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Finding Funds And Places To Invest

Andrew Anderson — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:24:54 +0000

Are you looking for money for your business? Are you an investor looking for a new high return investment vehicle? Well this might help you indirectly get in the Black and help you get funding or find a new investment. I put this quick survey together. Please take the time to answer the questions and I will discuss the results. You can also see the results once you answer the questions. This will help people see what I think is a huge need for financing for Entrepreneurs around the globe and a big investment opportunity for many people that have never thought about investing or loaning to small businesses before.

Featured In Fox Small Business

Andrew Anderson — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:56:26 +0000

Well, good PR and Marketing is better than no PR and Marketing don’t you think? Just wanted to get a yes out of you right up front here. The answer is yes of course!

So, the nice folks over at the Fox Business Website were kind enough to feature one of the companies that I helped start today and that is a great way to start off 2012.

The great thing that is now allows us to say is this.

“As Featured On Fox Business News”

This brings a lot of social proof to our site and gives people confidence in at least talking with us about doing their Website.

The lesson here is that PR / Marketing and getting the word out is a lot like bathing, they all work best when you do it on a regular basis and other than investing time, there is not a lot of cost to it, but the payoffs can be huge.

With the Web, there are so many opportunities out there it is not even funny. Figure out the places you go for news and contact them and find out what their criteria is for having them do a story and then follow through and give them exactly what they want!

Oh and by the way, if you need a Website, check out ConvertToWordPress.org .

Good luck out there and I will spend a lot more time on how you can get a ton of publicity for pennies on the dollar.

Cheers,
Easy Anderson

Videos And Why You Need Them

Andrew Anderson — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:56:12 +0000

Not to mention what they can do for your SEO!

Are You A Start Up And Need A Website?

Andrew Anderson — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:14:59 +0000

Do You Have A Start Up And Need A Website?

We are actively looking for Start Ups that need a Website. There are a couple of things that we can offer you.

One, we have started over a dozen companies ourselves
We know what you you need to get you up and running as as quickly as possible
If you need a fast Demo site our turn-around times can make your head spin
We can build easy to complex sites and not let you go down a blind alley with design or functionality
We have financing available to help your cash flow! You can have a $40,000 site built for only $1,064 per month, a $20,000 site built for under $590 per month, a $10,000 site built for under $270 per month, or a $5,000 site built for less than $134 per month!
We can work for partial equity or revenue splits
We can be your virtual IT department

No matter how big or small your idea is, we can help! These days your Website is your Business, your store, your office, the place where customers judge in in a split second so it is important that you put your best foot forward right out out the gate.

You simply can’t afford to have an amateurish Website and expect to be successful. End of story. You need a GREAT Website so that your business can thrive and customers will flock to it to buy what you are selling.

With Convert To WordPress, now you can have it all. If you are a start up and are looking for the right team, look no further. We want to help grow your dreams.

We can help you with your Site, with SEO, with Social Media, Marketing and more.

Please call us at 307-459-1092 to get started right away. We would love to hear from you.

Cheers,
Andrew Anderson

Google’s New Look

Andrew Anderson — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:58:49 +0000

Google’s New Layout

Here is a link to see it full size.

WordPress Hosting

Andrew Anderson — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:43:35 +0000

WordPress Hosting For Your Business

The Hosting you use for you Business Website or Blog is important more than ever before. With Google and the other search engines penalizing you for slow load times and people frankly becoming impatient with sites that take forever to load, it is not imperative that your site runs fast.

Cloud Red Hosting is what I use and recommend to all of my clients. Give them a try. No long-term contracts and no fuss or muss. Just good service at a good price.

Social Media Marketing Spotlight with Scars On 45

Andrew Anderson — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:48:42 +0000

Scars On 45

Scars On 45 on Twitter

I went to go see a band play last night called Scars On 45. You may have heard them on Gray’s Anatomy and they have a couple of songs out now that you may be hearing on the radio. Well, I am letting you know now that you should plan on hearing a lot more of them over the coming years. They have the ability to be a break out band.

The reason that I am writing about them today is that in chatting with Chris who is their Drummer slash Social Media manager, I told them that I would give them a hand with getting the word out and this is the first part in doing that. We are going to follow their Social Media popularity and hopefully we can show you how to crush your Social Media like we are going to for Scars On 45.

Here is one of their songs.

And this one…

So, what we are going to do here in the next month as a goal is quadruple their Twitter followers.

And then get those fans to help us get the word out about the great sound they have. So make sure you go follow them on twitter at www.twitter.com/scarson45 and you can follow and like them on Facebook @ www.Facebook.com/ScarsOn45 and of course, here is their official Website www.ScarsOn45.com

Below is where they stand on Facebook. Make sure you like and follow them and follow us as we show you what Social Media can do.

Cheers,

Andrew “Easy” Anderson

Happy Thanksgiving – The Real Story Of Thanksgiving

Andrew Anderson — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:12:39 +0000

If you have never read this, you are in for a treat. While there has been much revisionist history concerning what Thanksgiving is and was all about, here is the REAL story. A hint (The triumph of Capitalism that saved the Pilgrims and therefore the US of A and you and me too!)

Here is the real story… Enjoy.. I have posted the short version and another longer one. Would love to hear what you think.

God Bless you and yours on this most splendorous of Truly American Holidays!

Cheers,
Andrew “Easy” Anderson

The Real Story Behind Thanksgiving

Did you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative?

William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” precept.

The results were disastrous. Communism didn’t work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered serious losses. Starvation was imminent.

Bradford realized that the communal system encouraged and rewarded waste and laziness and inefficiency, and destroyed individual initiative. Desperate, he abolished it. He distributed private plots of land among the surviving Pilgrims, encouraging them to plant early and farm as individuals, not collectively.

The results: a bountiful early harvest that saved the colonies. After the harvest, the Pilgrims celebrated with a day of Thanksgiving — on August 9th.

Unfortunately, William Bradford’s diaries — in which he recorded the failure of the collectivist system and the triumph of private enterprise — were lost for many years. When Thanksgiving was later made a national holiday, the present November date was chosen. And the lesson the Pilgrims so painfully learned was, alas, not made a part of the holiday.

Happily, Bradford’s diaries were later rediscovered. They’re available today in paperback. They tell the real story of Thanksgiving — how private property and individual initiative saved the Pilgrims.

This Thanksgiving season, one of the many things I’m thankful for is our free market system (imperfectly realized as it is). And I’m also grateful that there are increasing numbers of Americans who are learning the importance of free markets, and who are working to replace government coercion with marketplace cooperation here in America and around the world.

Paul Schmidt

– copied from http://FreedomKeys.com/thanksgiving.htm which was copied from the Nov. 20, 1997 issue of THE LIBERATOR ONLINE at http://www.theadvocates.org/liberator/vol-02-num-21.htm

“Back in the early 80s, we took the kids up to Plymouth to see my wife’s sister who lived there at the time. Visited Plymouth Plantation. During the tour, I was struck by the presence of fortified guard shacks in the town square and asked the guide if they were a last line of defense for the citizens there if trouble with the natives spilled into the compound. He told us that they were for the control of the FOOD RIOTS which broke out those first few winters — BEFORE they abandoned their experiment with Marxism before Karl was even born…. Seems each generation or so we must relearn the hard lessons of history.”

– Dick Bachert

And for even more detailed information, this is from Mises.org

The Great Thanksgiving Hoax

Mises Daily: Saturday, November 20, 1999 by Richard J. Maybury

Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating.

It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and sanitized collection of half-truths which divert attention away from Thanksgiving’s real meaning.

The official story has the pilgrims boarding the Mayflower, coming to America and establishing the Plymouth colony in the winter of 1620-21. This first winter is hard, and half the colonists die. But the survivors are hard working and tenacious, and they learn new farming techniques from the Indians. The harvest of 1621 is bountiful. The Pilgrims hold a celebration, and give thanks to God. They are grateful for the wonderful new abundant land He has given them.

The official story then has the Pilgrims living more or less happily ever after, each year repeating the first Thanksgiving. Other early colonies also have hard times at first, but they soon prosper and adopt the annual tradition of giving thanks for this prosperous new land called America.

The problem with this official story is that the harvest of 1621 was not bountiful, nor were the colonists hardworking or tenacious. 1621 was a famine year and many of the colonists were lazy thieves.

In his ‘History of Plymouth Plantation,’ the governor of the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years, because they refused to work in the fields. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the colony was riddled with “corruption,” and with “confusion and discontent.” The crops were small because “much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable.”

In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, “all had their hungry bellies filled,” but only briefly. The prevailing condition during those years was not the abundance the official story claims, it was famine and death. The first “Thanksgiving” was not so much a celebration as it was the last meal of condemned men.

But in subsequent years something changes. The harvest of 1623 was different. Suddenly, “instead of famine now God gave them plenty,” Bradford wrote, “and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God.” Thereafter, he wrote, “any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day.” In fact, in 1624, so much food was produced that the colonists were able to begin exporting corn.

What happened?

After the poor harvest of 1622, writes Bradford, “they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop.” They began to question their form of economic organization.

This had required that “all profits & benefits that are got by trade, working, fishing, or any other means” were to be placed in the common stock of the colony, and that, “all such persons as are of this colony, are to have their meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of the common stock.” A person was to put into the common stock all he could, and take out only what he needed.

This “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” was an early form of socialism, and it is why the Pilgrims were starving. Bradford writes that “young men that are most able and fit for labor and service” complained about being forced to “spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children.” Also, “the strong, or man of parts, had no more in division of victuals and clothes, than he that was weak.” So the young and strong refused to work and the total amount of food produced was never adequate.

To rectify this situation, in 1623 Bradford abolished socialism. He gave each household a parcel of land and told them they could keep what they produced, or trade it away as they saw fit. In other words, he replaced socialism with a free market, and that was the end of famines.

Many early groups of colonists set up socialist states, all with the same terrible results. At Jamestown, established in 1607, out of every shipload of settlers that arrived, less than half would survive their first twelve months in America. Most of the work was being done by only one-fifth of the men, the other four-fifths choosing to be parasites. In the winter of 1609-10, called “The Starving Time,” the population fell from five-hundred to sixty.

Then the Jamestown colony was converted to a free market, and the results were every bit as dramatic as those at Plymouth. In 1614, Colony Secretary Ralph Hamor wrote that after the switch there was “plenty of food, which every man by his own industry may easily and doth procure.” He said that when the socialist system had prevailed, “we reaped not so much corn from the labors of thirty men as three men have done for themselves now.”

Before these free markets were established, the colonists had nothing for which to be thankful. They were in the same situation as Ethiopians are today, and for the same reasons. But after free markets were established, the resulting abundance was so dramatic that the annual Thanksgiving celebrations became common throughout the colonies, and in 1863, Thanksgiving became a national holiday.

Thus the real reason for Thanksgiving, deleted from the official story, is: Socialism does not work; the one and only source of abundance is free markets, and we thank God we live in a country where we can have them.

* * * * *
Mr. Maybury writes on investments.
This article originally appeared in The Free Market, November 1985. Here is a direct link to the story http://mises.org/story/336.

Convert To WordPress

Andrew Anderson — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:06:25 +0000

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Andrew Anderson — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:58:20 +0000

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Join ProfitConsultant.org For Free!

Andrew Anderson — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:17:00 +0000

We have just opened up membership to Profit Consultant.org for free.

Why Join?

It is a great way for you to learn how to add more to your bottom line.
You can learn from others in a wide variety of industries and niches.
You can let people know about your business with links back to your site.
Get access to the latest trends and techniques to help you add more customers and make more money.
It is FREE!

So, just sign up today and get started. If you know of other people that want great information on how to help their business, tell them about it too.

Self-promotion and common sense is allowed. But stupidity and bad manners are not tolerated.

Thanks and welcome aboard! Go Here to sign up!

Cheers,

Andrew Anderson

PayPal And Your Business – A Warning

Andrew Anderson — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:34:04 +0000

PayPal Can Make Or Break Your Business

Now, I am not one to step in an bash companies for making mistakes as we all make them from time to time and for the most part, I really like PayPal. But…

I have recently been involved with a company that has had their PayPal account restricted without warning. When I mean restricted, PayPal is allowing money to go into the account, but won’t let them access it or pay bills out of it or have access to any of the money in the account and we are not talking about a few hundred dollars here but thousands.

Pretty jacked up I know. Now I had heard of things happening like this before, but never had been an eye witness to it. Now these guys don’t sell anything on Ebay or offer digital downloads or anything and they have been paying $60 per month for Payments Pro and Virtual Terminal for over a year.

The thing that bothers me the most is that they have not been able to get a straight answer out of PayPal for days as to why the account was restricted or what is exactly needed to get it unfrozen. And they have not been able to talk to an actual person that can tell them specifically what they need to unfreeze the account. It seems that they had never manually processed a credit card up until now and that apparently triggered it.

What You Should Do

My advice is to use www. Squareup.com to process your credit cards an only use PayPal to take in subscription payments or set up payment buttons if that is the case. You need to have more than one alternative for bringing in money. Now this may seem like a pain in the ass, but trust me, it is far better than what I am seeing happening with this company.

Since they do a sizable portion of their business through PayPal, to say that it has hurt their business dramatically is an understatement.

If this can happen to them, trust me, it can happen to you and you need to have a back up plan for funding. Make sure you look around at authorize.net and others.

While I have not had problems with my account, this does give me no small concern about what could happen.

To be fair, I will try and contact PayPal and see if I can get the full story.

I will also being doing some research on PayPal alternatives for you too and post them. Now PayPal may indeed have a legitimate reason to request information from these guys and be that as it may, it is the worst case of customer service I have seen out of a company communications wise in some time. They have spoken to at least 12 different people and spent hours on the phone trying to get to the bottom of things over the past week to no avail and all they keep getting is a form letter asking for the same info they have supplied several times. They also got different information from different people about what they should and should not provide informaiton wise. Like I said, jacked up.

Will keep you posted on this so that you can perhaps avoid this huge pot hole and keep your fingers crossed for them.

Cheers,

Andrew “Easy” Anderson

Twitter – What Is Really Going On

Andrew Anderson — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:16:07 +0000

OK, the latest stats by they guys over at Popular Mechanics show that 41 percent of your Twitter followers are Bots or fictitious people, and 41 percent are real people and 18 percent are real companies.

How is that for some stats? Now I am extrapolating here, but I suspect that the numbers are about the same for Facebook as well.

So, if you want to get 20.000 real followers you need to get about 50,000 followers.

Do with this info as you will.

Cheers,

Andrew Easy Anderson

Steve Jobs may you live on in bits and bytes everywhere

Andrew Anderson — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:54:07 +0000

Have to say like many of you I was saddened more than words can say by the news that Steven Jobs has passed away.

While I never met him, I did see the genius of his shadow from close up. I came on board Apple to work on an ancillary project the very same week he was ousted from Apple. In fact I toured Apple headquarters the very next day and I have never walked by some many hundreds of people so eerily quite.

I ran into his shadow again in Ann Arbor when I got to play with the Genius that was the Next computer when it first came out. I remember I was the only one standing around the table with this wonderful machine. I lost myself playing with just some of what it could do. The software back then was decades ahead of it’s time. I could not believe what it was capable of…

Much of that software is the basis of all that is Apple today.

Then I was yet again astounded with what came out of Pixar. I was taken to a magical place of animation that seemed as real as real life.

Then as the iPod and iPhone and finally the iPad came out, there could be no denying that he was one of a kind that only came along so very rarely.

You will be missed by millions of course and by this one man who got to see your shadow up close.

And you will touch even those who don’t appreciate how you have changed their lives for the better, made them happier, brighter, and eased their day as your shadow does indeed cover nearly the whole world.

May you live on in bits and bytes everywhere.

Andrew Easy Anderson

Google Panda And Your Business

Andrew Anderson — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:47:44 +0000

GOOGLE PANDA

Google has updated it latest search engine called Panda and some people have more than a few things to worry about and others are happy as clams.

What does all of this mean to most of us as business owners? Well, it means we have to one more thing we have to keep tabs on, but it also further reinforces what I have been saying for years to all of my SEO clients and to my business partners.

What is the best SEO strategy?

Give Google and people what they want, which is good relevant content. Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

You don’t try and trick Google and you don’t try and “Trick” people to come to your website.

If you consistently deliver up good quality content about the subject at hand you win, period.

Are there best practice rules and techniques on how to do this that 99.8 % of most busiensses don’t know about and perhaps 99.999% of the new breed of fly by night SEO consultants don’t know about? ABSOLUTELY!

And you know what? It will probably stay that way simply because this information is so valuable. Being listed on the first page of Google for your search term is not worth just a little bit more business, but 10x to 100x more than not being listed in some cases.

But, here again, if you do the common sense things to get listed in the first place, then you are ahead of the vast majority of business owners and consultants out there.

I will post some of the basics that you can start doing right away and here is the first one.

Blog, blog, blog, blog. It is perhaps not only the easiest way for Google to show you some love, but also the most direct way for your customers to show you love as well. They may find you through a business card or word of mouth and in your blog if you show that they you know what you are talking about, then you are far ahead of your competition. I am talking about blogging at least once a week here.

More on this later. But, the bottom line is give the Panda whatever it wants and it will be nice to you. If not, it has a vicious bite.

Cheers,

Andrew “Easy” Anderson