Outsource or Do It Yourself?

Outsource or Do It Yourself?

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I've always wanted to do things myself.  I like to learn how things work and figure out how to make things work better.  After all, I am a nerdy engineer.  :) I've always been very frugal.  (My wife will tell you I am cheap - maybe she is right.)  I don't like spending money on anything that I think I can do myself.  So, I would spend days … [Read more...]

Adobe Creative Cloud Review, Photoshop CS6 and Doing It Yourself

Adobe Creative Cloud Review, Photoshop CS6 and Doing It Yourself

Adobe Creative Cloud

With Adobe's Photoshop CS6 and the awesome Creative Cloud service, you now have a complete package of creating any kind of website you can imagine to promote yourself or your business.  This is an excellent way to go if you are the do-it-yourself type that really wants to know the ins and outs of websites and their design.  Photoshop CS6 has a lot of nice … [Read more...]

Facebook Timeline for Facebook Pages Problematic for Marketing

Facebook Timeline

Facebook's timeline layout is frustrating businesses and people that are using Facebook pages to promote their product or brand. Facebook has forced Timeline on all of it's pages. It is not YET required for personal pages even though they have been encouraging everyone to switch. There is no telling when they will force it on personal pages. One of the … [Read more...]

Get on Google+

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Google+ is starting to make an impact on everything.  While Facebook is still the dominating social media site, Google+ (Google Plus) is coming on strong.  One of the big advantages to having a presence on Google Plus is the fact that Google already has so many different pieces that everybody uses every day.  They have been collecting data for many years … [Read more...]

How To Get Things Done – What to do?

To Do List

In today's world of constant and instant distractions from phone calls to texts and tweets, it can be practically impossible to focus enough to get anything done. Every little tweet can send us on a rat hole leading to who-knows-where taking us away from our important objectives for the day. If I pay attention to all of the distractions I get, I can easily … [Read more...]

The Masses are Dead – You Have to be Unique

Up until now in our lifetime, we have been use to a mass society where practically everything is geared toward commonality in masses of people and getting people to conform to those masses.  Businesses were geared around mass production of non-unique items that can be produced quickly and cheaply and sold in mass quantity.  There was virtually no … [Read more...]

Living in an Internet Connected World

Finally!  I have finally updated my blog.  It has been over 2 years since I last posted.  Things have been really busy (again) and there have been a lot of changes to tools and capabilities on the Internet.  There are virtually unlimited resources that can be used to do anything you want from anywhere in the world.  There is no longer anything holding … [Read more...]

Harry Potter and the Internet Business

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpHlhWoFqwA A little about Harry Potter, our vacation, and the benefits of an internet business........ … [Read more...]

Twitter Take Off

Well, after I started noticing twitter being talked about practically everywhere, I decided to take the plunge.  I knew Twitter had really made the jump from being a fad to being mainstream when it was being talked about on just about every popular television show and news cast - even the non-geeky and non-tech-savvy ones. You can see my twitter page at … [Read more...]

Making Money Online Without a Product

OK.  So you ask, "Hill, you keep talking about making money online but you don't always give details about how." Well, here you go.......  Here is one of many ways of making money online.  The beauty about this method is that you don't even need a product of your own.  The most common term is "Affiliate Marketing".  The way it works is as … [Read more...]