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Being a voracious reader, I go through lots of news and stories. When I find one of interest that I think will benefit you, I write about it here. Your feedback is always welcome.
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October 2004
Learn about building a profitable website with our free courses.
Posted by johndilbeck on Saturday, October 30 2004 at 7:29 AM
Category: webmaster_tools
The big lie about the Internet is that it's easy to make money. Just put up a website and everyone will come and buy what you offer and you can retire rich with no effort.
It's just not that easy. Anyone can put up a website in a few hours or days, but most of those sites die a slow death because of a lack of visitors and buyers.
However, it doesn't have to be that way. The key to a successful website is good quality content. People on the Internet are not searching for you, they're searching for information to help them solve a problem or accomplish a goal.
By providing that information in a format that is easily indexed by the search engines, those same search engines will send hundreds or thousands of visitors every month to your site for free. You don't have to keep advertising once you learn how to build a site that provides what people are searching for.
I learned about Ken Evoy when I first bought his ebook, Make Your Site Sell!. That was the best $17 I ever spent. He updated the book in 2002 to over 1500 pages of quality information and raised the price to $30. Now, the 2005 edition is very close to release and will be available at the link earlier in this paragraph.
Over the next four years, he and his team have built the best web design, website hosting, and website promotion service on the planet, and they sell this service for only about one dollar per day. I'm using Site Build It! to build A Year From Now and I'm seeing a steady increase in visitors every month, even though I won't go into full development on that site for another month.
I love the products that Ken sells, and I've arranged to give away -- free -- several of his ebooks, all of which are in Acrobat PDF format. If you go to the Free Ebooks category of the Downloads section, you can download any of the courses on that page at no charge.
The Net Auctions course sold for $30 just last year, and now it is offered free.
The SBI Action Guide is the first edition of the Site Build It! step-by-step guid to building a successful business on the Internet. This is not the current version, but Ken allows me to give this one away so you can learn about the process.
Even if you decide to go another way with your website, there is valuable information in all of these ebooks to help you be more successful with your online marketing efforts.
I'm happy to be able to offer them to you.
Veriuni Liquid Nutrition Now Available in Canada
Posted by johndilbeck on Thursday, October 28 2004 at 6:55 AM
Category: sfi
Veriuni has reformulated their Advanced Liquid Nutrition product and it is now available in both the United States and Canada.
Previously, it was not exportable to Canada because it contained Vitamin K, which is restricted there.
With the recent reformulation, the Vitamin K was removed.
Act on Your Dream! Newsletter, Issue #2 is ready
Posted by johndilbeck on Wednesday, October 27 2004 at 9:44 AM
Category: nonprofits
I just published the Act on Your Dream! Newsletter, Issue #2 and it is ready for your viewing.
The main topic in this issue is forming a new International Success Cooperative and I invite your participation and help in making this become a reality that will help all of us.
CherokeeCountyNC.com Is Ready for You
Posted by johndilbeck on Wednesday, October 27 2004 at 9:32 AM
Category: cherokee_county_nc
It's taken several weeks to get to this point, and now CherokeeCountyNC.com is open and ready for you.
This site, unlike other sites that present information about Cherokee County, is designed to be interactive and to offer free tools for residents of Cherokee County, North Carolina to tell others about what you're doing to make our area a better place to live.
All you have to do is register -- for free -- and you can have your own Journal (weblog or blog) to talk about you or your organization. We have a forum where you can discuss topics of interest with other residents and visitors. Add links to your websites or websites you recommend. Submit articles, press releases, and announcements for publication. Submit events and meetings to be added to our Calendar of Events or our Standing Calendar Planner pages. Write reviews of books, movies, music, websites, or whatever. Comment on the reviews others write. Promote your organization, business, church, event, meeting, team, or group. All at no charge.
This is part of my on-going commitment to help nonprofits help the community. But, I'm also happy to offer the same tools to businesses and individuals.
More will be added to the site over the coming months, but it's ready to go, now.
If you know anyone in Cherokee County who would be interested, please pass the word along to them.
Judy Grove of Brasstown, NC 28902, joins SCORE
Posted by johndilbeck on Saturday, October 9 2004 at 11:54 PM
Category: cherokee_county_nc
Hendersonville-based SCORE Western North Carolina announced that Judy Grove has joined its new branch office in Murphy, North Carolina, as a volunteer business counselor.
SCORE is a not-for-profit all volunteer resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration. They offer free business advice, counseling and mentoring to entrepreneurs who want to start, expand, finance or buy a business.
Grove, a seasoned entrepreneur, is president and chief executive officer of Grove Enterprises, Inc. in Brasstown. She has many years of experience overcoming the challenges of starting and making small businesses profitable and will apply these skills when helping her SCORE clients.
Dick Adams is the chair of SCORE Western North Carolina and met with Grove in Murphy. He told her that Washington-based SCORE was started 40 years ago and has since grown to 10,500 volunteers, in 385 chapters nationwide. Adams said that new Cherokee County branch is an outreach of the Hendersonville-based, SCORE Western North Carolina with 27 volunteers and branches in Brevard and Rutherford. It will serve small businesspersons in Cherokee, Clay and Graham counties.
To learn more online, check out, www.scorewnc.org and www.score.org. Grove's Web site is, www.grove-ent.com.
Domiciled at the Small Business Center of Tri-County Community College in Cherokee County, NC, the new SCORE office conducts private and confidential counseling and mentoring sessions with business owners.
SCORE's local branch office is looking for a few more volunteers. This interesting opportunity is available to working and retired men and women who have small business or corporate skills. They must enjoy helping others succeed spend a few hours monthly on a flexible schedule. Resources and training are provided.
For further information on volunteering or to request an application, please e-mail: JKChautin@aol.com or call (828) 837-4598 in Murphy or (828) 693-8702 in Hendersonville.
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
Posted by johndilbeck on Thursday, October 7 2004 at 3:33 AM
Category: book_suggestions
A couple of days ago, I completed reading The Sword Of Shannara trilogy, by Terry Brooks. I just wrote a review of The Sword Of Shannara trilogy in my Confessions of a Voracious Reader blog.
I highly recommend this book, even if I am decades late in discovering it.
The new portal for Cherokee County, NC is coming along nicely
Posted by johndilbeck on Sunday, October 3 2004 at 7:51 AM
Category: cherokee_county_nc
I've been working for a couple of weeks to create a new portal (CherokeeCountyNC.com) for Cherokee County, NC that will provide information to its visitors about the people, organizations, businesses, schools, and events in Cherokee County.
This portal will become much more valuable if you participate and help provide information about what you are doing. Register at the site -- it's free -- and add links to your favorite websites in the Web Links section. Get your own LoCalendar.com free calendar and publish your meetings and events as public items in your zip code. Submit press releases, news, and articles and we'll do our best to publish those that are suitable for the site.
Create your own journal (weblog). Write a review of a book, movie, website, or song and tell us your opinion. Post helpful comments. Rate articles and reviews. Vote in the polls and surveys.
If you think of something that you feel will make the site better and more useful, go to the Feedback section (in the Main Menu) and let me know. I'll seriously consider all feedback.
Over time, the goal is to make this your first destination whenever you go online. You can help make the site that useful.
New Public Calendar of Events for Cherokee County, NC
Posted by johndilbeck on Sunday, October 3 2004 at 7:48 AM
Category: cherokee_county_nc
I've started maintaining a new public Calendar of Events for Cherokee County, NC.
I chose Localendar.com to manage this for several reasons, primarily because it is easy to merge multiple calendars into one display location.
For example, I'm currently merging the information I maintain in the Heritage Tourism Events in and around Murphy, NC calendar that is shown on several websites I manage.
Now, any time I add or modify an event in the Heritage Tourism Events calendar, it will be show automatically in the Cherokee County, NC calendar, too.
This becomes more powerful, and more useful, when other businesses and organizations in our area manage their calendars using the free Localendar.com service.
If you manage a calendar and would like your meetings and events to be shown on the Cherokee County, NC calendar I maintain, all you have to do is get a free account with Localendar.com and start publishing your items as public events in your zip code. Email me with the URL of your calendar. If it is suitable, I'll merge it into mine.
You can see this in action on the CherokeeCountyNC.com's Calendar of Events page.
Feel free to contact me if you have any comments or questions.
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