I love saving money. And I love talking about saving money. And of course, I love writing about saving money. I recently wrote a post for UltimateCoupons.com about how to shop like an Olympian. An anchor at the local NBC affiliate saw my article and asked if I could talk about it on TV. I [...]

I’m excited to announce that I’ve started writing at a new blog: Money Crashers. My first post features an interview with Jim DeBetta whom I met at Ali Brown’s recent Shine conference. I talked to Jim about how to get your products featured on HSN or QVC. According to the site, Money Crashers “strives to [...]

Are you planning a summer vacation? I’m planning a few of them and I am very excited– especially because I’m paying cash! Summer vacations are so much more fun when you can come home without lugging a bunch of debt back with you. This month in my piece for Hope for Women Magazine I talked [...]

I don’t care if small cross-body handbags are in style this spring. I will forever carry a big purse because that’s the only way I can take my coupons with me wherever I go. Most people that know me know I love saving money. I’m definitely not cheap– I just can’t stand the idea of [...]

I bet you didn’t know that some pretty huge celebs have Iowan roots. And a good number of them are on Twitter. The population of my great home state is just over three million (3,007,856 according to 2009 numbers) but there are plenty of recognizable names that grew out of our corn fields and pig [...]

Earlier this week I sat in on a webinar from marketing firm HubSpot on the science of timing. A company expert spent years studying the best time to tweet, share, blog and email. Here are some interesting pieces of information I picked up from the webinar: Twitter Later in the day between 2pm-5pmEST is when [...]

I’ll be taking part in Bloggers Day of Silence on Friday, March 18. It’s a great project started by a group of bloggers called For Japan With Love. The idea is to take some time to do your part to help for Japan and pray for their recovery which is exactly what I’ll be doing.

I’ve been doing a lot of guest blogging lately. I’ve done bachelorette blog posts to help promote The House of Bachelorette (my sister’s company) and today I’m guest blogging over at Design Sponge. I love blogging at Design Sponge because it’s one of my all-time favorite blogs. I was happy to update a blog I [...]

You know that cliche about how the mechanic always fixes his own car last? Blogs are kind of the same way. Business has been off the charts for me the past few months, although you wouldn’t know it by my website. But I know I’m not the only one that finds it difficult to squeeze [...]

I was pretty excited to learn that The Debt Hawk ranked me #31 in a list of the Top 100 Personal Finance Bloggers on Twitter. It’s a dynamic list based on the number of followers each person has. The only difference I see is that all of the people in front of me are branding [...]

Did you end up here because you saw my guest post on Design Sponge today? Well then welcome! If I can help you whip up some fab copy writing, create a stellar press release or beef up your blog let me know! I love working with new people! In the meantime, be sure to check [...]

My guest post for the Biz Ladies series is up today on Design Sponge. This is a cool moment for me because I have been an avid DS reader for quite a while! I never thought I would get the chance to write for DS, so I’m very happy! We’re even planning to hit up [...]

I love Earth Day. After all, I was the founder and president of the East Middle School Earth Club back in ’92. And before that I remember my mom and I organizing a plastic milk jug recycling competition in my elementary school. The class that collected the most won a pizza party and of course [...]