Yep. Got all the hardware troubles fixed — just in time for a new crop of economic troubles to GeezerCast about. Topics include weird US stock-market gyrations, weird Greek currency gyrations and weird political gyrations. Since GeezerCasts are really just a chronicle of weird events for my unborn grandchildren, it looks like the pace may pick up.
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This is a Geezercast from inside the tornado. Just words for my unborn grandchildren as I watch worldwide financial-market chaos.
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Yep, big life-changing event. Haven.com, the family URL, got sold a few weeks back. The negotiation took a toll on the Geezercasting time, but probably means more Geezercasts in the long run as I drift back toward the “retired” end of the spectrum. I talk a little about some of the other repercussions too — selling our house and moving into a condo, and buying a 5th wheel.
I took a week off from GeezerCast to head off to the Targeted Traffic conference in Florida. It’s a great gang and I enjoyed myself no end, but I came away with an observation for you my unborn grandchildren. When there’s a new industry, like this one, there’s opportunity created as that industry matures. One of those opportunities, it seems to me, is to introduce the age-old notions of professional selling and sales management. I met a lot of people who either want to sell to me, or for me, at the conference and for the most part their marketing and sales techniques are pretty primitive. So I decided to devote a GeezerCast to those observations.
Well, I’m not gonna talk about Corp.com this time — at least, not directly. But, since I’m starting up a new business, I thought I lay a rant on you about why I don’t like OPM (other people’s money) and have never taken any.
Sorry, but I didn’t do anything this week except work on client stuff and the Corp.com Registry site. So you’re stuck with another Corp.com podcast. I bet I start to get a life pretty soon and I’ll let the two podcasting threads diverge at that point. But for now, here’s another in the “how Corp.com got started” series of Geezercasts.
This one is mostly about the plumbing under the Registry web page and my journey from platform to platform. With a question thrown in — howcum WordPress released such an unstable Version 2.0?? I didn’t use it during the stuff I was doing this week, but a friend had a heck of a time with it. ‘Seems like maybe they jumped the shark over there at WP. T’would be too bad if they did.
I’ve had a few “15 minutes of fame” episodes and decided to share a few observations about getting/being a little bit famous. Nothing earthshattering. Pretty low-key.
Here are some stories about businesses I’ve started that didn’t pan out so hot. The moral to the story is, of course, “try, try again” but you also get funny stories to tell your friends as a bonus feature. Enjoy.
A friend of mine got laid off this week and I’ll be helping with the “find a new job” project. As I was writing the email of commiseration, I found myself getting ready to do the “find a job” rant that I’ve been laying on people for years. But now there’s podcasting! What better place to put the rant, so people can listen to it without having to buy me lunch.
So here it is — Mike’s Pretty Good Find a New Job gizmo.
Bah. there’s a problem with the file — some of you may have trouble downloading it through iTunes (I did). If you do, come on out to the site (www.GeezerCast.com) and download the file from there. That appears to be working perfectly. Sorry about that…
This is the first in a series of podcasts about how I’ve made a living. The grandkids will be interested, and maybe you other people too. This episode tells the Domain Name story… How I came to own domains like television.com, company.com, etc. Why it’s better to be lucky than smart. Plus some musings about the word “career”