Archive for February, 2009

Saving money is in vogue today. So these videos are getting lots of play on You Tube. It’s a 90+ year old Granny who reveals her “Great Depression Cooking Secrets”. One of them is “peas and pasta”. It’s funny. You make that with some bacon and chicken and they call it “Chicken Carbonara” at a [...]

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I noticed the New York Times is even asking out loud: Why are IPhone Users Willing To Pay For Content? As an iphone user myself, I don’t know the answer. But I have paid up to $9.99 for a “to do list” application and consider it a great investment. I doubt I’d spend that much [...]

You might want to read about The New Breed of Mommy Blogger… It’s an interesting phenomenon – bloggers who spend as much time promoting their own “brand” as anything else. They promote their blogs by putting out business cards in bookstores, grocery stores, etc. to reach their mommy audience. And for some this is REALLY [...]

A friend of mine told me the story once about a man who for a short time literally lived on the five dollar bills and checks he received in the mail. Now he wasn’t a bum or anything. He had known the heights and the depths of the “professional network marketer lifestyle”… a kind of [...]

They say if you want to be successful online, you have to give away stuff for free. Is that really true? If you’re not careful, not charging for your stuff is a surefire way to bankrupt yourself. Today on my weekly talkcast called Stump Markus, I’m going to give you my take on the free [...]

On MarketWatch today, Irwin Kellner notes some signs that the US Economy may be turning around. I’ve had other friends believe we’ll recover sooner than some have feared. Right now, as Kellner shows, there are signs of life that you’d see as a market begins to adjust and turn around…that is if there’s a breather [...]

Marcia Yudkin has another brilliant article called “From Brand to Lifestyle”: Ever been asked what’s your typical day like? Or had someone tell you they wanted to learn how to be you? Then the potential exists to create fun products around your lifestyle. Idaho organic farmer MaryJane Butters has done this brilliantly (www.maryjanesfarm.com). She began [...]

A while back I blogged about how to get a FREE WordPress Autoresponder. It’s still free but the PROFESSIONAL version, which is still reasonably priced, is awesome now that the upgrades are coming out! It was already so easy to use. But NOW you can capture additional data in up to 5 different fields. There [...]