If you’re like me, you love walking down the aisles of your local bookstore to see what new audiobooks are on the shelves. By the time you’re done walking up and down your favorite aisle, whether it be Business & Marketing, Romance, or Self-Improvement, you look down at your hands and realize you’ve grabbed five audiobooks — each roughly worth $25.00.You end up purchasing the audiobook that fits within your budget and leave the others to be re-shelved. “Next time,” you tell yourself and the running list of audiobooks you’ve logged in your memory to purchase grows longer.What if I told you that you could borrow audio best-sellers and other goodies from your local library—for free?All you need is a library card from your public library. You can browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to your computer, transfer them to a portable device, or burn onto a CD for your listening pleasure anywhere, anytime.Imagine my surprise when I logged onto the San Diego County Library site and discovered their large selection of audiobooks—I literally freaked out. I whipped out my library card and checked out all of the audiobooks I had always wanted.The process was simple and may differ from your local library so be sure to see what requirements you need in order to take advantage of this opportunity.Step 1: Download & Install the OverDrive Media Console™ software (FREE)The OverDrive Media Console is available for both Windows® and Mac® users.Step 2: Register Free SoftwareBefore you can start the check out process, you’ll need to register the OverDrive Media Console software. Don’t worry, you’ll only need to do this once.Step 3: Checkout, Download & Enjoy.Now you can search the library database for your favorite audio books and other downloadable content. When you decide on a title of interest, simply add it to your digital cart to checkout.You will never accrue late fees with titles you download from this website. At th...
Last week I met up with my old colleagues at a Happy Hour 2.0 in La Jolla. It was the perfect opportunity to catch up with them since I recently started a new job and to mingle with other marketers, developers, and other web people. The only drawback was that I didn’t have my new business cards or any moo cards to hand out. Fortunately, HeyStephanie.com was easy for my new friends to remember and I was able to get by with giving my email address.Meanwhile, I still don’t have any new business cards so in the interim, I had to find a solution to my business card dilemma. Luckily, I stumbled across MyDropcard.com which lets you easily share your contact info with your phone. Once you’ve registered and entered all of your contact information at the site, you’re good to go.When you meet someone new, simply text “drop” and their email address to “41411″ and Dropcard will deliver your contact info directly to their email. You can even add your social network profiles on your dropcard (i.e. LinkedIn) or your blog.Dropcard also has convenient text messaging shortcuts so you don’t have to waste so much time texting. For example, you can replace the “@” symbol when typing your friend’s email address with a space and Dropcard will know what you mean. And if you’re friend’s email is on Gmail, even better! Text “drop” and their email address without “@gmail.com” and you’re done. For more ways to cut your text time, check out more Dropcard shortcuts here.Not only is this handy, it sure beats carrying 100+ business cards to hand out at a conference. So what about you? Is there a different service that you use to send contact info to contacts through your phone? What would you do in this type of situation? Post from: heystephanie.comAvoiding a Business Card Hiccup
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