Texas Travel Journal

I just found out I’m guaranteed success! I always found this saying to be funny since I could relate. I couldn’t take it any longer and decided to look up what it meant along with its origin. Apparently, Bob’s Your Uncle means you have it made, or you’re “all set.”

Bob’s Your Uncle Wikipedia Entry
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Bob’s your uncle is a commonly-used expression known mainly in Britain, Ireland and Commonwealth countries. It is often used immediately following a set of simple instructions and carries roughly the same meaning as the phrase “and there you have it”; for example, “Simply put a piece of ham between two slices of bread, and Bob’s your uncle.” Want to know the deep seeded secrets on the past history of this saying? Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, I know this picture is creepy. Get over it.
When I was a wee lad, I had an affinity for Pee Wee.
One Halloween, in 1988, I even convinced my parents to
buy me a Pee Wee costume from the local Ben Franklin’s.
The assemble had a cheap Paul Rubens’ face mask which
was molded from flimsy painted plastic with a stretchy string
to hold it on It also came with a thin gray plaid cotton fabric
pull over shirt and pants fashioned to look like a suit with a
red tie. I fancied being able to“do the Pee Wee dance” to the
song Tequila standing on my toes. Why did I like Pee Wee?
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I’m in Los Angeles, California, right now, not far from LAX, seeing one
of my business and personal heroes and his guest speakers give a seminar.
This guy has influenced me in many ways over the last seven years since
I have been on his email list His style of marketing, coaching communication,
and the specific advice he has shared has influenced the book titles I have
read, the relationships I have had, my choice of occupation, and my own
business-based exit strategy plan. Even now I am using
some of the health rituals he has researched and shared. I have learned
a lot about business, psychology, and principles of offering true value from
him, have no idea how my life would be different if I would have never
discovered him (even though I never met him in person until today).

For the next three days, I will be engrossing myself with what this man
and the people he has deemed worthwhile have to say.
His name is Eben Pagan and what he teaches is powerful stuff all based
on book research and mentoring that has mapped some of the greatest
minds and thinking of our time.

I highly suggest you check out his programs:

MasterMindGuru.com

GetAltitude.com

DoubleYourDating.com

Everyday, a seven-year-old native Panamanian boy catches a red frog on a large green leaf and sits near the beginning of the trail to Red Frog Beach. He holds the frog in the leaf, and then shows it to tourists as they make their way down the trail to the little island secretly known to only the most perceptive wanderlusts. Why does he do it?
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Restaurants, dry cleaners, apartment management companies,
mechanics, doctors, day spas, limousine services, law firms, and other brick (click)
and mortar businesses lose and gain customers daily based on based
on their past and current customers’ opinions. Bad service news travels faster
than good service, the old adage goes. Welcome to the new word-of-
mouth (mouse). When you’re looking for someone to do business with, and
recommendations from your friends and family aren’t readily available,
where else can people turn, but online? Customer reviews can reward
one business and completely destroy another. Learn the highest leverage
ones for your business. Read the rest of this entry »

It wasn’t until the third day we took a self-directed bicycle tour where, for two dollars an hour, we explored the main areas of the island town: the Square, downtown, and a serendipitous city-wide festival we revisited later that night. We did this all of this on dirt roads with minimal road signs.

The bicycle rental shop was close to my hotel and wasn’t really a shop at all. There was no store front, only a propped up three foot sign and seven or eight vintage looking bikes. The family business renting them out were hanging out in the shade of the underbelly of a house. I’m sure the very site of a 6′ 4” gringo with a shaved head on a small bicycle elicited a hardy Caribbean chuckle (think Red Stripe commercial) from even the most tourist-jaded islander. Then you’ll never guess what we saw.

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I just got back from spending a week on the beach in the country of
Panama, Bocas Del Toro, to be specific (not Florida, but Central
America). That is a whole story to itself, but while I was there
I met my new hero. Before I tell you more about this guy, I need
to tell you what I feel he represents: independence, time wealth
(verses famine or being time broke), non-conformity to the
“American Dream” just because of societal and/or family
pressures. He has abandoned reliance on traditional western
thought “just because” instead of letting his background dictate
what he will do with his life.

Escape the Rat Race & Make Your Own Maze

This guy escaped the rat race by not participating
and playing by the rules. He has a true passion for living in the
global village in which we live and meeting his neighbors and being
closer to nature. How did he do it?

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• Ready for Thai food. #
• Must update b-l-o-g s-o-o-n. #
• @philmoregenius is over. @Neil_Lemons is in. #
• @dswiese For reals. They could get better SEO with HTML as well. #
• @themia It was! It wasn’t anyone’s name, but I need to get on the hizzle with my Google SERP rep since I’m trying to make a name for myself. #

I just received two emails in two days stating that Google will be doing away with two features and/or conversion measurements — Pay-per-action Beta and Cross Conversion Tracking.

By doing away with the Cross Conversion Tracking, I’m sure they hope you choose to engage more with their products by becoming a Google Analytics user which allows the site owner to set up “Goals,” which can measures conversions from “non-Google pay-per-click services.”

From the beginning I’ve done both. Using Cross Conversion Tracking I enjoyed being able to see conversions and traffic from MSN adCenter and Yahoo! Search Marketing by only having to log into one interface, AdWords. Although, that pesky extra tracking code had to be added to every destination URL in every ad from other ‘”non Google” ppc platform was cumbersome for someone who uses multiple tracking URLs and creates new adgroups often.

Unfortunately I bought some domains the day I heard Google was starting a pay-per-action platform that will go to waste. I also renewed this year. $60 gone. Luckily I didn’t buy them for more than one year at at time (which you should always register for at least two years at a time if you have a site you are actually developing, according Rand Fiskin’s interpretation to small variable in the Google algorithm patten).

Entrepreneur’s Domain Graveyard
R.I.P. : ADWORDSCOSTPERACTION.COM
R.I.P. : ADWORDSCPA.COM
R.I.P. : ADWORDSPPA.ORG

I probably would have received a cease and desist for using AdWords in the domain anyway. Read Google’s PR Spun “Dear John” letters in here:
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I don’t typically like to cover Adsense, but this is different. Seth McFarlane has done it a again. What an innovator! To escape the “Taste Police” he is creating an Internet only cartoon series called “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.”

Google plans to syndicate the program using AdSense on the already thousands of websites specifically targeted for Mr. MacFarlane’s target audience, typically young men. Instead of placing a static text ad on a webpage, Google will place a “Cavalcade” a drop down video clip.

Advertising will be incorporated into the clips in varying ways. In some cases, there will be “preroll” ads, which ask viewers to sit through a TV-style commercial before getting to the video. Some advertisers may opt for a banner to be placed at the bottom of the video clip or a simple “brought to you by” note at the beginning.

MacFarlane is receiving a percentage of the ad revenue and the series will be served up in 50 two-minute episodes a whole slew of new characters.

In an interview, he described the installments as

“animated versions of the one-frame cartoons you might see in The New Yorker, only edgier.”

Read the whole article on The New York Times Website