I had an idea about 2 weeks ago for a new web site. I spent some money to buy an established domain name, rather than starting from scratch. This first step wasn’t perfect, but it went pretty well.

Step Two was to acquire a script to power the site. I purchased a relatively new script from a company from whom I’d purchased some pretty good directory software in the past. Their previous software was relatively easy to use and… despite sluggish (and occasionally sloppy) technical support, got the job done. So I shelled out $160 for this new script and, after enduring several days of unnecessary delays on their part, finally got it installed and customized and started putting it through its paces by behaving as a customer would if they arrived at the site and wanted to take advantage of what it had to offer.
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Spam, spam, spam, spam. It sucks. And the good folks who created the blog platforms knew it would be a big problem, so they switched off the links in the blog comment section. However, that was before Akismet was available…a wonderful free spam filter for blog comments.

A new movement is underway amongst bloggers who see the value in linking back to those who validate our entire purpose for blogging…by reading and commenting on our blogs. I think this is a great concept. I’ve done that on all my blogs personally for some time. And I think it’s worth encouraging others to do the same.
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OK…this is not brand new. This program has been around for about 4 months. But since the blog is, I’m gonna mention it anyway. If you’ve got a web site or blog, you NEED to be using AuctionAds. Allow me to ’supplain…

AuctionAds is the baby (at least in part) of Jeremy Schoemaker (aka Shoemoney). He’s one of my favorite internet marketing personalities. He’s big-time. I identify with him for many reasons, I suppose…he’s blunt, he’s creative, and he used to be a big fat guy. I have #1 and #2 down pat…still working on #3. He took a bit of a shortcut to #3 himself, he did the stomach-band deal (not to belittle that in any way. I have the gut, but not the guts…and you still have to relearn how to eat even if you go that route).
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