Stephan Miller

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A few months ago, about the time I stopped posting so much at this blog, I ran into an issue. I had a lot of things to do and could not keep them in my head any more. That was my old method.

I tried a few things to help me out, notebook systems, online systems, software systems. However nothing really worked quite right for me, and I always ended up going to more than one place to find information when I was working and I always had more than one central control panel. I also misunderstood the meaning of the “inbox”.

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Guest post by Craig Smith of Trinity Insight

Within the Ecommerce marketplace, new technologies have been developed to assist online retailers in properly messaging content and promotions to different users.  These "targeting" solutions help improve the "holy grail" metric of conversion and should be evaluated and potentially included within your store.

What these types of offerings provide is the ability to customize a user session based upon data that is stored within the user cookie.  Without diving into the ins and outs of cookies and their functionality, essentially cookies allow a web browser to decipher the geo-location of a user, if a user has been to a site previously, as well as what pages the user has been to and where the user dropped off.

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This is a guest post by Craig Smith of Trinity Insight.

In early February of this year, search engine representatives within Google, Yahoo, and MSN (before it was Bing) made an announcement into a uniform method of embracing a new html tag to reduce duplicate content for a webmaster.  This “canonical” tag, which would be inserted within the HEAD portion of any HTML document, is a great way to reduce potential negative affects that can happen when you have the same page indexed multiple times under a variety of URL’s

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How can you make money online? A very common question. But there are one hundred and one ways to answer the question. And most of the information you will find online is general:

• Find a product you can promote as an affiliate and do so.
• Find a niche, build a blog and add a sprinkling of ads.

And general is vague. Vague instructions don’t motivate because there are no real life numbers attached to them.

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"You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That’s* the *Chicago* way! And that’s how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I’m offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?" – Sean Connery, The Untouchables

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I wrote this article a long time ago, before I had a blog. It references Outlook, so it had to be a while ago. I haven’t used Outlook in a long time.

After reading the about William Saroyan and how he wrote The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by writing a story a day for 30 days, I wrote 30 articles in the same time and spread them all over the internet.