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  1. Shonuff

    Advertising: Pro's and Con's of Various Media

    There are too many crazies on this board to release anything personal. I don't blame you.
  2. Shonuff

    The Walking Dead

    Attach that to your FB and let the hate rise!
  3. Shonuff

    The Walking Dead

    I'd be getting some zombie poontang all day. Also, I bet zombies give good blowjobs with their teeth removed. I watched Deadgirl, and that really opened me up to the idea.
  4. Shonuff

    The Walking Dead

    What does "going berserk in the yard" entail, exactly?
  5. Shonuff

    The Terror

    Since RS is doing this, I bet it's really a show about Jesus.
  6. Shonuff

    The Terror

    http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/02/amc-terror-tv/ And the first cable network looking to capitalize on the massive mainstream success of The Walking Dead TV show is ? Walking Dead network AMC. After proving that modern horror can draw audiences to rival ? and, in some cases, beat ? the...
  7. Shonuff

    The Terror

    Title: The Terror Genre: Drama First aired: 2018-03-26 Creator: Edward Berger Cast: Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Ciarán Hinds, Adam Nagaitis, Paul Ready, Nive Nielsen, Ian Hart Overview: The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage...
  8. Shonuff

    The Walking Dead

    Do the writers really think we are this stupid to believe they'd take in Merle after all of the stuff he's done to them? I'm expecting huge amounts of rage over this, please don't let me down.
  9. Shonuff

    The Walking Dead

    What Zombieland reference?
  10. Shonuff

    Advertising: Pro's and Con's of Various Media

    Just to clarify, we've never run TV commercials. This will be our first time. We hope to be on by mid-March. We'll cut the commercial next week. TV seems to be working for some other service companies in the area, that are running enough frequency. The one HVAC company in the area that runs...
  11. Shonuff

    Adventures with Corndog: Corndog's Fish Store

    QB automatically computes deductions and the final check. You can actually print the checks from QB. I usually deliver checks by hand, it gives me an excuse to be on the job. And then it puts that payroll number on your P&L. Any changes in the tax code are automatically updated in QB also.
  12. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    I'm learning that they spin it however the hell they want. You hear people say that their interview was taken out of context, and it's unbelievable until they do it to you. But hey, they played us three times today, we got at least $1k in free advertising.
  13. Shonuff

    Advertising: Pro's and Con's of Various Media

    I'm going to spend 2k a month on one of the local stations, and just be on the news. One could actually lock in lower rates for the entire year right now on contract, since demand for advertising is at its lowest in Q1. Lack of frequency is a strong reason why campaigns fail. Everyone wants to...
  14. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    Holy crap, they are running teasers about how businesses were hurt by less than expected ice. I'm booked either way until Spring. The reporter asked me how I felt about how the storm was a dud, asked if I was upset. I wanted to yell to him that I needed the money for my Corvette payments...
  15. Shonuff

    Advertising: Pro's and Con's of Various Media

    I usually sign up for a year to get the lowest rate, but then I add in a bailout clause. Most of my contracts for radio and billboard I can cancel within 30-45 days notice, no reason needed.
  16. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    When the anchor did that, I lost hope for mankind. The news wants to interview me again in the next hour, and I'm not going to speak in superlatives. Every time I talk to them, they want me to say "Worst x Ever." I guess that draws headlines. "if it Bleeds, it Reads." I'm going to tell them...
  17. Shonuff

    Advertising: Pro's and Con's of Various Media

    No one in my industry is on radio or billboard like I am, and it's made me #1 here locally. The other Winters, I've lost upwards of 100k keeping my workers paid. I've lost $0 this Winter. So I'm playing with house money, why not experiment? Everyone said I was nuts for doing radio and...
  18. Shonuff

    Advertising: Pro's and Con's of Various Media

    I'm thinking that a flat % might be better. We keep our bids competitive, so taking 10% off is a big deal to a lot of customers. I may do 5-10% on both sides eventually. Unless you can pay some sort of commission to them, a lot of people just aren't motivated for door to door stuff. Like I...
  19. Shonuff

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Not sure if this has been posted yethttp://kotaku.com/5985785/sonys-clou...e-to-old-games. Charge me a monthly fee for complete access, and I'm in.
  20. Shonuff

    Advertising: Pro's and Con's of Various Media

    I'll have my Manager door knock maybe five hours a week. But for us, we literally have to knock on 150 doors to get one job, versus my close rate of 50% of customers that call in. I'd rather keep my Manager busy with customers intending to buy. It's pull versus push. Push is much more...
  21. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    The worst part about it is (since we are the largest tree service in the area), after the last storm, they called us to ask if any damage was done. We said no, and then the local anchor was reporting that night that there was so much damage done that FEMA might have to be sent in. Not only...
  22. Shonuff

    Adventures with Corndog: Corndog's Fish Store

    We have a CPA that setup QuickBooks for us. After that, QB does all of the figuring. There's no need to pay someone when QB will do it for you in five minutes a week (and that's with people working for you). Plus, you can do the rest of your books from QB.
  23. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    This storm was all hype. They called for the worst storm in years, and it ended up being just a regular storm.
  24. Shonuff

    Advertising: Pro's and Con's of Various Media

    Or you can put down a sign in the yard after you are done. I've seen roofers do this. We do none of this, but once we do work in a neighborhood, we end up getting called back there by a neighbor a week later. When people's neighbors are doing the selling, that's better than any salesman...
  25. Shonuff

    Advertising: Pro's and Con's of Various Media

    A few thoughts: - Yes, the yellow page sales reps suck. Every year, I get a new mouth breather demanding a 5% increase in price. And we all know that as a % of ad mix, yellow pages has dropped. - I've thought about giving a money on referrals also. I'd be a little bit concerned about...
  26. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    I posted it on the old boards, tree care is what we do, hence why I can charge $75 per man hour.
  27. Shonuff

    Comic Books

    Comic Viewer is nice.
  28. Shonuff

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It's not enough difference to make me rush out and plop $500 down. I'll wait and see who has the best total package and then buy.
  29. Shonuff

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    There are so many games I haven't bought from this gen, that I'll just sit back. HD gaming is HD gaming.
  30. Shonuff

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I don't plan on buying a PS4, and I've owned 1-3. They are getting too greedy with this one. And screw cloud gaming in the ear.
  31. Shonuff

    The Walking Dead

    I was kidding, but I think it would be funny if a mod infracted himself. We all know that on this show, black person = Redshirt Ensign. With three of them on the show now, how soon will it be before they start picking them off?
  32. Shonuff

    The Walking Dead

    Please infract yourself for your racist comment. Thanks.
  33. Shonuff

    Comic Books

    LOL, you are 100% correct. GL is going straight from one epic story arc into another, and it cheapens the GL books. On the Bat family, I thought I was the only one to find their books largely unreadable lately.
  34. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    The local news is calling for a huge ice storm. The last time we had a storm of this magnitude, I was knocking back 80k a month in profits. We had so much in emergency work that the guys were logging 90 hours a week. I'm not going to get too excited until it actually hits. The sad thing is...
  35. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    Cool. What monthly revenues are you projecting in the short, medium and long term?
  36. Shonuff

    Retirement questions - any early retirees out there?

    That's why I always dumped 15% of my pay into my 401k. I didn't want to be beheld to any company for 35 years, and the way to do this was to make my 401k my primary source of funds in retirement. Pensions are nice to have, but happiness moreso. If the company treats me like shit, I'll just...
  37. Shonuff

    Justice League of America

    What I was saying is I don't envision them being portrayed as a gritty crime fighter working well. That's the memo that DC Execs circulated after the TDK, that all future characters should be made to "feel" like Batman. They totally ignored the fact that Iron Man 2 did well at the box office.
  38. Shonuff

    Retirement questions - any early retirees out there?

    If I am doing what I enjoy, why do I need to retire from it? At the end of the day, if you dread waking up to do what you do, find a way to do what you want to do. Life is too short. On your deathbed, will you be satisfied that you lived life the way that you wanted?
  39. Shonuff

    The Walking Dead

    I could give a shit about all this emo-stuff. When scenes get this retarded, I find myself praying for a zombie attack to make people stop talking.
  40. Shonuff

    The Walking Dead

    And I've seen just the opposite. The females I've asked say they don't want to see one hour of zombie killing a night. Anyway, the part with Maggie was frustrating, she's PMS'ing in a zombie apocalypse.