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How to know the right price? There is no guide for bloggers and/or podcasters to follow as the industry we are in is so new. A month ego a blogger/podcaster exchange a day of advertising to any company that send him an iPhone, and he certainly got not only one but more than one. We are not going to discuss whether this approach is good or bad, but the implication of selling time and space for advertising on your blog. Immediately some other bloggers/podcasters criticized him for taking this position stating that he was selling himself short.

I’m not going into names because the main point that I want to bring is to how you value your time, effort, blog, etc. Let’s say that you are selling your business and let’s imagine that you are a business owner that for health reasons you have to sell your business. It is you and only you the one that can determine the value of your business and this is a very important part of business decision.

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On a recent episode of Mac Roundtable and Victor’s Typical Mac User podcast, they started talking about social networking sites, again. They raised their voice explaining how social networking sites are a waste of time, and some are calling it “bacon” to the fact that you are spammed by your own friends with request to join new social network ideas that pops up almost on a weekly basis. I hate to do this, I’m 30 years old, and I know what is worth waste my time on and what not.

During the whole conversation, I felt like I should have been there to explain why social networking sites are not for everybody but at the same time is something that everybody should be aware. A podcaster that gets this the way I do is Mitch Joel from Six Pixels of Separation take your time to listen to him to understand what is going on with social networking sites. Social networking sites are a great tool to advertise who you are and what you do, there are so many of them that if you where to join and update them all on a daily basis you will go crazy.

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In December 30, 2005, I bought what was my first Macintosh computer, a Mac mini. Immediately I started playing with every single piece of software and while playing with iTunes I discovered podcasting. From that, I learned what a blogger is, and so on. That sparked my interest and 3 months later; I bought my first web address. That was when LuMen Creative Group was created; by the way, LuMen comes from my name Luis Menendez. I try out like four different blogging engines, including iWeb. Never happy with all that Adam Christianson from The MacCast talked to me about Wordpress, and here we are today.

I consider myself a media enthusiast, wherever is a piece of news about tech, you can find me reading and learning. Passing the knowledge to other is just a way of paying it forward, whenever I can help anyone that makes me feel good, as if I’m doing my part. That is the sense of community all podcaster and blogger have, well most of us. I’m planning a podcast but starting is one of the hardest things about it. Look forward to it, it will be center on Tech, not only Mac news, but PC too, after all this is a Windows world.

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