I am Freelance Business Development and E-Commerice Professional, who is available for Consulting Services in San Diego, CA. Use the Contact Form to send me a request.
Books: Currently have several books in publication, and more books being produced on various topics. Please review the side panel for more information. The books are published by BookSurge. Currently available through Amazon.com, Borders.com, Target.com, Abebooks.com, Alibris.com, BooksinPrint.com, GlobalBooksinPrint.com, Baker & Taylor. The technology behind books has changed. I outsource the content writing of the books from several different countries and have them edited in the states along with the cover. Once all of the components are completed, including the layout of the book, I submit them to the publisher. I had chosen BookSurge for several reasons, including the global online distribution and royalty program. I keep all of the rights of the books that I create, from content, to distribution.
Websites: I have implemented Serendipity blog application for all of my book websites, except for BuckyRules.com (yes, I am into nano technology, too), which is using a MediaWiki. For other sites, I have either purchased a Website Template or created one (DGSurf.com - I use phpadsnew for the integrated banner management interface and tracking system for gathering statistics) myself. When choosing an open source application, the best place to start looking is SourceForge.net.
OutSourcing: I have been working with RentACoder for the past 3 years. Rent a coder is an international marketplace where people who need custom software developed can find coders in a safe and business-friendly environment. Buyers can cherry pick from a pool of 161,895 coders...enabling them to hire a coder across the country or across the globe…from the comfort of their computers. Buyers who wish to hire internationally, can take advantage of favorable overseas exchange rates, resulting in work being done for 50-90% less than if the project were done in-country. Coders are also given access to a huge pool of potential work and have the ability to work independently from their homes rather than for a company.
---FYI about Outsourcing: "Things that make American talent valuable - open-mindedness, a willingness to take risks, flashes of ingenuity - can't be reduced to a spec sheet and emailed from Hyderabad. If more Americans develop such abilities, the use of international programmers could even improve our economic outlook. Outsourcing isn't going away, but in the end, America may be stronger for it" (Quote taken from Wired 12-2006 by Daniel H. Pink). ---I will be outlining more about Rentacoder, and other outsourcing your virtual office in my upcoming book ShoeString Venture: Entrepreneurs Guide to the 21st Century.
