July 2010

A Pirate Meets His Match

July 28, 2010
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I’ve been following the adventures of iCop vs the content pirate. jl Scott of iCop tells me that her website content has been removed from the other site. In my previuos post I pretended to be suspicious of the timing of this – jl has just released a book about protecting your content from crooks [...]

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I Wouldn’t Steal From This Lady

July 27, 2010
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I’m not really sure this can even be real. For years I’ve been reading the newsletter of jl scott, the Director of iCop. iCop is a members organization that promotes – make that demands – honest dealings in online business. If you join and follow their guidelines and rules, you can display the iCop seal on [...]

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A Sonia Marathon

July 25, 2010
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I don’t watch much TV. Mostly football and basketball. And NCIS. I really like NCIS, and I’m not alone, because it’s the top rated show on TV. And I’m sure I’m not alone when I tell you I love Abby on the show. The USA network has NCIS marathons pretty often. They’ll have NCIS on [...]

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#TC10 New Format Is Good

July 23, 2010
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Well week one of The Challenge is over. And I’m behind already. In the past – in the days of The 30 Day Challenge – I would be hopelessly behind. My old slow Internet connection and the fast pace of the training didn’t allow catch-up. Things have changed for the better. The Challenge has a [...]

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That Funny Google

July 13, 2010
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Homework I’ve been doing my homework for day 2 of The Challenge. Trying to find some interesting micro-niches. They suggest using the Google search-based keyword tool to hunt for ideas. So I’ve looking through their list of suggestions. I was looking through the pets category. The screenshot above is cats subcategory. Wow Google, what are [...]

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The Challenge Module 1 Day 1

July 13, 2010
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Day 1 Today was day 1 of The Challenge. I’m going to blog about my thoughts here as things procede. Today was about the differences in markets, niches and micro-niches. We learned  that we need to get down to the micro-niche level so we can really focus in and avoid some of the competition. Drilling [...]

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The Challenge Begins

July 12, 2010
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Perhaps you’ve heard of The Thirty Day Challenge? I’ve joined the 30DC several times in last few years. But for one reason or another I’ve always fallen behind. I’ve had to deal with a VERY slow dialup connection. 30DC has been heavy on videos. Dialup and videos just don’t play well together. And sometimes life [...]

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Premium WordPress Themes – Free

July 10, 2010
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Do You Use WP? Most folks interested in Internet Marketing have a blog using WordPress. WP is powerful, easy to use and can be customized to do just about anything. I’ve used it for local business clients, to build websites that aren’t blogs. WordPress comes with a couple of themes out-of-the-box. I don’t think anyone [...]

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The 4 Laws of Success in Any Business

July 7, 2010

I read lot’s of newsletters. Some of them are worth the read. Below you’ll find a pretty good, common sense article about how to be successful in your business – by someone that knows a few things about that subject. Here are four simple laws of success in any kind of business. At first glance, [...]

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Do You Need A Phone?

July 6, 2010

Today I’d like to share and article from jl scott, ph.d (yes I know I didn’t use capital letters on her name, but she never does either). It’s a bit of a rant. Dr . scott has a bit of an opinion about having a telephone number on your website. I’ll let her explain: What? [...]

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