So I get to the office, fire up my laptop and wait for my morning emails to download. “Ah. There’s a a couple from some mailing lists. A little spam that got by the filter. A few work items to attend to. Oh. And there’s this morning’s post from SuccessCREEations.” The post. Dropping into theRead More
Backing Up – It’s Not Just For Cars
December 19, 2006 by 2 Comments
As you’ve probably heard, my web host had a catastrophic failure on one of their servers yesterday. And yes, it happened to be the very server SuccessCREEations was on. Then to compound the problem my host found that they had some bad CD-Rs in their backup storage so when they got things up and runningRead More
Major Disaster
December 18, 2006 by 11 Comments
We’ve had a major data disaster here at SuccessCREEations. Our server crashed hard this afternoon and we are just now getting back up and running. Unfortunately there was a complete data loss when the server went down and my web host had to revert to their latest back up. Their most recent back up wasRead More
What’s Your Business Fighting Style?
December 18, 2006 by 8 Comments
Conflict is a reality in business. Because it usually takes more than one person to keep an enterprise going, inevitably there will come a time when the people involved don’t see eye to eye on something. Even if you are self employed and don’t have any employees you probably still have to deal with clientsRead More
Comment Spam – The War is Raging
December 15, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Last night I was wandering through MyBlogLog and I happened upon Jessica Doyle’s blog. Now I have to tell you that I am one of those folks who has a defective art appreciation gene. (I explained that whole thing a while back on my personal blog when I talked about art.) And Jessica is anRead More
Expanding Horizons – Writing for Successful-Blog
December 13, 2006 by 6 Comments
Last Wednesday evening at this time I was sitting across a table in a little neighborhood restaurant eating some of the best Mexican food I’d had in a long time. Outside there was a light snow falling, shimmering in the streetlights, just enough to make it look like one of those snow globes had justRead More
Why One PR Expert Doesn’t Understand Business Blogging
December 13, 2006 by 6 Comments
I got into a bit of a pissing contest last week while I was away. Personally I don’t recommend doing that, and I usually avoid it myself as it can get a little messy. Not everyone has the same ability to aim. There are times when I find myself talking to folks that I realizeRead More
Sweet Home Chicago
December 12, 2006 by 2 Comments
As I sat down at my computer this morning, my brain was a little foggy. I think I’m still working on getting past some serious sleep deprivation from the last two days of my trip.So I opened up iTunes to help clear my head. I keep it on shuffle most of the time because IRead More
Free Web Based Feed Reader Comparison
December 11, 2006 by 16 Comments
So you are convinced about the value of RSS and Feeds but you aren’t sure which feed reader might be a good fit for you. Well here is a little comparison of four of the free web based feed readers out there. I split my computer time between a couple different machines in a coupleRead More
Success Principle # 11 – Keeping Your Head In the Game
December 8, 2006 by 7 Comments
It’s been an interesting ride on this trip to Chicago. I’ve had the TV on quite a bit here in the hotel room. And for the record television is a horrible companion. But yesterday I caught some snippets of a movie set in Australia. It centered on a couple of competitive swimmers working toward competingRead More
