I had just spent thousands of dollars revising my website (www.printtec.com, thanks for asking). Standing in front of a group of people at a presentation, I proclaimed the site ready for visitors. It extolled the various sales programs I offered. It held back articles I had written. If offered dozens of sales tips. I thought it was awesome (still do, though now it has been altered to include video clips).

Returning home, I received a call the next day. One of the attendees from my presentation called laughing, claiming there was something wrong with the website. WHAT? How could that be? I quickly went to printtec.com and got right in. From there, the conversation went like this:

Me: "Nope. I got right in. Try again."

Him (laughing uncontrollably): "This is an interesting way of promoting your programs, Bill!"

Me (confused): "What are you talking about?"

See, unbeknownst to me, he had misspelled the name of my company. It seems that printec.com (one "t") was, at the time, a Korean porn site and he was looking at photos of people in various stages of, ahem, entanglement. Thus, the confusion. Now back to the conversationÖ.

Me: "Look, are you on the main page?"

Him: "Yes."

Me: "The first thing you should see is my picture."

Him: "Oh really, which one are you?"

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