Monthly Archives: June 2009

Marketing postmortem

As you likely know, I ran a contest last week.  If it’s news to you, please…let me know because it means I have a hole in my marketing. Here’s what I did to set up the contest.   Buried on … Continue reading

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Quirky Massachusetts government

I filed my LLC renewal last night to the tune of $500.00 plus a $20.00 “expediting” fee for filing online.  Since I know hiring someone to do paperwork costs more than entering the information myself, I wrote to the state … Continue reading

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Facebook – My contrite reply

My response to their mail.  Please to enjoy: Thanks for getting back to me, I do appreciate it.  Having said that… There’s a problem with not defining what caused the ban, so I *can’t* understand.  In fact, given I was … Continue reading

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Facebook – Clear as mud

I heard back from a human being!  I just wish it were useful.  From the response below it seems that posting any number of things with any level of frequency might trigger a block.  So, basically use Facebook at your … Continue reading

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Torch Bugs!

If you’re like me, you have several glass haunts online.  One of my current favorites is Torch Bugs, one of the latest lampworking sites, and a pretty mellow place to boot. What sets Torch Bugs apart from the other sites? … Continue reading

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Where are the figurines?!?!

If you were among those anxiously awaiting the posting of the web geek figurines, I apologize.  My little glass whipping boys didn’t get done this weekend, nor did a few other things I had on the books.  I wound up … Continue reading

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And the winner is…

The winners of the marble drawing are… For first prize: Julie A.!!! And the winner of second prize: Dana from Glass Imagined.com Congratulations to our two winners, and thanks to everyone who entered!  Also, thank you to my lovely assistant … Continue reading

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Smash ‘em in effigy!

Fed up with the twits running Twitter?  Kicked out of your space on MySpace?  Faced on Facebook? Well you can’t really smack the engineers behind social networking sites around, but now you can smash them in effigy. I introduce to … Continue reading

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Facebook ban -the saga continues

I finally heard back from Facebook, I think.  It smacks of form letter as opposed to actual communication, but hey, given they’re a  faceless company devoid of contact forms, I’ll take what I can get. Their response, mine follows: Hi, … Continue reading

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Facebook issues

Hi folks!   I don’t know what’s going on.  I don’t know why it’s going on.  But for making two innocent inquiries as to the well being of people on my friends list this morning via their walls, I’m now … Continue reading

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