GOFER Rants

Rants & Reviews About Home Biz

2007-09-21

Data Backups - How Good Are Yours?

Data Backups - How Good Are Yours?
More about that in just a moment...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Maintenance Tidbit
2. Quote of the Week
3. Gofer's Rant
4. Featured Article
5. Peek At Next Issue
6. Live Training Conferences
7. Special Offer
8. Your Homework

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Maintenance Tidbit:
Last time, we mentioned using CCleaner (www.ccleaner.com) and how it gets
rid of so much trash and "junk" files from your computer.  We sure hope you
gave serious consideration to the use of this free tool!  Now we got rid of the
trash and junk files, so lets look at another item you should be running on a
regular basis.

We think it would be of the up most importance ranking right up there with data
backups!  If you ever find yourself in that position, you better hope a System
Restore Point has been made just before you noticed the problems beginning. 
So you do have a Registry backup, don't you?

Yes that was no typographical error - a registry backup!  Do a a search via
your favorite search engine for "registry backup" and see just how many entries
and documented horror stories you find!  Yes there is free as well as commercial
products to manage your registry file and all those entries,  FYI, we use a
commercial product called Registry Clean Expert.  Believe it cost about $30 when
we made our purchase.

It creates backups and has a wonderful algorithm to check all your registry entries
to make sure they are valid,  We do a registry backup with that tool about once a week
and do the check for errors at the same time. 

Nice thing about it, you can also defrag your registry!  Yes defrag your registry.  Just
like your temporary and junk files collect up really fast when you are surfing, the same
things happen with your registry when you install/uninstall products. 

So just make sure you do something about creating a good backup copy of your Registry
and do so on a regular basis!  The defrag of your hard drives and registry will sure make
a difference is just how fast your PC operates!

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QUOTE:
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.  For me they
are the role model for being alive
- Gilda Radner

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GOFER's Rant - Wow - Downline Integrity - What A Hot Button!
That thread has since been moved to the owners section of The Members
Forum so most of us are unable to view or make comments now.  But it
became the most active thread ever at The Members Forum about this time
last week!  So guess it has been a spark for debate that spilled over into the
first part of this week.

As we stated last week, it comes down to this:
Either you think you have the right to just promote any link to the entire
membership with the owner being the sole beneficiary (you should in your
TOS at least tell members that is your business model) or you believe in
downline integrity where you promote your link to your front-line team
members who in turn do the same until the entire membership base has
been reached.

We're sure nothing got resolved between traffic exchange owners but at
least an exchange of ideas and philosophies were undertaken at the SEO-
Squid Conference last Thursday evening.

But enuf has been said and the bottom line almost everyone agreed upon
was the fact you cannot profess to believe in downline integrity and start
working with another traffic exchange which clearly states any Moneylegs
Credit Bank member traffic exchanges must follow downline integrity. 

Unfortunately we had one young traffic exchange owner who thought that
did not apply to him and he could send out emails to entire membership
asking them to join some program under his ID.  Well, the young man soon
found out that was not to be the case as Rob Gehring informed him of the
fact his traffic exchange had been removed from the Moneylegs Credit
Bank and the SEO-Squid Downline Builder for violating the TOS (terms
of service) as specified for inclusion within those two programs.

We know the issue is far from dead but Mr./Ms. Traffic Exchange owner,
don't try to circumvent the TOS of ANY program.  Congratulations and
kudos abound for Rob Gehring for taking a tough stand on the principles
of how the entire GJW Family of Programs was built and still continue to
operate today! 

Yes, personally we dropped about 3 programs from our list we promoted and
surfed since this major difference of opinion started.  We take a firm stand for
our principles as well - as some TE owners have already discovered, we have
deleted our account at more than one place and won't hesitate to doing it again!

Yes, all program owners should do a better job of explaining exactly what they
are going to do and what they expect of members and/or partners.

Which brings us to our final points of this rant:

• We all should do a better job of adhering to TOS in all programs.
• Does the TOS on your site adequately reflect what you expect of members
  and what they can expect from you as owner?
• Communication is a wonderful tool - especially when it's 2-way communication.

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Featured Article:  Data Backups - How Good Are Yours?
If you are doing business online, your data backups are the most important items
you possess. Without a good backup, its like driving on a freeway in New York
City blindfolded!  What a scary thought!  You wouldn't do that would you?

If you are running a Windows XP machine, you have the best backup software
called ntbackup. Yes we did say XP.  Vista sure doesn't have near the flexibility
of XP as its backup software is nothing more than a cruel joke!  Since we believe
the majority of people are running XP (based on domain stats from several
different sites), most of you have it made with dang near all the flexibility you
could ask for with backup software.

Our good friend, Fred Langa created a backup script or batch file (.bat extension)
which has the upmost user-friendly and balanced plan we have seen on the Net
today.  The nice feature of his script is it is available for your use without any
charge whatsoever!  We will include a download link for you to obtain that script
at the end of this article.

Yes, it will take some reading of several articles within the zip file you will soon
be downloading. The education about setting the script up right the first time is
included - ya just gotta be able to follow instructions. Duh!

Here's the download link.  If you run into any problems, please let us know.

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Next Time:
We will get into deeper discussion about Fred's data backup script.  Also we
will start detailed discussion with each individual step of the backup process
plus a few tips we learned along the way!

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Live Training Conferences - Do You Really Care?
You can always learn so much more info when you attend a live, interactive
conference or workshop. We dare you to try one of our conferences listed here!
Just follow the instructions to download the conference software and we urge
you to start your week by attending our Sunday General Conference at 9:30PM
eastern time. Heck you never know what you are missing...and YOU could
win a great prize as well!

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Special Offer:
Free 30-Day SEO-Squid Trial Memberships are still being offered.
Give SEO-Squid a try today before this offer is withdrawn. During the
registration process, stop when you get to the payment page and close your
browser. Admin will notify you via email containing your login info within
24-48 hours. You'll have lots of tools, training and services to gain and
nothing to lose - so just "Do It Right Now"!

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Your Homework:
Download your data backup script and be sure to read thru all the files included
with the script! The beauty of this is the files are available online for you to read
to thoroughly understand the power of CleanXP!  If you have any questions over
what you've read, we'll be glad to discuss them further right here in our Team Blog. 
Helping each other is the only way to go!

Hint:
In the near future we will tell you about additional directories where "temporary
files" are stored and exactly what you need to do to get rid of them!

Till next week,

George & Diane Culp
Basic SEO Training
Pro Traffic Exchanges Solve Your I Need Money Now Problem

DISCLAIMER for GJW Solutions LLC Members:
We and The GJW LLC Solutions Family of Programs promote downline integrity.
If you are a member of one of our programs then be sure to check with your
sponsor and use that program's Follow-Me Directory or Downline Builder to join
a new program If you do not belong to any of our programs, then feel free to join
us using this link and welcome to our team.

© Copyright 2007 GeorgeCulp.Com and Gofermatch Enterprises, LLC
All Rights Reserved For Data Backups - How Good Are Yours?

2007-09-14

Downline Integrity - Fact or Myth?

Downline Integrity - Fact or Myth?
More about that in a moment...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Maintenance Tidbit
2. Quote of the Week
3. Gofer's Rant
4. Featured Article
5. Peek At Next Issue
6. Live Training Conferences
7. Special Offer
8. Today's Lesson

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First let's get rid of all that trash! 
How do you do this?  We strongly urge you to obtain a free copy of CCleaner
(no affiliate program or benefit to us) and run it several times a day.  You will be
surprised the number of temporary files you get rid of especially after an hour's
surfing!  We have ran CCleaner right before we started surfing to make sure
everything was clean and ran it again after we finished surfing and gotten rid of
90-100 meg. of trash our PC was trying to keep track of!  So get CCleaner
and use it multiple times a day to help your Pc run more efficiently.

Want a Quick Tour of CCleaner?

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QUOTE:
Life is like a dog-sled team.  If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery
never changes!
- Lewis Grizzard

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GOFER's Rant - Downline Integrity - Reality or Joke?
Sorry if you didn't get to read the many posts made in The Members
Forum earlier this week about this subject.  It all started as a normal
forum post by  Sean Supplee of VisitManiac asking "You have a downline
builder right?" 

However the viewpoints differed as much as daylight and dark and some
posts were just downright silly!  Being a member of the GJW Family of
Programs, I was not going to sit idly by and not let the forum know how
I feel as well!

It all comes down to this:
Either you think you have the right to just promote any link to the entire
membership with the owner being the sole beneficiary (at least tell members
that is your business model) or you believe in downline integrity where you
promote your link to your front-line team members and then they in turn do
the same until the entire membership base has been reached.

How can you maintain any downline integrity when you as the owner are
constantly promoting YOUR links to the entire membership yet want you
to only converse with your downline members?

True any traffic exchange or downline builder owner has the right to do as
they see fit BUT...

Don't profess to believe in downline integrity and the principles followed by
GJW and we ourselves believe in; then expect to be able to promote something
new to the entire membership base when you feel like it.

This led to several programs being removed from SEO-Squid Downline Builder
and the Moneylegs Credit Bank by Rob Gehring - and with good cause!

I was so glad to see Rob personally standup to those who violated the TOS of
the aforementioned programs.  Rob did the right thing because downline integrity is what
he has always professed to be one of GJW's guiding principles AND let the world
know about it in a forum posting that definitely stirred up emotions of every kind. 

How do you think programs become successful?  Unless I'm totally off my rocker
here, it takes people aka members to make any membership-based organization a
success.  So why rape and pillage your members while you profess to support downline
integrity and take actions so contrary to that belief?  Sean - shame on you - we only hope
you learned your lesson - you can't profess to serve only chocolate ice cream and then
serve vanilla ice cream instead! 

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Featured Article

No Featured Article this time since we figured our Rant should be the feature, too!

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Next Week:
Hopefully we will get back on track to discuss the use of a modified version of
Fred Langa's data backup script. We will even make it possible for you to obtain
a complimentary copy!

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Live Training Conferences - What's your Excuse?
You can always learn so much more info when you attend a live, interactive
conference or workshop. We dare you to try one of our conferences listed here!
Just follow the instructions to download the conference software and we urge
you to start your week by attending our Sunday General Conference at 9:30PM
eastern time. Heck you never know what you are missing...and YOU could win
a great prize as well!

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Special Offer
Free 30-Day SEO-Squid Trial Memberships are still being offered.
Give SEO-Squid a try today before this offer is withdrawn. During the
registration process, stop when you get to the payment page
and close your browser. Admin will notify you via email
containing your login info within 24-48 hours. You have lots of
tools, training and services to gain and nothing to lose!

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This Week's Lesson:
Step back and think about our Rant above.  How would you handle this
situation?  Do you have the personal convictions to stand up for the
principles of your life?

Till next week,

George & Diane Culp
Basic SEO Training
Pro Traffic Exchanges Solve Your I Need Money Now Problem

DISCLAIMER for GJW Solutions LLC Members:
We and The GJW LLC Solutions Family of Programs promote downline
integrity. If you are a member of one of our programs then be sure to check
with your sponsor and use that program's Follow-Me Directory or Downline
Builder to join a new program If you do not belong to any of our programs,
then feel free to join us using this link and welcome to our team.

© Copyright 2007 GeorgeCulp.Com and Gofermatch Enterprises, LLC
All Rights Reserved For Downline Integrity - Fact or Myth?

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