Entrepreneurship

So I was driving home from Southern Utah yesterday and I noticed some sweet logos on buildings, and billboards. I love looking at the stuff that these companies do to market their services, and I’m particularly fond of the logos below. I think these companies are all utah startups, besides Univar, so here’s a little link-love from Elite Eternity.

Omniture – Online Business Optimization

Omniture is the leading provider of online business optimization, which it delivers through the Omniture Online Marketing Suite™. Online business optimization is a strategy for using customer insight to drive innovation and increased loyalty in a digital world. The Online Marketing Suite empowers marketers to use customer insight to optimize interactions—creating more personalized, relevant customer experiences while also maximizing their marketing spend.

Univar – USA Chemical Distributor

Univar USA is the leading chemical distributor in the United States, providing more chemical products and related services than any other company in the marketplace. Our wide distribution network, with locations coast-to-coast, helps guarantee fast, reliable service to Univar’s customers.

Zinch – Get Hooked Up With Colleges

We hook students up with scholarships.
Based on our comprehensive student profile, we can match students to any scholarship out there. Students tell us who they are…and we hook them up with scholarships that matter.

MWI – Utah SEO

Back to basics. We recently stopped offering 90% of our services and launched this new website. Why? Because we’ve figured out what we do well and what we don’t. And what do we do well? Web design, search engine optimization, and search engine marketing. If you hire us for your next SEO project or to provide any of the other services we offer you can rest assured you are going to get it done right for a fair price.

There really isn’t anything super-special about the above logos, and I think that is why I love them. Simple is in.

I just had a thought. 

We hear stories all the time of people who pitched their “brilliant” ideas to huge corporate executives, only to be laughed out of the building, office etcetera. That story is usually immediately preceeded by a paragraph about that same lowly entrepreneur now being one of the richest and most successful businessmen in the country. I pose the question: Why is this?

Is it merely because the first-time rejection was so strong that it booted him into gear and made him want success that much more just to prove the jerk who laughed at him wrong? Or is it something deeper than that? Did that entrepreneur have what it took all along, or did he need that boost of rejection to motivate his success?

I’d say he had what it took all along, but a nice stiff shot of rejection never hurt anyone kept anyone from reaching a much desired goal.

Just a random thought. What do you think?

This thing rocks! Mucho recommended! Now i just need to kick this fast food habit and I’ll be set.

Thank you eBay!

This actually happened nearly a year ago.

How I Got Banned

I was listing a product. I listed said product in the wrong category. I think I listed it in “digital products” instead of the proper category “Miscellaneous”. Oooops, my bad!

BANNED!

Just like that! In months leading up to the ban, I’m pretty sure I paid over $1,000 in ebay fees. I don’t understand how ebay can feel comfortable doing this to loyal customers. Right now I’m appealing my decision on ebay’s live chat. We’ll see how that goes. I don’t expect to get too far, nor will I be very disappointed if I don’t. They lose a customer, I have to think outside the box for a new venue of selling products, we all win.

Congratulations, eBay! You just lost another customer!

Update: Unfortunately, the reason why your account says that is not available to me. I can still help you though by getting you in touch with our Trust and Safety team who specializes in this. They can clarify why the account got suspended.

^ This was after they told me they would look into it on live chat. I appreciate the scripts I am fed. Makes me happy. Thanks, Indian on the other end.

Credit to my friend Nathan for pointing me to this site.

Alongside Zac Johnson’s website, Prosperly has been another huge help in my early ventures into making money online through affiliate marketing. As a matter of fact, if I never read the prosperly blog I would have never ran into Zac Johnson’s site.

Adam White (owner of Prosperly) makes several valuable posts a week about how to make money online and internet marketing strategies. I owe these two entrepreneurs a lot and I’d like to thank them for sharing their wealth of knowledge with the rest of us who are aspiring to be great.

Some awesome posts from Adam’s blog:

Buying a Website – Part 1
Buying a Website – Part 2
Quickest Way To Start An Online Business

I’ve been annoyed lately with all of the different browsers. We’ve got Google’s New Chrome, FireFox 3 and lastly and least important – Internet Explorer 8 Beta. I’m a web designer, and web entrepreneur so I have all three of the major browsers installed and I find myself switching between them for one reason or the other frequently throughout the day.

Speed Comparison – My observations

Google Chrome is easily the fastest browser. Loads up brilliantly quick and performs just about as fast.

FireFox 3 is runner-up in the fast race. Loads in a decent amount of time, performs slower than chrome once loaded.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta is easily the slowest – and least important. Yes, those are fighting words. You will find no sugar coating.

The speed comparison is purely my observation. No Hi-Tech speed testing tools were used. I use FireFox 3 the most because it’s the fastest and most stable for what I do. I played around with Chrome for about a week, but then I realized I wasn’t getting much work done. I switched back to FireFox, but still find myself going back to it. Why am I writing this post? Just to vent. It’s better than punching a hole through my 19″ monitor or Jumping Off My Balcony. I’m personally tired of trying to make my designs compatible with all of the different browsers. What are your thoughts on the browser war?

Install Google Chrome

Install FireFox 3

Install Internet Explorer 8 Beta