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I’ve been back home for approximately three days now and I’m still recovering from my vacation; the day after I returned, I woke up with a nasty flu bug.

But, I’m not about to start complaining because the vacation was a much needed one. I traveled through parts of Europe with my sister, niece, and cousin. This trip afforded me some time to think about my personal life direction, the direction of my business, and how to achieve my personal goals.

Frankly, I believe that everyone should take some time out of everything to relax — even if it means you’ll just bunk out in a hotel one city away from your own.

However, before leaving for my vacation and even during my vacation, people still kept asking me whether or not I would complete the 20/20 Challenge or if I’d completely given up. Although I’ve made a few fleeting comments about it, I figure it could use a formal blog entry. Continue reading →

Tags: 20/20 challenge review, 20k challenge, internet marketing, vacation

Instead of actually moving into Day 6 of the course schedule, I’ve decided that I’ll continue with completing Day 5 — the sales letter.

(Before continuing, make sure you’ve read Day Zero, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, and Day 4 (Part 2) & 5 to get the gist of this on-going review)

As I mentioned in my Day 4 (Part 2) & 5 update, Michael provides a shortcut for preparing the sales letter and without that shortcut, it would’ve be a long undertaking. Still, it did take more than a few hours to get the sales letter ready and formatted to my liking. Continue reading →

Tags: 20/20 challenge review, 20k challenge, internet marketing

In Day 4 of the 20/20 Challenge review, I mentioned that it was a continuation of the work requirement of Day 3. Well, Day 4 is spilling over into Day 5 for me because I decided that, instead of outsourcing the bulk of the work, I’d be doing much of the re-branding and modifications myself.

(Confused? Make sure to go back and read Day Zero, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4 to get the gist of this on-going review.)

But, before I get into all of that, I must apologize for such a delay. You’re probably wondering why its taken me so long to get around to Day 5 (which would actually be Day 19 if I were following the 20/20 course schedule), its quite frankly because I have a business to run outside of this one, client projects to take care of, and a life outside of the internet. Continue reading →

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If you’ve been sitting on a good domain name idea for a while, now is the time to snag it because the overall rates will be increasing by about 7-10% on October 15, 2007. Although the increase in cost is for wholesale values, the most likely scenario is for the registrar to pass the increase on to customers; it’s only fair. Some registrars will only pass on some of the increased rate, and others will pass the full increase. How much will this affect you?

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Now that Day 3 has been completed and I’m moving into Day 4, I do have a few criticisms from the day prior. In case you’ve just started reading, make sure to go back and read Day Zero, Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 to get the gist of this on-going review. Continue reading →

Tags: 20/20 challenge review, 20k challenge, internet marketing