Why do you need a professional email management program to make money and succeed online? I will tell you my story. When I started online in 1999, I hated spam, I hated email from” internet marketers”, and I resisted all advice to start building an email list. I got very annoyed at people sending me email trying to sell me things. As time went on, I watched people I knew whom I knew personally who had started online around the same time as I did start to make a lot of money, One of my mentors who had actually helped me learn how to build my first website using Xsite Pro is now an online guru, and multi-millionaire. He never spams people and when he sends me emails, I read them. Needless to say, I have had to rethink my approach to email marketing. I now realize I must build my list. Your email list is literally your gold. No matter what you do , author, teacher, life coach, editor, writing coach, sales, consulting, offering products, small business, non profits, it does not matter, your email list will be where you are guaranteed to make money or sell your product. […]
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How can I set up a strategic system or tweet plan where I am not creating more work for myself?
Kim Edwards is writing an article for the Independent Book Publishers Association, and she sent me some interview questions. One of the questions was: “How can I set up a strategic system or tweet plan where I am not creating more work for myself?”. This is a great question for me because I just recently started using twitterfeed. This is a tool that has greatly increased my traffic, (doubled it from the day I started using it!), and saved me so much time. If you are using Facebook and twitter and Linkedin and not using this tool, run don’t walk to sign up now. Did I mention it is FREE. I would pay to use this. It does take about 30 minutes to set up correctly. Well at least it took me that long because I felt a little confused about the feeds and I did not get a confirmation message after filling things in and I kept trying to check it and was not sure how to do that. Sometimes when I find myself feeling like that online I discovered it pays to leave it and go back. When I checked back later it was all there to see […]
Big and Glossy Website Design Trend
I have been designing websites now for 5 years. I still get many compliments on my primary website. I find this interesting because that site is not a WordPress website. I created it using Xsite Pro, a website building program that I really love but do not use nearly as much. 80% of my business is now building WordPress websites. On my Askmepc-Webdesign site, people tell me they like how easy it is to find what they are looking for. I am sure they find the traditional layout familiar. (Read my article on how people read a website here). I also always have build very “clean” and clear websites. I hate clutter online. We have enough coming at us already to be overwhelmed by a website. There is trend now for oversized big glossy looking websites. Some of the things I like about the trend is most of the time they are easy to navigate. The big buttons are helpful and there are usually clear and oversized directions given, (such as “click here to purchase”) which I think is helpful for many people. Some of the things I do not like: They can feel impersonal They are too “internet marketing” […]
How to get rid of and remove the Lizamoon virus fake “Windows Stability Center” virus
Fake Windows Stability Center Trojan. How to get rid of it. Virus security software calls itself “Windows Stability Center” LizaMoon SQL injection: To continue the story from a few days ago. My daughter was doing a search for her term paper, and when she did the google image search, this virus came up. This fake security software calls itself “Windows Stability Center” and is known as the LizaMoon SQL injection: Windows Stability Center Trojan. We killed the process and got out of the window, and thought all was well, since she never clicked anything or downloaded anything. Well she continued her research the next day and did a google image search again, and the message keeps popping up in Firefox, but not Internet Explorer. So I am not sure why that is happening other then she is finding many infected websites in image search. So now we are not sure what is up and when I did some research on how to tell for sure if you are infected and how remove it, I was finding this topic all over the map. There were many different sets of directions and opinions in the geek community. I suppose they all may […]
Frozen Computer Screen from virus-how to get out of the fake virus screen, or LizaMoon Virus
How to get out of a virus frozen screen on your computer. Click image to see a large version of the screen. So you have a frozen computer screen or a screen you cannot get past? Here is my story. I started to write this post yesterday, and saved it as a draft. In the meantime my daughter was working on her finals for school, and I told her about this Liza Moon virus and warned her if anything odd came up and told her she was infected, let me see it. The next day she was doing a google image search for her paper and clicked an image and got the warning. She brought the computer to me and I was honestly surprised. There it was, the lizamoon virus. Luckily, she never clicked anything, so she did not get infected. But this is a very tricky one. It looks legit, and I feel bad for all the innocent people who will get this. Especially the senior citizens. When I work on computers for Seniors it breaks my heart how messed up their computers usually are. Spyware, extra spammy toolbars, and just all kind of annoyances that make it so […]
What happened to the back button drop down menu on Firefox 4.0?
I have just upgraded Firefox to 4.0, and IE to IE9. I must say I really like both of these updates. They are sleek, lean and run fast. But of course as always some of my favorite addons stopped working , and then there are other things that always annoy until you can figure it out and get used to doing things in a “slightly” new way. But for now, where the heck did the back drop down menu go? Watch this:
How to block a website in Google search results. How to exclude sites google search.
How to block or exclude sites in a google search