Congratulations to Mary Russel – Best Site Contest Winner
Mary Russel
Author of Flickertail & Paint, Barnyward Sleuths
Congratulations Mary Russel on being Voted The Best Site in our Contest!
About Mary Russel´s Books
Flickertail & Paint, Barnyard Sleuths was written for 8-12 year-olds with the intention to entertain and to encourage children to further explore any of the concepts, history or ideas they find interesting.
Rudolph, A Child´s Love Story also written for 8-12 year-olds, is intended to help children who feel unaccepted. The Sleuth & Scribe series was written for escape and the usual fun of whodunits, although the readers may find some messages that speak to them.
More than any book Mary has yet written, Rudolph helped her to accept and embrace her childhood. While writing Rudolph, she discovered she loves the person she has become. She said, “My childhood had so much do with shaping me. What a freeing and powerful revelation! I hope that is what the reader will come away with too.”
More information:
Flickertail & Paint, Barnyard Sleuths can be found at
http://www.publishamerica.net/product90075.html
You can also purchase autographed copies from Mary Russel’s website or blog
http://www.maryrussel.blogspot.com
http://www.maryrussel.com
Some of Mary’s published articles can be read here;
http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/32946/mary_russel.html
For Tshirts and coffee mugs featuring the Flickertail & Paint characters check out Mary’s Zazzle store.
http://zazzle.com/maryrussel
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Zen Cart Upgrade – Must Do This ASAP
If you have not as of yet, upgraded your Zen Cart, please do it now as soon as possible.
How do I upgrade my site? Below is the information from Zen Cart
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Detailed upgrade instructions that help you retain your customizations while upgrading to new features, can be found in your ZIP file under the /docs/2.Readme-Upgrade.html file and also in this related FAQ article
Here’s a high-level overview/summary of the process, that does NOT save your customizations.
If you want to preserve your customizations, use the DETAILED instructions mentioned above.
- Back up your site from the server as well as the copy on your computer.
- Backup your database
- Create a new directory and copy your site into it
- Then create a new database and load your old database in it
- Next, change the two configure.php files to utilize the new directory and database
This way … when you attempt to upgrade you are “practicing” to see where the problems, if any will happen - Make sure all appears to be working on your temp site.
- Now load the “new” version files to your new temp directory (from latest downloaded ZIP)
- Run the http://www.your_domain_name.com/your_new_site/zc_install
- Choose the Upgrade Database option
- Process each suggested step one at a time … leave the first checkbox that the upgrader picked checked and uncheck the others.
-Advantage is that you can see your problems step by step
-Each time it completes it will recheck the boxes left to go.
-Continue in this method until all boxes are unchecked. - If you find you have issues, you are not hurting anything and can always start over without damage to your existing shop and live database.
Reminder: Read the /docs/2.readme-upgrade.html document for step-by-step details and information on tools to help in the process.
Interview with Children’s Author and Mystery Writer Mary Russel WITH AUTHOR, SHEILA DEETH
You can find the interview done by Sheila Deeth with Mary Russel, Children’s Author and Mystery Writer by click on the link.
Mary Russel, author of Flickertail and Paint, Barnyward Sleuths, was born in 1948 and grew up in the U.S. in various foster homes and in an orphanage. She found her escape in books and is now a children’s author and mystery writer. It is her hope that she can provide present and future generations of readers with the same enjoyment and excitement that she finds in books.
Today, Mary’s sharing some of her experiences in writing with readers of my blog. I’m delighted to have this chance to interview her (the first time I’ve interviewed an author), and I hope you’ll enjoy reading her answers as much as I have. I’m sure Mary will visit here during the day, so if you have questions to pose, just put them in the comments.
Please check out the rest of the interview by going to Sheila Deeth’s Blog.
Playing Around With Banners
Today I spent some time helping a friend make banners.
OrganicGiftsByDiana was interviewed by The New York Times
The Selling Lounge has some awesome news about one of our members, OrganicGiftsByDiana.
Diana was interviewed by The New York Times about how she makes her all natural perfumes and other products like body balms and hand-sewn items… from her very own organic garden.
Diana was spotted by her Squidoo that she put together on her products! So as you can see, Squidoo will and can help your business. EVERYONE needs to get to Squidooing! If you would like to learn about Squidoo, please stop by The Selling Lounge Squidoo forum board by click here: TSL Squidoo. You will find a wealth of information on how to Squidoo from Diana.
Below is the article in The New York Times on OrganicGiftsByDiana:
Making jojoba oil infusions out of her flower beds is partly a matter of thrift for Diana Burrell-Shipton, a 47-year-old “work-at-home mom” in Hubbard, Ohio, on the outskirts of Youngstown. An ounce of wild lavender essential oil, for instance, might cost more than $20 from an Internet catalog. And a common perfuming aroma like orris butter, made from the iris rhizome, costs $200 for just a quarter-ounce.
“I had no extra money to be buying the organic infusions even if I could find them,” she wrote in an e-mail message. She prefers to know the origin of all her ingredients, anyway.
Ms. Burrell-Shipton has tired of seeing “ ‘all-natural’ or ‘organic’ claims on the front of the label,” she wrote, “only to turn the product over and discover the real ingredients by reading the whole label.” And she said she is suspicious of any “faceless company, who has the main goal of making money.”
True to those beliefs, Ms. Burrell-Shipton doesn’t charge enough to turn a profit on the solid perfumes and sewn handicrafts that she makes in a 1973 Coachmen travel trailer and sells online (at organicgiftsbydiana.mybisi.com). Her workshop is parked behind an 1825 homestead that once belonged to her grandmother. She lives there on an acre of land with her husband and two daughters.
In economic terms, this is a captive market. Where else is her family going to buy natural perfumes? But her household is also well served. Her 12-year-old, Elaina, said that she wears her garden-grown lavender balm to relax before a big exam or a choral concert.
Ms. Burrell-Shipton’s mother, meanwhile, has her own custom blend of plum- and peach-peel infusions from the yard. It’s a source of comfort, she said, as her mother copes with Stage 4 cancer.
The Selling Lounge First Place Winners Prizes
The Selling Lounge Best Site Contest Winner
Will get to pick from members donating prizes. Yes that is right! Not only will The Best Site Contest Winner get the honor of placing the winning banner on his or her site, however they will now be given the opportunity to win a prize chosen from on of the members of The Selling Lounge. The Selling Lounge has the greatest members on the net!
You can go to The Selling Lounge Forum to check out all the wonderful prizes that are being donated by our awesome giving members!
List of Contest Prizes can be found here
Shellyg donation will be:
Choose ANY 1 printable product at http://www.printablepantry.com
PM shellyg here with your choice & email to send it to.
The Selling Lounge will donate
1 month FREE banner advertisement in the forum, blog and directory.
This will be for a 125×125 banner.
The winner please email me or PM me your banner URL and your site URL.
Vinewood will donate
a 468 x 60 banner for an estore or forum !!!
DesignMyCart would like to donate 2 things:
1) a gift certificate for $30 to each month’s winner to be redeemed on our site at
So that way, it’s winner’s choice. 
Whether they have a Highwire store, Zen-Cart, or just need some graphic design work done (say a Bonanzle or ecrater header maybe?)
So, if you have won and are looking over this thread, please contact us through our website to give us the email you would like your gift certificate sent to.
and
2) from my sign making website I’d like to personally donate a vinyl lettering windshield banner. It can be up to 45″ wide and 6″ tall, with any wording you would like in order to advertise your business. Advertising OFF the internet is a often neglected aspect of getting your message out. Get local customers talking about your products with advertising messages on your vehicle! This lettering can be done in any one color of your choice and you will get several proof designs to choose from. It comes covered with transfer tape to make installing it all at once a cinch. Professional advertising in minutes.
PM me or contact me through my website to receive your free windshield banner!
JUNE’S Best Site Contest! VOTE for your favorite
JUNE’S Best Site Contest! VOTE for your favorite Site
We Have 5 Sites To Pick From for The Best Site Contest!
1. We will have ONE (1) Winner
2. You can vote up to 2 times
3. You can only vote once for each site
4. You have to use your votes at the same time
Our 5 Sites to vote on are:
http://gypsyqueenmedia.ecrater.com/
http://cutsiekids.ecrater.com
http://www.zazzle.com/blueskiesplusllc
http://www.zazzle.com/WePeople
http://www.maryrussel.com
Sign up for the Blog Challenge
Do you have a blog? Do you want more traffic to that blog or to your website or online store?
If so, I want to invite you to join me in a fun, easy and effective way to do some NO COST marketing for your business over the next 30 days!
Not only is your blog your home on the internet, blogs are favored by Google, provide inbound links to your website or store, give you a place to sell directly from, help you establish your expertise in a niche, and are very “sticky” (meaning customers will stick around.)
See you in the Challenge!
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Link Directory
Please take time today and add your article/articles to The Selling Lounge Link Directory.
Writing and submitting articles to promote your business or to sell your products is something
very valuable that you should be doing for your business. Article writing doesn’t have to take
that long and it WILL help get you and your business out on the net.
Submit your articles as often as you like to The Selling Lounge Link Directory.
This is the directory:
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If you have not signed up yet, do so here:
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