New Decade? Not Quite So Fast!

January 1, 2010

Like me, you’ve undoubtedly seen many articles that are attempting to not only label the first decade of the 21st Century (I like “The Oughts” the best) — they are trying to wrap up and summarize the decade.
There’s just one tiny little problem: The decade isn’t over yet. The first decade of the 21 century, [...]

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Internet Marketing: Random Thoughts

December 30, 2009

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): Internet Marketing is NOT my focus right now. I have another project that I’m deeply involved in that has my focus. But regardless of where I’m focused, I actually enjoy Internet Marketing and running a home-based business and will eventually return to it with the intent of creating an income [...]

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The Kind Of Membership Site You Want To Join

December 26, 2009

I’ve been a member of Dennis Becker’s "Earn 1K A Day" Membership Site for some time now. Even though almost all of my work is currently focused on something other than the kind of online business that Dennis teaches, I have remained a member and have no plans of quitting. And something he did today [...]

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The PDF Reader Saga Continues

December 25, 2009

I mentioned recently that I had dumped FoxIt Reader and was switching to Sumatra PDF because I was tired of having the admin prompt come up every time I wanted to open a PDF document (when using Vista). That’s not a good thing, and if a person doesn’t have the admin password, then how do [...]

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The “Instant Niche Expert” Fraud

December 22, 2009

Hello, Internet Marketers! How many of you have heard this before:

Find a “hot” niche market where people are buying stuff.
Spend a few hours doing research and collecting information.
Label yourself an “expert” because you now know more than 98% of the population.
Start creating the products for your product funnel, from your giveaway PDF to your high [...]

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Doing What Works vs. Doing What’s Right

December 18, 2009

I see a lot of people who are just starting out in the Internet marketing field that are faced with a choice. On one side lies the “Do What Works” school of thought. Most people end up here, and why not? After all, the stuff works, and our goal is to make money, right?
Not so [...]

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The Real Issue With “Predicting” Future Earnings

December 17, 2009

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow, we shall go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then [...]

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Scarcity: Random Ramblings

December 8, 2009

Scarcity. It’s a common tool used in Internet Marketing circles.

“I’m only selling 500 copies of this ebook before I pull it off the market FOREVER!”
“The price goes up to a bazillion dollars next week!”
“I can’t let too many people get their hands on this tactic or it will spoil it for everybody!”

And so forth [...]

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A Good Reason To Quit

December 1, 2009

Once, a long time ago, when I actually listened to my bosses…
When I was young and impressionable…!
I worked for a major (whose name I’ve forgotten) who showed me a system for taking every task you have and putting them in order of priority. It doesn’t matter how many tasks you have, you can [...]

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Neat Payroll Deduction Calculator

November 26, 2009

I’ll be moving back to the States next year from Germany (hopefully), and as a part of that, I’ll be losing some of the incentives I get paid for living and working overseas. I was wondering what kind of effect this would have on my take home pay.
I set about to figure out all of [...]

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