As an entrepreneur I never woke up without 20 ideas to make the business better or bigger.<\/p>\n
As an investor, I wake up with ten ideas. Then I “research” them and find none of them make any sense. What’s amazing is how many great ideas have a “gotcha.” (And how long it takes to find that gotcha.) Maybe every great idea has a “gotcha?” But when you’re managing the business yourself, you can manage your way around the gotchas. When some other idiot is in charge, you’re screwed.<\/p>\n
Solar electricity is a great idea. Until you find the “gotcha.” The Koch Brothers. They successfully lobbied the regulators in Florida for new rules to make solar uneconomic there. It’s self-interested and dishonest. But they made it the law. It looks a bit better in California. But there are gotchas there too.<\/p>\n
My other problem is that I often come late to great investments — like Facebook and Amazon. These two are probably the greatest companies on earth today. But they’re both ultra-pricey. I keep hoping for a pullback… I keep buying more when I feel flush.<\/p>\n
Your web site is probably all wrong.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n These days everybody learns what you sell by visiting your web site. That’s fact number one..<\/p>\n Number two fact is 60%+ of the people visiting your web site come via a smartphone.<\/p>\n This is how your web site was designed: \u00a0This is how it looks to 60%+ of the visitors to your site:<\/p>\n Here’s an example of a web site viewed on a laptop\/desktop horizontal screen.<\/p>\n This is what it looks like on my iPhone.<\/p>\n It looks this bad because it’s not designed to work for mobile devices. I bet your web site has the same problem.<\/p>\n Here’s how it works. Every time you go to a web site, your browser sends code called a “user agent.” That tells the web site you’re on a laptop or \u00a0a smartphone and that you’re using Mozilla or Safari, etc. You can read more on user agents here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Your web site should respond to your user agent and present you with a web site optimized for you.<\/p>\n If you’re selling something, (e.g. pizza) your smartphone website should be response oriented. Big buttons. “Order Now.” “Sign up for our specials.”<\/p>\n Web sites for iPhones and other smartphones are very different to web sites for laptops. Look at Amazon on your laptop. Look at it on your iPhone.<\/p>\n Most businesses do not have a mobile version of their web site.<\/p>\n This is costing you sales. Want more? Send my friend Mark an email.\u00a0actionnow4all@gmail.com.<\/p>\n Don’t do stupid.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n You’re not getting any younger. These are true stories:<\/p>\n + A friend wrecked his shoulder’s rotator cuff by using \u00a0chain saw too often.<\/p>\n + A friend made himself a paraplegic by dropping a tree on himself. He used a chainsaw.<\/p>\n + A woman gave herself a stroke by going off her blood thinner.<\/p>\n + A friend can’t ride his beloved bicycle because he didn’t allow himself enough time to recover from his hip replacement operation.<\/p>\n + A friend threw out his back by lifting his heavy bag onto an airline’s overhead rack.<\/p>\n “We need to downsize.” <\/strong><\/span>That’s Susan’s latest mantra. Hence this evening we will be watching:<\/span><\/p>\n And we’ll be learning<\/p>\n And maybe we’ll move into a 100 square foot house, which may look like this.<\/p>\n The show is at 9:00 PM tonight on HGTV. For more, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Don’t eat from the floor. <\/strong><\/span>Don’t double dip. Don’t bite some someone’s else food. Here’s how to be paranoid. From National Geographic: For the full page, click\u00a0BugsOnTheFloor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n US Open Tennis 2016 begins tonight on ESPN. <\/strong>It starts at 6 PM.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n My friend Todd likes this joke.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A father buys a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie. He\u00a0decides to test it out at dinner one night. Robot for sale.<\/p>\n
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\nThe father asks his son what he did that afternoon.
\nThe son says, “I did some schoolwork.”
\nThe robot slaps the son.
\nThe son says, “OK, OK. I was at a friend’s house watching movies.”
\nDad asks, “What movie did you watch?”
\nSon says, “Toy Story.”
\nThe robot slaps the son.
\nSon says, “Ok, Ok, we were watching porn.”
\nDad says, “What? At your age I didn’t even know what porn was.”
\nThe robot slaps the father.
\nMom laughs and says, “Well, he certainly is your son.”
\nThe robot slaps the mother.<\/p>\n