dragonfly poems

It is summer time and this is a huge season for weddings and perhaps you are invited to some. Don’t forget the economy is not the greatest and you are wondering what would make a heart-felt, long lasting wedding gift and that would be a personalized poem.

I strive to make each poem unique of the couple the poem is made for. I don’t charge extra for a poem with two names on them. The price is always $15. So why buy a poem instead of a blender or toaster? The answer is simple, a poem is something that is cherished and will outlast any old blender or toaster and even money. A poem that reminds the couple why they love each other is always a gift worth giving.

I wrote two poems for my friends who were married a couple of years ago. You can read Sabrina and Matthew and Jessica and Alex as samples of poems with two names.

As always I am looking forward to writing a poem of love for the couple you know or apart of.

Other than being a famous writer, there is this other fantasy I think about and that is this business here growing where I have to maybe set up an actual office and hire a couple of people to work for me. I am not looking to be mogul or anything like that just enough business to work less or no hours at Wal-mart and go the beach once year for a week. Is that too much to ask.

I know I have a good idea but when I went to Penn State I majored in journalism not in business or anything to do with business. I know if I could hire someone it would be an office manager with book keeping experience because that is one thing I can’t do right now. With learn.com I can take Elearning course in business that are accredited.

Learn.com makes it easy to take course online that are worth something so you can increase your skill set while maintaining your job. It is free to register with Learn.com and there are bunch of course packages you can choose from to get a better career or advance in the one you have already. There are also free course you can take or create your own courses if you want.

The one free course I like is the stress management. Can you believe I get stressed out while I am working at Wal-Mart, it’s not all roses you know. I should learn some techniques because when I am stressed my mouth runs on auto drive and it could get me in trouble and I need my job to get my business running.

So why not check out Learn.com and better yourself and your standing in the work force.

If you don’t already know, Social Spark dot com offers a CPC program as an alternative to sponsored posting. I tried this program and for $100 it will get me about 400 clicks (.25 per click the minimum plus an additional $10 to launch the ad). I did have some click throughs but the opp has been pulled and I plan on relaunching it in the near future but I think this time I will enlist customer love for help.

CPC stands for cost per click. How the bloggers can do this is write a blog post using their special affiliate link for the opp, talk about it on twitter or just post either a link or a picture on their blog. My goal is to have people come to here and when they are thinking of an unique gift, they will have Dragonfly Poems on the forefront of their mind. Ultimately, I would love to start generating sales. My long term goal would be to start making a residual income from writing poems.

As of right now, I didn’t have much success in making a sale from this program but there could be a variety of factors such as I didn’t know what I was doing, people are coming to the wrong page or I am not talented enough. I hope it is not the latter.

I am thinking of launching another spark and see if I can get other people’s opinion and then launching another CPC opp. I did have people come and that is good but I want people to come and buy a poem. I still think my original plan of investing money in a sponsored post will be my best bet. Not only do I plan on investing in sponsored posting but giving away the chosen bloggers a free poem so they have something tangible to write about.

The way I look it any advertising is better than no advertising at all.

I am starting a business and I am by myself (really that is how small of a business I am) so what if I need something like a new website design or lawyer or an accountant, what would I do? I wouldn’t know actually, I guess I could comb through the yellow pages or search around on the internet and hopefully find someone that is reasonable and does a good job. Or I could use Mavenlink

Mavenlink is a freelance marketplace for businesses and freelance professionals alike. What is nice about Mavenlink it is free to sign up and you can post jobs immediately, or if you are a free lancer in one field or another you can post a profile and look for projects. I browsed through the site and I found that I can easily read the details of a project and if I wanted to bid on a project, I would just sign in. Another thing I liked about the site is transparency. You can see who won a particular project and if the project was completed.

I never tried a website such as this before but I am thinking more and more about freelance writing and this just might a good place to start. I am not looking to make a ton of money but I would like to make more than $3 for 500 words which is ridiculous. If you are small business owner this is a site you should belong to because sometime you only need someone for a particular something, so why spend a ton of money on an in house person when you can find a quality person through Mavenlink.

Hello all, I submitted my last poem I wrote for here to the WOOF contest. Sadly, it didn’t win but one of my poems did. You want to buy the award winning poem you can it is called “Broken Cacophony” and you can order it here. The poem costs $10 it also includes the picture I drew with it! With out further ado, why not read the winners and give them a shout out.

About Poetry and Writing
Jena Isle – “Poets and Poems” – Are poets defined by their poems?

Poetry
Dragon Blogger – “Chance Encounter” – Random word poem about falling in love with a girl who works at a register.
Zorlone – “War Cry” – “To me this is like a tale of the redirection of energy. From one source to another, energy does not go away it is only redirected. That is energy from the electricity of nature, to energy from the electricity of human souls.” – Straberry Girl
Jennifer M Scott – “Broken Cacophony” – A journey into the surreal complete with an original picture drawn by me.
Zorlone – “Goodbye” – “Saying goodbye is the hardest thing to do…”  -  Snow (This is a poetry challenge by Jenn Scott)
Deeptesh Sen – “Angel of the Dark” – Surreal love and fear….and some soft magic!

Fiction
Webbielady – “Her Garden Has Something” – Her garden is her passion. She did not ask for any return but one day something unexpected came up and she could not believe it!

Brought to you by PlotDog Press with the Serial Suspense Screenplay “Intervention”

 As customary with other businesses, they frame the first dollar they made in the business. I didn’t have a dollar. My first customer bought this from me and paid in cash with a $20.

Let this bring good luck and the customers and personalized poetry straight from the heart and forever placed on this website to attract more business.

I wanted to do something different. Normally when I post a poem it is done with the fonts on this blog and I think it detracts from the beauty of the overall poem. I made this using paint because Word Perfect doesn’t allow to me make different blocks of point size. This is also a perfect example of a short named poem. Just because a name has three letters doesn’t mean the poem has to be three lines. This poem costs $10 and you can order it here. If you want a personalized poem click here. A personalized poem costs $15.

Whether you have a graduate from college or high school and are looking for something unique to give them, why not give them poem constructed from their name? A personalized poems is a great way to show you care and since I make sure there are no poems alike, each recipient will have a poem that reflects who they are as a person. A personalized poem costs $15. Read the samples here and use this form to easily order your poem.

Special graduation sale, if you order one of the graduation poems or a personalized poem and use the discount “2009 grad” you will get the poem framed and shipped for free no matter where you live at! A savings of $5 or more!

You can order a graduation poem using this order form.

Congrats to the class of 2009!!!

Poetry
Webbielady – “If I Am God…” – What if I’m given the seat as the God of this universe just for a few hours or a day or a couple of days? A crazy though, a weird poem came out of it…
Jena Isle – “Poems of Adieu and Hello” – What would be more indelible in one’s memory, is it saying adieu or hello?
Albert Ashok – “Concerning my land” – Concerning my land- is a concern for my country and the well-being of all concerned with my country.
Dragon Blogger – “A Mother’s Love” - A tribute to Mother’s everywhere.
Roy – “Don’t Ask Me Why” – A poem I wrote for my wife in 1999.
Christable Anon – “The Third Day of May” – How would you address your pain to some deaf wounds?
Zorlone – “Simply A Mother” – The joys of motherhood cannot be expressed in a single poem. But this one tries to have a glimpse of the beauty of such a devoted and unselfish love.
Jennifer M Scott – “Birthday” – 2 months to the day is my birthday and I will be 29 I guess getting older is bothering me some since it seems like I am writing a lot about getting older and losing childhood completely.

Brought to you by PlotDog Press with the Serial Suspense Screenplay “Intervention”

Remember the days when daisies
Encircled our laughter in days of sun.
Find the time to come together but days never
Last as long as we want them too.
Eaves collapse on memories we hold dear. When
Children cry, we will we remember our own
Time of carelessness and freedom?
Invitations from courtesy but the same excuse is used.
Once we are old and memories are all that we have, the
Nearby chasm awaits for our return, to find ourselves
Sipping from coconuts, laughing from above at those who never knew us.

This poem costs $10 and you can order it here