, write some of your best stuff on the weekends and share it with everyone on the weekend and you just may build a bigger audience.

So, for today’s SocialSpark Saturday let me introduce you to something that not a lot of bloggers take the time to learn about and that would be Sparks. Sparks are wonderful things because they allow you to write about many different topics and receive links back in return. Anyone can create a spark but you have to create an advertiser account to create a Spark. However, anyone can create an advertiser account.

I created a Spark yesterday to help promote the http://imnotafamousblogger.com blog. On that blog I interview the great bloggers from the “I’m Not A Famous Blogger” IZEA Insiders Crew. The Spark can be found here. It is a little different because essentially the blogger will write their own post for my blog and they can include their own links of choice as they promote themselves and their blogs.

My Spark is not the only one, there are many good choices and I encourage bloggers who have not yet gotten their blogs verified to take Sparks, meet other bloggers and build up their post counts and link backs. I’d also say stay with the BlogYouBack ones as they benefit you and make sure you write something quality. It might be just the thing to write on Saturday.

Photo-A-Day, Transformers

Meeting of the Minds

8 Comments
Meeting of the Minds
Photo-A-Day #1538

Tonight after work I went to see Transformers in IMAX at Jordan’s in Natick. Before heading to the movie I caught up with Lenny from My Secret Project. Lenny is one of the members of the “I’m not A Famous Blogger” Crew. Lenny also brought his nephew Tyler along as well. The two of them are a trip and a half. Each time we hang out it is not nearly long enough to talk. We did start talking about putting together a local blogger meetup. We need to find a good location where people can talk and they have free wi-fi.

I then went to the movie. The Jordan’s IMAX is amazing because they have the seats connected to speakers so when the action happens on the screen you feel it. They call the seats “Butt Kicker” seats and they are aptly named. Seeing Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen again and this time in IMAX was incredible. I know that it is getting tons of negative press because of the language, Skids and Mudflap and many other offensive things. For the most part I maintain the review that I wrote the other day. I read a bunch of reviews today and I think it tainted my view of the movie today or maybe it was because I already saw the movie. The things that bothered me the first time around bothered me more this time as well. The movie has no real character development and it assaults your senses the entire time so if you get emotional at any point more power to you because I was unable to feel anything for any characters even Prime, and I love Prime.

Prior to the movie I was only able to get through issues 1 and 2 of the Transformers Defiance Prequel Comic Books on my iPod. It is a really cool way to read a comic too.

On the way home I picked up tequila, margarita mix, and a few other things for tomorrow’s Jimmy Buffett concert. All the while I was on a conference call with Ted Murphy and the IZEA Insiders. I was on mute and unable to see everything that everyone else was seeing but I got the gist of it. More information about this on “I’m Not A Famous Blogger” Blog tomorrow.

Cheeseburgers in Paradise

When I got home I made some Cheeseburgers in Paradise for Jimmy Buffett tomorrow. Nilla Wafers as the buns, Keebler Fudge filled chocolate covered cookies as the burgers. I covered them with cheese (yellow frosting) Ketchup (red frosting) Pickles (green frosting) and Onions (coconut). Allison brushed the top with a sugar water and sesame seeds. Tomorrow is going to be fun and we were able to sell all of our tickets!!!