The secret life of a blogger…

Written by Siotha on June 23, 2008 – 9:15 am -

Yes. We all know that bloggers have a secret life- or a Secret to tell if you want to look at it that way. They can be anonymous, rip off other peoples work, write their very biased views on life, products, situations, people, or anything they want. They don’t even have to be ethical! But what’s the real secret? Well, some bloggers, like myself – aren’t getting published any other way. Now we have a medium that allows us to have typo’s, poor grammer, bad opinions, but freedom of speech so who cares what we right about? So long as we make money at this right? How do you define making money as a blogger? There’s several ways to look at it but for me… I’m not making money off this blog (unless you choose to buy me a beer, and remember – I don’t even like beer so please make it enough so that I can by a fruity beer – like an apple cider, or something of that nature, I’m more of a vodka girl anyway!) I do this, because, there comes a time in life when what we think, dream, love, should be written down. Now If I write it down in my journal – who’s going to read it? Well maybe my snooping husband, or my children after I pass… maybe one day I’d get around to taking excerpts and proposing my writings to a publisher… but more than likely… I couldn’t read my own handwriting and forget what I was thinking when I wrote it, and my husband would ask questions well what did that mean? (I dunno honey I had three margaritas that night!) For me – you know who I am. I’m Siotha. Google me if you must. Or just hit the about tab on the top of this page. In the mean time, I enjoy blogging. One day I might even try to write about products and things that I like for review. In the mean time – writing about life as a designer is my passion and what I will continue to do through this blog. Just remember, i’m very fickle and particular about when and what I do things… so if I don’t write for a few weeks – don’t sweat it! That’s the dramatic life of a Blogger! I’ll get to it when I damned well please!


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Creative News with Shellie Hall

Written by Siotha on December 1, 2007 – 6:24 pm -

Wow! Look at this video! Shellie Hall does an awesome news cast just for designers, artists, creatives! You know – You!

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What an awesome video! Shellie, who has been in our studio this week did a great job with her new courses, hint hint… and of course she also did her video cast from Studio A!

Shellie’s Courses and Classes on Graphic Design will be on xTrain.com soon! Check her out!

Watch Shellie’s weekly newscast on CreativePro.com


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Online Training: Online Marketing- Media, SEO, Social Media, Podcasting

Written by Siotha on November 15, 2007 – 8:27 am -

Do you want to learn more about:

  • Online Marketing?

  • Pay Per Click Advertising?

  • Social Media Advertising & Marketing?

  • Podcasting?

  • Search Engine Optimization (Not just website metatags)?

  • Online PR?

Then I have the solution for you! Online courses designed specifically for you to learn any of the above topics. Our courses, all facilitated by industry experts, social media guru’s, online marketing engineers are the best “secrets” of the industry! And -I have to say, that I’m proud to boast that as Director of Training @ www.xTrain.com, you’re reading my blog which I learned everything I know about blogs from Giovanni Gallucci and Justine Ezerak – our gurus!

What xTrain’s Online Marketing courses about?

SEO aka Search Engine Optimization

course by Tony Wright

For web designers, Search Engine Optimization is a required tool of the trade. Problem is, most of the time, a designer is thinking only about meta tags in the code. This course is designed to educate marketing professionals and designers on the importance of creating web sites that major search engines will crawl. Google, Ask.com, yahoo.com all have very specific needs and rules regarding how pages can be indexed – Tony covers all the insider tips. To prove it, watch a free class on SEO.

Social Media course

by social media consultant Giovanni Gallucci

Do you know what social media is? Have you harnessed the power of using the internet as a new marketing and advertising tool – viral advertising? Do you twitter? This course is designed to uncover the mystry of the buzzing online life now known to be Social Media. As a marketing expert, you will learn what are the top websites for Social Media, viral marketing, texting, blogging, video marketing, online community marketing, etc.

Secrets of Podcasting course

by social media consultant Giovanni Gallucci

Have you developed your audience yet? Why not? Get on the fast track to Podcasting expertise with this very thorough course on audio & video podcasting. Wanna learn how to develop easy processes for podcast production? This is the course for you.


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