I spent a good part of the day today inspecting cars that were being loaded into shipping containers for export. The industry term for loading a container is “stuffing”. Taking cargo out is “stripping”. So they were stuffing cars in containers for export. And I was there. Doing my thing. Anyway. The coolest car ofRead More
Networking to Promote Your Blog
July 17, 2007 by 9 Comments
One of the facets of blogging that doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves is the networking aspect. Networking is a huge part of promoting your blog. Successful bloggers read other blogs they are interested in, especially those in their same niche, and actively comment adding value to those blogs. Many are also activeRead More
Switching to a Mac
July 16, 2007 by 9 Comments
We’ve got enough going on here at SuccessCREEations these days that it is time to upgrade my computer. I’ve been putting it off for quite a while now but decided the time had come. This computer has served us well in spite of me asking it to do far more than it was designed toRead More
Sunday Morning Goodness – 15 July 2007
July 15, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Wall Street Journal Edition Just poking around my feed reader this morning and there is so much great stuff out there you oughtta see. This morning I found some good reading in the Wall Street Journal. For example, Have you ever wondered what it is like aboard one of our aircraft carriers? Check out NavalRead More
Does Your Fancy Web Site Suck?
July 13, 2007 by 4 Comments
Does Your Fancy Web Site Suck? Odds are it does. Tim Wall posted a great article over at Church Marketing Sucks yesterday. Why Your Fancy Web Site Sucks is aimed at churches, but replace the word “church” with “business” and he could be talking to you. Your web site really sucks when you try toRead More
FeedBurner Stats PRO and MyBrand Now for Free!
July 12, 2007 by Leave a Comment
If you are using FeedBurner to manage the RSS feed for your web site/blog (and there aren’t many reasons not to be) there’s a new treat in store for you. You can now upgrade your FeedBurner account and get Stats PRO and MyBrand – For FREE! Check out their FreeBurner for Everyone post on theirRead More
Ringing in My 5th Decade
July 11, 2007 by 20 Comments
For those of you who appreciate an glimpse into folks lives from time to time, here is what I was looking at right about midnight as the relentless ticking of the clock marked my own passing into my 5th decade in this world. Not exactly the festive setting one hopes to start of their 40thRead More
Would You Fire Your Problem Customers? Sprint Just Did!
July 10, 2007 by 10 Comments
We’ve all experienced a challenging customer. You know the kind – no matter what you do you just can’t seem to please them. What do you do with those difficult folks? How do you handle it? Well if you are Sprint-Nextel you cut those chronically dissatisfied people loose. Check out this headline: Sprint Cuts 1000+Read More
The Secret Reason Your Website Gets So Little Traffic
July 9, 2007 by 11 Comments
Most people are looking in the entirely wrong direction to for the solution to fix the problem they have getting people to come to their web site. The reason your web site gets so little traffic isn’t what you think. You’ve got a business. You heard sometime back in the 90′s that you needed aRead More
SEO Charlatans
July 6, 2007 by 6 Comments
SEO There are some folks out there who really know to make web sites what we call search engine friendly. These experts in Search Engine Optimization (what the web world calls SEO) can analyze a web site, make some basic changes in the structure and wording, and see that site get much more prominent rankingsRead More
