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Your House, Your Car and Your Boat Are Not Assets

Mikael — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:15:46 +0000

I will not take credit for this idea as I have learned it from Robert Kiyosaki (the author of the Rich Dad books) but the fact remains that it is very important that we realize that our homes, cars and all the other material stuff that we have bought are not assets. It is actually far worse because most of them are liabilities and we don’t even realize it. Many of us have been told by our parents, bankers and the media that we should buy a house because it is an investment and a great asset. From an accountant’s point of view that might be true but the fact is that a house is nothing but a liability that is sucking on our paycheck every single month. Does this mean that you shouldn’t buy a house? No of cause not because a house ha... Read more

Remove Unwanted Analytics Account Profiles You Are Not Managing

Mikael — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:14:17 +0000

Whenever you are looking to purchase a website or you are looking into Google Analytics stats on someone else’s site, you are added to their Analytics account as a User. There are two types of users and when you only need to look into another person’s account you’ll normally be added to “view reports only” as opposed to “administrator”. One problem is that when you are not the administrator you can’t remove that account profile until the administrator deletes you. Sometimes it happens that you don’t really know the administrator (especially when you are looking to purchase a site) and if that is something you do often you can quickly find that you have a lot of useless profiles in your Analytics dashboard. Unfortunately th... Read more

Is Stephen Pierce Hiring Spammers?

Mikael — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:01:27 +0000

Let me first state that I am a big fan of Stephen and I really like his motivational style and I trust hope that he is not aware of the approach that his affiliate account manager Robert Lopez is obviously using. But let me share the story with your from the beginning. Earlier today I received the obviously mass distributed email from Robert Lopes, Affiliate Account Manager: Hi First of all, I visited your website and I believe that there will be a great potential to do a business with you. This is Robert Lopez, Affiliate Account Representative and I am contacting you to introduce you to a great motivational product that is paying out 50% commission on EVERY sale – that is $30.49 per sale. The product is called “Secrets of Cr... Read more

Finally a Profitable Way to Use Twitter

Mikael — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:55:00 +0000

Until today I have had very little understanding of what use one might have of Twitter in the sense of improving and expanding the business that you’re building. There are thousands (and probably millions) of people using Twitter as a way of communicating with friends (and everybody else that want to listen). I am not against this at all since interaction and relationship building is definitely an important part of being part of the ”online world”. The problem I have seen is that many people are spending hours and hours Twittering, Surfing around Facebook and similar social services. However way you look at it, very little (if any) of the time spent is very productive in terms of building your online business. Before I move on I would... Read more

Top URL Shortener – How to Create Shorter Links

Mikael — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:59:05 +0000

There are many reasons for using URL shorteners but the first and primary reason is to take long URLs and make them shorter. This is especially true if you are running Wordpress blogs where you will automatically get a pretty long URL if the title of your blog post is long as Wordpress takes your title and adds dashes between the words. You can easily change this manually but most people don’t (I normally forget it myself). You have probably heard of the free service called Tinyurl that was one of the first services online that would make you take a long URL, enter it into a box, click a button and generate a new and shorter URL. However, since then there are lots and lots of new and similar free tools available and Hongkiat has created a... Read more

Warning: Stay Away From Minisite911 – He’s a Scam

Mikael — Sat, 23 May 2009 07:53:21 +0000

UPDATE: He finally sent me what I had ordered and everything was Awesome. If you don’t mind the wait (and don’t mind sending him a few emails to see how things are going, he will definitely deliver HIGH quality work at a FAR too cheap price. I know that this is a powerful headline but I needed to get your attention. I am not a person that would normally do this kind of thing because I feel that people can make mistakes and should be able to correct their mistakes. But let me give you the story and you can see for yourself whether or not I am wrongly accusing Oki Trice of Minisite911.com of being a fraud. April 14: I opted in for the free samples to see whether he was delivering anything of value (which he was). I was comforted ... Read more