I'm Don, currently in New Jersey, which is in the mid-Atlantic area in the US.
While I've 'flirted' with IM over the past couple of years, I'm now actually getting serious about it. I've was one of those clueless newbies that thought I needed to develop a product before I could really do anything but I could never really decide what was needed.
Luckily, I've finally gotten over that. I ready to listen and do what the successful folks do. I don't expect everything to work, but I think I can now try things with the idea of limiting my losses on the ones that don't work and letting the winners run.
I'll say Thanks! to everyone right now because I know there is already a ton of good information here just waiting for me to start taking (informed) action on it. And a special Thanks! to Mike for creating this resource for all of us.