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Happy Thanksgiving America!! I have lots to be thankful for.  I have my health mostly back from WNV.  I have a wonderful family that is close so I get to spend time with them.  I have  paychecks coming in to pay bills and debt down. I have wonderful friends that make the days full of laughter and joy.  I am thankful for finding the Renegade University to show me how to create my content.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!  

What are you thankful for?

I know we all love having the day off of work for Labor day.  We all love the 3 day weekend to camp, fish, BBQ, spend time with family and friends.  What is labor day all about and how did it get started?

Many of us know the day was dedicated to the labor people that worked hard days and hours. I did not know it also saved children laborers, created the weekend and the holiday Labor Day we all know today.

The history channel has a great video series on Labor Day.  It is worth the 5 minutes to listen to the one on The History of Labor Day.  I provided it below.

Labor Day: History of Labor Day

Many people came to this country to follow their dreams, be entrepreneur, and create a better life then the one they came from.  That is still the reason so many people come to this country today and why so many people are looking to work on the internet from home.

I found a great community in Marketing Merge and Renegade University where you can grow your Entrepunure Sprit. We would love you to join us.

I wanted to share a little wisdom about creating a blog from my experience. At this point you are learning to market your business online and building a blog. If you are using the Renegade University system and following the step by step process it is pretty simple to get a blog up quick.

I made my first blog on squarespace with the step by step process instructed by Mike Klingler. Squarespace is easy and quick to use once you are acustumed to the site. Your blog can be up and running in a matter of hours. It is a little more expensive and less flexible if you want to keep the account.

I searched for other blog options to make sure I was getting the best deal. A good habit of mine is shopping for the best deal. I had heard a bit about wordpress and hostgator. I deceded to go with them because it was more flexible site building, email was included and less money. As I got started I had to figure my own way around. I became frustrated having to learn PHP to build my site. Wordpress was a bit more difficult, took more time and a steep learning curve. All I wanted was my site up and here I was having to learn code. Then Donna Wells told me to use Fantastico and this made worpress as easy as squarespace. Now I have the skills to write and read PHP. It makes building my blog even quicker.

Wordpress has a great forum to help answer questions. It was a resource I did not use until weeks into making my blog. They even have a section about introduction to wordpress. This is a great resource to use.

Another tip I want to give you if you are growing in the back office. Create a blog while you are creating an Ezine. Once the Ezine is ready to Publish you will need a website to put in the footer. Even if the blog is messy it will be a work in progress and it can be used to get your ezine up and running.

Good luck and have fun creating. I found it was like being in elementary school again with contruction paper and glue. As always I am here to help anytime feel free to call or email me.