The Internet Entrepreneur Diary

Image Source: the law Courtesy of losiek

This afternoon, I spent 6 hours in the book store and tried to pickup a marketing book that will help me boost my online business. I pick one from the 16 marketing books. The book is written by Beth Goldstein, founder of Marketing Edge Consulting Group, LLC. The book name is The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Toolkit: All the Tips, Forms, and Strategies You’ll Ever Need!

I have a lot of reading home work to do. I may come back to pick few of the rest 15 marketing books.

If you read my blog post in the past few days, you probably feel my anger about the marketing company. I have decided to fire my marketing companies and do Internet Marketing on my own. The goal is to lower the marketing cost and boost the sales.

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Image Source: Playing with some coloured pencils - This image has been enhanced.

[UPDATE] To focus more on the topic about entrepreneur, I have moved the Blog Post Header Image - Collection 3 to My Photo Blog.

Image Source: Harvest Time - This image has been chopped and blurred from the distance

Continuing my monthly effort to list the photos that I used in my blog posts, here are more photos. Enjoy and remember to read my blog post. You can see my first blog post header image collection from the following link.
Blog Post Header Images - collection 1

Or visit my Photography page for the collections.

If you like what you see, please help me to spread the world to your friends.

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Image Source: Noche de luna llena…Full moon night - This image has been chopped and retouched.

After I post “Does your blog make lemonade? Make your blog interesting with header images“, I have been using post header images on almost every posts on this blog. I believe that an interesting blog header image will give the post some nice vivid touch. It also gives the reader a better idea about the post. All of the images I used in my posts are either licensed by flickr.com or taken by me. I include all those third party photos under my favorites page.

In many cases, I modify the images and make them look even more interesting. I love photoshop, the best photo editing tool available in the digital world. I used a lot of tricks to enhance the photos, including retouching, burning, erasing unwanted spot, rearranging the objects in the photo, adjusting the contrast, adjusting brightness, setting auto color, setting auto level and many other modifications.

I will start a series of photo collections every month to list the images that I used in my blog post. This will give my reader a greater idea what my photography taste is. So enjoy the photos and remember to read my posts!

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Image Source: Telephone Line

A while back I post “10 Google programs to operate your small business for FREE.” Running a business requires a lot of attention to the business operation. Saving your business operation cost is equally important to make profit. Make your customer’s life easier and save their money will bring you more business. It’s also important to make your customer trusting your business. Providing great products is not enough. Give your customer a great customer services is also important.

I have tried many ways to lower the cost of my business operation. I found reliable web hosting from ANHosting.com. I use Google’s free calendar, gmail, and alert for my day to day business operation. I use free AOL pictures to store my huge photo collections.

What’s next money saving add-on for my business operation?

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Many bloggers already know that a blog widget can help you drive traffic or making money online or get better SERP ranking. Not long ago, I signed up the BlogRush just like every bloggers did. My blog don’t have a lot of traffic like many other high profile bloggers. Few months past, I only get less than 20 hits from the BlogRush. So it’s time to take it off my blog and save some space.

Instead, entrecard has earned my trust and took a little space on my blog.

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Just one day after post my weird credit card issues with VistaPrint on Warning - VistaPrint Free Business Card will rip you off, I saw two strangers in my web log. One is from Vertrue, the marketing company who has charges me twice for not signing up their crappy deals. And one from VistaPrint, who released my credit card information to Vertrue and trick me to be charged for nothing.

Obviously, they do care about what people say about them. They search Google and found my post about their problems. I am still dealing with my credit card company and trying to dispute the charges. If you are interested in using VistaPrint as your online printing source. Please do yourself a favor! Read their privacy and security policy.

In addition, we may share the information we collect with other companies with whom we have joint marketing arrangements.

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It is also possible that VistaPrint may partner with or purchase another company to continue to do business as a combined entity. In the event that this occurs, it is possible that our customer information may be transferred to the new business entity as one of VistaPrint’s assets. In such an event, we will update this policy to reflect any change in ownership or control of your personal information.

I want to clarify that I was a VERY VERY HAPPY customers of VistaPrint. It’s over!

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This post is a warning to all my readers. I encourage you NOT to do business with VistaPrint, a wonderful business card printing services for years. Please do your own research before you make any purchase with VistaPrint.com.

VistaPrint will sell your credit card information regardless you like it or not.

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Chat with my dear families, long distance relatives, blog friends, consulting clients and online store customers are my day to day jobs. Now, Google is in talking with AIM. You can simply login to your Google Gmail account and sign in your AIM. It will automatically download all your buddy list. You can now chat with your AIM buddies right from your web based Gmail account.

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