Recent Blog Posts
Black Monday 2009 | Amazon
Until about 1999, each Christmas season I would head to the local shopping mall for about 5-8 hours of hard core shopping trying to getting all my shopping done in one day. I dreaded my yearly mall trip and starting in 2000 I have done 90% of my Christmas shopping on the Internet. The UPS [...]
Category: Culture, The Economy
Cool Berlin Wall Story
David Bowie and Iggy Pop are two of my all time favorites. Recently I purchased the VH-1 Storytellers soundtrack online featuring David Bowie. VH-1 Storytellers was a short lived series in the 90′s that would feature an artist playing some of their favorite hits while also telling a story related to the song to the [...]
Category: Culture
2009 Business Goals Revisited
I have been thinking it is a good time to give a quick update on the business goals I posted in January. As it turns opportunities change too quickly for me to set my goals in stone. If I had to rewrite my goals I would say, create at least one new revenue stream and [...]
Category: Making Money Online
Starting a New Website Project Bootstrap Style
I posted earlier this year that I hoped to start the year creating a new social media website, but in light of development and marketing costs that would run close to $40K over the first year and our unstable economy, I decided to back burner this project. While $40k is pocket change for those that have millions in venture capital that they don’t know how to use, for an old school bootstrapper like me it is too much out of pocket to put into a single project at this time – even if it has a chance at being a million dollar idea.
Category: Making Money Online, Website Ideas
