I was sitting at the international airport in Toronto the other day, waiting for my flight to Edmonton and noticed how short the lineup to go through the security checkpoint was. It brought back a memory from 25 years ago, when I worked for a division of the company that provided security services to [...]

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Analyze, analyze, analyze! Sometimes you can over analyze but at the same time, having the ability to look at some metrics can be helpful in making decisions. Other times, it’s helpful to have information that you can simply ruminate over and be prepared for change. Or, you might have a flashbulb moment to take [...]

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I have been advising many of my clients for years now that they will most likely find some big benefits from writing a blog along with their main business website.  There are a number of benefits that a business owner will see when they begin a blog and use it regularly.  Not only can a [...]

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A quick update to this post I wrote earlier:

I forgot to mention that there was another item of “success” – minor but important to those who rely on Google search engine rankings.  I mentioned that I have a site that I had let go dormant for some time.  Six years ago, it ranked quite well [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the problems with the “D” word – economic Depression – and other negative communications that we seem to be up against on every side. Today, I’d like to focus on a word that you should not be afraid of, even though many are.  The “S” word…. success.

Why [...]

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I have just learned that Jon of “The Ups, Downs and Sometimes Insane World of Freelance Writing” is grieving the passing of his father.  Unless one has lost a father, it is hard to know exactly what a son is going through at a time like this.  Well, I can imagine what Jon must be [...]

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Personally, I prefer “Merry Christmas” and find it odd that anyone would feel offended at such a greeting.  But if it does offend you, then my sincere “Season’s Greetings” to you too.
I hope however you celebrate this time of the year, that you have wonderful memories in the future of this year’s holiday season.  It [...]

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The other day, I wrote about how you could monetize your parked domains if you have a Google Adsense account, by using their “Adsense for Domains” feature.
Phillip Barnhart commented on that post and wrote that he has been using “Adsense for Domains” and will be updating his monetization results here.   On his first day, he [...]

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Do you have any domain names that you’ve registered but are doing nothing with at the present time? Perhaps you are like me; over the years you’ve come across interesting domain names that were available for registration that no one else had though of yet, or discovered domain names that had expired and that might [...]

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My father was not a wealthy man, but he left a legacy that will be hard to follow.
My father had many interests and passions as well as dreams. Many of his dreams did not ever come true; perhaps it was part of seeing some of his disappointment (that he seldom showed) that I motivated me [...]

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