The Adventures of Bloggard

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Introducing Webnova.Net Affordable Websites

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Weed, California, January 10, 2012 — I’ve been thinking. And that’s always fun. Here’s the scoop …

For some time now, I’ve been focusing on CopyDragon webwriters, because after all I have been a business writer for 40 years and an internet expert for 15 years. There’s been enough work and more to keep me busy.

But time and time again, I encounter small business folks, sometimes artists and “spiritual” folks and therapists and such, and they know they ought to get on the internet, but they don’t really have resources adequate to hire me for a custom, full-blown marketing project.

I wrote a book, spelling out the process, but now I’ve worked out how to create low-cost, easily affordable, and quickly-deliverable websites so that even the smallest enterprise can get a foothold on the internet. Since such a huge number of people search online even before visiting a local store — and even more with the proliferation of cell phones — then simply *being there* becomes darned important.

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Introducing Affordable Websites from WebNova.Net.

What the Heck is a QR Code?

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Want to learn how to use those Weird Graphics (‘QR Codes’), like that one on the left on my CopyDragon facebook page, to promote more fans to your gigs, more customers to your business, more ‘likes’ to your facebook?

I’m going to be ‘spilling the beans’ about QR Codes (short for ‘quick-response codes), and how to use them to create more fans, business, money, and a bigger audience. It’s the coming thing … a……nd you could fight it, but … “A rising tide raises all boats” … so the smart thing is to let it carry you on a wave of growing success, right?

I’m starting the discussion by discussing “What are QR Codes?” —

Want to know more?

Click the graphic below to visit the article, then scan the graphic below with your cellphone and press the ‘call’ button … and I’ll answer the phone.

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Big Hit: Bloggard’s New Marketing Book!

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[this post reprinted with permission from “MarketingOnlineClearAndSimple.com“]

Small Business Marketing Consultant Nikolas Allen
Expert Marketing Consultant Nikolas Allen

 

Resident of Mt. Shasta, California, local marketing heavyweight Nikolas Allen, raves about Arthur Cronos new book “Marketing Online, Clear and Simple,” available now on Amazon in print and Kindle editions.

“Totally stoked,” says Mr. Allen, “and ready to dig into “Marketing Online – Clear and Simple” by local author Arthur Cronos ! Thank you for the gift, Mr. CopyDragon!”

Mr. Allen, thank you and you’re welcome!

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Nikolas Allen (http://bamsmallbizconsulting.com) has the knack of presenting marketing how-to in a crisp and easy-to-understand fashion, and is the brains behind some of the best marketing programs currently earning money for local business owners in Northern California’s Siskiyou County. His online blog is well worth regular reading for the outstanding, insider marketing content he delivers week after week.

 

 

Protect Your Dream

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At the foot of Mt. Shasta, October 26, 2011:  Today I found an inspiring micro-story on Shafin de Zane’s facebook account. I’m reprinting it here. Maybe you’ll enjoy it too …

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I had a dream once and it caught a horrible disease: disbelief. It almost died for I knew no cure, but somehow survived, it was a strong dream. Yet many others have died, especially the ones that I had when I was little.  And

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Dimensional Guidance

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Northern California, October 2011: Some folks — including some very serious physicists — think that there may exist multiple universes, perhaps an infinite number.

Dimensional Travel

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In a way, these universes may all be here in the same space, but somehow vibrating at a different rate; and if that were true it might account for some folks reports of visiting “fairyland,” “hell,” “captured by aliens,” and other reports of non-terrestrial experiences.

According to some, and I personally suspect that it’s probably true, every time in your life that you have made a decision — left or right — that the universe split into two universes, and a *you* is in each one, and in one case the *you* turned left, and in the other one the *you* turned right.

If that is true, and the number of universes is infinite, then in one universe you are the Queen of England, and in another you live below a bridge on a freeway, and another you’re a movie star, and another you’re on death row.

One of my most productive mental self-help methods is to (in the “imagination”) walk through a doorway into another universe, where the Richard/Arthur has already solved the problem in question, and ask for advice. I call it “dimensional guidance,” and it’s proven to yield remarkably interesting and generally useful guidelines for solving the various problems I face.

It’s fun and helpful. Go figure.

 

So Long, Steve Jobs

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October 5, 2011: Apple Computer has announced that Steve Jobs died today.

That sucks, and I’m saddened.

I remember an evening, many years ago, I think a Tuesday, at the regular monthly meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club, which was held at the Stanford Linear Accelerator building.

I’d ride my (somewhat small) 360 Yamaha motorcycle down Interstate 280 from San Francisco, and my tushie was frazzled by the time I arrived. But it was worth it. Those were exciting times, with new announcements about CP/M and new peripherals for the Altair. Some of the people attending have now become household words, and I met the infamous Captain Crunch there, who was imprisoned for hacking long distance calls with a whistle that came in Captain Crunch cereal boxes.

And on that particular night, there were two scuzzy guys in the foyer. They weren’t on the regular program, so they’d set up just inside the door but before you went into the auditorium where the “real” program was going on.

They were demonstrating a board they’d just developed that displayed … (gasp!) … colors. (At the time, displays were black and white.)

These two guys reminded me of my hippie days. Steve and Steve, their names were. Wozniak and Jobs.

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In the wake of his departure, here’s one of my favorite quotations, and maybe it has even more meaning today …

“Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” — Steve Jobs

 

Missing those Telemarketers

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Weed, California, September 2011: I was just sitting here thinking that I really miss those days, a few years back, when live telemarketers used to call me all the time.

Because I used to have a lot of fun with them. Perhaps it is evil of me, but my theory is that if they wish to call me up with their agenda, then it should be OK for me to answer the call with *my* agenda.

Their agenda was to sell me something. And almost 100% of the time it wasn’t something I needed.

My agenda was to take a break and have some fun. Here’s what I learned …

How to Create Telemarketer Hell

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How to Easily Make Decisions

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Weed, California, July 1, 2011: When I was quite young I had great difficulty making decisions. I was impulsive, and it largely stemmed from being extremely fearful and accepting my worries as if they were external objects. (That is, I had no insight that they were my creations, and I had no clue how to actually operate my mind and it’s automatic creations.)

So I was wishy-washy, I flip-flopped, I made great long lists and then still flip-flopped because the basis of all my decisions was the emotional content most pressing at the moment. But then …

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