Appreciating Autumn

When I was kid growing up around Wilmington, North Carolina, summer meant vacation. It wasn’t a season. Summer was over when we had to go back to school. Fall meant raking leaves and trick-or-treating. I thought about this today as wore corduroys to work this morning and changed back into shorts/t-shirt after lunch. The South [...]

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How do I increase my Alexa Rank?

Most of the experts from SEO Chat say Alexa Rank should not be used in measuring a site.
Primarily because Alexa is used extensively by the informed to confuse (maybe even lie to) the uninformed.
SEO_AM
Does this mean you need to ignore you Alexa Rank? Probably not. A-list bloggers may care less but for those of us [...]

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Branding – It’s all about the brand!

The Lead Marketplace/Exchange is a very “hot space”. There are two Leading Lead Exchanges that seam to be battling it out (Lead point and Leadpile). The Leadpile Marketplace/Lead Exchange has built its Brand and Marketplace with no outside VC funding, and offers a Lead solution in Multiple Verticals. Leadpile looks to be a Merger and [...]

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Vermont

Until I finalize my online empire and work from a laptop in a coffee shop my chances of hitting the slopes are slim. Now if on the other hand things go according to plan and in 2009 I’m hanging out in Burlington, Vermont sipping coffee and watching folks strolling by k2 skis under [...]

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BLOG ACTION DAY!

The Environment.
On the coat tails of Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize, we have Blog Action Day. Almost prophetic, eh?
I’ve put quite a bit of thought into this post while trying to decide what to write concerning the environment. After a brief sojourn into global warming, Val not using pesticides in/on her garden, and a few [...]

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blog ads vs magazines

While reading Better Homes and Gardens yesterday, I noted a link to their website for an article on brick walkways. Yes, it’s true, I read BH&G and I read Val’s Vanity Fair  and some kind of magazine about cottage style homes. I like pictures — want to fight about it? Get over it and move [...]

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