Business Rants

4 Reasons Social Games on Google+ Are a Disaster

Towards the end of 2011 I wrote a few social game reviews for games that are currently available on Google+, games like Angry Birds, CityVille and City of Wonder. Now that Google+ is becoming more and more established, and open to the masses one would think that Google+ and the game makers would have things [Continue Reading]

Another Example of How Facebook Hates Brands

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now then it’s safe to say that you’ve seen my complain about Facebook pages for brands before. If this is your first time here, welcome to another one of my gripes about Facebook pages. As a small business owner and blogging entrepreneur I have no choice [Continue Reading]

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3 Reasons I Deleted My Triberr Account

I recently wrote about Triberr in an article titled, “Triberr: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” in which I outlined a few good things about Triberr and followed it up with a few things about Triberr that weren’t all that sexy to me. At the time I decided to keep pushing forward with Triberr, [Continue Reading]

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Knee to the Face or Walk Away with Grace

Decisions are always tough, and for many deciding which side of the street to take can be very challenging. Typically, I’m more of the simple approach to solutions and decisions kind of guy, there’s a fork in the road, pick a side and live with it. No regrets. I’ve recently had something pretty interesting come [Continue Reading]

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How the Government and Morons Killed the Tanning Industry

As I get ready to write this I’m already annoyed with myself for not saving an article that was in the TBT (local free newspaper). The article outlined details about how outdoor tanning lotion products are full of crap when it comes to the UV protection they provide. Whenever I see stuff like this it [Continue Reading]

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Largo’s New ‘Red Carpet’ to Aid Business Growth is FUNNY

As many of you that read my blog on a daily basis know, in addition to writing this blog I am also the founder Extreme Tan and Smoothies, Inc., Insane Limos, Inc., Intense Business, MMA Cafe (not open yet) and most recently Extreme Spray Tan, Inc. As you can see my addiction to small business [Continue Reading]

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One Year Later… Your Customer Service Still Sucks

All though I won’t be mentioning the name of the company I’m referring to in this post what I can tell you is that it is NOT about Big T from ASD, that’s an entirely different customer service jack ass. Being it’s tanning season it’s also easy to assume that my rant is about Salon [Continue Reading]

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Sorry Charlie

It seems that there is an individual named Charlie that feels the need to jump into my job abandonment article from yesterday and comment based on knowing one side of the story, and only a piece of that at best. Actually, since Charlie keeps coming back it’s safe to say that Charlie is still reading [Continue Reading]

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Job Abandonment to Receive Unemployment Benefits or Not?

I’m going to try and see if I can get this post written and out before a phone meeting that will be taking place a little bit later on with the unemployment compensation office and a previous associate of my business. The scheduled meeting is due to a previous associate being denied unemployment benefits because the associate [Continue Reading]

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The Bigger You Are the Harder You Fall

It’s been a while since I’ve brought up the epic jackass that I once hired to do some home theater work on our house a few years ago, I think my last real post about it was “Big T You Are Still a Jackass”. I know, I know, in this country your not suppose to [Continue Reading]

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Fix Your URLs for the Holidays

This is a guest post by Rob Chapman. In an online world where even recreational blogging has turned into a cut throat PR driven enterprise getting and keeping eyeballs can be as easy as fixing your URL and Posting default settings. Whatever your flavor of Content Management System or more commonly known as a Blog [Continue Reading]

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Is Your Bad Attitude Showing?

Remember the famous quote from “Office Space” that the fictional Tom Smykowski delivers when he’s asked about his job title? Because I feel it relates to customer service and attitudes, here’s a refresher: “Well look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don’t have to! I have people skills! [Continue Reading]

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13 Things That Frustrate Me as a Small Business Owner

I feel like I have really been on a list post rampage the last few weeks, cranking out all kinds of lists posts from “9 Companies that Inspire Me” to “22 Things You May or May Not Know About Me”. Instead of posting all of the fun stuff and cool things about new social browsers [Continue Reading]

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Celeb Tans.com Copyright Infringement Can Be Costly

Every single time this issue comes up I try to be the “bigger person” and give people a chance to right their wrong, in most cases the infringement isn’t as blatant as it is in this case, so there’s no sense on me holding back on Celeb Tans.com and the owner Aneta. In a lot of cases [Continue Reading]

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Live Deal You Will Never Get My Deal

Usually around this time of year I take about a week to write my Good, The Bad and the REAL Ugly posts from various business’s I have had the chance to work with over the course of the year, this year I have decided not to do that. One of the main factors that contributed [Continue Reading]

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