How to Protect Your Laptop Computer

July 24, 2008 · Filed Under Off Topic · 10 Comments 

Yesterday, I told you about how my laptop computer was stolen from inside my hotel room…while I was sleeping just a few feet away.

Hard to believe, but true.

I was pretty well prepared for such a disaster — better than most, but not as good as some — and my business was saved because of it. But there were other things I could have done — and had always intended to do but hadn’t that could have either prevented the theft in the first place, or helped me to recover even faster.

You might think that what I’m about to recommend to you is a bit excessive. Well I’ll tell you, “It’s always too much until it’s not enough.”

In other words, you might think that doing one or two of these techniques is enough — and you might think it’s excessive. I promise you it’s not. If you lose your computer — Read more

Someone Stole my Laptop

July 23, 2008 · Filed Under Off Topic · 33 Comments 

Something very bad happened to me this past week that I want to tell you about…so that maybe you can avoid the same fate.

I hope this doesn’t happen to you…whether at home or abroad.

SOMEONE STOLE MY LAPTOP

Imagine this for a moment…

You go to sleep in your hotel room, half way around the world, after a day of sight-seeing, culture-absorption, and fun.

And you wake up in the morning to find that your laptop is GONE from the desk where you left it the night before, and your hotel door is wide open.

HORROR.

Has this ever happened to you?

If it has, then Read more

The Last Lecture, and You

April 11, 2008 · Filed Under Off Topic, Traffic & Conversion · 6 Comments 

 
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Do you think often about the work your doing, and the motivation behind it?

I hope you do.

Whenever I talk about the good fortune I have to be able to share what I know with you, I almost always include something about how what YOU know, and what YOU teach, and what YOU sell is a BLESSING to those who buy it.

At least, I hope it is.

Because you're relieving someone's pain, or giving someone a path to happiness, or helping some save money or make money. Or you're helping them get healthy.

Or maybe what you do is far more important than that.

All people have dreams, and if you do whatever you can to Read more

Forget Your Password?

July 17, 2007 · Filed Under Off Topic · Comment 

It has happened to all of us at least once.  That dreaded message: "Your login is incorrect, please try again."  That's right, you've forgotten your password once again! Read more

Google Maps On My Treo

October 21, 2006 · Filed Under Off Topic · 4 Comments 

Google maps on my treoThis is a bit off topic from my regular Traffic and Conversion topics, but you've just got to know about this. 

It's one of those jaw-dropping things that Google has done that causes you to marvel in amazement at their cleverness. At least, it did for me when I first learned about it. And it's not just because of what it does, but because of what it does ON MY PHONE!

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