Freelancer's Office: Blog

As I write this I am waiting for a business card program to download so I can test it out.  The program, BusinessCards MX 3.92, is the featured program at Giveaway of the Day today - see link in the sidebar on the left.

BusinessCards MX is a card design program for small business owners, I have already discovered that they have a wide selection of card designs at their website for apparently free download. I’m going to see if I can create a good business card for my Family Caregiver Information site (www.familycaregiver.info) as a test for the program, then I will let everyone know what I think of it.

The standard price for the BusinessCard MX program is $29.95, so if this is something that you might be interested in I encourage you to check out the Giveaway of the Day website and pick up a copy while it is still free. (It has about 10 more hours to go as of when I am writing this.)

I knew there was a reason why I bought so many notebooks when they went on sale at the start of the school year.  Normally they are what I use for outlining chapters in my novels, short stories and articles that I want to write (as well as countless other uses around the office like tracking supplies and so on and so forth), but now I have found a new use for them.

I have dedicated some of them to being editorial notebooks for my websites.

Yup, that’s right, editorial notebooks.  I take the notebook and write down on a page what topics I want to cover on the website and as I get those topics completed I check them off (or tear the page out).  This lets me keep running notes on what I am working on for each website with a single notebook dedicated to each of my sites.

It seems to be working fairly good so far and reminds me that I have to get things on one site or another done.

I want to build a place on a shelf for the notebooks to be kept, then I am going to cut strips of card stock to about two inches wide and create backs over the spiral binding on them so that a) they won’t grab one another on the shelf and b) I can tell at a glance at the spine what website each of the notebooks is for.

It is official, and everything is in place, I am going to Blog World Expo next month down in Las Vegas, NV.

I’m rather excited about getting the chance to go, since this will be the first business trip I have gone on.  LOL  One thing that got me was the prices on hotel and airfare.  I booked my trip using Orbitz, after extensive searching for which online company had the best deal on hotel and airfare for this, and it ended up when I searched a few days before and after the convention dates that I could get a better deal by staying a few extra days.  So I am actually arriving a couple of days before the convention and leaving a few days after it.  Insane, I know, but I’m guessing it was flights booked up (my flight out of Alaska I got the last seat on the plane) and airfare prices higher for weekend travel etc.  I know the hotel was three times more on the weekend than on a weekday.

But, the important thing is that I am gong. ::happy dance::