I was in Greenville, SC on March 11th when the new iPad 2 came out. I wasn’t planning on participating in the frenzy and getting one on the first day, but my wife wanted to go shopping anyway so I swung by the Haywood Mall and the local Apple Store. I arrived at noon and [...]
It has been quite some time since I have been posting on my site. I am going to try to get to it more often. We have been extremely busy and have neglected things like blog posting. I have been collaborating with some others on a new site that I am super-excited about. Hopefully we [...]
It seems as though on every Magento site we do, it is necessary to do a custom home page layout. I keep finding myself going back to my notes on this, so I thought this information might be useful to others. Create a new layout file in your themes folder: app/design/frontend/default/THEME/template/page/homepage.phtml. For now, just paste [...]
I have been using Quickbooks for managing my business finances for years. I don’t really do anything advanced with it, but I went with the best at the time. However, I now on a mac and the mac version is not as nice as the PC version from what I hear. That, plus I am [...]
Ordered a new motorola droid from Verizon today. They had the buy one get one free sale going on, so I upgraded my wife’s account as well. It should be in tomorrow, so we’ll see how well it goes. Everyone I have talked to has loved it. It should be an upgrade over the Blackberry [...]
Friday night I went to some friends house to eat and had a fantastic meal. About 8:45 we decided to head to the Kellie Pickler concert that was going on on Campus (starting at 9:30). We went and picked up some others, headed to campus and was able to park in the parking deck on [...]
Let’s say, hypothetically, that there was an online system where a fair amount of data needed to be entered. This system, hypothetically speaking, was cumbersome, slow, and just took all the fun out of data entry (and you know you love data entry). In our mythical world, it would be quite financially rewarding if you [...]
I’ve started a few business in my time, and I’m always trying to absorb knowledge from others that have also. There is one undeniable truth that all successful business owners preach: word of mouth is the best advertising available. Think about it: if someone you trust that has nothing to gain from the recommendation goes [...]
When I was just starting out in business, I had the problem of thinking that everytime someone requested something, it was an emergency. I would work all night on website updates for someone, just because the client said it was important. In doing so, I found myself working all the time, taking calls late at [...]
In my recent trials from trying to sell my house and purchase another, I have learned a lot about selling and buying big ticket items. I’ll use my house as an example, but this really applies to anything. It used to be my naive opinion that selling something simply meant that, compared to everything else [...]
