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Very Busy with eNews Park Forest

Gary K — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:48:52 +0000

I’m very happy to announce that eNews Park Forest is on schedule to surpass 47,000 visitors for the month of April, 2009! This is absolutely incredible.

Now, we may be looking at exponential growth (If two people tell two people, 4 people know about the site. If 1000 people tell two people, there are 2000. If 2000 tell two people…, you get the idea). That’s great, and it also creates a concern for bandwidth. I just finished moving ENEWSPF to a new server so we could use 30 GB of bandwidth per month. As this continues to grow, well….

On this blog, I would like to write about bandwidth issues and spammers.

Met With A Potential Client Today

Gary K — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:23:31 +0000

Had coffee at Panera Bread in Matteson, IL, today with a friend who is also a potential client. Joe has an intriguing concept for a web site. The client is working with two other individuals, one who does “Trinkets n’ Trash” promotional items. Joe and another business partner do consulting work.

The challenge is to combine all of these ideas into one Web site. The desire is to take advantage of the Internet to increase sales of the promotional items, and increase regular clients for the consulting business.

I don’t know how all of this well gel into a single Web site yet, but the idea has a ton of potential.

More later.

Facebook

Gary K — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:54:08 +0000

Yes, I’m on Facebook. And you should be there too. It’s an odd place, but largely very friendly.

In a way, it’s a bit regressive for the web. Remember when AOL first started up, and AOL users couldn’t email anyone outside of AOL? Many thought that was quaint, a very nice feature to have. And then AOL users realized “WWW” stood for “World Wide Web,” and they wanted to break out and talk to everyone else as well.

As fascinating as Facebook is, it’s really a very simple concept, and a lot of fun sometimes.

I’m here, if you wish to “Friend” me. Whether Facebook survives long into the future is anyone’s guess. But the site is still growing, and, for now at least, I’m enjoying it.

Publish Your Own Book

Gary K — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:32:55 +0000

Wow. It’s been a while since I wrote on the blog. I’ve been very busy. Picked up some new and exciting web clients, and I’m looking forward to blogging about them here soon. Still finalizing arrangements, but I’ll be busy in the near future here.

Ever thought of publishing your own book? Now you can. We write so much on the blogs — why not publish real books with all those wonderful words? CafePress.com allows you create and sell many things, including books. From their site:

Pricing includes book production, order management, fulfillment and customer service. You choose the retail price and earn the difference between the retail price and our base price.

The pricing is based on the number of pages in your book plus the type of binding you wish to offer. For example, the base price for a 100-page perfect-bound book would be $10.00, and you set the retail price. Base prices are the same the same for all book sizes.

I’m not publishing quite yet. I’m still upset about the book I started in high school about the flying car that traveled through time. That was long before Back to the Future. If I had only tried to sell it to someone, I would at least have a case.

Oh well. Live and learn.

I’m publishing the next one, perhaps on CafePress.com.