Amazon Vine Checkpoint

When I first enrolled in Amazon Vine there was nothing but junk. Car parts, and nothing else. Eventually, thanks not to directions from Amazon or anything but from combing the internet looking for information and ending up in various Discords and Reddits, I got the down low. It seems that Amazon has enrolled a lot … Read more

Amazon Vine and Parts I’d Never Buy

A few months ago, I was invited to join Amazon Vine, an in-house review program where sellers have Amazon send out free products in exchange for reviews. There are a lot of oddities about the program, including the presence of an enormous amount of auto parts, most of which seem to never be claimed. But, … Read more

Colorado Gives Day Marketing

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Sometimes, the greatest marketing starts out as so much more. In Colorado, like all states, there are a lot of smaller non-profit organizations out there who could use some help collecting donations. Enter Colorado Gives, an online donation platform run by the Community First Foundation in Arvada, Colorado. What Is Colorado Gives? I first heard … Read more

What Is ChatGPT and How Does It Work?

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Seems everywhere you go on the internet people are finding out about ChatGPT and how fun, interesting, and practical it is to use ChatGPT for everything from fixing complicated programming code to helping a fourth grader write a better history paper. But what is ChatGPT and is it really worth all of the hype? ChatGPT … Read more

Is ChatGPT More Than a Toy?

Can we really use ChatGPT for doing anything more than being clever? More specifically, in what instances would you trust ChatGPT if your time, money, or reputation were actually at stake? For example, I received a message from LinkedIn offering something called, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, of which I know nothing, so I asked ChatGPT. Can … Read more

Canva vs Adobe Express

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As a Canva user, I was intrigued by Adobe Express because it seemed very Canva like. I thought now was the time to take a look at Canva vs Adobe Express. Which Is Better Canva or Adobe Cloud Express? Canva has been around longer than Adobe Cloud Express. While many people swear by the free … Read more

Outlook Stops Working After Cloudflare Installed

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If you installed Cloudflare and Outlook stopped working, you are not alone. I had the same problem with Outlook breaking sending emails after I installed Cloudflare. There are a ton of threads out there about this, but so many of them go nowhere that I decided to write about the solution to fix Outlook after … Read more

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 Are The Windows 11 Taskbar Icons

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When Windows updated my computer to Windows 11, I just let it work. When I came back, I needed to work, so I blindly charged ahead, finding Explorer and the Start menu, and kind of ignored everything else. Turns out my icons are there on the bottom and I can do the old Pin to … Read more

300 Words About 44 Women

Yeah. I don’t actually have a way to do that headline. I was thinking that I need to fire up an update here on Best Hubris after finally finishing what was supposed to be a 300 or 500 word quickie about my thoughts on buying some puts on Vail stock based on what is going … Read more

How Charity Fundraising Poisons the Well

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I’m not a Rockefeller, and I don’t have a charitable trust fund, but I do pretty well, and occasionally, I do donate money to various charities. I also donate household items and clothing on a regular basis since I have kids at that age where neither clothes nor toys last all that long. However, I’ve … Read more

Respect

When you “see” your SEO counterpart at that food blog not-so-subtly work a key phrase into his recipe description. Respect.