LA got a little bit smaller

Posted on June 30, 2008 - Filed Under Business | 5 Comments

Admittedly I am the worst California resident.  Upon approaching my 10 year anniversary of immigrating to this state I still find myself stumbling over the locations of various cities or museums or even roads.  Part of this does lie with the fact that I’m particularly not interested in LA.  When it comes to Paris, restaurants, [...]

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Craigslist SEO and Strategy

Posted on June 26, 2008 - Filed Under Business | 2 Comments

After all the input from the past few days, my new ad is up and running.  And the results have been very promising.  The new ad produced eight phone calls with turned into 7 appointments.  Only one stood me up.  But that was alright because the appointments were all back to back.
First new strategy:  Listening [...]

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Doing the impossible

Posted on June 25, 2008 - Filed Under Business | 2 Comments

**My apologies for the late addition today.  Internet gremlins disrupted my service.**
I was nearly 11 when I bought my first GI Joe comic book.  When we got home from our montly shopping trip to the “big city” I darted into my bedroom, closed the door and started consuming it.
The characters were talking about a mission [...]

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The Quest

Posted on June 24, 2008 - Filed Under Housing | 5 Comments

Thanks for the comments yesterday.  My response was getting too long so the “post” option seemed to be the better approach.
AI:  If no one was interested enough to show up to look at yours, then your rent is too high. [Thty] all found cheaper or better located housing.
Clifford:  I disagree.  The people knew the rent [...]

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Lost, gone forever

Posted on June 23, 2008 - Filed Under Rant | 4 Comments

All my faith in humanity is evaporated.
Four appointments in one day.  Three of them were no-shows.
Yep.  I got stood up.  It was almost as bad as senior prom.
Is it really that difficult to pick up a phone and call someone to say “Yes, I’m sorry but I can’t make it for our appointment?”  They obviously [...]

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