I found out late in the game why I’m not able to view the picture in the gallery… it slipped my mind that I have hotlink protection on in my site… that’s why I can’t get my own subdomains to link to m own site… grarrrr…

Well… after maybe 12 hours wasted… sheesh… how out of touch I am with my IT skills… I was finally able to get the damn thing to link…

I have to be hard on myself this time… I wasted a frikkin day…. things that usually took me just a few hours to fix… well… what do you expect hoop… you’ve been out of it for such a long time… haaay… I really have to sharpen myself…

I had dinner with my college buddies last night… not much had changed (except maybe for my girth)… they all looked the same… except of course for the faces… you could see 7 years worth of experience if you looked closer…

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From the Philippine Star again

Marketing gurus claimed that we are exposed to more than 1,400 advertising messages per day. With that amount of competition, it is very hard to get your customer’s attention, no matter who you are. So hard that on average, people remember just one of those 1,400 messages. This is a dismal success rate. The time it is advisable to spend on advertising and PR is when you have a big and very profitable repeat sales opportunity. Advertising and PR best serve when firms want to make an immediate sale or when they want to bring in new customers. Otherwise, marketing gurus said that advertising, promotions, and PR should be used mostly to retain customers.