Karrie's Biztalk posts

Get the last spot and $100...

Only one spot left for my Powerhouse Packages Workshop this Saturday. Everyone who attends will receive a gift certificate up to $100 for private business cultivation with me. Learn how to package your services or products in a way that will cause happier clients and greater and more predictable income for you.

I haven't even mentioned the other bonus. You'll have to attend to find out.

Formatting Help Window

I just discovered that on Firefox on my Mac I need to use the hyphen, not the asterisk to make bullets. Maybe that could be reflected in the formatting guide (you could say which keys are used with which browsers or just give suggestions of what to do if one doesn't work). Bold works with double asterisks but bulleting didn't with single asterisks.

Also, the way the formatting help window says to post links does not work for me. I've tried it many times and I always resort to typing in HTML code which is tiresome if you have a lot of links.

Would be great to have shorthand way to do that. I know your list is long. Thanks for looking at this.

Rally cry for all bizniks!

Austin is the perfect place for biznik to really catch fire...but we need your help!

Do you know anyone in Austin, Texas?

I am flying down next week and will host the first-ever live Austin event on Tuesday, November 20th.

I am counting on you to spread the word. Now is the time to call all of your Austin buddies, former colleagues, cool indie folks you know down south and tell them to post a profile on biznik.

Tell them what you love about biznik and how it's helped you, and then tell them how becoming a member would benefit them specifically. Next, invite them to come to the first-ever live Austin biznik event.

I've personally contacted all the Austin bizniks, people I know in Austin as well as some of the contacts some of you have provided. Now, I want to cast a wider net and ask you all to call and email your Austin indies and get them excited about biznik.

The event will be held in the very cool and hip courtyard of Hotel San Jose. View the description by selecting Austin as your city and then click on Events.

To encourage people to take action on this, I've posted a promotion on my profile related to your help in this matter.

Contact your friends and then drop me an email so I can keep an eye out for them at the event.

Thanks for your help. I hope you'll also consider hosting an event if you go home for the holidays in December. Talk to me if you want some pointers on how to do it.

Okay, now think about who you know in Austin and let's rally together to create a biznik spark in the Lone Star State.

Karrie

1st biznik event in Austin

I'm hosting a biznik event in Austin, TX on November 20 and am counting on current bizniks to spread the word. Now is the time to call all of your Austin buddies, former colleagues, cool people you know down south and tell them to post a profile on biznik.

First, tell them what you love about biznik and how it's helped you, and then tell them how becoming a member would benefit them specifically. Let them know that they can get in on the ground floor of biznik by attending the first ever Austin event on November 20th. I'll be posting it this weekend.

If you have ideas on how to build biznik in Austin or if you want to put me in touch with a particular mover and shaker or well connected social butterfly in Austin, please do so.

Austin's the perfect town for biznik. Some call it "the Seattle of the South." Join me in bringing biznik to Austin! Contact your friends and then drop me an email so I can keep an eye out for them.

I dare you

Just like salad greens, bedding, and marketing, we need to keep biznik fresh and change our pictures often.

Let's retire the stale pics and change the faces of biznik this week. I want to see how many people post a new picture by Friday.

And if you don't have a pic up yet, it's time my friend, it's time. To be honest, you are kind of invisible until you post a picture, so let's see you!

And if you've got a photo up, let us see another side of you. Post here with your new photo.

I dare you.

No one likes soggy greens or stale bread. Time to freshen up this joint.

Karrie

Seeking Excellent Blog Customization/Integration Person

I have been looking for quite a while for that perfect person who really understands how to customize a blog in very creative ways--specifically with WordPress. I am seeking someone who has experience with this, not someone wanting to try it for the first time.

So far I have found some very talented designers on biznik but no one yet who seems fluent in the language of blog customization or web/blog integration. Someone who feels confident finding open source code for customization would be best. I want to work with someone who already understands why this is important.

If you know of someone or if you yourself do excellent blog customization work please post your site and some samples here. I have a need myself for this as do many of my clients.

Please do not send emails to me directly, but instead post here and I will check back to this thread to see what turns up.

Thanks so much. When I find the right person I have business to send their way.

If you do not do this type of work yet and you are looking for a way to grow your web business, I recommend branching out in this direction as there is a growing need.

Karrie