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From #AmazonCart to Amazing Hair in Two Days!

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With the exception of weekly groceries, I tend to purchase the majority of things that I want or need for my family online. And I tend to do most of that shopping on Amazon. Thanks to my Amazon Prime membership, which I have been using for about a year and a half now, I can have whatever I need in hand in about 48 hours. That timeline usually works for me, and it means one less trip to the store to try to squeeze into the day (this is especially key when the kids are with me, as I spend half the time in stores with Layah re-shelving items she has removed).

Amazon is at the top of my online shopping list because they have made shopping there so easy. and now they’ve made it even easier! Let me share with you how their new collaboration with Twitter called #AmazonCart works!

AmazonCart shopping experience

Let’s say you are scrolling through your Twitter feed one evening, as I often do while commercials are playing on Hulu. Someone you follow mentions an awesome product they just bought on Amazon, and you are curious about it. All you have to do is reply to the tweet with an Amazon link it it and write #AmazonCart. The item will be added to your cart and you can check it out later when you have a bit more time! There’s no need to leave Twitter, switch applications, or have to investigate the product on the spot. It will just be waiting for you in your cart when you are ready. LOVE THIS!!!! Here’s a helpful video from Amazon that will show you how it works, too. And I put together my very first Vine video to show you my experience, too!

I also really love that I can tweet out links to my followers of the items I am currently buying so they can check them out and see if they want them, too. I can use the tweet feature right on Amazon’s website, and then if a follower of mine is curious about the product, they can just reply to the tweet with #AmazonCart and Amazon will put it in their carts to view when they are ready. It’s social shopping straight from your Twitter feed, friends! I love it!

Do you love those steam rollers you saw in my Vine video? Here’s my tweet about them so you see how I replied to it to get it added to my cart (#AmazonCart is the key) and you can even see Amazon’s confirmation back to me! You can click on the image below to go straight to the tweet!

amazoncart on twitter

 Finally, if you are simply in the mood to do a little window shopping, just search Twitter for the hashtag #AmazonCart and you’ll see all kinds of stuff that people are buying. You may just find something you never realized you needed, but that will make the perfect gift for someone you love (or for yourself!).

How do you see yourself using #AmazonCart? Great way to build your wish list? Fun option for sharing your own recent purchases? Or a really cool way to scope out great finds others have made?

 

$50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!!!

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Woo hoo! Need a boost to get started with your holiday shopping? Here we go!!!

Welcome to the Adios August Amazon Gift Code Twitter Giveaway hosted by MamaNYC!  A great group of bloggers have teamed together to celebrate the end of August with an Amazon Gift Code giveaway! All you have to do is follow our Twitter accounts in order to gain entries in this giveaway!

One lucky winner is going to receive a $50.00 Amazon Gift Code! This giveaway will run from August 29th through September 16th, which should give you more than enough time to hop down the Rafflecopter and follow all of our Twitter accounts.  This event is open to entrants worldwide; Winner will have 48 hours to confirm prize. If you see our event button – no need to enter again! We are all using the SAME Rafflecopter, so your entries are only needed on one of our blogs. Good Luck!
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Are you Committing These Two Twitter Sins?

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I’ll be the first to tell you that I have a LOT to learn about how to be a “good” Twitter user. I don’t engage with others as much as I should. I don’t spread the love and retweet very often. And I rarely have something super witty to share that others would want to retweet.

I’m definitely no Twitter expert.

With that said, I want to share with you two things I look for when deciding whether or not to follow someone. If you are missing these two components, there’s a 99.9% chance that I WON’T follow you, even if you followed me.

1. The very first thing i look for is a little bio. You’ve got an allowance of 140 characters to tell me who the heck you are. If you don’t take advantage of this opportunity, you are effectively telling me that you are nobody. “Nobody” just doesn’t sound that interesting. Sorry.

2. The second thing I look for is a picture. See this little egg? If that’s your profile picture, you’ve told me that you have no face. That makes me sad for you. And as much as I strive to be an equal opportunity Twitter follower, I just don’t follow people without faces. Sorry.

If you are feeling shy about putting your beautiful face on the world wide web, please be advised that it is only a marginal improvement to post your favorite celebrity/decadent dessert/historical landmark/cute, fluffy animal as your picture. Twitter is a social platform, and if I’m going to be social with you, I need to see you!

Fixing both problems is SUPER easy. Just go to the “edit your profile” button which you’ll see in the top right corner of your personal twitter page (not twitter.com, but twitter.com/whateveryourtwitterhandleis). See my example below.

Click on that button, and then easily upload a photo and say a little something about yourself in the bio section. Done! Now sit back and watch as more and more people start to follow you!

Doing these two things won’t guarantee that everyone will want to follow you, but it gives you a fighting chance, I promise!