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How I use Facebook to Get Signups

May 12, 2009

This question was on the suggestions list, remember to post your question there if you got one. I'll be honest and say I forgot it was there but I'll try to answer more of them now that I remembered =P (you can also vote on the ones you like best). Question: I just joined facebook. [...]

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Just Trying to Focus

May 1, 2009

Well it's a start of a new day, and I'm just trying to focus. There are so many distractions both online and offline, it can be very difficult to get work done! Today I'm going to do my best and focus on one site that I need to finish up, so that I can start [...]

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Inspection Passed.. Sorta..

April 28, 2009

Well the house inspection passed, so we'll be buying the house! But unfortunately another inspection is failing. Backups! My post yesturday morning (which didn't mail out till this morning ARG!) I was going through my advertisements. Now I'm going through all my paper documents and cd piles and am finding something scary..  Many of those [...]

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How do you present yourself online?

March 25, 2009

Recently I've been thinking about this ALOT. So much so that when my wife put a coffee pot and table out on the curb for anyone to pick up as they drive by, I actually fixed the coffee pot and put all the peices together so it looked right. I didn't want someone to drive [...]

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Gmail Just Got Better

November 21, 2008

Beleive it or not, but my wife is actually cooler than me according to Google. Yeah, her account got the new themes a few days before mine. She was talking about how cool it looked and mine was still boring. Basically you can now pick themes for your Gmail account, which is pretty cool. Here [...]

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Why Internet Marketers Shouldn't Use Godaddy

November 19, 2008

Ok so I'm talking to my buddy Tim, we go waay back to that DC conference. He's thinking of moving his domain to Godaddy, and I'm like WHAT??? That's crazy. Then I found out he doesn't know about their Abuse department. Well, in 2005 StartXchange was held hostage by Godaddy. Someone sent out what lookes [...]

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Introduce Your Business to 4733 Readers

November 17, 2008

First time I did this, I got 20 comments. Second time, I got 18. This time, let's shoot for 100. The point of this post is for YOU to introduce yourself and your business to fellow readers. I'll try my best to read them all, and check out as many links as I can. To [...]

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Why You Shouldn't Use Yahoo For Email

November 11, 2008

If this sounds like a rant, well, maybe it is a little bit. But it does have a big deal in the business world. It's all about communication and if you can't communicate you can't get things done. Well basically the situation is this. Yahoo has some of the strictest email policies to prevent spam [...]

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The Ultimate Backup Solution

October 29, 2008

I recently purchased a Drobo, nicknamed the Disk Robot, and so far I'm excited. Basically what the Drobo does is takes the guesswork out of managing your files. You stick 1-4 hard drives in it, and then you can expand anytime and it's automatically backed up so if one drive fails, you can just replace [...]

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Check Your Sales Process

August 28, 2008

I really want to stress the point that this isn't just for program owners! Even if you are promoting a free product, there is a process to get someone to join or download it. Checking the process periodically is important!

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I just met Jon Olson, Paul Kinder, and Many More!

August 14, 2008

Well I'm here in Washington DC at the Focus Marketing Seminar.  Meeting fellow traffic exchange owners, and other people in our industry, and people who don't even know what a traffic exchange is, has been great. I hope to have some video footage and photos to show. So far I think it's been great! Time [...]

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How about PTC's that don't pay up?

June 19, 2008

This was a question posted in the suggestions box that I decided to just answer without coming up with a creative title. If you have any questions or ideas on what I should post about, feel free to add one. If it's too big or specific to fit in the box wait until I do [...]

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We All Make Mistakes, Here Are Mine!

June 7, 2008

Mistakes happen to everyone, and I like to point them out on my blog for you to learn from. I try not to bash the person who made the mistake, as I think that takes away the focus. Anyways, Jens Berget is working on an e-book titled "why we suck at Internet marketing". He asked [...]

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Blog Rush Removed

October 24, 2007

Well I decided to remove blog rush after a blog I subscribe to was told it wasn't good enough to be in it. This on top of the fact that their "recent announcement" a month ago that we'd get stats some time, makes me no longer interested in their services. This is a big deal [...]

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Tim Linden is LinkedIn

September 8, 2007

So I joined LinkedIn today. You can view my profile here. If you are LinkedIn, then feel free to add me to your contacts if you deem me worthy. [lindensoftware@gmail.com] It looks like an interesting way to do some networking. Haven't figured out the whole site yet, but it seems simpler than the other networking [...]

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Paypal Security Key

September 7, 2007

I received my Paypal Security Key in the mail today. After about 20+ days of waiting, it finally arrived. What is it? It's a keychain with a button. You push the button and a number that changes every 30 seconds comes up. This number is then used in the login process. If you guess my [...]

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Meet with People

September 6, 2007

I meet weekly with some men I know offline.  It's interesting to hear the things they are going through in their businesses, and I learn alot even though they are offline businessmen. One does consulting for businesses and I get to hear some stories about problems he has helped find a solution to. Another flys [...]

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The StartXchange Insider

June 7, 2007

I did an exclusive behind the scenes look last month, so this month I'll do an exclusive behind the scenes description of what goes on in my admin backend. The reason for just a description this time is privacy and secrecy. Showing the full pages will reveal some of the techniques I use to prevent [...]

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One time offers.. Twice?

June 6, 2007

Have you noticed the one time offers on just about every exchange. It's the hottest thing to do right now. I've even bought some. But has anyone else noticed some sites have these offers coming up..  Twice? Sometimes even more? One site I visited said that the offer would only show once, that it was [...]

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What are you learning?

May 29, 2007

If you want to stay ahead in the game, you've got to be learning more every day. Jon Olson reads offline, I read feeds, what do you do? If you aren't learning anything, then do you know HTML? All the time I hear about people who want to run an internet business, but don't know [...]

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