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  • Rocky Pacley Senior   

    Having an Impact on Others
    There's so many different ways to have impact on others online marketing you can only assist the individuals that are interested in what you can effec...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  Hello Rocky, good to see you. Rickey already talked to me on the wireless
    Jul 11th 08:33
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  • Cheryl Baumgartner Professional Premium   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance

    An unexpected side effect of my mentoring this year
    One of the accomplishments I'm most proud of in my life is the time I spend mentoring children.  I spent the last half of the school year mentori...
    Arthur Webster  Hi, Cheryl, Stop 'mentoring' children! Play with children, learn with children, learn from children, acknowledge your own inner child and forget...
    Jul 7th 01:26
    Cheryl Baumgartner  My mentoring has a specific gaol. That does not mean We don't play with them too but the goal of what we do is to help these children not only with t...
    Jul 7th 07:48
    Arthur Webster  Ahhh. So you are a teacher! Much more sensible.
    Jul 8th 09:48
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    The world of anti-social networking
    We live in a strange world where, it seems, everybody trusts nobody in real life but seems to trust people they do not know, have never met and who ma...
    David Schupbach  One of the great truths of the universe Arthur, is: "If you don't like what you see around you, change what is inside you, the outside will then chang...
    Jul 6th 06:12
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    The - You couldn't make it up - department
    The following is an extract from a news report, quoting an official police spokeswoman:-  A Hertfordshire police spokeswoman said: "Officer...
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    This really needs to be jumped on . . . . .
    The following is part of an email I received this morning:-  We need all members of XXX to follow these simple guidelines: 1) ...
    Arthur Webster  Hi, Cheryl, There is no reason for Google to enter into such a slime-ball and disgusting arrangement with anybody. Let me put it quite simply - ...
    Jun 25th 09:36
    Mark Hultgren  What will end up happening is that website will be blacklisted and won't be allowed to recieve any of the funds that could have gone to them. The acco...
    Jun 25th 11:18
    Jean DAndrea  Agree with Mark - if that person's site suddenly gets increased clicks, the Adsense will jump on it for sure. Don't believe that Google would be a ...
    Jun 25th 17:10
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    When will this stupidity end?
    Here, in Europe, especially in Spain and France, lorry drivers and fishermen are embroiled in a violent and totally inneffective strike because of the...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  well it's really funny, a couple of weeks ago oil prices dropped $ per barrel yet the price at the pump went up 10 cents a gallon. I spoke to a woma...
    Jun 14th 16:27
    Jean DAndrea  It's really nauseating, the way that Corporations can make such payouts to retiring CEO's etc., when they fight to keep the pays of the workers at a ...
    Jun 14th 19:31
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Serendipity strikes again - but not for me, this time.
    One of the great pleasures in my life is walking out in the countryside with my two dogs. The dogs tend to do the usual, unsavoury doggy things an...
    Jean DAndrea  Obviously it was meant to happen Arthur. You were in the right place at the right time. Good karma for you too! :-)
    Jun 10th 17:00
    Not Here  Arthur....I suspect that you may have been the only person on the entire planet that could have told this gentleman exactly what he needed to hear whe...
    Jun 10th 23:39
    Sarah Pritchard  Hello Arthur, Well, Cheryl took the words out of my head. I was thinking the same thing. Not sure if you were the angel or if the angel was work...
    Jun 13th 10:27
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  • Mark Hultgren Senior   Wordpress Specialist

    Making the Most of Website Usability
    Research has shown that your website usability many times will affect how well you do with sales and keeping customers coming back. Most people think ...
    Jean DAndrea  Good advice Mark - I'll endeavour to make my site live up to it! :-)
    Jun 4th 22:57
    Mark Hultgren  Hi Snakesmum, It is merely basic webdesign in practice. Make it easy for your visitors to get where they want to go. As I browse links in signatures ...
    Jun 5th 18:33
    Jean DAndrea  I'm currently in the process of redoing my site, and have always tried to make navigation easy, and topics easy to find. It's annoying not being ab...
    Jun 5th 18:41
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  • Cheryl Baumgartner Professional Premium   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance

    Big business sticks it to the little guy(gal) again
    Here is a very sad story that points to the greed and power of big business.  This is enough to make me cross WalMart off of my approved shopping...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  I think the key here is that Walmart had "no grounds" to sue the trucking company because they were not the injured party, Mrs Shanks was. Mrs Shanks...
    Jan 6th 07:25
    Jenny Stewart  Since reading your blog, I have been looking at all the other blogs and articles on the internet relating to the Wall-Mart Shanks dispute. There has ...
    Jan 6th 12:00
    Jeff Greene   I am about to Breath Fire, and I don't want to destroy someone else's computer, so I'll hold off giving comments for now... Let's just say that I'd l...
    Jun 3rd 12:46
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Well, he asked!
    Once again a guru has asked me what I need to make myself more successful in internet marketing - here is my answer:- Hi, Guru, Thanks for asking ...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  good information, perhaps some will listen
    May 30th 19:58
    Dave Thomas  Absolutely spot on, Though the one thing I will say is that a lot of peoplle (newbies especially) keep looking for the magic bullet the one thing t...
    May 31st 01:21
    Jenny Stewart  Forgive me if I am being cynical, but I think that if the gurus sent us all off to free places to learn how to do all the things we need to learn , we...
    Jun 1st 21:46
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Sheer bloody hypocrisy!!!
    You’ve seen the ads for Gmail, Google’s own system that is supposed to make email more fun and more spam free. But what of the Gmail customers...
    Arthur Webster  Hi Cheryl and Jeunelle, I think you have missed the point that I was trying to make - I did not receive the spam - IT WAS SENT OUT WITH MY ADDRE...
    Jun 1st 15:39
    Cheryl Baumgartner  That also happens with Yahoo. Spam goes both ways and I have received these mailer demon(deliberately misspelled) notifications also. Anything even c...
    Jun 1st 17:29
    Jenny Stewart  It is a big bore and seems to be unstopable because the gmails and yahoos of this world couldnt care less. If they ever decide it is a problem, we mi...
    Jun 1st 21:41
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Déja vu?
    In my daunting quest for basic knowledge of the internet marketing processes I have come to a not very surprising conclusion. Nothing ever goes ou...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  The biggest cause for failure of any business is a know nothing thinking he or she knows it all. The know it all mentality seems to be the basis for ...
    May 31st 10:04
    Jean DAndrea  That's the problem isn't it? Getting experts to work with you, and give advice. The ebooks/programs just don't go far enough to give you a flying st...
    May 31st 19:58
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Subterfuge or fear of recognition?
    In another blog I took a person to task for advertising with incomplete information. Rather than defend the position he had taken, the blogger simply ...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  Herbalife is a well known company and such deception is unnecessary for them.
    May 30th 07:46
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    A lesson in bad advertising - - - - and worse manners
    The following (in blue) is a response I have made to an advertising blog. I accept that advertising blogs don't get read by many people but I think th...
    Arthur Webster  The implications of this subject really need to be addressed more fully. There have been blogs about anonymous contributors before but this little ...
    May 26th 04:11
    Arthur Webster  I should have expected that. The blog has been reduced to the original ad (but including the link to the video that was missing first time round). ...
    May 26th 10:02
    Cheryl Baumgartner  ROFLMAO! I just love the old "If you can't afford" line. It's not about affordability, it's about scam spotting and return on investment. As far as...
    May 27th 06:05
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    GDI - what????? In my honest opinion.......
    One of the things that always amuses me is the way that some companies can provide a second rate product and still manage to have a pricing structure ...
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Clever marketing to the brain dead
    Does nobody else see how the clever marketing of gormless gurus is turning marketing emails into clones? There are several types of emails tha...
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    So the product was not that complete.......
    One of the friends who has been helping to keep my finances above water has had to accept that his help is needed elsewhere. His final gift to me wa...
    Jean DAndrea  Arthur, they're all out there to get your hard earned cash, so never ever buy anything on impulse, or anything that you don't really want or need. On...
    May 20th 18:15
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    There really has to be a call to moderation.
    YE GODS AND FANCIFUL TOMATOES!!!!!!!!! No surgery necessary, ever! This is either taking the fear factor TOO FAR or claiming miraculou...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  Better yet, lets stop focusing on this pathological need to be "slim". You would think with all of the well publicized cases of Anorexia and Bulemia ...
    May 20th 05:28
    Jenny Stewart  Of course you are right as usual! lol "The wild claims of internet marketers could not be made in civilised and controlled media - it is way past tim...
    May 20th 17:02
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Affiliate hi-jacking
    I am posting this reply to another blog about Affiliate Hi-jacking and link cloakers here because Apsense simply does not seem able to cope with anybo...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  This is the biggest drawback to an "online" business. By the very nature of the beast you have affiliates of the same company fighting for the same c...
    May 19th 11:30
    Mark Hultgren  Hi Arthur, Try an hijack one of your URL's that you get from 2Getsales.com and see what happens! Not only do you NOT get to the product porder page,...
    May 19th 15:38
    Jenny Stewart  Hi Arthur An interesting perspective on how affiliate hi-jacking and link cloaking got to be so popular on the internet. One needs a completely inan...
    May 19th 18:27
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  • David Schupbach Senior   

    Habitatus Interuptus
    Saturday Night was Interesting to say the least! The same storm system that killed 21 people in Missouri and Oklahoma, and several in Arkansas, eve...
    David Schupbach  Thanks Garnet! Yeah, still kickin it! Cheryl, that time of year is coming around again, wonder what we will have this year?
    May 18th 05:05
    Cheryl Baumgartner  At least I moved to a less volatile area. Even when we do get something here we are so far inland that it's nothing more than a tropical depression.
    May 18th 08:32
    David Schupbach  Tropical Depression? That sounds like a good subject for the depression group... heh
    May 18th 17:12
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