Business

I have spent a week not listening to news or sports talk radio. Last Sunday the Vikings did it again — they broke their fans hearts. I fell victim to their spell once again. And for the fifth straight time, the Vikings lost an NFC championship game. As was true in 1998, they had a better team but lost anyway. I don’t think a heart-breaking defeat is going to help them get a new stadium built on the taxpayer’s dime.

I’ve spent some time in the past week doing Saint Paul Winter Carnival things like visiting the ice sculptures at Rice Park. Check out some of the photos! Yesterday there was a live band to cheer up anyone suffering from the winter blues. Last night fireworks lit up the Saint Paul skyline after a raucous parade.

I expect February to be a busy month. I’ll be creating videos to promote and explain the concepts involved in SEO and how SmallBusSEO.net can address specific business needs.

I’ve some internal debate about whether or not to put Social Networking Today dot com up for sale. I’ll likely make a decision about that in the next few weeks.

More soon! I won’t be a stranger. Check out a couple of the ice sculpture photos.

According to a December 10, 2009 post at the City Pages website, Steve Renner was convicted of “underreporting his income” by nearly 1.5 million dollars. I don’t know if this translates into being “tax fraud?” It appears the IRS was involved. There was a more detailed article at TwinCities.com but those articles disappear after a few weeks.

The City Pages website lists him as “Bluesman Stevie Renner” but I knew him as the owner/promoter of “inetGlobal” which was/is an MLM or Network Marketing company. He seemed to be involved in other companies like “Cash Cards International” and I thought I traced him at one time into an online Gold business.

I got out and away from him and his companies a little over a year ago. I had just committed myself to promoting the concept he originally promoted to me which was providing resources to and showing people how to begin a successful online business. (I still think it’s a brilliant concept!) Then I heard from a colleague that Steve Renner had been indicted for tax evasion and I knew it was time to cut my losses and get away from him.

I managed to get out of inetGlobal without losing green money but I did lose one hell of a lot of time – and wasted time is wasted money.

Because of how the company was set up it seemed impossible to get out without leaving some money behind — and I was forced to do that. My official exit came when I refused to sign some sort of after the fact agreement that, in my words, the company could do whatever it wanted, we needed to follow the rules of the company, and the company could change the rules anytime they wanted to.

There is so much I could write about my experience with Steve Renner and his enterprises — but perhaps I’ll save that for a novel, where a knowledgeable attorney could read it to make sure I didn’t cross any libelous lines.

Too much BS for me Mr. Renner. I don’t need to pile on and say something nasty, but apparently I will anyway,  I’m not going to shed any tears if you hear a cell door clang shut behind you in the near future.

Listened to Twenty Twenty (aka Mr 2020) at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/vision-quest-radio today. Those of you who are  interested in 30 minutes a day of insights this is a great source. Check it out!

Spoke with my brother Jean Paul today and that’s always good. We’re traveling down similar paths at the moment so we brainstorm, cogitate and support each other. There are always some breadcrumbs left to follow up with. I think there might be some interesting developments on the horizon.

Two inspiring dudes.

Wish I could tell you “I spent a few minutes to make this page look a bit better” but I spent hours getting it set up and creating the header and doing some “futzing” here and there.

If you’re visiting from the “Outback” feel free to leave a comment.