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By Gloria on Saturday, April 28th, 2012 | No Comments
Forget about Google.
By Gloria on Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 | No Comments
I just got an email from John Reese that began:
“You may or may not be aware of this, but
Google made a major change to their algorithm
in the past few days…
Thousands upon thousands of marketers are
seeing their free Google traffic PLUMMET overnight.
This change has wiped out a lot of the free traffic
that was coming from Article Directories and sites
like Hub Pages and many others. Other “Auto-generated”
sites also were wiped out.
I bet some marketers just lost nearly ALL of their
income with this change if they were heavily relying
on their organic Google traffic.”
Okay this is me talking. Forget google and just get busy creating an actual product and stop buying into all that crap. Google is just trying to weed out a bunch of fast talking hyped up Internet garbage.
Stop trying to make money selling old information, useless information, or overrated information etc. Stop believing that you have to keep up with what google or facebook is doing and start doing something your own damn self.
They want you to believe this:
“But to be successful you MUST keep up with the changes or your business (and income) will DIE.”
I don’t believe that crap, you can if you want to. What I believe they want is to keep selling you their stuff.
Yes you have to keep up with things in general, but google is not the enemy. That is just a sales angle. Google is successful. Maybe that’s why some marketers are mad at them.
Build a solid business with a product you are interested in and take action just as you would with a brick and mortar street business. Find your customers, go where they are, find out what they want.
That my tid-bit for today.
Review: A critical look at the DVD movie RED
By Gloria on Monday, January 31st, 2011 | 4 Comments
Yes I bought the DVD RED on the day of its first release. It had all the things I love about an action movie. Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Black Ops, and the evil machine of the CIA.
RED stands for Retired and Extremely Dangerous.
John Malkovich played a great character who, although he appeared to be paranoid, was mostly just correct. Everyone really was out to get him.
Helen Mirren was delightful as a lovely and gracious retired CIA operative who modeled her character after Martha Stewart except that she was a retired CIA assassin and still taking the occasional wet contract on the side.
Bruce Willis was, well, he was Bruce Willis. I love him bunches. And he didn’t look “old” to me. Not old enough to retire. He still kicked some serious ass too.
Morgan Freeman, who doesn’t love that guy? I just wanna give him a big hug. What a great cast.
Other than thoroughly enjoying the movie, there were a few problems with the plot that did bug me. A jewish-looking bad guy, played by Richard Dryfess, was ultimately giving the orders, and this was discovered long before the end of the movie. He even admitted to these retired CIA killers that he was the bad person who gave the orders to kill them because they were witness to a nasty operation (slaughter of a village) involving a man who was now the vice president and who, of course, was now running for president.
For some reason our retired CIA hero, played by Bruce Willis, still thought it was the Vice President who was the bad guy who needed killing, and he did not kill the real bad guy at this point when he had the chance. Duh!
Every self respecting conspiracy theorist knows that the politician is mostly just a puppet and a pawn of the powers behind him who put him in office. So what I see in this plot is a bunch of retired CIA assassins who are good at what they do, but are still clueless about who is really running the show. (Very much like in real life I guess.)
But the show was fun, with some romance, some comedy and lots of shooting. Looking at the plot as a whole I do wonder if making heroes out of professional assassins is a such good idea.
The DVD also had some add-ons with some information of some bad things our government and the CIA have done in the past, but of course they were very brief.
Was it worth paying $20.00? Well, I’ll watch it a few more times and let you know.
Goals vs New Year’s Resolutions for 2011
By Gloria on Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 | No Comments
Yesterday I asked the bank clerk if she had made any new years resolutions. She said “no,” and that she is not doing that anymore.
This response, unfortunately, is a common one I have heard from most people I ask. Try it yourself. Ask about ten people if they have made any new years resolutions and see how they respond. Many of them say “no” as if they are the first person to reject the idea. I think they believe they are being creative non conformists.
The truth is, a large majority of people are giving up on new years resolutions because they usually fail and then they feel bad or feel like failures. People think that if they don’t even try, then they can’t fail and life goes on as usual and they don’t feel bad about themselves.
However, if you want to make changes and improvements in your life, you should reconsider this option, but instead of making resolutions, make goals. Don’t just make vague goals or wishes. If you want to succeed, make some very specific goals and write them down. Or maybe make just one goal and focus on that.
Zig Ziglar said, “A goal that is casually set and lightly taken will be freely abandoned at the first obstacle.”
But resolutions are usually not goals, they are more like vague wishes. The power behind them is weak because they are vague and without passion. Even a goal is powerless if it is not well defined and has a strong motivation. You can transform your goals to powerful intentions that will not fail if you learn to set smart goals.
A smart goal is realistic, specific and measurable, There must also be a strong motivation and passion behind the goal, and you must revisit that goal every day. Visualize the goal’s completion and revisit your motivation with passion.
It is also important that you set up a time frame or deadline for your goals. Build some structure to your year and your life that you can see and review. Write it all down. I find it helpful to look at a calendar of the year as I do this.
Don’t be one of those people who think they are unique and special because they decided not to make any “resolutions” for the new year. Those people are a dime a dozen.
Then if someone asks you if you made any new years resolutions, tell them that you did better than that. You made goals.
About email collecting and Mailing lists and Squeeze pages
SUBJECT: Squeeze pages collecting email addresses
GURU: Mark Joyner
If you are trying to get into Internet marketing you have heard a thousand times that you need a mailing list. Who out there can disagree with that? Here is my feelings about constantly being asked for my email address.
ENOUGH ALREADY!
Don’t get me wrong, I do give my email address out for newsletters if I think they will benefit me in some way with information I need or want. There are, however, Internet marketers who collect emails just to add to their monstrous email lists. I get emails from this one very well known Internet marketer all the time who puts a link in the email to a page where he is going to reveal something really useful but instead it always goes to a squeeze page that asks for your email.
The annoying thing is that he already has my email! I wonder why he wants it again. Perhaps it gets put on a specific list where he will send me more stuff for sale having to do with that subject.The last thing I want is more mail from him trying to sell me something else.
Is this a good marketing technique? I think NOT because it is VERY ANNOYING, especially when it happens all the time from this one person. Literally every email I get from him had some kind of catch or squeeze page link in it. AAAAHHHHHH!
In a minute I will tell you who this person is, but I want you to know that I tried communicating to him about this annoying technique and I did not get an answer. The email was not returned, so I am assuming it just went to an email box that never gets looked at. I got no response from him.
Now I’m going to be direct and honest here. I have nothing against the guy personally, but I just don’t like his methods. There is nothing wrong with his products I just don’t like his methods. His name is Mark Joyner. Here is a sample of what I am talking about, (BELOW.)
Note: I have purchased stuff from him in the past and I am a member of his simpleology101 which is a good course. It just seems every time I turn around he has something else I should buy. He is relentless. Its just annoying. He is the only Internet marketer I know that is so relentless. Maybe he does not effect other people that way, but for me, its really annoying.
The reason I posted this is because he does not communicate with me about this. His choice.
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Here is the email:
SUBJECT: INSTANT UPLIFT
Hey Gloria,
Is there a book, so powerful, that reading it will
turn your mind around? My dear friend, the billion
dollar direct marketing phenomenon Ted Nicholas,
believes so.
He says of this book:
“When you feel down, as is part of the human
condition, just pick up this book and you?ll be
moved beyond your present condition.”
I haven’t read it yet, but we’ve uploaded it for
you to read:
I tell you what … if you promise to read it, so
will I.
Let me know what you thought of it. All I can say
is, if Ted says that, it has to be good. He’s never
once steered me wrong. In fact, he’s been one of
the most profoundly positive influences on my life.
Mark
Mark Joyner
Founder of Simpleology
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Are you too busy for your customers?
By Gloria on Saturday, November 27th, 2010 | 3 Comments
You should probably not expect to sell anything if you are too busy to service your customers.
Today I tried to purchase some cosmetics on line from cinemasecrets website. I have purchased from them before some time back, so I thought I might have a login account with them. I had no luck logging in so I tried to retrieve my password and they did not have it on file. I tried to register a new account and they said someone else with that email already had an account. Then I tried calling them. No luck in that either.
The following is the email I sent to the listed email address. I don’t have high hopes for an answer to that either.
Before you read it, I will say that this is partly a rant and partly some advice about taking care of your own on-line customers in business, or any customers you have. Would you feel secure buying a product from a company that you can’t call on the phone if there is a problem? I certainly don’t. It’s too bad too, because I really liked their products. If I don’t get some answer from them quick, I will take my business elsewhere.
So the advice here is to take care of your customers. They are your greatest assets.
Last resort, I sent them the following email:
Email:
To whom ever it concerns:at http://www.cinemasecrets.com
I was recently on your website Cinima Secrets and was going to place an order for some cosmetics.
I tried to login but I did not remember my password so I entered my email address to retrieve it and the message I got was that you had no such email address in your files. Okay..
So I went ahead and registered and entered all of my information and I could not complete that process because I was informed that the email address/username or password was already in use. Okay…
So I wanted to call you on the phone to resolve the problem using your free 800 number. I got an automated answering service with more options than I remember. Okay…
… I pushed the number 5 “to speak to a representative” and was directed not to a real person or representative but to a voice mail service. Okay…
Then, To add to that, a recording told me that your voice mail service was full so I could not even leave a message. (By now I did not expect that leaving a voice mail message would do me any good but I couldn’t leave one if I had wanted to. I hung up.)
My last attempt is this email. I estimate that the chances I will get a response are slim and none. But just in case:
My question to you is: Are you really in business? Do you always have such poor customer service?
At this point I am afraid to order anything because if I don’t get it or if there is a problem with my order I’m @#* out of luck getting hold of anyone to resolve it.
Too bad, I really like your products and I have orderd from you before.
Sincerely,
Gloria Jean
What are those strange symbols in my blog?
By Gloria on Friday, November 12th, 2010 | 9 Comments
What in the world are those strange symbols in my blog?
I have noticed that strange symbols appear in my blog when I compose my posts in a word processor and paste it in. That is so annoying. I even tried typing my post in regular text and still these symbols are appearing.
I had taken to writing a post and pasting it after I lost a few of my posts when I touched some key by mistake. My article was never to be found again. So now I am going to save this draft.
I did a google search and found other people having the same problems. There were suggestions but none of them aided me in solving the problem.
In the meantime, I was reading an article about good copyrighting in a newsletter called THE GARY HALBERT LETTER and he said something about writing with passion and clarity.
So I am going to try just writing from my brain to the blog, saving drafts as I go, and I’m not going to worry over trying to sound politically correct or amazingly intelligent, I’m just going to write. I doubt if anyone reads this anyway. I don’t see much traffic here anyway in my google analytics.
I have learned some things lately that maybe you can benefit by. That is, that people don’t care about your website or your blog or your life except where it might benefit them. People generally don’t want to hear what you have to say and most people don’t really listen. Their interest is primarily their own stuff, their own life and what you can do for them. If you want to be interesting the best thing to do is to be interested in them. If you want to know what people are really interested in, listen to them.
Anyway I apologize for the strange symbols in my posts if your browser is seeing them. I am typing directly into my blog right now so I don’t think I will have that problem with this post.
If anyone knows what causes them and how to avoid them please share.
Make your Own Company Policies.
By Gloria on Monday, November 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Have you ever come up against a company policy? Someone tells you that they can’t do this or that because “it’s company policy.” Well what I have done over the years is make my own company policies.
First of all, I think of myself as a company. In fact, according to the corporation of the United States, I am actually a corporation. When you get any communication from the U.S. government, you will notice that they type your name in all capitol letters. This indicates that they are addressing you as a corporation, not as an individual. The communication you get from the U.S. government is not personal, it is business.
Since I am what some people call “self employed,” I have considered myself to be a company when ever I am doing any form of business. Over the years I have made my own company policies.
Company policies are like rules to live by. They are really handy in that when you take a specific action or say no to someone and they ask the rude and nosy question “why?” you can tell them because it is “company policy.” If you are doing it in person, you will often stun them to silence and receive a blank stare. Its kind of amusing.
In today’s world of Internet business and email lists you are going to sign up to receive some information or some newsletters. Some newsletters are really helpful and full of useful information and others are just annoying links to endless sales pitches and long sales videos.
Yesterday I read one that asked me to watch a video and tell them what I thought about it. Really?
Okay so I did, in spite of being annoyed. Again, as I complained about in an earlier post, this was a long boring time wasting video. I didn’t watch it all. For those who, like me, opted to click out of it, up popped a window with the option to go to a typed sales page. (Theres a new option I hadn’t seen yet.) I didn’t want to read their endless sales pitch page either so I closed the window.
So then I responded to their email to tell them “what I thought of it” as they asked. Of course this was a “send only” email. I suspected it would be.
Today I got their automatic response informing me that they did not get my response and if I wanted to communicate with them I had to go to their website and find their real email. They didn’t provide me with a link to their real website, but I did actually find it. (By now I was on a mission. –This was to the “Zero cost commissions” group I wrote about in an earlier blog.)
In bold type below, here is my response to them:
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Paul and Antonio sent me a link to a sales video then they said in their “send only”email letter:
“Let me know what you think”
So I answered their email.
I got an automatic reply.
RE: Sorry, we didn’t receive your reply.
Call me picky, but I I dont’ think you should ask me what I think from a “send only” email. Do it on a blog page.
Anyway, this is what I sent you and what I think about your sales video:
Really?
Okay I am tired of videos.
They are blah blah blah waste of time.
Here is my blog post on the subject:
http://bacaracka.com/bacablog/2010/11/he-new-go-watch-my-video-internet-marketing-trend/
I understand mass communications but I don’t have time for them. My new policy is going to be to unsubscribe from “send only” emails if all they are sending are links to sales pitches.
If there is no news in your news letter that benefits me, I don’t really have the time.
Sincerely,
Gloria Jean
My obscure blog:
http://bacaracka.com/bacablog
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MY NEW COMPANY POLICY
In business, it is important to develop and nurture personal relationships as we all have heard. (You will hear this all the time from people who don’t or can’t do it.) But if there is no way to reply to a real person in an email that only tries to separate you from your money with endless sales pitches, this is probably not something you or I want.
I don’t want to be just another faceless prospect to send mass email sales pitches to. I don’t have time for that and it is littering up my mail box.
So today I added a new company policy that has been penciled in for a while. I should have added it a long time ago.
My new company policy is a no brainer. It will be to unsubscribe to these one way sales pitch news letters; particularly if I can’t send a reply with some small chance that a real person might read it.
Have you made any company policies you would like to share? Tell me what you think. And I really mean it. I have a place for your comment.
If no, thanks for visiting my blog and getting this far reading it. If you did. 
Sacred G, Cory Love, Guru or new age Hippie?
By Gloria on Monday, November 8th, 2010 | 9 Comments
Core Love, Hippie of the 21st Century or new age guru?
Sacred G and the LOVE Innerversity, is it a new spin on an old spiritual philosophy, or the confusing ramblings of a guy with a head injury? I’m talking about the brainstorm of a guy who calls himself Core Love and his sacred G technology. He is offering a course with a tuition of $333.33 per month or $3333.33 per year. I’m sure that number probably has some sort of numerology significance.
What is the Love Innverversity: Quote from his site:
“The Love Innerversity is an online Energy Healing School with a 1-year (400 hour) curriculum and practicum to attain the LOVE Activator Certification. The LOVE Innerversity has unique techniques that need to be applied in the proper sequence to clear the most extreme memories.”
Okay I want to be clear here. Cory, I love you, I really do; and I think you are as cute as a bug’s ear, but for some reason I sense something wrong with this picture. I’m just not convinced of what you are saying your technology can do, and can’t really afford to buy your posters or join your innerversity.
I have been dropping in and watching (or glimpsing) Core’s progress off and on for a few years and I see that recently he has taken the Internet by storm with a bevy of new improved websites all about his sacred G technology (Sacred geometry) and other spiritual healing techniques. He claims he is out to change the world and aid the world in the ascension process by “waking people up.”
(Yawn) Yep! I could use some of that waking up stuff.
I noticed a new development. He now has a couple of female helpers he calls “his angels.” One of them is his wife. I won’t venture to guess who the other one is. The first thing that popped into my mind was if they are “his” angels. then that must make him God. (He would tell you, of course, that we are all “God.”)
He claims that his activities are attracting the attention of the F.B.I. Although this does not surprise me. I won’t voice an opinion about why the F.B.I. might be interested in him and his websites except to say that for some reason they seem to show an interest in people who claim to have technology that can cure all diseases with light, crystals, pictures, breathing and other seemingly magical, alternative or sacred techniques. After all, its bad for the prescription drug industry to cure people with alternative therapies. Then again, maybe they just put him on a list of strange new cults to keep an eye on.
“LOVE” which Core says stands for “Law of vibrational energy” is the force that will change the world. He claims to have the techniques to activate this energy. So is he a spiritual guru of the new age type or just a 21st century hippie? Has he discovered something new or is he just putting a new spin on an age old spiritual truth about the law of vibration and the power of deep breathing and meditation?
After all, all you need is Love. Right?
What ever is going on, he is charging a hefty price for tuition into his LOVE innerversity. (A newly invented term) I would actually love to join his group, it looks like loads of fun, but he wants lots of money for that. Also the skeptic part of my personality won’t let me, and the accountant part says it is just not in my budget at this time.
Cory does give a lot of stuff away for free and that’s a good thing. His technology is not really new though, as it has been around for thousands of years. It is not easy to follow the hodge podge of information he covers in some of his videos. I can’t really summarize and evaluate his over-all philosophy or therapy or whatever it is. He calls it “light body activations, sacred G technology, etc.”
Yet I feel that he may have tapped into a storehouse of subconscious information, due to a serious head injury he had as a child that robbed him of his memory. He talks about how he recovered that memory and how his body healed itself and in the process had what he called many near death experiences or out of body experiences.
One of the seven Hermetic Principles, is The Principle of Vibration. An understanding of this Principle, with the appropriate formulas, enables Hermetic students to control their own mental vibrations as well as those of others. The Masters also apply this Principle to the conquering of Natural phenomena, in various ways. “He who understands the Principle of Vibration, has grasped the sceptre of power,” says one of the old writers. This information has been around for thousands of years. Perhaps Core has tapped into some of this kind of knowledge. Then again, maybe he just googled it.
Philosophical truths have been revealed throughout time in many different ways to include recent books like The Law of Attraction, The Secret, Think and grow Rich, The Science of Getting Rich, and many many more, so many that I can’t possibly list them all. This information is all built upon the same fundamental spiritual truths or ideas. (Skeptics will certainly rag on me for calling them “truths.”) Oh well.
My conclusion about Core is that I think am looking at a fascinating but probably a fast burning flame that will eventually die out and sink into oblivion. In this age of ascension spiritual gurus are everywhere. He once said that he did not want to be a guru. (Oh, by the way, did I tell you, his angels were wearing wings. How cute!)
(Oblivion.: the condition or state of being forgotten or unknown.)
Of course with videos and the Internet, Core may live on forever in cyber space. The thing that scares me the most about him though is that I understand most of what he is saying, I just don’t know what to do with the information.
I think the link below is his pitch page for his membership in his Innerversity, but it came up when I confirmed my subscription to his email newsletter.
http://www.loveinnerversity.com/index2.html
Again, I am not an affiliate. Here is his website: http://corelove.com/
Arvada Police are Idiots.
Arvada Colorado, Feb 23 2011
POLICE ARREST 11 YEAR OLD BOY FOR DRAWING A “DISTURBING” PICTURE
HUH???
Oh goodie I can’t wait to see what Tosh.O or Jay Leno will have to say about this incident!!
Arvada police arrested an 11 year old boy for drawing “a disturbing picture” of some stick figures with guns. He wrote “teachers must die” on it.
But more disturbing than any picture is this incident.
Okay I’m an artist and I want to voice my strong objection. I don’t know if this obscure post will satisfy me. I am tempted to paint my own stick figure drawing all over the outside of my art studio building. No, better yet, all over some government building somewhere. But I will have to be satisfied with twitter and facebook. I don’t want to be arrested.
Avada police are idiots
These police must be idiots. Since when has drawing a picture been a crime that warrants being arrested, handcuffed and fingerprinted? I hope that boy’s parents sue them for damages and for falsely arresting their child. They are outraged and they should be!
http://newstabulous.com/11-year-old-boy-arrested
I’ m sure you will find more articles about this if you do a search.
Okay I understand that people are shaking in their boots because of past incidents of gun violence in schools, but get real people! Are we going to fear our children now and arrest them for drawing pictures? ? What do you think they are looking at when they play video games, and watch television, even cartoons? VIOLENCE.
And Parents, why do you think children have A.D.D. today? Its because of what they eat! ?Soft drinks, candy, junk food, sugar, artificial flavors, artificial colors. ? WAKE UP PPEOPLE AND FEED YOUR KIDS SOME REAL FOOD! And while you are at it, change your own diet to more fruits and veggies and good real food.
And as for the Arvada Police: YOU ARE JUST IDIOTS! ?or BULLIES. Take your pick.
See Fox21 news article here.