JudyAnn Lorenz's (vajudy) Blog

Paula Walter has expert training for foreclosure experiences and for short sale or other options in her designations of Certified Default Specialist Shortsale and Foreclosure Resource Workforce Housing Specialist. She will be offering a Foreclosure Intervention Workshop every first and third Thur...

Okay, now if I write, they won't be secrets anymore.  But, if the title got your attention, I believe you will benefit. Blogging is the foundation piece of a social media strategy, even though it may seem a little solitary.  After all, you are usually doing all of the talking, unless you have hea...

Does your social media activity : Facebook and Twitter provide you with fresh new leads or does it build your reputation with the network of people who are already aware of you?  People who know most of what you can do for them, but benefit from the information you share A a fresh blog post A Twi...

Well, so am I. Jenny Persha  was way ahead with her post about the green plans for recovery at Greensburg,Kansas.  REALITY SERIES ON GREEN BUILDING.   As I commented at Jenny's post, there is now coverage of the project in the Kansas City Business Journal with an article by Rob Roberts.One of the...

Just as I was walking in the door on Wednesday, the phone was ringing. When I answered, someone in a surly tone asked me a garbled question.  "Excuse me?"   The surly question was asked a bit more clearly.  "Will you be supporting XXXXXX ( a prominent Democratic candidate for governor of Missouri...

I do not work for, nor have affiliation for the companies I am going to write about today.  I have just experienced uplifting great customer service from them and their "mail order" or online shopping, this week.  Acknowledgement just wouldn't stay out of my new blog, Chips, at OzarksMountainCoun...

This week the Mansfield Mirror announced the availablity of free centennial calendars to help commemorate 100 years of journalism in Mansfield, Missouri.  The Mirror plans to note the celebration with a special historical section this Spring featuring Mirror and Mansfield history and vintage phot...

In a conversation recently, someone shared they were having trouble with a little thing in email that unfortunately many of us with some experience take for granted.When, at our house, we were all embracing technology a few years ago, some moved ahead of others.  It was SO tempting, when they ask...

Mansfield Home Center is the new name for the former Mansfield Building Supply.  We are enjoying some creative, but classy new TV commercials for Mansfield Home Center on local (Springfield, MO) television.   We are glad to see aggressive marketing of a good business for Mansfield.  I recommend s...

Those little puzzle boxes that you have to solve or type in the letters when you complete a secure form on the Internet -- know them?  A computer spam spider can't read them; only a human can recognize them because of their presentation and arrangement. Have you seen the ones that seem to have tw...