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Ripose,

Did you ever get your Joomla stuff straightened out? I`ve got a bit of experience in J 1.0.13 & J 1.5. If I can help at all, let me know. You can post here or PM me.

Darrin

Darrin:

I have not any problems lately with Joomla, but my main PC is fried, so I am way behind schedule. I`m sure when I get back up & running I`ll have some questions.

Thank You Very Much for your offer to help!

Great Thread .  Some Very important issues here.





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I have been on hiatus for the last 3 weeks. I finally got my system up & stable.
But back to the topic: I asked 3 people I have known for years to assist me on my websites, 2 of them said "But I don`t know how to build a website.", the fact is I never asked them to build a site.
I tried many times to explain to them that I needed someone to write articles, find information, etc. but they could not bridge the gap.
The 3rd person could not understand what Joomla is and decided he could not write articles for me, even though I told him I can convert ANY format to what I need.
All 3 are experienced Internet users, but all 3 are also over 50 years old. Coincidence?

I posted a question to younger people on a message board, the replies I got were basically the same. They did not understand how to write about their own life experiences in a way that anybody would read.

So I guess I should look for people who are my age (47), have the same computer experience I do (27 yrs.) and can understand what their connotation of success is.
Yes Nichole, I know I`m "lumping".

I also discovered that asking someone to write in exchange for "exposure", is considered to be the "Ultimate insult to writers". http://www.writersweekly.com/this_weeks_article/000498_01262003.html

So I have been unable to find anyone who will write or do other tasks, in exchange for a percentage of future income (if any). Am I the only risk taker left?

I`m eagerly waiting to hear responses to this!

I strongly doubt that an inability to come up with articles and content is either age-related or based on technical experience. As you pointed out, you could take an article in Notepad (or Edlin, for those of us geezers ) and put it into the content manager.

Instead, I think people are losing the capability to write much about anything nowadays. As a writer, I`m sort of fascinated (like watching a ship sink) when I see the sprouting-all-over sites that offer electronically generated content, articles for sale for nominal sums, and so forth.

Once again, we`ve culturally decided that if "content is king," and if "content" is a bunch of words strung together grammatically, we`re done. The underlying intent of *interesting* doesn`t seem to matter much.

I`m reminded of the "Christmas in July" sales. People realized that customers spent a lot of money around Christmas, for no apparent reason other than the word "Christmas." So they put the word into July. Even more interesting; for the past few years we`ve been nearly banned from using the word "Christmas."

And the retail results of the past few years have been pretty poor. Hm....so maybe it`s true! People spend money when they hear the word "Christmas!" Regardless of when they hear the word.

So if you`re looking for content, that`s one thing. If you`re looking for interesting reading material, that`s apparently quite a different thing. :-)

Hey All you smart brains!
My name is Maria.G , I have 7online shops with the POD company zazzle, but no money to advertise :( yes dats the truth I need yr help to guide me how to promote my business I have amazing sales but they are irrational a few weeks r good and then no sales in any of my shops for  a few weeks :( no stability I am tired of surfiuing for traffic cuz I also have to maintain my shops I NEED SOME HELP aLL SMART BRAINS WELCOME
here u can see my shops



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http://www.zazzle.com/cute4kids*
http:///www.zazzle.com/blessedwedding*
http://www.zazzle.com/mg_businesscards*
http://www.zazzle.com/cool_ked_shoes*
http://www.zazzle.com/spootakular*
http://www.zazzle.com/blessedme*
http://www.zazzle.com/kanjikreature*

Just do your best to blog, join networks, and participate in the social networks - my preferences are a few other Network sitea at present - I started here at Sun but have gone on to develop relationships in other waters... its all good and great.. but all I do is blog, put the word out and help others when i can... and its great ...  

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Virginia Louise Lawrence

ok yup I have started that! Hope it works
thx a lot!@



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http://www.zazzle.com/cute4kids*
http:///www.zazzle.com/blessedwedding*
http://www.zazzle.com/mg_businesscards*
http://www.zazzle.com/cool_ked_shoes*
http://www.zazzle.com/spootakular*
http://www.zazzle.com/blessedme*
http://www.zazzle.com/kanjikreature*

Sorry that my reply was not the correct one - Organic SEO is where the human does all the work in the process of blogging, and getting some bit of movement up the search engine, content is king also - that is what the search engine and spiders and bots read is the content - too much flash and they cant see or read it...  and some meta tag discriptors on each web page, and of course the blogging and putting yourself out on a lot of network sites  - I hate to think how many I have joined or the replies that I have answered and it does pay off and I refer people to other sites or tell them about competitors -- since july I have created at least 800+ references for my website on google alone and now the number of 1,330 search references - most by me and then others begin to search ... I leave my site open all the time and I am not afraid to do so... 

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Virginia Louise Lawrence