You know how it is when someone says something, or comments on a post you’ve made or offers you ways to improve?  And it just makes your day.  It builds your confidence.  It reinforces the knowledge that the path you are on is the right one.
Warren Veach did that for me.  I asked a simple question on Betternetworker the other day:  “Is $350K too much to expect?” Warren answered my question, “Taking constructive criticism, learning from it and actually following up on it is essential to continued growth…..  Not only did you learn from the critique, but you acted upon it!” Read the rest of this entry

I pushed it.  Took it right to the edge and of course had to deal with the consequences.  Ten days of rain on top of the significant snow melt left a few large massive puddles in the low lying areas of my acreage.

With less than half of the lawn mowed, my 16 HP Simplicity lawn tractor was stuck, really stuck.  Under the water: slippery grass/mud combination.  No amount of rocking or material wedged under the tires would give me the traction I needed to manoeuvre out of the muck and onto solid ground.  The transmission disengages easily however I lacked the physical strength to push it out by hand.  Nothing big enough in the vicinity to use a winch (although I didn’t have one to use).  I was stuck, covered in mud and on the verge of frustration.

Time for a break.  Time to sit down and figure this out.  Get my brain in gear.  There had to be a solution.  This was simply a challenge waiting to be figured out. Read the rest of this entry

New to the internet it became very clear very quickly that I needed my own Domain name(s), hosted somewhere and my blog should be on a site that I owned, not one monitored and under the control of someone else.

I will go into more detail about wordpress.org, .com, blogger.com etc. in another article but for today’s topic let’s stick to purchasing your domain name.  Why you need one and where to purchase it.

I chose GoDaddy for a couple of very simple reasons.  Read the rest of this entry

The #1 perception of most people when thinking about a salesperson is that they use high pressure tactics, they are vultures, untrustworthy, seedy and they circle their prey like a hunger vulture. One must guard themselves against salespeople or they too will be suckered into something against their will.

NOTHING COULD BE FARTHER FROM THE TRUTH

I worked for and owned a couple of small, rural weekly newspapers. My title was Advertising Manager and the main focus of my job was “sales”. Physically walking into a prospective customers office and “selling” him/her advertising space in the newspaper. Cold calling many would call it in our profession. I was good at it. I loved meeting … Read the rest of this entry

Or maybe I should have said “How effective is your blog?”

If you personally haven’t set up your own blog yet, you are in luck.  By following a few simple guidelines you can set up a blog that isn’t just a collection of stuff you write, it will be a targeted, focused, functioning part of your marketing strategy.

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