This post was supposed to go over 6-7 books I recommend. However, as I got into writing and going into detail about why you should read those books, the post grew into a monster.
Since I want to give each book it’s due praise and justice, I split the post up into a series. Here is the first part of the series, which contains the first three books I would recommend anyone interested in lifestyle design read.
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The Olympics.
Who doesn’t love them? The best athletes from around the world get together and compete…
Honestly, I’ve never been a sports fanatic nor followed any particular sport.
And as for the Olympics, I never really gave them too much attention…
…Until the 2012 Games rolled around.
Something clicked, and I was hooked on the Olympic drug. [Read more…] about What Pissed Me Off About the 2016 Olympic Games
I have a business selling a certain type of physical goods.
We have a website and accept orders online which are paid by a credit card.
Before the website had a shipping cost calculator, we would go back and bill the customer’s credit card a second time for the shipping when they bought an item once we got our bill from our vendor and knew what the cost of the shipping was. This was disclosed during the checkout process in a prominent location.
Back in 2013, right before we added a shipping calculator to the site, a woman visited the site and bought a $30 item, which is a small sale. She had never bought before.
Once her item shipped, we billed her card for the shipping cost. A little while later I received a somewhat nasty email asking why she had been billed for shipping when, according to her, she was not informed of this during checkout.
This sort of thing happened every once in a while, so I was prepared.
[Read more…] about Firing a Difficult Customer: Why, How & When?
Our last installment of this series saw us shed some light on the black art known as SEO.
We gave a quick overview of what SEO is all about and talked about the “3 hats” of SEO.
Now, let’s dig into some more detail so you can actually start doing SEO if you haven’t already and hopefully boost your site’s rankings.
[Read more…] about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 101 for Non-Techies Part 2
Lifestyle Design Plan Reset
About four years ago life was looking awesome.
I had recently married. My father had recently retired and finally left me the business I’d been dying to get into for ten years. The plan was to soon exit another business I had started myself back in 2007 that was no longer fulfilling for me. And the wife and I started thinking about buying our first home (which we did in mid-2013).
Yep, I was certain that my newly inherited business would not only provide enough income for me to quit the older business, but it would also allow me more time to work on some other ideas I’d been toying around with for a while. I’d then monetize and automate all my businesses, move off to some sunshine soaked paradise, and live happily ever after spending most of my time doing the things I loved with the people I cared about.
Or so I thought. [Read more…] about My Lifestyle Design Plan, Part 1: Time for a Reset
What started off as an attempt to find a smartwatch that actually worked and was affordable turned into an accidental experiment where I ended up with two watches in an effort to compare them and see which one I would keep. Let me explain…
Originally, I started off with a Moto 360 (first generation). My phone was an older Galaxy S3, and in order to make it work I had to root the phone and then install a newer version of Android, which I wrote about in a previous post. This worked FLAWLESSLY until I dropped the S3 and cracked the screen.
Since the S3 was three years old and paid for I decided it was time for a new phone. I found myself with a new Galaxy S6. At first, the watch and phone played nice together. Then, several days after pairing the watch with the phone, something happened… [Read more…] about A Tale of Two Smartwatches: The Moto 360 Gen 2 vs. the Gear S2
