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What is affiliate marketing?

August 23, 2010

If you’ve ever run a blog, I’m sure that you’ve asked yourself how people make money by simply blogging.  There are a few ways but one of the big ones is affiliate marketing. A blogging/social media friend of mine named Corbett Barr of FreePursuits and ThinkTraffic fame recently launched an affiliate marketing training class.  Since [...]

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Who’s Next?

August 10, 2010

It’s been truly entertaining over the years to follow the tech market.  There was a day that Microsoft was the monopolistic giant that only the government could contain via anti-trust lawsuits.  Then Google was about ready to take over the entire market.  Today, Apple (as far as the stock market is concerned) is the second [...]

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DMV Tech

July 27, 2010

Alright so I had the option of mailing in my license tag renewal or doing it online… but I procrastinated.  So, it was time to head off to the DMV to do it the old fashioned way.  In thinking about it, I remembered something that I had read about being able to “get in line” [...]

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Political Technology

July 22, 2010

To anyone who follows me on many of the social networks, it comes as NO surprise that I like politics.  The political realm is very interesting to me, although somewhat frustrating.  Another interest of mine is technology.  I am in the process of starting a new political project over the coming weeks so it’s really [...]

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Social Money??

June 30, 2010

Earlier this year I wrote a post about the peer lending sites that I had stumbled across (“Be A Bank?“).  I was just reading another article about this concept and must say that it still very much intrigues me. Interesting Concept The general concept really fascinates me.  To me it’s minimalist banking at it’s finest. [...]

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Why do I need Gmail?

June 28, 2010

In the next description of the ”17 Must Have Cloud Applications“,  let’s look at GMail.  In case you don’t know, Gmail is Google’s mail product.  They offer it for standard personal use at mail.google.com and also for business use through Google Apps. Why do I need it? As a small business, it is very important to [...]

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How do I use this? Evernote

June 17, 2010

As an extension to the previous “17 Must Have Cloud Applications“, let’s take a few minutes and expand on each of the items.  We’ll start with Evernote. Why do I need it? Evernote is a great cloud based application for keeping all your stuff together.  When I say stuff obviously I mean electronic stuff.  It [...]

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Where are we going?

June 15, 2010

Have you ever really considered how much impact technology has had on our lives over the last 20 years?  Mobile technology? Desktop/laptop computers? The Internet? I would say that it is very truly revolutionary to our culture and our society and I don’t believe that is overstating it in any way.  Just look at three [...]

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Instantly Improve online collaboration

June 15, 2010

I was contacted a few weeks ago about an opportunity to be a Business Technology Examiner for the Kansas City focused Examiner.com.  I decided I would give it a try.  Here is my first official offering for the site.  It’s an adaptation of something that I wrote for RefocusingTechnology.com a couple of months ago.  Come [...]

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Choose the Passion

June 10, 2010

Over the past few months, I have had a goal to finish at least one non-fiction book a month.  I actually like reading non-fiction so that’s fine and a book a month really shouldn’t be that much.  It is really more about the motivation and setting a goal.  Anyway, in June the book on tap [...]

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