Inactive for a bit

My rank is increasing due to the fact that I am contending with a family emergency which has pulled me away from WA and my website. Let you all know how things go........... Talk to you all later, Thanks, Dave

Off-line marketing anyone?

I am wondering how much emphasis would be placed on marketing your website / business in the off-line world? I often thought that if I could partner with a Harvard MBA to take care of my marketing needs, I would have been successful a long time ago. Not that long ago, I purchased a franchise for computer repair. I knew my weak point was marketing so I hired a marketing firm to not only get my rankings up in Google but to also get my business name out there in the off-line arena. I paid them $80

Do we really understand copyright?

It is important to realize that if you are doing research for content to place on your website, you need to have a basic understanding of copyright laws. Some of the fines for not citing a source can be excessive. I have seen student's receive fines up to $3,000.00 for a copyright violation. So, what does copyright cover? These days copyright is automatic. In other words you do not have to file with the U.S. Copyright Office to receive copyright on a book you may have written. Once you create a

Man am I social now!

Since I have worked as an Information Security Analyst for over many many years, I have always avoided any of the social networks. I never wanted my name and profession "out there" due to I have been challenged in the past once a hacker found out what I did for a living. I once had to "fight" one for a period of 3 days because he was so determined to break into my home system. So now, it seems really strange for me to be signing up from Face Book to Pinterest. Since I am retiring at the end of

Forced Retirement; Oh man, another bump in the road!

So, I have a new boss and one of the first things he did was to rewrite my job description! Now, I am in a position that is far different than what my expertise is in. Because of my age, they will not allow me to get the training that I would need because why would they want to invest in someone who may be leaving in a couple of years? Retirement is the one area that one would think they had come level of control over. Now they want me to give them a date of retirement as long as it is by the

The progression and effects of Spam.

Based on a comment I made on someone's question about Spam, I felt it might be a little more informative to everyone if I gave a little more detail on the subject. According to Wikipedia and Google, Spam is defined as the following: "Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages." While that may seem vague, it is an accurate definition. What started out as annoying email messages, it has now progressed into areas such as IRC (Intern

Do you have a daughter or son in college?

I have to admit, this is one area that really caught me off-guard. After many years in the computer industry, I am almost embarrassed to say that college networks never entered my mind! When my daughters entered college, I bought them laptops so they would not have to lug a desktop from one dorm to the next. I soon learned when they came home on break, that college networks are like a swamp! As soon as they plugged their laptops into my home wireless network, all hell broke loose! It took me 2

My beginnings

So, here I am at the end of the second course on Lesson 10. I have learned more in the past 9 days then all of my failed attempts at creating some online income. In the past years of attempting some form of Internet Marketing business, I have signed up for multiple programs, gone through 4 websites and a whole bunch of money! As you probably know, the money was the toughest part to deal with. I had purchased a years worth of Sitesell.com, been scammed a couple of times including one embarrassin