http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com Dot Com Turkish Millionaire Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:36:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay, so this isn't earth shattering news. But I did login this morning to one of my sites' statistics and noticed that it went from receiving about 75 hits per day to 2,500. Doing some tracking, it seems this was solely due to linkage from another popular site in its ... http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com/2008/06/22/breaking-1000-hits-per-day/ Wow, as an MMA fan I was hugely disgusted with the CBS EliteXC event. A few observations: What's up with the weird dancing cheerleaders during the intro? Seriously, this is MMA -- not a high school basketball half-time. For most of the first few fighters all I kept thinking was... who the ... http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com/2008/05/31/cbs-elitexc-depressing/ So, Jess had her young, scholastic nephew come over the other night to use her computer to do some research for his school paper on Ancient Greece. (He's in one of those over-achieving schools that apparently likes giving 6th graders assignments that purposely involve research on the internet in order ... http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com/2008/05/16/when-kids-stumble-on-porn/ So Starbucks has this new site that lets people contribute ideas on how to make Starbucks better. Of course, in the typical corporate fashion -- they offer no reimburstment for a good idea they accept. Talk about incentive! But, anyhow, I figure I'd go ahead and post the most logical ... http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com/2008/04/19/my-starbucks-idea/ It seems like its been at-least 10 years since I've ordered anything from Tiger Direct. I had such a tremendously painful experience with them before that I cringe every time I hear about them. So, just the other day I had to place an order for a pretty odd part ... http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com/2008/02/19/tiger-direct-still-sucks/ I love Zappos.com. They're so customer service centric it's ridiculous. Like USAA, _every_ encounter I've have with Zappos has been way too smooth. Hell, they're sort-of like the Newegg.com of shoes. Over the past couple years I've returned 2 pairs of shoes to them, no hassle. I've also called them ... http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com/2008/02/16/endlesscom/ Let me just state that I love 1-800 Flowers.com. I've been a loyal customer of theirs for about 7 years now, ordering flowers on average of about twice per year. In all my time they've always delivered the flowers I've purchased on time and to the correct person. If you've ... http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com/2008/02/12/why-ill-never-order-from-ftdcom-again/ I see the idea of scanning in checks to deposit them into your bank account is finally getting some attention at New York Times. (Click here for the NYT Article) Nice to see USAA getting some love here. There's a very small number of companies out there that impress me with ... http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com/2008/02/11/depositing-checks-via-scanner/ Formal business plans don't seem to make a difference. (Atleast according to this Wall Street Journal Article) Could the same be said about business degrees? Can the same be said about college in general? From: Guy Kawasaki: Is a Business Plan Necessary? http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com/2008/02/11/are-business-plans-necessary/ Just when I think Blockbuster is pretty much dead in the water they go and release their new Total Access plan. With Total Access you can pick-up videos both in-store and online and mix and match between the two. I think this strategy is brilliant and I'm really beginning to ... http://www.ambassadorofkwan.com/2007/02/18/hello-world/