Flies, Fly Strips & the Frustrations of Band-Aids

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A couple of years ago in the fall, we started having this problem with flies in our house. It had gotten cold outside and they all wanted to come in where it was warm.

There’s this certain light in the foyer that for some reason they liked to swarm around.

We tried swatting them but they came back. Every day there would be more and more.

My competitive alpha male lizard brain kicked in. So I got my Shop Vac …

Lonely at the Top

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Entrepreneurs have challenges they can’t talk to ‘regular’ folks about.

You go to breakfast with your buddies. Scott says “I got first place in a fishing tournament.” Tom says “I just got promoted to assistant manager.” You can’t say, “I just finished a huge promotion and sold $500,000 of stuff in two days.”

If you have to…

Observations & Predictions about Google, as of late December 2008

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If Google lowers the quality threshold to get more exposures and clicks, they win and you lose – by getting lower quality traffic to your site.

AdGooRoo.com monitors millions of search engine results and they are noting a 54% growth in Google’s “first page advertisers”. Google very well may be poised for a record quarter for Q4 2008. That’s what I’m predicting.