Budgeting Thoughts: Google Billing Email Made Me Think Of This

Google billing is cute. They are something else and do not play though about their payments. Straight cut off quick. Best to just leave a good sum in your account to just take from. Pay up as much upfront. 

Look at necessary expenses to keep brand afloat online in annual cost amounts. Meaning if it cost $60 a month for a platform or tool then multiply the amount ($60x12=$720 annually) by twelve months. Now this is a better representation of what must be on deck or worked towards having or paying off monthly. 

Either way it is covered it needs to be if anything started that is part of "Training The Web" is to stay consistent. 

HAY Online Media services rendered for cash helps keep necessary platforms covered that must stay consistent. We work around the startup woes by working to stay afloat. This effort also must build up a clientele as well. 

So in all one must always have multiple hustles to keep things going. Always start with what you can manage and maintain on a twelve month basis not month to month. So if you cannot afford $60 then do $30 for twelve months. 

So, the take away is to just start things you can keep consistent no matter life circumstances and interruptions. At least two to three things continuously updating on different platforms that are leading ones within your brands market.

Side Note: This helps establish a brands online presence. A brand online needs to understand eventually the budget for promotion online will include the maintenance budget. While promotion on different platforms is a must, not all are to be promoted on continually. Some are just for the season, while others should always be a factor in a brands specific online branding strategy. This is why so much focus in the beginning needs to be in "Training The Web" about your brand and community building while branding online.

Partnering With Content Creators Is A Must.

 Now how to share their content is where much one can be penalized for comes into play. There are different kinds of media pacts, media partnerships or just partnerships period. How they are structured is up to the parties involved. Some on the other hand are setting theirs up all off kilter in my opinion and as to practices in online branding is concerned. Many are claiming partnerships that are a bit confusing. Though many state them, it is how they "Train The Web" on them that is off. If not continuously reiterating the partnership where it counts for your brand it is a waste to stick to whatever is being done now. This means if Twitter works best to share what your brand does then do it there more than Facebook. I did not say only promote there. I said share things telling about what your brand has to offer on the optimal platform for it. When posting whether "Real Time", postponed or queued it needs to be tying in something relevant and the back end should do the same. So titles need to be on point within the logical scheme of your brands specific "Train The Web" branding online. So the search engines get a clear picture as to your partners, your specific unique branded content marketing or promotion strategy, and can present it well online. This is why a brand has to be implementing all SEO practices whether they "DIY" it themselves or pay another to. Now as to Social Media, one must adhere to one text and link combination a day. Meaning, if the same wording and link already was shared, do not keep sharing it. Find a new way to phrase and relevant tying into campaign content link to convey same message that is specific to how you are "Training The Web". So this is one reason I state some get it, #Twisted. Though there is much to get twisted. Of to more catching up with all these gigs coming in and the car search still one with the kill switch issue which was not one just did not like having to use it. #SideNote is always me going off subject. Tootles!

I Connected To This Song: Selena Gomez - The Heart Wants What It Wants (Official Video)

For me the visuals of what comes from my memory maybe the reason songs like this get me in my past feelings but not in ways of missing. It just is a way and reason why I loved sitting in my car at wee hours of the morning listening to HOT 105. This is really how I song cry, cry for real since the actual act makes me tired and gives me a headache. I hate crying and for me that means at times I reminisce I play Mariah or songs like this one in a mix just evokes the thought and overcoming it.

I don't know just a thing I learned when young around middle school when then Sarah McLachlan
 was the artist of choice for my sister and I to do this to. Nice when someone else is the same, I guess influences and the fact we slept in the same bed till I was seventeen and she fifteen. That too is a reason I love to cause it consoled me when not with her back when I left. Memories can be so jumbled with pain and happiness all at once.

A Weiner Whacker, Weiner Whacker, Weiner Whacker Get's None

Fucking for help? Not me. No way. The things you hear make you want to Loraina Bobbit some for real. So why I tell many homeboys to be there for their daughters so they are not left in destitute situations. Men need to reflect on how they too are coming after another's child. Yet when you look at how many fatherless homes there are, there is no wonder why the disregard by many boys who were fatherless. You would think having mothers would curb this issue, but when the penis gets an itch, it must be scratched or whacked, lol. For real, for real though I hate the things I hear or I myself have had to go through. The business meeting that was just a concocted date. The constant stringing along and then the trip with you and them offered.  I guess that is why when single I did "Booty Calls" that I controlled. I am the type that has to be turned on and money actually does the opposite. Maybe the wealthy kids I grew up with turned me off to it as to the behavior some with it are common to exhibit.

 The biggest turn off is a man who flashes and thus why I have been in a shelter faster than give it up just for a place to stay.I could not sleep at night knowing the nut I gave another was for something. I would feel like a prostitute and not saying this to knock another who does this. Just not me. I like to feel it is mutual and just very picky about men. Most of those who flaunt what they have are a major turn off to me. Just really hate hearing some bull. Any who had to share cause this too is another reason many Haitian American girls have come to me with complaints. Even when some of the men I collaborate with try it I cut ties because I did not start a supportive community to harbor ass holes who send inappropriate inboxes I am snapshot and told of. This is one thing I take seriously. I address it and do no more business with them. I cannot have my brand associated with this at all and will not care what the male has to say. I stick by the female who is vulnerable searching for help and guidance. Not a twirl around and not help in the long run more than a bad reputation helped around the scene as to being easy.

Side Tracked: Social Media Management Is Like Life A Roller Coaster

It is May 2nd, 2015 around noon and just on my laptop researching, monitoring and pinning. Yes, pinning to some cool new boards my company has on HAY Online - Pinterest and while uploading a mix from a entertainment partner Haitian All-StarZ. Love their Whitney Houston tribute and waiting to upload it a couple places I have space to. Now, back to the epiphany if one wants to call it that. The adaptive nature one needs to have to manage social media is sometimes not understood by some who seek out this service or who try to implement themselves.

As one understands the ability to change is not so easy for many to grasp as it is not easy for many to get some things change from one moment to the next pertaining to Social Media management. Whether it is the current events of the day that deem one to switch story line, client requested change, or just not appropriate any more for one reason or another, life is like this.

We are always evolving and reinventing ourselves and so should the Social Media campaign. This is why those stuck on one direction at a time are having a hard time grasping there needs to be a mix up even if at first the rewards are not seen. The point of this is to learn the audience and give them something different. Now, whether they like it or not is a different story and should be monitored through insights. From every trials and tribulations of life one goes through and learns from is what many should take away from set backs via social interactions online. Do not take a failed campaign to heart more than the analytic data you must analyze to learn from. Next time those lessons learned can be applied and adjustments to campaign can be made as one makes them in their daily lives based on one thing or another.

Life is just a roller-coaster many need to take a chill pill on, same as many need to take a breather from a set back online and jump back in the game that may have changed since the last you were in it. Social media management is becoming more analytic data driven and many need to take notes on their brands performance online to gauge where to spend time growing their presence. If only on one platform, spread out the same way in life one should not put their eggs in one basket. The same way one handling their brands social media should not put their promotion in one basket or on "Bubble"(For another post SMH). Online Presence Diversity is simply getting your brand on platforms you can manage that hit many markets that may find benefits in what you offer.

Branch out and learn each platform well. Learn its weaknesses and strengths and build your campaigns around each one. Twitter, we all know is 140 characters, so put your links, handles and brief description within this on platforms that link to Twitter. If you have a url/link shortener then use it so more characters can be fit in. Twitter does this automatically yet do not leave to chance the full message not being clear. Facebook allows more characters and yet many who link to Twitter forget to make sure message is clear in the first 140 characters and the rest can go in-depth for those willing to read the lengthy message/status update/post description. One thing I will always reiterate is that, ones content on social media should be found on their site with helpful information that is relevant to what is shared. Elaborating on the subject shared on their platforms. Well back to the grind of the forever changing internet landscape. Have a productive weekend! I know I will.

Fellowship, Grateful For the Difficulties That Mold Me

A great feeling when around someone who is fighting as hard as you are for better. Not all come with the "Golden Goose" of solutions or saviors as in those looking out for one another. Understanding where one is coming from is key and if one feels the worth to go it together why not? We all have our strength for a reason and sometimes it is to just always be there. It reminds me of a woman who once told me to stop crying over always being there for others more than they are for you. She said, "You are still hear and maybe your purpose is to deal with the difficult. Just keep helping and in return it will help you." 

Yet, at that time over ten years ago I was homeless, a thing that is common for me due to my own actions. Not to say they are malicious, but towards my well-being they were. I would look out for others even when I knew it was my last and I would have to go to another for a hand out. Understanding this and realizing a change needed to be made brings me to where I am right now. In the same boat for other reasons but same outcome. Broke and homeless. 

Well, I have a home due to circumstance and to see all the love from people whose only connection is my son and his father, was at first hurtful for realizations I never wanted to accept. Mostly because of pride and still caring how my family who always find room to talk about me, yet never really talk to me would have more to say. I find that yes I am very angry with them. I will always be until the elephants in the room a skirted out. As I have on many occasions confronted many with heart racing not knowing what tongue lashing I would open up to and do, they rather be afraid of the wrath they are accomplices to. 

Nothing will ever be made right if congregations about my well-being and mostly downfall are topics of conversation I am privy to after the fact and yet no one have the balls without judgement to confront. A sibling tried and went about it all wrong. In this public back and forth since I can cut up in the house but for good old "Tet Cho" Nancy she gets it live and in public for more unwarranted scrutiny am belittled by a person who was too young at time all was boiling and festering to understand. To understand why I left home at 17 bare-foot walking to my then Pastors home a few blocks away. Thankful for a sibling who from birth has always seen and understood me. She made it clear the approach to me after knowing I am talked about but never addressed was not a good look. I got slammed on and told why I was a failure, I watched my father protect and shield this sibling something he never did for me, and I was the one publicly humiliated for any neighbor to hear and see. 

So when I am there for someone who is in the same boat, I just look at the lack of this same vigilant unconditional support I do not get from many in my own family. Not all are this way and even the one giving the lashing I forgave the moment the words that hurt so much came out their mouth. I just knew if they knew the full story I never divulged to them because of tender age when so much was going on they too would understand like their older sibling who seems to be the only one who truly gets me and without judgement or malice. She shows me unconditional love no matter how many times I fall. So really wish sometimes people would stop criticizing and just sit and reflect on their own watched actions when they are toting their beliefs while doing exactly the opposite of a man many love to reference name, Jesus. 

I will be there even when it hurts because I take my "Suffrage" badge with honor now to know it hurts and yet feels good to now accept why I must. We all have our purpose and mine is just to always be reachable for those who need to see that one can keep being slammed over and over but never give up as they choose to. Go through it, take time off, but as long as there is breathe there is room to fix anything. Just some days are more lonely and harder than others and find it is now okay to revel in them. Just never let the bad thoughts control the good. Find those things, rituals that pull you out and wean off those who encourage limiting behavior no matter if they are the only one giving you attention. 

Just my thoughts as I finished mopping the floor. Just be you and find you how ever it works for you while taking advice that fits your whole truth. Knowing thy self also comes with knowing not all advice is good advice even if it sounds good. 

Not Feeling White Backgroud

Not feeling the white background. Will stop that one. I am always testing out things and just thought it would be best but I like the see throw one better. :)