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Entries from July 2008

BULLTRADE Update

July 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Investing & Wealth

My third post was Bullish Trading with BullTrade and I gave the company lots of accolades. I am not going to take away anything from there past for they have proven to be effective time and time again. Since joining BullTrade I have made some money and while I still like their stock picking abilities [...]

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DVD Rental Kiosks: Customer Complaints

July 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments · DVD Rental Kiosks, Investing & Wealth

I own a DVD Rental Kiosk and never have to deal with a customer, right? Although it is not often I do have to deal with issues that arise. Most of the time these issues are very menial and can be dealt with by offering the customer something for their trouble. 

It seems like when I [...]

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Weekly Mi-Fi Recap: July 11, 2008

July 11th, 2008 · No Comments · My-Fi

It has been a slow week for RealWebToday as I have only written 2 posts this week. I have had some other business opportunities that have side tracked me temporarily. I certainly hope to have everything headed in the right direction this time next week.
Here are the numbers this week:

As you can plainly see all [...]

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DVD Rental Kiosks: A Typical Week

July 8th, 2008 · 7 Comments · DVD Rental Kiosks, Investing & Wealth

Here is a typical week in the life of a DVD Rental Kiosk owner.

Friday: Receive and prepare new release DVDs. This includes placing RFID tags and ‘Insert this way’ stickers on the DVD.
Sunday: Load movies in one kiosk. Clean and maintain kiosk. You will not believe the greasy hand prints that are all over the [...]

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DVD Rental Kiosks: Advertising Update

July 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments · DVD Rental Kiosks, Investing & Wealth

It has only been a week and a half since the advertising campaign really started. I know not to expect to much too early in the campaign. I know that an advertising or marketing plan can take weeks or even months to return positive results. I know that even if current results are looking promising [...]

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Weekly Mi-Fi Recap: July 4, 2008

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments · My-Fi

For all of you in the good ole USA … Happy July the 4th.
My blog is certainly headed in the wrong direction, statistics wise. I haven’t been cultivating traffic the way I had been over the past few weeks. Mostly relying on traffic driven to my site from Google and yahoo. As you can see [...]

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DVD Rental Kiosks: Frequently Asked Customer Questions

July 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments · DVD Rental Kiosks, Investing & Wealth

Anytime you deal with people you are going to be surprised. Even when you think you have heard it all, along comes another question. The same is true when you own a DVD Rental Kiosk. Very rarely do I have face to face contact with customers but when I do most of the time it [...]

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DVD Rental Kiosks: What the Store Owner Can Expect

July 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · DVD Rental Kiosks, Investing & Wealth

Owning a DVD Rental Kiosk has been an adventure. I remember back when I was first talking to store owners about locating a DVD Kiosk in their place, I was repeatedly asked, “Will my employees have to mess with the Kiosk?” My typical answer was … “no, well I really don’t think so.” I had [...]

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DVD Rental Kiosks: Purchasing Inventory

July 1st, 2008 · 7 Comments · DVD Rental Kiosks, Investing & Wealth

In order to operate a DVD Rental Kiosk business I purchase movies about a month and a half in advance. Today is the only the first day of July and I have already ordered all my inventory half way through the month of August. Most everyone I have talked to orders as far out as [...]

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