Does Your Home Based Business Need a Boost?
Feb 18th
Are you looking for a way to boost your online or home based business this year? Have you been struggling with trying to understand how people make money online from Internet websites? Are you confused about the “techie” stuff that is needed to setup a website, put videos on your website, link to PayPal.com and shopping cart systems? Does Social Media Marketing stuff drive you nuts and you would be hard pressed to know if Twitter is LinkedIn to your Facebook Fan Page???
Relax, take a deep breath, pour yourself your favorite beverage and listen to my friend Jeff Mills talk about what you can learn at his new Boost Seminar which is being presented in St. Paul, Minnesota March 19 -21st. This three day training event will help you discover the answers to many of the questions you have that might have been “show stoppers” to getting your business going online.
He only has a few seats left for the March Boost Seminar so Visit the Boost Seminar Website now, Watch the Video where Jeff explains what this is all about and reserve you seat today.
Al Gore Did Not Invent the Internet but Did He Invent Global Warming?
Feb 15th
Today many articles in the US and around the world are talking about Professor Phil Jones who is at the center of the “Climategate” affair. It seems that there was an error in his data or the way he reported it at least. “Yesterday it emerged that Professor Jones, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, had admitted he has trouble “keeping track” of the information.” (more)
Those who have been trying to convince us that humans are the cause of global warming, climate change or whatever title is today are going to need to find a new source for data to support their theories. Mr. Al Gore, who invented the Internet, may need to work harder to find “real research” that can show that what we are seeing happening around the world is truly caused by use humans and not normal changes to climate in our world.
In November 2008 while in Nuremberg, Germany with my wife I saw Mr. Gores book, “An Inconvenient Truth” in the window of a bookstore. It made me wonder why this message had traveled so far so fast. I guessed that he must have become a master of marketing on the Internet that he had invented back in the 1990’s to spread this story around the world.
Here is a good place to learn more about the “stories” in his book. Find out why Mr. Gore owes us an apology HERE.
I firmly believe that we need to take care of our planet. This is the only one that God gave us and He made it perfect for us. We were placed here with a mandate to take care of this world. Part of taking care of the earth is to be truthful regarding research and writing about what is happening to our wonderful world.
What do you think about these new revelations?
Where do you stand on the issue of climate change or global warming?
What’s the Buzz about Google Buzz? Privacy Nightmare!
Feb 10th
I opened my Gmail account this afternoon which I mostly use a place to access the links to Google Calendar and Google Docs and I noticed a new button below my Inbox button on my Gmail page. Then I remembered seeing some Google Ad page that filled my screen earlier in the day which, while on a phone call and checking email in Outlook (multitasking as usual) I just clicked some button to say like “No Thanks” and got to my Gmail page.
I almost forgot about that dumb ad page until I noticed a Trending item on my Twitter page tonight… Google Buzz
Wow, is that a Hot Item and lots of people are upset with Google about this new “feature” that the Google boys (and girls) think is soooo coollll. Most folks thinks it stinks!
Checkout these blogs and postings to see what the Internet-universe thinks of Google today.
Molly Wood says, “I know some of the technorati are losing their minds over the awesomeness that is Google Buzz, but I think that Google’s making a lot of Facebook’s privacy and opt-in mistakes right out of the gate, and it’s going to bite it big-time, if it doesn’t fix it pronto.” READ MORE HERE
At the Official Google Blog, “”Today, we’re launching Google Buzz, a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting and share updates, photos, videos and more. Buzz is built right into Gmail, so there’s nothing to set up — you’re automatically following the people you email and chat with the most.” READ MORE HERE
Business Insider says, “There is a huge privacy flaw in Google’s new Twitter/Facebook competitor, Google Buzz. When you first go into Google Buzz, it automatically sets you up with followers and people to follow.” READ MORE HERE
And over at Computer World, what’s that about a Naked Man?? “The second thing I saw was a list of public “buzzes” from people in my immediate area (including somebody who obligingly mentioned that he wasn’t wearing any clothes). Under each buzz was the person’s location — not the general location, but the full address. Street number, street name, city, state.” READ MORE HERE
Ok, so I think you get the idea, Google Buzz in the current form that has been pushed out on the world in the past 24-48 hours is a stinker.
If you want to turn it off, as I did, there is a button at the bottom or your Gmail page.
What do you think? Leave your comments below.
WhoIsHenry Blog Rebuild Done – I Think
Feb 3rd
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It has taken about a week but I think I have my WhoIsHenry.com website rebuilt to the way I want it. I have added some new features to make it more visitor friendly including the ability to subscribe to my RSS Feed at Feedburner, now managed by Google, by just entering your current email address. Once a day you will receive an email with the content of my recent post(s), if I posted new content in the past day.
Now I want to find out what you my subscribers and visitors want to learn from me. As you may already know, I have over 16 years of background working with computers, computer networks and the Internet. I built my first websites back in 1994 and created the first website for my local bank in 1995. For the past two years I have worked full-time in my own business operating from my home, Caribou Coffee and Panera Bread (love FREE WiFi).
In November of 2009 I completely rebuilt my Web Hosting business, Missionsprings.net on the Hostgator.com system when I joined them as a reseller of their hosting services. My focus is building and hosting WordPress CMS (Content Management Systems) websites for my customers. If you are in need of excellent website hosting and support or, you need an easy to build and maintain website, please take a few minutes to visit www.missionsprings.net
As a mentioned above, I want to find out what you wish to learn from me. Please take a couple minutes to post a comment below and tell me what areas of online marketing technology are giving you the most trouble or what you need to learn to more your business forward in 2010.
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New Year, New Decade and Time for a New Look for WhoIsHenry.com Blog
Jan 29th
If things are looking a little messy when you visit my website today it’s because I’m doing some remodeling of my website here at WhoIsHenry.com.
About six months back my I had a major change with my business plans so I’ve been working more on other websites and projects and not doing much with this blog. Now that I’m further along with those projects we are working on doing the updates and theme changes that I want to make here on WhoIsHenry.com
It will probably take a week or two until I get things the way I want them so please pardon the mess while we work. I’ll give you a full update to the new things that are going on here after the site remodeling is done.
Fugitive Caught via World of Warcraft
Jan 2nd
This is an interesting usage of technology posted on Mashable.
“Police have been known to use social media like Facebook and Twitter to track down thieves (the IRS, too), and careless Facebooking can quickly get you arrested. But if you’re on the run from the law, there’s another online territory you might want to consider avoiding: World of Warcraft.” …more
Happy New Year 2010 To All My Friends
Dec 31st
You may have noticed that I have not posted much in the past month. I’ve been putting off adding to the site until I had time to complete my move to my new hosting account. If you are reading this than you will be seeing this from my Mission Springs WordPress Hosting server. I use the services and support of Hostgator.com
If you all looking for a great website host and great support please give me a call or visit my website for more information. Check out Mission Springs WordPress Hosting today… well maybe wait until the New Years Party is done and you are recovered.
Wishing you all The Best in 2010!
Before Your PC Stops Working or You Get The BSOD
Oct 22nd
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Yesterday a friend of mine was talking with me when he got the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) on his PC. That made me think that others might want a few tips on how to optimize your computers before they slow to a crawl or, you get the B.S.O.D. on your computer.
But, before you think of bringing your computer to the repair shop to have it optimized, you should try doing a few simple steps first. Using a computer shop to have your computer optimized so it runs as fast as possible can set you back a couple of hundred dollars for really what you can learn how to do.
Remember, even if you feel uncomfortable with computers, many times you can undo what you just did without any ill side effects. Just be sure to enable the Restore function on your PC before you start to work on it.
First, get rid of all the malware, spyware and anything in between.
Often times when you download peer-to-peer file sharing programs, you unknowingly allow little tiny pieces of software to get installed on your computer. And this sucks the speed right down on it. These little pieces of software can send back information that could be confidential. But most of the time they just slow down the computer.
You can download free spyware removal programs such as Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware or SpyBot Search and Destroy. You might also look at AntiSpyWare Bot, which is the one I use on my Sony Vaio running Vista Home Premium.
They work great for PC. Mac users will need to check their system requirements. Just simply do a quick Google search using the program names as you search phrase. Or you can also go to download.com and get the program there as well.
Both are quick to install and very friendly to use. They update often which is nice so it keeps your computer protected all the time.
Another simple method you can do is to help your computer is shutting down many of the unnecessary Window’s services. There are many different kinds of services that Window’s thinks it needs in order to operate and honestly, this isn’t the case. Again, do a simple Google search for ’services to shut down’ in order to get the best results and a faster computer.
If you go to the performance tab under the System option in Control Panel, you can actually optimized Windows there as well. As fancy as the graphical user interface (known also as GUI) can be in a Windows environment, it’s incredibly resource intensive when many different effects and colors are being used. This is completely harmless and will allow for best performance if you turn these non-essential features off.
And lastly, be sure you do update Windows often. You can easily update Windows while you sleep as the operating system allows you to auto-update so you don’t have to do anything.
With these few simple tips that a PC tech would do, you can save yourself some serious money with just a little bit of time invested in your learning and PC improvement.
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FREE Video Reveals #1 Secret to Online Success
Oct 16th
My good friend and business associate Jeff Mills has just updated his content and is giving away a FREE CD to teach you about Outsourcing your online business and working with Virtual Assistants.
From writing articles, doing Pay Per Click marketing, doing videos, setting up a WordPress blog, or forum marketing, we believe we have to know it all and do it all. According to Jeff, most marketers fail because their organizational chart is filled with nothing but ‘YOU’. While it’s possible for us to know everything, it’s also not very realistic if we want a life. Working from home or running an internet business was about creating more time freedom for ourselves, not less.
The solution that Jeff has for all this? Easy. Outsource your work to the skills, talents and special abilities others. Most are not even aware that there are websites that are devoted to people offering their services for hire at decent rates. Everything that you could possibly want done in your business, you can pay someone to do it for you at a price much lower than you think.
For the past couple years I have been learning these principles from Jeff and have found them to work well for my own online business. I have my own full-time WordPress and website techie doing my client work… enjoying what he does and the money I pay him… and I don’t have to do it all myself.
You need to get a copy of Jeff’s FREE CD and learn how to do this yourself.
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What Makes WordPress Such a Good Tool for Online Business?
Oct 16th
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Since the introduction of WordPress in 2003 by two young programmers, Matt Mullenwag and Mike Little, WordPress has truly taken on a life of its own. Early on a key goal for this blogging software was that it would be built on Open Source code making it free for everyone from the smallest home user to major Fortune 500 businesses. The software is an ongoing creation by a community of thousands of developers around the world.
WordPress can be found in three variations on the Internet; WordPress.com, WordPress.org and WordPress MU. WordPress.com is run on a multi-user platform hosted with WordPress MU which is the multi-user version of the software. WordPress.com is a hosted website operated my Automatic.com where many of the WordPress developers work. The focus of this article is on WordPress.org which is the self-hosted version of the platform.
By 2007 WordPress was gaining a following by home based business users because of the free nature of the software, the ease of installation on a virtual server running the associated PHP script files along with MySQL database and the additional tools called plugins and widgets. This combination of simple installation and many add-on tools is one reason that WordPress is popular. Another is the built in SEO, or search engine optimization features of WordPress.
Everyone wants traffic to their website and WordPress bloggers are no different. The big advantage for those using WordPress is that it includes features that help the search engines “read†your website in the way that works best for them to build their databases of content. Search engines do not see your website with eyes like humans but thy read the content and index it.
Because WordPress includes SEO tools like; .htaccess, permalinks, blogrolling and content pinging, search engines can quickly identify the new and updated content on WordPress blogs. This non-static nature of WordPress blogs makes them a great website platform for online business owners. Text and images along with audio and video files can make up the total content of the WordPress website to make it attractive to humans and search engines alike.
Another key feature of WordPress that makes it great for online business is that it is easy to add content to without the need for a highly paid webmaster. Many business owners have paid for beautiful websites, sometimes paying hundreds or thousands of dollars, to find out later that the webmaster is slow to respond to posting changes or may become totally unreachable. It is very easy to add new posts or make page changes with WordPress. No locally installed software is needed to create the posts or pages as the entire website is server based.
Today, because of the system and tools available with WordPress, the ease of editing and updating content and the search engine optimization built into WordPress, it is an excellent platform for businesses large and small to build their online business on.
If you would like to learn more about using WordPress for your home based business, please contact Henry Griner for more information.
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