I had the opportunity to review a website that allows you to design a free logo. Here are my thoughts about the service. It is rather easy to use and they give you a lot of different designs to choose from. It can be really good if you are trying to come up with a new idea for a logo and you are stumped. However, they make you pay to download the design. To me that is misleading. I don’t like it when places claim to be free and then when you go to use them you have to pay to use what you created. My advice to this company would be to drop the word free from the name and say simple logo service or easy logo service. Just my two cents. I do like the site. I just don’t like having to pay for something that has been advertised as free. However, if you need a logo and don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for a graphic designer, this option may be good for you. You can check them out by going here: http://www.freelogoservices.com/

I know a lot of people were running special offers during Thanksgiving weekend and on Cyber Monday. I personally decided not to run any specials during that time because I felt like it would be unfair to my clients that paid my full rate during the other times of the year. Plus I’m not totally convinced that Black Friday shoppers become regular price shoppers during the rest of the year. So that’s why I didn’t run any Thanksgiving specials. Will I run any specials during Christmas? Maybe, but they will be for current clients only as I think that’s only fair.

Today you guys are fortunate enough to read a guest post by one of my buddies, Nicole Dean. This will be all about helping virtual assistants understand plr. Enjoy
***start guest post**
Here’s a question that I received today. I thought it was such a valuable question that I wanted to share my response.
Dear Nicole,
I hear you talking about PLR articles, but I’m a Virtual Assistant, not an Internet Marketer. I need clients, not content.
Why should I care?
Dear Virtual Assistant:
Thanks so much for giving me the opportunity to respond to your great question.
PLR content can actually help you to get more clients. And, I’ll explain how.
As someone who hires and works with a lot of Virtual Assistants in my business, I’ll tell you that I hire oftentimes based upon the knowledge that person shows just as much as what they “say” they can do.
For instance, let’s compare two Virtual Assistants (hypothetically – these aren’t real people).
Susie and Tessa.
I go to Susie’s website and she’s got three pages – including contact, services, and pricing. I look around a little and discover that Susie specializes in videos and multimedia. I think “hmmm… interesting” and then leave.
Next, I find Tessa’s website. She’s got the same pages on her website as Susie – contact, services, and pricing. It looks to me as if she also specializes in videos and multimedia. That’s not what I’m looking for, so I’m about to leave when I notice that she has a blog. On her blog, she’s got articles about how I can use video in my business and how to also use video to get more traffic and make more money. I’m interested. She obviously knows her stuff. I contact her to find out how she can help me to get more traffic with my existing videos – and to brainstorm more videos that I can incorporate into my business on an ongoing basis.
Tessa got my business. Susie did not.
Why? Because Tessa did some things right.
She showed her knowledge.
She demonstrated that she understands marketing by having a blog.
She made me think about my business.
She seemed like a person who I’d like to work with.
How does this apply to PLR content? Easy.
Susie could have had my business if she had purchased some great quality PLR content and published it on her blog. Of course, as always, I would recommend that Susie use the content as a starting point only and then add her own ideas and examples into it to make it uniquely hers. But, the important thing is that she could have had an active blog offering great value to potential new customers that showcased her talent and made people desperate to hire her.
And, she could have done it for under $20.
Would you like to boost your blog content, impress potential new clients, and become the recognized expert in your niche? Check out this great PLR site to get started. Be sure to sign up for the notification list so you don’t miss a thing!
Nicole Dean is the owner of www.EasyPLR.com – where you’ll find high-quality PLR articles sold in very limited quantities. The PLR articles at EasyPLR are professionally written and professionally edited — top quality at an affordable price.
**end guest post**

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I felt prompted to write this blog post because of two blog posts: This one: http://www.imjustsharing.com/why-is-everyone-busting-on-a-listers/ and this one: http://ruthlessblogs.com/2011/08/12/jennifer-hudson-explains-twitter-rant/.

Okay so why do people think they can talk about celebrities any old way? Pretty simple. They don’t think celebrities are listening to them. When I read the blog post about Jennifer Hudson, I was sad that she had to go through all of that. No one deserves to be treated rudely. However, it is pretty easy to see why that person felt like they could say that to her and she would not say anything back. Just looking at her twitter profile, you will see that she has 255,032 people following her but she only follows 232 people herself. That gives people the impression that she does not talk to a lot of people on twitter.

I’m not going to repost the whole exchange here, you can go to Jennifer Hudson’s twitter profile at http://www.twitter.com/iamjhud. People don’t expect to get any response from celebrities because celebrities usually don’t respond to regular people.

Now in answer to my friend Mitch’s post: People “bust” on A-Listers because a lot of them just don’t take the time to acknowledge people that are not also celebrities. Now I do understand that it is virtually impossible to address everyone on Twitter. Heck, I’m not even famous and I have a hard time keeping up with everyone that follows me. However, I always try to acknowledge people when they take the time to send me an @reply unless it is obvious that the message was a spam link (like the one I got this morning that was linked to some nude photos). Ignoring an @reply message is equivalent to walking past someone when they have looked you dead in the eye and said Hello. Okay I’m rambling here, but the point I’m trying to make is that people assume that celebrities are not paying attention to what is being said about or to them on social media sites so they just say whatever they want to. I’m glad Jennifer Hudson addressed this fan, I just hope that she takes as much time addressing the people that are trying to encourage her. I know they are there because I saw the tweets!

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