Today I talked with James Maduk, who is my online marketing mentor. I appreciate that James schedules times when members of his membership site MySmallBizUniversity can call in to ask him questions about their businesses. He is an expert on online marketing and also has expertise in integrating online with offline business.
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I didn’t even get to the Yucatan Travel Movie yesterday. Instead, I struggled with trying to understand eBay – to put a multiple item listing on of the Edgar Cayce 2010 Calendar Divine in Nature with Inspirational Quotes from Edgar Cayce . The process was much more complicated than I expected.
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I love working with Sony Creative Software people on the Yucatan Travel Movie because they are so helpful and knowledgeable. Today, I received help for choosing the Cinescore for the music underlying the video of the scene with the fishing boats bobbing in the water and pelicans diving around them in the sea at Playa del Carmen.
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Well, here I am in Vermont, working on the Yucatan Travel Movie and, miracle of miracles, when I am using the wireless connection where I am staying, I can connect to the internet and access my blog posts no problem. This is so unlike my experience when I connect to the internet using my cell phone modem. It has to be the modem. This is the same computer, the same web site, but, when I use the cell phone modem to connect the internet, it does not work!
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This is my first blog written from the air. The pilot just announced that we are cruising at 30,000 feet above the earth. That’s right. I’m flying on American Airlines to my Vocal Awareness session at the Abundance Network in Oceanside, California. American gives you your first wifi inflight session as a complimentary gift. So, of course, I had to try it. And, I especially had to see if I would have the same kinds of problems I usually have with my modem connection.
You know what that means? If there are no problems connecting with the internet when using a wifi connection, it means that all the problems I’ve been having with accessing my emails and web sites are the result of a deficiency with my modem connection. It can’t be my laptop. And, it can’t be my web site provider.
Next, I’m going to see if I can get into those emails at Carol@CarolChapmanLive.com that I haven’t been able to get into from my computer for about a month and a half. Looking good so far . . . And, hope springs eternal!
Carol Chapman
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This blog site is up on my computer! For some reason, everyone else could see this web site but my computer could not.
Yesterday, I spent much of the day attempting to get help from technical experts. Maybe it just took a while for the changes they suggested to become effective.
Whatever the reason: YAY!!!
Unfortunately, during the time my computer could not see the web site, I could not access any emails directed to email accounts associated with this web site.
Tomorrow, I will get a chance to read them and reply. I am too tired right now.
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I have to remember this so when Mercury Retrograde begins in September, I will be aware that the internet and internet communications via email can be totally a disaster and impossible even when Mercury is NOT Retrograde.
I made the mistake of upgrading my browser to Windows Internet Explorer 8. Oh woe! I should have left things the way they were. Now, every time I open a new page, I get a window saying that there’s some problem and do I want to proceed? Of course I want to proceed!!!
Then, I can’t get into emails the normal way and have to use a circuitous route saying “OK” every time the “something is not right, do you want to proceed” box comes up.
Then, when I get to my mail, there is no “Squirrel Mail,” which is what I use so I click on “Horde” and there is nothing in the folder except for one after another file saying that the mail delivery system is returning the message to the sender.
Is this a virus? Funny, it did not begin until I upgraded to 8. The same thing happened when I upgraded Symantec. It wiped out various toolbars I was using and I can’t get them back.
I guess I could try calling Microsoft about my problems with Explorer. I hate to do that because there is the fear that I will end up talking with someone in a foreign country who is very polite, is obviously reading off a monitor, and can’t help me. I have also talked to a fast-talking geek at MS.
What do I do!!! People will think I have not answering their emails when I am actually trying to. I guess I will have to call someone and take my chances that they actually know what to do and also have the ability to communicate it. Scary.
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It took a while, but I finally today, and very happily and proudly, was able to register the copyright of a literary work of mine online.
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