Blogging Product Review: Symphony #Crosspost #Awesomeness

I am pretty sure I found Symphony by Googling the internet, looking for an alternative way for my blog posts to automatically go up on my Facebook page for Burgandy Ice.  The Before-n-After is (painfully & embarrassingly to me) quite obvious:

Before Symphony:  Some reposting, rare posting of my posts and others
After Symphony:  Tons of posts and the pics are the book covers rather than one of my banners from the site (previous irritating issue.)

To be honest, I'm posting this review because they've offered a free year of using Symphony. I tried it out knowing I may have to pay something after a month. It was worth it to me to find an effective way to revive my dying FB page.

I mean, since starting to work FT 2.5 yrs ago, I just don't have time to make fancy posts, you know? I can't do the "right" thing and share my own stuff with a witty comment.  Sorry.

But...

If I can spend my few spare minutes promoting an awesome book here, on my blog, and have it post to my other social media, well...... YEAH!!!  :-D

So I'm already sold on the idea. And for Facebook, especially, Symphony rocks.

But wait, there's more!!

Lol.

The lil' sidebanner thing so you can share my post on any of your social media was super-easy to add. I embedded the code in one of my side-banner thingames and followed the super-easy directions from Symphony and WHAM! Cute side thingame.

I've tried side-thingames before. Sometimes they take awhile to set up and they always fade away for unknown reasons. I'm not a whiz with blogging html stuff and obviously I use blogger, but it seems like if you want something to work, it should work.  So.

Then there's the way you can hover over any pix and re-post to Pinterest!!  :-D  And everywhere else. Honestly, I feel like I should say "you're welcome" for figuring that out, although the directions from Symphony were super-easy.

Symphony asked for an honest review... and honestly, I've spent a total of 15-20 mins setting up a few things and THEY WORK. It didn't take forever and it was easy to follow the directions. Without being overly mushy, they didn't steal all my time and I accomplished what I wanted, too, so SYMPHONY ROCKS.

Will my FB come alive again?  I only got 2 new likes this week... help me out, here!  Unless you follow my blog b/c obviously... I'm just reposting the same content. *snort*  Hey, at least I'm "alive" on the interweb!!

If you're interested, here's the scoop:

I've been using Symphony Tools to manage my social media accounts and I really like it.  Give it a try.
http://www.symphonytools.com/invite/MTAxNTMyNDYzNjk4NjIxNjM=

Viva Labs Coconut Oil - "Climbing Inside a Coconut in the Tropics"

Drum roll please....

I was contacted quite out of the blue to review Viva Labs Coconut Oil. I wondered if maybe they knew I had Health-Crazy relatives?  0.o  Probably not.  Nor were they aware of my... um... country view of healthy products. I figured they were joking, so I said, "sure!"  When this reserved-looking container arrived for my reviewing, I was pleasantly surprised.

Although I haven't products if they're not produced by a writer before, I will review any & every product if they're anything like this one. Please.

My first impression is of climbing inside a fresh coconut. 

My second impression is also of climbing inside a fresh coconut. I don't think I did anything for half an hour of blogging besides stick my nose back inside the container, even though I left it open and the kids wandered out to see what smelled so great. Like I had a new air freshener, or something. Sitting next to the open container was not enough, though, 'cause I was instantly addicted to sticking my nose inside and inhaling deeply. OMG.  It smells better than a coconut at the store... it's like a coconut IN the tropics.

My healthy relative dropped in and was instantly envious (of which I took advantage, of course.) She suggested that I use a couple tablespoons in the smoothies I make for the kids. That the coconut oil would be perfect for adding creaminess to raw food smoothies or ice cream. I pointed out that although it smelled like tropical heaven, there was no taste to the oil. She said that was good. Then she made sure it was organic and cold pressed and was surprised that it recommended cooking with it.  (She's a fan of raw.)

So I thought about what I could fry up with it.  :-D

I make waffles on weekends for my family and they always want crispy ones, but I hate slathering oil on my waffle-maker and butter... it's tasty, but doesn't make crispy waffles. The coconut oil is my new fav thing to make waffles with. Just takes a bit and makes perfect waffles every time.

Yea, that's probably not what the person who contacted me had in mind as a "review", but it's real. Waffles and smoothies.  Great raw, great cooked... shiny in the hair (it said "skin & hair care", so hey, we tried it!) but my favorite is how heavenly it smells.

5 Stars.  Or 5.5 Stars, 'cause it requires instant repeating!