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Recent Personal Blogging and Speaking News

September 21, 2011 Commentary

Hey everyone. There’s plenty of cool news in these parts . . . I’m going to be a speaker at Blogworld LA 2011 on a panel titled, Promoting Your Blog in the Age of Social Media with Doyle Albee, Brett Greene, Jeannine Crooks and Dave Taylor. Make sure to check out all the great speakers [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Nickel & Dime Your Customers

December 8, 2010 Commentary

This story can be applied to any kind of business, so pay attention . . . Almost a year ago we found a local company to clean the house. They worked on a few homes in the neighborhood and did a great job. Unfortunately, that relationship came to an unfortunate and abrupt end today. We [...]

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What NOT to do in Business – LIE to your Customers!

July 30, 2009 Commentary

I’ve only got a few minutes, but I had to get something off of my chest. After determining that I’m just not going to use my gym membership, I decided to give my 30 days notice. I knew that I had to get this handled quickly, as the end of the month was quickly approaching. [...]

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End of a Rough One

July 26, 2009 Commentary

This has been one rough week! I learned that my neighbor’s “lawn” was likely sending the bugs that were destroying mine – thanks LawnDoctor for the info. I was hopelessly unable to connect with several key people who I rely on for advice and help. I was the victim of a “glitch” at Paypal that [...]

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Host Lunarpages Fails to Make the Grade – Again

September 20, 2008 Commentary

I’ve had several clients of mine over the years host their websites with a company called Lunarpages. For the most part, their experience has been a good one . . . cheap hosting, reasonable uptime . . . the basics. Unfortunately, I’ve been informed that Lunarpages has dropped the ball, bigtime! According to my client, [...]

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CNN & MSNBC Want to Know about My American Airlines Horror Story

April 14, 2008 Blogging

Since posting my story about how American Airlines abandoned me, and then treated me like a 5th class citizen last week, I was contacted by both MSNBC and CNN. I got the email from Christopher Elliot of MSNBC first thing Thursday morning (he sent it to me 4:30am that day – the day of my [...]

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American Airlines Cancels Thousands of Flights then Hangs Up on Customers Repeatedly

April 9, 2008 Blogging

BOYCOTT AMERICAN AIRLINES As many people are aware, American Airlines canceled hundreds of flights yesterday, and then canceled 1000 today. They just announced another set of hundreds of cancellations for tomorrow . . . Why does anyone care? Well, I happen to be one of the 100,000 plus passengers affected by these cancellations, and there [...]

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Launch of First BiggerPockets Promo: How Does a Dick Become Rich?

February 8, 2008 Commentary

I thought I’d share with everyone the latest in fun Videos out there. This one, though, comes from yours truly! Enjoy this video that looks at the lives of 2 characters on very different sides of the tracks. (I happen to play both) How Does A Dick Become Rich? Let me know what you think!

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Joshua Dorkin Interviewed about Housing Crisis by CBS News Radio as Founder of BiggerPockets.com

September 2, 2007 Blogging

Hey all! It has been a month since my last post and I’m finding that keeping up with this blog along with everything else I do continues to be difficult. I will struggle on and try to keep it alive and kicking. With that in mind, I wanted to share a bit of news . [...]

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CNN Secretly Endorses Barack Obama

July 24, 2007 Commentary

It is no surprise when a newspaper or other publication backs a presidential candidate. We’ve seen it happen forever. The issue that stands before us today is that one of the major media outlets is secretly backing a candidate without letting us all in on the secret. We all know that FOX’s, “Fair and Balanced” [...]

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How to Work With SEO Consulting Companies

July 12, 2007 Commentary

While on vacation, I met a great guy — a friend of a friend — who had a website developed for his company. When he found out that I worked in the internet business, he began to ask me a few questions about how things work, SEO, and then some. In building his website, he [...]

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Online Business Tragedy: The Loss of My Email, Address Book & Calendar

June 11, 2007 Commentary

Ok . . . maybe it wouldn’t be a tragedy for most people, but yesterday I lost 7,000+ emails from the past 6 months or so! If these had been personal emails, I would not have been so upset, but these were emails for my business. Actually, not only did I lose my emails, but [...]

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The Story of a Forum Troublemaker: How to Handle a Wacky Situation

June 6, 2007 Commentary

How A Simple Forum Conversation Got Ugly Some people just make no sense to me. Yesterday, a situation came up on our real estate forums that I had not seen before. A member who was relatively new (less than 2 months) made a post where he was trying to find buyers for properties that he [...]

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Vacation

May 28, 2007 Commentary

I’m on vacation until later today . . . enjoy your holidays and come back later! – Josh

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