Well I've decided to start getting back to blogging after a year long hiatus. I really don't have a lot to say on this return post except that it's officially been one year since I've done any other writing and I figured that it's time to get back to the SEO Blog.

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February was probably the most difficult month I have ever had. After wrecking my car on February 9th, I had a hard time getting around ... I had forgotten to add rental coverage to my insurance policy when I signed up ... Smooth ... Next, I lost my new phone only six days after I got it ... so, I was out of contact for a day or two ... Then, the Broward Sheriffs department lost my accident report ... so my insurance company delayed my claim until I tracked down the reporting officer to give me a copy ... I'm still waiting for a claim check there ... However, nothing could have been more devastating to me than what happened next. On February 16th, 2009, my girlfriend committed suicide ... Until then, I hadn't ever had someone close to me do something so drastic. When I found out that she had been found dead ... I was in disbelief ... the realization didn't actually set in for a couple of days ... I think I went into an immediate state of denial. It was about a week later that all at once, the pain and reality that my beautiful, loving and sweet girlfriend was gone ... hit me.

The pain of losing her has been so intense that I have nearly been unable to function and work. She was very special to me and we were in the height of our relationship ... I don't want to discuss the events that led up to her death ... they are too personal to share at this point ... But, I have been completely immersed in a state of shock, sorrow, grief and sadness ever since the day I heard what had happened to her. Honestly, I just want to say that I loved Lisa very much and I will always remember her for the intimate times we shared together. She was the light of my life and I will never forget her ...

Dear Lisa, I will always remember you baby ...

Love always,

Eddie

Okay ... I haven't been blogging too much as most of those that I speak to have mentioned ... Well ... I have to be honest ... I really haven't been interested enough in anything to write ... maybe I'm just being resistant to the "Once a Week" suggestions from the blogging pros ...

For what it's worth ... the blog bug has somewhat returned ... so, I'll try to get back to writing at least once a week ... Blog ... Blah ... Blah ... Let's see how long this lasts ... Oh yeah ... Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ... If I don't blog again before their times arrive ...

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I went down to Miami with my good friend Mark from A List SEO to BarCamp Miami ... I didn't have tickets to the show I really wanted to be at, the Future of Web Apps, So I figured that at least I could hang out and get to meet some people at BarCamp.

Well, meet people I did ... and a lot of them. I was lucky enough to hang out and eat dinner with Larry Masters, the master mind behind the CakePHP framework. From our talks, I am definitely going to be checking out how I can start reaping the rewards of CakePHP as a rapid application development Framework.

Some of the other great guys that I spoke with were Kevin Marks, a developer advocate from Google ... Edgar Caballero, the senior technology consultant from Altra-App ... Jason Baptiste, CEO of Publictivity ... David Di Cillo, web and print designer with ThirtyNine ... Gary Schulthesis, & Craig Agranoff from Vois ... Sunir Shah from FreshBooks ... Eamon O'Connor from Refraction Films ... Onajide Shabakaka from the Miami Art Exchange ... and many more ...

So, from what I thought was going to be a nice get away turned out to be a networking home run ... some of these guys are making really big moves in the development community ... most notably, is Larry ... if that guys team works on a web application ... you are almost guaranteed that it's going to be rock solid.

I have been working on getting my site up to a condition where I feel that it is acceptable enough to start marketing my services cold. I don't really feel that it is quite there yet. I have put in an all night run working on it and it is now 2:00AM the following day.

I have had some good responses from some people that I hope to start doing some business with. Soon, I will start to assertively market through article promotion and viral media. Coupled with a tele-marketing effort I think that I can remain afloat long enough to bring in some work that will get me back in black.

Lately I have come to the realization that the time has arrived to step up and be counted ... Win, Lose or Draw - No mind ... I have been working as an SEO for quite some time now and the results have been good at the level of commitment that I have given so far.

I need to let everyone that reads my posts know that I enjoy Search Engine Optimization ... I like working in web development ... these fields offer me a great challenge to continually learn and grow - expand my abilities - and enhance my skills in life, education, and trade.

But Search Engine Optimization is not going to be for "fun" anymore. I have a family to support that depends on my success for the betterment of their future. From this point forward, It is time to get Hard Core on SEO. This is business. It is time to treat it as such. As the "Old School" of sales used to say it's Sell or Die from this point on ...