Archive for October, 2007

Update on SEO results of my first blog contest

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

As I was researching my search engine rankings for my first ecommerce site.  I decided to check up on the SEO results of the first blog contest that I ran back in June of this year.  As some of you may remember, I was giving away an Ipod Shuffle and ...

The ROI of believing in God

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

So today in philosophy class we were discussing Pascal's Wager.  The Wager says that it is a better "bet" to believe that God exists than not to believe, because the expected value of believing is always greater than the expected value of not believing. You live as though God exists. If God ...

Ecommerce site update - after 7 days

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

It's been a week since my site went live.  My current goal is to drive traffic to the site and improve its search engine rankings as quickly as possible.  My goal of this site is to get one sale a day with an average checkout total of $180.  If I can achieve this ...

Digital picture waste

Friday, October 26th, 2007

We produce and keep so much electronic storage waste when taking digital pictures!!!  I'm guilty of this but I'm getting better.  I don't know what it is but we all tend to keep things just in case.  And now with memory and storage so cheap we keep tons of useless pictures just ...

The wildfires in California

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

As I type this they estimate about 1800 homes have been destroyed in the California wildfires.  My friend who lives in Orange County has a fire threatening his subdivision.  The fire came to the edge of his subdivision and it was pushed back.  His house seems safe right now.  The ...

Potential tenant stories

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

It's always interesting to meet potential tenants and to talk to them and figure out their story.  What I've found out is that the good tenants usually don't talk alot.  They just take a look at the place ask a few questions and say "I'll take it."  They don't ask ...

Another example of the reach of the internet

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

This is a great example of how you never know who may be reading what you write on the internet. TripleCD Investments ordered a review on JohnChow.com.  They offered a guaranteed 15.5% return payable in 365 days with a minimum investment of $200.  The Johnchow review revealed that TripleCD Investments makes ...