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Hi All, I`ve been a stalker here for at least a year, and active for a few months.  Someone dinged me for not posting my "Hello World" post, so below is what I posted in response to his statement that he loves my blog and his question as to my motivation for my postings.  I need to head over and post a Web site review request too..

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As for my motivation, I had an engineer turned salesman working for me who was in grave danger of losing his job due to terrible performance.  I inherited the guy who moved here from several hours away - he had a wife that quit her job to come here and a little 3-year old boy.

He was putting me in a position I hate - firing people who try hard but just can`t perform (I have no problem firing deadbeats!).  At any rate, I decided to give it all I had to train him in sales and shift him away from his hard-core engineering mentality.

This effort results in a long series of articles that I wrote for him - a series of lessons if you will.  I ended up putting in a few hundred hours of my personal time developing these and wanted to use them for more than just one person, so I`ve been taking snippets out for the blog. 

If it takes off, I might consider bundling them up in a saleable package, or possibly add advertisements to the site.  I`ve never monetized a site like this before, so I haven`t really made any decisions - although I am getting great feedback with really no marketing efforts yet.  Google seems to like me.

So my motivation started off trying to help a fellow engineer save his job (which it did), and morphed into sharing knowledge with the world and might morph into some sort of monetization opportunity - but I really would have to work on that.

I do sales, business, and engineering consulting on the side, mainly for smaller companies because that`s where my passion rests.

I`ve been so busy, I haven`t even posted a "Hello World" post here, or asked for an official review of the site - that will be coming I`m sure.
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There you go - happy to be here!

Nice to see you in print, Eric.

Good stuff. Welcome.