Guest Writer Week: Nathan Biebel with "Pestering Taylor"

 

       For quite a while we’ve warned you that we were planning on opening up an online store.  If you read the Fall Issue of our magazine you also know that Taylor Scully was recently hired to manage that store.

        Taylor is hard at work putting together a vast line of products and organizing them into categories that will make the store more user friendly.  This involves contacting various distributors and organizing each product into its proper category.  This might sound easy, and it would be if we only planned on offering just a few products in one or two categories.  However, we’ve got high hopes for the online store, and we want a wide range of products that will help our community meet a wide range of “prudence” based needs.

That being said, we bugged Taylor until he took a five minute break to tell us about the store.  He says that it will be organized into five basic categories when it goes live:

Conservation – This is our foundation as a company and we think it’s only proper that we provide our community with products that conserve energy on a small scale.  Even if you don’t think solar panels are right for you, I think we can all agree that using light bulbs that are up to 90% more energy efficient is the prudent thing to do.  If for no other reason than your energy bill.

Gardening – Growing your own garden is a great way to practice frugal living while also getting away from unhealthy processed food.  Many in our community prefer organic products, but buying organic is expensive, while growing it yourself can be cheaper and just as good.  We want to provide you with the tools to do that.

Home – Everything from Laundry detergents, to cleaners of all sorts, to food dehydrators, to hand operated grain mills.  Whatever need you have in the home, we want to make sure we have a product that meets it; all of which, by the way, are non-harmful, environmentally friendly solutions to your every day living needs.

Personal Care - Hair care, personal grooming, and skin care; these products are designed to be safe for both you and nature.

Recreation – We all like our recreation.  We want to make sure you have what you need to enjoy your time in the great outdoors.  Backpacks made from recycled materials, solar powered flashlights, and safety kits are just some of the options available in this category.

In the future there will be more categories, as things get going and Taylor gets in touch with more folks on the distributing end.  Until then, Taylor has already met our product goals for start-up (we already have close to 200 products and he’s adding more every day), and the store will be going live just as soon as our new website is complete!

We’ve been excited about this for a long time, and seeing it finally come together has given us a lot of hope about it’s success!

We’d love to pester Taylor about this some more, but he is already back to work.

---  Nathan Biebel

       For more information and more articles please look on their site HERE or go to http://blog.prudentliving.com/

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There Are Different Ways To Shine

        If you haven't read Anne Polajenko's post "Calling all Dancers" then please do so, it contains a lot of good info on how you can possibly acquire some free So Danca gear. And free is always a fantastic thing. Another way by which we bring people together and offer a free service to our consumers is through this blog, allow me to enlighten you on the infinite possibilities available to you. And best of all, there are no strings attached, believe it or not, its actually a free service.

       If you have an upcoming performance and would like for us to highlight it, just send us a pic of the poster and a brief description of the event, and we'll help you get some more view by posting it on here, free online advertizing, the way the internet should have always been. This also applies to stores that wish to have a blurb on here, dance schools as well. This also applies to any coming of age dancer who has either a photo or a youtube video of himself/herself dancing, if we get a lot of these we could even start a weekly "Dancers You Should Keep An Eye Out For" post.

       Now it is true that we all love dance, but maybe dance is not your overall goal, maybe you want to be a writer or a musician or an artist. Truly I say to you, there is a ton of space for you as well. We constantly feature other people's work, the ones that get sent to us by artists like yourself get featured in an article with your name and a link to whatever gallery you provide. Your level of skill is not the focus here, the focus is getting a chance to show your work to the world, and starting the journey of getting your name out there, for all to see.

        We've previously hosted a guest writer, Stephen Demmler's story "Superman's Landlord", and we could host one of your stories as well. This could be a fictional story, could be a story about your own life, dance, the dance community around you, dreams and aspirations, a movie review. Maybe you disagreed with a previous review we've done, well let your voice be heard and send us your own review, there is always room for the "people" to let their voices be heard.

        And musicians, honestly we wouldn't be here without you guys. Personally I love supporting upcoming artists, it's always great to see a garage band become a super popular. If you've recently written a song and want it to be featured here, just shoot me a youtube link, and we'll let the populace hear your fantastic work. There are many mediums on the internet that will aid you in getting your name out there, one more will only aid you further.

       Email your works to News@sodanca.com and get your name out there, at So Danca we love giving people these type of opportunities, to let yourself be heard, and bring the community together,

     Love from your humble blogger,