Man, oh man. I REALLY need to find an hour who can work for not a lot of money, but would like to make this project really rock! If you are interested in being a writer for this site, please send me an email.

jkraft [at] strive4impact dot com

Why do you put your address that way?
Because of spam harvesting.

How do I email you then?
If you can't figure it out from the above email, then you're not the right person for this job.

There's this great company that Carrie and I found out about before our Kilimanjaro climb. They market the Playaway player, which was totally amazing to have on our climb, and they have this philosophy for their company that says, if it doesn't work, just find a way to make it work. The name of the company is FindAWay.

And...

Have you ever wondered how a woman's brain works vs. how a man's brain works? We've got that whole battle of the sexes thing, right?

I made a video to explain it.

Differences Between Women And Men - Funny bloopers are a click away

And in case you can't see the video for some reason, it's explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration:

So I got my Elance people going yesterday, and already we're up over 700 entries! Well on the way to 5,000 videos for launching this site. There is, or course, a little editing work that has to be done in the videos themselves (because the embed code is fine, but each video needs its own description and Tags, but all-in-all, I'm very pleased so far with the job that they have been doing and how much time it saves me to have contracted with a couple of people to do the work.

Carrie also built a few video entries today with some cooking videos and it's just super exciting to see the project coming together!

I have used Elance before, for a variety of stuff, but never have I had a response to a project like this. 44 different groups have bid on the project that I posted earlier. 44! Including a phone call this morning from someone in India saying that she saw my project and wanted to call me to ask more about it (which I suspect may have been someone trying to commit some sort of fraud, since the phone disconnected as soon as I started asking some questions... could have just been a bad phone connection or a dropped call though). So I'm really learning the value of outsourcing projects that someone else can do quicker and cheaper. I will be selecting someone today and making a screen capture video for them of what I want done, so as to avoid any confusion.

There is always someone who is willing to do work that you would rather not do. Take the example of this site. I'm trying to get all of these videos together because to me it just seems like a HUGE win-win-win situation. But it takes a long time to create all the posts and organize the information on a one-by-one basis. So my friend Kevin Gianni recommended that in addition to the friend I have working on getting some of the videos put up on the site, that I actually use Elance and outsource the work. Sure I will have to pay someone to do it, but it should be VERY worth it. So I posted the job on Elance.

I got nine bids back in the last 6 hours, ranging from $50 - $250, from providers of solutions all over the world.

I was at a Super-Target today returning a couple of Christmas presents, and getting some grocery items for Colorado's second round of major snowfall, and realized something big:

I was standing there in the store, looking at all of the signs overhead, and saw all the different sections in the store. Men's, Ladies, Juniors, Misses (I swear that I will continue to try but I don't know that I will EVER understand women's sizes), games, videos/DVD's, Toys, Seasonal, etc... and I realized that I'm building something bigger. This site that I'm building is THE superstore for how-to videos... and not just the superstore for one town or one state even, but for the entire English speaking world. *and maybe someday expanding thoroughly into other languages too.*