Brian Vaughan

Unusual Phone Call

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I received an unusual phone call this past Sunday evening, and the fact that it was on a Sunday, makes it even more strange to me. I had just got back to my car from dropping off Kristen at the airport, my phone rings and it shows up as an Indiana number. Now me not knowing anyone from Indiana was confused to why someone from there would be calling me, so I answered the phone and this is what I was greeted with.

“Hello this is Tim from GoDaddy.com, How are you today?”

Now at this point I was thinking to myself, why in the world is a GoDaddy.com representative calling me. The only thing I could think of was something must have messed up with my renewal of InMovieReviews.com that I placed on the previous day. The phone call was short which was good. It seemed as though he was calling just to see how my experience with GoDaddy was, and to see if I had any questions about products or services that they offered.

I will admit, it was kinda cool getting a call from a big company like that. But now I just have to wonder, why would they call me? I checked my Godaddy.com account when I got home, I only have 2 domains with them and here they spent the time to call me to make sure my experience with them was positive when they could have been spending that time and resources into making their service even better. To me it just doesn’t make since for a big company like that to spend the resources calling a customer with 2 domains, I could see if i had hundreds, or thousands of domains with them but only having 2 I just don’t get it.

Now having said that I do think GoDaddy is a great company for domain registrations, I simply don’t use them as my primary register. This might make me think about using them more often, at least it shows that they care about their customers, even If I do think it was a misuse of resources.

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I’m Wooting Off

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Wooting off? What is this you ask? Well I’ll tell you, no its not some new form of self pleasure, or some new fangled diet or exercise. Its a movement, taking the world of online retailing by storm. Woot Inc operates a website where they sell one item per day, at a highly discounted price. When that item sells out, you have to wait until the next day to see a new item.

Except, NOT today, today is one of the best days of the month, it is a WOOT OFF. When one item sells out, another item is put up right after it. Woot Offs usually last 1 and a half to 2 days. So browse the site and check back often you may even find a “bag of crap” up for grabs.

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Help InMovieReviews.com Get a New Layout

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John Chow just did a ReviewMe post for lifeBLUE Media. They are holding a contest where people will vote on the worst design, and the winner (or loser depending on how you look at it) will get a free redesign of their site.

Sounds great, and I would love to have In Movie Reviews to be sporting a hot fresh classy new look, especially since currently the site looks terrible in IE. So help me out and vote for my site.

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Help With Writing Daily

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Have trouble writing posts on your blogs? Well me too, when I first started this blog I was hoping on writing at least one post every other day. With a goal of eventually writing one every day. I have always found writing blog posts to be a hard thing to do, my personal blog went over a year without a single post, that just gives you an example of how bad I am.

While searching on the internet today I cam across BlogClout that had a link to Writer, which I find simple yet amazing, and may actually help me with my goal of writing more regular blog postings. It is a simple site with a black background and green text, you type it saves your content, you can have multiple documents, has an auto save feature etc etc. Hit f11 and take it full screen and it cuts down on all the distractions on your start bar, everywhere its great! I plan on setting it as my start page for a while and see if that prompts me into writing more often, it may work it may not work but regardless it is an amazing site. Check it out

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Starting Again

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Why did I start this blog? Well several reason I guess.. I wanted a place to document my success and my failures with MTF, ArcadeDog, and my other websites that I have yet to announce on this site. But there are other reasons as well, I thought this would be a way for me to stay motivated with the sites as well if I made a habit of posting once every few days (or every day would be great as well). I want my sites to be successful I am just afraid that I can’t get them to the level I want them to get to by myself. Do I care if people read this? No, not really if people do great they can come along for the ride, and maybe learn something along the way once I learn some stuff.

I need to once again start promoting MTF, I still have great hopes for the site. I just need to show it the love that it deserves. I think it can and will do great, it was doing wonderful before especially for a site that just started up. I need to get it back up to that level once again, and then beyond. When I first started MTF I was very excited and couldn’t wait to work on it, post on it, promote it. But now.. I just don’t know why I don’t have that same fire. I love the topic, very interested in the topic but just haven’t had the fire in me to go out and do those things lately. I need to get it back, and I need to get it back fast.

In other news, there is a new site of mine, well not really new, but new for me to be sole owner. PurePimps a site that I was one of the original members, then eventually became an admin on, is now mine. I was given the domain earlier today, and he is looking for the files now for me. I loved that site, and I want to get it set back up and going strong again for the hundreds (at one time thousands) of people that loved playing on that site. Just hope I haven’t bit off more than I can chew taking on yet another project at this time, when I can’t even give my current ones the attention that they need.

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