Plus I need to downsize many things.  Revamp the focus or even figure out what the recent focus of some sites is.  Without focus on a site or two I’m really wasting my time.

I guess one of the biggest things is I’m on facebook a lot again. I haven’t started playing any of the games like I did, but it’s still way more time on there than it should be.  Facebook should not be one of the tabs open when I’m working.  It’s distracting. In fact it’s a tab right now and I think I’ve already glanced at it 3 times in this short post to see if there were any replies to things I’ve posted.  This means I’m procrastinating. But my fanpages are getting more status updates lol That’s how I rationalize it in my head. Gotta stop it and get a schedule under control there.  Use my hootsuite to schedule like it’s created for.

So I’m lost in ungrooviness yet again, but I’m glad I recognize it so quickly.

But it’s spring and all that will be changing. Daughters in track and football starts in a couple weeks for the boy. I’m blogging from the car line waiting to pick him up for appt. The busier the family gets, the more I get discouraged about time wasted waiting.

This app is going to be awesome for camping where there is no wi-fi. (The nerve). You know, like all the forests we could be enjoying here in Washington lol. Or camping at the dunes instead of paying to hook up to all the ammenities.  I’m a poor camper aren’t i?

So I’m evaluating this again. I took the auto tweet of this blog off my main account @busymommaval and put it on my name account that I don’t use that much @valselby. I just know that this blog is too personal to be mixing with the business. That and my brother is following my damn main account now, but that is a story for a different post.

I guess my line between business social media and personal, moved to the more conservative overnight. For those that really want my roller coaster tweets they can follow my only personal account and get the full dose of me.

If you don’t want to miss any of my posts here, just follow @busymommaval or the better option is to add my feed to your feedreader. I use google. I can’t possibly keep track of all the blogs I follow just by their twitter accounts.

We have some fun new companies (new to our fair) joining us at the WAHM chats business fair.

This is a great time to ask all the questions you can think of before joining. We promote making informed decisions before joining a company. You’ll have a much greater success rate then.

Join us this Thursday July 23rd from 5-10:15pm EST for the rundown on 7 very different companies. Wahmbiz Fair

There are quite a few programs out there to keep track of your tweets. Most of these now will also post to your facebook and other accounts. Here’s the deal, when they post to your facebook or plurk account, it is obvious that it’s a tweet after just a few posts. Especially if you say hey tweets or hit an @reply.

If I have you on my FB account, it honestly pisses me off to read that you couldn’t take the time to do a separate post. I may be following you on both twitter and FB. So now I get exactly the same posts to each account. Why do I need to follow you on both of them then? I don’t, we’ll see if I care enough to drop you from one or the other accounts, or if I’m in a really bad mood…? Possibly both places.

Being able to check on all your accounts in one spot is awesome. But don’t send the exact same info to both accounts or you are doing more damage than good for yourself. Keep track of your accounts easily with these programs and then join us in social networking and update with current and different info to each.

But the challenge. I’m loving this challenge. I love that it comes to my inbox daily with each lesson. Yes, I am way behind. Like 10 days behind I think. But no worries, I see all of those posts that I need to open up and do and it makes me work harder to get through the daily emails so I can. Today I worked through 3 or 4 of the emails.

I’m loving how I am doing the right thing so far all the way. No doubt about it. My problem is consistency I’m sure. So I can’t just promote this blog, do all of this 31 day blog challenge and then move on. I have to keep it up every month, keep driving traffic forward and move my biz ahead.

I know that I am cleaning out sites for this very reason. I don’t have time to put on all of my sites anymore. Not with the quality I expect to go up.

1. Kids schedule – For those that don’t know, my husband is a firefighter. This leaves me with 24+ hour shifts with him not home. I must be available to take care of the kids, transport them to everywhere, and his schedule is different every week so I have to be the one to get it done.

2. Sick days – When I’m sick I can cancel and reschedule everything. This can work for and against me as I do have the power to reschedule my days to play as well. lol But days like today, it was great to have no worries. I rescheduled everyone for tomorrow quickly and went back to bed.

3. My Own Terms – This is for both my on and offline work. I have complete control of my business. If I’m working too much, I lower my client base, if I’m in need of a little more in a month, then I take on more. If I don’t care for working with certain people, then I don’t have to. But I work on my own terms.

4. Business Write offs – I do try and plan some trips around work so I can write some of it off. I definitely love being able to write off my mileage and other little things here and there, like taking clients out to lunch or dinner for goal planning sessions and to help them with food choices when they go out alone.

5. Vacations and Days Off – I don’t have to schedule my vacations or my days off each week around anyone but my family. For the last few months I’ve taken Thursdays and Sundays off from my training biz. But after ski season ends, those days may change.

I do have a lot of reasons NOT to work for myself, but I’ll keep this a more positive post.

Ok, but that has nothing to do with this post, except I’m behind on starting the challenge. I am excited to get going on it and grow this blog. Especially now that it’s all beautified and I have my advertising graphics ready to go!

One problem is, I haven’t been hitting other blogs regularly. Although I’m jumping the gun, it’s time to go hit day #1 and see what I’m supposed to do.

Join us at the WAHMchats.com Business Fair and talk to reps from different companies. They’ll explain their companies policies, benefits, and other helpful information about signing up. Ask the reps questions so you can find the company that is a perfect fit for you. Finding a company that follows your beliefs and has products you can stand behind and promote easily is a big key to success. But each of us also have different aspects we need from a company.

We hope you’ll join us tonight, March 12th from 5-10:15pm EST. You can check out any recruiting specials that some of the companies posted on our schedule.

Here is the quick run down of who will be joining us!

Business Opportunity Fair Schedule

5-5:45 – Partylite – Stacey Harms

5:45-6:30 – Just Jewelry – Amy Stokes

6:30-7:15 – Belly Buster Diet – Anita Kacmarynski

7:15-8 – Thirty-One – Rebecca Sprouse

8-8:45 – Dove Chocolate Discoveries – Colleen Fleming

8:45-9:30 – Lia Sophia – Melinda Pitman

9:30-10:15 – D & D WORLD TRAVEL – LAURETTA HUGGINS

Now yes, I’m taking this most recent post as the one to pick apart.  I’m sure they won’t mind as I’m giving lot’s of linky love for it and I realize that the blog editor is only passing on an article so it’s not personal.  K, I hope that everyone who puts up opinion posts online realizes it’s not personal when we disagree, that’s just a fact of life.

But now the ripping must come down.  lol  I did my PC post on Working WAHM and this is of course my unPC post! Language may rain down, so you have been forewarned and honestly I shouldn’t have to warn too many of you by this point. lol

First of all, the blog post in question at twitip.com is someone that I do follow on twitter. You too can follow at @problogger. I suggest it, I get good info there or at least info that I can use for blog posts huh? ROFLMAO!

Since I have broken down the majority of the 8 ways to piss off twitterverse separately I’d like to ask just what the hell I’m supposed to put up on twitter?

I’m not allowed to post about my personal life because no one gives a shit, I’m not allowed to put up my blog posts because no one wants to read them and I’m not supposed to put up links because who knows what the links are for. Hmm, I want to know why you are on twitter?

Here’s the deal. I have 1017 followers. I follow 373 people. I haven’t had any unfollowers in a long time that weren’t spam programs that since I didn’t follow back then unfollowed. In fact I haven’t had any unfollowers since I started telling people to interact with me so they could get a follow. Guess what?! I can go through my 373 tweets that I follow and honestly remember the fact that I have tweeted with them. THIS IS CALLED, wait for it…. SOCIAL NETWORKING!

I tweet to my target market and I tweet for personal reasons. I have multiple accounts now so I don’t tweet much personal info to my biz only accounts. Guess what, there is very little interaction on those and I don’t expect any results from those accounts.

Guess where I get my best links, resources, blog traffic and more? Oh, from my twitter account that is very confused between personal and business! That’s right, the more personal info the more traffic I get. The more followers I get. The more clicks to my sites and linky love and traffic.

So if you have a problem with hearing about what I’m making for dinner, then you need to fucking unfollow! I’m so tired of people telling me how I’m supposed to do things correctly. WTF do you know? I love my twitter followers because they are following ME. The real me! Not some PC me that isn’t real, but the person that is not afraid to explain how she feels and tell you that guess what, I work online and I make money online and I have issues and worry like you. I love fitness one day and hate it the next. I have issues that are just like everyone else.

Social networking is real. If you want to put up a front then you are in the wrong format and maybe you should wait for web 5.0 to come out cause you are going to miss out on the point of web 2.0-4.0.