Well it seems that I will be getting to experience yet another role in this life… children’s face painter. I have volunteered to run a face painting booth at an anniversary celebration for Shaw Farm which is a local dairy farm.

This has been a very interesting couple of weeks for my kid since I have used him to practice many of my face painting designs.

This weekend was a big hit and I have really learned something important about myself throughout all of this… I love face painting. Read the rest of this entry »

Mother’s Day only comes around once a year so you really need to make this Mother’s Day count.

There have been times in the past when I was left disappointed on Mother’s Day. It could have been because I thought we were going to do one thing or another and didn’t, I had to run around to all the other “mother’s” houses in my life, or I still found myself doing things around the house on my special day.

Making your Mother’s Day special this year is easy. I’m going to give you just a few tips that will help you make your Mother’s Day count this year. Read the rest of this entry »

As a stay at home mom/work at home mom it is easy to fall into a trap of thinking that you have no time to incorporate exercise into your schedule.

After all, not only do you have your work at home job to do but now that you run your home like a business your time management is very important.

But do you know what’s even more important than running your home smoothly? Your health and the example that you are setting for your children. If mama’s not healthy, ain’t nobody healthy. Read the rest of this entry »

In a time when everyone has a website you need to be thinking into your child’s future about their website and secure a domain name for your child.

Do you think this sounds crazy? Think again. There are countless future uses that your child could be using their own name as a website for. What better way to ensure that your child has all of their options open then by securing their domain name for them now? Read the rest of this entry »

What’s even harder than getting up and going to work on days when you just feel like hiding under your covers all day? Getting up and going to work even though your bed and couch are in your general vicinity all day long.

Every person in the world has days from time to time when they are feeling a little off and their motivation is in the toilet. But not every person has to try and be productive on these days while they are sitting in their own home. Now that takes some doing.

Mama told me there’d be days like this but she didn’t really tell me how to deal with them. Luckily I’ve figured out a few tricks that help me keep my motivation on bad days. Read the rest of this entry »

So, you wake up sneezing every morning and you lay there wondering what it is in your bedroom that is causing your allergic reaction. Sorry to tell you, it’s probably the dust mites in your mattress that are making you sneeze. But how do you remove dust mites from your mattress?

About 10 percent of Americans have a severe allergic reaction to Dust Mites but countless others have slight to moderate reactions which include annoying sneezing fits.

So if the typical used mattress contains anywhere from 100 thousand to 10 million dust mites inside of it, what are we supposed to do? Well before you go throwing out all of your mattresses and sleeping on the floor, there are several techniques that can be used to greatly reduce the amount of dust mites that live in your mattress. Read the rest of this entry »

In a time when a single income usually isn’t enough to support an entire family, there are more and more mom’s who are both a stay at home mom and a work at home mom.

With the average stay at home mom working about 90+ hours per week around the house it really leaves the question of how to fit your work at home mom duties in with your stay at home mom duties.

My answer to this baffling question is to run your home like a business and perform both your work at home mom duties and your stay at home mom duties seamlessly. It’s not always easy…but I can tell you first hand that it can be done. Read the rest of this entry »

For anyone who has never been in the position of a stay at home mom or stay at home dad, let me tell you that if you’re not careful you can wind up with low self esteem.

It’s not always easy for a stay at home mom to realize that she’s losing her self esteem until it’s too late. Forget that! Here are some ways that a stay at home mom can maintain her self esteem and keep herself motivated to do the very important jobs of raising a family and running a household. Read the rest of this entry »

You want to start a site or a blog so you begin to think about what you like, what you know, and what you could stomach writing about on a daily basis…you create your niche.

What happens when you begin to slowly realize the horror that your niche is over saturated? Welcome to the plight of the stay at home mom niche.

What to do? Do you throw in the towel for your current niche and move on? Do you just move forward with what you had planned hoping that you can somehow rise to the top of your niche market? OR…do you try to use your over saturated niche market as an advantage?

There is power in numbers people! Make that fact work for your over saturated niche. Read the rest of this entry »

The thing that being a stay at home mom and being a content creator have in common is…I love doing both.

But was it always this way? Did I come out of the gate loving my role as a stay at home mom? If it weren’t for my position as a stay at home mom would I have ever taken on the role of web content creator? Hmmmm.

If you really break down the roles of both the stay at home mom and the stay at home web content creator you actually can see how one compliments the other.

What? You don’t want to go through the hassle of breaking down the important qualities of each? Well, that’s what I’m here for. All you have to do is keep reading. Read the rest of this entry »

Well depending on who you are talking to you will be given one of two schools of thought on whether or not content is king when it comes to ranking well with search engines.

If you are talking to an SEM who’s job it is to make sure that a website is ranking well in the search engines you can be sure that they are not going to tell you that content is king. They are going to go down the list of proven techniques that are implemented to get a website ranking well on the search engines. That is, after all, their job right?

It is my opinion that while things like backlinks can be successfully used as techniques to improve ranking with search engines, these techniques should be used in conjunction with excellent content. Are you also using social media and web 2.0 sites to connect to people and not worry about the search engine rankings.

It just seems that with all the focus that is being put on algorithms we are forgetting what the purpose of the web is all about… information. If your site contains fresh, well written, informative, and entertaining content that is updated often you can be sure that you will not only rank well but that you will hold that ranking and more important, the readers attention.

My husband, Ken Savage, and I will be venturing out to SES New York again this year. There is one thing different this year…I won’t actually be attending the convention.

Last year at this time I was scrambling to come up with money for my SES pass. It’s pretty expensive when you are paying for it yourself. My husband is fortunate enough to work for a company that is willing to pay his fair. Me…not so much.

What I found last year is that I enjoyed the SES extracurricular activities more than the actual conference. Don’t get me wrong, there were some pretty fabulous speakers and I was really glad to be able to hear what they had to say. With that said…I’m not going to the actual conference again this year.

I will, however, be hitting some of the SES events such as the SES/St. Patty’s Day Pub Crawl and the IMNY Charity Event at the Black Finn. Let me just say, last year at the charity event I HAD A BLAST. It’s fun and you are giving to some really great causes. I would like to thank Best Of The Web for sponsoring it again this year.

If you will be attending SES New York this year or are just like me and you’re only attending the SES extracurricular activities…maybe I’ll see you there. Come on up and say hi…I’m a very friendly girl. Wink, wink. Just Kidding…or am I? I am…or am I? Just Kidding…about just kidding.

My content providing history can be traced back to one place…KenSavage.com. That is where it all began for this copywriting girl.

Since there is no set niche for the Ken Savage site, it can be pretty tricky to come up with things worth writing about. This is where my true creativity comes into play.

Most of the copy I provide for the Ken Savage site draws a lot of traffic. We use this site as an indicator of some hot website topics and we create “spin off” sites where we sit fit. We may make a buck or two from affiliate programs and Adsense along the way.

Along with providing a large percentage of the content for the KenSavage.com site, I also run the KenSavage.com’s spoof advice column Ask Erin. I’ve even had the honor of answering an Ask Erin question for Graywolf. Notice I said the “spoof” advice column. If you are in need of some serious advice…this is not the place for you.

All of the work that I do for the Ken Savage site is a labor of love. The namesake is my husband…I don’t get paid.

One of the projects that I am strongly affiliated with is Battle Diabetes. Battle Diabetes is a website which is aimed towards Diabetes support and awareness.

One of my responsibilities on Battle Diabetes is to do research and provide topical copy pertaining to all things Diabetes. I have been pretty successful in finding the correct balance between the physical and emotional effects of Diabetes.

Do I have Diabetes? No. I don’t. But my husband does which makes the topic of Diabetes hit very close to home for me. I believe that the copy I provide for the Battle Diabetes site is some of the most valuable work I do and I’m very proud to be affiliated with this project.

For the time being I have decided to use ErinSavage.com as a landing site for anyone whom I would like to display my copywriting work to. If you are reading this…there must be a reason.

So, without any further ado, here are some of the places you can find the work of Erin Savage:

What Winners Do

KenSavage.com

Battle Diabetes

The Suboxone Help Spot

Cymbalta Withdrawal

I have a very strong affiliation with all of these sites and have been responsible for the creation of most of them. As with anything in this business these sites are, and will always be, works in progress. I also continue to write about freeringtones and related tech articles.

If you would like to contact me please do so by emailing erin@erinsavage.com …thanks for checking me out.