Written By Loren Woirhaye, September 17th, 2010
Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes
Lately there’s some upheaval under my own roof and considerable conflict in my live-in partner’s family and between her and me as well. Everybody’s pretty stressed-out by an unpleasant and costly family-court matter and when folks get stressed out they often look for ways to dump on others to try to get relief . I’m presently working on some things that require me to act very confidently. Call me over-sensitive, but when I’m experiencing conflict at home, it’s hard for me to perform at my best when working with people. Confidence is like standing on a log – you can get knocked-off balance and lose it.
I’m processing these conflicts today, so I went for a walk to get sun in my eyes and on my skin. I live in a big loft on the 4th floor of a converted factory. There are no balconies so I have to go downstairs to get fresh air and so forth. Working as I do with computers, I’m prone to getting absorbed and neglecting to go outside, especially when the weather is nice. If you go out wearing sunglasses all the time you’re depriving your body of important 
Written By Loren Woirhaye, September 16th, 2010
Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes
Mean People Suck!
If you want to write your own ticket, run your own show, you’re gonna have encounters with people who want to stop you. On the surface they may believe they love you and are trying to save you from humiliation and failure. The slap sometimes comes in a velvet glove.
Almost everybody tries to project their own values onto other people. That’s how insecurity manifests, usually. The person doing the projecting (onto you) is feeling ,”I can’t value what you do because I’m scared and don’t understand,” and so they say and do things to discourage you.
My first tip is not to enter into direct confrontation with the naysayers until and unless it is necessary. However, if the negative person’s influence on you is especially toxic or over-bearing, there may be no way to stop their energetic encroachment except a confrontation. The problem with making a confrontation with such a person is they’ll probably unleash a lot of bad feelings towards you and if you’re not strong, you’ll feel it and it will hurt and affect your resolve.
Energetically, the person abusing you may be saying ,”I need you,” – as in “I need you
Written By Loren Woirhaye, September 15th, 2010
Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes
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Sooner or later, you may come to the conclusion that I am not a safe-n-sane online marketing-expert dude, but really some sort of crazy freak. That’s ok – because from my point of view non-freaky people are a bit dull. If you were to become a client or friend of mine you’d find out sooner or later, so I might as well admit it.
While not in the class of freaky, the truth is I prefer playing guitar and reading fiction to the fussy business of how you make money with all this crazy website stuff, but we all have to make a living, don’t we?
Photo by Lululemon Athletica
Before 4 or 5 years years ago making a lot of money was not high on my priority list at all. Even though I’d been selling on Ebay since 1999, I treated it mostly as a hobby, not a career. It wasn’t that I saw making money as being un-spiritual or bad – I was just involved in stuff where money wasn’t the big criteria.
I was involved in yoga, music, shamanistic “healing work” between the ages of 23 and 35. In fact, I lived in Malibu,
Written By Loren Woirhaye, September 13th, 2010
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes
Good old Google has unleashed some new whackness into our lives with it’s new “instant auto-complete” feature. I’m not sure what it’s really called, but whatever it is, if it sticks around the roll of search marketing optimization as a traffic source will be changed.
In brief, the auto-complete suggests key-phrases based on what you type in for your first word. Google has had something like this before but it was vulnerable to manipulation. Phrases like “why won’t my parakeet eat my diarrhea” would pop up in Google’s older auto-complete feature—which may just be a slower version of Google’s new suggestion tool.
Aside from the parakeet thing being gross, it’s hard to believe that more than one person ever typed in that search phrase sincerely looking for an answer to such a question. Two theories about why the phrase showed up in Google’s trends are that either somebody at Google put it there as a joke, or a bunch of people got together and conspired to search Google with that phrase or create content and links containing it. Either way, it’s not really the kind of content Google wants to be serving up in general.
Now you
Written By Loren Woirhaye, September 12th, 2010
Reading time: 9 – 15 minutes
I’ll assume to start that like most people, you’re way, way more interested in yourself than what I’m doing.
Don’t feel bad – we’re all like that; largely interested in our own ends, our own stories.
But I’d like to tell you a little bit about my experiences with blogging and affiliate marketing on the internet. I don’t expect you’ll care about my experiences, but there are some lessons you’ll learn (if you’re open to learning).
These lessons in my little story will will help YOU:
Get More Traffic!
By Blogging!
PLUS!!!
It’s Easy For YOU To DO!
Now do I have your attention?
I came around to blogging slowly. At heart I’m a believer in proven direct response marketing methods and my early experiences marketing online validated those beliefs.
But the marketplace changed and the web became, well, more social. The same shtick that worked for content marketing when I started out doesn’t work today. That’s because the internet as a marketing environment has matured and the competition for “mindshare” is hotter than ever.
For years I focused almost entirely on list-building and then I would email newsletters and promotions to the list. I did do blogging, but the blog content was not my
