The first website idea I ever had was one where fishermen could find information about the fishing at specific lakes and rivers.  As a hobby fisherman myself I hate fishing when the fish aren’t biting.  Unfortunately, there isn’t a way to find out ahead of time whether the fish are biting at a particular lake or river.  So I bought the domain name www.jigmo.com.  I sat on it for about a year and let my domain name registration expire.  Now I can’t buy the domain name for less than $2500.

My second idea was to create a page that people could set as their homepage and it would link them to all of their favorites sites.  I personally never really bookmark pages and I don’t use the popular bookmarking websites either.  I just wanted a simple page that had links to all of my favorite sites.  I bought the domain name www.linkrow.com.  I developed a pretty useful website using Drupal as the platform.  The site was extremely useful…for one person…me.

If you’re reading this it is because you’ve somehow managed to find www.linkrow.com.  I’ve since converted this site to a test site for my law practice.  I run test through linkrow before they go live on my real website which is www.samsmithlegal.com.  In real life I am a lawyer for businesses and entrepreneurs (and other normal people who needs legal assistance).  However, I pretend to be a web developer in my spare time.  It’s some kind of bug or sickness that’s going around.  Anyway, if at first you don’t succeed…try again at least three more times.  If you still haven’t succeeded you’re doing something wrong.  Find out what it is, be humble and fix it…then try again!

Regulators want to insure that consumers understand the difference between extreme results and standard results when purchasing products.  Until now advertisers were free to use testimonials from individuals who obtained extreme results from using a product.  These results are often not attainable by the average person.  Regulators are concerned that this kind of advertising is misleading the general public.  New proposals will require that advertisers give examples of average results from using a product or at a minimum the type of results that should be expected from a product.