Our Muses at ... http://www.lamuseinn.com/
& Our New Edition Addition!
We had the good fortune of getting the opportunity to talk with John and Kerry Fanning, the proprietors of La Muse Inn, a Retreat House for writers and other creative folks, located in the South of France. Kerry called www.SaintsforSinners.com because she was interested in getting a medal for her husband, John. They're spending the Christmas Holiday in the Northeast U.S. and will be sharing our hand-painted saint medal designs and serenity stories with friends and family for Christmas. Though we are technically "strangers" to each other, it seemed we "clicked" while talking and a phone call asking for some saint medal packages turned into something more, a truly serendipitious treat for us and our web site.
Kerry let me know she found our site by Googling and also that it did not come up onthe first pages and was rather "buried" in her search listings. While SaintsforSinners.com does very well on the serach result listings when a person searches for "Saints Medals," or "Hand-Painted Saint Medals" there are many areas where are web site winds up lost in the mix of hundreds or thousands of search result terms Googled. Kerry suggested that I speak to her husband about search terms and ways to improve rankings and get noticed. It was an offer not be declined and I had this fantastic chat with John, a Frenchmen speaking fluent English with a marvelous French accent (yet another added bonus!). John and I talked about the web sites, search term issues, key words, codes and file transfer protocols, among othe things. And then the conversation became more cordial in spirit and just as broad as broad can be.
John asked about the Blog, which I have been pretty "hit and miss" with about in the past. Sometimes I'm writing; othe times, it just doesn't get done. John presented great ideas and views and there was one that struck a chord. Why not try a "Proustian Questionnaire" type component and incorporate it into the Blog as a regular series? I fell in love with the idea immedaietly and today's Bolg serves as the announcement that we will be presenting our new edition additon, a "Getting to Know You" Marcel Proust Interview series, where I do an introduction and write about folks SaintsforSinners.com loves and admires, tell a bit about their life and relationship to SaintsforSinners.com, and then their answers to some basic questions about saints, saints medals, faith, hope, trust, religion, the Sacraments, just to name a few. We have such a wonderful cross section of folks in our SaintsforSinners.com family, that I think the interviews will alwasy be fresh and interesting. I've already asked two very different folks if they will be our first two interview subjects and I am so excited about the prospect of presenting life views from the people who wear and share our hand-painted saint medal designs, their reasons for doing do, their views on the topics mentioned earlier, and who know what else! This is a true work in progress.
I'd like to offer my sincere thanks to John and Kerry Fanning at www.Lamuseinn.com for offering this gem of an idea to us. For those of you who read the blog, please me know which people you'd liketo hear from and what questions you'd like asked. I'll be posting the first New Edition Addition very soon. Thnaks to all of you for helping me to create a vehicle that has certainly taken some wrong turns over the years, yet alwasy offered a scenic view that keeps me busy and learning every day. I am, indeed, blessed. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Fondly,
Rob Clemenz, Founder
