Sites
Craig
Recommends
The Newbie
Club
Mini-Site
Creator
Armand Morin's
Header
Generater
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"Who
is Craig Stanford?"
 Please read the following bio...
I was born, raised,
and still live near Portland,OR. I received a
degree in business from Oregon State University in 1974. I was in the
retail furniture business for a number of years, but I really wasn't
happy and knew that I should be doing something else, I just didn't
know what "it" was.
Then a friend of mine who had started an outdoor advertiong business
with cold-air balloons told me that he was going to close it down
because he just wasn't getting enough business. I told him that I was
sure I could round up business if he made me a partner.
He said yes so I started selling outdoor advertising. The hours were
long and after my partner quit I had to do everything, but I didn't
mind because I was building my own business.
My balloons were 30'
and 40' tall and multi-colored
so that they looked like hot air balloons. After anchoring the balloon
to the roof, I would attach a banner with a message such as, "Grand Opening". Things were going
along just fine until I suffered a stroke in
October of
1994. Since the stroke, I can no longer work, ski, or fly.
I started skiing
when I was six years old. In high school I was on the
ski racing team. As a teenager, I thought that if you couldn't
go skiing in a place, then it wasn't really a vacation spot.
.
Ever since I was a
little kid I wanted to fly. I finally got the chance
on July 4th, 1976, when I went for my first glider ride. I was hooked
.
The following year, I took glider flying lessons every week until I got
my license. While going
through withdrawal symtoms that following winter, I srarted flying
airplanes.
After a few months of working hard, I received my pilot's license for
airplanes in the summer of 1978.
After I had my stroke, I didn't want
to sit around watching TV all day; then it occured to me that some
people
might be interested in seeing some of my home movies
I only have certain amount of footage that I shot before my stroke, so
I decided to shoot events that might be of interest to people..My hands
shake
and
I can't
walk, so my son Cole, helps me make new movies. .
I've also started an
online business since I can't work on my outdoor advertising business
anymore.
I'm tying to learn all I can about the computer, but I find that, the
more I learn, the more there is to learn.
A valuable resource has been The Newbie Club. The Club has
really helped me learn my way around the computer. I like it because
they explain everything in plain language that's easy for a newbie like
me to understand. It's free to join
and they put out a free newsletter every once in awhile that's full of
tips for
using my computer. They sell tutorials and also have free tutorials
that have really helped me out.
Once I decided to sell my own movies, I realized that I needed to make
my own websites, so I bought Jim Edward's Mini Site Creator course. I'm
really happy with the course. I knew very little about the computer
when I started the cousre, but I was still able to get though it. I
learned quite a bit about the computer along the way.
One of the unadvertised bonuses in Jim's course
was Armand Moran's Header Generator. The generator is extremely easy to
use ( As I said, I'm a newbie on the computer ). I'm sure I'll be
buying some more
of Armand's products in the future. I've put a link to his header
generator software on
the left.
With the unadvertised bonuses, Jim really overdelivered. I'm really
impressed.
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