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So sounds like I should pay people to post obviously paid reviews on my competitors Yelp pages?

You know, generally you seem like a smart guy, but whenever you post you are such a stand-offish abrasive asshole that it just makes you look like an arrogant fuck who is simply trying to act like an internet badass by belittling others. It"s no wonder you have such a hard time getting a point...

My inspector found an issue with my furnace that I wouldn"t have known to look for on my own. Could have potentially burned my house down and was a $5 fix. Yes, you can do most of the job of an inspector yourself, but another set of eyes can never hurt.

It is sad but employee theft is a problem that never-ever goes away. I am constantly dealing with it. While I rarely have problems with money not making it into the till, it is little self-entitlement issues that are always cropping up. Not paying for employee meals, hooking friends/family up...

One of the cities one of my stores is in has 3 zip codes. My store is literally 3 blocks away from one of the other zip codes. You search pizza from the zip code my store is actually in, number 1 organic listing. For the others, it"s like 6 or 7. I asked my franchises CMO about organic vs...

Purely anecdotal, but I ignore all the banners/paid search spots and instead go to organic listings. I have a marketing meeting this afternoon with the head of marketing from my franchisor, I will ask if they have any data on organic vs paid search from the markets they do paid search in...

I do know that Google is changing their search algorithm to heavily weight social activity. Having your Google+ page claimed and updated will help your organic listings.

I always go for a 5 year with another 5 year option I can execute. Every time I extend I make sure to get another 5 year option tacked on. In this climate you should have no problem getting a clause like that.

A little late on this, but I"ll tell you my experience. I was kind of in the inverse of this situation, I was "boy1" and there was a girl at work that both me and my manger hung out with a lot. It was pretty obvious to me that my manager (boy2) was into the girl and even though I thought the...

Advertising for a restaurant is so market dependent it is really tough to tell you exactly what to do. But what you need to do is keep lots of information so you can figure out what does and does not work for you. If you do run a newspaper ad make sure you track each redemption (assuming it...

On the inventory front, every market is different. I just read an article about a city near me that is reporting the area has the lowest inventory of houses on the market that it has had in the past 5 years (7.4 months worth of inventory). The numbers skew even further in the sellers direction...

I would double check everything you signed when you made those offers. I know when we were shopping there was some paper-work that locked us in with our realtor when we made some offers. Can"t remember if it was specific to the properties or not, but it was explained to me in such a way that it...

My house is 1800sq ft and change (passed on a much bigger 4500sq ft house to get in a nicer neighborhood with a much bigger lot). My wife and I fill up the house. It is fine for the two of us, but as soon as the kids start coming it is going to start to feel small. It"s a four bedroom, but...

My loan was sold by the originator 2 months after I got it, then about a year later they bought it back. Nothing much you can do about it really. There are times where it can suck however. For example, I was reading a thread on Fat Wallet about a guy who, after his loan got sold, started...

I would always tell the girls I was dating that I don"t do breaks. Not as an ultimatum, but just as a "this is my philosophy" type of deal. Basically for the reasons outlined in the story above. If your purpose for dating is to find that special someone who you can spend the rest of your life...