I have been working in my office for 4 years and until recently was very happy. I am a computer programmer. 4 months ago there was a reorg. I was chosen to work on a new project with new technology and pulled from what I had been working on. I did not know how to do the new work. They have put off sending me to training and the last 4 months I have basically done nothing but read technical manuals. I am just beginning to get the training I need. My boss has asked me to learn to use a piece of software. I started learning and made considerable progress but have run into a snag that I can’t figure out how to solve. I searched on google, looked for help online in forums, etc. and still can’t solve it. I told my boss and he said I needed to figure it out. He also told me had already solved my problem, but he wouldn’t tell me the answer because he wanted me to figure it out. He told me to research a few other things. I have no background in these things.
I don’t even understand what he has asked me to look at. When I ask him a question he just responds with something else that I don’t understand? I find him intimidating and I am afraid to bother him more but am completely stuck and have no idea what to do. I don’t feel that this situation is my fault, but only the fault of lack of training. What should I do?
He won’t let me contact the software company because we are using a trial version and we have more than one copy downloaded and he doesn’t want them to know that.

According to an article on Yahoo, Detroit is #1 for the weakest housing market. If you lived in an area where people couldn’t give away homes for free, and houses are being foreclosed left and right, but you had to stay (for the time being) would you rent or buy? I am hesitant to invest in a house with the national housing market the way it is. A friend of my husband’s bought a small house in a suburb of Detroit and invested thousands and thousands of dollars into it. I would be worried that if I needed to move, I would either lose money on the deal or wouldn’t get a buyer. My mother in law has had her house up for sale for a year. My husband and I rent. Many say that is throwing money away, but in an unstable economy, it is nice to not be locked into a 30 year mortgage. Especially, when our unemployment rate is almost double the national average.
My family and my husband’s family are in Detroit. I hate it here, but moving isn’t in the cards yet. The unemplyment rate is just under 8%. Large corporations are leaving left and right (ie. Comerica). We just had a government shutdown which led to an increase in taxes due to the state debt. Only Louisiana is worse off than we are, and that is due to a natural disaster (Hurricane Katrina). My husband and I have both been laid off numerous times. This past time, it took me almost 4 months to find a job. It’s feast or famine. Hence, my hesitation…..

I work in an office where i’m a supervisor. We have a hired consultant who I’ve been working with for about 4 months. I sensed some sort of attraction right from the start, We have remained professional. As I’m sure both of us are a bit afraid of "sexual harrassment" but… I think he’s sexy. Recently, it was announced that his contract with us had expired and he would no longer be with us in Feb. I suggested in a meeting we have a Farewell Happy Hour (I’m known as the "event planner"). Then after the meeting (maybe even a day later) I sent him an email that said "Hey, If you want to stay in touch my home email address is _______________). He responds back "I would like that also. My home email address is ____________. You can also use my work email address. "

Then, I sent him an email to his home email address saying "Here are a couple of recommended bars (since he’s not from the area) that we could go for a happy hour. [ I listed the bars, one happened to be a sushi bar.]"

I didn’t hear back from him, so I sent a txt message to his cell that said "Do you like sushi?" to which he responded "yes I like sushi. But Tammy doesn’t" Tammy is the boss that contracted with him. I forgot that she was in town for some business meetings and staying at the same hotel as him." So I responded "Ohhhhhhh, That’s too bad. I know a great sushi place. Oh well. See you tomorrow." and he responded "Yea, too bad. See u tomorrow."

I saw him today, and he had to train me on some things for work since he’s leaving. It was computer training and software training so one-on-one at the computer. We were rather close to each other and it was quite comfortable. Several times our glances caught each other and we’d look each other in the eyes as we talked. But…. Tammy was also in the office (she’s usually not when we talk) so he seem’d a bit more reserved. Usually we joke and talk… but it was down to business.

I’m not sure if we’re flirting… or if we’re remaining professional. Help? Since his contract is ending and he’s from out of town… i’d be open to a little fling…. but don’t want to overstep any boundries.

My supposed "niche" ‘new online income opportunity’ had a 24-hr search result of 580 according to a very popular keyword research tool when I started optimizing it. For the past 4 months, it has been fluctuating between 450 to 650 which is fine.

Now, for the past 1 week or so, I find that there are "zero" searches being shown in the 24-hr count. On the contrary, my own website is recording more than 100 hits per day through Google organic search itself.

Likewise another of my keyword ‘where is dubai’ that is drawing a traffic of average 150 visits per day through Google organic search has a total search of 20 per day according to this super tool.

Any comments?

I thought I was pretty good in using such tools, but now I wonder if I know to use them at all. For how can such well reckoned and vastly used research tools be wrong?

Regards,
Joseph Ponnou

http://www.internetmarketingtoolsntips.com

I have been using Clickbank for affiliate marketing products for the past 4 months and I just made the payout last week since you have to have 5 different transactions to get your first payout. I only do affiliate marketing part-time on 3 blogs and 1 niche website, but I would love to eventually do it as a full-time job and make more than a month to do so. For people who have experience with different affiliate marketing networks, which one do you see the most sales and income from?