One Trend Up

As apollo1 asks about the theme  for this site, it brings to mind that I have not really covered why I am doing this blog and how I picked the name.

Some where along this endeavor of building a website and making money off of it, you must pick these 2 most important items.  Name and theme.  To me I decided to start with a simple theme and go for the glitz later on.  Well then the name was the real easy part.  As like I mentioned earlier I like the stocks that I buy or invest in to trend up and of course I want the businesses that I am involved in to trend up also, equals the name, one trend up.

I have found that in business that there is many things that make up the ability for a business to grow and that is what I plan to do here.  As the site grows you will find that the number of Categories to grow and that the site will take on a personality of its own.  I am sorry if it seems scattered to start, you can help the growth by placing comments and or suggestions.

I do plan a political side as well, as I do not like what is happening in our Government today.

With that I will open up that part of the discussion by saying that I do not believe that our Government can not run Health Care and keep us healthy as they can not run any other government programs with out cost over runs and waste.  No other country has been able to either.
Keep in mind that the President have appointed over 30 NEW Czars.   At what cost?

I am not one to be excited with new software from any BIG company around the world, no matter who they are.

The last couple of days I have been using the NEW browser that Google just released in March 2009, called “Chrome”.

WOW, I have been impressed as the speed and ease of use that this product has brought to browsing. This is a must try product. I am going to install it on my wife’s computer to see if she will even use it. I will let you know how that goes.
I am not one much for change and this week I have made several major changes, started using Chrome for 90% of my browsing and emailing, fast.

Adding to the change I have added new email addresses and all on Gmail, then I switched from Comcast back to ATT for my phone and Internet service.

I will know more when school is back in session as when the schools let out I could see a drop in speed when they were arriving home and turning on their computers. I hope that now is gone. Money wise is will save a few bucks a month.

I guess I should really tell you how I feel, I had a party line in the 1960’s and now that we have all of this GREAT technology today I just finally figured that the party line was passe’, pardon me Comcast.

Today’s Tips: Continued from July 29, 2009.
Well I just got an education from he**, and that is to save your work every few minutes and when I say few I mean few, I would make it at least every 3 to 5 minutes and do this in a word processor and keep a copy of what you post on your site / blog.  I won’t say any more, lesson learned.

Now to finish.  When you have all of your Ideas for your eBooks written down.  Go through this list and see which one of them that you like the most, and that will be the first eBook that you write.

Now is the time that you make a list number 1 to 10 and start listing all of the ideas for chapters that you can come up with, and if it is more than 10, Great go for it.  Once you have this list of 10 chapters start expanding each of them. Add as much to each as you can, if you feel that you need to add a extra chapter then do it.

Don’t forget to write a conclusion for your eBook.  You can also do that while you are writing the eBook, just space it a couple of lines past the main part of you eBook.  Write in between the lines, pardon the pun.

If you have any questions,  email me at thom@onetrendup.com

Well, finally!  After a week of struggle with the WP install that is suppose to be a 5 minute install.  I say that if you know what you are doing, they might be right. It took me more that a few hours of wrong turns and attempts to install this product, I finally gave into calling tech support at Value Web (my host). The person that I talked to last night was unwilling to help but the guy that helped me today was straight from heaven, (Marcus I believe).  I am so happy with my TECH SUPPORT.

The point being is Tech support is very important to your business online and there is no getting away from that.  As I find companies that offer good tech support I will be sure to share them with you.

That brings to light another point.  Marketers that are wanting to see you succeed and people that are just willing to collect your money and give you the product that they offered you.  Well I hope to cover those as well.  I want to be the former and not the latter, so if I seem to get off track, do not hesitate to bring me back in line.

As a beginning marketer I am finding that getting help is hard to come by. Either the people you are dealing with don’t know what they are doing or they want too much money to help you.  Most often this happens when you are starting out, after you get going it is no problem pay people what they are worth.

Stay tuned and let me see if I can share with you some of what others have shared with me. 
Todays Tip:     The market for eBooks is expanding daily with no end in sight.  So if you have some special knowledge or have a hobby that you are really into, you might be able to put that into an eBook. That just might by you an extra mp3 file (music) or maybe a beer or what ever you want.  Start by writing a list of all the things that you know and like.  List might be, growing flowers, vegetables, roses, working on cars, that might include rebuilding motors, fixing old radios, general fixing around the house, or like some of the other marketer say dog training.  Make this list as BIG as you can.  Then go through this list and mark your favorites of the list, then start writing a list of what topics that you really want to write about and that you think that might add value to your eBook.  Now that you have a starting point…..