Doing Blog Maintenance is so BLECH!
11 Aug 2008 Leave a Comment
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Late last night/early this morning, I fixed everything that made my theme go bonkers and also brought back my blogroll. I just tested a few of the links, and looks like a few have closed up their sites. So now I have to deal with abandonment issues brought on by the disappearance of Gourmet A Go Go. (Darn it, I really liked Chef Jules’ site too!)
Well, maybe not abandonment issues, I just have to go through the blogroll and weed out the old, maybe add some new. If you want to be added to my blogroll, just let me know. I gotta warn you, I only link to sites I like and don’t care if they reciprocate or not, so you probably won’t be on my list if you have a site that sells knitted hats to marauding Peruvian duck hunters.
Goodbye Host Gator!
30 Jul 2008 Leave a Comment
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To Host Gator: I am switching hosting companies asap. I had bragged to others, even encouraged people to sign up with you because of your fantastic uptime. However, your company seems to be totally devoid of any sort of customer service. Here’s why I’m leaving your company:
Apparently, you had a security flaw and had to change everyone’s passwords. How do I know that your fix is any better than what you had before?
When switching everyone’s passwords, you neglected to email all your customers. I am assuming you sent it out with the bill, but customers like me that pay in advance apparently didn’t get the email/bill.
When I went to your site early this morning and initiated a customer chat session, the guy acted like this is a brand new problem, never heard of it and I had to jump through all sorts of hoops to get the password situation sorted out. I guess “Chuck” didn’t think that I’d stop by the HostGator forum and find out that my situation was far from being uncommon, and that a whole bunch of customers were/are as displeased as I am. I probably would have stayed with your company if “Chuck” would have owned up to the situation, apologized and helped me get on my way as soon as possible.
Now, instead of being a happy customer, I am spending the rest of today trying to find a reliable provider.
See ya later, Host Gator!
Are you a Salt River Project (SRP) customer?
28 Feb 2008 Leave a Comment
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If you live in the metro Phoenix area, and your electricity is from SRP, you’ll be happy to know that they believe in sharing their financial surplus with their customers. We can look forward to an average savings of “$32.43 each on bills for 2008 because the company’s financial performance last year was better than forecast.”
Now, I know that’s not a wheelbarrow full of money. But at least it’s not an increase, right? For years, I was on Arizona Public Service (APS) and the rates seemed to be much worse than what SRP has.
Mark Bonsall, SRP chief financial executive said,”When we have a better-than-expected financial year, we want to share that with our customers.”
And I say we customers should show our appreciation right back at them, especially when you call them during one of their frequent power outages. The next time you’re on the phone with them, and the representative says, “Thank you for calling SRP”, reply with, “No, thank you for being SRP”.
Want to learn how to really make money?
24 Feb 2008 Leave a Comment
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So you’ve decided its time to make decent money online. Your first step is to
After you’ve signed up there, then it’s time to start learning from some of the masters. One of the best ways to get the information you need is to attend Affiliate Summit. The founders, Missy Ward and Shawn Collins, have assembled some of the greatest names in affiliate marketing in one place. In case you didn’t know it, Shawn Collins literally wrote THE book
If you want to follow along with the happenings at Affiliate Summit West, they’ve set up their own YouTube channel, and they’ve already started uploading videos. Everything I’ve seen so far on the videos has really piqued my curiosity, and if you’re like me and want to earn money online, you’d do well to check them out to see what they have to offer. Then again, if you want to know my secrets, just buy my upcoming ebook titled,”I Just Need to Sell One Hundred”. It won’t be for everyone because I’m selling them for ten grand each. I may not be able to sell tons of them, but like the title says, I just need to sell one hundred copies.
Is affiliate marketing a good alternative to blogging for dollars?
22 Feb 2008 1 Comment
in Commerce
I decided awhile ago to get out of paid blogging, and have been checking into affiliate marketing programs. I have learned a lot, and I’d love to share everything I know, but I don’t want to turn this blog into another “road to riches” site. (Hmmm… now that I think about it, I have another site I might be able to use for such a purpose, but does the internet really need another “how to get rich” blog?)
In the interest of transparency, I’m going to post an affiliate link for a program I just joined, and tell you that if you sign up under me, I get five dollars. I would also assume that if you post the link on your site, then you’ll qualify for the same offer, so you can also earn money by encouraging others to sign up.
Click here -> Join Pepperjam Network today!
However, I did not join their program in order to make money from others signing up, I joined because they have some great programs available from name brand companies that pay high commissions. Names that everyone knows and products that will probably sell themselves because they’re familiar to us all. (Yeah, I could tell you the names, but I’m trying to encourage you to click on the link, bwahaha.)
It seems to me that Pepperjam wants to help you to succeed as much as possible, offering affiliates the chance to communicate directly with the merchants to talk about things like private offers, custom advertisements or coupons. I belong to several other affiliate programs and none of them offer such assistance.
I know that some doubters say you can’t make money with affiliate marketing. I would definitely disagree with that, but I would also say that if you’re looking to make 10,000 dollars a day then you probably should look elsewhere. Affiliate marketing is like anything else in life, you get out of it what you put into it. If you are motivated to make money, then sign up with Pepperjam, learn from all the help they have available, and earn commissions on famous products. They want to help you get ahead because your success is their success.
A revolution in affiliate marketing has arrived. PepperjamNetwork.com.
So many templates, so little time
21 Feb 2008 1 Comment
in Commerce
I recently found out about how a blog template can affect your SEO, so now I am trying to find one that gives me the SEO results I want. The problem is, I spend so much time messing with the themes that I don’t have any time to post! ACK! Okay, I’m switching back to the old theme for today, and then Karen and I plan on getting to work on other things.
If you want to know more about Search Engine Optimization and template choices, just post to this message and I’ll share the info I have. I’m not a queen of SEO, but I’m picking up a trick here and there along the way.
When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping
10 Feb 2008 Leave a Comment
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I am pretty impressed with some of the changes happening at ebay. I like the fact that they FINALLY changed their fee structure, let’s hope this means that some of the mom and pop sellers will be able to show more of a profit. We sold a few things there over Christmas (Goodbye AppleTV, we never used you), but I think I may just participate more as a shopper till I see how the changes affect the market there.
Wow, I just noticed.. those shoes look kind of familiar.
