I realize that it’s a superlative title to a very subjective matter, but I have honestly felt for years that the talented and intelligent (and sometimes not even intelligent) people I have met that are successful all share one common characteristic. They’re all able to get past the single biggest obstacle that prevents most people from being successful entrepreneurs: self-doubt.
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I have actually owned this domain name since 2000, not March of 2005 as whois.sc and all other domain information sources show. I purchased this domain five years ago as an easy way of showing some of the websites I had designed as well as post my resume for potential employers. And thanks to the Wayback Machine (when will it update, Jim?) I at least have proof that I’ve had a site here since 2001.
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The guys at Best Of The Web just added a blog directory! If you haven’t heard of Best Of The Web, you should submit your site(s) ASAP because: 1) it’s a very old directory (been online since 1994) 2) it’s a very high quality directory, human-edited and truly focused on relevancy, and 3) the site owners regularly attend marketing events and are fun to party with as I’ve found out on a few occasions.
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Just read a post over at Yahoo’s Search Blog indicating that Yahoo has added a few new search shortcuts to the site. Their list of shortcuts is now up to 30, which is great, but as usual this news follows on the heels of their competitors.
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Being new to blogging, I initially envisioned a free-flowing format with articles, advice, and news from around the web with my own two pennies thrown in here and there. I’m now encountering a big problem that I didn’t even see coming, and it’s prohibiting me from posting the kind of information I’d really like to share with the rest of the world.
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So….maybe I should have given it a little more time before my first post about how great Google’s new free web analytics service is.

I setup another seperate account a few days after my initial post, since I have some websites that I own with other investors and some that I own 100% of. It appears that Google has somehow confused the two accounts with each other.
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As the owner/webmaster/developer/marketer of several highly-trafficked sites, I receive more than my fair share of spam that somehow creeps through the filters we have in place. Although the majority of the spam I receive is some variant of the usual scam about transferring large sums of money from a political refugee’s off-shore bank account to mine (some of these are pretty funny and creative), recently there’s been a huge increase in emails from marketing companies offering their services.
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I just received notification that Google Analytics (formerly Urchin) is now offering free website analytics, whether you’re a Google AdWords customer or not. I signed up for an account using my existing Google account info and set everything up in under five minutes! I currently use a combination of a hosted version of Webtrends and a desktop version of Clicktracks for deeper analysis, but have looked at Urchin in the past.
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