My "new years resolutions" this year revolve around process changes. One of my brothers and I periodically have long conversations about our businesses. In our latest phone call, he talked about how he's taught his employees that if they follow processes designed to bring about particular results, the results will come.

If you focus only...
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That's right, gambling has been legalized in Nebraska.

Every time venture out onto the ice packed streets of Grand Island, Nebraska, you're gambling with your life, the lives of those around you, and your financial and emotional futures.

Driving about a block from my house today, I came to an unmarked intersection (there's a gamble...
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A product/service that I won't name has a video on their sales page claiming that over 300% of affiliate commissions are stolen.

...huh?

I can only guess that they mean that for every $1 in commissions earned, $3 of commissions that should have been earned aren't. Uh, guys, that's 75%. If 300% was getting stolen,...
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Imagine you're facing a wall that stretches forever off in either direction. We all know that the further parts of the wall look smaller than the closer parts. That's called "perspective". We tend to imagines lines of perspective aiming straight toward some distant point, but in fact they don't.

Consider this image:

If the perspectiv...
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I'm not one to spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos, but videos like this make me wonder whether I'm missing more than I realized. This is the first take of Weird Al and Donny Osmond in front of the green screen shooting the video. In the final video, you only saw a little...
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You know the saying, "never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." I'd like to suggest an alternative, "never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till next week."

Okay, I'm not entirely serious, but here's my thinking: if you've got a task that you're putting off because you just don't...
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Give a man a fish, and he'll sue you for a lifetime supply.

Teach a man to fish, and his friends will sue you for not teaching them.

Ah, the new American dream! I've read where a number of people have talked about how people they'd given something to got a sense of entitlement, expect...
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I can just hear PayPal singing: "Daisy Daisy, Give me your answer do! I'm half crazy, All for the love of you!..." Slower and slower and sllooowwwweeeeerrrrrr. Hal, wake up!

I've noticed over that last month or so that PayPal has been slowing down. When I first noticed, I was a little concerned that I...
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The latest issue of marketing millionaire Russell Brunson's DotComSecrets Magazine included an article on using RSS feeds for SEO. It recommended two tools for converting RSS feeds to HTML and integrating them into webpages: my product CaRP, and the CMS system Drupal. Of course, if you want to integrate feeds into existing webpages that aren't...
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I sent out Grouper Evolution version 1.6.3 yesterday. I'd been working on a much more ambitious upgrade, but decided that it was important to get a few of the improvements out now.

The most visible and important change is an overhaul of the Shopping.com affiliate plugin. The original plugin was based on data sent to...
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