Posted in Google on Sep 16th, 2007 No Comments »
John Chow mentioned a cool website grading site analyzing many criteria to determine what “grade” your site should be given. The tool uses many types of data to determine the website grade such as, Technorati rating, PageRank, Alexa Rank, inbound links, web page structure and more.
Here is a screenshot of my website grade:
There were a [...]
Posted in Quixtar/TEAM on Sep 15th, 2007 No Comments »
I came across another good example of the outrageous prices Quixtar charges its IBO’s. The example is posted by a blog titled, Quixtar Lost My Cents, and it is dedicated outlining the price differences between Quixtar and its retail “competitors.”
The example given on that post is for paper products and compares the top of the [...]
Posted in Investing on Sep 13th, 2007 No Comments »
I have been an admirer of the Krispy Kreme Doughnut ever since they opened a store about 30 minutes from my home and I drove out to try an original glazed hot from the fryer. Krispy Kreme (KKD) went public several years ago to much fanfare and looked to be invincible as it began its [...]
Posted in Quixtar/TEAM on Sep 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Here is a very funny video comparison of Quixtar product prices versus Meijer (a supercenter chain similar to Wal-Mart). I say funny because of the guys accent, I’m not sure if it is real or not but I know for a fact the price comparison is. It truly is amazing that people will spend such [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in News, Technology on Sep 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Apple Inc. (AAPL) made the news today and led the tech rally in an overall down market today by announcing that it had sold its one millionth iPhone nearly a month ahead of schedule. It took only 74 days for Apple to achieve the landmark and may have been done so quickly due to the [...]
Posted in Investing on Sep 8th, 2007 No Comments »
I mentioned the other day that I am keeping an eye on Nutrisystem Inc (NTRI) as a potential investment and in doing so have learned that the stock has taken a bit of a beating lately because of the introduction of a revolutionary new diet pill named Alli that was developed by GlaxoSmithKline and is [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Sep 7th, 2007 No Comments »
I was watching “In Good Company” tonight, it’s a movie spotlighting a young hot shot executive who takes over a fledgling magazine advertising department and is suddenly managing people twice his age. This hot shot young executive is given some advice, about how you know when you’ve found the perfect woman, from his 52 year [...]
Posted in Quixtar/TEAM on Sep 7th, 2007 No Comments »
TEAM had filed a temporary restraining order against Quixtar in Texas and it was granted September 4, pending a hearing for Quixtar to argue against it on September 18.
The text of this TRO is quite damning to Quixtar and essentially says they cannot say anything even remotely negative, directly or indirectly to any TEAM affiliated [...]
Posted in Economy, Investing on Sep 7th, 2007 No Comments »
A famous saying of Warren Buffet is, “be wary when others are greedy and greedy when others are wary.” Simply put, don’t follow the crowd. My investing philosophy tends to follow this mold and big down days like today, the major indexes are down about 2% as I right this, are tremendous buying opportunities. I [...]
