Terrible, terrible business ideas

Well, being that I never update this anymore I’m just going to change the theme of the page. As I work in internet marketing, public relations, and basically anything that in any way relates to that I’m going to go over some of the worst ways to run a business.

1. Deciding that every member of your staff is an internet marketer – This option is a set up to disaster. The only people who know about internet marketing are, well, people who have read stuff on internet marketing. Someone who has been published in a magazine knows nothing about search engine optimization. The same is true about SEO guys, none of us have any idea how to write a piece for a medical journal or on a subject other than what we know. I can’t write something for a magazine about sewing. A guy who writes for a medical journal has no idea how to write stuff that is robot friendly.

Then you have the flip side. People who don’t write for a living cannot become instant writers. It just doesn’t happen. People who write know how to write or took a ton of classes on how to write well. People who don’t typically write aren’t going to produce something that will sell a million books or anything like that. It’s just not going to happen.

‘Nuff said.

2. Ignoring your internet marketer
If you hired an internet marketer to do internet marketing you should probably listen to what they have to say. If you don’t trust what the internet marketer has to say, well fire ‘em and hire someone who you’ll believe. But if you know nothing about internet marketing and you hired someone who does, well, when they say something about marketing, you should, well, um, listen to them.

3. Hiring several internet marketers who all live in different areas and don’t communicate amongst each other.

This is just a set up for disaster. If you have 2 guys working on the same project at the same time and they aren’t talking they just wind up erasing each others work. One guy works off a file a few hours old and, well, you just paid someone for nothing. Then if the two have differing views on what they’re supposed to be doing, well you just wind up spinning your wheels.

Don’t worry there’ll be more coming.

My problem with Hulu

Ok, now let me tell you I love hulu, I was part of an award ceremony on hulu for a little bit (until I lost track of time and kept trying to vote 1 day after I was supposed to) and I’d refer all my friends to it. In fact I use a lot of their previews on the main TSLS website, but their loading times are really starting to get to me. For example, I tried to watch Burn Notice about 2 minutes ago there and it wouldn’t load. Facebook and USA Network are much faster. When it comes to watching Daisy of Love I just go to VH1.com and when it comes to It’s always sunny I just head right over to FX networks.
While I like seeing Denis Leary advertise Hulu I’ve found its easier just to go to the website of the network to watch the show.

A Semi Large Poll

My Own Worst Enemy

NBC released a new television show last night right after Heroes starring Christian Slater called My Own Worst Enemy. The show is about a spy who went in for a top secret program so he can be an average Joe by day and a top secret spy by night. Unfortunately for Slater the chip they put in his brain to keep the two identities separate fries. His average Joe identity awakens during a spy mission and everything goes downhill from there.

Mike O’Malley co stars in this new hit show. Wow, that sounds like a plug. Honestly, it’s a great TV show and should do well. The concept of a split personality spy with a bad microchip in his brain should go far. It’s on Monday’s at 10 pm.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

This has to be one of the best shows ever written. I mean seriously the subject matter is so off the wall and the characters are so out of their minds there is no way anyone on the planet could not find this show funny. Well, I’m sure it offends a lot of people but oh well its shock humor and FX has got to be pulling in some serious viewers with it. Imagine the most dysfunctinoal group of people working at a bar trying to pull off idiotic schemes to get rich or sleep with a girl. You have this show. Topics range from waving guns around to trying to make money off gasoline in a way only Forrest Gump could come up with. They break almost every law known to man and yet still come off comical because they simply don’t know any better. The interaction between the characters is simply brilliant.

Hollywood is moving in the wrong direction

OK, so I’ve been pretty quiet over here for awhile and now I have something to say. These sequels, remakes, and other garbage put out by Hollywood just to make a buck is really getting to me. Look at what Vin Diesel and Jason Statham are up to, its just a bunch of sequels. There is nothing original coming out. Burn After reading was supposed to be this great new Coen Bros film but it just seemed like a remake of The Big Lebowski to me, only no where near as classic or funny. Try something new Hollywood and maybe people will start paying cash to see films again. The weekend Bangkok Dangerous came out was the worst weekend movie theaters have had in 5 years. Perhaps its because everything out was remakes and sequels. Who cares if the writers were on strike for a little bit. That just gave the chance for Hollywood to go look for something better from someone who wasn’t part of the union. Let them strike again, they aren’t writing anything good anyway.

Beat

William S. Burrows adventures through Mexico with his wife. Basically Burrows (played by Kiefer Sutherland) is wandering around with his gay lover through Mexico while his wife played by Courtney Love wanders around with the guy from Office Space and the guy who made Blade’s weapons in Blade 2. The guy from Blade 2 was just released from jail for killing some guy who tried to come onto him and now he wants Burrows wife. So they go on an adventure to see a volcano. Then they come back and Courtney Love goes back to hang out with Kiefer. That’s the film in a nut shell.

Pros: Decent actors

Cons: No real storyline here, only 7 main actors through the whole film. Pretty slow.

Verdict: I didn’t even know what I was getting when I picked this up. I’m sure some people might like this film but it’s not my cup of tea. If you’re curious rent it, unless it’s cheaper than a rent (was when I picked it up) then just add it to your collection to have.

Luck of the Draw

I picked this up just based on the cast. Ice-T, Mike Madsen, Dennis Hopper plus a few other guys I can’t remember the names of. The film stars some actor I don’t recognize. He’s an ex-con trying to get himself a job. He applies at a bank and gets turned down due to his record. Fortunately for him he had a chat with the teller and this sets up a relationship between the two. Dennis Hopper is planning on robbing some French guy for some $100 counterfeit plates to print money with while the guy is applying for the job. So Dennis Hopper’s gang attack the frog outside the bank and a shootout similar to that of the big LA bank robbery (there were scenes like this in the film HEAT as well) ensues. The main star winds up picking up the briefcase holding the counterfeit plates during the gun fight and runs off with them. Dennis Hopper is pissed he lost his plates and gets his paid off police informants hunting for it along with his goons. Some foreign contract killer is also looking for the plates as is some federal agency headed by another one of those big named actors I can’t think of and one of the guys from 2 Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place. By the way one of Dennis Hopper’s goons is played by Cody from Step by Step (the older guy who lived in the van.) So basically it’s a mob movie where everyone is trying to kill everyone to get these plates. Mike Madsen plays the main stars buddy who knows people such as Ice-T who wants to buy the plates. I don’t want to go into too much more detail and spoil it for you.

Pros: All star cast, lots of action, violence, good criminal movie

Cons: Can’t think of any, this is my kind of movie.

Verdict: Buy it. Definitely buy it. Great flick.

Bells of Innocence

I picked this up because it starred Chuck Norris. Before the movie started there was a preview for some movie about the Romans trying to destroy the Christians or something like that. Odd, I thought to myself. Then I got into Bells of Innocence and it make more sense. Chuck Norris plays, Matthew, who lives in some city called Ceres, Texas. The film begins with some guy running away from a bunch of men in cloaks holding torches. The guy runs into 2 native Americans. He tells the older native American to get the kid out of there. The kid rides his horse out of there while the guy and the older one die. The kid runs into Chuck Norris who takes him away. 60 years later (or something like that) we meet 3 guys who are going to spread Bibles to some town somewhere. One guy lost his daughter (he just taught her how to ride a bike and she wound up riding into traffic, dying) and then his wife left him so he drinks and plays Russian Roulette to see if today is the day he’ll die. So the suicidal drunk meets up with his 2 buddies and the suicidal drunk starts flying his plane to wherever it is they’re going. Plane trouble. The 3 crash land outside Ceres, Texas. No phones, no automobiles (except for 1) and all the people act weird. So the 3 meet up with Chuck Norris who takes them to a shortwave radio. They radio for help but the signal breaks up. So now the 3 are stuck in Ceres, Texas, which turns out to be Hell on Earth with the children losing their souls at a certain age. Anyway the 3 have to save the town as well as themselves.

Pros: Chuck Norris, decent story line, typical good vs. evil film

Cons: STRONG Christian overtones. This would have been fine had I known this ahead of time but since I didn’t it seemed pretty overkill.

Verdict: The storyline isn’t actually that bad. I found it interesting. It’s basically a film about a cult town and the people who have to save it. Pick it up if you get the chance.

Wrangler

I’d love to tell you what this movie is about but then again I couldn’t really figure it out myself. From what I gathered it’s a love story set in Australia during the late 1800’s. We have a woman from rich heritage who is “behaving badly” according to her parents so she needs to learn how to behave like “a lady.” Then there’s her love interest who is some guy who can’t read. We also have a guy who started his business from scratch and is now rich. Well the family of the woman is going bankrupt and start selling off their possessions. So the business owner buys the girl’s horse. In the background there is a war in Africa and the business owner needs to get Australian horses to handle the climate for the war effort. The girl gets mad at the guy and wants nothing to do with him. The woman’s family ends up losing all their money so the business owner buys up the property. Unfortunately for everyone (including the guy who can’t read) there are 2 evil businessmen who start stealing from everyone and attempting to screw over everyone’s business. So the woman, the business owner, and the guy who can’t read set out to sell horses for the war effort to make money. That’s pretty much the whole movie.

Pros:

Decent acting job

Cons:

I’m assuming this is a love story and a coming of age movie but then again the plot line is pretty weak.

Verdict: If you are into those “overcoming the odds” type movies Denzel does a lot of (Remember the Titans, etc) then you’ll probably like this film. If you aren’t one of those work hard love conquers all types you won’t like it. Rent it.