Now, more than ever before, it’s not enough to just have a site that represents you, or a blog, you have to have a complete profile. A profile shows off your messaging, what you think, what you know, who you’re associated with, and that you’re genuine and ready for people to connect with. Without a proper online profile, your Internet existence, which is how anybody who is getting to know you remotely comes to know you, is in a void.

This is particularly true for authors and other artists.

Here are the top ten things you need for a successful online presence:

1. A genuine reason for having one
2. Attention grabbing titles for updates
3. Consistency: an identifiable look, feel, motif
4. Links between each part (between Twitter, Google+, blog, etc)
5. Regular updates (at least a few times a week)
6. No spamming updates (the same phrase tweeted three

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Another Amazon Kindle customer written very highly of ‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things‘.

Great book. Katherine is my new guru of parenting
 As I read this book I took my iPad over to my husband several times and we’d both laugh or groan and say “Oh that is so spot on”. This author really knows her subject matter and she openly shares her amazing experiences in this book. It is so easy to feel hurt or get angry when your kid is being difficult. I have really learnt how to handle parenting situations much better from this book. Thankfully I am not having to deal with some of the more serious issues that the book talks about, but I am

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It’s short and sweet but ‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things‘ has already got one review on Amazon. Five gold stars have ben ticked and the reader says:

“This is one of the most helpful books I have ever read. Highly recommended. Katherine has much knowledge to impart after helping raise so many foster children.”

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I asked Katherine Gordy Levine … There are many recurring messages that run through ‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things‘. One of them you state outright towards the beginning of the book and that is “Some things are worth worrying about. Others aren’t.” and you promise “I’ll teach you the difference.”. In a nutshell, when it comes to parenting, how can you tell the difference?

Her answer …

The things worth worrying about can fit into a walnut shell. Worry only about life and limb. Now it can be argued that life and limb issues come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Unsafe sex, experimenting with drugs, getting drunk and risk taking behavior can involve life and limb. Still if you step back and look at the statistics, and keep in mind my mother’s

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MetaPlume is proud to announce the eBook publication of ‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things‘ by Katherine Gordy Levine. This book had a successful print run in 1991 and pops up on Amazon for a premium price from time to time. Working with the author, MetaPlume has revised and updated the copy and re-published the title as an eBook on Amazon Kindle making this invaluable text available to a new generation of parents of teenagers.

‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things‘ teaches the reader many valuable lessons about communication, negotiating, putting scenarios into perspective, and maintaining a caring relationship with your child, even when their behaviour is giving you prematurely grey hair.

Katherine Levine’s advice is like no other parent’s because she has been a parent to

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