Travel Notes From Mike

Links for 2008-12-01 [Digg]

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Political Crisis and Marketing Ideas Sharing in Recession
Will you maintain or increase or reduce investment in your marketing activities or campaign? - The knee-jerk reaction for most companies when faced with the recession is to reduce their marketing efforts, what do you think? If you are the head of the company, what will you do?

Links for 2008-11-30 [Digg]

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Keep Your Job on the Tough Economic Time
We hear about it almost everyday - companies everywhere are cutting jobs in a bid to save costs and ride out the economic storm that’s hitting the world right now! The reality is this - your job is NOT safe.

Links for 2008-11-27 [Digg]

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

WordPress Adsense System 50 Dollar Off
Most experts agree that the best way to build content websites (especially if you’re into Google Adsense) is by using WordPress. Search engines like Google loves WordPress. If you pay attention, you will notice that a lot WordPress bloggers’ websites are getting ranked very high and getting a lot of search engine traffic as well.

Links for 2008-11-26 [Digg]

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Affiliates Survive Strategies in this Economy
As affiliates, will we survive in this economy? Well, we live by the unseen knowledge and information that live in us, these we have developed and learn through the years - for those affiliates who know themselves are sure to survive.

Links for 2008-11-25 [Digg]

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

How to Build a Real Online Business
Stop watching TV. It will fill you with negativity and remorse. You have total control of your life, not the other way around. Your attitude is everything especially today. Look at the current situation from my viewpoint and you will see the greatest opportunity to Build Wealth via the Internet. You need to wake up to what is going on.

Links for 2008-11-23 [Digg]

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

A Peek Inside AffiloBlueprint
If you’re stuck and you don’t know where to go with your affiliate sites, or if you just want to get started on the right foot, then I think you’ll save yourself a lot of time and money by grabbing a copy of this blueprint.

Links for 2008-11-20 [Digg]

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Pay Attention to Your Employees
for companies that committed to customer service, the only way they can effectively accomplished this is through their employees. As the competitive bar goes up, the quality of employees must go up equally.
Know Inside the Mind of Your Customer
This is something that absolutely every online businessperson can use, because every site owner would like SEE INSIDE THE MIND OF THEIR CUSTOMER!

Ushuaia

Michael Morrissey — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:34:00 +0000

I arrived two days before the Explorer’s scheduled departure from Ushuaia. Located on the Beagle Channel and billed as the southernmost city in the world, Ushuaia, Argentina, 2,000 miles south of Buenos Aires, is the capital of Tierra del Fuego.

Shooting Magma

Michael Morrissey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:54:33 +0000

This is my third visit to the island of Hawaii, aka the Big Island, to get close to the Kilauea volcanic magma. The first visit was by airplane, where there was a steady flow of glowing orange.

MlaBri People and Classical Dancers

Michael Morrissey — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:00:33 +0000

I've recently heard a different use of the expression, "Corridor Effect". Rather than describing spatial changes of landscape patterns, a friend used it to describe the experience of entering a situation with a primary objective but finding unexpected doors of opportunities along the way.

Walking the Wall, The Great Wall That is

Michael Morrissey — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:22:46 +0000

Beijing, China 18 June 2008 - Yesterday, I arrived in Beijing from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia having just crossed the country from Dalanzadgad to Huvsgul Lake.

LiJiang Tea Horse Trail - Part 1

Michael Morrissey — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:41:20 +0000

March 2008 Lijiang, China (26 52 N, 100 14E) Lijiang, China is located in the border area between Southwest China’s Yunnan province and Tibet. The Old Town area of the city is lined with beautiful tile-roofed court yard houses. The wooden homes and flag-stoned pavements are reminiscent of Tang and Song Dynasty styles. Several minority ethnic [...]

Shaxi- Along the Tea Horse Caravan Road

Michael Morrissey — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:01:50 +0000

March 2008, Lijiang, China Lijiang is located on the north side of the Himalaya Mountains 1,500 km east of Mount Everest and approximately 150 km from the Tibetan boarder in Yunnan Provence. In 1933 the nearby mountains inspired James Hilton to write Lost Horizons the book that popularized the term Shangri-La. Citing extracts from Hilton’s book, some [...]

Adrift at Sea

Michael Morrissey — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:20:37 +0000

Once we were clear of the listing Explorer and the threat of the other lifeboat dropping onto us my attention turned to my new environment. The lifeboat was surprisingly crowded even with two short of the stated seating capacity. Fortunately, this was not a typical cross section of people; we were mostly slim to medium sized, [...]

Abandoning the M/S Explorer

Michael Morrissey — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:10:23 +0000

The captain told everyone to move outside and assemble near our lifeboats. Sola and I could only get as far as the door before the line halted. There were too many people on the catwalk and insufficient space for all the passengers to gather outside. The passengers outside tried to make more space by repositioning [...]

The M/S Explorer - The Penguin Room

Michael Morrissey — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:31:53 +0000

The Penguin Room or lecture room was used in the evening to show movies such as “March of the Penguins” and “Happy Feet”. During the day, more sober presentations on sea birds, penguins, mammals, geology, icebergs, weather, research and history – Shackleton, Antarctica and its environs were presented. The scientific presentations were given when we [...]

The M/S Explorer - Dress Warmly

Michael Morrissey — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:44:05 +0000

Just before midnight on Thanksgiving Day we were now sailing southwest through Bransfield Strait having spent the morning at Elephant Island; we were now heading to Antarctica. Bransfield Strait is south of the Drake Passage, the body of water between the southern tip of South America at Cape Horn and Antarctica. The cruise was titled [...]