Archive for December, 2009

The Best Revenue Models

The best revenue models are the ones that transform their products or services into a necessity to their consumers. I live in a house, so I must pay mortgage / rent (winner = lender / landlord) I need a cell phone to communicate (winner = cell phone carriers) I have a bad back, and must [...]

Business

The Future of Business

As more and more businesses start to operate more prominently online, it’s going to be interesting to see what happens to the ones that are struggling to adapt. How is Blockbuster going to survive against Netflix, Hulu, etc? How is Virgin going to survive against Apple, Pandora, etc.? The best one to think about – [...]

Business

Anticipation

Life is structured around the feeling of anticipation. Everyone’s lives can be segmented into small pieces or sets of series’ of events. During this holiday time, children anticipate opening their gifts from Santa. Adults may anticipate their time off work, or cherished time with scarcely seen family members. Anticipation is the most valuable emotion a [...]

Business

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays

I apologize for my lack of posts recently. The holidays and the end of the year has gotten the best of me. I have been busy getting tons of work done and am traveling throughout the holidays. I just wanted to take this time to thank everyone and wish you all a very happy and [...]

Business

Losing

The Good News: The Endagon softball team made it to the playoffs. The Bad News: We lost by one run in a grueling duel in the first game of the playoffs. Losing is never fun. But in a softball league where beer drinking and cursing is encouraged, it’s hard to believe that someone would take [...]

Writing

Teaching is Servicing

I was recently in the market for a financial investment planner. I didn’t want to take my search too seriously, so I passively called around to some friends to see if I could find any leads. I quickly remembered that an old friend of mine had recently started his own financial firm and that he [...]

Business

Downtime

If you checked this site earlier this morning, you may have noticed that we experienced a little bit of downtime. A few hours later, we are proud to tell you that we have upgraded some things and all is back to normal. WordPress can be a pain to move, but we did it extremely successfully. [...]

Tech

Macs Are Superior

Since I haven’t posted anything all week, I wanted to make sure I said something on my blog this week. Therefore, I will simply state that Macs are superior to PCs. I only say this because the last few weeks have been my most productive. This is because I have started to utilize Expose and [...]

Tech

Music Mastermind and the 25 Days of Music

It started three years ago. I purchased a domain name that I could use to leverage my love and knowledge for music. Before I even utilized the domain name, I started a blog at http://musicmastermind.blogspot.com. I enjoyed some of the functionalities within Blogspot so I kept it there. I ended up neglecting the domain I [...]

Music, Social Media