Almost a year ago, we started our trial of GetFriday, a ‘virtual assistant’ or ‘outsourced assistant’ company based in India. Their fees start at around $10/hour and go down from there the larger the monthly plan you get. We eventually decided to part ways with them, mainly due to a few factors: 1. cost-cutting on […]
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In all likelihood, you’ve seen where you perform a search on a website and the results look just very much like what you get when you do a search on Google. Well, in case you’re wondering how that works, Google has a product called Google Custom Search that lets you do just that. There are […]
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We recently decided to replace the built-in commenting system that comes with Wordpress on Gizmos for Geeks due to its limitations and that we were spending too much time dealing with spam comments. We looked at the 4 most popular/capable comment replacement systems available now: IntenseDebate, Disqus, Backtype and JS-Kit’s ECHO. We briefly considered Facebook […]
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I love this graph. It is so telling. This is a track of our visitors to one of Halloween costume websites. Look at how it rises steadily to the height of traffic on Halloween day (interestingly enough - probably from people looking for last minute ideas) and then falling precipitously the next 2 days (the […]
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Over a year ago, we wrote about being ‘penny-wise, pound-foolish’, or rather advising not to be! Well, I have another very concrete example of how spending a bit more money up front saved me a whole lot of time and by extension, money.
I’ll nutshell it up front: I built my computer with the operating system […]
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided that bloggers need to disclose if they’ve received ‘freebies’ that they blog about or write reviews on. Otherwise they would be liable for fines on the order of $10 to $20,000.
In addition, testimonial advertisements now need to be more explicit in what customers can reasonably expect when they […]
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At a recent Meet the Angels event in Atlanta, the panelists made sure entrepreneurs knew that angels “should be a last resort”. While this was shocking for the entrepreneurs, the panelist described working with Angels is “expensive and onerous” and suggest that if you can avoid it, you should. So what’s an entrepreneur […]
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Regardless of the business you’re in or the one you’re trying to break into, I can’t underestimate the value in attending conferences. Conferences are where you learn more about the field you’re interested in through talks, seminars and speaking with other attendees. Conferences are also where you meet others in that field’s community - experts, […]
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According to the National Bureau of Economic Research on December 1st, 2008, the US economy has been in a recession for all of 2008 starting in December 2007. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of “negative growth” (stupid oxymorons) or the GDP.
According to the NBER, the expansion that ended in December 2007 […]
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I have neglected this site for some time between working some special projects for Felthos Foundry and receiving a promotion at work climbing yet another rung on the ladder to becoming a corporate slave. The new position unfortunately steals a bit of my time hindering my dreams of becoming untethered from the corporate life.
My […]
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