It’s Friday again, and this one is packed with new stuff. So much news, so much excitement, I have to share it all! Let’s start with the most important: carnivals and favorite posts.
Pelican on Money’s First Carnival
Being a newbie in this area, I still don’t quite understand how to find more carnivals to submit to. I did manage to locate one and submitted the “Survive this Economy – Kate Middleton Style” post.
The post was featured in Carnival of Personal Finance: First Week of Fall Edition at Bible Money Matters. Thank you Peter, for hosting this carnival and including my post!
Favorite Posts this Week
It’s been a tough week and I haven’t been able to read as many of your posts. Shareaholic plugin has been giving me a hard time so I couldn’t share some of your posts that really needed to be shared. However, here are some of awesome posts that I did manage to read:
- Ways to Save on “Everyday Use” Items | Young Adult Money
- Why Being Out of Style is Cool | Club Thrifty
- Spend Less than You Earn | Free Money Finance
- Where to Get High Return on My Cash | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
- Scary Financial Statistics or Just Scare Tactics? | My Own Advisor
- The Real Cost of Running a Blog Business | Modest Money
- How to Begin Your Child’s Acting Career in Los Angeles | On Target Coaching
- No Job Is Safe | Young Adult Money (again)
- Why I Write | So Over This
- Are Credit Cards Really That Bad? | Frugal Rules
New Staff Writer
You may have noticed this week some posts by Amy Stevens this week that I wasn’t sure how to classify except for awkwardly placing them in the “guest post” category. This will no longer continue as I am happy to announce Amy will be joining Pelican on Money as the first staff writer!
I know… I know… it’s way too early for that right? Well, Amy is a good friend and has shown a lot of interest in becoming a regular writer on this blog. I didn’t want to continue wrongly placing her in the guest poster category because technically she doesn’t have her own blog. We’ve talked things over and decided it would be best if she just joined up permanently. Amy is going to write out of her own will, with no compensation (for now). So here we are, two people one blog. Everyone please welcome Amy!
New Twitter Account
With Pelican on Money no longer being a single author blog, it only seemed appropriate to create a new social presence identity that covers two writers, and who knows … maybe even more down the road? We’ll see.
The new Twitter account is Pelican on Money. If you have been following me at VeronicaHill79 please take a moment to follow the new account as I will no longer update my personal account with blog information.
Commenting
From now on you will see my comments on your blogs as Pelican on Money with the fancy pelican icon, so please don’t be alarmed when you no longer see my avatar. Amy will comment (if she so chooses) as herself.
Upcoming Changes
In the next couple of weeks, if you notice the website looks nothing like it does, that’s because I am planning on making A LOT of changes. Implementing a mobile-friendly theme will be the first on my priority list. Mobile is gaining audience now more than ever and the few plugins out there to turn your site mobile just don’t cut it for me. Future plans include a new custom mobile theme that will scale to any device be it a phone or a tablet.
I’m also really excited for some developments underway that will be revealed in a not-so-distant future. Ah heck, I’m excited about everything!
Giveaway
To celebrate all of the recent excitement I have decided to give away (2) $25 PayPal cash.
Thanks for the mention Veronica. Awesome news too with Amy, and site changes. I may be having my wife write some stuff as well as she is ACTUALLY a writer, as opposed to me who just goes off on rabbit trails and have a decent soapbox that I use.
I got my first Carnival mention this week as well and am looking for more ways to submit to them also.
Let me know if you find anything about where to submit. I’ll send you an email if I do.
Will do. I see Pauline tweeted a pretty good link. I am going to check that out as well.
Yeah I saw that. Big thanks to Pauline! Gosh, what’s up with this text being so tiny… I gotta fix that.
wow, tiny!
Thanks for making me part of your roundup!
I’m glad you brought up some of those statistics, as they are a wake up call for some people who fail to save anything. Savings are so critical, without them I’d be homeless right now.
Thanks so much for the warm welcome Veronica. I’m very excited about being part of this blog and am looking forward to working with everyone. Thank you so much.
Amy, really glad to have you write here! I’m happy that you made the choice to contribute here instead of starting your own blog. I’ll do everything I can to never let you down!
Hi Veronica!
You can find a list of blog carnivals on broke professionals, called blog-carnival-what-why-when-how (sorry my link may be considered spam, will Tweet it!)
I like your logo!
Thanks for that tip Pauline! I’ll be sure to bookmark that and figure out how all of that works. I’m glad you like the logo, it was generated by a photoshop action as a temporary logo. I’m having a professional graphic designer create a new one in the near future.
Congrats on all the changes! Looks great and thanks again for including my article.
Brent, my pleasure! Have you entered the giveaway?
This is awesome news! I’m excited to see the new changes to the site and the mobile theme. For carnivals, I use Corey over at 20s finances. He will submit to the carnivals on your behalf and send you the HTML to post. If you check out any of my Round Table posts on Fridays (shameless plug) you’ll see that I get featured in a decent amount each week. I highly recommend him.
Oh, you told me about it one time and I must have gotten lost in work that week. Yeah, I’m going to check out both yours and Pauline’s suggestions. I still haven’t had a chance to reach out to Corey but I hear his blog is really popular.
WOW, You’re a busy lady, Veronica! Keep up the great work with your blog!
Go big or go home right? Thanks for your kind words once again Travis!
Thank you for the giveaway!
Np Elena, best of luck to you! BTW Thanks for sharing it on your blog.
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Just found your blog by way of Work Save Live. Looking forward to reading your posts!
Thank you, do you have your own blog?
Congrats on all the changes. I still stumble into carnivals as well and am never sure of all the rules or lack of them. I’ll have to check out the info above.
Thanks Kim, I’m really excited to make quite a few changes coming up. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway if you haven’t
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All the best I entered this contest
Nice to see you stop by SB!
Thanks for the awesome giveaway! I’m enjoying browsing your articles
Best of luck to you.
Hooray for progress and growth. Way to go Veronica!
Thanks Lauren, and thanks for entering the giveaway!
Thank you so much for including our post! Looks like you are really making progress with this site!
Love the giveaway as well, I plan on doing something similar soon.
Thanks! Did you get my last twitter message by any chance?
I look forward to entering your giveaway
Wow – you’ve been busy Veronica! I’m impressed! Best of luck with all the new stuff.
Thanks Cat! I see you entered the giveaway, best of luck to you too!
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