Wine On My Lips Means Less On My Hips?
Tumblr Makes The Move For Money
“Travel Like A Human” – AirBnB.com
Stay At Home While You’re Away – Home Exchanges (by G)
Your BluePrint Cleanse Discount Code is Here!
One more thing….
I brought on the other contributors because I personally respect their opinions and think they lead interesting lives. So take a second to visit their pages, meet them, and read a post or two.
Thanks!
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REBLOGGED FROM SHEY.NET:
Tumblr launched one of its first revenue-generating programs today, allowing a select group of blogs (not sure how they’re selected, but the three options it gave me happened to be my three most popular blogs) to feature themselves in the Tumblr directory for a nominal fee — categories range from about $9 to $19 to feature your blog for a week. Here’s the link.
The process is ridiculously easy and fun — I tried it out and featured shey.net in about ten minutes (including Photoshop time) while visiting the Tumblr gang at their office today. The results were almost instant — as soon as the feature went up, I saw new followers start popping up in my timeline (thanks, guys!).
Screen shots of the process below.
1. Enter your info:
2. Get thanked:
3. In your face, Gary and Dens!
HERE’S WHERE I CHIME IN:
This is a great assist for a money-making basket (follow the basketball metaphor please); however, you still have to shoot a three-pointer not a lay-up.
The traffic comes your way, but to pay the rent from your blog you must:
Neither can be done by a rookie.
Tim Shey, who blogged this entry, is actually a headof the one of the web’s largest video content distributors, NextNewNetworks (that co-produced TMI and LifeExperiment). That didn’t happen over night. On a MUCH smaller scale, I came into the blogosphere with a built-in audience and guidance from other leaders in the industry.
Your Tumblr blog can be monetized, it’s just not as easy as a click. That’s all I’m saying.
UPDATE from Twitter: @Moth (TimShey) The lovely + intelligent @MaryRambin points out why my last post was titled “Make Me Famous” and not “Make Me Rich.”
I HATE coffee makers. Too much mess for one cup of average (if I’m lucky) coffee. So this single bodum insulated press is perfect for my mornings. (Don’t worry. I’m not going to go into the whole, woe is me, I wish I needed a full press to make a pot for myself and the fabulous man in my life. No, that would just be silly….oops.)
Love the slogan, “Give Up Bad Coffee For Good.” Pretty tough to mess up coffee in this mug (thank goodness).
Today, or this week rather, I’m having “Cinnamon Stick” from Central Market. The medium roast gently lifts me out of my morning fog and the cinnamon makes me smile.
(This post was inspired by Tony, who writes the blog MyCoffeeFace. He wrote me about my post last week on Stumptown coffee in NYC. I would give anything for that french toast bread right now.)
The title of this post started off as “While I Was Brushing My Teeth Tonight” but then I thought to myself, “I actually want them to read this post, and that title is far from compelling, so just tell them to read it.”
But, I’m still gonna entertain you with iPhone pics of me brushing my teeth. Dream come true I’m sure.
It dawned on me earlier that between myself, the bloggers I incorporated in my posts, Nutritionista, and Ron, we posted some quality content on the blog yesterday. And come to think of it, this week has been pretty solid. However, if readers only spend an average of less than 2 minutes on the home page, you’re missing info we find to be interesting and valuable.
Rebloggers used to give me a hard time for being too fluffy and self-centered, but now people asking for and DEMANDING more pictures and posts about me and Mason. I mean…I can’t win this battle.
Friday is usually my “Travel” day, which admittedly is the weakest theme, but I’m working on making it stronger.
I realize that most of you have not been reading my blog since the StyleByMaryRambin days and should revisit some of the tips I talked about back then.
All of that being said, I have pretty cool travel tip to share with you today. I was surprised to see this website that would allow all of you to travel the world like I do (on some level).
But before I do that, I want you to revisit what we at MTM have shared with you over the course of this week that you might have missed. We put A LOT of effort into this site which right now is yielding us very little rent money. So since we’re not asking you to pay up, we only ask that you take a minute to read. I read every one of your emails and personally provide lengthy answers, many times with links to posts I have recently written and you have missed.
So today, travel back through MTM this week and take away a few tips we have loved having in our lives. Below I’ve posted the bottom line, not the title, so you can pick and choose which are most applicable to you.
Fitness:
Fashion:
Living:
Food (scroll down the page) or:
So now that you’ve caught up on what’s going on with us and with you, get back to work!
Reader Mark wrote me an email saying I haven’t been posting enough pictures of myself lately. “What happened to the window into your life?” he wants to know.
My apologies. I assumed that after livestreaming myself and fashion for 6 days straight you would be bored of my mug. But apparently not. I’m glad to hear you all are sticking around.
So, wish granted. Here’s a picture of me running errands today. As far as life goes, I have just been playing catch up on work and sleep since fashion week.
I’m telling you, the Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera ($199) kills the Flip!
Photo is from reader Phil:
“@maryrambin thank you for the advice! This should be an advertisement for Kodak! Video to follow…”
Honestly, YouTube doesn’t do the HD footage from this camera justice. The images are CRYSTAL clear even up close (it has a macro feature).
Just wanted to continue to spread the good word.
Doesn’t this look A-MAZING!!! (And you know I don’t like to use that word, but I think this picture qualifies.)
Recipe/post via one of my favorite tumblrs – Tanya. Enjoy!
Tanya:
For tonight’s dinner I made another recipe from Ina Garten’s cookbook. It was delicious! So easy and so perfect!
Tuna Salad
Directions
Brush the tuna steaks with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place the tuna steaks in a very hot saute pan and cook for only 1 minute on each side. Set aside on a platter.Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the olive oil, salt, pepper, lime zest, wasabi, lime juice, soy sauce and hot sauce. Add the avocados to the vinaigrette.
Cut the tuna in chunks and place it in a large bowl. Add the scallions and red onion and mix well. Pour the vinaigrette mixture over the tuna and carefully mix.
Guess what…I’m another year older on Tuesday. I’m not exactly happy about that…but I’m only 28 and I believe in eating right, exercise, and botox so I’m not too concerned.
To celebrate, I reserved the wine cellar at Phillipe, one of my favorite restaurants uptown, so friends could pop in and catch up over a cocktail, or two.
Adrien was sweet enough to host my little soiree.
I’m not one to dote on babies, but I couldn’t help myself when I saw G’s Baby Girl bump. I was truly overwhelmed with excitement because Charlotte is coming so soon. I told G she could call me anytime to stay with her if they needed a little vacay. BTW, G has become quite the “mommy blogger” if you are looking for info on maternity clothes, strollers, etc.
Snapshots were not the priority when the chicken satay arrived so I missed pics with a few of my favorite people.
Many thanks and much love to everyone who came uptown to give me a big hug.
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