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Do you remember the baseball movie with Kevin Kostner called “Field of Dreams”?  The phrase - “If you build it they will come”  - may work for baseball fields in the middle of nowhere but it does NOT work for a blog.  You have to do some level of marketing. 
Buzzfuse offers a unique marketing [...]

I work in the software industry and recently in my conversations with a few of our customers I was told that the perception they have of our company is that we nickel and dime them to death.  I of course wanted a little more information and so I probed a bit to find that [...]

I got this great piece of email today… you know one of those that is forwarded to all your friends, etc… 
Even lowly smurfs (computer users that know nothing about the inner workings of their systems) use common jargon like “megabyte”, “network”, ”motherboard” and “crash.” If you truly want to set yourself apart from the noobs, add some [...]

College is NOT cheap… but that’s really no secret. What seems to be a secret is finding ways that you can fund a college eduction.  Did you know that there are literally millions of scholarship and grant opportunities available with an estimated value in the billions?  Yes that’s BILLIONS with a B.  This money is made [...]

For those that have been tracking my progress with Xobni I have to say that today is a sad day.  After multiple attempts at trying to figure out if there was a way around my problem - nothing could be found - I really didn’t have much choice but to perform the uninstall. 
In a nutshell, my [...]

Another in my series of Valentines Day Shopping Posts…
There is a LOT that I like about Overstock.com… $2.95 shipping, incredible selection, crisp clean website, and the ease of use. If you are not sure what to get someone for Valentine’s day and your going to be doing some shopping online then I would suggest that [...]

If you are a user of Auctiva I am curious to hear your feedback about this auction management system.  I have a number of items that I am going to want to put on eBay and after searching through listings on eBay itself to see what people are using Auctiva came up quite a bit.  [...]

I use amung.us on my blow to show what posts people are currently viewing and where they come from… that is what this icon at the bottom of the pages does.  If you click on it and go to the MAPS you will notice that there is a large gap of missing stars in the continental US where [...]

TravelHERO.com is a discount air, car, and hotel reservation website. Started in 1995 as an Internet Hotel and Motel directory they have over the years amassed nearly 109,000 properties in 21,000 cities and 225 countries. This provides you with one of the most complete lodging databases on the Internet, and all at your fingertips.
Since travel [...]

I get my fair share of email every day… currently in the 150 - 200 range and that is after they’ve gone through our corporate mail filters so that number does not include spam.   I use Xobni and ClearContext IMS as plugins on my Outlook in order to increase productivity and still I find that I [...]