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One of my fellow moderators on an Entrepreneur forum we both spend too much time on,Todd Chism, just got nominated by his colleagues for Entrepreneur of the Year - and made it to the final! Todd's a great guy and has built a great company selling patio furniture amongst other things. Why am I telling you all this? I need your votes to help ...

I came across some great quotes this evening from a business forum I recently joined..think about them. When you complain.."80% of the people don't care about your problems, and the other 20% are glad you have them"Another.. "People tend to overestimate what can be done in one year and underestimate what can be done in ...

Dan asked me to post an update as I explore deeper into the Google forest. I'm now fully committed to Gmail and Google Calendar (why isn't it GCalendar?) and Outlook is now purely an evil tolerated for work purposes only. And with Rob Howard's tweet this morning about Google Apps for business, perhaps that's only temporary! Go ...

My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month or so and reading it there. When I went on vacation for a week I was reading it on my phone ...

Yeah, working as a FTE does change your perspective. Way, way back I loved reading about and playing with SEO techniques - all new and sneaky. Just this month I've started looking around again at what's going on and frankly I'm stunned. All this talk of people earning $1m/month. wtf? I hadn't even heard of Google TrustRank until ...

Last summer, prompted by a neighbor who has the UPS guy at her front door even more than we do, my wife decided to get into "selling stuff online". It's not just beanie babies on eBay apparently. There's a lot to learn about - wholesalers, drop shippers, light bulk, liquidation sales, importing and weird new acronyms like MAP ...

I've posted about the ups and downs of Blockbuster before. This morning Mike points us to the latest pundit who says that Blockbuster will die within 2 years. I can't refute his findings, and if true it's pretty sad. Everyone needs competition, and I'm sure it's done something to keep Netflix honest. Remember throttling? ...

I'm being slow to catch up on reading blogs since my recent week vacation - most I delete (unread) when they get old, but I never delete Seth's. So, today's read was Bought and Sold - and I remembered that this actually happened to me. We were happily living in a house once when I got a letter from a realtor saying that they had ...

It's happened again; Seth posts about something that just happened to me.If it were really a security issue, they'd have to enforce it completely. If it's just a silly policy that someone dreamed up one day, it's sure to annoy people. Because it's irrational. Because it's not enforced in a way that makes sense.I went to the ...

With just one day to go, I wake up and realize that I never did link to Scott Cate's promotion in aid of Diabetes. EasySearchASP.NET is cool regardless, so it's worth checking out. (One side-effect of using this title - at least 1 in 3 developers are named Scott so I'm guaranteed to get a lot of readers for this post ...