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Busy Mom Solution: Simplify Your Deliveries, and Never Miss a Package Again!

Take Control of Your Shipments and Deliveries!

The Challenge:

Isn’t is such a bummer to get a notice that there was an attempt to deliver your package – but they needed a signature, and you missed it? Or getting a packaged delivered while you’re out, and it gets rained or snowed on out on the porch? How cool would it be if you could specify when and where you want your packages delivered? Or to be able to submit an electronic signature online, to ensure you get your delivery on time? How about being able to reroute a package to a different address when needed, or to the nearest UPS location so you can do a quick pick-up? That would sure come in handy when you’re traveling for the holidays, right?

Busy Mom Solution: UPS My Choice!

“UPS is committed to making the on line shopping experience better – not just for shippers, but for the consumers who receive packages at their home as well. That’s why UPS is transforming the package delivery experience with a first-of-its kind, customizable delivery service for residential receivers called UPS My Choice.”

Here are a few of the ways UPS My Choice Can Help You:

Delivery Alerts: Avoid the disappointment of missing a package you were super excited about. Now you can schedule deliveries to fit YOUR busy life!
Reroute options: Visiting family for the holidays? Have your packages rerouted to your new location – or just pick them up at a local UPS site!
Electronic Signatures: Submit your signature online if you won’t be home, so that your package can be delivered on time!

Sign up for UPS My Choice for FREE today!!

The perfect solution for every mom!

This is totally perfect for someone like me – I win a lot of giveaway prizes, and many need signatures to be delivered. I get a ton of shipments of products for reviews – and I want to make sure that they’re delivered safely. I’m often out of the house, and love that I can see what’s coming each day, and plan the delivery to meet MY schedule. This is such an amazingly helpful tool – and it’s totally FREE! How much better can it get? I wish ALL delivery companies could be this good!

Membership levels:

UPS My Choice Basic Membership: This is totally free and includes a ton of great tools – receive phone, e-mail or text alerts notifying you a day in advance of when packages will arrive. Get a four-hour approximate delivery time frame. You also have the option to electronically authorize release of packages that require a signature and, for a $5 transaction fee, to reroute a package to another delivery address or have it delivered to the nearest The UPS Store® location.
UPS My Choice Premium Membership: Available for a $40 annual subscription, this provides all the benefits of a regular UPS My Choice membership at no additional cost and in addition, members gain access to an online delivery calendar that shows the status of UPS home deliveries. Premium members also are offered a two-hour delivery window. A $5 transaction fee is charged only upon successful delivery of the package within the two-hour commitment. As a Premium member, consumers can even provide their UPS driver with detailed instructions on where to leave a package. They just select from a drop-down list of location options like — leave it at the Side Door…the Garage…on the Porch…in the Management Office of my apartment complex or the Shed out back! How cool is that??

Set up your FREE UPS My Choice account today!

{Disclosure: I received compensation from UPS in the form of a gift card to participate in this campaign promoting the UPS My Choice delivery service. I only share sites, products, and services that I use myself – and all opinions are 100% mine. I love UPS My Choice and I know you will too!}

Posted by Meagan Paullin on December 4, 2011 Filed Under: Busy Mom Solution | 3 Comments

Weekly Blogging Opportunities

New Weekly Blogging Opportunities!

Sorry I’m late on this tonight… I’ve got a sick toddler. You know how fun that is, right? Anyway – you can usually expect this post to be up by 5PM PST every Wednesday – and I’m going to set up a tab on the site to make it easy to find. I’ll do that before next weeks post. And, if you have any cool opp’s that you want to share, feel free to leave a comment, so everyone can benefit. And feel free to share this post in your networks or groups too – I hope that some of these leads can help you out each week!

Review & Giveaway Leads:

EcoStore USA: They’re looking for bloggers to do review/giveaways. Fill out their form, agreeing to their policy’s, and choose your favorite items to review.
Rylees: Sign up to be notified of new blogger opportunities for reviews and giveaways – beauty and hair care products.
Eden Fantasies: This is an adult themed shop, but you can write about anything that you’d like to – Like lotions or bubble bath – to make it family-friendly. If you’re interested in writing a post about their products and their site in exchange for a $50 gift certificate, email Jenn at jenn@edenfantasys.com and let her know!
Skoy Cleaning Products: Learn more about this opportunity and how to apply on Mom Blog Society. Follow her site too – she posts new opp’s often.
Mamma Media: This will launch soon, and is described as a “media group with the vision of blending brands with the mom-bloggers (and, ultimately, mom-readers) who will love them!” They’ll choose members soon – Apply Here – if you’re interested.

Twitter Lead:

We are looking for bloggers to review our Anti Chafe Stick, plz email info@everstride.com for info. thx!

Giveaway Events to Join:

Great Gadget Giveaway Event from Jan 23 12:01 PM EST to Feb 06 at 12:01 PM EST and is accepting signups now. There is a $10 sign up fee, and you must find your own prize, $25+. Sign up using – Sign Up Form – and tell them Sunshine and Sippy Cups sent you!! Learn more here.
Great Gamer Giveaway: This is BIG package of super fun stuff, and should be a great event. I’d join – but due to my PayPal problems, I can’t do payments at the moment. But – this should be great! Learn more on her post.

If you’re not a member of Escalate Affiliate Network – Join Today!

Posted by Meagan Paullin on November 30, 2011 Filed Under: Weekly Opp's, Blogging Resources | 2 Comments

I’m a Speaker at Reviewers Retreat 2012!!! {And How to get Discount Tickets}

Join me at Reviewers Retreat 2012!!

I am SO excited to be a part of this event, and can’t wait to share some fun tips and helpful information during my session at Reviewers Retreat. This will be my first blog conference, and I hope to see some of you there!! Read more about the when’s, what’s and where’s of this amazing conference – and find out how you can get a super sweet discount on tickets too:

The 2nd annual Reviewer’s Retreat will be held June 3-5, 2012 at Great Wolf Lodge, Concord-Charlotte, NC. Reviewer’s Retreat is first conference geared specifically toward the issues and challenges faced by bloggers in the product review genre, a topic that is lacking from most conference agendas. Review bloggers, those who conduct product and resource reviews on their site, will converge to take part in sessions on a variety of topics including brand-blogger relations, website design, perfecting the pitch, statistics, photography and more. This brand-friendly conference welcomes company and agency representatives as building and strengthening relationships between bloggers and brands is one of the conference’s primary goals.

Get your Reviewers Retreat Tickets Today!!

How to score BIG discounts on your tickets!

You can secure your spot at the Reviewers Retreat by purchasing tickets at early bird pricing – only $199 dollars if you buy them now, that’s a savings of $79 dollars!! AND – they’re having a huge Black Friday sale too! Check it out:

On November 25th the first 25 Reviewer’s Retreat conference passes sold using code BLACKFRIDAY25 will receive $25 off the early bird pricing! (Making passes only $149.99!!) If all 25 tickets are sold, we will randomly select one to receive a FULL REFUND. Yep, that’s a FREE ticket!

Who’s coming with me??!!

If you’ve already bought your ticket, or are planning to get one soon – let me know that you’ll be attending! I’d absolutely love to connect with some of my amazing bloggy fans at this event!

Posted by Meagan Paullin on November 20, 2011 Filed Under: Blogging Resources | 2 Comments

New Feature: Weekly Blogger Opportunities

Weekly Blogger Opportunities

I’m going to start a weekly feature, each Wednesday, with new opportunities for bloggers. If you find a great one that you don’t mind sharing, please leave a comment on the post each week, so that we can all benefit. Some of these will be limited-time sign-ups for campaigns, but some will be ongoing brand programs – Starting next week there will be a new tab in the “Blogging Resources” section in the navigation bar, so you’ll be able to look back at past weeks opp’s. I’ll have the new opportunity list up each Wednesday by 5PM, PST. If you’re a business that would like to have your family-friendly blogger outreach program listed, please email me – Meagan, at sunshineandsippycups@gmail.com – and I’ll add it to the weekly list.

This week’s Opp’s:

OXO Blogger Outreach – Enter your info to get onto their Blogger Outreach Database, so they can contact you with new opportunities.
Rubbermaid Buzz – Join this ambassador program from Rubbermaid and tell them what YOU would do to spread buzz about their awesome products.
zuuzs.com: Sign up an account, then scroll to the bottom to find the Blogger sign up tab. Earn cash for referrals. Very cool.
Tiny Prints: If you’re not already working with Tiny Prints, sign up for their Holiday Card Campaign.
Label Daddy: Sign up to do a review and giveaway of your favorite Label Daddy product.

Share these Blogger Opportunities

Feel free to share this list in any of your own networks or groups – All opportunities that will be listed each week are either brand programs that are currently open to new sign-ups, or contacts who have requested to have their information shared. If you have a great opp to leave in the comments, please be sure that the contact is comfortable having their information shared with others. If so, add it here, so we can all find some great new resources and opportunities each week!

Posted by Meagan Paullin on November 16, 2011 Filed Under: Blogging Resources, Weekly Opp's | 2 Comments

My Time Management Crisis – in Poorly Drawn Graphics.

Anyone else have this problem??

This describes my days perfectly. I’m going to frame it, and put it above my desk….

From happyplace.com.

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Posted by Meagan Paullin on November 15, 2011 Filed Under: Fun Stuff | 7 Comments

Free Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks Book!

Maximize Your Microsoft Office Tools

As a busy mom, a blogger, and an Educational Consultant with Discovery Toys – I’m a busy girl! I’ve been struggling to find a good way to get more organized, so that I can keep up with all of the projects that I’m juggling. My solution? Make my own planning binders using free printables online, and some really great documents, calendars, logs, and worksheets from my own Microsoft Office! Seriously, I didn’t even know that I had so much stuff available! And the printable organizing stuff is just the beginning – you’d be amazed at all of the great tools you’ve had hiding right there in your computer, and probably never even looked at. I’m working on some posts to share my new blogging, household, and crafty binders – I’ll have them ready soon! Until then – get this totally free book and start learning about all of these great tools and tricks!

Free Guide: Microsoft Office 2010: Tips and Tricks – Limited Time Offer Click Here to get it!

Posted by Meagan Paullin on November 9, 2011 Filed Under: Freebies, Blogging Resources | No Comments

Custom iPhone Case with Blog Logo: $9.99 – plus save 50%!!

Super cool personalized holiday gifts – Super cool prices too!

Pexagon offers unique and exciting personalized products that make great gifts for your friends, family, or business contacts! From custom USB flash drives to personalized pens and smartphone cases, show them you think they’re awesome with a customized gift from Pexagon! Best of all, custom laser engraving is available on most products and is absolutely FREE!

Add personalized text, upload your own logos, choose from our stock themes … you imagine it, we create it! And just because our items are personalized with no order minimums and inexpensive shipping options that doesn’t mean our prices are high – In fact, Pexagon’s complete line of Custom USB Flash Drives start at just $5.49!

Take advantage of this spectacular SocialSpark Deal and get all of your holiday shopping done early this year. Some of the cool features:

USB flash drives, personalized pens and smartphone cases
Hundreds of color combinations
Custom laser engraving
Free personalization with text, logos, and themes

What I ordered:

I ordered a super, amazingly cool, iPhone case with my Sunshine and Sippy Cups logo on it! Totally awesome, I know. Best part?? ONLY $9.99!! What?? Serious. And YOU need one for YOUR business too! There is a ton of other cool stuff, the prices rock, and I know you will love this.