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Archive for Fun Marketing – Page 5

WordPress – a sign of the times

by Girl Friday
July 20th, 2011

You know how much Girl Friday loves WordPress! Geez I’ve been crowin’ about it for two years straight! Now it seems that lots of businesses big and small are finally catching on that WordPress is a really nifty platform that turns your static HTML site into a dynamic-content-managing-video-blogging-social-media-connecting-e-commerceThe conducting of business communication and transactions over networks and through computers. As most restrictively defined, electronic commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications.-marketing MACHINE that is the answer to your dreams! OK. I know. I exaggerate. Girl Friday does get a little excited about WordPress. Sorry. Ahem. Here are just a few things WordPress can do: Read More→

Categories Fun Marketing, Helpful Hints from Your Girl Friday, Retro Graphics, WordPress
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Not seeing all your Posts on Facebook? Here’s how to fix that.

by Girl Friday
February 11th, 2011

You know how for the past few weeks or months you’ve been worried because you do not see Posts from your Facebook friends that you used to see all the time? (I was, too!) And did you notice that when YOU posted things on Facebook your usual peeps weren’t responding or commenting? (Me, too!! What’s up with that?) I was beginning to think maybe no one liked me anymore! (You, too? I can assure you that in your case it is absolutely NOT true!)

Well, don’t fret anymore, honey, it’s not our fault. It’s that pesky Facebook Settings thingy again, creating auto-settings for you and me about who can see our Posts or Updates and who can’t see them.

Here’s an easy fix so that you can send out your Posts about the fabulous cup of coffee you just had, the wonderful view from your window, or how you are late for an appointment (perhaps you should get off Facebook, dear?):

  1. On your Facebook “Home” page, scroll to the bottom of your News Feed;
  2. Click on “Edit Options.”
  3. In the little window that pops up, click on the drop down menu next to: “Show Posts From” and select: “All of Your Friends and Pages.” C
  4. Click Save.

Henceforth, you shall be in contact with all your Friends! Everything is right with the world, love is new again, Spring is here, the bees BUZZ, the birds SING and YOU are AMAZING! Now go out there and spread your Facebook radiance far and wide! Love, Girl Friday (ps thanks to my friend Bob G. for this tip, which was passed on to him by someone else, and etc. and etc….) xxx

Categories Fun Marketing, Helpful Hints from Your Girl Friday, Retro Graphics, WordPress
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What Girl Friday learned on her summer vacation

by Girl Friday
September 14th, 2010

Girl Friday has been so busy lately, designing a cool retro menu for a restaurant chain in Alabama (see my Print Portfolio!), and wine labels for Leaf and Vine Wines in Napa, CA, and creating fundraising tools for non-profit organizations, and other neato projects…. she totally forgot to take a vacation! So recently she packed her a tiny little suitcase and flew off to Maui for some fun in the sun! In her suitcase: one bathing suit, one sarong, one pair of shorts, one hat…and SEVEN pairs of sandals! A girl’s gotta have her shoes.

Oh wait! One more item: Girl Friday did pack her laptop! I know, I know…it’s supposed to be a VACATION! But clients don’t disappear, y’know, and I had to keep in touch with my peeps. To help me keep up with my work, I used a fantastic online tool that was new to Girl Friday, who uses APPLE computers for her work: http://logmein.com. FINALLY, Girl Friday could log-in to her desktop computer at her office from anywhere in the world, and, best thing yet…here it comes…it’s FREE!! It works just like “Go To My PC.com” but it’s for Mac computers. So NOW Girl Friday can go to Maui, Italy, Tahitia, Egypt…anywhere there are the Internets, that fabulous “series of tubes,” and get some work done. Should she choose to do so. While on “vacation.” So next time YOU take time off theoretically and want to be able to access your desktop Mac, check out http://logmein.com!

The OTHER things Girl Friday learned while on vacation:

  • Coconut gelato, with coconut macaroons crushed on top, makes a lovely entree, especially when followed by Coconut Candy for dessert. In fact, Girl Friday believes Coconut in all edible forms should be declared its own food group.
  • Coconut water, in copious amounts, is the nectar of the Goddesses! (yes, more on coconut here…I\’m almost finished!) Drinking coconut water as a chaser to multiple tropical rum beverages, guava martinis, and/or margaritas actually does prevent a hangover. My scientific research confirms these findings, and as a service to you mainlanders, I pass the information on to you. Feel free to experiment with your own beverage of choice.
  • Multi-tasking (i.e. “working”) at the beach requires superior powers of concentration, intense focus, attention to detail, organization, and top-notch communication skills. Oh, never mind. Check out that gorgeous surfer!
  • Sunset in Hawaii = Better Than Any Movie, TV, or even Facebook! “Nuff said.
  • While in Maui, do not, under any circumstances, embarrass your daughter by talking, looking, acting, walking or thinking like a “tourist.” You may not dress like a tourist either, so the purchase of “Aloha” clothes is strictly forbidden.

 

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