Shutting Down The Government

No, I'm not going to go into politics.  I'm merely going to mention that I saw part of an interview with a congressman.  He happened to be a Republican, but I've seen the other side do the same.  He said that the Government doesn't have to be shut down.  All that's required is for Democrats to accept what he and other Republicans were proposing.  He did not seem to be aware that the opposite holds true, that all that's needed is that Republicans accept what the Democrats want.

And now to my request: can we elect people who at least have a modicum of self-awareness?

And that reminded me, don't ask how, of part of an interview I saw about a year ago.  Some congressman was asking some 4 star general about US putting 20 thousand soldiers on the west side of some 8 miles wide island.  The Congressman asked, honest to goodness, if the island wasn't going to capsize with that many soldiers on one side of the island.

The general answered with a straight face.

I'm done now.

Internet Marketing Tools

Haven't been here in a while.  I've learned a lot about internet marketing and affiliate marketing since then.  Particularly that tools like Market Samurai (good Market Samurai review) save a lot of time.  Market Samurai is great for finding keywords and figuring how hard it would be to make it on page 1 in Google for them.

Particularly that I know a heck more about internet marketing than all the small business owners, managers, presidents, chief financial this and chief executive that.  So, of course, I've started to propose my Chicago SEO services to them.  And they're saying, yes, man.

But some of them aren't working with.  Anyway, that's not what this post is about.

I've had reasons to look at a bunch of sites.  Accounting sites, mortgage sites, insurance sites, marketing sites.  Many are gorgeous and useless, many are ugly and useless.  But they're very much alike in what they say.  Check it out for yourself: a ton of small business owners have sites that say: We are great.  We love you.  We'll take good care of you.  Then there's a long list of services.

Not all of them.

Here are some of the sites I looked at today (including some good and some that need work):

http://www.swias.com
http://eurobankmortgage.com
http://www.callero.com
http://www.myadvanceddentistry.com

But the way to do it, is to look at all accountant sites, all dentist sites, etc.