Prosper In Pajamas is a metaphor for living your life on your own terms. Decide what you really want and go for it.
Join ‘em . . . or, in this case, rejoin them. Amazon is back to working with California merchants. It’s a painful position, but some of us, including me, will be working with them again. I’m going to bite my tongue and test these “new” waters. But because I found so many excellent firms as [...]
Public domain work is a creative work that is no longer protected by copyright which may be used by everyone. Reasons that work is long longer protected include: The copyright term for the work is expired; The author failed to satisfy federal formalities to perfect the copyright or The work is a work of the [...]
Earlier I posted In Pajamas? Still Visible! dealing with our lack of privacy on the Internet. It was relating to a Federal Trade Commission stamp of approval to background checks using social media. Further to that, you might want to know that ANYONE can take a screen shot of your posts and post them on [...]
According to an article in Forbes online, the Federal Trade Commission gave a stamp of approval to a background check company that screens job applicants based on their Internet photos and postings. The FTC determined that Social Intelligence Corp. was in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. This means a search of what you’ve [...]
We started looking into eReaders several weeks ago because it’s time to take the leap . . . Not buying an eReader has been partly due to budget constraints, but we might have to move offices so are considering possible future space constraints and packing . . . so . . . Top Features of [...]
Editor’s Note: When I began building Websites prior to 1990, terms such as “SEO” (Search Engine Optimization) didn’t even exist. The term refers to is content development by intent — NOT randomly. SEO is similar to a newspaper headline — it is the information “above the fold” and draws you to the story as you [...]
My plan this morning was to clear out some closets, pile stuff in the car, go to church seeking answers . . . yet again!!! An aside: I believe that if you give you get, thus the clearing process. Someone wrote that if you haven’t used an item in 365 days (which accounts for all [...]
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What do you do AFTER you publish your book (or you actually have it published by a traditional publisher)? Free Publicity Always have printed marketing materials with you as an easy (and inexpensive) way to reinforce your message, and promote your book. It can be as simple as including a line on the back of [...]
Here’s a dilemna. Amazon.com just sent me an eMail “inviting” me to use their “new” publishing program. If you prefer shopping locally, I’m pretty sure Nordstrom’s carries Bedhead, and there’s a cute little shop a couple doors down from Guaymas in Tiburon that carries a good selection of BedHead Pajamas. The Bedheads on the right [...]
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iContact.com offered a social media seminar this morning. So I’m sitting in. Basically, in case you don’t know, social media is viral marketing, i.e. you eMail your friends/subscribers. Your associates then share through Facebook, Twitter, Linked In icons which are included in your eMails and on your Web site(s). Including social media icons now is [...]
