It Pays to Poke Around

Good morning my cheeky monkeys. (I love Craig Ferguson)

A friend of mine sent me a link in an email to "click here and join this website and we will plant a tree". Well I clicked, just to be a good friend but then it started asking me my personal info and I'm thinking, "hang on a second, what am I signing up for and how much junk mail will this mean. I don't need any more male member enhancing advertising sent to my obviously female named address..." So the clicking quest stopped there.

The main problem is that my friend had sent the link to my main e-mail address which happens to be the one I use for business. I have had to kill my main address before due to spam and it was a nightmare because it was on all my business cards. And Amex sent me $800 in chargebacks for fraudulent internet orders because I never answered their inquiries because I forgot to update my contact info with them after killing that e-mail even though I implemented redirecting autoresponders and mail forwarding for over a year! OUCH!

Mid-Story Moral: Have a different address than your main business contact, for personal e-mail!! DUH!

I digress... So I didn't sign up for this site from that e-mail, BUT I did go to that website directly. The website is called Mamasource.com. I liked the name and thought there might be something to it.

Boy am I glad I went in search of. This is a terrific site. One of the best things I like about it is it connects local people. All the moms asking for advise are right here in the city I registered as mine so it has a very local flavor. I was surprised how many responses post so rapidly from many qualified, intelligent people. People post a concern or question and get an onslaught of advise and comments very rapidly. What a fantastic resource.

I'm trying to think of something I want advise on so I can post in that capacity. In the meantime I'm enjoying my daily, brief newsletter and browsing people's questions. Some, I lend advise to and others I just look forward to reading what other folks have to say. It's a very inspiring and encouraging community. I also listed my business, since I'm a mompreneur and business owner and they naturally support that kind of thing.

Do yourself a favor and check out Mamasource! It's also on my side bar.

Carry on my cheeky monkeys.