I guess this is kinda like asking a barber if you need a hair cut… The Barber will almost always say “of course you do just a little trim off the neck line will spruce you right up… But I am am not here to say “Small business websites are required to do business” no not at all. In fact There is absolutley no reason for a business to have a website if they wish to rely the old standard of business in the 1800′s (local market has what you need go there or go no where… or more of thisis what we have want it or not it’s here.)

On the other hand a business website can be a great networking and marketing TOOL for a business. Yes, a website and the internet is a TOOL an item to help you gain results. Much like a hammer is used to drive a nail home. A website for your business is to be used is to attract customers, increase awareness of your company, establish customer retention, Presell your products and services, Create a branding for your company … and lower your advertsing cost not to mention your cholesterol and bloodpressure (just joking)

You see many webs designers are excellent at there work DESIGNING a website making it pretty. But that pretty sign with all the glitz flash and glare often gets in the way of your business website. Don’t get me wrong having design elements are important, what I am saying is often that is just about the only thing many people think of when it comes to having a website. Web design in my honest opinion should be secondary or lower when it comes to a website. it’s like creating a hammer by making the handle of a soft pink color with shades of baby blue. Most of those who want to drive a nail don’t give two hoots about the color so long as it does what they (the customer) needs. Approach your business website that way… What does the customer online would want what Do I want to give them and what do I want the website to do for my business…

Would you prefer to hire a marketing expert that increases your bottom line or an artist who paints pretty pictures for your business advertising.?

Give me a call if you choose a marketing expert. I and my team can have a web presence created for you to build results.

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Consignment for items being sold

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Just wanted to make a note Pizza Hut has increased thier bottom line (thier freaking income ) by 5% in part due to the use of Social Media. HHhhhmmm 5%

Papa Johns pizza recently announced breaking the TWO BILLION mark with thier online pizza orders… that is two billion from pizza order online alone… something to think about people if you are in the restaurant business don’t you think it’s time to pick it up a little with using the internet as a marketing advertising and apparently take out /delivery order system?

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I am one of the rare people in America who don’t use a cell phone regularly  I find them to be useful when I want to get in contact with someone or in emergencies but beyond that they are more of a nuisance to me. When I know a person is available and I simply want to send them a quick message and they are not by their computer I send them a txt / sms  message with my email

The first thing you will need other than the number you are calling is who is their service provider. if you have lived in the area and pay attention to people and their cell phones usually you can figure this out by the prefix of their number. IF you don’t know simply ask them or you can Google the number with area code and prefix followed by cellphone service provider” that’s what I do and within a few clicks I have it figured out.

Now you need to have the “email domain for the cellphone serivce provider. Below I have put in many of the service privders I have come across sending text messages through email.

AT&T: phonenumber@txt.att.net
Alltel: phonenumber@message.alltel.com
CellularOne: phonenumber@mobile.celloneusa.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Omnipoint: phonenumber@omnipointpcs.com
Qwest: phonenumber@qwestmp.com
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com

When sending txt message email remember to keep it short and to the point. you are sending a message not a letter. keep the number of characters low around 150-160

subject lines are optional but keep them short also a couple words …

that’s it for now.

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If there’s one thing Friedrich Nietzsche did well, it’s obliterate feel-good beliefs people have about themselves. He has been criticized for being a misanthrope, a subvert, a cynic and a pessimist, but I think these assessments are off the mark. I believe he only wanted human beings to be more honest with themselves.

He did have a remarkable gift for aphorism — he once declared, “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” A hundred years after his death, Nietzsche retains his disturbing talent for turning a person’s worldview upside-down with one jarring remark.

Even today his words remain controversial. They hit nerves. Most of his views are completely at odds with the status quo.

Here are 40 unsympathetic statements from the man himself. Many you’ll agree with. Others you will resist, but these are the ones to pay the most attention to — your beliefs are being challenged. It’s either an opportunity to grow, or to insist that you already know better. If any of them hit a nerve in you, ask yourself why.

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1. People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

2. He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

3. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

4. There are no facts, only interpretations.

5. Morality is but the herd-instinct in the individual.

6. No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.

7. Without music, life would be a mistake.

8. Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

9. In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

10. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

11. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

12. We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

13. No victor believes in chance.

14. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

15. Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

16. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

17. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

18. The future influences the present just as much as the past.

19. The most common lie is that which one tells himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

20. I counsel you, my friends: Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

21. Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, is what makes someone a friend.

22. God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

23. Success has always been a great liar.

24. Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

25. What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

26. Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

27. When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

28. When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

29. Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

30. All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

31. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

32. Fear is the mother of morality.

33. A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

34. Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

35. There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

36. The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

37. The Kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart — not something that comes upon the earth or after death.

38. What is the mark of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

39. Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

40. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

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Hunter S. Thompson
“We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or where will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for war seem to know who did it or where to look for them.

This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed–for anyone, and certainly not for a baffled little creep like George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it off.”
— Hunter S. Thompson

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