I’m Going To Play Dave Navarro’s Bigger Game, And So Can You

October 6, 2009

I’ve been following Dave Navarro for a while, and received some solid insights from a number of his blog posts and his product launch ebook. Recently, Dave decided to play a bigger game.  Even better, he decided to invite others to play as well.
Dave started out in the online biz world with a personal growth [...]

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Why mikestankavich.com And stankavich.com?

October 6, 2009

Some of my readers with sharp eyes may have noticed that I post on both stankavich.com and mikestankavich.com. If you did happen to notice, you may have wondered why I have two blogs with essentially the same domain name.  My intent is to write about topics of personal interest, promote my consulting services, and promote [...]

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How Copylicious inspired massive improvement to my About page

July 17, 2009

One of the things that’s always difficult about bringing up a new site, particularly a personal branding/image site, is writing an about page that isn’t laden with bizspeak buzzwords. It’s perilously easy to end up with something that sounds like it came out of the Dilbert Mission Statement Generator. Unfortunately the mission statement generator is [...]

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More Stupid Mortgage Lender Tricks

July 14, 2009

After last week’s fiasco with Wells Fargo not processing the payment from my short sale closing, I thought it couldn’t get any worse. I was wrong. I called today to confirm that the payment had been received and that the loan had been closed. They said yes, they received the payment, but no, the loan [...]

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Why I chose Cartika Hosting

July 13, 2009

I’m very picky about web hosting. Too picky, in fact. But I finally found a hosting company that has met my overly demanding expectations. Cartika Hosting has worked flawlessly for me since I signed up.
I was so frustrated with the state of available commercial hosting that I hosted myself from home over cable modem for [...]

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My Short Sale Finally Closed

July 13, 2009

The long and painful process to disentangle myself from the albatross that was my previous home finally came to a close last week.If you’re interested in the whole story, I wrote about it on my family blog at The housing bubble hits home for the Stankavich family and Short Sale Auction for my Previous Home. [...]

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