Susan Finch Solutions

GoDaddy's QuickBlog Cast USELESS if you want to get marketing info.

Did you know that blogs are the new journal, so I'm told by the rocket scientist and social media expert at GoDaddy.  I took over a client's account over a year ago. In place were every GoDaddy tool available:  email marketing, quick cart, quick blog.  I'm really OK with Godaddy on domain issues and mail, but when it comes to blogs and carts, as Mickey McBride would say at the end of his parties, "GO HOME!"

Wondering what your undeliverable email codes mean?

My clients have me use a variety of tools for sending out e-newsletters.  Some have enormous lists of their clients, some have thousands of people who have subscribed through their site.  Since we don't spam, EVER and don't buy lists, I was curious why one particular list had so many returns. 

Our list dates back seven years, so many things change.  To better analyze this anomaly, I actually manually glanced through each and every of the 2500 that came back.  Usually we just delete en-mass, or let the email marketing program handle it all, but I wanted to know because it was such a large number. 

Do you have a back up plan? I'm glad I do.

This morning at 7:30 I has to test the effectiveness of my back up drive software. Most of the time I'm quite annoyed at how it interferes in my jumping around from program to program, checking 10 email accounts every 5 minutes.  I turn it off a lot until "system idle."  This morning, when I booted up, I let it do it's magic for the first 20 minutes and catch up from yesterday.  "Back up complete" it told me; whatever that means.  I have not had a lot of success with back up drives.  I figured this one was just another placebo; until this morning.

Missing the office, but I found a solution - The Power MOB

As a member of two amazing professional women's organizations:  Oregon WEO and ThePowerMOB, I'm able to engage in intelligent business conversations with a variety of women from endless experiences.  This is a gift I receive as a member. Two meetings a year are worth the price of membership!

As a work from home professional, isolation is a part of the day; nose to the screen and keyboard to plow through the day.  I rarely look at what's happening in the adjoining room until 3:30 or so, only to feast my eyes on total toy chaos and snack debris.  As a result I don't get a chance for a lot of face-to-face communication with my clients.  This is alright. I really enjoy my clients, but what I miss the most is the positive side of the "office."