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Starfish Flinger

Starfish Flinger
Photo-A-Day #1618

Allison, Eva and I went to the Cape today. We’re going to Edaville Railroad tomorrow and felt like heading down to the Cape so we’d have a shorter drive int he morning. We’d also be able to sleep a little longer there. For some reason we always sleep later at the Cape.

We went out to the British Beer Company for dinner (like I didn’t just come back from England.) I love their pizza. The buffalo chicken pizza was fantastic.

The photo is of a glass starfish that hangs in my sister’s room here at the Cape. It makes me remember that poem “The Starfish Flinger”. Tara used that in her High School Graduation speech. Here is the poem if you have never read it before.

As the old man walked the beach at dawn, he noticed a young man ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Finally catching up with the youth, he asked him why he was doing this.

The answer was that the stranded starfish would die if left until the morning sun.

“But the beach goes on for miles and there are millions of starfish,” countered the other. “How can your effort make any difference?”

The young man looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it to safety in the waves.

“It made a difference to that one,” he said.

– Anonymous

So, who will you make a difference to today?

Don’t Be Anonymous

As an IZEA Insider I spend a lot of time looking at the SocialSpark profiles of bloggers. I’ve gone through about 10,000 of the 24,000+ profiles on the system. Do you know what drives me nuts? Anonymity. Look at this image. Can you tell one blogger from another? No.

The whole point of SocialSpark is to connect bloggers with advertisers. Who do you think an Advertiser is going to choose for their campaign, a blogger with no information on their profile or a blogger who took the time to promote themselves. Your profile on SocialSpark is the first thing that an advertiser is going to see. Make it memorable.

Who is going to get the opp?

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So how do you make your profile memorable? You edit your profile and add actual information. To access your profile follow this path.

Click Account – > Manage Blogger Account – > Profile

Okay, now you are in your profile. Time to fill out the essentials. Let’s start with question #1. Your display name. For the love of all that is holy and sacred in the world do not display a crappy name. You could put your actual name, your blog name or the name you are known for all over the web. Don’t display names like gmstr1, FuNkIeblger1 and stuff like that. Advertisers are going to look at those names and pass on you so fast. Put your best foot forward and give them a good display name.

The next most important field is the Headline. This should be your blog elevator pitch in 125 characters. Boil down your blog or yourself to the essentials… who are you and what you blog about. Say it here, short and sweet.

Then there is the About You section. Here you have 1150 characters to spell out exactly why you are the right blogger for advertisers to choose for opportunities. Showcase what you have to offer an advertiser and you will get noticed.

The next tab is the Avatar tab. I will talk more about this in the next installment of SocialSpark Saturdays.

I am an IZEA Insider and my crew is called the “I’m Not A Famous Blogger” Crew and I want YOU to join me. Here are simple instructions on how exactly you can join my IZEA Insider Crew on SocialSpark.