My 27-Year Web Host Journey: How Are GoDaddy & Namecheap?

Web Server Room. (courtesy of wikimedia.org)

As part of my journey as an online entrepreneur… an “ontrepreneur” (someone thought of that before me)… is to have a website and a website host. Let me describe my nearly 3 decades of website hosting experiences. Over the years I’ve had a few sites. I can’t remember where I hosted my first site called … Read more

2026 World Cup Match Release Day & Online Marketing, Planning is Key to Both

Germany lifts the 2014 FIFA World Cup (image courtesy of Wikimedia)

As a huge World Cup soccer fan and an American, today’s huge. I get to find out the 2026 World Cup Match schedule today at noon PT! If you didn’t already know, the FIFA World Cup is being hosted by the USA (along with a handful of matches in Canada and Mexico). Since the USA, … Read more

My Misadventures in Tracking, Comparing Click Trackers

Click Trackers are the Bloodhounds of online marketing. Image courtesy of Bing image search and Flickr.

My tracking links just stopped working! What’s happened? The site handling the links is down as well!  I’ll get to what happened later…but what the heck is a “tracking link”? In business, especially online marketing, you need to track your results. This has given rise to the “Click Tracking” industry. For things like emails and … Read more

Most Email Fonts and Car Colors are Dull, Be Different!

Parking lot full of classic cars. Courtesy of Flickr and Bing Image Search.

Ever notice how boring most cars are colored? Look out on the roads and notice 99% of cars fall into one of these categories: Check out movies, TV shows, photos, and more from the 1950s to 1980s, and you’ll notice all the wonderful variety of car colors there was. Just take a look at all … Read more

How wide should your marketing emails be?

I’ll be writing about my journey throughthe wild world of online marketing. One question recently came up… How narrow should your emails be? How manycharacters wide should your onlinemarketing emails be? I hadn’t thought much about that. Variousemail experts have taught me to beware orlong paragraphs, but there wasn’t muchdiscussion on the width of an … Read more

3 Quick Online Marketing Secrets That Make You 5 Times Faster Now With Ease

Just 3 time-management mistakes are holding back many online marketers. All the time you’ve wasted will make you weep! Get your critical projects done 5 times faster by wiping out these goofs. These are your 3 enemies, along with their cures: Overwhelmed Gal courtesy of Canva. “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” … Read more