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A few years back a few friends and I made a trip out to our lake house in Lake Livingston, TX. It was a pretty great week, and one of the last times that entire group has been together, a truly special collection of moments. So to glorify a week of drinking by the lake, I created this music video out of some footage we randomly shot all week. If it’s confuses to you, sorry, I made it for my mates that were there, so they probably have a better idea what’s going on.
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Reading reddit this morning caused me to click on the follow up to an article I had commented on a week or so ago from the graphic design blog about Logos with Hidden Messages. Then while reading the sequel, “30 more Hidden Logos” I noticed my 15 Rose Ave logo made the list. Which made me very happy.
So that was an awesome way to start the day, April was super impressed (I like to impress her with things like that), and scotty already posted it up to our 15 Rose Facebook page, which means he was somewhat impressed, even if he’ll never say it, so all in all it’s a good morning so far.
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- Credit Card Processing
- Website Up
- PMS & Booking Engine Online
- Learn to Check Guest In
- Tutorial for Employees on new PMS
- Learn how to use Credit Card Terminal
- Make a logo everyone is happy with
- Make new print materials with new logo
- Figure how to re-imburse Credit Card Transactions
- Fix Visual Flaws on 15roseave.com
- Fix everything else in this place one task at a time(figuring which one to start with)
- And taking care of Impulse One responsibilities
- and create zebalighting.com, gotta remember that one too.
3 weeks went by rather quick for me, and I’ve made it through a few of those, and that isn’t my full list, just a good summary of what’s on the tip of my noggin lately.
So what’s everyone else been doing? Need a vacation? Come out to 15RoseAve.com and check room availability online! I’m still working on the site, so expect plenty of improvements, we just needed to get all the information up, and we’ve already received 5 online reservations! Let me know what you think I should do with it, and what could make it better.
So if you click through our reservation link you’ll see I went with InnCenter as our PMS(Property Management System) solution, they just had better customer service(Mahesh is the man, and was a great guy to work with), and it was a bit more intuitive than frontdeskanywhere. He was able to get me working with the system in 2 weeks, and we were up and running all proper like…
“You mean like a real hotel?”
-Eric after seeing how the new system worked, in which he would enter guest information into a computer.
There’s still plenty to do for the hotel from the marketing stand point, brochures, business cards, blah blah blah and all that jazz. But what do you think of the logo?
I really wanted to get the whole thing to be one smooth, organic piece, while joining the ‘5′ and the ‘R’ together. I feel like it all kind of moves in a wave, much of what we’re all about here at the 15 Rose, and was able to keep a vintage feel, without being too old fashioned.
Time to start adding that to all kind of print materials, and making some decent fliers to pass out to all the people who ask what the hell this place is, can’t keep handing out business cards and crossing out jim and charlotte’s name…
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Woke up for my first day in the Rose this morning. Time to get to work.
We need credit card processing, so we’re going with Flagship Merchant Services. Why?? Well after reviewing a few options, we realized that Flagship was our best choice for pricing and turn-around time, that’s why.
So tomorrow we’ll be able to accept credit cards again! Which is good to have in year 2009. And now onto the next task, a PMS and online booking engine. And I’ve narrowed it down to a few choices, InnRoad & Frontdesk Anywhere. Both offer what we want, now it’s a matter of what looks easier to use and what is cheaper. So since both offer a free trial, it looks like I got some demoing to do.
Spent all day with Eric, and he stayed the night in #1 with me too, so we had a fun little slumber party and I learned about a bunch of Eric’s scars and few other nuggets of information. Eric is a great guy who seems pretty pumped about the new direction of the 15Rose. He’s got his own ideas too which are awesome to hear, and it’s good to feel the confidence from the current employees in what we want to do, and who we are.
Also we found out that the current site venicerosehotel.com is now out of service due to unpaid bills. So I’ve got to get 15roseave.com up and running hopefully in the next day and make sure that looks good enough too. Then there’s all the fun work once that’s up and running. Whew, the amount of work in front of me(and all around me) is enough to keep me occupied, or overwhelmed, I suppose its all on how I choose to look at it.
Oh yea, and ineed.headshotenergyshot.com is still going, and on 4/20 we had our highest hit count since 3/27…
So once all these basic hotel operations get situated, I’ll be setting up a fulfillment center for these guys and shipping out these flavor trifectas to make things a little easier.
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People are receiving their packages! YAY! 
Want proof, oh well I got some proof. What’s fun about all this is seeing our product showing up in different places. It’s really cool to see something you helped make showing up in other people’s pictures.
this guy has it on his shelf
this guy had a few leaks
And this guy put them in his fridge
Totals Up to 03-31-2009
So up to March 31, 2009 we’ve managed to give away 2,659 cases of HeadShot. That means we only have 22,341 left!! We’re getting there…I guess. Still seems like a lot, but we’re getting a new order from iNeed everyday, so slowly but surely we’ll spread the wealth until we’re out of it. Make sure to tell your friends, or anyone you know, we have plenty to go around.
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So we’re still in the middle of the HeadShot Bailout Giveaway. How many more cases you ask? I have no idea, still more than 20,000 as most the people purchasing it are still weary on whether or not this is a scam.
Turns out most of our orders came on March 27th
Traffic on March 27th
Which was the same day that SlickDeals posted this little dity. So our inbox backed up that entire weekend with orders, and then we came back on Monday, readied a new shipping system workflow so we could get everyone their tracking number, and started going down the list.
However it seems the internet has this instant gratification idea, where one week without contact and your customer is up in arms wondering where the hell their money went(can’t really blame them though, I know I would be the same way). And now that we’re getting into the third week since posting and people are getting a little more than annoyed that they haven’t heard anything more than a paypal receipt, some even demanding refunds. And there isn’t even a hold up, it’s just taking our fulfillment manager awhile, she’s the only going through and shipping these out, and with several hundred orders it’s taking her awhile.
It’s interesting though, being on the other side of something like this, and I’m starting to understand why it’s takes 4-6 weeks to get a free sample of something.
Although this is showing us that we need to take the helm here, and leave the Arkansas office to selling and “thinking”. In the next few days I should be moving out to Venice, CA, setting up shop out there, and when that happens we’re hoping to take on the fulfillment role since we’ll be close enough to our LA warehouse, and we’ll have room for storage in the basement of the Rose for now. Because I just can’t keep taking the rap for something I have no control over, I have to fix that.
So if you’re reading this and wondering where you HeadShot is, it’s on the way, just give it some more time and you’ll be happy you did. 
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change???....any change???
So this guy, this guy right here, thinks that the most asked question in his little town(web) hall is a laughing matter. Why? Cause it’s pot, and only potheads care about pot. Right? That’s what I figure when I listen to his ignorant crowd laughing at the question on the spot.
Ok, here’s the deal. When you make something illegal it must be traded on the illegal black market, thus, taking the money used on that item out of the economy and putting it into a sub economy run by criminals, gangsters, and drug dealers. So the only people who benefit from an illegal substance being illegal are drug dealers and the prison industry. How can we be in favor of either of those two industries thriving?
And when asked if we should legalize it and stop this lengthy prohibition, Obama laughed.
A plant, is illegal. Think about that for 2 god-damned seconds before scoffing at the idea of legalizing pot, get past your ignorant prejudices and realize that it’s not about some hippies getting high, its about allowing a plant to grow. We can not live like this, fearful of the stems that shoot forth from the soil, are we really that barbaric and retarded to think that marijuana is detrimental to our society?
Here’s the video with added information. I find his attitude insulting, at least say why you don’t think it’s a good idea, at least discuss it for one second, but no, there is no discussion, there is never a real discussion, just a chuckle and move on. We can’t keep living scared of grass…
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I also finished this up today with only one product currently available. It might be better to just visit buy.antioxdaily.com. But I’m pretty happy with it, the colors are nice and I got to use my favorite font again… GOOOO CENTURY GOTHIC!
Check it out if you need some antioxidant daily shot, if you need anything else on there just hold up, we’re working on it. Coming soon so to speak.
the nutrione labs store
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So I woke up this morning, like any morning, opening mail and seeing what I would have to do first today, and wouldn’t you know it, there I had 170 emails…I asked myself, wtf? Turns out the ineed.headshotenergyshot.com campaign was up and spreading. Turns out a Selma over on SlickDeals posted the deal, and we suddenly had 1,500+ hits from the slick deals forum. Then Chris pointed out that In This Economy had also posted the deal.
The orders have not stopped all day, and they keep coming. This is great, we’re getting a lot of HeadShot out the door and covering the cost, we may be able to do this until we run out now! Only an esitmated *23,059 cases left.
*I honestly have no idea how many we have left…
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HeadShot Mega Energy Mega Sale.
You heard right, HeadShot is having a Mega Energy Mega Sale!!!
So we’re still stuck with a large quanity of mislabeled product, and I’ve put together a site to help give it away.
Go to :
Then tell you friends about it. We have plenty to spare, this is your chance to try out that crazy looking drink, for absolutley nothing….but s/h.
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