It started around Valentine's day and with some difficulty I have my new computer up and running today, (03/28/09). What a PITA.
I exported my bookmarks to an external HDD and imported them to the new box. I had already copied PhotoShop to the external but didn't know if it would open so I tested it and I can open my PhotoShop! Yeah!
But my FrontPage isn't buying the new OS (Vista). Good thing my old computer isn't dead, it's just old and wheezy. Updating my website (norajean.com) is going to be slowed down since I have to unplug 4 plugs and plug them in do edits and switch plugs again. My worktable looks like a geek's dream date, computers, wires, externals, piles of software to be loaded up, notes on transfering data.
I don't like the new keyboard but my old ergonomic keyboard isn't a USB plug and it was starting to skip letters so I'll have to get used to using this one. If I ever get tested for typing speed they use these little rectangle jobs anyway.
The new computer came with 60 days of MicroSoft Office Suite to goof around with. I updated my resume at Monster.com. I had been wanting to do that but my Word files were on the D drive that died, prompting me to barter astrology for this external HDD, and I couldn't update my resume. Not much to add by way of job experience: four years of volunteering to teach art online and goofing around with my website. If someone finds that amusing and offers me a job I'll fall off my chair.
What else is going on... Oh I've been answering astrology questions on Yahoo Answers, there's a link to it on my website's home page.
With this new computer I am obligated to set up an e-commerce section on my site. I figure that astrology consultation has always been one of my "products" over the years so I'm adding that as what I have up for sale.
It couldn't hurt that there's over 1,800 list members at CITY-o-Clay who might be interested in having me read their charts since they know me already.
There's a couple of things I've been being told by family about marketing: I am not the best one to toot my own horn, I don't take my skills seriously, that I am my own art project, that there's got to be some inexpensive things as well as expensive things, etc.
Yeah, but I'm thinking that there's a couple of things I have done: established a web presence, built a fan base, and established a brand. This astrology answering stuff is a brand building that's deliberate.
I've already consulted young adults in India, competing with the Vedic astrologers. Russia is the leading country visiting my site. I'm thinking that maybe my Russian visitors would like to have their charts read by their favorite polymer clay teacher. With the internet anything is possible. The days of walk in traffice has been replaced with hits and eyeballs to the website.
So we'll see if I can parlez astrology readings as part of my earning potential. I could fold in some astrological polymer clay things while I'm at it. That would be hip. Individualized charts done as key chain fobs.
I'll be linking this blog to the site's home page when I give the home page an update.
What I have to figure out is since I'm a legit customer of FrontPage, I want the $99 upgrade to Expressions, but the FrontPage is on my old computer and I need the Expressions to be loaded on my new one. Can it happen? That's the big question. If I can't figure that out then it's hundreds of dollars for a new copy of Expressions.
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