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Well, is the worst almost over? Probably not. But, this is still an interesting time for the mortgage industry. Just as hundreds of home loan brokers and probably hundreds of thousands of home owners are circling the drain, opportunity will knocks again. Over the last decade we have seen home values basically triple in Southern California. Home owners had to qualify to get loans but some of the bank guidelines were less stringent than the hiring guidelines of Ronald’s burger joint. About a year ago the banks started panicking…actually, make that a little over a year ago, (as if it matters).   CONTINUE READING THIS AMAZING INSIGHT TO THE MORTGAGE INDUSTRY Read more

Well, that’s the idea, right?  Go to work in your underwear because you work for yourself at home and life is easy.  Hmmm…I think not.  All the work-at-home gurus tell you that you can work from home lounging about in your underwear.  Here’s the deal: if you work from home for yourself, you don’t have time to change.  you might be in the same pair of britches for 3 days straight.  You’ll have your back to the window so you can’t tell if it’s day or night; AND, you only happen to know it’s late at night because you just called and woke up your DSL tech-support guy at 3am because you’re getting a bunch of 404’s you can’t figure out until you realize your cat chewed half way through your CAT5 because you forgot to feed it today, (the cat not the cable).  Post it notes keep you up most nights because that’s how you track your projects.  If you have the note up, the project is still pending some kind of action.  You would gladly pass a lot of this work off to your Web designers but they just give you a blank stare when you look in the mirror.  Yes, you would love some Starbucks but they’re usually closed at 2 in the morning and you don’t have time to go get it anyway.  The phone rings off the hook…well, there is no hook but if there were it would do that.  It’s 5 in the morning and I think I’ll get a couple hours of sleep before checking in with  a couple of content writers from New Jersey.

Enjoy the journey!

David

You can’t game the system for long.  Your goal is to make money.  At the end of the day, it all comes down to somebody paying you for your work.  Whether somebody pays you by clicking a relevant adwords link on your site, buys a product you have for sale or buys from somebody else through your aff link, you are there to sell.  Bad content doesn’t sell; that’s the bottom line.

Ok, so what sells?  Interesting content sells.  Useful content is interesting.  Funny content is interesting.  Well written content is interesting.  I spend an hour on a site last night reading about blue-ray.  I don’t give a rats-ass about blue-ray but it was an interesting read.  I didn’t buy anything but because I know that content was original and a good read I clicked on an adsense link as a “thank you” for not being ordinary.

Sorry for the rant but MFA pages are usually crap and strongly dislike crap.  If you can work your ads into good content then you are infinitely better than the pack of sites out there that truly suck.

SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA: February 7, 2008: In an apparently bizarre love triangle, Robert Hausfingler, a general contractor, blew a kiss in the direction of his spouse Martha Hausfingler but hit the wall behind her instead.

“I meant to blow-kiss my wife; instead I hit the house”, said Robert. “We had a fight the night before but made up that same evening, I think everything is fine between us.”

The Hausfinglers bought the home in 2002 after moving to the area from San Bernardino.

“My husband saw the house and just fell in love with it”, said Martha. “I just didn’t know how much he loved the house until now.”

A spokesperson for the house said their will be, “no comment forthcoming at this time”, as it is a private family matter.

The Housing And Natural Brick Love Association, (HANBLA), claims that tens of tens of adult people have inter-object love with their homes and it’s as natural as plant love.

“This is not a mere fetish”, said Sandy Hymen, a spokes-person for HANBLA. “Many people believe there is a pureness and undiscovered quality to their homes that should be shared intimately with the owner.”

No further comment from the Hausfnglers was offered but it is reported that the couple is seeking counseling and new drapes.

I have done a little bit of digging because of my apparent new hobby of domain collecting.  Now, maybe I’m not a smart man, Jenny, but I know what domain izzzz.  Anyway, so I’ve registered 20 domains in the last 10 days.  I’ve put 2 up for sale and I’m trying to hack together a few ideas for my existing sites.

So, having said that, here are the codes I’ve used during my collection activity:

OYH3  - saves $3 on .com domains

…that’s about it.  I know there are more but I don’t have a lot of .net or .org.

Take care,

David