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...

When it comes to content strategy, you’ve heard them all before. You know, the “lines,” the “buzzwords,” that kind of stuff related to us social media nerds. Examples? “Content is King,” “You must be ‘engaging’ your customers,” blah, blah, blah. As a matter of fact, I’m sure I’ve used lines like this before in my presentation of new media marketing and search engine optimization. But the reality is that content isn’t king, and who really writes the rules of engagement anyway? Raidious is a content builder, strategy creator–all things online in one stop. But we’ll...

I wrote this last week… I’ve just boarded my plane to Indianapolis back from Austin, Texas. I was there for SXSW. I figured I’d take a break from my usual, dirty, cosmo magazine action to write a blog post and keep you updated on what’s been going on the past few weeks. Its been difficult for me to write for Linzstar lately out of pure craziness with finishing up the Neon Love Life album, writing new songs, client work, and taking on a digital content producer role with Raidious. I also recently lost one of my favorite clients unexpectedly. He was killed in an automobile...

So, this is a very personal post. Not at all about business…rather about life. My life, or the place I’m at right now. For those of you who don’t know me well or have only recently begun following me, I just went through a divorce, and I have a 7-year old daughter that is not my ex-husband’s. My daughter’s father and I are very close, and that’s only been a recent thing that trust has been built there. My divorce helped…mainly because I was in such a negative environment that love couldn’t evolve to where it should’ve been. There was only anger and resentment. Fast-forward...