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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    ......... and this is what you do........
    The title of this blog is taken from a popular radio show that was broadcast for many years in England. One spot in the programme that I listened to...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  I saw this early and lost the post. Thanks Jean for getting back up here where I could find it. Arthur, I've looked into drop shipping before and fo...
    Feb 19th 16:43
    Jenny Stewart  Hey Arthur You know Cheryl's idea might not be such a bad one!! You have so much knowledge in so many different things............ Pity you cant su...
    Feb 19th 16:48
    Rae Steinbrink  Arthur, with your "gift for words" have you looked at any of the "paying" for articles sites? I can't think of some of the names right off hand (Peac...
    Feb 27th 06:08
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Just so you know - don't let them join us!!!!
    I just had to share the collective wisdom of a few, apparently, well known people.   (I know - outside the group guide lines and not my own wor...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  Billary term number three! Actually I found the one about the food stamps not only hilarious but true. The State of Florida sent on to my mother whe...
    Feb 25th 07:03
    Jean DAndrea  And these people are the type that run our countries? OMG !!! :-)
    Feb 25th 16:34
    Rae Steinbrink  What can I say (or type) that would beat any of these words of wisdom?
    Feb 27th 06:00
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Can you talk about religion? Again.....
    As I read forums inviting people to discuss religion, I am almost brought to tears of frustration by false and pretentious statements. Ta...
    Not Here  Hello Arthur, As much as I'd like too, I really Know nothing about God. Concerning organized religion based on my experience I have no use for it ot...
    Feb 10th 13:51
    Jean DAndrea  Hi Arthur, Unfortunately, I've decided never to discuss religion in online forums, as words are so easily misconstrued, and it's not always easy to e...
    Feb 11th 18:24
    Arthur Webster  Well, I have finally been given the reason why people cannot discuss religion. They are scared of dying! This was given to me by one of my clien...
    Feb 12th 04:19
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  • Mark Hultgren Senior   Wordpress Specialist

    Protecting Your Search Engine Rankings
    Your website's ranking on search engines is a vital element of your overall marketing campaign, and there are ways to improve your link popularity thr...
    Mark Hultgren  Ah Wendy, You are mistaking Page Rank for SE ranking. Where you are listed in the search engines doesn't neccesarily relate to your website's page r...
    Feb 11th 08:54
    Wendy  Mike Thanks ever so much for Clarifying that for me (Ooops) Wonder why my Search Rank in Google is the same as my Page Rank ? Strange that ...
    Feb 11th 10:15
    Jean DAndrea  Wonder how come I missed this post? Yet another I'll be reading again to take it all in properly. :-) Jean
    Feb 11th 18:19
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  • Cheryl Baumgartner Professional Premium   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance

    Limiting your options?
    Alright folks, this is a serious question.  I have talked about not limiting your networking to strictly off-line or strictly on-line.  This...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  Thanks Wendy, I would hope we all know how networking works, but quite a few don't!
    Feb 6th 09:26
    Not Here  Thanks Cheryl...er, what are limits? :)
    Feb 10th 14:01
    Cheryl Baumgartner  Garnet Limits are those silly little walls we build around ourselves willingly and at all times. We think that they protect us improve us or do somet...
    Feb 10th 14:58
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    What does it take to be happy?
    I wonder how many times people claim to be happy but don't really understand what they are saying. Until quite recently I used to sign myself as "pr...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  Yes we do all have that capacity. Unfortunately many people don't take advantage of it. They would rather be miserable and make everyone else misera...
    Feb 9th 16:20
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    The things you find out by reading small print
    While I have been bumbling about in a state of couldn't give a twopenny toss-ness, I have been looking at some of the strange things that people do on...
    Cheryl Baumgartner  Arthur, I understand where you are coming from with this one. I am having my own problems with one of these companies selling "marketing systems". T...
    Feb 6th 07:24
    Jean DAndrea  That's a very timely reminder to all off us to ALWAYS read the small print Arthur. It also proves that there are some very unscrupulous people out th...
    Feb 6th 14:51
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  • Mattias Kroon Senior   

    You are what you believe!
    Hi Friends! Do you believe in what you are doing on the internet? If not, stop doing what you do and find a better model! Too many networkers w...
    Mattias Kroon  Thanks Jenny! Enjoy your good business and do it for fun! We learn to avoid the scams, yes.
    Feb 4th 15:12
    Jenny Stewart  Arthur, That is a very cynical point of view. The Title says "You are what you believe" - but that doesnt mean that you can't try to be optimistical...
    Feb 4th 15:28
    Arthur Webster  Hi, Jenny, If you are what you believe you are - that precludes any possibility of self improvement and also limits the sort of procedures you migh...
    Feb 5th 06:47
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  • Mattias Kroon Senior   

    Let It Grow
    Hi Friends!   As I am new here I want to give a good impression with my subject here. Everyone wants their business to grow and searc...
    Jenny Stewart  Hi Mattias, Welcome to the Group. Good to have you with us. We get a bit silly at times, but we have hearts of gold! LOL (DON'T WE, GUYS?) You are...
    Feb 3rd 10:01
    Mattias Kroon  Thanks Jenny, my Skypefriend!
    Feb 3rd 10:10
    Chuck Bartok  Great comments and welcome..... I apologize to all for the absence. We weathered some stormy Seas in January. We are well provisioned and ready...
    Feb 3rd 18:08
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    What is this thing called success?
    The last few days have been spent in a bit of a hazy no-mans land - neither conscious nor really unconscious. I have drifted around the internet and l...
    Not Here  Hello Arthur, Success to me used to be as simple as working a hard day, living a good life and making the best of a not so desired situation. I neve...
    Feb 2nd 19:09
    Cheryl Baumgartner  Success, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What is success to one person is failure to another. If a child comes from a poor background and...
    Feb 2nd 19:48
    Chuck Bartok  Hooray Arthur... I will quote you with your permission in other places "But my life is over-flowing with success. It starts when I succeed in m...
    Feb 3rd 18:06
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  • Ben Ferm Committed   Manager

    Perwiz Kambakhsh
    Recently we had a discussion about womans rights in muslim world. Here is one story from Pakistan that I think is, if not directly in the sa...
    Ben Ferm  This is a man.
    Feb 1st 12:39
    Jean DAndrea  It seems that all a man has to do is to try to uphold some womens' rights, and he will get a death sentence. The cases we hear about would be the...
    Feb 1st 23:44
    Arthur Webster  Sorry, Ben, Not firing on all cylinders when I read your first post - of course Sayed is a man! Snakesmum - Sayed was not trying to uphold women...
    Feb 2nd 03:50
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Yes! I would like to buy the moon on a lolly stick!
    Over and over again I receive emails telling me about some 17 year old brain dead aligator making a fortune on the internet or a 59 stone constipated ...
    Joseph Botelho  Arthur, After the day you had today (Wednesday January 23, 2008), you should be able to buy the moon with a lolly stick just don't bang into the do...
    Jan 23rd 20:59
    Cheryl Baumgartner  Let me get right to work on "How to get scammed for dummies"!!
    Jan 23rd 21:15
    David Schupbach  Accountability, Availability, and Accessability are major issues for any business, online, or off. Here again, if you don't address each issue, yo...
    Jan 24th 05:54
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  • Joseph Botelho Magnate I   Investing One Gram at a Time

    The Art of Solid Management and what it can do for YOU!!!
    January 18, 2008 Hello To All Members, The Art of Solid Management and the ability to Communicate: This is a rather interestin...
    Joseph Botelho  Hi Jenny, I can hardly wait to see what he has to say, l would have to agree with you that management who not trainable then should not be there......
    Jan 21st 20:47
    Arthur Webster  Hi, Jenny, There is whole world of difference between 'training' an executive and refining his skills. Most people have a proclivity for a parti...
    Jan 22nd 05:00
    Joseph Botelho  Hi Arthur, There is no doubt in my mind that management skill has changed over the years and as you said at one time the only way to become part of...
    Jan 22nd 10:32
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    S.E.O
    Search Engine Optimisation - or the easiest way to steal the bread from your mouth? Many people swear by S.E.O. and maintain that they have to keep ...
    Jenny Stewart  Hi Arthur, That is quite an eye opener about the tricks played by SEO companies. The only thing that surprises me is that people fall for it. I'll ...
    Jan 16th 12:58
    Jean DAndrea  Hhmmm, I must write a note to myself, advising never pay for SEO. :-) Think I'll stick with my keywords, and content. I may not come out on top, b...
    Jan 16th 15:18
    Wendy  Excellent advice and I won't be hiring any SEO soon that is for sure I have already hit #1 on Google for Online Business Alliance and also on page ...
    Jan 17th 21:56
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  • Arthur Webster Senior   Just plain honesty

    Do husbands really hate their wives so much?
    It was a great shock to discover that my adopted home town was the scene of the first domestic murder in the whole of Spain for 2008. It seems a 6...
    Jane F.  God bless you Arthur. Some people are made for each other. It's very rare but it happens. Yes banning domestiscity is a great idea. I like the idea a...
    Jan 13th 08:44
    David Schupbach  I may get some disagreement for this, as my ideas are a little offbeat, but I think there are several reasons behind not only domestic violence, but t...
    Jan 14th 06:26
    Joseph Botelho  Arthur, Life has changed so much people don't share their feelings with one another anymore as it was once done. I totally understand what your sa...
    Jan 17th 15:59
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  • Jean DAndrea Senior   Retired

    The Internet Didn't Collapse !
    Hi Everyone, I made a great discovery this weekend - The Internet didn't collapse in a heap, just because I didn't get on line at all one da...
    Jean DAndrea  Thanks for all your comments, Everyone. I've also found that when I do take time out, and do other things, somehow more gets done when I AM on the PC...
    Jan 14th 15:37
    Jenny Stewart  Yup life does not stop when one of us goes off the net! AAAaaaggghhh. A crushing blow for those with fragile egos, but nevertheless the truth! LOL ...
    Jan 14th 16:01
    Wendy  "Wow Wendy what does it mean to get OUT of your PJ's." I'm not gonna tell ROFLMAO Wendy
    Jan 14th 16:45
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  • Rae Steinbrink Advanced   

    The Real Secret
    "Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise NOT to tell?"    Call me crazy, but every time I see the word "secret" floating around, ...
    Rae Steinbrink  As I wrote this, I thought about the true meaning of the word "secret" and thought about the little boys and girls that SHOULD be sharing their "secre...
    Jan 5th 14:59
    Not Here  Misused alright! Maybe we need secret word for secret...Yikes! Arthur the only email I read are the one's I recieve in my secret email account, wi...
    Jan 5th 21:03
    Jenny Stewart  Exactly - if you tell someone a secret - then it isnt a secret. So all these "secrets" that people promise to tell us in exchange for large sums of m...
    Jan 14th 16:17
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  • Penny Young Committed   Consultant

    Just a little cat story ...
    My pet tabby cat is almost twenty years old. She was born to a stray under the building where my first husband worked.  By the time t...
    Jane F.  Well to tell you the truth, I don't even think she needed me at all. She is still alive so she is doing a good job all by herself. Battle on Xena.
    Nov 1st 19:19
    Penny Young  Just a footnote: On Tuesday 8th January, Tuffi failed to appear, and has not been seen since. I know that she disappeared to quietly die. R...
    Jan 9th 19:49
    Jean DAndrea  Penny, that's a beautiful story, and almost moved me to tears. Your Tuffi had a great life with you, and was obviously much loved. What more can a pe...
    Jan 13th 16:36
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  • Beth Schmillen Professional   

    Need help with this one! Please be honest!
    I wrote this first part a while ago... it's one of my blogs. Recently I was looking for something to rewrite to add to a writer's directory and for so...
    Rae Steinbrink  I have to agree with the "passion" part. I have a pet dog, I'd hate to think I look like a dog! LOL Perhaps if you come up with a different title, Do...
    Jan 10th 19:12
    Mark Hultgren  Hi Beth, It is the forth sentence in the third paragraph of the rewrite section... As you spend more and more time with this business opportunity it ...
    Jan 10th 22:51
    Jenny Stewart  I dont mind looking like an angel! LOL not so sure about looking like the Virgin Mary though.LOL
    Jan 12th 15:42
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  • Cheryl Baumgartner Professional Premium   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance

    God designed us for greatness, society programs us for failure!
    I recently came across this quote and thought that it was the explanation to much of our problems in  a nutshell.  All of us are created wit...
    Arthur Webster  Hi, Cheryl, We seem to have crossed the great blogtier lol. My student is not resisting my teaching - he has built himself a persona that refus...
    Jan 10th 11:58
    Cheryl Baumgartner  With children it is not a few words spoken but constant reinforcement of the "you can't" attitude of the parents. The parents do this not because the...
    Jan 10th 12:48
    Ben Ferm  Actually, when You see the way a child (a young one) thinks and the way he/she figures things out, I'd say it is outstanding. The way that child uses ...
    Jan 10th 14:49
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