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Name: Alaina Frederick | alaina@dinkerandgiggles.com
Number of written posts: 13
Alaina (pronounced ah-lane-ah) is a mother, wife, and lover of the internet. She's sharing her journey at Dinker & Giggles- from healthy eating to cloth diapers. A journey filled with stinkers, laughs, and a few bumps along the way.
So now that you have recognized you have gotten caught up and off track, where do you go next? For me it’s back to basics. To the brainstorming ball with pen in hand and ready to write down my ideas and goals. Time to figure out what it is that I want to be focusing [...]
Written on July 26th, 2009 at 2:28 am by Alaina Frederick
The past few weeks I’ve been getting repeated kicks in the rear reminding me “Where is your focus?“. I’ve lost it. Yes, I got caught up and totally 100% lost my focus and now I’ve got to get it back. So what did I get caught up in? Mommy Blogging Reviews. I originally started my [...]
Written on March 5th, 2009 at 5:53 pm by Alaina Frederick
If you frequent Twitter, or are a member of Mom Masterminds you may have noticed some calls for votes. Votes to make that person one of the Leading Moms In Business. StartupNation is having a competition to find the top 200 ladies in business for the year 2009. It’s more than just a competition, it’s [...]
Written on December 19th, 2008 at 12:24 am by Alaina Frederick
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As a mother you know that glazed look your friends with no children get when you talk about your trials with potty training, latest place you found peanut butter (and it wasn’t in the kitchen), and how you would never trade in your life with kids for hers. Its a familiar glazed look cause you [...]
Written on December 18th, 2008 at 12:23 am by Alaina Frederick
If you have a WordPress blog, then you have seen that little line of text at the top of your admin area “WordPress 2.7 is available! Upgrade now.” It sits there just screaming ‘click me, click me‘. If you haven’t seen this then go log into your self-hosted admin area now because its there just [...]
Written on November 30th, 2008 at 5:53 pm by Alaina Frederick
I am very excited about this new plugin I read about on Lynn Terry’s blog, ClickNewz. I have always wanted to have a way that my readers could listen to my posts. However the thought of having to sit and record each and every post has stopped me time and time again. Well now with [...]
Written on November 18th, 2008 at 2:20 am by Alaina Frederick
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By now I’m sure that you are familiar with affiliate programs and all the great ways that they help you to monetize your blog through text links, content and even graphics. Oh, how I love graphics. They add color and fun to any blog or website. Many stick to using only text links to send [...]
Written on November 16th, 2008 at 1:39 am by Alaina Frederick
Some of you have heard by now that BlogRush is shutting down, others may be like me and had never heard of BlogRush until people started talking about its sudden end. So what is BlogRush (…or should I say what was BlogRush)? In order to answer this question I had to do a little digging [...]
Written on October 23rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm by Alaina Frederick
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Last night I was joined by Berni Dourlain to continue our discussion on blogging. If you missed our initial interview, catch it here. We decided to start from the beginning leaving the coding and actual setting up of the blog for later but to cover what and to whom you blog. Forgive if we jump [...]
Written on October 21st, 2008 at 8:04 am by Alaina Frederick
Last night I met with my friend, Bernadette Dourlain and her 8-year old daughter Cordey, at the local Panera Bread. Berni has heard me talk of blogging, WordPress, search engine ranking- you name it. She wanted to pick my brain on how she could add ‘something’ to her Tomboy Tools website so that she could [...]
Written on October 20th, 2008 at 2:09 pm by Alaina Frederick
If you are here learning about the new tools and tricks to help you monetize your blog then you’ve heard of the term ‘Mommy Blogger’ and probably consider yourself in this category. Have you heard of ‘Niche Blogger’? In a recent post by Lynn Terry at Click Newz she recapped her time at BlissDom ‘O8. [...]
Written on October 19th, 2008 at 10:54 am by Alaina Frederick
How often have you been sitting on the couch working on your latest profitable blogging post and needed to print something? If you are like me you’d rather be sitting curled up comfy then at a desk. Personally, I will save everything I need to print in a folder so I can later plug my [...]
Written on October 18th, 2008 at 6:53 pm by Alaina Frederick
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Hello! My name is Alaina Frederick and I am another new blogger here at Profitable Mommy Blogging. I am a mother to three boys and have had an interesting journey to mommy blogging. Almost five years ago I decided to quit my corporate banking job to be home with my first born. The first months [...]



Written on August 1st, 2009 at 3:34 am by Alaina Frederick
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