Excerpts from a conversation with a colleague and friend. 

You can learn how to do anything and everything if you look and   carefully weight what is important and what is hype.  It is difficult of course, especially if you are new to the whole internet marketing business.  There are so many people offering videos and pdf’s galore.  

There is a great little program that I have been using.  Don't know what your finances are (if they are like mine - tighter than a new pair of shoes) but compared to most, this is inexpensive. 

If you go to www.newbiestopro.com at the bottom of the page is a link      to this program I have been using.  It teaches you from scratch how to create a site, with a couple bells and whistles.  

I made my own header, unfortunately, I lost something in my html and it does not appear on the site.  I have someone looking into what I may  have done or deleted so that my header will appear.   I created the   header (that you can’t see it at this time) from scratch and believe me         I am not a graphics designer.  I did one for my husband also.  I did all the gradients I just had so much fun doing it.  

This program will direct you to a free html editor, different places to get other designs, scripts (for bells and whistles).    

With this program you will also be able to promote it to others if you      want so that you can make a couple of bucks on the side.

That is one of many things that I like about this program.  It is the right program for Newbies, intermediate, as well as the experienced internet marketing, etc,   It is for people just like us - new to the whole thing but wanting to make a difference personally, social and individually. 

You got to see it to believe it, Check out this program.  Don’t wait  another minute.

Teresa Rothove

You know from my 2 previous entries that I was not a happy camper.  I was throughly disappointed that the program, that I was looking forward to using, caused my computer to crash.  

After only a couple of hours of notifying the owner of the program, I found an email from Paypal stating that there was a refund.  When I went to my Yahoo account there was a letter from the owner apolgizing for any inconvience that I may have experienced.  He/She posed a couple of questions that I will be asking my computer guys on Monday, but I have to tell you.

As upset as I have been over the last couple of days, I can Breathe.  Patience they say is a virtue.  One sadly I don't always posses.  The mere fact that I got a response (and not a form letter), makes me feel much better.  You see, they showed what I believe is so important and one of the very things I will be talking about at my site: CUSTOMER SERVICE.  You are as good as your Customer Service.

To many times you deal with people and then they leave you high and dry.  It's nice to deal with people with integrity.  It makes experience on the Internet so much more pleasureable.  I believe that if you want to have a following and make a difference in your business - you have to show that your Customer Service manners are an important part of your business - not just trying to sell your product - You have to Sell People on YOU.

Well it's nice to have a happy ending.  I can honestly say that I have written by to the owner letting them know that I have another program of theirs and have had no problem with it and because of the quick response with this particular problem  -  that I would have no problem looking into more of their product, but as I mentioned in the last entry - I will do more investigation on ANY program I may be interested.  It is better to be Safe than Sorry.

Well I'm out of here at least until next time.  "Sit Back and Just Breathe"

Teresa Rothove

www.newbiestopro.com

www.teresarothove.ws

The Insidious GREMLINS  Part II

OK, remember I mentioned pour a really BIG DRINK?  I am not a real drinker,
an occasional I will have a ladies drink (Kahlua and milk).  Well on Thursday,
right after downloading the unnamed program I left it and continued
working on my website www.newbiestopro.com.  Oh I was happy.  I put a link
on the site and guess what, it worked the first time I previewed the page.
I published it and when I went to look at it , IT WAS A MESS.  I went in to fix
the crazy characters that were there and redid it.  Now I'm cursing all the
Gremlins of the world.

Roger comes to my office door to remind me that we have 5 parrots and they
would be sounding like sailors if I did not calm down.  I tried to explain what
was going on, and of course he looked at me like I was crazy.  Then I showed him
what I had done (I actually deleted the index page and pulled it in from my
hard drive and put the extra features I had on.  Published it again, and sure
enough there was this crazy page facing me on the Internet. 

Now if you have ever had a chance to check out my site, its all about Newbies
to Pro.  That there comes a time when you have to stop thinking like a newbie,
because we really do know more than we give ourselves credit for.  (Though that                                          does not mean that we should not continue to learn.)  I mean at my site, I talk                                                         about Gremlins, and how they make people think that are dumb, can't do anything, etc. etc.,
because they want you to stop.  I am telling people NOT TO GIVE UP.
Stop Feeding The Gremlins.   Well here I am in tears talking about that was it.                                  I quit!!!!!!!    I went outside had a cigarette, major deep breaths and a complete mental meltdown.       Here I am trying to emphazis how not to given in.  Who did I think I was trying to tell anyone
else not to quit, and here that is just what I wanted to do.  I went back inside (we do not smoke in the house), went into the kitchen and poured me a BIG DRINK, went back upstairs and fixed most of the problems.  (I just went to my site and most of it back to where it is suppose to be except that                          my header is missing and there is a line of code that has no business there, but that is minor.)

Don't know if that drink had anything to do with it -but it certainly tasted good. :)

You know by the previous blog entry that, the following day we  found that my  computer crashed         overnite and lead to my find out that it was due to the program I  had downloaded the night before.            The only good thing about this was that we at least now  we now know what was making my website          go ballistic on me.

I will not say that I am completely back from my meltdown, would be a lie.  I will be picking up my          computer on Monday, and that makes me happy so that I can get off this laptop,  That will be a joy.

I will leave this note with you:  Do not download anything new (particularly a program)
unless you have talked with someone - anyone about the program, the ease of
installing anything, if there has been anything negative that you should be aware of before downloading.  There are to many forums out there to not take the time to ask if anyone has heard of the program,          have they used it, etc.  It will save you time and money in the long run.  I certainly did not adhere to my      own rule that I tell others. :(

OK this book is done for the time being.  Stay tuned to see how I try to resolve this
problem with asking for a refund.  ( I do not feel comfortable trying to redownload
this program, at this time.)

Until next time:  Sit back and Just Breathe.  I promise it will get better.  right?

Teresa Rothove
www.newbiestopro.com
www.teresarothove.ws

You have heard me talk about those little Gremlins that seem to embedd them selves into our computer, driving us complete crazy.  Well they are at it again.  "Again", you ask.  Yes they are still here!!!!!!

Let me recap.  A couple of weeks ago I had to have the computer fixed, with upgrade.   It was really     working good, that was until Thursday, Without naming names, I downloaded a program that crashed       my computer.  It appears that there was something corrupt in a segment of the program.

Now you have to understand this was a program that I had been waffling for a couple of weeks, but             as time was running out before an increase I decided to rob Peter to purchase this program.  I just knew that in the long run I would benefit by the solutions it would do, when I was ready to utilize it.  OH YEAH,
did I mention that I was not even going to use it right away. But I knew that I did not want to pay more for it later.

Ok I have to take the computer back to the shop, and after going through their process, checking for hardware problems, viruses, etc. (oh did I mention that forgot to mention to them that I downloaded   anything new, duh!!!!).  Anyway, I get this call Teresa what is ___________.  Oh that is a new program,       ah why???????    Yeah we finally figured out what your problem was.  they found error upon error,     because Windows was trying to find and set up something that must have been corrupt. 

So now I paid for the program, and now I'm out additional money because it was not something they did when they worked on my computer just a few weeks ago, but something I DID.  No it was the GREMLINS.  I'm sure other people downloaded this program and OF COURSE they did not have a problem, and
if they did no one is aware of it, plus they down have my GREMLINS. 

I appreciate you all letting me vent - actually it's kind of fun.

I'll tell you all about what happened next - in the next entry.

Remember pour a really BIG DRINK, sit back and Just Breathe.

Teresa Rothove

www.teresarothove.ws