Life as a WAHM

This year I am going to TRY and get out to meet real live humans in the flesh. I know it sounds crazy. Why leave the house when you can just tweet?

Going out in public is something that I am not real big on. I’ll blame the fact that I have to put on clothes, control my hair, and wear shoes as the main reasons I don’t go out. That sounds much nicer than what I could have said. LOL!

Brad and I have gone to 2 Tweet Ups at the Las Vegas Hilton in the last month and a half. I have had a good time at both.

The 1st Tweet Up was for locals…I met some cool peeps that if not for the meet up I would have never know about. I even had some common interest with a few.

The 2nd Tweet Up was also at the Hilton and was for CES. Since CES was held at the Las Vegas Convention Center (next to the Hilton) – the Tweet Up was packed. A packed room means give me a seat in the corner and tell me to breathe. Better yet, just put me behind the bar and I will be fine.

I immediately found some locals that I recognized and plopped my butt over with them. Since I can’t sit still for more than 20 minutes, I was soon off to have a smoke (go to the bathroom or just wander aimlessly) out in the casino.

As I came back into the Tweet Up, there was Brad, he had been looking for me. Apparently they had called my name and I had won some CES swag – YEAH, I’m a Winner!

Then Brad ask if I knew Chris Brogan was there. Duh, I saw him on my way out. Brad of course wanted to know if I talked to Chris. Let’s think about this – I am about as sociable as a wart on a hogs ass and Chris is a social expert. I really did not want to be a case study for his next blog post titled “How to deal with a recluse”.

Anyhow, Brad convinced me to at least say Hi and introduce myself. Chris was talking to a few other people so we waited patiently. Ok, that was a lie. I was praying someone would pull the fire alarm so I could get the hell out of there. I even tried to stare down some old dude and telepathically send him a distress signal to help. That was a no go, the guy did not even glance at the fire alarm next to him. For a split second I realized I not only suck at being social I also have no telepathic skills….someone shoot me now please.

About the time I had ran every possible escape plan through my mind, I hear Brad say “Chris, this is Sheryl”. NOOOOOOO! It was too late, Operation GTFO was not working.

Ya know what?
Chris was really a nice guy. He and I had read some of the same blog post and talked about them (or laughed). It was like talking to someone that I had met before. He did not even bite (although that would have made for a killer blog post).

So why all the pictures? Because I needed proof that I left the house. I could have just made my post but, some skeptics would have sworn that I really did not go out. *cough* You skeptics know who you are.

So have you went to a meet up and come face to face with new people?
How many people from Facebook or Twitter have you actually met in person?
Do you even care if you meet any new people in the flesh?

Sheryl Loch

For some reason people have started again with profile marketing to build backlinks.

This is where they join every forum they find just because they can put a link to their site in during registration. They have no intention of actually posting anything relevant. If they do happen to post, it is only if they can put in a link to their sales page.

Look people, most of those profile links are not worth shit. Yes, some may show up in Yahoo backlinks for awhile but, they are pretty much worthless. They end up falling off the face of the earth.

Many of those profiles never even get cached by Google.

If you are not posting content somewhere on the site then the bots will not have a link to even POSSIBLY ever find your profile.

If you are posting shit content then, you are likely going to get deleted by mods or admin.

More and more forum owners are cleaning house and getting rid of the trash. The ones I have talked to are deleting members that do not have X amount of post, no proper intro…
We owners have worked to hard to let idiots ruin our sites.
Our forums were built to share information, when you visit…remember it is our house.
I love my dogs and I do NOT let them shit in my house and neither will you!

So what are you doing? You are wasting everyone’s time (even your own).

Do you have that much time to waste?
I would think you could spend that time wisely and actually do something that others will appreciate and will build your reputation as an intelligent person rather than just a worthless name on a membership page.

Some people would say that forums are dead...I think they are still very useful if we can stop the abuse.

More links is NOT always better.
Think Before You Link!

Rant Over,
Sheryl Loch

Stay tuned for my next rant about morons that think their Name is *Insert Keyphrase*

A couple of days ago I got an email saying “You are In”.

This email was from someone that I truly respect so…I was excited!
I popped that baby open to see if there was a catch (my luck runs that way, LOL). Nope no real catch! I got a spot in the 12 week training class. YEAH!!! *Jump up and down, do a little shake*

Now, I get to the “starter questions”. They had placed 3 questions in the mail so you had a few weeks to get your answer worked out before the classes start. This is where I got SCREWED!

I have to figure out what topic I am an expert in. Or a topic I am passionate about enough to become an expert. Since we are going to make this a business you also have to be able to find out how you can make money with your ‘expert info’.

Now, I want to vomit. I am not an expert in anything. I have always been the Jackie of all trades. If someone needs me to do something then I try to figure it out and help them get it done.

I went looking for “how to find your passion”.
The majority of the info said to start with listing what makes you smile, what you talk about most, what you can talk about with ease…
Great! I can make my list no problem, right?!

Photo; credit: Me

Yeah, my list pretty much came down to Cait. She learns something new, draws a great pic, ranks for a post, even when she has an odd ball smart ass comment….I am smiling, I am happy to tell others…

Next would be Brad. When he has started a new site and it is moving up in the SERP’s…I am happy. He gets a new tool/program that makes it easier for him to do something…I’m thrilled.

I also have a huge smile when it comes to critters…duh, everyone loves critters. If a cute animal doesn’t make you smile…then you suck.

I spend a lot of time talking about natural health with people I know. But, it is not a good choice for a business…can you say “FDA lawsuit”?

I love giving stuff to people who need it. Not like free reports or junk that people just take. But, things people/animals NEED to make their life better. The problem is, this “passion” could cause me to go broke not make money.

So, as you can see, I am not getting far with my list. I am Passionless. Should I add that word to my résumé? It would fit nicely between coldhearted and sarcastic.

*How many of you know what you are truly passionate about?

**Are you doing what you are passionate about or is your passion a hobby?

***Could you make money by providing information about your passion?

I will continue working on my list and see how far I get.

Sheryl Loch