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Follow me on Twitter!
I’ve been tweeting for a while, thanks to some networking through various forums, where I’ve been encouraged to set up a Twitter account. As my marketing strategies evolve, promoting Traffic-Exchange-Business.com, I’m adding Twitte...
Cindy says the downloads are almost ready…
Cindy’s burning a CD for me that contains a ton of giveaways. Have you joined Traffic-Exchange-Business.com yet? You must be a member to gain access to these gems. What will they be? Oh, she’s got a ton of blog templates, software that ...
More reasons to join Traffic-Exchange-Business.com
Think traffic exchanges don’t work? Think again… Traffic-Exchange-Business.com isn’t your average “show me your site and I’ll show you mine”. No, Cindy and I are bound and determined to help you really understand ...
Entrecard announces huge changes coming!
Talk about something to wake up to on Sunday morning… Subject: Important Entrecard Announcement That generally makes me shake in my boots a bit. You see, Graham Langdon, founder and owner of Entrecard is a pretty creative dude, who isn’t...
Going social with Facebook, Twitter and Squidoo
This old gal learned some more new tricks. I have a couple of WordPress plugins that help with part of this… Sociofluid lets me add my blog posts to my Facebook page with just a couple of clicks. Twitme picks up posts and tweets them out to a...
Another year older, and a little more foxy
Well, maybe not foxy… but, I am catching on to this Web 2.0 stuff. Today, I actually spent some time working on my Facebook page. I started it a couple years ago, and then got sidetracked. So… Facebook me! I’m really working hard t...
Birthday bash all this week!
Yeah, Friday is the really big day. I’m expecting at least one of my sheep to present me with lambs… so I won’t be doing much partying. However… This week only (through Sunday night, March 15) let’s celebrate my 63rd bir...
Paying attention to stats
Over the past few months, I’ve been paying more attention to my stats. For example, with a current Alexa rating of 121,186, it won’t be long before I can feel confident about adding the Alexa widget to this site. With Twitter (thanks a l...
Traffic-Exchange-Business.com is live now!
In just a month’s time, Traffic-Exchange-Business.com is open for business. With a new design, some basic script upgrades, and clean databases, you can now join and advertise your business knowing that those who see your ad are real people. W...
I’m not a designer… I’m a blogger!
That’s right, I’m not a web designer, but I know that I must erase bad memories… and that includes a very boring web site. So, for the past week, I’ve buried my head and have produced the creatives for a new design. First off,...
Reviving a “dead” traffic exchange
I know, I’ve got to be crazy… Why on earth would I rather take on the daunting task of rebuilding a “dead” traffic exchange than start with a brand new one? I’ve been a “turn-around specialist” all my busine...
Viral Marketing with Twitter
I’ve seen several different programs promoting ways to make Twitter more viral. TweeterGetter looks like the one I’m sticking with. Here’s why… Twitter Is All About Being Transparent And Showing What’s Going On Behind The...
Traffic Exchange: A great way to work from home
Like I said… stay tuned for more info on traffic exchanges. Last spring, Cindy (one of my roommates) and found a traffic exchange that was being put up for sale. We jumped at the opportunity, especially when the current owner was agreeable to p...
Top Entrecard Droppers, January 2009
New year, new way to show “link love”. Without further ado… here are my Top Ten Entrecard Droppers for January 2009. (This will be a monthly post, generally on the last day of the month.) Army Soldier Info…If you thought your ...
New look, New Avatar, New SEO
Continuing the work of “growing this blog”, here’s the new look. You’ll notice the advertising has been moved to the right side bar, and “blog stuff” is on the left side. In keeping with the Google Adsense requirem...
Traffic Exchange or Exchange Traffic?
Have you ever used a traffic exchange program? Since it’s no longer proper (not that it ever was) to ask other social bookmarking sites to exchange traffic with stumbles, diggs, etc you may want to consider an “old school” method of...
Do You Squidoo?
No? I just recently began “squidooing” and besides being totally lost… it’s supposed to be dead easy… I’ve been unable to drive any traffic to my lenses (that’s what “they” call a web page). So, ...
Working from home can also be frustrating
Yeah, I’m having one of “those” days… Earlier this week, I got wind of something that really tripped my trigger. I didn’t bother to read the whole e-mail as I knew they guy who sent it to me was really on top of things. ...
So, how do you like the new look?
I think this is look I’ve wanted for some time. But you, the reader will tell me what you think of it. To help things a long, I have one 125×125 spot on the left sidebar that I’ll award to a random commenter on 12/12/08. I’ve a...
What’s your reputation worth?
I ask this question rhetorically so you can think about what follows. My story gives you serious clues to how you should conduct your business. Many years ago (in the mid ’80’s) I got into a business where we were forced to do everything ...
I’ll help you stretch your Entrecard advertising efforts
Starting immediately, you’ll get more than just a 24-hour ad spot when you advertise with me on ANY of my four blogs. Here’s what you get. When you place your first ad on one of my blogs, I’ll record the purchase price on a spreadsh...
Whoa! I nearly got blindsided by my own actions…
Yeah, looking back at my last four posts (three weeks time), it appears I’ve been obsessed with Entrecard. Well, yes… I have, but now I’m over it and ready to move forward. No, I’m not leaving Entrecard, I’m simply worki...
All about Entrecard… what’s it doing for me
Entrecard, another one of those programs I heard about at least two weeks before I got around to looking at it. I got my first icon up for Shari’s Gone Country on Dec 20, a mere 10 days ago. So far, my I can see from cPanel that I am getting ab...
Looking to 2008…
It’s that time of year when I look forward to the next year. I take the time to analyze what worked this year ( and am therefore keeping), and what has not worked this year. Yes, I give things a few months to show signs of life before moving th...
Chat Netiquette; what’s it to you?
Way back in about 2001, I first coined the words “chat netiquette”. No I didn’t bother to trademark it… I wanted it used. As of today, I googled for the term and came up with over 600,000 references. Many of those are actually...
Now the hard work begins…
With the excitement of a web site launch behind me… yes everything launched on time; it’s now time to get down to the really “hard work”. What’s the hard work? It’s writing great headlines and ad copy. It’s f...
Time for a quick update…
As of this morning (Thanksgiving Day in the US), I have 17 friends at MySpace. The Alexa stats have once again been updated. Current rank is 3,511,258. I have three people on my little mailing list… and they’re about to get a sneak previe...
What did I do yesterday to move my business forward?
Since I’m going to be using Web 2.0 techniques, I spent a lot of time doing some “social networking”. I set up my MySpace page. I’ve had an account for some time, but never bothered to fill in my profile, or go exploring. So, ...
I’ve promised to share the steps I take
Since I’m literally starting over in the network marketing business, as well as the Internet Marketing world, I’ve agreed to share the steps I’m taking. My goal is to help you learn how to build the business of your choice… th...
