My Occasional Ramblings

Yesterday I had a conversation with a freind of mine about what it takes to get results from a social website community. I've been around long enough to see how influential some online communities can be if you have the right game plan. The hardest thing about the social media is the time that it takes to build up a reputable profile, enough so to be an influencer in the community, or have enou ...Read more

My iPod is one of my most prized possessions, it isn't just because of how cool it looks and all the fun stuff you can do with it, rather it's because of all the information and education I've learned from this tiny thing I carry around in my pocket. I've actually never used my iPod like 99% of people do, to listen to music, in fact I've never downloaded a song on my iPod. I've downloaded hundr ...Read more

I just got off the phone with a freind that I wrestled with at the University Of Nebraska, he currently has a roofing company where they install roofs in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska & Texas. We are in the process of building a new site for him and should have it up within the month. I am extremely excited about getting the site up and to start gener ...Read more

I started working with Pets Best only 5 months ago, and already have started working myself out of a job. Here is the concept and why I am just not securing my employment status for too long...

As a business owner; and you'll learn in the book Read more

Being Thanksgiving and all, I decided to post some of the things that I am most thankful for in my business. They are not in the order of importance:

I should have mentioned this earlier, but since I rarely get around to posting more frequently, I just haven't. For the past 2 1/2 months I have been working with Pets Best Pet Insurance located here in Boise. When I have more time I will have to share some of my thoughts going into a larger corporation than I have previously worked with. But that is for an ...Read more

Almost a month ago I started a thread in Russell Brunson’s Conquer Your Niche forum:

Where Are The ‘REAL’ Business Owners?

Google Analytics can be a very powerful tool if used correctly. These last few weeks I have been working on a clients website and digging through the stats to only find that their Analytics account wasn’t actually telling me a whole lot about their site, and what the users were doing on their site.

My little brother moved to Boise around 6 months ago. He was tired of working for someone else and decided to try it alone with a local lawn care business. He came to me and asked if I would help him with the business marketing and financials. So we made the agreement t ...Read more

Google has updated their interpretation of a link scheme here. In summary here is what they define it as:

• Links intended to manipulate PageRank
• Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web
• Excessive reciprocal links ...Read more