YGG is HOT

February 28, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Articles   

HotWho’s the cat that won’t cop out, when there’s danger all about? YGG. Right On! They say this cat YGG is a bad mother… SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

We signed up for that ReviewMe program way back when and never got an offer. They finally update our Alexa and Technorati rankings, BOOM!, we’re in the same league as Shaft. That would be of course if Shaft were number 3 on Today’s Best list, but he’s not, now is he?

Alright, that’s the end of me trying to tie an era before my time into this egotistical post.

So we’re going to give this a try and see how it works out. You’ll see a couple review posts popping up over the next week or so. We’ll let you know they’re reviews so it’s not shady or anything.

Some people don’t mind these posts, others hate them. To the latter, can you speak a bit louder? We can’t hear you over the sound of a handful of one dollar bills fanning by our ears. ;)

How to lose a customer with the least amount of effort

February 27, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Articles   

Middle Finger

1) Don’t provide any telephone support

2) When they’re forced to use chat support in their browser, make them wait for 45 minutes to acknowledge their presence

3) Make sure the support rep can barely understand English and is fluent in copying and pasting prewritten responses

4) If you can’t help the customer, blame others and make them call them

5) If your customer manages to find a phone number for the company, make sure every employee in the office refuses to help them, directs them to the chat support that they already wasted half their morning on, and refuse to refund a single cent from the monthly fee they were charged only two days ago

6) Celebrate the loss of a customer and see the effectiveness of blogging in how quickly the true face of your company is shared with the public.

Hosting Zoom

Thank you Reseller Zoom, really, I appreciate all your support. MediaTemple, here I come.

For future search result optimization and those that missed the subject of my anger, let’s throw in an alternative title, “6 reasons why you should never use Reseller Zoom”.

SkinnyCorp CommunityNext Video

February 26, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Entreprenews   

A big thanks to Guy for getting his hands on this video. I’ve spoken about Threadless before and this video is their show stealing presentation at the CommunityNext conference a few weeks back.

Top 10 Motivational Songs for Entrepreneurs

February 26, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Articles   

Rockers

I had composed this list a few weeks ago. As a sign of what’s to come with copyright enforcement, every single video I had bookmarked has been yanked off of YouTube since then. Hopefully these will last at least a few days.

This list ranges from the 70s to present day, and each song that made the list was ranked by it’s lyrics, energy, and memorability.

Pamela over at Escape from Cubicle Nation had created a list of her top entrepreneurial songs back in October, and surprisingly enough, I chose 10 different songs than her.

Please feel free to suggest other songs that you find motivating in the comments and maybe we’ll put a second version of this list together down the road.

A few of the music videos were not available, so some of them are either the original music with a homemade video, or a re-recorded version.

Anyways, here are the Top 10 Motivational Songs for Entrepreneurs:

Keep reading…

Dreamhost bites the dust

February 25, 2007  |  By Eric  |  Entreprenews   

Looks like Dreamhost has taken a dive for over 5 hours. Ouch.

This available Entreprenews post brought to you in part by MediaTemple hosting (mt)

Would you like a bag for that Declaration of Independence?

February 24, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Entreprenews   

Declaration of Independence

Michael Sparks was shopping in a thrift store in Nashville last March. He noticed a “yellowed, shellacked, rolled-up document”. Upon asking the clerk “how much?”, the clerk labeled it $2.48.

Through a little research online Michael learned that the old document he bought happened to be 1 of 200 official copies of the Declaration of Independence commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820.

The document is up for auction on March 22nd with an opening bid of $125,000 and is expected to go for at least twice that.

When asked to comment, the clerk that sold the Declaration continuously smacked himself in the face.