“Time is a very precious gift of God; So precious that it’s only given to us moment by moment.” (Amelia Barr)
Don’t treat your time as junk or disposable tissues. When you value those moments, those minutes and hours, and your days properly, you will begin to spend them on the more important things, and what you accomplish in them, will be more profitable.
Remember, Time is Precious! The proof is that God only lets you have one moment a time!
Sometimes we have to take a time-out for learning something new or something in more depth. It’s the way to problem-solve.
Do you ever run into a problem and you feel stunned as if you have smacked into a brick wall? For a while you can’t get the gears going in your mind, so you just sit (or lie) there and feel your pain, right?
That’s when it is easiest to give up and say, “I can’t do that! I quit!”
We do need a bit of time to catch our breath, but then when the pain has numbed to a dull roar, it’s time to get up, dust ourselves off, and say, “I’m going to find out why that happened.” Or, “So that way doesn’t work; what other options are out there?”
I’ve just spent an hour or more, trying to find out why my newest version of Firefox won’t install on the Start Menu. I didn’t really hit a brick wall, because I found a round-about way to make it come to life, but I just got to thinking, ‘There has to be a way to make this work!’ I haven’t found the solution yet, but I learned to understand the problem in greater depth. When I can give more time to it, I WILL solve the problem.
Do you recall that I told you last time about Auction Resource Network? As an affiliate, if you can get someone else to buy his book on how to sell really well on e-Bay, you get 50% commissions normally.
Yesterday Jason James had a special deal on though. For every sale made from midnight to midnight on April 26, you made 80%! If you promote affiliate products from your site, it might be worth while to sign up 
Auction Resource Network - Affiliates
I did resolve the other week not to join too many programs all at once. But I have become aware of a few others. I’m saving those links until I have finished my site make-over, and then I want to spent at least three weeks promoting this program before I’ll take on another. I bet you can see the wisdom in that too, can’t you?
Whew! If you have gone through this kind of problem-solving via updating a program, you know it can set you back in time quite a bit. Yesterday when I realized that a quirk in my Firefox browser didn’t let me permanently change anything in my preferences, and I really needed to delete certain cookies so I could get back into a membership site - well, I decided to go look for answers on the Firefox site and discovered that I was using version 1.07 and 1.5.0.2 is out already! Hmm.
It shouldn’t be so hard to download and install that. I checked for directions, and found them quite simple for my Linux computer;
Extract the tarball in the directory where you want to install Firefox:
tar -xzvf firefox-1.5.0.2.tar.gz
This will create a firefox subdirectory of that directory.
I found out my Firefox was from the root folder in ./mozilla/firefox so that’s where I put it and tar-ed it.
Now what?
I tried various commands like, ./configure firefox
./firefox-installer
No go. Hmm… So I clicked on a file I saw in my Super-user file manager. There it was “firefox” and it was right in the new folder called “firefox” and when I moused over it I got a little message that called it a shell file. From my DOS computer I know that shell is where you trigger programs. I clicked on it to see what would happen, and voila, Firefox rose into action!
It had a different theme look than the one I’d had with my older version, and when I checked the version of this one, yes, it was the new 1.5 edition. I tried to download a few new themes so I could have the “look” and “feel” wanted, but I seemed to be doing that wrong.
This morning when I clicked on my Firefox logo in the toolbar the old one popped up. Huh!? I thought I’d deleted that one completely yesterday.
So I’ve just spent two hours making the rounds of the forums, and trying things out. I still do not know where the old version came from, but I can start the new one again, but clicking that shell “firefox” file in the file manager. I’ve just added a new theme, although when I have time I’ll go hunt down the one I liked better and was used to.
Meantime, I know i have find out how to change the Start Menu so it points to the NEW Firefox. I have been able to import the bookmarks which I had saved to another place, so I’m just about a happy Linuxer again!
Now, let’s see how long I can go before I have to learn something new again.
Blessings,
Ruth
Last time I talked of subscribing to free ezines of the netpreneur-gurus and reading between the lines for the advice you can’t afford to buy from them. Now I can only stress again the value of reading those ezines.
In 2005 I decided to switch to a Linux operating system. In my ignorance I had to do it over a few times, until I caught on and did it right. But all that meant that I lost months of work time, and time reading my ezines. I just filtered them all into a folder and let them sit. Well, lately I’ve been getting around to them, and even the old issues dating back to October and November, turn out to have valuable tips and clues to better ways of doing my business.
Not only that, I’m discovering some new affiliate programs. Oddly enough, in recent months I had got so absorbed in updating my web sites and cutting out deadwood links, and had dropped some affiliate programs, that I hardly thought about affiliate marketing much. Now I realize that I tried out too many of them, and it was good to do some housecleaning in my affiliate programs, but hey, when I spot what looks like a good one, the old bravado is back. What can hurt? I’ll sign up and slip in some good links and see what happens!
As I’m polishing off my site make-overs, I’m beginning to think more like a marketer and promoter again. This time I think I’ll be in a more advanced class learning how to do this well!
I bet you already know that online auction sites generate an enormous amount of traffic each day. E’Bay alone gets over 8 million visits every 24 hours! Wouldn’t you like to put your product in front of such a massive market?
I have been aware of such potential for some time, and last spring I did resolve to explore and try it out. Well, I only got one homemade genealogy book up, and no bites, so when other things crowded in on me I put it all aside. Now I’m enthused again!
Well, I’ve discovered someone who can help. Already I’m taking a free online course of 14 lessons, just for signing up for his newsletter, and although the first three lessons cover stuff I already knew, there’s lots more. (Hey, just becoming an affiliate of his, and working my way through the resources provided there is a super-duper education! Things I can apply to my marketing of my own products!)
So YES, there is a way you can not only, get a share of the traffic, but also start putting money in your back pocket almost immediately. Auction Resources
I’ve just been discovering the talents of Jason James. Jason is the young man who made $18,458.32 on eBay in just ONE WEEK and has since become one of the top eBay authorities on the planet.
Jason has built a thriving business selling on eBay and online auctions. Because he has the heart of a teacher, he has now set up his own mentoring program to teach others how to do exactly what he has done. He’s not saying it is a piece o’ cake, but the steps in the sales process are not that hard to learn.
Jason is offering a whopping 75% discount for membership to his information packed website. This is a chance for you to hold Jason’s hand as he teaches you exactly what he does and how you can do it too.
If you’ve been holding off on eBay selling as a way to make money, this is probably a great time to step into the waters, and learn to do it up right. I mean, not only could you do a piece-by-piece riddance of stuff you don’t want in your house, you could also discover where to get stuff wholesale and sell it at a marvelous profit on eBay. Jason know how to get the wholesaler to do the shipping, so you don’t even have to muck around with the packing tape.
What do you think? Have a look: Auction Resources Network
Tip: If you hesitate, sign up for his newsletter and study that a while for good free advice. 
In signing up as an affiliate for Auction Resources Network, I’ve re-discovered something that I’ve noted before. Not all affiliate programs are the same. Some of them offer excellent helps and advice for marketing your “coded link” so that you can do well with it. Some offer next to nothing. Allan Gardyne of Associate Programs, whose business revolves around checking out new affiliate programs, says that you should never sign up for one where you have to pay to be an affiliate. Most are free to sign up anyway. So, if you really want to make an income from marketing affiliate links, feel free to sign up for several until you find some good ones that offer those excellent resources.
It’s those resources that will be your most valuable training courses - without cost to you except for your time invested - and in due time you can do quite well.
This newest one, Auction Resource Network has such good resources showing in the private affiliates’ area that I’m resolving not to join any others until I’ve had time to try out as many as possible and exhaust my lessons from this one before I start any new ones. Maybe three weeks? I dare you to do the same!
Getting into Linux means that I have discovered a whole new sub-world of people working with complex “Content Management Systems” for web design. It makes your site quite dynamic, and once you learn how to use the system, you hardly need any old fashioned html skills any more.
Well, not so fast! I’m learning to use the one called Mambo on a non-profit’s site, and my learning curve has been steep there too! I’ve just spent 3 weeks trying to understand why the photos with a news story are not showing up on the front-end or public side of the site. Last night I stumbled on the answer.
This morning in casting about for how to describe this lesson, I checked out a page in the Mambo forums with links to various tutorials, and helpful sites. The first I tried was a long forum page with 8 Tips and Tricks by Anna Calhoun, who is by the way, a talented jazz musician. I remember coming across these lessons early on in my exploration of Mambo, but at that time most of the terms were so new to me yet, I wasn’t sure what she was talking about part of the time.
This morning it was different. I recognized several things I’ve discovered on my own, realized that her explanation of how Mambo operates and it’s container system made it much plainer for me, AND I discovered excellent steps for inserting photos in my articles. Her warning not to use TinyMCE explains what I was doing wrong the last 3 weeks!
I’m going to take the liberty of quoting a few paragraphs from this page; forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=43240
Anna Says;
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First you need to upload your images into the Media Manager. It’s under Site -> Media Manager, and it’s pretty obvious how to use it to upload files. Just remember that while the “browse” button is below the files icons, the “upload” button is above in the toolbar. Same with creating directories – create below, hit the “create” button above.
Once you have your images uploaded, you can insert them from any content item. Things not to do:
• Don’t use TinyMCE to insert pictures. To do that you have to go back to the Media Manager, get the address, copy/paste it into the box, and in my version there’s a bug, so once you do all that the html code is garbled and you have to go into the code and fix it.
• Don’t try to drag and drop images from the “images” tab into your wysiwyg editor. Though this appears to work, what you see is not what you will get. It only inserts thumbnails into the content, so when you look at the actual page on your site, tiny little images will appear instead of the regular image.
There is a MAGIC BUTTON that you have to click for anything to work. That magic button is – not in the editor, where you might think, and not in the “images” tab either. Below the editor, there are two little flowers, one with an “I” and one with a “P”. When you mouse over them, there is no help text to tell you what they’re for. Click on the “I”. It will insert the following text into your content: {mosimage}. Once you do that, the “images” panel on the right is suddenly useful! Thank the gods. Now go to that panel and find your image. When you click on the “add” button, that image is listed below under “Content Images.”
Each time you click the MAGIC “I” button, {mosimage} will appear in the text editor. It will not show the image, or tell you which image is there. If you have more than one image, the images will display in the order they are listed under “Content Images.”
What is {mosimage}? As I understand it, mos_image is a mambot that places images in the content. For more on mambots, see tip #8. According to tudorilisoi, there is also another mambot called mosthumb for doing this that you might want to use — for more info, visit his post at http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthr…412#post243412
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Wow! I saw those tiny floral buttons, but had no idea what they were for!
In my case, when I used my ordinary user login to login from the front I discovered the tiny “edit” pencil icon beside the top of the article, and when I clicked that, I found I could edit the article and get the photos to show up. I could even improve the look of the text.
However, I lost my compact margins. Now the text lines dash of way-west… I have to find out how to control that next.
Am I ever grateful that there are people who share tutorials online. All i have to do is be patient enough to go hunt them up and try out the advice, and see if I don’t learn something new each time.
Here’s another page with a long list of helpful links for learning Mambo;
forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=42100
Blessings,
Ruth
