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Up until I was about 27, this mantra was all that I needed:

Life is all about showing up.

This statement is true, but it’s only half-true in some situations. There’s more to it than that.

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I’ve always gotten a bad vibe from people at networking events. Most people are there to be the smartest kid in the room, puff out their chests and prove why they’re great, or feign interest in hopes of finding talent to exploit. I suppose that none of this is surprising because most people are average and need to hide that fact.

John Sumser describes this problem and provides worthwhile solutions to counter it in his post, Networking Is Not Working. SURPRISE! The solutions all involve hard work, which most people are unwilling to do. Instead of spending time working hard on shipping a great idea, people schmooze to feel like they’re getting things done.

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I like the idea of doing this monthly round-up. It makes me feel terrible that I only wrote 4 posts, even though I committed myself to writing 3 times a week. I’ll need to work on that. A little accountability never hurt anyone, did it?

Here’s what happened on this here internet marketing blog in September, in case you missed any of it:

• Umair Haque on constructive capitalism
• Quote: What God thinks of money
• Getting started with HTML
• Becoming the authority

Read on to see what happened in my web development blog too.

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If you don’t have the aspirations to become a true HTML ninja, then you’re going to need to hire a rock star to do the hard stuff. But unless you want to invest a ridiculous amount of money for that rock star’s time, you’re going to need to learn a little about how it works. [...]

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“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to.”
- Dorothy Parker

(Shout out to Reality Check, a book by Guy Kawasaki.)

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This is a story that I want to believe about where business is headed in the next few decades.

Umair Haque @ Daytona Sessions vol. 2 – Constructive Capitalism from Daytona Sessions on Vimeo.

I like the idea that idealists will lead the real innovation/revolution. We’re already seeing it out of companies like 37signals and Google.

Spare 50 minutes and give this one a watch.

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Did any of these internet marketing blog posts slip through the cracks? Or maybe you wanted to take another look at one later on? Now’s the time!

• Aug 3: Avoid slot machine marketing
• Aug 5: Information as payment
• Aug 10: Setting up your GI Joes
• Aug 17: Measuring organic keywords referring traffic to a given web page
• Aug 19: Measuring organic traffic sent to a given page
• Aug 21: Permanence of email marketing
• Aug 24: Full posts now available when you subscribe
• Aug 26: Gravatar: A profile picture that follows you around the Web
• Aug 28: Online marketing suite: I have a dream

Click through to also see what happened on Polymorphism, my sister technology blog.

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A piece of advice I gleaned from my Creativing Writing professor in college: be a big spender. When he was teaching us how to write creative works, he encouraged us to work hard on every piece that we wrote.

If you have a big idea, do it now. Don’t feel like you have to save your best stuff for later. And don’t put it off. If you get in the practice of coming up with great ideas, then you will find ways to outdo yourself later.

It’s funny how some lessons can stick with you years later.

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If you’re into marketing at all (which I’m trying to teach you about), you need to be producing all kinds of social artifacts. There are a lot of tools out there that you need to be learning. A lot of them are online.

I will be sharing ideas about the more common social artifacts: video, audio, articles, presentations, blogging, and document sharing.

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I love this:

It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit.

- Harry S. Truman

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