But occasionally I run across something that reminds me I joined something way back and I decide for some reason to have another look at it. I click the logon page and nothing I enter works, so I click on Forgot Password. Now they want to know my email address or maybe even my user name before they can send it to me. If I can’t remember the password, how do they expect me to remember the rest?

Why can’t they do a search on my REAL name, that never changes and is almost always required when you sign up. As a programmer I KNOW it wouldn’t be that hard to do. Then if you argue there would be too many John Smiths, show what towns they live in and let you pick one. The password should be disclosed once you enter the answer to that silly security question you set up instead of emailed to a box you probably don’t even have anymore. I mean it’s not like they are giving someone access to your bank account, right?

I know, just sign up again with a fresh email address.

But why should you need to?

But find it I did and I downloaded the free version and had my database up and receiving information in a matter of minutes. This is the way the Internet should be and I bet there will be more than one paying customer I send their way with larger needs they can make some money from.

So if you want to catalog your hobby or even keep names and addresses, take a look at www.FileAmigo.com

What a breath of fresh air after spending a couple of hours looking at stuff the size a corporation would need that wanted to suck a few hundred bucks out of my bank account.

This is the simplest tool I have seen and I had my first picture up in a matter of minutes Click Here

What’s really cool is in a few clicks, I added a Google Map to show visitors exactly where the photo was taken and it also included a link to Extra Information so they could see the camera I used and all the settings, without me doing a thing!

Take a look and please leave me a comment.

A lot of my friends just need a place to put up a few Splash Pages and maybe a nice page to tell their story about why they’re online and how things are going. For that much, you don’t need high end hosting, but a free host is not going to have any commitment to keep you running.

The other day I was browsing around and ran into what I think is a sweet spot indeed. The basics for ONE BUCK a month. Plenty of space and bandwidth, but no databases unless you pay a little more. They do include PHP so you can run scripts and I have one to track how many downloads I get that works sweet. You don’t need your own domain name which saves a little more because they let you use the username you pick out as a subdomain on their space, like http://oldbuddy.angryhosting.com

There’s a PDF report linked on that page with some details on using Splash Pages you may find interesting. Check it out for yourself. If you don’t need any more power than what they offer, why pay more?

I would love to read your comments on this.

It’s no secret, I’m involved in the Global Domains International program and so are tons of others, you see it all over. There are also more systems to show you how to bring in referrals than I can count, but it’s like a Carnival Midway and just as phony.

I had a friend today ask me to join one that right on the website claimed they made the Leaderboard and had a $600 bonus in one week. The thing they neglected to tell you is most of them quit before the seven day trial was over and they failed to get back on the Leaderboard again, no matter how good their system is. It’s a con game!

The truth is, getting on the Leaderboard is a matter of putting out enough advertising, and that can cost more than the bonus you earn. The real path to success is NOT there, but building a team of team builders. That will make exponential growth more than just a dream. Even at a buck a month commission, getting five people that are really serious and teaching them what they have to know to get their own five instead of just blasting ads all over, will result in $4,000 a month in residual income that will keep on coming because your team members are making money too. How much effort is that worth?

Wel, that’s my 2 cents worth for today.

I’m not even ready to tell anyone yet, it’s still new and I like to make sure it’s worthwhile before I say anything. I just wanted to say where I had been.

However, if you might be interested in the product of my few days away, have a look at http://DIYKISS.com (for Do It Yourself and Keep It Super Simple)

Thanks for reading!

It still floors me that so many online marketers are living in the dark ages and trying to build a list of email addresses that mostly never get read just so 2% of those who don’t know any better might see their message and 1% of those might even buy something. Not much better odds than spamming everyone, is it?

Enough pontificating, here’s the answer http://mailinator.com/

Now here’s a couple of simple tips:

Scroll down the left column and you’ll see an address they made up for you, so copy and paste it into your email client to send a test email. You know you want to, so go ahead it’s free.

Then go back to the home page and enter that address in the Check Your Inbox and click Go!

See it works and you didn’t have to sign up for anything. Now simply bookmark this Inbox page so you can come back and check your incoming junk mail anytime you need to, like to validate your email address to get something you want.

Now look at the top of your Inbox page and copy the Alternate Address to put into all the capture forms trying to block you. That keeps anyone else from seeing your email unless they can guess the real inbox name, highly unlikely.

Not a perfect solution yet, but certainly a step in the right direction and as easy as it gets.

You can have as many as you want, so I use one main account to act as a receiver and several disposable accounts that forward to it. If I get one that starts getting flooded with spam, it’s a simple matter to delete it and set up a replacement.

Click on Settings at the top of your account page and then Forwarding to set up where you want it to end up. Make sure you use the drop down box to delete Gmail’s copy so they don’t pile up.

There are tons of other useful features (like built in chat) but forwarding should be enough to get you interested, then you can have fun discovering the rest.

The first thing that comes to my mind, is it’s a LOT easier to bang out a short blog post than a full length article. It’s also easier to get it read here than posting it in with thousands of others, some by much better authors than I am.

Finally, I guess you know who gets paid if you click on any of the ads you find on the article websites, right? With thousands of would be authors pounding out thousands of pages, the odds are in their favor. Some can even afford to share a little of that revenue with their authors, but not too much.

So I may still try pounding out a few articles for Associated Content, but only because now I have this blog to bring any interested readers to, if in fact there are any.

Oh I almost overlooked one big point, that is control. Once you sell your article, you lost it. Then if your opinion changes later on, your article will still be floating around to haunt you. If I change my mind about anything I write here, it only takes a few minutes to make it right.

Now it’s up to you.