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Posts from ‘January, 2010’

Starbucks raises coffee prices up to 33%

Wow, apparently Starbucks raised coffee prices today, up to 33% for some “complex orders”.  I’m not sure how I feel about it. Its discretionary spending, but they aren’t the only players on the block anymore.
Apparently the price hikes mean a Triple Grande Soy Vanilla Latte now costs $6.25, up from an already astounding $5.55.  I [...]

Career reinvention – what would you do differently?

We’ve all heard the sayings directed toward the younger generation about how much they could learn from those who’ve lived before them.  Your parents can teach you valuable lessons about life that will prevent you from living through some of the same hardships they endured.  The value in that learning doesn’t have to only show [...]

Awesome motivation from Gary Vaynerchuk

I missed a speaking event with Gary Vaynerchuk in Seattle a few months back, but have been following him a bit online and his bestseller Crush It! is on its way from Amazon as we speak.
He’s pretty direct and to the point when it comes to talking about the opportunity available to entrepreneurs today in the [...]

First month with all weekends booked!

We put the finishing touches on the vacation home up in Glacier, WA about a week before Christmas.  We hadn’t posted the home on vrbo.com or craigslist at all because we weren’t sure of a completion date so didn’t want to pre-book if we couldn’t deliver.  Experience told me that things always take longer than [...]

My Wordpress + Amazon Associates System is Starting To Work!

Over the last few months, I’ve been working on building a template system to quickly build wordpress sites that integrate directly with Amazon Associates to make it easy to build niche blogs that showcase products for sale on Amazon.
I have about 6 of these sites up and running at this point.  Only one is making [...]