Jess, Anna and I wait in our new house in New York for our furniture. The movers, All My Sons, picked us up on Monday, July 12th and with an estimate of 5-8 days for delivery, we were on our way. And while I will have a lot more to say on All My Sons, I can tell you we are now one week out and told our furniture “may” ship next week. MAY ship next week.
Looked into all the laws and rules and regulations … ain’t nothing we can do. Sue? Sure, hire a lawyer and by the time anything happens, my stuff will have been delivered.
Ah, my secret weapon, I am an internet entrepreneur. So while your blog post may languish in obscurity, mine, and those that I put on my websites, rather quickly rise to the top of the search world. So while I will get my furniture from Jonathon and Irma at All My Sons in Jupiter one day … I will repay them with a rather long and uncomfortable lesson that words can hurt. So tomorrow when I call and you again tell me that 5-8 days was an estimate and that I should call tomorrow, just know that my review of the situation will shortly and forever follow you. Enjoy!
Categories: Stuff & Things
Search Engine Optimization is about as boring as watching grass grow … in the desert. For an ecommerce guy who is used to immediate results and cash deposited in the bank in 2-3 days it is a painful job but I have grown to understand it and I shiver when I say this … even like it.
StarReviews is one of the larger review website today. We have over 100 categories, an active blog and the largest collection of as seen on TV video reviews and over the last year I have seen a slow, painfully slow, growth in spidered pages, PR and traffic and of course, revenue. I never had anything to compare this to but when Google ran their last update and we ended up with a bunch of PR5 and PR6 (page rank) pages throughout the site, an SEO associate of mine reminded me of what we had done when he congratulated me on the progress.
Wow, StarReviews really is a decent site after all and we have done a great job getting to where we are. I write this mostly because I am an ecommerce guy, I like to optimize landing pages in hours … not months but the StarReviews project has given me a better understanding of another side of the internet.
ThePlusShops is the next project and I can tell you that we are fully integrating all that was learned from StarReviews into this network of niche ecommerce sites. I will talk about ThePlusShops later but for now, I guess the message is you really can learn a lesson even if you aren’t doing something you absolutely love doing.
SEO is growing on me.
By the way, the forums at http://www.webproworld.com have some really smart people posting. StarReviews may have been my SEO classroom but WPW was definitely my tutor.
Categories: Business
Tagged: seo
Lawyers … don’t people understand that lawyers work for you and not the other way around. It is all too often that a lawyer, with no knowledge of an industry or your business screws up a perfectly good deal. Of course the lawyer will say they are just protecting you. Are they?
I haven’t gone into the new network of websites we are building but I will shortly but for now understand that we are also buying smaller ecommerce websites. These are mostly older sites, generating a few hundred thousand a year in sales and generally owned by a non-internet experienced owner. So, deal in place to pay $120K for a website and I send off our contract that has been adjusting by opposing attorneys on numerous occasions so it is relatively fair. One week later I receive back from the seller a 39 page contract and a 5 page addendum from my original 4 page contract. No edits to my agreement, but a brand new contract.
I did not review it. I just didn’t care. I emailed back and told the guy that his lawyer owes him $120K as I was out.
I buy and sell websites for a living. This was a simple and small deal. While $120K is a lot of money, in the overall scheme of business, it really isn’t.
The seller didn’t know better and he let his lawyer run the show. Now this guy, who had no one else interested in buying his website that he is no longer interested in running, tossed away a deal.
Yea I am pissed and yea I probably could have worked it out but there are too many deals out there.
So the moral of this story … your lawyer works for you and does not know your business. You tell the lawyer what you want and not the other way around.
Categories: Business
Tagged: lawyers
I am sitting here at bank of America opening new accounts and I flash back to every time I have done this for every business. I am answering her questions before she asks.
I sold pcsecurityshield at the end of dec 2008 and this is the first time I have been motivated since. I am ready to go. pcss took 5 years to get to 8m … don’t expect this one to take that long.
hopefully I can cut down on the mistakes this time
Categories: Business
January 19, 2010 · 1 Comment
I did not vote for President Obama and do not approve, like or support most of his political views but with that said, I was sure that he was going to unite the country, black white, republican democrat, east west … you get the point. The one thing I did not consider was Reid Pelosi. I believe the dynamic duo have pulled him so far that they have assured him of being a colossal failure as a president. He has gone back on almost everything he has said in the campaign and in my opinion, is actually going to push this economy into years of general malaise (i.e.:Europe).
Bring on Brown as he defeats Coakley in what amounts to a total refuting of President Obamas first year in office. So what next? Reid and Pelosi are bullies, bullies from small districts that are pushing their crazy agenda that most democrats don’t like and all republicans can’t stand. With the Coakley loss the bullies took the proverbial punch in the chin that always shuts a bully up. Now, President Obama has to run this country in a bipartisan way and bring the republicans back into the political spectrum and into the discussions. Reid and Pelosi have one more year as leaders only to never be heard from again.
Now, when he was elected, President Obama brought some degree of optimism, even to those of us who did not vote for him. Like JFK before him (I was not around but I have heard) he was bigger than the party and stepped above partisam politics. President Obama will now be able to move back to that position without the pressure of tweedle dee and tweedle dumb and move this country in the direction that is best for the country and not democrats or republicans but the whole country.
A Coakley win will ensure the most disasterous bill ever being passed, the economy in a free fall and a certain 1 and done for our president. A Coakley loss will put this country and our president back on the road to greatness and four more years for President Obama.
Categories: Politics
Tagged: Obama
