A Quiet Simple Life with Sallie Borrink
Simple Living, Homeschooling, Faith, Homemaking, & Books
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
I was a very early user of Pinterest. If I remember correctly, it was by invite-only at first. I don’t remember if I had an invite or if I joined in the first open wave, but I’ve been on there a long time. I remember when the feed was in real time …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
Update: March 31, 2022 | After experimenting with different monetization strategies since October 2021, I have decided to turn Google Analytics and Google AdSense back on. I wish there were other options, but at this point this is the best choice for …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
Update: April 19, 2022 – After a seven month break after the email service fiasco with MailPoet, I’ve returned to MailerLite so I can do a newsletter again. The break was good. I could just delete this post, but I don’t do that. I …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
This post was first published January 13, 2009. For reference, Caroline was 27 months old when I originally wrote this. I am republishing it with only a few little edits for readability and updated commentary indicated in italics. I encourage you to …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
Many years ago, my graphic designer/web designer husband was downsized out of his corporate job. We opted at that time to turn his side business into a full time business. We were blessed to land a very good client fairly quickly due to my teaching …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
"Subscription fees are the nicotine of the digital world: get buyers hooked into paying and paying while making sure that alternatives evaporate. In other words, manufacture acquiescence. All of which mean increasing returns for the investors and …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
Update: I originally posted this in April 2021. I unpublished it shortly afterward for a few reasons, but could see in my stat tracking that people were still accessing it via the Wayback Machine. I later noticed that it was no longer showing up in …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
On November 14, 2019, I published a post that was originally titled “I Don’t Know What To Say.” I eventually changed it to “How Soulless Bureaucrats Make Owning an Online Business a Nightmare.” I recently shared it in a …
Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.
I want to write something here. I want to send out an email to my tiny remnant that re-upped their subscription when I changed email providers. (And I do mean tiny. Over 93% of my email list did NOT re-up. That’s not a typo. Less than 7% did. …
