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As stated in my charter, some of the things I know come from places of which I know. And I know this, the boys and girls at Envato Network sites NEVER fail to bring it all to the table.

Please take a visit if for no other reason than to learn something.

fyi: should anyone ever need a fairly quick, and pretty decent file conversion, head on over to Zamzar
I’m doing a WordPerfect file conversion through them now. Can you imagine that? A WORDPRESS file?
You select your file, you choose the format to convert to, you enter your email addy, and click Convert
A bit of time will pass and then they’ll email you a link.
And yes, it’s free, although paid-plans are available.

Image by the muse of cajebo via Flickr

Did you vote today? Of course you did.

But did you Twitter it by twitting to @iVoted ?

Why is it that for some of the theme’s previewed at the wordpress.org/extend/themes area, that the links maintain relationship to the theme being previewed, whilst other revert to some sort of generic?

Standard links such as:
Categorys

* Parent
o First Child Category
o Second Child Category
+ One Grandchild Category
* Uncategorized

even at times the Home and About page links.

And how many times do you see something like this:

This email was sent because you signed up and/or registered with us or one of our affiliates. To stop receiving email from (insert company name), click here or mail us as (insert snail-mail address here). (Company name) is a mailing service and does not guarantee or support any of the offers advertised in this email. This email may be a part of a continuing campaign.

Exactly “when” did I sign-up and or register? Most of the places that I’ve registered/signed up over the last few years, when and if I have, have been with sites/forum/programs/apps that promised me my email would never be shared. Never. Ever. Promise.

So who exactly is zooming whom? Is the emailer lying? Were those angelic sites lying?

And forget about “clicking here”, as it is my belief that that in itself is a means by which ‘mailers’ can verify they’ve got a live addy.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were no spam email? Wake-up, you’re dreaming, but here’s a thought.

Why not force them to include the date that registration or sign-up occurred, and whilst we’re at it, include the place from which we did the registration/sign-up.

After all, if they have our data, they have our data.

Yeah, but…

My taxi  driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car  by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head  around and started yelling at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and  waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I  asked, ‘Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your  car and sent us to the hospital!’

This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, ‘The Law of the Garbage Truck.’ He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around  full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full  of disappointment.

As their garbage piles up, they need a place  to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you.

Don’t take it  personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.

Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work,  at home, or on the streets. The bottom line is that successful  people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.

I love forwarding insights like this.

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photostream via simple click of her image.

It’s certainly not for the money that I do so.

But after reading Seth’s excellent post on why anyone should do anything, I’m wondering now if indeed I’ll become rich from my blog!

Seriously though, Seth’s post is concise and to the proven point. A good read with which to start out the week.

The Wealthy Gardener

And an excellent choice to add to your feed reader.

In Naphets post, I find true guidance in all things.

Take a couple minutes to head on over to BoDo. Your astro will be glad you did.

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One thing that remains a constant is the “well-written” word. Be it prose or quick to measure ad copy, writing well is paramount if you ever hope to convert, or call-to-act a satisfactory percentage of your readers.

The same thing holds true, and more so, with the words strung together in your emails.

I found a blog-post today that more than adequately give you clues as to how best to converse via email.

Have a read here. I’ll bet you tag the page for future reference.