My First Book is on Sale

Because it's not all about the money. That's right, it's not. Some of it, but not all. I'll run a special as often as I can on Amazon. So, right now I have given away 30 copies of Getting Your Name Out There and it's only been one day. I hope that we give a million away, it costs me exactly the same amount.

Please pick one up in the Amazon Kindle Store. If you read it then please leave me a review.

Gas Engines Are Dead, Long Live Gas Engines

Oh, it runs. exactly like you would think. It starts as soon as you touch the key; a puff of smoke and a cough, but it runs. Flat as ever and I'm sure there's not a bit of compression in the thing. Certainly not a bit of oil pressure. But, if it wants to be a gas car then it's earned the right to be a gas car. I will just have to experiment with big ass electric motors and expensive batteries some other time. 

So, I've got to figure out what I'm dorking around with. Maybe a filter pump from Mexico and a sender. Maybe. Maybe a little Indian Head gasket sealer.

I did figure out that there are some pros and cons to having the Mexican filter pump. Exhaust is a con. Nothing wants to fit in my price range. It's been so long that I don't even remember what the first after market exhaust attempt was. But it was about a hundred bucks and was stupid. I'll bet I'm on number three now. The first two are in Tim's Garage. You might now him, and if so he'll probably give them to you. Because they were both stupid choices and I had to beat them with a hammer to get the Mexican filter pump to work.

It's not so bad. Most everything is there and some of it works.

I'm starting to notice this rust a little bit. The floor pan look a little rough but maybe I can save them. I actually tried to cover the rust with fiberglass. I did cover the rust in fiberglass. But it looked stupid and didn't last more than a week.

Rust encapsulation.

This is not how to do rust encapsulation.

Picked up this Ghia

Look what I drug home. Not recently. As a matter of fact it has been 7 years to date. I found this VW just after moving to Washington state and parked it in the driveway of the house two days before closing on it. It had some problems, but I was just going to use it as a project car. I planned to build an all electric car. In those days there were no Tesla Motors making road cars and I thought it would be great to dump $8,000 in a car that I could drive 45 miles at a time. Only problem is that the damn thing started after I put a battery in it.

She's a little rough. A lot rough but I can work with that. I don't know if it will ever be on the road but I'm going to spend a little garage time massaging the details.

 Some places were a lot rough and I've never done anything this extensive before. It could be a big job, but I've got a big garage.

 

Biography

I am a Project Manager, plain and simple. I balance results with efficiency by mastering inputs and outputs, creating realistic expectations, and optimizing what works. 
Much of my work has been building enterprise systems based on existing programs and departments effort. I am an expert at building relationships that align effort, time, and resources to create new opportunity and success.
My professional goal is to find all the right pieces and put them together in a way that works; regardless of the business, customer, or project.

You will read all of that in my work. More importantly, however, I am a family man. My drive in life comes from two magnificent kids and an wonderful wife. The thread that pulls through all of my work is family. It is the most important thing that I have learned after 25 years of military service. If they are not with you then where you are going is not really that important.Everything that I do now is focused on the family environment. 

I make sure that the back office is as artfully managed as the photography itself. Building the brand of Lininger~Rood Photography is my only focus. While the photos take care of themselves, it is my job to optimize the price, value, and customer service experience. Through advertising campaigns, business strategies, social media presence, progressive web site design, and Search Engine Optimization, I make sure that we deliver the best customer experience available anywhere.
          I am not uniquely qualified to produce expert books on the way the internet works. In fact, I can say with some certainty it is evolving right now and I have no idea how to use the latest and greatest widgets. Nevertheless, I have learned how to take advantage of some of the tools that are available and use them to add value to the business that my wife and I built from scratch. We have grown based on the results and it is my pleasure to share it with you. 

Getting Your Name Out There: Marketing Your Small Business

Getting your name out on the street is hard. It is really hard work. When you are a small business owner with a little skill and a dream, you are going to want to put everything into your craft. Be a craftsman, an artisan, be really good at something that only you can do. However, I will tell you now that it will not be enough. This is not intuitive stuff. I am an intuitive guy and I missed it the first time. So, let us talk about how to get your name out there in a way that works and keeps you getting noticed by customers. This book is all about search engine optimization and using the internet to fuel your business.
It's on Amazon for a really great price, pick up a copy and get started today.