You know the old saying: "Give a man a dollar and he'll eat a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger. Teach a man to earn a dollar and he'll die from eating Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers."
Well, it's something like that.
Russell Brunson and I are launching a new website where you can get 5 things for a dollar,...
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2008 has been quite a year. I wasn't able to finish one big project I'd hoped to complete (I still need to learn to manage distractions better), but the year has seen a number of good developments, both business and personal. Here are some highlights:
My efforts to make "internet marketing guru" contacts that starte...
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by ZetaGecko | Issues/Problems
The Conestoga Mall here in Grand Island, Nebraska lost $60 (more actually) of sales for their retailers today. I went in to get Christmas gift cards, only to discover that they charge $2 per card over and above the value of the card. For a $10 card (we were going to buy them for 6...
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Yesterday, I suggested we organize a Day Without Email where we'd all shut off our SMTP servers for a day. We wouldn't send any email out, and no email would come in. (But messages to us wouldn't get lost because the senders' servers would keep retrying till we turned our SMTP servers back on tomorrow)....
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I've had it! This morning I could barely connect to my server because it was so overrun with bounces of spam sent by people spoofing my email addresses (ie. spammers sending email with an email address at one of my domains in the senders address). I'm not kidding. The traffic was so heavy that HTTP...
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Copyblogger is running a haiku writing contest and giving away a MacBook Air, Product Launch Formula 2.0, and the Teaching Sells online training program. I want the MacBook!
To that end, I've written a "morphing" haiku -- each line of the haiku morphs into the next, taking me from writing the haiku on line one...
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by ZetaGecko | Education, Issues/Problems, Vision
It's been said that capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the rest.
The power and success of capitalism come from the fact that it tends to channel self-interest in ways that benefit society. A capitalist produces what people want, because that's what people will buy. If he's not able to produce one...
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by ZetaGecko | Issues/Problems, Vision
In Russell Brunson's 100 Million Dollar Challenge, he says that the role of an entrepreneur is (among other things) to spend as much money as possible. His point is valid, but I can't agree entirely.
The theory is that by spending money, entrepreneurs stimulate the economy because jobs are created in order to make the...
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by ZetaGecko | Issues/Problems
There are plenty of people to blame in the current mortgage meltdown -- executives who took huge salaries while building a feeble house of financial cards, buyers who bit off more than they could chew, betting that home prices would only continue to rise, etc. In the talk of how to solve the problem, one...
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Russell Brunson's Zero to $100 Million Challenge started last week. I've been (and still am) pretty busy, so I just got around to joining today.
I've been following Russell and his company since last year a little before I launched my Guru Stalker website, and based on what I've already learned from him, I'm very...
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