http://ethicstrading.com/blog Ideas, hints and tips to help you live a little bit more Green! Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:06:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm tinkering with the Ethics Trading site again.... It's slow going but I'm adding some colour, changing the wording of various pages and generally just tweaking things. It's not a complete redesign, although that is in the back of my head for sometime in the near future. There are also some new ... http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/12/04/tinkering-with-ethics-trading/ I've been tagged by Mrs Green! Now for those of you that know nothing of Blog-Tagging this is where a blog owner/author performs a task, documents it and then passes it on to a predesignated number of fellow bloggers! So, my task today is to tell you six Interesting things about myself ... http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/11/27/tag-youre-it/ I'm getting in a new range of stock sometime in the next week or so and it's very exciting! I'll be building it all up over time and so you'll need to keep popping back to check what's new. It's all natural skin care and the first lot should be arriving during ... http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/11/18/new-stock/ Ethics Trading seems to be being treated as 2 distinct sites by Google. I've been doing some search engine optimisation work and looking at rage rankings as well as search positioning for certain key words. So, I've been tweaking the Ethics Trading website, blogging like crazy and posting in a few different ... http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/11/11/thats-interesting/ EcoKnits is run by a friend of mine and we've been talking soap nuts for wool washing. Proper wool is tricky to wash safely without felting, shrinking or matting it nastily and ruining that perfect, soft and squishy scarf/hat/whatever you made for your best friend for Christmas. Now Kris at Eco Knits ... http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/11/06/ecoknits-soap-nuts-for-wool/ moar funny pictures Try to recycle some of the Trick or Treat stuff from later won't you.... http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/10/31/happy-halloween/ I reuse carrier bags as kitchen bin liners because I do fling some yucky stuff in there and to be honest it does make life easier.  But the more I reduce my rubbish the less bin liners I need, and the more I'm thinking about what is going in my ... http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/10/29/do-you-really-need-a-bin-liner/ All that product information and sales patter, boring. It's all very well knowing loads about the products I sell but that information is all over the main Ethics Trading website isn't it? Most of it is anyway, and this blog can always update you if I discover anything new and ... http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/10/24/business-blogs-are-boring/ The long and eagerly awaited sequel to The Portal Between is now available for sale. The Portal Sundered carries on where the first book left off, with Sam on Ametsams side of the portals and Kate and Lily in our world, coping with everyday life; and a new social worker. Lily's ... http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/10/05/the-portal-sundered-is-out/ There is a signed, hard back, dust jacket edition of The Portal Between up for grabs on the Mumzone forums.  Just answer a simple question and your name goes in the draw. One lucky winner will be drawn at random from the correct entries. There are always a heap of competitions ... http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/10/03/win-a-signed-book/