Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock
Taking Internet Marketing from Peanuts to Profits

Now that the most over-hyped digital event since Y2K has passed, I am interested to see how my readers handles the early time change.
All of my Windows Vista and Windows XP computers switched perfectly, advancing by one hour overnight. All of my Outlook appointments are fine, and from what I can tell, most public [...]

Microsoft released its Office 2007 product in February, and it seems to be taking pretty well with our customers (better than Vista is anyway). A couple weeks ago we received our first shipment of OEM Office 2007 software for installation on new Modular computers.
We were shocked to find that Microsoft is shipping Office 2007 [...]

Last Saturday on Compute This I announced that we will be launching our Ultimate Upgrade sale one month early this year.
We had planned on running a sale this month on upgrading to Windows Vista, but the problems I experienced upgrading my own PC have given me pause about subjecting our customers to that headache. [...]

I was interviewed today by KFOR 1240, a local AM radio station in Lincoln Nebraska about the new daylight savings time change and its expected impact.
The bottom line is that the sun will come up tomorrow and life will move on. If you are running Windows XP or Vista, chances are everything has already [...]

I received an alert yesterday morning that the website http://www.crlincoln.com/ had expired and was no longer serving information.
I contacted the local Lincoln Computer Renaissance store and confirmed that they are still open and conducting business. I asked if they had a website anymore, and their employee answered that they “just have the national one” [...]

**UPDATE 3:59 PM CST**
The FBI has been contacted by NOAA according to their Public Affairs Office. The statement I received is that NOAA is aware of the breech and is following its internal procedures. Thor Schrock and Schrock Innovations, Inc. have offered the NOAA and the FBI assistance by providing technical information that [...]

Tonight I received a spam post on our customer support forum that I normally would have deleted and forgotten about, but this one was different. It was the usual pill-pushing post with a couple dozen links. But these links went back to a .gov website - a highly unusual occurrence for this kind [...]

The March 3rd edition of Compute This is posted on the Schrock Innovations website.
This week I talked about the release delays with the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition and asked for additional beta testers. I also announced the launch of the 2007 Ultimate Upgrade sale. Aside from our Holiday Sale, this is our most [...]

Yesterday I was looking through the statistics form February on the Schrock Innovations website when suddenly my Internet Explorer browser popped up an alert that the site I was viewing could possibly be a phishing website.
Phishing (pronounced ‘fishing’) websites look like a legitimate website, but in fact attempt to steal personal information from you. [...]

Last week I appeared before the committee discussing LB583 - a bill that would attempt to increase the recycling of E-waste at the expense of local businesses like Schrock Innovations.
Despite my efforts to reach out to many of my competitors in Lincoln and Omaha, I was the only individual who appeared to testify in opposition [...]