10 Things About Me

1. I love all things marketing! Have been in marketing since 1994. I have evolved from traditional marketing to online marketing and now to social marketing and know a lot of stuff. The challenge for me right now is what to do with it all!

2. I like horror movies. Don’t know why since my eyes are more closed than open when I watch them. Stephen King is my favorite, but I like all types from Wes Craven to Dean Koontz to Jon Carpenter. The list is endless. Main reason: they don’t bore me.

3. I love bubble gum, particularly Dubble Bubble.

4. I once had a breast cancer scare. Luckily it was benign and removed. With two- and seven-year olds at the time, I remember thinking, “I don’t have time to die.”

5. I do what I say and say what I do. Those who know me, know I’m there for them.

6. I am blunt to a fault sometimes, but people respect it and never forget it. They initially need band-aids. ;-)

7. I am positive and try very hard to be at all times. I have a high amount of energy, and it’s usually contagious.

8. I love to read, write, and listen to all sorts of music from Beethoven to classic Pearl Jam.

9. I love all things spiritual and inspirational.

10. I am 100% Portuguese. Unfortunately, my reading and writing skills aren’t fluent, but I still know enough to be dangerous.

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Um…No I Won't Be Moving Over to WordPress…

So why didn’t anyone tell me these things, huh? I was all excited to move over to WordPress and then last night, in the comfort of my couch I found out that WordPress wasn’t for me, the hard way! Despite advice from friends and colleagues that WordPress is the “cat’s meow” when it comes to things like layouts and plug-in’s, I must admit I was not impressed. Here are the turn-off’s for me.

1. While it easily imported all my posts from Blogger and automatically categorized them, I had tons of categories that I would have to manually edit. Um, I don’t have that kind of time. Why did it have to go and do that for? Why couldn’t I create my own on my time?

2. There is a charge for posting WordPress to my domain (lifeinmarketing) and yet again, it’s yet another process I have to manually go through getting servers to point here and there…I’m a marketer not a techie.

3. WordPress won’t allow any ads like AdSense or affiliate programs like Amazon on my blog. Hey I already have accounts with those two companies. I’m not blowing them off! Yet, WordPress tells me that from time to time, they will be putting ads on my site. What’s up with that?

4. Lastly, I want to keep it simple stupid. The good old KISS rule.

So it looks like I’m going to put more efforts into my existing Blogger account.

I have friends whose websites are built using WordPress and many others who swear by it. But for me and my needs, it doesn’t work for me at this point in time.

Any feedback would be great! I’m sure there’s so much about WordPress I still don’t know about.

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I'll Be Moving Soon…to WordPress

I’m officially moving this blog and my lifeinmarketing.blogspot.com blog over to WordPress. Why? It’s been real with Blogger, but WordPress has many features. Some of which I don’t even know about yet.

Not sure which blog name I will keep, but it will be interesting. Everyone who reads my blog will be updated on my transition.

Thanks!
ALB

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