I know that this post is a little off the beaten path, but I just had to say a few words about a recent article I got in my inbox from the New York Times. It states:

The unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as weak hiring by private employers wasn’t enough to keep pace with a large increase in the number of people looking for work.

The Labor Department says companies added a net total 67,000 new jobs last month, down from July’s upwardly revised total of 107,000.

Overall, the economy lost 54,000 jobs as 114,000 temporary census positions came to an end. State and local governments shed 10,000 positions. The jobless rate rose to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent in July.

And you can read the full story here.

Do You Have a Plan B?

Now, knowing all of this, what are you doing to keep your business afloat in this downtrodden economy? Are you increasing your marketing efforts, are you spending more on advertising, or are you just going with the flow?

Many website owners especially those in the service industry like mine, have to take an active approach to marketing in order to keep the money comming in. And I’m sure that you do too.

But I’d like to know what you are doing.

What keeps your business thriving?
Think about it for a bit and then let me know by posting a comment below. I’d love to hear from my subscribers and readers are up to these days.

Have a wonderful day.
Tim

Oops! Down Again, wait it's only something Tecnically wrong

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything main stream about Twitter, but over the past few weeks, since the rollout of the new app, “Twitter Places” Twitter has found, more times than naught, that trying to keep up with “The Jones” or trying to “Stay Ahead of The Curve” has put another twist in the mix.

And that twist is “Servability” ok, maybe that’s not quite the right word, but lately, at least from a users perspective, when they go to Twitter to post a tweet or reply to a friends tweet, they get the “Oops something is technically wrong message”.

Now I don’t know about you, but being a business owner, the “Oops!” just doesn’t cut it, when your up against a schedule and your time is very important.

You can have all the Twitter Tools, Tips and resources to help make your marketing efforts work together for the benefit of yourself and your followers, but if Twitter is down, then all the other apps are too.

So, what do you do when Twitter is down, and the “Fail Whale” swims into your harbor?

I know many of you have more than one marketing avenue in the mix, so what do you do when you have all these social media networks all tied together and one of those sites goes down?

What do you have in your arsenal that is tried, tested and approved to never let you down.

Until next time.
Have a wonderful day,
Tim

If a recent article in the NY Times from the 10th, we found out that Google is again in hot water with it’s offices in Seol Korea.

We’ve put the article below, so you can see for your self what’s happening.

Here’s the article.

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Police in South Korea Raid Google’s Office
By CHOE SANG-HUN

SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean police raided the offices of Google Korea on Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether the company had illegally collected and stored personal wireless data.

The search company is already facing lawsuits and investigations in several countries in connection with private wireless data collected for its Street View service. Street View, which was started in 2006, allows users to view panoramic street scenes on Google Maps and take virtual walks through cities.

From late last year until May, Google Korea dispatched cars topped with cameras to cruise around the country to photograph neighborhoods before the planned introduction of Street View.

The police suspect that those cars might have illegally captured and stored personal data from wireless networks while they were mapping streets, a statement by the Cyber Terror Response Center of the Korean National Police Agency said.

“We will investigate Google Korea officials and scrutinize the data we confiscated today” to see whether the company violated the country’s laws on communications and privacy, it said.

“We intend to find out what kinds of data they have collected and how much,” the response center said. “We will try to retrieve all the original data illegally collected and stored through domestic Wi-Fi networks from the Google headquarters.”

Google confirmed in an e-mailed statement to Reuters that the South Korean police visited the company’s office in conjunction with their investigation concerning data collection by Street View cars. The company said it would cooperate with the investigation.

Google said previously that the collection of personal data in other countries had been unintentional and that the company would cooperate with investigations. The company has faced tough competition in South Korea. One domestic search engine, Daum, already runs a popular service akin to Street View.

Google said Tuesday that it would introduce Street View in Germany before the end of the year, The Associated Press reported from Berlin.

The feature, Google said, would be available in the 20 largest German cities. According to the company, residents could ask to have photographs of their houses removed from the database starting next week — a move aimed at dispelling privacy fears.

What do you think should happen to Google?
Have a wonderful day.
Tim

A matter of fact that’s exactly what I do.
Recently I had the pleasure of attending the MyFoxBoston Zip Trip right here in my home town of Leominster Ma, and I will have to admit it was a wonderful day to rub elbows with alot of the local business, taste the food from local hot spots, and of course, a good cup of coffee from Dunkin Donut’s

I even had the pleasure of talking with the mayor of our town Dean Mazzarella. who is featured in this video clip from the Zip Trip.

We also had the opportunity of rubbing elbows with some of the celebrities of Fox News.

So, if the Zip Trip comes to your town, take a break, and get involved with your community. You never know what may turn up.

Have a wonderful day
Tim

Lately, I’ve been in a dilemma and maybe you can help me out.

I know that many of you already have a successful business and some of you are still trying to make your first dollar online. And believe me I’ve been on both sides of the fence.

From designers prospective, putting together a website is easy, but then again that’s my profession. That’s my passion. But website design is just a very small portion of the equation.

Over the past 15 plus years I’ve learned many things about website design, search engine optimization, pay per click advertising, article writing, affiliate marketing, social media and a whole host of factors that complete the entire scope of running a business online.

But I’ve noticed that even with all the pieces in place, many people still are not making money online. And when they don’t see immediate results they get discouraged and think that this internet thing is all just a bunch of hogwash and many will throw in the towel and give up.

Even I at times have contemplated closing up shop and going back to a regular J.O.B (Just over broke) just to make ends meet. And many of you have done the same thing, (You know who you are) or you simply keep moving forward in hopes of reaching the “Golden Ring” to where you can finally break free of the 9 – 5 rat race.

If you’ve reached a level of success that you are satisfied with then congratulations, but are you truly where you want to be? Do you have a feeling deep down inside that there’s got to be something more?

If you haven’t reached a level of success, you already know some or all of these gut retching feelings of uneasiness, wanting, unworthiness, and feelings of failure that are so overwhelming, that they can cause you to think that this whole internet thing is a waste of time.

But I’m here to tell you, you’re not a failure, you CAN, with the right MINDSET, ACHIEVE whatever it is that you want out of life. I know that this is a very Bold Claim but hear me out for a minute.

A man by the name of Andrew Carnegie hired Napoleon Hill to study the top 100 income earners’ of their time and to find a common thread that would explain their success, and then write a book about his findings. And the results of those findings was compiled together into a book called “Think and Grow Rich“, and in that book is one of the most profound statements that has ever been coined, and it states…

“What ever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve –Napoleon Hill”

And Napoleon goes on to state that everyone that he studied or interviewed did have a common thread, and that one thing gave them the drive and determination to succeed. And if you’ve ever read the book you’ll know, that it has nothing to do with the money or fame, though it was the by-product.

Each one of the top 100 income earners that Napoleon interviewed or studied, saw a problem that needed to be solved, and had a passion to try and help find a solution to that problem. And, in solving that problem, they reaped the rewards for many years to come.

Each one of us HAS A SOLUTION, to someone else’s problem. We all know something that someone else doesn’t. I could sit here and list a thousand examples right off the top of my head without blinking an eye, and I’m sure that you could too, of the many problems that plague our world.

Everything from the Unemployment Crisis to the disaster off the Louisiana Coast with the BP Oil spill. And many in between. The list of problems that this world faces is astounding. Do you see what I’m getting at here?

You HAVE a solution to someone else’s problem. YOU are the SOLUTION, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Now letting people know that you have the solution is the key to the whole equation. But this we’ll talk about in our next newsletter.

Be the SOLUTION! and remember what Napoleon Hill said “What ever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”

Have a wonderful weekend.
Tim

PS If you have any questions about this post, I’d love to hear your thoughts. And please, if you know anyone that you think will benefit from this newsletter please pass it on to a friend.

Here’s that special gift I spoke about “Think and Grow Rich” Simply click on the previous link to download Think and Grow Rich.

Or watch this brief video below:

Have a wonderful day
Tim

What is your solution?