My post today is not about marketing.  Instead it's about something very important to me.  Thanks for your indulgence. It was good that first, Honest Abe and later, FDR determined that America needed an official day of Thanksgiving each year.  A time when Americans could pause from their everyday grind and remember how much we as a nation, as families, and as individuals have to be grateful for.   Lincoln proclaimed the first, national Thanksgiving Day while the country was

One of the most difficult things for any Affiliate Marketer, but especially those just getting started, is to stay focused and on task.  There are so many different ways to make money online and so many different siren voices out there luring us first to the rocks of this method and then to the reefs of that product that it is simply impossible not to take a peek.  But with all of the blogs out there and the web sites and the training videos and the webinars and the e-mails, and on...

Being somewhat of a cynic - first by nature, second by experience - I was really not expecting a whole lot when I sent a PM to my new buddy, Jay, ...WA call sign: magistudios.   It was related to my inability to get past a problem in Google Analytics.  Imagine my surprise when after a few posts back and forth I received not one, not two, but THREE phone calls from him where we discussed and worked through the problem.  However, since there was still a problem with my site, he

The most frustrating thing for me in this whole WA experience is how easy it is to hit roadblocks that I just can't get around quickly.  I'm an impatient man and want things done NOW!   Plus, as an old dog computer consultant (I was the first mortgage broker in Sacramento to computerize all my operations and on a contract basis I set up the computer systems for many of the older brokerages there) I think I'm fairly computer savvy.  To have the problems I'm going through simpl

Hey, Steve here.  First blog entry. I've been a member since March but have not been active in the forums.  Being anxious to make some quick money I didn't go through the formal training (as I was advised to) but instead just bought a few domains, built a few landing pages and spent a lot of money on PPC ads that got me exactly... nothing.  OK, I'm sufficiently humbled now to go back and try it again the right way. Here I go...