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Wow this summer has gone by so fast it is insane! As you may have noticed I haven’t updated my blog for a while. I really have meant to, but things just have been so busy and it has really been hard to sit down at the computer unless it is for work. I’m pretty sure all of that will change when I move into my new place next week.

Anyways yesterday a big group of us arrived in Myrtle Beach, SC. If some of your remember last year I went to Myrtle Beach as well. This time we are staying in a large condo that is right on the beach! This place is awesome, it’s called the Grand Atlantic. Our place is a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom condo on the 17th floor. Here are some pictures…

We have 12 people in our group and we all drove down, which was about a 10 hour drive. It’s great to be with so many people and just be able to relax and have fun. I definitely needed to get away! Here is a quick video I took from the balcony of the hotel.

I will keep everyone updated on my trip make sure to follow me on Twitter for updates as well!

One thing that I’ve always stressed to people when going to conferences is that you should always meet new people and network. I have met some great business partners and good friends at conferences and I would have never met them if I didn’t take the initiative and go up to them and introduce myself. You should always try and meet new people whether you are at a conference or if you are at a local event. Over the past few years I have really been able to connect with a lot of people in the Pittsburgh Area. This has not only done good things for my business, but I’ve met a lot of friends in the process. Here are the some of the people / groups I’ve been able to connect with lately.

Pittsburgh Podcamp
Pittsburgh Podcamp is a community UnConference for people who create, enjoy or are interested in learning more about blogs, vlogs, audio podcasts, web video, content networks and new media monetization. Last year was actually the first year that I went and it was a great experience. I met a lot of people and really was able to get people in the Pittsburgh area to know about ThinkComputers and this blog. Podcamps are held all over so you should really see if there is one in your area.

MidnightGuru
MidnightGuru is a website that a few of my friends started that is all about nightlife in Pittsburgh. It lists events, hotspots, bartenders, etc. It is basically like a facebook for nightlife in Pittsburgh. I have been to many of the MidnightGuru events over the past few months and have met some great people.

Pittsburgh Tweetup
If you have a Twitter account and are not part of a Tweetup group you really should be. A Tweetup is a meeting of Twitter users who are interested in the same things. The Pittsburgh Tweetup group has a simple ning website that lists events and anyone can create an event. I’ve got to go to quite a few of them and they are a lot of fun! I think the best was the NHL Tweetup.

Faded Industry
Faded Industry Entertainment is a Pittsburgh based company that that capitalizes on all aspects of the growing Entertainment Industry. Faded Industry’s culture of social networking through positive interaction fuses people together to achieve their entertainment needs by developing successful relationships and connections in a primarily divided industry. Faded throws very large events around Pittsburgh and I’ve been to quite a few of them. I have met many of the people who are part of Faded and they are great people. My favorite Faded event so far was the white party over memorial day weekend!

Pittco
Pittco or Pittsburgh LAN Coalition is a group I actually helped start. They are an organization that hosts Local Area Network gaming parties (‘computer and console gaming convention’). They are comprised of several long-standing local LAN gaming organizations working cooperatively as one entity. They offer Pittsburgh’s premier LAN party experience and have had several large events over the past few years. If you like gaming and computers you should definitely check out one of their events. I’ve actually found some ThinkComputers staff members there!

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Blog Profit Camp is a 12-week interactive course that will show you step by step how to make big money with blogging. John started blogging in December 2005 and within two years, took his blog from making zero to making over $40,000 per month!

Today, he runs one of the biggest and most profitable blogs in the world, with over 100,000 RSS readers and over 56,000 people following him on Twitter.

In this new course, John will detail everything you need to do in order to achieve the same level of success. You will be given every tool needed and most important, you’ll have direct access to John and his team to answer any questions you may have.

Blogging has allowed John to have time, money and location freedom. To most people. this is just a dream. But it’s a dream that you can achieve if you put your mind to it and be willing learn.

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I should have really announced this sooner on the blog, but I guess I just have been busy! As you all know I own and run ThinkComputers and we are holding one of the best Giveaways ever! We are giving away an entire gaming computer! That’s right a full computer! The good people over at CyberPower PC were nice enough to donate the system for the giveaway! Here are the specs…

System Specs
Intel 875K CPU
Intel SSD 40G
ASUS P7P55D-E PRO Motherboard.
CoolerMaster 690II Advance
4GB DDR3 1600 Kingston Hyper-X
1TB Hitachi Hard Drive.
Samsung 8X Blu Ray Combo Drive
GTS 250 1GB
800 Watt Power Supply
Windows 7 HP 64 bit
Card Readers, Keyboard and Mouse

It’s quite a beefy system! So how can you win it? Well head on over to the contest page at ThinkComputers and read the rules. All you have to do is submit a story about how you will use the system and the best story will win! We will be announcing the winner tomorrow afternoon so get your entries in!

One thing that I end up doing a lot is going to a website and really liking the content, but then totally forgetting about the website and never being able to find it again. While this is annoying to me, it can’t be a good thing for the site owner. With any website I’ve ever worked on or ran I always made sure there were options for the user to get updates about new posts on the site or alert them when there is something going on with the site. You don’t want someone going to your site and really enjoying it, but them never coming back. So here are 3 really easy things you can add to your site to bring people back and let them know what’s going on with the site.

RSS Feed
This is one thing every website should have. Most publishing platforms these days have RSS feeds built right in so you don’t even have to worry about anything. An RSS feed easily lists your latest posts on your website and user’s can read them in their favorite RSS reader. Even if you are not using something like Wordpress you can use RSS feeds. I was writing the RSS feed for ThinkComputers by hand up until we moved it over to Wordpress, it really isn’t hard at all.

E-mail Newsletter
E-mail newsletters have been around for as long as I remember, even before RSS feeds became really popular. An e-mail newsletter allows you to e-mail your readers the latest updated on your site and if you have something going on with your site you can e-mail them and let them know about it. Right now for ThinkComputers I have FeedBurner automatically running the e-mail newsletter, but there are quite a few other options out there. One of the best that I have seen is AWeber, so check them out!

Twitter
If you don’t know what Twitter is by now you must be living under a rock! If you have a website you really should have a Twitter account for that website. That way when people follow that account on Twitter you can let them know about new updates to your site and when you have something big going on. Twitter is so simple to use and setup there is no reason not to have a Twitter account for your website. Whenever a new post gets published on ThinkComputers I always post a tweet about it on the ThinkComputers twitter account.

So those are some easy ways to get people to come back to your site. Have any others? Let me know in the comments!