A New Holiday

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As Valentine’s Day came and went this week, I heard several people complain about how this holiday is a fictitious marketing scheme developed by the greeting card industry.  Consequently, [...]

The Most Important Characteristic of a Successful Blog

Do you want your blog to be read? Does the idea of hundreds (maybe eventually even thousands) of people around the world waiting for your next post give you a thrill? Are your dreams filled with your blog’s hit counter exploding due to a post being featured on the front page of Digg?

If [...]

The Starbucks Conspiracy

Before I went to work today, I decided to catch up on some news. After reading (and celebrating) that the stock market was having a great day, something else caught my attention. On both MSNBC and CNN, a front page headline contained a article about Starbucks.

No, Starbucks was not declaring bankruptcy. No, [...]

Holy Pagerank Batman!!

If you are reading this, you are now visiting a blog with a Page Rank of 4!!. I really need someone to pinch me as I am completely surprised with this nice development. I was just hoping to get any kind of ranking, since this domain is only 64 days old.

 I could further describe how [...]

Too many meetings!!!

Today at work, we were subjected to SIX different meetings. These meetings took up a grand total of 3 1/2 hours or 43.75% of our work day. What a waste of a day!! The worst part is that all of these meetings were pretty much pointless and could have been summarized in [...]

Getting Traffic to your Blog

As a new blogger, my number one challenge has to been drive traffic to my site. After all, what is the sense of all this typing if no one is going to read it. When you are starting off, you have no backlinks, no page rank, and no chance of showing up in [...]