March 12, 2010
I love change…other people I know don’t seem to as much. They are much more comfortable with the familiar.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Dubois
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March 6, 2010
Although Akismet does a fine job of combatting comment spam, I was still getting a fair bit until a day or so ago.
What’s different?
I discovered, quite by accident, a great little plugin called Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress. What this plugin does is compliment Akismet so that when Akismet identifies a comment as spam, the commenter is asked to complete a simple CAPTCHA. If the commenter fails to complete the CAPTCHA, then the comment is trashed and doesn’t clutter up the spam queue. Now if the commenter passes the CAPTCHA, the comment will appear in the spam queue so that false-positives can then be identified much easier.
I must say, this plugin is gold! So of course I want to thank the author, Ray of Solaris, for creating this very useful plugin. Because of you I’m now going to open up comments to the public on another blog I own since this is a time-saving plugin that will make comment moderation that much simpler. Thanks Ray!
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March 1, 2010
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein 
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February 25, 2010
Today I posted on Twitter that I just don’t have it in me to continually spam my affiliate links to my followers. I mean, sure I’ll mention something I’m promoting once or maybe twice, but that’s it. And that’s after I’ve tweeted about something else, like maybe a great quote, or an interesting news item.
The most successful marketers out there are really aggressive. I mean you see their tweets and it’s go here, check out this, buy that, make money here, get traffic there…it’s endless. Supposedly it works, but it’s just not my style.
So how do I advertise, you might ask? Well, for starters, all of my blog posts and pages are usually optimized for the search engines, with a keyword in the title, and another one or 2 in the actual post. I have dominated certain search engines for a great niche for over 4 years because of that little trick, and because of top 10 placement in the search engines, I get a lot of free organic traffic.
The other thing I do is contribute to communities. This is my favorite thing to do because you can get a really big following if you prove to the community that you’re there to help and contribute, and not just there to spam your products, services, opportunities.
I also comment on other blogs, write articles, and I’ve been a guest blogger. All those things are passive marketing methods and they work for me. I may not get rich quickly like some aggressive marketers are, but I think I’ll get there eventually. Just call me a turtle. 
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February 22, 2010
“The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.”
Sidney Madwed
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