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.

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” —–> READ MORE

Tags: Fox News, PR

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! —–> READ MORE

Tags: Start Ups, Websites

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… —–> READ MORE

Tags: Scars On 45, Social Media Strategies, Twitter

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? —–> READ MORE

Tags: Real Thanksgiving

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

Tags: Funding Alternatives, PayPal Warning

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

Tags: Facebook, Twitter

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

Tags: Steve Jobs

I am breaking into the Vault of SEO tricks and am going to make a very, very limited offer.  If you have watched some of what I have presented over the past few years on SEO you have seen some of what I can deliver.

I am tired of the posers out there and it is beginning to piss me off quite frankly.

If you are a local business in virtually any town in the US. I mean a Plumber, Dentist, Plastic Surgeon, Baker, Hairdresser or pretty much any other business that could benefit from being on the first page of Google and other search engines in your town than you need to read this.

Have you spent thousand on Radio, TV, Newspapers or even on Google Ad Words with less than stellar results?

Well, being on the first page of Google in your town can blow away the results of all of those as well as using some of the other online marketing techniques that I will implement for you. Whatever results you have gotten online in the past, I am going to show you how to double them. I guarantee it.

If you would like to have new clients for your business on a steady basis and dominate your competition then this is for you.

I am going to be taking a very select and limited group of clients.  I am only going to be accepting one client per niche per city.

Last but not least, I going to give you  a money back guarantee that this will drastically improve your any results you have gotten from online marketing.

Ask yourself how this could impact your business.  Think about what having new clients coming on a regular basis will do for you business, your piece of mind, your bottom line.

What could being on the first page of Google or Bing or both do to your bottom line?

Like I said, one business per niche per city. First come first served.

Call, 307-459-1092 between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM EST.  Please leave a message if we don’t answer. We have been getting rather busy as of late. And this is all white hat. If you do the right things in this business you can and will be rewarded.

Once I hit my number of clients, then this offer will be over.  Talk to you soon.

Cheers,
Andrew Anderson

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