Archive for December, 2005

Floating Funds… Fun for who?

Monday, December 26th, 2005

So big corporations withhold money from each of their employees checks for taxes. They find some way to pay the money to government either quarterly or in one lump sum at the end of the year. So what happens with the money while it’s waiting to be paid for the taxes it was […]

Cutting outside of the pie.

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Are internet sales a fixed pie? Is there really only a certain amount of dollars that are spent on the internet that somehow need to be divided among the millions of online retailers?
While it may be a hard argument to win, I would suggest that it is possible to get first-time online shoppers to […]

Spam: Enough to lose your appetite.

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

So I got blasted with a bunch of spam on my blog over the weekend. How irritating. As I was cleaning it up, I thought to myself, “Why do people spam?” My realist self quickly responded, “Because it must work.”
Spamming is on the rise. Like any growing industry, there must be […]

Finding “The Balance”

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

The other day a young friend of mine called me up and asked, “John, with all of the work and time and travel it can take to start your own businesses, how do you find time for your family?” My first response was to ask him how many people had a steady 9 to […]

Finding your network…

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

The old saying, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” certainly carries some weight in the world. It’s not everything, but it is certainly a key component of opportunity. Networking and the exchange/sharing ideas and information is undoubtedly one of the most valuable efforts for any entrepreneur. I whole heartedly […]

Cingular Ctinks

Friday, December 9th, 2005

I was a customer of AT&T wireless before they were purchased by Cingular last year. As an independent contractor and a small business owner, I loved the service and didn’t mind recommending it to partners and employees. AT&T was a great provider and I was able to get a mountain of promotional minutes […]

Losing Page Rank: Just Another Statistic

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

So after Google’s last big indexing round-up, a number of different sites that I manage in one of my small businesses lost its ranking. I understand that google has reset their algorhythms to try to clean out duplicate content and people who use scraper software, but a lot of legitimate sites seemed to have […]