When I was at college I would often see a person standing on the street advertising for a local tattoo parlor. The sign he held said, “Tattoos. Half Priced. Today Only”. Every time I drove by him I couldn’t help but think that the person in charge was failing at some basic Marketing 101 principles. Finish Reading »

This post in the fifth in a series where I am recording the SEO efforts of my site wiiifit.com. If you’ve missed the previous posts, you should view these first. I will only be doing these posts every two weeks from now on because there isn't much more that I plan to add so the only updates will be on the analytics and earnings type of stuff. I did most everything I said I would do at the end of last post. Added <strong> to the pictures page and made a video page that has some youtube clips of demonstrations and game footage. While the number of visitors remained around a consistent 15-20 a day my SEO rankings are really starting to improve. Finish Reading »

To call the ball room owner stressed would be an understatement. His lavish grand ball room had recently developed an annoying squeak whenever someone would walk across it. The owner had called several carpenters to fix the problem, but to no avail. The squeak remained as a poignant reminder that his precious ball room was flawed. In a final attempt to alleviate the problem, the owner gave another carpenter a call. The gruff man he spoke to said that he would arrive early tomorrow to inspect the situation. An old carpenter arrived promptly at 8 o’clock the next morning and was directed to the problematic ball room. The owner watched as the carpenter systematically walked across the room, listening to the various creaks that occurred as different hardwood planks were stood upon. After a few minutes of wordless walking, the carpenter casually walked over to a specific spot in the room, pulled out a nail from his tool belt and hammered the nail through a board. The age-worn carpenter walked back to the owner without a hint of squeaking from the ball room. The owner was ecstatic, until he looked at the bill the carpenter handed him. “$500 for a single nail?!” proclaimed the owner. “No” said the carpenter in soft voice. “It’s only $1 for the nail and $499 for the 32 years it took to learn where to put it” I’ve heard this story referenced on a few places but I thought it would be good to post it as a reminder. Finish Reading »

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas Edison

I don't know if you are like me, but probably once a week I have one of the greatest ideas a person could ever had. Seriously. These ideas are life changing and in just a short time I'll be filthy rich with my own private island to prove it.

The problem is that they stay ideas. I might discuss them with a few friends and they might grow a little, but often they stay on paper or only a little bit gets done.

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This post in the fourth in a series where I am recording the SEO efforts of my site wiiifit.com. If you’ve missed the previous posts, you should view these first. Here we are again so lets get to it. Google finally came this week, and it actually paid a visit twice. So Google appears to recognized that the site is updated frequently. Yeah for me. I added a robots.txt. It is the most basic one that just lets any robots in and disallows none. I doubt it affects the SEO in any way, but I just felt like it needed to be added. Only a few more posts went up because most of the Wii Fit news related to it's success in the UK this week, which really wasn't anything I wanted to write about and most was the same info. Here is how the site fared for the week. Finish Reading »

I used to be a big time computer hardware geek. I built my first computer at 16. I would paint my computers, add lights, fans and even cut the symbol from my favorite Star Wars character (Boba Fett, reprezent) into the side of the computer case.

Like most people doing this sort of thing, I tried to get the best stuff available. If I could get a 2.4ghz processor for only $100 more than the 2.3ghz, I did. If 1gb of memory was only $200 more than 512mb, I got 2gb. I could always find a way to justify getting the best hardware.

Well yesterday that changed and it weirded me out.

Like all people in this blogging/designing world that don't have a Mac, I want one. Badly. A few days ago the iMacs got some hardware updates. Nothing crazy different, just a little better stuff than what was already in there. As I looked at the different hardware options, for the first time EVER I told myself that I would be completely content with the cheaper version of the 24 inch screen models even though the better version wasn't a drastic amount different in price.

Here's how I justified not wanting the latest and greatest, and why I believe that computer hardware for the average consumer is losing its importance.

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