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I
hope you all
had a relaxing and enjoyable holiday
season with family and friends (Diana
and I certainly did, as we enjoyed
spending Christmas week with family
members in beautiful Charleston, South
Carolina). People began returning to
work at many offices (or their home
offices) around the industry today (though
many will be off until Monday). As
much as I enjoyed the break, like a lot of
people in this business, I find being on
the job just as much fun as being
off the clock and that is a rare
blessing indeed. Who doesn't dream of
working at something |
If
people came to your office acting like
this today,
yesterday was was probably New
Year's Day!
(Image
from Bigstock)
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they
love to do? In fact, I
spent most of New Year's Day
finishing up some stories I was behind on
due to an overabundance of personal and
work projects and travel over the final
weeks of 2013. Now that our Pictorial
Review of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Last Bash on Fort
Lauderdale Beach is out, along
with our latest newsletter (free to
opt-in
subscribers) in which Broker
of the Year Award Winners & Nominees
From Sedo Provide an Inside Look at the
Business of Buying and Selling
Domains, I feel like I am
finally caught up and ready to take on
coverage of another exciting year
of industry news and events in 2014. |
New
Year's Day marked the start of my 11th
year doing this and if the next 11 years
are as much fun as the last 11 I will be a happy
camper indeed. I truly value the support
readers like you have given DN Journal
and the many great friends I've made along the
way. It's
not going to take long for 2014 to shift into
high gear. A week from Monday (January 13)
I'll be on my way to Las Vegas to cover
the first ever NamesCon
conference for you. Founder Richard
Lau said today that more than 400
people have already signed up and he is
expecting a complete sell out for the event that
will be staged January 13-15 at the Tropicana
Hotel. We'll also be going back to Las Vegas
in late May for the 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
West conference at the Bellagio
Hotel so by the time summer arrives I should
know half of the taxi drivers in Vegas by name.
I hope to see many of you at one or both of
those events.
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I
have one other bit of information to share
with you today that may be of interest to
those who use or have been looking into
using Dropbox or a similar online
storage service that give you a free
place to keep some of your files in
the cloud for back up or easy
access.
I
have been using Dropbox which gives you 2.5
GB of free storage but Scott Ross
tipped me off to easy to use and more
generous newcomer in Copy.com who
is trying to carve out a big share of the
market by offering, for a limited time, 15GB
of free space and they will make that 20GB
if you use
this referral link (they add
the extra 5GB as soon as you reply to
their confirmation email activating your
account). |
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I
do not get paid anything for referrals to them
but, as full disclosure, they will add 5GB of
bonus space to my account as well (I don't need
the space because the starting allotment is more
than enough for my needs - but I thought
this is one free service that would be really
useful to a lot of our readers). One thing I
really like about Copy.com is that they also
have free apps for your smartphone or tablet
(both IOS and Android) that allow you to just
open the app on your mobile device and access
the files you placed in your Copy.com folder
from your computer. You've got to love modern
technology!
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