Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Viruses Suck

I was on vacation for a week. I had planned to do some work around the house, go to the beach, play with my son, etc.... Instead, I spent the 1st 3 days processing orders, the 4th day cataloging and tracking orders, receipts, and other bussiness stuff I needed to do. The last 3 days were spent cleaning up the mess left behind by chura.pl virus. Not only was my server infected, but it also modifies the code in html, php and asp. It passes it along to anyone who visits the web page.

Before I had realized what happened, I was doing a fresh installation of Windows, and that became corrupted, and I had to start all over again. To make all matters worse, Google and Firefox then blacklisted me from serving any pages, so my website was down for several days... unless you used internet explorer. Like all the best MS products, it had no clue what was going on.

But, once the virus was removed from the pages, and the ban was lifted, it was back to web traffic as usual. I sold a couple phones today.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

PEBKAC404.com is Back!

I am sure most of you have no clue what PEBKAC404.com is. This was my first blog from many years ago. Well, something happened last year, and the software running things was damaged. While the data was left intact, I just never had the time to fix it.

#7 on this weekend's To-Do list was to finally fix it. Well, shit, what is it?

WAY back in the day, I worked with a complete moron of an employee. Every day when I thought should could not possibly come up with anything stupider to say or do... she did. While sitting around making fun of her, we came up with PEBCAK404 which means Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair - Error Page 404. So, I started the website originally posting all the stupid stuff she ever said. Over the years, it just migrated into all the stupid things I came across in my day to day life.

I have been saving up dumb things over the past year, so I have new content to post, however I will wait a little while, letting you go back and enjoy the stupidity that was my life.

Enjoy.

Question

This was brought up to me during that phone call, and it is also #2 on my list of things to do, so I will put this out there:

I keep inventory that I use to sell locally. I advertise on CraigsList. People call me up, ask a few questions, and if they sound like real prospects, I set up a meeting with them to show them what I have, that meets their needs. I also sell to local stores and other local salesmen of mine. I also make sales off the website. So, basically, I have several established avenues of sales.

I am looking for anyone that a few extra dollars, looking for their own stream of passive income, that generates 10-20% profit every few weeks. It works like this: Lets say you invest $500 in my company of selling cell phones. I would buy 5 phones for $100 each, sell them on the street for $160, and I give you $20. If I sell it for $150, I would still give you $20. Thees 5 phones I bought with your money, are predetermined up front, so when they sell, they sell. I know my market, and do not buy items that people don;t want, or are over priced.

This gives me the opportunity to carry a wider variety of products locally, thus making me more money. I usually carry 10-20 different phones with me on a busy day. As long as the price is right, which I know up front, these items usually only stay around for a few weeks to 2 months. Like, Blackberries, only last 5 minutes. Generic Nokia and Samsung items take a little longer, but they all have a market.

So, I'm just putting it out there, if anyone is interested. I've been doing this for several months now, and everybody is happy. I rotate the products around so that everyone gets a chance to make a quick buck. If your interested, reply, email, or call. the number is on one of the other retail websites.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Top of the Google Search

On Saturday, I released the first of my new keyword's and marketing. By Wednesday I was in the top 10 (If not top 5) of Google Base's (Froogle) search engine for ALL 600+ of my items! This also means that many of my items are in the top 5 of regular Google as well. My website traffic is higher than it has ever been. Like, a single day now would have taken me several weeks before. Sweet.

Of course, it has also turned into sales. Nothing staggering, but of course, I am about to hit week 2, so i will take anything I can get. Oh another thing that seemed to have surprised me, is that if you search for my company name a week ago in Google, you would never have found me. Even though I own www.Portable-Fun.com I was no where to be found. Today, search for Portable Fun and I jumped to #1 and #2 out of 48 Million other pages. Not bad for 1 week.

How...Odd...

Whenever I don't post on here for awhile, feeling like nobody actually reads this stuff, someone always comes along telling me how much they enjoy it. So, thanks for the completely unexpected phone call Tarik. I officially have my own stalker now.

Ah, I'm just fucking with ya.

Tarik called me looking for ideas on how to make money. I thought I offered him an idea that would make him several thousands, but he missed the road signs in big neon letters. You see, he thought I was offering a way to make $20 a clip from the trunk of his car. He missed the making hundreds and thousands part by getting OTHER people to sell at $30 a clip from the trunk of THEIR car.

Now, sure, I could be more specific right now, but that's just not as fun. So, why don't you think about it for a little while, and get back to me. And for crying out loud, stop thinking INSIDE the box.

PS - While I'm not referring to porn, I'm telling ya, porn is totally the way to go! Cell phones and porn.....

Monday, August 10, 2009

Traffic Geyser

I am new at it, but spent much time reading and studying before submitting anything. After about a week, my rankings and traffic were poor, so I started going out to all the different links that TG said were successful. More than half of the successful uploads, apparently, are no where to be found. Even, simple, no password sites seem to have no clue about me.

There are the sites that seem to be not functioning properly like odeo.com that say my feed is already submitted, but it's nowhere to be found. Then, when I add in the fact that many sites don't want my videos, like Spike.com and Revver.com I am left to wonder what service I would actually be paying $99 for? Never mind the $250 Platinum service.

While I think the concept of this site is fine, it seems that I would be spending as much of my time troubleshooting new problems, and checking to see if it even worked. At that point, I may as well just shoot the videos and pay the virtual assistant to upload the links manually. When I consider the VA cost, and TG cost, I think the VA would be cheaper and more reliable.

But again, the idea is great. Post videos on video and podcast sites. Add the text of the videos onto article and blog sites. Post links to the videos, articles and blogs on social networking sites. If the TG service worked as advertised, it would be worth the $99/mo to make life easier. However, with all the hundreds of glitches, it seems to be more work than help.
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