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In your own SEO, Internet marketing and social media marketing efforts, it’s common to want to avoid the trial and error process that leads to real progress.   Much of the SEO and Internet marketing solutions offered online pander to this human tendency to want the reward without all the work.   ...

I remember my father telling me about the concept of planned obsolesence as a young man when I could barely comprehend the idea.  Back then  it was more tangible items, like today’s digital cameras which are built not so much to last as to be somewhat “disposable.”  You know the line:  “It would ...

  (Note: This is a duplicate post so I could include the groups that didn't fit on the first post) This just happened to my sister and brother-in-law in Baton Rouge, LA and I thought it would be timely to share with you. Their house has been on the market for about a year and the price happens t...

This just happened to my sister and brother-in-law in Baton Rouge, LA and I thought it would be timely to share with you. Their house has been on the market for about a year and the price happens to fall in that "in between" price range where houses just aren't selling very fast at all.  You kno...

  (note: this is a repost for the groups I couldn't include in the first post) Residential real estate is perhaps the most unique of all sales arenas.  Sales trainers have said for decades that "opportunity is all around you."  That has varying degrees of truth, depending on what it is that you'r...

Residential real estate is perhaps the most unique of all sales arenas.  Sales trainers have said for decades that "opportunity is all around you."  That has varying degrees of truth, depending on what it is that you're selling. With real estate, though, it's especially true because everyone need...

(Note: this is a repost for the groups I couldn't include on the first post) In watching the new documentary on the band Rush ("Beyond the Lighted Stage"), I was particularly fascinated by the interview with drummer Neil Peart and legendary jazz drummer Freddie Gruber.    Peart, widely respected ...

In watching the new documentary on the band Rush ("Beyond the Lighted Stage"), I was particularly fascinated by the interview with drummer Neil Peart and legendary jazz drummer Freddie Gruber.    Peart, widely respected as one of the all-time great rock drummers, had studied with Gruber and when ...

  (Note: this is a repost for the groups I couldn't include on the first post.) I just read an article this morning about how it has been revealed that iPhones track the owner's location and stores data about their whereabouts without their knowledge. Surprise, surprise. Color me jaded, but ever ...

I just read an article this morning about how it has been revealed that iPhones track the owner's location and stores data about their whereabouts without their knowledge. Surprise, surprise. Color me jaded, but ever since the advent of the GPS and the various related apps available, I've been w...