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Anyone else love Fiji water? I do, but I don’t buy it as part of the groceries because the cost is prohibitive. Instead, I consider it a perk of Starbucks (it’s the only water they sell), and always buy a big enough bottle that I’ll have leftovers to bring home.

Well, Fiji water is sponsoring a give-away on An Apple A Day’s healthy food product review blog. Fiji is giving away a year’s supply of 24 bottle cases of their 500ml bottles of water in increments of 1 case per month for 12 months. So, if you’d like to win free Fiji water for a year, go ahead and enter. 3 ways to win.

Remember a while back when I said that I was putting together a list of my freelance writer friends to pass out to my site-building friends?

Well, one of those site building friends told me to build a freelance writer directory. I mentioned this to another site building friend who also said that I should build it “right now”. Er, that was over a month ago. I’m really good at keeping up with demand.  Can you tell?

I was told that I should make it a paid membership site, and I’m sure that would be a good business model. However, I started this whole thing to give some of my freelance writer friends business, and to give my site building friends a list of good freelance writers. And, since I’m lazy and cheap, I didn’t want to pay for automatic membership software and then spend weeks learning it. I’d rather blog about Disney.

So, I found an awesome domain, bought it, and eventually actually put content on it. I have a few of my friends already listed, and you know who you are. So, if you know you’re on the list, please check it out, find your profile, and let me know if you want anything added or changed.

If you’re not on the list, send me an email at WordVixen {at} gmail [dot] com and tell me what you want on your profile. Name and method of contact is absolutely necessary- either an email address or website/blog.  Information on what you write on, specialties, special education, etc is great.

So, for whoever’s interested, you’ll want to go straight to the freelance writer directory to find your name if you’re listed, or email me to get on the list.

BTW- Anyone who’s on the site and has a few articles sitting around that you still have the rights to and can use as samples- I wouldn’t mind putting up a few. Or, if you have some good samples on your own site or hosted elsewhere, feel free to include the URLs and I can add them as links to your profiles.

Also, if you want to help me out, links to the site with the anchors “hire a freelance writer” “freelance writer for hire” or “freelance writer directory” would be great. Or, maybe a little social lovin’?

Yes, I’ve been MIA. Yes, I intend to be MIA for a while.

Why? Because I’ve been working on my sites. More and more sites every day. I kid you not. I’ve got me a plan for my Disney site and it’s going to take a LOT of work. And, I plan to dominate the searches for my local area. And, I was just running a sponsored give-away on my nutrition site (don’t worry that I didn’t tell ya’ll here, cuz it was for a wheatgrass juicer and I seriously doubt that anyone reading this is interested in that… Except for Travis. I rather think the idea of crushing the life out of something green would appeal to him greatly.).  And, I’m working on my SEO skills. And, I signed up for PayPerPost again, though their pay has gone down so drastically that I can’t bring myself to torture you all with posting for them.

However, among my new projects is a site about how to make money online, but NOT with niches and affiliate programs and so on. I figure there are more than enough of those in the world, and I’m not an expert, so I shouldn’t be trying to teach anyone else. My personal MMO exploits I plan to talk about here, anyway, if I so feel the need.

So, I’m just doing little things- ways to make a little pocket money. I wrote a post on getting paid for blog posting using PayPerPost today. No, it’s not a lot of money, but it’s a great option to monetize personal blogs. Although, the affiliate marketer in me was also looking at those prices and thinking “gee, even I could afford to buy links now!” and then the human/freelance wannabe part of me slapped the affiliate marketer in me and said “if you wouldn’t work for that pay, you shouldn’t expect someone else to either!”.  That could explain why I’ve been feeling so dizzy lately.

So, I’m experimenting with some of my projects, and expanding others. And starting yet others. So that’s why I haven’t been around lately. I’m still trying to keep up with reading most of your blogs, though I’m not totally successful. I do check my @’s and DMs on Twitter every day, but I haven’t been hanging out there since it’s too much of a distraction. I want to utilize this productive attitude while I still have it, because you just never know when it’s going to crash on you.

So, that’s it. I still love you all, just very, very busy. Happily, it’s not a stressful busy this time.