Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
I am a big fan of Woot. Like many others, I like their deal-of-the-day and follow it on a pretty regular basis. Refurbished Roombas are very common on the site. Refurbished Roombas on Woot In case you aren’t familiar with it, Woot.net offers deals every day. When deals are sold out, it is gone. Sometimes … Read more
Rakuten has a bizarre corporate branding strategy. In 2010, Rakuten bought buy.com. No bit deal there. Companies buy other companies all the time. But, then it did something truly strange. It rebranded buy.com to rakuten.com and in the process destroyed both a 3-letter .com domain name, and eventually, caused itself to spend millions of dollars … Read more
Readers of my professional freelance writing blog know that I have had some trouble with Dreamhost in the past few months. No, this isn’t one of those Dreamhost sucks rants, but rather a comprehensive, fact-based, review of the incidents and responses that occurred while I was hosting websites on Dreamhost web hosting services. My hope … Read more
I have several professional writing gigs under my belt now. My phone is even starting to ring without me persistently following up and tracking down those I want to write for. I’m also earning some money. What have I found so far? It seems that a lot of writers out there who claim to be … Read more