General Business

More of Internet Marketing’s Dark Side

August 23, 2010
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You see it everywhere online. The claims of easy work-at-home riches are all over the place. You see huge numbers being shouted, like it’s easy to make tens of thousands of dollars per month – if you just know the one secret that the guru of the moment is trying to sell you. For only [...]

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Freedom!

August 18, 2010
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Damn that felt good! I just spent about 30 minutes in my email account, clicking the UNSUBSCRIBE link to a bunch of “guru” newsletters. I intend to do more as they arrive. I may keep getting a few, but only because I get some value from what they send. They’ll have to keep earning their [...]

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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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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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Customer Service Done Right

June 15, 2010
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I recently bought a product from Paul Myers called The Minisite Project. This is training lessons on building minisites – I know, surprise, surprise. It is video based. Lots of videos. This was made available as a single zip file – almost 400 megs. That was a monster file. And that was a problem. I [...]

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Sweet Marketing

July 11, 2009
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I recently signed up for Frank Kern’s Mass Control 2.0 course. Mass Control is a high priced Internet marketing product. Frank offers a 60 day guarantee with it. I am about half way through the guarantee period. Today I got a box from the UPS man. It was from the San Francisco Cookie Company. I’ve [...]

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How to Make Sure Lost Customers Stay Lost

August 24, 2008

In my recent post about making your customers go away, I mentioned some greed tricks Earthlink has pulled that will cost them my business. I also mentioned Netzero. NetZero didn’t do anything upfront to get me peeved – I just didn’t like their service. So I called to cancel. That’s when they made sure I’ll [...]

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How to Make Your Customers Go Away

August 20, 2008

I’ve been doing this Internet stuff for a long time. Years and years and years. Most of those years my ISP has been Earthlink. When I started out there were only a few companies providing Internet service. I tried most of them. Out here in rural America the performance was spotty at best. Some days [...]

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