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2012 Reading List: The First 50

Here’s a list of books that I’ve read so far in 2012.The date next to each book is the date that I completed the book. Books with asteriks next to them are books that I would recommend to others. My goal was to read 50 books in 2012. Apparently I’ve had more time than I …

Memories from Hawaii

Karine and I had the opportunity to take a once-in-a-lifetime 10-day trip to Oahu and Maui. Our little one is now 20-weeks along and it’s hard to know when we’ll have the opportunity to take another trip like this again. We had a fantastic time. Here are a few memories from our trip:

Financial Peace University 2012: What You Need to Know

I wear many hats. One of those hats is serving as a coordinator for Financial Peace University (FPU) classes at my local church. Yesterday, Dave Ramsey’s team hosted a webinar announcing the 2012 edition of Financial Peace University. The 2012 edition will not be unfamiliar to anyone that has previously taken the class, as Dave’s …

How to Select a High Quality Web Host

I was running a cross promotional campaign for my company’s daily email newsletter, ARN Daily, this morning. Almost immediately after the campaign email was sent out, DreamHost’s data center had an outage, rendering the campaign almost useless. This is the latest of many issues that I’ve had with DreamHost, unfortunately. I have a couple of …

Tips for Running a Successful Paid Newsletter

Several months back, I wrote about my paid email newsletter called ARN Daily in a post called “How I Developed a Paid Email Newsletter to Diversify My Business’s Income.” Since that post last spring, the number of subscribers to both the free and paid newsletters has easily tripled. This business unit now brings my company …

Final 2011 Reading List

I’ve started my last book for 2011. Here’s a complete list of what I’ve read this year: 01 – 1/1/2011 – Doing More Faster by David Cohen and Brad Feld 02 – 1/5/2011 – Never By Another Stock Again by David Gaffen 03 – 1/16/2011 – Sex Begins in the Kitchen by Kevin Leman 04 …

How to Automatically Insert Affiliate Links into your Blog Posts

My company has done pretty well with affiliate advertising over the last couple of years by creating high-quality content about a product or service that has an affiliate program and including appropriate affiliate banners and links in those articles. For example, you can read a review I did of Lending Club’s peer-to-peer lending service on …

Developing a Rock Solid WordPress Backup Strategy

Regardless of what type of website that you have, you need to back-up your websites on an ongoing and consistent basis. What would you do if your website got hacked? What would you do if your web-host goes out of business? What would you do if the server that hosts your website crashes hard? If …

How to Avoid Scams When Shopping for Websites on Flippa

Browsing for online business opportunities on Flippa is like prospecting for gold. Most of the time, you’re not going to find anything that looks remotely like gold. On a rare occasion, you’ll find something that looks like gold, but later you found out it’s fool’s gold. On an extremely rare occasion, you can find a …

How to Supercharge your WordPress Installation

WordPress has been the single best and single worst piece of software for my company. Almost all of the sites that my company operates are powered by WordPress. On one hand, it’s a fantastic content management system that’s easy to setup and upgrade. If there’s something you want to do on your website, chances are, …