My partner with whom I own the biggest web based loyalty program in Czech Republic just send me email. Some of the real estate deals for land and nice old factory building in the downtown of Brno, Czech Republic might go through. These are some of the deals you can’t find advertised by real estate brokerages. Only if you know right people and timing is right then you can do such deal. Well, now I really have to decide what I should do…
My friend bought couple of month ago front beach property located in Redondo Beach, California in auction. The house (actually fourplex) is still in escrow and lender is asking for bigger downpayment than previously anticipated. There is actually need to put down substantial amount of cash. This might be good opportunity. Depending on due diligence I might jump in to the deal.
I know good agent (Jennifer) in South Bay. If I see that I can make $300k+ in couple of month than I definitively want to be partner in that deal… Jennifer called me before I went surfing this afternoon and I wait for another call to get some comps on this deal.
Google tests classifieds in the Chicago Sun-Times.
“In a quiet and small-scale experiment, Google is running classified-like ads in the pages of the Sun-Times, which so far is the only newspaper participating in the Web-search behemoth’s test.”
This is very interesting. It looks they are using unique 800 numbers to measure how many responses they got. That’s pretty easy and totally makes sense. I am not sure if advertisers have unique domain names for each ad? But there should be also some way how to measure what ad was effective to get visitors to the website.
Google is preparing new infrastructure and way how search will work. You can see it in action on the two data centers: 66.249.93.104 and 64.233.179.104
It is not mere update in search algorithm. It is new infrastructure, which was named BigDaddy. So if you hear about BigDaddy, this is it.
From Matt Cutts’ Blog:
“Q: Do you expect this to become the default source of web results? How long will it take?
A: Yes, I do expect Bigdaddy to become the default source of web results. The length of the transition will depend on lots of different issues. Right now I’m guessing 1-2 months, but if I find out more specifics I’ll let you know.
Q: What’s new and different in Bigdaddy?
A: It has some new infrastructure, not just better algorithms or different data. Most of the changes are under the hood, enough so that an average user might not even notice any difference in this iteration.”
You can check how your web will be doing by going to the above datacenters and test for yourself.
I drove to Las Vegas on Tuesday with the goal to find good size office building to start new business (Executive Suites Program). Saw several buildings, but nothing too exciting. Some deals might be potentially good, so now I am trying to figure out the whole concept. Usually I want to do things differently then current competition and also want to create independent identity for this new business. That means finding good name with available domain name. I need some ideas this time! If you anyone knows about good name for Executive Suites business (small offices rented to people who like full service). I offer $1,000 for idea, which has available domain and can be used for this new business. info@eastbiz.com
That’s a trick I am seeing a lot on eBay how to get some more action on car sales. For example my current auction where I am selling my Mercedes. I see I have about 5 people who watch my auction and 4 different people are actually bidding. Lowering reserve price or buy it now price will send everybody email notifying them about my auction. It is neat trick and it doesn’t matter how much you lower it. If you lower $50 it will still do the work.
I have decided to sell my car. That car made when I lived in Las Vegas, going to the office and meetings and impressing people. Now I feel I rather go on bike instead of driving car. I am enjoying working from home instead of office and when I want to go surfing (like today, again) I cannot put the surf on the roof… So decision was made and the car is on EBay. Pretty good deal. The price is currently $50,100. MSRP: $97,510.00
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