If you know me at all, you probably know how strongly I feel about dating, especially dating just for fun. I wrote my date ideas book (365 Date Ideas A Date a Day) because of it. I started my Facebook page for the book (https://www.facebook.com/ADateADay365DateIdeas). Now I've started a Facebook group to get more people dating more often.
Right here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/157506554446549/). It's called the Twenty Date Challenge and I'm so excited for it.
Check out my group and if you haven't joined yet, be sure to.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Benjamin's turning me into an entrepreneur.
I have neglected this blog recently, but I wanted to share some of the exciting things that have been happening in my life.
First, Ben and I have been doing a lot to better promote my book. And, I think it's actually working! I've been more active with my Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ADateADay365DateIdeas), inviting more people to like it, sharing it with various groups on Facebook, and sharing new date ideas that aren't in my book every week. It's really fun for me to watch as my page gets more likes. A couple weeks ago, I got my second check from them--this time for $110! That's the most I've gotten for it so far, and it came right after Ben and I put in the effort to advertise my book more. I am getting so excited about getting my book out there. It's fun for Ben and I to work on the advertising aspect of it together.
I've also been working on writing more. I have my foot in the door at Deseret Book, since they've already published some of my work and also because I have the email of a lady in charge of choosing what to publish. Ben and I figure that making sure my book does well won't hurt my chances of getting more work published. Right now, I'm writing about my hundred dates in a novel form, putting together a date ideas book for married couples, and trying to work on a date advice book for teens. I'm making the most progress on my hundred dates novel--I'm trying for 2500 words a day; some days, though, I have to admit I fall asleep before reaching my goal. I'm getting far in it, though. All of these books are ideas that I've had (and wanted to write) for a long time. I'm so excited to finally be making progress on them.
Benjamin is also building me a website. Right now, it's focused on the one book I already have published, but as soon as I get more, I'll be able to put it up there. It's charlytroff.com. We have the "rough draft," if you will, up already. We'll be adding more content and making it better, but I think it looks wonderful so far. Ben is really good at that kind of thing, and the ideas he has for the website will make it even better.
I'm also really excited about the blog Benjamin and I started together. It's http://lovegogglesbc.blogspot.com/. We decided to name it love goggles as a kind of reference to looking through love glasses. Of all our brainstormed ideas, that name just struck a chord with us; it seemed especially like a blog name. If you haven't started following us yet and enjoy our blog, then ... you should. We try to come up with either a funny story from the previous week or an original idea. It's so fun to write it, but the funnest part for me is checking our stats of views.
I also got a job. It's with Response Marketing. They're an outbound call company. I didn't think I would like it and I was actually planning on keeping it only until I could get a different job, but I actually really like it. I enjoy talking to people on the phone, even when they aren't interested. The only time I don't like it is when they're rude and that rarely, rarely happens. There is quite a bit of time between calls and I get read then. When school starts, I'll be able to do homework during that time. They also are going to be really good at working around my schedule; that is the biggest relief to me. I have been very worried this past month about finding a job that would work with my schedule. This job is the perfect job for me during school.
Now that I've written a novel, I think that's about it. I feel really excited about all the different projects I'm working on, and being able to work on and talk about them with Ben makes them all the better. We have so much fun planning and working on these things.
First, Ben and I have been doing a lot to better promote my book. And, I think it's actually working! I've been more active with my Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ADateADay365DateIdeas), inviting more people to like it, sharing it with various groups on Facebook, and sharing new date ideas that aren't in my book every week. It's really fun for me to watch as my page gets more likes. A couple weeks ago, I got my second check from them--this time for $110! That's the most I've gotten for it so far, and it came right after Ben and I put in the effort to advertise my book more. I am getting so excited about getting my book out there. It's fun for Ben and I to work on the advertising aspect of it together.
I've also been working on writing more. I have my foot in the door at Deseret Book, since they've already published some of my work and also because I have the email of a lady in charge of choosing what to publish. Ben and I figure that making sure my book does well won't hurt my chances of getting more work published. Right now, I'm writing about my hundred dates in a novel form, putting together a date ideas book for married couples, and trying to work on a date advice book for teens. I'm making the most progress on my hundred dates novel--I'm trying for 2500 words a day; some days, though, I have to admit I fall asleep before reaching my goal. I'm getting far in it, though. All of these books are ideas that I've had (and wanted to write) for a long time. I'm so excited to finally be making progress on them.
Benjamin is also building me a website. Right now, it's focused on the one book I already have published, but as soon as I get more, I'll be able to put it up there. It's charlytroff.com. We have the "rough draft," if you will, up already. We'll be adding more content and making it better, but I think it looks wonderful so far. Ben is really good at that kind of thing, and the ideas he has for the website will make it even better.
I'm also really excited about the blog Benjamin and I started together. It's http://lovegogglesbc.blogspot.com/. We decided to name it love goggles as a kind of reference to looking through love glasses. Of all our brainstormed ideas, that name just struck a chord with us; it seemed especially like a blog name. If you haven't started following us yet and enjoy our blog, then ... you should. We try to come up with either a funny story from the previous week or an original idea. It's so fun to write it, but the funnest part for me is checking our stats of views.
I also got a job. It's with Response Marketing. They're an outbound call company. I didn't think I would like it and I was actually planning on keeping it only until I could get a different job, but I actually really like it. I enjoy talking to people on the phone, even when they aren't interested. The only time I don't like it is when they're rude and that rarely, rarely happens. There is quite a bit of time between calls and I get read then. When school starts, I'll be able to do homework during that time. They also are going to be really good at working around my schedule; that is the biggest relief to me. I have been very worried this past month about finding a job that would work with my schedule. This job is the perfect job for me during school.
Now that I've written a novel, I think that's about it. I feel really excited about all the different projects I'm working on, and being able to work on and talk about them with Ben makes them all the better. We have so much fun planning and working on these things.
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