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Walmart Announcing 1 Billion Dollar Women's Initiative

Do you have a product or service you can sell to Walmart?

Walmart has just survived a class action lawsuit by the skin of their teeth. To get ahead of potential smaller lawsuits they are announcing the above initiative. So jump in and take advantage of this golden opportunity. Use guilt to your advantage.

 

Contact your regional…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on October 8, 2012 at 1:00pm — No Comments

WE HIT 20,000 TODAY

Thanks to every one whose visited my blog , commented and shared. Today we hit 20,000 and I have you all to thank for it.

http://wirequeen.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-hit-20000-today-thank-you.html

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on May 31, 2012 at 6:45pm — No Comments

Friday Night Special Starts Today

This is my first week participating in a Friday Night Special on Etsy. The…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on May 18, 2012 at 1:45pm — No Comments

Blog Challenges are a great way to build content for your blog.

I'm participating in the Ultimate Blog Challenge. At the end of the challenge you will have 30 post. No you don't have to post every day, but it helps, just make sure at the end of 30 days you have 30 posts. This is especially good for folks starting out or those who have written many posts.

 

You post your post on the blog challenge facebook page and then go read and comment on other bloggers posts. The other bloggers…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on April 19, 2012 at 2:55pm — No Comments

Etsians....lend me your ears....a Mother's Day earring gift guide"

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Etsians....lend me your ears....a Mother's Day earring gift guide"…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on April 10, 2012 at 12:23pm — No Comments

RE-Visiting Pinterest for Business

On January 23, 2012 I wrote about using Pinterest for business. In that brief time Pinterest has leaped ahead to be the third most searched site and the third fastest growing site after Facebook and Twitter. Media pundits will have you believe that its just a bunch (a very LARGE bunch. Smile) of women sharing pictures and recipes. But surprise, surprise there are men on the site as well. The top men users were recently announced.

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on April 9, 2012 at 3:16pm — No Comments

  Holiday gatherings give me the warm fuzzies. For my family this was always a time of good food, company and sharing. My Mother was of the generation of women whose mind body and soul was centered a…

 

Holiday gatherings give me the warm fuzzies. For my family this was always a time of good food, company and sharing. My Mother was of the generation of women whose mind body and soul was centered around their cooking. The acquisition and preparation of the food would make a military stratagist proud. The holidays were their time for the spotlight and they well earned it. They put their heart soul and foot into…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on April 8, 2012 at 9:37am — No Comments

Are you on Pinterest.com. If not you should be.

Pinterest.com is proving to be a great way to put your brand out before the public in a non-BUY ME! BUY ME! way. People are gravitating more towards visuals than ever before. Pinterest picks up on this trend magnificiently. You post boards on whatever interests you have and then post pictures on those boards. Others and repin your items or share you boards.

here is an interesting article on using pinterest for your brand. …

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on January 25, 2012 at 1:20pm — 16 Comments

Bank of America Internships

Summer 2012 8-wk Paid Internship Applications…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on December 29, 2011 at 5:15pm — No Comments

Opportunites we should not pass up.

>Subject: [AfAmUnschool] Opportunities are Knocking... African American Resources

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>Opportunities are Knocking - Please pass this along to your network! African American Resources 1. Wake Forest University has an opportunity for minority students to attend its MBA program for FREE, and so far, the response has been very poor. Please pass along this opportunity to your friends, families. This is a great school and a tremendous opportunity... to attend a top graduate…
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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on December 11, 2011 at 9:56am — No Comments

Summer Scholarships for Internships

Salaams Dear Sisters and Brothers,
Please, please, please share the following announcement from the Center for Global Understanding (CFGU) concerning its 25 scholarships for 2012 DC summer internships. CFGU focuses on increasing the number of Muslim American students interning in DC-based advocacy, media, research, government, and non-profit internships. I have worked with CFGU and mentored its summer Fellows since its establishment several years back, during my time as…
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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on December 9, 2011 at 3:15pm — No Comments

QR codes and Short/Text Codes explained for the rest of us.

Do you know what QRS and Short (Text) codes are? I'm going to explain then for the non techies as they are the best marketing tools going. Both have a greater open rate than email. Lets start with QR codes or Quick Response codes.  These are scannable bar codes just like the grocery store that you embed pieces of info about your business. Mashable does a great job on explaining on video how they are created and how to use them.…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on December 5, 2011 at 7:51am — No Comments

International Trade Can Recession Proof Your Business

Here's how one company used International Trade to recession proof their business. Why its a good idea to do so.

 

http://bit.ly/r5i50S

Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on October 17, 2011 at 3:52pm — No Comments

Making the Most of PR Opportunities.

I had my big reveal along with four other ladies at the The Phoenix Mercury game. They used my short interview to spotlight and did the reveal on camera. A missed opportunity for great pr. I wore my jewelry but should have had a T-shirt,apron, jacket something with my brand or website on it. Shows the value of Branding Materials. A coach had me wearing my jewelry at all times but sometimes you need a liitle more. I'm having some T-shirts down with just wirequeen.com on them. What do you use…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on August 10, 2011 at 3:33pm — No Comments

Niced well paying job in Detroit Area

Job Title:        Project Graduation Coaches – Part-Time/Temporary (NO BENEFITS)

 

Reports To:    Manager, Leadership & Education

 

Project Description:Detroit Parent Network has developed a comprehensive new program called “Project Graduation,” which is aimed at significantly increasing high school graduation and college enrollment among at-risk students by creating a supportive and knowledgeable family environment.  The project will target youth in all six areas of the…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on May 13, 2011 at 1:27pm — No Comments

FYI Facebook Giveaways (Please Read)

Hey all, I just read this post today about the rules surrounding facebook promotions and thought I'd share: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/facebook-promotions-what-you-need-to-know/



Apparently, it's against facebook rules to host a contest or giveaway without using a "facebook app" to do…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on March 18, 2011 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

Africa 3D Animation wins United Nations Award

This is so cool I had to share it. Please watch with your kids and share with everyone you know.

 

African animation title claims the United Nations World Summit Award for the use of technology to promote African culture.…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on March 16, 2011 at 8:53am — No Comments

Need Advice Smartphone purchase. Texting.

Ok Ladies,

 

 I need your advice I'm going to breakdown and buy baby girl an iphone. I can't use the iphone (I type with my nails and that doesn't work on the iphone so I'm consigned to a Blackberry. Here's my dliemma. I  rarely text (Not my generation). I wil be texting more with the new service to update blog/twitter/facebook, etc.   Is 1000 texts for the both of us to many? too few? I am switching from my current provider? Baby girl is 13 this year (She's a millienium so…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on March 2, 2011 at 4:31pm — No Comments

Social Media From an Older Woman's Vantage Point

Hi Ladies!

 

I know!I know! Social Media is all the rage and if you're not using it you're wondering should you. It looks time consuming and it can be, Yet it doesn't have to be. I didn't start out doing a lot of things in social media because I'm somewhat technophobic. You start talking to me in techie terms my eyes start glazing over. The surprise is that I've become the SEO Queen, literally by accident. Google and my…

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Added by Michelle S. Hawkins on February 27, 2011 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

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