For Blogs that need a lil’ lovin’

Introducing Studio M’s Blog makeovers! (yes the oh-so-secret-project is out in the open!)
So that’s exactly what I’ve been up to- spreading the makeover love Try one – its fun and as therapeutic as a spa indulgence or retail therapy.. honest!

The biggest challenge in launching the blog design service was putting together the pricing structure.. OK I’ll say second biggest since the first (which by the way has a little story of its own) was being able to make time to get it started..

I realize there are bloggers out there all the way from SAHMs to students, people who live in developed countries to those who hail from developing nations like my own where the average man is losing hair over inflation that went up by a whopping 35% just in the past month!

And me, well I admit I am an expensive resource but I thought it unfair that those people miss out just because the service seems too pricey to afford. I’m working on some fun ideas to make my blog affordable even for the perpetually broke ones out there!

Ideas include :
Referrals
Where people can put up studioM blog design banners on their blogs and send traffic over. The idea is, you get a 50% discount if we sign up 5 blog makeovers or 10 banners for people landing on our page from yours.
Here are a few ideas:

Gift Certificates
You could get people to contribute to your blog makeover dream by contributing in the form of gift certificates priced right from $5 to $100. You will be able to redeem these gift certificates to pay for any of the services offered by Studio M. These would be particularly useful in getting a present out of the significant other around birthdays and anniversaries or perhaps pestering a few friends to finance your little indulgence. Ideas include little banners/ buttons for people to put up on their blogs especially around birthdays and bloggiversaries.. Please help me some by suggesting humorous and perky statements that could go on those buttons.. I know I could have one on my blog saying – “None of my friends are cheap bastards!” and would proceed to say “hey buddy head on to contribute some to my blog makeover fund ” except that would make me look like a cheap bastard and I’m not too sure if they’d want to be friends with me after that!!

I am hoping to make some more time to be done with the functionality over the Eid break. Have set a self-imposed deadline for Oct 10th 2008 in need of some goodluck vibes yet again bring ‘em on you nice people!

About the story that kick-started the blog design service.. the other day I was cribbing about my unfinished projects and dreams to a friend who is up and working most nights.. wondering how she manages to function with only a few hours of sleep. A superwoman she is, I tell ya.. two kids, freelances from home and religiously finds time to blog every day.. I really look up to be like her some day..

She said she didn’t seem to have time to sleep because there’s so much to do it feels as though life is passing her by… MM, I hope you don’t mind my quoting you here..

..as for sleep – i dont care.. i fall ill often because i dont get enough sleep – but there’s so much to do and i sometimes feel life is passing me by. so no time to sleep..

I don’t know how she managed to inspire me with that one line but she did!! I realized how my life was passing me by and there were so many things I had to strike off of my to-do list.. not that list which goes – wash dishes, do laundry, go grocery shopping.. but the master list that I will regret paying attention to if I take it with me to my deathbed unfinished.. all because I was too busy with the “every day” to-dos… sigh.. I would regret not writing a book more than if I my fridge and larder were always well-stocked, I would seriously regret If I never got down to my dream of becoming an illustrator for children’s books more than if I washed and stacked all dirty dishes to perfection, heck I would regret not going for a master’s degree more than if my house was always scrubbed and spotless.. no time to sleep alright.. bring on the mugs of chai baybee!
I’m heading out to Kinkos to get these printed on my plain mugs:

So there, I just HAD to reach out and say thanks girl, I just managed to get a perpetually derailed personal project on board and I owe it to you! The great thing was that her birthday was just around the corner and so I made a personalized banner for her blog as a thanks+ bday gift and I am humbled that she loved it and put it up! Not only has that been sending blog design queries my way, it looks like she just might end up being the first one getting a free blog design done because of referrals! Go check it out! Vain as it may sound, it is quite cool ;D

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