I’m a mother of an 8 year-old little girl. She’s quite adorable and I’m completely in love with her, care about her well-being, and for her whole life, have also paid attention to the little things that I, myself, pay attention to when it comes to me. Let me give you some examples…as annoying as they can be to the child: Nail Trimming: Oh my goodness, who hasn’t seen a filthy-nailed child running around? Think of all the germs that are under those nails. Yuck.  I’ve always been obsessed with trimming Bella’s nails. I’m often the only one she’ll...

So, I’m flipping through Facebook this morning and came across this photo. It can be taken so many different ways. I immediately interpret it as taking life and living it rather than analyzing it. How many of you do the latter of the two, and what part(s) of life? Personal? Business? Everything? I was (am) going through my Twitter accounts today, and someone said something pretty funny and very kind about one of the companies I work with. I responded with a thank you and started following the person. 22 followers this person has. Not many. Not right now. I remember when I had 22 followers. ...

I’ve been on a serious “theme” kick lately.  I mean: I feel like every blog should have a steady focus or theme…at least, if it’s a business blog. And if your business covers an array of different topics that all lead to the same ending, have you ever thought of having a monthly theme? For example, I called one of my clients the other day and gave her my theme idea. She loved it and is running with it. (Check out Get Out Mom’s blog on Fit February so you understand more in depth.) By doing this, she is able to cater her Facebook posts, Twitter posts, make hashtags, and create a buzz...

I’ll be honest.. I kinda stole this post from myself. Haha! In other words, I wrote a guest post today for Get Out Mom, which you can read here… but I also felt it needed to come here. (And so did Cami, from Get Out Mom!) So, I’m going to take some things out…or maybe I won’t. Here goes: I’ve been in sales and marketing since I was 3 years old. That’s right. Always working toward things I believed in. I’m still the same way…only as an adult, it’s with my ghostwriting and social media business, my band, Neon Love Life and our rock n’ roll summer camp for...

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog, so I feel like I just need to write.  I’m not really sure what about. Lately, I’ve been feeling as though I’m in some sort of maze…like I’m looking for the right balancing act in all of my responsibilities. Making it all flow well can be tricky at times. One thing I’ve been doing over the past few weeks (and my boyfriend has also joined me) is meditating.  But we’ve been doing an abundance meditation. There are many people doing this in Indy right now. Now, we’re not doing this to “get more stuff.” We’re doing this to...

I just don’t get it. As a social media controller, manager, person…whatever you want to call me, I have passwords and logins for all of my clients’ accounts, and this includes their Twitter accounts. Once a month, I take the time to go through and unfollow inactive accounts, people who are not following, people who aren’t a good fit for my clients, etc. In essence…I “clean house.” What blows my mind as I am doing this are the number of accounts that just….drift off. There are tweets, tweets, than suddenly… no tweets.  3 months, 9 months, 11 months go by and businesses have given...

First impressions are an interesting thing. I just started working with a new client. For full disclosure, they’re called Dating Headshots, and they specialize in first impressions…in the online dating world. I haven’t had too much experience with online dating, but I have indeed been on one and also been on a date with someone I met on one of these sites. I wrote a guest blog post for Dating Headshots called ‘My Sucky Online Dating Experience‘ a couple of months back because I found that my date was nothing like what his profile made him out to be. So, I can really see why their...

Okay, check it… it’s not that I haven’t been blogging. It’s that I’ve been blogging for other people. This is a no-no, you know, letting your own content go down stream while you’re working on everyone else’s content. So to my readers, I apologize for my sporaticism…(yet another made up word). Here’s what’s on my mind today. I’ve been running across a million posts lately about how social media marketing is pretty much recession-proof. At least, that’s my all-in-one sentence summary. This is good but at the same time, kinda scary. Because that means my mom, who recently...

I was having a meeting earlier this week with someone I’d never met before. He’d stumbled across my website somehow and decided he wanted to chat me up about doing some writing for some of his clients. Awesome. That was only one aspect of the conversation. This company happens to be an IT company trying to do social media marketing. This kills me. It pains my heart. I was ranting on Twitter the other day…yes, it happens when a) it’s close to shark week, b) I’ve been in front of my computer too long, or c) I see more idiot people who can’t run their own businesses successfully, decide...

So, I make up words sometimes. It’s fun for me. I’d like to make a dictionary of ‘made-up Lindsay Manfredi words.’ It can be quite entertaining. Today, my made-up word is contential. Contential meaning “content-related,” and we all know what it means to have the blues. Marry those two words, and we can conceptualize feeling blue because we don’t know what to do…or we don’t know what to write about. Even the greatest of writers and bloggers sometimes struggle with new ideas or concepts to share. What often inspires me when I’m going through the lull of idea birthing, is reading...