Earlier this month, I was at (and incidentally, blogged from) the UNC CAUSE conference in Asheville, NC. There was a great deal of hoopla in the vendor display area. They all had tables set up, freebies to give out, and contests to win iPod shuffles or GPS units or Direct TV DVRs. My official title…
Don’t Be Goofy: Go to Disney World
You could have an awesome vacation down in Florida. Maybe you’ve had one before – but you probably paid a lot more than you should. Enter TravelHERO.com – an online travel HERO that helps you find and make reservations at hotels for your next trip! They don’t just help you find awesome hotels at a…
Credit Card Joe: Don’t Spend Any More!
Here’s the number one problem I think most people have with credit: they’re not responsible (I’m guilty here). You have available to you a line of credit either via credit card or just a bank loan, and you have to keep in mind that money is not really yours. Again, here I’m guilty. You have…
Christmas Countdown: 6 Days Left
Alright now, if you haven’t done your Christmas shopping yet, now is the time to do it! Stores, believe it or not, are now catering to last minute shoppers as much as if not more than early shoppers! They don’t want the sale merchandise left over after the holidays to have to repack or re-inventory,…
Nix that Expensive Car Loan
Today’s economy boggles my mind. We are simultaneously one of the largest countries in the world and simultaneously the national deficit is probably one of the largest. What are we at now? A couple trillion in debt? Most of that seems to come from effective management and leverage of our debt. I think we probably…
Word Press vs. CMS
From ZDNet: “WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems by ZDNet‘s Larry Dignan — Updated below: There’s a good discussion on the line between journalism and blogging, but it’s also worth noting the technology gulf between media companies and their content minions. In Scott Karp’s overall discussion asking whether blogs can do journalism–I…
A Website for Your Business
There are some businesses where all you need is a bill-board style website. It’s just a place for you to put up a sign that says “Hey! I’m a business. I have real-world brick-and-mortar shop that you should visit. Here’s my contact information.” If you want any sort of customer interactivity or online ordering, you’re…
Teach An Old Router New Tricks
One of the coolest things I’ve seen in computer equipment is the re-purposing or re-using of old network equipment. What used to be a corporation’s prized technology often gets thrown out like yesterday’s garbage in order for them to replace it with newer, more expensive equipment to impress customers. This is entirely to your advantage.…
Retailing on eBay: Become an eBay Store Owner
The other day I was on eBay checking the auction for the Nintendo Wii I listed. It was up to $202.50 with six bids (three bidders) and only two days left! Normally all the bidding takes place at the end, so I intend to make a lot more than that on it. It occurred to…
Rebuild Your Credit with Offers for ‘Bad Credit’ Consumers
Down on your luck? Gotten your debt down, but your credit is still destroyed? There’s always hope without going to those non-profit companies you hear advertised on TV all the time. You can still qualify for offers from credit card companies and banks that are especially for “bad credit” customers. You can get bad credit…