Is Amazon Flex Worth It?

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How much money can you make with Amazon Flex? Is Amazon Flex a good way to make money as a side hustle? Here is my real world Amazon Flex review. Is working for Amazon Flex worth it? That was the question I set out to answer after I got an email from Amazon encouraging me … Read more

What If…

What if I forgot all about this blog for too long? What if I wanted to bring it back? I’ll need some content… I’ll need some online marketing… I should document it as a case study…   Coming soon.  

Angie’s List Sells to Home Advisor

Angie’s List spent years as the sort-of premier review site. The thing that made them different was that in order to review a company, you had to be a paying member. The idea was that having people pay meant that they actually cared more, and there would be better, more honest reviews than on a … Read more

The Gig Economy Is Fine for Gigs

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Recently, there has been a lot of hand wringing about the so-called Gig Economy. For those of you who don’t know the term, the concept of the gig economy is businesses and labor that operate on a per gig, that is per single transaction, basis. The most well known gig economy based businesses currently are … Read more

How Can Twitter Not Be Profitable

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Something keeps bothering me about Twitter losing money. The company claims 330 million active monthly users. If they were overly optimistic, or using a very generous definition of “active,” lets cut that in half to 150 million active users each month. Now, if they could earn just $1 per user, that would be $150 million … Read more

Amazon Makes Prime Cheaper

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There are a lot of articles out there this week about Amazon raising the minimum purchase for free shipping. This is not a price increase, so much as a price cut for Amazon Prime. Consider that Amazon Prime makes up a lot of Amazon’s revenue these days. It’s similar to the model that Costco uses … Read more

The Real Reasons Tesla Sells Its Own Cars

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Last month, Tesla’s general council gave an explanation to the FTC about why Tesla sells its cars directly to customers instead of using the traditional car dealership model. Of course, the remarks were carefully researched, vetted, and tested so as to not create any unpleasant blow back. That also made them slightly less truthful than … Read more

Kelloggs Family Rewards Review

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Once upon a time, I noticed that many of the products I was buying had a Kelloggs Family Rewards box where I usually see a Box Tops for Education box. I started saving Box Tops when my kids hit grade school, and while I don’t think we’ve ever seen big money, our school does pull … Read more

Disney, Star Wars, and Billions of Dollars

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A 60 Minutes tweet and report suggest that the latest Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, needs to make $1.5 BILLION to be considered a success. That number seems pretty high considering the movie cost just $220 million to make, and even a huge marketing number gets you nowhere near $1.5 Billion. Frankly, one wonders … Read more

McDonalds All Day Breakfast

So, McDonald’s has decided to serve breakfast all day. There was a time where this probably wouldn’t have worked, but increasing standardization and the expansion of many cook lines makes it more plausible now. The question is, Will it matter? The idea of cutting off breakfast was mandatory back when I worked at McDonald’s (a … Read more

Soylent for Weight Loss

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Soylent is a shake mix developed by some tech guys and initially funded via a Kickstarter program. After some difficulties and delays, the company finally seems up and running in a such a way that the formula both works, and can now be ordered without weeks of delay. I went ahead and tried out Soylent … Read more

I’m On Ello, Now What?

So, by now, you’ve probably heard of Ello. Ello, which I’m guessing is “hello” without the h, is a new, privacy-focused social network. Specifically, Ello has picked up traction recently because of Facebook’s real name policy and the fact that commercial social networks such as Twitter and Facebook sell out your information in order to … Read more