Archive for the ‘Best Ideas’ Category
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Top 10 Sneakiest Business Tricks
There are a lot of marketing tricks that businesses use to drill into your brain that you you must buy their product. Being aware of these can help protect you from your subconscious mind. Of course, the flip side is that if you are business, you can use these tricks to make more sales. Limited [...]
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Murphy-Goode’s Smart Marketing with New Media
Murphy-Goode Winery has an interesting job opportunity that you may or may not have heard of… a 6-month contract to be a “Lifestyle Correspondent” for Murphy-Goode Wine. It pays $10,000 a month – a fairly impressive salary considering that you get free rent on top of it. Oh you also get to learn how make [...]
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Oprah’s Stanford Commencement Speech
Yesterday I had the unique opportunity to celebrate a friend get her doctorate degree from Stanford University. It was the result of many years of hard work. Though it was her day in the sun, I found myself looking more towards Oprah’s commencement speech. After all, there was little question how the day would go [...]
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Automated Housekeeping
According to Google, I’m the second laziest man on the web. I jokingly grabbed the Lazy Man name because I abhor housekeeping. It’s a chore which never ends. I hate the feeling that I’m not making an progress. So it got me thinking, What can I do to eliminate or at least reduce the housework? [...]
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Boomer Celebrities and Money…
Money Magazine has an article interviewing several celebrities on their money habits. Here are a few that I liked: My Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – “Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.” That sounds a little more like Terminator logic than the [...]
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Amortize Your Possessions
I mentioned last Friday that I had recently brought a a new mattress and a new set of tires. When two big expenses come up like this, it makes you think about what else might come up next. “They” say things come in threes right? In anticipation of that third item, I’ve decided that my [...]
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1 vs. 100 Text Message
ScamLotteryI have to admit it – sometimes Energi Gal and I like to stay in on Friday nights. It’s not about saving money or anything like that. I think it’s just that it’s good to wind down from a long work-week.One of the shows that we like to watch is 1 vs. 100. I do [...]
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The $250,000 Identity Mistake
Last night I was watching the new NBC show Identity. I thought it would be terrible, but it’s really not bad. There’s a crazy rule and it drives me crazy. If you get everyone’s identity right and get to the final two, they take away your Mistaken Identity – your do-over if you make a [...]
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Best Idea Ever Series – Part 2 – Brainwash Cafe
One of the coolest things that I found about San Francisco was the Brainwash Cafe. Sure it doesn’t look like much from the outside, but you really need to give it a shot. What makes it one of the best ideas ever? It’s a laundromat… it’s a cafe (with a liquor license)… it’s an arcade [...]
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Best Idea Ever Series – Part 1 – Mystery Beer
I have spent my whole life in one place, so it’s interesting to move to a new place and see how things are done. It hasn’t been two weeks and there are a couple of genius ideas that have smacked me in the face. Just a couple of days, I was walking through a Trader [...]
